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Pentagon has received 'several hundred' UFO reports, none of extraterrestrial origin so far
Leaders of the Pentagon's All Domains Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) told reporters on Friday that they have received "several hundred" new reports of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, but so far there is no evidence of life. alien.
In June 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that between 2004 and 2021 there were 144 such encounters.
Of those, 80 were captured on multiple sensors.
Since then, the director of the bureau of anomalies, Sean Kirkpatrick, said there have been "many more reports."
GOVERNMENT REPORT ALLEGEDLY FINDS OVER 150 UNEXPLAINED UFO CASES: 'WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THESE THINGS ARE'
Officials said an updated report from the Director of National Intelligence, which will provide specific figures on new reports received since last year, is expected by the end of the year.
Last month, Daily Mail senior reporter Josh Boswell told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that an updated report from that office had allegedly found more than 150 unexplained UFO encounters in 2021.
FILE – The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received "several hundred" new reports, but so far no there is evidence of extraterrestrial life. That's according to the leadership of the All Domains Office of Anomaly Resolution.
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"The sources that I have tell me that they just don't know what these things are. You know, there's a proportion of these cases, 366 in this classified report, that will go to Congress probably tomorrow that are explained, that they are Chinese drones, for example." , said.
"The unexplained just have no idea, because these things move in ways that we just don't understand. At hypersonic speeds, and then they just spin on a dime. I mean, it's amazing," Boswell said.
In July, the House of Representatives voted to add an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, making it easier to report UFOs and ending fears of reprisals against government employees.
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Kirkpatrick said that each service has established its own reporting processes.
The AARO was established in July and is responsible for tracking objects in the sky, underwater and in space, or possibly an object that has the ability to move from one domain to another.
The office was created not only to examine the question of whether there is extraterrestrial life, but also because of the security risk posed by so many encounters with unknown flying objects by military installations or military aircraft.
Kirkpatrick said the new office has been coordinating with the Pentagon and the US intelligence community to get signatures on US technology to rule out those planes or drones.
Ronald Moultrie testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his nomination hearing to be assistant secretary of defense for intelligence and security in Washington on Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
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It is also working on ways to improve its ability to identify unknown objects, according to Defense Under Secretary for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie, including recalibrating sensors that can focus only on known adversary aircraft or drone signatures.
However, as of yet, no affirmative evidence has yet been collected proving that one of the anomalies is an alien.
"Right now, the answer is no, we don't have anything… We haven't seen anything that could, but we're certainly too early, to lead us to believe that any of the objects we've seen are of extraterrestrial origin." origin, if you will," Moultrie said. "If we are, if we find something like that, we'll look at it, analyze it and take appropriate action."
Ashley Carnahan of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Julia Musto is a reporter for Fox News and Fox Business Digital.
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An Analyst Says Asset Allocation "In Serious Decline." Really?
A Forbes columnist last week warned that asset allocation is falling on hard times. Rob Isbitts, founder and chief investment officer of Sungarden Investment Research, writes that "if you started investing in a typical asset allocation strategy any time since mid-2012, your returns have been progressively worse." Using a set of BlackRock asset allocation ETFs as evidence, he says the standard asset allocation strategy has "lost its mojo."
This sounds rather ominous. After all, if asset allocation's efficacy is fading, successful portfolio design faces serious challenges. "And based on the precarious positions of the stock and bond markets today, I would not want to be in a position of counting on a return to glory any time soon," he advises.
Perhaps, but unpacking this cautionary analysis leaves room for debate about the prospects for asset allocation in the years ahead. Yes, it's fair game to take a cautious view these days on expected returns for risky assets. But that caveat should be separated from evaluating the value of asset allocation.
Let's start by recognizing that minds will differ on the wisdom of using Blackrock's iShares asset allocation funds as a benchmark for multi-asset class risk and return profiles. Consider the iShares Core Moderate Allocation (AOM), for instance. While it's true that the ETF's performance over the last three years has been moderate, perhaps even lackluster, it's not obvious that this fund (or its counterparts at iShares) is the last word on what might be termed conventional asset allocation.
As one example, let's compare AOM to Vanguard Star Fund (VGSTX), a simple but broad-minded mix of other Vanguard funds that offers a reasonable alternative as an asset allocation benchmark. Over the past three years, the two funds have diverged, with VGSTX posting conspicuously stronger results through yesterday's close (August 14).
Yes, VGSTX's trailing three-year results are softer compared with the equivalent in 2012. But equating return volatility with failure is short-sighted for the simple reason that the business cycle and asset performances are forever dynamic.
There's also the question of the time period to use for assessing results. To state the obvious, performance can and does vary, depending on the window you select. As a result, you can torture the data to say just about anything you want, which is why it's always dangerous to rely on one trailing period.
Meanwhile, defining asset allocation is tricky due to the myriad possibilities for designing and managing multi-asset class strategies. That's a reason to use a benchmark that seeks to minimize the subjective aspects. One possibility: the Global Market Index (GMI), an unmanaged portfolio of all the major asset classes that uses market-value weights.
Note that GMI's performance for a rolling 10-year window has been improving recently, based on risk premium (total return less the risk-free rate via a 3-month Treasury bill). GMI's annualized risk premium ticked up to 5.5% for the decade through the end of last month, the strongest gain in about five years.
It's crucial to point out that GMI's annualized 10-year performance can and does vary quite a bit, including modestly negative results during the financial crisis a decade ago.
All of which leads us to the main event: expectations. What are you expecting from asset allocation? The main takeaway is that asset allocation comes in many flavors with a wide range of results. As a result, benchmarking is challenging, although GMI's relatively objective methodology is a good place to start.
More importantly, there is no one-size-fits all for asset allocation. Customizing is essential, based on investment goals, risk tolerance, and other factors.
Isbitts argues that conventional asset allocation "is in decline," as proxied by several iShares ETFs, which have posted "progressively worse" performance in recent years. "The message here is that the traditional way of allocating assets (global stocks and bonds, with emphasis on U.S. markets) lost its mojo a while ago."
I'm not convinced that the iShares ETFs he cites represent asset allocation, but even if they do it's premature to conclude that softer performance in recent years is the death knell for what might be considered plain-vanilla multi-asset class portfolios.
Some of what Isbitts identifies is simply part of the ebb and flow of the business cycle with respect to asset class returns. The strong results in asset allocation funds following the 2008 financial crisis were never long for this world. Granted, anyone lucky enough to buy at the bottom was treated with stellar results in subsequent years. But high trailing performance was always destined to fade as time went on.
What should you expect from a standard asset allocation strategy? The Vanguard Star Fund offers a robust, real-world benchmark by virtue of its simplicity, transparency, and low cost. Since inception in 1985, the portfolio has generated a 9.5% annualized total return. As a guide to the next 30 years that's probably high, given current valuations and other factors. An expected return in the 6%-7% range may be more reasonable.
Isbitts recommends more aggressive approaches to asset allocation, and there's a case for that. Tactical asset allocation, which comes in a rainbow of variations, can be productive, but there are also caveats to consider. A new study from Morningstar, for example, finds that "few alternative mutual funds have conferred meaningful diversification benefits in recent years."
Whatever the future holds for asset allocation it's clear that there's no escaping this foundation for portfolio design. Every investor is subject to its influences for the simple reason that every investment decision is ultimately an asset allocation decision. Even if you made an extreme choice to own one stock to represent your portfolio, that's still an asset allocation decision – a concentrated equity position on steroids plus what can be thought of as a short on every other asset class.
Suffice to say that asset allocation isn't in decline and it's wrong to assume otherwise simply because expected return and risk are in continual flux. Quite a lot of that flux is bound up with the business cycle, which in turn informs valuation and, by extension, ex ante risk and return.
The good news is that an intelligent approach to building and managing portfolios can generate satisfactory results through time. The basic building blocks are holding a mix of asset classes and periodically rebalancing the weights.
Is asset allocation fading as a viable investment tool? No, not by a long shot. In fact, it's the only game in town. Meantime, results will continue to vary, albeit with a limited degree of predictability. Invest accordingly.
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We arrived at the airport at 5:15 for our 7:15 flight. After two delays we received a text message from the company that the flight had been canceled. 35 minutes later an employee finally came out to announce the cancellation. As we started asking questions like "will we get our money back" or "do you have any more flights going out we can get on" each time a piece of paper was picked up and shaken in our faces and were told to read the paper just like everyone else. Worst service ever!!!!!! We were all states away from home with no where to go and no help from frontier. And our refund could be expected within two weeks. All I could think of is how I hoped everyone there could find funds to purchase another ticket to where they were going. Because last minute tickets are crazy expensive. I will never fly frontier again!!!! They gave me a $100 voucher off my next flight with them but I'll never use it!!!
The airline tends to offer lower fares, which requires strict cost control.[33] Part of the airline's lower cost structure included operation of McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jets, which the airline can purchase and refurbish for as little as $4 million.[40] While the aircraft are less fuel-efficient than newer planes, Allegiant was able to purchase used MD-80s outright for one-tenth the cost of a new Boeing 737 although Allegiant has subsequently purchased used Boeing 757-200s, Airbus A319s and Airbus A320s.[13] (The 757s were acquired for its Hawaii service while the Airbus jets were beginning to replace MD-80 aircraft). As of November 2018, however, Allegiant no longer operates any MD-80 aircraft, relying instead on an all-Airbus fleet.[50] Given the low cost of ownership, Allegiant is able to operate its aircraft less (seven flight hours per day on average versus 13 hours per day at JetBlue Airways), which helps keep labor costs lower.[13] Overall, Allegiant operates with 35 full-time workers per plane compared to more than 50 at other carriers. Allegiant schedules their crew members so that they always return to their domicile at the end of the day, thus avoiding the need for hotel rooms which can be a costly expense for airlines.[40]
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In July 2012, Allegiant announced the future addition of the Airbus A319-100 aircraft to its fleet. The aircraft are used and formerly belonged to easyJet and Cebu Pacific. All of them are high-density A319s, fitted with four overwing exits, allowing 156 seats. Two former easyJet aircraft entered service in 2013, with another in 2014 and an additional six in 2015.[75] In December 2012, Allegiant cancelled the agreement with Cebu Pacific citing an inability to agree on economic provisions.[76] On May 1, 2013, Allegiant purchased another A319 aircraft previously operated by easyJet that would enter service in the third quarter of 2013.[77] On February 23, 2015, Allegiant purchased six more A319s from Cebu Pacific.[78]
The initial JetExpress partnership with Mesa ended in January 2004, when Horizon Air was selected to operate the routes. Horizon utilized slightly larger CRJ-700 regional jet aircraft on these routes. In August 2006, Frontier and Horizon ended their partnership.[64] While Frontier was generally pleased with Horizon's operation, the carrier decided that it needed to revisit the agreement and find a provider with additional regional jets to grow the operation. The last of the CRJ-700's was returned to the Horizon Air fleet on November 30, 2007.
The TWA Hotel is the TWA Flight Center structure currently being rebuilt as 505-room hotel, preserving the Eero Saarinen headhouse while replacing the structures on either side of the headhouse. Situated in front of JetBlue's JFK terminal, JetBlue has stated that it estimates the ownership of the hotel would be between 5–10% of the final total investment.[138] The hotel will be an effective replacement for the Ramada Plaza JFK Hotel on the north end of the airport grounds in Building 144, which closed in 2009.
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In January 2008, Allegiant opened its sixth base at Washington's Bellingham International Airport. The airline bases two McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft in Bellingham as part of the expansion.[19] Routes served exclusively from Bellingham include Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Diego, San Francisco and Phoenix. Expansion in Bellingham has been largely driven by its proximity to Greater Vancouver, British Columbia.
September 21, 2005: Flight 292 en route from Burbank, California, to New York City performed an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport (pictured on the right) following a failure of the front landing gear during retraction when it turned 90 degrees. The plane landed after holding for about three hours to burn fuel and therefore lighten the aircraft. The aircraft came to a stop without incident on runway 25L, the second-longest runway at LAX. The only apparent damage to the plane upon landing was the destruction of the front wheels, which were ground down to almost semicircles, and the tires; the front landing strut held. The passengers were unable to see themselves landing despite the DirecTV service in each seat, as they were instructed to brace.[147]
jetBlue expanded service to the Caribbean, including to St. Maarten and Puerto Plata commencing January 10, 2008. With these additional destinations, jetBlue serves a total of twelve Caribbean/Atlantic destinations including Aruba; Barbados; Bermuda; Cancún; Nassau; Aguadilla; Ponce; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Santiago; and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[citation needed]
LIARS & SCAMMERS.  Don't trust anything.  Made a reservation for a rental car in Denver (Advantage) for a funeral trip.  After waiting in line for an hour with only 3 agents helping a mass of people, the rental agent, "Aric," offered us a Yukon XL in place of the Camry we reserved.  He said it was because we had waited in line for an hour and we were in Denver for a funeral.  He said, "I'm going to give you guys a Yukon and free gas as well."  We asked repeatedly if this would change the price because we didn't want to pay any extra.  He told us to return the vehicle empty.  He assured us more than once that this was just his gift to us and there would be no extra cost.   He also added an additional driver also at no cost, so he said.  The Yukon reeked of cigarette smoke and was very dirty but after waiting in line so long we just bought Febreeze and dealt with it ourselves.  Aric made sure to ask us for a nice survey and recommendation when we got home as well. Our reservation was for $125.95 but we were charged $438.54!!  Now wasting time fighting this. Unbelievable.
On November 15, 2017 Frontier Airlines announced a $15 billion order for 134 additional A320neo family aircraft. The order, slightly revised under new owner Indigo, consists of 100 A320neo and 34 A321neo. The order also includes the conversion of the remaining A319neo to A320neo.[80] With this order, Frontier Airlines fleet has industry-leading fuel efficiency. The fleet is also one of the most modern and young, particularly in comparison to other low-cost carriers,[nt 1] at an average age of 5 years as of 2018.[81]
Frontier Airlines was incorporated on February 8, 1994, by a group that included executives of the original incarnation of Frontier Airlines in response to the void left by Continental Airlines' 1993 shutdown of its Denver (Stapleton) hub.[17] Scheduled flights began five months later in July 1994 using Boeing 737-200 jetliners on routes between Denver and four destinations in North Dakota: Bismarck, Minot, Fargo and Grand Forks. By January 1995, Frontier had expanded its route network from Denver and was serving Albuquerque, New Mexico; Billings, Montana; Bismarck, N.D.; Bozeman, Montana; El Paso, Texas; Fargo, N.D.; Great Falls, Montana; Las Vegas, Nevada; Missoula, Montana; Omaha, Nebraska; and Tucson, Arizona with 737's.[18] Like the original airline of the same name, the new Frontier operated a hub at Denver (DEN) and for the first nine years used the slogan "The Spirit of the West" which was displayed above the windows and just behind the cursive letters "Frontier" on the fuselage of their aircraft. In 1999, Frontier signed agreements to begin purchasing and leasing Airbus A318 and A319 jet aircraft and had also added Boeing 737-300 jetliners to its fleet as well. Also by September 1999, the airline was serving destinations from coast to coast in the U.S., having expanded its route network to include Atlanta (ATL); Baltimore (BWI); Bloomington/Normal, Illinois (BMI); Boston (BOS); Chicago (MDW, Midway Airport); Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW); Phoenix (PHX); Los Angeles (LAX); Minneapolis/St. Paul (MSP); New York City (LGA, LaGuardia Airport); Orlando (MCO); Portland, Oregon (PDX); Salt Lake City (SLC); San Diego (SAN); San Francisco (SFO); and Seattle (SEA), all served from its Denver hub.[19]
In July 2016, jetBlue announced commercial flights from the United States to Cuba will commence in late August.[64][65] On August 31, 2016, JetBlue Flight 387 from Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport to Abel Santamaría Airport, in Santa Clara, became the first scheduled commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in 55 years.[66] Only charter flights were allowed under previous rules, which required that passengers had to arrive more than 4 hours before the scheduled departure and often endure long lines for documentation checks, late flight arrivals, and pay high baggage fees.[67]
It prefers to use smaller/secondary airports where landing fees cost less, such as Orlando Sanford International Airport. At Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, Allegiant is now the only carrier. However, since 2015, Allegiant has been growing at major airports, such as Cincinnati, Denver, Memphis, Los Angeles, Raleigh/Durham, Indianapolis, and San Antonio.
In December 2006, jetBlue, as part of their RTP plan, removed a row of seats from their A320s to lighten the aircraft by 904 lb (410 kg) and reduce the cabin crew size from four to three (per FAA regulation requiring one flight attendant per 50 seats), thus offsetting the lost revenue from the removal of seats, and further lightening the aircraft, resulting in less fuel burned.[16]
I fly a lot. I've never seen any flight that cannot be refunded within a 24 hour period. When shopping around, I will sometimes but 2 or 3 tickets before settling on one. Now I have. Travelocity sold me one. I called the airline and they were super helpful, as much as they could be. But the representative said she'd never seen a ticket like this either. She had no way of refunding it. And I don't necessarily have an issue with the restriction itself, I have an issue with it not being clear during the purchase process. And I further take issue with the customer service person telling me I'm a liar. Just crazy.
In October 2013, Republic Airways Holdings entered into an agreement with private equity firm Indigo Partners to sell Frontier Airlines for approximately $145 million. According to Indigo, the transaction would further Frontier's evolution into an ultra-low-cost carrier.[38] In December 2013, Indigo Partners LLC, through an affiliate, completed the purchase of Frontier Airlines from Republic Airways Holdings. The airline's headquarters will remain in Denver.[46] Republic Airways Holdings subsidiary Republic Airlines no longer flies Embraer 190 aircraft on behalf of Frontier, as of January 1, 2014.
At 19″ wide, the middle seats in the airline's Airbus 321s, A320s, and A319s are wider than the window and aisle seats and, as of July 2015 when the airline began installing them, are the widest middle seats of any airline in the U.S.[51] The A321ceo and A321neo, utilized on longer flights, features industry-standard seat pitch of 30"-32".[52] The airline uses a seat pitch of only 28″-29", the tightest seat pitch of any airline in the United States, on their A320ceo and A320neo, typically operated on shorter flights. Frontier Airlines has 28"-31" on the Airbus A319, which they are phasing out.[53][54] Main cabin seats are "pre-reclined" by the airline[51] and there are no televisions mounted at any of the seats in order to save weight.
In 2014, Frontier announced it would be transitioning into an ultra-low cost carrier.[47] Frontier will also cut several flights and jobs at their Denver hub and transition them to different markets. On January 16, 2015 Frontier announced that it will close both its Denver and Milwaukee call centers, laying off 1,300 employees and outsourcing the jobs to call center company, Sitel, which operates a large call center for Frontier in Las Cruces, New Mexico.[48] As part of its transition to an ultra-low-cost airline, Frontier Airlines joined Spirit and Allegiant in June 2015 in removing its toll-free telephone number for customer service.[49]
In February 2012, Frontier Airlines cut five nonstop routes from Milwaukee. This move "reduced Frontier's daily departing flights out of Mitchell International from 32 to 18," or 56%. Frontier announced further layoffs in conjunction with this route change: up to 446 Milwaukee-area employees were affected by the job cuts that occurred between April 15 and April 30, 2012.[37]
In March 2010, Allegiant purchased six used Boeing 757-200 jetliners as part of plans to begin flights to Hawaii, with deliveries from early 2010 to the fourth quarter of 2011.[25] It gained the approval for type with the FAA in July 2011,[26] and then worked with the FAA to obtain the appropriate ETOPS rating in order to be able to serve Hawaii. Allegiant no longer operates nonstop service to Honolulu from Las Vegas.[27]
That's why I decided to use it again for our Rosarito getaway on Labor Day weekend. Found a less than fancy hotel at an amazing price of $53, taxes and breakfast included. It was perfect for our needs, as we were only staying one night, and sleep only for a few hours at that. I ignored all the bad reviews of the hotel being dirty and unsafe, but I never imagined that so much worse awaited us. When we arrived, they told us that they were full and that there was no record of our reservation to begin with. How did that even happen? And if the hotel had been full since Friday, how did it allow me to do the reservation on Thursday? I couldn't reach them in Mexico. By the time I was able to talk to someone we were already in the United States and unable to take an alternative room. We only had one night, I didn't want to waste it looking for hotels when we had already checked two others at a way higher price. The only reason we went out there is for the amazing advertised price, the price I thought we had locked in through a reservation. But no way was I going to fall in that game of taking a more expensive room out of desperation. We just left. Drove back all the way to L.A.
As part of its plan to stay competitive in reaction to the entry of Southwest Airlines into Denver, the company underwent a reorganization early in 2006. On April 3, 2006, Frontier created Frontier Airlines Holdings (FRNT), a holding company incorporated in Delaware to take advantage of favorable tax laws in that state. The corporate headquarters did not leave Colorado.[21]
In late 2009 Republic began to consolidate administrative positions and moved 140 jobs from the Frontier Airlines Denver headquarters to Indianapolis, Indiana.[29] Shortly after that, in January 2010, Republic Airways announced that it would move all of its executives to Indianapolis.[30] In February the Denver Business Journal stated that the headquarters would be moved "soon".[31] Despite this, according to the Denver Business Journal, Frontier Airlines will still maintain a local headquarters in Denver to house Training, Marketing, Customer Reservations, and Scheduling & Planning teams after extending its lease on the building through 2020.[citation needed]
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Founded in 1997 as WestJet Express, the company was renamed as Allegiant Air and started operations under the new name in 1998. From there on, company went on to become one of the most favorite low-cost airlines of America with their unmatched reliability, customer care and best in-class deals. Owned by Allegiant Travel Co. Allegiant Air have their headquarters in Enterprise, Nevada near Las Vegas. Today it has more than 1300 employees and over a billion USD capitalizations.
In the fall of 2001, Allegiant exited bankruptcy and the case was officially closed in early 2002.[14] In March 2002, Allegiant entered into a long-term contract with Harrah's to provide charter services to its casinos in Laughlin and Reno, Nevada.[15] At the same time, the airline acquired its first McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jetliner. From 2002 through 2004, the airline developed its scheduled-service business model. By 2004, Allegiant was flying from 13 small cities to Las Vegas offering bundled air and hotel packages.


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Supreme Court's Recess Appointments Case Could Upend White House History
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that, at its heart, is a question of semantics: When is a Senate recess actually a Senate recess? How the Court decides on Obama's recess appointments to the NLRB, then, could jeopardize months of work by the agency — and potentially many other administrative decisions of the distant past and uncertain future.
By Philip Bump
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that, at its heart, is a question of semantics: When is a Senate recess actually a Senate recess? Stemming from a January 2012 Obama appointment of three officials to the National Labor Relations Board, the case of NLRB v. Noel Canning could now to stand to jeopardize months of work by the agency — and potentially many other administrative decisions of the distant past and uncertain future.
The Constitution gives the president the ability to make appointments without Senate approval when the Senate is out of session. The goal is obvious: If the Senate were on an extended break and the president needed a Secretary of Defense, for example, Article II, Section 2 gives the president the ability to name one. It reads:
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Pretty straightforward. Except that how and when Congress is on recess can be surprisingly subjective.
In January of last year, despite most members being out of town, the House held "pro forma" sessions during which one or two members would appear on the floor every few days to quickly open and close business. Even though no business was conducted, Republican members meant to meet the minimum standard to keep an official recess from beginning. (This was a tactic developed by Democratic senators in 2007.) During one of the short breaks during that period, the president, frustrated, made the NLRB appointments after arguing that the Congress was in recess.
This January, the D.C. District Court of Appeals threw those appointments out, arguing, in the words of one judge, that allowing the president to decide when Senate was in recess "would demolish the checks and balances inherent in the advice-and-consent requirement." But two of the three-judge appeals court's members went further than simply stating that the pro forma sessions were enough to block the president's constitutional authority. Instead, as The New York Times reported, they asserted that any intrasession recess appointment was invalid. In other words, that the only point at which Article II, Section 2 applied was after the Senate had adjourned a session and before it had begun another one. This upends centuries of precedent, and could have significant reverberations for recent administrations.
Nearly all [appointments under Obama, Bush, and Clinton] would be unconstitutional under the rationale of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. It ruled that presidents may bypass the confirmation process only during the sort of recess that occurs between formal sessions of Congress, a gap that generally arises just once a year and sometimes is skipped, rather than other breaks throughout the year. Two of the three judges on the panel also ruled that presidents may fill only vacancies that arise during that same recess.
That comprises some 342 appointments — far more than the three NLRB appointments originally at issue. In April, the administration asked the Supreme Court to consider the case; today, it agreed to do so. It will consider not only the broader question of intrasession appointments, but also those conducted during pro forma breaks.
Multiple attorneys general have written in support of the constitutionality of intrasession recess appointments, including Harry Daugherty in 1921 and a current assistant AG.
The decision, which could have massive repercussions for administrative decision-making, stems from a rather mundane dispute. Noel Canning, a Pepsi distributor in Washington state, sued the NLRB after the board ruled that the company had committed an unfair labor practice. If the pro forma session argument is upheld, the NLRB will not have had a quorum to make any decisions since January of 2012, since three of its members would never have been appointed. The anti-labor National Right to Work Foundation outlines hundreds of subsequent decisions involving those members, all of which might be at risk.
If, however, the Supreme Court invalidates all previous intrasession appointments, the repercussions are almost incalculable. The power of the Constitution, as always, lies in its interpretation.


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Short film traces exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in the '90s
A short film on the plight of Kashmiri Pandits has been winning praise ever since it was posted on YouTube a while back.
"The Need: Exodus & Exile" is a 23-minute film that revolves around Kashmiri Pandits and how they were forced to leave their homes on being targeted by Islamist militant groups in the nineties. The film is succinct in the way it explores the dilemma of identity among the Kashmiri Pandits, owing to the community's plight.
The film is directed by Kashmiri Pandit brothers Rakesh Roshan Bhat and Rohit Bhat and has been doing the rounds of various film festivals. Reportedly, the movie won the best story award at Kalaburagi International Film Festival, Karnataka, and was a semifinalist at Kaaryat International Film Festival of India (KIFFI), Jaipur.
The movie, which is available on YouTube, features Kusum Tickoo, Sapna Soni and Jatinder Jotshi.
Lately, Bollywood has been showing a lot of interest in the subject of Kashmiri Pandits and the tragedy they suffered in the nineties.
Filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra is coming up with "Shikara", which is based on the Kashmiri Pandit exodus from the Valley in 1990. Vivek Agnihotri's "The Kashmir Files" also addresses the same subject.IANS


Factory workers assemble the cases of air conditioners on an assembly line at a factory in Jiaozhou, eastern China's Shandong Province. An official survey shows China's manufacturing activity contracted in December, boosting pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic downturn amid trade tension with Washington.
A factory worker uses a gas torch on an air conditioning condenser unit in a factory in Jiaozhou, eastern China's Shandong Province. An official survey shows China's manufacturing activity contracted in December, boosting pressure on Beijing to reverse an economic downturn amid trade tension with Washington.
Forecasters expect annual growth of about 6.5 percent, down slightly from 2017's 6.7 percent. But some industry segments, including auto and real estate sales, have suffered more serious declines. "Downward pressure on the economy is still large," economist Zhang Liqun said in a statement issued with the PMI.
That adds to complications for Chinese leaders who are trying to reverse a broad economic slowdown and avert politically dangerous job losses. Chinese and U.S. envoys are due to meet in early January for negotiations that are intended to resolve their economically threatening trade war. Over the weekend, Trump sounded an optimistic note, tweeting that he had spoken with President Xi Jinping by phone.
"Deal is moving along very well," Trump tweeted. "If made, it will be very comprehensive, covering all subjects, areas and points of dispute. Big progress being made!" But economists say the 90-day moratorium on new penalties that was agreed to by Trump and Xi on Dec. 1 is likely too little time to resolve their sprawling dispute.


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New Class for St. Augustine Hall of Fame
The St. Augustine Hall of Fame class, from left, Gerard Gannon, '56; John Cashin, '64; George Geary, '64; George Sartiano, '52; and Jeff O'Brien, '70.
The St. Augustine D.H.S., Park Slope, Lancer Hall of Fame welcomed five new members at a ceremony held Sept. 27 at Bishop Loughlin M.H.S., Fort Greene. This year's class includes Gerard Gannon, '56; John Cashin, '64; George Geary, '64; George Sartiano, '52; and Jeff O'Brien, '70.
Gerard Gannon, '56
Jerry Gannon came to St. Augustine High School from St. Paul's Parish in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn. At St. Augustine, he competed and starred on the swim team.
After graduation, he attended St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, where he competed in water polo. He was varsity co-captain in his junior and senior years and was elected to the St. Francis College Athletic Hall of Fame and also selected as "Alumni Man of the Year" in 1997.
He continued to play after graduation for the New York Athletic Club competing in two Olympic and one Pan American Games trials. He was a member of the 1963 AAU National Championship team. Jerry remained active in the Alumni Association at St. Francis College and served on the board of directors and as its vice president.
Upon graduation, Jerry went on to receive a master's degree in social work from Fordham University, the Bronx, and began a 40-year career in social services, working in several private family and children's services agencies. He served as supervisor at St. John's Home for Boys (Brooklyn), St. Joseph's Children's Services and NY Foundling Services (Staten Island).
He also has taught courses in social work as an adjunct professor at St. Joseph's College Brooklyn, the College of Staten Island and CUNY. In addition, he served as field instructor in the Graduate Schools of Social Service at Fordham, Columbia University, NYU and Adelphi.
Jerry is married to his lovely wife Charline. They have two sons, James and Michael, and two grandchildren. They reside in Good Shepherd Parish in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn, where Jerry has been active with the parish sports committee.
He also remains active as a volunteer for several years at a Franciscan soup kitchen in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Jerry points out one of his fondest memories of St. Augustine High School was the kindness and support of the Christian Brothers during his father's terminal illness during senior year and also the dedication of the Brothers who coached the swim team.
John Cashin, '64
John Cashin came to St. Augustine High School from Our Lady of Angels Parish in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. After graduating high school, he went to St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, and graduated with a BBA in 1968.
He started his working career with IBM selling computers to insurance companies in New York City. IBM had a very generous tuition refund program and received his MBA from City University of New York and his law degree from Fordham Law School. He subsequently received a Master of Laws degree in International Law from NYU Law School.
Until his retirement on April 1, 2014, John was general counsel for the General Insurance Division of Zurich Insurance Group, Zurich, Switzerland. Previously, he served as the group's chief compliance officer and held several other general counsel roles in Switzerland, the Middle East and Africa. He had joined Zurich in January, 2004 from the Insurance Regulatory Practice Group at the law firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City.
Prior to his law firm practice, he served as deputy superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department. He served as a member of the board of directors of the U.N. Development Corporation and the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center Operating Corporation, which are highlights of his career along with being admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991 and the U.S. Court of International Trade in 1992.
He currently serves as an inquiry panel member for the Central Bank of Ireland to adjudicate financial services violations by individuals and institutions in Ireland.
John is married to his lovely wife Leslie. They have three children, Nancy, John, and the late Tricia, and five grandchildren. They currently divide their time living in Bermuda and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and to keep their Brooklyn roots alive, they have an apartment in Park Slope, not far from St. Augustine's.
John's fond memories of St. Augustine's center on the camaraderie of so many classmate friends who came from such similar backgrounds and experience.
George Geary, '64
George Geary came to St. Augustine High from St. Michael's Parish in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. At St. Augustine, he competed in track, cross-country and handball. After graduation, he received a bachelor of sciences in biology from Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
He was able to join the Massachusetts National Guard Medical Unit in Boston, having been trained as a U.S. Army medic. This gave him the opportunity to begin working in a hospital as a respiratory therapist. After completing a program at Northeastern University, he was appointed director of Respiratory Therapy at Milton Hospital, located a few miles south of Boston.
Shortly thereafter, he moved into hospital administration. He held positions as director of Human Resources and vice president of Clinical Operations at the hospital while completing his MBA from Northeastern University in 1982. In 1985, George was appointed president and CEO of Milton Hospital and served in that capacity for the next 18 years. In 2000, Milton Hospital was identified as the top Massachusetts hospital as rated by patients in a statewide survey. In 2003, after successfully completing a hospital affiliation agreement with Milton Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston, George once again pursued the "patient bedside."
A desire to give something back for all the blessings he had experienced in his life prompted George to become a nurse. He enrolled at Laboure College in 2004, and in 2006, he earned an RN, graduating as the valedictorian of his class. He practiced critical care nursing in the CCU/ICU at Carney Hospital, a teaching hospital in Boston. In 2008, he accepted a position as a program consultant in Disease Management for BCBS of Massachusetts, where he currently works.
Over the years, George's recreational interests have included running and mastering the bagpipes. One of his proudest personal accomplishments was completing the Boston Marathon in 1998 at age 51. On the music side, he's hooked up with some old Brooklyn neighborhood guys from the NYPD Emerald Pipe & Drum Corps on occasion.
He is married to his lovely wife Mary Ellen, a sixth-grade teacher, for the last 37 years. They enjoy spending time at Martha's Vineyard and visiting nieces, nephews and godchildren throughout New England.
George's fondest memories of St. Augustine D.H.S. are the annual boat ride to Rye Beach, the cross-country track team trips to Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx and Brother Francis' classroom chemistry experiments.
George and his wife presently reside in Milton, Mass.
George Sartiano, '52
George Sartiano came to St. Augustine High School from St. Teresa of Avila Parish in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. At St. Augustine, he was co-editor of the Lance, was a member of the yearbook committee, the art club and starred in the senior play, "Three Men on a Horse."
He was accepted to Brooklyn College, Midwood, without the required entrance exam, where he double majored in chemistry and biology. At Brooklyn College, he played and captained the varsity tennis team. He was accepted to NYU School of Medicine and received his medical degree in 1960.
After completing his internship at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, he went to the Manhattan VA Hospital for his residency. Before opening a practice in 1964, George took a year of fellowship in hematology/oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital. In 1966, he was drafted into the military medical corps during the Vietnam crisis, attached to the U.S. Marines with the rank of captain upon his discharge.
After his military service, he took two more years of fellowship in hematology/oncology at NY Hospital Cornell Medical Center. Upon completion, he accepted a position as an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He remained in academia for the rest of his career until he retired in 2001.
Dr. Sartiano taught at the University of South Carolina, East Carolina University, Albany Medical School and Wake Forest School of Medicine. During this time, he continued serving our veterans at the Dorn VA, Albany VA and the Hefner VA Hospital, where he was acting chief of staff for Research and Education.
When Dr. Sartiano arrived at Dorn VA Hospital in 1976, the cancer patients were scattered throughout the hospital and had a low survival rate. Through his determination, he was able to acquire an entire floor for oncology, three physicians and a number of oncology nurses. It became the model for the VA Hospital system.
Dr. Sartiano has over one hundred published papers that are still referenced. One of his first published papers was on the clinical trials of antiemetic drugs. Because of his work, oncology patients can get chemotherapy without getting sick.
Dr. Sartiano is married to a Brooklyn colleen, the former Diane Connolly. They have three children, George III, Gregg and Scott. Dr. Sartiano and his wife presently reside in Kannapolis, N.C.
Jeff O'Brien, '70
Jeff came to St. Augustine High School from St. Agnes Parish in Downtown Brooklyn. He received his bachelor of sciences in business administration from Kennedy-Western University.
He comes from a family of St. Augustine graduates: his father Jim, his twin brother Matt, his Lancer Hall of Famer uncle Tom and his brother-in-law Anthony.
You might also say that he is from a basketball playing/coaching family including his father, uncle, brothers and himself. You definitely can say that what Jeff O'Brien values is service, direction and guidance to and for young people. His favorite quotation is: Children are our most valued resource.
He started coaching at St. Agnes at the age of 16. He has been coaching boys and girls for over 40 years. He coached on the grammar school level in the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) and the Brooklyn Children Baseball/Basketball Association (BCBA). He coached the varsity "B" basketball team at Xaverian H.S., Bay Ridge, for six years. He is currently chairman of the CHSAA Varsity "B" Basketball Conference.
He has coached the Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge, varsity basketball team. He has served as director of athletics at Xaverian, with the varsity teams winning nine city championships in 12 years.
Jeff has administered and coordinated the activities of baseball, softball and basketball camps for 44 years. He is the president and executive director of the BCBA since it was established in 1984. The BCBA has made basketball available to boys and girls for 30 years.
He was the parish athletic representative for the Our Lady of Angels sports program for 20 years. He has served on the CYO Diocesan Athletic Committee for seven years. He is director and organizer of the BCBA Golf Outing to benefit the "Smiles for Shannon" cancer fund at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Pediatric Cancer Center. Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has recognized him with a prestigious "2014 Platinum Supporter Award."
In recognition, the parishes in the BCBA have established the "Jeff O'Brien Scholarship Fund" in his name for his dedicated work.
Jeff has been married to his lovely wife Rhea for 32 years. They have four children and three grandchildren. They reside on Staten Island.[hr]All photos courtesy Tara Zoltek.
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September 25, 2020 at 11:05 pm09
Unfortunately, we lost a great man in Gerard Gannon in September, 2020.
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Interview: Kalisolaite 'Uhila
I use my Tongan knowledge and identity as resources
Struggle has shaped New Zealand performance artist Kalisolaite 'Uhila's practice, which engages issues of invisibility, survival and cultural hybridity.
Kalisolaite 'Uhila, OngoMeiMoana. Performance Arcade, 2015. Courtesy of the artist
By Magnus Rosengarten
The exhibition series "Politics of Sharing" that was organized by Berlin's ifa Gallery and Artspace New Zealand, questioned the use and distribution of resources and basic elements for life on this planet. Performance artist Kalisolaite 'Uhila, whose work has been shown in this context, met with C& during his residency program at ZK/U Berlin. The artist from New Zealand with a Tongan background told us about his identity, his work process, and his first visit to Europe.
Magnus Rosengarten: What is knowledge to you?
Kalisolaite 'Uhila: I sometimes think to myself: Why am I working in art? Although I don't like to use the word, I rather see it as an experience. Within that experience I use my Tongan knowledge and identity as resources, as well as my Western knowledge, the culture that I live in in New Zealand. I can bring those two together, it is something I can play with. If you think about King Solomon in the Bible with all his riches for example, what did he choose? He chose knowledge.
Kalisolaite 'Uhila, Untitled. Performance. Ifa gallery Berlin, 2016. Photo: Anike Joyce Sadiq. Courtesy of the artist
MR: And how do you learn?
KU: I learn through struggling. But also through moving from place to place. I work in a factory for a living. It is food processing on an assembly line, but I have also worked in a supermarket where I had to pay attention to the product placement for the customers. This is a kind of performance, actually.
I started off as a printmaker, and through this practice of etching, carving and printing, I came to think about what I really wanted to look at: how does the body connect to the print? I started moving into action painting, marking surfaces. I was involved with all these objects but started asking: where is the body in all this? I wanted to bring the body in, so as to activate the spaces it occupies. I wanted to bring things to life. I am also dealing a lot with questions of invisibility, in public as well as private spaces. It is a more psychological approach because I want to know how I can literally print into people's minds. In order to leave an impression…
MR: Do you intend to tell stories with your performances, are there narratives involved?
KU: The titles usually tell stories and my body does as well. When I focus on how the body tells them, it is about subtle gestures. When I do performances, I like the invisibility of things. I like it when people walk by you in a public space and do not even realize the performance is happening until they walk into the art space. This can also spark a conversation amongst people in the audience.
MR: What role does the artist, the creative person play in Tongan society?
KU: To be honest, I would call it survival. It is all about experience. We make things to survive with. When Western people see what we do, they will immediately call it an artifact, define it as a sculpture or another form of art. But for me, our creations aren't necessarily art. They are someone's story or narrative of survival and of how to make a living.
MR: You said earlier that your current life is defined by your Tongan background, but culturally you are also influenced by Western norms and values from New Zealand society. Can you elaborate on that?
KU: I know myself. I know my background, my grounds. As long as I know myself as a Tongan as well as where I stand, I am fine. Sometimes I think I need all these objects, all this traditional stuff to put on me. At the end of the day, I am who I am. My color speaks of who I am, my hair, and my tongue. That is who I am. It is also the people who have stuck by me when times get tough like my Mentor Solopolemala Filipe Tohi and last but not least my family, my wife and my two kids. Learning in a Western institution now advances me and offers growth. Basically I am coming in with a Tongan perspective on things and I am going to learn from Western knowledge. It brings the two together.
MR: How do you approach the realization of your performance work, which tends to happen in public places? Do you prepare or conceptualize a lot beforehand, and what role do spontaneity and intuition play?
KU: As you can see in my room at the moment, it is super clean, nothing standing around. It is more of a thinking space, I like simplicity. I don't practice yoga or a specific meditation technique but I am a very spiritual person. And I do realize I am a physical body here, and that there is someone else who is greater than me. All I have to do is to prepare and when it is time to get ready, I hand it over to the Almighty One. Preparation does make up a big part. I am reading a lot of philosophy and poetry at the moment. I feel very connected to artists like Joseph Beuys for example. That is my connection to Western knowledge.
MR: What do you envision for the future?
KU: I have a couple of exhibitions lined up. I will return to Artspace New Zealand and tell them about my experiences in Berlin. I felt really connected to certain sites like the Tempelhofer Feld (former city airport of Berlin which has been remodeled into a recreational area for the public). I really envision coming back to Europe and to continue my work and travel to other places like the United States as well.
Magnus Rosengarten is a filmmaker, journalist and writer from Germany. He lives in New York City and currently works towards his M.A. in Performance Studies at NYU.


Now that our account is setup, let's walk through some details that could be useful in helping you contribute to an existing project.
If you want to contribute to an existing project to which you don't have push access, you can "fork" the project. What this means is that GitHub will make a copy of the project that is entirely yours; it lives in your user's namespace, and you can push to it.
Historically, the term "fork" has been somewhat negative in context, meaning that someone took an open source project in a different direction, sometimes creating a competing project and splitting the contributors. In GitHub, a "fork" is simply the same project in your own namespace, allowing you to make changes to a project publicly as a way to contribute in a more open manner.
This way, projects don't have to worry about adding users as collaborators to give them push access. People can fork a project, push to it, and contribute their changes back to the original repository by creating what's called a Pull Request, which we'll cover next. This opens up a discussion thread with code review, and the owner and the contributor can then communicate about the change until the owner is happy with it, at which point the owner can merge it in.
To fork a project, visit the project page and click the "Fork" button at the top-right of the page.
Figure 89. The "Fork" button.
After a few seconds, you'll be taken to your new project page, with your own writeable copy of the code.
GitHub is designed around a particular collaboration workflow, centered on Pull Requests. This flow works whether you're collaborating with a tightly-knit team in a single shared repository, or a globally-distributed company or network of strangers contributing to an project through dozens of forks. It is centered on the Topic Branches workflow covered in Git Branching.
Create a topic branch from master.
Make some commits to improve the project.
Push this branch to your GitHub project.
Open a Pull Request on GitHub.
Discuss, and optionally continue committing.
The project owner merges or closes the Pull Request.
This is basically the Integration Manager workflow covered in Integration-Manager Workflow, but instead of using email to communicate and review changes, teams use GitHub's web based tools.
Let's walk through an example of proposing a change to an open source project hosted on GitHub using this flow.
Tony is looking for code to run on his Arduino programmable microcontroller and has found a great program file on GitHub at https://github.com/schacon/blink.
Figure 90. The project we want to contribute to.
The only problem is that the blinking rate is too fast, we think it's much nicer to wait 3 seconds instead of 1 in between each state change. So let's improve the program and submit it back to the project as a proposed change.
First, we click the Fork button as mentioned earlier to get our own copy of the project. Our user name here is "tonychacon" so our copy of this project is at https://github.com/tonychacon/blink and that's where we can edit it. We will clone it locally, create a topic branch, make the code change and finally push that change back up to GitHub.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 340 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Now if we go back to our fork on GitHub, we can see that GitHub noticed that we pushed a new topic branch up and present us with a big green button to check out our changes and open a Pull Request to the original project.
You can alternatively go to the "Branches" page at https://github.com/<user>/<project>/branches to locate your branch and open a new Pull Request from there.
If we click that green button, we'll see a screen that allows us to create a title and description for the change we would like to request so the project owner has a good reason to consider it. It is generally a good idea to spend some effort making this description as useful as possible so the author knows why this is being suggested and why it would be a valuable change for them to accept.
We also see a list of the commits in our topic branch that are "ahead" of the master branch (in this case, just the one) and a unified diff of all the changes that will be made should this branch get merged by the project owner.
When you hit the Create pull request button on this screen, the owner of the project you forked will get a notification that someone is suggesting a change and will link to a page that has all of this information on it.
Though Pull Requests are used commonly for public projects like this when the contributor has a complete change ready to be made, it's also often used in internal projects at the beginning of the development cycle. Since you can keep pushing to the topic branch even after the Pull Request is opened, it's often opened early and used as a way to iterate on work as a team within a context, rather than opened at the very end of the process.
At this point, the project owner can look at the suggested change and merge it, reject it or comment on it. Let's say that he likes the idea, but would prefer a slightly longer time for the light to be off than on.
Where this conversation may take place over email in the workflows presented in Distributed Git, on GitHub this happens online. The project owner can review the unified diff and leave a comment by clicking on any of the lines.
Anyone can also leave general comments on the Pull Request. In Pull Request discussion page we can see an example of the project owner both commenting on a line of code and then leaving a general comment in the discussion section. You can see that the code comments are brought into the conversation as well.
Now the contributor can see what they need to do in order to get their change accepted. Luckily this is also a very simple thing to do. Where over email you may have to re-roll your series and resubmit it to the mailing list, with GitHub you simply commit to the topic branch again and push.
If the contributor does that then the project owner will get notified again and when they visit the page they will see that it's been addressed. In fact, since a line of code changed that had a comment on it, GitHub notices that and collapses the outdated diff.
An interesting thing to notice is that if you click on the "Files Changed" tab on this Pull Request, you'll get the "unified" diff — that is, the total aggregate difference that would be introduced to your main branch if this topic branch was merged in. In git diff terms, it basically automatically shows you git diff master...<branch> for the branch this Pull Request is based on. See Determining What Is Introduced for more about this type of diff.
The other thing you'll notice is that GitHub checks to see if the Pull Request merges cleanly and provides a button to do the merge for you on the server. This button only shows up if you have write access to the repository and a trivial merge is possible. If you click it GitHub will perform a "non-fast-forward" merge, meaning that even if the merge could be a fast-forward, it will still create a merge commit.
If you would prefer, you can simply pull the branch down and merge it locally. If you merge this branch into the master branch and push it to GitHub, the Pull Request will automatically be closed.
This is the basic workflow that most GitHub projects use. Topic branches are created, Pull Requests are opened on them, a discussion ensues, possibly more work is done on the branch and eventually the request is either closed or merged.
It's important to note that you can also open a Pull Request between two branches in the same repository. If you're working on a feature with someone and you both have write access to the project, you can push a topic branch to the repository and open a Pull Request on it to the master branch of that same project to initiate the code review and discussion process. No forking necessary.
Now that we've covered the basics of contributing to a project on GitHub, let's cover a few interesting tips and tricks about Pull Requests so you can be more effective in using them.
It's important to understand that many projects don't really think of Pull Requests as queues of perfect patches that should apply cleanly in order, as most mailing list-based projects think of patch series contributions. Most GitHub projects think about Pull Request branches as iterative conversations around a proposed change, culminating in a unified diff that is applied by merging.
This is an important distinction, because generally the change is suggested before the code is thought to be perfect, which is far more rare with mailing list based patch series contributions. This enables an earlier conversation with the maintainers so that arriving at the proper solution is more of a community effort. When code is proposed with a Pull Request and the maintainers or community suggest a change, the patch series is generally not re-rolled, but instead the difference is pushed as a new commit to the branch, moving the conversation forward with the context of the previous work intact.
For instance, if you go back and look again at Pull Request final, you'll notice that the contributor did not rebase his commit and send another Pull Request. Instead they added new commits and pushed them to the existing branch. This way if you go back and look at this Pull Request in the future, you can easily find all of the context of why decisions were made. Pushing the "Merge" button on the site purposefully creates a merge commit that references the Pull Request so that it's easy to go back and research the original conversation if necessary.
If your Pull Request becomes out of date or otherwise doesn't merge cleanly, you will want to fix it so the maintainer can easily merge it. GitHub will test this for you and let you know at the bottom of every Pull Request if the merge is trivial or not.
If you see something like Pull Request does not merge cleanly, you'll want to fix your branch so that it turns green and the maintainer doesn't have to do extra work.
You have two main options in order to do this. You can either rebase your branch on top of whatever the target branch is (normally the master branch of the repository you forked), or you can merge the target branch into your branch.
Most developers on GitHub will choose to do the latter, for the same reasons we just went over in the previous section. What matters is the history and the final merge, so rebasing isn't getting you much other than a slightly cleaner history and in return is far more difficult and error prone.
If you want to merge in the target branch to make your Pull Request mergeable, you would add the original repository as a new remote, fetch from it, merge the main branch of that repository into your topic branch, fix any issues and finally push it back up to the same branch you opened the Pull Request on.
For example, let's say that in the "tonychacon" example we were using before, the original author made a change that would create a conflict in the Pull Request. Let's go through those steps.
remote: Counting objects: 3, done.
Unpacking objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
Writing objects: 100% (6/6), 682 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Once you do that, the Pull Request will be automatically updated and re-checked to see if it merges cleanly.
One of the great things about Git is that you can do that continuously. If you have a very long-running project, you can easily merge from the target branch over and over again and only have to deal with conflicts that have arisen since the last time that you merged, making the process very manageable.
If you absolutely wish to rebase the branch to clean it up, you can certainly do so, but it is highly encouraged to not force push over the branch that the Pull Request is already opened on. If other people have pulled it down and done more work on it, you run into all of the issues outlined in The Perils of Rebasing. Instead, push the rebased branch to a new branch on GitHub and open a brand new Pull Request referencing the old one, then close the original.
Your next question may be "How to I reference the old Pull Request?". It turns out there are many, many ways to reference other things almost anywhere you can write in GitHub.
Let's start with how to cross-reference another Pull Request or an Issue. All Pull Requests and Issues are assigned numbers and they are unique within the project. For example, you can't have Pull Request #3 and Issue #3. If you want to reference any Pull Request or Issue from any other one, you can simply put #<num> in any comment or description. You can also be more specific if the Issue or Pull request lives somewhere else; write username#<num> if you're referring to an Issue or Pull Request in a fork of the repository you're in, or username/repo#<num> to reference something in another repository.
Let's look at an example. Say we rebased the branch in the previous example, created a new pull request for it, and now we want to reference the old pull request from the new one. We also want to reference an issue in the fork of the repository and an issue in a completely different project. We can fill out the description just like Cross references in a Pull Request..
Figure 99. Cross references in a Pull Request.
When we submit this pull request, we'll see all of that rendered like Cross references rendered in a Pull Request..
Figure 100. Cross references rendered in a Pull Request.
Notice that the full GitHub URL we put in there was shortened to just the information needed.
Now if Tony goes back and closes out the original Pull Request, we can see that by mentioning it in the new one, GitHub has automatically created a trackback event in the Pull Request timeline. This means that anyone who visits this Pull Request and sees that it is closed can easily link back to the one that superceded it. The link will look something like Cross references rendered in a Pull Request..
Figure 101. Cross references rendered in a Pull Request.
In addition to issue numbers, you can also reference a specific commit by SHA. You have to specify a full 40 character SHA, but if GitHub sees that in a comment, it will link directly to the commit. Again, you can reference commits in forks or other repositories in the same way you did with issues.
Linking to other Issues is just the beginning of interesting things you can do with almost any text box on GitHub. In Issue and Pull Request descriptions, comments, code comments and more, you can use what is called "GitHub Flavored Markdown". Markdown is like writing in plain text but which is rendered richly.
See An example of Markdown as written and as rendered. for an example of how comments or text can be written and then rendered using Markdown.
Figure 102. An example of Markdown as written and as rendered.
The GitHub flavor of Markdown adds more things you can do beyond the basic Markdown syntax. These can all be really useful when creating useful Pull Request or Issue comments or descriptions.
The first really useful GitHub specific Markdown feature, especially for use in Pull Requests, is the Task List. A task list is a list of checkboxes of things you want to get done. Putting them into an Issue or Pull Request normally indicates things that you want to get done before you consider the item complete.
Figure 103. Task lists rendered in a Markdown comment.
This is often used in Pull Requests to indicate what all you would like to get done on the branch before the Pull Request will be ready to merge. The really cool part is that you can simply click the checkboxes to update the comment — you don't have to edit the Markdown directly to check tasks off.
What's more, GitHub will look for task lists in your Issues and Pull Requests and show them as metadata on the pages that list them out. For example, if you have a Pull Request with tasks and you look at the overview page of all Pull Requests, you can see how far done it is. This helps people break down Pull Requests into subtasks and helps other people track the progress of the branch. You can see an example of this in Task list summary in the Pull Request list..
Figure 104. Task list summary in the Pull Request list.
These are incredibly useful when you open a Pull Request early and use it to track your progress through the implementation of the feature.
You can also add code snippets to comments. This is especially useful if you want to present something that you could try to do before actually implementing it as a commit on your branch. This is also often used to add example code of what is not working or what this Pull Request could implement.
To add a snippet of code you have to "fence" it in backticks.
If you add a language name like we did there with java, GitHub will also try to syntax highlight the snippet. In the case of the above example, it would end up rendering like Rendered fenced code example..
Figure 105. Rendered fenced code example.
If you're responding to a small part of a long comment, you can selectively quote out of the other comment by preceding the lines with the > character. In fact, this is so common and so useful that there is a keyboard shortcut for it. If you highlight text in a comment that you want to directly reply to and hit the r key, it will quote that text in the comment box for you.
How big are these slings and in particular, these arrows?
Once rendered, the comment will look like Rendered quoting example..
Figure 106. Rendered quoting example.
Finally, you can also use emoji in your comments. This is actually used quite extensively in comments you see on many GitHub Issues and Pull Requests. There is even an emoji helper in GitHub. If you are typing a comment and you start with a : character, an autocompleter will help you find what you're looking for.
Figure 107. Emoji autocompleter in action.
I :eyes: that :bug: and I :cold_sweat:.
:+1: and :sparkles: on this :ship:, it's :fire::poop:!
When rendered, it would look something like Heavy emoji commenting..
Figure 108. Heavy emoji commenting.
Not that this is incredibly useful, but it does add an element of fun and emotion to a medium that is otherwise hard to convey emotion in.
This isn't technically GitHub Flavored Markdown, but it is incredibly useful. In addition to adding Markdown image links to comments, which can be difficult to find and embed URLs for, GitHub allows you to drag and drop images into text areas to embed them.
Figure 109. Drag and drop images to upload them and auto-embed them.
If you look back at Cross references in a Pull Request., you can see a small "Parsed as Markdown" hint above the text area. Clicking on that will give you a full cheat sheet of everything you can do with Markdown on GitHub.


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Ode à la Rose: Flower Delivery à la Française
February 13th, 2020 by Clément Thiery
The business model of Ode à la Rose, a flower delivery company founded by two French entrepreneurs in New York City in 2012, is based on the dual concept of French elegance and speed. Available across the northeast of the United States and in the Chicago area, the service will soon be expanded to and Florida.
Monday is the most important day at Ode à la Rose. This is when corporate clients have their flowers delivered. Every week, round French-style bouquets blending different sizes of flowers, including peonies, tulips, and buttercups, and greenery such as eucalyptus and gypsophila, add color to entrance halls, hotel lobbies, restaurants, luxury boutiques, and jewelry stores on Fifth Avenue.
To meet all their orders, three florists work tirelessly on the second floor of an industrial building on West 28th Street, Manhattan's flower district. The first employee receives the fresh flowers, featuring red, yellow, purple, and mauve roses, among others, and trims the stems with a cutter. Most of the flowers are purchased from intermediary companies in Ecuador, Colombia, and the Netherlands. Certain varieties are sourced from New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. The two other employees are tasked with creating the bouquets, which are then delivered in specially-made pink cardboard boxes. Even if the package is overturned, the anti-leak vase will not spill its contents!
The co-founders of Ode à la Rose: Louis Brunet (left) and Olivier Plusquellec. © Floom
At the foot of a conveyor belt, six bouquets are waiting to be sent. One is for the Metropolitan Opera, and the others may be for anyone from Madonna and Lady Gaga to Charlotte Gainsbourg and Diane von Furstenberg, who is a regular client. Some 150 bouquets are made every day in the New York workshop run by Ode à la Rose (which also has a site in Chicago and Philadelphia). The bouquets are delivered the very same day across Manhattan and Brooklyn, and the following day for addresses on the East Coast.
Avoiding Disappointment on Delivery
"One of the things that makes our company unique is that we deliver premium bouquets in water and in less than 24 hours," says Louis Brunet, a former financial analyst at Natixis and the co-founder of Ode à la Rose along with Olivier Plusquellec. Another feature that sets them apart is that every client receives a photo of their bouquet before it is dispatched, which helps to avoid nasty surprises upon delivery.
"Flower delivery is a sector in which there is a lot of disappointment," says Louis Brunet. "This is even more true in the United States than in France, where there is a long-standing know-how and a tradition of neighborhood florists. French bouquets are also more understated, with pastel colors, white, green, red, and pink. In the U.S.A., the flower combinations are often quite… unexpected!"
Ode à la Rose plays up to its French side to stand out from the competition. The brand's mascot is a French bulldog, and each bouquet bears a typically Gallic woman's name such as Brigitte, Louise, Catherine, Audrey, and Joséphine. What's more, all delivery boxes feature notes in Frenglish: "Flowers à la parisienne" and "Please handle with amour."
The Valentine's Day Rush
In a testament to its success, Ode à la Rose delivered more than 3,000 bouquets for Valentine's Day last year. The celebration is the company's best-selling day along with Mother's Day in May, International Women's Day in March, and Administrative Professionals Day in April. In preparation for February 14, a wildly popular romantic date in the United States, the French duo recently moved their workshop and packing line to a 5,400-sq.-ft. warehouse in Long Island City. Six refrigerated trucks, thirty florists, and over a hundred delivery men and women on foot and bikes will head up the operation this year.
However, not all bouquets are actually delivered on Valentine's Day. "In an effort to stagger deliveries, we offered discounts to clients who received their flowers one or two days before," says Louis Brunet. "But that did not stop us from delivering 2,000 bouquets across Manhattan on the big day. Latecomers were still ordering flowers on our website at 3 p.m., which would be impossible with a traditional florist."
Taking Things to the Next Level
Partly financed by Aquarelle, the European leader in flower delivery, Ode à la Rose is backed by the French group's online sales platform and logistical expertise. This support has enabled the two French entrepreneurs to expand their services. New workshops and offices opened in Philadelphia in January, and more fill follow in Boston, Washington D.C. and Florida before the end of 2020.
Aside from bouquets for individual and corporate clients, Ode à la Rose is also looking to offer flower sculptures and arches for ceremonies, galas, and weddings. In July, the brand acquired a company specialized in floral events. "We already create bouquets for brides, as well as ornaments and table centerpieces," says Louis Brunet. "And we will soon be able to organize weddings with 100,000 dollars of flowers!"
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Q: what is the difference between xml document and xml We know xml is used for storing data,which can be ported across platforms(underlying principle of webservice). But i am confused with the term xmldocument. What is actually xml document? does that the alternate name of XMl??

A: I'm not sure I understand your question.
XMLDocument represents an XML document, it's simple :)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument(v=vs.80).aspx
XML is a markup language and XMLDocument is a class to read an XML file.

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David Clarke (born 6 June 1950) is a Scottish former football player and manager. Clarke played for East Fife for his whole career, making over 500 league appearances. He holds the club record for most appearances, with 627 in all competitions. Clarke has also managed East Fife, in two different spells, and Falkirk.

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