COLUMBUS, OH, December 29, 2010 (Press-News.org) The Central Ohio Home & Garden Show announced today that it will again hold its Amateur Cake Decorating Competition. This year's competition will take place on Sunday, March 6, 2011, when five of the region's most talented amateur cake decorators will have the chance to compete for cash prizes before a live audience. The 2011 Central Ohio Home & Garden Show is slated for February 26 - March 6 at the Ohio Expo Center.
Show guests can watch the Amateur Cake Decorating Competition from 2:00-3:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 6, with setup taking place from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Judging will take place from 3:00-3:30 p.m. and will be led by Dispatch Food Editor Robin Davis. Show guests will have the opportunity to sample one of the cakes following judging. The Cake Competition theme is "Gardens that Rock," in keeping with the theme for the Garden Showcase at the 55th Annual Central Ohio Home & Garden Show. Decorators are challenged to find creative inspiration in rock and roll music as featured in the 13 full-size living landscapes. Each garden will feature one of rock's greatest icons, eras or legendary songs, such as Elvis' Blue Suede Shoes, Kiss' Detroit Rock City, etc. The Grand Prize winner will receive $500 cash. Second place receives $250 cash and third place receives $100 cash.
Cake decorators are encouraged to email one or more photos, plus a description, of a past cake masterpiece to cakes@dispatch.com or mail them to Christy Muhoberac, The Columbus Dispatch, 34 S. Third St., Columbus, OH 43215. Entries must be received by noon on Wednesday, Feb. 2 for consideration. Jpeg attachments should be 300 dpi or mailed prints must be at least 4" X 6". Entrants must include their name, mailing address, e-mail address, date of birth and daytime phone number. The five most creative decorators will be chosen for the live competition on March 6, where they will decorate a cake before a live audience and compete for cash prizes at the Central Ohio Home & Garden Show. Complete rules and information are available at www.DispatchEvents.com.
Due to the Central Ohio Home & Garden Show's popularity, show management has extended the hours to accommodate day trips, corporate and social groups and clubs. The new times for the show will be noon to 8 p.m. weekdays, Tuesday through Friday, and an hour earlier at 10 a.m. on Sunday. Thus, weekend show hours are Saturdays 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sundays 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; CLOSED MONDAY, February 28th. Tickets are $12 at the door for adults. Children ages 12 and under are admitted free. Parking is $5. Complete show information is found at www.DispatchEvents.com. The show begins Saturday, Feb. 26, and runs through Sunday, March 6 at the Ohio Expo Center.
Weirick Communications, Inc. is a Midwest-based PR firm focused on telling the world about great travel, culinary and event experiences. Contact Weirick Communications at 614.848.8380 or amy@weirickcommunications.com.
Popular Amateur Cake Decorating Competition Returns to Central Ohio Home & Garden Show
The Central Ohio Home & Garden Show announced today that it will again hold its Amateur Cake Decorating Competition. This year's competition will take place on Sunday, March 6, 2011
2010-12-29
[Attachments] See images for this press release:
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
VIDEO: La Bella Join Forces With the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Fire Department in Conjunction With Univision Radio
2010-12-29
The spirit of Christmas was never felt more for 50 struggling Southeast Los Angeles families than when La Bella joined with the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) and Univision Radio to host a Posada Navidena event full of joy and hope for the neediest.
Eager children frolicked around a jolly red-suited Santa Claus whose day job finds him as LAPD Southeast Los Angeles Captain Phillip Tingirides. Every child received toys, and all enjoyed the presence of Latin pop artist Luz Rios, along with a festive hot dinner followed by a ...
Texas A&M research shows bacteria provide example of one of nature's first immune systems
2010-12-28
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 23, 2010—Studying how bacteria incorporate foreign DNA from invading viruses into their own regulatory processes, Thomas Wood, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is uncovering the secrets of one of nature's most primitive immune systems.
His findings, which appear in "Nature Communications," a multidisciplinary publication dedicated to research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences, shed light on how bacteria have throughout the course of millions of years developed ...
New clues uncover how 'starvation hormone' works, investigators at UT Southwestern report
2010-12-28
DALLAS – Dec. 26, 2010 – New findings by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers may solve a 17-year-old mystery about how the so-called "starvation hormone" affects multiple biological systems, including preventing insulin sensitivity and promoting cell survival.
The results connect multiple observations about how the hormone adiponectin functions and eventually could lead to new treatments for conditions ranging from diabetes and weight loss to heart disease and cancer.
"Until now, there wasn't really an obvious connection between all these different phenomena," ...
Longevinex exerts greater influence over genes than resveratrol
2010-12-28
Las Vegas, NV (Dec. 24, 2010) - Three weeks of oral resveratrol or Longevinex® ingestion prior to an induced heart attack returned microRNA activity close to their pre-event levels in excised animal hearts. Among thousands of microRNA's studied, just six were attributed to exerting the majority of the gene-switching effects measured in the animal heart study — four microRNA optimally regulated by Longevinex® and two optimally by plain resveratrol.
A pre-conditioning effect with resveratrol and Longevinex® had already been demonstrated in prior studies where these small ...
Researchers: Pay more attention to epilepsy
2010-12-28
ST. PAUL, Minn. –Epilepsy, a common and serious neurologic disorder that affects millions of people, is not getting the public attention and funding for research it deserves, according to an editorial on a study published in the January 4, 2011, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
"We have almost nonexistent epilepsy surveillance, or ongoing collection of data on newly diagnosed epilepsy, in the United States," said Edwin Trevathan, MD, MPH, Dean of the St. Louis University School of Public Health in St. Louis and a member ...
Human protein improves muscle function of muscular dystrophy mice
2010-12-28
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A novel potential therapy based on a natural human protein significantly slows muscle damage and improves function in mice who have the same genetic mutation as boys with the most common form of muscular dystrophy, according to a paper published online Dec. 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a fatal genetic mutation in about one of every 3,500 boys. They are unable to produce a protein called dystrophin that keeps muscles strong. By eight years of age, the boys begin to have trouble ...
Team overcomes major obstacles to cellulosic biofuel production
2010-12-28
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A newly engineered yeast strain can simultaneously consume two types of sugar from plants to produce ethanol, researchers report. The sugars are glucose, a six-carbon sugar that is relatively easy to ferment; and xylose, a five-carbon sugar that has been much more difficult to utilize in ethanol production. The new strain, made by combining, optimizing and adding to earlier advances, reduces or eliminates several major inefficiencies associated with current biofuel production methods.
The findings, from a collaborative led by researchers at the University ...
Mechanisms of juvenile hormone action in insects could help fine tune pesticides
2010-12-28
Just as raging hormones are part of the process of a child's maturation through the teen years to adulthood, juvenile hormones, a group of insect isoprenoids, play an important role as butterflies, fruit flies and mosquitoes transform their body structures as they molt from larva to pupa and then adults.
Unlike humans, in insects the juvenile hormone inhibits development of adult characteristics until the insects reach a proper stage. Juvenile hormones also play a prominent role in regulating reproductive maturation in adult insects and synthetic juvenile hormone mimics ...
Full woodland strawberry genome sequenced
2010-12-28
In a collaborative effort involving 74 researchers from 38 research institutes, scientists have produced the full genome of a wild strawberry plant. The research appeared today in Nature Genetics. Drs. Asaph Aharoni and Avital Adato of the Weizmann Institute's Plant Sciences Department were the sole Israeli scientists participating in the project, but they made a major contribution in mapping the genes and gene families responsible for the strawberry's flavor and aroma.
The woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is closely related to garden-variety cultivated strawberry. ...
Standardized protocols would greatly enhance clinical and research potential of BTMs
2010-12-28
An expert working group of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) has released a new position paper which reviews the evidence of bone turnover markers (BTMs) in fracture risk prediction and monitoring of osteoporosis therapy. More importantly, it identifies research priorities and recommends that specific markers be used as reference analytes for BTMs in clinical and observational studies.
BTMs have been extensively studied in relation to fracture risk assessment and have ...
LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:
Making lighter work of calculating fluid and heat flow
Normalizing blood sugar can halve heart attack risk
Lowering blood sugar cuts heart attack risk in people with prediabetes
Study links genetic variants to risk of blinding eye disease in premature infants
Non-opioid ‘pain sponge’ therapy halts cartilage degeneration and relieves chronic pain
AI can pick up cultural values by mimicking how kids learn
China’s ecological redlines offer fast track to 30 x 30 global conservation goal
Invisible indoor threats: emerging household contaminants and their growing risks to human health
Adding antibody treatment to chemo boosts outcomes for children with rare cancer
Germline pathogenic variants among women without a history of breast cancer
Tanning beds triple melanoma risk, potentially causing broad DNA damage
Unique bond identified as key to viral infection speed
Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level
Mouse model sheds new light on the causes and potential solutions to human GI problems linked to muscular dystrophy
The Journal of Nuclear Medicine ahead-of-print tip sheet: December 12, 2025
Smarter tools for peering into the microscopic world
Applications open for funding to conduct research in the Kinsey Institute archives
Global measure underestimates the severity of food insecurity
Child survivors of critical illness are missing out on timely follow up care
Risk-based vs annual breast cancer screening / the WISDOM randomized clinical trial
University of Toronto launches Electric Vehicle Innovation Ontario to accelerate advanced EV technologies and build Canada’s innovation advantage
Early relapse predicts poor outcomes in aggressive blood cancer
American College of Lifestyle Medicine applauds two CMS models aligned with lifestyle medicine practice and reimbursement
Clinical trial finds cannabis use not a barrier to quitting nicotine vaping
Supplemental nutrition assistance program policies and food insecurity
Switching immune cells to “night mode” could limit damage after a heart attack, study suggests
URI-based Global RIghts Project report spotlights continued troubling trends in worldwide inhumane treatment
Neutrophils are less aggressive at night, explaining why nighttime heart attacks cause less damage than daytime events
Menopausal hormone therapy may not pose breast cancer risk for women with BRCA mutations
Mobile health tool may improve quality of life for adolescent and young adult breast cancer survivors
[Press-News.org] Popular Amateur Cake Decorating Competition Returns to Central Ohio Home & Garden ShowThe Central Ohio Home & Garden Show announced today that it will again hold its Amateur Cake Decorating Competition. This year's competition will take place on Sunday, March 6, 2011