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Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote's fancy often leads him astray – he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants – Sancho acquires cunning and a certain sagacity. Sane madman and wise fool, they roam the world together, and together they have haunted readers' imaginations for nearly four hundred years.
With its experimental form and literary playfulness, Don Quixote generally has been recognized as the first modern novel. The book has had enormous influence on a host of writers, from Fielding and Sterne to Flaubert, Dickens, Melville, and Faulkner, who reread it once a year, "just as some people read the Bible."
Don Quixote has the humor of Nacho Libre and a weird blend of fantasy and reality that I can only compare to Galaxy Quest. I. Loved. This. Book. I was surprised how funny it was. Like laugh-out-loud funny with crude potty humor (my favorite) and violence that the Three Stooges would love. For example, Don Quixote does something absolutely crazy until I can’t stand him but then he gets the crap beaten out of him so I felt sorry for him and kind of liked him again until, of course, he does something crazy again. It actually takes a while to get tired of that cycle because it manages to be funny every time. By the time I was tired of it, Don Quixote started to change and develop more. The story is tragic, too, so it has some depth (but even the tragedy manages to be kind of funny).
If you read this novel in high school and feel like you didn’t read the same book as me, YOU DIDN’T. You need to read the Edith Grossman translation. It’s amazing. It flows well. It’s modern enough to understand yet she worked hard to keep as much of the context of the time period and language as possible. The style feels similar to reading Jane Austen. It’s not totally modern but not old enough that it’s hard to understand. Edith’s footnotes in this novel were great. They gave context when needed. They pointed out plot holes that I didn’t even notice like someone in the room talking even though the author never mentioned them coming in. She also did her best to explain the word play humor that sadly didn’t translate to English. If you’re still not convinced to read it because it’s long, I can tell you that the reason it’s so long is because there are chivalric novellas inserted into the narrative. They’re good stories but if you are intimidated by how long it is, you could skip these novellas.
If Don Quixote was going to be written today, it would be about video games rotting someone’s brains and they tried to bring the rules of video games into real life.
This is how the book describes Don Quixote:
In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.
-Cervantes, (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 21).
So Don Quixote decides to become a chivalric knight after he loses his mind. His family is shocked by this and asks a priest for help. This priest goes through Don Quixote’s books to “help” him by getting rid of the evil ones. At first, I thought they were just going to burn them all. But as the conversation goes on, the priest starts to justify keeping some of the books he likes in long speeches. I almost died laughing at the hypocrisy of it.
There are several characters who are trying to “help” Don Quixote but they do it by pretending to believe everything Don Quixote says and does. Doesn’t that make them just as crazy as Don Quixote? Since the characters are pretending to go along with Don Quixote, it makes it so his imagination is literally influencing the plot. I’m also pretty sure he would have been “cured” sooner if they had left him alone and let reality teach him. The characters who are helping him are a judge, a priest and a barber which sounds like the perfect setup for a joke. “A judge, a priest and a barber walk into an inn…”
By part II, I started to wonder if maybe Don Quixote has a point. That maybe the world needs knights/heroes who go around the world doing good. Maybe we are the ones that are crazy to think that the world is fine the way it is and we don’t need to try and make it better even if we are aiming for an ideal that we can’t reach. At the very least, I started to admire his determination to do what makes him happy no matter what anyone else says.
The plot consists of random, unrelated events which usually bugs the crap out of me. But what kept me reading was the desire to know if this new, random event would finally be the thing that knocks some sense into Don Quixote.
I love the characters in this book. Sancho Panza is awesome. He was by far my favorite character. I imagined him kind of like this:
He reminds me of Nacho from Nacho Libre. He’s the source of most of the humor. I could hardly breath when Sancho has “done something with my person I shouldn’t have (p. 148).” I won’t spoil it but basically it’s totally immature bathroom humor. It’s written in such lovely language to contrast the crude humor that it’s literally the funniest thing I’ve ever read.
Don Quixote and Sancho don’t always get along and it was immensely entertaining to read. Don Quixote gets mad at Sancho’s logic quite frequently. Sancho tries to sound wise by saying every proverb he’s ever heard whether it applies to the situation or not. He also likes to switch his words around like in this next quote (and it makes Don Quixote really mad lol):
“Censuring is what you should say,” said Don Quixote, “and not sentencing, you corrupter of good language, may God confound you!”
– Cervantes (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 579).
Sancho is also a little bit of a Captain Obvious and states obvious things which annoys Don Quixote and made me laugh. Still, the great thing about Sancho is that despite his nonsense, his simple-mindedness often appears wiser than Don Quixote which make them a great, contrasting pair.
My favorite thing about the movie Galaxy Quest is that the characters have to live through the ridiculous science-fiction that you see in shows like Star Trek in real life.
Don Quixote is like that, too. He tries to imitate the highly stylized and totally unrealistic life of a knight in real life.
There are poems at the beginning that are easy to skip, but don’t. Or at least listen to them on audiobook. They are written in a style where some of the syllables are missing and it’s hilarious. Having it read out loud sounds like someone getting punched in the gut halfway through each line. The poems are also the first example of this weird mix of fantasy and reality. The poems are stories of the real characters in Don Quixote talking to famous characters from other chivalry novels.
In Part II, the characters in the book have read Part I and the fact that they’ve read Part I influences what they do in Part II. The characters react to the real life reception of the novel when they meet characters who have read it. And the characters they meet are both fans and critics. It’s so bizarre and fun and it works.
Cervantes claims to be re-writing a translation of someone else’s story about Don Quixote so the author becomes a character in his own book. The priest, when he is going through Don Quixote’s books, finds one written by Cervantes and says it’s a good book. THIS IS SO WEIRD I LOVE IT. Also in Part I, Cervantes wrote a few plot holes that are addressed in Part II. Cervantes doesn’t just clarify them. He has the characters themselves explain the plot holes and be mad that the author didn’t keep an accurate history.
Cervantes made a lot of references to real chilvaric novels throughout the book. I could tell that Cervantes really knew what he was making fun of. But by the end of the book, I still couldn’t tell if that meant he loved chilary novels or hated them. I think that’s a sign of brilliant satire.
Don Quixote refuses to eat because he’s trying to emulate knights from the books he’s read and it never mentions them eating. This is so funny I can’t even….
I learned so much from reading this book. Like did you know that Don Quixote is considered the first modern novel? And it inspired Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce and Prouse? Part I has chapter breaks according to the events in the novel but Part II develops into the traditional novel where the chapter breaks are based on the emotions of the characters. We get to hear more often what the characters think (I got that from Sparknotes just FYI).
Just to add to the nerdiness of this review, here are a few other interesting tidbits that I learned from Sparknotes about Don Quixote (aka stuff you could rip off for a book report):
- There’s actually quite a bit of Spanish history in the novel.
- This novel challenged the idea of class and worth making it revolutionary for it’s time.
- There are books everywhere in the novel and they show the power that books and ideas can have in our lives – for good or bad and regardless if they are fiction or not.
- Don Quixote as a character is likable yet hate-able at the same time. He has good intentions but he still hurts others.
- Cervantes disagrees with the fake translator on whether Don Quixotes’ actions were good or not leaving it up to the reader to decide.
- The writing style sounds like a transcription of an oral history sometimes. One of the themes in Don Quixote is story-telling and Cervantes likes to mess around with all kinds of story formats – poems, epic, novels, oral stories etc.
Now let’s talk about feminism which does actually exist in this book. A bit. Don Quixote meets a girl who is so beautiful that a man claims that he “has” to fall in love with her and she has to return his love or he will die. Yeah she calls BS on that one on goes on her happy, independent way. Sadly, the rest of the female characters are flat and valued only by their looks but it’s hard to tell if this was part of the satire or not… I mean every other female character in the book is sooooooo beautiful. Too many drop-dead gorgeous ladies without personalities to keep track of. Blech.
The audiobook was fantastic. I switched back and forth between the audiobook and ebook. The voices that the narrator did were so good that they got stuck in my head even when I was reading the ebook.
In the prologue, Cervantes describes what the perfect novel should do:
…move the melancholy to laughter, increase the joy of the cheerful, not irritate the simple, fill the clever with admiration for its invention, not give the serious reason to scorn it, and allow the prudent to praise it.
-Cervantes, (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 8).
In other words, the best books should:
..achieve the greatest goal of any writing, which, as I have said, is to teach and delight at the same time.
-Cervantes, (translated by Edith Grossman). Don Quixote (p. 414).
It’s the perfect description of the perfect novel and I think Don Quixote lives up to that.
PS. The Ending View Spoiler »At the end, on Don Quixote’s tombstone, it says: “for it was his great good fortune to live a madman, and die sane (p. 939).” Wow. That’s kind of deep. Does it mean that complete sanity is so sad that it’s best only to experience right before you die? Also, it was sad that Don Quixote died. But it made sense. For him to be sane it would go against who he is and if he stops being who he is it’s kind of the same as dying. « Hide Spoiler
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A review of Ian Douglas, Film and Meaning: An Integrative Theory(edited by Horst Ruthrof (Perth: Continuum Publications and Film & Television Institute, 1988).
The reader who expects a philosophical text to develop a clean, clear line of argument, be non-allusive and non-repetitive, is bound to be disappointed upon a first encounter with lan Douglas's Film and Meaning: An Integrative Theory. Contributing to this impression is a style of philosophical reasoning that too often treats paragraphing in the manner of cinematic 'cuts'; these recurrent discontinuities in the unfolding of the argument being perhaps the chief obstacle to this work's finding (in its present form) a broadly based readership.
Such reservations as I express above all reflect, undoubtedly, the particular genesis of this work. Ian Douglas died in 1983, leaving the manuscript of the PhD he was working on incomplete. His supervisor at Murdoch University, Horst Ruthrof, working from the handwritten manuscript and Douglas's rough notes, undertook the unenviable task of transforming the manuscript into the thesis form. And Douglas was awarded the PhD, as a result of these efforts, posthumously in 1988. Thereafter, the thesis (as stated in the Preface) was "... considerably shortened, edited, reformatted ..." (p.viii), then published under its present title in book form and offered as a memorial to lan Douglas.
The book, thus, represents - at two removes - the impress of its author's unculminated thoughts. I shall address myself directly to the edited text and not pursue the potential of a quest for authenticity which the humour and erudition (borne witness to by many passages in the text) suggests as a possible mode of apprehending the kind of person Douglas must have been.
To turn, then, to the more interesting, substantive issues. Ian Douglas's position emerges (to use his own words), "... in somewhat piecemeal fashion" (p.47), but what emerges is an interesting thesis. He argues that semantics collapses into pragmatics: here the self is not to be understood as an entity, but rather as: "... an intentional process existing in an open-system world of discursive exchange" (p.88) where meaning creation itself is understood as a process whereby the utterer of a statement - for Douglas, this comprises a discursive act - marshals the extensional components of meaning under the domination of the subject's intentionality. Yet paradoxically little space is devoted to elaborating a theoretical account of intentionality. Douglas does distinguish three senses of intentionality - the teleological, teleonomic and directional. But distinctions do not constitute a theory. Brentano is absent, as is any reference to Merleau-Ponty's The Phenomenology of Perception, which is unusual given Douglas's acceptance of the intentionality of perception. The omission of Searle's Intentionality is explained by the fact that it was first published in 1983, the year Douglas died. Husserl's omission is less explicable.
Equally in need of elaboration is another central term of Douglas's tripartite theory of meaning - the notion of 'intensions'. While the concept of self-reflexivity is important to Douglas's thesis, his stress on the diachronic processing of meaning creation requires, I believe, a theory that will explain the relative semantic stability required for intensional sets to maintain their capacity for being individuated. The notion of 'feedback' cannot alone be made to carry the burden of supplying the theoretical account of the necessary semantic constraints. Perhaps here again the tension between terms that occupy a structural frame and accounts that stress post-structural processes manifests itself.
Although, for Douglas, the subject is a self-reflexive system accepting feedback from the world that in turn modifies its process of meaning construction, this in itself requires theorising in order to account for the requirements which I have suggested are necessary. Like Foucault and Derrida (who, given the support the latter's views could lend Douglas's enterprise, is surprisingly omitted from the bibliography: he makes no reference to Derrida's works except as quoted in Culler), Douglas privileges the diachronic over the synchronic and is in this sense clearly a post-structuralist. However, there appears to be an oddly ambivalent theoretical siting of his project which is particularly manifest in his treatment of film criticism. Here he foregrounds narratology in a manner rather more akin to earlier forms of structuralism than seems appropriate for his critical undertaking.
He pits his thesis against a galaxy of twentieth century thinkers, arguing points with Saussure, Davidson, Putnam, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Habermas, Foucault, Eco, Chomsky, Strawson, Peirce, Goodman, Bhaskar, Ricoeur, Pecheux, Hjelmslev and others. Douglas's concern with taking the measure of his thesis against so many disparate thinkers costs the development of his ideas in book form much of the possible support they could have garnered from a more thoroughgoing articulation of the logic of his own position.
This, of course, reflects the fact that the book owes its existence to editorial and not authorial decisions.
Douglas is at his best when he applies his theory of meaning to individual films. Much of the conceptual machinery he develops in the earlier chapters is sensitively deployed in these analyses, though at times his close readings of particular films and genres seem to proceed independently of his theoretical framework. And it is in the theoretical reaches of these latter chapters especially that the reader may feel the lack of a sustained and clear development of Douglas's theses. Promising avenues of thought such as the possible conceptual lines that may hold between the diegesis-generating capacity of discourse and the intentionality of perception are never pursued and his central notion of the fictive status of films fails to come clearly into focus. The Ingardian framework of his narratological undertakings is not, in my opinion, adequately problematised, especially given Douglas's stress upon his commitment to an ontology of processes.
To turn, now, briefly to the stylistic inadequacies I noted above: the repetitions - while distracting in their present state - could easily be edited out in any subsequent edition. We are, for example, told on p.14 that:
... although I agree with Foucault that while meaning attaches to sentences and truth or falsity to propositions, statements have as their correlates the essential discursive formations.
only to be informed of this again on pages 19, 37 and finally on page 155. Moreover, a formal scheme laid on p. 48 is repeated almost exactly on p. 59 and a point made on p. 22:
... to advert to Smith and Wilson's Modern Linguistics, it is unlikely that two speakers ever use precisely identical 'grammars'.
is made, again, on p. 39.
Such distractions as these are more acutely felt when, on p. 55, in the context of a series of explanatory diagrams, two of Peirce's models are represented by identical diagrams. Further, for readers not all that familiar with the intention/intension/extension set of distinctions it does not help to find 'intension' written on p.166 as 'intention': "and in order to provide intentions' [sic] correlate, extension ..."
Finally, to conclude my review of this aspect of the book, Douglas's style is too often cryptic and allusive, diminishing the clarity of expression that is essential for presenting arguments as complicated as those undertaken here. A single quote should suffice to make the point:
What emerges from all of this and this will be crucial to understanding the rest of what I have to say - is a noumenon of expressivity within oneself which is formed by us as reasoning beings and generated as the substantive, which, like the purely formal is of course phenomenal and therefore consciously available to us, but what we intend to express can either work as communication, which, if returned, is morphogenetic though, full of feedback (p. 57).
Film and Meaning is a difficult read made perhaps unnecessarily more difficult by the distracting stylistic errata mentioned above. It remains, however, an ambitious work, rich in insights and multiple intellectual engagements. As a memorial it will succeed in making its readers sorely regret that the conversation with Ian Douglas was so untimely curtailed.
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Season 2018 Episode 7 | 54m 47s | Video has closed captioning.
FRONTLINE explores Sen. John McCain’s complicated relationship with his own Republican Party and President Trump. Tracing the Arizona senator’s life and politics, FRONTLINE examines how the GOP has evolved over his political career, and the role he’s had in that evolution.
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Women, Peace and Security in Asia Pacific, 20 Years on: Progress achieved and lessons learned
The 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is a critical moment for the agenda and its relevance, which has been tested by the extensive impacts of COVID-19. This publication takes stock of the progress as well as the gaps in implementing WPS in the Asia Pacific region over the last 20 years, and builds upon the lessons learned to move the WPS agenda forward in the years to come.
Looking ahead, this publication contents that addressing four key issues will be crucial to the future development and influence of the WPS agenda in the Asia Pacific region.
- The focus on women’s participation in peace and security needs to extend beyond peace processes and emergencies to the recovery of post-conflict, post-disaster and post-pandemic societies.
- Ensuring our approach to peace and security is for all will require more men to become WPS champions and more men’s leadership for greater gender inclusion in peace and security sectors and decision- making.
- Gaps in protection must be addressed, and countries in the region should commit to tackling sexual and gender-based violence, whether within the context of recognized conflict or not, with region-wide targets, building on existing frameworks for reducing the violence and enforcing sanctions against it.
- More emphasis on conflict and crisis prevention and the recognition of women mediators in mitigating crises and the escalation of conflicts is required in the implementation of WPS in the region.

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■ the 'P' of the P/V Synth's tname stands for pitch, and the 'V' stands for generated out voltage — main function is to translate an audio signal, from a monophonic instrument e.g a guitar, voice or wind instrument, into note control voltages and trigger capable of playing a synthesizer with control voltage (1v oct with normal trigger, no strigg) . The SPV355 does the translation and plays relative note-frequency to the own internal synthesizer.
Not really appreciated for the unreliable guitar translation sluggish and poorly precise.
■ Front panel features and Input (pitch detector) and a three‑way switch for selecting input signal type: Guitar (, Voice or Brass wind . Relative LEDs indicate signal activity to avoid overload — a Threshold control for adjusting the Gate trigger sensitivity to the EG. It's quite important to set the right amount for correct tracking.
■Two VCOs, a sub‑oscillator, VCF, VCA, envelope generator, two audio router mixers.
The VCO oscillator have over three pitch ranges (4', 8' and 16'), and each VCO is able to generates variable waveforms: Sawtooth, Square and Pulse waves. What's really limit the use as classic synth (they can be controlled by CV gate bypassing the tracker) is that VCOs share same controls for Range, Waveform and Tune.
Second VCO also includes an footswitch‑controlled A/B tuning function, which makes it possible to set and octave below or upper the VCO1 . VCO1 features and excellent square‑wave sub‑oscillator output (set at relative lower octave).
■ A footswitch‑controlled variable Portamento glissando is available for both osc but unfortunately this only works with internally tracker and won't work with external signal.
■The VCA is quite simple with a switch to select control via the Envelope Follower or the Envelope Generator.
he Envelope Follower generates a control voltage that follows the amplitude of the input signal as close as possible. Generated CV signal can modulate both VCF and VCA,
EG is a simple 3 segments ADS (Attack, Decay, Sustain) type
■ Filter is a LPF a 24dB/octave type with a range of 10Hz‑20kHz with self-oscillation.
Sad enough it's not possible to filter external signal.
■ NO LFO


The extreme rainfall first landed on southeast Qld, before the devastating storm rolled south reaching some areas of NSW. As a result, Suncorp put a dedicated team on standby to help flood-impacted customers once the water has receded and it is safe to do so.
In addition, Suncorp CEO Steve Johnston has urged customers to focus on staying safe and follow the emergency services' directions as the wet weather continues and the insurer carefully monitors the situation.
“Right now, safety is the number one priority. Many roads and homes remain flooded, so we must wait until it is safe to evaluate the impact,” Johnston said. “We are ready to handle any resulting claims. This includes having our mobile Customer Support Teams on alert and ready to be deployed into communities.”
Once floodwaters recede, Suncorp will arrange emergency repairs, organise temporary accommodation for customers whose homes have been severely damaged by the weather event, and provide cash payments to customers for emergency purchases.
“If you can safely access your home, and it has been damaged, it is easy to lodge online for any of our brands, including Suncorp Insurance, AAMI and GIO,” Johnston said.
The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), which has been calling for Australian governments to double Federal funding to make the country more resilient to extreme weather, reported that insurers had received nearly 15,000 claims from policyholders related to the extreme weather event since February 21.
Considering the significant number of affected customers, Suncorp Bank is offering a disaster relief package to personal and business customers impacted by current weather events. They can contact the bank on 13 11 55 to discuss options available to them.
The insurer also acknowledged the death of an SES volunteer while responding to a call for assistance in Coolana overnight.
“I know I speak on behalf of every employee when I say Suncorp is truly saddened by this news. It is another reminder of how heroic SES volunteers are,” Johnston said. “Suncorp is proud partners with the Queensland SES, and our thoughts are with the volunteer's family, friends, colleagues, and the whole SES community during this difficult time.”


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Oak Hill closure plan catches school, board members by surprise
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 8:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 8:06 p.m.
TUSCALOOSA | Students at Oak Hill School eagerly dug a small hole the school grounds Wednesday, covering it with thick plastic and creating what soon would be a pond filled with goldfish, frogs and turtles.
“We are so excited and feel like it’s a wonderful learning experience, not just for today, but for students who will come through these doors for years,” said Oak Hill Principal Suzanne Sterling.
But whether future students will be able to enjoy the pond is uncertain.
Teachers at Oak Hill were told Tuesday that the school for children with special needs was to be closed and its 97 students sent to their neighborhood schools next year.
The closing was announced in a news release issued late Wednesday afternoon by Tuscaloosa City Schools.
The issue has yet to be discussed or voted on by city board of education members, some of whom are upset about the abrupt manner in which the news was announced. Some of them also said they received no advance word that the school would close.
“Parents need to be notified and should not have to hear it from the street,” said board member Earnestine Tucker.
Board member James Minyard said he first found out through word of mouth Wednesday.
“This is a public institution with public schools, not private, and the more public we are with issues, the more the public will trust us,” Minyard said.
City Schools Superintendent Joyce Levey said the school system is closing Oak Hill to bring the system in compliance with federal regulations.
“We responded to the federal guideline to reassign students at Oak Hill, and the process has been over a five-year period,” Levey said in the news release.
The federal No Child Left Behind Act states that special education students should receive educational services with their peers 80 percent of the time. The Individuals with Disabilities Act also states that children should be educated in the least restrictive environment to the “maximum extent appropriate.” That means students with special needs should be taught alongside non-disabled children and would be placed in special education classes at those schools if necessary.
But parent Vivian Spears wonders what the move will mean for the children’s education and care. She said that while she believes children with special needs should be included in their neighborhood schools — her son attends both Eastwood Middle School and Oak Hill — she worries how the transition will be conducted and what services will be available.
“I definitely think that being around typical students is beneficial to kids with disabilities because children learn from other children,” Spears said. “But what are [the schools] going to do to support them?”
Many of the children at Oak Hill require behavioral aides, teachers specially trained to work with students who have disabilities and, in some cases, one-on-one assistance and medical attention, Spears said.
It is the school’s one-on-one attention and guidance that has made Chgtikie White glad that her son has attended Oak Hill for the past seven years.
“It’s been a place where he can be himself and at the same time grow and be educated,” White said. “He can work on his social skills and social responsibility. And for me as a parent, knowing he can get all of those things, it’s more than what I could have offered him.”
City schools spokeswoman Lesley Bruinton said all of the services at Oak Hill will be available in the neighborhood schools. The 12 teachers and 24 instructional aides will be able to apply to transfer to another school in the system, she said.
Since the 2003-04 school year, many of the children at Oak Hill have been transferred out of the school and into regular classroom settings.
In the final phase of the plan, the 94 remaining middle and secondary Oak Hill students will transfer to their neighborhood schools in August.
Board member Ginnye Capps lamented the fact that federal regulations are driving the move. She said her niece used to attend Oak Hill.
“This is not something we want, and it breaks my heart, because I think it’s such a wonderful program,” Capps said. “Eventually it will close because of the new laws and the new regulations — that is what is driving this.”
Board chairman Dan Meissner said the closing is not yet official, since the board has yet to vote on it.
“The board clearly has not made any final determination,” Meissner said. “The staff is clearly looking into what our options are and will make a recommendation at the appropriate time.”
Spears hopes the school system will allow parents to voice their concerns about the move. An Oak Hill PTA meeting is scheduled Nov. 13 to explain the transition and the closing of the school.
For now, the children at Oak Hill can eat their lunch looking out onto their courtyard pond and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
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Meri Meri - Easter Colouring Posters
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These excellent Easter illustrations are such fun to colour in over the Easter weekend - or to save for a creative craft session at any time. They come packaged in a beautiful box, so make a brilliant gift for someone with an artistic flair.
- Each pack contains 2 posters with fabulous illustrations, one with a bunny adorned with flowers and another filled with classic Easter icons including chicks, eggs, bunnies, carrots and spring flowers.
- Printed using lavender foil illustrations for extra sparkle.
- The ears are stylish and comfortable to wear, with fabric covered elastic to keep them in place.
- Made from eco-friendly paper
- Pack of 2 in 2 designs.
- Product dimensions: 30 x 19.75 inches


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The first rally was corrected by 42% in price and 32% in time.
If the second rally has the same correction ratio, the price target is around 44.7 and time target is at June 29th.
If it corrects the whole rally from 26.05 to 51.64, the price target is around 40.9 and time target is at Junly 15th.
The potential target zones were labeled in the chart.
Good luck for everyone!

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I am trying to save some camcorder footage as rawvideo.
The original footage is YUV 4:2:0 h.264. When I change the following code in “other” from
the video appears as scrambled eggs, i.e. not a usable image. The 4:2:2 export looks fine.
My thinking is to avoid as much resampling as possible and to have the encoder pass the 4:2:0 video without modification (and without using a “lossless” codec).
yuv420p is not a valid render target in MLT if any effects (filters, transitions, track compositing) are involved. As long as you do not use Filters or Timeline, you can do this. But depending on how you export you probably need to specify additional info to ffmpeg. For example, to save as AVI this works:
- Format = avi
- Video codec = rawvideo
I tried those steps and no improvement. No filters, no timeline.
There shouldn’t be a need to change the internal processing mode of Shotcut with the
mlt_image_format line. If implemented correctly end-to-end, doing nearest neighbor scaling from 4:2:0 sources to 4:2:2 internal processing then to 4:2:0 for export should be lossless. The options that need to be set are:
- Export > Advanced > Video > Interpolation > Nearest neighbor
- Export > Advanced > Other > pix_fmt=yuv420p
This assumes that the in and out resolutions are the same, meaning only the chroma plane is getting scaled. When the chroma plane is doubled then halved, we end up right back where we were. This is why bicubic or other scaling methods would break the lossless nature of chroma scaling and cannot be used for this purpose. They have spline extrapolation that will cause bleed across pixel borders instead of the mathematically-precise double-and-half approach to scaling that nearest neighbor does.
I tried my raw export again with “nearest neighbor” and the following in “other”. It still comes out as 4:2:2. This was using the current beta version.
Remove all the mlt_* lines and try it again with only this line:
pix_fmt alters the export mode. mlt_image_format alters the Shotcut internal processing format, which we’ve established is not going to work.
No joy. It’s still 4:2:2.
And the audio MUST be pcm_s16le or the export will fail.
The 2nd post works for uncompressed 8bit 4:2:0 video, not true “raw video” . (The distinction is “raw video” is containerless, headerless)
Codec ID : I420
Codec ID/Info : 8 bit Y plane followed by 8 bit 2x2 subsampled U and V planes.
ffprobe/ffmpeg identify it as I420 yuv420p
Confirmed with PSNR
[Parsed_psnr_4 @ 000000693de3eec0] PSNR y:inf u:inf v:inf average:inf min:inf max:inf
It imports back into shotcut correctly and other programs, media players.
It might be that whatever program you are using cannot read fourcc I420. There are slightly different 8bit 4:2:0 configurations in terms of arrangements of how the data is stored. For example, “YV12”, “NV12”, “IYUV” are all 8bit 4:2:0 but just arranged slightly differently .
The designation in Shotcut is “raw video”.
Are you talking about the playback that looks like scrambled eggs?
I’m getting scrambled eggs on MPC, VLC, WMP. “Movies & TV” gives an error message. Four different players that can’t handle this clip in 4:2:0.
MediaInfo says “Y42B” for codec ID and “YUV 4:2:2 Planar” for codec ID/Info.
No scrambled eggs. Works ok here as expected, all players MPC,VLC,WMP. AVC 4:2:0 source, uncompressed 4:2:0 output in I420 configuration. No filters, just drop on timeline and export .
shotcut beta version dated 191208
What are your export settings?
Same as the 2nd post
I saved a preset
codec tab: rawvideo
One difference was no audio, but that shouldn’t affect the video
That was from the timeline .
I did a second test with cuts only editing and it worked ok too. Verified lossless, no other things like upsampling going on
My export settings are the same as PDR except without the mlt_image_format specifier and with nearest neighbor interpolation. This lets me throw on titles, filters, etc and export a finished project with the least amount of loss possible within Shotcut (for full projects, not single-file transcoding that might be better served with CLI FFmpeg). The resulting file from Shotcut is showing 4:2:0 like PDR’s.
chris319, what happens if you bring your exported video back into Shotcut and look at the Properties tab there? Does it also say yuv422p like the media players?
Well it mysteriously started working with the same code as in post #2 which I had tried previously with no success.
It has audio, too.
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A drawing from the widely popular J.K. Rowling franchise began with her first Harry Potter novel. “The Legacy of Hogwarts” is a game that partially distances itself from the classic setting of the Wizarding World. The Hogwarts Legacy takes place in the past, which can give fans a unique chance to plunge into a different world compared to the world of books and their film adaptations. However, the recently postponed game has caused a lot of controversy since it was announced about Quidditch, the value of the collector’s edition of The Hogwarts Legacy, or J.K. Rowling’s political views.
In recent years, Rowling has been at the epicenter of a storm because of her repeated transphobic comments on social networks, which LGBTQ+ people, in particular transgender people, have emphasized even in books and other media related to Harry Potter. The legacy of Hogwarts was also linked to specifically anti-Semitic accusations when it was revealed that the main villains of the game were goblins, a persecuted species in the Wizarding World that is portrayed as evil because of a desire for freedom. For these reasons, many are in favor of people boycotting the “Hogwarts Legacy” before the launch.
Why fans are boycotting the “Legacy of Hogwarts”
Rowling’s political views eventually tarnished the franchise for thousands of former fans, given that she commented on the rights and freedoms of transgender people, and then doubled down after being reprimanded online. Actors from the Harry Potter saga have started discussing this issue, stating that trans women are women and trans men are men, regardless of what the person who started the franchise says. Many began to doubt the existence of the “Hogwarts Legacy” as an expansion of the franchise, which has been criticized, no matter how many developers try to distance themselves from Rowling.
Despite the fact that the Harry Potter stories focus on themes of liberation and self-affirmation, Rowling’s views caused a ripple effect, as it seemed that they opposed the rights of certain people. The Goblin Rebellion storyline in Hogwarts Legacy has drawn similar criticism from developers and Warner Bros. One of the main antagonists of the game is a powerful goblin who can wield and use magic without a wand: Ranrok.
Goblins are not allowed to use wands in the Harry Potter universe, and they are closely watched and suppressed by the Ministry of Magic. Because of this, the creation of the “Hogwarts Legacy” about the suppression of the goblin rebellion has caused controversy about whether to support the game because of its racist narrative, combined with Rowling’s views. People who are aware of the situation with Rowling and the Goblin conspiracy urge players not to support the game in any way, even to support street developers who have already received a salary for their work.
While it makes sense to try to boycott further IP addresses belonging to the Wizarding World, video games such as Hogwarts Legacy still delight many fans, regardless of the politics surrounding the original author of the Harry Potter series of books. The Harry Potter franchise has benefited millions of people, and actors such as Daniel Radcliffe have said that this experience should probably be separated from the author’s views. Nevertheless, it is difficult when these views belong to a living person capable of hurting those who believed in the magical world that the “Legacy of Hogwarts” is trying to portray in a new light.
Hogwarts Legacy is released on February 10, 2023 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, a version for Switch is also in development.

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Mandatory Music: Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, the Dead Weather + More
It's been one of those weeks when it's overwhelmingly clear that we live in a post-grunge world.
It unofficially started last weekend when Temple of the Dog surprisingly reunited at Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit Concert (although all that really takes is for Chris Cornell to perform with Pearl Jam), but then Soundgarden -- perhaps even more surprisingly -- dropped a brand-new old song (explanation below) and Foo Fighters (who could only ever have come to exist in a post-grunge landscape) continue riding the waves of 'Sonic Highways.'
Even we here at Diffuser got caught up in all the flannel: check out our list of the 19 most influential grunge musicians and a look back at the seminal Seattle outfit Mother Love Bone. Of course, you should do that after listening to this week's Mandatory Music:
'Storm’ from 'Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path'
If the new Soundgarden song, 'Storm,' sounds a lot like old Soundgarden, there's a pretty good reason for that. The grunge godfathers unceremoniously unveiled the foreboding and droning track earlier this week, then waited a day to tell everyone it's actually a newly recorded version of a 30-year-old demo. 'Storm' will be on Soundgarden's long-awaited but just-announced B-sides and rarities compilation, 'Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path.' Listen to the song and see if you can resist the immediate urge to tape something off the radio.
'The Feast and the Famine’ from 'Sonic Highways'
If you've been following the Foo Fighters extensive pre-release push for their upcoming eighth album, 'Sonic Highways,' or have just been watching their HBO documentary series of the same name, you're abundantly aware of the album's concept: Dave Grohl and the guys recorded each song at a different iconic studio in eight different American musical meccas. For the angular and driving track, 'The Feast and the Famine,' the Foos traveled to Grohl's hometown region of Washington, D.C., to record at the unofficial headquarters of Dischord Records -- Inner Ear Studios.
THE DEAD WEATHER
Jack White probably writes more songs before breakfast than most songwriters can pen in a month. Currently supporting his second solo album, 'Lazaretto' (and recently dropping by Yale to have an academic discussion about the history of landmark label Paramount Records), White and one of his side-projects, the Alison Mosshart-fronted supergroup the Dead Weather, have been releasing two-song singles leading up to the release of their third album. They just dropped the latest, the raucous 'Buzzkill(er),' and it's guaranteed to saw right through even the worst of bad days.
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN
'The Party Line’ from 'Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance'
Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch is apparently doing his best to be the Bo Jackson of indie rock. Just a month after 'God Help the Girl,' the critically acclaimed movie he wrote and directed starring Emily Browning premiered stateside, Belle and Sebastian have shared the first song from their upcoming ninth album, 'Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance.' (Seems like Murdoch must have girls on his mind.) 'The Party Line' is an upbeat, EDM-inspired number complete with funky bass and cow bell. Look for the album in January.
'Schema’ from 'Descensus'
After a decade purveying their often copied but never replicated brand of progressive post-hardcore and surviving a run through the major label ringer, Philadelphia-based Circa Survive are set to release their fifth album, 'Descensus,' in November. Although frontman Anthony Green has had a well-documented battle with the demons inside him, in the video for the pulsing lead single, 'Schema,' he faces off in a boxing ring against a much more tangible (albeit surreal) opponent.


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By Antony Mbugua and Sharon Ndinda
Following the global outbreak and spread of the novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19”) many states have been constrained to deploy measures aimed at mitigating the negative effects occasioned by the pandemic. So far, Kenya has reported 715 Covid -19 cases which number is expected to rise over the next few weeks with the continued mass testing of the population. In a bid to contain the virus, the Government of Kenya has enforced certain measures including a partial lockdown of some businesses, a nation-wide curfew and travel restrictions to and from various counties which have recorded a high number of positive COVID-19 cases. As such, Covid-19 has not only affected the health of Kenyans but has also led to a great disruption of businesses and subsequently the Kenyan economy.
Given the unprecedented nature of Covid-19, Kenya, like so many other counties across the world, was not sufficiently prepared to deal with the devastating effects of the pandemic. As such the government has been forced to adopt a reactive approach to dealing with some of the unique effects of the pandemic.
It is in these circumstances that the Senate created an ad hoc committee chaired by Nairobi County Senator Hon. Johnson Sakaja to look into the pandemic and come up with ways through which the government can deal with the health and economic issues brought about by Covid- 19. The Ad-hoc Committee proposed to legislate the Pandemic Response and Management Bill, 2020 which seeks to ensure that Kenyans are cushioned from the negative financial impact of the pandemic. The Bill was debated by Parliament and has been forwarded to the President for assenting. It is pending assenting.
The objects of the Bill are threefold:
The Bill has made a good attempt in providing a framework for the effective response and management of a pandemic. The Bill has sought to address some of the pressing concerns owing to the pandemic such as employment, loans and mortgages, tenancy and care for vulnerable groups and created relevant institutions.
However, there are a few sectors that have not been addressed such as remote learning in the education sector which has been a subject for debate in the last few months. Further, even though the Bill has attempted to provide economic safeguards for vulnerable groups, there is no provision for identifying and profiling these vulnerable groups into social safety net programmes. The Bill also takes a suggestive as opposed to a mandatory approach on certain key issues such as loans and mortgages. This, in our view, is a risky affair as the likelihood of compliance is significantly diluted.
Additionally, the Bill is silent on catering for the hospital bills and quarantine facilities for vulnerable groups and even more concerning cases of police brutality which has been on the rise since the pandemic began. However, the Bill gives the Cabinet Secretary the mandate to make regulations and any relevant rules or standards as may be required with regards to the pandemic.
Given the fact that the Bill touches on multiple sectors such as the financial services sector, the legal services sector and others, there is need for thorough consultation with representatives from the stakeholders within those sectors. We also feel that there is a need to get more input from economic experts who have raised criticisms with the Bill.
For further details on the bill, kindly click on the links below which explain salient provisions of the bill.
Declaration of a Pandemic by the President
The National and County Pandemic Response Committees
The Pandemic Response Fund
The Provision of Tax Incentives
Loans and Mortgages
Penalties and Offences

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1.0 This is a Collision Detection library to use with OpenSG.To get some information about the algorithms that are used in the library have a look at the site of the author, Gabriel Zachmann.
The usage of this software is very simple:
- include the file Collision.h;
- create a class inherited from col::Callback. This class should have an operator (), where you can implement everything that should happen when two of your objects have collided;
- initialize the library by creating an instance of the class col::CollisionPipeline;
- register your objects with the library using col::CollisionPipeline::makeCollidable.
For question or comments, send a mail to firstname.lastname@example.org
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, May 18, 2021
As part of negotiations in a federal court case, the Biden administration has agreed to allow up to 7,750 asylum-seekers stranded in Mexico to enter the U.S. each month, the top American Civil Liberties Union lawyer overseeing the lawsuit told CBS News on Monday.
Under the new agreement, the Biden administration has committed to processing up to 250 asylum-seekers deemed to be vulnerable by advocacy groups on a daily basis and permitting them to continue their legal cases on American soil.
Those eligible would be exempted from the Title 42 policy, a Trump-era public health edict under which most single adult migrants and some families with children continue to be expelled from the U.S. without a chance to seek asylum.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been making humanitarian exceptions to the Title 42 rule for months. However, under the agreement, the Biden administration committed to creating “a streamlined process for assessing and addressing” requests to allow vulnerable families with children and adults to enter the U.S., according to Lee Gelernt, who has been leading negotiations on behalf of the ACLU.
Recently, U.S. border officials have been allowing no more than 35 migrant families deemed to be vulnerable in Mexico to enter the U.S per day. So far, 2,000 asylum-seekers have been admitted into the U.S. through the ACLU’s negotiations with the Biden administration, Gelernt added.
The process the Biden administration has committed to expanding is separate fromthat has led to the admission of more than 10,000 asylum-seekers who the Trump administration had previously required to wait in Mexico for their court hearings.
Unlike those asylum-seekers processed under the drawdown of the Trump-era Remain in Mexico policy, the migrants benefiting from the Title 42 exceptions do not have pending court cases, as they were never allowed to seek U.S. refuge.
Despite the exceptions, Biden administration officials have said they will continue the Title 42 policy for the foreseeable future, repeatedly declaring the southern border “is closed.”
During President Biden’s first three full months in office, U.S. officials carried out more than 295,000 Title 42 expulsions along the southern border, expelling 49,000 migrant parents and children traveling as families, according to government data.
In recent weeks, however, U.S. border agents have been allowing most migrant families to stay in the U.S. while their cases are adjudicated, blaming Mexico for refusing to accept families with children under the age of 7 in the state of Tamaulipas.
About 65% of the migrant families encountered along the southern border in April were processed under U.S. immigration laws, rather than expelled under the Title 42 public health authority.