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Dear Friends,
Last Sunday, May 3, I announced that the Vestry and I are moving Sunday worship for the months of June, July, and August to Karns Hall, which now is under renovation to prepare it for use as a worship space. Long-time members will remember that what now is Karns Hall was the main church for the first half of St. Margaret's life as a congregation. We're working hard to ensure that worship there is comfortable, beautiful, and edifying. The target start date is Sunday, June 7, though that date may slip if construction is not complete. Watch for additional announcements in late May. The tentative Sunday schedule will be as follows:
- 7 a.m.: Holy Eucharist, spoken
- 9 a.m.: Holy Eucharist with music (choir though June, as customary)
- 11 a.m.: Holy Eucharist with music (same as 9 a.m., though possibly alternate liturgy)
The decision came as part of an effort to bring our resources, especially our facilities and cash spending, more in line with our missional and ministerial goals. It's part of a larger facilities use strategy, and driven ultimately by our 2014 parish-wide discernment of God's will for us around mission and ministry. The summer move to Karns is an experiment, and may be reversed if actual experience shows that the experiment is not meeting our objectives effectively. Those objectives include:
- Create a more accessible and intimate worship experience for the summertime congregation, who otherwise are seated far apart from one another in a space that isn't proportionate to the size of the congregation. Karns can be entered without climbing stairs, and coffee hour is close at hand. When our air conditioner failed on Independence Day weekend in 2014, we observed one of the best-attended coffee hours ever during a season when it's normally barely attended at all.
- Make a meaningful impact on our operating budget by reducing wasteful spending on heavy air conditioning a room that's empty 163 out of 168 hours a week during the summer. The room still will be air conditioned, but only as needed to keep the area around the organ in the upper 80s. The organ will require retuning at the end of the summer, but it's our practice to tune it then anyway. Currently, one of our highest costs is air conditioning the church through the summer months. Because the organ requires stabilization at a constant temperature, the room historically has been kept in the low 70s all summer long, 24×7. That's an extremely expensive proposition in desert summer heat in a large space with little insulation and enormous windows facing every direction. Combined with other operating changes in the church building, we believe we can reduce substantially one of the biggest costs we face every year: air conditioning the church itself.
- Vacating the church while we make necessary upgrades and modifications to a 27-year-old air conditioning system. We're replacing the temperature control system, two compressors, and some critical pumps and timers to increase operating efficiency and our ability to regulate the temperature comfortably in the building. The upgrades also will reduce substantially the rates of catastrophic failure of critical air conditioning components we've suffered at great financial and operational cost in the last several years.
The service times will be re-evaluated at the end of June. At current summer worship levels, three services would be required. But if attendance declines, we may consolidate back to 8 and 10.
The summer move would not be possible without renovations to Karns Hall, which will offer the additional benefit of creating a more beautiful and functional space for educational and fellowship programs. The ever-stained carpet will be replaced with ceramic tile with a woodgrain pattern. The room will be painted an off-white color with a dark brown accent reminiscent of the original worship space, and holes and blemishes patched. The roof will be repainted. The interior lighting will be replaced with high-efficiency LED fixtures that distribute light more effectively. Selected furnishings from the original church are being restored, and additional wall decorations are being added. Seating will surround a central altar for intimate worship. The grand piano from the church will be relocated to Karns to lead music. The air conditioning has been reworked to ensure good temperature control and efficient energy management. A state-of-the-art sound system is being installed to distribute sound evenly in the room with minimal echo. We are working with acoustic engineers, and panels will be added as needed to manage reverberation. The very loud refrigerator in the kitchen will be silenced. The restrooms at the Lee Building and their air conditioning have been renovated for Sunday morning use, and the concrete walkways outside Karns Hall are being repaired to eliminate trip hazards.
The Vestry has authorized $70,000 of work to be paid from unrestricted reserve funds, and the work currently appears to be coming in for about $58,000. Alice Sleight has donated the lighting, and Lucy Karns has donated the sound system. Other donations are being solicited for liturgical furnishings including an altar and comfortable seating for the people.
Response to date has been mostly very favorable, but some have raised important concerns, and this change is very painful for some. Good and reasonable people will disagree about the best way forward. Most who've raised concerns understand that we all love St. Margaret's and want what's best for the congregation, and extend the same courtesy and Christian love to parish leadership that you'd expect from us. Emotions can run high because we all care deeply about the congregation, and our community of faith is supported best when we speak the truth in love. I'm grateful for those who have spoken directly to me or to the wardens.
In the coming days, I'll send additional information about the financial aspects of the change, the larger mission and ministry context, and additional campus changes under consideration. For now, I'm hoping the information below, including the contact information for parish leaders, will be helpful. I'm looking forward to seeing you Sunday, and to many more years of fruitful ministry with you.
Faithfully yours,
The Rev. Lane G. Hensley, Rector
Key Points
- DISCERNMENT/MISSION DRIVEN: All the proposed changes are based on the Vestry's considered collective judgment that they help us move toward goals identified through the 2014 parish discernment exercise spearheaded by Rita Saari. The overarching goal is to ensure that our physical plant is aligned with missional goals. Right now, our best spaces are unavailable for our best ministries.
- HVAC UPGRADES APPROVED AND FUNDED: The air conditioning upgrades to the main church building are underway now, and likely will move into high gear, with sporadic scheduled air conditioning outages as various equipment is replaced. That project was approved by the Vestry at its December meeting, and is being funded from reserves. A 2012 engineering study revealed that the operational savings from the new equipment greatly exceeds the loss of investment income from the applied reserve funds.
- KARNS MOVE APPROVED AND FUNDED: The renovations to Karns Hall are funded by a combination of draw on reserves and gifts from generous donors, and have been approved by the Vestry. The exception is the furniture, and we still are working on securing donations for that. It's unlikely that the permanent furniture will be ready in time for a June move to Karns Hall, but we'll use temporary furniture in the interim, and will be able to display posters with photographs of the hoped-for upgrades. The project is on schedule and we are beating the budget significantly.
- Coffee hour will be in Karns Hall during the summer months, even if coffee hour later moves to Meyers and the courtyard during high season.
- Choir will continue to sing at Karns Hall through the end of June as scheduled.
- No St. Margaret's or outside groups are being displaced to make this possible.
- BRIDGE CLUB ended its use of Meyers Hall on May 2. We had offered to extend the use of space through the end of the summer, but they asked for end of May instead, then moved the date to May 2.
- SOLAR PROJECT still is being actively pursued, but is complicated, and likely to take much more time.
- SCHOOL BUILDING SALE still is on track. The tenant/buyer extended their option to buy by one year in 2014, and we anticipate knowing by about September whether they will exercise the option. Indicators are favorable. If it sells, half our debt will be eliminated. Current lease payments are being used to pay down the principal on our mortgage.
Significant questions and misconceptions
- How can the church afford these building projects but not an associate rector? We can afford an associate rector under the current budget, and are searching for one now. But salaries are paid from the operations budget, and the building projects are funded by reserve funds and outside gifts. In each case, the goal of the building/operational changes is to increase available funding for operations, including the job security of an associate rector.
KEY POINT: The problem is not that we don't have enough income. The problem is that most of our income is used to pay for aging infrastructure and crippling debt.
- Is this the beginning of the end of our music program? On the contrary. We are eliminating one of our largest expenses (air conditioning a huge empty building at 72 degrees through the hottest months of the year) so that the income we have from generous donors can be applied directly to music, worship, education, and outreach – mission and ministry – and not to inefficient operation of an aging physical plant.
- Is the message that year-round members don't deserve to have the organ? Absolutely not. In fact, our hope is that the change of venue will improve the intimacy of our worship during the summer, and our musical offerings will continue to be high caliber. The reason for the move to Karns is not to scale back when the snowbirds are gone, but to reduce the runaway cost of operating a 27-year-old air conditioner during the most expensive months. It's the same reason many people don't heat swimming pools in February.
- Why is this information secret? It's not. All Vestry meetings are open to the whole congregation. We meet the second Monday of each month (sometimes with summer breaks) at 4 p.m. in the conference room of Karns Administration, the parish office building. Financial statements are available for inspection by any parish member, and are audited annually.
- Why not use reserve funds to pay off debt? That's a possibility. The Vestry chose to wait until the results of the school property sale are known and make a decision based on a better awareness of our financial footing in 2016.
- The Rev. Lane Hensley, Rector; email@example.com; 760‑346-2697, ext. 106
- Barb Gibson, Senior Warden; email@example.com; (760) 779-9998
- Steve Hanson, Junior Warden; email@example.com; (760) 200‑1797
- Brad Burr, Treasurer
- Bob Dean, Vestry
- Mary Ann Ekman, Vestry
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Dramatic tension – dynamic still lifes with Alison Rankin
February 2017
I am passionate about still-life painting and place a great emphasis on light, colour and composition. I love conveying the weight and texture of fruit and vegetables, creating a classic and sensuous still-life feel. Textures, shapes and colours are harmoniously combined to elevate the mere domestic to iconic status.
My most recent work involves fewer objects, sometimes just single fruits, an egg, a piece of cutlery, string or suchlike. I aim to extend the genre by adding movement and dynamic relationships; to introduce dramatic tension into the tranquil world of still life. This is often done using balance, items falling (or are they rising?) items hanging, tied and just barely balancing, with collapse just a moment away.
My starting point is often the colour of the main item. I always work directly from life and tend not to sketch out ideas; I fiddle with the set up until all the components are exactly and precisely placed. I often use Sellotape, pins and Blu Tak to secure my props for the duration of the work and then paint exactly what I see, although I'm not aiming for photorealism. I love the contemporary but traditional paintings of Henk Helmantel and Eric de Vree as well as the extraordinary draughtsmanship of Michael Angove.
Basic working method
I work in acrylic paint, often combined with coloured pencils, graphite and inks, building up to create a smooth but painterly result. I work on Fabriano 5 300gsm paper; I love the way it grabs the paint and that the paint dries immediately, so I can work really quickly. I work on wet paper, stretched and taped onto a piece of plywood.
After I've finished the painting I varnish it with four or five coats of Polyvine Decorators Varnish, one part satin mixed with two parts matt. When dry I cut it off the board, work out the exact area, that of the finished piece, and tear the edges using a deckle-edged ruler. I then float mount the work using 5mm foamboard in a black box frame.
I have recently been using Tru-Vue non-reflective glass in my frames; although expensive, it stops a painting with a dark background turning into a mirror. This glass is practically invisible, which somehow makes the painting more precious looking.
Alternatively I bond the paper with PVA glue onto a piece of 6mm MDF, then paint on that and varnish it with five or six coats of the same varnish. This gives an extremely robust and durable surface and can be framed without using glass.
Acrylics are wonderfully versatile paints. If you can't get on with them, my advice is always to buy the best quality you can. I use Chroma Artist Colour; they have fabulous density and depth of colour and are very natural looking. I couldn't work without ivory black, Chroma white, unbleached titanium, parchment (incredibly useful), warm grey, sepia, raw umber or Payne's grey. I also use Liquitex heavy body acrylics, their transparent colours make a really good bright glaze.
I also use a lot of pencil, ordinary graphite as well as graphite sticks, rubbed on with stump sticks as well as Derivan liquid pencil in sepia, which is more like creamy paint than liquid, and Schmincke Aerocolor inks. I particularly love Prismacolor pencils, they are fantastic for small areas of intense colour as well as creating shadows and texture. The French greys are perfect for shadows and the black for tiny points of darkness; the white and cream for gently suggesting a highlight or softening an edge.
An ordinary B pencil for drawing cracks and crazing on old pottery is invaluable. I am always looking for a good opaque bright white – very difficult in acrylic. I have been known to use a little white oil colour or oil pastel for highlights. In fact, oil pastels are great for rubbing on lightly to add texture and highlights; as you paint over them they can act as a resist to the acrylic and create a very interesting texture.
I have two Mastersons Sta-Wet palettes, one to lay out my colours, the other to use as a mixing palette. These are invaluable as acrylic paint can stay useable for weeks. I intermittently spray the surface of both palettes with a fine water spray to keep them damp.
My brushes are Pro Arte Prolene and Polar, mostly the flats, with the very fine rounds for detail. I use inexpensive brushes because I'm very hard on them – rubbing, scrubbing and stippling.
Texture and backgrounds
I always have a piece of dampened kitchen roll in my hand to blot almost every paint mark as it goes on. I also use my finger to smudge and rub the paint. I work the paint in layers, thick and thin, dry and wet. I rub it out with kitchen roll, my finger, a putty rubber, a tiny piece of green kitchen scouring pad, and sometimes use fine sandpaper when it's dry to smooth the surface again. Dry brushing is a very useful technique with acrylics; combined with thin washes it is a wonderful way to obtain texture. Heavy weight paper can take quite a lot of rubbing and scrubbing but you have to know when to stop, or a hole will appear. Equally you can keep layering up the paint but there will come a point when you just can't make any more paint stick.
I work from white up to dark and then back again, adjusting the tonal values as I go along. I do use black in small amounts, but usually soften it with a little sepia and warm grey, or I mix indigo, raw umber and dioxazine purple to make a fabulous rich 'almost black'. I very rarely use straight primary colours. Sludgy 'off' colours seem to work for me. I often add a tiny dab of black or sepia to dull down a mixture. Dark backgrounds are a mix of sepia, warm grey and a small amount of black and raw umber.
Backgrounds can be light, medium or dark but always have some mottling, shading and blurring to give depth and sometimes mystery, particularly the dark ones – this is done by very patient stippling and blending. Also very time consuming are the edges of the items, this is done last, to 'neaten up'. Getting the balance right for soft, hard, light, dark edges that don't look like they have a line drawn around them or make the object look cut out, takes careful work, often with a tiny brush.
DEMONSTRATION - Old Jar with Knife and Balancing Egg
I wanted to portray something a little quirky and mysterious. Could the weight of the egg actually hold down the blade of the knife? Or was it about to be flipped up in the air by the arrangement collapsing?
Stage 1
As always, I began with a simple but accurate outline drawing in 2B pencil.
Stage 2
When painting fruit I got into the habit of always doing them first before they wrinkled and went mouldy, so the main item is always done first to set the tone of the painting. Most of the detail is finished but I work up the lights and darks as I go along.
Stage 3
I always get the base colour and shading of an object right before I add the detail or pattern.
Stage 4
I blocked in the background roughly, after deciding where the horizon would be, then blended, stippled, rubbed and washed the horizon line until it was exactly right; not too perfectly 'airbrushed' looking but not too patchy or blobby either.
Finished painting
Lastly the edges were neatened and either softened or sharpened, highlighted or shadowed.
Alison Rankin has a BA hons in Graphic Design. She has worked in book and magazine publishing, as a photographic stylist for food photography, editorial and advertising and also produced paint effects for interiors, furniture and photographic sets. Alison has been painting still lifes professionally for 20 years and has exhibited widely, in the UK and internationally, including in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Alison will be represented by Quantum Contemporary Art at London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington, London, January 18 to 22, and the Affordable Art Fair London, Battersea Park, London, March 9 to 12.
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How Cirque du Soleil Triumphed over the Social Media Battle
Even for a brand known for its spectacular high-risk visual arrays, trying to stay on top of all the technologies and touch points for consumers of Cirque du Soleil is like the "Wild Wild West".
"Back in the days of Mad Men, it used to be five – outdoor, signage, print, radio, television," Jordan Fiksenbaum, vice president of marketing and public relations at Cirque du Soleil, said.
"Now you have signage out-of-home, print, radio, television, infomercial, video games, websites, chat-rooms, organic search, online display, landing pages, microsites. Then you also have mobile apps, location based apps, Slideshare, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine.
"There's so many different ways to reach people these days and it takes multiple impressions to reach people."
Social media is one of the many areas Cirque du Soleil capitalises on for consumer engagement, however the immediacy and transparency of the many available platforms can be seen as risky.
"If you make a mistake in something then you can't correct it because it's already in the public domain," Fiksenbaum said.
"I think sometimes that is a risk we could potentially take as you're working in a non-controlled space."
"If you were to look up our name on social media I think people would say that we are better than industry standards in terms of how we engage. I think the biggest thing people mention a lot is getting back to people, in terms of responding to people and enquiries around Cirque du Soleil and how fast our social media team answers questions."
Sometimes the brand goes as far as wishing Happy Birthday to a fan.
Word of mouth is a key awareness tool for the brand and whereas the traditional version of word of mouth was two people physically speaking to each other, social media has virtually eliminated the boundaries of who can say what and who sees it.
"People who are lovers of our brand are the fans," Fiksenbaum said.
"They express their emotions in what they post on social media. When we talk to people in their everyday life, and just in general, we allow our product to be shared with everybody and that creates an emotional connection and a bond."
Another challenge Fiksenbaum faces is keeping the brand fresh on social media and keeping its 622,000 Twitter followers and 2.3 million Facebook fans engaged.
"With so many competitive aspects, it's like 'why you over anybody else?'" he said.
"What makes the decision to get someone to convert and how do you utilise all the new media?
"How do you utilise everything when your marketing budgets are where they are – they don't go up. It's not like we're spending more to market our shows, but there are so many new ways to market a show."
Being a very visual company, the introduction of new technologies such as social media has allowed Cirque du Soleil to branch out and reach more fans in order to tell its story.
"We used to have one main visual, but now with the tools that we have from a technology standpoint, we can tell a lot more," Fiksenbaumsaid.
"We can tell more about the characters in our creative discovery. We can provide more details in terms of giving audience reaction, giving behind-the-scenes footage to make sure people are a little more engaged. And going behind the curtain a little bit more."
Providing little tidbits of what is to come in upcoming shows is one marketing method Cirque employs, however being known for its elusiveness, managing the etherealness in the transparency of social media is all about creating content that is "dialogue, not monologue".
"We're thinking like a fan and what would they be interested in seeing? We're now doing a lot more behind the scenes and using content that hopefully spurs curiosity."
The spurring of curiosity can be seen when Cirque du Soleil announced a joint partnership with James Cameron to bring the blue-skinned Na'vi's of Pandora to life on the Cirque du Soleil stage.
Fiksenbaum believes Avatar was the perfect fit for the brand.
"We felt that it showcased a new world and a new opportunity so it was really good for us to be engaged in it," he said.
Similarly, the second tribute to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson One, released behind-the-scenes footage and small peeps into the show to keep fans engaged and wanting more, as well as a peek into the evolution of man in Totem, Cirque's latest tour to come down under in October this year.


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Friday, 30 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
photographing paintings
Monday, 12 November 2012
heaven in a wildflower ...
if there's heaven in a wildflower, there can be galaxies and constellations on the surface of a slide.
this is the surface of 35mm film ('out west') which, to me, looks like the heavens or an aerial view of earth.
out west
Sunday, 4 November 2012
The Paris Review
I love 'The Paris Review' so was pleased to see my work illustrating
Kay Ryan's poem, 'Bitter Pill'. The poem, in full, is here.
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Lilydale's Healthy Teriyaki Chicken Bowl
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Serves: 4
600gm Lilydale chicken tenderloins
1 tbsp peanut oil
2 tbsp teriyaki sauce + extra, to serve
270gm soba noodles prepared according to packet instructions
1 large avocado, sliced
250gm edamame beans, blanched, podded
1 Lebanese cucumber, peeled into ribbons
1 small red capsicum, thinly sliced
40gm snow pea sprouts, trimmed
2 green onions, thinly sliced on the diagonal
Pickled ginger, wasabi mayonnaise, toasted sesame seeds, to serve
1. In a large snap-lock bag or glass bowl place chicken tenderloins, peanut oil and teriyaki sauce.
2. Heat a char-grill pan over medium-high heat and cook chicken for 3 to 4 minutes each side or until cooked through. Set aside on a plate loosely covered with foil.
3. In a bowl arrange noodles, avocado, edamame, cucumber, capsicum and snow pea sprouts. Top with chicken and sprinkle with onions. Serve with pickled ginger, mayonnaise, sesame seeds and extra teriyaki sauce, if desired.
Lilydale chicken 3 ways
- 2 Lilydale Free Range Chicken Breasts (skin removed, but kept)
- 150ml water
- 100g ice
- 20g salt
- 10g sugar
- 1 x twig thyme
- 1 x garlic bulb
- 1 x star anise
- ½ tsp black peppercorns
- 3 x leeks – whites only
- Vegetable oil (for frying)
- 1 x punnet woodear mushroom
- 50g butter
- 50ml apple cider vinegar
- 20g sugar
- 100g water
- 1 x twig of rosemary
- 1 x garlic clove
- 250g button mushrooms
- 1/2 onion
- 1 garlic clove
- 3 leeks – green only
- ½ onion – sliced
- 1 garlic bulb – sliced
- 1 twig of thyme
- 2 medium sized potatoes – peeled
- 500ml chicken stock
- 500g chicken wings
- 1 onion
- 1 eshallot
- 1 garlic bulb
- 50g mushroom
- ½ small lead
- X chicken stock
- 100ml sherry
- 50ml Pedro Ximenez
- 100g cream
- 2 x chicken skins
- Salt
- Trim any excess meat and fat from the chicken breast.
- Place in a cold brine for 2 hours.
- Remove from brine and run under water for 10 minutes.
- Place into a saucepan of water at 80°C for 12 minutes.
- Remove the larger end of the wingette bone.
- Cover wingette with the duck fat and herbs.
- Bake for 140°C for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Remove and allow to cool before pulling out the bones and pressing (skin side down).
- Thinly slice (chiffonade) leek in 3/4cm long strips.
- Fry at 140°C until crispy and golden.
- Season with salt & pepper.
- Cut mushrooms in to nice small sized pieces.
- Sautee in butter with rosemary and garlic.
- While mushrooms are sautéing make a pickling liquid with water, sugar and apple cider vinegar.
- Ass the sautéed mushrooms to the picking liquid
- Sweat down onion and garlic until soft.
- Add mushrooms and caramelise.
- Blend with xantham and water.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Pass through a sieve to remove any bits.
- Sweat everything down until soft.
- Add stock and reduce until about 2/3 of original.
- Roast chicken wings in the oven at 190°C for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
- Add chicken wings into a large pan with the vegetables and caramelise.
- Add mushrooms to absorb excess fat.
- Add sherry and reduce to glaze.
- Add stock and cream and simmer.
- Cook for 1 hour, pass through a sieve to remove any bits and reduce.
- Lay chicken skin flat on baking paper on oven tray and lightly salt.
- Place another sheet of baking paper on top of skins and add another tray on top to keep the skin flat.
- Bake at 180°C for 12 – 14 minutes until cooked through and crispy.
Place all components onto a serving plate, garnish to serve.
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Hot Weather Tips
- It's going to be a scorcher this weekend so make sure you slip, slop, slap, seek and slide.
- Bring a water bottle – there's a free water refill station available on site
- There will be misters to help keep you cool and plenty of places to purchase cold drinks and ice-cream
Gourmet Feast in the Valley will be going ahead in all weather conditions so make sure you come prepared!
Security Checks
For security reasons, please note that you will not be allowed to bring in any food or alcohol from outside, deck chairs, large beach umbrellas or anything with a sharp tip or objects that can be used as weapons. Security will be checking bags upon entry.
Bottle and food for infants will allowed to be taken in along with picnic rugs
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Mobile tickets, ensure you have your brightness up so tickets can be scanned
Parking and Transport
Free parking is available on-site
Adams Coachlines will be running complimentary shuttle buses between Guildford Station and Sandalford Estate.
Saturday: Buses will be running 10:30am – 7:30pm
Sunday: Buses will be running 10:30am – 5:30pm
Other Key information
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Lilydale Free Range Roast Tandoori Chicken with crispy skin and lentils
210g dry red lentils
1 litre vegetable stock
2 teaspoons cumin seeds
1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
1 small cinnamon stick
10 fresh curry leaves
1 large brown onion, finely chopped
6 garlic cloves, finely chopped
6cm piece fresh ginger, peeled, grated
1 long red chilli, finely chopped
1/4 cup chopped washed fresh coriander root and stem
1 1/2 tablespoons ground turmeric
1 1/2 tablespoons Garam Masala
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 x 270ml cans light coconut cream
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons chopped fresh coriander leaves
1.In a pot of vegetable stock, bring to the boil and add the lentils and cook for 10 mins and drain and put a side.
2.Heat oil in a large, heavy-based saucepan over medium-low heat. Add cumin, fennel and cinnamon. Cook, stirring, for 1 to 2 minutes or until fragrant. Add curry leaves. Cook, covered, for 30 seconds or until fragrant. Add onion. Cook, stirring, for 3 to 4 minutes or until softened.
3.Add garlic, ginger, chilli and coriander root and stem. Cook, stirring, for 1 to 2 minutes or until fragrant. Add turmeric, garam masala and salt. Cook, stirring, for 1 minute or until fragrant. Add tamarind, tomato paste, 1 can coconut cream and 1/4 cup cold water. Bring to the boil. Add the lentils, Reduce heat to low. Cover. Simmer for 6 minutes or until slightly thickened
- 6 X Lilydale Free Range Chicken Breasts
- Oil for frying
Tandoori spice:
1x teaspoon salt
1x teaspoon cayenne
1x teaspoon coriander, ground
1x teaspoon chili powder
1x teaspoon garlic powder
1x teaspoon dry mustard
1x teaspoon ginger
1x teaspoon turmeric
1x teaspoon fennel
1x teaspoon cumin
1x teaspoon paprika
½ \cup yogurt
1x tablespoons lime juice
1.Place all ingredients in blender and blend to a paste, rub all over the chicken and marinate.
2.Place chicken in the fridge and marinate for 12 hours.
3.After marination, place chicken in zip lock bag and then drop in a water bath of 67 °C and cook for 30 minutes.
4.Place in a hot frying pan and fry until cooked through until crispy.
Chicken skin x 6
1.Lay chicken skin flat on baking paper on oven tray and lightly salt.
2.Place another sheet of baking paper on top of skins and add another tray on top to keep the skin flat.
3.Bake at 180°C for 12 – 14 minutes or until crispy.
To Serve
Place lentil curry at bottom of bowl
Place chicken pieces over curry
In a sperate bowl have crispy skin like a poppadom
Scatter a bit of coriander and voila


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Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace." Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place." – Marianne Williamson
If you are just joining me for the first time , you probably never knew I was gone! Check out my previous journey posts here – "Coming Clean" Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 7 Week 8 Weeks 9-12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 16 Week 17 Also, follow me on Instagram for more updates.
I'M BACK!! Did you miss me? To tell you the truth, I missed myself. I lost my way for a while. Although it might not have seemed like it online as I was still going through the motions, actively posting in the group and sharing my food and workouts, my heart and head were not in it. The walls I spent so much time tearing down seemed to be rebuilding themselves at an alarming rate. My "me tank" was beyond empty and if I were a vehicle, I was stuck on the side of a road rarely traveled. Here's the thing with me… I can work like a machine. Sun up to sun down. If you were following along in my first 17 weeks of my journey, you will remember that I talked A LOT about the importance of the mental side of this transformation and the importance of making yourself a priority. As I sat here week after week teaching others how to do exactly that, I somehow stopped following my own advice. I gave too much of myself away. At the end of each day, I had nothing left for myself. That is not me placing blame. Nor is it me making excuses. It is just the truth. Truth is truth and life is life. I am a chronic list maker. I make daily to-do lists, lists of my goals, dreams for my future, lists of recipes I want to create etc. You know the one item on those lists that constantly gets pushed over to the next days list? ME!
As self-aware as I am, I am apparently bad at seeing the signs of a burnout crash before the burnout is upon me. It goes something like this… Work, Work, Work, Work like a dog, Work – CRASH! The problem is that I absolutely LOVE what I do. But too much of a good thing is still too much. What happens when I crash? I retreat. I start letting things slip. I don't manage my time well. I close myself off. I gain weight.
Week 17 brought about me saying I was taking the holidays off. Taking the holidays off led me to nearly an 8 week hiatus. During which time, my weight crept back up AGAIN, I went back into hiding and filled my heart with shame. Thousands of people shared and praised my "coming clean" post. How could I admit to everyone that life intervened and I went backwards AGAIN. I am so good at helping others. I am pretty terrible at saving time for myself in the process. If I am honest in my reflections, I think the decline actually began in Week 14.
I started to feel so down. Do people really see me? Am I just a faceless name? Do I only exist on the internet? Does society only take, take, take without ever thinking of giving back? Is my name really that hard to spell, that is should be misspelled 1000 times a day from the very people that are asking things of me?
I got posts on my blog, mostly supportive, but two that stand out… One simply said. "Did you fail?" Not "Where have you been?" or "Are you still hanging in there?" but simply "Did you fail?" almost as if they secretly hoped that I did. Like they were silently rejoicing through keystrokes. Comments like that really don't fuel that deep desire within me to continue sharing. I also got one that said "Did you quit?" not "Haven't heard from you. Hope you are well." or "Miss seeing your posts." But "Did you quit?" It is just so rude and unnecessary. Neither of those people would walk up to me on the street and say that. Hiding behind the anonymity of a computer screen is just cowardly.
My heart is pure and my desire to share is almost overwhelming. However, I am a person that literally gets 100's of emails, comments, messages etc. per day. It is a mixed bag of polite, demanding, rude, mean, ugly, uplifting and so forth, and so on. It is enough to wear down even the toughest of warriors. So, NO… I did not fail. I did not quit. But thank you internet trolls for hoping that I did. You will be pleased to know that I did face a setback and that I am merely human – not a superhuman, positivity robot. Somedays, even my silver linings are merely just grey days.
The negativity and naysayers wore me down to the point where I just wanted to stop documenting my journey and take a break from blogging it and just DO IT. I was so tired of photographing my food or staging a camera and tripod to capture my workouts. I would look at Jon and say "I just want to eat my dinner" I just wanted to go through my journey for a few weeks without being on stage. It worked for the first few weeks… The meals were on plan, the workouts were plentiful and the scale was moving… UNTIL… it wasn't. One sushi lunch turned into beers, turned into a bottle of wine, turned into mcdonalds. Before I knew it I was in hiding again, going through the motions, helping thousands of others and ignoring myself. How did I get back here? It happens so fast, you know. In the blink of an eye, I am here typing out a disastrous and tragic story of this rollercoaster of a life, all over again. I shouldn't call it disastrous, but it definitely doesn't feel awesome. Life in itself is most certainly a beautiful gift that we should not take for granted. I thought I was fixed during those 17 weeks I was blogging my journey. Didn't you? I seemed to have it all together. I believed that I did. Until I didn't.
These feelings turned into me resenting my journey, my blog, and my essential oils business. That resentment lead to burnout. That burnout led to complacency. Complacency led to weight gain, that quickly turned into more closely resembling my "before" picture.
The one thing that this tells me is not to let my guard down. Not to get complacent or too comfortable. I am the type of person that needs checks and balances… sort of a checklist for daily life. Even if it is just a mental list that I run through. Otherwise, things start to slip… slowly at first. A missed workout here, a bad lunch there. An extra glass of wine here and a Sunday completely off plan there. Before I know it, I am making more bad choices than good. It is just so easy to rationalize your decisions when you are telling yourself that it is an isolated event and not being honest about how bad you are slipping up. I'll start on Monday. I'll get back on track on the 1st… All the things those of us with weight issues consistently tell ourselves. It is such a sick mental game, isn't it? What if instead we just supported one another and took things one day at a time. Made more good choices than bad and celebrated in even the smallest of victories. Doesn't that sound way more manageable? It sure does to me. What if we all spent more time spreading around kindness and gratitude? Imagine the ripple effect that could have.
Well, I still believe that WE CAN DO IT! I think we just need to flip the script a bit. I am excited to be back and I have some exciting things in store to help keep us all on track and traveling down the path to success. Stay tuned for more out of me tomorrow!
Peace and Love,
Week 25, Day 1 – Monday
Starting Date: 8/12/15
Starting Weight: 274 lbs
Current Weight: 267.4 lbs
Pounds Lost: 6.6
Pounds to Goal: 93.4
Goal Weight: 174
Goal Date: 8/27/16
Height: 5′ 9″
Facing the scale and the camera for the first time in weeks. Overall, it could be a lot worse. I am up more than 20 pounds but I do not feel like it is reflected in the pictures. I'm just happy to be back. Thank you all so much for the wave of supportive comments that came in yesterday after I posted about being back and all the reasons that I fell off the radar. To the negative comments that came in – kick rocks… and do it somewhere else.
Living your life under a microscope is hard. The pressure to be perfect is insane. However, I have always, always gone for progress over perfection. I don't even believe that perfection exists. Unless to say that we are all imperfectly perfect… which I believe we are. Societal pressure, tv and movies and the expectations we put on ourselves give us false expectations of how life should work.
This is how life works… That beautiful mess on the right is ME. It is all of you. Let's embrace the mess and all the knots and forge ahead with realistic expectations shall we?
SO, as I move forward, what is new? A lot actually. My mindset. My game plan. My boundaries. All of it. I am redefining my space. Redefining my business. Redefining my goals.
I have talked in previous journey posts about how I truly believe that physical clutter leads to mental and emotional clutter. How can you thrive personally or professionally in a completely chaotic environment? The answer? YOU CAN'T. So part of my comeback is redefining my spaces by creating an environment I can thrive in. It started with our home gym. It was awesome before, but I turned it into a place of constant inspiration. It isn't in this picture, but the whole back wall is covered with positive affirmations and quotes. Just walking into the gym gets me inspired and motivated.
After that came my home office transformation. Over time my home office became sort of a catch-all for everything. I was working downstairs in my living room. I just got out of the habit of working in my office. Then I just didn't want to work in there again until I changed the space and made it something that better represented me, my vision and my goals. I decided that it was time I take control of my space back and transform it into a zen-like place that I loved being in. Now I have two happy places to divide my time. Doing the makeover myself was also a fun process. Picking out each new thing I wanted in there, sanding the furniture and repainting it. It was a fun and therapeutic experience.
Home Office Before
Home Office After
What else is new? Well, I am going to change the way I do things a bit. I am going to do my weekly weigh-ins on Mondays instead of Wednesdays. Knowing I have to face the scale on Monday will help keep me more accountable over the weekend. I have also started working with a trainer. He is helping me with the physical and the emotional side of this journey. He is like having a therapist and a trainer all in one. I will still be sharing my workouts but you probably won't see as much of them. I need to be able to get through them without worrying about documenting it. I will share photos of my workouts as the mood strikes, but not every day. That is a change I need to make in order to make documenting this journey sustainable. I'll still show you just as much of my food and the day to day stuff as in my previous posts. There will likely also be no shortage of pictures of my pups. 🙂 I also probably won't post a progress picture every week. BUT, I will commit to at least updating progress pictures at the start of every month. I also may not check in every single day, but that doesn't mean I am not staying the course. It just means that I am setting boundaries and taking time for myself.
Other updates:
- Need some help keeping accountable? Join the Peace Love and Low Carb Friends Diet Bet. There are a lot of us in there and we are ready to tackle February with everything we've got.
- Check out my Low Carb and Gluten Free Weekly Meal Plans
- Check out Keto Krate. It is a great resource for low carb portable snacks
- I have been tearing up the kitchen with some awesome new recipes. Check out the Fried Cabbage with Kielbasa, Three Cheese Ham and Broccoli Casserole, Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza, and Beef and Chorizo Empanadas
What I ate:
For breakfast I gobbled down a few of these Hot Ham and Cheese Roll-Ups with Dijon Butter Glaze and a couple of eggs. I could eat these all day, every day and never get tired of them. Seriously! Only 2 net carbs. Doesn't that just sound too good to be true?
That's all for Monday. Until tomorrow, sweet friends!
Week 25, Day 2 – Tuesday
Today was a good day. I started my morning with a hot cup of coffee, followed by a session with my trainer. I was feeling extra thankful for technology today as I have found the trainer that is a perfect fit for me, however, he does not live in the same state as me. Today was the start of Week 5 of working with him. Last week and this week, we have really started to dive into some of the emotional stuff. It is amazing to have an outside perspective on things. He is somehow able to put a new perspective on things I already know to be true deep in the recesses of my brain and piece them together for me into actionable steps. Today I talked with him about the fact that through all of the years I was overweight, I was never really an emotional eater. I have definitely been a stress/emotional cleaner and obsessive worker, but I never really turned to food for comfort. If anything I was more likely to drink more than normal and eat less. This last hiatus was no different. It wasn't that I was turning to food for comfort, it was that I just threw caution to the wind. I ate with reckless abandon. Instead of skipping the bread or fries, and subbing them for vegetables when we went out to eat, I just ate the food as it came – gluten, carbs and all. If I was hungry and it sounded good, I ate it. I didn't eat more than normal. I didn't eat more often than normal. I didn't eat because I was happy/sad/mad/stressed. I just ate when I was hungry, but I ate whatever I wanted. To me, that was almost scarier than emotional binge eating because it showed me just how closely I need to watch everything that I put in my mouth. It showed me how important every single meal is. Every last single bite of food. It showed me how badly my body needs to be a low carb and gluten free plan to reach my goals and to live a healthy, vibrant life. Eating the same amount of food but switching the quality and macros of my food, completely derailed me. Complacency simply cannot exist in my world. Add that to more than a few missed workouts and it equaled an expanding waistline yet again. I have no doubt that those bad foods only lead to more burn out, more fatigue and more blue moods. I am mentally the strongest when I am eating on plan, limiting alcohol intake and consistently working out. Well, I was doing the opposite of all 3 of those things. I've owned up to it. I've moved on from it. Now the real work begins… If I am not emotional eating, what else is going on emotionally that keeps me entrenched in this shield of body fat? Is it worthiness issues? Is is daddy issues? Is it a lack of self-respect? Honestly, I think it is all three of those things. I don't think I am holding onto this weight because I am lazy or unproductive. In fact, if anything I think I have excelled in showing just the opposite. Is there a subconscious reason I always put myself last?? I think the answer to that is obvious. I've said it a million times, and I'll say it again… it is crucial to conquer the mental side of transformation or you will never truly be transformed. I thought I made it to the other side when I conquered my anxiety issues. I believed that was the thing that was holding me back. In actuality, it was just one thing to check off the list. I have more demons to face and I am ready to look them in the eye and let them know that I will prevail. When I picture the very best version of myself, I don't have to look too far to see her, because I know she is already there inside me, waiting to come out. I imagine this process unfolding like a butterfly leaving a chrysalis. Or I picture myself standing there and reaching for the top of my head only to find a zipper that spans the length of my body. I unzip this body and step out of it in my brand new, healthy body. Imagery like this makes me smile and paints a picture of total transformation in my mind. I guess I should picture my brain unzipping itself and a new brain stepping out of it as that is where the bulk of the work will take place. 🙂 At any rate, I have started rambling. Let's talk about some food and fitness, shall we?
What I ate:
I hate to be a tease, BUT, I worked on some new recipes today for the meal plans and they were delicious. Recipe creation days always equal good meal days. I have really found my passion for cooking again. I have always loved it and it has always been cathartic for me. However, there was a while there where it just felt like one more task on my to-do list. Not any more. The passion is back. After my workout (and after a shower, of course), I cranked the tunes and got crazy in the kitchen. I made Beef and Broccoli Stir Fry, Cauliflower Rice Pilaf and Chicken Pot Pie Egg Muffins. These will all be in the meal plan this week and they will be up on the blog soon. It was an awesome day of creating and having "me time" all at the same time.
Todays workout:
These are the movements we worked on today:
- Back Squats
- Hollow Body Planks
- Palloff Press
- Hollow Body Push Ups
- 10 Minute Row
I did three sets with varied reps of each movement and they were superset with another movement. We had a couple more movements to get through but with the therapy and the fitness, we ran out of time. 🙂 I felt amazing afterwards. I felt physically strong and mentally clear. I have been missing both of those feelings for a while. That is pretty much a wrap on my day. I hope you had an awesome Tuesday!
Week 25, Day 4 – Thursday
Today was busy, busy, busy! But it was a productive, mostly stress-free day. I had a chiropractor appointment this morning, a haircut this afternoon and work layered in between. I didn't get a chance to workout today. However, I really could and should have set an alarm to get up a little bit earlier and get it done. I was just exhausted. Plain and simple. I worked 14 hours straight yesterday and by the time I powered down, I was pretty much cross-eyed. I would have loved to stay in bed longer than I did this morning. A workout is my number one priority for tomorrow.
For the first 36 years of my life, I had long hair. This past summer I decided that for the first time ever, I wanted to try short hair. Someone should have warned me how addictive and freeing short hair was. I keep going shorter and shorter each time I go in. In less than a year, I have cut a foot of length off my hair. I LOVE it!
What I ate:
This morning (technically around noon) I whipped up a breakfast fried "rice" – I used cauliflower rice, roasted peppers and onions, garlic, butter, sausage and egg. Easy and crazy flavorful! Chewy agreed. He was patiently hoping that some would drop.
It was actually a little silly that I even cooked anything at all today. My fridge is FULL of cooked food right now. I made so many new recipes over the last few days, that there is no shortage of healthy choices when I open the fridge. However, cauliflower fried rice was the only thing that sounded good. Go figure! I'm just happy that it was healthy food that my body was craving.
Here is a sneak peek at some of the recipes to come. For now, you can find them in the Weekly Meal Plans
HEY ALL… Did I grab your attention?
After some careful consideration, I have decided that blogging this journey is just not something I want to continue doing right now. I just want to share organically and take some time for myself. That doesn't mean I won't still be undergoing a transformation, it just means that I won't be posting every little shred of it. You can still check out the day to day stuff on my Instagram account OR in the Peace Love and Low Carb Friends Group. Love to you all!!


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Fried rice balls and pepper are very easy to make. They have only very few ingredients but they are still very tasty. I like fried food but I avoid frying as much as possible, I probably fry something once every two or three months.
The downside of frying is that it smells, it's not very healthy and it's annoying to wash, but the result is oh-so-good… Plus this recipe is perfect when your fridge is empty – like it happens to me every goddamn times and make me feel like I don't actually make food shopping every week…
Positive: Very cheap to make!
Negative: Easy but all in all, from start to finish, you will have to wait about an hour before to taste those delicious rice balls.
Ingredients for 20 rice balls:
- 200g basmati rice
- 1 small red pepper
- 1 small onion
In your pantry:
- 2 tablespoons gram flour (chickpea flour)
- breadcrumbs
- paprika, chilli powder (or any other spices of your choice)
- salt
Cook basmati rice in salted boiling water as indicated on packaging.
Wash red pepper, peel onion and cut both into very tiny dice.
Drain rice when cooked and allow to cool down a bit.
Combine rice and vegetables, then add a pinch of salt, a drizzle of olive oil, gram flour and spices of your choice. Mix well.
Tips: Prepare a small bowl of water next to you for the next step: to form each rice ball, keep your hand slightly wet in order to prevent rice from sticking to your hands.
Scoop out a handful of rice into one hand and form a rice ball. Repeat process until you finish all the rice and set aside in a plate. Place rice balls in the fridge to firm up, about 30 minutes.
Add breadcrumbs to a large bowl and roll rice balls inside to coat them.
Heat 2cm of sunflower oil in a large frying pan and cook rice balls and pepper on each side until golden, about 10-12 minutes.
Place on kitchen towel to absorb excess of oil. Enjoy warm.
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90 Days
Today is the 90th day of #shift2love90. I made it, posting almost every day and twice on the makeup days.
When I started this, I didn't realize that today, day 90, would also be Inauguration Day. That today my husband would be gone, not only for the day but for the weekend. That the entire World was going to shift in some extremely powerful ways as I wrapped up this little experiment.
It's a big day.
The goal of this ordeal, yes it was an ordeal at times, was to say something kind about my husband every day in order to shift my way of seeing him, to create a more loving, kind, rosy filter through which to view him.
Did it work?
I don't know. I suppose I won't know for a while. What I do know is that the posts seemed to create a big ego space for him. That I resent that while he agreed to do this with me, he only actually posted about once every 5 days. That he came to me repeatedly telling me he couldn't think of anything nice to say about me.
Is it any wonder that 2 or 3 of my posts were more passive-aggressive than kind? Hah.
What I did learn is that I can stick with a thing, even if I don't like it. As if changing all of those diapers weren't enough to prove that already. There were days when Mark and I were deeply embroiled in conflict. I posted something kind anyway. There were days when he was a grumpy old asshat. I posted something kind anyway. There were entire weeks when I hadn't heard an actual word from him (he did text sometimes) and I posted something kind anyway.
So maybe the point was more about proving something to myself. Perhaps the real learning was that I can always refocus, see things through a different lens, that I can get past my own ego and see the humanity in any person or situation.
For today, that's good enough. It was interesting and it is done.
90/90 He stuck with it until the end. #shift2love90


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Sexy Husband and I were musing the other, that this is the first December in many many years, that he has not been on tour. Usually I can count on one hand how many days he is home in December. But this year, with the Studio in full force, he turned down gigs, for home. How wonderful! Yet even though he is home waaay more this month than usual, for some reason, it still just feels like life is SO busy and we have to be extremely productive for all 18hours of the day we are awake, to keep on top of things. Not good. Our conclusion is that time is like money, in that if you make more money, you always find a way to spend more money and feel like there's not enough of it. If you have more time, very rarely do we manage it so well as to include enough time for reflection and pause.
And reflection and pause is so important. We need to stop, and breathe, and dream, and remind ourselves why we do it all, and who we are. And so we did that this week, 2 perfect hours of peace and pause. We confided in each other, dreamed some of the same dreams that always come up over coffee and breakfast, encouraged each other and enjoyed each other's company.
This is all much easier to do when you have a special place that you love, that provides an atmosphere for just this dreaming and being. For us, this place is Purple Perk, downtown Calgary. There are many great coffee shops in Calgary, and lots of great places to eat. But there is something about Purple Perk that is special to us. It's where we take our nearest and dearest. It's where we escape to. Sexy Husband and I have our routine down to a fine art. It's always full except our one table, waiting for us. We order the exact same thing(he gets this but I eat that of his, I get that but he eats this of mine). The food is delicious, the raspberry scones are like no other, the staff are amazing and know my girls by name. The coffee is absolutely delicious. I don't know anything about it, which is unlike me, and for whatever reason, I don't give two figs what sub-region of which sub-equatorial country the beans are from. I just know I love it.
The atmosphere is fun too. There's always the usual crowd: one table of hipsters with their oversized headphones and Mac's, one table of suits from the downtown corporate scene, one table of seniors – regulars, business meetings beside lululemon mommies. A little something for everyone!
If you are in Calgary, go check out this happy little place, the heart of Mission on 4th St.
It's time my friends. Time for pause, breath and reflection.


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HD: Rough and ready
In the past, when veteran reporter Peter Arnett headed into an area of conflict, the goal was a clear one: Keep safe and get the facts. His recently completed assignment for the Broadcast News Network (BNN) and HDNet added another component: Get pretty pictures.
Well, maybe not pretty. After all, in an area of conflict, beauty is often of a different sort. Nonetheless, because he and the crew were working with HD gear, Arnett, who filed seven 20- to 30-minute reports for broadcast on HDNet, found the medium's improved resolution made for improved story telling.
"I think this is the way to tell the story," he says. "I truly enjoyed being in this medium. I never looked better, although I look like shit anyway. But I felt I looked good and pretty dramatic. Not quite Clint Eastwood but..."
Steve Rosenbaum, CEO of news division BNNtv, says he was skeptical going into the HD experiment. He felt that the additional weight and complexity wouldn't warrant what he thought would be only a slightly better picture. But, he says, he may have been proved wrong. And he expects to have BNNtv working in HDTV again—soon.
"What HD news may really mean is the end of MTV-style news editing," he says. "With that much detail on the screen, if it cuts too early, it's a little bit like being rushed by paintings in a museum. You find yourself wanting to pay attention to the images in a way that is much more thoughtful than the way we've been trained to look at wallpaper news images."
Given the landscape of Afghanistan, which Arnett likens to the American landscape used as a backdrop for countless movie Westerns, shooting in HD was a revelation and a new way to tell a story for TV news. "There's a cast of characters, local people, which are fabulous to photograph," he explains. "To be able to sit down at the end of the week and be able to tell the story at length over the most fantastic pictures was an enormous thrill."
The camera used by BNNtv's crew was a Sony HDW-700A (which Sony been discontinued in favor of less expensive HD cameras).
Tapes with each week's program were sent to HDNet's editing facility in Denver, Colo. Once there the programs are transferred from a Sony HDW-500 HDCAM deck onto Rorke Data MaxArray 1-TB servers. A low-resolution version of the program is cut on Macintosh G4 computers with Targa CineWave HD cards (for uncompressed HD editing) using Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software. Once editing was complete a high-resolution version was digitized and put back onto HDCAM tape. PixelPower's Clarity HD is used for character generation and an SGI Octane with PowerAnimator for the show's open.
Arnett says the crew treated the camera as if it were a newborn baby, which "was not easy as you bump around the Afghan landscape over the worst of roads."
But the care did the trick.
"I think we proved that you can cover conflict produced with dramatic pictures," he says. "It may have taken five days to get to air, but the way we could tell the story made it still valuable."


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It's no secret that enterprises are seeing significant advantages with cloud technologies such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, and are keen to optimize their IT infrastructure, by deploying in the public cloud. According to IDC, the Cloud market, including cloud services, hardware, and software, will grow from nearly $70 billion in 2015 to more than $141 billion in 2019. The cloud is more flexible and scalable than on-premise infrastructure because it's more difficult and time-consuming to invest in new equipment as technology continues to evolve.
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As more and more companies become intent on moving all or parts of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, the service providers that survive will be the ones that help their clients get on the cloud, rather than avoid it. According to a recent survey 56% of businesses seek external service providers for their cloud strategy and Gartner, Inc., states that by 2018, more than 40% of enterprises will have implemented hybrid data centers, up from 10% today.
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What's stopping service providers from providing Cloud Services?
Not all service providers are created equal – there's a wide range of obstacles which can prevent you from providing cloud services. Are any of these challenges giving you sleepless nights?
- Lack of expertise in solution design: For traditional service providers, it's a race against time to build, train, & retain in-house technical experts. New service providers who offer only cloud solutions are better positioned as they're not tied into any existing business models or margins. Creating comprehensive solutions for cloud and planning migrations isn't an easy task either. Forward-looking service providers need to become an integral part of the cloud ecosystem, rather than ignoring it.
- Inability to provide workload management operations: While a public services cloud provider such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS can provide basic management of compute, storage, and networks, clients still need to manage the workloads running in the public cloud. Enterprise workloads use various native cloud resources for user management, collaboration, application integration, or analytics. Managing cloud services is entirely different from on-premise environment management. The monitoring parameters, metrics management, troubleshooting, workloads performance tracking, network management, storage usages, and dependencies with cloud operators are unique challenges and service providers need to build in-depth knowledge to service clients better.
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Are you clueless about how you can monetize cloud? Getting your clients to adopt cloud and managing their assets differs from managing on-premise infrastructure. The customer has ownership control of the assets to be managed with a traditional on-premise environment, whereas cloud-based assets are owned and operated by a cloud provider. The service provider is responsible for monitoring additional aspects of the customer's operations, such as cloud service availability, security, and quality of service.
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text: Agostino Sciandri and actor Robert De Niro teamed to open this Tuscan trattoria in 1997. Out front, there are cypress and olive trees, as well as an enclosed patio to protect against (rare) inclement weather. The dining room itself has an exhibition kitchen and a glass and steel bar. The key piece of kitchen equipment is the wood-burning oven, which eschews pizzas in favor of proteins like a 22-ounce T-bone steak and baby rack of lamb. Other choices include the pounded and breaded veal chop, cylindrical paccheri pasta with lamb ragú, and tomato-based seafood risotto. Dolci are classic Italian, consisting of cannoli, tiramisu, and gelato.


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King5 is launching a bracket-based competition to determine the best restaurant in Seattle.
Below my picks for the first round. It was mostly an easy one for me aside from a couple of matches. Matt's in the market vs Harvest Vine was a very tough one for me. They are both excellent and much better than most restaurants in the list. Not sure who seeded them, but this is an awful first round.
What do you think?


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Listen for two new voices to pop up on Austin classical music station KMFA 89.5 FM.
Nathan Langfitt has been named host of "Sunday Matinee," which airs Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
His previous broadcast experience includes a stint at the classical radio station in Baton Rouge, La. He also headed up Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra's education department for a time and now serves as a lecturer at the University of Texas.
"Nathan's work with the performing arts, both in education and as a musician, his experience in classical broadcasting, and his friendly, genuine style make him the perfect fit for 'Sunday Matinee,'" said KMFA director of broadcasting and content Anthony McSpadden.
Carla McElhaney has been picked to serve as host of the newly expanded "Night Music" program. It now runs from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily.
"Reverie," which had aired from midnight to 2 a.m., has been canceled.
McElhaney is the pianist, co-founder and artistic director of Austin chamber music and arts collective Revel.
"One of the first things I noticed about Carla at a Revel performance was her warmth and her ability to really connect with an audience during live performances," McSpadden said. "She has a wonderful presence at the mic on stage, and she has the ability to transfer that skill to the studio. Her sense of style as well as her musicality put her squarely in the mold of what we think it takes to host our popular 'Night Music' program."
Langfitt and McElhaney replace Carmel O'Donovan, who has departed the station.


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How can I leverage employees' strengths and values to increase performance?
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When helping you increase your company's workforce productivity, WorqIQ starts with a core belief: improving people's performance is all about giving them a reason to care.
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Built for the health industry, the survey tool app allows customers to share their opinions and health professionals to analyse these surveys.
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Engagement photos
August 11, 2009 No comments Posted by Jeff under: Photos and Videos, Wedding
Last Friday we had an engagement photo shoot with our friend and event photographer Julie Bernstein of Funcrunch Photo. Most of the photos were taken at Stanford (my alma mater), especially the Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden, which has a lot of great wood and stone carvings. We also took some back here in Daly City at the house and at nearby Westmoor High School. We got the photos back yesterday, and they turned out great. Here are a few:
There are more in my engagement photo set on Flickr. And Thom has started a Flickr group for photos/videos related to our wedding, appropriately called Happy Together. It's a way to get everyone's photos of the wedding onto a central place that everyone can view. We've already added some photos there; additionally, if you're a Flickr member, you can join the group to add your own photos to the pool. Otherwise you can e-mail photos to us and we'll post them. Fun!
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Knows a lot about Japanacorps and Imperial Japan. His name translates as "tall tale of idiots." [[Jackpoint]] member.
Knows a lot about Japanacorps and Imperial Japan. His name translates as "tall tale of idiots." [[Jackpoint]] member.
East Asian Johnson. Name means "Rising From Asia." Mostly deals with extractions, either hiring teams himself or passing work on to others. Many corp connections. [[Jackpoint]] member.
Attractive, has [[Yakuza]] ties. Born in Hawaii, worked in *Tir na nOg* and *Japan*. Knows *Japanacorps* and *Russia* as well. Not the first runner to use her name. [[Jackpoint]] member.
Born poor in Japan, orphaned at a young age she fell in with the criminal element, but had the charisma and manipulation skills to stay a step or two ahead of the people she was working for, and keep herself relatively independent. Around this time, in …
VP of sales for [[Monobe International | Monobe International]]. Enemy of [[:aomame-2-chrome | Aomame 2-Chrome]], after she ripped him off of a bunch of money while working as an escort.
Pirate with a large bounty, Queen of [[Libertalia | Libertalia]]. Likely currently on *Madagascar.* Ripped off a large load of orichalcum from [[Wuxing Inc | Wuxing Inc]] during the 60's rush and has been on the run since.


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