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Comment on Eugenie Scott's Letter of Alarm – "Evolution Under Attack" by Charles.
I hope I can share this here.
I have begun reading The Story of Redemption by EG White. I'd like to put a couple of paragraphs that I came across – words that so perfectly present a message that is OPPOSITE of the notions of evolutionary thought – including notions of "Theistic Evolution".
Adam was carried down through successive generations and saw the increase of crime, of guilt and defilemnent, because man would yield to his naturally strong inclinations to transgress the holy law of God. He was shown the curse of God resting more and more heavily upon the human race, upon the cattle, and upon the earth, because of man's continued transgression. He was shown that iniquity and violence would steadily increase; yet amid all the tide of human misery and woe, there would ever be a few would remain unsullied amid the prevailing moral degeneracy. Adam was made to comprehend what sin is–the transgression of the law. He was shown that moral, mental and physical degeneracy would result to the race, from transgression, until the world would be filled with human misery of every type."
"The days of man were shortened by his own course of sin in transgressing the righteous law of God. The race was finally so greatly depreciated that they appeared inferior and almost valueless. There were generally incompetent to appreciate the mystery of Calvary, the grand and elevated facts of the atonement, and the plan of salvation, becaue of the indulgence of the carnal mind. Yet, notwithstanding the weakness, and enfeebled mental, moral and physical powers of the human race, Christ, true to the purpose for which He left heaven, continues His interest in the feeble, depreciated, degenerate specimens of humanity, and invites them to hide their weakness and great deficiencies in Him. If they come unto Him, He will supply all their needs."
These two paragraphs present clear teaching that is not simply different from the ideas of evolution but, in fact, the exact opposite. White here presents in clear language what is so very foundational to Adventist belief. Contrary teaching is abundant in the world, but within our faith it represents a bold attack on the foundations of our faith – even if it is under the guise of "science".
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Eugenie Scott's Letter of Alarm – "Evolution Under Attack"
It appears that the text I placed here from this weeks SS lesson went away. Wonder why?
Eugenie Scott's Letter of Alarm – "Evolution Under Attack"
Bill –
I think we are pretty much on the same page.
Kathy –
I agree with you as well. Nothing is more important today to us AS INDIVIDUALS than to have a personal relationship with our redeemer.
Bob –
I appreciate yours posts.
Ron –
Have no idea what you are talking about but being "tickled" (or at least happy) I guess, is a good thing.
Ya'll have a good week.
Eugenie Scott's Letter of Alarm – "Evolution Under Attack"
I don't think I understand the point you are making in response to my point, Bill.
I have long understood that proclaiming the three angels messages was the primary mission of the SDA church – just as proclaiming a coming flood was the primary mission of Noah. Our church has chosen to represent themselves by the symbol of those three flying angels. Those three messages could be fairly summed as:
1) Acknowledge and worship the true Creator (including His Creatorship) as sovereign of the universe. This message clearly refers to the Sabbath commandment, as well. (v.7)
2) Clear exposure of the false systems of worship (including false ideas about our origins). (v.8)
3) Fair warning to the world of the impending judgement by God related to following the false systems. (v. 9-11)
Your point is well taken about v.12 not being an actual part of the core of the MESSAGE. That seems obvious. I have understood it to identify the people proclaiming the message – they have two important identifiers: (1) KEEP the commandments of God (including the 4th) AND (2) Have the testimony of Jesus.(salvation from our transgressions).
The rebel against God has multiple ways of attacking the truth – including:
* Teaching that we are each "a child of the universe" and that "as the trees and the stars, we have a RIGHT to be here…" – a position (supported by the ideas of evolution and "new age") that there is no supreme God of the universe Who created everything, etc.
(countered by the 1st angels message).
* Teaching that Jesus nullified His law by dying on the cross – a position that actually supports the original contentions of Satan against the government of God.
(countered by the identification of "the saints" v.12)
* Teaching that we can each earn our own salvation by our works (as in "pennance") – according to the Roman church. (countered by "the faith of Jesus" – v. 12)
As I understand them, the three angels messages are God's final messages to a world that will perish – similarly as it did at the flood. There is an ark of safety to be found in those messages. God will put an end to the rebellion when it has fully matured. When will it be? Can it be much longer?
Making NO predictions, may I ask hypothetically: What if we KNEW for sure that it would be in 2012? What if we knew exactly the day? Would we be desperately warning everyone we care about? Or still having this conversation?
This (SDA) movement is more than 150 years old now. None of the "pioneers" would have thought it would go on for this long. How much longer will the Groom tary? Will our children grow up and have full careers? Is there any way that we as a "people" can hasten the great event? Surely it is clear that we have delayed it?
Honestly, at least for me, the discussions (or arguments) about "evolution" are pretty much irrelevant. Much of the world buys into this deception and the arguments are not changing anyone's mind. My original interest here was in addressing the question: "Is evolution being taught in a Seventh-Day Adventist school." IF the answer is "yes" – then – well, let's just say that is a very sad answer. SDA true belief position on the matter is very clear. I am not here to argue with the world as to how we came to be here. I KNOW that in my heart, and surely there are a million websites where I could go to debate it. I really have no interest in the debate of evolution(any of its multiple forms) vs. literal creation.
Anyway: If there is something that I do not seem to understand concerning the three angels messages, then I am listening. Actually, they seem pretty clear to me after more than five decades of listening to them. And I know that any idea that counters a literal 6-day creation week a very few thousand years ago, is contrary to the most fundamental beliefs of true SDA people. AND that was/is the point I make.
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I read something today that seems relevant to these discussions. I am incredulous that we should be having a discussion within the SDA movment about evolution as having a role in our origions.
But teaching evolution as truth is not the only inroad that Satan has made into our church. In fact, there is little area to our core beliefs that has not been compromised.
Read what Ellen White wrote in GC 509: "Conformity to worldly customs converts the church to the world; it never converts the world to Christ. Familiarity with sin will inevitably cause it to appear less repulsive."
Jesus is coming soon. Not only is there a great work to be done in taking the 3 angels messages to the world; there is a great preparation to be worked within each of our hearts individually.
La Sierra Univeristy Fires Dr. Lee Greer; Signs anti-Creation Bond
To love the historic truths embraced by the SDA church and to defend them is not "hate".
The End of "Junk DNA"?
I have studied only elementary courses in science and thus much of what I read in the discussions on this thread are a bit over my head.
Still, I think I have come common sense and that is the tool that I have for drawing the conclusions that I hold.
The Bible describes a 2000 year old event in which the God/human man we know as "Jesus" raised Lazarus from the dead. The event, as described, set a scenario in which Lazarus clearly was dead and his body decomposing. Jesus, in a miraculous way, put "LIFE" back into that decomposing body.
Now either that account is a true event, or it is not. What do you choose to believe? Where is the empirical evidence that this could happen? If you believe the account is true, how do your scientific ideas reconcile to the story?
You can study the building blocks of living creatures / plants and observe much of how life is operating. But without that operational essence that is "LIFE", those building blocks do not exist.
So Mr "Scientist", please show me first how to take the elements in their raw forms and put LIFE into them. Then I can believe that you have an understanding of our origins. You are looking at living forms (dead or alive) and drawing conclusions about your observations without explaining the most fundamental cause of it all: How did it get started?
Please don't make a claim: Demonstrate it. If you understand how it was done, show me. I will make the question even more simple: "What is life?"
"I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." John 10:10
"…should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
Now if you want to tell me that "God" was some brilliant scientist from another planet who created our beginnings in a laboratory, I will point back to the demonstration by Jesus of the raising of a dead man (Lazarus) after three days of decomposition. Jesus simply called him back to life. There was a reason that Jesus did this and the account of it in scripture makes that reason clear.
I choose to believe that most of our "reality" (including "life") is beyond our comprehension. There is much about reality that God has reserved to Himself. If you think you can explain it, then you are buying into the lie told by the serpent, "you will become as God…"
Use the intelligence that God has given you to acknowledge your limitations and His role in our existence. Accept by FAITH those things that you cannot understand.
We have been given a few decades of life to live in the world we know and understand today. Empirical evidence available to us would suggest that when we die, that is the sum total and end of it. Of the billions of humans on earth, where is a person among us who has been risen from the dead?
If you have a hope that there is something beyond your death, then you must shed the notion that you can explain our origins as anything besides an unexplainable mystery that God does not share; except for the account of it that He left to us by His servant, Moses.
I choose to accept my limitations and I place my trust and faith in the word that God has left to us, to help us understand how we got here, why we are here, and how it all ends.
"Even so, come Lord Jesus."
The End of "Junk DNA"?
So do I understand correctly that your "faith" is subject to your scientific provabilities?
You have not yet addressed what I asked about demonstrating from whence comes "life"? Do you believe that life could exist apart from a miracle working God? Do you believe in miracles? Or do you believe that God is just a very brilliant scientist or magician? OR… is it all just a hoax to persuade us to (whatever)…
At what point do we acknowledge our limitations and that our observations can deceive us?
For what reason was the SDA church founded? Is that reason relative to the reason for its continued existence today?
The name of the church was carefully chosen to reflect the reason for its existence. The "Seventh-Day" refers to the holiness of the the seventh day of the week – in memorial of the literal seven day creation week. The "Adventist" part of the name proclaims that we believe that Jesus is coming again very soon in a very miraculous, splendid, and un-scientific way. BUT, the reason for the existence of this church is the proclamation of these things we believe to be true. It's not just a club of folks who hold these "beliefs" – although it could sometime seem that way.
No, the seven days of creation were not vast periods of evolutionary development and the clouds of Heaven are not going to be space ships. But in all honesty, from viewing what you write, I would not know what to expect that you believe, relative to our existence and the advent of Jesus in the near future.
I speak in respect to you, with honesty.
I see truth, not as progressive, but absolute. Our perceptions about truth can be progressive or regressive.
Prov 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but…..
Do you believe what you observe? Or do you believe the record that was provided by the Creator?
You claim to be a Seventh-Day Adventist, it seems. I wonder, just what is it about the SDA faith (it seems inapproprate to me to label it as a "tradition") that, for you, distinguishes it from other "religions"? What is the compelling doctrine or belief that drives you to choose this faith over the abundance of others that are in the world?
Again, with all due respect, I honestly wonder.
An apology to PUC
So far the only substantive responses by PUC defenders have been empty sarcasm and ridicule. Unfortunately, 18-year-old students eat that sort of thing up and follow anyone who has mastered tactics that mirror their favorite media characters. Educate Truth isn't going after anyone. It is simply laying out the evidence and presentations for all to see and assess for themselves. Educate Truth doesn't have to point out the dishonesty and the underlying problem that balanced views in science are not being respectfully presented on Adventist college campuses.


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The New Master of AI-created 'painting'
Mario Klingemann paints with neural nets. His work isn't painting, exactly, but it can look a lot like what we think of as painting. When he won the prestigious Lumen Award for Digital Art recently for "The Butcher's Son," an image of a naked seated figure with a distorted and featureless face, judges described the work as "Francis Bacon as reimagined by AI." But instead of putting paint on canvas to create the disturbing image, Klingemann captured it from inside the multidimensional computational space of a neural network, a practice he refers to as "neurography."
Artists have been working with artificial intelligence for decades. In the 70s, the abstract painter Harold Cohen created a computer program called AARON that was able to make playful "freehand" drawings that were shown at major museums around the world. Until recently, AI art has been "generative" — where the machine generates works based strictly on the rules and parameters programmed into the system. But now with the emergence of machine learning and neural networks that are being trained on vast data sets of imagery — everything from cave paintings to Old Masters to medical drawings to landscape photography — machines can, in some sense, generate their own imagery.
Klingemann has been fascinated with computers and visuals since the 90s when he tinkered around with Photoshop and motion graphics. Self-taught, both as an artist and a coder, curiosity guided him and he has continued to experiment as new technologies come online, buoyed by the open source movement, which makes code accessible to all. He's currently artist in residence at Google Arts and Culture.
To create "The Butcher's Son," Klingemann used a chain of Generational Adversarial Neural Networks, or GANs. GANs consist of two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, that compete with each other. The generator tries to generate an image and the discriminator decides, based on its training data, whether the output is real or fake. A GAN can be used to try to perfectly replicate say, a photo, but "you can also manipulate what it learns so that it produces visuals following other criteria — in Klingemann's case reflecting his artistic gist," as Digital Arts Weekly put it.
Klingemann wanted to make portraits of naked bodies so he used a GAN that extracts stick figures of human poses from a training set of hundreds of thousands of photographs. He used pornography in the training set because "it was an abundant never-ending source of these types of images," he told All Turtles in an interview. The generator has limited information and must try to "expand that information back into something that makes an image" based on what it has seen before, Klingemann explained. "It's at the point when the model has to figure out how to best solve the problem that it creates new types of aesthetics which are kind of in-between but often very interesting and different."
The strange images that his stick figure GAN produced intrigued Klingemann. "I like the look, it's painterly and adds new content. It makes up new information," he explained in a talk about his work. He then ran them through another GAN to increase the resolution and add texture and other details. The model produces many thousands of variations, which is where Klingemann's abilities as a human discriminator come in. Out of all the possible images, he finds "the few islands of interest." One of them became "The Butcher's Son." As a creator, he can steer the model in a certain direction by choosing the training data and setting the hyper-parameters. But he can't fully control what the system will produce. "It's really about finding a balance between control and a happy accident."
The deep dream of AI art
When Google's DeepDream burst on the scene in 2014, Klingemann was thrilled by the possibilities it offered for using neural networks for artistic purposes — and people everywhere were mesmerized by its trippy aesthetic. By running a neural net that had been trained to identify, say, dogs, or human facial features, backward, DeepDream would start to find the features it had been trained on in seemingly unrelated imagery — eyes in clouds or puppy ears in palm trees. But as DeepDream was popularized through open source and various apps, making it easy to do a psychedelic version of your holiday card, the style rapidly became a cliché — then "everybody hated it," Klingemann said.
Another example of how AI art can easily veer into kitschy-ness is the recent sale at Christie's of a GAN- generated print, "Portrait of Edmond Belamy," for almost half a million dollars. Christie's hyped the piece, which looks like someone took a damp rag to an Old Masters painting of an aristocratic gentleman, as "not the product of the human mind." But to produce the work, Obvious, a Paris-based collective of young AI researchers, used an open source Old Masters GAN created by Robbie Barrett in 2014, then packaged the output in a gilt frame with a mathematical formula for a signature. The portrait was blah, according to Klingemann and other AI artists who were critical of the Christie's spectacle, because Obvious used an out-of-the-box GAN from several years ago: the results lacked originality. Also, Christie's sold the work with a breathless narrative implying that machines are all powerful and even sentient when the reality is neural nets remain a tool of human creativity, if a spookily powerful one.
Klingemann tries to avoid these traps by always experimenting, tweaking the code, developing new training sets, and finding his own techniques. He describes himself as a designer of systems that "are able to keep me interested and surprised."
An important part of his process is to be continuously developing new collections of training data, which involves painstaking categorizing and tagging. His collections encompass visuals like the Old Masters, 20th-century art, and all kinds of portrait photography, but it also includes electrical microscopy, animal fur, plastic toys, hair, skin, metals, minerals, organic materials such as bark, and photos of decay. "They're like my paints," he said. "I am constantly adding new ones and combining them in new ways."
What would Max Ernst think?
Klingemann's hero is Max Ernst, the surrealist artist who invented "automatic" techniques to bring an element of randomness into his art. With frottage, for example, Ernst placed paper over a rough surface, such as a piece of wood or bark, and rubbed it with a pencil or chalk until an image appeared. The patterns formed unique landscapes that he would respond to and incorporate into the final piece.
Klingemann finds a lot of parallels between Ernst and his own machine learning-based artistic practice. Like the rubbings, "machines give me starting points, starting patterns, that I bring meaning to," he said. "The machine doesn't know how the world works and juxtaposes elements that do not belong together, which is what surrealism does, too." As our brains try to make sense of what we're seeing, we enter "this uncanny dreamlike state."
In his series "Neural Decay" Klingemann uses a GAN he's trained on images of decay, like rusted metal or rotting wood. The organic textures and patterns that emerged in the pieces look like digital versions of frottage, as if Ernst were lurking somewhere between the pixels.
Klingemann isn't worried about machines replacing artists, except for the bad ones. Art of the sort you find at IKEA to match your sofa could definitely be made by machines, he laughed. For Klingemann, what AI really adds is new ideas — it's about "augmenting the human imagination."
Still, machines are turning out to be very good at things we thought were exclusive human abilities. So we do need to remain alert. "It's a competition," Klingemann said. "We just have to keep upping our game so we continue to remain interesting."
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI). A TBI occurs when the brain sustains damage from a sudden impact, penetrating injury, or oxygen deprivation. A TBI amounts to a catastrophic injury when it leaves the victim with severe cognitive or motor impairment, or worse, living in an unconscious or semi-conscious state.
Spinal cord injury. A blow or penetrating injury to the spinal column can damage the nerves and structures that allow the brain to communicate with the body. When these injuries are permanent, they commonly lead to partial or total paralysis, such as paraplegia and tetraplegia, which makes them catastrophic. Victims of spinal cord injury must rely on assistive devices for mobility, may have to modify their homes, and could be confined permanently to a wheelchair.
Burns. Burns come in varying levels of severity. They qualify as catastrophic injuries when they cause permanent health complications, physical impairments, and disfigurement.
Crushed or amputated limbs. Almost by definition, a crushed or amputated limb is a catastrophic injury because it results in the functional or actual loss of an appendage. People who sustain these injuries have to learn how to navigate life without their lost limb, either through a prosthetic or by adapting their lifestyles to what limited functionality remains in the limb.
Organ failure/health complications. Any time someone's actions, or inactions, result in our client suffering from a breakdown of their organs and systems, we classify those injuries as catastrophic. Likewise, when a medical misdiagnosis leads to our client developing a life-threatening health condition she would not otherwise have had.
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Motor vehicle accidents. Accidents involving cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles, injure millions of Americans every year. The Seattle area is no exception. The Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) reports crashes resulted in 580 serious injuries on the roads of King County in 2018. Many of these would no doubt qualify as catastrophic.
Bicycle and pedestrian accidents. The same goes for cyclists and pedestrians. The WTSC data also show that in 2018, 137 pedestrians and 38 cyclists sustained serious injuries in motor vehicle-related accidents in King County. When vehicles collide with pedestrians and cyclists, it is those unprotected people who suffer the brunt of the injury.
Premises liability incidents (a.k.a. slip and fall). Sometimes an easily preventable condition on someone's property, like a wet floor or a loose handrail, leads to the most devastating injuries. Falls represent a particular danger for older adults, but even younger people can suffer massive trauma from falling (or having something fall on them).
Workplace and construction accidents. Workplaces and construction sites teem with injury dangers, from uneven footing to highly complex, heavy, and dangerous machinery. Some of the worst injuries in these settings occur when a worker falls from a high height, or someone's limb becomes trapped in a moving machine part.
Defective products. As consumers, we rely on the products we buy and use to operate as intended. Products with a defect of design, construction, or lack of warning can fail unexpectedly, resulting in a limitless range of terrible injuries, including burns and amputated limbs.
Medical malpractice. Doctors, nurses, surgical techs, and other medical service providers have an obligation to deliver a standard of care to patients. Sometimes, for any number of reasons, they fail to live up to that standard. The consequences of these failures can be extreme, such as when a doctor fails to diagnose cancer in time to stop it, or a surgeon operates on the wrong part of a patient's body.
Nursing home abuse. At Boohoff Law, we consider any intentional or negligent injury inflicted on a vulnerable adult in a nursing home to be a catastrophic injury, because there is no excuse for that sort of abuse to happen.
Dangerous drugs. Taking the wrong medication, or the right medication in the wrong dose, can easily result in massive health complications, or can cause secondary consequences that lead to accidents and catastrophic injuries.
Dog bites. Dog bites leave victims with physical and emotional trauma. These injuries most often rise to the level of catastrophic when the victim is a young child who does not recognize the signs of an agitated dog that is about to attack.
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- Physical therapy;
- Lost wages from time off from work while recovering or helping a loved one recover; and
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Non-economic damages compensate for the effects of a catastrophic injury that are more difficult to quantify in dollars-and-cents. They may include:
- Pain and suffering;
- Damage to personal relationships (a.k.a. loss of consortium/companionship/parent-child relationship); and
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Non-economic damages are typically not as large in Washington as they are in other jurisdictions. That is because Washington law caps non-economic damages at a maximum of 43 percent of the average annual wage in Washington (an amount set by law) multiplied by the injury victim's life expectancy at the time of the catastrophic injury (which is a minimum of 15 years). Washington law also does not typically allow a court to award punitive (or exemplary) damages.
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I think this is the debut of the Flat Earth Foundation as a team. Hell Shark is Xia Xingjia from CWE and the CWF, and Coldray used to be a referee for the CWF. They're managed by the subtly named Khan Spirasi. He talks a little before introducing the team, and then Coldray cuts a lengthy promo in Chinese about how the fans are foolish for believing the world is round.
The Man Bros – Jeff and Kevin Man – (not to be confused with the Bromans from TNA) are long-time HKWF wrestlers, and they're the current AWGC Tag Team Champions. The titles aren't on the line, though.
Aside from a little sloppiness here and there, this is a pretty standard tag match that gets its point across. After a sneak attack by the FEF and a comeback by the Man Bros, they settle into regular tag format. The Mans are obviously the more experienced team, as evidenced by the smoothness of their tandem move combinations. Hell Shark appears to be the workhorse of the FEF; he at least has the more interesting move set. Coldray, though, has a swagger about him that gives the team more character. The cameramen don't put much focus on Khan Spirasi on the floor, but he can be heard shouting "F-E-F!" a few times.
Kevin Man is the babyface in peril here, and he does take a beating, especially from Hell Shark. Hell Shark may want to work on protecting his opponent better during some of his moves. His fisherman buster, German suplex, and 450 splash seem rather carelessly executed. Jeff Man looks good when he runs wild after the hot tag, but man, he and his brother could really stand to get some ring gear that makes them look like wrestlers instead of club hoppers.
After the Man Bros hit double dragon – a fireman's carry tossed into a superkick – Khan Spirasi distracts the referee and Kevin goes after Coldray on the floor. Hell Shark lowblows Kevin and eventually squashes him with a 450 for the (upset?) victory. Al Leung on commentary speculates that this might earn then a future title shot.
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Jennifer Crusie "Tell Me Lies"
You mom's of school age kids out there will know of what I speak when I say, May Has Hit. I used to think of May as a wonderful spring month of gardening and walking. Maybe hunting for morels and eating a lot of asparagus. But slowly over the last few years the end-of-school-year nature of May has come more and more front and center. Ah, enough excuses.
Tell Me Lies is about Maddie and C.L. and the small town of Frog Point Well, really it's about Maddie. We find Maddie cleaning out her husband's car and finding black lace panties under the seat. Since he cheated on her five years ago, she naturally jumps to certain conclusions and decides she really is going to leave him this time, she's tired of being the good girl in town, and she and her husband haven't loved or liked each other in a while anyway.
C.L. is the only other guy she "dated" in high school. He comes back into town to look into her husband's books as a favor to an old friend and gets thrown into a very strange kerfuffle with Maddie and her husband. Were there funny moments in the book, definitely BUT...there were a few too many moments where Maddie had to be Too Stupid To Live in order to further the plot. The plot really takes over the book and that might have been okay except it just didn't hang together well. And my other big complaint was C.L. He was a card board cut out character par excellence. His interactions with the daughter were the most interesting parts of his character and they were so damn perfect they made me snort. A puppy? Really?
If you aren't expecting much or reading to carefully this one is amusing.
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I love skies and their reflexion in windows, gorgeous pics! I love the colors! Amazing...ReplyDelete
Hey you. I see you are keeping yourself busy taking pictures. Smart girl. The pictures are wonderful as always. I feel like I'm traveling when I look at your blog and that's a good thing. I haven't forgotten the bungalow pictures, just busy w/work finally!ReplyDelete
- The AncientJuly 5, 2010 at 11:33 PM
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(Bad food, which we eat ritualistically, in penance for our ancestral sins against the native population, made worse by the presence of "problematic relatives.")
The solution was: Make Thanksgiving a Travel Day -- and each year go to some city with good food where we hadn't been before.
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The Ancient--I love your solution to Thanksgiving! And yes, Savannah is surely refuge for me. :) and such a congenial and photogenic one at that.
Kevin, my dear, for some reason your comment won't post, but thank you my dear friend. I am sooooo glad you are busy! and look forward to the bungalow post when you are not. :)


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Adding fill soil
Notice how new roots are formed mostly in the fill soil, not in the compacted subsoil.
Ideally, top (fill) soils brought onto the site should be mixed together before spreading. This helps prevent drainage problems caused by layering of different soil types. It is costly but will reduce landscape maintenance by providing a more uniform soil for root expansion.
If mixing is not practical, purchase fill soil that is as uniform as possible. Texture of fill soil should be about the same as or slightly coarser than texture of existing soil. At the very least, blend the interface between the two soils by tilling several inches of the fill soil into the existing soil.
These techniques help move water through the soil profile and reduce the likelihood of creating a perched water table. If different types of fill soil are used, the landscape will probably require more labor to maintain due to their different moisture and nutrient holding capacities, and poor internal drainage.
If loose, well aerated soil is spread over compacted soil, tree roots will grow mostly in the fill soil, not in the compacted subsoil. If the fill soil layer is less that 2 feet thick, a shallow root system will develop with few deep roots to provide anchorage for large-maturing trees.
Water is likely to pond in the lowest areas on the site. Plant wet site tolerant trees there. If fill soil is more than two feet thick, large maturing trees can probably be planted with little danger of blow over.


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The second sleeve began in the same way as the first, with felt motif elements lightly needlefelted into place. There is a similar motif on the body of the coat, but with the colours reversed. Whether I will use similar colours in embellishing it, I don't know – wait and see!
I am removing the tacked design outlines as I go, at least where they show around the edges. It may not be entirely necessary, but it's much more satisfying not to be spotting them as I work, and I know I would spot them in the finished coat, even if no-one else could do so.
The edges of the large leaves on the second sleeve began with straight stitches over the edges, using a wonderful mohair yarn from Gumnut Yarns. The different amounts of shine from the various threads I'm using will help to add another level of interest to the whole design.
The second level of detail is worked in Up and Down Blanket Stitch, which is a very old favourite. This time I've changed the relative heights of the two uprights to create a more varied effect.
There's a lot going on with the flower motif; Thorn Stitch on the lilac petals and a variant of Loop Stitch on the purple ones, using different thread colours to change the emphasis on the colours.
Crested Chain Stitch in teal edges the flower shape (given it's a Jacobean style design, realism has nothing to do with it – I've not the vaguest idea what sort of flower it is supposed to be!) and I complicated matters for myself by working inward from the tips of the horn shapes to the centre. It is a directional stitch, so although most people won't be able to notice that sort of detail, I think it is worth doing.


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chicken soup from Crestock Images The cool December winds have definitely blown in, and for me there's nothing quite as comforting on chilly nights as a bowl of hot chicken soup. Especially if the soup has these delicious, juicy chicken meatballs in them. Unbelievably easy to … [Read more...]
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Okay, so I didn't really need a fortune cookie to tell me that my Christmas would be a busy one- last year, I felt like I couldn't stop to breathe for the whole of December. This year, I'm doing things differently. This year, I'm preparing for Christmas. Here's how: I'm using … [Read more...]
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Inside the March issue of Up Here we profile several of the North's smallest communities, look at one Yukon town's battle with the United States government to protect the Porcupine caribou herd and showcase the winners of our annual Up Here photo contest—including our sleepy little cover model. Photographer Natalie Gillis snapped the bear cub catching a snooze on the Eclipse Sound between Baffin and Bylot islands. We also listen to Pat Braden preserve the North's music history, and stop by Churchill, Manitoba as the tourist town celebrates its first passenger train in 18 months. Plus, everything you need to know when nature calls in the tundra.
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A Music Genealogy of the Northwest Territories
Pat Braden is preserving more than the territory's music history.By Jeremy Warren
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Cold Snaps
A proud puppy races alongside his family, the great grey owl's piercing gaze, a stoic wolf exuding calm—the moments captured by Up Here readers in our annual photo contest speak for themselves.By Up Here
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So Much In A Name
Why redefining home means so much to Northerners.By Herb Mathisen
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As The U.S. government's 30-year fight to drill for oil in vital caribou habitat intensifies, here's what it means for the community of Old Crow—and the Vuntut Gwitchin who share the land with the Porcupine herd.By Elaine Anselmi
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The Top 40 Film Production Companies in the UK
Tim Dams reveals the top 40 film production companies in the UK, compiled with off the record guidance and input from leading film producers, agents, financiers, and independent film PR consultants.
Ben Pugh, Rory Aitken, Josh Varney & Kate Buckley
42 was set up in 2013 by producers Pugh and Aitken and Talent Group agents Varney and Buckley, whose clients include Michael Caine and Rhys Ifans. 42 is in post on Monsters: The Dark Continent, the sequel to Gareth Edwards's Monsters. And it's prepping Eran Creevy's Autobahn, starring Nicholas Hoult, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe, starring Martin Sheen. 42 has partnered with ITV GE to move into scripted TV.
Credits: Welcome to the Punch, Shifty
Aardman Animations
Peter Lord, David Sproxton & Nick Park
The UK's pre-eminent animation producer, Bristol-based Aardman is readying the movie debut of one of its most popular TV characters, Shaun the Sheep. The film is financed by StudioCanal and will be released in March 2015. Aardman also has 10 films in development, including a new (non Wallace and Gromit) project from Nick Park.
Credits: Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, The Pirates!
Altitude Films
Will Clarke
Production, distribution and sales outfit Altitude has got off to a flying start since it was launched by former Optimum boss Will Clarke in 2012. It's just shot the Samuel L Jackson-starring action thriller Big Game, and is now filming the music industry satire Kill Your Friends, starring Nicholas Hoult and James Corden.
Credits: Big Game, The Hooligan Factory
Baby Cow
Steve Coogan & Henry Normal
Baby Cow is on a roll. Primarily a TV comedy indie (Alan Partridge, Gavin and Stacey), it has carved out an impressive sideline in film too, producing four last year including Oscar winner Philomena and box office hit Alpha Papa. Baby Cow has 20 films on its development slate, including a new project being penned by Coogan and Philomena writer Jeff Pope.
Credits: Philomena, Alpha Papa, The Look of Love, Northern Soul
Big Talk
Nira Park, Matthew Justice & Kenton Allen
Prolific and talent focussed, Big Talk has enjoyed success across film and comedy TV. The indie, which has backed talent like Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, was acquired by ITV last year for an initial £12.5m. Big Talk is filming romantic comedy Man Up, starring Simon Pegg.
Credits: The World's End, Cuban Fury, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Paul, Attack the Block.
Cloud Eight
Christian Colson
Oscar winning producer Christian Colson has teamed with regular directing partner Danny Boyle on a host of hit films like Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours. Recently, Cloud Eight – which has a long term deal with Pathe – has started to move into TV, producing the upcoming WWII mini-series Telemark for US broadcaster FX. Boyle is linked to a feature adaptation of doc Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
Credits: The Descent, Slumdog Millionaire, The Scouting Book for Boys, 127 Hours, Trance
Cowboy Films
Charles Steel & Alasdair Flind
Cowboy Films has built a business across film and TV drama. Run by Charles Steel and Alasdair Flind, the indie is making two very different films this year. It has just finished shooting the Kevin Macdonald directed submarine thriller Black Sea, starring Jude Law. And it's now making Bill, a family comedy about William Shakespeare from the team behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland.
Credits: How I Live Now, Marley, Top Boy (TV), The Last King of Scotland.
Blueprint Pictures
Graham Broadbent & Pete Czernin
Blueprint has established a solid reputation thanks to the success of Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and earlier acclaim for its In Bruges. The indie is now in post production on two highly anticipated features. The first is the sequel to its surprise 2012 box office smash Marigold Hotel, which took over $135m in cinemas around the world. Directed by John Madden from a script by Ol Parker, the film reunites Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, and also stars Richard Gere. It's released in spring 2015. The second film on the Blueprint slate is an adaptation of the hit stage play Posh, which is directed by Lone Scherfig and parodies moneyed, out of control Oxford University students who are members of a Bullingdon-like club. It's an interesting project for Blueprint to take on as co-founder Pete Czernin is a close friend of Bullingdon's most famous member, David Cameron. Czernin is also part of one of Britain's richest families, which owns a swathe of Marylebone in London. Earlier this year, he joined the BFI's governing board. Meanwhile, Broadbent was previously a co-founder of Dragon Pictures and Mission Pictures with Damian Jones.
Credits: Becoming Jane, In Bruges, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Now Is Good, Seven Pyschopaths
Cuba Pictures
Nick Marston, Dixie Linder & Tally Garner
The production arm of agency Curtis Brown has reteamed with Broken director (and future National Theatre boss) Rufus Norris on London Road. Starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman, it's an adaptation of the unlikely hit musical about the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich in 2006. Cuba is also adapting Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell for BBC1.
Credits: Broken, Boy A (TV)
DNA Films
Andrew Macdonald & Allon Reich
The prolific DNA has become a fixture of the British industry over the past 20 years. Upcoming films include Thomas Vinterberg's adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd, starring Carey Mulligan, and Alex Garland's thriller Ex Machina.
Credits: Sunshine on Leith, Dredd 3D, Never Let Me Go, The Last King of Scotland, Notes on a Scandal, 28 Days Later, Sunshine, The Beach, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.
DJ Films
Damian Jones
A highly regarded, entrepreneurial producer, Damian Jones is about to release Amma Asante's period drama Belle. The producer of Oscar-winning The Iron Lady, Jones is now casting and financing a film based on TV classic Dad's Army. A feature about AA Milne, Goodbye Christopher Robin, is in development and he is also readying Lady in the Van with producer Kevin Loader.
Credits: The Iron Lady, Fast Girls, The History Boys, Kidulthood
Ealing Studios
Barnaby Thompson & Ben Latham-Jones
The owner of the famed UK studios, Ealing has enjoyed financial success producing its reworkings of St Trinian's, and has just completed shooting high school reunion feature D-Train starring Jack Black. Other Ealing projects in post include Nina Simone biopic Nina, and Kids in Love, the feature directorial debut of Chris Foggin which stars Bafta Rising Star Will Poulter, Alma Jodorowsky and Cara Delevingne.
Credits: The Importance of Being Earnest, St Trinian's, Dorian Gray.
Ecosse Films
Douglas Rae & Robert Bernstein
Ecosse has a long and impressive pedigree, but its most recent film, Diana, got a critical mauling. It's now making another royal themed film, Girls Night Out, directed by Julian Jarrold, based on the true story of Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret being let out of Buckingham Palace to join the VE celebrations in 1945. Recent TV dramas include Sky's Fleming and ITV's upcoming Great Fire of London.
Credits: Mrs Brown, Brideshead Revisited, Nowhere Boy, Wuthering Heights, Diana.
Barbara Broccoli & Micheal G. Wilson
The home of James Bond, Eon is gearing up to shoot the 24th instalment of the franchise this autumn. Sam Mendes returns as director after the success of Skyfall. Eon remains a family business and is run by original producer Albert R 'Cubby' Broccoli's daughter Barbara and stepson Michael G Wilson.
Credits: Skyfall, Quantum of Solace, Casino Royale, Die Another Day, Golden Eye.
Paul Trijbits
The former md of Ruby Films, Paul Trijbits set up Filmwave in 2012. He's been busy since executive producing the adaptation of JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy as a TV series for the BBC. FilmWave has also teamed with Distressed Films to produce Sing Street, a semi-autobiographical movie about U2 growing up in Dublin during the 1980s. John Carney directs, while Bono and The Edge are involved.
Credits: Saving Mr Banks
Free Range Films
Kevin Loader
Kevin Loader is one of the UK's most established film producers, who made his feature debut on Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Free Range is a partnership with director Roger Michell. The pair recently made the well received Le Week-End. They are now shooting ITV drama The Lost Honour.
Credits: Le Week-End, Hyde Park on the Hudson, In the Loop, The History Boys
Simon Oakes
Legendary horror brand Hammer has become rather prolific of late after a 30 year hiatus from its heyday when it produced over 150 features. Part of Exclusive Media, Hammer has just shot the sequel to its box office smash, The Woman In Black, which is directed by Tom Harper. Hammer released The Quiet Ones last month, directed by John Pogue. Hammer is diversified too, launching a publishing imprint through Random House.
Credits: Let Me In , Wake Wood, The Resident, The Woman in Black, The Quiet Ones.
Heyday Films
David Heyman
Thanks to his success with the Harry Potter franchise, David Heyman is viewed as one of the UK's most bankable producers and has a first look deal with Warners. Next up for Heyman is animation Paddington, an adaptation of Michael Bond's classic, that's set for a wide November release. Most recently Heyman produced Alfonso Cuaron's Oscar-winning Gravity, and is now shooting Testament of Youth, based on the memoir by Vera Brittain.
Credits: Gravity, Harry Potter films, I am Legend, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Passion Pictures/ Red Box
John Battsek, Andrew Ruhemann & Simon Chinn
Between them, frequent collaborators Passion and Redbox are responsible for producing some of the biggest feature documentaries to come out of the UK - including Oscar winners One Day in September, Man on Wire and Searching for Sugar Man. Their documentary output is all marked by a true sense of scale and drama, where fact is often stranger than fiction. Recent Passion projects include four new feature docs that premiered at Sundance in January, including Greg Barker's Revolution and Nadav Schirman's The Green Prince, which opened the festival and is based on the best selling book, Son of Hamas. Passion was launched 15 years ago as the film arm of animation house Passion Pictures, and it hit the ground running with Kevin Macdonald's One Day in September. Red Box's Simon Chinn is based in Passion's office just off Tottenham Court Road, and has just launched a TV arm, Lightbox. Red Box was set up in 2005 by Chinn to produce Man on Wire. Red Box has since formed a strategic alliance with Passion Pictures to co-produce or co-executive produce documentary features.
Credits: One Day in September, Searching for Sugar Man, Project Nim, Man on Wire, The Imposter, Restrepo, Fire in Babylon, The Age of Stupid
Luc Roeg
A diversified indie that encompasses production, international sales and UK distribution, Independent most recently produced The Sea, the adaptation of John Banville's Booker Prize winning novel, which was released last month. It's now in post in Carol Morley's The Falling, based around a fainting epidemic at an all-girl school in 1969.
Credits: We Need to Talk about Kevin, Boxing Day, Mr Nice
JW Films
James Wilson
James Wilson was the producer of Jonathan Glazer's recently released Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson. A former Fox Searchlight and Film4 executive, Wilson was one of the recipients of the BFI's Vision Awards for production companies. They said he has "a passion for film and a philosophy that artistic quality and innovation makes for good business."
Credits: Attack the Block, The Perverts Guide to Ideology, Under the Skin.
Magnolia Mae
Gabrielle Tana
London-based Gabrielle Tana has racked up an impressive run of credits, culminating with an Oscar nomination this year for Philomena which she produced with Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward. She also worked last year with Ralph Fiennes on his well-received The Invisible Woman. Magnolia Mae is based in New York, but most of its work is out of the UK.
Credits: Philomena, The Invisible Woman, Coriolanus, The Duchess
Number 9
Stephen Woolley & Elizabeth Karlsen
Stalwarts of British film production, Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen set up Number 9 after a long collaboration at both Palace and Scala Productions. The outfit aims to produce between two and three films a year, and is currently shooting the highly anticipated Carol, an adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel directed by Todd Haynes and starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
Credits: Made in Dagenham, Breakfast on Pluto, Great Expectations, Byzantium
Origin Pictures
David Thompson, Ed Rubin
Origin was launched by former BBC Films boss David Thompson in 2008. This year, Origin brought Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom to the screen, and is in post on doc director Morgan Matthew's feature debut X+Y and What We Did on Our Holiday, from the creators of BBC1's Outnumbered. TV credits include BBC dramas Jamaica Inn and Death Comes to Pemberley.
Credits: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, The Awakening, The First Grader.
Peapie Films
Kris Thykier
Former Freuds PR man Kris Thykier set up Peapie Films in 2009, having previously run Marv Films with Matthew Vaughan. Peapie's slate includes Trash with Working Title Films, directed by Stephen Daldry, which is in post; Denmark '92, billed as 'The Full Monty for footballers' about the Danes unlikely Euro '92 win; and The Woman in Gold which has Helen Mirren attached.
Credits: Stardust, Kick-Ass, I Give It A Year.
Playmaker Films
James Gay-Rees, Jolyon Symonds & Asif Kapadia
Playmaker was set up in 2013 by director Kapadia and producers Gay-Rees and Symonds. With a strong reputation for feature docs such as Senna, it's currently making the highly anticipated Amy, a new film about Amy Winehouse. Gay-Rees made his name with the Oscar winning Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Credits: Senna, The Wedding Video, Exit Through the Gift Shop
Recorded Picture Co
Jeremy Thomas
Veteran producer Jeremy Thomas has made over 50 features in the last 40 years, including the Oscar winning The Last Emperor. He's readying a new JG Ballard adaptation, High Rise, with Ben Wheatley attached. Sales agency HanWay is part of RPC.
Credits: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, The Last Emperor, Crash, Sexy Beast, Stealing Beauty, Kon-Tiki
Revolution Films
Andrew Eaton & Melissa Parmenter
Prolific and nimble, Revolution produces all of Michael Winterbottom's films including his latest, The Face of An Angel, said to be inspired by the trial of Amanda Knox. Revolution also produced Ron Howard's Formula 1 hit, Rush, and is active in TV too. It produced The Trip to Italy with Baby Cow, and Sky's Doll & Em.
Credits: The Trip, The Look of Love, The Killer Inside Me, The Road to Guantanamo, 9 Songs, 24 Hour Party People.
Ruby Films
Alison Owen & Faye Ward
With credits like Elizabeth, Alison Owen is a highly regarded name in the industry. Entrepreneurial and creative (and Lily Allen's mother too), Owen has also diversified Ruby into TV, with series like Dancing on the Edge. Now in production is Suffragette, directed by Sarah Gavron and starring Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, about the early days of the feminist movement.
Credits: Saving Mr Banks, Jane Eyre, Tamara Drewe, Chatroom, The Other Boleyn Girl, Sylvia
Scott Free
Liza Marshall
The film production company of Ridley Scott and his late brother Tony is gearing up to release Rowan Joffe's adaption of hit novel Before I Go To Sleep, which stars Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth. Ridley Scott is in post on biblical tale Exodus: Gods and Kings. There's also Christmas movie Get Santa coming up in December as well as adaptation Child 44.
Credits: Gladiator, Robin Hood, Prometheus, Stoker
See-Saw Films
Iain Canning & Emile Sherman
Anglo-Australian outfit See-Saw hit the big time with Oscar-winner The King's Speech. The indie has a raft of films underway, including western Slow West, starring Michael Fassbender, and Anton Corbijn's James Dean tale Life. Also in production is Shakespearean adaptation Macbeth, again starring Fassbender.
Credits: The King's Speech.
Shine Pictures
Ollie Madden
Shine Pictures exec chairman Stephen Garrett stepped down last month, and the outfit – part of Elisabeth Murdoch's superindie group – is now led by Ollie Madden. Shine started shooting last month on the feature version of Spooks. Recently announced projects include crime thriller Blowback, and the adaptation of The Farm by Tom Rob Smith.
Credits: Eastern Promises, Salmon Fishing in The Yemen, Miss Pettigrew
Paul Webster
The former boss of Film4 and Shine Pictures, Webster launched Shoebox with Guy Heeley and director Joe Wright. Webster is currently producing Joe Wright's big budget Peter Pan film which started shooting at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden last month, starring Hugh Jackman and Amanda Seyfried. Shoebox's thriller Locke, starring Tom Hardy, was released last month. Webster's recent films include Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Anna Karenina.
Credits: Redemption, Locke
Sixteen Films
Rebecca O'Brien
Entrepreneurial and consistently producing films, Sixteen Films is run by producer Rebecca O'Brien with veteran director Ken Loach. Their latest is Jimmy's Hall, a period drama about a political activist deported from Ireland, has just been selected for the main Competition at Cannes this month. However, it's likely to be the last big narrative feature for Loach, who won the Palme d'Or in 2006 for The Wind that Shakes the Barley.
Credits: Kes, My Name is Joe, Looking for Eric, The Angels' Share, The Spirit of '45.
Working Title
Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner
Working Title remains the UK's pre-eminent production company. Backed by Universal Pictures via a first look deal, it's trusted by the studio to deliver two to four films a year which marry a British sensibility with Hollywood production values. Working Title also has a close relationship with StudioCanal. It's got a large slate this year which includes thriller The Two Faces of January, starring Kirsten Dunst and Viggo Mortensen, which is out this month; the James Marsh directed Theory of Everything, a biopic of Stephen Hawking; Stephen Daldry's Trash, starring Rooney Mara and Martin Sheen; Baltasar Kormakur's action disaster thriller Everest, based on a true story; and Stephen Frears' untitled cycling project about Lance Armstrong. Working Title is also producing a thriller about the Kray twins, written by Brian Helgeland (LA Confidential), who will also direct. Working Title also has a burgeoning TV division, Working Title TV, which produced Birdsong.
Credits: Les Miserables, Rush, Senna, Anna Karenina, Green Zone, Frost/Nixon, Atonement, Hot Fuzz, United 93, Nanny McPhee, Love Actually, Johnny English, About a Boy, Bridget Jones' Diary, High Fidelity, Notting Hill, Elizabeth, Four Weddings and Funeral, My Beautiful Laundrette.
Slate Films/Potboiler
Andrea Calderwood & Gail Egan
It's a busy time for Slate and Potboiler. Mike Leigh's Mr Turner plays at Cannes and it's making Susanna White's thriller Our Kind of Traitor.
Credits: The Constant Gardener, Half of a Yellow Sun.
Trademark Films
David Parfitt
Trademark recently branched into TV, with the hit drama Parade's End for BBC2.
Credits: My Week With Marilyn, Shakespeare in Love
Vertigo Films
James Richardson, Alan Niblo & Rupert Preston
Commerically focused, Vertigo has just produced a slew of films including Pudsey The Movie, musical Walking on Sunshine, and Monsters: Dark Continent.
Credits: The Football Factory, The Business, Streetdance 3d, Horrid Henry, Monsters
Warp Films
Mark Herbert, Robin Gutch & Peter Carlton
Warp has made a name for itself producing highly distinctive British films. Warp recently produced Yann Demange's '71, the tale of a British soldier accidently abandoned by his unit in Belfast. Warp's relationship with Shane Meadows continued this year, with the release of Made of Stone. Warp has also pushed further into TV with C4 drama Southcliffe. Credits Dead Man's Shoes, Four Lions, This Is England, Kill List.
Finola Dwyer & Amanda Posey
Well respected, old school indie whose credits include Dustin Hoffman's Quartet. Wildgaze is now making Brooklyn, an adaptation of the best selling Colm Toibin book, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby and directed by John Crowley. It recently produced A Long Way Down, a Nick Hornby adaptation, which played at the Berlin Film Festival.
Credits: An Education, The Hamburg Cell, Fever Pitch, Backbeat, Quartet
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Awakin Toronto, Canada
"Meditation is not a means to an end; there is no end, no arrival; it is a movement in time and out of time. Every system, method, binds thought to time, but choiceless awareness of every thought and feeling, understanding of their motives, their mechanism, allowing them to blossom, is the beginning of meditation." ‑‑J. Krishnamurti
Every month, a few of us come together to sit in silence for an hour, share some aha-moments for the second hour and often have a light meal afterwards. There no teachers, or agendas. Inspired by a family who has done this for more than decade every week, Awakin Circles are just a space to come together and share in a context of stillness, community and service.
The location varies from East to West end, but the format of the evening goes something like this ...
7:00PM An hour of collective silence; its unguided, without any instructions or music. For
first-timers, this primer on meditation may be helpful.
8:00PM A short reading (sent out earlier via email), followed by a circle of sharing of "aha" moments from everyday life.
9:00PM A vegan meal, offered in silence. Those who stay afterwards are invited to offer time to related projects of the Great Turning.
To join, simply register in the right column and you'll be emailed the details. There is no charge and no one is expected to bring anything. People organically "pay-it-forward" to the world in their own ways.
In recent months, we've been hosting monthly Awakin Circles in the downtown East and West end -- and we also host Karma Kitchens and other local events. Fill this out this volunteer form to get more involved.
Emergence of the First Circle (by Thu Nguyen)
The highlight of my past year away from home was Wednesdays at the Awakin Circle in Santa Clara. The silence kept me grounded; the noble friends nourished me with hugs, kindness and wisdom; Harshida Auntie's cooking and generosity filled my belly with love. No matter how busy I was and how far the commute was, I would plan my schedule around Wednesdays. I could never find the right words to describe my experience at an Awakin circle and found it easier to bring friends and coworkers to see for themselves.
The Seeds
Whenever I was in Toronto, all I would do is tell stories of my new Servicespace friends and Wednesdays. More and more friends back home were reaching out to chat about meditation or how to develop courage to get started on labour of love projects. I told my boyfriend I wanted to bring the Awakin Circle back to Toronto and he said if that was what was needed for me to move back home, he would support me in any way!! I asked for his help to come observe what happens in Santa Clara so that we can open up our home. That night, my boyfriend sat for his first hour of meditation...ever and Nipun gifted me a box of smile cards for Toronto.
On my last Wednesday before leaving the Bay Area, I met Sachi who spoke about how she brought Awakin Circles back to India and I was moved... one step closer to starting the circle.
The Momentum
When I moved home, I emailed Nipun and Audrey to get started. It was like there was 20 years worth of experience hosting Awakin circles around the world all in my hands - templates, email lists, event organizing tools, FAQs. And all I really had to focus on was, what to cook and when to welcome friends in :)
I sent out a feeler email to some friends, thinking maybe if I was lucky, 3-4 people would be up for coming over. I was also pleasantly surprised to discover that there was already a Toronto mailing list of over 75 people that had either been to a circle or were interested in one here. And ever so quickly, I had over 10 friends sign up!! I knew our little one bedroom condo would not be able to accomodate at this rate and so I booked the party room in the building which I could host up to 15 people without needing additional security (imagine that...additional security to watch us sit in silence ;)
One of my dear friends I met at the Awakin Circle in Santa Clara was Dustin whom had been traveling after leaving his job and we chatted about his trip to Indonesia. I told him about our first Awakin circle in August and Dustin decided that was the perfect time to visit Toronto :)
Just two weeks before our very first Awakin Circle in Toronto, I was in the Bay Area on a business trip. Serendipity happened and I was invited to attend the Servicespace Retreat and spend time with many of whom have a wealth of experience hosting Awakin Circles! The timing couldn't have been any better to learn all about Servicespace and its rockstars and all the amazing projects happening around the world. AND...I got to dig into what every host cooks at their Awakin circle (and those ripples are being collected into Awakin recipes if you'd like to share your favourites here)
As I left the retreat straight to the airport, I was buzzing from spending four days with the most inspirational friends I'd ever met. As I rambled on to a good friend at the airport as to all that transpired, she said..."Thu, you found your tribe!!"
The prep
In the week before our first Wednesday in Toronto, we reached our capacity of 15! And so I went to Value Village, a second hand shop, which had all the utensils I needed - It was even cheaper than it'd cost to get disposable stuff.
Dustin confirmed he was coming from Santa Clara and I asked him to start the opening reflections (for which there's detailed instructions on how to!) We picked out our favourite passage together and he set out to reflect deeply on his free fall.
So many invisible hands of Servicespace supported in every way possible every day leading up to the circle.
My friend Alcina saw photos of beautiful mandala arrangements from the Servicespace retreat and was inspired to go to her mother's garden to pick flowers to create a beautiful arrangement for our first circle!!
Wednesday August 9th arrived and Dustin and I set out to go grocery shopping to prep. After getting recipes from Trishna and Preeta, I was inspired to make a simple menu of salad, rice, and two curries: spinach daal and aloo gobi. We completed it in the afternoon (with the help of my instant pots) within 2 hours! A few friends arrived 30 min early and we had plenty of hands to bring everything down to our party room to prepare and create a circle.
Our first circle in Toronto
As friends started arriving, magically everyone was able to navigate through the maze of the condo entrance to the locked party room door. We found enough pillows and couch space for everyone as we settled into an hour of silence.
In the second hour, Ming read the passage we picked out and Dustin started with a deeply relatable share about his brave free fall. I sat back and watched the magic I had experienced in Santa Clara, happen right here, in my hometown of Toronto. Each share around the circle was deeply genuine, vulnerable, honest, and many nuggets of wisdom flowed into the space. I was always curious if it was a localized Bay Area phenomenon to find deeply introspective people who'd be up for sharing vulnerability and wisdom, but I realized it could be replicated here too!! Everyone present had an innate ability to hold space for everyone else.
It struck me as each friend shared, how courageous (and trusting!) and generous they were for showing up on a Wednesday evening away from family and commitments to try something new, not knowing anybody else in the room except someone who'd been gone for the past few years ;)
When it was my turn to share, the fire alarm went off. Phew... While I convinced the property manager it wasn't our candles that caused it, we rolled with the punches and moved into the dining room for dinner. What a joy it was to see all the smiles and laughter in a room full of strangers, speaking about life long dreams, ambitions, struggles, acts of kindness. At the end, we even arranged impromptu carpools so that nobody had to go alone.
From start to finish, it was so effortless - bringing my favourite way to spend Wednesday back from Silicon Valley, being with friends, sharing and discussing what was important and sharing delicious food. I was up buzzing all night, thinking of all the wonderful friends that laddered me from the west coast and new friendships that blossomed that night. I So many heartfelt emails and texts came! What a blur that line is between giving and receiving - I received so much in hosting this first Awakin Circle. I thought about when, if ever, have I brought people together with no strings attached - no event to celebrate, no fundraising to do, no obligation of any kind except to hold space to whatever emerges. What a shift and difference it makes, to do something without any expectations of the outcome.
I'm writing this just a week before our second Awakin Circle in Toronto (Which is currently is over-capacity at 17 RSVPs!) Having learned of the "No Exit Strategy" at Servicespace, the commitment to keep up a collective practice no matter how small. I really don't think I've ever approached something committing to a continuity of a lifetime (or many) before saying yes to hosting an Awakin Circle.
So I look forward to welcoming you to our home and will be sure to share the slow stories and ripples that will emerge here in Toronto.
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What's the flow? At 7PM sharp, an hour of collective silence; at 8PM, circle of haring; and at 9PM, a shared meal in silence.
How many people attend? Serendipity typically brings together 10-30 diverse folks.
I'm not local! You can join another location or perhaps even start your own!
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Thank You!
We are profoundly grateful that our paths have crossed in this sacred way. Please do get in touch if you have any questions. We look forward to growing in stillness and service, together.


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