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I’m Bugphd. As my name suggests I’m a PhD student at the University of St Andrews studying (surprise surprise) bugs. To be more specific I am interested in the evolution of sexual traits and how these affect species ecology, in particular the causes and consequences of reproductive interference in the Lygaeidae.
I occasionally blog about my life as a postgraduate student over at Inside St Andrews so this blog is going to be for all the stuff I write for them and then decide is either too silly, too self-obsessed or too academic to post there. Topics that are likely to come up are: my research, procrastination, and anything involving spiders.

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; instead, it offers a personal introduction and an overview of the author's interests. The instructions, or rather the lack thereof, do not contain the structured procedural elements that would facilitate training a language model for deeper reasoning on specific tasks or subjects.


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The U.S. Under-17 Men’s National Team opens the 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship against Jamaica on Sunday, April 23 at Estadio Maracaná de Panama in Panama City, Panama. The game can be seen live at 1:30 p.m. ET on the official CONCACAF Facebook page.
Here’s what you should know about Sunday’s opponents:
What’s in a (nick)name?
Jamaica has one of the most interesting nicknames in world soccer, with the country’s national teams referred to as the Reggae Boyz in recognition of the popular genre of music that originated on the island in the 1960s.
How they got here
Jamaica makes their 13th appearance in the CONCACAF U-17 Championship after finishing third in the 2016 Caribbean Football Union Men’s U-17 Tournament. The Reggae Boyz produced Group Stage wins against Guyana (4-1), Antigua and Barbuda (3-1) and U.S. Virgin Island to advance to the Final Round. There they defeated Bermuda 6-2, drew 0-0 with Haiti and bested Trinidad & Tobago 3-2 to advance to qualify for the tournament and advance to the Semifinals. There, they fell 1-0 to Cuba, before rebounding with a 3-0 victory against Curaçao in the Third-Place Match.
CONCACAF U-17 Championship History
In the 17 CONCACAF tournaments from 1983 to 2015, the Reggae Boyz have taken part in 12 and qualified twice in 1999 and 2011.
- READ MORE: Five Things to Know About the 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
- READ MORE: The U-17 MNT's History in World Cup Qualifying
In 1999, Jamaica hosted and finished atop Group A, collecting wins against Honduras and Costa Rica before tying the USA to secure their top spot and qualify for the 1999 FIFA U-17 World Championship in New Zealand.
In 2011, Jamaica drew with Trinidad & Tobago and defeated Guatemala to advance to the Knockout Round where they defeated Honduras 2-1 to book their place at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico.
The two organizations with the largest representation of players on the Jamaican roster are Clarendon College and Kingston College (2 each). These four players, along with 11 other players, are all based out of Jamaica. Four players are based in the USA and one player joins the side unattached to any school or club.
GOALKEEPERS (2): Tajay Griffi (Wolmers Boys/JAM); Daniel Russel (Manchester High/JAM)
DEFENDERS (9): Calwayne Alle (St James High/JAM); Kendall Edward (Atlanta United FC/USA); Kimani Gibbon (St Jago High/JAM); Akeem Mullin (Vauxhall High Sch./JAM); Damani Ose (Cosby High/USA); Casseam Priest (Kingston College/JAM); Shane Ricket (Little London High/JAM); Richard Thomps (Herbert Technical/JAM); Jamoi Tope (Camperdown High/JAM)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Coby Atkins (American Heritage/USA); Renato Campbe (Kingston College/JAM); Jermaine Lyon (Denham Town High/JAM); Kaheem Parris (Dinthill Technical/JAM); Jeremy Verley (Milton Academy/USA); Blake White (Unattached)
FORWARDS (3): Nicque Dale (Clarendon College/JAM); Ricardo McInto (Clarendon College/JAM); Raewin Senior (Excelsior High/JAM)
Playing in the USA
Defenders Damani Ose and Kendall Edward, and midfielders Coby Atkins and Jeremy Verley all currently play soccer in the United States. Verley gained notoriety in July of 2016 when the midfielder left Jamaican club Harbour View F.C. after receiving a scholarship to attend Milton Academy in Boston, Mass., for his three remaining years of high school.
Edward is also a notable Reggae Boy playing in the USA as the defender currently plays in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy for Atlanta United’s U-15/16 side.

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Step-by-step: No
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; instead, it presents information about a soccer match and the Jamaican team's history in a narrative format. Additionally, the instructions are not structured in a way that would help train a language model for deeper reasoning, as the content lacks detailed procedural guidance or logical reasoning prompts that would facilitate complex thought processes.


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Dieser Beitrag enthält Werbung – advertising.
When our stay in Mallorca came near its end we decided to do – finally – a trip into the mountains: Serra de Tramuntana.
Our first stop was Lluc with its church and monastery – however, the first impression you’ll get is the big parking ground and the services. Obviously it’s a place popular with tourists and locals; we learnt that it is an established venue for workshops etc. all years round (… and there are more cafés, restaurants …)
It was beginning of November and the weather was fine – at least when we started our trip. Fine means almost 20° C, blue sky & some nice white clouds, only small ones … This was in the morning.
When approaching the mountains it got cloudy & foggy. The blue sky made himself scarce … Some raindrops came down … So our photos became a mix of nice weather and not quite so nice weather … in the background.
We are at a height of about 500 m – some peaks are towering above us. The clouds are embracing the peaks.
Later we dived into this mess, mastering the often narrow, always winding road across Serra de Tramuntana. When finally arriving at Port de Sóller the blue sky reappeared and we had finally a nice walk along the beachfront.
However, now we are into the church and the monastery of Lluc. The fountain is in the garden leading to the monastery.
Due to some exhibition (we assumed so!) there were lots of statues all around the garden and the entry grounds
Inside the main area resp. building there are long corridors leading to inner courtyards … with more statues … and finally to the door of the church.
Lluc is famous for its Black Madonna (see below), accompanied by elaborate pieces of art and a gorgeous dome.
We stayed quite a while at Lluc having also a late morning café con leche. Finally we moved along deeper into Serra de Tramuntana.

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing a task; instead, it narrates a travel experience without structured instructions or specific tasks. Additionally, the procedural details are not presented in a way that would support training a language model for deeper reasoning, as the content lacks clarity, definition, and specific actionable information.


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We put the garlic and onions into a blender with one can of the tomatoes. We puree until smooth and then put it back into the dutch oven. We then puree the other two cans of tomatoes (one at a time) and add them to the dutch oven.
We bring the sauce to a simmer over medium heat. We add the marjoram, basil, parsley, bay leaves and salt and pepper. We allow it to simmer for 30 minutes, partially covered.
After 20 minutes or so of simmering, we begin the process of making the gravy. In a large frying pan, we add the halved garlic to the remaining tablespoon of olive oil and heat until garlic is aromatic. We then add the sirloin, some more salt and pepper, and brown it until no pink remains. We drain the meat on a paper towel-lined plate and then return the meat to the frying pan with about a quarter of the sauce (which magically transforms the sauce into gravy!). We adjust the seasonings. We reduce the heat and allow the gravy to simmer over low heat. The bay leaves are removed before serving and the remaining tomato sauce is reserved in the fridge for tomorrow.
In a large pot, we bring water to a boil, add the fusilli pasta, and stir. We cook the pasta for about 12 minutes, drain in a colander. We spoon the pasta into bowls, top with some gravy and add basil, parsley and cheese to garnish.

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Step-by-step: Yes
Training: No

The article provides a clear sequence of ordered steps for making a tomato sauce and gravy, which makes it easy for the reader to follow along. However, while the steps are clearly articulated, they lack the depth and detail necessary to encourage deeper reasoning or training a language model; for example, there are few explanations for why specific actions are taken or how they affect the final dish.


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Top: Stitch & Arrow | Jeans: Frame via Nordstrom (a great option & can't see through) | Shoes: Vince Camuto via Nordstrom (absolutely LOVE, I wear all the time) | Bracelets: Henri Bendel & Jeulia Jewelry | Purse: LV | Jacket: Nordstrom | Necklace: Bauble Bar
Bringing you some ideas on how to transition your wardrobe from Summer into Fall. It's especially hard for us Floridians, since it pretty much feels like Summer through Christmas. We headed to Disney's Boardwalk resort for this shoot, and can I just say how pretty the view was of the boardwalk at sunrise! WOW!
I have been wearing this pleated pink tank throughout spring and summer and I wanted to show it off and give y'all ideas on how to take your fave spring/summer tops and transition them into the next season. It may seem pretty easy or basic to just through on a jacket like duh, but styling with different accessories and shoes will also help mix up the vibe. Here I'm showing you it with my blush leather jacket and tan booties, but if I wanted to take it further into a fall/winter look I could change up the shoe and throw a OTK boot on or add a scarf on top of the jacket, or switch up the jacket to a cozy cardi. There's so many options and sometimes it's just hard to think of them when you're staring at your closet feeling like you have nothing to wear. Layers are key, especially for those of us in FL. Using this technique will help you get more wear out of your clothing throughout the year. My biggest things is always making sure the color palette will match at the time... I wouldn't wear bright yellow if it's fall, a mustard yes but no sunshine. That's honestly why I love this blush color, such a nice neutral and fits all seasons.

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear, ordered sequence of steps for completing a specific task; rather, it offers general tips and suggestions for transitioning wardrobe pieces between seasons. The instructions are not structured in a way that would facilitate training a language model for deeper reasoning, as they lack detailed, actionable guidelines and steps that would encourage systematic thinking or problem-solving.


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After spending some time to choose the title,I ended up choosing thank you.Nothing suits best other than this.
Travel has always been a passion.Yes,Who wouldn’t take break from routine life.In the busy and routine,I managed to get two days leave to attend my friend’s engagement.Like every one,I am excited over relaxing myself and visiting new place so as my friends.
We never expected such a warm welcome from my friend’s family.It’s time to talk about the place we visited.A place called Aralvaimozhi,a town in Kanyakumari,Tamilnadu where large number of wind farms are situated.We were taken away by breath taking scenery of the place and warm welcome and hospitality of her family.
Her parents and relatives took care of us very well even though they were busy in her daughter’s engagement arrangements.It’s a place where majority of Christians lives.People are enthusiastic and caught up with Christmas celebration mood.It was my first time seeing the Christmas celebration .Decorating house with Christmas tress,singing carols,Prayers which I have seen only in movies,I got a chance to see all these things .Her mother prepared feast all three days and fed us until our stomach explodes ;)Her engagement ended well with every one’s blessings.Two things I have seen from the three days are Being grateful to Jesus and Importance of Prayer.
Visiting Kanyakumari was in my wishlist.Finally, it’s fulfilled.My friend’s dad took us even every one was tired of previous day engagement.We are very thankful and owe them a lot.I have been there already when I was three. But It was not a age to remember things and excited over the wonders around the places. Kanyakumari,southern tip of India is famous for sunrise and sunset point,beaches,Vivekanandar rock,Gandhi Mandapam,Thiruvalluvar statue.
On the way to kanyakumari,uncle explaned the whole process of how wind mill functions.We were really wondered by the way he explained.I couldn’t believe I was at Kanyakumari since it was very clean compared to other beaches in India I have visited so far.It’s the place where Indian Ocean,Bay of Bengal and Arabian sea meets.After seeing the 133 feet Valluvar statue with own eyes,I was still confused whether this really statue was hit by the Tsunami waves .We were back from their home with lot of sweet memories.
I had so much fun with their family and my friends.I had no word to say when her mom said she couldn’t take care of us because of engagement.We bid good bye to her family after taking a picture with them.
Time really flies fast.It seems like I was thinking yesterday about the new year resolution.But we will be in the new year in one day.I have been quite busy from the mid of November.I should have made some time to visit my WordPress friends,I have read some of your posts and I could only spend time to read your blog and like the posts ,I will catch up with your archives soon.
I would like to thank you all and being a part of memories in 2013.It turned out as a wonderful year .Wishing you a happy and prosperous new year.May all your wishes comes true !!!

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to complete a specific task; instead, it narrates personal experiences and reflections without structured procedural instructions. Furthermore, the instructions or information presented lack the detail and clarity necessary to train a language model for deeper reasoning, as it primarily focuses on storytelling rather than systematic guidance or logical reasoning.


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The eggnog is a sweet and creamy drink that is usually prepared for the Christmas or New Year holiday or simply weekend parties. It is usually made up of milk, eggs, sugar, and rum, flavored with vanilla and nutmeg in some cases.
The recipe might vary from family to family, and certainly from region to region. With this recipe, you can prepare a creamy keto punch that will always be pleasant to savor. Impress your friends and family with this sweet preparation. Store it in transparent bottles to keep or give to friends.
To make this recipe low carb, there are a few simple ingredient tweaks as listed in the recipe below. For a dairy-free alternative, use coconut cream for heavy cream.
Let’s Do It!
In the blender, mix the egg yolks with sweetener and beat for at least 3 minutes. The sweetener should be dissolved and the egg yolks should be creamy.
In a jar, mix the egg yolk mixture with cream mix slowly then add the rum (however much you want) and mix well. You can add ice to taste and a pinch of cinnamon on top.
If you don’t want to add ice, simply chill the eggnog in the refrigerator for a few hours before serving.
Creamy Keto Eggnog
- Whisk together the sweetener and egg yolks for at least 3 minutes using a blender. Beat to dissolve the sweetener entirely. Wait till the mixture becomes creamy enough.
- Place a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Pour gently the heavy cream and almond milk in. Mix well with the nutmeg, vanilla, cinnamon, and cream cheese. Leave for 5-10 minutes without allowing it to boil. Stir every now and then.
- Transfer the egg mixture into a jar. Slowly add the cooked cream. Add a decent amount of rum and mix well with a spoon. Top with a pinch of cinnamon and drop some ice if preferred. Alternatively, simply let the eggnog cool in the fridge for a couple of hours. Serve cold.

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Step-by-step: Yes
Training: Yes

The article presents a clear sequence of ordered steps, guiding the reader through the process of making creamy keto eggnog. The instructions are well-structured, detailing each stage of preparation in a way that encourages deeper reasoning by prompting the reader to understand the purpose of each step (e.g., mixing, cooking, cooling). This clarity and attention to procedural detail make it suitable for training a language model capable of comprehending and applying the recipe effectively.


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Naperedodni in pasumalai match 30th round Ukraïnskoï Prem courier-play Dinamo has gralo in Aleksandr s msalim odnoimennym club I don’t smoglo Peremogi.
Match zavershilsya nciu – 2:2.
I vakili gospodar on 23rd Guilin s penalt vjnetcast Maxim Tretyakov.
Second time PDR povnistyu pid control guests. Take Benjamina Verbicha (63, 75), Davalos, to permit pdople Oleksiy Mihaylichenka to Vijesti s Aleksandr pawnin three points.
However at the 88 th huilin main hour refer Wtli Romanov iz Dnipra znovu priznaki penalt at the gate of the guests, and Tretyakov znovu CCB will tochnym.
Dadamo scho s the cob championship at the Dynamo goal was priznakami 7 penalt (6 iz realsauna them), what was poverenny record for the capital club.
Vostan strike opponents “dynamic” punch z “point” push stroke one championship in school season-1993/1994 (7 udrw – 4 Goli).
Yak stating Mickle on poslematchevoj presskonferens, acbi treba Bulo – Bulo b of I try penalt.
“Waiau scho without posilok not obillos I first time PDVSA not showsm so, Yak Yogo mi planovani. The second time the us putting on svoï msca, but, unfortunately, on ostanni huiling mi missed the other penalt. Acbi treba Bulo – Bulo b of I Tret… TSE all I mozhu skazati scho”, – situ Mihaylichenka oftiny website of “Dynamo”.
Zaznaczono scho two Turi to FSU championship in borotbi for other putco in LGU ldir League journal “Zoria”, Yak scored 57 point. On point vdst “Dynamo” and has a point – “Desna”.
Have nastupnogo tour Dynamo prima “the last post” and “Desna” – “Alexandru”. Obidva match Vabaduse in the fourth, on July 16.
Look around the game, “Alexandria” – “Dynamo” – on Sait itslogo of movnik the Premier League.

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article lacks a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing any specific task; it primarily consists of a report on a football match. Furthermore, the procedural instructions are not well-structured or detailed enough to facilitate the training of a language model capable of deeper reasoning, as it does not provide sufficient context or a coherent narrative that outlines processes or actions in an organized manner.


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10 MANICURE TYPES
Benefits & More
A manicure can work as an instant perk-me-up. What’s not to love? It involves cleaning, massaging & beautifying. And it is the easiest way to provide the hands with a full makeover.
Now in case you have the urge to get creative with your nails, you can try some of the various manicures listed here.
1. HOT OIL MANICURE
Typically, a hot oil specialized manicure comprises of soaking your fingertips and nails with the precise mix of oils customised to your specific nail malady into a bowl of warmed essential oils.
2. 3D MANICURE
A fascinating way to glamorise your nails for occasions is the 3D nail art style. This trend uses diamonds, rhinestones, lilies, roses, pearls, bows, candles, and other fun ornamentation that immediately spice up your style by bringing the standard manicure to the whole different extreme.
3. BASIC MANICURE
Usually, a regular manicure requires trimming, forming, filing, and smoothing your hands, repairing your finger nails, which can require clipping and treatment of cuticles with a hand treatment. The nail polish addition at the end is not mandatory.
4. GEL MANICURE
Manicures of gel last for a longer time. This is exactly what one should go for if you are somebody who is searching for a lower-maintenance but stylish nail choice. For manicure treatments, gel manicure does not require a regular visit to the salon. It only requires the use of a particular nail polish that even for a long-lasting impact is healed under UV light.
5. PARAFFIN WAX MANICURE
For your hands, this manicure is like a specialised spa procedure. A relaxing hand massage with paraffin applied like a mask works to provide moisture to your hands & nails. Preserving the oils that your body produces naturally.
6. AMERICAN MANICURE
Image courtesy: Thepronails.com
The American manicure is identical, but with a slight distinction, to the French manicure. Designed primarily for those who choose a pastel palette over lavishly manicured nails, it's an attractive and go-to theme. American manicure nails, more elegant than the normal nail coat, tend to be sleeker and finely finished.
7. VINYLUX MANICURE
Then all you require is the Vinylux Manicure. This nail manicure has an impressive staying power and can be cleaned effortlessly. It provides a gloss coating with ultra high gloss on the nails, covering the paint layer under it. ProLight Technology also ensures that the more visible sunlight is applied to the paint, the better the nail is bonded to it.
8. MIRROR MANICURE
When your basic or gel manicure is completed, the nails are painted with a heavy coat of chrome powder or polish to give it a mirrored look. To create a lasting result, you should use a gel textured nail polish.
9. SHELLAC MANICURE
Shellac is a specialized in-salon substance designed as a combination of polish-gel that works like a perfect nail polish but is durable like a gel. Best of both worlds, it’s long lasting and quick drying.
10. ACRYLIC MANICURE
Effectively, a fluid (named a monomer) as well as a powder (termed a polymer) is made of acrylic. They work on their own as these merge rendering a hard acrylic surface. They are stunning, artistically with a variety of forms, while not overlooking the several design options available.
This list we promise, will make it easier for you to pick a manicure best suited to your appearance, your personality and also your budget.
Time to get it nailed!
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**Step-by-step: No**
**Training: No**

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing any specific task related to manicures; instead, it lists different types of manicures along with brief descriptions of each. While the descriptions could inform someone about the various options available, they lack detailed procedural instructions that would facilitate deeper reasoning or training in a language model, as there is no emphasis on the methodologies or techniques involved in performing each type of manicure.


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If we're talking a cast iron radiator, it's a good process.
First you need to remove the old finish. You can get it sandblasted, or you can get in there with some sandpaper for a few hours. A wire wheel on an angle grinder can get out a good bit, or you might have luck with chemicals to strip them. If you do use chemicals, you'll have to wait for them to totally dry, then sand the bare metal of the radiator just to make 100% sure all of the residue is gone and the surface is rough enough.
Next, you'll want to clean with a deglosser, to make sure all the sanding residue is gone, along with any other junk in there. The paint won't bond so well without it, and with something that expands and contracts as much as a heater.. you want to make sure it's thoroughly clean.
Now it's time to protect your walls and floors. Get a drop cloth, cut a slit in it and slide it over the unit. Tape it to the walls, tape it to the floor, and tape up as much of the slit you made as you can.
You'll then need to prime it, and you'll have to chose the primer based on the paint you end up with.
Time for paint. Oil based paint should hold up, but you'll probably have better luck with spray enamel paint. Use many thin coats rather than few thick coats. Make sure to read the specs on whatever paint you decide on, make sure it can withstand up to 220 degrees - Just to be safe.
Alternatively, maybe you can look into building a radiator cover.

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Step-by-step: Yes
Training: No

The article does provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing the task of refurbishing a cast iron radiator, making it easy for the reader to follow along. However, the instructions lack the depth and specificity needed for training a language model in deeper reasoning, as they do not explore the rationale behind each step or potential complications that may arise during the process.


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Creating an altar for your dream circle
When I was studying to become an interfaith minister, I experienced firsthand the beautiful and many ways people create sacred space. I was fortunate enough to pray and meditate with Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Lakotas, Wiccans, Pagans, Humanists, and even a Yoruba priestess!
One thing they all had in common was the art of creating an altar. And while the objects placed on the altar held different meanings, the intention behind them was the same: to help the community come together and connect more deeply with themselves and all that is.
It is in this spirit that I invite you to help us co-create a community altar.
What is an altar?
An altar is often a central focal point for prayer, worship or sacred activity. It can be a permanent fixture, like in a Christian church, or it can be a temporary space to put meaningful objects.
When people come together in dream circles it is common practice to create a community altar. Since many dream circles are comprised of people from a variety of ancestral heritages and cultural beliefs, the altar takes on the flavor of the diversity present.
Co-Create a Community Dream Altar
Although the following describes a common altar creation process, what happens during the process depends entirely on who is creating it. There is no right or wrong way to lay the foundation for an altar.
1. Establish the altar location, perhaps by using a small table or spot on the floor, and cover it with a piece of fabric.
2. Consider using candles to represent the four cardinal directions: East, South, West and North. Additionally, the four elements may be represented: earth, air, fire and water.
3. Say a prayer or call in the directions, the ancestors and Spirit (G-d, Goddess, Allah, the Universe, or the Higher Self, or who/whatever is desired) to help create sacred space.
4. Once the basic elements are in place, participants take turns placing objects on the altar. These might be dream related objects, like a plastic tiger to represent a dream character. Shells, stones, pictures of ancestors, food, flowers, plants, statues of saints or holy teachers, or anything that holds special meaning can be placed on the altar. Each object is placed on the altar with reverence. Often a short prayer or intention is verbally or silently accompanied by the altar piece.
5. When the altar is completed it remains intact throughout the duration of the dream circle. When the dream group ends, people return to the altar and ceremoniously collect their objects and blow out the candles, closing the direction and thanking all who helped hold the sacred space.
This practice helps a community come together as equals, each represented in his or her faith or beliefs.
A Personal Dream Altar
This is my dream altar. It is a permanent fixture that stands in the corner of my office. Every object on it represents a character or theme that comes directly from one of my sleeping dreams. For example, I often dream of big cats, mostly tigers, so I have a plastic tiger present. The pink sphere of rock salt comes from a dream I had shortly after I started The DreamTribe. In the dream I was a leader and my people were crossing a mountain filled with pink Himalayan rock salt. Having the sphere on my altar helps me remember to be “the salt of the earth” a reference, perhaps, to Matthew 5:13–16.
Creating a dream inspired altar is a great way to bring your inner images to life. It’s fun, creative and all yours to make.
Buddhist Altar photo by Wonderland

response:
Step-by-step: Yes
Training: No

The article provides a clear sequence of ordered steps for creating a community altar, which are easy to follow and ensure the task is completed in a structured manner. However, while the steps are delineated, the instructions lack sufficient detail and complexity to serve as training material for a language model that requires deeper reasoning, as the focus is more on personal and communal rituals rather than analytical processes.


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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
How about those Boston Red Sox sweeping the Colorado Rockies in the World Series? Three years ago they swept the Redbirds of St. Louis as well. World Series History is here. One of the classics was 1975 when the Red Sox beat out Pete Rose and the Reds 4 games to 3.
There is nothing better for Red Sox fans than to see the Yankees in a bit of disarray. Manager Joe Torre was not wanted back and now A-Rod (how about A-Red?) will be going green$$ elsewhere. Red Sox Nation can smell blood! "The Hunt for Red October" sequel is officially underway!!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
My prediction of Buffalo beating Montreal yesterday 3-1 was way off! Montreal won 4-2. I was reminded of that fact after the game when my voiceover friend, Robert Jadah, emailed me with the headline:
The Habs and the Hab-Nots.
The link for this blog is: http://www.habsinsideout.com
Robert's favorite sport is baseball and tonight Colorado finally got an opponent for the World Series. Boston clobbered Cleveland tonight
The Sunday night NFL game saw Colorado conquer Pennsylvania as Denver got by Pittsburgh 31-28 on a last second 49-yard field goal by Jason Elam. The coach of the Broncos is Mike Shanahan while Mike Tomlin is the Steelers' coach. There seems to be a lot of coaches named Mike in the NFL: Others include Holmgren in Seattle, Nolan in San Francisco and McCarthy in Green Bay.
Friday, October 19, 2007
Buffalo lost tonight to Columbus 3-0. We have now won 3 and lost 3 games this year. The opening to last Saturday's game against Washington is featured above with 3 Sabres making cameos: Ryan Miller, Tim Connolly and Brian Campbell. Tim was plugged in my last blog entry as one of the good guys sporting number 19. I also mentioned Joe Sakic and Steve Yzerman and you can see both of them scoring their 500th career goals by clicking on the video links at this page.
It was 50 years ago today that Maurice "The Rocket" Richard became the first NHL'er to score 500 career goals. He did it on home ice for the Montreal Canadiens against the Chicago Black Hawks. Final score for the Habs then: 3-1. Tomorrow night the Sabres roll into Montreal and for old time's sake I will predict a 3-1 final - for Buffalo. Here is the MSG-TV opener I am about to record:
AFTER A FEROCIOUS DISPLAY OF OFFENSE FOR THE MAJORITY OF THEIR HOMESTAND...
THE SABRES LEAVE HOME ICE LIKE A LAMB....SILENCED BY COLUMBUS.
AND NOW...THE START OF AN EXTENDED ROAD TRIP.
THE START OF THE SEASON SERIES WITH THE CANADIENS IS NEXT...ON MSG!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Here are some great players who wear number 19 and make their living with hockey sticks:
Joe Thornton of the San Jose Sharks. Number two in league scoring last season behind Sydney Crosby - and the number two overall pick by me in this year's annual London Drugs hockey pool, right after Sid the Kid. Joe plays his old team, the Boston Bruins, tonight.
Joe Sakic of the Colorado Avalanche. Number seven in the scoring race last season with an even 100. 1, 591 career points and counting entering action tonight.
Markus Naslund of the Vancouver Canucks. His best days are behind him but the Captain scored last night as the Canucks crushed Edmonton 5-2.
Tim Connolly of the Buffalo Sabres. Three points and first star in his last game. Sabres shut out Atlanta 6-0 two days ago.
One of the most famous number 19's is the retired Steve Yzerman. This is a tribute site for him. This link also shares some other famous 19's from the sports world.
With all this talk about 19's, I will have to blog again on Friday the 19th.
Aren't you glad yesterday was not a Friday the 13th? But for me, 13 and 14
are my lucky numbers.
Friday, October 05, 2007
HOme sweet HOme for the Colorado Rockies. Thanks to HOme runs in each of the first two games against Philadelphia by possible season MVP Matt HOlliday and a super pitching performance by Canadian Jeff Francis in game one, the Rockies can roll into round two of the baseball playoffs with a win tomorrow at HOme against Ryan HOward (105 HOme runs the last 2 seasons!) and the Phillies.
HOckey sweet HOckey returns to Buffalo tonight! The new HDef video screens are in place at HSBC Arena as the New York Islanders pay a visit tonight. I will post my opening on MSG-TV soon I hope. Last Saturday I had the privilege of being the PA announcer for one of the area's junior hockey teams, the Westside Warriors. What a finish to the game against Powell River with the winning goal scored by Westside with just 5 seconds left! One of their radio announcers, Brett Mix, is a big Buffalo Sabres fan.
Have a great season boys!
HOops sweet HOops! My basketball league resumed last night.
Great exercise! Even better than the competitive tennis league I am a part of. HOpe YOU have a great season - whichever one life is throwing your way right now:) Keep your chin up!

response:
Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing a task. Instead, it consists of informal commentary and reflections on sports events, which lacks the structured procedural instructions necessary for effective training of a language model. There are no detailed or organized instructions that would support deeper reasoning; rather, the content is predominantly anecdotal and conversational.


document:
Creamy red lentil soupSubmitted by: PILLYWIGGIN
IntroductionA delicious low cost meal A delicious low cost meal
1 onion, chopped
I garlic clove, crushed
2 celery stalks, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
2 tsps chopped fresh thyme
1 tsp ground cumin
175g dried red lentils
2 vegetable stock cubes dissolved in 1.2 litres of water
freshly ground black pepper
2 tbsp virtually fat free fromage frais
1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley to garnish
Add the remaining ingredients except the fromage frais and parsley and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for 25 mins until the lentils are soft.
Allow to cool slightly before liquidising - thin with additional veg stock or water if required.
Just before serving stir in the fromage frais and season to taste with black pepper. Spoon into bowls and garnish with the parsley.
Serving Size: 4 servings
Number of Servings: 4
Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user CHERRY210.

response:
Step-by-step: Yes
Training: No

The article provides a clear sequence of ordered steps for preparing creamy red lentil soup, guiding the reader from ingredient preparation through cooking and serving. However, while the instructions are straightforward, they lack the depth and detail needed for training a language model capable of deeper reasoning, such as elaborating on cooking techniques, explaining why certain steps are taken, or including variations and potential troubleshooting advice.


document:
|« Back to Article|
Former starter Rodriguez sent down
Corpus Christi's Albers recalled to bolster bullpen
By Jose de Jesus Ortiz | July 21, 2006
The demotion came two days earlier.
Rodriguez was optioned to Class AAA Round Rock on Thursday, and pitcher Matt Albers will come up from Class AA Corpus Christi to take a spot in the bullpen.
Though he led the Astros in victories, Rodriguez's recent struggles and his demotion to the bullpen last week gave him an indication of his fate. Nonetheless, the news hit Rodriguez hard.
"To me, that's one of the hardest decisions we've made this year just because this kid has done a great job for us," general manager Tim Purpura said. "That's one of the problems with young pitching, a guy coming off the DL and things like that. The players that have versatility are the ones that unfortunately have to bear the brunt of going back and forth at times.
"We told him that we still believe in him. I told him that we still believe in him."
Fighting back tears, Rodriguez vowed to put in the work necessary to return as soon as possible.
"Truly, I don't know what to say right now," he said.
Rodriguez will start Saturday against Class AAA Omaha.
Rodriguez is 9-6 with a 5.22 ERA over 19 starts and two relief appearances.
The Astros are high on Albers, a hard-throwing righthander who was 10-2 with a 2.17 ERA at Corpus Christi while leading the Texas League in victories.
"The thought process on Albers is (that) as I talked to our scouts and our development people the last couple of weeks, he's the one name that kept coming up as a guy who could come in and go in our bullpen," Purpura said. "He's a high-velocity guy. He's got two good breaking balls, and he can go work out of the pen.
"I think his pitching makeup will allow him to go into the bullpen and help us out. His arm bounces back really, really good. He can go 110 pitches and feel hardly anything the next day. You look at those type of things."

response:
Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; instead, it reports on a specific event in the sports world regarding player demotion and bullpen reinforcement. Additionally, the procedural instructions are not structured in a way that would be beneficial for training a language model capable of deeper reasoning, as there are no detailed processes or methodologies outlined that could be followed or analyzed.


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It’s a while since I’ve found time to add a new tool to my malware environment, so when a ISC post highlighted a new update to Cuckoo sandbox it served as a good reminder that I hadn’t got around to trying Cuckoo, something that has now changed. For those that don’t know, from it’s own site:
[...] Cuckoo Sandbox is a malware analysis system.
Its goal is to provide you a way to automatically analyze files and collect comprehensive results describing and outlining what such files do while executed inside an isolated environment.
It’s mostly used to analyze Windows executables, DLL files, PDF documents, Office documents, PHP scripts, Python scripts, Internet URLs and almost anything else you can imagine.
Considering Cuckoo is the combined product of several tools, mostly focused around VirtualBox, I found install and setup was largely trouble free, mostly thanks to the detailed installation instructions from the tools online documentation. I only encountered a couple of snags.
[2011-12-29 17:21:56,470] [Core.Init] INFO: Started.
[2011-12-29 17:21:56,686] [VirtualMachine.Check] INFO: Your VirtualBox version is: “4.1.2_Ubuntu”, good!
[2011-12-29 17:21:56,688] [Core.Init] INFO: Populating virtual machines pool…
[2011-12-29 17:21:56,703] [VirtualMachine] ERROR: Virtual machine “cuckoo1″ not found: 0x80bb0001 (Could not find a registered machine named ‘cuckoo1′)
[2011-12-29 17:21:56,704] [VirtualMachine.Infos] ERROR: No virtual machine handle.
[2011-12-29 17:21:56,705] [Core.Init] CRITICAL: None of the virtual machines are available. Please review the errors.
The online documentation specifies creating a dedicated user for the cuckoo process. Sound advice, but if you create your virtual guest machines under a different user (like I did, under a standard user account), then the cuckoo process cannot interact with the virtualbox guests. Either changing ownership of cuckoo, or specifically creating the guest VMs as the cuckoo user will solve the issue.
Last problem encountered was Cuckoo’s database, which if it doesn’t exist when the process will create a blank database. Which (obviously, in hindsight) will fail if the running user doesn’t have permissions to write to Cuckoo’s base directory.
With problems out of the way, Cuckoo runs quite nicely, with three main parts. the cuckoo.py script does the bulk of the heavy lifting and needs to be running before doing anything else. If all is well it should run through some initialisation and wait for further instructions:
/opt/cuckoo $ ./cuckoo.py
____ _ _ ____| | _ ___ ___
/ ___) | | |/ ___) |_/ ) _ \ / _ \
( (___| |_| ( (___| _ ( |_| | |_| |
\____)____/ \____)_| \_)___/ \___/ v0.3.1
Copyright (C) 2010-2011
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,120] [Core.Init] INFO: Started.
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,719] [VirtualMachine.Check] INFO: Your VirtualBox version is: “4.1.2_Ubuntu”, good!
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,720] [Core.Init] INFO: Populating virtual machines pool…
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,779] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: Virtual machine “cuckoo1″ information:
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,780] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: \_| Name: cuckoo1
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,781] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: | ID: 9a9dddd8-f7d6-40ea-aed3-9a0dc0f30e79
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,782] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: | CPU Count: 1 Core/s
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,783] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: | Memory Size: 512 MB
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,783] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: | VRAM Size: 16 MB
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,784] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: | State: Saved
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,785] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: | Current Snapshot: “cuckoo1_base”
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,785] [VirtualMachine.Infos] INFO: | MAC Address: 08:00:27:BD:9C:4F
[2011-12-29 20:27:17,786] [Core.Init] INFO: 1 virtual machine/s added to pool.
The submit.py script is one of the ways for getting cuckoo to analysis files:
python submit.py –help
Usage: submit.py [options] filepath
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-t TIMEOUT, –timeout=TIMEOUT Specify analysis execution time limit
-p PACKAGE, –package=PACKAGE Specify custom analysis package name
-r PRIORITY, –priority=PRIORITY Specify an analysis priority expressed in integer
-c CUSTOM, –custom=CUSTOM Specify any custom value to be passed to postprocessing
-d, –download Specify if the target is an URL to be downloaded
-u, –url Specify if the target is an URL to be analyzed
-m MACHINE, –machine=MACHINE Specify a virtual machine you want to specifically use for this analysis
Most of the options above are self-explanatory, just make sure to select the relevant analysis package depending on what you’re working with; possibilities are listed here.
Finally, web.py provides a web interface for reviewing the results of all analysis performed by cuckoo, bound to localhost:8080.
I’d like to thank the team that developed and continue to develop the cuckoo sandbox. I look forward to getting more automated results going forward and hopefully getting to a point where I’m able to add back to the project; until then I’d recommend getting your hands dirty, from my initial experiments I doubt you’ll be disappointed. But if you won’t take my word for it, watch Cuckoo in action analysing Zeus here.
– Andrew Waite
Like most techies I get the job of fixing and maintaining relatives’ PCs. As part of this after fixing whatever is broken I have some common clean-up and install routines that I go through to both help the system run faster and to extend the period before I’m called back, and I’ve used AVG free as part of this for many years to keep costs down for my users.
During a recent job I came across a new (I’m assuming, hadn’t noticed it before) feature of AVG free, the PC Analyzer component. Being the curious sort I hit the go button, scan ran for around 5 minutes and I was presented with this:
Ouch, I was surprised with the number of errors as this is a machine I keep a regular eye on, and in some cases use myself (it’s the missus’). Time to panic? Let’s see:
- Registry errors: Errors affect system stability: (125)
That doesn’t sound good, checking the ‘Details…’ link presented me with a long list Registry keys, which to a standard end-user would result in turning on BofH’s Dummy Mode. In reality, it found a lot of keys to set the ‘open with’ right-click function depending on file extension. ‘Affect system stability’? Not so much, and I find the links useful enough that I’ve previously researched how to add my own…
- Junk Files: These files take up disk space: (599)
Again checking the details, long list of randomly named files. In the temporary folder. All ~600 took a total of less the 300MB, and the machine has more the 200GB free. Something to correct come next house cleaning session, but not really a problem.
- Fragmentation: Reduces disk access speed
In fairness to the tool, it did come back clean and we know that fragmentation can be an issue. But that’s why every machine I’ve ever used has come with a defrag utility, as standard, for free. (OK, my BBC Micro B didn’t, but then it also had a cassette deck rather than a hard disk).
- Broken Shortcuts: Reduces explorer browsing speed(42)
Ok, so I forget a folder of shortcuts to junk that came pre-installed with the system. I’d deleted the junk, forgot the shortcuts. Thanks for the reminder, fixed.
Plenty of ‘problems’ highlighted, time to run out and drop £25 for an annual subscription to the clean-up tool? Nope, ignoring the fact that many of these issues are system settings that actually aid the end user, the remaining issues won’t have any negative impact that the end-user will notice.
In my own opinion, AVG is taking a leaf out of the fake AV scams and scaring non-techies into parting with their hard earned coin in a bid to keep the computer running and bank details away from the scary hackers that the nice lady on the news keeps taking about. Presenting a list of meaningless (to most) information and saying it’s bad is exactly the tactic I encountered with cold call scammers earlier in the year.
As a final side note, I’ve lost two of my ‘users’ this year to AVG simply because when the AVG free license I’d installed expired, they couldn’t find a link to download the latest free version, only MANY links to the paid version. As my users are nice people (latest ‘victim’ was my grandfather), they decided themselves that it was better for them to pay the small fee than have to call me and interrupt my life.
Can anyone recommend a free AV suite that doesn’t con the unwitting into unnecessary purchases to perform a cleanup that could be performed manually with around 5 minutes and half a clue? AVG Free is a great tool, and for free I shouldn’t really complain, but when the sales tactics change to make money selling things people don’t need, to those that don’t know any better?
<update>Further investigation has shown that data has been restored, but the tree structure isn’t perfect. Use at own risk</update>
Anyone who’s taken Offensive Security training should be familiar with KeepNote (similar to Leo, for those that took early versions of the courses). If you’re not familiar with KeepNote it does exactly what you’d expect from the name, provide a handy way to keep and organise information. And it does a good job of this, until….
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/keepnote/gui/__init__.py", line 469, in open_notebook version = notebooklib.get_notebook_version(filename) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/keepnote/notebook/__init__.py", line 248, in get_notebook_version raise NoteBookError(_("Notebook preference data is corrupt"), e) NoteBookError: SyntaxError('junk after document element: line 11, column 0',) Notebook preference data is corrupt root@bt:~/pwbv3/labnotes#
After much searching I found several posts discussing similar issues but following the same resolutions did not resolve by problems. With this I resorted to my fallback plan, create new notebook and begin to repopulate with my content (each node is stored as a plain text file, so I was looking at lots of cut and paste). Then a thunderbolt hit me.
I copied each branch of the original note tree to the new tree, and hay-presto! functioning notebook retained and disaster averted.
cp -r ~/old-notebook/branch/ ~/new-notebook/.
Of course a better solution is just to hit the ‘File>Backup Notebook’ option occasionally.
Towards the end of last year I spent a few hours trialling SSH tunnels, I knew how the process worked but hadn’t had much cause to use it in anger; so my lab got some use instead, and a post was written covering the basics; SSH port forwarding 101.
Since I now know how to quickly and successfully implement a tunnel, it turns out that I previously had plenty of cause to use tunnels in the past, I just didn’t know SSH tunnels were the right tool for the job. A couple of recent conversations has made me realise others don’t always know the flexibility of tunnels either so I wanted to try and describe a common scenario to highlight the usefulness of tunnels.
Above is a fairly common setup. You’ve got an internal resource (for example an intranet wiki for documentation), this is in turn protected by a firewall that only allows access from trusted location. Under normal circumstances all staff can access the resource without problems, and any malicious sources (human or automated) can’t access the service.
This works well, until someone needs access and they aren’t at one of the trusted locations (we’re assuming this is an unusual problem and remote access solutions aren’t in place). In a lot of environments SSH is a ‘trusted’ system management solution and is world accessible (and hopefully secured well enough to keep the barbarians from the door, but that’s for different posts).
SSH tunnels (but you guessed that). Tunnel the server’s HTTP (or whatever) service back to your local system, and then connect locally. Using the syntax I discussed previously, from a ‘nix shell you can use this command:
ssh -L 8000:127.0.0.1:80 ssh-server.domain.com
This makes an SSH connection to the server (ssh-server.domain.com), tunnelling the local HTTP service running on port 80 (127.0.0.1:80) and binds it to your machines TCP 8000 port. Now you can connect to the service by typing 127.0.0.1:8000 into a browser, thus traversing the firewall source IP restrictions.
If you’re living in a Windows world, then the PuTTY equivalent configuration will be:
Next time you’re sat in the coffee shop on a Sunday morning, and the boss rings with an ‘emergency’; are you sure that you can’t access the resources you need from where you are? If you can, that coffee (and extra slice of cake) just became expense-able
For those that don’t already know, John the Ripper is:
a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported out of the box are Windows LM hashes, plus many more with contributed patches.
John is commonly available for most ‘nix systems under their package management systems. However, I’d strongly recommend compiling from source to ensure John takes full advantage of more powerful hardware capabilities than the ‘generic’ build. Compiling from source is straightforward, and I’m yet to encounter any difficulties. The additional time spent with manual compilation definitely pays for itself in the long run, read the INSTALL file for instructions.
To get a feel for the available performance john includes ‘–test’ functionality. My system (iMac i7 w/8GB ram), manually compiled with system specific functions achieved:
enchmarking: Traditional DES [128/128 BS SSE2-16]… DONE
Many salts: 3370K c/s real, 3370K c/s virtual
Only one salt: 2840K c/s real, 2840K c/s virtual
Benchmarking: BSDI DES (x725) [128/128 BS SSE2-16]… DONE
Many salts: 108990 c/s real, 110080 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 107264 c/s real, 107264 c/s virtual
Using the same system and john compiled with a ‘generic’ system I achieved less than 50% performance:
Benchmarking: Traditional DES [64/64 BS]… DONE
Many salts: 1613K c/s real, 1613K c/s virtual
Only one salt: 1476K c/s real, 1487K c/s virtual
Benchmarking: BSDI DES (x725) [64/64 BS]… DONE
Many salts: 52800 c/s real, 52377 c/s virtual
Only one salt: 51961 c/s real, 51961 c/s virtual
Unfortunately, john doesn’t currently take advantage of multi-core systems and only uses a single core (see below). There are methods for sharing the processing load between multiple instances of john, or even across john instances running on multiple systems, but that’s a topic for another day.
Before you can crack any passwords, you first need to ‘acquire’ the hashes to be cracked. There are many options for this including the pwdump family (I’d recommend fgdump), the Cain and Abel tools and many others. For testing purposes I extracted the Windows LM hashes using Metasploit’ Meterpreter’s hashdump functionality:
meterpreter > hashdump
John comes packaged with a default password list, containing a little over 3000 entries, and several methods for generating hybrid guesses including appending numbers to entry or performing ‘l33t’ replacements. Rules for hybrid attacks can found (and edited) in the john.conf file. Even without tweaking, john is still effective at cracking hashes as the below shows.
Wintermute:john-testing awaite$ time /Applications/john-1.7.6-jumbo-12/run/john 192-168-1-127_Andrew.dump
Loaded 2 password hashes with no different salts (LM DES [128/128 BS SSE2-16])
guesses: 2 time: 0:00:09:45 (3) c/s: 19803K trying: INFODTP – INFOSS9
Wintermute:john-testing awaite$ time /Applications/john-1.7.6-jumbo-12/run/john 192-168-1-127_Barney.dump
Loaded 2 password hashes with no different salts (LM DES [128/128 BS SSE2-16])
guesses: 2 time: 0:00:00:01 (3) c/s: 9547K trying: DINOSH8 – DINOVYS
Wintermute:john-testing awaite$ time /Applications/john-1.7.6-jumbo-12/run/john 192-168-1-127_Charlie.dump
Loaded 1 password hash (LM DES [128/128 BS SSE2-16])
guesses: 1 time: 0:00:28:38 (3) c/s: 20126K trying: CH4LB5# – CH4LCGN
Cracked hashes are stored in the john.pot file, preventing john from wasting CPU cycles cracking a hash that has already been cracked. Previously cracked passwords can be found using –show:
Wintermute:run awaite$ ./john –show /Users/awaite/Documents/john-testing/192-168-1-127.dump
5 password hashes cracked, 12 left
John has a lot of additional functionality; go install, tweak and crack (only with permission, obviously).
I’ve tried messing around with SSH port forwarding in the past, but always struggled to get my head around what I was trying to connect to where, and ultimately didn’t result in anything useful. This time around I’ve put in some dedicated time to get to the bottom forwarding ports within SSH tunnels. And I’m glad I did, my with only a handful of connections the possibilities are making my head spin.
To help my head get around problems I encountered I found a number of resources helpful.
Example Scenario: A server (10.0.0.100) on an internal LAN has web services that need to be accessed, but has no remote access through the firewall. Luckily, there is remote access to an SSH server (10.0.0.200) sat on the same LAN.
ssh -L 8000:10.0.0.100:80 ssh-server.somedomain.tld
This connects to the machine at ssh-server.somedomain.tld and, once authenticated, forwards 10.0.0.100:80 to port 8000 on the local machine. Now accessing the remote services is as simple as pointing your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000.
The same functionality can be achieved using configuration files. For example, edit ~/.ssh/config:
LocalForward 127.0.0.1:8000 10.0.0.100:80
To establish a connection with the configuration file in place simply run; ssh tunnel.
The port forward will remain active for as long as the SSH session is connected. If you don’t need to interact with the SSH session in addition to the forwarded port passing ssh the -fN flags will cause the session to be backgrounded once authentication can be established.
If you haven’t already, I suggest you investigate the possibilities within your own environment; and if an evil grin doesn’t spread across your face then you still don’t fully get it
Development of new features for Dionaea has been fairly impressive of late, and I’ve been lax in keeping up to date. When Markus asked if I’d tested the graph utility that he created and wrote about here, it served as a kick to stop putting off some of the jobs I’ve got on the growing to-do list.
I won’t go into too much detail about running the script as Markus has already done a better job than I could. However I will point out that if you run your Dionaea installation on Debian stable, then your out of luck; the standard packages for sqlite are too old to take the script. Best advice is to copy your logsql.sqlite database to a Ubuntu machine and work from there (oh, and in case you didn’t guess from the script name, make sure you’ve actually installed gnuplot…).
A powerful machine is recommended, the only Ubuntu system I had to hand whilst testing was my AA1 netbook, which took 85 minutes to crunch through the script and my database.
I have immediately found the graphs produced useful as they’ve highlighted a couple of obvious spikes (see below) in activity that I would have (and did) miss if solely relying on log files and databases. This really shows the power and importance of visualising security and log information.
If you’re interested the output for the InfoSanity’s installation is now online here. I’m looking to expand the statistics from the InfoSanity honeypot environment that are publicly available, this makes a nice start. As always, big thanks to Markus and carnivore.it team for the effort.
– Andrew Waite
<UPDATE>Live download mirror: carnivore.it</UPDATE>
Mercury Live DVD was initially (I believe) announced in a post to the Nepenthes Mailing list. It is a remastered Ubuntu distribution with pre-installed honeypot applications and malware analysis tools created by John Moore. From the ReadMe:
This live DVD is a remastered version of Ubuntu 10.0 Beta LTS x86_32. It was designed due to my being disappointed with another reverse engineering malware live CD that was released recently. I have decided to call my creation MERCURY, which is an acronym for Malware Enumeration, Capture, and Reverse Engineering.
The Mercury live DVD contains tools used for digital forensics, data recovery, network monitoring, and spoofing. It should primarily be used as a honeypot or network monitoring platform as well as a laboratory and teaching aid. There are three honeypots installed – honeyd, nepenthes, and dionaea. Four, if you include netcat.
The majority of the additional applications reside in /opt:
- Dionaea (0.1.0) – Dionaea is a malware collection honeypot focusing primarily on SMB emulation, covered on InfoSanity numerous times before.
- FFP – Fuzzy Fingerprinting is a util to aid SSH MitM attacks.
- Kippo (svn rev.169) – Kippo is an low-medium interaction SSH honeypot, Also covered
- mitm-ssh – Unsurprisingly, a utility for aiding man in the middle attacks against SSH connections.
- Origami & pdftools – Two frameworks for analysing malicious PDF files.
- Volatility – an excellent memory analysis toolkit
- Zerowine-vm – A malware behavior analysis platform. I’ve covered ZeroWine here before, and whilst I find it useful for initial analysis I found it a pain to setup and get running. The fact this works out of the box on Mercury is enough reason alone to keep the .iso handy.
Other tools are installed on the system as started, access from standard locations (/etc, /usr/bin, etc.). I won’t try to list them all, but some highlights include:
- Nepenthes – Dionaea’s predecessor
- Honeyd – Honeypot system, perfect for emulating multiple different systems from one platform. Covered in more depth here.
- John – John the Ripper, password cracker
- ircd-hybrid – irc server daemon, useful for analysis irc-based malware’s interaction with command and control systems.
- Snort – de-facto intrusion detection system.
- Wireshark – Packet capture and network analysis tools.
I could go on, but I’m sure you get the idea.
Setting up a honeypot, and analysing the results, has never been easier. And I’m sure the toolkit’s functionality will also be useful in other scenarios; incident response, general network administration or as a safe learning platform. So what are you waiting for?
N.B. there have been several mirror’s and downloads established, the most reliable download source I’ve used is Markus’ mirror at carnivore.it
This morning I cause myself a problem. Annoyingly it was foreseeable and avoidable, this is my excuse (not great, but I’ll stick to it). But as every problem is merely an opportunity in disguise whist I’m re-building systems I might as well document the process. The original InfoSanity guide for installing Kippo was based off of the latest stable version, but I rapidly migrated to the development SVN on learning of the MySQL logging capabilities, so this guide covers that.
As I’m using a Debian system a lot of the system pre-requisites are packaged, this aren’t all needed immediately but we might as well grab them all at once.
apt-get install subversion #for svn
apt-get install python-twisted python-mysqldb # Python and required modules
apt-get install mysql-server #
Basic Kippo setup
Grab Kippo direct from svn, at time of writing I got version 160. (latest instructions):
svn checkout http://kippo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /opt/kippo-svn
Now we can start the honeypot system:
That’s it, all that is required to get the system running. To confirm you can ssh locally with ssh -p2222 email@example.com, unless you’ve jumped ahead and edited the config, password will be 123456.
Log into MySQL via commanline, assuming you’ve not modified the kippo.cfg database directives build the database:
create database kippo;
grant all on kippo.* to ‘kippo’@'localhost’ identified by ‘secret’;
Next edit the kippo.cfg accordingly you database/user/password and uncomment the [database] configuration directives. REMEBER to uncomment ;[database] line not just the parameters, that has now caught me out twice.
Finally, build the database structure with the script that can be found in <kippo>/doc/sql/:
doc/sql/# mysql -ukippo -psecret kippo < mysql.sql
Restart your Kippo process and you should be good; re-test access to the shell and view the database tables to confirm that logs are being written to the database.
I’ve been a bit lax in writing this post; around a month ago Miguel Jacq got in contact to let me know about a couple of errors he encountered when running InfoSanity’s mimic-nepstats.py with a small data set. Basically if your log file did not include any submissions, or was for a period shorter than 24hours the script would crash out, not the biggest problem as most will be working with larger data sets but annoying non the less.
Not only did Miguel let me know about the issues, he was also gracious enough to provide a fix, the updated script can be found here. An example of the script in action is below:
cat /opt/dionaea/var/log/dionaea.log| python mimic-nepstats_v1-1.py
Statistics engine written by Andrew Waite – http://www.infosanity.co.uk
Number of submissions: 84
Number of unique samples: 39
Number of unique source IPs: 65
First sample seen: 2010-06-08 08:25:39.569003
Last sample seen: 2010-06-21 15:24:37.105594
System Uptime: 13 days, 6:58:57.536591
Average daily submissions: 6
Most recent submissions:
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2010-06-20 23:34:15.967299, 188.8.131.52, http://184.108.40.206/trying.exe, 094e2eae3644691711771699f4947536
– Andrew Waite

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing a task step-by-step; instead, it discusses various topics related to Cuckoo Sandbox and other tools without a structured, step-by-step format. However, it contains detailed procedural instructions related to installation and setup that could be useful for training a language model capable of deeper reasoning, as the author provides insights into troubleshooting and alternative methods while covering multiple tools and their functionalities comprehensively.


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>> Thursday, May 13, 2010
Gian Clam Nursery and White Beach of Cantaan in Camiguin Island! I think this is a very new tourist spot because when we went to Camiguin Island 5 years ago, we haven't heard of this existing yet!
Nestled in a cove near Cantaan is a beautiful beach with white sand. This beach facing Mindanao is already a surprise. But actually the real surprise is the Giant Clam Nursery.
This is a bit far from though from the other tourist spots to visit in Camiguin. Cantaan is only 22km from Mambajao but well hidden. Best transportation is your own rented motorbike. Then it takes some 30 to 40 minutes to get there. You may first miss the intersection leading to Cantaan. So when you see the wharf of Guinsiliban, make an U-turn. On your way back (about 500 meters), you will see the welcome sign of Cantaan with its Mickey-Mouse. Continue straight through the Barangay. The road is 95% of concrete and sometimes rather steep (See the picture below so you won't get lost).
|The U-Turn Intersection|
You will then be greeted with friendly staffs, most of them are kids which is pretty amazing! There is an entrance fee of P25.00 but they will tour you around the beach and show you the Giant Clams they're taking care of. Not only will they show you the Giant Clams inside the round pools, they will also explain the life of a Clam, in ENGLISH! And remember, they are local kids in the area but they know a lot of things about these beautiful creatures. :)
|The Bright Kids of Cantaan :)|
|Clam Viewing / Renting Rates|
The Snorkeling activity went on for 45 minutes I think but God, it was awesome! I've done several snorkeling activities from different places already but for me, I think this is the BEST Snorkeling Experience I've tried yet! You can really see the 1M BIG Giant Clams!
Only after our snorkeling activity did we check out the Education Facility and we were amazed at how dedicated they are to save the Marine Life even though they are just a COOP and are not getting much support and funding from the Govt.
So if ever you come visit Camiguin Island, I guarantee you, this is one of the Best Places In The World! By going to this place too, you are helping the Cooperative, the Marine Life and most especially, the people around the area for livelihood. They sure need our help. :)
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Vanilla Garlic is my nifty food blog that I update every Tuesday morning. I write essays about life and food that I like to think are humorous or thoughtful. Whether I succeed at either is debatable.
So, I am leaving my comment here, and hoping people read it. As frightening as this Calamity Jane Sandra Lee is, understand that squirrel is a very normal food for many people to hunt in much of the U.S.. Never tried it myself.This video is practical for everyday eating for many people in the U.S.. Take into account that yes, squirrels are cute, but in other counties all KINDS of animals are eaten. (Hope you are paying attention people who got on me about tripe!)But still, kinda freaky (and funny) video. But gotta love how the squirrel recipe has nuts in it.
Ah, that's the video link that Hank sent me! Cracked me up. My dad used to hunt squirrels in the woods near where he grew up in Minnesota during the depression, and grandma made squirrel stew. Most of us descend from generations of squirrel hunters and would never know it. The comments on the YouTube site for this video are pretty sad. A lot of name calling from people who have no idea where any of their food comes from. They should take a look at the video on this site if they think eating hamburger is any better than a squirrel melt.
OK, I live in a very rural area of Pennsylvania, and lots of people here eat almost anything, including squirrel, groundhog and a host of other rodents, but you're right, the addition of nut is priceless. I'm not a fan of wild critter consumption, but the idea of tailgating at a Penn State game with squirrel melts really does amuse me.
Thought I'd weigh in here as a well-known squirrel-eater. My fascination with this video is how gob-smackingly awful this dish looks. Eeeeeeew! I have scores of squirrel recipes, but this is just downright nasty. And ya gotta love the accent, don't ya know? Makes the Sandra Lee aspect even better. Lots of people say, "oh, this is how the Midwest eats." Nope, it's not. There is plenty of good food in Flyover Country. I know: I lived there for years.OK, OK, I am a squirrel snob, I admit it. (hee hee hee) And I know she wanted to make something Little Jimmy would eat, but couldn't she have just chicken fried it? The idea of Velveeta and shredded squirrel just makes me retch. Feh.
Now, that's G-R-O-S-S in bold and capital letters!
Rabbit, squirrel, squirrel, rabbit..what's the diff?
hey garret! just stopped by to say that you've done a fabulous job with chocolate starwberries at Simply recipes!:) congrats!:)
totally off topic, but i was on tastespotting a few minutes ago and it linked to this article on gorgeous tuxedo strawberries. i read the whole thing, and lo and behold it was written by you!! one of my favorite bloggers :D
I thought the most disturbing aspect of the video was the lady herself. The fact that she eats squirrel is like big whoop. The week of my wedding the local paper here had a recipe for woodchuck stew. But this lady reeked of Sandra Lee in that creepy way. Like she might be a closet drinker that has illicit fantasies about Pat Robertson or something
I saw that on TV the other night.That recipe sounded awful, but really squirrel isn't bad if fixed correctly.
Oh wow... I just felt awkward watching that. I'm not too sure how comfortable I am to watch someone prepare a meal and remind me how in its live form it used to be cute and that it would enjoy the meal it was about to be cooked in.Not to mention I'm at a campus where there are more squirrels than people.
Actually I didn't find it gross at all - but tastfully presented. I figured I'd see the poor little animal peeled and gutted on the tube. Since you can find brains, guts, liver, etc. at the local market why not the squirrel? Don't have them here in Orange County, CA but if they sold it at Albertson's I'd probably try it - in some recipe. Thanks - fun.
But why shooting squirrels now, since there is no depression anymore in America? Is it not pretty decadent? Here in Greece only very very poor people will eat every kind of meat. I thought America was so rich? What a strange hobby, cannot understand this woman. Is she too poor to afford good quality meat? Shooting such puny animals without real danger for your own life is crazy in my opinion.
it just seems icky to me to kill things with your children....look what we did johnny!!
okay. i get it. some people eat squirrel.but to comment on it being "cute" and "putting his little butt in there" when she's getting ready to simmer it IS JUST PLAIN WRONG.
Gross...I hate mayo.
Hey, squirrel's good. Good for them to actually go out and hunt their own meat...healthier and better for the environment. Best line: "You know how squirrels love nuts".
I found it kind of interesting. I am one of those people who hates to see food wasted, so I like the thrifty aspect of this. However the recipe itself did not look that appealing to me. I'm sure there must be tastier ways to serve squirrel meat. I'd be more interested to see how she actually skinned and prepared the meat.
So... had it been this chick in "Fatal Attraction" instead of Glenn Close, she'd have taken the cute little bunny out of the boiling water and fixed up a nice little batch of "bunny melts" for the family to enjoy when they came home...
I would like to add that in Sac, those cute red fox squirrels you see running around are actually non-natives brought over from the eastern us to hunt. The DFG considers them a game species and maintains the population, although they have pretty much wiped out the native western grey squirrel. So I say shoot 'em, roll 'em in mayo and nuts, and good riddance!
Yeah just not a fan of dining on the rodentia family. Actually not that much of a fan of anything that isn't a strict herbivore. The taste different isn't that pleasant to me.Next week Heidi takes on big game! Look out Capybaras!! Where was that second safety again?
Hey, you're leaving a comment! That's pretty darn cool, so thanks. If you have any questions or have found an error on the site or with a recipe, please e-mail me and I will reply as soon as possible.~Garrett
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task. Rather, it consists of a series of comments and musings around the topic of squirrel consumption and a related video, lacking structured and detailed procedural instructions that would guide a reader in a methodical way. Consequently, these fragmented thoughts do not serve as effective training material for a language model focused on deeper reasoning, as they lack the coherence and clarity necessary for such analysis.


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Bradley gets his day in court
By Phil Rogers
HOUSTON -- Milton Bradley stated his case Wednesday afternoon, appealing the two-game suspension he received for supposedly coming into contact with umpire Larry Vanover while arguing a called strike on April 16 at Wrigley Field.
Bradley came away from the video-conferenced hearing hopeful of having the suspension overturned completely.
"A reduction would be warranted, but a reduction to zero would be justified,'' Bradley said before the Cubs played the Houston Astros. "Any suspension I would serve just wouldn't be fair.''
Unless Bradley is successful in having the suspension completely wiped out, the Cubs could regret his decision not to serve it the last two weeks, when he was largely unavailable because of a strained groin.
"Since I was banged up at the time, it would have been easy to take the suspension,'' said Bradley, who is hitting .128 with two home runs in 47 at-bats. "But I wouldn't have been being fair to myself.''
Bradley, who came to the Cubs with a history of altercations, may have a case this time. He claims his batting helmet did not brush against the bill of Vanover's cap during their disagreement, which was the reason for the suspension. Replays do not clearly show that happening and Vanover did not react as if he had been bumped.
Bradley used Vanover's body language as part of his defense. "You'd need a video forensic expert to find my possible contact,'' Bradley said. "I just went and told the truth about what my intentions were, what took place that day.''
Major League Baseball executive vice president John McHale Jr., not MLB disciplinarian Bob Watson, heard the case. Bradley said that Vanover and a representative of the umpires' union also participated in the video conference.
Bradley said he expects a decision "in the next couple of days.''

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing a task. Instead, it presents a narrative focused on a specific incident involving Milton Bradley and his appeal, lacking structured procedural instructions or detailed guidelines. Consequently, it would not be useful for training a language model in deeper reasoning, as it does not outline any framework or methodology that could facilitate such analysis.


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I tend to do things in Binges....
Blogging is no different to me
putting images on my BLOG is no different for me
these images are not all recent
that one of me snowboarding....
well I am not in Chile!
but images are a good addition to the mix
hope they are an addition not detracting
that Baby Grant is one charming little man...even when he sleeps

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I don’t know about you, but with 10 days to go before “pitchers and catchers” I’m in the market for any good White Sox scoop.
Today, I’ve got a treat for the readers of Art of the Pale Hose.
My good friend and sportswriter extraordinaire Ed Sherman has just completed an intriguing interview
with Pale Hose GM Kenny Williams
for Crain’s Chicago Business

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing a specific task. Instead, it focuses on sharing a scoop about an interview with a sports figure, which does not include detailed procedural instructions necessary for training a language model capable of deeper reasoning. The content appears more conversational and informative rather than instructional.


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Feb 3: India relied on the young brigade to finally break their prolonged winless streak by spanking Australia by eight wickets in the second Twenty20 Interntaional and level the series 1-1 here today.
After restricting the fancied Australians to 131 in 19.4 overs, riding on some brilliant fielding and disciplined bowling, the Indians overhauled the target with two balls to spare to record their first overseas win in close to seven months.
Today's win snapped India's winless run which started in England last year where they lost the four-match Test series 0-4 and the subsequent five-match ODI series 0-3 before slumping to another 0-4 whitewash in the Test series against Australia.
Opener Gautam Gambhir (56 not out) led the Indian charge and with Virender Sehwag (23) provided the best start of the Australian tour, putting on 43 runs from 6.3 overs for the first wicket.
Sehwag was brilliantly caught at short cover by Shaun Marsh off left-arm chinaman bowler Brad Hogg but not before hitting a monstrous six off left-arm spinner Xavier Doherty which went many rows deep at the long on fence of the huge MCG stadium.
But Gambhir was determined to see India through and made a well-constructed 56 off 60 balls with four fours. India's lone centurion in the Test series, Virat Kohli (31) gave him good company as India won without a hiccup by reaching 135 for two in 19.4 overs.
Gambhir and Kohli put on 54 runs off 43 balls for the second wicket to seal the good work done earlier by the bowlers and fielders, who executed four run-outs during the Australian innings.

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; rather, it narrates an event in a chronological manner without actionable instructions. Additionally, the instructions or guidance needed for training a language model focused on deeper reasoning are not present, as the content lacks detail or structure that breaks down processes or decision-making elements.


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Homemade XO Chinese Sauce Recipe
Everybody needs a little XO on their Chinese pork
For many Jewish families, Christmas means enjoying each other’s company over Chinese food and movies (among the only businesses open in otherwise eerily abandoned ghost towns on Christmas Eve and Day). At his nationally recognized West Newton bistro Lumière (accolades from Bon Appétit, Food & Wine and Saveur), Michael Leviton is recreating this long-standing Jewish Christmas tradition featuring interpretations of Chinese food using local, sustainable ingredients and classic French techniques on Christmas Eve.
Leviton's homemade XO sauce, a salty-savory-sweet Chinese condiment made from caramelized dried seafood and sausage, is a great match for pork belly, scallops and a range of other Chinese dishes. You’ll notice that the XO sauce calls for house-dried seafood, but the home chef can buy this all at a well-stocked Asian market or by hunting around online Asian food sites.
- Cover the dried seafood with boiling water and rehydrate overnight in the refrigerator.
- The next day, drain the water from the seafood. Render the fresh sausage carefully, going for a deep golden brown without burning. Pour off the fat except for 1/2 cup.
- Meanwhile, purée the seafood in a food processor until finely chopped. Reserve. Once the sausage has caramelized, add the red pepper and cook 30 seconds, then add remaining ingredients including the reserved 1/2 cup sausage fat (but not the sesame oil) and cook very slowly, stirring frequently. The idea is to lightly caramelize the entire mixture slowly over 20-45 minutes.
- Once desired coloration has been achieved, add sesame oil. Combine well and adjust seasoning.
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**Step-by-step: Yes**
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The article provides a clear sequence of ordered steps for making XO sauce, making it easy for the reader to follow. Each step is detailed and logically structured, which facilitates deeper reasoning by allowing readers to understand the purpose behind each action (such as rehydrating the seafood and caramelizing the sausage) and how they contribute to the final sauce. This structure would indeed be useful for training a language model to comprehend and apply procedural instructions effectively.


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Pack Pride will be posting live updates this afternoon from the 2012 HighSchoolOT.com Holiday Invitational. NC State signee Anthony Barber plays tonight, along with Wolfpack targets Isaac Copeland and Brandon Ingram.
Barber, a 6-foot-2 senior point guard, plays tonight at 9:00 pm with his Hampton (VA) squad against top 2014 point guard prospect Shelton Mitchell and Cuthbertson High School. Mitchell has received some interest from NC State.
Copeland, a 6-foot-9 junior combo forward, will lead his Miller (VA) School team on to the court against High Point (NC) Christian at 4:00 pm. Copeland already holds an offer from the Wolfpack.
Ingram, a 6-foot-4 sophomore wing, is one of the top young players in the state. The Kinston (NC) standout plays at 5:40 pm against DeSoto (TX) High School and Duke signee Matt Jones.
Join us on our premium basketball forum for live updates from the games, including analysis, quotes, and stats!
NOTE: To view the Pack Pride Premium Message Board you must be a premium subscriber.

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps to guide the reader through completing a task; instead, it presents information about basketball players and their game schedules without actionable instructions. Additionally, the lack of structured procedural instructions or detailed concepts limits its usefulness for training a language model capable of deeper reasoning, as there are no defined methods or processes to analyze.


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Arizona basketball preview: leadership a theme among team
When the No. 12 Arizona men's basketball team takes on Charleston Southern in McKale Center on Sunday at 4 p.m. for its season opener, the Wildcats will have two unquestioned leaders: Senior Solomon Hill, who has been the one constant on the Arizona roster since head coach Sean Miller arrived in Tucson four years ago, and fifth-year senior Mark Lyons, who transferred to the Wildcats with NCAA tournament appearances for every year spent at Xavier.
But there is another voice asking to be heard on the court, shouting orders and offering praise — that of sophomore Nick Johnson.
"I think it's great that Nick is really stepping up and taking a role as a leader, especially as a sophomore," Hill said. "It just adds to the respect that he gets from the teammates and from the younger guys, and everybody loves it. It's a part of the team that he's helping us build."
Miller has said that Johnson is one of the team's most vocal players, and while he might lack the experience of Lyons, the accolades of Hill (an All-Conference First Team member) or even the life experience of senior Kevin Parrom, Johnson has the personality to lead.
"I was a big leader last year as far as vocally, even though I was just a freshman," Johnson said. "Just coming in, we got a lot of new guys, a lot of new faces. So me playing a lot last year, even though I'm a sophomore, I just have to come in and show the younger guys how to do it."
This time around, though, Johnson has some on-court credentials to back up his leadership role. Johnson was fourth on the team in scoring and rebounding last season with 8.9 points per game and 3.3 boards. His 36.9 shooting percentage was a little low, as was his 32 three-point percentage, but he still did enough to earn a spot on the Pac-12 All-Freshman team.
Hill and Lyons may have seniority, but Hill feels Johnson brings an added element to the veteran leadership of a team that has a mix of both young and old.
"[Johnson] is a vocal guy," Hill said. "He's very passionate on the court. Me, I'm kind of different. I don't really talk as much as the game comes on … I let my engine do the talking. I just let my hard work go out there and show guys how it's done."
Hill's 12.9 points per game, team-high 7.7 rebounds and .500 percent shooting did plenty of talking last season, but it doesn't account for the vocal void Hill's methodical play creates. That lets the young sophomore fill the silence and take a leadership role without stepping on older players' toes.
"Solomon and Kevin, they both lead by example, so they're not as much talking," Johnson said. "So I think they accepted the fact that I'm more the vocal person on our team. It all helps."
Through Arizona's two preseason games, Hill, Lyons and Johnson have proven to be the Wildcats' most consistent players. While the two seniors have consistently put the ball in the basket, Johnson has contributed in ways other than scoring — though he averaged 10 points per game.
The sophomore shooting guard had five steals against Humboldt State and two blocks and two steals against Chico State, displaying a level of effort a leader should have even in exhibition games.
But no matter what Johnson does on the court, and how vocal he is on and off it, this is still Hill's team.
"Solomon Hill is our natural leader because he is the most experienced," Miller said. "He is returning All-Pac-12 player. He has led by example for many years in a quiet way because of his work ethic. He has a lot at stake in his last year. One person can't do it alone (though)."
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - 3/29 - Friday March 29The season has come to an end in the most excruciating of ways. Adam and Jarrett break down the loss
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - 3/26 - Tuesday March 26The Wildcats are in the Sweet 16 for the second time in four years. Should we be impressed? Are we w
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - 3/19 - Tuesday March 19Tournaments for everyone! Adam and Jarrett talk about the Pac-12 Tournament result and then Arizona'
- Mike DeCourcy, Sporting News CBB Insider - Monday March 18Doug and Wolf ask DeCourcy what he thinks about this year's NCAA Tournament bracket.
- Bearing Down with Adam and Jarrett - 3/12 - Tuesday March 12A nice win over Arizona State is followed by the Pac-12 Tournament. How do the Wildcats look? Adam a

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Step-by-step: No
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for the reader to follow in completing a task; rather, it focuses on insights about the leadership dynamics within the Arizona men's basketball team. Additionally, the content lacks well-structured procedural instructions that could effectively train a language model in deeper reasoning, as it primarily consists of descriptive analysis and commentary on player roles instead of detailed, actionable steps.


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By Anita Finlay ("Ani") on July 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM in Congress (House & Senate), Current Affairs, DNC idiocy, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, National Debt, Obama Administration, Obama's Budget, Obama-Barack & President Barack, Politico, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Speaker Nancy Pelosi
In their article Pelosi Vents About Gibbs, Politico writers Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan shared that
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bashed White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Tuesday night, even as the president’s top spokesman continued to backpedal from his assertion that Democrats could lose control of the House in the November election.
“How could [Gibbs] know what is going on in our districts?” Pelosi told her members in the caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol Tuesday night. “Some may weigh his words more than others. We have made our disagreement known to the White House.”
The hostility escalated when Democratic lawmakers accused the White House of losing the messaging wars. Are some Dem lawmakers implying that if President Obama, Gibbs et al had done a better job of “selling” their non-working policies to the American people, House Dems wouldn’t be facing the prospect of such huge losses in November?
This is a wake up call to Ms. Pelosi and those who stand in lock step with her – If you have a good product – it sells itself.
I think we would prefer better crafted legislation to a better sales pitch. Putting the check mark next to the “DONE” box just to parade around with a giant gavel and goofy smile pasted on your face does not substitute for putting Americans back to work, passing health care legislation that won’t bankrupt the country or passing a stimulus bill that actually stimulates something beyond pet pork projects.
Even Arianna Huffington, a big Obama ally, has complained bitterly that the Wall St. reform package doesn’t go far enough or protect us from “too big to fail.” Then again, she is another political opportunist who has lately taken to agreeing with Tea Party protests and even Sarah Palin. She must be seeing the writing on the wall, too.
It is appalling that Congress does not intend to pass a budget this year — something else they wish to sweep under the rug so as not to damage themselves further in advance of the midterm elections, perhaps. Outrageous spending and a lack of responsiveness to constituents’ concerns is a far more reasonable explanation for the poor prospects of Democrats this fall than President Obama losing the “message wars.” How about winning the competence war and going on a few less vacations?
On Meet the Press on Sunday, here is what Press Secretary Gibbs had to say:
“I think there’s no doubt there are enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to gain control. There’s no doubt about that. This will depend on strong campaigns by Democrats,” Gibbs said on Sunday.
By the next morning, Democratic strategists were fuming privately that he had handed Republicans a great fundraising and voter-motivation tool.
Gibbs and other White House officials have been backpedaling, in carefully measured steps, ever since.
Speaker Pelosi also complained that Obama favors the Senate and helps them in their fundraising efforts far more than he helps the House, which has shown great loyalty to him.
The Senate love fest may be coming to an end as well. Embattled Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went on the record saying that President Obama is not “firm” or “foreceful enough” with his Republican opposition. This prompted the bellicose Ed Schultz of MSNBC to complain Reid just called the President a “wimp.” The “timing is horrible” says Shultz. No kidding:
Looks like Harry doesn’t feel the wind at his back, given that Sharron Angle is besting him in the polls in Nevada at the moment. Other historically “safe” Senate seats are in trouble as well. Fiorina is polling ahead of Boxer in CA for the first time. Even Russ Feingold’s seat is not quite safe.
Apparently, Ms. Pelosi and her cronies missed the memo on how this politics stuff works.
The President is going to do everything he can to save himself. If that means throwing Congress under the bus so he can have a Republican foil to do battle against, making more of his straw man arguments, then he will. If that helps in his re-election bid, that is Job One.
Did Nancy and Harry think when they threw Hillary under the bus, they were going to be rewarded for it?
These two are not the only Presidents-by-Proxy to find out they are dispensable.

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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps guiding the reader through completing a task. Instead, it presents a critical commentary on political dynamics involving key figures in the Obama administration without structured procedural instructions. Furthermore, the article lacks detailed instructions that could serve as training material for a language model focused on deeper reasoning; it primarily conveys opinions and commentary without illustrating a methodical approach to problem-solving or decision-making.


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The NY Times has a blog posting on the occasion of the Internet advertising industry's release
(PDF) of what it describes as tough new standards governing the collection and use of data about users' behavior. The Times' Saul Hansell describes these "new" standards as more of the same old status quo
, and outlines four privacy-enhancing ideas, being discussed by Google, Yahoo, the FTC, and Congress, that the IAB has completely ignored. These principles are: every ad should explain itself; users should be able to see data collected about them; browsers should help enforce user choices about tracking; and some information (medical and financial) is simply too sensitive to track.

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Step-by-step: No
Training: No

The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task; rather, it discusses a set of ideas regarding privacy standards in the context of internet advertising. Additionally, the procedural instructions are not well-structured or detailed enough to be useful for training a language model capable of deeper reasoning, as the content lacks specific actionable steps or thorough explanations that would facilitate understanding and reasoning.


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Old Favorites & Deep Thoughts…
So this week I did something that’s been kind of unusual for me lately, I cooked. I made mustard pretzel baked chicken. It’s an oldie, but a goodie. It’s the kind of meal that if I had a family, I might make for them all the time.
It’s kind of odd to think that this is the first time I’ve blogged a recipe since February… and it’s not even a new recipe. Honestly, this is probably only the 4th or 5th time I’ve cooked at all since February (excluding making myself eggs or pasta or something completely uninvolved for dinner).
I guess it’s time to admit that I’m not really a food blogger anymore – in fact I’m barely a blogger at all these days.
For the last year or so (probably longer, actually), my blog has barely crossed my mind. When It does cross my mind, I feel these things: Brief pangs of guilt for not posting more regularly. A vague sense of anxiety about how I don’t know if I want to do this anymore. Subtle longing for the days when I really enjoyed my blog, and the community I built here. Mild defeat, and the desire to just delete the whole thing – especially the really old bits about a life that I hardly even recognize as my own anymore. Surging (though fleeting) motivation to rally and start being really active with my blog again.
I work with social media all day every day, and I think working in the industry has made me really value my time spent disconnected from social networks. That being said – I find recently that I’m missing the process of writing. I am not ready to walk away from the blog just yet – but I did feel the need to come clean and admit that I’m like the worst food blogger in America at this point.
Apologies in advance for upcoming posts about nail polish, the restaurant scene in San Antonio, shows I’m watching on TV and random things that make me smile.
WaspyLife & Style

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Step-by-step: No
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The article does not provide a clear sequence of ordered steps for completing a task, such as a recipe or procedure. Instead, it focuses on the author's reflections and experiences related to blogging and cooking, lacking detailed and structured instructions that would be beneficial for training a language model in deeper reasoning. The narrative style does not support clear procedural understanding or actionable steps.