Webkit is the web browser engine used by Apple Safari, previously used on Chrome too (now using a Webkit fork), and used by several other minor browsers and applications. It's perfect to embed in applications that requires some HTML/JS/CSS rendering.
It allows for the development of desktop GUI applications using front and back end components originally developed for web applications.
I.e., an entire browser included instead of just the web browser engine. While it'll make easy for people without desktop development skills develop a packaged version of a website, or create a desktop program using web technologies it'll pay the footprint in memory usage.
Webkit is packaged for several operating systems, including Ubuntu, but there is a problem: the version included in 16.04 stopped to properly work with latest Slack updates, due modern CSS usage that was poorly rendered by the distro default webkit.
In the past I've pushed some CSS/JS tweaks in the ScudCloud side to make it work (basically re-writing some stuff to the older and supported syntax), but this time I preferred a different approach: update the webkit version in Ubuntu.
The task would be not easy, but for my lucky, I found that some people still prefers embed webkit too and were packaging more updated versions to Qt applications under Debian.
So, I've got the package sources and published in the ScudCloud PPA, which will be automatically available for all Ubuntu users of ScudCloud under Ubuntu 16.04.


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Movie Review: The Lorax
The Lorax (released March 2nd) is a delightful expanded version of Dr. Seuss`s 1971 environmental fable. It`s directed by Chris Renaud, who also helmed 2010`s Despicable Me, and this film shares some of DM`s off-beat humor and kid-friendly supporting characters. The story takes place in the Jetsons-esque town of Thneedville, a bright, colorful burg which boasts futuristic cars and happy inhabitants, but nothing natural. No trees, grass, or organic material exist there. The city is surrounded by a huge metal wall which protects citizens from the polluted outside world.
Young Ted (voiced by Zac Efron) decides that he must find a genuine Truffula tree in order to impress budding artist Audrey (Taylor Swift), the girl of his dreams. At first, it seems hopeless, as the Truffulas have been extinct for ages. But then his feisty grandmother (Betty White) clues him in about the Onceler (Ed Helms), who lives outside the wall and may hold the key to his dream.
The Onceler`s backstory is the heart of the film, as it is tied to the tale of Thneedville. In the Seuss book, he`s shadowy and mysterious, a pair of long arms attached to a face that one never sees. In this movie, he`s still tall and long-armed, but we learn a lot more about him. The Onceler starts out as a likeable neo-hippy who is idealistic about life and just wants to be good at something.
He travels to the idyllically beautiful valley of the Lorax and sets to work on his dream product, the "Thneed", which is made from the soft leaves of the Truffula trees. But his plans are temporarily halted by the appearance of the Lorax (Danny DeVito), a bold walrus-like creature who "speaks for the trees." The rest of the Onceler`s tale hinges on the conflict between his friendship with the Lorax (and the valley animals) and his desire to make money quickly.
As you can easily guess, he goes with the second option, and the industrial wasteland that this choice produces leads to the creatures leaving and the evantual creation of the Thneedville wall. It`s up to Ted and his fellow citizens to try to restore the area to its former natural beauty.
The movie handles the Onceler`s hard-earned lessons about the environment in a creative way, showing the effects of his actions rather than becoming preachy. Strangely, the film often feels like a much older one in terms of ideology. Despite its lavish use of CGI and bright color palette, it reminded me of thoughtful 70`s animation like The Point (1971) and various after-school specials.
The animation is gorgeous: especially well-done is the lush green land of the Lorax with its Truffula trees and bright orange Humming Fish. Although the movie is being shown in 3-D. you don`t really have to pay the extra cash: it`s a lovely sight in 2-D. The script is witty and fresh, though it only quotes from the source material a few times.
Danny DeVito does very well as the voice of the Lorax. He plays him as somewhat lighter in tone than he is in the book, but it works out: the comic aspects of the character balance the serious plot points. Helms seems perfect for the Onceler. He captures both his younger self`s enthusiasm and the regret-laden sighs of the adult. Also of note are Swift`s cute yet sweet Audrey and the great Betty White as Ted`s active grandma.
To sum it up. this is a Seuss adaptation that both entertains and educates. It`s always a joy to find an animated film which has a solid story behind the visuals, and The Lorax is such a film.
Review by Guest Blogger, T. Johnson
T. Johnson is a blogger, au pair, and part-time tutor who has been obsessed with science fiction and comics since roughly first grade. One of her life`s big revelations was discovering Wonder Woman comics-another milestone was starting to read the works of Heinlein and Aldous Huxley. She has always been convinced that girls can be as truly nerdy as any fanboy.
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Sounds like this would be fun to see. Saw the new Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon last night, it was surprisingly good.
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The Centre sets the stage for attracting international students to India
Calls for enhanced tie-ups with universities abroad under Twinning, Joint and Dual Degrees with Credit Transfer Mechanism
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Recognizes the importance of providing a happy and hassle-free living experience for international students
Stresses upon the need for developing world class infrastructure, providing on-campus support and building socialization opportunities
Says the base of Study in India Programme will be expanded to allow more institutions to join
Will make no distinction between public and private institutions in matters of internationalization
New Delhi : The Ministry of Education is deliberating on measures to increase the number of international students coming to India for higher studies. In a review meeting of the Ministry's Study in India Programme with partner institutions yesterday, Secretary Higher Education Shri Amit Khare said that the criteria for institutions partnering under the programme will soon be revised so that more institutions that have the necessary infrastructure and academic quality can join the programme. He also said that no distinction will be made between private and public institutions in matters of supporting internationalization.
Study in India is a programme of the Govt of India that aims to attract international students to higher education institutions in India . Select 117 institutions are partners under the programme that was launched in 2018. Admissions are merit based and done through a common portal. Around 7500 students from over 50 countries have come to Indian institutions so far under this programme.
The Government has also recognized the importance of creating a conducive, on- campus ecosystem for the international students, where they not only get quality academic inputs but can also feel safe, welcome, happy and hassle free. In this regard the Secretary called upon all partner institutions to set up world class hostels for international students. There is a provision for financial assistance for this under the Champion Services Sector Scheme that supports SII, which can be provided to some
institutions . In addition, there is an urgent requirement of setting up International Students' Offices in every institution that takes in international students. This office should work as a single window support for anything that the international students may need, right from the day they get selected to join the institution. Besides this, avenues like networks of families, mentors etc should be developed, who can help the students to socialize so that they feel welcome in the country and have an enjoyable stay here, with memories that they can cherish, and positive experience to share with others.
In addition to this, the Ministry has also asked institutions that they should consider organizing orientation for international students when they join, as well as orientation for the faculty to sensitize them to teach using contexts that these students can relate to.
The Ministry is also looking towards enhanced academic collaborations between Indian and international institutions under Twinning, Joint and Dual degrees with credit transfer mechanism. UGC has already brought out draft regulations in this regard that have currently been put up for stakeholder consultation. There regulations will give a boost to student exchange programmes and short programmes of one or two semesters.
The Ministry has plans to take up the issue of allowing internship for international students with the concerned department of the Government. Many of the partner institutions pointed out that the absence of internship for international students was a big drawback for any programme of higher studies in India. The Ministry will iron out other issues of concern for international students, for example visa issues.
All institutions have also been asked to activate their Alumni network and use this connect to draw more students to Indian institutions.
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Sentinel is a giant sequoia located within the Giant Forest Grove of Sequoia National Park, California. It is the 43rd largest giant sequoia in the world, and could be considered either the 42nd or 41st largest depending on how badly Ishi Giant and Black Mountain Beauty have atrophied following devastating wildfires in 2015 and 2017, respectively.

Description
The tree stands directly in front of the Giant Forest Museum, from which one can get close to the base of the tree. It features a lush canopy and two prominent burn scars at the base of the trunk.

Dimensions
The dimensions of Sentinel as measured by Flint and Law are shown below. The calculated volume ignores burns.

See also
List of largest giant sequoias
List of individual trees

References

External links
 Sentinel tree at famousredwoods.com

Individual giant sequoia trees
Natural history of Tulare County, California

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The Universal Notebook: Charter schools are public schools
Edgar Allen Beem
There is a liberal bias against charter schools that I once shared and no longer do. LD 604, An Act to Promote Accountability in Maine's Charter Schools, is an expression of that bias.
The liberal bias is that charter schools pose a threat to traditional public schools, both by serving as functional critiques and by siphoning off resources. The problem with this bias is that the laws and policies it fosters tend to favor the entrenched education establishment.
There is also a conservative bias in favor of charter schools, which feeds the liberal antithesis. Trump Education Commissioner Betsy DeVos was a pure embodiment of the bias that public education has failed and must be replaced by private schools, especially those grounded in Christian ethics.
Both the liberals and the conservatives are wrong.
I am a public school guy. I attended public schools K-12 as did my wife and daughters. I also served on the School Committee in Yarmouth for six years and then served three years on the School Facilities Committee. My wife now serves on the board of the charter school that three of my grandchildren attend. What I have learned from their experiences is that charter schools are public schools. We should be encouraging them, not holding them back.
In 2011, Maine authorized 10 charter schools and that is still all there are. In the beginning, school districts had to pay the per-pupil costs for each of their students who elected to attend a charter school. That did siphon funding away from public schools. In 2015, the funding mechanism was revised so that charter schools are now funded in much the same way as traditional public schools.
LD 604 seeks both to give the commissioner of education sole authority over the expansion of charter school facilities and to separate charter school funding from other public school funding. At an April 7 hearing on the bill, the Department of Education, Maine School Management Association, and Maine Education Association predictably submitted testimony in favor of the legislation.
A representative of the State Board of Education, however, surprised me by testifying that there was already sufficient oversight of charter schools and that LD 604 would only create unnecessary confusion. Dozens of charter school supporters, myself included, agreed, submitting written and spoken testimony in opposition to LD 604.
In response to the overwhelming testimony of charter school proponents, LD 604 sponsor Rep. Michael Brennan, D-Portland, an eminently reasonable fellow, amended the bill in the work session, eliminating the facilities and funding provisions and directing the DOE to study the issues.
All 10 of Maine's public charter schools are distinctly different, ranging from those that embrace experiential education (Acadia Academy, Ecology Learning Center) to those that provide virtual education (Maine Connections Academy, Maine Virtual Academy). Some focus on STEM education (Baxter Academy), others on the arts (Maine Arts Academy), ecology (Harpswell Coastal Academy), or on progressive educational philosophies such as Reggio Emelia (Fiddlehead School).
As a parent, grandparent, former school committee member, and journalist, I have come to believe that we should be encouraging as many public educational options as possible with our tax dollars. Traditional public education lays the foundation, but its one-size-fits-all factory model of schooling does not work for some students. It just grinds them up and spits them out 12 years later – if they last that long.
School choice is a good thing. Ultimately, as most charter schools have waiting lists, Maine might be better off with 15 or 20.
Edgar Allen Beem has been writing The Universal Notebook weekly since 2003, first for The Forecaster and now for the Phoenix. He also writes the Art Seen feature.
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Knighted for bravery in a battle he only half remembers, his newfound noble status is the only thing that saves Falorn's life when he's captured by a powerful archbishop. But that nobility also forces him on a doomed quest into the land of the Immortal King, where savage armies compete with powerful wizards to try to take away the magical artifact that propelled Falorn into this mess in the first place. In a web of betrayals and counterbetrayals, he finds himself caught in a love triangle between the woman whom he loves but who has twice abandoned him, and the woman who seems to love him -- but whom he can never fully trust. Wizards, monsters, pirates, murderous cults, and rogue professors all have a role to play in this thrilling sequel to The Green Lion. But the ultimate role will be played by the sorceress in whose thorns Falorn is caught, and who set in motion the events that threaten to consume him!
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Q: How do you convert a dmg file to img in ubuntu? I have installed dmg2img-1.6.2 on my Virtual Computer. when I say installed I mean I can see the folder dmg2img-1.6.2 and contents in my home directory. I am using linux 12.04. I have been trying for a week now to convert a dmg file to img using terminal. The response to "dmg2img lightroom_5_LS11.dmg" is syntax error. Other commands usually respond as " cannot open input file lightroom _5_LS11.dmg. Any help would be appreciated. Not sure which set of commands to use. Just been using trial and error method, none of which has worked.

A: You can use DMG2IMG.
To install, Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:
sudo apt-get install dmg2img

To use, just do dmg2img -i <input.dmg> -o <output.img>  See manpage

A: Move your file to your HOME DIRECTORY and after this use dmg2img -i lightroom.dmg -o lightroom.img
After this you can find your lightroom.img in your HOME DIRECTORY
I think you see problem with path because you have not English Ubuntu.

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Paint your own ceramic birdhouse. Birdhouse is 7.5 inches tall by 6.5 inches wide. Kit includes 6 colors of paint: black, white, blue, green, yellow, and red. It comes with a high quality paint brush, sponges, craft paper, plates, 18" length of rope, and a 1.5" wooden dowel.
An instructional video showing one way to paint the birdhouse.


This is the introduction. It declares that The American Legion recognizes the influence of Almighty God in all worthwhile endeavors-and declares the allegiance of Legionnaires to both God and Nation. First things have been put first. All that follows is in conformity.
The Constitution of the United States is the written bulwark of our free way of life and representative government. It is our guarantee of liberty, freedom, justice and democracy. Members of The American Legion bore arms-went to wars-to defend and uphold this document of freedom.
Without law and order, liberty would become license. Law and order protect our pursuit of happiness, one of our God-given rights. Members of The American Legion served in wars to uphold law and order among nations. It is just as important to maintain the due processes of law in our domestic affairs. It binds Legionnaires to obey the laws of the land and to support the constituted authorities in enforcing those laws. It means the citizen must never take the law into his own hands!
Americanism is the gist of the American ideals of freedom, justice, individual rights and unfenced-in opportunities. It embraces all the freedoms we cherish and all the rights that are guaranteed to us. It is the very opposite of hatred, bigotry and intolerance. Americanism is the creed that has blazed the world-wide trail for justice, fair play, decency, belief in God, private enterprise, universal education, and progress in all human endeavors. It puts a premium on the virtues of loyalty, patriotism, hard work and thrift.
Service in defense of America is the greatest experience in the lifetimes of all veterans. Recalling the highlights of that service means more than flashbacks to tense moments of excitement and danger in battle, the grime of muddy trenches, the perils of sub-infested oceans, the combats in the wild blue yonder. It means also the un-erasable recollection of the comradeship, the bravery of pals, the teamwork, the sacrifices, the miseries and hardships of military campaigns shared in common. It means the bond that binds all ex-servicemen and women together in mutual affection, respect and gratitude. It also means keeping green forever the memories of the supreme sacrifices of gallant American patriots, sacrifices necessary to the winnings of wars. It means faithful annual observance of Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
Always interested in building a better nation, the founders of The American Legion believed that such building must start first with the individual in his own community. So they made it one of the cardinal principles of The American legion to inculcate that sense of personal obligation to the community, state and nation into the individual citizen. That means educating the citizen-young, old and future-in his and her responsibility to be active in making the hometown a better place in which to live, in discharging the duty of voting in elections, in paying taxes promptly, in contributing to community chest funds and to blood banks. The word "inculcate" means "to impress by frequent admonitions" and "to enforce by frequent repetitions." Like the duties themselves, the reminders that they remain to be carried forward, are never finished.
This clause places the Legionnaire on the side of right in opposing autocracy by either class or mass when this threatens. In a democracy such as ours, composed as it is of all nationalities, races, creeds and economic groups, there are bound to both classes and masses. Indeed, the masses are composed of classes-but all groups within the mass must feel assured that in this nation, reason and fairness will prevail in all human activities and relations. There must be no hyphenated Americans-just Americans all.
All wars from the veterans of which The American Legion draws its membership were started by dictators who wanted their might to be the right. If human freedom is not to perish from the earth, right must always be master of might. The rights of small nations must be protected against the tyranny that powerful neighbors may seek to impose on them-just as the rights of minorities in our society must be protected and respected. Our belief in enthroning right over might is the main essence of our ideological conflict with Communism today. Legionnaires are pledged by this clause always to stand with the right, protect the weak and preserve the liberties of the individual. This concept is the basis of The American Legion 's continued advocacy of a strong national preparedness so as to achieve the ideal situation that right will be backed by adequate might.
Until all the world becomes a good neighborhood, Legionnaires must continue the effort to promote peace and good will on earth. It is in pursuance of this founding ideal that The American Legion has supported from the beginning and seek to strengthen the United Nations organization. Obliquely, The American Legion also contributes to this ideal by firmly supporting a strong national defense to discourage breaking of the peace by aggressor.
On this ideal of safeguarding and transmitting to posterity the principles of justice, freedom and democracy, all of the youth-training programs of The American Legion are built. All Americans can be proud that in our international relations we have tried to live by the golden rule, the mark of justice. We have granted to others, as we prize it ourselves, the great boon of freedom. Through the Monroe Doctrine, we call a halt to foreign imperialism in the Western Hemisphere . We gave freedom to the Philippines . These principles are part of the American heritage. Legionnaires are pledged to protect and preserve that heritage.
The last or 10th clause of our Preamble is the most important ideal expressed in our Preamble.
It marked a new concept in America -a concept that made The American Legion the greatest force for social betterment in all the history of the United States . Let us be factual and examine this.
At the close of World War I , America was just emerging from its lusty era of rugged individualism. It was an era when the individual hammered out his own destiny and progress with little or no help from the government. An honest facing of the facts brings out that American society was then a cold society insofar as any organized public hands of helpfulness were concerned. The individual who fell upon evil times was left to private charity which meant mostly the churches and the Salvation Army. There were no public resources or services to help the unfortunates.
When the veterans of World War I came marching home, they found the nation utterly unprepared to care for the combat casualties of the war. The wounded, the shell-shocked and the sick were lodged in poor houses, jails, asylums or what-have-you.
Veterans of World War I were much more closely knit than those of World War II. They trained in the same camps, fought on the one great front. Those who came home unscarred were appalled by the plight of their less fortunate comrades. They felt a concern for them and their dependents which was a new and dramatic action aspect to what the country had known as friendship. This concern formed the bond among the charter members of The American Legion and gave them a great and noble cause to fight for-the adequate care and protection of their disabled comrades and dependents, the war widows and orphans.
They faced a monumental task. Laws had to be drafted and enacted by the Congress to provide compensation for the war-handicapped, to build hospitals and to get protection for the widows and orphans upon whom the war had laid its heaviest and cruelest hand.
The Congress enacted the laws, it provided the administrative machinery, it appropriated the funds, it built hospitals. Then to bring about a single responsibility for the carrying out of all veteran laws and to achieve a unification of these government services, The American Legion put through Congress the legislation to create the Veterans Bureau which has become the Veterans Administration of today. Over the years, a great network of government hospitals was built and a great structure of veteran legislation enacted which made the American veterans the best cared for on earth. The rehabilitation program of The American Legion for the World War I veteran brought about in its successful development a great awakening of social responsibility in America.
When the New Deal Program was being developed, the government planners took a look at what The American Legion , through its vast rehabilitation program, had done for the veteran of World War I and they decided to do the same thing for all American people.
So out of the rehabilitation brain child of The American Legion , there came the Social Security System with its retirement benefits and old age assistance programs for all the people. The planners took a look at The American Legion program of temporary emergency aid to needy children of veterans and there was born-with the support of Legionnaires-the state and federal program of aid to dependent children-all children.
This is how we can hail The American Legion today as an unparalleled force in these United States for social betterment. American Legion concepts and its ideal of devotion to mutual helpfulness warmed up the whole social climate of America . Today, America is extending its helpful hands all over the world through our assistance programs of foreign aid.
The American Legion Preamble has been the beacon light of The American Legion for more than 90 years. It has been amended only once in all that time. That amendment consisted of adding the letter "S" to the word "war." It makes the Preamble read today "Great Wars," so as to embrace all wars.


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Werner Hug (* 10. September 1952 in Feldmeilen) ist ein Schweizer Schachspieler.

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Hug wurde 1971 in Athen Juniorenweltmeister und erhielt in Anerkennung seines Erfolges daraufhin von der FIDE den Titel Internationaler Meister. 1975 gewann er die schweizerische Einzelmeisterschaft. Zwischen 1972 und 2014 nahm er 14 Mal für die Schweiz an Schacholympiaden teil, ausserdem an den Mannschaftsweltmeisterschaften 1985, 1989, 1993 und 1997 sowie an fünf Mannschaftseuropameisterschaften zwischen 1973 und 2005. 1979 stellte er in Emmen bei Luzern einen Weltrekord im Simultanschach auf: Er spielte gleichzeitig an 560 Brettern und gewann dabei 385, u. a. auch gegen das Univac Schachprogramm CHAOS, remisierte 126 und verlor 49 Partien. Im Februar 2015 steht er auf Platz 5 der Schweizer Rangliste.

Hug spielt mit der Schachgesellschaft Zürich in der Nationalliga A der Schweizerischen Mannschaftsmeisterschaft und wurde 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1987, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 und 2016 Schweizer Mannschaftsmeister. Er nahm mit der SG Zürich außerdem am European Club Cup 1975/76 und 2006 teil.

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Q: Drag and drop between two QTreeWidgets My problem is that I have two QTreeWidgets and I would like to do drag and drop from one to an other (and vice-versa). I am able of drag and dropping QTreeWidgetItems, but, when I drop a QTreeWidgetItem that has children, I lose them and only the parent is dropped.
I don't really see how to do it. The only way I have found is reimplementing dropEvent and destroying all teh dropped objects and reconsructing them .. but I don't like that solution because it's slow and the objets are not the same, so it complicates very much the implementation of a Undo/redo feature...
Well, this is what I have:
#include <QApplication>
#include <QDebug>
#include <QObject>
#include <QWidget>
#include <QString>
#include <QTextStream>
#include <QIODevice>
#include <QMainWindow>
#include <QVBoxLayout>

#include "KTreeWidget.h"
#include "KAbstractItem.h"
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int main(int argc, char* argv[]){

 QApplication app(argc, argv);

 QMainWindow *window = new QMainWindow();
 QWidget* central = new QWidget(window);
 QVBoxLayout *layout = new QVBoxLayout();

 KTreeWidget* kv = new KTreeWidget(window);
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 layout->addWidget(kv);
 layout->addWidget(trash);

 central->setLayout(layout);

 KItem* kiarr[5];
 for (int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++){
  kiarr[i] = new KItem(kv);
  kiarr[i]->setText(0,QString("Item %1").arg(i));
 }
 KItemGroup* kgarr[5];
 for (int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++){
  kgarr[i] = new KItemGroup(trash);
  kgarr[i]->setText(0,QString("Group %1").arg(i));
 }

 window->setCentralWidget(central);
 window->show();

 return app.exec();
}

My QTreeWidget:
KtreeWidget.h
#ifndef _KTW_H_
#define _KTW_H_

#include <QTreeWidget>

class KTreeWidget: public QTreeWidget{
 Q_OBJECT

private:
 QTreeWidgetItem* _header;

public:
 KTreeWidget(QWidget* w = NULL);
};

#endif

and KTreeWidget.cc:
#include "KTreeWidget.h"

KTreeWidget::KTreeWidget(QWidget* w):QTreeWidget(w){
 setColumnCount(3);
 _header = new QTreeWidgetItem(NULL);
 _header->setText(0,"Title");
 _header->setText(1,"Edit");
 _header->setText(2,"Open");
 this->setDefaultDropAction(Qt::MoveAction);
 setHeaderItem(_header);
 setDragEnabled(true);
 setAcceptDrops(true);
}

And the items (3 classes, in order to distinguish groups and leafs):
KAbstractItem.h
#ifndef _KABSI_H_
#define _KABSI_H_

#include <QObject>
#include <QTreeWidgetItem>
#include <QTreeWidget>

class KAbstractItem : public QObject, public QTreeWidgetItem{
 Q_OBJECT
public:
 KAbstractItem(QTreeWidget* p = NULL);
};

#endif

and KAbstractItem.cc
#include "KAbstractItem.h"
KAbstractItem::KAbstractItem(QTreeWidget* p):QTreeWidgetItem(p){}

KItem.h
#ifndef _KI_H_
#define _KI_H_

#include "KAbstractItem.h"

class KItem : public KAbstractItem{
 Q_OBJECT
public:
 KItem(QTreeWidget* p);
};

#endif

and KItem.cc
#include "KItem.h"

KItem::KItem(QTreeWidget* p):KAbstractItem(p){
 setFlags(Qt::ItemIsSelectable
  | Qt::ItemIsEditable
  | Qt::ItemIsDragEnabled
  | Qt::ItemIsUserCheckable
  | Qt::ItemIsEnabled);
}

and KItemGroup.h
#ifndef _KIG_H_
#define _KIG_H_

#include "KAbstractItem.h"

class KItemGroup : public KAbstractItem{
 Q_OBJECT
public:
 KItemGroup(QTreeWidget* p);
};

#endif

and KItemGroup.h
    #include "KItemGroup.h"
KItemGroup::KItemGroup(QTreeWidget* p):KAbstractItem(p){
 setFlags(Qt::ItemIsSelectable
    | Qt::ItemIsEditable
    | Qt::ItemIsDragEnabled
    | Qt::ItemIsDropEnabled
    | Qt::ItemIsUserCheckable
    | Qt::ItemIsEnabled);
}

Whenever I do a drop of one of the Items in the first WTreeWifget inside one of the groups of the second one, it works, but it then I move a group to the top QTreeWidget, I lose all the children...
Could you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!

A: So, i checked it and it isnt working as required, you are not doing any wrong.
I seems the problem is that QAbstractItemModel (in wich QTreeWidget relies to encode the dragged data internally) mimeData() method is not considering nested items (se that it just encode row  + column, but not parent.
It could be even that view is only passing the QModelIndex of the dragged item, to mimeData, thought, it could be better so, cause of not considering parent info...
The only solution i see is that of reimplementing the dropevent. But you dont have to destroy the items.
Use
QTreeWidgetItem * QTreeWidgetItem::takeChild ( int index )
QTreeWidgetItem * QTreeWidget::takeTopLevelItem ( int index )
to take the dragged item
and
void QTreeWidgetItem::insertChild ( int index, QTreeWidgetItem * child )
to drop it
I've checked that this way children are moved right. (See this gist)

A: This is how I solved it:
When you drag and drop, At creates a new object, differen than yours with the same values for the texts, but it is an other object and yours is simply removed but memory is not freed.
The first thing to do is override removeChild since it is based in indexes and not in addresses so it won't work well with what we are going to do latter. (http://sourceforge.net/p/ckmapper/code/4/tree/trunk/src/KViewer/KAbstractItem.cc#l39)
Then what we need to do is to override the dropEvent of the QTreeWidget. The startegy is the following:

*

*get all the selected items that should be dragged but are not but Qt.

*allow Qt to do its dropping.

*Find the items on the target that might contain the new objects created by Qt. this can be done with itemAt(event->pos).

*Find among the childrne of those items which ones are the dropped ones: this can be done with a dynamic_cast<> because the ones created by Qt are ATreeWidgetItems and ours inherit from this class.

*Get its index.

*Remove the "parasite" item, and delete it.

*insert the selected items at the index from the parasite.

We nedded to override the removeChild because WE are removing children by hand (the selected items) and Qt is removing items (also the selected items) that it should drop latter (but it doesn't). So, if you check the Qt code you will see that it is based in indexes and this is not secure, whereas removing items based on their address is more secure.
I'll post my code latter here, I forgot to commit it ;)
Anyway, Trompa's solution is also valid and seems simpler to me. I just wanted to share my solution too ;)


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Me, aged 21 and with a lot more hair, reporting for 3News from JFK Airport in New York following the crash of American Airlines 587. I still have the monogrammed sweatshirt (12 November 2001)
What made – and still makes – Three different
Kamahl Santamaria | Guest writer
With the future of Mediaworks' TV business hanging in the balance, Al Jazeera news presenter Kamahl Santamaria reflects on what the imperilled channel meant, and continues to mean, to him.
I always liked the logo. The fresh bright colours, the nod to a koru in its shape, and just the fact that it was something new. I even remember seeing it appear in the Listener TV listings for the first time. More than two TV channels? Get outta here! Nine-year-old me simply couldn't wait for TV3 to launch.
I loved the jingles, too. The one that Dave Dobbyn did before launch was funky and high-energy. I think they played it in movie theatres before the trailers began. And of course there was 'Come Home to the Feeling' (actually adapted from a promo by America's NBC, which was an early investor). Cheesy as hell, but also comforting and homely. Come home to the feeling, only on 3. I liked that idea.
And as I grew up watching 3 National News I knew that if I one day realised my ambition of becoming a TV journalist, then this was the place I wanted to do it. John Hawkesby, Joanna Paul, Leanne Malcolm, Eric Young, Tony Johnston, Bob McNeil, John Campbell – these were real TV stars to me. And there was just something different about the way they approached the news.
And that's to say nothing of the likes of Belinda Todd, Bill Ralston, and Dylan Taite. I swear, I couldn't stop grinning the day I saw the tiny little elevator that opened out in the 20/20 office, from where Dylan used to do his irreverent Nightline pieces. "Nice to see ya… wouldn't wanna BE ya!" he would sneer at the camera in the coolest possible way. I'm glad I met him before he passed away in 2003.
So the fact that TV3 – and maybe more specifically then-news and current affairs boss Mark Jennings – took a chance on me, an 18-year-old kid with no experience or university degree, tells you a lot about the culture there.
Forgive the cliché, but it's about the people. TV3 would look past the obvious hurdles to see if there wasn't something there worth pursuing – in the news, and in its people. Very soon after starting there in 1998, I discovered that you weren't part of a big corporate machine – certainly not in the newsroom. You were part of a tight team of battlers. A team that pushes boundaries, that welcomes ideas, that thinks outside the box as the rule rather than the exception.
I'm not saying it's not like that "over the road" as we would describe the competition at TVNZ. I've never worked there, and have no first-hand knowledge of their operation. But I know that with our tighter budgets and more limited resources at TV3, we had to be very smart and creative with how we did the news. And somehow, every night, we pulled it off.
(Not to give away state secrets, but back in the day before digitised recordings and 24-hour operations, we used to ask Bob the elderly security guy to press record on the tape machine in the sports department for any overnight events that we'd need for the next day. Not conventional, but effective.)
And damn it, we had fun too. I recall the very first All Blacks test to be broadcast on TV3 in 2000. I was producing the nightly sports bulletin from North Harbour Stadium, and then watched the match from the sideline with Nathan Rarere – then of ICE TV fame. The ABs put 100 points on poor old Tonga that night, meaning someone had to stick a hastily-drawn '1' on the old two-digit scoreboard. Now I'm not saying anything… but between Nate and Jon Bridges and I, that number '1' somehow appeared in the ICE TV studio the next night…
Suffice to say, I'm very sad to hear the news of Three, as it's now known, being put up for sale. I know, I know, it's not closing down (though that is a distinct possibility). And in the grand scheme of 2019, the corporate decision to carve-off of a distressed TV business that's been in and out of financial trouble for 30 years isn't the worst thing that's happening in the world, nor the most illogical. You can't make TV if you're not making enough money from it.
But for the people at Three – the people who make Three what it is – it could be the end of their worlds. I really feel for everyone there. An uncertain future is one thing, but it's made infinitely worse by the knowledge – and they'll all know this – that jobs in the New Zealand media industry aren't exactly abundant.
My hope, as someone who's worked at Flower Street and who loves the place dearly, is that someone sees the inherent value in Three. Everyone knows that streaming and digital media has changed the game irrevocably, but I firmly believe there is still place for television as we knew it. And as a journalist, I'd hate to see New Zealand reduced to one TV newsroom. For such a forward-thinking country, that would be disastrous.
Would I have spent the past 14 years working for one of the biggest news networks in the world without my grounding at Three? Not a chance. And for that reason, I owe the channel that "comes home to the feeling", and its fabulous people, so much.
The best and worst of free-to-air television this Christmas
Has the world grown tired of the Kiwi success story? NZ in 2020, from afar
Kamahl Santamaria


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Q: A fast queue in Java I am looking for a fast queue implementation in Java. I see that LinkedList implements the Queue interface, but it will only be as fast as a LinkedList right? Is there a way to have a queue that will be faster especially for add (I only need poll, add and check for empty).
Down the line I may also need a PriorityQueue but not yet.

A: If performance of a linked list was really a problem, an alternative would be to implement a "circular queue" in an array, i.e. a queue where the start and end point move as entries are added and deleted. I can give more details if you care. When I was using languages that did not have a library of collections, this was how I always implemented queues because it was easier to write than a linked list and it was faster. But with built-in collections, the effort of writing and debugging my own collection for a special case is not worth the trouble 99% of the time: When it's already written, the fact that I could write it a different way faster than I could re-write it the way Java does is pretty much an irrelevant fact. And any performance gain is likely to be too small to be worth the trouble. I sub-type existing collections to get special behavior I need now and then, but I'm hard-pressed to think of the last time that I wrote one from scratch.

A: You may want to have a look at https://dzone.com/articles/gaplist-lightning-fast-list which introduces GapList. This new list implementation combines the strengths of both ArrayList and LinkedList.
It therefore implements the Deque interface, but can also be presized like the above mentioned ArrayDeque. In addition, you also get all the possibilities of the List interface for free. Get it at https://github.com/magicwerk/brownies-collections.

A: If multiple threads are going to be accessing the queue then consider using an ArrayBlockingQueue.  Otherwise take a look at ArrayDeque.  From the ArrayDeque API:

This class is likely to be faster than
  Stack when used as a stack, and faster
  than LinkedList  when used as a queue.

Specifically an array-based queue implementation reduces the need to resize the underlying array if the existing array has sufficient capacity, thus making additions to the queue generally faster than LinkedList.  Be aware that ArrayBlockingQueue is a bounded implementation whereas ArrayDeque will resize as required.
The flip-side is that LinkedList will typically provide a much more compact representation, particularly in cases where your queue grows and shrinks by a large amount.  For example, if you added 10,000,000 elements to an ArrayDeque and then removed 9,999,999 elements, the underlying array would still be of length 10,000,000 whereas a LinkedList would not suffer from this problem.
In reality, for single-threaded access to a non-blocking queue I tend to favour LinkedList.  I imagine the performance differences are so negligable you wouldn't notice the difference anyway.

A:
I see that LinkedList implements the Queue interface, but it will only be as fast as a LinkedList right?

Eyeballing the source code, LinkedList is O(1) for Queue.add, Queue.poll, and Queue.peek operations.
I hope that's fast enough.

A: Start with really simplistic rotating Queue implementation with "C/C++ like" attitude and fixed size.
class SimpleQueue<E>
{

int index   = 0;
int head    = 0;
int size    = 100;
int counter = 0;
E[] data    ;

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
SimpleQueue()
{
    data = (E[]) new Object[size];
}

public void add(E e)
{
    data[index]=e;
    index=(index+1)%size;
    counter++;
}

public E poll()
{
    E value = data[head];
    head=(head+1)%size;
    counter--;
    return value;
}

public boolean empty()
{ return counter==0; }

//Test
public static void main(String[] args)
{
    SimpleQueue<Integer> s = new SimpleQueue<Integer>();

    System.out.println(s.empty());

    for(int i=0; i< 10; i++)
        s.add(i);

    System.out.println(s.empty());

    for(int i=0; i<10; i++)
        System.out.print(s.poll()+",");

    System.out.println("\n"+s.empty());

}
}

And then improve it.


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ECHR: Greece will pay compensation of 312,500 euros to a hotel owner - It was occupied for three years, under SYRIZA
An incredible Greek case has reached the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which has sentenced Greece to a fine of 312,500 euros to the owner of a hotel. The reason; The hotel in question was under occupation by squatters, under the SYRIZA government, and the state did not protect the right to property.
The issue concerns the hotel "Acropole" a landmark Αrt Nouveaux building opposite the National Archeological Museum and the Polytechnic. It must be noted, however, that the owner had at first hailed the squat and considered herself in solidarity on social media when it happened. Only, when she became aware that it was her own property did she start trying to evict the squatters.
It all started on April 22, 2016, when anti-authoritarians occupied the hotel and turned it into a hostel for immigrants. For three whole years of SYRIZA rule, no police operation was carried out to end the occupation.
As soon as the government changed, on July 10, 2019, the "solidarity seekers" ended the occupation, for fear of a police operation. And this is because the new political leadership, under Michael Chrysochoidis, had the evacuation of this occupation on the list of the first ten actions of the police.
The owner of the hotel all these years was seeking her rights, but in vain. She appealed to the state to evict the squatters, but her demands were either rejected or not considered at all by the Greek authorities, under the SYRIZA government. She succeeded in issuing a decision of the Athens Magistrates' Court, which ordered the eviction and return of the building to the owner, but this was not executed by the authorities. She appealed to the police station of Agios Panteleimon, but nothing happened. In 2019, a relevant document was served two more times, but without execution.
At the same time, the owner's debts were running high: taxes, water, and electricity were high. In March 2017 the bills were 81,500 euros and in 2018 they reached 141,990 euros. Not only that but in 2018 the authorities moved to seize the applicant's house (!), So she was forced to sell it to pay off the debts and avoid her conviction.
According to the European Court, "in the case of Papachela and Amazon SA v. Greece, the court found a violation of the right to property protection due to the possession, for more than three years, of the applicants' hotel by migrants and a group of people acting in solidarity with them.
The court ruled that Greece had to pay the applicants 300,000 euros for job loss (financial loss) and 2,500 euros for expenses. It also had to pay Mrs. Papachela 10,000 euros for non-pecuniary damage. "
Greece was convicted of violating Article 1 of the First Additional Protocol to the ECHR (right to property). Greece has supported the inaction of the Authorities, for reasons of public interest, in view of the risk of disturbing public order by evacuating dozens of people.
The European Court of Justice acknowledged the authorities' concerns but ruled that this did not justify their three-year inaction.
hotel acropole


After eating at Little Saigon, I've been dying to re-create one of their awesome soups. The time has come.
It's basically a buckwheat noodle soup filled with vegetables, garlic, ginger, jalapeño and cilantro. Such great flavor combinations.
Don't let this seemingly light broth-based soup fool you. It's jam packed with fiber, got some moderate protein and a well rounded flavor that's guaranteed to satisfy.
Saute the onion, broccoli, carrot, sprouts, jalepeno, garlic and ginger in the sesame oil for about 5 minutes in a large deep pot. Lightly season with salt and pepper.
Add the water, edamame, bouillon, soy sauce, rice vinegar and lime juice to vegetables and bring to a boil.
Add the noodles and cook until done. Lastly, add the cilantro and half the scallion. Provide the extra lime wedges to squeeze over individual bowls of soup.
Place 2 bok choy leaves in a bowl and ladle soup on top.
Have some extra bean sprouts, cilantro, remaining scallion and lime wedges available to add into individual bowls.
This yields about 8 – 1.5 cup servings. Enjoy!


text:
Just Aircraft signs up U.K. dealership
May 27, 2015 by General Aviation News Staff
Just Aircraft has reached an agreement with Robert Pooler in the U.K. to begin selling SuperSTOL Aircraft kits, pending approval by England's Civil Aviation Authority.
An application has already been submitted and once consent is received, other countries in the EU are expected to issue similar authorizations soon, according to company officials.
Since the SuperSTOL was introduced in the spring of 2013, Just Aircraft has received over 200 orders for kits, prompting it to double its workforce in the past year.
"The response has certainly been much stronger than we anticipated," said Troy Woodland, designer of the SuperSTOL. "That's led to changes in our production line, along with refinements to the design. With our new outlet in the U.K., we anticipate a significant increase in shipments."
Marketing Coordinator »
Project Engineer »


Happy Tuesday. I'm SUPER excited this morning because first and foremost, I have a leftover Subway sandwich in the fridge for lunch later, but also because I'm officially hosting my first ever giveaway on Cheeky Cheeky!!! Yay life. I love new experiences like this that my blog opens me up to- and lots and lots of new people. Love love love.
I'm Ellegra aka Legs. 23, college student, Arizonian, girly girl, craft obsessed, blogger nerd. On my blog you will find stuff I make, lots of nail art, pictures of things I like from around the internet, clothing I wish I owned and funny pictures of parks and rec. lets be friends.
Ellegra will be giving away one of her amazing seven heart garlands- in the colors of your choosing! How rad is that!?!? They're so adorable. Perfect for bedroom decorations.
2. Tweet about the giveaway & leave a comment with a link to the tweet!
That's all, dudes! Good luck!! And a HUGE thank you to Ellegra for hosting a giveaway on Cheeky Cheeky!
I'm finding it impossible to find a link on Smiley legs to follow :(:( I've looked for about 5 minutes!
Im sorry! I just fixed it Im super new to this blog thing but I think I finally figured it out.
I'm following both of you!
I follow Smiley with GFC & Cheeky Cheeky with Bloglovin!


On Friday afternoons at 4:45 p.m, you can find Alena Galan setting up for her radio show, "Alena Galan's Amazing Hour" in Quinnipiac's student-run radio station WQAQ's studio.
Galan, a freshman business undecided major and communications minor, carries a contagious personality that is perfect for hosting a radio show, during which she sings covers of popular songs.
She sings a variety of songs on her show, but her favorites are songs by Adele and Miley Cyrus. Galan isn't shy about sharing her voice or talents with the Quinnipiac community. She is involved with Q30 Television and helps film for their entertainment segments.
Galan considers herself a natural on stage but plans to learn management skills at Quinnipiac to develop a background in business, where she'll be educated for her future.
Galan's background in the arts stretches farther back than her involvement at Quinnipiac. Since middle school, Galan has been involved in the arts. She was in her school chorus throughout middle and high school. She was a member of the N.Y.S. Music Association and in several school and local musical theatre productions.
It's only natural for her to continue living out her dreams in TV and music here at Quinnipiac.
Her family is built on positivity and brings encouraging support in whatever Galan does. Galan went on and on about how amazing her family and mom are and how they've led her to where she is today, but she wasn't always surrounded by so much love and support.
Born in Siberia, Russia, Galan was adopted when she was 3 years old. She lived in an orphanage for a year before Marcia Galan adopted her in November 2001.
"My [adoptive] mother looks exactly like me. It's the weirdest thing! It's like destiny, that's what [my mom and I] always say," Alena said as she pulled out a picture of her and her mom to prove her point.
After the adoption, Alena focused on her life here in the United States and never looked back. She values the strong connection she has with her adoptive mom.
"Right since she picked me up, I called her mama. I thought she was my mother coming back to get me," Alena said.
Soon after Alena's arrival to the United States, she was diagnosed with mucopolysaccharidosis at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York and needed a rare enzyme replacement.
Further testing determined it was Maroteaux- Lamy syndrome, MPS VI, which is a rare genetic disorder characterized by complete or partial lack of activity of the enzyme, according to WebMD.
"They told us that I wouldn't live for much longer without [the enzyme]," Alena said.
Because of her diagnosis with a rare genetic disease, Alena's mom Marcia was told to prepare for the worst.
"Alena was handed a death sentence. She would most probably die in her early twenties, I was told," Marcia said in an email interview.
Three years later in 2005, the enzyme became available and the FDA approved the life-saving enzyme replacement therapy. Alena was the first patient in North America to receive it.
"It was a miracle," Alena said. She received her first enzyme replacement at 7 years old.
She received weekly infusions after that first replacement. She and her mom would celebrate the gift of life after each one, and Galan would receive flowers and balloons from family and friends showing their support.
She shared her story with hospitals and medical schools, explaining how she thought she would pass away in her early twenties.
"All I wanted was to give back for what I have and the amazing life that I was given," Alena said.
She was the poster child for Children's Miracle Network and represented Make-a-Wish Foundation, continuing to share her story and give hope to children in similar situations.
"I feel like the guardian angels are watching over me. For my mom to go around the whole country and to find me is destiny," Alena said.
Continuing to share her story, at 8 years old, she got the opportunity to sing at Radio City Music Hall for "Garden of Dreams" event through one of the non-profit agencies she was a part of for children with life-threatening diseases.
"Alena made her singing debut singing 'This Is Me' by Miley Cyrus on the stage of Radio City Music Hall. That was when I knew she found her home," Marcia said.
The stage became both her passion and her love.
She started taking voice lessons after and took her first formal singing lessons at Mike Risko Music School, in her hometown.
From there she went to the Music Institute in Massachusetts and got the chance to write her own music. She also started recording.
Everything she does connects to her desire to put positivity in the world. She wants her music to connect to people and make a difference.
"You can Google me! I've been all over the place and I love seeing people's reactions to me performing and making them smile," Alena said.
Her number one fan and role model, her mom, is always at her side.
"She helped me to grow stronger. She's my guardian angel, without her I wouldn't be alive," Alena said.
As Alena's mother, Marcia believes it is her job to support her and do whatever she can to make her dreams come true.
"When you realize that your child has a talent and a passion, you do everything you can to help them develop it," Marcia said.
Alena would drag her mom to all her auditions and remembers auditioning for "The X Factor" and making it to the producer round at the age of 13. This was a memorable experience for the both of them. It not only showed Alena's true talent but also the bond that her and her mom share.
Alena remembers being one of the only ones auditioning with her mom instead of a talent coach, but she wouldn't have wished to share that moment with anyone else.
"Alena can show people that big things do come in small packages, and that no matter how different we appear, we all are beautiful inside and out," Marcia said.


After recording, performing and touring all over the USA for years Mads decided to go international and went on his first European Tour in 2017. With just a guitar and a backpack Mads bought a one way ticket to Dublin, Ireland and left. In Europe, he performed on street corners, in cafes, bars, restaurants, open jams/mics, hostels, and venues supporting himself. It wasn't long until he was recognized and got a record deal for his single "Make Up Your Mind" which got over 20,000 streams on spotify within its first two weeks, played the Strange Days Music Festival in Italy, Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and wrote and recorded new music inspired and influenced by the rich musical heritage and experiences of the European cultures and continent. After nearly a year and a half of touring over 20 different countries and living in Europe Mads returned home to Seattle with a new international following, outlook and sound. He just completed his new EP recorded at the prestigious Studio X.


Amazon is easily my favorite place to shop, online or offline. I have been a loyal customer for 5+ years, mostly due to their incredible selection, better than average prices, a consistently bug-free experience, and very good customer service. In fact, I received a healthy dose of Amazon's fine customer earlier this week.
Nevertheless, for the first time since I began using Amazon.com, I have begun to encounter specific bugs and probelms within the site, particularly in the shopping cart area. The first problem occurred about two months ago when my saved shopping cart disappeared without cause. This was very unfortunate as the cart often serves as my running list of books to read or research in the future. In fact, the cart disappeared again less than a week later.
The problem I'm beginning to encounter again and again occurs when you save an item out of your active cart to your saved cart, or delete an item. Fairly regularly, I will receive a Page Cannot Be Displayed error message in the middle of this process, or, even more commonly, the move or deletions look to be taking affect, but when you login with a new session none or only few have actually changed. Often you can fix the problem by starting a new web browser and going throught the same steps again. Some scenarious, however, cause a problem each and every time.
Since Amazon has been so good for so long, any issue stands out. My concern is that this code has been out for over a month and I haven't notice any hints of an impending solution. Are there other people having Amazon cart problems as well? Perhaps someone from Amazon.com can give us an update.


text:
queermalaysians —
Queer Malaysians
bialogue
American Institute of Bisexuality Launches Message of Hope on International Human Rights Day
and now for something completely different: a Klein Sexual Orientation Grid meme!
I Don't Want To Work I Just Want To Bang On The Drum All Day
baronbrutalius
Documentary: She's My Son by Indrani Kopal
A very touching documentary of a Malaysian transwoman named Suganya and her mother Samsed. Filmed by Malaysian filmaker Indrani Kopal, this short documentary has won the Justin Louis Award in the Freedom Film Festival 2007.
malaysia, mtf, transsexual, video
Queer Reads: Body2Body
Got this from my PLUPenang subscription:
"The Malaysian queer stories anthology Body2Body is now available in Borders Penang. So be sure to get urself a copy. The stories are so personal yet entertaining and they give us a perspective on the effects of our lifestyle towards people around us. Hope u'll enjoy reading it!"
More info here: http://www.timeoutkl.com/books/articles/Body2Body-A-Malaysian-Queer-Anthology
books, queer
Academic Bi: New International Mailing List/Yahoo Group
yes please DO X-Post
"Having It Both Ways" by Tom Robinson
activism, bisexual, lgbt, pansexual
fantasyecho
July 2nd, 2009, 10:50 pm
India Decriminalizes Gay Sex
Goddammit, when is it our turn?
NEW DELHI – New Delhi's gay community celebrated a landmark court ruling Thursday that decriminalizes homosexuality — a decision that could end widespread police harassment and be a harbinger for gradual acceptance for homosexuals across this deeply conservative country.
The Delhi High Court ruled that treating consensual gay sex between adults as a crime is a violation of fundamental rights protected by India's constitution. The ruling, the first of its kind in India, is not binding outside New Delhi.
Hours after the ruling was issued dozens of members of New Delhi's gay community — some with rainbows painted on their faces and others holding signs that read "Queer and loving it" — gathered in the heart of the capital to celebrate.
"I'm so excited and I haven't been able to process the news yet," said Anjali Gopalan, the executive director of the Naz Foundation (India) Trust, the sexual health organization that filed the petition with the court.
"We've finally entered the 21st century."
Sex between people of the same gender has been illegal in India since a British colonial era law was issued in the 1860s classifying it as "against the order of nature." According to the law, gay sex is punishable by 10 years in prison.
While actual criminal prosecutions are few, the law frequently has been used to harass people. The court's verdict should protect New Delhi's gay community from criminal charges and police harassment.
"This legal remnant of British colonialism has been used to deprive people of their basic rights for too long," Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. "This long-awaited decision testifies to the reach of democracy and rights in India."
The verdict came more than eight years after the New Delhi-based Naz Foundation filed its petition — not unusually long in India's notoriously clogged court system. The decision can still be challenged in India's Supreme Court.
The government has remained vague about its position on the law, and Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said he would examine the high court's order before commenting.
"Our effort will be to try to see that the government does not appeal to the Supreme Court. There is a chance that others will go and appeal," Anand Grover, a member of a lawyers group involved in the case, said in Geneva.
While the ruling is not binding in India's other states, Tripti Tandon, a lawyer for the Naz Foundation, said she hoped it would have a "persuasive" effect on other courts.
Rights activists say the law, also popularly known as 377, or section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, sanctions discrimination and marginalizes the gay community. Health experts say the law discourages safe sex and has been a hurdle in fighting HIV and AIDS. Roughly 2.5 million Indians have HIV.
The U.N. agency UNAIDS welcomed the court ruling and said it would make it easier to reach homosexual men with programs to combat the spread of HIV.
Homosexuality is slowly gaining acceptance in some parts of India, especially in its big cities. Many bars have gay nights, and some high-profile Bollywood films have dealt with gay issues. The last two years have also seen large gay pride parades in New Delhi and other big cities such as Mumbai and Calcutta.
Still, being gay remains deeply taboo in most of the country, and a large number of homosexuals hide their sexual orientation from their friends and families.
Religious leaders in the capital and in other parts of India argue that gay sex should remain illegal and that open homosexuality is out of step with India's deeply held traditions.
"We are totally against such a practice as it is not our tradition or culture," said Puroshattam Narain Singh, an official of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, or World Hindu Council.
In New Delhi, Rev. Babu Joseph, a spokesman of the Roman Catholic church, told New Delhi Television that while homosexuals should not be treated as criminals, "at the same time we cannot afford to endorse homosexual behavior as normal and socially acceptable."
Still, rights activists hope that Thursday's ruling will send a message to the entire country.
"The symbolic value of this judgment is unmatched," said Arvind Narrain, another lawyer involved with the case. "It says lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people are citizens with equal rights."
Congrats, New Delhi!
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Gay life in Malaysia :)
I'm going to be traveling through Malaysia (among other countries) in June and/or July and wanted to know if anyone had recommendations on what to see and do, both gay-related and not. I'm sadly white, and don't really want to be stuck with just a bunch of boring tourists, so please help me avoid that! Anyway, from what I've gathered there seems to be good, open gay nightlife in Kuala Lumpur, really good food in Penang, and lots to see near Kota Kinabalu, but I'd really love to hear more feedback from a human perspective - I don't want to rely on guidebooks!
What do you think all Malaysian queers should be aware of?
And that's a serious question.
If there's something which involves our rights going on under our noses, we ought to know. Anybody willing to share links to current cases, laws, debates, and whatnot that you think every Malaysian queer (or ally) should know?
I'm not in Malaysia so I don't know much of what's going on on that side of the world. (I can, however, post a ton links to LGBTQ-identified/ally blogs, if you like.)
If you speak to someone who wants to be an ally and support LGBTQ rights in Malaysia, what resources would you direct them to?
Angie Zapata's Murderer Goes On Trial Starting Today
Yeap.
The victim: Angie Zapata, an 18-year-old woman who was brutally murdered by one Andrare.
The crime: Murder, theft, assault. This will also be the first time a murder of a transperson will be tried as a hate crime.
Currently the defense is trying to prove that Angie "tricked" Andrare into believing she was a ciswoman. They also refer to her by masculine pronouns and her former name, all this despite the fact that her family and friends refer to her by the feminine pronoun and real name. (It's really disrespectful to refer to any trans by the other gender pronoun when they have made it clear they prefer the one they use.) They are trying to persuade the jury that beating and murdering Angie out of rage that she was not as she presented herself is somehow normal and acceptable.
Since the court is also trying Andrare for the hate crime - even if the defense CAN convince the jury that he reacted due to being "tricked", then he's clearly guilty of committing a hate crime, because killing a person because they are specifically trans is clearly transphobia.
Follow the trial with the Justice for Angie Twitter feed.
Cross-posted to my journal.
To all Transguys Out There!
You guys should check this out: http://transguys.com/map/
You can find me (Dorian Wilde) marked at Penang. ;-)
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TOKYO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - FIFA has lifted bans on the national associations of Peru, Samoa and Kuwait, soccer's world governing body said on Saturday.
Peru and Kuwait were suspended for political interference, while Samoa was punished for mismanagement in October.
"We are not the police but we have our statutes and we ask that that they are correctly respected," president Sepp Blatter said after FIFA's executive committee meeting.
Blatter warned, however, that Kuwait's reprieve could be reversed at FIFA's June congress in the Bahamas unless political meddling stopped.
The 1982 World Cup qualifiers have been suspended twice in the last 15 months.
"We have lifted Kuwait's ban — temporarily," said Blatter. "If the laws in Kuwait have not been changed to give autonomy to the sports organisations then it will go to congress.


Why is my lawn soft and spongy?
A good amount of growth in the previous years can lead to some build-up of surplus lawn runners in your turf. These runners eventually die and more grass tries to grow on top of it, however, this can restrict the amount of both oxygen and water getting to the roots of the plant. This creates a carpet-like effect in your lawn and is known as thatch. To get rid of this 'thatch' and get it back to that soft, green lawn that you have seen in previous years, you need to scarify (dethatch) your lawn with a lawn dethatcher.
How to fix spongy lawn?
Scarifying or dethatching your lawn can be very daunting, but if the right steps are taken it can fix your spongy lawn. Before you start, be prepared that it is going to get ugly. Dethatching your lawn is essentially going to cut and rip up excess thatch that is in your lawn (you're going to need somewhere to put this). This is typically too much to be able to fit in your green waste bin, so get your hands on a trailer so you can take it to your nearest green waste depot.
Should I mow before top dressing?
You are going to need to mow your lawn first before you dethatch. Then you are going to need to mow over it again, after you have used the lawn dethatcher, to collect all the leftover lawn cuttings. Make sure you fertilize and water the grass soon after so that your lawn can get every possible chance to recover and return to that vibrant green. Finally, give that lawn a good drink and your well on your way to having the best lawn on the street.


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