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Etihad Airways unveils new 'Sustainable50' Airbus A350-1000 on inaugural flight to Paris
Etihad Airways today unveiled its new Airbus A350-1000, registration A6-XWB, on a special inaugural commercial flight from Abu Dhabi to Paris. The aircraft is the first A350 to be operated by a UAE airline, and the first of five A350s set to join Etihad's fleet over the coming months.
The first flight departed Abu Dhabi for Paris Charles de Gaulle at 7.30am with a delegation including diplomatic dignitaries, Etihad and Airbus representatives, media, trade partners and other VIPs.
Tony Douglas, Group Chief Executive Officer, commented: "The Airbus A350 is an absolutely incredible aircraft, and we are proud to introduce it into the Etihad Airways network today. Our teams have worked closely together to craft a product and travel proposition that will ensure every journey with Etihad is a choice well made – both for our guests and for the planet. With highly efficient fuel consumption and CO2 savings, the A350 will support our goals to reduce carbon emissions and deliver an unmatched flight experience for our guests."
The aircraft, named Sustainability50, carries a unique livery in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the federation of the UAE and Etihad's commitment to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. It will join the airline's industry-leading sustainability drive as part of a program aimed at decarbonizing aviation.
Formed as a partnership between Etihad, Airbus and Rolls Royce in 2021, the Sustainability50 program will see Etihad's A350s used as flying testbeds of new initiatives, procedures and technologies to reduce carbon emissions, building on the learnings derived from Etihad's similar Greenliner program for the Boeing B787 aircraft type.
The Rolls-Royce Trent XWB-powered Airbus A350 is one of the most efficient aircraft types in the world, with 25% less fuel burn and CO2 emissions than previous-generation twin aisle aircraft.
Etihad recently established a formal framework with Airbus to collaborate on sustainability across a number of areas including the promotion and commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel, waste and weight management, and the development of data-driven analysis.
The airline's new A350-1000s will be deployed on a number of short to mid-range routes in Q2, including Mumbai and Delhi, before being introduced on ultra-long-haul operations to Chicago and New York from July.
The aircraft features Etihad's newest cabin interior which is inspired by Abu Dhabi and is both more efficient and sustainable in design. Etihad is renowned for high-quality aircraft, and the A350 is filled with thoughtful design details providing exceptional comfort and enhanced privacy.
Etihad's signature lighting design is inspired by the shadows cast by Abu Dhabi's palm trees. The cabin lighting emulates natural ambient light and is designed to enhance the guest experience, provide an optimum environment for sleeping and reduce the effects of jetlag. The Airbus A350 also offers the quietest cabin experience for a wide-body aircraft.
Another feature to help reduce light pollution, and therefore jetlag, is the new dark-mode interface on the E-BOX inflight entertainment system. Mobile and Wi-Fi connectivity is also available throughout the aircraft.
Etihad's 'Little VIP' younger guests will enjoy the newly launched Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi themed family-friendly flying experience and a special feature on this aircraft is the new interactive flight map feature which means children can explore the maps with the help of some Jurassic-age friends.
The elevated Business class is home to 44 Business Studios with sliding doors that provide a high level of privacy to each suite. Every seat faces forward with direct aisle access. The Business class seat, with a width of over 20", converts into a fully-flat bed of 79" in length, and features ample storage for convenience.
Noise-cancelling headphones and an 18.5" TV screen provide a cinematic experience to enjoy Etihad's extensive inflight entertainment offering. The Business seats cleverly feature a built-in wireless charging dock and Bluetooth headphone pairing.
Business class guests can choose from a carefully curated à la carte menu, and guests on longer flights can enjoy Etihad's signature 'dine anytime' service.
Etihad's spacious Economy cabin is configured with 327 smart seats in a 3-3-3 arrangement, of which 45 'Economy Space' seats have been enhanced with an additional 4 inches of legroom. The Crystal Cabin Award-winning seats were selected after extensive customer trials by Etihad and based on their comfort and sustainability credentials. The seats feature Etihad's signature supportive headrest, USB charging and Bluetooth headphone pairing, as well as a 13.3" inch screen to enjoy Etihad's award-winning inflight entertainment system.
Guests receive blankets and pillows for additional comfort and amenity kits on longer flights, as well as enjoying complimentary dining and beverages served by Etihad's award-winning cabin crew.
.@etihad has finally commenced services with its @airbus A350-1000, operating to @ParisAeroport today.
I toured the aircraft at @DubaiAirshow and it looked great and comfortable, on par with their A380 I tried some years ago: pic.twitter.com/QonSzFZwGP
— Richard_on_aviation (@rschuur_aero) March 31, 2022
Onboard the inaugural @etihad A350-1000 flight today from Abu Dhabi to Paris CDG. EY037, A6-XWB J44Y327 configuration. More to come shortly. pic.twitter.com/2CR05vkOIN
— Sam Chui (@SamChuiPhotos) March 31, 2022
This entry was posted in Etihad Airways and tagged Etihad Airways on March 31, 2022 by Bruce Drum.
SmartLynx Airlines to expand its fleet to around 60 aircraft this summer
SmartLynx Airlines has made this announcement:
This week, Latvia's oldest operating carrier SmartLynx Airlines marks its 30th anniversary. In the summer season, the airline plans to have about 60 airplanes, becoming the largest air fleet operator in the Baltic states.
Presently, SmartLynx Airlines operates 33 airplanes, in April three more will be delivered, and the other 22 will be delivered gradually by the end of the summer season. The company's fleet consists of Airbus A320 (25), A330-300 (6), and A321 (4) aircraft. There are two other Airbus A321F air cargo jets, and in April the company will receive the first Boeing 737 MAX.
"We expect that in relation to the fleet size, this year we will be ahead the world's largest names in aviation, but we will be able to speak about it in more detail when we have received all the aircraft. The experience obtained during the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis helped us to continue sustainable development so that we could mark our 30th anniversary with a record-high number of airplanes. As our fleet is expanding, the number of our employees is also increasing – we have already 300 employees in our Riga office, and by the end of the year we plan to fill in 40 more vacancies. We hope to see our next anniversary as the largest Latvian employer in aviation," said SmartLynx Airlines head Zygimantas Surintas.
Developing new business directions during crisis
The pandemic is called the most severe crisis in the aviation history, however, despite the sudden strike, SmartLynx Airlines during this time has not only managed to maintain its operations, but also develop new business directions. The air cargo fleet has been expanded significantly, and air cargo transportation will be one of the company's main strategic directions also in the future. The airline announced on opening fleet service centre SmartLynx Technik in Riga and Tallinn. Meanwhile, two geographically significant players – Royal Air Maroc in Morocco and Air Peace in Nigeria were added to the client portfolio for full-service ACMI aircraft lease services.
The company's subsidiary SmartLynx Malta announced on a significant step, signing a partnership agreement with DHL Express, providing that the two recently refurbished cargo jets Airbus A321-200 will join the DHL European air fleet. The company during the pandemic has managed to keep and maintain cooperation with the largest partners from the pre-pandemic period, such as EasyJet, TUI and Jet2.
Development plans not only in Europe, but also in other continents
As the company's head says, the main strategic direction of SmartLynx Airlines will be to strengthen the airline's leading position as a trustworthy passenger and air cargo carrier not only in Europe, but also in other continents.
At present, the main business share of SmartLynx Airlines is organization of passenger charter flights to different resorts and special destinations. A large business share is related with leasing the company's jets, services and staff to those airlines who wish to expand their range of services.
SmartLynx Airlines long-term clients include easyJet, TUI, Jet2. Recently such companies as DHL, Qatar Airways, Air Peace, Royal Air Morocco, and others have joined the client portfolio.
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Top Copyright Photo: SmartLynx Airlines Estonia Airbus A320-232 ES-SAM (msn 1896) ZRH (Rolf Wallner). Image: 927299.
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Swiss marks its 20th anniversary, starts a new route to Bologna
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its foundation this year. The first-ever SWISS flight was performed from Basel to Zurich on 31 March 2002. The airline has been keeping Switzerland connected with the world ever since, bringing people together and making a vital contribution to promoting the country as an attractive place to visit and do business. "If it weren't for the great loyalty of our customers, the strong commitment of our employees in the air and on the ground, our fruitful collaborations with our airport partners and our suppliers and – not least – the firm support that we have received from the Swiss people, the Swiss political world and the banks, including in the present pandemic times, SWISS would simply not be one of the leading airlines today," says company CEO Dieter Vranckx. "We have all achieved so much together. And I would like to say a sincere thank-you to everyone who has given us such strong and solid support over the past 20 years, and has helped us ensure that SWISS will continue to fly the Swiss cross with pride and with gratitude all over the globe."
An eventful history
SWISS's early years, following its creation on the foundations of Crossair and of Swissair's flight operations, were marked by rigorous restructurings and uncertainties over its continued viability. An initially oversized aircraft fleet had to be substantially downscaled, together with the original workforce, before the new company could generate profits from its flight operations. The new SWISS also lacked the critical mass required to survive alone in the fiercely competitive air travel market. Such critical mass was secured in 2005, however, through the company's integration into the Lufthansa Group. From then on, SWISS was able to benefit from the group's strength and synergies, and achieved its financial turnaround as early as the following year.
The next SWISS milestone was also in 2006, when the company joined Star Alliance, the world's biggest airline grouping. One year later Delhi became the first new intercontinental destination to be added to the SWISS route network since the airline's foundation. It was followed by Shanghai (2008), San Francisco (2010), Beijing (2012) and Singapore (2013), all key points for Switzerland and all served with non-stop flights. Two further long-haul destinations – Washington and Osaka – were due to be added in 2020, but had such plans shelved by the coronavirus pandemic.
SWISS today serves 92 destinations from its Zurich hub and 46 points from Geneva. It carries more passengers and cargo than any Swiss airline has ever transported in the past. And together with its sister airline Edelweiss, which also joined the Lufthansa Group in 2008, the company is very well positioned in the premium business and leisure air travel segments.
Billions of investments in a premium product and an advanced aircraft fleet
SWISS's takeoff into a new era was mirrored in 2011 by its adoption of a new corporate brand. Over the following decade some CHF 8 billion was invested in acquiring the most advanced and fuel-efficient aircraft, in substantially expanding its destination portfolio from Zurich and Geneva and in further enhancing its premium product in the form of new lounges and aircraft cabins. At the same time, SWISS was compelled to end its flight operations in Basel in 2015, after a changed market environment and difficult political parameters had blighted prospects and perspectives in the premium travel segment. Just one year later, though, came one of the biggest highlights in the company's 20-year history to date: the addition to the SWISS fleet of the world's first highly economical Airbus A220 (which was then known as the Bombardier C Series). The same year saw the delivery of SWISS's first Boeing 777-300ER, its long-haul flagship, twelve of which are now in service.
SWISS will continue to promote such investments in sustainability and in its product in the years ahead. The company has set itself the two objectives of halving its carbon dioxide emissions from their 2019 level by 2030 and of making its operations carbon-neutral by 2050. "Sustainability is one of our key strategic pillars," explains CEO Vranckx. "Over the past 20 years we have reduced our carbon dioxide emissions per passenger-kilometre by around 30 per cent. We continue to work on improving our fuel efficiency; and, among other endeavours, we are also lobbying strongly for the development and market introduction of sustainable aviation fuel, to help us achieve our ambitious ecological objectives." SWISS will also have welcomed 25 state-of-the-art Airbus A320/321neos into its fleet by the end of 2025. These highly advanced aircraft emit some 20 per cent less carbon dioxide than their predecessor models.
Airline of Switzerland: mission accomplished
The crisis prompted by the coronavirus pandemic has further confirmed the vital importance of having an 'Airline of Switzerland' or a Swiss-based hub carrier. SWISS, together with its sister airline Edelweiss, performed a total of 86 flights under the biggest repatriation programme ever conducted by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs to bring stranded travellers back home. Between the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 and February 2022, SWISS's Swiss WorldCargo airfreight division also performed no fewer than 2,650 all-cargo flights that transported over 69,300 tonnes of cargo and provided Switzerland besides many with urgently-needed medical supplies such as facemasks and vaccines.
In the 20 years since its foundation SWISS has performed 2.8 million flights of an aggregate distance of 3.8 billion kilometres, or 95,000 times around the world. These flights have transported just under 266 million passengers – about 40 times the population of Switzerland – and 5.6 million tonnes of cargo, the equivalent in weight of some 560 Eiffel Towers.
Twenty aircraft namings and many more anniversary activities planned
SWISS is marking its 20th anniversary with a wide range of activities and attractive offers. The latter will be launched with a 48-hour sale from 2 April in which customers can take advantage of attractive fares throughout the European network. In addition, 20 of SWISS's advanced Airbus A220 aircraft will be formally named after Swiss tourist resorts between now and year-end. The naming ceremonies will be held in selected locations throughout Switzerland, on a "We'll come to you" basis.
Further anniversary attractions include a special jubilee video (above) that captures the landmark moments in SWISS's 20-year history to date. SWISS travelers will be able to immerse themselves in the SWISS story, too: from July to September, passengers will be offered a special edition of the inflight SWISS Magazine providing intriguing insights into the fascinating SWISS world of the past two decades along with our travel specialists' favorite destinations. Also planned is a big 20th anniversary competition offering various attractive prizes.
In other news, SWISS inaugurated our new Zurich-Bologna route, Bologna Airport being the 4th new destination in the summer timetable. SWISS connects the two cities with four weekly flights as of today.
This entry was posted in Swiss International Air Lines and tagged Swiss International Air Lines on March 31, 2022 by Bruce Drum.
Silk Way West Airlines launches flights from Cincinnati
Silk Way West Airlines has opened a new route from Cincinnati to Baku.
The new route will operate weekly on Wednesdays.
This entry was posted in Silk Way West Airlines and tagged Cincinnati, CVG, Silk Way West Airlines on March 31, 2022 by Bruce Drum.
Eurowings Discover starts its summer schedule, now flies to Victoria Falls
Eurowings Discover has made this announcement:
With the start of the summer flight schedule last Sunday, March 27, Eurowings Discover has added a number of attractive leisure destinations to its flight schedule.
For the first time, the young leisure airline also took off this week from its Munich hub to three long-haul destinations: Las Vegas, Punta Cana and Cancún. From now on, travelers can look forward to two weekly flights to each of these three dream destinations.
From Frankfurt, the young Lufthansa Group airline will fly to Panama City for the first time. The nonstop flight is offered three times a week from Frankfurt – all year round. This makes Eurowings Discover the only airline to offer a year-round direct connection between Germany and Panama City.
Two flights took off on Monday, March 28, bound for North America, to Las Vegas in the state of Nevada and to Fort Myers in Florida. From now on, there will be four flights a week from Frankfurt to Las Vegas, and three flights a week to Fort Myers all year round. Eurowings Discover offers the only direct connection between Germany and Fort Myers.
Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is another very special destination in the flight schedule from Frankfurt. Three flights a week will fly passengers to Victoria Falls until mid-November, with a short stopover in Windhoek, Namibia. Eurowings Discover is the first European airline ever to offer direct flights to Victoria Falls.
In the course of this summer, more long-haul flights from Frankfurt will be added to the flight plan, including Malé (April 23), Calgary (May 23), Salt Lake City (May 23), Kilimanjaro (June 6), Halifax (June 13) and Anchorage (June 13). The airline is also expanding its short- and medium-haul program to North Africa, the Canary Islands, the Greek islands, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Turkey.
Top Copyright Photo: Eurowings Discover Airbus A330-203 D-AXGF (msn 616) FRA (Rainer Bexten). Image: 955382.
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European airlines CEOs call for urgent action on key aviation policies to assist aviation's recovery and support continued decarbonization efforts
Airlines for Europe issued this statement:
Two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began in Europe, and five weeks after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, A4E CEOs are navigating back-to-back crises and have called on European policy makers to take urgent action on key legislative proposals that would strengthen airlines' recovery prospects, protect and accelerate decarbonisation efforts and help rebuild passenger connectivity.
European aviation remains one of the sectors hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2020-2021, A4E airlines lost over 500m passengers compared to 2019, and some experienced staff cuts (-150,000 employees) due to the pandemic. According to the latest IATA forecast, Europe's airlines are not expected to post a profit until 2023, or 2024 at the earliest. A thriving and economically viable aviation sector in Europe is a key enabler for other industries' recovery, including tourism.
With fuel representing up to 35% of airlines' operating costs, and energy prices expected to remain high until at least 2023, EU aviation policies must reflect the "new reality" airlines in Europe are facing. Despite strong pent-up demand among Europeans to travel again, record oil and carbon prices 1 combined with lengthy detours around Russian airspace will weaken competition between European and non-European carriers for flights to/from Asia.
Key policies must be re-assessed and swiftly updated to help airlines mitigate rising costs on multiple fronts and operate more efficiently. For example, more cost-efficient air navigation services for flights within Europe could be realized along with an up to 10% reduction in CO2 emissions by implementing the Single European Sky, which remains in trilogue negotiations between the European Council, the European Parliament and European Commission.
Without appropriate mitigation measures, future energy and climate policies will erode airlines' competitiveness and lead to carbon leakage.
CEOs reiterated their commitment to reaching net zero CO2 emissions by 2050 and support European carbon reduction targets — but stressed the need for global climate action and pricing support measures to level the playing field. A4E CEOs want global uniform regulation, including a global carbon price for aviation which would stimulate low carbon technology development — as well as using the system of ETS allowances to support the uptake of sustainable fuels.
"Europe can become a global leader in decarbonising aviation. But achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 should not erode the competitiveness of European airlines nor lead to carbon leakage", said Carsten Spohr, Lufthansa Group CEO and A4E's 2022 Chair. "To be successful, policies must be designed to avoid distorting competition between European stakeholders within the single aviation market — as well as between European and non-European airlines", Spohr added.
The long overdue reform of EU air passenger rights rules (EU261) will ensure better information for passengers, reduce complexity, and incentivise airlines to minimize the impact of flight disruptions. For example, a list of so-called 'extraordinary circumstances' will help passengers know when they can claim compensation. As key issues are not defined in the current legislation, the total cost of European airlines' compliance to EU261 has risen from €1.6 bn in 2011 to €5.3 bn in 2018. 2 It is vital that EU261 is streamlined and made future-proof should aviation be affected by another crisis like COVID-19.
This entry was posted in Airlines 4 Europe and tagged Airlines 4 Europe on March 31, 2022 by Bruce Drum.
ANA today retires the Star Wars BB8 special livery on JA789A
ANA – All Nippon Airways made this announcement:
On March 31, 20222, the BB8™ ANA JET will take off on its last flight.
"The Force will be with you, always…"
Top Copyright Photo: ANA (All Nippon Airways) Boeing 777-381 ER JA789A (msn 40687) (Star Wars – BB-8) NRT (Michael B. Ing). Image: 957174.
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Singapore Airlines now flies to Darwin
Singapore Airlines as of March 29 now operates twice-weekly services between Singapore and Darwin, making it the 7th Australian destination in our network.
This entry was posted in Singapore Airlines and tagged Singapore Airlines on March 31, 2022 by Bruce Drum.
Level returns to Los Angeles and San Francisco from Barcelona
Starting this week, LEVEL, IAG's low-cost long-haul airline, connects Los Angeles with Barcelona and resumes its direct San Francisco–Barcelona route as part of its Summer 2022 Program.
LEVEL is the only airline that offers a direct connection from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Barcelona. The route from Los Angeles, the airline's highlight for this summer season, will initially operate with three frequencies a week, on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and, as of June 1, an additional frequency will be added on Wednesdays, taking the total up to four. The route from San Francisco resumes with four weekly frequencies, including operations on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
This low-cost company is characterized by offering tailor-made customer experiences with very affordable prices. In fact, both routes to Barcelona are on sale from $479 round trip from Los Angeles and from $509 round trip from San Francisco.
The routes from Los Angeles and San Francisco are two of four routes that LEVEL will operate in the United States during this 2022 summer season. In addition to Los Angeles and San Francisco, LEVEL is also flying to Barcelona from New York and a Boston–Barcelona route will be added on May 1.
Moreover, the airline's codeshare with American Airlines and Alaska Airlines links the city of Barcelona with the US market thanks to the connecting reservations to and from destinations offered by those airlines. Thus, this codeshare provides the destinations of American Airlines and Alaska Airlines with a greater number of connections to Barcelona and other Spanish and European destinations through the network of Vueling, IAG's low-cost short/medium-haul airline.
LEVEL will offer more than 11,000 weekly seats on its routes to the United States, which is more than double what it offered in 2019, before the pandemic.
Barcelona is a cosmopolitan destination in Spain. Surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the art of Gaudí, the city offers its visitors a vast array of culture, history, and spectacular beaches for fun or just relaxing. The city is also well known for its rich gastronomy, with restaurants for every taste.
Frequency Departure airport Departure time Arrival airport Arrival time
Monday, Wednesday*, Thursday, and Saturday BCN 14:00 LAX 18:10
Monday, Wednesday*, Thursday, and Saturday LAX 19:55 BCN 16:40 +1
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday BCN 14:00 SFO 18:10
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday SFO 20:10 BCN 17:00 +1
* From June 1, a fourth additional frequency is added to the Los Angeles–Barcelona route.
To enter Spain, it is necessary to be vaccinated and present a Covid-19 vaccination certificate. Tourists can have two doses if no more than 270 days have passed since the date of the last vaccination, or three doses if more than 14 days have passed since the third vaccination.
If the established vaccination requirements are not met, a negative COVID-19 test carried out no more than 72 hours prior to arrival in Spain or an antigen test carried out no more than 24 hours prior to arrival can be presented instead. It is also essential to fill out the Spain Travel Health form and obtain the QR code, vaccinated or not.
Top Copyright Photo: Level (Spain) Airbus A330-202 EC-MOU (msn 1777) LAX (Michael B. Ing). Image: 938159.
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ASL orders up to 20 additional 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters
Dublin-headquartered ASL Aviation Holdings (ASL) and Boeing today announced an order for up to 20 additional 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF). The agreement is for 10 firm orders and 10 purchase rights.
This is ASL's second order for the 737-800BCF and including options, will bring the organization's total 737-800BCF orders and commitments with Boeing to 40 aircraft. The aircraft will be converted by Boeing at approved MRO sites including STAECO in Jinan, China and at Boeing's London Gatwick MRO facility in the United Kingdom.
The 737-800BCF carries more payload – up to 23.9 tonnes (52,800 lbs.) – and flies farther – 2,025 nautical miles (3,750 km) compared to 737 Classic freighters.
This entry was posted in ASL Airlines (Ireland) and tagged ASL Airlines (Ireland) on March 31, 2022 by Bruce Drum.


Fact or Fiction: Do New Year's Resolutions actually Work?
These days I'm less of a resolution-hater. In fact I've actually quite warmed to the idea, and I've even made myself a few New Year's resolutions for this year: To start writing a book, to change my gym routine and to make sure I have more fun! But will I just be like everyone else; starting with good intentions, but disappointed and disillusioned a couple of months down the line?
Scranton, "The Electric City". Apparently.
If you hate cold-callers, then the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania isn't a good place to live. One Christmas-time, a team of American psychologists decided to work their way through the Scranton phonebook, telephoning at random to find out who would talk to them about their new year's plans. Lots of people just hung up, but after six days (and 1,300 phone calls later) a good-sized group of people had agreed. Over the following weeks and months, these recruits were contacted repeatedly and given psychological tests to try to unravel why some people stick to new year's resolutions and other people just can't be bothered.
How successful are New Year's Resolutions?
About 95% of people who try to stop smoking won't succeed.
What a bunch of poorly disciplined creatures we are!
New Year is actually a good time to make a change!
It is incredible then, that New Year's resolutions are actually pretty successful! With only a calendar date for motivation, the process of making a new year's resolution makes us ten times as likely to succeed in our goals!
Ok, ok, so most resolutions (54%) have still been abandoned by July; but in the light of the normal human ability to break habits, this is ain't too bad!
Believed it was possible to keep it up over a long period of time.
New Year's Resolutions: Should You bother?
Failure is normal, and success means being nice to yourself!
I wonder if that could be a new motto for life!?
Listen Officer, didn't anyone tell you that failure is perfectly normal?
Norcross JC, Mrykalo MS, Blagys MD. Auld lang syne: success predictors, change processes, and self-reported outcomes of New Year's resolvers and nonresolvers. J Clin Psychol. 2002 Apr;58(4):397-405.
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These are all real signs of a possible sleep disorder. More than just an inconvenience, these disorders can have a significant impact on your everyday activities. Fortunately, most sleep disorders can be treated easily and effectively. The first step is taking your problem seriously. We are here to help.
There are few sleep-related ailments more jarring than when a person stops breathing while asleep. Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a sleep-related breathing disorder that causes your body to stop breathing during sleep. This is a health issue for the person affected and can also negatively impact anyone who is sharing a sleeping space. Patients with OSA develop an upper airway obstruction when airway muscles (esp. the tongue and palate muscles) relax during sleep. Obesity, an enlarged neck, or a small jaw size can cause a narrowing of the upper airway making it easier for complete airway obstruction to develop during sleep.
OSA is not merely an inconvenience. It can lead to serious health issues like depression, headaches, excessive nighttime urination, erectile dysfunction, heartburn, high blood pressure, increased risk of heart attack or strokes, worsening of heart failure, and difficulty in controlling blood sugar in diabetics. This is why treating and diagnosing OSA is so important.
Do your legs twitch uncontrollably while trying to sleep? You may have Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS), a neurological disorder characterized by unpleasant sensations in the legs and an uncontrollable urge to move when at rest in an effort to relieve these feelings. Patients with RLS may experience rhythmic leg jerks during sleep called "Periodic Limb Movement Disorder." These leg movements may result in insomnia, restless sleep, and poor quality sleep, or daytime fatigue/sleepiness.
If you have insomnia, you know the recurring experience of trying to sleep at night and stay awake during the day. Insomnia is characterized by repeated difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, early morning awakenings, and an inadequate quantity of sleep. These symptoms can result in some form of daytime impairment.
A lack of REM sleep can significantly impact your daily activities by causing anxiety, irritability, hallucinations, and difficulty concentrating. Narcolepsy is a disorder of REM sleep regulation with a tendency for REM sleep to occur at inappropriate times. This results in excessive daytime sleepiness, hallucinations, sleep paralysis and cataplexy (sudden weakening of muscles often precipitated by laughter). Even though a person with narcolepsy might be sleepy, their nighttime sleep may be frequently disrupted.
If you fall asleep but then engage in disruptive behavior, you may suffer from parasomnia. Parasomnias are disorders of arousal that occur during entry into sleep, within sleep, or during arousals from sleep. This can result in disruptive behavior that can be unsettling for both the sufferer and their loved ones.
Some of this behavior may result in injury to the patient or others.
Does it feel like your body's sleep "clock" is never set to the right time? You are awake at night and want to sleep during work or school? You may have a circadian rhythm sleep disorder, which is caused when an individual's body doesn't recognized environmental time cues that lead most of us through our sleep/wake cycle.


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With the Help of Constitutional Court Judges, Kučan and His Constitutional Arch Coalition Have Managed to Ensure That the Epidemic Caught Us Less Prepared
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Updated: 9. novembra, 2021
Milan Kučan. (Slika: Twitter)
By: Ivan Šokić / Nova24tv
On Sunday, the 7th of November 2021, Peter Jančič, editor-in-chief of the Siol web portal, published a column entitled "Kučan's Long March" ("Kučanov dolgi pohod" in Slovenian), in which he discussed, among other things, the way the Constitutional Court rules on different matters. According to Jančič, their way of operating is how it is due to the fact that the Constitutional Court judges are appointed through the communist party line, so to speak. The current power ratio at the highest judicial institution in Slovenia is allegedly 7:2 for the leftists.
"Milan Kučan, his Constitutional Arch Coalition parties, and the protesters have failed to achieve what they wanted – they wanted to ensure that we would have already been without a government at this point, and approaching the early elections. However, with the help of "their" Constitutional Court judges and political activists, they also helped make sure that the epidemic caught us less prepared than we could have been," wrote the editor-in-chief of the web portal Siol, Peter Jančič, in his latest column.
"With the help of Nataša Pirc Musar, the Police Union managed to temporarily suspend the measure which encouraged vaccination, at the Constitutional Court – in just a week's time," Jančič wrote. The majority of the Constitutional Court judges assessed that making vaccination a condition for regular work of the police officers and civil servants had more serious consequences on our society than the potential spread of the epidemic. Jančič sees this as a message from the Constitutional Court to the public that vaccination is not important and that testing is sufficient. This was decided by the majority, left-wing part of the Constitutional Court judges, who currently occupy seven seats in the current, nine-seat composition.
Protesters are insignificant performers and puppets
Jančič believes that various protesters and people who gather at rallies are insignificant performers and puppets who are only spreading the virus with their actions. They are cheap labour in the hands of politicians and state officials. According to Jančič, the leader of the Resni.ca party (the Truth), Zoran Stevanović, was a rather significant figure in all of this, and neither rapper Zlatan Čordić, nor Anis Ličina were as important. "The real forces in the background were the leaders of left-wing political parties, who only appeared on the streets a few times: Tanja Fajon, Marjan Šarec, Luka Mesec, and – of course – Milan Kučan, too."
Jančič believes that the left-wing majority at the Constitutional Court is also at least partially responsible for the current state of affairs, as it adopted the decision before the summer that the government had no legal basis for restricting unreported rallies during the COVID-19 epidemic due to poor legislation from the past. In this case, the Constitutional Court remained faithful to the letter of the law and all the legal formalisms that go along with it. However, as Jančič pointed out, things used to be different.
In the past, despite the great ideological diversity in the benches of the Constitutional Court, judges were able to make a unanimous decision, an example of this being the annulment of all judgments in the Patria case. "Today, however, we are witnessing outvoting. During the epidemic. We saw another such verdict this week as well, with an even tighter majority than the usual 7:2. Five judges voted in favour, three voted against. Among those who were against was also the president of the Constitutional Court, Rajko Knez. He very convincingly pointed out that the majority is acting legally illogically." According to Jančič, these judgments that we have been witnessing during the epidemic are no longer about law or justice at all but about preparations for the elections that will take place on the 24th of April 2021.
The politicians are to blame
"However, the responsibility for this is unfairly being attributed only to the seven left-wing judges at the Constitutional Court. They did not elect themselves to their positions. The real problem is the politicians who do not see that excessive political subordination of the judiciary is not good for the state nor the people. They are used to the judiciary being theirs entirely – from the previous system. And they are also used to the state of the media being what it currently is," Jančič wrote in the conclusion of his column.
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Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) was an American businessman, banker, diplomat, and statesman. He founded the banking firm of L.P. Morton & Co. in New York City. After an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1876, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York in 1878. He was Minister to France from 1881 to 1885, was elected Vice-President of the U.S. under Benjamin Harison in 1888, and served as Governor of New York in 1895 and 1896. In 1899 he founded the Morton Trust Co. and retired after the company merged with Guaranty Trust. The Levi P. Morton papers consist of correspondence, family papers, speeches, biographical materials, political memorabilia, photographs, and scrapbooks documenting the political and professional career, personal life and family background of the businessman and politician. Correspondence, 1842-1920, relates to civil reform, Morton's political campaigns, his service as Minister to France, and his activities as businessman, banker, congressman, vice-president, and governor. Also, correspondence, 1871-1915, of his wives, Lucy K. Morton and Anna Livingston Morton; papers of the Morton, Parsons, Street, and Kearney families; memorabilia from Morton's political campaigns; and biographical sketches, speeches, photographs, and scrapbooks of clippings, 1859-1913.
Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) was an American businessman, banker, diplomat, and statesman. A descendent of the Morton family that arrived at the English colonies on the ship Anne in 1623, Morton was born in Shoreham, Vermont, 1824 to the Congregational minister, Daniel O. Morton and his wife Lucretia Parsons. Levi was named after an uncle of his mother, Levi Parsons, an early missionary and possibly the first American to reach Jerusalem.
Early business experience in a dry goods outlet in Hanover, NH led to a position in the trading house of James M. Beebe & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts in 1849. As Beebe & Co. slowly dissolved, Morton used what he had learned to begin his own dry goods commission house. Morton & Grinnell was established in New York in 1854 by Morton and his partner, George Grinnell, a Massachusetts congressman. The two dealt in fabrics and assorted home manufactures produced by New England's mills. They stayed together until the outbreak of the Civil War which ended shipments of southern cotton to Boston's ports.
In 1861, Morton, in partnership with Walter H. Burns, H. C. Oakley, and Charles W. McCune, started the banking firm, L. P. Morton & Co. The Morton name would come to represent honesty and accountability important for gaining the trust of investors in an industry often lacking standards. L. P. Morton & Co. had offices at 35 Wall St., and maintained a thorough economic involvement with the booming American railway interests. Within a few years the firm established a branch in London led by Canadian politician, Sir John Rose.
In 1869, Morton and financier George Bliss formed Morton, Bliss & Co. which operated in London and New York. The London office of Morton, Rose, and Co. served as a separate entity with its own capital account and cooperated strategically with the American firm. Positioned in both England and America, Morton and his firms were able to participate in the swelling public interests on both sides of the Atlantic. The London branch acted as fiscal agent to the Alabama joint commission that sought compensation to the United States for damages inflicted by the Alabama and other British-built Confederate warships during the Civil War. With the help of John Rose, the houses of Morton, Bliss & Co. and James Cooke & Co. secured for the United States government a sum of $15,500,000 as reparative settlement. The money directly funded American post-Civil War national debt at a lower rate of interest, negotiated through the sale of bonds in both America and England by Morton himself. Morton, Bliss & Co. served as fiscal agent to the United States government from 1873 until 1884. Morton's first wife, Lucy Kimball of Flatlands, L. I. died in 1871. A second marriage, to Anna Livingston Reade Street in 1873, further solidified Morton's status within New York's political scene.
Morton rose to power within the Republican Party at a time when New York City was controlled by Democratic interests. His first attempt to gain elected office in 1876 failed. In 1878 he was appointed honorary commissioner to the Paris Exposition, and was nominated and successfully elected to Congress by the Republicans of New York's Eleventh District.
In 1880, Morton declined the vice-presidential position on the Republican ticket which would have put him and not Chester A. Arthur in the presidency after the assassination of James Garfield. Garfield offered Morton a choice of a cabinet appointment as Secretary to the Navy, or a diplomatic post as Minister to France. Morton chose Europe over Washington D. C. and succeeded General Noyes as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America in Paris where he would serve until 1885. Morton spent much his own money to convert a hotel into a spacious private residence with room for diplomatic concern and social gatherings. The legation occupied the western side of the Place de la Biche, which was renamed Place des Etats Unis to reflect the new American presence in France. Morton was able issue a decree revoking the prohibition of the sale of American pork and removed restrictions on American corporations from collecting debt within the French Republic. Morton and his wife Anna Livingston turned the American legation into a popular center of society and culture in Paris. He accepted Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World on behalf of the United States, and was said to have driven the first rivet in the statue.
Morton returned from France to a Republican party increasingly controlled by Thomas Collier Platt. After unsuccessful bids for the Senate in 1885 and 1887, Morton was selected as Platt's choice for vice-president on the 1888 ticket with Benjamin Harrison. Harrison and Morton lost the popular vote, but won the race in the Electoral College. As vice-president, Morton presided over the Senate filled with men who had made millions off of railroads, mining, and gilded age excess. In 1892, political forces led to Morton being cut from the presidential ticket. Platt suggested Morton run for governor of New York, and Morton won the race by a large margin. As governor, from 1895 to 1897, Morton signed the bill that effectively consolidated greater New York. He left Albany firmly in the hands of the Republican Party where it would remain for the next 15 years. At the age of seventy -two Morton received a presidential nomination in the 1896 contest but was ultimately no match against those backing William McKinley.
Whereas American men of means had once retained control over the direction of their business with their own sense, the final stage of Morton's career began during transition of big business to the age of the financial strategist. In 1899, his seventy-fifth year, the Morton Trust Company was formed to continue the business of Morton, Bliss & Co. Within a year, the Morton Trust absorbed the State Trust Company with the approval of then governor, Theodore Roosevelt. The Morton Trust Company was itself absorbed into J. P. Morgan's Guaranty Trust Company, 1909.
Morton was a member of the Episcopal Church in New York, and in 1883 gave two buildings on Fourth Avenue for what would become the Grace Memorial House. In December of 1906, he anonymously donated $600,000 for the creation of the choir of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. He maintained homes in New York City and Rhinecliff, New York and was survived by four daughters after his death in 1920.
The collection consists of correspondence, family papers, speeches, biographical materials, political memorabilia, photographs, and scrapbooks. Correspondence, 1842-1920, relates to civil reform, Morton's political campaigns, his service as Minister to France, and his activities as businessman, banker, congressman, vice-president, and governor. Also, correspondence, 1871-1915, of his wives, Lucy K. Morton and Anna Livingston Morton; papers of the Morton, Parsons, Street, and Kearney families; memorabilia from Morton's political campaigns; and biographical sketches, speeches, photographs, and scrapbooks of clippings, 1859-1913.
The Levi Parsons Morton papers document the political and professional career, personal life, and family background of the businessman and politician. The date span of the papers is 1818-1920, with the bulk of the materials dating from the period 1878-1898. The papers include personal and professional correspondence, political and legal memoranda, biographical sketches, scrapbooks, family and genealogical papers, clippings, photographs, ephemera, and artifacts. They form an important resource for the study of American political history, the rise of American Imperialism, the financial history of the United States government, diplomacy, New York history, and the culture of the Gilded Age.
Morton's correspondence includes incoming letters from businessmen and politicians who depended on Morton's interests for their political existence. The correspondence is concentrated around Morton's political victories; first to Congress in 1878, then vice-president in 1888, as governor of New York in 1895 and finally his unsuccessful bid for Republican presidential nominee in 1896. Morton's success in finance and trusted moral character was converted into political gain for the Republican Party. His correspondents during the last two decades of the nineteenth century include James G. Blaine, George Boutwell, Roscoe Conkling, Hamilton Fish, Theodore Freylinghuysen, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Theodore A. Havemeyer, Thomas Collier Platt, Sir John Rose, Benjamin H. Tracy, Frederick W. Wurster.
The political papers include a selection of documents relevant to Morton's political career. The biographical materials contain manuscript, printed and typed biographies of Morton, as well as personal reminiscences by Morton himself, his colleagues and daughter. The family and genealogical papers consist of printed family histories as well as original documents from the nineteenth century. There are photographs of Morton and his family and a collection of political memorabilia. The 1888 presidential campaign is well documented in buttons, ribbons, and programs of the inaugural celebration. Pamphlets are also included from ceremonies in both France and New York celebrating the gift and construction of Bartholdi's Statue of Liberal Enlightening the World. The scrapbooks include clippings from newspapers in New York and around the country which mention Morton's name, financial dealings or political decisions. They are a useful research tool for the period, covering such topics as finance, national politics and international affairs.
Morton's correspondence is arranged chronologically and consists chiefly of incoming letters. The earliest letters are from his parents, Daniel O. Morton and Lucretia (Parsons) Morton. However, the bulk of the correspondence dates from the years of Morton's political career. Politicians wrote confidentially to Morton, from the 1870s, as he began to play a larger role in New York City and national politics. Thus the correspondence provides context to the political decision making of the Republican party of New York at a time when it held a direct influence on national affairs. Letters include comments on speeches and hints at the motivation behind negotiations missing from the public record.
Beginning in 1876, there are notes relative to the announcement of Morton's run for the 11th Congressional District of New York City. Remarkable correspondence relates to Morton's diplomatic position in Paris, including a document of June 1883 featuring the signatures of American citizens in Paris. From 1888 are found letters to Morton from American political and social dignitaries congratulating him on the success of the 1888 presidential campaign. Beginning in June 1888, the series includes typed transcriptions, added to the collection by Prof. Robert McNutt McElroy, and of letters by Morton to Benjamin Harrison held in the Harrison manuscripts collection at the Library of Congress. There are also many congratulatory letters received upon his election as governor of New York in 1894.
Of particular note are the letters addressed to Governor Morton concerning the consolidation of New York City. Letters were received from Brooklyn's mayor Frederick Wurster, from St. Clair McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, and from Senator Luxow of the New York State legislature; from civic groups such as the Loyal League of Brooklyn and the City Club of New York, and various ranking Republican party members from the city and state including Republican party boss, Thomas C. Platt. The plan for consolidation had been advanced by Andrew H. Green in 1868 to combine the territories of Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island and was endorsed by New York Mayor Abram S. Hewitt in 1888. Republican politicians, in control of the state and city by 1896, saw consolidation as politically advantageous. Despite vetoes by the mayors of New York and Brooklyn, Morton signed consolidation in to effect, making New York the largest and most populous city in the United States.
The seven letter books contain Morton's outgoing correspondence from two periods in his career. The two letter books covering the years 1881 and 1884-1885 contain letters regarding confidential business matters exchanged with partner George Bliss. The remaining five letter books, 1895-1896, include official and confidential letters composed by Morton and his private secretary, Gen. Ashley W. Cole, while Governor of New York. Much of the communication is with city and state officials. Issues covered include the Brooklyn Charities Bill, the Raines Bill, the Albany Police Bill and the Greater New York Bill, as well as appointments to and administration of the Forestry Commission, Quarantine Commission, Bronx River Sewer and Highway Commission, the Prison Commission and offices of the coroner and state historian. There is also confidential correspondence addressed to Thomas C. Platt at his office at 49 Broadway, New York City.
Morton's social correspondence, filed separately at the end of the series, contains invitations to dinners and the opera which the Mortons received, as well as responses to invitations to parties held at the American legation in Paris. The correspondence, in French, is often addressed to Mrs. Anna Livingston Morton. Other letters to Morton's first and second wives are filed in the family and genealogical papers.
A collection of somewhat random documents saved by Morton's family have been gathered here as "political papers." They are grouped into four sections corresponding to the offices held by Morton as Congressman, Minister to France, Vice-President, and Governor of New York. The documents include bills, programs, appointments, addresses, resolutions, protocols, and reports. Notable documents include the program of the International Congress of Electricity held in Paris in 1881, a manuscript copy of Morton's speech dedicating the buildings of the 1892 Chicago World Fair, a report of the Tenement House Committee inscribed by the chairman, Richard Watson Gilder, to Governor Morton, and documents comprising the governor's dossier for the bill consolidating Greater New York.
The biographical materials include manuscript, printed and typed biographies of Morton, in addition to personal reminiscences by Morton, his colleagues, and his daughter, Edith Eustis. There are also letters addressed to Morton's daughter from individuals who wished to write biographies of the one time vice-president of the United States. Other materials include a cigarette package insert with a biographical sketch of Morton and a program from his memorial service.
The family and genealogical papers include histories of the Morton, Parsons and other families researched and collected during his lifetime. The series includes information connecting Morton to his first American ancestor, George Morton, a character of import to the local history of colonial Massachusetts and its territories in Maine. Family history was of enough importance to Levi Parsons Morton to influence his purchase of a will signed by John Morton, May 1, 1713, in "Middleborough county of Plymouth in New England" and a summons to witnesses signed by John Morton, November, 8, 1766 as Sheriff of the County of Chester, Pennsylvania. Other original documents include his sermons, letters and notes created by members of the Morton and Parsons families, including his father, Daniel O. Morton, and Levi Parsons, the missionary and uncle of Morton's mother. Correspondence of Morton's wives, Lucy Kimball Morton and Anna Livingston Street Morton, is also present here.
This series contains chiefly photographs of the Morton and his family taken during the 1880s while Morton was serving as foreign minister in Paris. There are also two daguerreotypes of Morton's parents.
The ephemera and artifacts include autographs, badges, political memorabilia, clippings, books, gifts, and artifacts from Morton's career in politics.
Morton's scrapbooks include a near comprehensive collection of clippings concerning his professional and political career. The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically and include multiple newspapers clippings for every day that Morton's name appeared in the newspapers.
Gift of his daughter Edith Livingston Morton Eustis. Additional gifts and purchases from Ashley T. Cole, Robert McElroy, Howard C. Robbins, and L. Biffin, 1929-1967.


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Q: Warning: This AsyncTask class should be static or leaks might occur I am getting a warning in my code that states:

This AsyncTask class should be static or leaks might occur (anonymous android.os.AsyncTask)

The complete warning is:

This AsyncTask class should be static or leaks might occur (anonymous android.os.AsyncTask)
  A static field will leak contexts.  Non-static inner classes have an implicit reference to their outer class. If that outer class is for example a Fragment or Activity, then this reference means that the long-running handler/loader/task will hold a reference to the activity which prevents it from getting garbage collected.  Similarly, direct field references to activities and fragments from these longer running instances can cause leaks.  ViewModel classes should never point to Views or non-application Contexts.

This is my code:
 new AsyncTask<Void,Void,Void>(){

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
            runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {
                    mAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
                }
            });

            return null;
        }
    }.execute();

How do I correct this?

A: Non-static inner classes holds a reference to the containing class. When you declare AsyncTask as an inner class, it might live longer than the containing Activity class. This is because of the implicit reference to the containing class. This will prevent the activity from being garbage collected, hence the memory leak.
To solve your problem, either use static nested class instead of anonymous, local, and inner class or use top-level class.

A: How to use a static inner AsyncTask class
To prevent leaks, you can make the inner class static. The problem with that, though, is that you no longer have access to the Activity's UI views or member variables. You can pass in a reference to the Context but then you run the same risk of a memory leak. (Android can't garbage collect the Activity after it closes if the AsyncTask class has a strong reference to it.) The solution is to make a weak reference to the Activity (or whatever Context you need).
public class MyActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    int mSomeMemberVariable = 123;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // start the AsyncTask, passing the Activity context
        // in to a custom constructor
        new MyTask(this).execute();
    }

    private static class MyTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, String> {

        private WeakReference<MyActivity> activityReference;

        // only retain a weak reference to the activity
        MyTask(MyActivity context) {
            activityReference = new WeakReference<>(context);
        }

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(Void... params) {

            // do some long running task...

            return "task finished";
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {

            // get a reference to the activity if it is still there
            MyActivity activity = activityReference.get();
            if (activity == null || activity.isFinishing()) return;

            // modify the activity's UI
            TextView textView = activity.findViewById(R.id.textview);
            textView.setText(result);

            // access Activity member variables
            activity.mSomeMemberVariable = 321;
        }
    }
}

Notes

*

*As far as I know, this type of memory leak danger has always been true, but I only started seeing the warning in Android Studio 3.0. A lot of the main AsyncTask tutorials out there still don't deal with it (see here, here, here, and here).

*You would also follow a similar procedure if your AsyncTask were a top-level class. A static inner class is basically the same as a top-level class in Java.

*If you don't need the Activity itself but still want the Context (for example, to display a Toast), you can pass in a reference to the app context. In this case the AsyncTask constructor would look like this:
private WeakReference<Application> appReference;

MyTask(Application context) {
    appReference = new WeakReference<>(context);
}

*There are some arguments out there for ignoring this warning and just using the non-static class. After all, the AsyncTask is intended to be very short lived (a couple seconds at the longest), and it will release its reference to the Activity when it finishes anyway. See this and this.

*Excellent article: How to Leak a Context: Handlers & Inner Classes
Kotlin
In Kotlin just don't include the inner keyword for the inner class. This makes it static by default.
class MyActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    internal var mSomeMemberVariable = 123

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        // start the AsyncTask, passing the Activity context
        // in to a custom constructor
        MyTask(this).execute()
    }

    private class MyTask
    internal constructor(context: MyActivity) : AsyncTask<Void, Void, String>() {

        private val activityReference: WeakReference<MyActivity> = WeakReference(context)

        override fun doInBackground(vararg params: Void): String {

            // do some long running task...

            return "task finished"
        }

        override fun onPostExecute(result: String) {

            // get a reference to the activity if it is still there
            val activity = activityReference.get()
            if (activity == null || activity.isFinishing) return

            // modify the activity's UI
            val textView = activity.findViewById(R.id.textview)
            textView.setText(result)

            // access Activity member variables
            activity.mSomeMemberVariable = 321
        }
    }
}

A: This AsyncTask class should be static or leaks might occur because

*

*When Activity is destroyed, AsyncTask (both static or non-static) still running

*If inner class is non-static (AsyncTask) class, it will have reference to the outer class (Activity).

*If a object has no references point to it, Garbage Collected will release it. If a object is unused and Garbage Collected can not release it => leak memory

=> If AsyncTask is non-static, Activity won't release event it is destroyed => leak
Solution for update UI after make AsyncTask as static class without leak
1) Use WeakReference like @Suragch answer
2) Send and remove Activity reference to (from) AsyncTask
public class NoLeakAsyncTaskActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private ExampleAsyncTask asyncTask;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        ...

        // START AsyncTask
        asyncTask = new ExampleAsyncTask();
        asyncTask.setListener(new ExampleAsyncTask.ExampleAsyncTaskListener() {
            @Override
            public void onExampleAsyncTaskFinished(Integer value) {
                // update UI in Activity here
            }
        });
        asyncTask.execute();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        asyncTask.setListener(null); // PREVENT LEAK AFTER ACTIVITY DESTROYED
        super.onDestroy();
    }

    static class ExampleAsyncTask extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Integer> {
        private ExampleAsyncTaskListener listener;

        @Override
        protected Integer doInBackground(Void... voids) {
            ...
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Integer value) {
            super.onPostExecute(value);
            if (listener != null) {
                listener.onExampleAsyncTaskFinished(value);
            }
        }

        public void setListener(ExampleAsyncTaskListener listener) {
            this.listener = listener;
        }

        public interface ExampleAsyncTaskListener {
            void onExampleAsyncTaskFinished(Integer value);
        }
    }
}

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It's hard to keep a secret in Hollywood. With constant media scrutiny, tabloid headlines and up-to-the-minute updates on social media, even the most hush-hush celeb facts are pretty well-known. That being said, there are always a few hidden gems that just seem to slip through the cracks every now and then. And to honor these lesser-known tidbits, we've scrounged up the most shocking celebrity facts that we could find. Get ready to have your mind blown.
1. Chris Kirkpatrick: If at first you don't succeed, try again.
5. Taylor Swift's first job involved bugs. A lot of them.
6. Kesha: living proof that you can't judge a book by the amount of its glitter.
9. Sarah Jessica Parker's family history is just a little spooky.
10. Harry Styles, that's what makes you beautiful.
11. The origin of Halle Berry's name is kind of awesome.
12. Malcolm David Kelley's pre-MKTO fame will shock you.
14. You probably shouldn't stand next to Madonna at a donut shop.
21. Channing Tatum learned a thing or two from Ricky Martin.
22. Liam Payne should probably not eat in public.
23. Taylor Momsen was this close to being a Disney Channel star.
24. 'N Sync's discography was almost drastically different.
This post was produced in partnership with #FindingCarter. The series airs on Tuesdays at 10/9c on @MTV.


Dean Koontz was born into a very poor family and learned early on to escape into fiction. He lives in southern California with his wife, Gerda and a vivid imagination.
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Before you start to apply for jobs, you need to think about the skills you have that will help you to get and keep the type of job you want.
Employers don't just look for people who can perform a set of tasks. They are interested in your skills and abilities.
Your skills could have come from previous roles, unpaid work experience, voluntary work, training or your personal life. Knowing what your skills are is one of your greatest strengths.
Soft skills – sometimes known as interpersonal skills. These are personal and social skills you need to be able to do most jobs. The best thing about soft skills is you don't need qualifications to get them.
Transferable skills are skills developed in one situation that can be transferred to another situation. For example, someone who has been out of work while caring for young children may have skills such as organisation, time management and negotiation as you need all three to care for a child. If you have played team sports you are likely to have teamwork as a skill.


The meeting was called to order at 19:00 EST by President Tom Russell, KD9BVC. The Pledge of Allegiance was said, followed by a moment of silence and roll call.
Meeting minutes for February were read by Pauline Dzwonek, KD2NGS, filling in for Secretary Matt de Rouville, K3MR. Approval was moved by Dave, KD2IJH, and seconded by Dennis, W2DDS.
Treasurer Joe Russo, KD2NAY, gave the February treasurer's report. Approval was moved by Charlie, N1CRR, and seconded by Bill, KD2MZM.
Charlie, N1CRR, suggested inviting other Girl Scouts to JSARS. President Tom, KD9BVC, thanked the Society for its concern and care for his brother.
There was a discussion concerning siding. Rick, KC2VXI, said he would see if he could get a shed in neutral color from Grone's. Jim, WA2RJP noted the water company wanted a $1 million insurance certificate and for the Society to supply 2 runs of coax to the top of the water tower at $5,000 per run. Mike, KC2RRJ, said he might have enough shingles to cover a 10x10 section. Steve, AC2ST, said he would supply a half-wave antenna for the club.
Field Day is scheduled for 22 and 23 June. We would set up at 8:000 a.m. on Saturday and go on the air at noon. There would be three SSB units, and someone would need to pick up Willie, AA2SV. It was suggested we investigate prices for a pig roast.
Pete, K3PMC, suggested making a donation to the American Cancer Society on behalf of Tom's brother.
Rick, KC2VXI, suggested joining together with another repeater via EchoLink for the South Jersey Traffic Net. JSARS' EchoLink node is limited to 10 connections. The motion was approved.
Dennis, W2DDS, asked for a check for the MS Walk.
The group will be ordering black shirts.
The possibility of going to a Blue Claws game was mentioned. The price has gone up this year. Possible dates are July 11 or August 8, both Thursdays. This information will be posted on the website and discussed next month.
Kurt asked about fundraisers such as a spaghetti dinner, pancake breakfast or poker run as run as fundraisers for the antenna. This will be discussed next month.
The meeting was adjourned after being moved by Dave, N2WCO.