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Q: Update to sharepoint list doesn't happen using CSOM in an asp.net grid The following is the code for update event and method :
public void updateRow(string itemID, string firstName, string lastName, string age, string eAddress, string department, string manager, string gender, string salary)
    {
        ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext("https://xyz.xyz.com/sites/xyz/TrainingSite/");

        try
        {
            SP.List oList = clientContext.Web.Lists.GetByTitle("Employees");
            clientContext.Load(oList);
            SP.CamlQuery camlQuery = new SP.CamlQuery();
            camlQuery.ViewXml = @"<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name='ID' /><Value Type='Counter'>" + itemID + "</Value></Eq></Where></Query>";
            SP.ListItemCollection itemInfo = oList.GetItems(camlQuery);
            clientContext.Load(itemInfo);
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
            foreach (SP.ListItem item in itemInfo)
            {
                if (itemID == item["ID"].ToString())
                {
                    item["Title"] = firstName;
                    item["Last_x0020_Name"] = lastName;
                    item["u5ib"] = age;
                    item["Address"] = eAddress;

                    //Department column
                    //item["Department"] = department;
                    FieldLookupValue deptItem = new FieldLookupValue();
                    deptItem.LookupId = Convert.ToInt32(1); //department should be department list item ID because its a lookup ID
                    item["Department"] = deptItem;

                    //Manager column
                    //item["Manager"] = manager;
                    FieldLookupValue mgrItem = new FieldLookupValue();
                    mgrItem.LookupId = Convert.ToInt32(1);//giving 1 displays only the first item of the list [issue]
                    item["Manager"] = mgrItem;

                    item["Gender"] = gender;
                    item["Salary"] = salary;
                    item.Update();
                    break;
                }
            }
            clientContext.ExecuteQuery();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            throw e;
        }
    }

    protected void gridview_RowUpdating(object sender, GridViewUpdateEventArgs e)
    {
        //Accessing Edited values from the GridView
        TextBox itemID = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[0].FindControl("VJ"); //ID
        TextBox firstName = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[1].FindControl("TextBoxEditFirstName"); //firstName
        TextBox lastName = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[2].FindControl("TextBoxEditLastName"); //lastName
        TextBox age = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[3].FindControl("TextBoxEditAge"); //age
        TextBox eAddress = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[4].FindControl("TextBoxEditAddress"); //eAddress

        //TextBox department = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[4].FindControl("ddlDepartment"); //department
        //TextBox manager = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[5].FindControl("ddlManager"); //manager

        DropDownList department = (DropDownList)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[5].FindControl("ddlDepartment"); //department
        DropDownList manager = (DropDownList)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[6].FindControl("ddlManager"); //manager
        TextBox gender = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[7].FindControl("TextBoxEditGender"); //gender
        TextBox salary = (TextBox)gridview.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[8].FindControl("TextBoxEditSalary"); //salary

        updateRow(itemID.Text, firstName.Text, lastName.Text, age.Text, eAddress.Text, department.ID, manager.ID, gender.Text, salary.Text); // call update method

        gridview.EditIndex = -1; //Turn the Grid to read only mode
        BindGrid(); // Rebind GridView to reflect changes made
        Response.Write("Update Seccessful!");
    }

Please help with code.
Kindly help! Thanks.

A: Can you place breakpoint in updateRow method and check if it is executing or not. Also if it is executing try to put another breakpoint in catch block. This will help you get exact error.
As from the code (also question tag), I guess you are trying CSOM operation on SharePoint Online. In order to get SharePoint online context you must need to supply credentials to client context object. I am pretty sure as of now, your code is throwing Access Denied error. In order to solve it, use one of the following code based on your environment.
string username = isSPOnline ? "abc@xyz.com" : "domain\\username";
string pwd = "abcd";
SecureString password = new SecureString();

foreach (char ch in pwd)
{
    password.AppendChar(ch);
}

if (isSPOnline)
{
    ctx.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, password);
}
else
{
    ctx.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(userName, password, domain);
}

I hope this will solve your issue.

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Client: Good Grief Ltd Assist the Board of Directors and senior team with the annual strategic planning cycle, including how to embrace new business models and developing an agreed set of outcomes for the next three years.
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Client: Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart Culminating a year of study and review of not for profit enterprise operating under the auspices of the Congregation, this presentation provided the analytical framework and assessment methodology for advising on how to take these entities into the future.


Greetings followers. Rube has another post for you this week. Enjoy. Here's Rube.
Is America morphin' into an oligarchy? I reckon as how maybe it is. Maybe it's already there. Now I told you I didn't go to school past eighth grade, but that don't mean I ain't educated. I looked up that word oligarchy in the dictionary and here's what it said. Oligarchy: a form of government in which all form of power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.
Now if that don't describe what's been a goin' on in America the last several years, I don't know what does. We have a man actin as our president who thinks of his self as a king. We have leaders in Congress who thinks they are a special elitist class that don't have to listen to what the people say or want.
They pass laws that they, themselves, don't have to live under. We have bureaucrats administerin' them laws, and they don't hold themselves accountable ta the people. Our pseudo(another word I looked up the meanin' of) president signs executive orders just like he had power to make law. I refer to him as a pseudo president because there is still some question about his birth certificate and whether he is really a "natural" born citizen.
I'm a tellin' ya folks, I recoon as how we are a morphin' into an oligarchy mighty fast, and I reckon as how them liberal voters who votes them liberals into power don't have no idee about what's happenin' in our country, and what's more frightin' is, they don't even know that they don't know.
The Foundin' Fathers, when they set this goverment up, they meant fer the power to come from the bottom up from the people just like Moses did when he led the Israelites out of Egypt—not from the top down. I reckon as how over the last hunderd years we have let them elitists take that power away from us.
I reckon as how Congress don't pay no attention to the people no more. Both political parties have been taken over by them Progressive liberal socialists that thinks the general population don't know what's best fer themselves. Some people think the 2014 elections sent a message to them folks in Congress, but them folks in Congress didn't pay no attention to the message. It's business as usual with them folks.
I reckon as how that John Boehner feller is a dishonest and cowardly wimp. Right after the elections he makes a speech sayin' the people have spoken, and then he turns right around and gives Mr. BO everthin' he wants concernin' his executive order what gives illegal aliens amnesty. And what's even worse, is I'm thinkin' he's a gonna rule the House of Representatives with an iron fist. I reckon as how he will pick on the new members that was just elected and try to take the wind out of their sales so's he can give them Progressives and that Obama feller ever thing they and him wants.
And the really sad part of this whole picture is, folks, they ain't no way the House of Representatives can oust him out of the speaker position, because even if the new members put up a House member more in keepin' with the Constitution, them Democrats will vote to retain Mr. Boehner because he is their fair haired boy.
So in spite of the 2014 election results, I'm afeard it's gonna be more of the same "business as usual" in our goverment. The elitists will continue to run things until the goverment collapses of its own weight, and our once free republic will be transformed into the UUSSR(Union of United States Socialist Republics).
Now, how about lettin' me take a minute to tell ya 'bout Will's new novel, LouIsa—Iron Dove Of The Frontier. You can read all about it by goin' ta the "Books" page at the top of this website.
Again, Rube sees it just as I see it. New congress certainly gives no guarantee of a new direction. It will not take long to find out just what the control of this body by the Republicans means. Will Obama's signature healthcare plan be affected at all? Will his immigration Exec. Order feel any pressure. Even what has been passed by the House supposedly cutting funding from that order leaves room for Obama to get what he wants anyway: more wasted money on illegals while citizens have less and lose more.


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Q: Asp.net Asynchronous http web request i am facing problem in reading the full content from the response, the length of the decoder is not coming as per the length of the response content, i am having problem in line
int read = responseStream.EndRead(asyncResult);

//the value of read is very less in accordance to the response.
int len = rs.StreamDecode.GetChars(rs.BufferRead, 0, read, charBuffer, 0);

below is my code for the same
private void ReadQtoRCallBack(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
{
   // Get the RequestState object from AsyncResult.
   RequestState rs = (RequestState)asyncResult.AsyncState;

   // Retrieve the ResponseStream that was set in RespCallback.
   Stream responseStream = rs.ResponseStream;

   // Read rs.BufferRead to verify that it contains data.
   int read = responseStream.EndRead(asyncResult);
   if (read > 0)
   {
      // Prepare a Char array buffer for converting to Unicode.
      Char[] charBuffer = new Char[BUFFER_SIZE];

      // Convert byte stream to Char array and then to String.
      // len contains the number of characters converted to Unicode.
      int len = rs.StreamDecode.GetChars(rs.BufferRead, 0, read, charBuffer, 0);

      String str = new String(charBuffer, 0, len);

      // Append the recently read data to the RequestData stringbuilder
      // object contained in RequestState.
      RequestData.Append(PureAnalyzer_WebApp.DoubleAt + rs.ResultName + PureAnalyzer_WebApp.DoubleColon);

      // ESResultBE ESObj = new ESResultBE();
      System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer JsonSerializer = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer();
      ESResultBE ObjESResultBE;
      string Result = "";

      RequestData.Append(Encoding.ASCII.GetString(rs.BufferRead, 0, read).ToString());

      // Continue reading data until
      // responseStream.EndRead returns –1.
      IAsyncResult ar = responseStream.BeginRead(
                           rs.BufferRead, 0, BUFFER_SIZE,
                           new AsyncCallback(ReadQtoRCallBack), rs);
   }
   else
   {
      // Close down the response stream.
      responseStream.Close();
      if (ResponseFlag[rs.ResultName] != "1")
      {
        ResponseFlag[rs.ResultName] = "1";
        CompleteCount++;
      }
      // Set the ManualResetEvent so the main thread can exit.
      allDone.Set();
   }
   return;
}


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Q: Ehcache with REST I am trying to implement Ehcache in my program,How can I configure Ehcache?Where Should I write the logic,in Impl class?what are all the configurations for that?Where should I put he Ehcache XML?I am new to this,Is there any examples other than Ehcache official website?Please Help

A: Your questoin is overly broad, but here are few tips:

*

*Decide whether you want to cache service layer or web layer

*

*If service layer, avoid EhCache dependencies as much as possible. For instance Spring 3.1 introduced great caching abstraction driven by annotations.

*If you want to cache web layer, EhCache provides nice web filter that intercepts all requests and caches the results. Use with care!

*Remember about cache invalidation and consistency

*Think about distribution

*Collect statistcs and monitor them


When iOS 9 was released, Apple updated its list of cases in which iOS asks for a passcode even when Touch ID is enabled. A previously undocumented requirement asks for a passcode in a very particular set of circumstances: When the iPhone or iPad hasn't been unlocked with its passcode in the previous six days, and Touch ID hasn't been used to unlock it within the last eight hours. It's a rolling timeout, so each time Touch ID unlocks a device, a new eight-hour timer starts to tick down until the passcode is required. If you wondered why you were being seemingly randomly prompted for your passcode (or more complicated password), this is likely the reason.
I think this is a good move, as it not only forces people to actually remember their passcode, but it also increases the chances that you'd need your passcode to unlock a device that has been sitting around for a bit. This may be beneficial in areas where you are legally forced to use your fingerprint, but not your passcode.


What have I been up to the last few weeks? My sewing machine was in for a clean and a service while I was away to Beautiful British Columbia to have a little holiday and spend some time at Quilt Canada BC in Penticton.
Fruit trees were blooming in Cranbrook!
Roses were blooming in Penticton!
The scenery was awesome! It was great to see the green leaves and the fruit blossoms! In Calgary, the leaves were not quite out yet when we left. The wines we tasted along the way were delicious! And the quilts were inspiring! I'll be sharing some of those over the next week or so.
We used stencils to mark our patterns onto our fabrics. I brought a dark red tone on tone and the blue marker didn't show, so I ended up using a piece of pale yellow fabric for my top.
Then it was time for the trapunto layer. We could use a poly batt and stitch around the outline of the design elements with water soluable thread, cut away the excess, quilt and then dissolve the thread to get that classic puffy look you see in Elizabeth's quilt. OR we could use a layer of wool batt directly under the quilt top (along with a thin cotton batting under that), quilt the design and the wool would flatten in the heavily quilted areas and puff in the feathered area. I chose to use the wool batting.
After some practice on a sample piece, I went to work on the real project piece! Following the lines was a bit tricky at first, but was easier as I kept at it!
I was happy to have completed most of my quilt top during class. Just a little stippling to do in the between spaces and I'll be done!
A little water takes away the blue marker!
And the feathers look pretty decent once the blue marker was erased with a little water.
Look for a few feathers and other designs on upcoming quilts - it takes a bit longer than the free-hand meandering patterns I do right now, but I think it will add a whole new dimension to my quilts!
Great feathers, Ann! It was so good to meet up with you in Penticton!
Your feathers are amazing! Looks like a class I would enjoy.
Great job on the feathers!
Nice feathers, how wonderful that you could make such a nice and instructive trip!


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Paul Smith — Service Planning Committee, Pastoral Care
Originally trained in chemistry and physics at Harvard and Caltech, Paul left academia to pursue a call to ministry. He joined InnerChange (a Christian order among the poor), moved into a marginalized immigrant neighborhood in Los Angeles, and came alongside local leaders to help them transform their community. After many years in Los Angeles, Paul relocated to New Haven, where he works on InnerChange's Staff Formation Team, tutors math and science, and serves as parish worker and liturgical leader at St. John's.
Michèle Sigg — Children and Family Ministries, ESOL Program
Michèle Sigg has been a member of St. John's since 2000. She is currently doing a Ph.D. in World Christianity and Missions at Boston University. She grew up in France as a missionary kid where her dad worked as a pastor in the Reformed Evangelical Church. She is married to Sam and they have three children. She is also on the St. John's vestry.
Lenore Hammers — Welcome and Hospitality, Altar Guild
Lenore Hammers has been at St. John's parish since 1993. She worked with Campus Crusade for Christ (now known as Cru) for ten years in the campus ministry, the last three of which were at Yale University. In 1999 she graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a Masters in Social Work. She currently works as a liver transplant social worker at Yale New Haven Hospital and the Yale New Haven Transplant Center.
During her time at St. John's she has served in various capacities. She is currently active in the welcome team ministry, altar guild, choir and the band, and generally pitching in where needed. In her free time she likes writing and has self-published a historical murder mystery called Measure of Faith: A Murder Mystery. She is also currently learning to play the fiddle.
Lize Bickley— Property Committee Chair
Michael Racine — Morning Prayer Coordinator
Michael Racine was raised in God's love in the very musical town of Traverse City, Michigan, where he sang from early childhood and began studying the guitar at age 11. After graduating from Brown University with a concentration in Religious Studies, he moved to Hunan, China, where he taught English for two years at a public middle school and led a small house church. Michael later directed English teaching and curriculum development for a college scholarship program in Haiti, then taught for a year in Spain before coming to New Haven to study at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. While singing in multiple ensembles and studying choral conducting with Marguerite L. Brooks, he earned his M.Div. from Yale in 2015. In addition to his roles at St. John's, Michael serves Yale undergraduates as a Ministry Fellow with Christian Union.

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Q: Can static functions be virtual in C++? I found some statements regarding my above question, but there are diferent claims:

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*The static member function can't access non-static data members/functions of a class. The vPTR is non-static data member, hence a static member function can't access vPTR.

*No, because it doesn't make any sense in C++.
Virtual functions are invoked when you have a pointer/reference to an instance of a class. Static functions aren't tied to a particular instance, they're tied to a class. C++ doesn't have pointers-to-class, so there is no scenario in which you could invoke a static function virtually.
Which is one is right and for what reason?

A: No, static functions cannot be virtual in C++.
It would occasionally be useful if the function does not depend on any members of the class but is, in a sense, dependent on the type:
struct Animal
{
    static virtual std::string whatNoiseDoIMake() = 0;
};

struct Dog : Animal
{
    static std::string whatNoiseDoIMake()
    {
        return "woof"s;
    }
};

The reason it's not part of the language are due to it not being proposed to and accepted by the C++ standards committee. My example can be solved using type traits, which weakens the case for such constructs to be allowed.
As for const, that really is about the possibility of modifying non-mutable class members. It's harder to concoct a meaningful example of a const static member function. Perhaps it could apply to static members, but then such members are reachable via :: anyway with (interestingly) access specifiers discarded.

A:
Which is right one and for what is the exact reason?

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*The static member function can't access non-static data members/functions of a class. The vPTR is non-static data member, hence a static member function can't access vPTR.

*No, because it doesn't make any sense in C++.
Virtual functions are invoked when you have a pointer/reference to an instance of a class. Static functions aren't tied to a particular instance, they're tied to a class. C++ doesn't have pointers-to-class, so there is no scenario in which you could invoke a static function virtually.

The first statement is correct, in the sense that static member functions do not have access to the *this pointer, they have a class scope. A static member is shared by all instances of the class.
In the second statement the first part is opinion-based, one can argue that it could be useful, as @Bathsheba points out. The second part is correct.
Regardless of the possible sense or merit of the use of such construct, the standard is clear as to why virtual static member functions are not allowed:
11.7.2 Virtual functions [class.virtual#11]

[ Note: The virtual specifier implies membership, so a virtual function cannot be a non-member ([dcl.fct.spec]) function.
Nor can a virtual function be a static member, since a virtual function call relies on a specific object for determining which function to invoke.
A virtual function declared in one class can be declared a friend ([class.friend]) in another class.
— end note
]

A: No, they can't.
Virtual members were designed to deal with instances of the class.
Static members do not deal with instances, they relate only to class.
How would you select which "virtual static" function to call depending on instance (as in dynamic polymorphism) as there is no connection to any instance?
These are just two different mechanism that have mutually excluding dependencies.

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Can static functions be virtual in C++?

No.

The static member function can't access non-static data members/functions of a class.

That isn't quite right: static methods can absolutely access non-static (instance) members ... if you give them an instance. They have access, they just don't have a default this object to operate on.

The vPTR is non-static data member, hence a static member function can't access vPTR

We don't need to dwell on implementation details such as vtables. It's sufficient to say that virtual dispatch depends on the dynamic type of an object, and if you don't have an object, there's no type ambiguity that could possibly benefit from virtual dispatch.

C++ doesn't have pointers-to-class, so there is no scenario in which you could invoke a static function virtually

Note that in languages with this facility, you still don't need a special system for static virtuals - it's generally just that classes are objects. So in that case, static methods of a regular class are still instance methods of the class object.

A: The first statement assumes a "vptr". That refers to a common implementation technique in C++ compilers, where each object with virtual functions contains a hidden pointer to some "vtable", which in turn contains pointers to the virtual functions.
This is however an implementation detail of those compilers. They've chosen that implementation because it's a possible implementation, allowed by the C++ standard.
One of the reasons it's allowed is because the C++ standard says that you always need an object to call a virtual function on, so there's always an object to store that "vptr" in.
The first answer therefore confuses cause and effect. Implementations can use a "vptr" because virtual functions need an object and therefore can't be static, not the other way around.

A: Static Functions can not be virtual in c++ since the concept leads to compile error and is basically resolved at run time


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Hegemony in Asia: the key islands between China and Japan
Shaoyu Yuan September 15, 2019
The Chinese Navy during drills in the South China Sea (Photo: Courtesy of WikiCommons)
The islands and the entangled relationships between China and Japan
China and Japan, the history of the fierce competition between these two great powers can trace back to the demise of the Qing Dynasty. Ever since the first Sino-Japanese War, the "rapport" of these two nations has always been ill. Diaoyu or in Japanese, Senkaku Islands, are in the southeast of China's Fujian's province and southwest to Japan's Okinawa prefecture. The history of these Islands goes back the 15thcentury when the islands were first appeared on the imperial map of the Ming Dynasty, which was marked as a navigational indicator to the Ryuku Kingdom. The Japanese then found the islands in the 18thcentury, identified the islands with both Chinese and English terms. The Islands were annexed by Imperial Japan after they defeated the Qing in the First Sino-Japanese War.[1] After the loss of Japan in WWII, under the Cairo Declaration, all the Islands that Japan has stolen from China should return to China.[2] Yet in 1971, following the pass of the Okinawa treaty by the US senate, the United States acknowledges that the Senkaku Islands should return to Japan in 1972.[3]
In the same year, both People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan) all declared their sovereignties over the Diaoyu Islands, which marks the official dispute of the Islands and paved the way for future conflicts. While we are studying how the islands has damaged the relation between China and Japan, let's not forget that these islands are less than 3 square miles in combined with no people inhabited at all. Ever since the initial dispute started, these tiny islands are not only hindering the relation between China and Japan but also deteriorating the understanding and communication between the people of these two nations. The question is obvious, is it worthy that both countries would rather mangle their relations than compromising the sovereignty of the tiny islands? Would the occupation of the islands help China or Japan achieve its regional hegemony? It is important to look at what benefits could be brought to the nation which eventually gained the complete control over the territory.
Geopolitical and Strategic Significance
To balance the rise of China, the first "island chain" formed by Taiwan and Okinawa are to contain the Chinese naval power, with the United States military bases in the Okinawa islands. The Diaoyu Islands are at the front of the first island chain, which serve itself as a very crucial position if China wants to break out of the block. In this case, with the respect to national and ethnic pride, Taiwan is on China's side. We know that the area of the islands is very small and there is no population, but what could a country build there if one does gain the complete control? Let's look at what is China doing in the South China Sea. After China drew its "nine dashed lines" in the South China Sea, China has been actively starting islands dispute with the southeast Asian countries, occupying the uninhabited islands and reclaiming land from the sea. With a tiny island on the sea, China was able to create their so-called "tourist site" with radar and airport on there.[4] For every islands China has reclaimed, the Chinese government invokes and garbles the statements from the Law of the Sea, claiming new "internal waters" and "archipelagic waters", which gives China rights to go further into the international waters and reclaim more land.[5]
Imagine if China gains the administration of the Diaoyu Islands, the first island chain would be easily break through, and China, very possibly, will reclaim the lands and connects the islands to form a potential military base, which would be the least thing Japan wants to see. On the other hand, Japan does not get to create anything there due to their Collective Self-Defense Law, but not letting China controls the territory is unarguably a correct strategy. Another worry of the Chinese military is its growing of size and capability, as Mearsheimer concludes that no neighbors of China consider the Chinese navy to be defensively oriented, hence all who are looking to determine the Chinese future intentions by studying its military tend to believe that the Chinese is bent on aggression[6]; prevent China from gaining control over any islands in the East China Sea would be Japan's priority to defense. Conversely, just like the United States does not want a strong a strong Canada, China does not want a strong Japan, not to mention the Japan with the US military bases, the Chinese surely does not want any US forces near their territory[7], thus having control over the Diaoyu Islands would be a great solution for them to counterbalance Japan and the US military bases in Okinawa, while making progress to break the first island chain.
Resources and Economical Importance
With geopolitical and strategic value as the main benefit of having control of Diaoyu Islands, the resources around the islands come as the secondary interests for both nations. Again, with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, having the Diaoyu Islands as a territory land or water gives the country an extra Exclusive Economic Zones, which provides the exclusive rights of exploitation of all natural resources to the country, including fishing rights and building oil extraction platforms.[8] Perhaps the resources around the islands would not greatly contribute to either country's economic growth, but both countries regard the resources as a great benefits to opponent. Similar to how Mearsheimer indicates that how the Australians would view China if China continues its fast economic growth for twenty more years, Japan does not want to see that especially when China uses its wealth to create the military with advanced equipment.[9] No one knows what kind of resources are laying under that territory and its 200 nautical miles, and best thing China and Japan could do is to dispute it while not letting each other goes near the territory.
The Role of the United States
On the surface, the United States is not making any strong actions when the Chinese send their "Law-Enforcement" ships to patrol around the islands. However, the United States are no doubt the meddler between China and Japan, hoping Japan would have control over the islands. Not to mention the U.S military bases in South Japan and its Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan, the strategy to contain China is more than obvious. However, the "semi-offshore balancing" strategy in East Asia remains questionable. I call it semi-offshore balancing because the US still has a large number of military personnel in East Asia but its also trying to balance China with favored regional powers. However, I agree with Walt and Mearsheimer on the US strategy in East Asia, China is becoming much more powerful than its neighbors, and the US favored states are located far from others which makes it more difficult for those nations to form a coalition.[10]
In this case, Taiwan would rather mainland China to have the Diaoyu Islands than Japan controls over them, and South Korea are in dispute with Japan over the sovereignty of the Jukdo Islands and comfort women issues from WWII, all of these makes the US impossible to form a steady coalition to against China in the Islands dispute. Therefore, the US must come forward and seize every opportunity to contain China. The Obama administration has expressed its commitments of Article Five of the Mutual Cooperation and Security Treaty between Japan and the US, declaring that all the Japanese territory including the Diaoyu Islands are covered and applies to the treaty. Nevertheless, both China and Japan still send their ships to the area, causing troubles and damaging their relations. The conflict can easily turn to an armed conflict if China and Japan are not heavily tied with each other economically, but no one should overlook the dispute and the potential threats, after all, "states can never be certain about each other's intentions".[11]
The Diaoyu Islands is part of the game among the major powers. To China, it could be its first step to break the island chain, and to Japan, complete control over the islands is one of the most crucial strategies for it to remain as an influential hegemonic power. To the United States, the islands is one of the key pawns to balance the power in the Asia-Pacific region. No matter for strategic value or simply for the resources, the acquisition of such tiny islands could actually help either country to achieve its regional hegemony. However, no nation should tamper or deliberately damage another nation and its people's image in order to evoke the national and ethnic hatred toward one another.
[1]Suganuma, 51
[2]Cairo Declaration
[3]1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, Article 1.
[4]Derek Watkins, What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea.
[5]United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part IV, Article 46-54
[6]Mearsheimer, Gathering Storm, 384
[7]Ibid, 390
[8]United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part IV, Article 48
[10]Walt and Mearsheimer, The Case for Offshore Balancing, 81
[11]Dale C. Copeland, The Origins of Major War
Suganuma Unryu, Sovereign Rights and Territorial Space in Sino-Japanese Relations: Irredentism and the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands,University of Hawaii Press, 2000 –
Cario Declaration, Chiang Kai-shek, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Prime Minister Winston Churchillmet November 25, 1943.
1971 Okinawa Reversion Agreement, 1971
Derek, Watkins, What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea, New York Times, October 17th, 2015
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Part IV, Article 46-54.
Stephen M. Walt, John J. Mearsheimer, The Case for Offshore Balancing, A Superior U.S. Grand Strategy, Foreign Affairs
Dale C. Copeland, The Origins of Major War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), Chapter 1; Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. C. B. Macpherson (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985).
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Cleveland Hustles: The Hustle Continues
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Published Wed, Aug 17 2016 9:00 AM EDT Updated Mon, Aug 29 2016 2:51 PM EDT
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Self-made millionaire: If you want a promotion, here's how you get it
Standing out in the workplace (for the right reasons) is often easier said than done.
But that doesn't mean it has to be complicated, according to Bonin Bough, host of CNBC's "Cleveland Hustles " and former chief media and e-commerce officer at Mondelez International.
For Bough, who rose steadily up the ranks at corporate giants like PepsiCo, Kraft and Mondelez, getting noticed for a promotion meant working smarter rather than harder.
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"When you're sitting inside of a large organization, not everybody gets to see your successes or how good you are, so you have to make sure you have the right advocates inside that building," the former Fortune "40 under 40" executive said.
"Because when people are making decisions about your career and the next step, they're not inviting you in the room. Those decisions are being made almost in isolation of you."
And while it can seem like an employer already has a candidate in mind when a position opens up, that might not always be the case. According to a recent CareerBuilder survey of over 1,500 hiring managers, almost half (48 percent) of employers reported struggling to find candidates to fill vacancies.
Part of taking advantage of that as a promotion-seeker is making sure you're aware of the opportunity and ready for it, Bough says.
Cleveland Hustles host Bonin Bough coaches up entrepreneurs in an effort to reinvigorate downtown Cleveland.
He shares three often-overlooked strategies that can help you stand out:
Make friends with HR
"Most people don't spend as much time with HR as they should," Bough said. "Here's the great thing: HR knows what every leader thinks about you in an organization. More importantly, they know the next roles. So who do you think should be your best friend?"
Get an executive coach
As overlooked as capitalizing on human resources might be, Bough lists executive coaching as "one of the most underutilized tools in the entire arsenal." He notes that even superstar LeBron James, the executive producer of "Cleveland Hustles," has a coach.
"Think about the opportunity to constantly have somebody thinking about your best interests [and] how to make sure that you operate better inside of a situation — that's invaluable."
Pay attention to your professional brand
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"I don't care what age you are. If this is your very first job, I still want you to be thinking about 'what is my professional brand,'" he said. "Ultimately, perception is reality. So how you're perceived really determines whether your career will accelerate or not."
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Support these Asian American beauty brands right now
Let's get one thing straight: The American beauty industry would be nothing today without the help of Asian beauty. Imported Korean and Japanese brands like Hera, Shiseido, and others have given rise to beauty fads such as glass-skin primers, popsicle-stain lip tints, mochi skin, and more. In fact, sheet masks, BB creams, facial rollers, and fermented beauty products are all influenced by Asian heritage.
We should give a shoutout in particular to Asian American beauty brands whose cosmetics, serums, scrubs, and more are the product of amazing entrepreneurs who draw diverse inspiration from their heritage. Without their ingenuity, the beauty world wouldn't be what it is today. Here are some of our favorite Asian American beauty brands that you should go out and support ASAP:
1. Tower 28
Tower 28's mission is all about designing cosmetics for sensitive skin. Their cream blushes, bronzers, and lip glosses are made with skin-soothing ingredients like aloe vera and rosehip oil. Founder Amy Liu has suffered from severe eczema her entire life, so she wants to ensure that beauty products are accessible to everyone, including those with skin issues.
2. ManiMe
ManiMe creates custom-fit stick-on manicures by using 3D modeling technology. They send these stick-on manicures in the mail that are ready to be applied in just a few minutes. Jooyeson Song founded ManiMe, and she created it to allow her to switch up her nails without running to the salon every time to get a manicure.
3. Mango People Cosmetics
CEO Sravya Kalyanapu created Mango People Cosmetics because she was frustrated by the lack of inclusive lipstick shades in beauty stores. She decided to form her own makeup line that would suit all skin tones, especially deeper ones. While developing Mango People Cosmetics, Sravya experimented with different clays and pigment-rich fruits and flowers often used in South Asian beauty, which has become a staple for many of the products her company offers.
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While founder Lauren Jin started her career in fashion, she ended up turning to beauty because she wanted to create vegan, cruelty-free, and ethically made beauty and skincare products for women of color, which she noticed was severely lacking in the market. That's when she created Cle Cosmetics. Many of the ingredients that Lauren likes to use in her products include pearl powder, bamboo extract, blueberry, and snow lotus flower, which are ingredients found in traditional Asian skincare.
5. Skylar
Beauty guru Cat Chen noted that she was inspired by her dad's entrepreneurial endeavors in Taiwan growing up, which led her to start her own business, Skylar. Cat's goal was to develop fresh, sophisticated scents that didn't include allergens and harmful chemicals. In fact, all of her perfumes are free from parabens, phthalates, SLS, synthetic dyes, and animal-derived ingredients.
6. Orce Cosmetics
Orce Cosmetics specifically caters to Asians of all skin tones and backgrounds. Founder Yu-Chen Shih is passionate about ending colorism within the Asian community and longstanding notions that "light skin is better." Her brand's foundations have been carefully crafted to match undertones commonly found in Asian skin — which many other beauty companies don't cater to specifically.
7. Good Light Beauty
Founded by former journalist David Yi, Good Light Beauty stands for inclusivity and the idea that beauty products have no gender identity. The brand is known to feature products that are anti-inflammatory and pH-balanced with the goal of strengthening the skin's moisture barrier.
8. SLMD Skincare
Celebrity dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, AKA pimple popper extraordinaire, recently launched her own skincare line, SLMD, which is designed to combat oily, blemish-prone skin. Products include body wash, acne body spray, cleansers, treatments, sunscreens, and more.
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"19 Beloved Brands Founded by Asian and Pacific Islander Beauty Pros," Allure, May 26, 2020.
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Providence launches new website
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PROVIDENCE MAYOR Jorge O. Elorza announced the launch of the city's new website, shown above, on June 8. The new design features a mobile-responsive design and improved accessibility for residents, business owners and visitors.
PROVIDENCE – The city of Providence has launched a new interactive and mobile-friendly website at www.Providenceri.gov to improve access to municipal services for residents, businesses and visitors.
The website, designed by Rhode Island company, Figmints Delicious Design and Creative Marketing LLC, is the city's first new online portal since 2012. In announcing the website's launch on June 8, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza highlighted its improved accessibility in line with the standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"This website is designed with the end-user in mind and takes into account the specific needs of Providence residents, business owners and visitors," said Elorza. "This is yet another step we are taking to make sure Providence is a city that works for everyone through accessible, responsive and innovative government."
The city's last website averaged close to 100,000 users per month, according to a release from the mayor's office, with use peaking during tax season, inclement weather conditions and major city events. The new site's home page places the most in-demand information front and center, as determined by user analytics from searches on the old website.
Other new or improved functions include a responsive design that automatically adjusts for mobile devices, an alert feature on each page to display important public news and updates and preferred language options in English, Khmer, Portuguese and Spanish, based on residential and public school demographics.
Residents can use the new website to request city services, pay parking tickets and tax bills online, view public notices and records, download city documents and application forms, and more.
Kaylen Auer is a PBN contributing writer.
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What Happened During The Nepalese Civil War?
The Nepalese Civil War took place between 1996 and 2006.
Civil War in Nepal lasted between 1996 and 2006.
The Nepalese Civil war was a dispute between the Nepalese government and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) whereby each side went up in arms. The conflict commenced on February 1996 and ended with a peace agreement in November 2006. The dispute was started by the communist party who wanted to overthrow the Nepalese Monarchy.
The Background Of A War
The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) was established in 1994, and the armed war between the party and the government commenced on February 13, 1996, when the Communist party carried out seven attacks in six different districts. The government at first sent the police to try and contain the uprising, and the army was not involved as it was thought the police could handle the attacks. In July 2001, the government had talked of a ceasefire with the Maoist rebel groups, but the talks were not successful, and the attacks continued with the rebel ambushing an army barracks in Dang district, Western Nepal. This led to a backlash from the army who went up in arms against the rebels thus worsening the situation. The attacks increased in 2002, and this was the year that saw many of the war's fatalities.
Government Action
The government, on the other hand, banned all anti-monarchy statements, imprisoned journalists and closed down the newspapers that were suspected of taking sides with the rebels. Talks were held between the Nepalese government and the rebel groups, but none of them were fruitful. The government refused to give in to the rebels' demands of having elections to form a constitutional assembly as they felt this would lead to the elimination of the monarchy. The Maoists, on the other hand, refused to acknowledge the establishment of a constitutional monarchy. The Maoists controlled the rural areas while the government dominated the towns and the cities during the war as most of the government organizations were based in the cities. The United Kingdom, India, and the United States under the umbrella of the global war on terror provided economic and military support to the Nepalese government.
Agreement On Elections
As the government was unable to restore peace and order in the country, on February 1, 2005, King Gyanendra decided to take total control of the country with the aim of stopping the uprisings. This made India and the UK pull off their support for the government. In May 2005, seven of the political parties established an alliance named the Seven Party Alliance. In November of the same year, the Maoist rebels and the Seven Party Alliance with help from the Indian government issued a resolution pointing out that an autocratic monarchy was the main impediment to democracy and peace. The Maoist rebels agreed to uphold peace, and it was agreed upon that elections would be carried out to form a constitutional assembly.
Steps To Peace
In 2006, violence went down with people holding peaceful pro-democracy protests. On April 24, 2006, King Gyanendra declared that he would restore the House of Representatives and this was agreed upon by the Seven Party Alliance as they would form the house. The Maoists did not agree with the move, so they still held demonstrations with the largest demonstration being held on June 2, 2006, in Kathmandu. On November 26, 2006, a peace agreement was finally signed by the Seven Party Alliance and the Maoist Rebels thus ending the ten-year war. The war ended with about 19,000 people dead, and this included 4,500 Nepalese killed by the Maoists and about 8,200 killed by the armed forces. An estimated 150,000 people lost their homes and were internally displaced due to the war.
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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mr. Michel Forst, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) will dedicate his next thematic report to the situation of human rights defenders working on the rights of people on the move. This report will be presented to the Human Rights Council at its 37th session in March 2018.
"People on the move" is a term used to describe the situation of the more than 600 million people globally who are living away from their place of home. This includes individuals living outside their country of nationality as well as those who have moved to a new location within their country. "People on the move" includes people who would fall within various legal definitions, including refugees, migrant workers, victims of trafficking, internally displaced person, stateless persons, and so on; it also includes people both with legal status in a country and without legal status. People on the move may have voluntarily chosen to leave their country of nationality or have been forced to flee.
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No time to derail the success of American railroads
Originally published in the Rapid City Journal, December 2, 2020
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Our nation depends on railroads. Railroads keep goods and commodities moving every day, rain or shine. They prevent wear and tear to our highways, are more economical to maintain, and make our roads safer. We should care about railroads and the rail industry now more than ever as our economy continues its shaky recovery, and we must avoid missteps that could (literally) derail the progress we're making. One such concept is being considered by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board (STB). If approved, it could send damaging repercussions through one of the nation's most important transportation networks: railroads.
Since the 1980s, the Surface Transportation Board's regulation of the rail sector has been focused on ensuring competition, fair rates, efficiency, and suitable financial performance. According to many industry experts, this decades-old structure is a product of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 – a highly significant piece of legislation that saved the rail sector from collapse by sparking strong, healthy competition. The measure ensured that the railroad sector would not be governed by the command-and-control structure of the past.
The Staggers Act just celebrated its 40th anniversary and rail performance has improved steadily over those 40 years. Today's railroads are more efficient than ever, moving freight reliably, safely, and sustainably. The hands-off approach favored by the Staggers Act created robust competition. This has reliably decreased rates and improved financial performance.
The proposal before the STB would undo the progress of the last 40 years by moving away from the free market system that has worked so well and toward the cumbersome oversight of earlier days of regulation under the Interstate Commerce Commission. If successful, the proposal would become a perfect example of unnecessary government involvement through regulation and trying to solve problems that don't really exist. The proposal weakens the rail sector, making it considerably more difficult for them to attract the private investment needed to continue to improve and expand the infrastructure that our economy depends on so heavily.
The proposal would compel the STB to reconsider its use of a financial measurement called revenue adequacy. This limitation is intended to prevent railroads from realizing exorbitant profits at the expense of shippers. This is not an issue today, and it hasn't been for decades.
The new construct would consider revenue adequacy metrics as the upper limit on a railroad's financial performance and would do so on a year-by-year retroactive accounting basis. This is a flawed approach and an inaccurate method to operate a railroad successfully and safely.
Railroads are private companies, and they depend on private investment for the capital needed to maintain, expand, and improve the infrastructure required to meet today's shipping demand. Private investment helps keep rates low and processes efficient. The proposal before the STB would make it much harder for railroads to receive the private investment they need to succeed for shippers by artificially disincentivizing strong financial performance capital.
The use of restrictive regulation to depress financial strength contradicts the competition that has made the industry strong for the last half-century.
A recent study by a pair of economists at the eminent University of Chicago outlines the fundamental problems with the proposal. The economists note railroads' financial performance should be measured relative to the companies they compete with for capital. Investors consider a host of options and make choices driven by an expectation of strong performance and financial returns. If the U.S. government restricts railroads' financial performance (which, again, are private companies), investors will likely opt to spend their money elsewhere.
The driving factor behind the proposal is stated to be with the intent of judicious oversight; however, the analysis shows that railroads' current financial performance is reasonable. Railroads fall below most comparable companies on the S&P 500. Sound management and promise for the future have enabled railroads to compete effectively despite that fact. Still, the STB's proposal would make the prospect of earning investment that much more difficult.
The proposal would be a regression. It fails to consider recent experience and ignores common sense economics.
The proposal should be rejected, and the rail sector should be empowered to continue to build on decades of success.
Senator Jessica Castleberry represents District 35. She serves on the Senate Transportation Committee and will become the Vice Chair during the 96th Legislative Session in 2021.


a character string or matrix of strings: the short path.
a character string or matrix of strings: the long path.
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Note: If the path cannot be converted (bOK is %F) and in particular if the operating system is not Windows, the returned long path is identical to the input short path.


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