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9 key takeaways from SAP TechEd Las Vegas
SAP seeks to simplify app development on its cloud platform, while helping customers make the most of machine learning.
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CTO Juergen Mueller outlined a series of improvements to the company's software platform at SAP TechEd Las Vegas, the first of three big customer conferences the company will hold in as many months.
At the heart of many of these improvements is SAP's Business Technology Platform, previously known as Digital Platform, a collection of data management and cloud technologies.
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Together, the improvements provide a picture of how SAP plans to make it easier for businesses to develop applications linking their core SAP systems to one another and with data held on other platforms.
From a harmonized UI, to help with machine learning, the following nine announcements are likely to have the biggest impact on SAP-based enterprises.
Harmonizing the UI with SAP Fiori 3
SAP is putting the emphasis on its ability to deliver end-to-end support for business processes such as design-to-operate, total workforce management, source-to-pay and lead-to-cash. Some of the tools with which it delivers that support were developed in-house, but others such as Concur, Gigya or Fieldglass were acquired, resulting in a hodgepodge of user interfaces and screen designs.
"For the design-to-operate process, you would experience the UIs of 14 different systems," Mueller said.
That will change with the launch of SAP Fiori 3, the latest version of the company's web-based interface design. SAP Fiori 3 will present users with a harmonized design and interaction model as the company rolls it out across its applications. The UI is also available to enterprises developing their own apps on SAP, whether they're targeting desktop or mobile devices.
Easing development with SAP Graph
On the back end, SAP is also in the process of adopting a single semantic data model across all its applications, with a unified API layer, SAP Graph, that is available to customers in a restricted beta test. The goal of SAP Graph is to simplify development that requires access to SAP data.
"It can be used by any application, running on SAP or non-SAP technology," Mueller said.
As proof, he introduced Steve Wilson, vice president of product at Citrix, to show how Citrix uses SAP Graph to build micro-applications in Citrix Workspace using data held in an SAP database.
In response to a customer complaint at a recent hackathon about setting up access rights for Success Factors while developing an extension for SAP Cloud Platform, the company has simplified its Extension Factory and Cloud SDK. Now it should be as easy as pairing smartphone with a car using Bluetooth, Mueller said.
Bringing analytics to S/4HANA
SAP is also bringing its data analytics tools closer to its S/4HANA cloud platform, including a free SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) tenant with each S/4HANA Cloud subscription. (Users will still need a full SAC license if they want advanced capabilities such as planning or predictive analytics.) This means that enterprises can create "analytical stories" directly within S/4HANA using Fiori Launchpad, avoiding the need to switch between operational and analytical tools.
Leveraging machine learning
The company has also accelerated its adoption of machine learning in its applications.
In June 2018, Mueller said, the company promised to build 60 machine-learning cases into SAP applications within three years, but has progressed far faster than that. "By the end of this year, 2019, we will have more than 200 machine learning cases live," he said.
Machine learning is now embedded in S/4HANA, C/4HANA (SAP's customer experience suite), SuccessFactors, Ariba and Concur. "Soon it will be hard to find any SAP solution without machine learning embedded, and these 200 do not even include the ones that come with Qualtrics," the customer feedback platform SAP acquired last in December 2018, Mueller said.
Introducing SAP Data Intelligence
Outside their use of SAP's own offerings, the company's customers have been slow to build their own machine learning applications, Mueller said.
To make things simpler, the company is releasing SAP Data Intelligence, an evolution of SAP Data Hub and SAP Machine Learning Foundation. This allows developers to build and train machine learning models from within a single tool, with access to a catalog of SAP and non-SAP data sources across the enterprise. It tracks models through their full life-cycle from development to deployment, tracking who did what and when.
Data scientists should feel at home, Mueller said, because the system allows them to run Python scripts, work in their own Jupyter notebooks, and use their favorite machine learning frameworks, including TensorFlow.
Hybrid help
While Mueller had focused on cloud development, all these tools could be used by customers using SAP's older ECC on-premises platform in a hybrid mode with the help of its Cloud Connector, he said.
Mixing and matching services from SAP Cloud Platform with those from hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure is also possible, he said, and to help customers figure out how to do so safely, SAP has updated its reference architecture for building applications using SAP technology in others' clouds.
"We assessed all hyperscaler services out there, and whitelisted the ones that you can use with neither the fear of being locked out of SAP innovations, nor the fear of being locked into a particular hyperscale offering," Mueller said.
Improving Azure integration
One of the hyperscale architectures SAP supports is Microsoft's Azure — inevitably, as both companies manage their own financials running SAP's S/4HANA software on Azure infrastructure. With Microsoft's head of cloud and AI, Scott Guthrie, Mueller discussed other companies doing the same, including Costco Wholesale, Coca-Cola and Daimler.
Microsoft and SAP are working to make it easier for enterprises to integrate the two companies' cloud services, Guthrie says. For example, he said, Microsoft has packaged its Azure AI Cognitive Services, which offers services such as speech and text recognition and face detection, in containers so that enterprises can integrate them with apps on their own networks without fear that data will leak out.
Building on the blockchain
Microsoft and SAP's latest collaboration, though, involves blockchain technology, not AI: SAP's blockchain integrated application portfolio can now connect to Azure's blockchain services. The idea is to help simplify the development of enterprise applications such as materials traceability, fraud protection or collaboration.
True pay-as-you-go
Cloud infrastructure is typically charged on a usage basis, but that hasn't been the case for SAP Cloud Platform up to now. Admittedly, it does offer a consumption-based model in addition to its fixed-price subscription system, but that involves customers committing to buy "cloud credits" worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars up to a year in advance.
Next month, though, that's changing, said Mueller.
"We are announcing the availability of a true pay-as-you-go model. This will first be available in North America, starting in October, and of course we will expand it in the next year. This means you have a real pay-as-you-go model for all solutions included in the SAP Cloud Platform Enterprise Agreement," he said.
That agreement is also changing in scope to encompass new HANA, Analytics Cloud and related services as they become generally available, he said.
Application of the new usage-based pricing won't be automatic. North American CIOs wanting to switch will need to contact their SAP account manager to make the change; those elsewhere in the world will have to wait.
Mueller promised more news at the SAP TechEd event next month in Barcelona.
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As an analyst, your job is to wrangle data into telling a story that will drive a business decision – a description that also applies to Data Science. So now you're wondering if you should just go ahead and call yourself a Data Scientist, or whether there are additional skills you should be developing. In this webinar, Ian and Jim outline how the DAA thinks about Data Science and explore its overlap with Digital Analytics. Whether you are, work with, or would like to become a data scientist, you'll learn what the role entails, how much of it you're already doing and how to identify the right role for yourself. "It's a spectrum of skills," says Jim. "If you're a unicorn, you can do everything; the rest of us need to determine where our talents are best applied." Ian views the role through the lens of process. "Each of the seven steps of turning data into action require different knowledge and proficiencies. Deciphering business goals and working with stakeholders is quite different from building and fine-tuning complex predictive models." Together, they describe the capabilities a modern organization needs to wring the most out of data, helping you understand where you can best contribute and grow within this ecosystem.
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Q: Android check internet connection, retry or exit if offline I am trying to make the app check for internet connection and if it's offline, redirect to a offline html file in webview. Then what I don't know is how to enable user to retry or cancel and exit the app..
This is my code:
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
//import android.view.Menu;
//import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.content.Context;
import android.net.ConnectivityManager;
import android.net.NetworkInfo;
import android.widget.Toast;
import android.view.KeyEvent;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
WebView browser;

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

    // find the WebView by name
    browser=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.wvwMain);

    // Enable javascript
    browser.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

    // Set WebView client
    browser.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                view.loadUrl(url);
                return true;
                }
        });

     // Load the webpage
        ConnectivityManager cn=(ConnectivityManager)getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        NetworkInfo nf=cn.getActiveNetworkInfo();

        if(nf != null && nf.isConnected()==true )
        {
            browser.loadUrl("http://website.com/");
            }
        else
        {
            Toast.makeText(this, "Network Not Available", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            browser.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/noconnection.html");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
    {
        if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) && browser.canGoBack()) {
            browser.goBack();
            return true;
        }
        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
    }
}

A: You'll have to implement something like a button to let the user retry.
Then when you notice there's no connection, show the button and retry on click.
Something helpful in general, create a utils class to check if you're connected.
public class ConnectionUtils {

public static boolean isConnected(Context context){
    ConnectivityManager connectivityManager = (ConnectivityManager) context.getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo wifiInfo = connectivityManager.getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI);
    NetworkInfo mobileInfo = connectivityManager.getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_MOBILE);

    if ((wifiInfo != null && wifiInfo.isConnected()) || (mobileInfo != null && mobileInfo.isConnected())) {
            return true;
    }else{
            return false;
    }
}

}
Then you can call ConnectionUtils.isConnected(this) or ConnectionUtils.isConnected(getActivity) at any time.

A: Try this for checking connectivity
public boolean isConnectedToInternet(){
    ConnectivityManager connectivity = (ConnectivityManager)getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    if (connectivity != null)
    {
        NetworkInfo[] info = connectivity.getAllNetworkInfo();
        if (info != null)
            for (int i = 0; i < info.length; i++)
                if (info[i].getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTED)
                {
                    return true;
                }

    }
    return false;
}

then use this wherever you want to check connectivity.
if(isConnectedToInternet())

{
    if(tCommentsFlag != 1)
    {
        // Your code

    }
}

To exit android app use this:
 finish();

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Even when there is "NO TIME", I am trying squeeze in some fresh air and a walk. I'm trying to get a little exercise at every opportunity. By getting a few more steps in and keeping my metabolism burning, I'm trying not to end up gaining weight during the month of December!
After I mailed a package to my sister at the local post office tonight after work, I took the opportunity for a quick walk around the pond at the park across the street.
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The impact of oculomotor functioning on neuropsychological performance in Huntington disease
Janessa O. Carvalho, Jeffrey D. Long, Holly J. Westervelt, Megan M. Smith, Jared M. Bruce, Ji-In Kim, James A. Mills, Jane S. Paulsen (Corresponding Author), PREDICT-HD Investigators And Coordinators Of The Huntington Study Group
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative condition with prominent motor (including oculomotor), cognitive, and psychiatric effects. While neuropsychological deficits are present in HD, motor impairments may impact performance on neuropsychological measures, especially those requiring a speeded response, as has been demonstrated in multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia. The current study is the first to explore associations between oculomotor functions and neuropsychological performance in HD. Participants with impaired oculomotor functioning performed worse than those with normal oculomotor functioning on cognitive tasks requiring oculomotor involvement, particularly on psychomotor speed tasks, controlling for covariates. Consideration of oculomotor dysfunction on neuropsychological performance is critical, particularly for populations with motor deficits.
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
PREDICT-HD
oculomotor functioning
processing speed
Carvalho, J. O., Long, J. D., Westervelt, H. J., Smith, M. M., Bruce, J. M., Kim, J-I., ... PREDICT-HD Investigators And Coordinators Of The Huntington Study Group (2016). The impact of oculomotor functioning on neuropsychological performance in Huntington disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 38(2), 217-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2015.1101054
The impact of oculomotor functioning on neuropsychological performance in Huntington disease. / Carvalho, Janessa O.; Long, Jeffrey D.; Westervelt, Holly J.; Smith, Megan M.; Bruce, Jared M.; Kim, Ji-In; Mills, James A.; Paulsen, Jane S. (Corresponding Author); PREDICT-HD Investigators And Coordinators Of The Huntington Study Group.
In: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2016, p. 217-226.
Carvalho, JO, Long, JD, Westervelt, HJ, Smith, MM, Bruce, JM, Kim, J-I, Mills, JA, Paulsen, JS & PREDICT-HD Investigators And Coordinators Of The Huntington Study Group 2016, 'The impact of oculomotor functioning on neuropsychological performance in Huntington disease', Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 217-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2015.1101054
Carvalho JO, Long JD, Westervelt HJ, Smith MM, Bruce JM, Kim J-I et al. The impact of oculomotor functioning on neuropsychological performance in Huntington disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 2016;38(2):217-226. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2015.1101054
Carvalho, Janessa O. ; Long, Jeffrey D. ; Westervelt, Holly J. ; Smith, Megan M. ; Bruce, Jared M. ; Kim, Ji-In ; Mills, James A. ; Paulsen, Jane S. ; PREDICT-HD Investigators And Coordinators Of The Huntington Study Group. / The impact of oculomotor functioning on neuropsychological performance in Huntington disease. In: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 2016 ; Vol. 38, No. 2. pp. 217-226.
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Two attendants follow Cloten after his encounter with Posthumus. The First Lord urges Cloten to change his shirt since he is sweaty and he smells, but Cloten says he would only change his shirt if it were bloody from fighting. Cloten complains that Posthumus wouldn't fight him. The First Lord tries to encourage Cloten. He says that Cloten certainly hurt Posthumus. Then he puns that Posthumus moved away from Cloten to put space in between them. The ground in between the fighters would only add to the vast lands that Cloten already owns. In a series of comments to the audience, the Second Lord gives his take on the fight: Cloten didn't strike Posthumus with his sword, and what's more, Cloten doesn't have as many lands as the First Lord claims. The Second Lord thinks Cloten is a fool.
The First Lord and the Second Lord establish themselves as foils of one another. While the First Lord is a flatterer, telling Cloten exactly what he wants to hear, the Second Lord ridicules Cloten behind his back. The two lords illustrate how disingenuous courtiers' words can be.
Cloten wishes that he and Posthumus hadn't been separated so that they could have fought in earnest, and he marvels that Imogen could ever chose Posthumus over him. The Second Lord interjects that if Cloten and Posthumus fought, Cloten would have ended up lying flat on the ground. Further, he thinks Imogen has made a good choice in marrying Posthumus. The First Lord tells Cloten that Imogen's choice of Posthumus demonstrates that she's not very smart, even though she's pretty. To the contrary, the Second Lord remarks in an aside that Imogen "shines not upon fools" like Cloten. Cloten plans to go back to his room, and the First and Second Lords dutifully follow him.
The Second Lord paints a portrait of Cloten that differs from Cloten's self-aggrandizing version. In so doing, he affirms Imogen's choice of the virtuous Posthumus for a husband. The Second Lord shows Cloten for who he is—a blustering, self-centered coward. However, it's interesting to note that despite the way the Second Lord loathes Cloten, he still attends him faithfully. Like the Queen, the Second Lord shows one face to the courtiers, but another to the audience in asides.


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Where do chi squared p-value lookup tables come from?
I'm doing a lot of labs in science and my teacher always wants us to find the chi-squared values of our data and find the probability of that occurring from a lookup table. Where do these probabilities come from in the lookup table? Is there a function or functions that output these numbers?
A little about statistics and statistical tests.
When you use the data to compute these chi-square values, we idealize whatever you compute as coming from a probability distribution. The distribution is called the chi-square distribution.
The chi-square distribution depends on a parameter called "the degrees of freedom". Since probability distributions are just functions (you know about functions), I can plot them. I've plotted the chi-square under a couple of degrees of freedom below.
Now, onto p-values. Let's say you conduct your experiment and get a chi-square value. You go to your table and find the corresponding p-value. Those p-values in those tables are what we call "tail probabilities". So for example, let's say your experiment has 2 degrees of freedom (corresponding to the top left picture). You get a chi-square value of 2. Then, your p-value is the area under the curve to the right of 2 (the shaded region).
What those tables do is tell you the area under the curve for a variety of chi-square values. We obtain the values in the table by computing the area under the curve. It is easier to compute the areas under the curves once and put them in a table rather than have you compute the areas yourself, hence why you look up values in tables.
We know this integral converges, and that it is less than 1 unless $\chi=0$. The table is created by computing this integral for various $k$ and $\chi$.
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Raths, Raths & Johnson, Inc. (RRJ), a Chicago-based national architecture, engineering and forensics consulting firm and recognized building envelope expert, is selected as the building enclosure consultant for the new MercyHealth Women's and Children's Hospital in Rockford, IL, currently one of the largest healthcare construction projects underway in the Midwest.
The new regional medical center campus will be the home of a new state-of-the-art women's and children's hospital. Consisting of three wings totaling 532,300 sq. ft., the hospital will feature two 188-inpatient bed towers, a Level III perinatal center, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a Level I trauma center, cutting-edge operating suites, and a specialty physician medical center serving adult and pediatric patients.
MercyHealth is a multi-regional health system comprising five hospitals with over 85 primary and specialty care medical centers and clinics across more than 60 communities in 15 northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin counties.
Construction is estimated to be completed by January 2019.


The 1500H is constructed with 1-1/2" heavy gauge steel pipe and a solid 1-1/2" steel axle for weight; complemented by a durable "baked on" powder coat finish. This cart features a larger diameter body than the 1250K, and utilizes a solid rubber tire with steel rims for added weight and a larger capacity sprinkler head with long and intermediate stream patterns. It also comes standard with 1-1/2" standard national pipe threads but may be adapted to 2" by simply requesting the threaded adapter at checkout in the notes field and we will include it at no charge. The sprinkler head on the 1500H is a large commercial grade Sime model "Hidra" impact style sprinkler that handles a higher flow capacity of 30 to 140 gallons per minute and is normally supplied with a 1-1/2" or 2" incoming line.
Portable wheeled sprinkler carts are an excellent and affordable option for irrigating a variety of areas such as gardens, large yards or acreages, playgrounds, natural and artificial sports fields, horse arenas or round pens for dust control, livestock grazing paddocks, mining projects, and much more. Our carts are fabricated with care and precision in our facility with heavy steel tubing and a solid axle design to prevent tipping while the sprinkler is in operation or when pulling the supply hose to reposition the sprinkler cart. This big, durable irrigation cart can be assembled in minutes and ready to irrigate wherever and whenever you want big volume irrigation!
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Cable & Wireless is close to agreeing the £8 billion sale of its cable subsidiary CWC in a move that will determine the future of the UK industry.
The telecoms giant wants to settle the bitter bidding war that broke out this weekend between rivals NTL and Telewest after a three-way deal between them was abandoned.
After months of talks, Cable & Wireless chief executive Graham Wallace is keen to finalise a deal before Friday, when he meets US analysts. Telewest and NTL are eager to win CWC because it would give them a stronger base to compete against BSkyB and British Telecom in the race to provide consumers with a one-stop package that includes phone calls, television, Internet access and digital interactive services.
CWC has been in talks with Telewest, headed by Tony Illsley, since it was put up for sale three months ago.
The two companies had agreed the price and basis of a merger. But last month, as revealed by Financial Mail, NTL chief executive Barclay Knapp was invited to find a way of bringing his cable company into the merger discussions.
Telewest, NTL and CWC tried to produce a three-way deal, but it was ruled out after it proved too complicated.
Now NTL's Knapp has tabled a separate offer after persuading France Telecom to join its bid. The French operator has agreed to take a 10% stake in NTL and will provide cash for Knapp's bid. But Illsley is also still fiercely pursuing the original deal agreed with Cable & Wireless.
Telewest, too, has brought in outside money. Greg Maffei, finance director of Microsoft, which owns 30% of Telewest, flew to the UK last week to discuss the deal with Telewest. The software giant has agreed to put up cash to help Telewest's bid.
The deal involves Telewest swapping its business customers for CWC's home customers.
Industry sources suggest the backing of Microsoft could help to win Illsley the CWC prize. But Knapp is also determined to win the battle and this weekend tabled a bid believed to be worth £8 billion.
This bid would also see CWC's business customers handed over, allowing Cable & Wireless to focus on providing telecoms services to businesses. The CWC brand would quickly disappear and be replaced by the NTL brand.
Knapp is also keen to move into Europe. He told Financial Mail that even if NTL failed to win CWC it would seek expansion through its link with France Telecom. 'Our next aspiration is continental expansion. We want to offer our services in both east and western Europe,' said Knapp.


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Court denies request for grand jury to investigate Schuette
Jonathan Oosting
Lansing — Ingham County Circuit Court judges on Monday unanimously denied a request to form a one-person grand jury to investigate Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette for using state staff for personal or political purposes.
Former Wayne County Executive Bob Ficano had petitioned the court for the probe last month, asking judges to launch an investigation amid Schuette's campaign for governor.
In a brief order issued Monday, Chief Judge Richard Garcia said the full Ingham County Circuit Court bench considered the complaint but denied it. Garcia did not vote himself but told The Detroit News the six judges who did each independently determined a criminal investigation was not warranted.
Ficano, a Democrat who is supporting Gretchen Whitmer for governor, said he was disappointed by the order but does not see any path to pursue an appeal against Schuette, the Republican nominee.
"It's an order of the court, and I respect an order of the court," he said.
Ficano, who lost re-election in 2014 amid his own ethics scandals, had asked for a grand jury to investigate Schuette for using state government staff to sign real estate transactions and for hiring former campaign staff to state jobs.
Schuette spokeswoman Andrea Bitely called Ficano's request a "a politically motivated attack on the attorney general" that has no merit, "and the Ingham County judges saw through the charade."
"The rule of law matters, and political games are a waste of resources for the Ingham County courts," Bitely added.
As The News reported in May, Schuette used state staffers in his office as signed witnesses and notaries on at least four private real estate transactions in the Virgin Islands, including deed transfers on two separate properties sold for $1.8 million each.
"Normally if these issues are brought against a state employee, they're investigated by the attorney general," Ficano said. "He's obviously not going to investigate himself. It's a conflict, and I think there should be some mechanism of independent review."
Judge Garcia said requests for a one-person grand jury are rare.
"You get a request every year or two, and generally it's as a result of somebody feeling frustrated that the normal channels aren't going to work for them," he said. "I don't know. It's not common."
Ingham County Prosecutor Caron Siemon referred a separate but similar request to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in July. The FBI has not indicated whether it has or plans to investigate Schuette.
The Midland Republican won the Aug. 7 GOP gubernatorial primary despite stinging criticism from Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, a Republican rival who called on the attorney general to "end the cover up or resign" after it was revealed Schuette used his government office to discuss a national political convention.
The Michigan Ethics Act of 1973 requires that state officials and employees only use personal resources and property "in accordance with prescribed constitutional, statutory, and regulatory procedures and not for personal gain or benefit." Violations are considered civil — not criminal — infractions punishable by fines.
joosting@detroitnews.com


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Pandemic brings dark times to Jerusalem's Old City
Mornings used to reveal bright picture-postcard scenes of tourists from around the world stopping to buy souvenirs at Palestinian shops as they made their way to biblical sites holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians
Reuters , Tuesday 1 Dec 2020
Luai al-Zarba, juice bar owner, chats to a Palestinian youth wearing a protective face mask as he waits for customers in an alley at night amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Jerusalem's Old City November 25, 2020. REUTERS
Coronavirus robs biblical Bethlehem of Christmas cheer
UN envoy criticizes Israel's move to expand key Jerusalem settlement
Jerusalem Al-Aqsa mosque compound to close over virus
As night grips Jerusalem's walled Old City, its ancient alleyways become a ghost town of haunting shadows and light.
Mornings used to reveal bright picture-postcard scenes of tourists from around the world stopping to buy souvenirs at Palestinian shops as they made their way to biblical sites holy to Jews, Muslims and Christians.
But a modern-day plague, the coronavirus pandemic, is now keeping the visitors away from the Old City and bringing hardship and heartbreak to residents.
"In previous years, the city used to be filled with tourists during Christmas time. But now, at around 5 p.m. it becomes empty," said Hisham Qweder, 40, a computer technician.
The light from a juice bar, still open at night, is a beacon to customers along a virtually deserted pathway.
Before the pandemic struck, overseas tourism had been booming in Jerusalem, whose Old City was captured by Israel in a 1967 war.
Khaled Salfiti, a 70-year-old souvenir shop owner, recalls how the Old City used to be "vibrant and alive" before a series of coronavirus lockdowns.
"Corona paralysed everything," he lamented.


I am just wondering if you can use JMP to unzip files. I find some sample code on a SAS blog (Using FILENAME ZIP to unzip and read data files in SAS - The SAS Dummy). Can I use this (or something likes this) with JMP 12?
yes. See ZipArchive in the scripting index.
Hi! Sorry for the huge delay responding to this post. I am finally back at this problem. I really don't understand how to use these functions in the Zip Archive to unzip.


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Граждански демократичен съюз () е северномакедонска дясноцентристка политическа партия, основана на 18 март 2018 година. Неин председател е Петър Колев.

История
Първата пресконференция на инициативния комитет за формиране на партията се състои на 6 декември 2017 г. в хотел "Мариот" в Скопие, където представя своите основни принципи. На конференцията присъства бившият председател на сдружението "Македонско–българско приятелство" – Петър Колев, както и бившият председател на ВМРО–НП – Георги Трендафилов. Пресконференцията не е отразена от медиите в Северна Македония, въпреки че на нея присъстват повече от седем медии.

Партията е основана на 18 март 2018 година като за неин председател е избран роденият в село Ново село (община Щип) – Петър Колев, самоопределящ се за етнически българин, бивш член на българската ВМРО-БНД и председател на сдружението "Македонско–българско приятелство".

Резултати от избори

Местни избори
През май 2019 г. се провеждат избори за кмет на 3 общини – Дебър, Ново село и Охрид. Партията излъчва свой кандидат за кмет на община Охрид – Михаил Трендафилов, който се класира на 3–то място с 5,89 %.

Вижте също
 Списък на политическите партии в Северна Македония

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Външни препратки

 Официален профил на Граждански демократичен съюз във Фейсбук

Политически партии в Северна Македония
Основани в Северна Македония през 2018 година

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I was born sighted but then was blinded by the drunken doctor who gave birth to me.
I was raped by my foster father and lied to when my little girl was born. She was sold for adoption without anyone asking me.
When I had an abortion a few years later, the doctor told me he did me a favor by removing my ovaries, but he never asked me.
The Lighthouse called us mendicants and wanted us to learn crafts, but we're working women -- buskers. We work for our living.
I am the Reverend Baybie Hoover. I can sing for eight hours and never repeat a song. This is Ginger Brown, my Deaconess of Music. You are welcome to come to our little church.


Nobody has a time to look back to you, people will move on and would never remember who you were and what your name was, so better make your worth, and make a life in which you earn respect and recognition. We are not only born to feed ourselves, we are also here to make something out of the molehill, to educate the masses, to help people at the hour of need, also to support the learners of our field, and to find the new skylines.
Out of the multitudes only few make a history, only few people make masterpieces, only few artists are born to "create", so at least do your work wholeheartedly that people get inspiration from, and ask you to sort out their field issues. In the graphic world, bloggers, website makers and designers all correlate to work, they somehow or the other are always in contact with each other to help themselves improve and to expand and grow. Nobody can do nothing being alone, as we are social animals and we all should live up to other person's expectations professionally. Well there are many bloggers who have opened up successful blogs to make people aware of the current world scenarios, there are also shopping blogs to help people save their time and shop online, then there are artists, photographers and other owners who showcase their products online to let people know about the availability, properties, perspectives and all little details of the goodie/product.
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I am a junior in California. I have been doing community service ever since 8th grade and I love working with other people. However, the community service I have done has only impacted those in my area. I want to be able to go and help other communities around the world. Being able to go on this Costa Rica trip would mean the world to me. I have heard that this immersion trip has changed my friends lives and that they cannot view the world in the same way. I want to be able to experience that and at the same time help those families in need. On this trip I will be able to work on a project with the local family that I stay with. Past projects with this program have included building schools, wells, and buildings for the community to use. I want to be able to help the community and learn from this experience. Thank you for those who donate money!
Daniel is working on selecting a charity so you can support Walking Tree Immersion Trip Costa Rica.


When a married couple reaches a point in their relationship where either one or both partners become convinced that they cannot continue their lives together, it is often necessary to consider the possibility of divorce. Unfortunately, the divorce process can often be highly contentious, placing unnecessary emotional duress on those already going through a difficult time in their lives. However, it doesn't have to be this way. Choosing to pursue a mediated divorce can significantly ease the stress of the divorce process, allowing those pursuing this path to focus on what matters most.
Unlike a contested divorce, in which both sides pursue the services of a divorce lawyer and fight over the terms of their separation, mediated divorce involves the two parties negotiating the details of their divorce with a neutral third-party mediator. This allows both sides to have significant input on the ultimate divorce settlement and ensures the fair treatment of all involved.
In addition to reducing the level of bitterness that both spouses may feel during the divorce process, mediated divorce can also help to reduce the costs that a divorce process may incur. Most mediated divorces can be accomplished in ten sessions or less, for a total time of around twenty hours. This is significantly shorter than the time that a contested divorce usually takes, and therefore the costs of a mediated divorce are often several times lower than other types of divorce.
Most importantly, though, mediated divorce can help to make both partners more satisfied with the outcome of their separation long after the process is finished. By ensuring that the wishes of both sides are not left unconsidered, the mediated divorce process allows both spouses to feel that they have been given a fair treatment and move on with their lives.


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10 Best U.S. Colleges & Universities for Civil Engineering – Interesting Engineering
Civil engineers are an integral part of all the great building projects in the world – including skyscrapers, bridges, highways, airports, and water resource systems. Successful students in this field enjoy analyzing and solving problems, and they love to watch building and design projects evolve from just an idea to a full-fledged solution to a community's needs.
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A degree in civil engineering can lead to some of the highest paying jobs in the country. The average starting salary for a civil engineer is $52,670, and the average mid-career salary is $89,420. Within the field, there are different specializations, including construction, geotechnical, structural, and transportation.
Civil engineers often work closely with environmental engineers. In fact, many schools combine these two majors into one department.
The analysis of College Factual has found these schools to be the best in the United States for students who want to major in civil engineering. To see how College Factual comes up with these rankings, see its explanation of its ranking methodology.
The salary data for these rankings comes from PayScale.
10. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Founded in 1872, Virginia is among the top 100 schools in the country for overall quality. The Blacksburg, Virginia school ranks 10th in the country for civil engineering and produces majors in the field that go on to earn average starting salaries of $53,000.
The Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering has 79 total faculty members and supports over 500 undergraduate students. The department offers a wide assortment of classes, including those in water resources engineering, geotechnical engineering, and structural engineering and materials.
9. New Jersey Institute of Technology
NJIT is situated in Newark, New Jersey and is just a short 20 minutes away from New York City. The public research university was established in 1881, and it has grown into a widely respected university for both traditional and online learners. About 25% of the students enrolled at NJIT participate in some type of distance or online learning.
The school's civil engineering program is a hands-on major in which students work on various building and design projects. NJIT students with a degree in this field are in high demand. Those who do not go to grad school right away, enter the workforce with average starting salaries of $55,000.
8. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Established in 1824, RPI is "…the first school of science and school of civil engineering, which has had a continuous existence, to be established in any English-speaking country." The school is located in Troy, New York – just a 15-minute drive from the state capital of Albany and only 2.5 hours from New York City.
Civil engineering has long been a focus at RPI. In fact, the institute was the first U.S. school to issue a civil engineering degree. As such, civil engineers with a degree from RPI are prized among employers and earn an average starting salary of $55,000.
7. University of California – Berkeley
Along with UC Davis, Berkeley is one of the ten public research universities in the University of California system. Established in 1868, the school is in Berkeley, California, less than 15 miles away from San Francisco. On top of having a stellar civil engineering program, Berkeley is ranked 52nd among all universities in the country in terms of overall quality.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Berkeley is home to 50 full-time faculty members and more than 400 undergraduate students. The school also supports several active student organization for civil engineering majors that help them meet others with similar interests and participate in community service projects. Civil engineers with a degree from Berkeley land entry-level jobs with an average starting salary of $64,000.
6. University of California – Davis
UC Davis is a public research university located in Davis, California, about 20 minutes away from the state capital of Sacramento. Founded in 1905, UC Davis is considered to be one of the "Public Ivies" – universities that offer an education comparable to that of Ivy League Schools at a public university price. That alone makes the school a good value for your money, especially if you're an in-state student.
Civil engineering majors at UC Davis prepare for their future careers by taking courses that include subjects like structural analysis and design and water resources management. They also have opportunities to participate in internship and study abroad programs before entering the workforce. The average starting salary for a civil engineering major from UC Davis is $60,000.
5. Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon is a private university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just three miles away from the busy downtown of Steel City. The school was established in 1900 through a $1 million donation from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie Mellon continues to grow and is in the midst of its largest expansion since its founding.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon provides lots of opportunities, including internships and study abroad programs, for students. Because of this, majors in civil engineering are attractive to employers, and graduates typically earn average starting salaries of $60,000.
4. Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens is a private university located in Hoboken, New Jersey, just a 10-minute train ride away from Lower Manhattan. The school was established in 1870 from a bequest from inventor Edwin Augustus Stevens, and it continues to be a hub of innovation today.
In addition to their coursework, civil engineering students at Stevens receive hands-on industry experience via co-ops, senior design projects, and study abroad programs. This makes civil engineering majors from Stevens highly employable, earning an average starting salary of $56,000.
3. Georgia Institute of Technology – Main Campus
Established in 1885, Georgia Tech is a public research university located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school is considered to be an excellent value – especially for in-state students – due to its reasonable net price and its outstanding academic programs. Georgia Tech is ranked 2nd for overall quality among all the colleges in Georgia.
For those who are interested in advanced degrees, Georgia Tech has a BS/MS program in which you can earn both degrees in five years. The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering also offers undergraduates lot of opportunities to study abroad, co-op, or work on research projects. Majors in the field enter the workforce with an average starting salary of $52,000.
2. Stanford University
Located in Stanford, California, Stanford is a private research university that was founded in 1885. In addition to its standard curriculum for civil engineering majors, the university has numerous summer research opportunities and study abroad programs for interested students.
Stanford's commitment to academic excellence isn't limited to the civil engineering program. The school is ranked 7th in terms of overall quality of all universities in the United States. Civil engineering majors receive a high earnings boost and typically make an average of $66,000 when first entering the job market.
1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT is a large, private university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts that was established in 1861. On top of having the best civil engineering program in the country, the school is also ranked as the 8th best overall in the nation. MIT's outstanding 3-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio makes it easy for future engineers to work closely with the college's experienced faculty.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT is respected worldwide for the breadth and depth of its degree path programs. Its environmental engineering program is also ranked as one of the top 10 in the country. Graduates with a degree in civil engineering from MIT go on to careers with an average starting salary of $68,000.
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The coffee station, oh how we've missed you! Mike came up with a novel way of displaying our freight car brake hoses under the TrucTrain sign. I can't remember seeing anyone else actually showing the air hoses connected.


Eugenio Scalfari is a journalist, doyen of the Italian press, Italian politician and essayist born in 1924. He headed L'Espresso from 1963 to 1976, when he left to found La Repubblica, which in just a few years became the number one daily newspaper in the country. A Socialist Partymember of parliament from 1968 to 1972, he quit as the head of La Repubblica in 1996, to write a weekly column. It also pens a section in L'Espresso, alternating with Umberto Eco.


About Vaping in Australia and laws.
In Australia you can legally purchase Electronic cigarettes without nicotine, however the sale of nicotine e-liquids is illegal in every state. Under the TGA classification system, nicotine is listed as a schedule 7 dangerous poison, which makes nicotine trading illegal. If used for a therapeutic purpose, it is classified as a Schedule 4 product and can be legally imported from overseas e-cigarettes shops (online vaping stores), but the importer must hold a prescription from a registered Australian GP.
Despite of being at least 95% less harmful than smoking and encouraged in countries such as UK, Sweden, New Zealand, USA, etc, in Australia its consider a crime to use diluted nicotine e-liquids, yet you can still purchase Tobacco cigarettes which not only contains nicotine but a mixture of deadly chemical.
Everyday vapers ask what the process is to get nicotine eliquids in Australia.
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Will the FREE trade of Nicotine get legalized in Australia?
We don't know yet, but there is a Senate inquiry into the Use and marketing of electronic cigarettes and personal vaporizers in Australia. We are hoping that relevant discussions and decisions between the "Standing Committee on Health, Aged Care and Sport" and vaping advocates from Australia and other countries were vaping nicotine e-liquid is legal, come together to benefit the public health of millions of smokers.


Now learn all of the information required to pass the Illinois real estate broker examination and earn 5.0 hours of MCLE credit.
Attorneys who enroll in this program are provided with complete course materials and the individual attention needed to prepare for the licensing examination.
Even if you don't plan to earn a Broker license, this course is great for attorneys who want to review and improve their knowledge of Illinois real estate license law and related subject matter.
** Attorneys licensed in Illinois are not required to complete a pre-license course and earn a transcript before attempting the state examination. We will provide you with the state exam candidate handbook, which includes the form you need to apply for the appropriate exemption.
Newly-admitted attorneys' compliance with the MCLE general 30-credit-hour requirements begin after the completion deadline for the newly-admitted attorney requirement. This reporting period begins according to your last name.
How many hours of continuing legal education (CLE) are required for Illinois attorneys?
Illinois Supreme Court Rules 790 through 797 establish Minimum Continuing Legal Education ("MCLE") requirements for Illinois attorneys. Each attorney admitted before October 1, 2011 is required to complete 30 hours of CLE activity, including 6 hours of professional responsibility credit, during the current two-year reporting period in effect in Illinois. Hours need not be allocated evenly over the two-year reporting period.
May I carry over CLE hours from one reporting period to the next?
Yes. If you were admitted before July 1, 2008, you may carry over a maximum of 10 credit hours; however professional responsibility hours carry over as general hours. These 10 hours may be carried over only to satisfy the next consecutive period's requirements.
If you were admitted on or after July 1, 2008, you may carry over a maximum of 10 credit hours, including professional responsibility hours. These 10 hours may be carried over only to satisfy the next consecutive period's requirements.
How do I earn credit for one of your online CLE courses?
Once you enroll in an online CLE course, you will receive a username and password that provides access the online presentation(s) and written course materials. After viewing the course in its entirety, you must submit an affidavit of course completion to Real Estate Institute.
The affidavit may be submitted online, at which time you will be required to state that you have viewed the entire presentation as of the date of submission. All affidavits must be submitted to Real Estate Institute within thirty (30) days of course completion. Once we receive the affidavit, we will process the information and issue a certificate of completion for the course within two (2) business days. Certificates of completion will be delivered to attorneys by e-mail and U.S. Mail.
How can I report my MCLE compliance to the Illinois MCLE Board?
The MCLE Board will mail you a copy of the MCLE Certification Form. You can either return this by mail or complete the form online.
As an Illinois attorney, what must I do to prove that I satisfied my MCLE requirements?
As required by the MCLE Rules, attorneys must maintain their own certificates of attendance and other proof of MCLE compliance. At the end of the reporting period, attorneys must report whether they have complied with the MCLE Rules, have not complied with the MCLE Rules, or were exempt from the MCLE Rules during the reporting period. Before the end of an attorney's two-year reporting period, the MCLE Board will mail the reporting form to the attorney's address on file with the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. Each attorney who is not exempt is responsible for filing the reporting form with the Board, even if the attorney does not receive the form by mail.
Newly-admitted attorneys admitted on or after October 1, 2011, are required to report to the MCLE Board by the last day of the month that occurs one year after the newly-admitted attorney's admission to practice in Illinois.
Individual attorneys should not mail, e-mail or fax their certificates of attendance or other MCLE-related documentation to the MCLE Board unless they are notified by the Board that they are being audited. Attorneys need to keep their proof of MCLE compliance for three years after the two-year reporting period ends, so that the attorney can respond if audited by the MCLE Board.
What happens if an attorney fails to submit an MCLE certification or otherwise fails to complete the required CLE?
Attorneys who do not achieve compliance and file a certification with the MCLE Board will be removed from the Master Roll of Attorneys authorized to practice law. To be reinstated, attorneys are required to complete the CLE credits from each reporting period for which they were deficient and submit a reinstatement fee for each of those reporting periods.
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After an unspecified "werewolf incident" we have become the new maintainer of the hogwarts.edu web app.
Our first day on the job begins with Professor Dumbledore approaching us, explaining that his official hogwarts.edu account has recently begun sending mysterious messages such as "Potter sux, Malfoy rulez" to all the students.
As Dumbledore has an administrator account, this security hole could lead to much worse problems than pranks. He's asked us to fix the vulnerability before someone exploits it to cause more serious damage.
Listen for a HTTP request to "hogwarts.edu/dumbledore/send-message?to=all_students&msg=blahblah"
Send "blahblah" (or whatever the msg parameter was set to) from @dumbledore to all students.
There's no attempt to check whether the request actually came from the owner of the @dumbledore account, meaning any attacker can send a HTTP request to hogwarts.edu/dumbledore/send-message and it will be treated as legitimate. Possibly our werewolf predecessor thought this would be fine.
To prevent this from happening in the future, we introduce an authentication system.
First we add a Secret Authentication Key to each user's account, which we randomly generate when the user logs in and delete when they log out.
Check for a header called "secret-authentication-key" and make sure it matches the Secret Authentication Key we stored in the database for the @dumbledore account. If it doesn't match, reject the request.
Send "blahblah" (or whatever came after the msg parameter) from @dumbledore to all the students.
Now when we try to send phony messages as Dumbledore, the server rejects them for lacking the proper authentication key. When Dumbledore himself logs in and tries to send them himself, it works. Huzzah!
The day after we roll out this new authentication scheme, Professor Snape apparates with a complaint. When he visits hogwarts.edu/snape/messages to view his private messages, there's now a brief loading spinner before his messages show up. Snape demands that we put it back to the old way, where the messages loaded immediately.
Why did we add the loading spinner? Well, we realized hogwarts.edu/snape/messages was also unsecured, so naturally we secured it with our new "secret-authentication-key" header.
While that second request is processing, all Snape sees is that rage-inducing spinner.
Now whenever Snape's browser makes a HTTP request to hogwarts.edu, it will automatically send the contents of that cookie in a Cookie header. This is true even for the original HTTP GET request it makes when Snape visits hogwarts.edu/snape/messages - meaning that now our server can authenticate him right there on that first request, and serve the messages in the first response without needing a second HTTP roundtrip.
Listen for a HTTP request to "hogwarts.edu/snape/send-message?to=all_students&msg=blahblah"
Check for a header called "Cookie" and make sure it matches the Secret Authentication Key we stored in the database for the @snape account. If it doesn't match, reject the request.
Send "blahblah" (or whatever came after the msg parameter) from @snape to all the students.
Wasn't there some reason we hadn't used cookies in the first place? Oh, right. Security concerns.
Sure enough, the day after we roll out our cookie-based solution, Professor McGonagall turns up with a strange story. Just after she visited Draco Malfoy's blog, her official hogwarts.edu account sent another of those "Potter sux, Malfoy rulez" messages to all students. How could this have happened?
As soon as Professor McGonagall visited his blog, her browser did what it always does when it encounters an <img>: send a HTTP GET request to the URL specified in its src. Because the browser is sending this request to hogwarts.edu, it automatically includes Professor McGonagall's stored authentication cookie in the Cookie header. Our server checks to see if the cookie matches - which of course it does - and dutifully posts the malicious message.
Avoiding this form of CSRF attack is one reason it's important that all our GET requests do not result in our server taking any important actions. They should be pretty much read-only, give or take perhaps some logging.
Listen for a HTTP request to "hogwarts.edu/mcgonagall/send-message?to=all_students&msg=blahblah"
If it is not a POST request, reject it.
Check for a header called "Cookie" and make sure it matches the Secret Authentication Key we stored in the database for the @mcgonagall account. If it doesn't match, reject the request.
Send "blahblah" (or whatever came after the msg parameter) from @mcgonagall to all the students.
Great! Now the <img> CSRF attack no longer works, because <img> only ever results in GET requests to load the src. Professor McGonagall should be able to visit Draco's blog again with no problem.
In an effort to make things a bit more difficult, we change the msg and to fields from URL query parameters to requiring that this information be sent via JSON in the body of the request. This fixes the problem for another day or two, but Draco quickly gets wise and puts the JSON in a <input type="hidden"> inside the form. We're back to square one.
We consider changing the endpoint from POST to PUT, since <form> only supports GET and POST, but semantically this clearly makes more sense as a POST. We try upgrading to HTTPS (doesn't fix it) and using something called "secure cookies" (still doesn't fix it), and eventually stumble upon OWASP's list of other approaches that do not solve this problem before finally finding something that does work.
OWASP has some clear recommendations on how to defend against CSRF attacks. The most reliable form of defense is verifying that the request was sent by code running on a hogwarts.edu page.
When browsers send HTTP requests, those requests include at least one (and possibly both, depending on whether it was an HTTPS request and how old the browser is) of these two headers: Referer and Origin.
If the HTTP Request was created when the user was on a hogwarts.edu page, then Referer and Origin will begin with https://hogwarts.edu. If it was created when the user was viewing a non-hogwarts.edu page such as Draco's blog, then the browser will dutifully set the Referer and Origin headers to the domain of his blog rather than hogwarts.edu.
If we require that Referer and Origin be set to hogwarts.edu, we can reject all HTTP requests that originated from Draco's blog (or any other third-party site) as malicious.
Listen for a HTTP request to "hogwarts.edu/mcgonagall/send-message"
If the Origin and/or Referer headers are present, verify that they match hogwarts.edu. If neither is present, per OWASP's recommendation, assume the request is malicious and reject it.
Send a message from @mcgonagall based on the JSON in the request body.
Great! Now if a request comes from outside the browser, it won't have the necessary Cookie header, and if it comes from inside the browser by way of Draco Malfoy's malicious blog, it won't pass the Referer / Origin Same Origin header check.
Importantly, we should not perform this Same Origin check on all requests.
If we did it on all GET requests, for example, then no one could link to hogwarts.edu pages from different websites, as they would be rejected for having a different Referer! We only want to do this Same Origin check for endpoints that no one should ever be able to access from outside a hogwarts.edu page.
This is why it's so important that GET requests be essentially "read-only" - anytime we have to skip this Same Origin check, Draco can use the <img> trick from earlier to cause the endpoint's logic to run. If all that logic does is return information, then the result will be nothing more than a broken-looking <img> on Draco's blog. On the other hand, if the result is that messages get sent from the current user's account, that means an attacker can potentially use CSRF to send messages from the current user's account!
Although OWASP does not list any known ways an attacker could circumvent this Same Origin Check defense (other than a successful Cross-Site Scripting attack, which must be defended against separately, as such an attack can circumvent any number of CSRF countermeasures), they still recommend "a second check as an additional precaution to really make sure."
One good reason to have a second check is that browsers can have bugs. Occasionally these bugs result in new vulnerabilities which attackers exploit, and it's always possible that someone might someday uncover a vulnerability in a popular browser allowing them to spoof the Origin and Referer headers.
Having a second line of defense means that if our first line of defense becomes suddenly compromised, we already have a backup defense in place while browser vendors work on patching the vulnerability.
The easiest to implement of OWASP's recommended supplemental defense measures is Custom Request Headers. Here's how it works.
Great! Now we know that if we can be sure that our request came from a XHR rather than something like a <form> or <img>, it must have originated from hogwarts.edu (assuming a valid Cookie header, of course) regardless of what the Origin or Referer headers say.
By default, there's no way to tell that a request came from an XHR or not. A POST from a vanilla XHR is indistinguishable from a POST from a <form>. However, XHR supports a feature that <form> doesn't: configuring custom headers.
By having our our XHR set a "Content-Type: application/json" header (which is a semantically sensible header for us to send regardless, since we are sending JSON now), we will have created a HTTP request that a <form> could not have created. If our server then checks for a "Content-Type: application/json" header, that will be enough to ensure the request came from an XHR. If it came from an XHR, then it must have respected the Same-origin Policy, and therefore must have come from a hogwarts.edu page!
This method is a better Second Line of Defense than a First Line of Defense, because it can be circumvented via Flash. So we definitely shouldn't skip the Origin / Referer Same Origin check! We should use this only as an added layer of defense against a theoretical future vulnerability in Origin / Referer.
If the Origin and/or Referer headers are present, verify that they match hogwarts.edu. If neither is present, assume the request is malicious and reject it.
Check for a header called "Content-Type" and make sure it is set to application/json.
This covers our current use case, but there are other things to keep in mind for potential future needs.
If someday we want to use an actual <form> ourselves (instead of an XHR), and we still want a second line of defense on top of the Same Origin check, we can use a synchronizer token.
If we still want to use an XHR but don't want to set a custom header (like Content-Type), or use a synchronizer token, we can use a double submit cookie or an encrypted token instead.
If we want to support CORS, well...then we need to totally rethink our authentication approach!
Introduced an authentication system to prevent attackers from impersonating users.
Used cookies to do this in a way that does not require two HTTP roundtrips (with a loading spinner in between) to view pages with private information, like a page listing a user's private messages.
Defended against <form> POST CSRF attacks by checking that the Origin and/or Referer headers match hogwarts.edu (and rejecting the request if neither header is present).
Added a second line of defense against future potential Origin and/or Referer vulnerabilities by requiring that the Content-Type header be set to application/json.
With all of these put together, we now have some solid defenses against the dark art of CSRF attacks!
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I have this in my favorites and I check it every now and then.
I have been to hogwarts.edu/. Apparently the maintainer has already been severely hacked since the hackers suceeded in taking control of the domain name and unregistering it. So I'm not sure if I should listen to the maintainer because his own security seems lacking.
This was great, thanks for writing. Reminds of the Hogwarts IT guy tumblr.
Reading it was VERY interesting. Thanks for sharing this article with us, Richard!
Great story-telling on this technical (and often overlooked) problem! Thanks.


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The Inger Letter Forecast
Gene Inger
The market environment . . . has included the projected swing-up into the high by July 16th and the ensuing sharp decline, which was not been expected to take-out the S&P 1340's until we got a normal rebound, which some might call a "B wave", within a bigger potential "A-B-C decline". As noted we're not "wave surfer's", though the simplicity of the call was pretty straight-forward. It included the head-fake upside breakout, in July's first half, a slicing all-the-way-through the low-end of the old "pennant" formation, a "rebound" that ideally would stop shy of former floors, that are now a bit of a ceiling, and then resume overall intermediate DB pattern projections here.
Of course that includes the belief that almost every time players get too enthralled with downside activity, the market will rebound; although the rebounds should fail and the market progressively, over time, should work its way to lower levels. (Specific forecast time and price level is reserved.)
Clearly we have quite serious concerns about the market in the second half of the year, viewing a projected rally during parts of June and July's first half, as likely the last good opportunity for an exit, for those seeking to have done so gracefully. Just looking at the market internals, it's not too hard to recognize that the internals topped earlier in the year. That includes various sectors, as many topped in anirregular fashion during the first half, which was the extremely complex way this year was expected to (and in a sense still is continuing to) evolve. We've done the best that we could (in an inexact world) to cull-out the nuances of these shifts from the year's get-go, and even included the belief that Oil and some other long-depressed stocks would help the Averages hold up longer than the real market. Glancing back on all of that forecast distribution, we were as right as possible, though you never know for sure in advance, which made it a tad challenging.
There's No Market Entitlement
It is pretty amazing, when on occasion, we hear from investors who want a "simpler" explanation of market action, as far as when to buy or sell pretty much everything. They must be conditioned by aberrational affairs, when everything rallies or declines in unison. The norm is something like we are seeing this year, with the occasional parabolic thrust tossed-in. Going forward, and this is a tough call that we've touched-on before; if the majority of players view annualized gains as just something that can be reliably and regularly quantified, more or less like an entitlement, then we have some risk of something far nastier coming to the market, as the year goes forward.
That of course doesn't mean it can't be played, which is just why we identified an internal top in the Spring, and then depending on how far down we dropped in May, a rally that (in this case did of course) attacked the highs with unconfirmed breakouts that were merely desired fake-outs. It's that particular move that triggered suggested July 16th embrace of the first bearish portfolio strategies, since the nailed early May high. It's the downside move, with preservation of capital deemed most important in the coming weeks and months, which should deliver a terrific buying opportunity. That's all that matters when one looks at the heart of the admonition to be positioned so that one worries a tiny bit about whatever has already been determined by an investor for him or her to retain (meaning having sold to the sleeping pointway before now), with most focused instead of gearing up for anticipated (or at least potential) late-year bargain days. Stay tuned.
If all goes really well (again, we never have next months Journal's this month), we'll be hearing of investors that never want to play again; ofmutual fund redemption runs (at least modestly), or a lot of analysts and technicians scrambling to sound conservative, when prices are attractive at last, because of a multiple adjustment, which brings the market down to something sensible, at least relatively speaking. That of course was the key of emphasizing that flat or slightly improved earnings aren't enough; the Senior Averages need serious gains to warrant the high multiples we still see. For new investors, let's explain: the market pays high multiples for growth of profits, not for maintenance of earnings. For only forward maintenance of margins or results, the market will pay lower multiples than at present; and that's why we called for downward multiple revisions.
Certainly there were some sectors where the pressures were anticipated to be rougher earlier in the year, and which may do better later in the year, though we may have to contend with a "toss-out the baby with the bath water" syndrome, as things progress, depending on how nasty it gets (and it will get nasty before this is over, in our humble opinions). One of the problems may turn to be something I mentioned earlier this year as a forward risk: a Nation or corporate community reducing debt, may not have the paper to offer foreign buyers, if they implode and seek to come here. That's a long-shot, surely, but some are pondering whether repatriation, warned-of here at some distance to this wave of T-bond declines which were notable from a short-term overbought condition in recent weeks (against a bigger-picture oversold status), could run into supply worries we noted. Meanwhile, companies rush-out bond offerings while they can, at comparatively lower rates, with some starting to offer high enough returns to be slightly inviting to institutional types).
The T-Bond action is probably the weakest factor favoring the downside, though we did project a period in which stocks and bonds decline essentially in lockstep. We think everyone's engaged in a sort of double-think to try figuring-out how they're going to get higher rates if little warrants it so far. We think that there's too much worrying about bond availability, about Y2k (though that is a part of it), and about inflation vs. no inflation. We think there's not enough curiosity about levels of the market that make sense if you presume either, a) slower growth, or,b) a time of slowdown of profits growth. Choice "a" would take markets down (alternative decline proportions reserved). (Also; as the900.933.GENE hotline noted, the combination of slower GDP and higher ECI was inline with our forecasts, as outlined for some weeks now; slower growth with increasing wages.)
Do we see another abyss? Not exactly like last year; but as noted from those 1428 S&P highs, the stock market has a funny way of making its own destiny ("rolling stone gathering moss"). The big "hook" can easily be the idea that if rates don't spike much higher, that stocks would be fine. Again: what's good for bonds isn't necessarily always good for stocks. We'd go right back to earnings being crucial, for that point to be understood, by any who may find this complicated.
(Section reserved.) And interestingly, we are the optimists. We say that, because (as everyone knows) we said a month ago that if they did manage to lunge this to say Dow 12,000 (which they didn't, and we didn't favor so ridiculously high for that run-up anyway), that would have had a much more bearish cast to it, and therefore the so-called permabulls unknowingly were bears.
If they had gotten their cherished targets, it would have been even more parabolic than what we looked-for, and hence precipitated something even more dramatic (and harder to recover from), on the downside. Strangely enough, for an investor, this can turn out to be the bullish alternative, but only over the very long-term. Here I'm getting carried-away with the long-term, as this is the Daily Briefing, after all. Sorry about that:-}. Anyway; the important top was made July 16th. and it held were it was supposed to, then we got a rebound to the old floor which became the ceiling, and it's run into renewed trouble on cue. (Hotline and DB had called for a down-up-down week, with the best chance of breaking the 1340 area of the Sept. S&P occurring in the second drop.)
As a result of expectations we thought a forecast high just shy of the September S&P 1430 area was a great spot for a "macro" short-sale (done at the 1428+ price-point very specifically), along with the embrace of a few limited additional bearish strategies at that time. Subsequently, as the market commenced and accelerated it's rollover last week we warned that (on) daily basis, one would reach a point of negative mass recognition that would turn a "bull trap of early July" into a "bear trap" within this week, due to forecast noted procedural and structural rebound behavior.
Daily action . . . in harmony with that call, not only had us successfully scalp both the Tuesday morning long, as well as the afternoon short, from the highs into that session's late fade (via our 900.933.GENE guidelines on the hotline), but projected that the stock market would open up on Wednesday (because the S&P premium was so absurdly low at Tuesday's finish), immediately sell-off a bit, then rebound at least some, ease back down and then ideally start a spirited rally preferably right in the middle of the Federal Reserve Chairman's Question & Answer period, of course providing no surprises were heard. They weren't, it happened, plus an ideal late fade.
Fortunately, that forecast outlined both here in the Daily Briefing and on the hotline, worked-out so well, that we were able not only to garner about 1600 points gain on Tuesday, but another run of around 2500 points from Wednesday's activity, primarily resulting from the a.m.long at 1364, and an ideal short-sale into the final hour between 1376-77. (Thursday is ongoing, with daily potential S&P guideline gains well ahead of 2000. Trader's actual results may be better or worse, depending on their decisions, as we strive to be a resource of ideas and analysis; not trading for anyone in our retirement. All decisions are solely the determination of investors or traders; so of course we can't assure anyone's future results will continue to equal or exceed their past results, or ours. Of course the balance of daily comments and projections are reserved for subscribers.)
All investors . . . should ponder why we projected the forecast break in May to culminate with a feisty unconfirmed rally into July, and thus not simply "collapse" without a series of rebound tries. The answer, outside of some technical work, which must remain proprietary (though we share so much of our thinking, and occasionally logic), can be deduced to one key word: psychology.
Investors were (and are) so entrenched with seemingly never-ending perceptions, that increased productivity enhancements and a near-permanent low-interest environment, will always allow the superior total returns they've become "accustomed to", that they've become one-way oriented so far beyond what makes common sense. They behave this way because we had so many years, as they perceive it (we'd argue that last year was in-and-of itself a forecast bear trend from July-October), without challenges to the bulls' primacy, that many investors think the market can hold-up in the face of higher rates, or a peaking (or flattening) of earnings and profit margins.
Little do most of them (which is particularly surprising for institutional investors) know it, but they have been and remain in a "Fed fighting" mode, which is rarely productive for long. We did think they would fight the Fed though, which is exactly why, going back to this Spring, we forecast that the market wouldn't turn on a dime, but would evolve a top over time, including the rally into July.
Take this back all the way to last year, to recall an admonition, that while the stock market would rally into 1999 because the "fix" was in (after LTCM), that the internal high was behind, with that '99 upside expected to be somewhat of a "man-made" effort, which couldn't readily be repeated anew when ultimately ended. In some ways there is a structural similarity to historical swings that preceded serious breaks in the past, but let's not particularly reference 1987 or 1929 just now. It is not our desire to embrace extreme bearish arguments; though it's definitely not our desire to in any way have main portfolios decimated, should such unfortunate chains of events be emulated.
The end-result of this is likely nothing particularly at variance with what we've have outlined from an overall standpoint: a belated grasp of the challenges this year, a contraction in multiples from too much faith in continuing an aging-cycle, and ideally culminating when and as forecast later in the outline, as these participants start to regret their overly-entrenched super-optimism. Surely, it will dawn on those strategists and analysts who elevated their targets so near the highs (a time, we're reasonably proud of, when we overtly refused to do so in early July), that they're risking a long-term (sorry, balance, including Bits & Bytes & Economic News & Releases:, reserved for daily readers only).
In Summary. . . keep in mind our overall forecast was for this to be a "stair-step" affair, which means something like two steps down, one up, two down, or basically a kind of action that gives out hope for the majority, but disappoints them over time. We believe as you know, that overall activity of the past two weeks has defined the false upside breakout, and this downside rout, to be followed by a fade back up, with more ultimate downside unlikely to be completed yet, nor will it be, for all but shortest-term perspectives, from what we can see now. Today reinforces that.
As of 8 p.m EDT, on Globex, the S&P premium is 250, actually up from Chicago's regular close by one-half of a point or so. We still view the recent Sept. S&P 1428-30 area as the market's top, unless the market requires that opinion to be revised. Weeks ago, as others increased targets to the upside, we did not. Nor did we increase downside goals on an immediate basis, warning that a "B wave" rally (rebound within a bigger picture decline), was likely at any point, in harmony with the ideal pattern call for this week, which was down-up-down. It continues; very much on target.