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Some of the Symptoms of Liver Failure
Certain symptoms are clear indicators of liver failure: abdominal pain, slow digestion, and yellowing of the skin among others.
Written and verified by the doctor Elisa Martin Cano.
Liver failure is a big deal because this organ is essential for the functioning of the human body. Today's article will discuss some of the reasons why it may stop working as it should. Hopefully, it'll help you evaluate the health of your own liver.
The liver functions
This is one of the most important body organs and it's just below the diaphragm, on the right side of the body. It's also one of the largest and weighs between 2 and 3.5 pounds. The liver has three functions:
To filter the blood by removing toxins from chemical substances that are hard for the body to metabolize — drugs and alcohol, among others. This means the liver filters them from the blood and transforms them into others the body can either use or eliminate.
Bile plays an important role in digestion, as it's responsible for breaking down fats in the small intestine in order for the body to absorb them. It also transports the substances the body will expel.
It participates in the synthesis and storage of amino acids and proteins — very necessary for the body. In addition, it stores sugars in the form of glycogen, which will transform into glucose and serve as blood fuel. It also stores fats, as well as some vitamins and minerals.
This occurs when, as per the name, the liver fails to work as it should. The symptoms may manifest suddenly, or may slowly progress and worsen over time.
Many diseases affect the liver and lead to failure, some of the most important are:
Hepatitis, such as the autoimmune kind and A, B, C, D, and E viruses
Liver abscess due to bacterial infection
Also, liver cancer or metastases from other types such as colon cancer
Thrombosis of the portal vein in charge of supplying blood to the organ
Alcoholism is the main cause of cirrhosis.
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What happens when the liver doesn't work?
Many signs can indicate when the liver stops working as it should, the most notable are:
Jaundice is the yellowing of the skin and mucous membranes produced when bilirubin accumulates. The liver degrades this substance when it works properly. A person may also be itchy because the bilirubin accumulates in the epidermis when the body fails to eliminate it.
Tiredness happens when the glycogen, vitamins, and minerals necessary for energy supply are no longer being stored.
Heavy digestion and bloating after meals, including nausea, and diarrhea. There may also be pain on the side of the abdomen where the liver is. There's no bile secretion and thus, no digestion of fats and so the symptoms begin to appear.
Pale-colored stools and dark urine.
Edema in legs, ankles, and abdomen — swelling.
Diagnosis and prevention of liver failure
A physician should always evaluate the situation and perform the necessary tests to diagnose liver failure. Tests may include a blood test, imaging, or biopsy.
Some of the measures to take in order to prevent it are:
An adequate, healthy, and balanced diet with just enough fat and salt content
Be moderate in your consumption of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and other chemical substances
Vaccinate against hepatitis
The treatment of liver failure will depend on its cause. Consult a doctor as soon as possible in the event of any alarming symptoms so they can diagnose and prescribe treatment as soon as possible.
Pain in the liver area may be a symptom of liver failure.
Check out these Five Tips To Protect Your Liver Health
The liver is an essential organ for the body and you must keep it in good shape. Thus, it's important to maintain healthy habits and, of course, consult a doctor if you have any symptoms of liver failure.
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There are many liver diseases, some more known than others. Any condition must be taken seriously because the liver fulfills essential functions.
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There is no link between the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine and blood clotting, the World Health Organization (WHO) has established.
A probe into the vaccine was prompted by suspension by a number of countries after reports emerged that recipients were developing blood clots.
The suspension was majorly in European nations, such as Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Austria and Ireland.
In Africa, only, the DRC has halted the vaccine rollout.
In a statement describing its findings on the blood clotting issue, WHO observed that the reported cases were too insignificant to brand the vaccine as life-threatening.
"So far we do not find an association between these (clotting) events and the vaccine because the rates at which they have occurred in the vaccinated group are in fact less than what you would expect in the general population at the same time," WHO said.
According to AstraZeneca, there have been 15 Deep Vein Thrombosis cases and 22 pulmonary embolism reports out of thousands of people given the jab in the European Union and the United Kingdom.
"An analysis of our safety data of more than 10 million records has shown no evidence of an increased risk of pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis in any defined age group, gender, batch or in any particular country," an AstraZeneca spokesman told the press.
No severe reactions have been reported in Africa's recipients, who are so far mostly health workers.
Other side effects that have been reported in the vaccine recipients include headaches, nausea and loss of appetite in mild severity.
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No Blueprint, Just Love
When he started MBSR, Jon Kabat-Zinn didn't have a detailed plan—just passion and an inkling that lots of good would come of it.
By Barry Boyce
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In 1979, Jon Kabat-Zinn recruited chronically ill patients not responding well to traditional treatments to participate in his newly formed eight-week stress-reduction program. Now, more than 35 years later, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and its offshoots have entered the mainstream of health care, scientific study, and public policy.
We talked to the health and well-being pioneer about why mindfulness has attracted so much attention and why it will continue to do so.
In early 2005, I met Jon Kabat-Zinn at his home in Massachusetts. I came as a meditation practitioner and journalist with a bit of skepticism about MBSR. I was curious whether the attempt to bring secular mindfulness to the broader society could be effective. In a lengthy, impassioned conversation, I began to be persuaded of its validity and power, and as a result we started down on a path of further investigation that led us to Mindful and mindful.org.
Since then, we've met scores of people who are bringing this approach to mindfulness into many different contexts and helping all sorts of people. And Jon and his many colleagues have just kept on going, bringing mindfulness into every corner of life. I returned to Jon's home, on the occasion of the publication of a revised and updated edition of his groundbreaking book Full Catastrophe Living, to talk about his work. Fittingly, we began with a little bit of silence and then embarked on a stimulating conversation about the present and future of the practice he has devoted his life and heart to.
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Mindful: Did you ever think the work that started in a modest clinic in a spare room of a hospital in Central Massachusetts would become so influential?
Jon Kabat-Zinn: In a word, yes. I never thought of this work as a small thing. I don't think of myself as a big deal, but I always thought of this work as a very big deal. It wasn't just about thinking that meditation had a modest contribution to make to Western medicine. MBSR was built on the conviction that the insights, wisdom, and compassion of the meditative traditions were equal in import and magnitude to the great discoveries about human life we've made in the West. If there's an instruction manual for being human, then Western science and medicine have supplied one part of it, and the contemplative traditions have supplied another, the part that has to do with discovering and cultivating our deep interior resources.
My hope was that by starting a stress-reduction clinic based on relatively intensive training in mindfulness meditation and yoga—and their applications in everyday living—we could document how these practices might have a profound effect on the health and well-being of individuals. The larger purpose was to effect a kind of public-health intervention that would ultimately move the bell curve of the entire society.
Mindful: And it grew to the point where we now talk about mindfulness-based interventions in all sorts of areas—depression, childbirth, education, addiction, to name just a few.
JKZ: We didn't have a specific blueprint, but I am very gratified that so many developments have been happening on so many different fronts. It's really a matter of planting seeds. You never really know what will sprout from these seeds and how they will spread. That's the beauty of it. It's based on not-knowing—approaching the world inquisitively, with a fresh mind.
If we had come in with a plan, with an ideology, with all the answers, I think it would have remained small. Instead, those of us involved in this work have paid close attention to just a few essential elements. One is that mindfulness is not a special state you achieve through a trick or a technique. It is a way of being. I have a lot of faith that if people just learn how to be in the present through simple mindfulness meditation, then the practice does the work of transformation and healing. We do not need to do it for them. People are so creative and intrinsically intelligent that given a chance, they perceive the truth within their own experience. "When I get attached to something, I suffer," they realize, "and when I don't get attached, I don't."
"If there's an instruction manual for being human, then Western science and medicine have supplied one part of it, and the contemplative traditions have supplied another—the part that has to do with discovering and cultivating our deep interior resources."
Mindful: What else makes MBSR work?
JKZ: The eight weeks of the MBSR curriculum offer a reliable protocol that is used in many studies of the effects of mindfulness meditation practice. People who have taught it a lot have seen that it has an integrity of its own. If they try to switch things around—a little more of this, a little less of that, take this out, put this in—they find it isn't as effective.
Yet it's only a framework. It's only as effective as what the teacher brings to it and how he or she "holds the space," as we say. It simply will not work if it is scripted or formulaic. If the teacher doesn't feel competent in one of the elements, say yoga, it doesn't work if they bring in an outside expert. They have to get the training and embody it themselves. Everything that is taught has to be lived. Life is the curriculum.
As a teacher, you are trying to convey something that can't be conveyed in words. Mindfulness is also heartfulness—you need poetry as much as prose. What truly makes mindfulness training work is love. If the teacher holding the class is profoundly in love with what they are doing and with the people in the class in a fundamental way, it will work. If they are not, it will peter out.
Mindful: The benefits of mindfulness go far beyond stress reduction. Why did you call your program that, and are you still satisfied with your choice?
JKZ: I wanted it to speak to universal experience. Everybody can relate to stress. It's a common English word and a common experience. The science on stress is proving that it was a good choice. We find out more every day about the negative effects of stress on the body, on the immune system, on aging, and so on. Likewise, there is a correspondingly strong interest in how we can develop resiliency in the face of stress, which is a benefit of mindfulness practice.
Mindful: You often say that mindfulness is not about attaining benefits or fixing problems—that it's about discovering there is more right with us than wrong with us. Yet a "stress-reduction" program can seem very benefit-oriented.
JKZ: That is an unavoidable paradox. There are tremendous benefits that arise from mindfulness practice, but it works precisely because we don't try to attain benefit. Instead, we befriend ourselves as we are. We learn how to drop in on ourselves, visit, and hang out in awareness.
It's essential when you're teaching mindfulness to remember this and embody it in your own way of being. People come to a mindfulness course because they're in pain or angry or depressed or afraid. The one thing they want is to get somewhere else, so the teacher needs to continually convey that mindfulness is not about getting anywhere. The teacher's own practice and way of holding him- or herself communicates that, and because people are intelligent and inherently mindful, they resonate with it. At that point, it becomes ordinary common sense. People often say, "I always figured meditation was something weird and mystical. If only I had known what it really is I would have started years ago."
Mindful: Your interest is not just working with medically defied pain, but with all of life—"the full catastrophe," in that colorful phrase you borrowed from Zorba the Greek.
JKZ: People say, "I came to this program to deal with my pain. I didn't realize it was about my whole life!" There was a professor I knew from my MIT days who needed a bone-marrow transplant, and he showed up at the clinic in Worcester. He said, "I want to learn how to be in relationship with my mind, so that when I'm in isolation in the transplant unit, I can survive it." After a few MBSR classes, he said, "I feel more comfortable with these people I've just met than I do with the colleagues in my department." When he asked himself why, he concluded, "This is the community of the afflicted, and we acknowledge the affliction. The faculty is also the community of the afflicted, but we don't acknowledge our affliction at all." Later, he was riding the subway and realized we are all "the community of the afflicted." It made him feel extraordinarily free.
"Mindfulness is not a special state you achieve through a trick or a technique. It is a way of being."
Mindful: If the real benefits take place in the heart and in our very way of being, why does the scientific work matter so much?
JKZ: David Black of the Mindfulness Research Guide has been gathering information on the number of scientific and medical papers per year on mindfulness, and the resulting graph is pretty telling. Something that was not on the research map at all a few decades ago is a prime area of interest now. These studies provide the evidence of effectiveness you need to be respected and adopted in key institutions in health care, education, social policy, and so on.
But ultimately we do science to understand the nature of the universe—and the nature of the one who wants to understand the nature of the universe. Research that helps us understand the capabilities of the brain and how to improve them is vitally important to how we can live well, as individuals and as a society.
The brain science has become very rigorous. A lot of credit obviously goes to Richie Davidson, in his lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. Their work is unique in that it focuses on both basic science and translational research, which takes place in real-life settings such as Madison's public schools. Research on how the brain can be trained ventures into areas we wouldn't have dreamed of years ago. For example, one of the center's really interesting projects, funded by the Gates Foundation, is to study the effects of computer games that train children in attention and pro-social behaviors, such as recognizing others' emotions.
Many young scientists are now taking up this field, many with the support of the Mind & Life Institute's Varela Grants and summer research institute, where contemplative practice is integrated into a scientific meeting. Young neuroscientists and behavioral scientists are building their careers in what's now called contemplative neuroscience. Ten years ago that may well have been a career-ending choice.
One of the Varela researchers whose work I admire is Paul Condon of Northeastern University. His group designed a study to determine what different results might arise from training in mindfulness meditation and training in meditation that emphasizes compassion. In the study, participants received eight weeks of either mindfulness or compassion training or no training at all. Afterward, the researchers set up a scenario in which a study participant was directed to sit in a waiting room with only three chairs, two of which were occupied. After a minute, a fourth person entered on crutches wincing and sighing, and the two people originally in the room pretended not to notice.
The study measured how many participants would, during a two-minute period, overcome the bystander effect—if others are ignoring something, so should I—and offer their seat to the person on crutches. The people trained in mindfulness and the people trained in compassion were both fie times more likely to give up their seat as the people in the control group. There was no difference between training in mindfulness and training in compassion.
This raises some very interesting questions, and to my mind it underscores the fact that mindfulness is compassion and vice versa. Certainly, in MBSR, where people bring every kind of pain imaginable, compassion is naturally part of the atmosphere.
Mindful: What developments outside the laboratory are you following?
JKZ: It's exciting to see how more people in the medical world are appreciating the mind-body relationship and fostering participatory medicine, where the patient is not a passive recipient of treatment but a real partner in healing. It marks a sea change in medical education and practice. For example, Dr. Ron Epstein of the University of Rochester Medical School, with his colleagues Mick Krasner and Tim Quill, have been training primary care physicians in mindful communication. This has resulted in decreases in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization of patients, and burnout among doctors.
I can't say enough about how the role of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is spurring interest in mindfulness among psychologists and psychotherapists, and it has led to some very intriguing research. On another front in psychology, David Creswell has been doing work with loneliness in the elderly. All sorts of conventional interventions have been tried to reduce loneliness in the elderly, and they just never work. Have them do things in groups, form friendships, roast hot dogs—they're still lonely. He trains them in MBSR, and their loneliness disappears. What's that about?
Mindful: And outside of health care?
JKZ: An area where mindfulness is spreading in a truly impressive way is education. What could be more vital for our future than teachers and students sharing a mindful classroom? There's the work of Mindful Schools and Inner Kids, to name just two of the more prominent groups. There are also federally funded test sites in several locations, where teachers are learning mindfulness along with their students.
I'm really impressed by a manual called Mindfulness in Public Schools that came out from the South Burlington Public School District in Vermont. It's unprecedented that a whole public school system would support mindfulness to the point of developing a teaching manual modeled on its own program for students and teachers.
Another excellent project is the pilot happening in the Madison, Wisconsin, public schools, led by Lisa Flook of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. I was just reading the impressive results reported in the article in Mind, Brain, and Education. They adapted a form of MBSR specifically for teachers, and among other results, it decreased burnout and increased self-compassion.
In higher education, something very promising is a mindfulness-based intervention to help college students deal with anxiety and a challenging environment that has caused them in many cases to go on medication. It was developed by two psychiatrists at Duke University, Holly Rogers and Margaret Maytan, who present it in a book called Mindfulness for the Next Generation: Helping Emerging Adults Manage Stress and Lead Healthier Lives.
"There are tremendous benefits that arise from mindfulness practice, but it works precisely because we don't try to attain benefit. Instead, we befriend ourselves as we are. We learn how to drop in on ourselves, visit, and hang out in awareness."
Mindful: When mindfulness reaches into our institutions of higher learning, it can have broad societal effects. Where else do you see mindfulness leading to bigger changes?
JKZ: Many well-known businesses and business leaders have been bringing mindfulness into their work and leadership, and I've had the opportunity to meet many of them, including at the Wisdom 2.0 conference every year. Some politicians, economists, and policymakers have started practicing mindfulness and bringing it into their work. It's not many now, but the ones who are doing it are very passionate about it. Congressman Tim Ryan, whom I met five years ago when he did a mindfulness retreat with me, has become a strong advocate for mindfulness in health care, schools, the military, and particularly for veterans. He believes that programs that develop our innate human capacity to be mindful can make a profound difference for a relatively modest investment.
When I was in England recently, I spent a whole day in Parliament and visited with Prime Minister Cameron's advisors at 10 Downing Street. Chris Ruane, a Member of Parliament from a very poor district in North Wales, has been instrumental in bringing mindfulness into public schools there, and he's encouraging his colleagues to consider other ways to bring mindfulness into public policy.
I also gave the keynote at a daylong conference in London called Mindfulness in Schools. What I saw there brought me to tears. Here were seven-year-olds addressing 900 people, and they were completely self-possessed talking about their mindfulness practice and what it was doing for them. You could tell it was unrehearsed. They just spontaneously said what mindfulness meant to them.
Mindful: With all of this interest from so many different quarters, are there enough qualified people to serve the growing need for mindfulness teachers?
JKZ: The price of success is that more and more people want something. But of course, mindfulness is not a something. As I said in the beginning, it's a way of being, and you usually discover it through someone who embodies it to some degree.
Interest in mindfulness generally, and in MBSR and other mindfulness-based programs, is spreading around the world at a lightning pace. So in addition to sowing seeds we need orchards, where we are growing things in a more structured and planned way. That has not been my emphasis, but fortunately there are people paying a lot of attention to that. At the Center for Mindfulness and in professional training programs all over the world, under Saki Santorelli's excellent direction, people are learning how to teach mindfulness in a way that allows open discovery. The program certifies that they have been well trained, but of course we can't certify that anyone is a good teacher. Each student will always have to judge that for him- or herself.
In the future, there will need to be many different kinds of mindfulness teachers and guides for many different contexts. What's needed for educators will differ from what's needed for health professionals and inner city youth. Let many flowers bloom.
The spread of mindfulness into more areas of our life is a multigenerational undertaking. One of the greatest challenges is how we will work with the digital revolution and the alternate reality it has created. Many of us are spending more time online than offline. We need to navigate this mindfully or it will eat us up. The technology itself is a source of endless possibilities but also endless distraction. We're now very good at writing code—but how good are we at knowing ourselves, loving ourselves, and making a good world together with our fellow human beings?
Almost everything we do we do for a purpose, to get something or somewhere. But in meditation this attitude can be a real obstacle. That is because meditation is different from all other human activities. Although it takes a lot of work and energy of a certain kind, ultimately meditation is a non-doing. It has no goal other than for you to be yourself. The irony is that you already are. This sounds paradoxical and a little crazy. Yet this paradox and craziness may be pointing you toward a new way of seeing yourself, one in which you are trying less and being more. This comes from intentionally cultivating the attitude of non-striving.
For example, if you sit down to meditate and you think, "I am going to be relaxed, or get enlightened, or control my pain, or become a better person," then you have introduced an idea into your mind of where you should be, and along with it comes the notion that you are not okay right now. "If only I were calmer, or more intelligent, or a harder worker, or more this or more that, if only my heart were healthier or my knee were better, then I would be okay. But right now, I am not okay."
This attitude undermines the cultivation of mindfulness, which involves simply paying attention to whatever is happening. If you are tense, then just pay attention to the tension. If you are in pain, then be with the pain as best you can. If you are criticizing yourself, then observe the activity of the judging mind. Just watch. We are simply allowing anything and everything that we experience from moment to moment to be here, because it already is.
Excerpt "Non-striving" from Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, copyright © 1990 by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Used by permission of Dell Publishing, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
This article also appeared in the February 2014 issue of Mindful magazine.
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Barry Boyce is Founding Editor of Mindful and Mindful.org. A longtime meditation practitioner and teacher—as well as a professional writer and editor— he is the editor of and a primary contributor to The Mindfulness Revolution: Leading Psychologists, Scientists, Artists, and Meditation Teachers on the Power of Mindfulness in Daily Life. Barry also worked closely with Congressman Tim Ryan, as developmental editor, on A Mindful Nation and The Real Food Revolution. Barry serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for a Mindful Society and the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto as well as on the advisory board of Peace in Schools, in Portland, Oregon.


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Q: How to search for a particular string in HTML. How to click on the link corresponding to matched string in python below is my HTML data. I want to search for "success" recursively in all  tr blocks in my HTML data  and click on the link "Klm_ud-gfd_hg_ghty_A_ghy" so that it will move to next page

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Can anyone help.

A: Have a look at HTMLParser to traverse your HTML tree and urllib to get the content from the link.

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We all experience times when we need healing or restoration. The Hebrew word for this is Aruka. What does this word actually mean and how does this happen? Does anything in the Hebrew pictographs describe this to us more fully? Does anything in these pictographs point us to Messiah?
More than 500 years before the birth of Christ, the nation of Israel began its return to its homeland after being led into captivity in Babylon. This was to fulfill the promise of God to restore His people after being held for 70 years as judgement for their unfaithfulness to Him.
When they arrived in Jerusalem, they were heartbroken at the sad state of their beloved city.
The temple had been destroyed and the walls of the city had been torn down. In answer to this, Nehemiah, the Jewish cupbearer to the Persian king, asked for and was given permission to return and rebuild the walls in order to secure health and safety for the inhabitants.
In the English phrase were made up is found the Hebrew word Aruka which means to restore, to restore to health and to recover. It literally refers to a long bandage which would be applied to heal a wound.
There are several other Hebrew words for bandage that could have been used here instead of Aruka. Why was this word chosen? To see why, let's investigate the ancient Hebrew pictographs which contain clues that can help us see more clearly.
Aruka is spelled Aleph Reysh Vav Kaf Hey.
Aleph is the picture of the ox and means the strong leader or God the Father.
Reysh is the picture of the head and stands for the leader, the master, or the prince.
Vav is the picture of the iron nail or the wooden hook and means to fasten, to secure, or to join two things together that are separated from one another.
Kaf is the picture of the palm of the hand and means to cover, open, allow, or to atone.
Hey is the picture of the man with outstretched hands to the heavens and means to behold or to pay attention to what follows.
Can you see what God is revealing here? The strong leader, the prince, is connected to an atonement that is followed by something we should notice. And who is this strong leader? This is a picture pointing to Jesus Christ who atoned for the sins of His people. This is followed by restoration to God and healing from the results of sin.
But there is more to be discovered here. Each of the Hebrew letters is also a number. Interestingly, each of these numbers also carries with it a meaning that can be discerned by seeing how that number is used whenever it appears in the scriptures. Most often there is rich theology wrapped up in these numbers, so let's have a look at them.
Aleph is the number 1 and refers to God the Father.
Reysh is the number 200 and reminds us of the insufficiency of man contrasted with the sufficiency of God.
Vav is the number 6 and clearly tells of man's enmity with God.
Kaf is the number 20 and points us to redemption.
And finally, Hey is the number 5 and shows us the grace of God.
In this we see that God's plan for healing and restoration is more than a long bandage wrapped around a wound by a physician to help promote healing. God the Father, seeing man's enmity with Him, has, in His sufficiency and through His grace, provided the ultimate healing which is man's redemption from sin.
Now we can see why God singled out the word Aruka for the building of the walls in His holy city Jerusalem. It was never about simply replacing the stones or just applying a bandage on the wall. It was symbolic of the necessary restoration and healing because of the sins of God's people.
Ultimately that restoration can come only at the hand of the Prince, Jesus Christ, who by His sacrifice for each of us on the cross has provided healing for all who choose to come to Him and accept God's gift of grace.


i tagged his shoes as chucks, then realized they're jack purcell's. am i agro for knowing that ? shouldn't there be more useful things my brain retains ? like US geography perhaps… just don't ask me to pick out virginia. but do ask me about the varying styles of converse.


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Time Machine Tuesday: 6 August 2019
Take a trip through the CarAdvice archives...
People often say "don't forget where you came from". Although we're focused on every new car, every last detail here at CarAdvice, we have an extensive back-catalogue of news stories, lifestyle yarns and reviews.
Here's a look at what happened on the week of August 6 in years past
7 August 2018: Lotus Elise meets the girl it's named after
The Lotus Elise has been around for some 22 years, and this week the lightweight sports car reunited with the girl that inspired its name – Elisa Artioli.Her grandfather is former chairman of Lotus, Romano Artioli, who was overseeing the British sports car manufacturer when the Elise was launched in 1995.
6 August 2016: BMW restores Elvis Presley's 507 roadster
Only 254 examples of the BMW 507 were produced between 1955 and 1958, making it one of the most sought-after BMW models ever built. This particular car's links with the 'King of Rock and Roll' made it even more exclusive.
Thank you very much, BMW
8 August 2013: Toyota likely to resurrect Supra name
Toyota's plans to produce a sports car to sit above the Toyota 86 is likely to see the resurrection of the Supra badge, with the Japanese company's boss personally fond of the nameplate.
They took their sweet time with it, too
6 August 2010: Chevrolet Corvette to get mid-engined layout
One of Saab's internal and senior engineering staff has revealed General Motors is planning a mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette for the future.The insider also said the gearbox was specified to handle torque outputs of around 800Nm, which is very close to the current Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1's figure. Chevrolet did have plans to produce a mid-engined version of the iconic model in 2008 but due to the economic damage of the financial crisis, those plans had to be scrapped.
Nine years later, it's become a reality
7 August 2009: Aston Martin Rapide revealed in first images
Aston Martin has today released a couple of official images of the car, as well as a few other details, for the first time.The production version is nearly identical to the concept model seen at the 2006 Detroit Motor Show albeit with a few subtle difference.
Even after a decade, it's achingly beautiful
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Meet the Crip and Piru Chefs Behind Compton's Underground Restaurant
"It all started when I dropped out of Le Cordon Bleu and got hired to be a personal chef for local pimps while living in Las Vegas."
by Javier Cabral
February 11, 2017, 12:00am
"It all started when I got hired to be a personal chef for local pimps while living in Las Vegas," Malachi "Spankihanas" Jenkins tells me in his living room. "I started cooking for them after I dropped out of Le Cordon Bleu; they love rich pastas like shrimp and chicken Alfredo, and dishes like that."
Jenkins and his business partner Roberto Arturo Smith have allowed me to step inside their DIY food commissary—the small kitchen inside Smith's apartment, located just south of downtown Los Angeles—behind their underground restaurant, TrapKitchenLA. In what can only be described as Kendrick Lamar's "m.A.A.d. city" come to life, I greet and pound the fists of four of their Crip friends chilling in their living room sofa, who nevertheless mad-dog me as I grill Jenkins and Smith with questions.
A stranger in their territory, I continue to follow my nose to the scent of cooked seafood into the kitchen, where I meet Smith. He is hollowing out half of a ripe pineapple for their Friday seafood special. He fills it with a heaping ladleful of white rice and tops it with a sliced lobster tail, a couple of king crab legs, sauteed shrimp, and a generous drizzle of teriyaki sauce. "We call this 'The Deadliest Catch,'" he tells me as he proudly holds it up for a photo. "We can't make enough of them fast enough for all of our customers; they go crazy for this dish."
Just then, Smith hands two plastic bags to his friends for a delivery order. He wastes no time to prepare another hollowed-out pineapple, but this one is filled with nothing but some juicy-looking chicken pieces. The pineapple goes to a customer who is patiently idling in her SUV along the red sidewalk in front of their apartment complex. All of TrapKitchenLA's combos come with a cold can of soda and cost anywhere from $10 to $20, and it is common for them to sell out every day.
The Deadliest Catch
"We go through around 30 to 40 pounds of meat a day, and we have customers who come back day after day," Smith tells me. During this late lunch rush of customers, Smith shares how TrapKitchenLA started, against all the odds. "We went from hanging in the the clubs and messing with them girls to hanging in the kitchen and messing with food. I'm a Piru, and he is a Crip, but that doesn't matter."
Though the tone in the kitchen had turned tense when I asked about their gang affiliations, the mood lightens when I ask about how they are set to cater Kendrick Lamar's wedding party. "My neighborhood has its own [music] label called BBE, so we've catered food for a lot of artists in the past. Snoop Dogg, The Game, Tyrese, Reverend Run, D'Angelo, Lil' Derk, and a bunch more," Jenkins tells me.
They searched them and their car 'cause they thought we were trapping drugs, but all we did was trap food.
When asked about the inspiration behind some of their dishes, Jenkins responds, "I'm just a nigga who loves food and trying new food." He does admit to getting inspired by watching Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, and Guy Fieri on TV, and his favorite spots in Los Angeles include Versailles, Bossa Nova, and R & R's Soul Food. "I like simple, homey, comfort food. I ain't a Benihana's type of dude where they play with your food in front of you."
His passion for food started out of necessity when he was 16 years old. "My mom was always at work, so me and my sister had to fend for ourselves. We had groceries, so I learned how to whip up ABC-123-type of simple meals out of just watching my grandma and mom cook."
King crab jambalaya. Photo courtesy of TrapKitchenLA
His dishes are as diverse as his 36,000 Instagram followers. TrapKitchenLA makes only one dish a day and it can range from fajitas to broiled salmon, braised short ribs, chili, gumbo, or steak. He scours the local markets for his menus, including Mexican carnicerias, Vietnamese seafood markets, and Food 4 Less.
"I feed the streets. You don't have to spend $50 or make a reservation for some asparagus and steak or lobster tail at a fancy restaurant. People out here are hungry, you know what I'm saying? They want to eat good food, too, so I feed them the same at a flat rate." It's no secret that Compton suffers from a lack of wholesome food options. Jenkins adds that in the unlikely situation that he has any leftover food, he always gives it away.
Both Jenkins and Smith jokingly recount the time when an undercover police officer pulled over one of their first-time customers, who had just picked up food from them. "They searched them and their car 'cause they thought we were trapping drugs, but all we did was trap food, so they squashed the case. I was like, 'Oh yeah, like that?!'"
After nearly a year of business, Jenkins and Smith are making enough money to support their families. (Jenkins has a six-month-old and Smith has five kids.) In the near future, TrapKitchenLA hopes to open up as brick-and-mortar restaurant for their customers to come in and leisurely lounge while eating their soulful dishes.
A poster inside the TrapKitchenLA kitchen. Photo by Javier Cabral
As I make my way out of their apartment—with a Styrofoam clamshell filled with buttery lobster, white rice, and a frosty Sprite—Jenkins's and Smith's homies are scooting around on hoverboards and loudly discussing Stephen Curry's jumpshot in the living room. But this time, instead of mad-dogging me, they all grin as I pound their fists goodbye—especially Jenkins.
"Nobody understands this trap life. We're just after that honey like everybody else."
This story was originally published in January 2016.
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Q: d3 - Brush/Panning Zoom - disable panning on upper x-axis I use d3 for plotting line graphs. I implemented a brush/panning zoom after this example https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/34f08d5e11952a80609169b7917d4172.
I want to disable the panning on the upper x-axis. When I click there an drag it triggers the brush.
I only want to trigger it, when I click on the lower x-axis with the brush or when I use the mousewheel.
This is the code responsible for the brush effect:
   var brush = d3.brushX()
        .extent([[MARGINS.left, 0], [WIDTH, HEIGHT2]])
        .on("end", brushed);
    var zoom = d3.zoom()
        .scaleExtent([1, Infinity])
        .translateExtent([MARGINS.left,0], [WIDTH, HEIGHT])
        .extent([[MARGINS.left,0], [WIDTH, HEIGHT]])
        .on("zoom", zoomed);

    function brushed() {
    if (d3.event.sourceEvent && d3.event.sourceEvent.type === "zoom") return; // ignore brush-by-zoom
    var s = d3.event.selection || xScale2.range();
    xScale.domain(s.map(xScale2.invert, xScale2));

    var limits = xScale.domain();
    var a = parseInt(limits[0]);
    var b = parseInt(limits[1]);
    var data1;
    if ((b-a) === screen.width) {
        data1 = shrinkArray(1, b, a);
    } else if((b-a) > screen.width) {
        data1 = shrinkArray(parseInt((b-a)/screen.width), b, a);
    } else {
        data1 = data;
    }

    for(var i = 0; i < numberOfSignals; i++) {
        if(signalBool[i]) {
           focus.selectAll("#line"+i).attr("d", lineGen(data1[i]));
            indexSignal = i;
        }
    }

    focus.select(".axis--x").call(xAxis);
    vis.select(".zoom").call(zoom.transform, d3.zoomIdentity
            .scale(WIDTH / (s[1] - s[0]))
            .translate(-s[0], 0));

}

    function zoomed() {
    if (d3.event.sourceEvent && d3.event.sourceEvent.type === "brush") return; // ignore zoom-by-brush
    var t = d3.event.transform;
    xScale.domain(t.rescaleX(xScale2).domain());

    for(var i = 0; i < numberOfSignals; i++) {
        if(signalBool[i]) {
            focus.selectAll("#line"+i).attr("d", lineGen(data[i]));
            indexSignal = i;
        }
    }

    focus.select(".axis--x").call(xAxis);
    context.select(".brush").call(brush.move, xScale.range().map(t.invertX, t));
    var limits = xScale.domain();
    var a = parseInt(limits[0]);
    var b = parseInt(limits[1]);

}

Thank you!

A: To disable panning on the main graph disable mousedown zoom from the rectangle:
So this code :
svg.append("rect")
  .attr("class", "zoom")
  .attr("width", width)
  .attr("height", height)
  .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")")
  .call(zoom);

Remove the mousedown zoom from the rectangle
svg.append("rect")
  .attr("class", "zoom")
  .attr("width", width)
  .attr("height", height)
  .attr("transform", "translate(" + margin.left + "," + margin.top + ")")
  .call(zoom).on("mousedown.zoom", null)
  .on("touchstart.zoom", null)
  .on("touchmove.zoom", null)
  .on("touchend.zoom", null);

Working code here


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by DJ Coffman | Jan 10, 2012 | 0 comments
It's been a while since I wrote about how much I LOVE comics. Regardless of the ups and downs of a career in them, it's the craft that really matters to me, and more and more over time as I get older.
The comic book industry is really shaky right now. I feel for a lot of the comic retailers who are staring into the unknown and worrying if they'll be able to pay their bills this month. On the creation side though, this unknown abyss of digital and internet is really exciting. Of course it's not new to me, I've been dabbling in "webcomics" since 1999 and always knew sooner or later the big publishers would realize digital was the future.
But back to the craft…. I've really had a renewed sense of love for the art and craft of sequential art. No, I never seem to find the inspiration from modern comics. I often groan at some of the cheesecake stuff and broke back poses I see in the comic press. I draw inspiration looking back at all the greats that came before. How much detail Alex Toth or Wally packed into their panels, but every detail counted, it wasn't a mish mash of garbage lines like we found coming out of the 90s. And then there are the masters like Kirby, Simon and Ditko, who knew how to get a lot done with fewer lines. I stare at my wallpaper in the office (old Kirby Mr. Miracle, Hulk, Silver Surfer and now FF) and it's too far away to read the words (thank god) but the energy in all those panels really leaps at me from across the room.
Something is happening. I'm not sure what, or how to explain it, but it sure feels like I'm finally a grown up now. I'm looking at all this stuff with a more adult eye.
I'm hearing from a lot of "kids" who, like my own kids, read Hero By Night when they were 10 or 11, and now they are 14 and 15 and stoked to have it back. To hear them say HBN is their Spider-Man or Batman… well, it's humbling and terrifying too. Mostly humbling. Only terrifying to think I'd better do a damn good job with the new stuff I'm producing.
Also… fascinating. It's fascinating to think I don't need a big publisher to be somebody's Spidey or Hulk. I don't even have to print anything on paper if I don't want to. It's fun to know people are paying attention, but also a little scary to think that I may produce something that could actually make an impact on their lives. Can I make comics like that? Am I capable? Will they be faced with a tough choice someday in life and think about choices my characters made? — I mean, I'm guilty of doing that and thinking back to epic comic storylines I read as a kid. It's a great power we wield here. I'm getting that now.
Hopefully I can do it with great responsibility.
Man… I love drawing comics.


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Traveler: Onboard Virgin Atlantic's Brand New Airbus A350-1000 (+Photos)
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by Tom Harris
LONDON — Virgin Atlantic has been quietly bringing together a plan of action that will see the airline create a business plan that could become a thorn in British Airways side.
As a cheeky upstart that was always good at taking a swipe at Britain's flag carrier, Virgin Atlantic was always there when British Airways made a misstep, always ready and willing to rub salt on the wound.
With its partnership with Delta Air Lines finally bearing fruit, and its acquisition of Airbus A350-1000s and A330-900s, Virgin is now set to use in full extent the strengths that it always has had, cabin service and product.
Airways was invited on one of the inaugural flights from London-Heathrow to New York, where we took a close look at the carrier's brand-new Upper-Class product installed on its Airbus A350-1000s.
Virgin Atlantic's facility at London-Heathrow Terminal 3 is an oasis, the staff down to a person, is unfailingly professional and polite, helpful, engaged and cheerful. Truly the airline is blessed with remarkable employees. The only other airline I can compare the staff interaction experience is Southwest Airlines.
After a quick early morning check-in, we were escorted to a dedicated security line for Upper-Class ticket holders. This perk has always seemed to me to be a bit superfluous, and I have always wondered if it does represent convenience at all. Our line moved no faster than the rest, and as we were just a few, we were under even more scrutiny. The security staff does not belong to Virgin, and they were dedicated to go through every single bag.
This did not make for a very good initial experience. Coming out of security you are thrown back into the haphazard melee of Terminal 3, followed by a long walk to the sanctuary of Virgin Atlantic's Clubhouse. Once inside though, things got better.
The Clubhouse had a wide selection of food, but it was little things that set it apart. Having a dedicated area for luggage storage seems like such a no-brainer. Hopefully, Delta has taken notice of their new partner's ingenuity and will implement this in their already top-notch Sky Clubs.
The bar was fantastic and definitely tempted me into a gin and tonic way earlier than I normally partake. And once again, the staff was there to attend to your drink order. There were also enough bartenders to keep up with the of passengers in the lounge, this is something that almost never happens in any other lounge.
I have been in nearly empty sky clubs and have had one bartender seem completely overwhelmed. Virgin Atlantic had cordoned off an area of the yellow lounge for the press, and as such, I didn't really get to experience the lounge fully. But what I did see was impressive.
Boarding Our Aircraft
Getting my first close-up look at Red Velvet, G-VLUX, gave me the same impression the first time I boarded a Boeing 777-300(ER). It's a stunning, beautiful jetliner. Walking down the jetway, the anticipation built as I got closer.
Stepping across the threshold, and turning to the Business Class cabin, I was left with a sense of occasion and awe. The cabin was lovely, and the integration of the surfaces and materials is seamless. We all know that today, most of the seats are plastic. However, the prime quality of the materials is such that they don't feel like it.
The slightly off rose-colored gold, red and a beautiful mocha leather, came together in a way seldom seen in a Business Class product. The amenity kit was refined and efficient, it was nice to see that sustainable products were used throughout.
Going through it, one is amazed at how thorough they were in making sure that sustainable materials were used, and in a similar fashion to Singapore Airlines, Virgin Atlantic offers an à la carte amenity kit system. Either ordering what you want ahead of time or ordering it from your seat. Waste not want not.
New semi-private suite configuration for Upper Class
In Virgin Atlantic's Airbus A350-1000s, the Upper Class has 44 seats in a 1-2-1 configuration. The old Business Class cabin was in an inward-facing herringbone configuration, which sometimes may lead to uncomfortable moments of having another passenger's feet right next to your meal tray, which happened to me on my flight to Heathrow on the Boeing 787.
Not only are you not having to experience your neighbor's feet, but the outer seats in the configuration face the window, instead of the aisle, allowing for a much more peaceful and palatable experience. The new cabin arrangement is a big improvement on the previous configuration.
The new Upper Class installed on the A350-1000 is a semi-private suite. The seat is a comfortable 20 inches wide and 44 inches of seat pitch. The walls of each seat are higher, with a small pocket door in the seat that partially closes, giving a sense of privacy. Personally, I felt like it didn't really add too much to the overall experience not quite the same thing as Delta's One product.
For those of you who might be bigger in size, however, it does make a challenge for getting out of the seat without having to grab onto the Upper-Class seat immediately in front of you.
The seats themselves are comfortable and convert to an 82-inch flatbed quite easily and each comes with a full-size pillow and a duvet. You can even pre-order personalized PJs for your snoozing pleasure.
The main problem with these new seats is that the tray tables seem to have been designed incorrectly. When I folded down the tray, it went directly into my stomach. I had to push it away to eat at an awkward angle.
When I first used it, I thought maybe I had not used the mechanism itself properly, but as I was looking around there were quite a few puzzled faces. This is not merely a matter of not accounting for the size of larger customers, this was a design modeling failure.
Even people who were height weight proportionate were having difficulty with the setup. Virgin Atlantic is well aware of it and plans to have a fix that will only take ½ hour per seat to rectify.
The engineer on board said that these modifications will not require any cutting of the plastic and that it is a mechanism that will be easily changed out that will not require the aircraft to be pulled out of service. I was told that the A350-1000s already delivered to the airline will be refitted by October.
Being that this was essentially a press flight, the cabin was barely containing the mayhem, with people walking around and comparing notes and reconnecting.
The cabin crew had to work under those conditions. But once again, they never fail to impress with how deftly they handled the meal service. Kudos to Edward, who served me two mains, the Louisiana crabcakes, and the Herefordshire short ribs.
The crabcakes were just okay, they did not taste at all fresh. I am from Seattle where we consider the Dungeness crab as almost a pest, and I admit that we are spoiled up there. The short ribs, however, were impeccably brazed and seasoned. I always have a good time cooking them myself, and I am always impressed when an airline can execute them.
I opted out of dessert, but a few hours later, I did start to get a bit of a craving for something sweet. No sooner did I start to think about that, then pastry chef Eric Lanlard came by with a beautiful box of goodies that looked right out of a Wes Anderson movie.
Inside this work of art, was amazing chocolate and salted caramel éclair and a red velvet macaron.
Beckoning back to the time when widebodies in the 1970s had small lounges where passengers could congregate in, Virgin's launched in its A350-1000s a new generation sit-down bar named The Loft.
Thi space is intended as an exclusive gathering place for Upper-Class passengers. Space is heavily illuminated by Virgin's vibrant color palette, enhancing the already exclusive feel of Upper Class. It has a laid back, but elegant atmosphere, and it also has enough room in it to where it's not just simply a marketing gimmick.
This space for socializing would be a wonderful product to go from Heathrow to Hong Kong or New Zealand, a space that people will remember.
In-flight entertainment system
True to its Virgin roots, the IFE was impressive. Each private suite has an 18.5-inch touch screen. Gone is the remote chained to an armrest. Instead, passengers can hook their own smart devices up to the plane's IFE using Bluetooth and control their entertainment from the comfort of their own phone or device.
The IFE has several convenient features, including being able to order food or snacks on demand. Our flight was plagued with technical glitches. Most iOS users seem to have few problems, but android phones were mostly not connecting. The Wi-Fi was also a little finicky, but then again that's true for every carrier right now.
Premium Economy and Economy Cabin
Virgin Atlantic was among the first airlines to offer the premium economy product, and they have certainly always been ahead of the curve regarding comfort and introducing features other than just increased legroom. While most Premium Economy cabins are small, Virgin fitted 56 seats in its A350-1000s.
Once again, the color palette is used to great effect in this section. It looks warm and luxurious, and the Collins MiQ leather seats are extremely comfortable and wide at 18.5".
In the A350, the 2-4-2 layout takes advantage of the extra 5 inches that it has over the 787. This is a great alternative to Upper Class. The perks that go along with the seats make the price quite a value.
The rear of the cabin has two classes of economy, Economy Delight and Economy Classic. Economy classic comes in it 31 inches of seat pitch and 17 inches of width. Economy delight comes in at an additional three inches of pitch, but more importantly, Delight offers priority check-in and boarding.
The service and the crew
I can't say enough for the cabin crew of this flight, and every Virgin Atlantic flight I've taken, these employees are top-notch. They strike a delicate balance between friendly and cheerful without being intrusive and annoying. As I've said in my previous reviews, I find that someone who's overly chatty or friendly can be just as bad as a crew member that is reserved and aloof.
Flying on the 787 from Seattle to Heathrow and then the A350 from Heathrow to New York, I was amazed at how many of the crew members had been with the airline for at least 10 to 20 years.
I remember Richard Branson years ago saying that people should not make a career out of being flight attendants. I'm so glad that most of the cabin has not taken their founders advice. These people are some of the best flight professionals I've ever come across.
And that's including Singapore and Korean. My buzz never had a chance to waiver, as my gin and tonics were filled quickly and with a smile.
The realities that lie ahead
It's somewhat charitable to call Virgin a boutique airline. Let's just be truthful and say this is an airline that is small. It's had a couple of opportunities at attempting to be bigger and become the second flag carrier at Heathrow. These attempts have come to little or nothing. This time feels different.
There are external events that need to occur, such as the completion of the third runway, and equitable allocation of slots in the future. British Airways and IAG may not be as glamorous as Virgin, but they are smart, and they use their size to a devastating effect.
Have no illusions, Virgin Atlantic is going to have to work very hard to be taken seriously in the marketplace. They don't have a lot of time to re-establish themselves at a larger Heathrow. If there is a time that this airline could become the second flag carrier, the time is now.
The partnership with Delta looks to be beneficial for Virgin, and one hopes that Delta through its JV with Virgin can assist the carrier in developing the acquisition of Flybe into a more successful feeder product than Virgin Atlantic's narrow-body product was. They desperately need a narrow body network that is bigger and more efficient. It will be interesting to see if they upgrade Flybe's equipment.
We were all wondering what was going to happen after Delta purchased a 49% stake. Well as of the last two weeks, we have found out that Virgin Atlantic's plans are ambitious, to say the least.
Virgin is going to increase the frequency of its Los Angeles to Heathrow service to 17 flights a week, that's up from 14. Seattle will see an increase to 11 from seven flights a week Boston will also become more of a focus city.
This all dovetails perfectly with Delta's increase in service. Their return to Gatwick and increasing frequencies to Manchester and Heathrow will work out quite nicely for both carriers.
Virgin's plans for 84 destinations by 2026 seem overly ambitious. This plan is contingent on Virgin getting a huge number of slots at Heathrow well over 100.
Obviously, Air France/ KLM in acquiring a 31% stake, shows that they are confident that at least some of this will happen. If Virgin Atlantic is successful in its plans, it will mean big things at Heathrow.
Virgin Atlantic has a lot to overcome to even get half of what it's asking for, a lot of analysts feel that the contingencies for their route expansion being implemented is unrealistic at best.
They are going to require a great deal of funding in the coming years to acquire additional aircraft. It will be interesting to see if this works out to be the beginnings of a counterbalance to IAG.
Another significant opportunity is Virgin Atlantic's codeshare with Brazilian powerhouse GOL is going to give them access to a lot of South America.
The Hardware
Virgin Atlantic is a small airline by any standard. As of right now, they have 47 aircraft in the fleet and when the 747s in the A340s leave as the A350s come online that will actually represent a decrease in capacity.
The real question regarding equipment is what is to become of the 787s and how will virgin proceed with upgrading these five-year-old aircraft. The problem with having a brand-new upper-class interior in just 12 of your aircraft so far is that you create the sense that there are two distinct airlines at work under one name.
The 787 experience versus the A350 experience is day and night. The current word is that the 787 is under review. Personally, I can't see them getting rid of the much-needed capacity, but if they are in a position to take more A330nes and a few more A350s I could see the 787's being gradually phased out.
I believe the A330-900 is a purchase that obviously dovetails quite well with Delta's fleet plans as they both fly the same Airbus widebody types. They are both excellent aircraft and there is no real advantage in keeping the 787's.
The A350-1000 will also offer additional revenue regarding palletized cargo and the A330 fleet will offer a commonality and flexibility that the 787's do not. The A350s will be bifurcated into two subtypes.
There'll be the standard A350 that we flew on and then a high-density leisure market model. These aircraft are going to be deployed on Gatwick to Florida and other Caribbean destinations. One can't help but think that if this aircraft is successful, that more will be needed.
Also, let's not forget that the A340-600 is still very much part of the fleet. This has been put out to pasture once already, only to be brought back out of storage and back into service due to the 787 operational woes.
The Rolls-Royce engine debacle continues to throw airlines and turmoil. It has created new business for supplemental airlines like, Hi Fly and has costed money to All Nippon and Virgin Atlantic. It will also be interesting to see how much longer the A340 will soldier on.
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To many, a spell at PSG is considered to be a stepping stone en route to making another big-money switch elsewhere.
Neymar is, however, tied to a long-term contract in Paris and intends to honour it.
With that in mind, Neymar Santos Sr has sought to bring the endless rounds of exit rumours to a close by telling RMC Sport: "The contract is long with PSG.
He added: "Neymar's desire to be at PSG was expressed two years ago, so the fans can sleep easy.
A domestic treble was secured by the South American during his debut campaign in France.
An untimely injury brought his efforts to a close in 2017-18, with another unfortunate knock having been suffered this season.
Neymar does, however, boast 48 goals in just 53 appearances for PSG.
He forms part of a fearsome attacking unit alongside the likes of Kylian Mbappe, Edinson Cavani and Angel Di Maria and boasts the potential to enjoy even more success in the future.
PSG will be delighted to hear that a talismanic presence is intending to stick around.
Champions League glory remains the ultimate ambition for those in the French capital, having endured another last-16 exit this season, and Neymar will have a crucial role to play in those plans heading forward.


Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer who has an estimated net worth of $230 million. This former carpenter went on to star in some of Hollywood's biggest films and become one of the industry's most bankable stars.
Born July 13, 1942, in Chicago and raised in a middle-class suburb, he had an average childhood. An introverted loner, he was popular with girls but picked on by school bullies. Ford quietly endured their everyday tortures until he one day lost his cool and beat the tar out of the gang leader responsible for his being repeatedly thrown off an embankment. He had no special affinity for films and usually only went to see them on dates because they were inexpensive and dark. Following high school graduation, Ford studied English and Philosophy at Ripon College in Wisconsin. An admittedly lousy student, he began acting while in college and then worked briefly in summer stock. He was expelled from the school three days before graduation because he did not complete his required thesis.
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Campaign News | Friday, 25 March 2005
Action signals a sense of optimism in economy
HAVANA March 24 - Reflecting optimism in the nation's economy, Cuban President Fidel Castro on Thursday announced an 8 percent revaluation of Cuba's "convertible peso," a currency that has long been pegged to the dollar.
Thursday's 8 percent revaluation comes on top of a 7 percent revaluation of Cuba's other currency, the regular Cuban peso, announced last week.
Fidel said the combined measures will significantly increase the value of the Cuban peso and improve the purchasing power of many of the nation's poorest people.
"We are going to collect and redistribute what we have to improve Cuban salaries," Castro said in a 3-hour televised speech before Cuba's political and military leadership.
Fidel's speech was the third in three weeks in which the 78-year-old leader projected optimism about the country's future after a decade or more of economic belt tightening.
During the talks, Fidel has promised that the nation's tattered electrical grid will be repaired and tha tens of thousands of pressure cookers and rice steamers will be distributed to the island's residents.
Fidel said the latest revaluation, which will go into effect April 9, was justified because of Cuba's improving economy, the dollar's sinking value in international markets and the need to shield Cuba from the Bush administration's tightening of economic sanctions against the island.
In recent weeks, Fidel has said Cuba's economic prospects are improving because of Cuba's close relationship with Venezuela, which is sending 56,000 barrels of crude oil daily at a sharp discount.
The international price for nickel, a key Cuban export, also has risen substantially, and Cuba is forging closer economic ties to China, which has promised to invest in the island's nickel industry.
At least two prominent billboards have sprouted up in Havana in recent weeks showing a smiling Fidel next to the words, "We are doing well."
"You get the sense that they have confidence in the Cuban economy," US Congressman Jeff Flake, of Arizona said Thursday in Havana after meeting with several top Cuban officials.
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Split: 1.5-Hour Old Town Small-Group Walking Tour
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Travel back to the days of the Roman Empire on a 1.5-hour walking tour of Split. See all the sights of the Old City, such as the Palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, the octagonal Cathedral of St Domnius, Europe's third oldest synagogue and more.
Travel back to the days of the Roman Empire on a walking tour of Split
See the ruins of the Palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian
Discover the site of the emperor's mausoleum at the Cathedral of St Doimus
Walk down narrow streets lined with souvenir stores
Learn the story of the UNESCO-listed city center
Learn about the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Split on a relaxing 1.5-hour walking tour of the Old City and see streets and squares that date back to the days of the Roman Empire. Meet your guide close to the Palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian. Facing the harbor, the palace is one of the most imposing Roman ruins still in existence. Wander the narrow, picturesque streets around the palace and see the cellars and peristyle courtyard of the stone fortress. Part of Split's UNESCO World Heritage attractions, the ruins of the palace can be found throughout the city, such as at the Cathedral of St Doimus, the former Mausoleum of Diocletian. Learn the history of Split as you experience its Mediterranean atmosphere on squares and streets lined with cafés and souvenir stores.
The local supplier's office located on the famous Riva promenade, at the address: Obala Hrvatskog narodnog preporoda 21, 21000, Split, Croatia. Look for the local supplier's sign and the staff members in t-shirts with the same sign on them. Please arrive for the check-in 15 minutes prior to your tour departure. For any additional information or detailed instructions, please contact the local supplier on the number provided.
Comfortable shoes
Please bring your camera
The tour cost doesn't include tickets to churches and museums. However, you can buy these on the spot. Your guide will take you inside each and every monument you decide to visit
Our tour was with Daniella with GreyLine. It is so nice to have someone that loves her home town and her job. Daniella conveyed this love by sharing as much information as she could in a very lively & fun way. She was very considerate by choosing a few alternate routes as we had a person who was confined mostly to her wheelchair. I've been on three "GetYourGuide" tours this year and I appreciate the small groups.
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Brought the city alive.
We had Ina as our guide, who was also an archaeologist and was very interesting and knowledgeable. She brought the city Alive by taking us through it's origins in Roman times then changing through the medieval period. Also mindful of the heat treid to keep us in shade as much as possible. Well worth the tour.
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We had a very nice tour with our guide Toni. Really cool guy who really know what he was talking about! We started at the RIva where we had an intro from the past till today. Then, we walked through the marked into the palace. Toni showed us the interesting spots where you do not have to pay for. We can absolutely recommend this tour...
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Asia Pacific|Former Hong Kong Leader Is Charged With Misconduct
Former Hong Kong Leader Is Charged With Misconduct
"My conscience is clear," Donald Tsang, the former chief executive of Hong Kong, said after an anticorruption agency announced two charges of misconduct against him.CreditCreditEuropean Pressphoto Agency
By Alan Wong
HONG KONG — Donald Tsang, a former leader of Hong Kong, has been charged with two counts of misconduct in public office, the city's anticorruption agency announced on Monday.
The prosecution of Mr. Tsang, the highest-ranking official ever to face a corruption trial in this former British colony, once again brought attention to the cozy ties between top government officials and wealthy businessmen.
Donald Tsang, former chief executive of Hong Kong, was charged on Monday with two counts of misconduct in public office. Mr. Tsang held the post of chief executive for seven years from 2005.CreditTyrone Siu/Reuters
The charges against Mr. Tsang concern a luxury apartment he leased in the neighboring Chinese city of Shenzhen from the Chinese property developer Wong Cho-bau. Mr. Wong's company Wave Media Limited was applying for a broadcasting license that Mr. Tsang's government approved, according to a statement from the Justice Department.
Mr. Tsang "willfully misconducted himself" by failing to declare the lease negotiations and a related payment of 800,000 renminbi, or $125,900, to a company of Mr. Wong's, according to the first charge. The second charge says that Mr. Tsang failed to disclose that an architect he nominated for official honors had been hired to redecorate that Shenzhen apartment.
Each charge carries a maximum sentence of seven years.
In a brief statement, Mr. Tsang said that his "conscience is clear" and that he had "every confidence" that the court would prove his innocence. He heard the charges against him at Eastern Magistrates' Courts on Monday afternoon and is set to return to court on Nov. 13.
Mr. Tsang, who will turn 71 on Wednesday, was the second chief executive of Hong Kong since it returned to Chinese rule, serving from 2005 to 2012. Local news outlets have reported that Mr. Tsang received favors from business tycoons, including lavish overseas trips on a private jet. In a statement, the Justice Department said that "there is no sufficient evidence" to justify criminal prosecution over these allegations, without specifying them.
In December, Rafael Hui, Mr. Tsang's deputy, was convicted of corruption, in a blow to the city's reputation for clean government. Mr. Hui, who served from 2005 to 2007 as the No. 2 official in Mr. Tsang's government, was found guilty of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from the billionaire property tycoon Thomas Kwok, co-chairman of Sun Hung Kai Properties.
Mr. Tsang's successor, the current chief executive Leung Chun-ying, was accused by political opponents last October of conflicts of interest for accepting payments of $6.4 million from an Australian engineering company while in office. Mr. Leung's office said that the payments, as part of "a standard non-poach, noncompete arrangement," were agreed on before his election and has denied wrongdoing.
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We have sports here, and some people really do support all teams, but this school is really all about lacrosse. If you were a big fan of your high school football team in high school and went to all the games, that school spirit will translate to lacrosse here! Don't get me wrong though, our other Division 3 sports are great as well! Our football team went undefeated and many of our other teams made it to NCAA playoffs.
Sports isn't big here. Even lacrosse games are lacking in terms of how many fans are sitting on the bleachers. Homecoming is in the spring, and I'll admit, I only go for the free food.
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The Dow gained 218 points on Friday, lifted by a rally in Europe, an upturn in crude oil prices and strong U.S. economic data. For the week the Dow was up 1.1% and for the year the index narrowed its losses to -1.2%.
The US equities market notched a 4-week winning streak. Energy stocks outperformed the market as the oil price rebound continued. Crude settled at $38.5 per barrel as U.S. oil drilling rigs fell to the lowest level since 2009. Data showed a less-than-expected inventory built on Wednesday and indications that oil prices have bottomed out. The timing of a meeting between Russia and OPEC producers to finalize the cap on oil production has been a major area of uncertainty. A meeting had been expected to take place this month, but the date has yet to be finalized.
Financials also outperformed, led by banks after the European Central Bank President Draghi delivered a positive surprise on Thursday with a package of aggressive actions including rate cuts to -0.4% and a quantitative easing expansion. While market reaction was initially positive, Draghi's admission in the press conference that rates may not go any lower sparked a significant reversal. On Friday the benchmark Stoxx Euro 600, which is similar to the S&P 500, gained 2.6% as investors hoped that the European Central Bank's latest blast of stimulus policies would help revive the region's economy. On Friday, the European Commission expressed interest in softening capital rules in order to increase European banks' flexibility to make interest payments on their additional Tier 1 bonds. On the heels of such favorable regulatory news, European bank preferreds continued their recovery. US preferreds moved higher as well.
In the U.S., the initial jobless claims fell by 18,000 to 259,000 last week, the lowest amount since October and one of the lowest of the current expansion. Strong economic data pushed up the odds of another interest rate hike later this year, leading 10 year Treasury yields to rise over 8 basis points to 1.98%. More clarity will come when the Fed meets next week.
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The IRS has issued new proposed regulations (REG-125710-18) that delay the applicability date of the September 2019 proposed Section 382 loss limitation rules. (Section references are to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.) The new proposed regulations also provide transition relief and withdraw a portion of the September 2019 proposed regulations (see our prior coverage here). To address the concerns expressed about the September 2019 proposed regulations, the IRS has withdrawn the text of Proposed Regulations Sections 1.382-2(b)(4) and 1.382-7(g) as it appeared in the September 2019 proposed regulations and has proposed new text that (a) modifies the applicability date of the September 2019 proposed regulations, and (b) provides transition relief. Generally, the new text provides that the applicability date of the final regulations will be 30 days after the date the September 2019 proposed regulations are published as final (delayed applicability date). The IRS plans to finalize Proposed Regulation Section 1.382-7(d)(5) before the rest of the September 2019 proposed regulations as part of the final Section 163(j) regulations, and taxpayers will be permitted to apply that rule to prior periods. Proposed Regulation Section 1.382-7(d)(5), one of the September 2019 proposed regulations, would eliminate the possible duplicate application of Section 382 to certain disallowed business interest expense carryforwards.
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SNK's cathartic shoot 'em up Metal Slug X is coming to the Nintendo Switch this week as the latest title off of HAMSTER's "ACA Neo Geo Classics" conveyor belt.
The 1999 release was an upgrade to Metal Slug 2, which had only been released on the Neo Geo MVS platform the previous year. X changed enemy attack patterns in order to provide a more challenging experience, as well as making adjustments to remove ugly slowdown issues. The re-release also featured remixed audio and various tweaks to the game's arsenal, as well as littering the battlefield with more hidden Power-Ups.
Metal Slug 2 was made available for the Nintendo console back in July, which leaves one wondering if it'd been cooler for HAMSTER to just release X in the first place, rather than asking fans to fork over the same amount of dollar for the revamped edition just two months later.
Metal Slug X will be available to download for Nintendo Switch on October 5, priced at $8.