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The Consumer Choice Center has published its second European Railway Index, which ranks Europe's most passenger-friendly train stations on criteria such as cleanliness, access to destinations and crowd levels on platforms. Leipzig's impressive Hauptbahnhof, which also serves as a shopping mall, was ranked number one with a score of 116. Vienna's central station is relatively new, having only opened in 2012, and it comes second in the ranking with 108.
St. Pancras in London, a hub for Eurostar services to continental Europe, was ranked number one last year and it comes in third in 2021 with a score of 106. It underwent an £800 million refurbishment which was completed in 2008 and it boasts a shopping center, a coach facility and a hotel. Germany has two further stations in the top-10 - Frankfurt and Munich.
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I have been taking Martini to the vet every six months with ear problems…draining and getting clogged. Not only was it painful for her, it was expensive to see the vet so often. Finally it was suggested that she may have an allergy to chicken (which is what I fed her because she refused to eat ALL dog foods I tried).
My sister got some of your beef food and my baby freaking loves it! I used to have to cajole her into eating but not anymore. It is SO simple to prepare as well. I love it more than her, if that is possible!
Jury is still out on whether a food allergy was causing her ear problem but i will definitely let you know after her follow up next week.
Bless you all for making such quality food for our beloved babies.


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The complete story of the most famous french parody band : THE ROLLING BIDOCHONS... first re-issue of their 5 originals albums and one brand new album (live in japan). A boxset for collector with 24 pages booklet with lyrics and rares photos ! WARNING : Limited edition 999 copies !


We see what you did there Toyota. You know that the only thing the world cares about at the moment is a new Supra so you teased a rear wing a few weeks ago that made us hope that the Supra would be unveiled in Geneva. Then you unveiled a really sharp looking race car that you sort of called Supra. But it's not the Supra. It's a representation of Toyota's willingness to bring back the Supra eventually.
Then you told us that the next-gen Supra would be unveiled next year, in early 2019. That means we will probably see the next Supra at the North American International Auto Show next January. So that leaves us with what?
Well, we still can't wait to see the next Supra. And this concept, again, is pretty impressive but it's ultimately a race car with some plastic aerodynamics on it. So not really much to talk about except the design which is pretty darn nice.
It also points to a new Toyota. One where beige Corollas give way to really big wings, and where the bland design philosophy that gave us the fourth-generation Toyota Avalon and the 2008 Toyota Sienna is a thing of the past.
The Toyota Supra will be the cherry on top of what Toyota began a few years ago when it introduced the new-gen RAV4 and Corolla. No longer beige and not-so-boring, this new way of seeing things at Toyota will culminate, we hope, with one of the most beautiful sights a car enthusiast can lay his or her eyes upon: a new Toyota Supra.


Anyways, let's get to it. I've gotta admit, when 'Overnight Oats' started to become more popular, I didn't get the hype. It was basically cold porridge right? WRONG. This tasty, time-saving, morning lifesaver of a breakfast is now a weekday staple in our humble floating kitchen. Whip up a quick batch, cover, and all you gotta do in the morning is add a few nuts/seeds/fruit and voila, breakfast perfection. So I'm sorry oats, for doubting this version of yourselves as a highly commendable breakfast. All hail the overnight oats.
Start my making the puree – half the apricots, removing their stones. Add the apricots into a pan, adding enough water to avoid them sticking to the pan, but not so much that they are submerged.
Bring the pan to a gentle boil, for 10 mins, or until the apricots are soft and some of the water has evaporated. Leave to cool for 5 mins.
Place the apricots into a blender, and blend into a puree. Store in an airtight container – it will last about 3-5 days in a fridge.
Pour your oats into a bowl or large jar. Add the milk (or milk/water combo), coconut yoghurt and stir well. Leave oats covered, in the fridge, overnight.
In the morning, remove your oats, add extra milk if desired. Add puree and your toppings of choice.
I'll still be checking my Instagram and Twitter while I'm away, don't forget to tag #roughmeasures with all your creations.
They look so pretty in that jar! Have a great holiday!
Lots and lots and lots of French food was consumed, lovely times were had and now I'm back in the UK, all went by too fast. Sigh!
That apricot topping looks absolutely delicious — love this oaty creation <3 Have fun on your trip!
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Speed, but at what cost?
Beyond the $540 million price tag, that is. That's the estimated cost of the sweeping changes to Canada's asylum system, often admire d by refugee advocates south of the border as a "luxury limousine" model of process, proposed by Canada's Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, on Tuesday. While the old system was by no means perfect, the proposed changes threaten to transform one of the world's fairest asylum processes into a minefield of arbitrariness.
Claiming that the system needs reform to prevent "gaming" of the system by thousands of asylum seekers making false claims, Kenney and the Conservative party offer a bill that draws a line at those from "safe" countries. Asylum applicants unlucky enough to come from one of these nations, to be designated by an independent panel on the advice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees(!), will face an expedited process -- an initial interview within eight days of arriving in Canada, and a second hearing within sixty days (a process that currently takes an average of 19 months). If they lose their case, they will be deported within a year of this decision. While on first glance, one might think that such speedy adjudication might benefit the asylum seeker, given the amount of work required to present a successful asylum claim and the obstacles faced by a traumatized individual in putting together their case, it's hard to imagine how this will work in practice -- not to mention how these applicants will find and work with legal representative s to present their claims.
The "safe" country of origin idea is not only contrary to the spirit of the Refugee Convention, but places at particular risk women fleeing domestic violence or other forms of gender-based violence as well as LGBT applicants seeking protection from persecution based on sexual orientation. These asylum seekers might come from countries that are otherwise politically stable and unlikely to produce many refugees, but fail to protect battered women and LGBT individuals from violence. While the bill allows for designations to be made specific to a population in a given country -- e.g. by gender -- a system of strict guidelines risks becoming ossified and unresponsive to current situations. Moreover, such an approach may be subject to political manipulation unlikely to benefit genuine refugees.
It would be a shame to see a "Fortress Europe" approach adopted by our neighbor to the north. As the numbers of asylum claims stagnate throughout the industrialized world, asylum applications in Canada increased by 60% between 2006 and 2008. Though higher fences elsewhere may be the cause of this surge, surely there are ways to address such influxes without gutting the asylum system. Especially given Canada's 42% grant rate for asylum claims in 2009, which suggests that fraud is not a significant problem, it should continue to strive for fairness over speed in its asylum process.
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There are tons of variables from COVID-19 to the Supreme Court to bad polling, still when you separate the signal from the noise, it looks like Trump is "burnt toast."
Mark McKinnon began his political career working as a campaign and media strategist for Texas Democrats before befriending George W. Bush, switching sides, and helping "43" win two presidential races. Now he's the co-creator, co-executive producer, and co-host of Showtime's The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth, After interviewing polling expert Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report for the latest episode of The Circus, McKinnon, with years of experience, "came away with the sense that Trump is not just toast, but burnt toast. To use a poker metaphor: In the last election, Trump won by pulling an inside straight. This time he'll need nothing short of a royal flush—by pulling an ace from his sleeve."
McKinnon may be wrong, but despite many uncertainties, the preponderance of the evidence suggests that he's right. Trump is burnt toast.
The biggest wildcard is the COVID-19 pandemic, which has unsettled both election laws and voter behavior, with results that are hard to predict. Many states have greatly expanded early voting options, including excuse-free absentee voting. Democrats, more heedful of medical advice and social distancing, are voting early, particularly by mail, at a much higher rate than Republicans. This has built the Dems a healthy lead in the votes already cast, which is a huge advantage. A vote already counted is one less you have to drag to the polls on Nov. 3
The Republicans comfort themselves with the pleasing notion that they'll have a correspondingly higher share of in-person voters. Maybe. But the COVID-19 infection rate is growing to an all-time high, which may depress the Election Day vote and foil their hopes of catching up, plus long-lines could prove a deterrent to actually casting ballots.
It's not just early voting results that suggest that President Trump is way behind. One week out from Election Day, FiveThirtyEight and JHKForecasts both give Joe Biden an 88 percent chance of winning the presidency, while The Economist puts the odds at 96 percent. It seems that the only thing that can save Trump now is a huge polling error.
Sure, the polls could be wrong. One way they might err is if many Democratic voters simply aren't counted because of various legal machinations. With the Supreme Court issuing a 5-3 ruling on Monday disallowing late-arriving mail ballots in Wisconsin, Democrats have a very legitimate concern that the Republicans could use litigation to squeeze out a victory in the state. Yet, there aren't many more states that have deadline extensions for the Supreme Court to adjudicate. While tossed Democratic ballots could confound the pollsters, so could a pandemic-related drop-off in Election Day Republican votes.
What seems to be a very high turnout is good news for Democrats in many ways. Consider the turnout models the pollsters are using. Harry Enten of CNN says that robust early voting patterns are consistent with the polls showing Biden with a solid lead.
High overall turnout is often thought to benefit the Democrats, and a FiveThirtyEight model estimates that a record 154 million Americans will cast a vote in 2020. Whether this helps Biden or not, it's likely to make the polls more accurate. As Enten explains, "A lot of problems in polling can come from trying to figure out which voters are more likely to actually turn out and vote…If turnout is higher, the likely voter universe has a better chance of matching the registered voter universe."
What about the youth vote? If the pollster's likely voter models are still off, it could be due to the youth vote. Young voters are underrepresented in the early vote, but that's to be expected. U.S. Census Bureau data say only 43 percent of voters aged 18-24 turned out in 2016, even as overall participation was 61 percent. Polling models generally reflect this expectation, so lagging youth numbers are not obvious reasons to doubt the forecasts.
Yet, an Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School national survey of 18 to 29 year-olds released Monday found that young voters are just as enthused about voting in 2020 as they were during Barack Obama's initial run for the presidency in 2008. This group prefers Biden to Trump by an eyepopping 63 to 25 percent margin, so if they turn out late at a higher than expected numbers, the pollsters are underestimating Biden's strength.
In looking for hidden factors that could help Trump exceed expectations, David Siders of Politico noted, "Republican registration has ticked up in key states at the same time Democratic field operations were in hibernation" due to concerns about the pandemic. The result is a boost of white, non-college-educated voters in the states that put Trump over the top in 2016: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Does the uptick in white working-class voter registration spell doom for Democrats? Sure, there's reason to worry. Non-college whites are essential to the GOP base. Republican registration drives naturally focus on demographics and regions where they have a big advantage. With Democrats largely shelving their door-knocking and other in-person efforts, and Republicans boosting their base, the new registrations skew toward white working-class and rural voters.
Here's the catch: New registrants are notoriously unreliable voters. They require a dedicated Get-Out-the-Vote effort to mobilize so that pollsters may be underestimating the level of turnout Trump will get from these folks. It may take a lot of money (which the Trump campaign is short on) and effort (which is hard to gin up in the time of COVID).
Another factor that could help Trump and should concern Democrats is higher than expected support from black and Latino men, which has been detected in enough different polls to be considered a real thing. It's the key reason the latest New York Times/Siena poll of Texas projects Trump will win there. But, if the pollsters are already factoring this in, it's not clear how it could help Trump do better than projected.
The Democrats' understandably remain concerned. Voter suppression could cost them, either through long lines or delayed mail delivery, that results in Supreme Court-supported trashing of legitimate ballots. There could be pressure from Trump and the Republicans to stop the counting before it is completed. But Democrats shouldn't be too worried that the polls are off, at least as a measure of voter intentions.
If anything, it's Trump who should worry. If the youth vote turns out at a rate commensurate with their declared enthusiasm, this will swamp any benefit he gets out of Republican registration drives. The Democrats have a big advantage in votes already cast, so the uptick in COVID-19 cases is likely to dissuade more Republicans than Democrats from risking in-person voting on Election Day. A huge overall turnout usually benefits the Democrats and makes it less probable that the likely voter universe is different from the actual voter universe.
If you're still in doubt that Trump is burnt toast, consider where the candidates are spending the last week campaigning. Biden is visiting Georgia and Iowa, while his running mate Kamala Harris campaigns in Texas. Meanwhile, Trump is going to Nebraska and Arizona, while Pence will visit North and South Carolina. In short, Democrats have a shot at painting the map blue, and Republicans are defensively trying to preserve their red bastions.
About this writer: Martin Longman is the web editor for the Washington Monthly. See all his writing at ProgressPond.com


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The original Double Dare host will serve as an executive producer on the rebooted kids' game show and he'll have an on-camera role, according to TMZ. But he won't be the host. TMZ says Summers was a "quick hire" after the reboot announcement was made. Summers hasn't confirmed his involvement, but he teased an upcoming Double Dare announcement in a tweet on Saturday.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Restored 1938 streetcar from Australia runs on locally produced B20 biodiesel.
Restored trolley runs on locally produced B20 biodiesel.
THE first hybrid streetcar in North America made its maiden voyage down River Street on Tuesday as part of a Climate Action Parade.
On board were Mayor Otis Johnson, city aldermen and other civic leaders. The parade was held to mark National Climate Action Week, which begins Dec. 15.
The streetcar is the latest of the city's growing fleet of alternative-fuel vehicles. It is a fully restored 1938 streetcar that was originally used in Melbourne, Australia.
It had been stored for several years at the Roundhouse Railroad Museum, with the intent that it would eventually be used to carry riders up and down River Street. The new streetcar is expected to go on line some time in January.


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The St Joseph's Catholic High School Robotics Team aka "Renaissance Robotics" aka Team 4525 consists of students, teachers and community mentors working together to achieve a common (and awesome) goal; building a real live robot to compete in the 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition. Our regional competition takes place in Waterloo, Ontario in March where we plan to be awesome enough to continue on to the international competition in St. Louis, Missouri.
Last year, we were the recipients of the Rookie Inspiration Award, for our spirit, enthusiasm and overall level of awesome! Our robotics team offers opportunities to many students who would otherwise not be involved in extra-curricular activities, and we think that is pretty awesome in itself! The team requires the dedication and talents of a diverse group of young people and their mentors in a variety of roles in order to be successful. This gives students who have a passion for art, computer programming, marketing, finance, construction or design a chance to utilize and apply their talents in an effort to achieve one co-operative goal.
We hope to represent our community at these competitions with not just an epic robot but also the kind of team spirit, co-operation and gracious professionalism that FIRST encourages young people to strive for. These qualities are what make London and area youth and the mentors with which we work nothing but pure awesome!
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· Book Value per share increased to Rs. 64.60 from Rs. 60.80.
The Total Business of the Bank grew 23.46% Y-o-Y from Rs.185490.17 Cr as on 31st December 2017 to Rs.229007.49 Cr as on 31st December 2018. While Total Deposits reached Rs.123457.36 Cr from Rs.100537.10 Cr, Net Advances grew 24.25% to reach Rs. 105550.12 Cr.
NRE Deposits of the Bank grew by 21.55% to reach Rs. 47930.07 Cr as on 31st Dec 2018. CASA increased to Rs. 41172.41 Cr from Rs. 33304.30 Cr.
On the Asset side, Retail Advances including Agri Advances registered a Y-o-Y growth of 22.99% to reach Rs.40343.49 Cr as on 31st Dec 2018. Business Banking advances grew by 19.54% to reach Rs. 8906.38 Cr. Commercial Banking registered a growth of 11.28% to reach Rs. 11253.00 Cr. Corporate and Institutional advances reached Rs. 46562.84 Cr with a growth of 30.95%.
The Operating Profit of the Bank increased by 26.08% to reach Rs.707.83 Cr as on 31st Dec 2018. Net Profit increased by 28.31% to reach Rs.333.63 Cr. for the quarter ended 31st Dec 2018.
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The Net worth of the bank increased from Rs.11955.18 Cr as on 31st December 2017 to Rs.12815.13 Cr as on 31st December 2018. The Capital Adequacy Ratio (CRAR) of the Bank, computed as per Basel III guidelines stood at 12.97% as at the end of the quarter.
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You Haven't Heard This -- "Danse With Me George"
I know, I know, it's been awhile. Sorry, I've had a bad case of the 2018s, you can probably relate.
This would appear to align with the interests of several of youse guys. It's also free!
Not a review as such, but the Netflix Doug Kenney biopic is pretty good, and you should probably check it out if you're able. Joel McHale is good as a young Chevy Chase, and Thomas Lennon is practically a clone of O'Donoghue.
Also seems to cater to at least two of lightninglouie's interests.
Been threatening to do this for years. Don't know how well it holds together as an actual playlist, but at least it's (some) of the songs from the actual posts. Could only find the live version of "Sledgehammer" on Spotify, though. Oh, well, at least I did it, finally.
Just so you guys know: yep, I lost my internet connection again. But I just got a new one (cable, no less!) today. Will try to appear here more frequently (was going to add, "When I've got something interesting to say," but that's never really been much of a concern here, has it?).
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Softball is a great way for men to take a hiatus from their humdrum day-to-day life and engage in some classic American fun.
In reality, teams are flooded with a motley crew of personalities that make you question why you signed up. Seriously, if you needed to get away from the wife and kids for a few hours, maybe a better bet would've been to go to a batting cage, a cigar bar or, oh, I don't know, locking yourself in the bathroom and crying in the mirror.
The team at Dude Perfect perfectly depicts the stereotypical players who make recreational softball so darned entertaining. From "The Always on His Phone Guy" to "The Chatter Box" to "Mr. Accessories," the clip goes around the stereotypes smoother than the ball goes around the horn after a called strike three.
Of course, there are plenty of other stereotypes they missed. If you play softball, you know there's always the guy who's always too serious, the guy who's always late and guy who's always getting hurt. Is it too much to ask for a part two?


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Abbas now responsible for Israeli soldier: family
The parents of an Israeli soldier detained in Gaza have urged Israel to hold Mahmud Abbas's Palestinian Authority responsible for his fate in the wake of a unity deal between rival groups Fatah and Hamas
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The parents of an Israeli soldier detained in Gaza have urged Israel to hold Mahmud Abbas's Palestinian Authority responsible for his fate in the wake of a unity deal between rival groups Fatah and Hamas.
In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gilad Shalit's parents called on his government to impose punitive measures against the Fatah-dominated PA to secure their son's release.
"The Israeli government must meet to decide on the measures to be undertaken against the Palestinian Authority on the issue of Gilad Shalit," their letter reads.
"Israel must make clear to them that after the signing of the reconciliation accord, it considers them bound to apply the Geneva Convention" on the treatment of prisoners of war.
Parents Aviva and Noam Shalit also urged the government to suspend the transfer of Palestinian tax revenue to the PA, a move which the finance minister has said he will take following the unity deal which Israel has condemned.
Shlomit Almog, a lawyer for the Shalit family, told AFP they intended to raise the issue of the transfer of Palestinian funds before the supreme court.
Gilad Shalit, now 24, was seized in a dawn cross-border raid in 2006 by three groups of Gaza militants including Hamas, the Islamist movement which rules the Palestinian territory.
Hamas has demanded Israel's release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit's freedom.
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Posted by Les Bleamaster, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images from NASA's Magellan mission to Venus (science mission complete in 1994) show two distinctly different volcanic regions within only a few hundred kilometers of each other.
The top image shows several relatively "small" (10's to 100's of kilometers in diameter, 100's of meters in height) volcanic constructs and craters, and associated lava flows (image width ~ 500km). In contrast, the image below shows a significant portion of a 1000 km long channel-fed lava flow (image width ~ 700km). Feature maps of each area (to the right) point out the prominent flow margins (black line), summit pits and fissures (red polygons), small shields (red plus), and lava channels (blue line). Factors that contribute to the different types of volcanic landforms produced can include lava composition and temperature, magma production and the rate of lava emplacement, subsurface plumbing, and regional tectonics.
Geologic mapping has determined that the lava flows from both the small constructs and long channels represent some of the youngest surface activity in the area. Correlation of this mapping with new data from ESA's Venus Express spacecraft (operational orbit achieved in May 2006) may help to better characterize Venus' surface volcanic features as well as reveal temperature variations indicative of active volcanism.
E.B. Grosfils, J. Aubele, L. Crumpler, T.K.P. Gregg, and S. Sakimoto (2000), Volcanism on Earth's Seafloor and Venus, in Environmental Effects on Volcanic Eruptions, eds. J.R. Zimbelman and T.K.P. Gregg (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York), pp. 113-142.
L.S. Crumpler, J.C. Aubele, D.A. Senske, S.T. Keddie, K.P. Magee, and J.W. Head (1997), Volcanoes and Centers of Volcanism on Venus, in Venus II, eds. Bougher, S.W., Hunten, D.M., and Phillips, R.J. (Tucson: Univ. Arizona Press), pp. 697-756.


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That said, today is supposed to be the one day of the year you get to kick back as a father and not worry about any of that.
Ahhhh… Father's Day… The day to put aside all your home tech worries.
You can just enjoy being a dad, and maybe take a few photos.
Are you, by any chance, fresh out of photo paper?
I know… some of you luddites may still print your photos down at the local CVS.
Other enlightened souls wisely invest their time in creating photo books online.
I've been having trouble lately bending space-time. So I've found myself short on the temporal interval it takes to create one of these clever books.
I've developed a most enjoyable habit over the past three years.
I print out a 5" x 7" photo from my son's weekend adventures to take to work on Monday mornings.
5" x 7" collection of amazing prints.
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I usually go for Epson's '5 star' Ultra Premium Glossy stock if I can find it, even though it's more expensive than their standard photo paper.
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Whenever I frequent Staples, they seemingly have a warehouse full of HP photo paper, as the HP logo dominates Aisle 6 as far as the eye can see.
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…but I decided to take a look.
It was the logical thing to do.
Some reasonable pricing on their website… but nothing to really blog about.
And B&H Photo's website also has Epson beat.
The best deal on Father's Day is spending time with your family.
Two weeks ago, I received another email from Epson.
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It was time to pull the trigger.
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Guest Post: Vigilante Grade
August 16, 2016Uncategorized
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This week's blog post is very special guest blog from Lucas Roche, who graded our feature film 'Vigilante'. The following post goes behind the scenes of the post production and sheds light on the incredible work that goes into every scene.
I recently completed a grade for new feature film Vigilante, an independent drama produced by Blueprint: Film and directed by Darren Bolton. Shot in a cinéma vérité documentary style, it follows small town Neighbourhood Watch hero Pep as he proudly shows us around his pleasant community and boasts of his various achievements of law and order. But Pep is gradually revealed to be a violent psychotic, using his role as self-appointed law enforcer as cathartic release from his failing private life. Fuelled by his unemployment and a broken and dysfunctional family, he aggressively lurches further out of control and focuses all of his hate on the rumours of a local paedophile presence.
The film was shot on three or possibly four different Red cameras, mostly in two different flavours of 4k (4096×2304 and 4096×2160) but with a few pickups in a variety of 2k, 3k, and 5k at 100fps. The editor David Brook had cut everything in 16:9 4k and so we decided to use that resolution for the conform. From here I could make additional outputs for Flat Ratio 4k DCP with a slight crop, UHD TV 4k, and HD.
On a technical level the rushes offered no problems at all, other than the usual balancing between multiple cameras. But on a creative level I was able to offer quite a few suggestions and although in general we were aiming for a naturalistic finish to suit the documentary style there is actually a lot of subtle interplay at work.
Signature Colours
Firstly with the lead character Pep I decided to assign him the principle signature colour of red. This starts off relatively gentle and warm when we don't know the full extent of his anger, as can be seen here:
But as the film develops I gradually increased the red in his shots, and also his level of contrast, to reflect his rage and harshness. Even in scenes he shares with other people I found I was able to push his look further forward than theirs, leaving his more reasonable colleagues in the Neighbourhood Watch to retain a slightly softer and more natural look.
At the points that Pep is ranting straight down the barrel of the lens I really started to increase the heat in his shots, certainly in relation to his starting point and the other characters.
Pep is a separated father with limited custody of his young son, and has a dysfunctional and antagonistic relationship with the mother of his child. As a secondary signature colour for him I pushed the scenes with his family into a queasy palette of yellows and greens to reflect the poisoned atmosphere, and again used a harsher level of contrast and gloomy blacks.
Using animated parameters in Resolve I was actually able to manipulate this look during shots, increasing or decreasing it to help underline the narrative content. For example there is a sequence where Pep and his son tidy their messy house together and bond as they flick soap suds and water at each other. The sequence culminates with an unbroken shot that lasts for 1m 30s, which begins with them sitting contentedly in the now clean house. Suddenly the mother's new boyfriend arrives and the atmosphere immediately changes for the worse. Eventually the young boy departs with the boyfriend, leaving Pep alone.
So for this continuous shot I begin with a softer warm look which is the first time we've seen such healthy colours used in the family scenes. But as the camera swings up to the boyfriend I was able to discreetly shift the colours back to a washed out queasiness and increase the grittiness of the contrast. By the time Pep is alone again we are back to a very pallid and unhealthy look.
The village where Pep lives is portrayed as a generally wholesome and quiet community. I tried to reflect this by accentuating a "magic hour" sunshine glow that DP Ernesto Herrmann had captured at times:
But as the story develops and Pep is ostracised by his community, I used the queasy palette of his home life to infiltrate the outside world. I was trying to underline the plot point that once Pep is no longer regarded as a hero that he now has no respite from the bleakness in his life.
Later in the story Pep uses the rumours of a paedophile presence in the village to whip up public fear and hate and ingratiate himself back into the Neighbourhood Watch. From this point onwards I attempted to introduce Pep's signature red into the villagers' shots, as if he has infected the community with his aggression and anger. This is particularly the case in a sequence where the villagers are all making anti-paedophile placards, I really pushed the red paint they use into an almost hyper-real saturation which contrasts against a sickly greenish background.
A few of the things I added could loosely be termed as effects. Firstly, Vigilante contained a small amount of material from an earlier short film version. In one shot there was a Neighbourhood Watch folder that had an old date written on it, we decided to update this so there was no great disparity when the film was released. I wrote out a new folder label, scanned it in, then motion tracked it onto the original handheld shot. The final task was then to match the camera pull-focus. I think it sits in pretty well and nobody would spot it (aside from the fact that I am now laying it all out here and giving the secret away). What bothers me most is that my handwriting is appallingly childish and this was my best effort to write properly:
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Another effected shot I did was to enhance the make-up effect of a bruise on Pep's mother-in-law's face. I used a tracked mask to add more darkness to the bruising, which then in a later scene could be dialled down to imply the healing process over time.
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Also I did some fairly major lighting changes such as this scene when Pep is doing some "research" about the paedophile in the area, the director asked me to darken the scene quite considerably to make it more moody. Then I masked a key light onto the actor's face to accentuate the reflected glow of the screen, to help bring the viewer into this space in a more intimate way.
Finally I took some footage from a regular video camera and treated it to look like a CCTV camera shooting at night. Looking at real-life examples of these they have an infrared beam for night vision that falls off from the centre in a circular pattern. It transforms skin tones into a harsh white so this was something I tried to replicate, plus the addition of some basic info text in an old 8-bit style font:
As is probably clear from the range of stills here, lead actor Simon Cassidy is in nearly every shot and anchors the film with a really brilliant performance. By turns humorous, sympathetic and appallingly aggressive it's a very nuanced range that he brings to the character with plenty of charisma. I'm also a big fan of Millie Reeves who plays his ex-partner, she's excellent as this slightly damaged, gobby, scared woman and is a whirlwind of well-placed swearing and insults! The film recently premiered in London and will be out in the world soon, I will update this post with news of any screenings or links to buy.
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September 18, 2019 /in Blog & News /by mcuddehe
With the ascension of two new conservative justices to the Supreme Court, anti-abortion activists have been busy ramping up an array of anti-abortion bills in Republican controlled states, with the ultimate goal of overturning Roe v Wade.
In the course of 40 years of destructive political warfare over abortion, public sentiment has remained surprisingly unchanged. Fewer than 20% of Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in all circumstances, while less than 1/3rd think Roe v Wade should be overturned. These percentages have remained constant within a narrow band since 1975.
Anti-abortion extremists, frustrated by their inability to move public sentiment, have resorted to increasingly dishonest and anti-democratic efforts in an attempt to force their agenda on the nation.
The spate of radical anti-abortion bills sweeping the country have focused on the rights of the unborn, by espousing the made-up principle of fetal personhood. This notion defines a fetus as an unborn child, a person, whose right to life must be protected by the state.
It follows, however, that if the fetus has an inalienable right to full development and birth into the world, enforced by the state, then the woman is not really a citizen at all. Her status is that of a vessel serving the citizen growing within her. It seems that the real issue is: Are women full citizens or not?
The Supreme Court of Kansas, recently addressed this issue in an important 6-1 ruling, holding that "The recognition of inalienable natural rights in Section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights is intended for all Kansans, including pregnant women."
The Court wrote that "Section 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights affords protection of the right of personal autonomy, which includes the ability to control one's body, to assert bodily integrity, and to exercise self-determination. This right allows a woman to make her own decisions regarding her body, health, family formation, and family life – decisions that can include whether to continue a pregnancy."
Given the persistence of the "pro-life" faction, and their rejection of the fundamental rights of women illuminated and upheld in this ruling, it seems worthwhile to investigate the origins and motivations of the anti-abortion movement, and also to consider the direct consequences and implications if their efforts to ban abortion are successful.
Origins and Motivations
The most strident anti-abortionists are the evangelicals – Southern Baptists and other Christian fundamentalists. But this was not always the case. Prior to 1979, opposition to abortion was generally considered a Catholic thing.
American Catholics are not monolithic on this issue, but the Catholic Church has always held the position that a woman's role in society is subordinate – to the Church, to the men in the Church, to their husbands, and to the new bodies growing within them.
In the past, Christian evangelicals disagreed with the Catholic Church on the matter of abortion. Randall Ballmer, in a 2014 Politico article entitled "The Real Origins of the Religious Right," documents the evangelical transition from pro to anti-abortion.
In 1968, a symposium sponsored by the Christian Medical Society and Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of evangelicalism, cited "individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility" as justifications for ending a pregnancy.
When Roe v Wade was decided, W. A. Criswell, the Southern Baptist Convention's former president and pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, and one of the most famous fundamentalists of the 20th century, had the following to say: "I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person, and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed."
This stance was not surprising coming from a fundamentalist preacher, given that Jesus had nothing to say on the matter of abortion as far as we know, and the Bible itself has only one passage that directly addresses the beginning of human life – Genesis 2.7: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."
This passage brings up the curious absence of the issue of the soul in the abortion debate. Most, if not all, Christians would embrace the concept of the soul; that which makes us human beings, which separates us from the animals, which survives the body and ascends to heaven or descends to hell when the physical body is finished.
When does the soul occupy the body? A strict biblical interpretation, which is what fundamentalism is all about, would argue for with the breath.
Given the history and the evidence, one would expect evangelicals to be at least neutral on a woman's right to choose the outcome of her pregnancy, as they were before 1979. Which raises the question: what happened in 1979 that changed their position?
Ballmer makes a convincing argument that the pro-life position adopted in 1979 was a cover issue promoted by key evangelicals to help defeat Jimmy Carter and safeguard school segregation in the South. The success of that effort changed everything. Once evangelicals had a taste of political power, the kingdom of heaven was relegated to the back seat, and the rest is history. Had Jimmy Carter been re-elected, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion.
One thing is abundantly clear. The true motivation of the pro-life faction is not the sacred life of the unborn. If the pro-lifers were as concerned with the welfare of the unborn as they claim, they would be just as concerned, if not more so, for the already born, which demonstrably they are not.
It's no mistake that states passing draconian abortion laws are also the worst in per capita infant mortality, child poverty, hunger, and quality of education. And wherever these forces are in control, education and women's healthcare are under assault. Once the children are born, they and their mothers are on their own. The hypocrisy of insisting that every fetus come to term, and then turning a blind eye to the needs of every born child and their mothers for nourishment and support cannot be overstated.
Barney Frank summed up the "pro-life" position: "The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth."
Certainly, there are many good Christians who sense that something is wrong, who are uncomfortable with the dishonest and increasingly violent messaging, and the hypocrisy inherent in embracing the values, the actions and the persons who are the antithesis of the life and teachings of Jesus in their efforts to impose their political agenda. This is especially true in the ardent support for Donald Trump, who, by virtue of evangelical support, makes a mockery of any pretense to moral authority inherent in Christianity.
True believers who sense that something is amiss are kept in line by tribal reinforcement, led by bad faith preachers who have weaponized the existential fear of eternal damnation, while ignoring the teachings of the master.
The day that these preachers meet up with Jesus is going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, really bad day for them.
A thorough discussion of the cultural and theological issues involved is beyond the scope of this article. But Molly Worthen's excellent piece, "The Evangelical Roots of Our Post-Truth Society" captures the essence of the matter.
Direct consequences and implications
The alleged debate around the issue of abortion has long since devolved into an intransigent and mindless recitation of pro-life and pro-choice, accompanied by increasingly hysterical and dishonest messaging by the "pro-life" faction.
There is little discussion of the consequences for women or for our society if abortion is made illegal and the notion of fetal personhood becomes the law of the land. Those who insist on the rights of the "unborn" children don't seem to have much interest in the abrogated rights of women.
The bottom line is – you can't have it both ways. If the fetus is given agency, the woman loses it. Full stop. This is a binary choice. Either women are full citizens and autonomous persons, or they're not.
If the notion of fetal personhood becomes the law of the land, women will not have the rights of true citizens until menopause.
Once women are under the supervision and bodily control of the state, they can, and will, be inspected and violated as the zealots impose their will on women under their purview. Even now, some states require any woman pursuing an abortion to undergo an invasive procedure that meets the legal description of rape.
If it becomes the law of the land that abortion is murder, the authorities will be obligated to investigate any report that someone has had an abortion (a murder has been committed). How can it be otherwise? This will be an invitation to the culture war version of swatting.
If the reader thinks any of this is hyperbole, check out this article, and this, and this. Women in America are already being arrested and charged with manslaughter or murder for not behaving properly while pregnant, based on the principles of fetal personhood and the rights of the unborn. Some even want to impose the death penalty for women who have an abortion.
Furthermore, if the state presumes and assumes the right to govern women, control their bodies, trample their autonomy, and force them to carry pregnancies to term, it follows that the state must shoulder the responsibility of taking care of these women, and their offspring. Are taxpayers willing to assume that burden?
Not so long ago, women were wards of their husbands, property in fact. Women have fought long and hard to gain independence from second class status. If the "pro-life" position wins the day and the principle of fetal personhood become the law of the land, women's rights will be set back at least 150 years.
Maybe it's time to try something different.
Public sentiment on the issue of abortion has remained remarkably stable for the past 40 years. There is no public mandate in the U.S. to make abortion illegal. Even nearly half of those who identify as pro-lifers do not want Roe v Wade to be overturned. There is widespread recognition that abortion is a complicated and intensely intimate personal matter.
Furthermore, many of the loudest and most strident voices from the "pro-life" faction are men. But this is not the business of men to decide; nor their right. It's not possible for any man to know the true nature of pregnancy, or the intimately personal considerations involved in continuing or ending a pregnancy. This is a women's issue, and men should respect their right to decide the matter.
The pervasive dishonesty around this issue is corrosive, degrading to society and damaging to everyone.
Those who wish to see fewer abortions (there will never be zero) will have greater success by favoring supportive measures rather than engaging in judgement and punishment, which only heap more harm on women and their families.
It's time to do something different – try supporting women with healthcare, honest non-judgmental counseling, alternatives and real support – childcare, education, opportunity and protection. And then trust the women to do what is right!
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The clubs Federation north team, currently South West Croquet Federation champions, had their first match at the weekend in their quest to defend their title.
The match was well poised at lunch with the score at a game apiece.
Daniel Gott beat Garry McElwain (hcp -1/2) 26-1 in just over an hour, while Bob Hart and Lorne Loxterkamp were always behind in the doubles with Dyffryn's captain, Paul Pristavec, guiding their pair to a 26-15 win.
Sadly, after lunch, Bath's trio never got to established positions and all three games were decided in favour of Dyffryn, the final match score 4-1 to the visitors.


A superb example of the sought after early Mouseman Cheeseboard which features the mouse carved directly onto the board instead of the handle, which became standard in about 1960.
Always carefully looked after it presents in excellent condition showing only the faintest of light cut marks to the board. Plain and dry on our acquisition we've now clear waxed it to accentuate the natural colour and wood grain in the expectation of it being used for display purposes in the future.
Acquired locally and believed to have been purchased originally as a wedding present in 1948 for the sellers grandmother.


Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home at age 83 with his wife Lydia at his side. The cause of death has not been released, although the actor had been diagnosed with symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer's disease. Heston's filmography included: Ben-Hur, El Cid, The Omega Man, The Big Country, Touch of Evil, The Ten Commandments, Soylent Green, Earthquake, The Greatest Show on Earth, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Planet of the Apes, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Treasure Island, The Colbys, and Dynasty. He will be missed.