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The Old Orchard
We are a general dental practice looking for a new logo to go with our new name and image. We are a two-man practice with a hygienist as well.
The logo is the starting point for a new corporate identity and website. We are trying to modernise and improve standards of service and treatment.
We are a general dental practice looking to appeal to a broad range of people. Essentially we are a family dental practice so want to appeal to this group.
Our current client base is a quiet and traditional commuter town with mixed incomes.
We want to convey an image of quality treatment and want to have something that reflects our modern techniques in a traditional setting - but not too much focus on this.
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Wetland Plants of Wisconsin
|Potamogeton epihydrus Raf.
ribbon-leaved pondweed
Family: Potamogetonaceae
| Ribbon-leaf
pondweed has both broader, elliptical floating leaves and long, narrow
ribbon-like submersed leaves. The submersed leaves usually have a broad
stripe of lighter colored tissue along the midrib. The bases of the floating
leaves are tapered to the petiole, unlike the heart-shaped bases of the
very common P. natans.. In deeper water or in flowing water the
floating leaves of P. epihydrus may not develop, leaving only the
long ribbon-like submersed leaves, which can still be recognized by the
broad, light mid-stripe and the width of the leaves (usually >5 mm).
Ribbon-leaf pondweed is found throughout Wisconsin in a variety of lakes and streams, mostly in shallow water. It is more common in the north. Botanists recognize about 25 species of pondweeds in Wisconsin and some species can be very difficult to distinguish. A good key, good specimens and considerable practice are required to make accurate identifications.

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Here at Gamasutra, I've been rounding up the annual biggest firestorms for some years now, yet this is the first time I've felt truly challenged.
Last year, I highlighted the "line in the sand" passionate gamers had drawn in a period of cultural growth -- by which I meant it's become clear more gamers than ever now have a zero-tolerance policy for prejudice, insensitivity and exclusionary attitudes witin our community.
This year bore that out in spades. This year we experienced equal parts righteousness and anxiety over the role and the portrayal of women in our industry, from arguments over "fake geek girls" to the truly humiliating wave of abuse and negativity that followed Anita Sarkeesian's Kickstarter to research stereotypes surrounding female characters in games.
That our most heated conversations this year took place surrounding allegations and analysis of sexism is simultaneously heartening and troubling. On one hand, that so many voices have swelled to fight old prejudices and boys' club attitudes in an industry that is by all metrics for everyone now is nothing short of amazing.
On the other hand, it prompts us to carefully consider our responsibility to educate, connect and empathize on these issues so that they become battles that rational people can share.
It's also an issue of concern to me personally that so often the conversation is about sexism, when in fact the bigger issue is assuring an inclusive industry for all, where everyone, regardless of class, orientation, color, age, heritage or creed, feels welcome and respected.
So I could do a top five list only about controversies over sexism -- and honestly, it's tempting, because so many of us have been waiting so long to be heard, to feel cared for in an industry we all deeply love, and as one of the more vocal women in the press on this movement I can't help but feel responsible.
Yet I made an effort this year to focus not on smaller fires, but on broader trends toward the maturation of games and their relationship with their audience.
Many small fires become an inferno, after all.
After three installments in BioWare's widely-celebrated franchise, the saga of Shepard came to an end. And yet it was far from over -- the ending of the game caused a vocal outcry of fan dissatisfaction with everything from the tone to the logic of the story itself. Particularly damning was the allegation that fans didn't have enough choice and control over their destiny, given that one of the strengths of the series is that it works to give players exactly that.
Fans can carry over their protagonist from one game to the next, deeply invested in a character who by him or herself is mainly a cipher, but through player choice becomes someone with an identity and a destiny elected by the game's audience over years. Players saw the fact that they felt such little control over the story's final outcome as nothing short of absolute betrayal, like BioWare had reneged on its commitment to them.
Many fans were happy to eventually receive a new ending and to be heard. What was interesting about the controversy was that it called into question the auteurship of a developer. BioWare's decision to release a new ending provoked much discussion -- should a studio rewire its vision if fans don't like it? Will gamers regularly be able to petition studios to gratify them, and how important is it that fans be totally content with a plot?
The goal of massive franchises for years has been to create a sustaining, even deeply personal relationship with players. But clearly that success comes with a cost.
Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian launched a Kickstarter campaign hoping to fund a web series, "Tropes vs. Women," that would enable her to present an exploration of the portrayal of female characters in games. It was a fairly simple ambition for which she asked for $6000 -- and got much more than that, in every sense of the phrase.
Criticisms of the project's purpose or why someone would want thousands of dollars to make videos were to be expected in the demanding crowdfunding age. But what was truly horrifying was the backlash, with vocal online communities mounting hate campaigns and viewing intimidation and harrassment of Sarkeesian as a personal mission. Someone even made a Flash game about beating her face black-and-blue.
Their goal was to get her to give up. But regardless of one's opinion of her work and its goals, the level of purposeful, high-volume vitriol cannot be excused. Calls for change are threatening to a community that particularly values its escapism, its places safe from judgment, and too often men hear the word "feminism" and jump to the conclusion they're being attacked or accused of sexism personally. But there's just no way to rationalize what Sarkeesian endured.
The silver lining is that in a show of support, the community gave Sarkeesian many times what she asked for. The spotlight will be on her intensely now, and the results of her research, the status of which importantly isn't yet known, will be closely scrutinized. But anyone who loves games is obligated to be incredibly conscious of how ugly is the underbelly of our community and how far we have yet to go. We've looked into the abyss.
This year we witnessed how broad-ranging the impact of crowdsourcing is on determining what products get made, and on the very shape of our industry. In the online age we've talked a blue streak about listening to your players, and about putting the shape of a living, always-on product into the hands of your community.
Now, from a mass rush of Kickstarters to Valve's placing the power of decision in players' hands with Steam Greenlight, the business itself is now increasingly player-led. Largely this has been a good thing, sensible for the allocation of resources and letting demand lead supply at the end of a late console cycle where risk-aversion and uncertainty are watchwords.
But a private anxiety roils beneath the surface of this unprecedented content democracy. To what extent can we trust the wisdom of the crowds? I recently wrote about how a group itself can become just as risk-averse as any investor the more information they're given, and game developers and fans alike are getting increasingly vocal about best practices.
Steam's Greenlight program faced some criticisms from the start, as amid a rush of content fans cleaved loyally to familiar concepts, and it soon became clear that crowdsourcing might not be the best engine to direct the spotlight onto new and difficult ideas. Kickstarter saw a retro boom this year -- turns out what people mostly want is things they've already had.
The extent of the power that crowdsourcing gives its community was poorly-anticipated; the initial wild west age has ebbed, and the results of many of the earliest-funded titles have yet to be seen. There's anxiety now, and both sides of the aisle -- creators and consumers -- will be keeping a close eye on that balance of power. We're learning what it really takes to make it in the era of crowd vote, and not everyone likes that. The rumbles of uncertainty have begun, and will likely reach a fever pitch in the year ahead.
Passionate gamers have mistrusted the games press for years, scrutinizing review sites and their writers closely to ensure that they're receiving a trusted, objective opinion that hasn't been massaged by free drinks, marketing swag or corporate pressure. The Kane and Lynch scandal that led Jeff Gerstmann away from Gamespot years ago shows that there is some foundation to their concerns -- advertisers are aggressive.
Marketers have gotten adept at controlling the information cycle that surrounds new releases, and while the online age and the rise of independent outlets has punctured some holes in the old bargaining relationship between print magazines and advertisers, those advertisers still stamp their influence all over us, as Mountain Dew holds hands with Halo and Geoff Keighley is infamously photographed beside a bag of Doritos.
New concerns came to a very ugly head earlier this year at the UK's Games Media Awards, when at Eurogamer Rab Florence criticized the event -- where the nation's games press is recognized at an event plush with sponsors and a cabal of publishers -- as emblematic of the fact that the relationship between supposed journalists and the companies they're paid to cover is still too buddy-buddy.
Individual writers were slammed widely for participating in a hashtagged Tweet-off to win a free PlayStation 3. Amid the controversy one of the accused writers was ultimately dismissed from her job, the final punishment after a virulent outpouring of criticism some likened to witch-hunting. Before that, Florence resigned from Eurogamer as his piece was edited under fear of reprisal from the accused.
It was a painful experience for all who cover games in the UK, and even on our shores it prompted much soul-searching on our role and identity as professionals -- or whether some of us want or need to be "professionals" at all. It was a watershed moment in a burgeoning identity crisis for writing on games, which increasingly serves many different roles and many different audiences.
Games writers are now critics, essayists, industry experts, news reporters, authors of buyer's guides, comedians, diarists and community leaders. "Objectivity" is not only overrated, but impossible outside the discipline of reportage. But many of us will have to define our roles -- and then act in accordance with those roles -- if we hope to sustain the trust of our readership.
Back to the small fires, and to the inferno: The issues that raised our hackles the most this year were led by major communications failures. Borderlands 2's decision to include a mode that encourages a non-gamer friend or partner to have an accessible playtime along with you was clearly a sound one -- it was just those two little words, "girlfriend mode," that made people angry, as they perhaps suggested a wider prejudice.
Hitman made not one but two marketing gaffes: The stripper-nuns yielded a bewildered apology, and a Facebook app that essentially gamified bullying to sell the game after it launched to mixed reception showed a baffling failure of judgment. It was live for just an hour before outrage got it pulled. The apology was already prepared; someone's legal department had been ready to pull the trigger. They knew it was stupid and they did it anyway.
Though I've admittedly not seen it myself, by all the early accounts I've heard the new Tomb Raider game, with Rhianna Pratchett as writer, is actually shaping up to be an interesting portrayal of a younger Lara Croft, who's made a long and often-awkward journey from 90's sex doll toward actual character.
But you wouldn't guess it by the game's early reveals, which featured Croft's torture-porny grunting and moaning as her exposed body took injury after injury, nor by the revelation that essentially the game was going to shape her character by having her endure a rape attempt. We got only enough information to make a negative conclusion -- did anyone actually believe we'd hear that and go, "wow, sounds fun"?
E3 was ugly, too. Our Frank Cifaldi already outlined how uncomfortable our staff felt seeing colleagues and fans rise to cheer for a shotgun blow to the face. Many of us shared our private uncertainty: Tons of us started in this field as barely older than kids ourselves; now many of us have our own, and feel anxious about how an environment where scantily-clad women parade around a celebration of violence reflects on our choice of career. Following the event many women were outspoken about how unwelcome they felt. We want to believe that developers are still doing rich, diverse work -- but it sure doesn't look that way to see how Los Angeles celebrates our industry with that tone.
Or with the recent Spike VGAs, which while much improved tonally on recent years, still featured a Wayans enthusiastic about his son, who by according to him hasn't yet grown pubic hair, getting to shoot people in the face thanks to gaming. "Without characters, how can you shoot someone in the face?" joked presenter Samuel L. Jackson.
We don't need always to be reverent; nobody wants to live with their finger constantly hovering over the "I'm offended" button. There are all kinds of games out there, from tiny homemade essays on the self to big-budget retail war orgies -- and that's good. There's room for all kinds. We are entitled to be silly and violent just as much as we're entitled to be sincere.
The problem is that in spite of the vast array of game development going on, the solving of design problems, the success of games of all sizes and budgets for bigger, richer and more passionately-engaged audiences than ever, most people think this is all we are.
What if they think this is all we can ever be, no matter how hard we're trying to tell both the creative industry and the rest of the world who we really are, what we're really doing here, why we love video games? That should outrage everybody.


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Fareed Zakaria speaks with Ronald DePinho, president of the world's largest cancer center, MD Anderson in Houston, about the future of cancer research, and whether a cure is within reach. This is an edited version of his interview on Global Public Square.
You believe that we are at a point where we could actually finally cure cancer?
I think we're at a major turning point in the history of cancer medicine where we have a very deep understanding of how it comes about, and, if it is established, how to deal with it, and we have game-changing technological advances that allow us to do much better care, accurate care, of cancer patients.
What is the game-changing technology? What's happened? You say this has happened, really, in the last five years.
Well, there have been major events. And what's unusual about this period in science history, is that it's occurred in a narrow window and across a very broad front. So it's not one technology. It's the fact that we can sequence genomes, the entire genome, your entire tumor profile, in a few hours for a few hundred dollars – what took billions of dollars and a decade. We have the ability to analyze those data through very sophisticated computational structures and artificial intelligence.
Now I think all understand that cancer is not one thing. So you've actually identified the 10 most important cancers that you believe can be overcome in the way you just described, either through early detection, aggressive treatment, so that they will not be life-threatening. Give me an example of a cancer that you believe can be essentially cured this way.
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Well, I'll even give you just one project and one major cancer. The 800 pound gorilla is lung cancer. We have 170,000 deaths in this country, in the United States, each and every year. We have the ability to detect those cancers earlier now, through non-invasive imaging. So if we screen all heavy smokers, we know that we can reduce mortality by 20 percent by just catching the cancer earlier. That is 30,000 lives per year. It's a significant number. So in order to have that occur and occur in a practical way, one needs to identify, amongst the 94 million former and current smokers, who should we screen? We can't screen everyone. It's not economically feasible. But if we had a risk model to say these are the few million that are knocking at cancer's door, then those individuals can be enlisted into imaging.
The holy grail for cancer would be to trigger the body's own immune system to fight off the cancer, so that you somehow stimulate the antibodies in a way that that happens. Are we close to that?
Well, I'd say that that ship has already arrived. So I'd say the most exciting advance, to my thinking, over the last decade, has been our ability to harness the power of the immune system to fight cancer. Cancer is essentially foreign, because it's different from what we were born with. So it has a different genetics. So it should be recognized as different. Yet it's stealth from the immune system. And an investigator here, at MD Anderson who's chair of immunology, Jim Allison, discovered how that occurs. The cancer puts the brakes on the immune system.
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So we developed a drug against that break, a monkey wrench for that break, and unleashed the power of the immune system. And 24 percent of patients with advanced melanoma, a very lethal skin cancer, appear to be cured now.
You're looking at the possibility of actually curing cancer? You have the knowledge, you have new technologies, computing power, artificial intelligence. What you need is money, federal investment. Are you getting the kind of federal investment in basic research that you think we need at this point?
The answer is absolutely not. I mean we have a humanitarian crisis. We have the ability to act on this. But we're [resource depleted] as a community. So there's been a 19 percent decline in NIH funding over the last 10 years in real dollars. This is significant, precisely at a time when we have an increased incidence of major diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, diabetes. And so you're on a sinking ship. And what you're doing is you're trying to slow the rate of sinking through efficiencies and managing the system.
The closest thing to a cure right now is at University of Pennsylvania and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The CTL019 trial uses gene therapy reprogram a person's own T-cells to attack B-cells, so this therapy works against B-cell leukemias and lymphomas. A half dozen terminal patients have been in remission for as long as 2 years and counting. UPENN sold the right s to Novartis to ramp up production of the modified T-cells. In a few years, we will probably see T-cell modification plants next to several hospitals.
When the President of the world's largest cancer center states, "Cancer is essentially foreign, because it's different from what we were born with", its time for us to us reflect seriously on that comment. Any takers who would try to explain how this concept applies to newborns with one of the life threatening or fatal newborn or childhood cancers? In fairness to Mr DePinho, he should be given the opportunity to respond to his assertion when seen from this reality. Perhaps its just another paradox in the present cancer paradigm? Don't fool yourself, (or worse yet let yourself be fooled), the risk of being diagnosed with cancer is present from conception to death and this risk increases progressively and at times exponentially with each birthday. A tough concept to grasp but cancer isn't foreign
M. D. Anderson Cancer and Research Center of Houston, Tx., the largest in the world, has already announced they will have cures for 8 different cancers within 5 to 10 years. They are in their pipeline. Cancer blocks the immune system. Unlocking the immune system from this block seems to be key. Now they have to find the key. I am hopeful.
The drug companies don't want to cure cancer since they make 200 billion /yr profit from traditional chemo. This is a national scandal, and disgrace. Millions die needlesly as new therapies are branded quackery by big pharma or not given full funding to be widely dispersed. The war on cancer started in the 70's and since that time the medical industrial complex has been given 100's of billion of tax dollars to find a cure, yet in some cancers such as lung and pancreatic the needle has moved just slightly from where it was prior to this war's start. The problem is that wall st cares more about profit than the health of Americans. Fareed should investigate this national scam!
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Opinion: Close Sesame
Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto on Andrew Sullivan's column lamenting President Obama's debate performance and Democratic demagoguery on Big Bird. Photos: Associated Press
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... I ... my next guest is thus of the Web columnist James trot oh to talk about ... how some liberals have responded to present Obama is that they ... will ... welcome James ... thanks to reader so in your column today you focus on Andrew Sullivan gets a liberal who's been supported Bush in the war on terror ... and then fell hard for Obama back in Indo even the subsequently move move back to the left ... what would define so interesting about as good as the pleasure just to clarify that history there it is all that was a guy who was a militant neoconservative ... changed his views on everything especially foreign policy in two thousand for because George W Bush came out against same sex marriage ... then he turned out to be one of the most to me in his block for the past several years has been like going series of ... our love letters and after another to Obama I'm not exaggerating ... but his term is a conservative in the first one so the ... ante I believe that the lead of look ... it up ... but in any case you you talk about his critique of Obama as they ... saw tough critique is the natural attitude side of the that the phrase I use my column is heartbroken re ... he writes about this issue pole that had twelve points weighing ... in Romney's favor which is such a big swing that one is suspicious of whether it's a it's a good police as its devastating just devastating ... but as any candidate was eighteen points among women voters and one might ever ... recall the what Obama love that stage that night he was doing but that's terrifying ... I've ... I've tried to see a silver lining the when the president self Immel eight on live TV ... his opponent shines with lies and smiles ... at a record number of people that are to see our president is party recover ... audience that maybe he's just over the top by ... the enraged if you're up ... and ... get out ... the ... pool was anyone really surprised that Obama is lackluster performance I certainly wasn't almost every performance I've ever seen from the guy's been lackluster ... well I mean some would say that I guess his reputation as a debater ... and perhaps this should not follow but does ... comes from his performances the speaker ... in the four week campaign and he sort of been riding on that ... ahh and then they go for a given ... it was for additional for my guessing game a number ... of speeches during the campaign in no way that people felt the aam you know ... resonated in me and gave him the reputation as a good speaker and ... and I guess people thought that would translate into David debaters well what that what happened I think that Obama has won a real talent which it is ... right he's able to somehow persuaded ... Sts March liberals to project their desires that happy he adds is part of a Rorschach test ... and you know this is sold in more than anyone else that I place it may be more more for doozy gotta wrote on ... this piece I quoted if the sentences were caught it was wild Obama is going to lead us into a new way of being on the planet ... Sullivan is the Solomons in second grade I mean yes they just have this imagine view of Obama ... Sullivan ... I had this hilarious thing if you do a search for me to meet ... any EP which is the Roadrunner the Roadrunner from the U S in one of the business is with the year of imaginary Byrds ... Sullivan imagined ... Obama as the Roadrunner all was out weeding his opponents ... and most of the time that ... it was a complete non sequitur United States this on the Obama so does that mean mean what he's talking about ... but people cannot Obama has this great and has had has had this great whales ... by ... commanding the imagination of certain people but then he goes on and is on a Sony has he's facing a strong opponent and you see the real Obama which is kind of of AEI ... corporate monitor that ... will up thirty seconds ... Seoul the mention of the pupil ... common stock do you put in that poll principles of croissants for of for sampling ... Democrats some say this poll were samples Republicans when ... I think both criticisms have a lot of credibility I we've seen a lot of holes where Democrats have an eye on it and unrealistically high ... marginal Republicans this one has Republicans by five ... I don't need is an election monitor Republicans ... have five when markets are skeptical that people so ...


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Campaigners have sent legal documents to the country's top judges in a last ditch attempt to stop three day centres from closing in Doncaster.
Lawyers acting on behalf of the Caregate action group are challenging Doncaster Council's decision to close Conisbrough, Cedar and Thorne Social Education Centres.
Sheffield-based firm Irwin Mitchell submitted evidence files to the High Court today, Monday, calling for a judicial review into the decision.
The documents outline the devastating effect shutting the three facilities, which provides daytime activities for disabled people, will have on communities.
Judges are expected to decide within the next few weeks if there is a case to be heard. A court date would then be listed for the hearing at the High Court in London.
Solicitor Katy Cowans, who is handling the case, said: "Vulnerable people such as the elderly and disabled are facing severe cuts to their services all across the country and this is having a massive impact on their lives.
"The cuts to the social education centres in Doncaster are the latest to come under scrutiny and we have heard from many families about the negative affect that the council's decision will have."
Len Murden, whose 35-year-old son Carl attends Conisbrough Social Education Centre, said the closure would be devastating.
The 70-year-old, of Madingley Close, Balby, said: "My son has Down's Syndrome, autism and epilepsy, and the centre is a lifeline for us."
The council decided to shut the centres, along with Askarne Day Centre, and seven council-run care homes to meet £109m Government-enforced budget cuts, despite a 25, 000 name petition against the move. The decision was called in but mayor Ros Jones' authority voted to stick by the decision at a meeting in July.
Irwin Mitchell has also been in discussions to push ahead with a legal fight to stop the council's decision to close care homes in Rossington, Stainforth, Skellow, Armthorpe, Conisbrough, Balby and Cantley.
But a spokesman said this challenge was "on hold" for the moment after it was revealed the authority is in discussions with a charity to run the under-threat homes.
Mayor Jones has previously made assurances residents will be offered alternative care. Dave Hamilton, director of adults, health and wellbeing, said the council will "respond accordingly within the legal timeframe."


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'Walking Dead' Premiere: Design of the Undead
When AMC's hit "Walking Dead" returns, producers are promising more zombie decomposition. Executive producer and special effects designer Greg Nicotero discusses how this season's zombies could be the ickiest yet.
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... I ... use force will move I knew new tunes wound ... and ... so was the key ... the eighty s just so naturally ... welcome to Digits I'm done during the AMC's walking dead meat TV history last season by becoming the first basic cable series ever to be the broadcast competition and a key rating ... the hit series returns this Sunday and walking the producers are promising not just more zombies of more zombie the composition ... torn is now to discuss the design of the undead as executive producer Greg Fitzgerald ... has won two Emmys the prosthetics special thanks to design the show ... he also directors of the season for me ... welcome back thinks it's ... so over the course of three years three seasons we seem ... of zombies otherwise known as Walker's or bikers ... in almost every rational state of decay yes ... um ... how these Audi's the changes ... well you know ... 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P I's get more cloudy so every season ... we exaggerate and accentuate the percentage that make them look for more D ... what's I were talking about roughly between the two sided pyramid that what they are now in the world the show um I think we're all or a gorilla the year ... but when the Saudis have to get this cleaned up ... season one season to pretence that he has ... the tools the week ... the season to season three was seven months because Lori was ... like the beginning of season three ... we were saying that it's about another six or seven months ... so as you were up as zombies evolve your methods have been involved with the new toys and tricks are using to create the effect of the missiles the season for you know we use oh I'll lot of puppet work lead in electronics you know when ... every time somebody crushes it had four stops on a header smashes a bit more adding ... a little critical issues so the next move the valve opens and closes ... with little puppet things that we ... that we do for walkers as well as his home by settlement or so ... we're constantly try to keep the audience gets ... we always want them to think this is the figured out how we've done it ... then we throw them a little bit of a curveball ... from a technical point of view what's the hardest thing to get right for you what what has frustrated over the years that I wanna make sure that that book ... to anyone you know that ... the thirty third challenge ... because the way that we've decided they'll have custom ... dentures in the skin is ... peeled away so chances of a grinning skull look ... and that's really challenging to do it ... for me when I watched show ... that I see somebody with a pink so we see their teeth very clean ... the wheels going to reuse sleek black icing cake icing ... to die everybody's Mel's black and gray so that you don't see ... the light pink toe in the Matildas rides on the swing that's the level of the show we go to show ... how important obviously these creatures are real but you do you want out of naturalistic or realistic look about them and in this depiction ... of what sources do you go to try to figure out what these things might look like at this advanced age ... we don't want and I'm a affiliate ... 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March 1. I am so thankful to see the calendar flip over to a new month. Frog Prince has been gone all but 4 working days for the entire month of February and March offers a break from all that traveling. Woot!!! On the plus side, I've had plenty of time to browse some delicious recipes.
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Easy Korean Pancakes – While searching for something different to try for a dinner, this recipe popped up and wow, does it ever look amazing. Pancakes loaded with veggies and then dipped in a spicy soy sauce. Yum.
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Crockpot Chicken and Barley Vegetable Soup - It's still soup season here and I've been looking for a new crockpot soup recipe that uses barley!
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"Crack" Pasta - pasta with chicken, bacon and ranch. I can see why it might have acquired that name.
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The programme of the course includes individual lessons, group teaching of techniques, ensemble playing, listening workshops, lectures, and concerts of lecturers and participants and lots of chances to play with fellow participants (instrumentalists as well as vocalists) from all over the World.
Prachatice is situated in the southern part of Czech Republic, c. 30 km east of České Budějovice, 130 km south from Prague, 200 km north-east of Munich and 200 km north-west of Vienna.
The town is fascinating primarily because of its large medieval fortifications, entrance gate with battlements, dominant late Gothic church, the Old Town-Hall with inner porticos and a number of Renaissance buildings.
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"It all started in 1981.
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They shared an idea : there must be many amateur musicians who would like to meet and play chamber music for a week during their summer holidays.
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Gradually these summer weeks have become truly international. Musicians from 12 countries came to play their instrument in Loches in August 2004."
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Founded in 2000 by Luisa Morales the International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music (FIMTE) is now internationally recognized as a leader in the field of Spanish Keyboard Music. Through a wide array of performances, scholar and educational events, FIMTE has earned its place as a premier presenting organization for scholars and performers of Spanish Keyboard Music and has secured FIMTE's reputation among the most important annual celebrations of Spanish music. Opportunities for presenting the new information about Spanish instruments, new repertoire and performance practices, have been provided since 2000 by the symposia which proceedings are published periodically and reviewed in international recognized journals.
"FIMTE is the only festival and symposium devoted to Spanish keyboard music, and has become, since the first gathering in October 2000, the annual international meeting point of musicians, musicologists and builders interested in this topic." (Early Music, London)
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"Galway Early Music promotes the performance of medieval, renaissance and baroque music in Galway City and County.
Galway Early Music's main event is The Galway Early Music Festival which runs annually in May and features concerts by top international performers, workshops, schools events and music and theatre in the Galway City Museum and in the street. The Festival has a unique, relaxed and friendly atmosphere and highlights the medieval town of Galway and the artistic and cultural richness of the area. Galway Early Music promotes occasional concerts, talks and workshops throughout the year as well. GEM also has its own ensemble, Seoda (= gems in Irish), which is open to any musicians who would like to explore early music performance. Seoda performs throughout the year at functions and local events."
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"Cambridge Early Music runs summer schools - short intensive study courses - in Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval music, and organises an annual programme of concerts, many of which take place alongside the summer schools. Cambridge Early Music was founded in 1992 and run as a not-for-profit organization by Selene Mills. In 2009 Cambridge Early Music was granted charitable status, confirming our status as a leading provider of early music education."
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"Great concerts, international stars and exciting and inspirational programmes brought to the heart of Birmingham. Birmingham Early Music Festival (BEMF) is enjoying a growing reputation for producing creative and stimulating events enabling the people of Birmingham and surrounding areas to become better acquainted with early music of the highest calibre from around the world. " ...
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Cotswold Early Music Festival (UK)
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"After 21 successful years introducing Early Music to the Leicestershire public, we have decided to expand to an all-year event! Plans for this include concerts (both free and paid) throughout the year; talks (musical and non-musical); a Quarterly Newsletter with reviews, articles and concert diary of events in the area; all the regulars - workshops, junior competition, tastings and more. …"
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"The World's largest Early Music Festival and Exhibition returns to the Old Royal Naval College ...! Jointly promoted by The Early Music Shop, the Greenwich Foundation and Trinity College of Music the event is an essential fixture on the early music calendar, attended by an ever increasing number of exhibitors and visitors each year.This year's festival will also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Early Music Shop, with an impressive line up of performing artists, and a number of special events to mark the occasion. "
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" A week's Summer School held annually in late July/Early August in Durham, UK. All ages and abilities are welcome. Classes for Recorders, Viols, Harpsichord, Solo Singing, Baroque Strings, Lute with ample opportunities for consort and ensemble playing. Also concerts, lectures, dance and a wide variety of other activities. NORVIS XXXVIII 2-9 August 2008 ends with a concert performance (with orchestra and including baroque dance) of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. " Visit website for further details. (ed.)
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"Home to the famous Jean de Boizard organ (1714) the Saint-Michel abbey has welcomed for the last several years, the most sought after artists of ancient music. The music coproduced by radio France MUSIQUE with the choreographic collection called TEMPERAMENTS, confirms the baroque destiny of the abbey in harmony with the site. The ancient and baroque music festival The festival has its roots in the restoration of the prestigious historical organ (1714) of the abbey church and the artistic activity that followed as a result since1984. The festival was started in 1987 with the important decision by Radio France and the Conseil General of the Aisne departement : Every Whit Monday the train of FRANCE MUSIQUE radio would, for a whole day of music, take several hundred Parisian music lovers to attend two concerts transmitted live on radio. "
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"Early Music courses in the Farncombe programme include Recorder Ensembles with Andrew Collis and playing days with Cathy Dew. Viol courses are tutored by Alison Crum or Jacqui Robertson-Wade. " See website for more information. (ed.)
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"Now in its twentienth year the Suffolk Villages Festival brings high-quality performances of early music to this part of East Anglia. It is fortunate to have for its principal venues the fine historic wool churches of Nayland, Boxford, and Hadleigh situated just to the north of the River Stour and Dedham Vale. See the location map to the right. (2008)" See website for more information.
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"The Amsterdam Early Music Summer School is an Early Music course targeting the historically informed performance of Baroque and Classical music. The course is open to participants of all ages (instrumentalists as well as vocalists) and will include private lessons from expert teachers from the Early Music Faculty at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, as well as workshops, masterclasses, lectures, concerts, and lots of chances to play with fellow students from all over the world." (** More information of the 2012 summer school details are forthcoming. -- ed.)
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"Woodhouse Recorder Week is a unique international summer school held in the peaceful surroundings of the Surrey Hills, dedicated to the development of recorder education.
• An intensive, inspiring week-long course aimed at young recorder players aged 16-25, who have already passed grade 8 or higher and who wish to pursue their studies to a more advanced or professional level. Daily masterclasses, concerts, workshops and activities, with an international team of tutors
• Junior Day for young and enthusiastic recorder players of approx grades 3 and above, aged 18 and under. Mini-masterclass with players of similar age and level, with ensemble playing and a final concert for parents and friends
• Teacher Development Day - Teacher workshops designed to support and inspire both the class recorder teacher and those working with small groups and individuals up to advanced level. Planned events include technical skills for teaching beginners, coping with mixed ability groups, Tudor dance workshop with Philippa Waite, and a Question & Answer session with an ABRSM examiner. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The Komorniki Festival of Organ and Chamber Music (Polish: Ogólnopolski Festiwal Muzyki Organowej i Kameralnej - Komorniki) is a summer series of concerts held annually in Komorniki, Wielkopolska, Poland. The festival was established with Polish conductor and organist Krzysztof Czerwinski as its Artistic Director. The festival features choral, organ and chamber music concerts among its events held in local churches including St Andrew's Church, Komorniki and St Florian's Church, Wiry. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The basic aim of the festival is to evoke the musical paradise that Eszterháza was in Haydn's time, within the original walls, with the help of period instruments and performing practice. The programmes focus mainly on the works composed during the Eszterháza period of Haydn's creative life, and among these, on compositions belonging to the most important genres (symphonies, string quartets, keyboard sonatas and trios). In addition, however, the concert programmes regularly include works by the "unknown Haydn" (baryton pieces, rarely-heard church compositions, wind divertimenti, etc.). The festival aims to provide opportunities for the world's most outstanding Haydn performers to meet here, to gain inspiration from the atmosphere and acoustics of the place, and to inspire one another through shared music-making. The majority of the performers play only compositions by Joseph Haydn, but also in exceptional cases other works closely connected, either directly or through their composers, with Haydn, Eszterháza or the family of the Esterházy princes - such as, for example, the string quartets dedicated to Haydn by Mozart, and certain pieces by Michael Haydn (the composer's younger brother), Luigi Tomasini (leader of the Eszterháza orchestra) and others. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Over the past three years the Cheltenham Recorder Festival has grown to become one of the highlights of the recorder year. The CRF offers an exciting variety of music to cater for all tastes and abilities, ranging from the established Renaissance and Baroque repertoire through to contemporary pieces which will be premièred at the CRF. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"12 - 17 July 2008 (Week course)
International Viol Summer School at Little Benslow Hills, Hitchin. UK
Alison Crum, director, with Alice Robbins (USA) and Roy Marks
A chance for viol players with a particular interest in English consort music to work with distinguished professional players and teachers. Optional sessions focus on other topics such as madrigals, consort songs, early renaissance repertoire and continuo playing.
This course is for experienced consort players with good sight-reading skills, capable of playing at least two sizes of viol and reading several clefs. Resident: £350.00 Non-resident: £300.00 Some bursaries are available. " Visit website for more information.
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"The summer school offers exciting and diverse opportunities for young players under the guidance of experienced tutors. Playing opportunities include chamber groups, large ensembles, viol consorts, recorder consorts and mixed ensembles, catering for every age and ability (grades 2 – 4, 5 – 7 and 8+).
More advanced players will play in small chamber groups and consorts, tackling challenging repertoire and developing the all important skills of a chamber musician. Cellists and keyboard players (playing harpsichord) will have plenty of continuo playing experience in trio sonata groups with the most advanced recorder and viol players.
Less experienced players will enjoy the variety of different ensembles, playing both within larger groups and also being encouraged to play chamber music.
There will be plenty of time for recreational activities, making full use of the facilities available to us. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"This course is designed for recorder players of all standards, from near beginners to advanced students. It began life as the Recorder in Education Summer School in 1948 and after many happy years in Bretton Hall, we now hold the course at Bishop Burton College, near Beverley. This turned out to be a very successful venue when we visited it for the first time in 2007. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The highly successful Baroque Week is now in its 30th season, and is held in the attractive surroundings of Headington School, Oxford.
It provides a rare and stimulating opportunity for amateur and semi-professional musicians, and those studying to embark on a musical career, to immerse themselves in baroque music in a friendly environment with the aid of excellent, experienced and helpful tutors.
The week is open to players of baroque instruments, historically aware players of modern instruments, and to singers — to all those who enjoy making baroque chamber music and wish to improve their skills. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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While Indiana and Illinois researchers puzzle over the development of Western corn rootworm hatches in first-year cornfields where soybean/corn rotations are practiced (see "Population explosion," January issue, page 40), Nebraska researchers are tracking the apparent resistance of adult rootworm beetles to repeated doses of methyl parathion on nonrotated irrigated corn ground. In 1994, corn growers in parts of York and Phelps counties noticed that beetles were surviving as many as three applications of the aerially sprayed insecticide at increased rates. Previously, the rootworm had been efficiently controlled with one application.
"These are the classic signs of an insect resistance problem," says Lance Meinke, University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologist. The good news is that it appears the resistance hasn't spread. "As far as we know, it hasn't moved. Last summer we bioassayed beetles from across the Corn Belt and only found resistant beetles in several areas of Nebraska," he adds.
Rootworm studies. After reports of trouble in 1994, Nebraska researchers initiated field surveys and found that beetles were much more tolerant to carbaryl and methyl parathion in some areas than they were in others. They launched a formal study in 1995 to gauge the susceptibility of rootworm beetles to methyl parathion, carbaryl and bifenthrin - the three insecticide classes used for beetle control.
Of their 16 collection sites the beetle populations of the two problem areas in Phelps and York counties proved to be 10 to 17 times more resistant to methyl parathion than populations elsewhere in the state. They were 8.3 to 9.3 times more resistant to carbaryl, and all populations were susceptible to bifenthrin.
Last summer, greater numbers of the more resistant beetles began showing up in the York population. "Some of the York populations were harder to kill this year," says Meinke. "We're not sure if this is an anomaly or a progression of the resistance development."
Efficacy of soil insecticides. A crucial question is whether rootworm larvae, the damaging immature stage of the insect, will develop resistance, as the adult beetles did. Most commercial soil insecticides are organophosphates, the same class of chemicals as methyl parathion, to which beetles are developing resistance. To test the efficacy of organophosphates against rootworm, the researchers in 1996 and 1997 established trials in fields with known resistance problems to test nine commercially available soil insecticides.
In mid- to late July, when larvae had finished their damaging feeding stage, plants were inspected. Of the nine products used in Phelps County trials, Counter, Lorsban and Aztec applied at planting time performed the best, says Robert Wright, University of Nebraska entomologist, cautioning that more extensive trials are needed. York County results were inconclusive because of low larval populations in 1997.
Beetle resistance. The beetle insecticide resistance problem may have its origin in a similar corn rootworm scare 40 years ago. At that time, rootworm larvae in south-central Nebraska developed resistance to organochlorine insecticides and eventually spread throughout the Corn Belt. During that scare, Phelps County corn growers controlled adult rootworm beetles almost exclusively through aerial applications of insecticide. For the past decade, many growers have continuously used the same methyl parathion product to which beetles are now resistant.
This exerts intense genetic selection pressure on the beetle population, Meinke warns. The few beetles resistant to the insecticide have an evolutionary advantage: More of their offspring survive, and soon, resistant types become predominant in the population.
Meinke cautions growers in affected areas to alter their management practices to guard against damage due to resistance problems. Rotating corn with other crops is an effective defense. He urges farmers to experiment with other beetle control insecticides or to switch to a larval control program using soil insecticides. "The more insecticides used, the more pressure that adds to the rootworm population to develop resistance," he says.


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October 31, 2004
coincidentally halloween
Sunday, October 31
We weren't planning anything special for halloween this year, but we did have our friends coming over for dinner on this Halloween sunday.
It wasn't really for the Halloween, but our plan was more of trying to clean the fridge and pantry; these days there have been too many stuff I would like to make and I have done too much shopping, I mean REALLY too much for just two of us. We needed some help to consume all that much of foodstuff in our kitchen.
When I asked him what he would like to share with his friend and his girlfriend, he replied beef in Guinness and marbled cheese cake, so those were what I made. We planned to serve Kabocha pumpkin salad (this one) and roasted potatoes and vegetable as we wanted some vegetable to go with the beef. For dessert, I made baked pumpkin custard in addition to the marbled cheese cake, as it was Halloween (I don't care for pumpkin pie much).
Well, there was A LOT of food.
To start with, we served chili brioche from our favorite bakery with locally-made goat cheese seasoned with rosemary and black pepper.
I tried a bottle of pumpkin ale that he bought me for Halloween. The labed read "pumpkin and spices added" - what kind of beer could be with "added pumpkin"? I did taste some pumpkin-pie sort of spices, but didn't know about if it had a noticeable taste of pumpkin. It was an interesting drink.
When the food was ready, everyone helped themselves. For Beef in Guinness, which ranks among the highest in the list of his favorite dishes I make, I used over 2 pounds of beef and a matching amount of vegetables - onion, carrots, and mushrooms. I was going to prepare it the night before (stews always taste better next day), but I ended up making it early in the morning of sunday. I'd normally make this dish with Guinness (usually stout), but this time I added some red wine and sugar as well as sauteed vegetables for stock (onion, carrot, celery) in an attempt to add richness and complexity to the stew. The large amount of vegetable, predictably, gave out a lot of water as through the 2-hour cooking, so I reduced the soup at the end of cooking in a separate pan. The result was a thick, shiny sauce that had a concentrated aroma of beef, vegetable, and of course Guinness.
We had been quite stuffed as almost all the food had been gone (even beef!). But there had to be dessert to follow; dark and white chocolate marbled cheese cake with Baileys liquor. This is, hands-down, a killer dessert that has never failed to bring oohs and aahs out of anyone who tastes it, at least the last four or five times that I have made this for folks in the past year or so since I was given its recipe by a friend of mine (I will probably give more details of this cake next time I make this, since today's description of dinner is already pretty overloaded).
I messed up in melting white chocolate in microwave and burned it and thus had to use the leftover white chocolate which wasn't enough for this recipe. That made the white-chocolate cream a little thinner than it was supposed to be, and resulted in a bit inconsistent texture. The cake still tasted yummy as ever, got some words of praise from our guests; one of them even claimed that he could live with this cake only, every day, while taking vitamins or something. (I wouldn't recommend it though.)
I have mentioned that we had been full, but we finished a small loaf of cheese cake and even had a bit of baked kabocha pumpkin custard. I have a few different recipes for this, and used one from a long time ago, remembering it would make a very thick, creamy one. But things didn't go quite as good, probably because of the waterly kabocha pumpkin I used, or possibly I didn't use enough amount of pumpkin. Either way, it was more like plain baked custard, which was okay.
This is a very common dessert in Japan, whereas not so much here, apparently; our guests were brave and polite enough to sample a slice. The Jack-O'Lantern chocolate on top of the custard, by the way, is a fraction of a gift from a thoughtful friend of mine. Inside a large Jack-O'Lantern chocolate (the picture on the top) has small jacks and ghosts made of dark, milk, and white chocolates (orange ones are colored white chocolate). We were too full to really appreciate those small goodies today, so I will take care of the rest over the next few days. Too bad!
I hope everyone had a nice Halloween weekend, and if you wouldn't particularly do anything for Halloween, well, I still hope you had a nice weekend!
9 comments:
- Reid said...
Hi Chika,
All the food looks absolutely wonderful. I especially think the beef looks good. The sauce looks incredibly rich. Same goes for the marble cheesecake...I've never tried to make one of those. Good job! Where do you find the time to cook so much?
- 10:53 PM, November 02, 2004
- rowena said...
Your food images are gorgeous! And your blog makes me homesick :-( I was born and raised on Kauai but lived on Oahu and Big Island (Hilo) for a few years. How I miss the islands!!!!!
- 3:07 AM, November 03, 2004
- obachan said...
Wow, everything looks so great! Esp. the cheesecake --- it's an art, isn't it?
- 4:14 AM, November 04, 2004
been reading your blog for a while & love it. let me know if you ever feel the need to share the recipe for that marbled cheesecake - it sounds fantastic.
- 5:52 AM, November 06, 2004
Hi there,
Reid - that WAS a problem, I wasn't supposed to have so much time to cook that much food :P I had been keeping my head down for the rest of the week ;)
rowena - sorry I'm giving you homesick! You from Kauai, that's nice... I have been on Kauai just a couple of times, but I absolutely fell for it. :D
obachan - yeah making marbled patterns is a tricky thing, really... I can manage to make them looking pretty on the surface, but inside it really wasn't as marble-y as I had hoped :P
serena - got your email, thanks! they will be on their way pretty soon!
- 11:35 PM, November 06, 2004
- chika said...
Hi there,
Reid - that WAS a problem, I wasn't supposed to have so much time to cook that much food :P I had been keeping my head down for the rest of the week ;)
rowena - sorry I'm giving you homesick! You from Kauai, that's nice... I have been on Kauai just a couple of times, but I absolutely fell for it. :D
obachan - yeah making marbled patterns is a tricky thing, really... I can manage to make them looking pretty on the surface, but inside it really wasn't as marble-y as I had hoped :P
serena - got your email, thanks! they will be on their way pretty soon!
- 11:35 PM, November 06, 2004
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GREENSBORO, NC – Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford announced Wednesday partnerships with five football bowl games which will be effective for the six years of postseason play following the 2014 through 2019 seasons.
The partnerships are in addition to what the Conference previously announced, and have the ACC providing a team in each of the six years to the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman; the AdvoCare V100 Bowl and a new bowl game in Detroit, Mich., hosted by the Detroit Lions Football Club of the National Football League.
Additionally, the ACC also reached partnership agreements with ESPN Regional Television's Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl games in those seasons when the games are scheduled to be played after Christmas. The ACC will provide a team to the Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl after the 2014 and 2016 seasons and will serve as the Bowl's first conditional choice in the other four years if either of its primary partners are not able to provide a team. The Birmingham Bowl will be a second conditional bowl for the ACC, if it has an available team beyond the Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl choice. The ACC is the first conditional choice of the Birmingham Bowl, should either of that bowl's primary partners not have an eligible team.
"It's very satisfying to finalize our future ACC bowl partnerships that collectively provide great flexibility, matchups and depth for our 15 member schools," said ACC Commissioner John Swofford. "We are pleased to continue our relationship with the Military and AdvoCare V100 Bowls while beginning new ones with the new bowl game in Detroit, hosted by the Detroit Lions; the Beef 'O'Brady's bowl game and Birmingham."
The ACC will be extending its current partnership with the Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman, a game which has been played in Washington, D.C., from 2008 through 2012, but will be played at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md., this December. In its new agreement with the Military Bowl, which begins after the 2014 season, ACC teams will face teams from the American Athletic Conference.
The Conference will also be extending its current four-year relationship with the AdvoCare V100 Bowl game in Shreveport, La. The AdvoCare V100 Bowl, which will hold its 38th annual game this year, is the nation's 11th oldest bowl game and is played in Independence Stadium.
The ACC will begin a new relationship with the new bowl game slated for Detroit, which will be hosted by the Detroit Lions and played at Ford Field. The ACC will face a team from the Big Ten Conference in the new bowl game. The Lions become only the second NFL team to officially host and operate a college football bowl game.
The league will also begin new partnerships with the Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl, played in Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., and the Birmingham Bowl, which is played in legendary Legion Field in Birmingham, Ala.
The five new partnerships complete the ACC's bowl lineup for the 2014-2019 seasons.
Previously announced were agreements reached with the Discover Orange Bowl in South Florida, where the ACC's champion, if not in the College Football Playoff, will play; the Russell Athletic Bowl and the Capital One Bowl games in Orlando; the Hyundai Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas; the Belk Bowl in Charlotte, N.C.; the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl in Nashville, Tenn. and the Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla.; and the New Era Pinstripe Bowl in New York City.
The order of team selections for the bowl partnerships announced Wednesday will come after the selections of the bowl partnerships previously announced.
In all, the ACC, which will have 15 schools in its bowl mix, will have a minimum of nine guaranteed bowl berths in each of the six years after the 2014-19 seasons, with that number expanding to 10 in the 2014 and 2016 seasons. Additionally, the conference also has additional bowl berths when it sends more than one team to the College Football Playoff/New Year's Six and/or plays a Big Ten team in the Discover Orange Bowl which triggers a berth for an ACC team in the Capital One Bowl.
Additional berths may be available after the 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 seasons in the Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl and in all six years in the Birmingham Bowl. The Conference will send a team first to the Beef 'O'Brady's Bowl, when that game has an opening, followed by sending a team to the Birmingham Bowl game.


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Company, you had me at the house-made ricotta cheese. Served warm from the kitchen. With toasted house-made bread. And in-season fruit…
Every time I go to Company, and this restaurant is on my very regular rotation, part of me thinks I could eat this dish and only this. But then there's always something new on the menu that snaps me out of that fantasy. A chopped salad with seasonal fruits. A warm soup featuring the vegetable found in the farmers market this morning. The lamb. Oh god, the lamb…
What then ensues is this. Ricotta as a starter for the table to share. Maybe two orders. The topping will change seasonally but has been as varied as balsamic strawberry, peaches, honey, or an artichoke tapenade. With that order in, don't miss out on a soup. The celeriac was a recent favorite, its texture perfectly velvety and smooth and exquisitely aromatic.
As for the main, the burger, roast chicken, and steak frites are always on the menu. I've had each one. Served with a blue cheese, the burger is an umami explosion, with a nicely charred exterior and ideally pink interior. The bun is made in house. The fries, tossed with cheese, are candy. The steak has always arrived perfectly cooked and the roast chicken as well, moist and flavorful.
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Maddux, Cox come together for Hall of Fame tour
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- There was one word to describe how pending Hall of Famers Bobby Cox and Greg Maddux came together to tour the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum on Monday: serendipity.
"It was fun for me," Cox said. "I don't know if it was fun for Greg, but it was for me. Tommy Glavine was here last week. It would have been nice if all three of us could've been together. It's been an exciting day. It's starting to hit home for the first time how much this means to a person who has spent his entire career in the game of baseball."
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- There was one word to describe how pending Hall of Famers Bobby Cox and Greg Maddux came together to tour the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum on Monday: serendipity.
"It was fun for me," Cox said. "I don't know if it was fun for Greg, but it was for me. Tommy Glavine was here last week. It would have been nice if all three of us could've been together. It's been an exciting day. It's starting to hit home for the first time how much this means to a person who has spent his entire career in the game of baseball."
Ditto for Maddux. Their rare duel journey through the hallowed museum was a no-doubter.
"It was the luck of the draw," Maddux said. "But it was special to me, especially to do it with Bobby. There's so much about the history of baseball I just don't know. I enjoy it and it's fascinating to me. It's a history lesson every time you walk through here."
They were together with the Braves for 11 seasons, from 1993-2003. Glavine and Maddux pitched and Cox managed as the Braves went to the playoffs every year, save for the strike-shortened 1994 season, winning three National League pennants and the 1995 World Series.
They will go into the Hall as a trio on July 27, along with slugger Frank Thomas and managers Tony La Russa and Joe Torre, who is scheduled to embark on his own orientation Tuesday.
The fact that Cox and Maddux were in town this week together could be attributed to a quirk in their crowded schedules.
Cox, still a consultant for the Braves, made the flight here on Sunday from Orlando, Fla., where he was evaluating players. Maddux, an upper-level pitching coordinator for the Rangers, flew east from Surprise, Ariz. Maddux brought his childhood sweetheart and wife, Kathy. Cox was accompanied by Pam, his wife of nearly 36 years. Perhaps not so coincidentally, the couples met in Atlanta to make their connection to Albany, N.Y. From there it's basically a 90-minute drive to the mythical cradle of baseball.
It may be springtime on the calendar, but they awoke at the local Cooper Inn Monday morning to find temperatures in the 20s and a dusting of powdered snow. Perfect weather for a history lesson about the national pastime at the museum just a long toss away up Main Street.
"I mean, I grew up in a baseball family," said Maddux, who finished with 355 wins in 23 seasons, 194 of them for Cox and the Braves. "Coming here and going through this museum, for me it's like reliving a lot of my childhood. I spent 11 years of my career with Bobby. It made it better for me that he was there with all the stuff we saw from the '50s, '60s, and '70s and knowing he was part of it."
Maddux grew up in Las Vegas as a Reds fan because his family hailed from Greensburg, Ind., a town of about 11,000 close to the southeastern portion of the state and the Ohio border.
Kathy met her future husband when they were 15 years old and beginning classes at Valley High School in Las Vegas. She tried to ingratiate herself with the sports-crazed Maddux family by saying she rooted for the Dodgers, the rivalry equivalent during the 1970s to Shakespeare's Montagues and Capulets.
"I didn't know much about baseball," Kathy recalled. "He said, 'You've got to be crazy to bring up the Dodgers in this house.' I thought he was going to kick me out. It's the only time he really got mad at me."
Maddux said he became a pitcher in high school when he realized he couldn't hit. He loved the offense of the Big Red Machine, the last National League team to win back-to-back World Series titles in 1975-76. But those Reds were not known for their pitchers.
"When they got Tom Seaver, I liked that quite a bit," Maddux said about the now fellow Hall of Famer who was traded by the Mets to the Reds in 1977.
And the pitcher in the Hall he's most partial to?
"Obviously, Cy Young," Maddux said about the right-hander who is the all-time leader in almost every category, including wins (511) and complete games (749). "You have to put him at the top of the list."
Cox was partial to the Cardinals, growing up in California before the Dodgers and Giants moved west from New York. The Dodgers signed the fledgling third baseman in 1959, beginning an injury-filled decade as a professional player that he mostly spent in the Minor Leagues. Cox gives all the credit to another Hall of Famer, former Yankees executive Lee MacPhail, for turning him toward a career in managing. As a Major Leaguer, Cox played 220 games for the Yankees in 1968-69 before a bad knee led to the end of his playing days. Upon his release in 1971, Cox was offered a job managing the Yankees' affiliate in the Florida State League.
Cox thanked MacPhail profusely and accepted the offer that came with a $7,000 contract. He rose back through the ranks with the Yankees and was first-base coach under Billy Martin in 1977, when the Bronx Bombers won the World Series for the first time in 15 years. The next year he was hired by Ted Turner to manage the Braves for the princely sum of $40,000.
Asked what was the most money he ever made as a manager, Cox wouldn't be specific.
"A lot more than that," said the man who won 2,504 games in 29 seasons, 25 of them in two stints with the Braves.
It was in 1978 he met Pam, who was working in a mall in Rome, Ga., when the Braves and Cox came through on an offseason caravan.
"We met in January and were married in November," Pam said.
Now, her husband is going into the Hall of Fame with two of the most successful managers in baseball history.
"It's unbelievable; the whole thing couldn't happen again in a million years," said Cox, adding he believes Martin also belongs in the Hall of Fame. "I've thought about that a lot. Billy deserves it. He was a character and a great manager. There's no reason in the world he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame."
The tour of the Hall offers a thumbnail of Yankees and Braves history. A display of Hank Aaron and his chase of Babe Ruth and the all-time home run record stopped Cox in his tracks.
"Being from Atlanta, his display is eye-popping to say the least," Cox said.
But perhaps the most poignant moment was the two men viewing the display honoring those Braves who under Cox, "ruled the National League during the 1990s." On a background of vivid red is a picture of Maddux making his trademark delivery while wearing his famous No. 31 in an Atlanta uniform.
The two noted their eternal thanks to David Justice, whose homer in Game 6 of the 1995 World Series defeated the Indians as Glavine and Mark Wohlers combined for a one-hitter in a 1-0 win at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
"It didn't go out by much, but it went out," Cox said.
Down in the archives, they marveled at the black bat Justice used to hit that homer, trying to figure out which blemish on the barrel accounted for the blast that gave the Braves their only World Series title during the Atlanta portion of their history.
Back upstairs in the plaque gallery, the two were shown the spots where their bronze hardware will be affixed adjacent to Glavine's immediately after the induction ceremony this summer.
At that point they will be together again, this time by design and not by happenstance.
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow @boomskie on Twitter.


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'Noonday" Holy Week services continue Tuesday at First United Methodist Church with District Attorney Craig Ladd as the featured speaker.
Services begin at noon in the Colvert Ministry Center and include an optional light lunch for $5. The Lenten observance concludes in less than an hour so those who work might be able to return in a timely manner.
Ladd, has served as District District Attorney since February 2006. Prior to being appointed to the post he served as an assistant district attorney for 9 1/2 years. He obtained his bachelors degree from Texas Tech University in 1993, and his Juris Doctorate (law degree) from the University of Oklahoma in 1996.
A member of FUMC, Ladd is also a member of Kiwanis, and serves on the board of directors for both the March of Dimes, and the Oklahoma District Attorney's Association, as well as a member of the Oklahoma District Attorney's Council Executive Committee. He formerly served on Board of Directors for Mental Health Services of Southern Oklahoma and Adult Day Services.
Ladd and his wife, Meredith, have three sons.
The Living Lord's Supper, a dramatic presentation fashioned after DaVinci's famous painting, will also be featured at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday in FUMC Sanctuary. Holy Communion will be served. No Cost reservations can be made for either night by calling the church office at (580) 223-5390 Ext. 301.
FUMC is located at the corner of West Main Street and E Street NW. The Colvert Ministry Center is located north of the church at the corner of West Broadway Street and E Street NW.


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Those who love to fish or newcomers to the sport can do so for free the first weekend in June.
The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says residents of all ages can fish June 7-8 without a license on any of the state's public waters.
In conjunction with the annual free fishing weekend, the department is among sponsors for the Family Fish Fest at the Myrtle Grove Marina in Port Sulphur and the Lake D'Arbonne State Park Fishing Derby in Farmerville on Saturday, June 7
Both events include competitive events for youth.