Linked Reports, as we stated in BlackBelt Administration: Linked Reports in Report Manager, represent a compelling option when we wish to afford the same report format to various consumers, or consumer groups, while restricting each of the groups to only the data that they need to see to perform their functions. Examples might include a general patient report that gives key diagnostic data, and which appeals to all the doctors within a large clinic. Because certain patients are assigned to certain doctors, we might wish to provide all doctors the same report body, but only make data available to each doctor for the patients that are assigned to his care. With Linked Reports we might make these "multiple versions" of the same patient report available in various folders – with each doctor having access to his own folder, and the patient report in each folder (among other reports, perhaps) restricted to the delivery of information relating to those patients assigned to the doctor only. Linked Reports would answer this need well, while affording a single point of actual deployment and centralized administration, as we shall see in our hands-on practice session.
In the following sections, we will perform the steps required to deploy a simple OLAP report, with which we can apply the principals of Linked Reports to custom-filter the report for different consumer groups, just as we did in BlackBelt Administration: Linked Reports in Report Manager. To provide a report upon which we can practice the steps of our hands-on exercise, we will begin with the Sales Reason Comparisons sample report, based upon the Adventure Works cube contained within the Analysis Services database, Adventure Works DW, which is available with the installation of the MSSQL Server 2005 samples. The Sales Reason Comparisons report is intended to present comparison summary data from the Adventure Works cube. For the purposes of our article, we will say that we are working with developers and report authors within the Office of the Senior Vice President of Sales of our client, the Adventure Works organization.
To illustrate the somewhat basic business requirement (we'll use the same one we presented in BlackBelt Administration: Linked Reports in Report Manager, in order to support easy comparability of the steps we take here with those of the previous article – where we create Linked Reports within Report Manager, versus SQL Server Management Studio), let's say that the developers / authors have expressed the need to allow members of each of the organization's three Sales Territory Groups, (Europe, North America, and Pacific), to continue to use a report (the Sales Reason Comparisons report) that has met with their acceptance since AdventureWorks' migration to the integrated Microsoft BI solution. We had prepared this report for them in an earlier engagement, where we converted many existing reports from the predecessor enterprise reporting application, as a part of unifying many disparate – and expensive – applications within the Microsoft solution. Because the conversion saved the organization six figures in licensing costs annually, they were able to retain the employees already in place and avoid an alternative proposal to offshore the business intelligence operation (using the previously existing reporting application) in an attempt to meet budgetary challenges.
The client representatives have asked us to present a means whereby they can restrict the data presented by the Sales Reason Comparisons report to the respective Sales Territory Group to which a given consumer belongs. In this way, they would like a simple means of preventing access, say, of a member of one group to the report data relating to another group. They realize that they can create three copies of the same report, and then filter each for the respective group's data, but are concerned about having to maintain three copies of the same report, as they fear that the "versions" may soon become "out of sync" with independent changes.
The Sales Reason Comparisons report, originally created to present the data for all Sales Territory Groups, currently appears as depicted in Illustration 1.
As part of our typical business requirements gathering process, we listen attentively to the details, formulating, in the background, an idea of the steps we need to take in modifying a copy of the report to produce the desired results. Once we grasp the stated need, and confirm our understanding with the intended audience, we begin the process of modifying the Sales Reason Comparisons report to satisfy the information consumers. Because the authors are not certain that they will discard the original report completely (it may continue to be used for various higher-level executive meetings, for example), we will make these modifications to a copy we independently create from the original.
If the sample Adventure Works DW Analysis Services database was not created as part of the initial MSSQL Server 2005 installation, or was removed prior to your beginning this article, please see the MSSQL Server 2005 Books Online or other documentation for the procedure to put the database in place, together with the sample reports. As of this writing, a copy of the samples can be obtained from the installation CD or via download from the appropriate Microsoft site(s).
Our first objective is to create a copy of the Sales Reason Comparisons sample report, with which we can implement the minimal enhancements we will determine to be appropriate from discussions with the author / developer group. We will perform this portion of our practice session from inside the Business Intelligence Development Studio (where we would initially design and test a report in most environments), which makes its home within Visual Studio .NET 2005. We will then deploy the report file, and undertake our work with Linked Reports from SQL Server Management Studio.
NOTE: For more exposure to the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio itself, and the myriad design, development and other evolutions we can perform within this powerful interface, see articles in this and my other Database Journal series, Introduction to MSSQL Server Analysis Services. In this article, we will be commenting only on the features relevant to our immediate practice exercise, to allow us to get to the focus of the article more efficiently.
For purposes of our practice session, we will create a copy of the Sales Reason Comparisons report, one of several samples that are available with (and installable separately from) the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 integrated business intelligence solution. Creating a "clone" of the report means we can make changes to our report while retaining the original sample in a pristine state – perhaps for other purposes, such as using it to accompany relevant sections of the Books Online, and other documentation, in learning more about Reporting Services in general.
Taking preparatory steps, and then making the enhancements to the report to add the functionality to support the subject of our lesson, can be done easily within the Business Intelligence Development Studio environment. Working with a copy of the report will allow us the luxury of freely exploring our options, and leave us a working example of the specific approach we took, to which we can refer in our individual business environments.
To begin, we will launch the SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio.
The equivalent on my PC appears as depicted in Illustration 2.
We briefly see a splash page that lists the components installed on the PC, and then Visual Studio opens at the Start page.
5. Click Project / Solution ... from the cascading menu, as shown in Illustration 3.
6. Browse to the AdventureWorks sample reports.
7. Select the AdventureWorks Sample Reports.sln file within the sample reports folder, as depicted (circled) in Illustration 4.
The AdventureWorks Sample Reports solution opens, and we see the various objects within appear in Solution Explorer, as shown in Illustration 5.
Let's first ensure we have a working shared data source. Many of us will be running "side-by-side" installations of MSSQL Server 2000 and MSSQL Server 2005. This means that our installation of the latter will need to be referenced as a server / instance combination, versus a server name alone.
9. Double-click AdventureWorksAS.rds, within the Shared Data Sources folder seen in Solution Explorer.
The Shared Data Source dialog opens, and appears with default settings as depicted in Illustration 6.
10. Click the Edit button on the Shared Data Source dialog.
The Connection Properties dialog opens, and appears with default settings shown in Illustration 7.
We note that the default Server name is "local." While this might prove an adequate setting for a PC with only MSSQL Server 2005 installed (default instance), in the case of many of our installations, the requirement here is for the server / instance combination that identifies the correct MSSQL Server 2005 instance. (Clicking the Test Connection button at this point will provide confirmation whether we need to make this change).
12. Ensure that authentication settings are correct for the local environment.
13. Click the Test Connection button.
A message box appears, indicating that the Test connection succeeded, assuming that our changes (or lack of same, as appropriate) are appropriate. The message box appears as shown in Illustration 9.
14. Click OK to dismiss the message box.
15. Click OK to accept changes, as appropriate, and to dismiss the Connection Properties dialog.
The Shared Data Source dialog appears, with our modified settings, similar to that depicted in Illustration 10.
16. Click OK to close the Shared Data Source dialog, and to return to the development environment.
We are now ready to "clone" a sample report and proceed with the practice exercise.


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Four behavioral economics strategies for improving consumer financial health
Kristen Berman Wendy De La Rosa Mariel Beasley 5 years
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Kristen Berman is the co-founder and CEO of Irrational Labs, a behavioral research and design consultancy.
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Mariel Beasley is a co-founder of Duke's Common Cents Lab and a Senior Applied Researcher at the Center for Advanced Hindsight. Mariel holds a Masters in Public Policy from Duke University, where she also co-teaches a course on applying behavioral insights to municipal policy.
At Common Cents Lab, a financial research lab at Duke University supported by MetLife Foundation, we believe behavioral science can help improve financial well-being. For the past two years, we've been applying our insights and an experimental mindset to work with fintech companies, credit unions and nonprofits in order to test this assumption.
Twenty-six experiments in, we thought it was time to assess our progress and share what we've learned with the industry. Below are four strategies we have used in the field and examples of our work to tactically show how they manifest in market. Our hope is that these four strategies can help other companies leverage human nature to make it easier for low- to moderate-income households improve financial decision-making and their own well-being.
Remove the environmental barriers surrounding financial decision-making
Typical poverty alleviation strategies aim to boost a person's decision-making bandwidth so that they are always in a better position to surmount financial hurdles as they arise. However, even when operating at top available bandwidth, managing variable income and expenses is tough, and the pressure falls upon the person to do complex mathematical balancing acts. Instead, successful providers will make this equation dramatically simpler.
By shifting this decision-making burden from the consumer to the company, it becomes a win-win for everyone involved. The company gets to enhance their value proposition by offering helpful products and features, and the consumer's life becomes dramatically easier when financial decisions are taken off their shoulders.
Our work from the field:
Self-Help Credit Union's new retirement savings product automatically deducts money from new members' paychecks. It's what's called a "transparent default," or a default that opts people in automatically but immediately gives them the option to close it.
Homebase, a scheduling app for small businesses, is introducing features that help employers provide more advanced schedule notice and create more consistent, reliable schedules. This shifts the burden off the employee and onto the employer, providing greater visibility to the employee and helping them maximize attendance and earnings.
The Latino Community Credit Union built a savings product attached to a loan product. This means their members only submit payment once but are simultaneously paying down debt and building a safety net. By coupling these actions, they can decrease complexity and increase financial well being.
In all three cases, these companies are removing the environmental inhibitors and making it easy for people to improve their financial prospects.
Make the right financial decisions dramatically easier
Everyone fights a daily uphill battle against the forces of consumerism. Cries of "Buy this! Buy that!" are remarkably similar to pleas to "Eat this! Eat that!" Yet, why do we have so many tools at our disposal to manage eating, but remarkably few to combat spending impulses? Mantras like no carbs, no dairy or no gluten from Weight Watchers or the Atkins Diet abound. But outside of pop figures like Dave Ramsey or Suzie Orman sharing anecdotal wisdom, our financial toolkit is remarkably empty. Given the dire state of America's savings, we should instead be aggressively developing and testing new tools to help people spend less and save more.
Fintech app Clarity Money is working on putting "rules of thumb" into their spending recommendations that give people simple heuristics to direct future spending.
Food stamps tracker Propel showed that breaking food stamp budgets into weekly chunks can help simplify the complex budgeting equation and save people money.
DoubleNet Pay and EarnUp are both showing that by changing up the timing of payments and saving, they can make financial management dramatically easier for their customers.
Digit is making savings automatic by asking people before they receive their tax refund how much they'd like to save, then automatically saving it for them. Last year alone, they helped double the amount of savings for participating customers.
Help consumers take advantages of the resources they already have
Many times, people already have options available to them that could increase their financial well-being, but they don't take full advantage. Sometimes it's not about creating new products and services — the secret is helping people use the services right in front of them.
CoinFlip is an app that makes discount redemption easy, helping people make use of the savings that's long been available but often unused.
Many cities help parents save for college, but few people make regular deposits. The city of St. Louis nudges parents through clever reminders to deposit into their child's account.
Increase motivation for people to make the right financial decisions
Surveys show that most people have good ideas for improving their financial health. But the difficulty of decisions like saving or paying down debt, coupled with a lack of motivation, prevents them from taking action. There is a massive opportunity to improve financial health by playing to people's motivations and helping them make a "good for you" choice today versus waiting for tomorrow.
Arizona Credit Union is using the power of social proof to increase motivation. By showing customers that similar people are spending less on eating out than they might expect, it hopes to swap motivation for saving money with the motivation to be like their peers.
Payment company Payable is changing how wages are displayed for hourly workers. By focusing hourly workers on their projected annual wage, it is creating a long-term mindset and improving their motivation to engage in long-term positive behaviors, like saving for retirement.
Community Empowerment Fund uses the power of goals to make savings more appealing by giving people punch cards that track their savings progress. This accountability is helping customers increase their savings rates over time.

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A poisoned process
As early as today, a bill may be debated in the Iowa Senate to drastically slash revenue for public services — phased in at a cost of over $1 billion a year, or about one-seventh of the state's General Fund.
The Senate bill, as does any legislation with a fiscal impact, comes with a "fiscal note." This analysis by the Legislative Services Agency, using Department of Revenue data, was made available sometime late Tuesday. The legislation itself was introduced a week ago today, and passed out of subcommittee and full committee the following day.
The legislation is so complex that it took the state's top fiscal analysts a week to put together their summary, which includes four pages of bullet points in addition to tables of data about various impacts. The nonpartisan analysis finds that the wealthiest individuals and most powerful corporations once again are the big winners.
The timing of the official fiscal analysis was only the latest example of cynical approach to public governing that has slapped brown paper over the windows of the gold-domed sausage factory in Des Moines.
This General Assembly was elected in 2016. It is an understatement to suggest that this legislation could easily have been developed through the 2017 legislative session or the months leading up to this session. The public who will be affected, and advocates across the political spectrum, could have weighed in, and independent fiscal analysis considered.
Many have tried to educate the public about what is at stake for Iowa — including the Iowa Fiscal Partnership, which among other activities brought in experts from Kansas last year to show what has happened there with similar tax slashing. IFP also offered a reminder in October of what real tax reform could include, and later about both open government and the folly of Kansas' course. Last week, we warned about the fiscal cliff ahead.
Everyone knew the legislative leadership and Governor wanted to do something to cut taxes, but no specifics were available, just a couple of hints with no real context. The session opened in the second week of January, and it wasn't until most had left the building on the second-to-last day of February that a fiscal analysis magically appeared.
With a more transparent and deliberate process, everyone — including and especially the legislators who will be voting on it — would have had a chance to get full information about its impacts.
Instead, it is being rammed through. Regardless of whether the legislation itself is good or bad, the process has poisoned it. And perhaps it has poisoned governance in Iowa for years to come.
There are elements of the commentary defending and opposing this legislation that show general agreement on two key points of what meaningful, responsible tax reform would entail. On both sides, there is recognition that:
• removing Iowa's costly and unusual federal tax deduction would enable a reduction of top tax rates that appear higher than they really are; and
• corporate tax credits are out of control and costing the state millions outside the budget process, while education and human services suffer.
The process, however, has shielded from public view a clear understanding of how the specifics of this legislation would affect two principles central to good tax policy: (1) the purpose of raising adequate revenues for critical services, and (2) raising those revenues in a way that reflects ability to pay — basic fairness of taxation, where Iowa (like most states) has a system that shoves greater costs on low-income than high-income taxpayers.
It also has raised to the altar of absurdity a ridiculous image of the competitiveness of Iowa taxes, which independent business consultants' analysis has shown to be lower than half the states and in the middle of a very large pack that differs little on the state and local business taxes governed by state policy. (chart below)
As the process moves from the Senate to the House, these concepts of good governance need to be central to timely debate, not just fodder for editorial pages afterward.
Mike Owen is executive director of the nonpartisan Iowa Policy Project, and project director of the Iowa Fiscal Partnership, a joint initiative of IPP and the Child & Family Policy Center in Des Moines. mikeowen@iowapolicyproject.org
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I also have two posts; one being the default Hello World, and the second made by me, some text and about 9 images.
The problem is when I try to run the loop, I only get one window with the title of the page:
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A: It looks like you are attempting to create a secondary archive/index page on the "events" template, but haven't modified the main query for the page. Without that, you will only get results for the one page. Try:
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A: Solved the issue by placing this on the top:
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YNIOS PHARMA is a biotech start-up, aiming to develop new oral and parenteral treatments for pathologies involving cellular degeneration induced by inflammation.
The company is building up a health platform for developing treatments for acute and chronic diseases, using its proprietary ionic compounds.
At this stage, the company strives to validate Proof of Concepts enabling to support the preclinical development of multiple pathologies related to both acute and chronic inflammation. These pathologies are Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIC), Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT1A).
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Preliminary in vitro tests on Wistar rats have confirmed the effectiveness of the ionic compound YNIOS PHARMA incubated 1 hour before in a model mimicking Alzheimer's disease with glutamate intoxication for 20 minutes. The TA6415 compound reduced the mortality of cortical neurons from 58% in the control group to 10% with pre-treatment, i.e. nearly 6 times less cell death with the YNIOS PHARMA compound.
Preliminary in vitro tests on Wistar rats have demonstrated that a two-hour pre-treatment with the ionic compound YNIOS PHARMA significantly limits the release of TNF- from sensory neurons after injury with 12µM cisplatin for 6 hours (Figure 3). The 6 concentrations of compound TA64 tested demonstrated highly significant protective efficacy.
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Its pluri-ionic complex TA64 will be tested in vivo on an acute sepsis model in rodents, induced by LPS, to demonstrate its efficacy to dampen the cytokine storm and thus be protective against multi-organ failure.
A second in vivo evaluation in the context of chronic low-grade inflammation will be performed on an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (MICI) mouse model, induced by DSS, to demonstrate its protective effect.
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We are thrilled to announce that Rob|Arch 2016 will take place shortly before Easter 2016 in Sydney Australia, with Dagmar Reinhardt and Rob Saunders of the University of Sydney as conference chairs.
They are joined by Marjo Niemelä (University of Sydney), Mari Velonaki and Hank Haeusler (UNSW), Chris Knapp and Jonathan Nelson (Abedian School of Architecture, Bond University), Jane Burry, Roland Snooks, and Nicholas Williams (RMIT), Dave Pigram (UTS), and Tim Schork and Jon McCormack (Monash University) as co-chairs.
The adoption of digital fabrication in the creative industries continues to accelerate as the potential for innovation and creative expression using robotics is being harnessed. ROB|ARCH2016 will provide hands-on experience with the most recent robotic technologies as well as a platform for dissemination and an opportunity for researchers and industry to exchange expertise, explore methods, compare techniques and forge new connections.
The organisers of ROB|ARCH2016 invite authors to submit papers with original research relating to the use of robots in architecture, art, and design. The purpose of this year's conference is to advance the discourse surrounding robotic fabrication and creative robotics in its theme "Trajectories" – towards the integration of human-robot interactions informed by sensor input and real-time feedback in diverse environmental conditions.
For details, visit the CALL FOR PAPERS page.
The ROB|ARCH conference series aims to allow practitioners to share expertise, to bring together teams of international researchers, to foster networks, to increase knowledge, and to stimulate innovation. To achieve this aim the ROB|ARCH conferences combine academic presentations with hands-on workshops held in the three days preceding the conference. ROB|ARCH 2012 and 2014 offered workshops from world-class research institutions such as ICD Stuttgart and ETH Zurich, and even Oscar-winning companies such as Bot&Dolly. For 2016 we are again sending out a CALL FOR WORKSHOPS and encourage researcher, industry, and talented individuals to propose a workshop for ROB|ARCH 2016.
For details, visit the CALL FOR WORKSHOPS page.
Rob|Arch 2014 was a GREAT success, we want to thank the conference chairs Wes McGee and Monica Ponce de Leon from the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, as well as their entire team, especially Deniz McGee and Aaron Willette for hosting such a perfect conference. We also want to thank our more than 200 (!!!) attendees from all around the world, especially those who actively contributed workshops and papers to the Rob|Arch community. Finally our thanks go out to our industry partners – main conference sponsor KUKA, main workshop sponsors ABB, as well as Stäubli and Schunk.
The hard-working workshop-teams were held awake on the 14th and 15th by our media partner Red Bull's "Wing Teams" who distributed all flavors of Red Bull, while event partner Absolut really spiced up the exhibition evening-event on the 18th by providing 50 bottles of Absolut and a "Absolut Robots in Architecture" cocktail that was specially created by the award-winning barkeeper Lukas Hochmuth. As you can see, Rob|Arch 2014 had both hands-on and theory, industry and academia, makers and enterprises, scientific conference and party.
We hope to see many of you again in 2016!!!
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Less than two years ago, in December 2012, the Association for Robots in Architecture hosted the first international conference for robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design. Initially conceptualized as a medium-sized symposium, it became a full-sized conference with 8 conference workshops distributed throughout Europe, with many European institutions hosting US universities such as Harvard doing a workshop at TU Graz, the Taubman College partnering up with TU Delft, and SciArc's team coming to TU Vienna's facilities. As such, the idea was to turn that around for Rob|Arch 2014, with the conference taking part in the US and hosting workshops from abroad. Already at Rob|Arch 2012, Wes McGee of the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning expressed interest in hosting the next conference in Ann Arbor. As the world's largest "architectural" robotic lab, the Taubman College was a logical choice, and we were delighted when Dean Monica Ponce De Leon joined the effort as conference chair alongside Wes, showing the significance of the conference topic, not just for Taubman College but also the architectural community.
When the Call for Workshops went out to academic institutions worldwide there was again a great international resonance from the community, with Carnegie Mellon University joining as workshop host. Finally, eight robot workshops were selected for Rob|Arch 2014, with the Taubman College hosting 4 workshops: a joint workshop on steel-bending with the University of Technology Sydney, a carbon-fibre winding workshop by the University of Stuttgart, a workshop involving sensors and Arduinos by IAAC, and finally a special workshop by Bot & Dolly, who showed some of the programming approaches that were used in projects such as the Oscar-awarded movie Gravity.
At CMU, three workshops took place: Steambending of wood was explored by CMU, while the University of Innsbruck and Harvard GSD explored phase-change materials. Harvard GSD also teamed up for another workshop with the Graz University of Technology and interfaced a Kinect sensor with an ABB robot. The eight workshop took place not too far at Princeton, where Princeton University and Greyshed worked with Augmented Materiality.
The Rob|Arch community is now reaching a level of maturity where we can look back and see who really influenced the course of things, as well as whom we expect to significantly shape the future of robotic fabrication in architecture, art and design. To honour these individuals as well as company, the Association for Robots in Architecture established a series of awards that were handed out at the Rob|Arch 2014 conference dinner.
Through our sponsors KUKA and ABB, we were also able to award the best paper by a young researcher through the KUKA Young Potential Award, and to support students and individual researchers through the ABB Mobility Grant.
The KUKA Young Potential Award for the best scientific paper at Rob|Arch 2014 went to Ammar Kalo and Michael Jake Newsum of the University of Michigan and SciArc for their paper Robotic Incremental Sheet Forming.
Altogether, three ABB Mobility Grants were awarded. We congratulate Nikita Troufanov of SciArc, Alexander Walz, Pedja Gavrilovic, Maximilian Seiferlein, and Beatrice Huff of the University of Innsbruck, and Ahmed Hosny, Jared Friedman, and Amanda Lee of Harvard.
As part of Rob|Arch, we sent out a Call for Videos to encourage submissions from artists and designers, as well as to give paper submissions the chance to illustrate their projects. More than 20 videos were accepted and shown at both the conference venue as well as at the evening event, where they were met with great interested. They will stay to be available online through the Association for Robots in Architecture's Vimeo channel. Since Rob|Arch 2014 the videos have been accessed online more than 90.000 times!
Of course, a conference is not only about showing ones work to the community, but about networking, setting up business deals, and finding new collaborators or employees. As such we were very happy that the range of attendees included CEOs of large robot manufacturers, representatives of several large industry players, and even organizations such as the Robotic Industries Association and the Association for Advancing Automation. We were especially thrilled about the number of startups, makers, and individual artists who either have already bought robots or are looking to invest in robotic technology.
One of the best indications of the success of Rob|Arch may be that three of four demo robots that were set up at Taubman College were sold "on the spot", in addition to many other sales that will be finalized in the coming months. Many job opening were also promoted, especially by ICD Stuttgart and ETH Zurich who both received significant funding to set up robotic research centers – a DFG grant for a Collaborative Research Centre at Stuttgart and a NFS for Digital Fabrication in Zurich.
The Rob|Arch 2014 publication is available at Springer both as an eBook as well as in physical form. Members of the Association for Robots in Architecture can download it as a free eBook from the protected member section.
We are extremely thrilled to announce that Rob|Arch 2016 will be hosted at Sydney and chaired by Dagmar Reinhardt and Rob Saunders of the University of Sydney, in collaboration with all other Australian universities that will have robots by 2016, such as RMIT in Melbourne, Bond University in Gold Coast, Technical University of Sydney, Monash University, and the University of Tasmania. It's already shaping up to be a very special event, so keep the end of 2016 (summer in Australia, winter in Europe and Northern America!) free.
Today marks the second of three days of robot workshops at Rob|Arch 2014. This Rob|Arch, around 100 researchers, professionals, artists, and designers actively participate in the workshops, and twice as many are expected to attend the conference sessions on Saturday and Sunday. We're absolutely thrilled by the quality of the workshops that offer their participants unprecedented insight into how both research institutions and also enterprises like Bot & Dolly interact and work with robotic arms.
This workshop will demonstrate strategies for interactive and intuitive robot control during the design and fabrication processes. Rather than using the robot in isolation as a means for fabricating digital design, the robot acts as one of many mediators between the digital and physical world throughout the design process. Employing 3D scanning technologies in conjunction with user tracking, human interface devices, various sensors and augmented reality strategies, we are able to demonstrate multidirectional communication between the human designer, physical materials, computer simulation and robotic scanning/manipulation. Our scripts coordinate robot movements with projected images, thereby illustrating robotic toolpaths, user input information and structural calculations by overlaying them over physical geometry. The setup and tools will be used, experimented upon, and (ideally) modified by workshop participants.
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Full conference schedule now online!
The full conference program for the RobArch 2014 conference has been posted, please visit the schedule page for detailed information on paper presentations, keynotes, etc.
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The Conference Chairs and Advisory Board are excited to announce the keynote lecturers for the 2014 conference, showcasing the convergence of technology, industry, and academia which is at the heart of the Rob|Arch conference series.
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Rob|Arch 2014 and the Association for Robots in Architecture invite research institutions and companies, as well as individual artists, architects, designers, engineers, researchers, and students to submit video presentations of their "robotic" work to the Rob|Arch 2014 conference. The video clips should showcase new developments and innovative projects that are relevant to the conference topic of robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design.
A jury of experts will choose the best video submissions to be shown at the conference/exhibition to Rob|Arch 2014 attendees, among them CEOs of major robot companies as well as industry partners and internationally recognized researchers, architects, and artists. Furthermore, the video clips will be published on the Rob|Arch conference homepage, www.robarch2014.org, and via social media to a wide internet audience.
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Early bird pricing has been EXTENDED!
We have extended the deadline for early bird registrations until March 14th, 2014. We will post updated workshop availability soon, as several are almost sold out!
The ABB Mobility Grant was initiated by ABB Robotics and the Association for Robots in Architecture to support individuals who are highly engaged in robotic applications in the creative industry. Three grants with a volume of 1000USD each support the grantee's travel and accommodation costs for Rob|Arch 2014.
It is the goal of the Mobility Grant to financially support individuals who do not have the financial support of academic or commercial institutions but want to engage in the robotic dialogue at Rob|Arch 2014.
The grantees will be chosen by the board of the Association for Robots in Architecture and notified on 15.3.2014.
Please note that the grant will be awarded at the conference, with the money transferred shortly thereafter. We're looking forward to seeing you at Rob|Arch 2014!
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We are pleased to announce the continuation of the "Kuka Young Potential Award" for the 2014 RobArch Conference. The Award is to support young researchers in the field of robots in architecture, art, and design. The KUKA Young Potential Award (worth 2500 USD) will be granted to the best scientific paper at Rob|Arch by a researcher of 35 years or less. Last Rob|Arch's winner was Ryan Luke Johns of Greyshed for his paper Augmented Reality and the Fabrication of Gestural Form.
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In addition, Workshops for the 2014 conference have been selected by the Workshop Committee. We received 20 submissions, all of them very high quality. The first 7 workshops are now listed on the website.
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Rob|Arch 2014 website is now live!
In addition to the papers that were presented at Rob|Arch 2012 and published in the Rob|Arch book, the Association for Robots in Architecture sent out a call for video contributions to artists, researchers, students and companies world-wide. These impressive videos show the extremely wide range of robotic projects in the creative industry – from cutting-edge robotic milling, to new endeffectors, and even completely customized robots themselves.
At Rob|Arch 2012, the video contributions were shown at the conference venue to an audience of 250 international experts. It is now our pleasure to present the Rob|Arch 2012 video contributions to a worldwide audience.
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We hope that you had relaxing holidays and a good start into the New Year!
Rob|Arch 2012 was a great success and we thank you for your positive feedback and the good wishes for the future events. From what we have heard, Rob|Arch not only provided great inspiration, but also lead to quite a few new collaborations and projects within the community.
We have uploaded nearly 15mins of workshop videos at Vimeo and 360 photos both on Facebook and the conference homepage.
The video submissions and presentations will follow soon – we are still post-processing the huge data volume.
We would like to thank nevv.org for their support, our photographers Eugen, Raimund and Marko for a good documentation, and all people involved in the conference workshops for their hard work.
Finally, we want to introduce the new ROBARCH list, inspired by lists such as ECAADE and CAADRIA, which are of great use to the community. The new ROBARCH list will link together architects, artists, designers, and engineers involved in robotic fabrication and promote new events, posts interesting job openings etc. The first official ROBARCH eMail will go out soon, please let us know if you have anything to announce!
Have fun with the first part of the online RobArch2012 documentation and thank you all for having been part of RobArch2012!
With kind regards from Vienna!
Go to www.facebook.com/robotsinarchitecture – you do not have to be a member of Facebook to view this page, as we will be posting publicly.


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New Scrutiny for Facebook Over Predators
BRAD STONE
Like MySpace before it, Facebook, the online social network, is being subjected to accusations that it does not do enough to keep sexual predators off its site.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 — Facebook, the online social network, has stolen some of MySpace's momentum with users and the news media. Now, it is being subjected to the same accusations that it does not do enough to keep sexual predators off its site.
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, said that investigators in his state were looking into "three or more" cases of convicted sex offenders who had registered on Facebook and had "also found inappropriate images and content" on the service. The inquiry continues, he said, and state officials have contacted Facebook and asked it to remove the profiles.
"There is no question that Facebook is encountering some of the same problems that MySpace has posed," Mr. Blumenthal said. "They should be held accountable, and we intend to do so."
MySpace has been implicated in dozens of cases around the country in which predators used the service to contact and arrange improper meetings with minors. Some of these encounters have led to criminal charges against the offenders, and civil suits against MySpace.
Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer, said he was not familiar with the Connecticut investigation but that the company has received "a number" of such reports and usually takes down such profiles within 72 hours.
"We want to be a good partner to the states in attempting to address this societal problem," Mr. Kelly said. "We've worked with them for quite some time now, and we look forward to continuing our fruitful partnership."
Facebook, founded in 2004 and based in Palo Alto, Calif., has positioned itself as the safe social-networking alternative. It has generally gone to greater lengths than rivals to keep adults and under-age users apart, at first allowing only college and high school students to join the service, and then largely restricting online communication to users at the same school.
Last year, the site opened to the general public, but it still maintains various restrictions. For example, a user's full profile is not accessible to the general online public, and the full profile of an under-18 Facebook member is not viewable by a user who is over 18, unless the two are confirmed friends on the service. But in some cases, Facebook's younger users are vulnerable to sexual solicitations from older users, as was demonstrated last week to The New York Times by an anonymous person who described himself or herself in an e-mail message as "a concerned parent." The evidence of this person's activities on Facebook may give state investigators further cause for concern.
In early July, this person opened a fake account on the site, posing as a 15-year-old girl named Jerri Gelson from North Carolina. The photograph on the fake profile page is of an under-age girl whose hair conceals her face. On the profile page, Ms. Gelson — whom the "concerned parent" said was not a real person — is described as looking for "random play" and "whatever I can get."
This person then signed up for three dozen sexually themed groups — forums of users organized around a particular topic. In the directory of groups on Facebook, under the "sexuality" category, there are now dozens of groups with sexually explicit topics, even though Facebook prohibits "obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit" material in its Content Code of Conduct policy.
The groups that were signed up for include "addicted to masturbation ... and you know if you are!", "Facebook Swingers" and "I'm Curious About Incest."
When the Jerri Gelson profile was linked to these groups, her name and profile photo became visible to the group's other users, and adult men began sexually propositioning her with e-mail messages over Facebook. "I saw your profile pic and thought I should get in touch with this hot girl!" wrote one bald, goateed man from Toronto. "Like what u see?" wrote another man from Mississippi, whose profile picture featured him sitting naked on his couch.
Several other men and women who sent e-mail messages to the Jerri Gelson account also had nude pictures of themselves on their profiles.
Mr. Kelly of Facebook said the company strictly prohibits depictions of nudity on the site and groups that encourage pornography and online sexual activity. "Those people aren't welcome on our service, and they never have been," he said.
He also said that such images are quickly removed from Facebook, since customer service representatives monitor the site and other users are encouraged to flag inappropriate content. However, some of the explicit images sent to the Jerri Gelson account were three weeks old and are still on the site.
The person who created the Jerri Gelson page had actively joined the sex-themed groups and added some of the adults who e-mailed her to her list of confirmed friends. Mr. Kelly said, "We want to, by default, protect people, but if there's a situation where younger users are reaching out, there's only so much we can do."
MySpace, a division of News Corporation, has reacted to concerns about sexual predators on its site by hiring Sentinel Tech Holding a Miami company that maintains a database of the sex-offender registries from all 50 states. State attorneys general recently announced that MySpace had deleted 29,000 profiles set up by convicted sex-offenders through such screening.
Mr. Kelly said that Facebook, which is a privately held company, was proposing a different way to identify convicted sex offenders on the service. Instead of working through Sentinel, the company has proposed building a database of names and e-mail addresses for convicted sexual offenders that could be compared to the membership rolls of Internet sites. For that approach to work, however, Facebook would have to wait until all 50 states had passed legislation requiring sex-offenders to register their e-mail addresses. Currently such legislation is signed or pending in 13 states.
Asked about that approach, Mr. Blumenthal, the Connecticut attorney general, said, "I think there are more efficient and effective ways to do the screening."
Mr. Blumenthal said he was taking a particular interest in Facebook because his children use the service. He said of its recent opening to a more general audience, "I have observed its mutation into a somewhat different kind of site. There are now some troubling aspects to its features and culture that were absent before."


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30 Smartest Celebrities in Hollywood
By Kimberley on January 2, 2015
Believe it or not, it's not just looks that get you through life. Sometimes you really do need to have the brains to back it all up in order to be successful. Most people believe that celebrities aren't smart simply because they've never had to show that side of them before. You might be surprised to learn that some of your favourite actors, singers and stars are some of the smartest people going. Just check out some of the following examples if you don't believe us…
Here are the 30 smartest celebrities in Hollywood!
1- Natalie Portman
Israeli-born Neta-Lee Hershlag, or Natalie Portman as she is perhaps better known, is not only one of the most critically acclaimed actresses of our time, she's super smart too!
Back in 2003 she graduated from Harvard with an A.B. degree in the subject of psychology and this has actually given her the title of being the first alum that has ever won a 'best actress' Academy Award and not just that, she speaks no fewer than six different languages, and has been published in two different scientific journals.
Beauty and brains – she really could be the full package!
2 – Ashton Kutcher
Although we better know this Hollywood hunk for his role in fils like Just Married and TV shows like Two and a Half Men, he's actually a lot smarter than you first may have thought. He had anticipated the acceptance into two decent colleges to study the field of Engineering, but sadly rather than going into Purdue or MIT, he dropped out of education when he was 19 years old so that he could pursue his acting career.
After seeing what he's achieved in his career so far, that's probably not a bad choice! He sure has brains to back it all up though.
3 – Emma Watson
This girl is not only one of the greatest celebrity role models for young girls these days, she's also super smart whether or not you'd choose to believe it. Paris-born (yet English) actress Emma actually recently split her time between further education and her acting career for a few years between 2011 and 2014 and during this time, she studied at Brown University to graduate with an English literature degree, and at Oxford University too. Plus she's recently become a UN ambassador. How does she find the time to fit it all in?!
4 – Edward Norton
This screenwriter, actor, film director and producer has shown his smarts with the gleaming career he's had in the past few years. With a string of awards under his belt like 'Best Supporting Actor" Golden Globe back in 2006 for the film Primal Fear or the plentiful nominations for Academy Awards, Satellite Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards…. etc, he's come a long way since his Off-Broadway theatre days.
He did attend Yale to study history for a while but after a back injury stopped his rowing days while he was there, he decided to take a break and try his hand at acting, something that has clearly been a great decision for him. Since then, he's become a firm favourite in the charity world and not only worked as an analyst for a while for a nonprofit entrepreneurial organisation, but also became fluent in Japanese, studied and mastered a martial art, and donated over a million dollars to the Enterprise Foundation which was set up by his grandfather to help with affordable housing.
Smart guy – he certainly invests his money well!
5 – Jodie Foster
Silence of the Lambs actress Jodie Foster not only attended Yale but also studied upper-level French, even going as far as to return to her studies and taking breaks from her acting pursuits. Not just that but even after she took a break from her studies after the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan (John Hinckley, Jr., the man that attempted to kill the then-president, had quite the obsession with the young actress and this caused a whole bunch of undue attention for her) he returned back to schooling to get herself an honorary Doctor with a Fine Arts degree.
6 – Kate Beckinsale
Underworld beauty is one of the greatest (and hottest) actresses to come out of Britain but it would seem that she's one of the smartest girlies to come out of the country too! 41 year old London-born Kate was given a reading age of an eleven year old…. when she was just six years old. Not just that but her good background and recent education now means that she speaks a whopping four different languages fluently, and studies at Oxford in both Russian literature, and French! Add fluent German to the mix and you could say this was one smart little cookie! Being beautiful clearly helps too, obviously.
7 – David Duchovny
X Files star David Duchovny has the pleasure of attending TWO Ivy League schools in his life, and even went as far as to graduate from Princeton University with a B.A. in the subject of English literature. He went on to get his Master's at Yale university but back in 1987 he booked himself a beer commercial and the rest is pretty much history!
8 – Lisa Kudrow
Friends star Lisa is not just the beautiful blonde (and slightly bonkers) best friend of Rachel and Monica, she actually started working with her scientist father to help conduct clinical research on… headaches. It might not sound exotic or exciting to us but after publishing her research on the study, and then going on to graduate school, she decided to throw in the towel and follow her dreams of becoming an actress instead. With the popularity and fame that Friends hit, we reckon that was the best decision, don't you?
9 – James Franco
He's not just cute, 36 year old California-born James Franco is a big fan of furthering his education and seems to be picking up college degrees like they are going out of fashion! He didn't do great in high school but decided to go back and finish his studies later on in his life, later graduating from UCLA, then went into film making at NYU, went to Brooklyn College and Columbia University to further his love of writing and fiction, and even finished a Ph.D at Yale too!
Hot and smart, who'd have thought?
10 – Quentin Tarantino
Already known as a genius in the world of film making, Quentin Tarantino has always said he's never been very fond of schooling but despite this, he's apparently got an IQ of over 160! Just so you have some perspective of what that actually means, that's about the same as what could be considered as the smartest guy in the world – Stephen Hawking.
Of course, rather than putting his mind to good use in education, he's decided to create some of the most classic movies of our time including the Kill Bill films, and even Pulp Fiction!
11 – Ken Jeong
This guy is probably better known for his hilarious roles in movies like The Hangover and the subsequent follow-on films, but believe it or not, this funny guy actually studied medicine and is a licensed obstetrician. That's cool, right? At least he can fall back on his medical career if he ever gets bored of his acting one.
12 – Rashida Jones
If you've even seen The Social Network, I Love You, Man or The Muppets, you'll already have an idea of who this beautiful starlet is but not just great in Tinseltown, she's an intelligent girlie too!
38 year old daughter of Quincy Jones, Rashida was actually classed as 'the most likely to succeed' by her classmates at The Buckley School in California, and actually went to school with both Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton! After her high school days, she went on to study at Harvard University where she originally wanted to be a lawyer but decided to opt for a different path after the O.J. Simpson trial for murder. She later graduated in 1997 after studying philosophy and religion.
13 – Matt Damon
This guy has got a lot of titles under his belt. He's not just an actor but a voice actor, a producer, a screenwriter, and even a philanthropist. It was the 1997 film Good Will Hunting that exploded him onto our screens, and his joint screenplay with friend Ben Affleck well and truly put him on the map.
It was during his time as a student at Harvard that he first hatched up the idea behind the hit movie, and although he dropped out of school once he realised his talents for acting and everything surrounding that, he was still awarded with a very prestigious and sought after Harvard Arts Medal.
14 – Sharon Stone
She's probably better known for that leg-crossing scene in Basic Instinct but Sharon has shown that there are some brains behind her beauty. As well as reportedly having an IQ of over 150 (just 6 points below that of Quentin Tarantino and Stephen Hawking), it was at the very young age of just fifteen that she was given a scholarship for college where she later studied both the fine arts and creative writing too! This was obviously a decision that worked out very well for her, winning both an Academy Award for her part in the movie Basic Instinct (Best Actress), but also a Golden Globe for her part in Casino too.
Smart and stunning! Well done Sharon!
15 – Ashley Judd
She's a well known American actress but that's not all Ashley Judd is about. California-born Ashely Tyler Ciminella is a political activist and also one of the smartest gals in Hollywood. She bagged herself a mid-career public administration master's degree when she was studying at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, finishing the degree in just one year rather than two.
16 – Arnold Schwarzenegger
So he's been an actor and a political guy, even going as far as becoming the Governor of California but that's not all he's known for. Apparently he's one smart cookie as well as a tough one!
In school he picked bodybuilding over other sports, and this active background was very much influenced by his active father, but although he's not well known for his school attributes, he's apparently got an IQ of almost 135 which is pretty high!
We don't really know whether he says 'stupid' things on purpose, but his public speaking blunders are always a cause for a giggle or two despite how smart we are told he might be.
17 – Hugh Jackman
He's hot, a hunk and apparently really smart too. When he was studying in Australia as a youngster, he earned himself degrees in both journalism and communication. These days he's well known for his lovely demeanour and gentlemanly ways over his educational background, but it just goes to show that even the hottest guys have brains too!
18 – Steve Martin
With an IQ of almost 150, Steve Martin spent a year of his life trying to get into the educational and intelligent group MENSA which he succeeded, and he later wrote about his story for The New Yorker. That's not all for his educational successes however – although he is well known for an actor, he has written many books, is responsible for a large number of screenplays, majored in philosophy during his time at the California State University and very nearly chose a career path of professor rather than actor. We are certainly glad he did!
19 – Anne Hathaway
Les Miserables star doesn't come across as the sharpest knife in the drawer especially with movies like The Princess Diaries where she plays a young, dorky character that again, wasn't that bright. The wannabe princess appears to be much more than meets the eyes however, and alongside bagging herself a spot on the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine back in 2006, she also studied as an English major, and also took part in Women's Studies before going on to drama schooling.
20 – Meryl Streep
She's a formidable woman and you couldn't possibly forget her upstanding performance in the 2006 movie, The Devil Wears Prada. She's won no less than THREE Academy Awards and is now considered to be one of the greatest film actors of our time. She's since branched out into producing and again, has won a whole host of awards for this too, and nominated for many more.
After finding her interest in acting, she attended Yale School of Drama and has gone from strength to strength from then! She's one smart cookie and she's definitely used all the tools at her disposal to get to where she is today.
21 – Jake Gyllenhaal
In fact, number 21 on the list of 30 smartest celebrities in Hollywood is technically two people – Jake and his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal. They both studied at Columbia University and although only one of the siblings finished their education (Maggie), they are both considered to be great students and are both highly intelligent.
22 – Jordana Brewster
This beautiful starlet actually hid her identity in order to return to schooling and after The Fast & The Furious films went as big as they did, she took her opportunity. She left her acting career behind for a while to study English and Yale University and proclaimed that she was a total geek, wishing she had joined a sorority and had more fun! We are sure there is plenty of time left for all that!
23 – Kevin Spacey
Believe it or not, Kevin Spacey is actually an actor trained at Julliard, and although he dropped out to follow his Broadway career, he is now one of the biggest advocates for the entertainment business and regular uses his well-known position to help out Netflix from time to time! A great actor, a smart cookie and now with great life decision! That's someone that has it all figured out, right?
24 – Jennifer Connelly
Not only did this brown-haired beauty study at both Stanford and Yale, she also has managed to pick up two languages on top of her native tongue. She was a busy model and child actor during her younger years but this didn't stop her making sure she got the most out of her education, and after studying for two years at Yale on the subject of English, she then went on to Stanford to study drama.
25 – Colin Firth
He's hot. That's the first thing you should know about Colin Firth. The second thing you should know is that this very British actor is actually one of the smartest guys in Hollywood. Did you know, for example, that he actually co-wrote a paper on the field of human brain research? This paper even got published in the Current Biology journal and on top of that, he says that his time in education was some of the best years of his life.
26 – Famke Janssen
Not just a great actor, this Dutch can also boast of a pretty impressive education background with periods of time spent studying at both universities in Amsterdam and the US. Columbia University is where she first attended to study literature and writing, and after than she then went on to study economics too! Not bad for Liam Neeson's wife in the Taken films, right?
27 – Hugh Laurie
Although not well known for his love at school (in fact, he was caught truanting, smoking, and even cheating on tests) he is one intelligent guy and later went on to study at Eton College. Following family tradition, he attended some of the best colleges and schools in the UK and then went on to study anthropology and even archaeology. Smart, right? (Although we knew that already – you can't be that sarcastic or sure of yourself if you're not smart!)
28 – Julia Stiles
When she attended Columbia University in 2000, she had a bit of a tough time, already being a well known actress but despite this, she still continued with her studies. She finished her bachelor's degree in English and even won awards for her studies. Not just that but she has also been published in The Guardian on a piece about feminism when the film Mona Lisa Smile was being released back in 2006.
29 – John Krasinski
We know this guy best for being in The Office but he did study at Brown University and for his donor's thesis, he even wrote a play! It would seem that his theatre studies certainly did him proud, and he's well on his way to being one of the funniest actors of our time!
30 – Lily Cole
Not just obtaining herself a first-class degree from Cambridge University, this model / actress from Devon, England was an A-grade student for most of her learning life, even going as far as getting A-levels in five different subjects. She later went on to gain herself a place at Kings College in Cambridge but deferred entry twice, and later on she switcher to History of Art, bagging herself a first after the first year!
Despite openly admitting to having a tough time settling down when she was at Cambridge, she certainly did well out of it and is now not only considered to be beautiful and a great actress, but a very smart young lady too!
So there you have then – the 30 celebrities that it might surprise you to learn are actually super smart. There goes the common misconception that all you need in order to make it in Hollywood is a pretty face or a nice figure! These days, brains really will see you all the way so remember kids, always take your education seriously and you too could be one of the worlds most critically acclaimed actors or actresses of your time!


Egor Homakov: Cookie Bomb or let's break the Internet.
TL;DR I can craft a page "polluting" CDNs, blogging platforms and other major networks with my cookies. Your browser will keep sending those cookies and servers will reject the requests, because Cookie header will be very long. The entire Internet will look down to you.
How many cookies can I creates? Many!
What cookies is browser going to send with every request? All of them!
If you're able to execute your own JS on SUB1.example.com it can cookie-bomb not only your SUB1 but the entire *.example.com network, including example.com.
Just set lots of 4k long cookies with Domain=.example.com so they will be sent with every request to *.example.com.
All requests will be ignored, because servers never process such long requests (the "Cookie" header will be like half a megabyte).
Victim is sad and crying. No more blogspot. No more github.io. Such sad user. Not wow.
It will last until the user realizes he needs to delete his cookies. Not all human beings are that smart though.
Blogging/hosting/website/homepage platforms: Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr, Heroku, etc. Anything having <username>.example.com with your JS.
Content Delivery Networks. Ouch! You can poison *.CDN_HOST.com and break scripts/CSS on all websites using this CDN.
System sandbox domains like GoogleUserContent.com. When I poison it - Google Translate, GMail attachments, Blogspot images - entire Google ecosystem goes crazy.
Tip for hackers: you can "block" some exact path by specifying ;path=/some_path in the cookie bombs attributes. Your personal censorship!
Tip for browsers: limit amount of cookies on .example.com or send only sane number of them, but i'm not sure it's a pragmatic way.
Tip for admins: instead of sub1.example.com use sandbox.sub1.example.com, which will limit impact of the cookie bomb to .sub1.example.com zone.
God says "Do a better job training your Markov chain walker!"
Egor, I've read your article and think that the problem was solved already by most servers.
@Denis: this is not an attack on the server, but on the user's web browser. If you can lure a user to your username.github.io website you can set cookies on their browser that will render *.github.io unusable until they clear their cookies.
If you're willing to cookiebomb your own browser, try the github.io proof of concept linked above (safest way to do it is to start a private session). In my testing it breaks Chrome and IE, but not Firefox.
"Blogging/hosting/website/homepage platforms: Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr, Heroku, etc."
WordPress.com is not vulnerable because users cannot upload or execute arbitrary JS.
Hehhe. Cool just for prevensive reasons not for attack :). Thanks.
My god, the age old (and often useless) advice of clearing one's cookies may actually be relevant again someday soon.
I see listing allowed domains as a part of CSP directive.
seems like Safari is fine.
"Tip for admins: instead of sub1.example.com use sandbox.sub1.example.com, which will limit impact of the cookie bomb to .sub1.example.com zone."
I think this is not effective. Browsers use publicsuffix to get effective TLD for cookies. So sandbox.sub1.example.com can still set a cookie for .example.com.


The world is eager to position feminism and religion as mutually exclusive practices, but we don't really buy that. If 85% of the world is religious, some of those people are bound to also be feminists! Many of them, in fact, would cite their religion as the reason for their politics, and vice versa. This week we'll be sharing stories from a few of them, everything from atheistic Judaism to Evangelical pro-choice politics.
In my rebel Catholicism, and the Catholicism that I see so many other Latinx people practice, faith and cynicism are dancing partners that invent their own steps.
For me, feminism felt like finding a beautiful shoe in the wrong size. No matter how much I strained, it never seemed to be a perfect fit. I found my size in womanism.
This past fall, I decided to stop worrying about the absence of my belief and allow myself the communal experience of prayer. I enjoy it, not because I believe in God, but because I enjoy the ritual.


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STRICTLY ROYALTY
Strictly's Neil Jones and Alex Scott laugh off romance rumours but say they love being compared to Meghan and Harry
Stephanie Soteriou
STRICTLY'S Neil Jones and Alex Scott have laughed off romance rumours - but admitted they love being compared to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The 35-year-old footballer was partnered with the 37-year-old professional dancer for this year's series of the BBC One dance show - just days after he announced his split from wife Katya.
The pair are compared to Prince Harry and Meghan MarkleCredit: Rex Features
But despite speculation, the pair have insisted that there is nothing romantic going on between them, and that Neil is still close to his ex-wife who also stars in the show.
Addressing the romance rumours, Neil told Hello! magazine: "There's nothing on our minds but the show – we don't have time to think about anything else
"I'm single but I haven't even thought about dating. Coming out of a long-term relationship I'm just focusing on Strictly."
Alex added: "I'm single but it's not like I need to find someone. I like things to happen organically and if someone comes into my life and we get on, then great.
The stars have denied romance rumours
Both Alex and Neil are currently singleCredit: PA:Press Association
"It's not like I need to go searching for it."
However, the pair went on to admit that they are regularly compared to a famous married couple, with the two stars sharing an uncanny resemblance to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.
Alex revealed: "We've had that a lot.
"From the moment we were paired it's like, look at those two, Harry and Meghan."
They welcome their resemblance to Meghan and HarryCredit: Getty - Contributor
Neil split from wife Katya in AugustCredit: Getty - Contributor
Alex Scott and Neil Jones dance the charleston on Strictly Come Dancing
Embracing the comments, Neil joked that some day the two could even become professional lookalikes for the royal couple.
The ginger hunk also insisted that he and Katya are still incredibly close having been together for 11 years, and married for six, before their August split.
Last year, The Sun Online revealed that Katya had been spotted snogging her Strictly celebrity partner Seann Walsh after a late night in London.
Neil forgave the Russian beauty at the time, but they broke up less than one year later.


1969 Winklemann formula ford in very good condition. Large cockpit for big drivers. Purchased new by Dan feagen. Restored By Don Roose the second owner in 2003 and raced 2 races. The present owner did a drivers school and two vintage races in 2007. the car is fast and reliable.


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Former Hampton County SRO sentenced to 15 years
HAMPTON, SC (Sept. 21, 2016) – A former middle school resource officer (SRO) in Hampton County has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A jury found Larry Heyward, 55, guilty of third-degree criminal sexual conduct, engaging in a lewd act with a minor and misconduct in office by a public official, following a three-day trial at the Hampton County Courthouse.
Heyward is a former Hampton County Sheriff's deputy who was assigned as the SRO at Estill Middle School. The assaults against the child in the case began while he was a student at the middle school.
The victim recorded an explicit phone conversation between himself and the defendant, which was a key piece of evidence, according to the chief prosecutor, Deputy Solicitor Sean Thornton.
"The defendant used his position as a school resource officer to gain access to the victim in this case," Thornton said. "So often victims of sexual assault are never heard; in this case the victim was heard and justice was done."
Circuit Court Judge Thomas Cooper handed down the sentence and imposed the maximum sentence for each charge. Heyward will have to register as a sex offender for life.
Career Criminal Prosecutor and Assistant Solicitor Brian Hollen sat second chair.


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Just wondering if anyone is using this tent and what they think about it?
Went and had a look at them and they cool. Took the guy about 20 secs to put up. Most impressive!!
anyway yes they are extremely quick to set up but realy once you peg it down and make the varander etc it isnt that much quicker.
however the build quality is the best in a on the ground tent in my opinion. with the metal frame.
Seems to me that this was a pretty well thought out range of tents. I like the idea of being able to get factory made side/front curtains for the awning and they make a custom made ground sheet for the tent/annex although i will probably get the cgear ground mat.
LOVED how easy it was to put up!! Bloody fantastic .
That RV-1 is exactly what I need for the Justy I may purchase one of these later on. My pup tent works well for now.
I bought an rv4 last summer and it is brilliant. I was looking at roof tents, but my wife wasn't keen so we looked at these. As already mentioned they are great quality and really are easy to put up after a long drive when all you want to do is sit back and enjoy.
Only down side may be the length, but as long as you can put it on your roof then not a problem.
Definately water proof. Stopped in mine on Tuesday night, we had 20mm of rain over night and not a drip to be seen.
I need to do some converting and measuring but I am thinking just by the size in the pictures it should fit the roof rack when needed.
Is this for you to sleep in or the Justy??
Who would have thought of a portable "carport" for when you're out and about!
In some mag I have at home (i think its $WD camper trailer or somthing like that), there is a review of various types of tent, including this one.
Incidentally, I have one of these, but I only tend to use it for stays longer than one night. I use my hiking tent for short stays.
having said that, it is a bloody excellent tent. have had it over ten years and it is bomb proof.
It would be for me though. I have a small Coleman pup tent that I use all the time, but I am thinking the wife and dog would be more cozy in one of the RV-tents.
here ya go: the bottom line from "Camping with your 4wd" issue no 10, review of tents.
The southern cross tent that won "Editors Choice" is in the middle right pic, closest tent to the red patrol. They said it took 1 min 29 secs to put up.
the Oz tent they say took 39 secs to put up, and was the quickest set up. even dome swags took longer.
But I reckon if the southern cross appeals to you, get a freedom tent instead.


New year is celebrated in India in various regions in March–April. India has a variety of calendars, some are lunar based, some are based on the Sun, some are luni-solar and some are Jovian i.e. Jupiter based.
The New Year system is based on the cosmos, it begins when the Sun or the Moon enter the first point of Aries.
During March/April, it is the moon that has entered, then the sun will enter the first point of Aries, which is celebrated as Vaisakhi, also a New Year day. So, half of India celebrates with the moon, and the other half celebrates with the sun.
In Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and many other Indian states, they celebrate the new year as per lunar calendar. Ugadi is the New Year in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra. In Maharashtra it is known as Gudi Padva. This is celebrated on the first day after the new moon, which occurs closest to the vernal equinox. Since it is based on the moon it marks the New Year in a Chandramana calendar. Chandra is for moon and mana for measure.
Close on heels to this, is the observance of the New Year by the other communities of the land following the Sauramana calendar, the calendar that measures the movement of the sun.
In Kerala it is celebrated as Vishu, where first thing in the morning the family members are taken by the mother, to view VishuKani, an arrangement of flowers, fruits and a mirror – the first set of objects to be viewed on the start of a New Year.
In Tamil Nadu it is celebrated as Puththandu, New Year or Varuda Pirappu, birth of a new year. In Sri Lanka, the same day is celebrated as the Sinhala New Year, Aluth Avurudda.
In Orissa, it is celebrated as Bisuba, again coming from the root word Bisu or Vishu. In Nepal it is celebrated as Biska. In Bengal it is celebrated as Nabo Barsho.
In Assam it is Bohag, Rangali Bihu.
In Punjab, the New Year is welcomed as Baisakhi.
Vishu, Bisuba, Biska, Bihu, all come from the same root word Vishu which stands for equinox. An equinox is when the Sun is exactly over the equator and the day and night are equal.
The Indian word for equator is VisvadruttaRekha, meaning that which splits the world into two halves.
The word Vishu thus denotes equal and a sense of balance.
This point of balance of the sun, in its annual transit, served as an ideal point to start a New Year. It was an ideal time to take a reckoning of the skies and balance oneself, one's accounts, one's life, one's relations and one's goals before embarking on the next year.
Across the land of India and also in most ancient civilizations this period, window of balanced time, came to be celebrated as the start of the new calendar year.
It was the equinox, the sun being on the equator and crossing over to the northern hemisphere. So this was the right time for the start of a New Year across the world in the Northern Hemisphere. This New Year celebration was based on the movement of the sun. It was celebrated not only in different parts of India, but in Persia too, as Nowroz and also in different parts of Europe in the pre-medieval days.
This shows that the people then lived in consonance with nature.
What is interesting to note here is the use of the term Ugadi for this New Year.
Adi is start, beginning. So Yuga Adi or Ugadi, denotes start of a Yuga.
Even though it denotes the start of a New Year it is not called Varsha Adi but is instead called Yuga Adi. How does one come to terms with this term, since Yuga is usually correlated with a large span of time, whereas we are only moving into the next year?
A Yuga is just not a long period of time as is generally thought to be.
The word Yuga means alignment, like in Yoga which aligns body, mind and breath. Yuga is an alignment of astral bodies.
There are many such conjunctions, alignments that keep happening in the sky as the earth, moon and planets keep revolving around the sun, day in and day out.
Each of these alignments occur at varying frequencies ranging from 1 year to 5 years to 60 years to 360 years to 26000 years to 4,32,000 years.
Each of these alignments occur periodically and unfailingly.
Each of these alignments serve as a means to track time at different scales.
Each of these alignments is called a Yuga.
Yuga thus is a generic time unit. Depending on the scale, it denotes different alignments and different periods of time.
In the case of the New Year, a conjunction of the earth, sun and moon coming in alignment near the vernal equinox every year – a perfectly balanced point in the earth-sun-moon system, was deemed by our ancient, knowledgeable people as an apt milestone to usher in a New Day, a New Year and new hopes.
Do you know the meaning of the names of all the months? Read 12 months and the Sanskrit connection to know more.


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Q: Show thumbnail for url attachment on UIActivityViewController When you a share a url with the UIActivityViewController, it just shows the Safari compass. I get that this is supposed to show the user that they are sharing a link, but is it possible to get this to show a thumbnail/image instead? I realize it does this if I try and share an image, but I wanted to just share a link here.

A: Instead of sharing an NSURL directly, you can share an object that implements the UIActivityItemSource protocol. This can just be an object that wraps the NSURL and returns it when the activityViewController:itemForActivityType: method is called.
You can then implement the optional method activityViewController:thumbnailImageForActivityType:suggestedSize: to provide a thumbnail for the share dialog.
For example:
@interface URLWrapper:UIActivityItemProvider

@property (nonatomic, strong) NSURL *url;

@end

@implementation URLWrapper

+ (instancetype)activityItemSourceUrlWithUrl:(NSURL *)url {
    URLWrapper *wrapper = [[self alloc] initWithPlaceholderItem:@""];
    wrapper.url = url;

    return wrapper;
}

- (id)activityViewControllerPlaceholderItem:(UIActivityViewController *)activityViewController {
    return [self activityViewController:activityViewController itemForActivityType:nil];
}

- (id)activityViewController:(UIActivityViewController *)activityViewController itemForActivityType:(NSString *)activityType {
    return self.url;
}

- (UIImage *)activityViewController:(UIActivityViewController *)activityViewController thumbnailImageForActivityType:(NSString *)activityType suggestedSize:(CGSize)size {
    UIImage* thumbnail; // get image from somewhere!
    return thumbnail;
}

@end

You can then share wrapped URLs just as you would share normal instances of NSURL.


Hemangioma was a word I didn't know well at all before July 9, 2013. Actually – I'm going to be honest with you – I didn't even know how to say it properly! My beautiful Victoria was born with a hemangioma on the left side of her forehead. I knew immediately that there was a pinkish/red mark there, but the nurse and doctor told me it might just be a bruise from birth and to wait a few days and see. Victoria was born via c-section and right after birth, as much as I was out of it from the medication, I do remember 2 nurses talking about the mark on her head. I actually remember feeling an instant twinge of nerves in my belly. What did they mean? Were they nervous? Was this normal? It scared me and I was actually thankful that they were on top of it.
The little "mark" (as I was calling it) on her forehead never went away. It actually remained right there on her beautiful little head. It wasn't changing in size at that point. It definitely was not getting any bigger because I was focused on it like crazy. It also wasn't getting any darker – just remaining the same. On our 4th day of being in the hospital while I was recovering one of the pediatrician's mentioned to me that she felt Victoria's mark on her heard was a, "Hemangioma." A WHAT? A hemangioma? Honestly – the ONLY other time I had heard the word (which I couldn't say) was when a close family friend mentioned their daughter has been born with one. I just remember them letting me know that that was what the red mark on her head was when their daughter was first born. I didn't think much of it, but now it was personal. My daughter had one and it worried me. I immediately went to google (which I shouldn't have done) to see what I could find out about everything related to hemangiomas. OH. MY. GOD. Please – if you're reading this and your child has one, do not google. As much as you might want to google what they are… please don't do it. It will ONLY add worry to your plate. Hemangioma growth progression and regression is something you really don't want to read about when your child is 1st diagnosed with one. There is a ton of information out there, but it really put a ton of fear within me. And I'm sure you can agree – even though you want to know as much as you can – you want to know the proper information.
Over the next 2 months Victoria's hemangioma went from being the size of a dime to that of a quarter and what really scared me was that it started to get darker and darker. I was also worried about it getting hurt. I treated Victoria like she was a glass bowl! I was terrified to have ANYONE touch it. As I started sharing more and more photos and started sharing our story more and more, I had more and more people reach out to me giving me their stories. Thankfully we have an amazing family doctor and his best advice was to meet with a pediatric dermatologist. I immediately started asking around for the BEST pediatric dermatologist in the Rhode Island area and was sent a few different numbers. I was able to get an appointment pretty quickly because Victoria was so little and hemangiomas take precedent. We ended up choosing one and took her in for an appointment in September of 2013… Victoria was 2 1/2 months at this point.
I'll never forget this appointment.
In those split seconds, I crumbled. WHAT? I started to cry right there in the office. I couldn't believe that she had said that to Victoria. In my eyes she was gorgeous … regardless of the hemangioma or not… she's my beautiful and gorgeous little girl. When the doctor came in, he suggested putting Victoria on a medication called propranolol. I remember him telling me that it needed to be started ASAP because the sooner you start it, the better. I was terrified of his because she was so little and putting a beta blocker drug in her body scared me. 5 years ago there wasn't much research around this drug treating hemangiomas and I didn't know many people who had used it, so my gut said no.
I knew there were a few ways to treat one at this point after talking to my family doctor (who from the start suggested doing nothing since it wasn't doing any damage to any of her senses).
Beta blocker drug. In small, superficial hemangiomas, a gel with the drug timolol may be applied to the affected skin. A severe infantile hemangioma may disappear if treated with an oral solution of propranolol. Side effects can include high blood sugar, high blood pressure and wheezing.
Corticosteroid medications. For children who don't respond to beta blocker treatments or can't use them, corticosteroids may be an option. They can be injected into the nodule, given by mouth or applied to the skin. Side effects can include poor growth.
Laser surgery. Sometimes lasers can be used to remove a hemangioma or treat painful sores on a hemangioma.
I ended up leaving the doctor's office feeling defeated and at square 1 again. I didn't know what to do and I didn't know how to go about finding the best advice to treat Victoria's hemangioma. The universe (I believe) intervened at this moment. I had a personal friend reach out and tell me about a fantastic doctor she had gone to for her daughter in Boston at Boston Children's Hospital named Dr. Greene. She really spoke highly of him and said that he was the best and specialized in hemangiomas. I was lucky enough to get an appointment pretty quickly and we went to see him in October of 2013. He was our gift! I'm going to be very honest with you right here. Victoria's hemangioma was definitely big, I mean – anyone that looked at her saw it. I can't tell you how many people made comments and asked us questions about it. But when I went to Dr. Greene's office, I realized how lucky we were. Victoria's was small compared to some of the babies we saw and met. I suddenly felt silly being there and I even expressed this to Dr. Greene at our first visit. He told me that every parent has the right to get something checked out on their child that they're nervous or scared about and I was immediately at ease with him. His advice for us? Do. Nothing. He suggested that we keep watching it. See if it gets much bigger. See if the color keeps changing. He explained the entire progression and regression life of hemangiomas to me and really expressed that he's there for anything, anytime.
We ended up going to visit Dr. Greene every 2 months for Victoria's 1st year of life. We had a bit of trouble in December of 2013 with Victoria's hemangioma when it developed 2 ulcers that started to make it bleed. When hemangiomas bleed, they BLEED.
This was the most terrifying thing of all to me. But Dr. Greene and his office staff were there for me. They even let me email photos over the holiday so they could see how it was doing. I felt like I could breathe and it felt good to know someone had Victoria's back.
A hemangioma is a benign (noncancerous) tumor made up of blood vessels. There are many types of hemangiomas, and they can occur throughout the body, including in skin, muscle, bone, and internal organs. Most hemangiomas occur on the surface of the skin or just beneath it. They often develop on the face and neck, and can vary greatly in color, shape, and size.
Our hemangioma story was personal to us and I know that there each story is different. But. And this is a big but. I wanted to share my story for others because I hope it helps. Everything Dr. Greene and my personal family doctor told me, came true. I was terrified of what was wrong with Victoria because I knew so little and everything I was reading scared me. I'm here to tell you that you don't need to be scared alone. There are so many others out there feeling the same way. Talk to experts. Talk to people who have gone through it. Listen and share stories.
1. I needed to share our story because there weren't many moms at that time doing so on blogs. I would find forums and chat rooms, but there wasn't any follow-up. A mom would pour out the details and her fears… and then that was it. I wanted to know her story, what happened, how did it go??? I thought it would be a good place for me to be open, honest and real and raw about our journey.
2. I wanted Victoria to have this chronicled for herself. She may not care that I did it, or she may be thankful that I did. Either way… I wanted her to know that we did everything we could to make sure it was taken care of and followed up. When she was a baby it was very apparent that she had one, it's regressed tremendously over the last 5 years… but those early years, there's not one photo where you can't see her without it. I want her to have this story of the beginning.
3. I wanted to other moms and dads going through this to not feel alone. I felt very alone that first full year and only had a handful of people to call and talk to about it. I wanted to be someone's deep breath, to know that all will be fine… and that what you're feeling is normal.
I just wanted it to help 1 person.
I can fast forward to present day. Victoria is 5 1/2 years old. Her hemangioma is still slightly visible on her head, but it regressed tremendously. I remember not believing ANYONE who told me it would. I actually remember thinking that it would never change and it did.
I also want to share a bunch of videos below for you. I created these throughout the last 5 1/2 years. Some of them are very raw. Some of them are quick little updates. I started filming more as a marker for Victoria someday, so she would know her own hemangioma story. Her strawberry hemangioma or cherry hemangioma will be hers to share, not always mine. And I wanted her to have a story from the beginning.
I'm passionate about sharing this information, so please never be afraid to reach out to me and ask me anything. I'm here. I always will be.
Check out our stories throughout the years here.


Join the 10th of the Month Club!
Homemade sugar cookies delivered to a teacher.
Returning a lost driver's license. Paying for the person behind you in the drive-thru line.
They are random acts of kindness, performed with no expectation of recognition or reward.
These acts are examples of the hundreds that have been performed through the 10th of the Month Club. Most importantly, they are meant to honor Westerville's fallen officers Anthony Morelli and Eric Joering.
The 10th of the Month Club was created as a way to keep our officers in the front of our minds, to keep them from being forgotten. It came to mind while I was trying to come to grips with this tragedy. I knew both officers, and although I didn't know Eric very well, I last saw him on National Night Out when he and K9 Officer Sam were going out into the neighborhoods. I knew Tony for almost 20 years, having first met him when he came to Safety City where I was the Director, and later knowing him from the Citizens Police Academy, where he taught class.
We lost them both on the 10th of the month. Like everyone else in our community, I was struggling with this loss and trying to figure out a way to "move forward".
The 10th of the Month Club was born as a way to honor these officers who made the world a better place. The only requirement is to do an act of kindness on the 10th.
If a person feels comfortable sharing it, posting it to our Facebook group allows others to see that no act is too big or too small, because it honors our officers' sacrifice. Other prefer to keep their act anonymous. Their action is just as impactful.
Please join the group - it's open to everyone. As of this writing, there are 757 members. I hope it keeps growing. And I will personally remind everyone on every 10th of the month that it is time once again to do an act of kindness. So we never forget.


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