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A woman pushing a pram containing her two-year-old child and two police officers were attacked by two American pit bulls roaming the streets of Guildford West.
The woman, who did not want to be named, was pushing a pram with her son Tony inside it along Robertson Road last Thursday about 5.35pm, when two dogs charged at her.
She grabbed the child from the pram and the dogs attacked her, one biting her right leg.
"Really, I thought the baby was finished, to be honest. The dog was just standing there in his face," the 43-year-old woman told media outlets.
"It was terrifying. I was scared. I wasn't really worried about myself, I was more worried about the baby."
The woman said she started screaming to people across the road "help, this dog is attacking me" and she ran terrified into a nearby house.
The woman was treated at the scene by paramedics before she was taken to Westmead Hospital.
Tony was not hurt.
Police found the two large dogs, highly agitated and aggressive, in a nearby street. One officer was bitten on the hand when he attempted to catch one of the dogs and a second officer was also bitten on the leg but was not injured.
The dogs were eventually herded into the yard of a home in Wisdom Street and detained.
RSPCA officers and police tranquilised the dogs. The owners are overseas and the dogs had escaped from a Wisdom Street house where they were being cared for temporarily.
The mother reportedly said the owners should be fined or jailed.


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Candy Cane Reindeer Cupcakes
In America I stumbled upon a delicious snack (in Walgreens of all places) which involved chocolate covered pretzels covered in crushed candy canes. The salty pretzel combined with the rich dark chocolate and minty candy cane was a winning flavour combination and NEEDED to be made into cupcake form.
I used my chocolate Devil's Food Cupcakes as a base, and topped it with a subtle peppermint-flavoured buttercream. It was then adorned with chocolate-dipped salted pretzels ("antlers") and finished with a dusting of crushed candy canes. Delicious and suitably festive.
- 7 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp instant coffee powder
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 250ml boiling water
- 125g butter (room temperature)
- ⅔ cup caster sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs (room temperature)
- 1⅔ cups plain flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 160g butter, softened
- 4-5 cups icing sugar
- 1 tsp peppermint extract
- A dash of milk, if required
- 100g dark chocolate melts
- Salted pretzels (large)
- Candy canes
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line 2 x 12 muffin tins with cupcake papers.
- Stir the cocoa powder, coffee and brown sugar in a bowl and pour over the boiling water. Whisk to mix and set aside.
- Cream the butter and caster sugar together until pale and fluffy and then add the vanilla extract.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Slowly add the flour, bicarb and baking powder. Pour in the cocoa/coffee mixture and beat until just combined.
- Spoon the mixture into prepared muffin tins and fill approximately ¾ full (this recipe should make around 18 cupcakes)
- Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes or until the cupcakes slightly spring back when touched.
- Allow the cupcakes to cool slightly in their tin before turning out onto a wire rack.
- Place the softened butter in a large mixing bowl and beat until smooth.
- Gradually add in the icing sugar and beat for around 3-5 minutes until smooth and creamy.
- Add the peppermint extract and a dash of milk if needed until it's a spreadable consistency.
- Spoon the mixture into an icing bag with a nozzle attached and ice the cupcakes.
- Melt the chocolate in short bursts in the microwave, stirring occasionally until melted.
- Dip broken pretzel pieces into the chocolate, allow excess to drip off, and then allow to harden on a baking paper-lined tray.
- Crush candy canes in their plastic bag(s) with a rolling pin.
- Stick hardened choc-pretzels into the iced cupcakes and sprinkle crushed candy canes over the top.
What are you going to bake this festive season? How about some Brownie Cupcakes with Strawberry Santa Hats? Or some Ginger-spiced Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Icing?
Choc Chip Cookie Cheesecake
I wanted to create a dessert that echoed the beloved cookies and cream flavour combination and with this month's Sweet Adventure's Blog Hop being cheese-themed, I knew a cookies 'n' cream cheesecake was the answer.
I described this cake to someone as "a choc chip cookie and a cheesecake had a baby and the result was amazing" which basically sums up this new recipe!
- 140g butter (room temperature)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ cups plain flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 200g chocolate chips
- 500g cream cheese
- ¾ cup – 1 cup icing sugar (to taste)
- 200ml double cream
- 100g dark chocolate chip
- 100ml double cream
- Preheat oven to 170°C. Cream the butter and sugars for at least 5 minutes until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract and beat well.
- Add choc chips, flour, baking soda and baking powder. Beat on low speed until just combined (don't overwork the mixture or it can become tough).
- Press the majority of the dough into the middle of a 23cm/9″ round greased springform tin. I baked the leftover dough into 6 small cookies, for decorating or for eating ;)
- Bake in the oven for 15 minutes or until lightly golden brown.
- Allow to cool completely.
- Place the cream cheese and icing sugar in a large mixing bowl and beat until smooth.
- Add in the double cream and beating until smooth and creamy.
- Pour onto the cooled biscuit base and put in the fridge to set for at least 3 hours, but preferably overnight.
- Bring the cream to a simmer either over the stove top or in the microwave.
- Add the choc chips to the cream and stir until melted and glossy.
- Allow the ganache to cool slightly before pouring over the top of the cake.
- Enjoy!
The combination of the thick choc chip cookie crust, creamy cheesecake filling and rich chocolate ganache makes it a decadent and popular dessert with everyone I've served it to!
Baked Doughnut Holes with Jaffa Ganache – A guest post
Happy Halloween everyone! I am currently in New Orleans, so I have the wonderful Erika Rax posting a delicious-looking and suitably-themed recipe for you all!
Hey Love Swah-ers! Swah has asked me to distract you guys from the fact that she is off galavanting in the US without us by sharing a sweet recipe. So I've brought you doughnut holes. The best thing about these is that they are baked, making it logistically possible for those of us who are too afraid to buy a deep fryer for fear of what we will turn into. I promise they still hit every spot and the rich orange chocolate ganache makes for the perfect accompaniment.
- 1½ cups Plain Flour
- ½ cup Caster Sugar
- 1½ tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- 125g (½ cup) Butter, softened and diced
- 1 Egg
- ¾ cup Milk
- 70g Dark Chocolate
- ⅓ cup Thickened Cream
- Rind from ½ Orange
- Small Squeeze of Orange Juice
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- To make doughnut holes, beat all ingredients with an electric mixer until smooth.
- Spoon mixture into a cake pop tin (or a rounded patty cake pan) and bake for 12-15 mins until golden.
- Cool in tray before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely (unless you're having them warm which I encourage)
- To make ganache, melt all ingredients in a bain marie over low heat until smooth.
I will make sure to eat LOTS of doughnuts in honour of this post!
Pumpkin & Coconut Cake Bites – A guest post
Whilst I am off eating/drinking/buying everything in sight in America, I am lucky enough to have 3 very talented bloggers to guest post when I am away! If want to follow my USA adventures, my Instagram account is your best bet.
First off I have the lovely JJ from 84th and 3rd with a delicious looking dessert!
Hi, it's great to be here today while Swah is off on her American adventures! Swah and I met at a bloggers picnic a few years back and have bonded many times since over everything from wine in the Hunter Valley and baked goods of all descriptions, to sharing a table at the MCA Zine Fair and collaborating on a digital food and travel magazine.
Some how we are still talking to each other and planning (scheming?) new projects so we must be equally insane — isn't it nice when you find someone who appreciates your special brand of crazy?!
I was fiercely tempted to make a decadent dessert of some kind, after all a guest post round these parts is the perfect excuse to go wild with butter and sugar, but having only recently returned from my own American adventure I'm still in recovery from far too much eating over far too many weeks.
So out of respect for my ever-tightening pants I figured I'd stick with a treat that's a bit more my style — vegan, dairy-free, whole spelt — yet cake-y and entirely appropriate for breakfast, ahem. Not to mention, my pumpkin obsession is well documented and this is simply another one to add to the list.
Swah thanks for having me here to guest post I hope you are having a great time on your trip, you may need a few of these when you get back! For anyone I haven't met on the Internets before, you can find me at my blog 84th & 3rd or floating around on various social media.
- 1 cup roasted pumpkin puree
- ½ cup mashed banana
- ½ cup unsweetened dessicated coconut
- 1½ cup whole spelt flour
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- scant ½ tsp sea salt
- 1½ tsp pumpkin pie spice (or 1 tsp cinnamon, ¼ tsp cloves, ¼ tsp ginger, pinch nutmeg, pinch allspice)
- roasted pumpkin seeds, optional
- Preheat over to 180C (350F) and line a baking tray with parchment paper.
- Combine pumpkin, banana and coconut and mix well. Sift over dry ingredients and stir to combine.
- Drop rounded tablespoons of batter onto the tray, the cake bites won't spread very much so you can keep them pretty close together. Press seeds into tops if using.
- Bake for 8 – 10 mins until just firm and lightly browned. Cool on tray for 5 mins before moving to rack to cool completely.
* This recipe has no sugar but if you want a sweeter cake bite add a couple Tbsp of coconut sugar or rice syrup with the banana.
A huge thanks to JJ for sharing this tasty (and healthy!) recipe and stay tuned for another guest post next week!
Halloween Bleeding Cake
Hello from America! I am writing this post in quite the jet lagged haze, so please excuse if I stop making sense.
I was excited to find out that this month's Sweet Adventures Blog Hop was Halloween themed! I wanted to create something gruesome but beautiful, and ofcourse delicious. I toyed with the idea of lychee eyeball cupcakes before finally settling on a bleeding cake.
This cake features 2 stories of red velvet cake, covered in cream cheese frosting and adorned with a tasty trickle of homemade raspberry syrup. The finishing touch is a knife plunged into its middle!
- 120g butter (room temperature)
- 2 eggs
- 1⅓ cups caster sugar
- 4 tsp cocoa
- 4 tsp red food colouring
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 240ml buttermilk (or add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to normal milk)
- 2½ cups plain flour
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tsp white wine vinegar
- 4-5 cups sifted icing sugar
- 100g butter at room temperature
- 250g cream cheese at room temperature
- 1 cup frozen raspberries
- 1 tbsp sugar
- ¼ tsp corn starch
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line 2 x 20cm cake tins.
- Cream the butter, sugar and eggs until light and fluffy.
- In a separate bowl mix the vanilla extract, cocoa powder and red food colouring into a paste. Add the paste to the creamed mixture.
- Add half the buttermilk and mix until combined, followed by half of the flour and baking powder. Mix until incorporated and then add the remainder of the buttermilk and flour and mix thoroughly.
- Add the salt, bicarbonate of soda and white wine vinegar and continue mixing for another 5 minutes until combined.
- Pour the mixture evenly into the 2 cake tins.
- Bake in the oven for 35-40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
- Allow the cakes to cool slightly in their tins before turning out onto a wire rack
- Cream the butter and icing sugar together until well mixed.
- Add the cream cheese in cubes slowly until incorporated. Continue mixing for 5 minutes until the icing is light and fluffy.
- Using an offset spatula, spread ⅓ of the icing on top of the first cake layer.
- Place the second cake on top and gently sandwich the 2 layers together. Spread a thin layer of icing over the top and sides of the cake. This is referred to as a "crumb coat" which prevents the crumbs from messing up your final ice. Put cake in fridge to chill for around 30 minutes.
- With your remaining icing, use your offset spatula to cover the top and sides as evenly as possibly (don't worry, mine wasn't particularly neat!)
- If you feel fancy, pipe a ruffle of icing along the base of the cake.
- Puree raspberries in a blender or food processor until smooth.
- Push through a strainer to separate seeds from liquid.
- Over a medium heat, bring strained raspberry liquid to a boil, add sugar and corn starch and stir until thickened for around 2 minutes.
- Allow to cool completely.
- Pour over
This was such a rushed job and I finished the photos literally 1 minute before I left for the airport. But I am pleased to report it tasted amazing and had the intended "beautiful yet macabre" look I intended!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Protein Balls
Hey guys! Here is another protein ball recipe to complement last week's Raw Cashew and Coconut recipe. Inspired by the lovely Tina from Bite Me Show Me, I tweaked this recipe to suit what ingredients I had in the cupboard. The rich chocolate and peanut butter flavour makes this a decadent-tasting ball, but they are still only 123 calories each!
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ½ cup protein powder
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp honey
- 10-12 dates
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ¼ cup oats
- Add ingredients into food processor and blitz until combined.
- If the mixture still remains crumbly, add a teaspoon of water at a time until it comes together.
- For easy portioning, use an icecream scoop to create 6 large balls, then halve each and roll into 12 little balls.
- I store mine in zip locks bags in groups of 4, putting half in the freezer and keeping half in the fridge.
I have a stash of these at home and at work, they are perfect for a snack and are a more sensible choice than a chocolate bar or packet of crisps. I'm thinking of adding coffee powder to them next time for an extra boost before a workout.
Raw Cashew and Coconut Protein Balls
Well, this is a first for Love Swah. A healthy recipe. That's raw. And gluten and dairy free. No, I haven't gone mad! Would you believe when I am not baking up and sampling delicious chocolate pavlovas or triple salted caramel cupcakes, I am actually quite healthy?
I have been wanting to create my own protein balls/bliss balls/amazeballs for a while now and was inspired by this great recipe from my friend Nadia. I usually work out once in the mornings and once at lunch time, and a little ball of energy is the perfect pre or post snack. I played around with flavour combinations and ingredients and settled on this Cashew and Coconut recipe, and it tastes absolutely amazing (no, really it does – I couldn't stop snacking on these!) I have also created a chocolate & peanut butter protein ball which I will post next week!
My main problem with existing protein ball recipes is that they either have almonds (allergic) or fancy and overpriced ingredients from the health food store. I don't have the likes of agave nectar, coconut oil, organic raw cocoa or bee pollen hanging around in my cupboard. So I tried to use easy-to-find ingredients you can purchase at your local supermarket. (I happened to have chia seeds at home, feel free to omit but you can now buy these at Coles and Woolworths).
I like my snacks to be around the 100-150 calorie mark and this recipe makes 12 balls which works out to be 140 calories each.
- 1 cup cashews
- 2 tbsp protein powder (I used vanilla soy protein which is dairy-free)
- ¼ cup shredded coconut
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 2 tbsp honey
- 10-12 pitted dates
- Place cashews in your food processor and blend into fine crumbs.
- Add in protein powder, coconut and chia seeds and process until combined.
- Combine honey and dates in your processor and blend until it can form a soft ball.
- If the mixture still remains crumbly, add a teaspoon of water at a time until it comes together.
- For easy portioning, use an icecream scoop to create 6 large balls, then halve each and roll into 12 little balls.
- I store mine in zip locks bags in groups of 4, putting half in the freezer and keeping half in the fridge.
Feel free to tailor this recipe to your own tastes – mix up the nuts, try chocolate protein powder, add a teaspoon of vanilla or perhaps a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Chocolate Pavlova with Nutella and Strawberries
You can't beat a classic pavlova with crunchy white clouds of meringue and cream, or can you? How about a chocolate pavlova? With Nutella? Now we're talking! I made this a double decker pavlova purely to have an excuse to fit more Nutella, strawberries and cream between the layers :)
- 4 egg whites (room temp)
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 3 tsp cornflour
- 1 tsp white vinegar
- 3 tsp cocoa powder
- 250ml thickened cream
- ¼ cup Nutella (or more if you want, no judgement)
- 1 punnet of strawberries
- Preheat oven to 150°C and line 2 baking trays with parchment paper.
- Using an electric mixer, beat egg-whites until soft peaks form.
- Gradually add the sugar, beating well until the mixture is glossy and the sugar has dissolved.
- Add the cornflour, vinegar and cocoa powder and fold through.
- Spoon mixture into 2 18-20cm circles. Using a palette knife, shape into a circle with high sides.
- Place in the oven, reduce the heat to 120°C and cook for 45 minutes.
- Then turn the oven off and allow the meringues to completely cool in the oven (at least an hour).
- Using an electric mixer, beat cream until soft peaks form.
- Gently transfer first layer of pavlova to a cake stand. Spread half the cream over the top, followed by half of the Nutella (microwave it for 10 seconds to help make runny).
- Chop half of the strawberries into a rough dice and sprinkle on top.
- Carefully put on the second layer of pavlova and repeat the cream and Nutella process. Garnish the top with halved strawberries.
- To serve, a dusting of icing sugar.
Here we have the first layer of the chocolate pavlova, covered in a generous layer of whipped cream, Nutella and chopped strawberries.
Then gently sandwich the second layer of pavlova on top, spread the whipped cream across using a spatula and then Jackson Pollock away with your Nutella! I like letting a few bits drip down the sides of the pavlova. Decorate with halved strawberries and a sprinkle of icing sugar and you're in chocolate-pavlova heaven!
Oh! And the kind folks at Kitchenaid kindly loaned me my dream mixer – a pistachio stand mixer!
The whisk attachment made whipping my egg whites and cream a breeze. In fact it was so efficient I nearly over-whipped my cream as I wasn't expecting it to get the job done so quickly. Oops!
I was so impressed with its performance (and looks) it even got to guest star in the background before the pavlova was promptly devoured.
A big thank you to Claire for hosting this month's Sweet Adventures Blog Hop with the brilliant theme Meringue Mania! I am looking forward to salivating over everyone else's delicious meringue-themed desserts.
Triple Salted Caramel Cupcakes
Is there anything better in life than salted caramel? Possibly kittens but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. My love for salted caramel is well documented and I knew I had to translate this obsession into the perfect cupcake.
This salted caramel cupcake is a triple threat – the cupcake is filled with a salted caramel centre, decorated with salted caramel buttercream and receives a final salted caramel drizzle at the end.
- 230g butter, softened
- 1¾ cups brown sugar
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup milk, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1½ cups self-raising flour
- 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup caster sugar
- 120ml water
- 1 cup thickened cream
- 2 tsp sea salt
- 230g butter, softened
- 6-8 cups icing sugar
- ¾ of the salted caramel
- Dissolve the sugar into the water in a heavy bottomed saucepan and let it bubble away over a medium heat.
- The mixture should turn a golden caramel colour after around 5 minutes. DON'T stir the caramel mixture – the sugar will crystallize.
- Once the caramel has reached the desired colour, take it off the heat and add the salt and cream. Stir furiously as the caramel will want to harden quickly.
- Pop the caramel cream mixture in a small bowl and put it in the fridge to help cool down quickly.
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Line 24 muffin tins with cupcake papers.
- Cream the butter with an electric mixer until smooth in a large bowl.
- Gradually add the sugar and beat for 3 minutes until fluffy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift the 2 flours and salt into a separate bowl.
- Add the dry ingredients in 3 parts, alternating with the milk and vanilla. Do not overmix!
- Fill cupcake liners about ¾ full with mixture and bake for 20-25 minutes until lightly golden brown.
- When cupcakes have cooled down, put approx 3-4 tablespoons of salted caramel into a small piping bag with a thin tipped nozzle attached.
- Insert the tip into the cupcake and pipe in a small amount of caramel into each cupcake.
- Using an electric mixer, cream the butter and icing sugar for 5 minutes until fluffy.
- Add ¾ of your caramel mixture and continue beating until well combined. Remember to save enough to drizzle over the cupcakes.
- Spoon the mixture into an icing bag with a nozzle attached and ice the cupcakes.
- Finish the cupcakes off with a drizzle of the remaining salted caramel.
We start off with a brown sugar cupcake, which acts as a subtle yet delicious base to our caramel fiesta. A delicious salted caramel buttercream is piped on top, giving us lovely, slightly golden roses. (Side note – loving my new Wilton #1M piping tip!)
And then HELLO SURPRISE! A deliciously gooey salted caramel filling. Hooray! Instead of laboriously cutting a small hole out of the top of each cupcake to fill, I simply put the caramel into a small piping bag with a nozzle attached. See here for a guide.
The cupcake clearly needs more salted caramel, so I end with a drizzle from above. Ah the joys of being a one-woman photography team, I am sure you can appreciate how difficult these types of shots are to get. DSLR camera in one shakey hand, pouring salted caramel seductively with the other, attempting, HOPING, to get the caramel to actually hit the cupcake. This was like my 5th shot. Caramel everywhere.
I hope you enjoy making these as much as I enjoy eating them! :)
Microwave Mug Cakes – #4 Banana
This is the last (but certainly not least) addition to my Microwave Mug Cake series – banana! First we had dark chocolate, then salted caramel, followed by S'mores. I like to refer to this mug cake as "breakfast in a cup" as it combines two of my favourite breakfast items – banana bread and coffee! But I guarantee you will want to eat this any time of day.
The banana ensures this cake is super moist and dense, and it's literally like eating a hybrid banana bread-pudding in a mug! I was about to say it's a healthier version than cafe-bought banana bread due to the relatively low amounts of butter/sugar/flour, but then I remembered I covered it in ice cream. Sorry.
- 1 tbsp butter, melted (or flavourless oil)
- 1 egg (lightly beaten)
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 ripe banana (mashed)
- 3 tbsp plain flour
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 scoop of coffee ice cream to serve
- Put butter into mug and microwave for 10 seconds to melt.
- Add in egg and milk and lightly beat with a fork until combined.
- Add mashed banana into the mug and continue stirring with you fork until mixed through.
- Finally, add dry ingredients into the mug and beat with your fork until combined.
- Place mug in the microwave and cook for 1 minute on medium heat.
- The pudding should be risen and still slightly gooey in the middle. If still undercooked for your liking, cook it further in 10 second bursts in the microwave.
- Serve with a generous scoop of coffee ice cream.
- Enjoy!
I hope you enjoyed my Microwave Mug Cakes series! Are there any other series of baked treats you would like me to trial?
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More precisely, "Single Deck Partnership Auction Racehorse Pinochle."IAQ
Welcome to my "Rules of Pinochle" page. These Pinochle rules are especially good for people who have already learned (some form of) Pinochle (pronounced pea knuckle), because these rules are here to provide a "standard" set of rules and reduce confusion and disagreement. My Pinochle rules are based on the ones found at Pagat Card Games, Rules Central, and Wikipedia (although see my notes on other rules pages). Well, all right, they're primarily based on what my grandmother the Pinochle shark taught me. The thumbnail sketch of the distinctions: "pass 3," "you don't have to play a losing trump," "extra KQ of trump in a run only score as a royal marriage, " and "no 'pass with help' bid." For more information on what these are, and why, keep reading.
Also, I've started collecting some interesting but Infrequently Asked Questions. I've put little IAQ marks in this text to show where they came up.
Although it's traditional in some circles to deal out the cards three at a time, and some rule books even insist this is required, if the deck was properly shuffledIAQ to begin with, it's random no matter how you deal it, so a dealer can (and should) deal out the hands in whatever manner is most comfortable for them.
If the dealer accidentally flips a card over during dealing, I reccommend that the dealer stops, makes sure everybody sees the card, then asks the player if they still want it or not. If they do, then just keep dealing. If they don't, stick it into the middle of the remaining deck, and keep dealing. If there's not much deck left to deal, shuffle it a little first.
Some people tack on a rule or two to let people who think they have bad hands force a redeal. I think this is a really bad idea.IAQ
On the other hand, there are good reasons for cutting the deck properly (in any card game). The dealer, after shuffling, should set the deck down to their right, and that player should lift up some portion of the deck and set it down closer to the dealer. Frequently, there's conversation or distractions during the deal, and if the dealer's distracted during the cut, they might not be sure which stack should be put on which. If you always cut toward the dealer, they know to always take the far stack, put it on the near stack, and then deal.
Why on earth would I have a section in the rules on how to pick up your cards? Because most people sort their cards, and you can save quite a bit of time by starting to sort your hand before the dealer's done dealing. Start picking up your cards as soon as you have some, and get to work. However, leave at least one card on the table. That one card marks your spot for the dealer, and makes it much less likely that they'll accidentally skip you. (That's more important in games with more than four players.) Also, if there's a misdeal, as long as you have one or two cards still on the table, they can just be passed to whoever ended up short a card without having to redeal the whole thing.
Of course, the dealer can't get a head start on sorting; they're busy dealing! But the dealer bids last, so they'll finish arranging their hand while the first few bids are being made.IAQ
Some people learned Pinochle where the point values are in "ones," that is, a counter's worth one point, and there are 25 points to be taken in tricks. Most people learned the game with "tens," and these rules assume the latter.IAQ
A fancy card-players' term for "not following the rules." See my IAQ entry on errant play.
Because this is a "racehorse" form, with cards passed between the partners who win the bid (just the winning partners), the minimum bid is 250 points. (If it weren't racehorse, the minimum bid would be 150.) Bids must be in multiples of ten. You can't bid "two sixty-five." If nobody else bids, then the dealer is required to bid at least the minimum bid.
These include no required opening bid, or that the first player (to the left of the dealer) must open with the minimum bid. I learned to play Pinochle where the player to the left of the dealer had to open, but after thinking about it, it makes more sense to have the person "stuck" with the bid be the last person. Besides, it's their own fault for having dealt such a horrible set of hands! Also, in surveying all the different variations of Pinochle published on the web, sticking it to the dealer is more common.
Another fairly common bidding variant (well, at least common to online rules, although I'm not sure it's common in terms of people who actually play Pinochle) is that the bidder must have a marriage or run in the suit they name as trump in order to bid. Why? I cannot imagine what the point of this dumb idea is, except to cut out a lot of bidding. It's particularly useless when playing Racehorse Pinochle (passing cards), because the person who gets the bid might not have that marriage when they start, but will get the cards to make or complete a marriage passed to them by their partner.
Requiring somebody to open cuts down on all the shufflingIAQ and re-dealing. It is really hard to not take at least 250 points between meld (which might just be a couple of marriages or whatever) and the playing hand you get when your partner passes you some more trump for your hand, so making sure that somebody at the table has to make the minimum opening bid means that you get to play more Pinochle.
I was taught that if you don't think you should get the bid, but you have meld, you can signal your partner by bidding once. However, I've gotten stuck with the bid on occasion by doing that, and been pretty darn sorry.
Some people allow people to pass by saying "Pass With Help," which is an explicit way to say "I don't want the bid, but I have some meld" or "I have a great passing hand." I do not recommend either technique as a general rule. If you're not playing with your regular group, they'll probably have no idea that your low bid was a hint that you had meld, instead of a real bid, and "Pass With Help" takes a lot of the agony (that is, the fun) out of bidding. There are even more elaborate schemes out there for signaling what's in your hand (see my notes on Herbison's rules for an example). Personally, if I thought memorizing elaborate and complicated bidding codes was fun, I'd be playing Bridge.
Once somebody gets the bid, they name a trump suit, and their partner passes them three cards. Four is a more commonly passed amount, but I strongly suggest three instead. The primary reason to pass cards is to fill your partner's incomplete run, and if you can't do that with the first three cards, you're already in big trouble. Passing that fourth card sometimes means giving your partner some "bonus" meld like 100 Aces or a Double Pinochle or the like. I feel it's far more interesting to pass over your two trump cards, then agonize over whether to pass the 9 of trump as well, or the non-trump ace. Or maybe that queen of spades? Decisions, decisions! It also means that your hand won't be quite as boring to play as one that's been stripped of all interesting cards by a four-card pass. It's your partner's job to pass you cards that could result in you gaining extra meld from marriages or a pinochle.
Because this version includes passing cards, the winning bidder should lay down their meld first.IAQ While those cards are on the table, they pass three cards back to their partner. This ensures that meld isn't counted but then passed back. Once cards have been passed back, then the other three players can lay down meld. Laying down earlier can give the bidder important information on what to pass back.
Meld In Suit | Basic Run (A, 10, K, Q, JIAQ in trump) | 150 pts.IAQ |
Extra K or Q in trump | 0 pts. each1 | |
Double Run (A, A, 10, 10, K, K, Q, Q, J, J in trump) | 1500 pts. | |
KQ in trump (aka "Royal Marriage") | 40 pts. | |
KQ, not trump (aka "Marriage") | 20 pts. per marriage | |
A nine in the trump suit (aka "the nine"2) | 10 pts. each | |
Meld In Rank (aka "Arounds") | A, one of each suit (aka "100 Aces") | 100 pts. |
K, one of each suit (aka "80 Kings") | 80 pts. | |
Q, one of each suit (aka "60 Queens") | 60 pts. | |
J, one of each suit (aka "40 Jacks") | 40 pts. | |
Double Around (two of each suit for any of the above arounds) | 10x value of single | |
(Around The Horn3) | (240 pts.) | |
Pinochle | J of Diamonds & Q of Spades | 40 pts. |
Doubled | 300 pts. | |
1Many people score these as worth 20 or 40 points each. See "Categories of Meld" below for an explanation. |
2It's also known as "Dix" or "Deece." "Dix," which is pronounced dees, is very likely French (although in French, that word means 'ten,' or so I'm told.) "Deece" is obviously the Americanized spelling of the word. Personally, I just call it "the nine of trump." |
3This isn't really a legal meld. See "Around the Horn" in "Categories of Meld" below for an explanation. |
Any card you play for meld can be used more than once, as long as it's not used more than once in each category. The categories are indicated by the divider lines on the table.
For example, let's say you call Diamonds as trump and lay down A, 10, K, K, Q, J, 9 of Diamonds; K, Q of Spades, K of Hearts; and K of Clubs.
I've run across all sorts of variations on how many points extra kings and queens in a run are worth: they're worth 40 pts. each, the K is 40 and the Q is 20, they're each worth 20 extra points, or they're not worth anything unless you have both, in which case they're a Royal Marriage and worth 40 together. Having thought about this a lot, I think this is an artifact of the fact that most people learn Pinochle scoring as simply a long list of "xxx is worth n points," so if/when somebody mis-remembers a score or rule or whatever, nobody else notices the inconsistency. A beginner gets this list scribbled out on a piece of paper, then gets taught by trial and error when you can score the same card in more than one meld, and when you can't. Somewhere along the line somebody started using extra kings and queens in runs to make marriages, treating "marriages" as a separate scoring category. Eventually that was just turned into a rule that extra royalty in a run was worth 40 points. Other people accidentally or deliberately changed it to 20, and now we have all sorts of versions that don't quite match.
(Remember, there are no "official" rules to Pinochle. Play it any way you want to. But if you want to be able to figure out your meld unambiguously no matter what, score them like I have described here.)
"But why not let the extra K or Q be worth something? I mean, c'mon! The game already has 10s outranking Kings, who cares if the scoring rules aren't perfectly consistent?" Well, for one, I do. I like having scoring rules that are simple and absolutely unambiguous. But who cares what I think? The good reason is that if you've got a run with extra Kings or Queens, your hand is already really great. What's the justification of a few extra points? To make the other side lose even more? Nah. Making the King or Queen of trump worth extra points, but only in a run, throws extraneous rules into the game, making it more complicated, while decreasing the actual fun, and how dumb is that? I vote "less rules, more fun."
"Around the Horn" is simply a name for having marriages in all four suits; some people find it easier to remember this name and its point value than to add up all the points the normal way: Around Kings (80) + Around Queens (60) + Royal Marriage (40) + 3 Common Marriages (3 × 20) = 240. So if you've got Around the Horn and an extra Q of Clubs, you can't score (another) marriage with the K of Clubs. The king's already married; that's part of the score for Around the Horn.
If a partnership's meld is more than 250 points below their bid, then there's clearly no way they can avoid "going set" (see "Counting the Score" if you don't know this term). They may, if they choose, "throw in the hand:" their meld doesn't count, their bid is subtracted from their score, the hand is not played, and the next hand is dealt. This does deprive the other team from getting the points from tricks they might have taken (but does not prevent them from scoring their meld), but if the bidding team missed the bid that much, it's cruel to make them play out the hand. However, if they miss the bid by 250 or less, then they must play out the hand unless everybody agrees to throw it in. (I have seen despairing people who needed to take 220 points actually make it, to their utter astonishment.)
Key rules, in order of precedence:
Let's say Hearts are trump. Queen of Diamonds is led, with a Jack of Hearts following. You have Ace of Diamonds and J and 10 of Hearts. Can you take the trick with the 10? No. Rule #2 comes before Rule #3: you must play the Ace of Diamonds.
If you don't have any diamonds, you must play the 10 of Hearts, even if you don't want to waste it on this trick, because of Rule #3.
But! if you have just the J of Hearts, you can sluff your 9 of Clubs on the trick instead. Since you can't take the trick (see Rule #1), you do not have to trump the trick.
Don't confuse Rule #4 with Rule #2, though. If somebody leads with a Heart, then you will have to play that J.
This is another area where there's some significant variation. An uncommon variation doesn't require you to play trump. A much more common understanding is that you must follow suit or play trump even if you can't take the trick. I don't recommend this for two reasons. One, it's more often going to benefit the bidder, allowing them to extract opposing trump cheaply. Two, and more importantly, the more often you can choose which card to play, the more opportunity there is for strategy. Having a low trump sucked out of your hand because you have to play it is just annoying. Sluffing a nine and saving the trump for later is a lot more fun.
Somebody has stuck into Wikipedia's page on Pinochle the claim that "must follow suit or play trump" are the "pre-1945" rules, and "play whatever you want" are the "post-1945" rules. They do not, however, offer any supporting evidence for what cataclysmic event shook the world of Pinochle to its very roots, and utterly overturned the previous custom of play. I find the entire assertion highly dubious at best.
At the end of the hand, each team receives 10 points per counter in their tricks (counters are the A, 10, and K of any suit). The team that took the last trick get 10 points for that. Twenty-four counters in the deck plus the points for last trick means that there are 250 points available in the tricks. If the bidding team earns the amount bid (combined meld and trick score), then all the earned points are added to the team's previous score. If they do not, they "go set:" they do not score any points melded, they score no points taken in the tricks, and their previous score is reduced by the amount bid. If the other team fails to earn points while taking tricks (that is, they pulled no counters and failed to capture the final trick), they do not score any points that were melded. (They failed to "save their meld.")
Some variations include allowing taking any trick, even one with no points, to save the meld, and allowing the team to count deece whether or not they took a trick. I don't recommend either variation. The first one actually goes against my principle of not rewarding the guy in the lead; after all, if a team can only take one trick, and it has no counters, isn't it rubbing salt on the wound to make them lose their meld anyway? Well, yes, but this rule is an incentive and challenge to play well even with a bad hand.
The second rule is just a lot of unnecessary paperwork for a situation that's very rare, and one begging to cause arguments. "Did I have the nine?" "I don't remember," and "What? I never heard of that rule! You're making it up!"
A nice time saving tradition is for the partners that did not get the bid to count their points first. They'll usually have fewer points to count, and if their score is, say, eighty, then the other team knows that it can score 170 (since 250-80=170).
Another good habit to learn is to count by simply flipping through your stack of tricks, counting (in your head, not out loud, please) the counters as you pass them. Some people will sort their trick into counters and non-counters, either counting them as they separate them, or counting the stack when they're done. If you do this, you're making more work for the next dealer, because they have to be shuffled even more to get the counters mixed back in again properly.
First team to 1500 points wins.
Whichever partnership had the bid gets to add their score first.IAQ What this means is if both teams get more than 1500 points on the same hand, the partners that had the bid on that hand win, even if the other team has a higher score. Keep that in mind when you're deciding whether or not to keep bidding near the end of the game. Yes, you could play that who ever has the most points wins, but with that variation, a team with good meld can choose not to bid, planning on winning just because they got dealt a Double Pinochle. It's more exciting if both teams have 1400 or more and they know that you have to get and make the bid to win the game.
On the other hand, I recently ran across a variation that said a team couldn't win unless they'd earned enough points and gotten the bid. This is, bluntly, a really stupid idea, so stupid that this group had to make up a whole new extra rule: "To prevent a team from endlessly prolonging a game by taking every bid, we declare the team with the most points the winner if either team reaches negative 1200 points or when the difference in scores between the teams reaches 1500 points." Good grief. Trust me, my way's a lot better.IAQ
Some people use good old pencil and paper, but a much more convenient way uses poker chips. Each team gets 10 white chips (worth 10 each) and 14 colored chips (worth 100 each), which start with one of the partners. Scoring works rather like an abacus. For example, let's say on the first hand, a team scores 80 in meld. The team passes 8 white chips across. They get 110 in trick points, and pass 1 colored and 1 white chip. On the next hand, they get 40 in meld. Pass 1 colored chip over, and 6 white back. (100 - 60 = 40). The meld is set next to the other chips, so that if they go set, it's easy to pass the meld back before passing back the bid amount. This might seem more complicated than pencil and paper when you read it, but believe me, with only a bit of practice, it becomes far more efficient and easy than the alternative. As a bonus, it's always easy to tell who's winning, and by how much.
If you've got enough people to have multiple games of Pinochle going simultaneously, then instead of playing to 1500, you can play four hands per game, then switch tables.
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Hmm-crime is down and gun permits are up. Man, that's weird.
I think you have it backwards.
Permits are up so crime is down.
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Abstract—An autonomous Internet Protocol (IP) camera based object tracking and behaviour identification system, capable of running in real-time on an embedded system with limited memory and processing power is presented in this paper. The main contribution of this work is the integration of processor intensive image processing algorithms on an embedded platform capable of running at real-time for monitoring the behaviour of pedestrians. The Algorithm Based Object Recognition and Tracking (ABORAT) system architecture presented here was developed on an Intel PXA270-based development board clocked at 520 MHz. The platform was connected to a commercial stationary IP-based camera in a remote monitoring station for intelligent image processing. The system is capable of detecting moving objects and their shadows in a complex environment with varying lighting intensity and moving foliage. Objects moving close to each other are also detected to extract their trajectories which are then fed into an unsupervised neural network for autonomous classification. The novel intelligent video system presented is also capable of performing simple analytic functions such as tracking and generating alerts when objects enter/leave regions or cross tripwires superimposed on live video by the operator. I.


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A GROUP of Geelong business leaders is getting ready to bid for a franchise in Cricket Australia's expanded Twenty20 Big Bash competition.
The group is headed by Michael King, the managing director of Kings Funeral Services and the former Geelong Cricket Club president who presided over the club's entry to Premier cricket.
''The intention of this group is to be in a go-ready position as soon as Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria tell us what the ground rules are,'' said Bob Merriman, a former CA and CV chairman who is involved in the group, as well as being mayor of Queenscliff.
''We have, under Michael's leadership, a very significant group of people waiting to hear what is needed. We are looking at a blue sky at the moment, but we do know this group of people are dead keen on understanding what the Twenty20 Big Bash is going to be. Subject to knowing what it's all about, this group is formed … to bid for a franchise.''
Though CA is yet to reveal its model for the expanded league, which will feature eight city-based teams rather than the six states that compete in the Big Bash, Geelong Football Club president Frank Costa this week told a briefing session at E.L. & C. Baillieu Stockbroking that Geelong and Newcastle were the leading contenders to gain the two regional licences.
Costa wants a Geelong team in the national league, and potentially on the global stage given the top two teams will progress to the lucrative Champions League, as it would help fund the $75 million ''stage three'' expansion of Skilled Stadium to a capacity of 35,000.
Previously, western Sydney and the Gold Coast were mentioned as logical homes for Big Bash teams, but CA insists the locations are still to be determined.
''I don't believe there's a view of preferred locations at this stage because we're at such an early stage in the concept work,'' a CA spokesman said.
Costa is enthusiastic about installing drop-in pitches at Skilled Stadium. ''Having cricket played in summer, and we've all seen the crowds the Twenty20 has been getting, would be tremendous for us financially,'' he said.
''I have a meeting with the leaders of the local cricket association this week to make sure they are getting their act together, to make sure they are doing everything they can to be part of this, because it would be tremendous for Geelong.''
The cricket community will not need much convincing, with King's group preparing to harness the city's ''tribal'' sporting culture. ''We think we would be a really good choice to be one of the two franchises when they become available,'' he said.
''We have had discussions with CA and CV and they have encouraged us just to be ready, and that's what we have done.''
Merriman said Geelong's advantages included the existing television infrastructure and plans for floodlights as part of the Skilled Stadium redevelopment.
''The other thing we have is a very supportive arrangement with council for drop-in wickets and the use of the ground at a reasonable charge,'' he said.


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Tired of driving up The Hill? Looking for a .50/1 or 1/2 cash game without a rake? Looking for a Poker League? Looking for a consistent game every Friday Night? Looking for a fun, friendly place to play? If I can get the right numbers...look no more! In the meantime, I'll post a little about me and the game I (used to) run: I'm 32, have lived in Aurora about 6 months, and so far do not know anyone here that plays more than $10 tournies with buddies once a month. Would probably start here with j …
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Our group is dedicated to playing poker throughout Colorado. The game will be predominately Texas Hold'em, but we will also be known to play Omaha, Stud, Raz, Pineapple, and many others. Our group will meet for days & nights out at local restaurants / bars, charity poker tournaments, traveling to the local casino's and other things related. We will be scheduling events and activities on a weekly basis, and all levels of play are welcome. We will NOT be participating in private cash home games. P …
This group would be people who enjoy Texas Hold 'em and want to play amongst friends at various venues around Denver and to make connections with people who share similar interests and may eventually want to travel as a group, host or attend an occasional game by members of the group in a private setting. Would like to see this Meet Up be a place where players can list multiple games and tourneys every week. Goal is to make friends for socializing (Poker, Happy hour, trips to Black hawk or Crip …
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LONDON (AP) - Just as English football was slowly recovering from a divisive, year-long racism saga, the Premier League has been plunged into renewed controversy.
And, yet again, the accusation being levelled is linked to racism - a problem thought to have been largely eradicated from English football in the 1990s.
The new allegation appears unprecedented for the world's richest football league: Chelsea claims the referee used "inappropriate language" toward two players in the globally televised Premier League match against Manchester United on Sunday.
Midfielder John Obi Mikel is believed to be one of the players who Chelsea say was targeted by referee Mark Clattenburg, whose language has reportedly been interpreted as being racially offensive.


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