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Posted: September 26, 2012|
MORE than 200 children and their parents enjoyed a nature-inspired event at Mareham Pastures at the weekend.
The Nature Activity Event was hosted by the Friends of Mareham Pastures and included a visit from Rosewood Falconry's birds of prey which proved one of the highlights of the day.
Rosewood's Darren Webster gave children an opportunity to experience different birds of prey up close and many children got to stroke or even hold an owl on their arm.
Children also got the chance to take part in badge making; everlasting flowers; clay modelling; wooden penholders; mask collage; leaf printing and a children's tombola.
Refreshments were provided by Sleaford's Army Cadet Force who set up a cake stall and tuck shop.
Secretary of the Friends, Zoë Watson, said: "All the activities were free of charge. The Friends were able to host this event by fundraising and with help from The Sleaford Town Fund and Lincolnshire County Council.
"However, all the activities were organised and run by volunteers. Jim Lomax, Jamie Bevis and Sleaford Army Cadets came along especially to help the Friends make this another successful event for local children.
"If it wasn't for the hard work put in by volunteers the event would not have been possible.
"We believe the future of Mareham Pastures and other such projects relies on developing awareness and encouraging our younger generations to appreciate the importance of such places.
"This type of event is one way in which we can encourage local children and their parents to enjoy and become more involved with their local Nature Reserve."
The Friends of Mareham Pastures are a group of local volunteers who maintain and manage the former landfill site under the guidance of Lincolnshire County Council.
Anyone interested in having a go at conservation work is more than welcome to attend one of the events taking place at Mareham Pastures over the next few months.
The Conservation Volunteer Programme at Mareham Pastures will resume on Sunday, October 14 and continues on the second Sunday of each month until March 2013.


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Southwest is continuing the integration of AirTran Airways, with the latest changes reflected in its latest schedule release beginning in the fourth quarter.
The latest schedule shows "subtle changes", said Southwest, as opposed to previous tweaks that have resulted in the elimination of roughly 16 AirTran markets.
Southwest closed on its acquisition of AirTran in May of last year and expects to obtain a single operating certificate from the FAA during the current quarter.
Changes to the fall schedule on the AirTran side include relaunching daily seasonal service from Baltimore Washington International airport to Fort Myers and Orlando, Florida and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Schedules in Innovata show both Florida markets are amply covered by both AirTran and Southwest, while AirTran currently serves Grand Rapids on a less than daily schedule.
The schedule change also shows a transition of two AirTran markets into Southwest-branded operations. Southwest will operate its own metal on daily AirTran flights between Atlanta and San Francisco, and one of ten daily AirTran flights from Atlanta and Orlando. Schedules in Innovata show Southwest will battle AirTran's long-time rival Delta Air Lines in those markets.
Two daily AirTran-operated Atlanta-Phoenix flights are being phased out as Southwest explained it would keep two existing flights flown under its brand in the market to meet customer demand.
Southwest is relaunching daily seasonal fights from Orlando to Jackson, Mississippi and Indianapolis, Indiana and nonstop flights from Detroit to Las Vegas. Southwest is the only carrier offering nonstop flights from Orlando to Jackson while AirTran currently offers 13 weekly flights in the Orlando-Indianapolis market. Both Delta and Spirit Airlines offer nonstop flights between Detroit and Las Vegas.
An AirTran market is also being redirected, said Southwest, with flights from Des Moines and Milwaukee being transitioned to Des Moines-Chicago Midway. AirTran rival Frontier cut its Des Moines-Milwaukee flights in November of last year while Des Moines-Chicago is served through O'Hare international by American Eagle, and both mainline and regional United-Continental flights.
The conversion of AirTran aircraft to the Southwest configuration will continue throughout the year as Southwest said one former AirTran Boeing 737-800 will also enter Southwest service in October.
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Prince Albert (genital piercing)
|Prince Albert
|Circular or curved barbell, captive bead ring, Prince's wand
|4 to 6 weeks
The Prince Albert (PA) is one of the more common male genital piercings,[1] but most controversial based on the most educational recent study.[2] The PA is "a ring-style piercing that extends along the underside of the glans from the urethral opening to where the glans meets the shaft of the penis."[3] The related "reverse Prince Albert piercing" enters through the urethra and exits through a hole pierced in the top of the glans.[4]
While some piercers may choose to avoid the nerve bundle that runs along the center of the frenulum altogether, others may choose otherwise.[citation needed] The piercing can be centered if the bearer is circumcised. Otherwise, the piercing must be done off-center so that the surrounding skin is able to reposition itself.[5]
Healing and potential side effects[edit]
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The Prince Albert healing time can take from 4 weeks[6] to 6 months.[1] A fresh PA piercing may cause bleeding, swelling and inflammation.[7][8] In rare cases, it can lead to local infections.[9] Some men find that the dribble caused by the PA when urinating necessitates sitting down to urinate.[10] With practice, some men are able to control the stream while standing.[11]
Some PA wearers report it enhances sexual pleasure for both partners.[3] Some people penetrated by males with this piercing report discomfort.[citation needed] PA rings can cause additional discomfort to female partners in cases when the penis comes in contact with the cervix.[12] Sexual partners of those with piercings may experience complications during oral sex such as chipped teeth, choking, foreign bodies getting stuck between the partner's teeth, and mucosal injury to receptive partners.[13]
As with many piercings, there is risk of the jewelry becoming caught on clothing and being pulled or torn out, but this is usually only a concern with rings.[citation needed] Very large gauge or heavy jewelry can cause thinning of the tissue between the urethral opening and the healed fistula resulting in an accidental tearing or other complications with sexual experiences.[2] Conversely, extremely thin jewelry can cause the same tearing in what is commonly referred to as the "cheese cutter effect", either during sudden torsion or over a long period of wearing, especially if the thin jewelry bears any weight.[citation needed] In some cases this can be corrected surgically.[citation needed]
Prince Albert piercings are typically pierced at either 10 or 8 gauge. They are often (gradually) stretched soon after, with jewelry within the 8g to 2g range being the most popular. One of the reasons not to perform the initial piercing at a small diameter (16g, 14g or 12g) and/or to immediately stretch it to 8g or 6g using a taper is to prevent the 'cheese cutter effect', although personal preference and individual anatomy also play a role in these decisions.
Further stretching to sizes above 10 mm is possible. If a sufficiently heavy barbell or ring is worn continuously, a mild form of 'auto-stretching' can be observed. This means that stretching to a larger gauge is easier and might not require a taper.
While most wearers find that PAs are comfortable to wear and rarely remove them, even during sex, some individuals might find that extremely large or heavy jewelry is uncomfortable to wear for long periods or interferes with the sexual functioning of the penis.
Jewelry suitably worn in a Prince Albert piercing includes the circular barbell, curved barbell, captive bead, segment ring and the prince's wand. Curved barbells used for PA piercings are usually 7/8" in length, such that one ball sits on the lower side of the penis and the other ball sits at the urethral opening. This type of jewelry prevents discomfort that can come from larger jewelry moving around during daily wear.
Prince's wand[edit]
The prince's wand consists of a hollow tube with a threaded cap at the end. The tube is inserted into the urethra, and a stem is inserted through the PA piercing and into another threaded hole on the side of the tube. The general shape is similar to a policeman's baton. The side stem holds the tube in place. The threaded cap, often just a ball, can be removed so the wearer can urinate through the hollow tube without having to remove the jewelry.
History and culture[edit]
The origin of this piercing is unknown. Many theories suggest that the piercing was used to secure the penis in some manner, rather than having a sexual or cultural purpose.[citation needed]
In modern times, the Prince Albert piercing was popularized by Jim Ward in the early 1970s.[14] In West Hollywood, Ward met Doug Malloy and Fakir Musafar. Together, these men further developed the Prince Albert piercing. Malloy published a pamphlet in which he concocted fanciful histories of genital piercings in particular.[5] These apocryphal tales—which included the notion that Albert, the Prince Consort invented the piercing that shares his name in order to tame the appearance of his large penis in tight trousers—are widely circulated as urban legend. No historical proof of their veracity has been located independent of Malloy's assertions.[15]
Like many other male genital piercings, it had a history of practice in gay male subculture in the twentieth century.[16] It became more prominently known when body piercing expanded in the late 1970s and was gradually embraced by popular culture.[16]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Gage, Simon; Richards, Lisa; Wilmot, Howard; and Boy George (2002). Queer, p. 159. Da Capo Press, ISBN 978-1-56025-377-8
- ^ a b Nelius T, Armstrong ML, Rinard K, Young C, Hogan L, Angel E (November 2011). "Genital piercings: diagnostic and therapeutic implications for urologists". Urology 78 (5): 998–1007. doi:10.1016/j.urology.2011.05.066. PMID 22054364.
- ^ a b Winks, Cathy; Semans, Anne (2002). The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written, p. 274. Cleis Press, ISBN 978-1-57344-158-2
- ^ Komisaruk, Barry R.; Whipple, Beverly; Nasserzadeh, Sara' Beyer-Flores, Carlos (2009). The Orgasm Answer Guide, p. 118. JHU Press, ISBN 978-0-8018-9396-4
- ^ a b Angel, Elayne (2009). The Piercing Bible, p. 157. Random House, ISBN 978-1-58091-193-1
- ^ Angel, Elayne (2009). The Piercing Bible, p. 156. Random House, ISBN 978-1-58091-193-1
- ^ De Cuyper, Christa; Cotapos, Maria Luisa (2010). Dermatologic Complications with Body Art: Tattoos, Piercings and Permanent Make-Up, p. 47. Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-03291-2
- ^ Aaron, Michele (1999). The body's perilous pleasures: dangerous desires and contemporary culture, p. 170 Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-0961-1
- ^ Richens, John (2004). Other conditions of the male genital tract commonly seen in sexually transmitted infection clinics. In Adler, Michael W.; Cowan, Frances ABC of sexually transmitted infections, p. 21. John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-0-7279-1761-4
- ^ Stark, John; Hopkins, Will; Baumann, Mary K. (2008). The Dictionary of Love, p. 218. HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-06-124213-7
- ^ Hudson Karen L. (2009). Living Canvas: Your Total Guide to Tattoos, Piercings, and Body Modification, p. 180. Seal Press, ISBN 978-1-58005-288-7
- ^ Vale, V.; Juno, Andrea (1989). Modern primitives: an investigation of contemporary adornment & ritual. Re/Search Publications, ISBN 978-0-940642-14-0
- ^ Greenberg, Michael I. (2005). Greenberg's text-atlas of emergency medicine, p. 448. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, ISBN 978-0-7817-4586-4
- ^ Ferguson, Henry (18 December 1999). Body Piercing. BMJ Volume 319, Number 7225; 319 : 1627 PMID 10600973
- ^ Rutty, Guy N. (2004). Essentials of autopsy practice: recent advances, topics and developments, p. 163. Springer, ISBN 978-1-85233-541-0
- ^ a b (Porterfield 2003)
- Porterfield, Amanda (2003). Gary Laderman and Luis D. Leon, eds. Religion and American Cultures: an Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions 2. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-238-X.
External links[edit]
- Modification E-zine entry on Prince Albert piercings
- Body Piercing in Brief, text of Malloy/Ward pamphlet
- UK Fetish Info: Getting a PA piercing
- UK Fetish Info: Living with a PA piercing
- Association of Professional Piercers' body piercing aftercare guidelines


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The Bachelor
Jenna Burke Was A "Hot Mess" Says Eliminated Bachelor Season 16 Bachelorette Amber Tierney
It looks like Nicki Sterling is already winning The Bachelor — off the show, anyway. Bachelor Pad 2's Michael Stagliano said he got butterflies when he saw Nicki on the premiere; Ames Brown also named Nicki as a standout contestant; and now Amber Tierney — the cow ball-loving shooter girl from The Bachelor Season 16 — has named Nicki as one of her favorites in the Bachelor mansion. Maybe Ben Flajnik will feel the same about Nicki by the end of the show.
Anyway, Amber talked to reporters after her premiere episode elimination. Here's a taste of her Q&A, including her thoughts on the night's big drama girl, Jenna Burke.
Are there a couple girls that you thought stood out and you really liked?
Amber: I did see that he made a comment about Courtney Robertson. I could see how possibly she's one of his favorites. I'm wondering when he gets to know her... she seemed a little cold to me. One of my favorites was actually Nicki. She's from Texas and I thought they had a connection. I also thought he had a connection with Kacie Boguskie.
What was the girls' take on Jenna?
Amber: I honestly did not see everything that happened in the situation when I was there. Personally, I kind of thought she was a little bit of a hot mess. She got a little emotional, like I said, but it was a long night and everyone's tired. Drinking is involved and she had a couple too many drinks as well.
Amber speculated that maybe Ben gave Jenna a rose because "she was pretty fragile at the time. He didn't want to hurt her anymore."
Read more from Amber here.
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Hello everybody,
When i created my windows live account, my parent enabled parental controls because i was younger than 18 years. However, i am now 20 years old and whenever i want to change my online safety options i still have to enter my parents mail address and password. Is there a way to disable the parentel controls on my account? (i already tried to change the preset for the online safety options to adult, but it still asks for my parent mail when i want to change it).
Thanks in advance!
You will need an XBOX 360 to Promote a Child Account
Promote a child account to an adult account
Xbox LIVE determines whether an account is a child account or an adult account based on the age of the account owner. Account owners who are younger than 18 are given child accounts in the United States. The legal adult age varies by country and region (for example, the adult age in Korea is 20).
Child accounts are tied to an adult's Windows Live ID. The adult account can control Family Settings and restrict some features of Xbox LIVE.
After you reach the age of adulthood (which varies by country and region), you can promote a child account to an adult account. This promotion removes the Family Settings and Xbox LIVE restrictions.
To promote a child account to an adult account
1.Sign in to Xbox LIVE by using the account that you want to change.
2.Go to My Xbox, and then select your profile.
3.Select Manage Account.
4.Select Promote Child Account.
Note This option is available only if the date of birth for the account indicates that you have reached the age of adulthood (18 in the United States). The legal adult age varies by country and region. The age of an account owner is calculated by using the date of birth provided when the account was created. This date cannot be changed. If you entered an incorrect date of birth when you created the account, your only option is to create a new account using the correct date of birth.
5.Follow the on-screen instructions to promote the account.
(If you do not have a 360 maybe you can use a friends or rent one)
Unfortunately the only way to do is to have your parents email address and password. Contact them and ask them to remove parental controls or create a new Windows live account for your self
Thanks for the responses.
The xbox solution isn't a option, because i don't know anyone with an xbox 360 and i refuse to pay money to remove parentel control from my account.
Also, making a new live account is possible, but won't i lose all my achievements and save files if i do that?
So the only option that is left is to ask my parents to remove the parental controls. Do you know where my parent could find this option?
Thanks in advance
Bro go rent an X-box


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Feb. 24, 2007
Complete Results | Peters Interview | Henry Interview
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The University of New Mexico captured three event titles on Saturday, the third and final day of the Mountain West Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Sophomore Tiyana Peters opened the day with a win in the women's high jump (5' 10"), followed by junior Ariel Burr's victory in the women's 400m (school record 53.73). The all-New Mexico team of Taylor Siemon, Randle McCain, Kurt Henry and Jarrin Solomon capped the meet with the Lobos' first 4x400m relay crown in 20 years.
Solomon also finished second in the men's 400m, clocking a school record time of 47.00 to earn all-MWC honors in the event for the first time indoors. Junior Jeremy Johnson finished second in the men's 3,000 to earn his second silver medal of the meet, finishing with an altitude-adjusted time of 8:09.68 - the fastest in head coach Matt Henry's seven years at UNM.
Johnson overcame a painful foot injury that kept him off the track the previous three weeks to claim meet high point honors for the Lobos for the second straight season. The Albuquerque Manzano High School product racked up 16 points in the 5,000 and 3,000 on Friday and Saturday.
New Mexico finished seventh in the women's team standings (38), just nine points out of fifth place. The men's team was sixth (62), trailing TCU by just seven. While a lack of depth indoors and slow start on Thursday kept them from a better finish in the team standings, the Lobos ignited the home crowd with a series of thrilling performances on Saturday.
Peters opened the day with a bang, clearing her first two bars without a miss and surpassing the NCAA provisional qualifying mark on her second attempt. When Colorado State freshman Sonni Russell was unable to match, Peters stood alone as the champion.
Peters had cleared the 5' 10" mark earlier in the year, only to watch the bar inexplicably tumble to the ground as she knelt on the mat.
Her conference title ended a three-year indoor drought for the Lobo women. After finishing second last year, behind CSU's Rheannon Backes (who was fourth today), Peters became the second Lobo to win the high jump indoors. Aura Cook was the first to do so, capturing the 1993 Western Athletic Conference crown.
Later, Burr became the first UNM woman to win an indoor conference title on the track. The previous eight, including Peters' high jump victory, had all come in the field events.
After notching just the fifth-fastest qualifying time on Friday however, the Carrizozo, N.M. product had to win her first MWC title the hard way - win heat one with a time that the four runners in second and fastest heat would not be able to beat.
The 5-4 Burr got out quickly and wasted little time distancing herself from the field. With 100 meters to go she began to pour it on, flying past the cheering grandstands en route to a dominating heat one victory.
When TCU senior Nathandra John, the defending champion, crossed the line in 53.80 to win heat two, Burr smiled and put her hands on her knees in a mix of joy and relief, knowing her gold medal was secure.
Burr's time was 0.54 seconds under her own UNM indoor record, set last year in a runner-up finish at the MWC Championships, and 0.67 faster than the NCAA provisional qualifying time in the event.
The final men's event of the day proved to be worth the wait as the top four 400-meter men in the state of New Mexico looked to extend their two-meet winning streak.
After a disappointing finish in the 400 prelims on Friday, a determined Siemon (Albuquerque La Cueva HS) once again got the Lobos out of the blocks quickly. The sophomore distanced himself from the field over the final 100 meters to give the Lobos a five-meter lead on the first exchange.
McCain (Silver City, N.M.) held the lead for 300 meters before 60-meter champion Delwayne Delaney of TCU began to reel in the UNM senior. Delaney, however, collided with teammate Jay Cooper and dropped the baton as Cooper attempted to encroach on Kurt Henry's inside position in a physical exchange zone.
Henry (Albuquerque Cibola HS) kept his composure, completed a clean exchange and again proved to be an impassable force on his home track. The junior kept Colorado State's Kyle Keeler at bay for the entire 400-meters and gave Solomon a critical lead in his anchor leg battle against the Rams newly crowed 400-meter champion, Drew Morano.
The gold medal came down the final 50 meters as Solomon (Albuquerque LaCueva HS) flew off the turn in lane two, while Morano tried to make his final move inside. The two went stride-for-stride down the straightaway as the roaring Convention Center crowd came to its feet. Solomon and the Lobos were not to be denied, however, as the junior held off Morano for a 0.17 second victory.
Solomon held up his uniform after crossing, showing the crowd the "New Mexico" lettering across the front as UNM had its first MWC 4x400 title after earning all-conference honors five times in the past seven years. The gold medal was the first for UNM at the conference meet since the 1987 team won the WAC indoor title at the Air Force Academy.
Other Lobo highlights on Saturday included:
Men's 400m: Running out of lane five in the second and fastest heat, Jarrin Solomon was unable to get into ideal position after the first lap and got stuck behind CSU's Drew Morano and Dell Guy of TCU. He caught Guy (47.06) down the final straight, but ran out of room to reel in Morano (46.74). Solomon's time of 47.00 broke the UNM indoor 400m record set by Tony Eziuka in 1990 (47.11). Jarrin's dad Michael Solomon owns the school record in the 440-yard dash indoors with a hand-held time of 47.3 in 1977.
Men's 3,00m: Jeremy Johnson tasted victory for a second straight day before once again having to settle for second. This time it was in the men's 3,000, where Johnson took the lead with roughly 300 meters to go. Wyoming's Mark Korir, however, used a sensational kick over the final lap to outdistance the field for a two-second victory. New Mexico junior Juan Ortega finished sixth with a career-best altitude-adjusted time of 8:18.43 in what was his third race of the weekend. Ortega also ran the 5,000 (5th) and ran the final leg of the Lobos' fifth place distance medley relay team.
Women's Triple Jump: New Mexico scored six points in the final field event of the day as sophomore Hagit Salamon finished fifth with a leap of 39' 8" and Deanna Young, a rookie from Albuquerque Highland High School, finished seventh with a mark of 39' 5 ¼".
Women's High Jump: Sophomore Sandy Fortner combined with Peters to score 14 points for the Lobos in the high jump. The Fort Sumner, N.M. product matched her career-high with a mark of 5' 5" two days after failing to clear her opening height of 5' 3" in the pentathlon high jump. New Mexico finished with two jumpers in the top-5 for the second straight year.
Men's 60m Hurdles: In his first MWC 60-meter hurdles finals appearance, senior Mark Lamb clocked a altitude-adjusted time of 8.20 - his second-fastest of the year - to place fifth. Lamb had never finished better than 10th in his first two MWC Indoor Championship meets.
Men's Pole Vault: With 2006 indoor All-American and MWC runner-up Robert Caldwell redshirting, freshman Matt Hull and junior Zach Graham stepped up to score five points in the event. Hull surpassed the 16-foot mark for the first time, clearing 16' 1 ¾" to place sixth, while Graham battled through a sprained ankle to record a season-best mark of 15' 7 ¾" in a seventh place finish.
Women's 4x400m Relay: Running for the first time together this season, the team of Ariel Burr, Kirstan Matison, Sandy Fortner and Christina Zarrella smashed the UNM indoor record by nearly two seconds, clocking a time of 3:47.66 in a sixth place finish. Matison and Fortner turned in tenacious legs for the Lobos. Matison left everything she had on the track, collapsing as she made the exchange to Fortner. Fortner capped her strong weekend finish in her first appearance with the UNM 4x400m "A" team.
Men's 800m: True freshman Brian Vallie clocked a season-best altitude-adjusted time of 1:52.70 to finish sixth in the 800 finals. The Hardin, Mont. native surged in the final 200 meters to pick off a pair of runners. Vallie entered the meet seeded 11th in the event.
Men's 60m: After advancing to the 60-meter finals by the smallest of margins, rookie Terence Brown moved up a spot to finish seventh in his third meet of the year. Brown, a safety on the Lobo football team, clocked an altitude-adjusted time of 7.09 for the second day in a row.


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May 3, 2011
During the ten years I've taught gluten-free baking classes, two questions are asked more than any others: "How do I make bread?" and "How do I make pizza?" Bread and pizza. My favorites.
You want a great, easy pizza crust, right? Here's what to do: start with a Chebe bread mix. My students have never gasped but, I can tell, they've come close. They know that I bake from scratch. This recipe is the exception to that rule.
Why a mix? Because of the modified tapioca starch it contains, Chebe makes an excellent pizza crust with the "chew" that's so often missing from gluten-free baked goods. Since buying modified tapioca starch is a pain, I use the Chebe mix.
I'm not a food scientist. So, honestly, I don't fully understand the process of making modified tapioca starch. My research proved somewhat futile, likely because modifying tapioca starch is a proprietary process. All I've been able to glean is that when an inorganic material is added to the starch, the characteristics of the starch change. In the case of tapioca starch, we are left with a super-stretchy starch.
How stretchy? Gluten-like stretchy.
You could almost toss this dough over your head like they do at pizzerias. Prepared as the package directs, I find Chebe unpleasantly chewy. Slightly doctored, however, it makes a great pizza.
Add white or brown rice flour, baking powder, and salt to the mix. That's right—baking powder. Telling pizza-savvy SE'rs that this crust can be made without yeast makes me a little nervous. But it's the truth: this crust is excellent without yeast. Since restaurants serving safe gluten-free pizza are still hard to find, it's great being able to make this last-minute crust without having to allow it to rise.
If the thought of a yeast-free pizza is anathema to you, no problem! Replace the baking powder with one packet of active dry yeast. When leavened with yeast, the dough needs to go through about an hour of bulk fermentation (rising in the bowl) and about 45 minutes of pan rise. The baking powder dough? Just mix it up, place it into the pan and bake.
Speaking of baking, no matter which version you use, yeast or baking powder, bake the crustbeforebefore you top it. Topping the raw dough and then baking makes for one really soggy pizza. I like all types of pizza, but soggy crust pizza isn't one of them.
After adding the wet ingredients to the flour and Chebe mix, the dough looks chunky. Turn the dough onto your counter and begin kneading.
At first the dough isn't smooth. As you knead it, it becomes smooth and elastic.
The finished dough looks like this. Pretty, isn't it?
Roll out the dough and lift it into the pan.
Bake the crust, top the dough, and return pizza to the oven.
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As more and more attention focusses on oil shale and fracking to increase domestic energy production, shale formations around the country are facing more scrutiny to attempt to determine if they might be the next Bakken. The huge Monterey Shale in the Central Valley of California is one such formation that may turn out to be a disappointment, according to Bloomberg.
The field, a formation of rock known as the Monterey Shale, was thought to have 15 billion barrels of "technically recoverable" reserves, according to government estimates. That's triple the amount of oil found in huge and newly prolific fields in North Dakota and Texas. The formation lies under the San Joaquin Valley in central California. Most of the locations probed so far have been northwest of Bakersfield.
Drillers trying to tap the formation include Occidental Petroleum Corp., Plains Exploration & Production Co., Venoco Inc. and Berry Petroleum Co.
But drillers haven't been able to get the Monterey Shale to produce oil at high rates. Brackett suggests that there are a few characteristics of the geology that could make the field more difficult to develop. There are lots of natural faults in the rock, which means drillers can't easily control the flow of oil through faults they create. Also, the rock is not under enormous pressure, so there is less force pushing the oil to the surface. And the oil may be relatively thick and sticky, which slows its flow.
If the Monterey had performed as well as the Bakken field in North Dakota or the Eagle Ford in Texas, it would be delivering an additional 300,000 barrels of oil per day by now, Brackett says. Instead, production in California is flat.
Although some drillers blame California's slow permitting process, the actual data indicates the slow increase in production may have more to do with current low oil prices. Either way, it's too early to write off the Monterey Shale.
Still, Brackett said the field remains an attractive resource play, especially if oil prices rise, because there is so much oil there. And it is far from trading centers in the middle of the country that are flooded with oil from North Dakota and Canada, which is driving down prices there.


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Music at the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition 1888
Other than Opera and Oratorio, Orchestral music was not often performed in Melbourne prior to the 1888 Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition. Orchestras like the Melbourne Philharmonic Society that existed at the time played to devoted subscribers; consequently the Victorian populous were 'less enlightened on this phase of music than upon all others belonging to the art'. (Argus, 2 August 1888)
The Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition attracted a wider Australian audience than any other single 19th century event. It thus presented and became a powerful means by which the construction and dissemination of an Australian identity could take place. (McDonald 2001, p.44) The music of the exhibition presented the opportunity for Melbourne to perform quality entertainment imbued with cultural capital and so educate the public to great accord. Indeed, the concerts held throughout the course of the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition had a total attendance figure of 467, 299. (1890, p.270) The greatest attendance record (3066) was for the first performance of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah' on
The opening ceremony of the Exhibition included the premiere of the 'Centennial Cantata', especially composed for the Exhibition by Reverend William Allen. This was the first performance of a major work by a Melbourne-born composer. (Colligan 1996a, p. 215) The theme of the 'Centennial Cantata' was the coming of European civilisation. (Dunstan 1996, p.194) The lyrics described in six parts the solitary past of the Australian continent, before colonisation led to the development of a 'national history'. (McDonald 2001, p.48) The cultural authority of the Exhibition would lead the international guests to believe that Australia had a history and identity as reflective of the best parts of European culture.
The musical offerings of the Exhibition provided both unsurpassed pleasure and educational opportunity for the Victorian public. (Radic 1977, vol.2, p.12) New music was composed by the Centennial Orchestra's conductor Frederick Cowen and performed alongside traditional composers. There were performances of all the Beethoven symphonies, and symphonies by Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Wagner were premiered. (Colligan 1996a, p.216) The Argus praised Cowen for his 'sound generalship in the planning of his campaign' by introducing heavier pieces intermittently with lighter music. (Colligan 1996a, p.217) The orchestra reportedly lacked early cohesion, but soon established itself as disciplined. (Colligan 1996a, p.215) An Argus review of an October performance of music by Wagner, Mozart and Delibes was deemed to be 'very interesting' with 'showy movements being encored and repeated', which in doing so 'gave great satisfaction to [the] large evening audience'. (Argus, 6 Oct 1888)
The Centennial Orchestra performed (for the first time for many Australian audiences) 'serious' musical pieces (Colligan 1996a, p. 217). Beethoven's 'Pastoral Symphony' and Wagner's Overture to 'Tannaeuser', noted as being widely popular in Europe, were very popular with Melbourne audiences, a sign that Australian audiences were developing a 'love for, the best music' (1890, p. 264). Two months into the Exhibition, The Argus reported that 'the general public, amongst whom were many excursionists, were treated to well-practised and highly finished performances of the following well known selections, namely: Prelude to Longengrin and overture to Tannhaeuser by Wagner; the Ballet Air no. 1, from Rosamund Music, by Schubert; The Hungarian Rhapsody no. 3 in D, the Turkish Rondo from a pianoforte sonata by Mozart; and also music by Delibes. (Argus, 6 Oct 1888)
In total, 211 orchestral, 30 grand choral and 22 'popular' concerts were performed under Cowen's direction. (1890, p.263)
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The Ink and Paint Club held its premiere luncheon with Walt Disney Animation Studio's Emily Hoppe on hand as the guest of honor. Hoppe, the studio's senior manager of creative marketing outlined the role Disney and The Princess and the Frog, the studio's first 2D animated film in five years, will play at Red Stick's April festival.
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Back in the pre-digital, pre-xerographic days of Disney animation, the Ink and Paint department was responsible for tracing the animators' pencil drawings onto acetate cels and filling those transparent images with color. Technological advances rendered hand inking and painting a thing of the past, but the name lived on in 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the Ink and Paint Club, an after-hours honky-tonk where the 'toons' entertained Hollywood bigwigs.
There's a new Ink and Paint Club in town, the town being Baton Rouge Louisiana, and the 'Club' the outreach arm of the city's Red Stick International Animation Festival to the local business community. On January 16 the Ink and Paint Club held its premiere luncheon with Walt Disney Animation Studio's Emily Hoppe on hand as the guest of honor. Hoppe, the studio's senior manager of creative marketing outlined the role Disney and The Princess and the Frog, the studio's first 2D animated film in five years, will play at Red Stick's April festival.
It's a natural team-up for the festival and the studio: Red Stick is well on its way to becoming the pre-eminent animation event in the U.S., while Disney is looking to pump up the buzz for the New Orleans-set movie's Christmas Day 2009 premiere. (The studio's plans also include a six month program of Disney "Fairy Tale Classics," running from November through March of 2010 at the New Orleans Museum of Art.)
The Princess and the Frog "celebrates the legacy of classic Disney animation," Hoppe said, mentioning the studio's more recent and ultra-successful 2D efforts like The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast. "It's a return to the 2D fairy tale," she added, "back to our roots." Hoppe ran down the film's "iconic" elements, including a prince, a princess, a wicked witch and a fairy godmother, all transposed to early 20th century N'awlins and set to a Randy Newman score. (The film is also Disney's first since Mulan where the characters perform the film's songs on camera.) The studio's return to 2D is courtesy of directors John Musker and Ron Clements, the team responsible for mega-hits The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, the successful Hercules and the commercially disappointing Treasure Planet.
Hoppe screened several in-progress scenes from The Princess and the Frog to the audience. "This is the first time this level has been shown outside the Disney premises," Hoppe told the audience, warning them the preliminary footage was "really rough," switching between pencil test and finished animation or storyboard frames from shot to shot. The animators' relish at bringing 2D back to the studio was clearly evident, their work evoking moments from the Disney classics including Peter Pan's on-the-loose shadow and Baloo's "Bare Necessities" Jungle Book strut. The clips also featured a pair of sly nods to the 2D process itself, with the pictures on a shuffling tarot deck turning into a flip book and later, a pair of illustrations on succeeding pages of a fairy tale book compared like animation extremes. The film's Louisiana setting drew an appreciative laugh from the local audience when one character explains he's "from far away," which prompted a second one to ask "Shreveport?" (the state's northernmost big city, some 340 miles north of New Orleans.)
Directors Clement and Musker have put Disney's best 2D animators to work on the film. Bad guy Dr. Facilier, animated by Bruce W. Smith easily holds his own against the Jafars and Captain Hooks of Disney past; Eric Goldberg (Aladdin's Genie) is responsible for the trumpet-playing alligator Louis, and superstar animator Andreas Deja (recipient of Red Stick's first Lifetime Career Achievement Award at last year's festival) animated Mama Odie, the film's swamp-dwelling 'fairy godmother' stand-in and her pet snake Juju.
Even with all this talent working at full tilt, one wonders if The Princess and the Frog is the rebirth or the last gasp of Disney 2D animation. "It's definitely the rebirth," Hoppe says without a moment's hesitation. "The studio has two separate pipelines in place, one for 2D and one for 3D. There's a warmth in 2D you won't see in CGI." She credits Pixar's maven and Disney animation head John Lasseter – the man whose CGI talent helped put 2D on the skids – for the studio's return to hand-drawn animation. "John said 2D became the scapegoat for bad scripting."
Hoppe described Red Stick as "our number-one priority" because of the festival's artistic rather than competitive focus. "We've been keeping an eye on Red Stick," she noted, adding that some of Disney's "foremost animators" as well as several of the studio's top technical people will be attending the festival in April; "it's a battle to the death to see who gets to go."
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By Joseph Duarte
With the game on the line late in the fourth quarter Saturday, Rice did something that would have been unthinkable just two years ago.
The Owls left their fate to the defense.
Rice capped a dominating defensive performance with two critical stops in the final six minutes to escape with a 17-13 victory over Tulane, sending the Owls to the Conference USA championship game.
"It's no secret we've leaned on our defense the entire year," quarterback Taylor McHargue said.
Rice (9-3, 7-1 C-USA), which clinched its first outright C-USA West division title, will play East division winner Marshall (9-3, 7-1) in the C-USA championship game on Dec. 7. The location will be determined based on BCS rankings released Sunday night.
"It doesn't matter if it's here or there or the moon," said Rice coach David Bailiff, whose team will be playing for its first outright conference title since 1957.
For Bailiff, the C-USA West title is just another milestone in a season that has produced back-to-back bowl appearances and the program's best two-year win total (16) in nearly 60 years.
"We're standing here C-USA West champions," Bailiff said. "How sweet does that sound?"
The Owls used a suffocating defense to hold Tulane to 10 yards in the first half, 123 for the game and without a first down until the 5:58 mark of the third quarter.
Yet the Owls could not pull away because of fumbles by McHargue and running back Charles Ross deep in Rice territory.
Tulane, which entered the game second nationally in forced turnovers, converted both miscues into points – a 30-yard field goal by Cairo Santos in the first quarter and 13-yard touchdown pass from Nick Montana to Devon Breaux in the third quarter.
The Green Wave (7-5, 5-3 C-USA) was in position for a potential game-tying touchdown early in the fourth quarter but had to settle for a 32-yard field goal by Santos to trim the lead to 17-13 with 10:14 remaining.
"This is where we draw the line," defensive tackle Christian Covington said. "This is where we have to step up and play like a champion."
On Tulane's final two possessions, Rice forced a three-and-out – one of seven in the game – and punter James Farrimond pinned the Green Wave at their own 3-yard line with a 44-yard punt.
Montana ended the game with six straight incomplete passes, including a fourth-and-10 attempt out of his own end zone to leading receiver Ryan Grant, who caught the ball out of bounds to seal the game for Rice.
Rice's defensive line stuffed the Tulane running game, allowing only 26 yards, and cornerback Phillip Gaines was mostly responsible for holding Grant, the third-leading receiver in C-USA, to two catches for 45 yards.
"The game ball really goes to the defense," Bailiff said.
The Owls scored all their points in the first half – on a 19-yard touchdown pass from McHargue to Turner Petersen, a 16-yard run by Jowan Davis and 36-yard field goal by Chris Boswell. Rice had only 72 of its 304 yards in the second half.
Ross finished with a game-high 80 yards and Dennis Parks had five catches for 75 yards, none bigger than 18-yard grab on third-and-11 that allowed the Owls to run more time off the clock in the closing minutes.
The only setback was the loss of running back Petersen to an apparent knee injury in the second quarter. Petersen will undergo an MRI this week.
Gaines, one of 19 fifth-year seniors, said the Owls have come a long way since going 2-10 in 2009. Along the way, Rice has gone from 111th in total defense two years ago to 40th this season.
"When you go through those hard times it's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel, but we're finally here," he said.


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The office really is a zoo for this '09 alum, who spends her days with penguins, meerkats and wallabies. (Above: Mary Ellis Barnes '09 feeds the Scovill Zoo penguins in the new exhibit that opened this past spring in Decatur.)
By Amanda Hamilton '14
Photos by Alida Duff Sullivan '06
A normal day at work for Mary Ellis Barnes '09 can include being followed by a penguin named Chief, his neck up and wings outstretched, begging for his favorite snack of trout. Barnes, a Decatur native, is a zookeeper at Scovill Zoo tending the colony of Humboldt penguins, a new exhibit that opened in April.
Barnes' first encounter with penguins began after she graduated from MU with a bachelor's degree in biology. She headed for Chicago for a five-month marine mammal internship with Shedd Aquarium.
During her time there, while caring for dolphins, sea lions and more, she completed a research project with penguins. She conducted enrichment studies where she would provide penguins with a new object, then observe and report on their behavior. "When animals are in the zoo, they don't have the same environment," she says. "We give them sounds, smells and things they have to manipulate to get food."
While working with the Scovill penguins this past winter, Barnes attempted to offer them snow for enrichment. They were terrified. "They all ran as far away from it as possible and huddled in the other room," Barnes says. "They would not come out, even for fish. I had to get rid of the snow before they would eat." Since they are native to Peru and Chile, they are warm-weather penguins acclimated to cold water from the Humboldt cold current (for which they are named), but they are not familiar with snow.
Aside from administering enrichment activities, Barnes also trains the penguins for certain behaviors. Although Chief is friendly and doesn't mind being handled, most of the penguins keep their distance, and Barnes wants to get them used to being touched.
She also weighs the penguins regularly and would like to scale train them. "It's nice to put the scale in the doorway, let them step on it, reward them and let them go on their way," she says. Right now, they all crowd around her to get the fish reward for being weighed.
She learned many of her training techniques through research articles, but she's also visited other zoos to see how they handle their Humboldt penguins. "I asked a lot of questions," she says. "They showed me how to hold penguins, how to feed them, the kinds of fish they enjoy, the best way to clean the exhibits, how to scale train them, how to recognize illness, what vitamins to give them."
Caring for penguins may be one of her main responsibilities now, but Barnes didn't begin her career planning to work with birds. "I always wanted to work with big cats," she says. "I wasn't sure how I would feel about animals that swim in water, and then I fell in love with them. I wasn't sure how I would feel about birds, and then I fell in love with them. I could probably work with anything."
Her Scovill Zoo position also gives her the opportunity to spend time with a wide variety of animals, including wallabies, meerkats, emu and a sloth. She says she enjoys working at a smaller zoo where all the zookeepers know each other well and there is more interaction among the areas. For Barnes, being a zookeeper is more than taking care of animals, it's also an educational role: "We show people what they can't see in the wild and bring awareness to conservation."
Whether she's watching meerkats play, socializing wolves or feeding penguins, Barnes enjoys seeing the variety of characters in the zoo: "It's really cool to see all the personalities in the different animals. With my penguins, they all have little quirks. It's fun to see that come out." Some of the penguins are curious, waddling after lights or reflections on the floor and rocks. They even showed interest in visitors at a recent zoo event by following glow sticks along the glass. As social animals, if one gets in or out of the pool, they all follow. They take turns carrying around a rubber doorstop, sometimes getting impatient and trying to grab it from each other. A couple of the males are also very vocal.
Noticing their personalities comes not only from her observations as a zookeeper, but also from a simple enjoyment of visiting the animals. She may work with them every day, but Barnes still likes to watch the animals. She enjoys seeing the penguins "porpoise" out of the water when they work up speed swimming in the pool, or how they stretch their necks way out with wings flapping. She and her husband, Zach (who loves that she works at the zoo), visit other zoos and occasionally stroll through Scovill Zoo together. "It doesn't get old," says Barnes, "It's still exciting."
Just minutes into his tenure as associate professor and athletic training program director at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio, Trevor Bates '02 learned that another Millikin graduate was already working on the campus.Julie Stevenson O'Reilly '93, an assistant professor of communication and women's and gender studies, had been at Heidelberg since 2005."I was on campus all of 30 minutes before someone mentioned that there was a professor who went to the same undergraduate institution that I did," Bates says. Despite differing academic backgrounds (O'Reilly majored in communication and writing and found Heidelberg after an unfulfilling stint in the corporate sector; Bates majored in athletic training and that path led him to Heidelberg's program), the duo's paths crossed three years ago when O'Reilly joined Heidelberg's Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC).
What originally began as a common Millikin link between two committee members has evolved into professional respect forged from the desire to serve and educate. O'Reilly's path to higher education began with her doctorate coursework. Seeking an intellectual and creative challenge, she switched her professional focus from journalism and public relations to American culture studies. Ultimately, she found herself in a faculty position. "I ended up finding the professional environment I had been looking for in higher education Ð it just took me longer than expected," O'Reilly says. "My students are the best part of my job, but variety and creativity are next on the list. I had such a great experience at Millikin that I am an advocate of small, private universities. Helping students improve their critical thinking and writing skills are the things that motivate me the most."
Bates also found returning to a private college atmosphere to be attractive."The small college setting allows professors and administrators to be more involved in the development of the campus community," Bates says. "Whether I'm working with a student, colleague, administrator, coach or support staff member, I enjoy the opportunity to help others achieve their goals." While neither expected to work so closely with another Millikin graduate at Heidelberg's campus, the respect they have for each other is apparent.
"It is an honor to work with Dr. O'Reilly," Bates says. "She is a confident, engaged professional who mixes the historical and modern aspects of culture to provide students with an excellent educational experience. In the last five years, Heidelberg has validated her approach by honoring her with its equivalent of the ÔTeacher of the Year' award for her ability to connect with her students in a meaningful way." O'Reilly praises Bates' contributions as well. "Trevor models a high level of professionalism for his students and colleagues and is well-respected on campus," O'Reilly says. "In addition to directing the athletic training program and serving as the chair of the UCC, he was appointed to the Academic Priority Leadership Committee and recently named associate dean of health sciences. Despite all the responsibilities and stress that often accompany these positions, Trevor maintains a positive attitude and a great sense of humor."
And while both alumni are focused on educating the world's future leaders, Bates and O'Reilly are quick to point out that their own successes were cultivated at Millikin. Bates especially credits Millikin with teaching him how to think. "Millikin taught me to dream big and exposed me to more than just the information I needed to become a certified athletic trainer," he says.
Growing up in the Midwest, Lee Larkins '08 never expected to work with some of the most well-known rap and hip-hop artists of his generation. Throughout high school, he spent most of his extracurricular time showing horses in the summer, playing ice hockey in the winter and advocating for the skateboarders of Decatur. He also enjoyed taking photographs and splicing together short video projects on a set of VCRs, but he had little interest in a career in the entertainment industry.
In 2004, Larkins came to Millikin to pursue a degree in commercial art and design. He had his ups and downs as an art major. After turning in an unsatisfactory assignment, one professor said "Lee, if you were my employee, I would fire you." It was exactly the type of honest encouragement he needed, Larkins says. As a result, he began to take his studies more seriously and kindle his interest in videography while filming his friends skateboarding throughout Central Illinois. This interest would transform into the passion that led Larkins to pursue a career in video production and eventually start his own freelance photo and video business.
Larkins spent the months following his 2008 graduation filming skateboarding events. He used these experiences to network with skateboarders, entrepreneurs and filmmakers throughout the Chicago community. Through one of these connections, Larkins was offered an internship with a senior producer at Chrewd Marketing and Promotions' new start-up production company, Mid C Media, which specializes in music-industry advertising. Although it was a detour from his previous videography experience, Larkins could not pass up the opportunity to work on more high-profile projects.
During his internship, Larkins directed, filmed and assisted with several video assignments, including interviews with musical artists, recap sizzle reels for events, music videos, concert tours and behind-the-scenes features for music labels such as Interscope/Universal, Def Jam and Atlantic. These video projects allowed Larkins to work directly with more than 60 rap and hip-hop artists, including Snoop Dogg, Ludacris, Ke$ha, 50 Cent and Big Boi of Outkast.
Although meeting celebrities and going to concerts might sound like a dream job to some, Larkins says working in the entertainment industry "takes a lot of hard work to get to the fun part." Over the years, he has learned to work with his fair share of last-minute scene changes, celebrity demands and nearly impossible deadlines. "You not only have to learn to keep a level head but also know how to handle unexpected changes," Larkins warns. "Everyone wants it done yesterday. So sometimes you have to put in extra time, stay up all night and 'make it work,' as they say." Larkins "makes it work" by following some good advice. "One of the best pieces of wisdom I've picked up is 'if you want to go far, you have to learn to be at your strongest, while everyone around you is at their weakest.'"
Despite the challenges, Larkins considers filming for the entertainment industry his new passion. In 2010, he founded Shark Fins Productions*, where he continues to work with well-known clients throughout the Midwest, while expanding his reach to the West Coast and even into the international markets of Jamaica and the United Kingdom.
"I love it, because when I work with my own company, I don't have to go through other people," Larkins says, "I can just take the reins." While he may not take the reins showing horses anymore, Larkins stays true to his past and still finds time to film and support the skateboarding scene. Most recently, he filmed the invitation-only Chicago All-City Skate Competition and participated as a guest speaker at the Illinois Center for Broadcasting alongside one of his idols, pro-skateboarder Greg Lutzka. Larkins is thankful for the opportunities that pursuing video production has afforded him: "I'm always doing something new and exciting," he says, "I couldn't be more blessed."
Both Ty Warden '13 and Alida Duff Sullivan '06 interviewed Larkins and contributed to this feature article. warden was a writing intern for the alumni and development office earlier this year, and sullivan is the associate director of communications.
I used to make fun of my brother for playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). I didn't have anything against the game, it was just an excuse to give my brother a hard time.
When my friend texted me about a year ago, saying he wanted to start a game of D&D, I was pretty hesitant. Not only was I worried my brother would now make fun of me, I just didn't know if it would hold my attention. I don't like math, and I'm not very patient, so sitting for a long time and calculating stats didn't seem like it would be up my alley. I tried "Vampire: The Masquerade" for about a day in high school and Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) for about a day at Millikin. My track record was not good.
Still, I gave it a chance. And a year later, my perspective has completely changed. Now, I get pretty bummed if schedules conflict, and we have to skip one of our weekly sessions.
I think the main reason I wound up enjoying myself is the group of people involved. There are a few very experienced players who know the game inside and out. But everyone in the group is there to have fun, and they don't take it too seriously. Also, the Dungeon Master (DM) is a writer by profession, so his storytelling is fantastic.
The second reason is a word I heard often at Millikin: networking. The informality of D&D has led me to meet some amazing people. Our original group consisted almost entirely of my coworkers from the Decatur Herald & Review newspaper. However, as people dropped out due to lack of interest or scheduling conflicts, different players were introduced and new friends were made. During my free time, I like to make short films. Through my group of gamer friends, I have befriended fellow artists who have joined in my filmmaking endeavors as prop-makers, writers, actors and extras. The end result is that, even during my free time, I'm able to work on my craft and get people involved with me in creating art.
And that's another reason I found myself drawn into the game: the face-to-face interaction. In a video game that has a storyline, you have limited options for dialogue. In D&D, anything goes.
At the conclusion of my first D&D adventure, our DM asked what we wanted to do after our characters had collected our spoils. Just to be difficult, I said I wanted to run for mayor. I half expected him to laugh at me. Instead, the DM, who had planned far ahead in anticipation of several possible story outcomes, developed a plotline for running a political debate between the existing mayor and my elf sorcerer. (I won the election, I'm proud to report.) It was fun to be able to trip up the game's writer and send us into places we were never intended to go.
That's what I love about D&D, at least with this group: The ability to cut loose and play a game that has infinite story possibilities, all in person. It's a lot like the Millikin experience. Freshman students come in not exactly sure what it's all about but graduate feeling they have infinite possibilities. ?
Roy Riley '07 of Champaign, Ill., has completed the Ironman Triathlon World Championship, inspiring his students at the Gerber School of Cunningham Children's Home in Urbana, Ill., to reach for their dreams.
Seeking to compete in the Wisconsin Ironman, Riley wrote an optional application essay about his students' embodiment of the Ironman motto, "anything is possible."
The triathlon officials were so impressed with his essay and story that he was placed in the World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, last October instead of Wisconsin.
"As a triathlete, the Ironman World Championship is a lifetime goal, so to say I was shocked is a complete understatement," Riley says. "Good luck like this rarely happens to me and I was hit with the best luck any triathlete can have."
The Kona triathlon consisted of a 2.4-mile swim in the ocean and a 112-mile bike ride, topped with a 26.2-mile marathon run; a daunting challenge for someone who has never competed in an Ironman triathlon before.
Riley set a goal just to finish, but he completed the race with an overall time of 11 hours, 47 minutes and 46 seconds, finishing 1,290th out of 1,855 competitors from around the world.
During the race, Riley wore a white visor signed by each of his students to share his experience with them.
"I am the first person any of these students have known personally who has been on national television. I thought it might boost their self-esteem if they were able to see their signatures on TV. Anything to give my students a little more hope is all I can ask for," Riley says.
The Gerber School where Riley teaches is a residential facility for children and other residents who have mental, emotional or behavioral issues, or are born into a home that either cannot or will not support them.
Riley admits that, coming from a loving family, he has no firsthand experience with many of the hardships his students have seen, but he still wanted to show them that any challenge can be overcome.
"I wanted my students to know that I also look up to them everyday," he says. "I will never be able to experience what they have. My family has always been my support, and I wanted my students to know they can help support as well. All of the encouragement they showed leading up to the race meant the world to me."
Riley taught his students what the Ironman challenge was and what it takes to complete the race.
"I want my students to understand that even if something is hard you take one more step," he says. "Our students are forced to reach further than most for higher education, so just guiding them to fill out one more application or correct one more mistake may give them a better chance at success."
It was Riley's hope that his students would feel "pride" when they saw him cross the finish line. He hoped they would also feel that they had accomplished something as well.
"Never giving up is my theme this year with my students," Riley says. "I was never going to quit that race. If I had to stop running in the marathon portion, I walked. If I could not walk anymore, I would have crawled until I finished. That is what I wanted my students to understand."
Riley's dedication to his students created a stir that thrust the unassuming teacher into the spotlight. NBC named Riley their feature athlete for the world championship, sending a camera crew to his parents' home in Decatur and to the Gerber School in Urbana to film and interview him for a news feature that aired in December of last year.
Life in the spotlight was a challenge of its own.
"I have never been nervous in my life," Riley says, "so this was something new. I quickly became 'the face of Cunningham' due to the buzz around campus."
But as exciting as the cameras were, they weren't his motivation for completing the Ironman Triathlon World Championship. He did it for his students.
Their struggles motivated Riley to write the essay that placed him in the World Championship. They helped make his dream come true, and he hopes his success will inspire them to reach for dreams of their own.
by Jackson Lewis '13
Jarrett Johnson '01 planned on becoming a civil or electrical engineer. But that all changed when a friend's mother suggested Millikin.
Shortly after, an admission recruiter called Johnson and said he should apply for a Long-Vanderburg Scholarship, an award recognizing high scholastic achievement among students who demonstrate a commitment to diversity, leadership and community service. In 1997, he was awarded the scholarship and a music talent award, and the rest is history.
"I sold it to [my] mom as music business," he says. "I thought I'd be involved in production side and stay in the background. Had I not come [to Millikin], I would not have realized my dream of pursuing music."
Since then, the 2001 music grad has achieved undeniable success as a singer, songwriter and producer. A member of the award-winning a cappella ensemble formed at MU, Chapter 6, he has also worked with several music industry moguls, including Quincy Jones, David Foster and Michael Bublé.
In 2009, he and his wife, Andréa Hodges Johnson '05, moved to Los Angeles from his hometown of Bloomington, Ill., to further pursue his songwriting and producing career.
"We realized it was time to make a change," he says.
However, it wasn't easy. According to Johnson, moving so far from the home he had always known was a huge leap of faith, not to mention a lot of hard work and determination.
"Living in L.A. is very expensive," says Johnson. "You work hard to stay out there."
Johnson started singing in his L.A. church, where he serves as a worship leader. He also began performing with m-pact, a Los Angeles a cappella group, which opened the door to an opportunity to give voice lessons.
"Every single time I start to think our time [in L.A.] is up, God just drops another blessing," says Johnson.
His hard work and determination is paying off. Among his most recent achievements, Johnson received a Grammy Award last year for his participation as a writer, producer and vocalist on Michael Bublé's "Crazy Love," which was named Best Traditional Pop Album. He also is credited as a co-writer/arranger for the title track of Quincy Jones' newest album "Q: Soul Bossa Nostra," released last year.
"My career is really starting to come to fruition now," he says.
Johnson feels that his favorite written work, "Breakthrough," featured on MTV's show "Taking the Stage," best expresses his journey.
"It's so much more than a song," says Johnson. "It's a testament to what's been happening in my life – it's a proclamation."
So what's the secret to his success?
According to Johnson, who shared his experience with Millikin students at a Career Connections program during Homecoming last fall, it's all about relationships.
"Be around people that push you," he says. "You can learn so much from them. Don't be afraid or too proud to share. Leave your nerves and ego at the door because the work has to be done and done well."
He also suggests taking advantage of networking opportunities and getting out there.
"Shyness is not going to get you where you want to be," he says. "Don't be afraid to open your mouth."
And Johnson strongly believes in taking any opportunity he is given: "Even the smallest, seemingly mundane opportunity can open so many doors for you."
Balancing a successful, busy career and home life can be challenging. Johnson credits his wife, Andréa, with being the real secret behind his success.
"My wife is extremely patient and supportive beyond measure," he says.
Besides the support of his family and church, Johnson credits Millikin with preparing him for achieving success on the boulevard of broken dreams.
"Everything was in my reach by virtue of being a student here," Johnson says. "It's home."
Dancing for peace
Most theatre practitioners would leap at the opportunity to teach children dance, but very few would travel to the Most Mira "Bridge of Peace" Youth Arts Festival in Kevljani, Bosnia, to do so. Enter Shawn Lent, armed only with a Bosnian vocabulary consisting of eight words, yet still prepared with what she calls "the importance of creativity and hope."
Lent was handpicked through contacts in the United Nations to teach children of an eclectic mix of cultures in this former warzone, where less than 20 years ago the Serbian military killed 300 innocents and tore apart the lives of hundreds of Bosniaks and Croats in the nearby death camp at Omarska during the Bosnian War. "In the third year of the festival, there is a little spot of joy," Lent says, "but it still feels like the genocide was yesterday."
Indeed, Kevljani continues to run into trouble coping with the atrocities of the past. "It just dawned on me as the parents arrived that the war isn't that far removed, and it's the parents' generation." The festival surrounds an empty and rarely used community center that is so far failing in its purpose to bring the village together. The locks have recently been changed and the Serbs have built their own community center. The wounds of war are hard to forget.
In three-hour dance workshops held daily for different age groups, she introduced the children, teens and young adults to everything from ballet to break dancing. "In that culture, dance is used as a way to solidify your identity, along with music and costumes," Lent says, "so it was kind of nice for the children to have the freedom of not doing their cultural dances."
Although the children did grow together as a community as a result of the dances, Lent admits to seeing "some bullying" among them, but notes: "It was actually comforting to see typical kid banter and not nationalistic quarrels." After a while Lent was no longer conscious of who was from what school. It ceased to matter. The cultural tension in Kevljani will not end overnight, but there is hope in the children who have fostered unity through their exploration of dance.
Lent's passion for the community arts is ultimately what brought her to Bosnia, and according to her, that passion is "something that could only have been fostered at Millikin University." While speaking at Millikin last year, she reflected on her time at her alma mater "doing sort of weird yet creative things. There's a lot of taking risks and a range of experiences."
As an undergraduate, she found that "you can really grow into yourself at Millikin," and she did so through the help of friends and mentors like Denise Myers, associate professor of theatre and dance, who Lent compares to "a second mother" who "was always challenging you." Myers gave Lent the push she needed to choreograph the annual children's show, turning it into a musical theatre extravaganza complete with dancing and a choir.
After graduating from Millikin, Lent moved to an all-Muslim neighborhood in London in 2001, where she was flourishing as a youth worker and dance critic. She also was involved in the community arts which, she later discovered, was an actual field she could study.
Lent then returned to Chicago and earned her master's degree, leading her to new heights in the British Counsel Transatlantic Network 2020 and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations International Fellowship. The fellowship brought her to the "Bridge of Peace" festival, where she has had the opportunity to use her talent to bring a community together on a grander scale. "It's a continuation of the dream. I was in the dance field, a great career at Millikin, but it was too insular for me. I found my dream later," says Lent. "It was having a place for dance outside of theatre."
by Jackson Lewis '13
Life has its twists and turns, as Jeff Piskulic '01 of Chile has discovered. A mortgage analyst turned English teacher, Jeff has discovered that change can be a good thing.
"I had been ready to make a move out of the mortgage industry for quite some time but I really didn't know what I wanted to do," Piskulic says. "I thought about grad school, but I didn't want to get a master's degree in something I wasn't entirely sure I had a passion for."
"I came to Chile in March 2008 for a couple of weeks with some friends on vacation – it was my first time in South America – and that was when I discovered a brand new continent to explore," he says. "I decided it was the place for me."
So, after eight years, Piskulic gave up his job in Chicago and moved to Chile, earning his Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certification during his first month there.
He now works teaching English for the largest grocery store chain in Chile, as well as few classes a week at a high school in Santiago.
"Wal-Mart recently purchased 60 percent of the company, so now there are many employees that need to learn English to correspond with Wal-Mart in the U.S. and around the world," he says.
The biggest challenge Piskulic has encountered since moving to Chile was discovering a more complicated language barrier than he had anticipated. As a result, he found that he needed to become a student, too.
"I am studying Spanish daily, and I have improved vastly from when I first arrived, but it still can be frustrating sometimes," he says. "Also, Chileans are known to speak some of the fastest Spanish, within which they have their own entire language of slang, so that certainly doesn't make things easier."
Piskulic plans to remain in Chile until this December, but after that, he may decide to return to the U.S. to attend graduate school.
"I'm really enjoying my experience here, so I certainly don't want to leave anytime soon," he says. "For now I'm enjoying my new job and the free time I have to relax, travel, read and study Spanish."
by Lindsey Compton '12
The complete article appeared in spring 2010 issue of Millikin Quarterly magazine.
Ellen Tolley Davis '00 was spotlighted last November as one of "15 to Watch" by PR News Magazine, a journal for the public relations industry. This distinction honors 15 up-and-coming PR executives under age 30 who have the potential to revolutionize the field. Davis was chosen by a panel of corporate, agency and academic executives (as well as the staff of PR News) from among eligible communications experts around the globe.
Davis, senior director of strategic communications at National Retail Federation (NRF) in Washington, D.C., works to elevate the profile of the retail industry to consumers, investors, politicians and the media. Among her accomplishments, Davis coined the phrase "Cyber Monday" which refers to the peak in online shopping the Monday following Thanksgiving. "We all thought it was an anomaly at first," Davis says, "but when it kept happening year after year, we decided to unveil the trend to the media in November 2005." Like its counterpart Black Friday (the biggest retail shopping day after Thanksgiving), retailers, consumers and media now look to Cyber Monday as the official start to the online holiday shopping season.
Cyber shopping is becoming a prominent sector of the retail market. "Online shopping is growing substantially, and much more quickly than traditional retail," Davis says. "Some analysts say that in the future up to 50 percent of all products will be affected by the Internet." She helps keep the media updated about this trend by providing reporters with timely research and intelligent commentary.
How did her career in retail begin? Born and raised in Galesburg, Ill., Davis majored in communication at Millikin. "I initially thought I wanted to pursue a career in broadcast journalism, but an internship at a TV station completely changed that! I also had a PR internship with United Way of Decatur while I was at Millikin and absolutely loved it," Davis says. "The public relations field was perfect for me because it combines all of my passions: writing, working with the media, strategy and a lot of interaction with many different people." After graduating from Millikin, Davis worked at an advertising agency in St. Louis before moving to Washington to work at NRF. "I have referred back so many times to what I learned in communication classes," Davis says.
Today, Davis is a widely recognized spokesperson for her field. She has appeared on "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, CNBC's "Squawk Box" and ABC TV's "Good Morning America." In addition, Davis is frequently quoted in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Where will she go from here? "I don't have any set career path or goal," Davis says. "I've thought about writing a book of some sort, continuing my education and then teaching at a university, or starting my own company. For now, though, I'm quite happy talking and learning about retail. There aren't many better jobs out there for a woman who loves to shop!"
- by Natalie Perfetti '09
The complete article appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Millikin Quarterly magazine.
An HGTV on-air personality since 2005, Evans was recently named co-host of one of the network's home improvement series, "Don't Sweat It," helping homeowners with projects they don't know how to tackle.
Viewers may also recognize Evans from her design work on two other HGTV series — "My First Place" and "Freestyle."
For both series, Evans flies to locations around the country, where she often meets homeowners and oversees the project's first day, shops for the project on the second day and films on the third day.
Besides lighting up the screen for HGTV, Evans can also be spotted online and in print ads for General Electric's "Right Light, Right Now" campaign (find it at gelighting.com), including ads in the October issues of Better Homes and Gardens, Good Housekeeping and other magazines.
Evans also has her own private design business in New York.
Evans, who earned a bachelor's degree in musical theatre from Millikin, served as stage manager at Kirkland Fine Arts Center as a student and also worked in the theatre scene shops, where she learned to use power tools and sharpened her design skills.
Immediately after graduation, she pursued her dream and moved to New York, where she paid her bills by working on displays and productions for a creative design company while looking for acting jobs and commercial work.
Recognizing that her skills and interests made her a good match for many of the new home improvement shows being developed, Evans kept auditioning with HGTV and finally heard the words she'd been waiting to hear: "You really have a good design eye."
The complete article appeared in the winter Winter 2007-08 issue of Millikin Quarterly magazine.


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1 2/3 cups
all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon
3/4 cup
egg yolks
1 1/2 cups
white sugar
1 tablespoon
orange zest
1 tablespoon
orange juice, strained
1/2 teaspoon
lemon extract
3/4 cup
boiling water
This cake was a huge hit. It was gone in a flash. I topped it off with a glaze made with fresh squeezed orange juice, powdered sugar and butter.
I'm really sorry to leave a negative review but everything about this recipe fails. I went against my better judgement in following a recipe that calls for adding boiling water to beaten egg yolks, which "cooked" them and killed the leavening agent before it even went into the oven. I followed the recipe exactly (I understand the importance of careful beating and folding.) However, the cake didn't rise, was beyond spongy (rubbery) had so-so flavor (could have benefited from vanilla or almond in addition to the orange zest and lemon extract.) and was over baked at 60 minutes. I come from a long line of bakers and will stick with the trusted sponge cake recipes handed down from my grandmothers in the future, none of which is any more difficult than this. I'm annoyed with myself for wasting all the ingredients on this one. My husband took one bite and said it wasn't worth eating. I ate a small piece and saved a slice for my mom (a professional baker) who guessed just what was wrong without my telling her about the recipe instructions. We both agree this is an inferior sponge cake. The biggest problem is the boiling water dumped into the egg yolks and leavening.
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Very nice recipe. Easy to make and turned out great, the citrus flavours are easily substituted to adapt it to your taste. I've made a pina colada flavour (substituting coconut, rum and pineapple flavours) and a mocha flavour (substituting chocolate and coffee flavours) and they both tasted great.
Very tasty!! I wouldn't call it moist, but it certainly is good.
I have left over yolk from making angel food and this is the perfect way to use it, it even tasted better than the angel food, haha..
FYI, I use 11yolks, may varied depend on the size of your eggs, but i think you'll need around 10-12.
Delicious!!! Very good. I didn't add the orange flavorings though, and it still came out excellent. Make sure to whip the egg-yolks and sugar until the mixture is very light and rises, or the result will be not as well.
When I was a kid sponge cake was my favorite. My mom always made one when she made the angel food cake using only yolks. I have looked for this recipe since forever and am so glad I found it. For the one lady in England that does not have a tube pan, if you need one, take a large pan, place a heat proof glass in the center and viola, a tube pan. For those who do not like the texture of the cake, remember it is called a "sponge" cake. I am making one today using only lemon juice and rind. Yum! Thanks so much for this recipe. From the other reviews I am sure I will give this recipe a five star rating. To avoid having problems getting the cake out of the pan, line the bottom of pan with ungreased parchment paper. The paper will slide out with the cake and can then be peeled off easily. Just tear off a piece of parchment paper the width of the bottom of the pan, take a pencil or pen and draw around the bottom of the pan onto the paper, then cut the paper a little smaller than you have drawn and it should fit nicely into the tube pan.
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The Rev. Cal Adams of Temple Baptist Church was present at last week's city council meeting to make a case to overturn the recently passed amendment to the ABC ordinance that allows Springfield's businesses to sell alcohol on Sundays.
The first reading of the amendment was held at the Tuesday, June 9, regularly scheduled meeting, and it was passed at a special-called meeting on Tuesday, June 23. It was passed with a vote of 5-1, with council member Bob Goodlett as the only dissenting vote.
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I tell you, in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Note 9 at Lu 17:34: There has been much confusion over these few verses. Some say that the ones who are taken are spared the judgment that the others experience, just as Noah (Lu 17:26) and Lot (Lu 17:28) were both removed from the destruction. Others say that it is the ungodly who are taken away in judgment and destroyed and that the godly people are the ones who are left, as in the cases of Noah surviving the Flood and Lot escaping the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Because of the illustration in Lu 17:37, it is probable that Jesus was speaking of the godly being taken away and the others being left to suffer God's judgment. One point that everyone can agree on is that Jesus was saying that the godly will be spared and the evil will be punished (see note 10 at Lu 17:37).