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But nowadays the Scots swear by "Irn-Bru," a carbonated orange beverage, to revive them after a big night out.
Watch as two animals from opposite ends of the world unite in the name of Christmas and carbonated beverages.
Of course, the company and its agency have been making a carbonated lemonade out of this lemon.
1794, from French carbonate "salt of carbonic acid" (Lavoisier), from Modern Latin carbonatem "a carbonated (substance)," from Latin carbo (see carbon).
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Man On The Run From Police After Traffic Stop
Police dogs were called to assist in the search of a man who took off on foot after being stopped during a routine traffic stop.
Police dogs were called to assist in the search of a man who took off on foot after being stopped during a routine traffic stop.
Police dogs were called to assist in the search of a man who took off on foot after being stopped during a routine traffic stop.
In what may have been the first same-sex marriage performed in McLennan County since a landmark Supreme Court ruling on Friday, a lesbian couple exchanged vows Monday on the Waco Suspension Bridge.
A 61-year-old Central Texas man remained jailed Monday facing a long list of charges after an area restaurant was hit by shotgun fire.
Some counties in Central Texas have said clerks will issue marriage licenses to same sex couples beginning on Monday, others say they're still awaiting direction from the state.
A Central Texas man died over the weekend after the motorcycle he was riding collided with a pickup truck.
Three teenagers were in custody late Monday afternoon following a string of early-morning gunpoint robberies at local businesses.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an unmanned capsule loaded with space station supplies exploded after liftoff Sunday morning.
A local county constable was free on bond Saturday after he was arrested and charged with evidence tampering and making a false statement to authorities.
A 22-year-old man who was struck as he rode his bicycle through a red light early Saturday later died at a local hospital.
Authorities Monday identified a homeless man who drowned early Saturday morning after was was swept into the swollen local creek he was sleeping next to.
Five members of the Aryan Brotherhood who were arrested during a Central Texas crackdown called Operation La Flama Blanca have joined 24 others who had pleaded guilty to trafficking methamphetamine.
Waco officials are seeking to quash a subpoena issued on behalf of a Dallas attorney seeking video from the Waco Twin Peaks restaurant franchise of the deadly May 17 shootout between rival biker gangs and police.
Police were looking for a hit-and-run driver Thursday after finding a 59-year-old local man lying dead in a highway lane.
Charges are possible after two pre-school age children were found wandering alone in a local neighborhood.
Fourteen workers were taken to local hospitals as a precaution as firefighters and a hazmat crew worked Thursday to contain and extinguish a fire that was burning inside a storage tank at a recycling center containing the residue of a toxic chemical.
Texas leads a multistate suit against the EPA over a water rule.
Two brothers pulled from a Texas apartment complex pool after an accident that left their sister dead have both died, authorities said Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday at least blocked Texas from enforcing tough restrictions that would force 10 abortion clinics to close.
A woman and three of her children died in an SUV rollover on a Texas interstate, authorities said Monday
A Texas farmer died after bees attacked while he was working in a field.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to re-hear the case of a white woman who was denied admission to the University of Texas.
A Texas transit bus driver died early Monday after he was struck by a bus as he walked at a transit facility.
A Texas man and his teenage son survived an alligator attack that occurred while they were swimming in a lake in a park.
A 13-year-old Texas girl is facing charges after a videotaped schoolyard fight with another teenager who was holding a 3-year-old child.
An experiment created by some Texas students was lost in the weekend explosion of a SpaceX rocket that was supposed to ferry supplies to the International Space Station.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the U.S. Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry was a "lawless ruling" and says state workers can cite their religious objections in denying marriage licenses.
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A convicted felon was on the run Sunday after he escaped from a Texas hospital.
The privately owned town of Bikinis, Texas is no more.
A pilot died in the crash of an ultralight Saturday morning in Texas.
The condition of a convicted killer who was shot and recaptured after more than three weeks on the run was improving Monday.
Two men have died days after they were found shot in the head and burning alive in a rural area.
Federal authorities are investigating recent fires at black churches.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled against an EPA attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous pollutants.
A wildfire fanned by strong winds has destroyed 24 structures and has forced evacuations.
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld the use of a drug implicated in botched executions.
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A small plane lost power and was gliding before it crashed into a home, killing all three on board.
Authorities Sunday captured the second of two convicted killers who escaped from a maximum security prison more than three weeks ago.
State troopers with guns drawn were searching a cabin Sunday as the manhunt for the second of two convicted killers continued.
A bystander was injured in a shooting at a gay pride event.
The latest victim of a shark attack off the North Carolina coast is in serious condition.
Someone has freed dozens of monkeys from a primate research center.
A woman climbed a 30-foot flagpole and removed the Confederate flag early Saturday morning on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol.
A Colorado couple accused of starving their daughter are facing felony charges.


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This morning the automotive madness continues with the ultra-hot all-digital instrument panel for the 2014 Corvette Stingray. The folks at Bang & Olufsen are shuttering shops across the nation as smaller groups like Leap Motion take off into outer space. You can also purchase a $500 HAL 9000 replica now if you'd like, proving it's not the economy that's dying, it's just certain sectors (nerd loving nostalgia not included).


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Can We Really 'Shop' For a Church?
By: Deacon Keith A. Fournier
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�Christ has flooded the universe with divine and sanctifying waves. For the thirsty he sends a spring of living water from the wound which the spear opened in His side. From the wound in Christ�s side has come forth the Church, and He has made her His bride�
Origen, Early Church father
�We need to take refuge with the Church, to drink milk at her breast, to be fed with the scriptures of the Lord. For the Church has been planted in the world as a paradise� Iranaeus of Lyons
"He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother"
Cyprian of Carthage, Early Church Father
�In the Risen Christ, in his glorified body, in the very opening of His wounds, it is no longer death that reigns but the Spirit, the Breath of Life. And the cross of victory and of light, which is the pattern of our baptism, can henceforth transform the most desperate situation into a death-and-resurrection, a �Passover�, a crossing-point on the way to eternity.
And that is what the Church, this profoundly holy institution is: it is the baptismal womb, the Eucharistic chalice, the breach made for eternity by the Reurerestion in the hellish lid of the fallen world. The Church is the Mystery of the Risen Lord, the place, and the only one, where separation is completely overcome; where paschal joy, the �feast of feasts�, the triumph over death and hell are offered to our freedom, enabling it to become creative and work towards the final manifestation of that triumph, the final transfiguration of history and the universe. �In its deepest understanding the Church is nothing other than the world in the course of transfiguration�
Olivier Clement, Orthodox theologian and author
I was traveling back from Richmond, Virginia after having served as a weekend deacon at St. Benedicts. I was especially tired and facing a two hour drive back home. So, I turned on the radio to listen to someone talking to me. Most of us know the drill, in order to pass the time and avoid �nodding off� on the road, we listen to �talk radio�. I found a program on Public Radio which I hoped would keep me awake on the drive. It did much more. It opened my eyes and moved my heart. It reveals a hunger that is not being satisfied and a desperate need for the Church to become what she is and open her doors to the world waiting to be reborn.
Shopping for a Church?
The program, a special presentation of a P.B.S. series entitled �All Things Considered�, was dedicated to examining the growth of what is called the �Mega Church� movement in a segment of Western Protestant Christianity. The title of the program was �Big Churches Use Technology to Branch Out.� It focused specifically on a trend toward building �Satellite� churches which have the messages delivered to their assembly over video conference.
The reporter visited several Protestant �mega churches� who were participating in this �new� technological approach and noted some commonalities among them. For example, most have eschewed much of what they perceive as �formalism�. The people being interviewed in the first part of the program were in the very facilities that house these groups. Some of these facilities were built by the groups and some were leased, either from a commercial developer or a former Church.
The appearance of the facilities was another common point; they had no interest in creating what they perceived as �churchy� looking environments. One group boasted of covering over the stained glass windows left from a prior occupant of their facility in order to place the video screen in front of them.
The reporter interviewed several people attending these �services�. They extolled the fact that they were able to obtain coffee as they entered the facility. While speaking with the reporter, they took their lattes and cappuccinos into the main auditorium of the �Church�. There, they listened to a band that could be heard as the background of the interview. The music was contemporary in its sound.
One couple spoke to the reporter of their fatigue with past church experiences and how they longed for something more �alive� and �fulfilling�. They spoke of the attending these �new� churches, where the �message� is actually presented over video monitors, as the answer to �their needs�.
One person being interviewed commented that watching the �messages� was like �watching TV�. He claimed that the content of the messages helped him to be more successful in his business and experience a more fulfilling life. He later added that he and his wife liked attending this service by video because it �kept their children interested� One telling line came ...
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Amazon brings cloud monitoring tool to Europe
Amazon Web Services' monitoring tool CloudTrail is now available from the company's EU region in Ireland, allowing all data to remain in Europe.
Amazon Web Services' monitoring tool CloudTrail is now available from the company's EU region in Ireland, allowing all data to remain in Europe.
Microsoft is giving the IT admin crowd an updated toolset for managing encryption with the latest release of its Desktop Optimization Pack, better known as MDOP.
VMware is leaning on AirWatch to let users access files from one place using virtual and physical clients and let admins manage desktops in the same way they handle mobile devices.
Enterprise search software provider LucidWorks has introduced a package based on its open-source Apache Solr search engine that will allow administrators and business analysts to extract more information from IT system logs.
Serena Software founder Doug Troxel is teaming up with private equity firm HGGC to purchase the application development software vendor from Silver Lake Partners. Terms of the deal, which was announced Monday, were not disclosed.
The head of BlackBerry's enterprise services business is plotting an aggressive launch of a new version of the company's core enterprise server later this year as BlackBerry seeks to regain some of the ground it's lost over the last few years.
IBM-owned Fiberlink and BlackBerry are adding Windows Phone to the list of platforms they can manage and protect, as enterprise interest for the smartphone OS is increasing.
BMC Software wants to bring some social networking magic to the formal world of the IT help desk.
Intel has released a new tool for remotely managing servers from multiple hardware vendors, though it's having to be careful not to upset partners as it looks to make more money from software.
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VMware has reached a deal to acquire mobile management specialist AirWatch for US$1.54 billion, as it aims let users manage desktops, mobile devices and applications using its products.
Dell will start selling systems early next year that run Red Hat's version of the OpenStack open-source cloud platform.
Oracle is now a corporate sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation and plans to weave parts of the open-source infrastructure platform into its own products, saying it will give customers more flexibility and options for managing clouds.
The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools has been updated with support for Windows 8.1 device and application management and Office 2013 virtualization.
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She visits The Second Cup Café to share songs from her debut album, "Undiscovered."
Much of the reality show's plot has revolved around Hogan's relationship with her overprotective father, who has been known to scare away her potential dates and monitor her every move.
The show has also followed Hogan as she landed her first record contract, with super-producer Scott Storch's Storchaveli label.
Hogan wants people to know she's very serious about singing.
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"There are other outlets that offer more potential for profit," says one filmmaker.
NEW YORK -- Netflix has had good relationships with indie film companies. But some smaller players are asking -- just like bigger Hollywood players have been doing -- if Netflix is friend or foe, CNET reported. "That's the question everyone is asking," said Orly Ravid, co-executive director of The Film Collaborative, a nonprofit helping filmmakers with distribution strategy.
Ellen Seidler, who made And Then Came Lola, said she likes that Netflix at least pays, but said she wouldn't distribute through the company again.
"There are other outlets that offer more potential for profit," Seidler said. "Netflix can also undermine sales in other markets where we stand to make more money." She suggested that Netflix start paying on a per-view basis instead of offering a flat fee.
How does Netflix fit into traditional film release windows?
"You can't make money on it," Tracy Balsz, who consults indie filmmakers on distribution, told CNET. "I tell clients to work through all the channels first and when you reach saturation then go to Netflix."
Balsz said the most she's seen anybody earn from streaming is $20,000.
According to Balsz, Netflix managers often require indie film companies to make DVDs available for the company's DVD delivery service before agreeing to stream them in return for a flat fee if a film performs well.
Indie film firm Gravitas Ventures has licensed 300 movies to Netflix. And its founder Nolan Gallagher said Netflix is only one part of a successful distribution strategy. "I would say Netflix is a friend to the indie filmmaker," Gallagher told CNET. "But you can't think of just Netflix. Along with them, you have to work with other important outlets, such as Comcast, iTunes and Time Warner Cable."
"We are a bastion for indie films," a Netflix spokesman told CNET. "We are a bastion for accessibility."
He noted that all indie films don't earn the same, emphasizing that Netflix must ensure there's demand for a movie before paying up.
But Ravid said indie films don't seem as key to Netflix any more. "Netflix stopped focusing on the little guys and more on the big films and I think that's why they're growing so fast," he said. "I don't think there's enough people in this country interested in indie films to make that much difference."
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Change needed to make experience worth it for Suns fans
The Phoenix Suns and their upper management are currently the most highly scrutinized of any team/management combination in professional sports.
The moves that are being executed by the team seem erratic and most certainly lack any resemblance of a legitimate direction.
However, despite all of the harsh media scrutiny, the most appalling aspect of team has flown largely under the radar.
I'm talking about the ticket prices.
Before getting in to the prices, it is mandatory to define what a fan should expect when purchasing a ticket for any NBA basketball game.
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A fan purchasing an NBA ticket should expect to receive an equal value from his game day experience as he paid for his ticket. This "value" is derived from entertainment of the game and in-arena promotions, the product on the court, the friendliness of the stadium staff, the accessibility of the stadium from entry into the parking lot until exit, fair concession prices, a memorable experience and view of the court that equates to the price of the ticket purchased.
That about covers it.
Now I must pose the question, as a Suns fan, are you getting "equal value" for the money you are shelling out for your tickets?
I think not.
On most nights for the remainder of the season, an average (middle to upper row) seat in the upper deck is at least $25, sometimes reaching as high as $67 and even $125.
In the lower bowl you aren't getting any ticket for less than $50, and most are over $100 every night.
The fan certainly is not getting equal value for the cost of the ticket, which means that it just isn't worth it to go to a Suns game.
Phoenix's management needs to take a page out of Diamondbacks president and CEO Derrick Hall's book and lower ticket prices to get people in the seats and give them an equal value for the cost of their ticket.
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Until the Suns reform the direction of the franchise and the product on the court, I would rather take my money to Lucky Strike bowling in CityScape than to the US Airways Center box office.
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Valley of Hamon-Gog, a phrase from Ezekiel 39:15, literally means "Valley of the multitudes of Gog". It is to be the place where all of Israel buries the five-sixths of the army of Gog and Magog that are struck down by God.[1]
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Outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, the biggest South Korean baseball star, isn't expected to play for his home country during the upcoming World Baseball Classic. Choo's agent, Scott Boras, said in a recent interview that the 30-year-old instead will focus his efforts on preparing for the 2013 regular season -- his final one before becoming a free agent. Choo also may need to adjust to a new team during spring training, since it's possible the Cleveland Indians will trade him between now and then. It appears Choo and Boras are prioritizing what could be a substantial payday for Choo following next season. While insurance is provided to teams and players through the WBC -- a joint venture between Major League Baseball and the players' union -- some stars choose to sit out because of fears that the tournament will affect their regular-season performance and, thus, their earnings. Choo's absence could be devastating to the title hopes of a South Korean team that reached the semifinals of the...
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Newcastle Beach Surf Cam & Surf Report
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Region: Shoal Bay to Swansea
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Coastalwatch surf reporters are the saltiest locals around. Part fish, part shark, part human, they live for the waves and are usually more local than the locals. They'll be up before dawn waiting for first light to reveal the days surf conditions and can sense a change of wind from a sparrows fart. Each reporter covers a region of coastline which includes many number of surf spots and beaches. Please consider there may be possible variations between this report and your local spot due to differences in orientation to the coast and any local idiosyncrasies that may also effect the swell and weather patterns.
by Daniel Mason
3/07/2015 6:46 AM | Report
Today's rating - Average
S swell 4-5ft @ 11 second. SW winds 11 knots. New S swell accompanied by S-SW winds not looking great on the open beaches. S corners will be pretty much your only option and are lacking in swell and quality at the moment. Lower tide may help out later in the day. Winds will increase from the S.
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Seas: 2 to 3 metres, decreasing to 1 to 2 metres during the morning, then decreasing to 1 metre by early evening.
Swell: Southerly 3 to 4 metres, decreasing to 2 to 3 metres during the morning. Weather: Partly cloudy. 30% chance of a shower.
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Some weeks ago I visited a number of op shops in Melbourne's west - what I found there surprised even this seasoned op shopper - if you want to know what treasures I found, and who Wendy the Wonderful is, just click on the links.
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It's been two and a half years since my lovely friend Katerina passed away.
It seems less, and more, than that. I miss her ready laugh, her wit, her cheeky spirit. But, selfishly, most of all I miss our easy friendship.
Often she comes to mind unexpectedly – when I drive down Bell Street on the way to her house; when my daughter says something funny that I think she would have liked; when I'm watching a particularly striking sunset. At times like this, I tell Kat I love her. Sometimes, I sing aloud in the car as she did, just cause she would have liked it. And every now and then I bundle the kids up and we go and visit her grave. It doesn't feel like much – but it's something.
If there is one thing that fills the sad spaces, it's being close to the people who loved her and who still gather to celebrate the bigger-than-life person she was.
There's the annual gathering at Port Melbourne beach on her birthday, where we meet to watch the sun set and share food together.
There's the yearly service at church where we congregate to commemorate her passing.
And there's Spirit of Soul.
Katerina started Spirit of Soul almost a decade ago. It's an annual fundraising party to celebrate life. She started it despite undergoing 120 chemotherapy sessions, having more than 40 radiotherapy sessions and a bone marrow transplant during the course of her cancer treatment. Perhaps not despite, but because. Because being really sick makes you think how precious life is. Because being sick makes you realise how important it is to sing and to dance. Because being sick makes you realise that sometimes it's more important to give than to take.
So we who love her remember all these lessons by keeping the Spirit of Soul tradition alive.
This year we are raising funds for Peter MacCallum Cancer Foundation.
The party is on Saturday 25 October. It's at the Castle Hotel in North Melbourne. The theme is Gatsby. We're going to dress up. There will be games and prizes. Entry is $35 for adults and $10 for kids.
If you want to help remember Kat and all that she stood for, join us.
Buy your tickets here.
Make a donation here.
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The smell of Marlborough cigarettes; the din of soccer finals on TV; the sound of dice against a backgammon board - my lover and I let it all wash over us as we drink cognac in the little seaside café. Outside, the rain pelts the muddy pot holes of the square, eventually washing out into the Aegean Sea.
All it takes is a downpour outside the suburban café where I now sit, and I'm off – daydreaming about something that happened 15 years ago. The rain is pounding the muddy banks of Melbourne's Yarra, which looks nothing at all like the Aegean.
Daydreaming is the stuff of time wasters. No hopers. Dole bludgers. I'm sure that was what my grade six teacher was thinking when he wrote that 'Spiri daydreams too long before she starts her work…' in my school report. When, all the while, I was just getting my head ready to tackle those long-division sums.
There were lots of famous people whose daydreaming helped them creatively - John Lennon, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Edison, Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe to name a few.
But you need not have Einstein's IQ or Twain's talent to be a daydreamer. We daydream for about one-third of our waking hours, according to Eric Klinger, a clinical psychologist at the University of Minnesota. And there's compelling evidence to say that it's good for us – it helps us to relax, and to create, to visualize and to hope. It's so refreshing to be unavailable – even just for a few minutes. In a daydream there are no bleeps and flashes, no missed calls and bulging in-boxes.
For me, a daydream is a blissful pause; a decadent space where long forgotten memories can surface; where tricky problems may get solved. Occasionally I get lucky in a daydream, and the muse offers me creative gifts from a deeper place. The challenge then is to quickly find a pencil and a bit of paper on which to write my insights before they disappear into the ether of mundane thought.
There's no forumula for how to daydream. Relax and let thoughts float into consciousness, unbidden and unchecked, like a sentence without punctuation. It's like a brainstorm; only there's no one else there to tell you that your ideas stink.
I'm a daydreamer, and proud of it. After all, I've just come back from drinking cognac with my lover in a rain-soaked square on the other side of the world. And it's helped me to remember why I still love the man who now takes the bins out after our kids have gone to bed.
Our lives are so big. Where does one start in making sense of and recording one's life story?
Digging up memories and stories, and finding the overarching theme or themes of your memoir, is like digging into soil – you never know what you will find.
I believe you need to push through the top soil – that is the banal, day-to-day stuff – and into the more primal, meaningful and sometimes painful "essence" of your life. Your fingers may press against slimy worms and decaying compost. The soil will get under your nails. But push through, because it's here that the seeds of your memoir are hidden. Read more...
Our lives are so big. Where does one start in making sense of and recording one's life story?
I believe you need to push through the top soil – that is the banal, day-to-day stuff – and into the more primal, meaningful and sometimes painful "essence" of your life. Your fingers may press against slimy worms and decaying compost. The soil will get under your nails. But push through, because it's here that the seeds of your memoir are hidden.
Footscray resident Lyndon Fenlon of Urban Honey Co. is a man on a mission – to encourage locals to keep bees. For someone who is allergic to bees, he's done a lot for the local bee population over the past decade. Check out this story I wrote for Maribyrnong City Council.
Most of us know that organic food is good for us – what's there not to like about food that has been grown without chemicals, in a way that is friendly to the environment and to our bodies? But many of us are hindered by the prohibitive cost. Recently, I explored five ways we can bring organices into our life for the City of Maribyrnong in Melbourne's west. Check it out at their website.
When it comes to food and exercise, I take my inspiration from the ancient Greek saying 'pan metron ariston' – everything in moderation. Admittedly, I exercise more moderately than I eat. So when my local gym offered a chance for members to participate in our very own Tour de France (albeit on the exercise bikes gracing the flat terrain of our suburban gym), I only gave it a cursory glance. The idea was that you did ten cycle classes within the 23 day period of the actual Tour. But as I continued to read the flyer, I saw there was a chance to win two bikes, and a night at the winery Chateau Yering, including dinner for two. I did the maths – the chances of winning were much better than Tatts. And there was a food prize to be won. I was in.
So I pick up my pass, which has to be stamped each time I do a class. And then school holidays start. I'd forgotten to factor that one into the equation. The family eats more comfort food than is probably good for us. The adults drink a few too many glasses of wine. And we all watch more than the daily recommended allowance of reality television. I get to the gym only sporadically. And so my pass remains largely unstamped and the promise of a night for two at Chateau Yering is all but a distant fantasy.
But once the kids go back to school, something happens. I hop onto the scales and see that the comfort foods weren't actually disappearing into some mysterious ether – I have gained weight. I reason that if I did a spin class almost every single day for the next ten days, I could get my stamps and perhaps even redress the weight inbalance. Could I do it? I was damn well going to try.
So I plan my days around classes, forfeiting sleep-ins on the weekends, rushing the kids out of the house in the mornings so that I could get to the gym, and sweating it out in my bike pants like I'd never sweated it out before.
Now the idea of doing so many cycling classes over a short period might sound boring to some – but our gym offered distractions. Like the special guest instructor who was described as 'eye candy' by one excited participant; each of the classes reproducing the stages of the Tour (some flats, lots of hills); and the often colourful descriptions of French countryside by instructors to help us forget that we were surrounded by four walls. But my very favourite distraction was food talk. During one class, our spin mistress Helen told us that if we rode hard, she'd let us stop to eat a slice or two of a baguette, a piece of cheese, and drink a glass of champagne. This was so much better than my lame fantasy about what I was going to have for brunch after class. But then she gave us the sobering facts: a serve of brie is 91 calories; a glass of champagne 87 calories; and a slice of the baguette a whopping 175 calories. We would have to work really hard to earn our rest stop. The information is disconcerting, given that it takes me an hour of excruciatingly hard riding to work off a mere 600 calories - and that I can polish off the above feast quicker than you can say 'Fine French food'.
With around a week to go, I'm hoping to complete my ten spin classes and earn my own metaphorical 'personal best' yellow jersey, even if I don't win the prize. And what am I going to do to celebrate when I get there? I'm going to have a glass of champagne. Calories? What calories?
For any budding writers out there, I will be running my popular 12-step program for procrastinating writers in the leafy surrounds of my studio in Box Hill on Sunday 14 September. Part bookish boot camp, part self-help group for writing procrastinators, this workshop will help you get over the most common organisational and personal hurdles to writing. Teamed with home-baked bread and Greek nibbles from the family wood-fired oven, the workshop promises to be tasty. Please share if you know any writers (beginning or emerging) who may be interested. See here for more information.
I swore every year I wouldn't do it again.
Why? Because weeks afterwards, I would find crusted chocolate icing underneath the bench top. Electric blue fingerprints on a corner kitchen tile. And dried butter cake residue stuck fast to the blender that I had been too tired to clean up on the day.
The Book was to blame. According to this blogger, who is cooking her way through it, there are 104 cakes in it. Yes, you know the one: The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book.
We would take it out a whole month before each of our children's birthdays. They would pore through it, pointing to the cake with dollies sitting in jelly, or the train with its quaint lamington carriages. Gently, gently, I would steer them to the cakes I thought would be easy to make. Not so gently, they steered me straight back to the ones that required electric blue food colouring and intricate decorations that didn't seem to sit on the shelves of our local supermarket. And the clean-up afterwards; it didn't bear thinking about.
But what joy this little yearly ritual bought them, and I couldn't find it in my heart to say no when they asked again and again for another homemade cake. And so, each year, on the kitchen bench our children sat, among the chaos of ingredients – and they helped to stir and decorate with their sticky little fingers, all the while fighting over who would lick the bowl. And even if we strayed a little (or a lot in some cases) from the bible of children's birthday cakes, they didn't complain.
But then something happened when my daughter was 12.
She asked if she could make her brother's birhtday cake. All by herself.
I confess: I felt a twinge of loss.
And a sense of relief.
She'd taken the baton.
And I was relegated to the sink.
Our now 13-year-old daughter is quite the baker. This year, she and her friend even offered to make the cake for their bestie's birthday party.
I reached for The Book.
But she reached for another. I shuddered.
She flicked through it, a whole month before the party. And again in coming weeks. She spoke to me about the possible choices. Was I listening? Only in that I'm-too-busy-cooking-dinner-and-not-really-concentrating-kind-of-way.
Finally, she decided.
As the date drew near I looked over the ingredients. I read the pages of instructions.
And I decided that Zumbo's croque-en-bouche was impossible.
But it was too late. Her heart was set.
Almost three dozen eggs. Vanilla beans. Two tubs of glucose syrup. And more. Sixty dollars later, we were ready to start. I drew the line at unsprayed chemical free flowers and a croque-en-bouch cone. That was going too far, even for a budding pastry chef.
The party was at 6.30pm. The girls met in our kitchen at 9am that morning.
They piped and baked the choux pastry. They whipped the crème patisserie. They set the caramel base. They boiled the glucose syrup. They burnt their hands in the hot toffee. And at 5.30, it was like the frantic last minute on Masterchef; while one was building the tower, another was sticking on decorations. As the girls went off to put on their party gear, sweaty and exhausted, I was madly wrapping the whole creation in angel hair, not caring any more how much sticky toffee mixture was making its way on all the surrounding surfaces.
I drove the girls and the cake, balanced precariously on a nervous lap, to the party. The guests 'oohhed' and 'aaahhed' in a suitably enthusiastic fashion. And my daughter and her friend looked so proud. They set out to conquer Zumbo's Croque-en-bouche. And they did.
But guess who still had to do the dishes?
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In Melbourne's West Footscray, there are 15 Indian restaurants within a one-kilometre radius, earning this spicy strip the moniker 'Little India'.
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Bulls on play-off charge
Bradford beat struggling Widnes to keep play-off hopes alive
Last Updated: 05/08/12 5:50pm
Patrick Ah Van: The ex-Bulls star scored twice against his old club
Battling Bradford gave warning that they have not given up on a top eight place in the Super League with a 38-26 victory over Widnes on Sunday.
The cash-strapped Bulls recently suffered a triple blow to their play-off hopes through back-to-back defeats against Leeds and Warrington either side of a six-point deduction by the Rugby Football League for entering administration.
But, having put together three wins on the trot immediately before that, the seven tries to five win over the struggling Vikings keeps alive the Yorkshire side's hopes of reaching the end of season shoot-out for the first time in four years.
Widnes, who had won two of their previous four games while pushing St Helens and Hull KR close, remain second from bottom of the table, just two points above basement club London Broncos.
As torrential rain swept down on Odsal the Bulls were forced to dig deep and come from 16-4 down midway through the first half.
Strong start
The visitors made a strong start with two tries, both converted by Rhys Hanbury, in the opening 10 minutes.
Former Bradford winger Patrick Ah Van latched onto a long pass from Cameron Phelps and dived into the corner to put the visitors ahead.
Hep Cahill then sent Ben Davies charging through the middle and his momentum, on the rain soaked turf, took him over the whitewash to score.
Bradford hit back almost immediately with some swift handling that freed Michael Platt up to cross, although Luke Gale failed to emulate his opposite number with the conversion.
Danny Craven capitalised on a Bulls handling error and dummied his way to the line to restore Widnes' 12-point advantage before three tries in 12 minutes put the Bulls ahead for the first time.
Brett Kearney, Shaun Ainscough and Ben Jeffries - his 100th touchdown in club rugby - all crossed to leave the Bulls with a 22-16 lead.
Charged down
But there was still time in a frenetic first half for Hanbury to twist his way over, but the Vikings' half back's attempt to level things going into the break failed as he struck the near upright with his subsequent kick.
After registering 42 points in better than even time before the interval it took a further 18 minutes for the scoreboard to be called into action again.
Bulls skipper Heath L'Estrange finally broke the deadlock, forcing his way over from dummy half for his first try of the season.
L'Estrange was also involved as Michael Platt extended the hosts' lead four to 12 points shortly afterwards but Ah Van gave Widnes hope with a second try near the corner flag, taking over the kicking to convert his own score and reduce the deficit.
Jeffries had a drop-goal charged down and Kearney saw a try disallowed for offside following another attempt at a one-pointer from Gale.
But Ainscough's second try secured the win and two vital league points, Gale finishing with five goals from seven attempts.
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One sure sign Gov. Jindal is hungry for higher office is his willingness to sup at the table of the kook right.
Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and sup, We hug our little destiny again.
"eat the evening meal," late 13c., from Old French super, which probably is from soupe "broth" (see soup), until recently still the traditional evening meal of French workers.
"sip," Old English supan (West Saxon), suppan, supian (Northumbrian) "to sip, swallow," from Proto-Germanic *supanan (cf. Old Norse supa "to sip, drink," Middle Low German supen, Dutch zuipen "to drink, tipple, booze," Old High German sufan, German saufen "to drink, booze"), from PIE *sub-, possibly an extended form of root *seue- (2) "to take liquid" (cf. Sanskrit sunoti "presses out juice," soma; Avestan haoma, Persian hom "juice;" Greek huetos "rain," huein "to rain;" Latin sugere "to suck," succus "juice, sap;" Lithuanian sula "flowing sap;" Old Church Slavonic soku "sap," susati "suck;" Middle Irish suth "sap;" Old English seaw "sap").


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5:0 EST: The First Family Attends the National Christmas Tree Lighting
Streaming starts at 4:30 EST at NationalTree.org – you can see the full concert there
President Obama walks to the Oval Office upon his return from a trip to Michigan, December 10
Hiya everyone, sorry for the lack of updates today, work has been marginally bonkers :???: Hopefully it'll debonkers itself soon.
Will try to catch up properly tomorrow.
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5:0 The First Family attend the National Christmas Tree Lighting
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Christmases past…..
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First Lady Michelle Obama receives the 2012 White House Christmas Tree, Nov 23
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