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UBS names Alex Wilmot-Sitwell and Carsten Kengeter as co-CEOs of its Investment Bank
Jerker Johansson, CEO UBS Investment Bank, has resigned from UBS with immediate effect.
UBS today announced the appointment of Alex Wilmot-Sitwell and Carsten Kengeter as co-CEOs of its Investment Bank effective immediately.
Alex Wilmot-Sitwell joined the firm in 1996 and is a member of the Group Executive Board. He has been joint global head of the Investment Banking Department since November 2005 and Chairman and CEO of UBS Group Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) since January 2008.
Carsten Kengeter joined UBS in September 2008 and is the joint global head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) within UBS Investment Bank. In his new role he will also be a member of the Group Executive Board.
Oswald J. Grübel, Group CEO of UBS, commented on the appointments: "I would like to congratulate Alex and Carsten on their new roles. Under their joint leadership we will continue to build on the strong core businesses of our Investment Bank and remediate our legacy risks. Our Investment Bank is indispensable to our global firm and to our integrated business model."
Jerker Johansson has resigned from his role as CEO of the Investment Bank with immediate effect. He joined UBS in March 2008 and was a member of UBS's Group Executive Board.
"I would like to thank Jerker for his great efforts and his valuable contribution to the repositioning of our Investment Bank," Grübel said.


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He's a Rat Farmer (Apr, 1949)
He's a Rat Farmer
A strange little livestock ranch in the attic gave Norton McKinney a new life and a $10,000 crop.
By William Gilman
"FUNNY kind of a business for a fellow to get into," the villagers shake their heads as they glance up at the old mansion Norton McKinney bought in quiet little Middletown Springs, Vermont.
And it is a funny setup, all right. The attic in his antiquated home swarms with rats—mice, too. Last time he took a census there were 1500 adult rats and mice, with new litters running up the rodent population practically every day. You'd think his wife Georgia would raise the roof about that ratty situation up in the attic—but, no, she only wants to hear more rats racing around over their heads. She even helps him nurse and coddle new-born rats with germ-free water and purify the air they breathe with ultra-violet lamps. No wonder their place is called Funny Farms!
For McKinney and his wife are running a new kind of livestock farm—and . raising a fine flock of rats. Last year they harvested a $10,000 "crop" from their rat farm and they're expanding all the time. To meet the specialized medical demand for thoroughbred rats and mice, they are shipping more than 500 a week to leading laboratories. Soon they expect to make that figure a round thousand.
Science needs these testing animals to fight cancer, to test for pregnancy and venereal disease; to study dietary diseases like rickets, and to mobilize our health forces against germ warfare and atomic radiation. Some of his rats "stood in" for humans at the Bikini atom-bomb tests. Mice were used in developing the latest hope in the war on cancer—teropterin, which reduced the suffering and prolonged the life of the late Babe Ruth.
McKinney was a professional singer but three years as chief inspector in a Long Island City war plant proved too much for his nerves and left him at 34 too jittery to continue his job or to return to a singing career.
"What else can you do?" his doctor asked as he was convalescing during the spring of 1945.
Searching his mind, he thought of his hobby and said, "Raise white mice."
Anybody else might have snickered. Dr. Edwin Zabrisky didn't. He knew of the soaring laboratory demand for fast-breeding rats and mice, because their cells resemble man's and because they make ideal stand-ins for controlled experiments. Picking up the phone, he called Dr. Charles Slanetz, head of the Laboratory Animals Department over at Columbia University and director of a project for supplying Army and Navy researchers with testing stock. Dr. Slanetz asked McKinney to stop in.
From Dr. Slanetz, he learned that raising lab animals would be harder than just fooling around with white mice as a hobby. The test stock must be uniform and free of disease, or experiments wouldn't mean a thing. The scientist recommended Sherman white rats and Swiss-Albino white mice, all highly inbred stock.
At Middletown, it all looked easy at first when the litters began appearing. McKinney had $100 worth of stock in his wife's unusual train "luggage"—40 rats and 150 mice. He was confident he'd get a government contract and start selling soon.
The pregnancy period of a mother rat or mouse was only 21 days. There were about 10 to a litter. He'd sell some and keep the rest to build up his breeding stock. The young would be ready to breed 12 weeks after birth. It took the young only 21 days to be weaned and ready to sell, at $1.25 for a rat and 30 cents for a mouse.
He had 400 rats and mice—counting the new litters—when, one day that first December, a mysterious disease struck his little livestock. He thought it was just "snuffles"—a common cold that affects rats and mice and isn't serious. Then the young started having convulsions. To add to his worries about this strange affliction, the mothers developed a pink ruff around the neck. That, he had heard, indicated lack of proteins in the food.
Nothing helped. The little fellows began dropping over dead. Then, in desperation, he tried a chicken feed recommended by a friend. It worked almost over night, like a miracle. The weak survivors got back on their feet. The boils and convulsions disappeared. The white hair became glossy again. Of the 400 rodents he had before that protein plague hit the attic, he had only 30 left.
After he licked that mysterious death, he determined to raise the healthiest rats possible. He began suspending the breeding cages from the ceiling, so they wouldn't get any contamination from the floor. He set up germicidal lamps to keep down odors and purify the air. On each cage hangs a water bottle with a glass tube through which the rodents suck chlorinated water.
For bedding, he uses only fresh, kiln-dried shavings from a nearby sawmill. He refuses any that's been lying around. There's too much chance of mold or infection by "wild" rats and mice, which are carriers of the dread disease, paratyphoid. This is similar to typhoid fever in humans and ruins the animals for experiments. Paratyphoid, for instance, changes the percentage of calcium in their blood and makes them useless for research on rickets.
The Funny Farms business is based on keeping breeding stock at high virility. Males are used only six months, and females are kept a year, during which they raise three litters.
Many little things contribute to McKinney's success in raising rats. He cleans the cages twice a week. Once a month he disinfects them with a mixture of carbolic acid, green soap and creosote. A fan keeps sucking purified air through the attic. He sees that this nice, clean air is always kept at 70 to 80 degrees, which he found to be the healthiest temperature for his little livestock.
Funny Farms now seems a little less strange to the neighboring villagers, though they're still surprised that he can make good money out of rats. One oldtimer put it this way:
"Dawg-gone it! I kill rats and here comes McKinney who raises 'em—makes money at it, too!"
His rats are overflowing the attic, and they're busy getting some of the second-floor rooms ready for more.
Rats, of course, have an unlovely reputation. But McKinney loves the friendly little animals and he's proud to raise them and call himself a rat farmer. They helped him escape a real ratrace in the big city. Not only are they giving him more money than he ever made before but he's living a fine life of peace and quiet. Anybody who's scrambled for a living in New York will know what he means.

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How the Social Venture Network changed business in America
Ben Cohen, of Ben & Jerry's renown, is asking me for money, and he's not selling ice cream. I give him a dollar bill, he stamps it in red ink — NOT TO BE USED FOR BRIBING POLITICIANS — and returns it to me. It's part of his new crusade to get corporate money out of politics.
"Corporations are not people, and money is not free speech," Cohen declares.
The 61-year-old ice-cream mogul sold Ben & Jerry's to Unilever in 2000. The T-shirt says: "Stamp Money Out of Politics." These days, as "Head Stamper" at StampStampede, Cohen is working for an amendment to the US Constitution to get money out of politics.
It sounds improbable but no more improbable than this: that a gathering of about 70 people, including Ben and his partner Jerry Greenfield, at the rustic Gold Lake Mountain Resort not far from Boulder, Colorado, Colorado back in 1987 could spawn a movement that has changed the way millions of Americans think about and do business.
The Gold Lake get-together led to the creation of the Social Venture Network (SVN), a group of businesspeople, investors and philanthropists, many of them shaped by the political and cultural movements of the 1960s, who believe that business can change the world for the better. About 700 SVN members, friends and family gathered last week in New York for a 25th anniversary dinner and celebration -- a time to assess how far their movement to remake business has come, and how far it needs to go.
The dinner was a star-studded affair, at least for those of us who pay attention to businesses that aim to build a more just and sustainable economy. On hand along with Ben and Jerry were Eileen Fisher of the eponymous clothing company, Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farm, Drew and Myra Goodman of Earthbound Organic, George Siemon of dairy co-op Organic Valley, Jeffrey Hollender, formerly of Seventh Generation, Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels, Roger Brown and Linda Mason of Bright Horizons, Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments, all of whom were named to the SVN "Hall of Fame."
Spotted in the crowd of 700 or so were Gifford Pinchot III, president of of Bainbridge Graduate Institute, my friends Seth Goldman of Honest Tea and author Mark Albion (More Than Money: Questions Every MBA Needs to Answer), Danny Kennedy of Sungevity–the closest thing to a power elite of the sustainable business movement.
Photo of entrance to Ben & Jerry's factory by Spirit of America via Shutterstock.
None of them, to be sure, run FORTUNE 500 companies. But the movement birthed by SVN powered the field of corporate social responsibility, opened up new possibilities for entrepreneurs, raised expectations that big companies now need to meet and helped shape the way companies ranging from Google ("Don't be Evil") to Walmart do what they do.
In a letter inviting the pioneers who would form SVN to Gold Lake, Wayne Silby of Calvert Investments and philanthropist and investor Josh Mailman wrote:
An opportunity exists for us to build a new American story, a new American parable, a new American mythology, which can provide an alternative and rewarding vision for some of the economic choices that face our culture.
Yes, they were dreaming big. But even at that first gathering–where people got to know while smoking pot, or sitting in hot tubs, or doing both at once–valuable connections were made. Ben Cohen took a walk with Bernard Glassman, a Brooklyn-born Zen Buddhist master who had started the Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY, to help alleviate poverty. Soon after, Ben & Jerry's become Greyston's biggest customer, using its brownies in ice cream flavors like Chocolate Fudge Brownie. I wrote about Greyston in my book, Faith and Fortune. "We don't hire people to bake brownies," the bakery says. "We bake brownies to hire people."
The 1960s were alive and well in 1987 at Gold Lake. Mailman once said that SVN and a predecessor group that became the Threshold Foundation were shaped by "a generation of people interested in meditation, Buddhism, Shamanism, rainbow gatherings, and Burning Man." These were people who didn't want to check their beliefs, emotions, personalities or principles at the door when they went to work. They were taking their values into the business world.
"SVN totally inspired me," Eileen Fisher sad at last week's dinner, recalling an early SVN gathering where people sat in a circle and talked about their passions. "I had never sat in a circle before, and no one had ever asked me what my passion was," she joked. She brought the practice back to her company, which has earned a reputation as a good employer that provides generous profit-sharing, education and wellness benefits to its people.
The SVN ethos infiltrated big companies. Stonyfield Yogurt, which began with a couple of organic cows, got big, got acquired by Group Danone and now can be found in Walmarts around America. Seventh Generation told people what was in all of its cleaning products, and bigger rivals were forced to do the same. Perhaps more important, a generation or two of young people demanded more from their employers than a paycheck and a pension; they wanted to find meaning and purpose at work, too.
I asked Ben Cohen and Wayne Silby, as SVN veterans, what they saw as the organization's biggest accomplishment, and what important work is left to be done.
Cohen cited the work of B Lab, a nonprofit that has devised a new corporate structure, called the B Corp, that is designed to harness the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. "B Corps and B Lab are a tremendous success and an outgrowth of SVN," he said. Those groups, he said, bring objective, measurable standards to the question of what constitutes a good business, and the B Corp structure "legalizes a corporation factoring in more than just making money into its decision-making." Cohen also pointed to the creation and growth of two business schools, the Bainbridge Graduate Institute and the Presidio Graduate School, that focus on the social and environmental impacts of business.
Social Venture Network also spun off an organization that became Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the global network of several hundred mostly-big companies that focuses on corporate responsibility and sustainability issues. Unlike SVN, where individuals and companies are vetted before they can belong, BSR invites in all comers–it's a church that opens its doors to sinners is how a former BSR exec once put it. SVN also spawned Net Impact, a organization of MBAs, college students and young professionals who use their business skills to work for good.
The big job ahead, Cohen said, is to get money out of politics. "There's a reason why government is working for corporations and for the one percent," he said.
Silby, for his part, cited the strength of SVN's "sangha" -- a Sanskrit word meaning association or community -- as its biggest accomplishment.
"A community keeps fueling your belief system and gives you the energy to keep you moving forward," he said.
He said SVN's belief that business exists not just to generate profits but to make a difference in the world had spread among younger people and outside the U.S.
What's needed, he said, is a rigorous way of accounting for the full impacts of business.
"We still have a lot of people graduating with MBAs who think 7 percent is more than 6 percent." That's not so, he said, if a company's social and environmental costs are being borne by others. "People aren't thinking about the whole," he said.
He's right about that–too many companies focus narrowly on their short-term returns, and the rest of us too often pay the price. Just this week, BP agreed to pay a $4.5 billion fine in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and JPMorgan Chase and Credit Suisse agreed to pay a combined $416.9 million to settle charges that they misled investors in the sale of risky mortgage bonds before 2008 financial crisis. There's still a lot of ugliness out there in corporate America.
But at the same time, the progress made by the responsible business movement has been remarkable. Curious about how it all began, I asked Ben Cohen what led him and Jerry, his junior high school buddy from Long Island, to open their ice cream shop in Burlington, Vt., back in 1978.
"I wanted to be a potter," he told me, "but I couldn't sell my pottery"
"And we're all grateful for that," I replied.


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Movin' to the Beach
We're moving. Thought I'd post a couple pictures of our recent packing escapades.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes it's far simpler to NOT ask the resident teenager to lend a hand with anything at all than it is to actually extract a bit of work from said teenager?
This is Marissa helping to pack:
It took two of us to pull her butt out of the box. Seriously...it was her butt that was the problem. It's a big ol' butt and gravity was working against us. Once we got her out of the box, she disappeared. That's okay, I have a revenge in mind (keep reading).
You see, we really have our work cut out for us. This is just one stack of boxes yet to fill:
After hours of moving heavy furniture, carrying, lifting, dragging, packing everything he could, hubby took a break for a few. Soxxy immediately decided to crush his arm and pin him to the couch. Roy called me to see what was causing the tingling sensation in his arm. Really. He deserves the moniker Fatty McFatCat:
Had some things to do regarding the house and we popped down to Crystal Beach for a quick visit while we were there. Here's how Lake Erie looks today:
Sure, it looks cold in this picture, but it really doesn't come close to describing how cold it really was. We were out of the car all of five minutes before we just could not take it any longer! I'd say there's a 20 degree drop in temp right on the water, and there was a -18c windchill off the water. Just chilled us to the bone in short order and the bitingly cold wind took our breath away!


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For Harry Potter star Emma Watson, shooting her latest movie over the weekend was anything but magical.
The 22-year-old was actress was working on the upcoming film "Noah" in Oyster Bay, Long Island, when she was approached by a man who tried to hand her a letter, according to The Sun.
Watson reportedly recognized him from an earlier incident outside her home and subsequently became frightened.
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"An unauthorized individual was removed from the "Noah" production by on-set security, as he was found trespassing," a rep for Watson told Gossip Cop. "No further action was required."
Watson, who can currently be seen in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower," stars opposite Russell Crowe and Anthony Hopkins in the upcoming biblical epic.


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We FINALLY tackled the Big Mac! And by that we mean we took it on and made it over in typical HG fashion. At no point did any HG employees physically wrestle a Big Mac to the ground... that we know of. Enough silliness -- on to the recipe! Ingredients: Sauce 1 1/2 tbsp. fat-free Thousand Island dressing 1/8 tsp. granulated sugar 1/8 tsp. white wine vinegar 1 tsp. finely minced onion or 1/2 tsp. dried minced onion Sandwich 2 portabella mushroom caps 1 1/2 small light hamburger buns (1 top and 2 bottoms), or HG Alternative! 1/4 cup shredded lettuce, divided 1 slice fat-free American cheese 1 tbsp. diced onion, divided 3 hamburger dill pickle chips Directions: To make the sauce, combine dressing, sugar, and vinegar in a small bowl. Mix well. Stir in minced onion and set aside. Bring a large skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat on the stove. Place mushroom caps side by side in the skillet, rounded sides down. Cover and cook until soft, about 4 minutes per side. Place one bun bottom on a plate, and spread with half of the sauce. Top with half of the lettuce (2 tbsp.), followed by the cheese slice. Place one cooked mushroom cap on top, and sprinkle with half of the diced onion (1/2 tbsp.). Spread remaining half of the sauce on the other bun bottom, and place it on the sandwich, sauce side up. Top with pickle chips and the remaining 2 tbsp. lettuce. Top with the remaining mushroom cap and remaining 1/2 tbsp. onion. Add the bun top and open wide! MAKES 1 SERVING
Serving Size: entire recipe Calories: 234 Fat: 2g Sodium: 946mg Carbs: 45g Fiber: 9.5g Sugars: 12g Protein: 14.5g PointsPlus® value 6* HG Alternative! Feel free to use 1 bun as opposed to 1 1/2 -- just spread the 2nd half of the sauce on top of the 1st cooked mushroom (instead of the middle bun piece). Then your burger will have 194 calories, 1.5g fat, 854mg sodium, 38g carbs, 7.5g fiber, 12g sugars, and 12.5g protein (PointsPlus® value 5*).
It's been a pillar of the fatty-food community for years. It is so infamous that we've often invoked its name to punctuate just HOW heavy another food item is (e.g., "______ sounds harmless, but it has more calories than a Big Mac!"). People, this fast-food sandwich (le Big Mac, as the French call it) has 540 calories and almost 30 grams of fat! And yet, we never sought to make it over until now. Maybe it was the unnecessary amount of bread; maybe the two patties scared us off. But now, we've unearthed all the tools needed to re-create this towering classic. Light burger buns? CHECK. Portabella mushroom caps instead of burger patties? CHECK. Fat-free Thousand Island dressing as the base for our secret sauce swap? CHECK. Now that we've done it, we're not entirely sure why it took us so long. It was easy! And the fact that it's SO much lower in fat and calories means it's totally worth making. And worth all that time you spent waiting for a swap...
Serving Size: 1 burger Calories: 540 Fat: 29g Sodium: 1,040mg Carbs: 45g Fiber: 3g Sugars: 9g Protein: 25g PointsPlus® value 14*
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Connecticut legislator files bill to raise penalties on illegal dirt bikes, ATVs
NEW HAVEN -- Reacting to residents' complaints over dirt bikes flying down city streets, state Rep. Patricia Dillon has filed legislation to hike the penalties on illegal dirt bikes and ATVs.
A city aldermanic hearing this week heard from a dozen people bemoaning the 50 or so dirt bike enthusiasts who gather, race through parks and down city streets, do tricks and shoot video -- destroying the peace, residents said. Dillon said she spoke with the city's chief administrative officer, Rob Smuts, and said she had some experience fighting a prostitution problem years ago with language that allowed authorities to seize cars used in such activity.
Dillon, D-New Haven, and a member of the Legislature's Judiciary Committee, said, "Current state law limiting penalties to $250 is outmoded, and should be increased. I will work with city officials and law enforcement to make sure we have a law with realistic penalties to protect public safety."
State law allows municipalities to impound dirt bikes and ATVs but the law caps towing and storage fees at $250 per vehicle. The idea for the new bill is based on a Philadelphia law that puts the retrieval penalty at $2,000, but Dillon said that amount may be too high and could create a storage problem; the new penalty amount has not been set.
"Most of the complaints center around Edgewood Park, but this is a serious problem across New Haven," Dillon said. "I have heard stories of packs of riders flying through our neighborhoods."
She had also heard a while back from a senior citizen trying to cross a street who was terrified by a "swarm" of dirt bikes as she stepped off the curb.
"On West Rock Avenue, it can be very dramatic," she said, "with 10-15 dirt bikes barreling out of the park and down the street."
Not that Dillon doesn't "sympathize with the impulse" to ride, "enjoying the wind in your hair." She grew up on Long Island and she knew people who rode; she attended "scrambler" races in Fishkill, N.Y., also called "scrambles."
Riders need to picture themselves as those senior pedestrians 60 years from now, because empathy for different people is "part of the give and take of life," she said.
"One of the wonderful things about living in the city is its wonderful parks," she said. "But one of the burdens of that is we have to learn restraint. ... It isn't easy but you have to do it."
Dillon said the proposed bill has been filed with the Legislative Commissioners Office for drafting and will be introduced during the 2013 legislative session.


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North Korea yesterday detonated a miniaturised nuclear explosive in a test which it is claiming was a success and the U.N. is condemning as a "grave violation of U.N. resolutions".
The test was conducted in a secret testing facility, but with thanks to information gathered from North Korean dissidents and defectors, you can take a look at the test facility now on Google Maps.
It's always the last place you think to look
And wouldn't you know it, the test apparently took place in a large facility with the street address 1 Nuclear Test Rd.
According to Mashable, pin-pointing the address came with the help of the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) Earthquake Hazard Program, which reported seismic activity in North Korea yesterday, with shockwaves measuring a magnitude of 5.1.
Plugging the co-ordinates of the subterranean rumblings (41.307°N, 129.076°E) into Google Maps takes you to Nuclear Test Rd, and to the facility after a little zooming and panning.
If after checking out the nuclear facility you feel like scoping out a few more places of interest on Google Maps, you can try actor Will Smith's home (which looks like a small village), or try and solve the mystery behind this huge question mark painted on the ground in France.
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From glorified TV extra to Emmy-winning sitcom star to acclaimed filmmaker, Rob Reiner remains a show biz staple.
A second-generation Hollywood lifer – his dad is the venerable actor, director and "Dick Van Dyke Show" creator Carl – Reiner cut his teeth in at the bottom rung of Hollywood, starting out as a day player in some of the most beloved TV series of the 60s and 70s before landing his breakout role as Archie Bunker's son-in-law Mike "Meathead" Stivic on the game-changing sitcom "All In the Family." But Reiner had an even more impressive second act in the works, sliding behind the camera to become the director of an impressive roster of now-classic films, including "This Is Spinal Tap," "Stand By Me," "The Princess Bride," "When Harry Met Sally…," "Misery" and "A Few Good Men."
Although Reiner is still a frequently employed actor (with stints on "30 Rock," "Hannah Montana" and Martin Scorsese's upcoming "The Wolf of All Street"), he remains a prolific filmmaker, crafting the kind of smaller and more intimate films that the big studios have generally left behind in recent years. His latest, "The Magic of Belle Isle," re-teams him with Morgan Freeman, who starred in Reiner's 2008 film "The Bucket List," and the story finds Reiner combining two topics he's handled deftly in the past: adult feelings of mortality, and the waning days of childhood innocence. He offers PopcornBiz a look ahead at his latest cinematic offering, an a look back on his storied career.
Tell us about working with Morgan Freeman again?
If I could make every movie with Morgan Freeman I would. Obviously he's not only one of the greatest actors, but also for me he's a pleasure because we work in the same way and have the same methods. We knew right away on 'Bucket List' that we both are very quick. He comes in a hundred percent prepared. He bangs it out on the first take. I like to move quickly: 'When we've got it, let's move on.' That energizes both of us. We love doing that. The other thing is that just as a person, we like to hang. We love doing crossword puzzles together. We sang a lot during the making of the movie.
You've done other films with a character who's an author, or a writer. What are you trying to explore with a character like that onscreen?
It's hard – I don't think it's a natural, visual thing to do. People sit at a typewriter or at a word processor, a computer and it's kind of boring. But I like it because it is what we do. We think of stuff in our head and then we write it down and then we kind of realize it on the screen. I've always found that to be an interesting process. So I like to explore people who do that. I find them fascinating, and I guess it's looking into yourself a little bit.
You've worked in so many genres and styles of films. The last few have been very sweet, intimate stories. Is that what you enjoy the most, or are they the projects that came together the right way?
'Bucket List' and this one are very similar in the themes. They're both about embracing life when you get older and in the case of 'Bucket List' you're facing the end of your life. This one we have given up on life and are trying to find the new meaning in life. Those are similar themes for me, and as I got to be 60 and older my mortality came into question. I started thinking about all this stuff. I usually look for things that I can connect with in some aspect of my life, but I also like to make thrillers. I'm working on a thriller now. I've only done one which was 'Misery.' I did that a long time ago, and so I've got one now that I'm interested in and I like those.
On the topic of longevity, do you want to stay as active as your father has?
Oh, God – active! I'd like to just live to 90. The guy is 90 years old. I mean, if I live that long I'll be thrilled. I'll never be able to catch up to him. He just never stops.
You have so many movies that are on people's all-time favorite list, 'When Harry Met Sally,' 'Spinal Tap.' What's that mean to you?
It means a lot. People come up to me – and this year, particularly, it's been 'Princess Bride.' It's the 25th anniversary of 'Princess Bride,' and so it gives me a tremendous thrill when someone who was maybe nine or ten when they saw it, now they have kids that are six, seven, eight who are seeing it. They're exposing their kids to it, and that means a lot to me because it means that you've made a film that has longevity, that's lasted a little bit.
The same thing with 'Stand By Me.' Last year was its 25th anniversary. So it's tremendous. One of the greatest pleasures that I get is someone coming up to me and saying, 'You have given ME pleasure.' That means that in my time on the planet I did something that made somebody else's life a little bit better for a minute, or a long time. So the fact that I have made a few films that have stuck with people, that's really nice, really nice.
You got to work on some pretty great television shows as a young actor just starting out.
Yeah, did a lot of stuff, lots of stuff. I did 'That Girl' and then 'The Partridge Family' and then 'The Beverly Hillbillies' and 'Gomer Pyle.'
That was the golden age of TV, that shared pop culture element that we don't quite have anymore.
When 'All In The Family' was on television we were a country of about 200 million people, and 45 million used to watch 'All In The Family' with no VCRs, with no Tivo, so if you wanted to watch it you had to watch it when it was on. That means you were having a shared experience with 45 million people, so the next day or the next week at work you were talking – they called it a 'water cooler show.' They talked about it, like, 'Did you see--?'
Now we're in a country of over 300 million people and the biggest hit television show is a show that gets 20 million people, less than half of what we used to get with a hundred more million [people] and they're not all watching it at the same time because of DVR, Tivo. So it's not the shared experience. We're very, very fragmented as a society. I don't think it's necessarily good, because there's something about bringing people together over some cultural experience that they're having.
What are some of your strongest memories of those early gigs?
Guy Number One! Well, to me it was just about getting to work. You're starting out and you just want to get jobs. I remember doing a part on an episode of 'Batman' and I had one little thing with Burgess Meredith – he was The Penguin and I got to be the room service guy, or something like that. It was just a thrill to be able to work. Getting a job was a good thing. So whatever came along I would do it.
Are there any friends from the your days at Beverly Hills High School that are still in your circle?
U.S. & World
Well, I had dinner last night with Albert Brooks. We went to Beverly High together and I still see him. I still see [Joey Bishop's son] Larry Bishop once in a while. A lot of people are friends from after that, which are Chris Guest who's still a good friend. I had dinner with him recently.
How actively do you look for acting gigs these days?
Well, I don't look for them, but whenever they come I'm happy to do them. I love doing them. I just got a call today to do a part in this new Martin Scorsese movie. It's called 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and it's to play Leonardo DiCaprio's father in it and that'll be fun to do. But years ago I got a call to do a part in a movie that Ron Howard was doing called 'Ed TV.' He said, 'I've got this part if you want to do it.' I said, 'Yeah, I'll do it.' He said, 'Well, let me send you a script and see if you want to do it.' I said, 'You don't have to send me the script because if it's not good it's not my fault.' I like to act because I'm just an actor and nobody is going to blame me if the film is bad. I'm not, like, a movie star or anything.


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This will allow Theolia "to reinforce its balance sheet, to have the means for its development and to revitalise the company by creating value," the company says.
The two-stage plan involves Theolia amending the terms of its convertible bonds, to save it from possibly having to pay out up to €253 million on January 1 2012, when the bonds can be redeemed.
Instead, that date will now be pushed back to January 1 2015, and the conversion price reduced to encourage bondholders to swap their bonds for shares.
How much it is reduced by depends on the second stage of the plan, to launch a capital increase of up to €100 million among existing shareholders this spring.
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Amid mounting criticism, AT&T said Thursday that it will allow more customers to use FaceTime over its cellular network.
Initially, the company had restricted use to those customers on one of its shared data plans — a decision that triggered upset from some interest groups and customers. Under the move announced Thursday, iPhone 5 and LTE-equipped iPad customers on any of AT&T's metered data plans will also be able to use the video chat service, though it will take eight to 10 weeks for all such customers to gain access.
Several public interest groups said the move came only after they informed AT&T of their plans to file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. Free Press, Public Knowledge and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute said they will still file that complaint "if AT&T fails to make FaceTime available to all of its customers in a timely manner."
"The law is clear," Free Press Policy Director Matt Wood said in a statement. "AT&T cannot block FaceTime based on claims of potential congestion. There's nothing even remotely reasonable about that approach. AT&T simply can't justify blocking an app that competes with its voice and texting services unless customers purchase a more expensive monthly plan that includes an unlimited amount of those very same services. AT&T's course correction is a move in the right direction, but until the company makes FaceTime available to all of its customers it is still in violation of the FCC's rules and the broader principles of Net Neutrality."
AT&T defended its approach, saying it wanted a way to assess the network impact before making it available to all customers.
"We decided to take this cautious approach for important reasons," it said in a blog post. "AT&T has by far more iPhones on our network than any other carrier. We're proud of this fact and the confidence our customers have in us. But it also means that when Apple rolls out new services or changes, as it did in iOS 6, it can have a much greater, and more immediate, impact on AT&T's network than is the case with carriers who have far fewer iPhone users."
Customers on unlimited plans or with older iPhones still aren't being promised access, though AT&T said it "will continue to gather and assess the network data on this issue over the next few months and anticipate that we will be able to expand the availability of FaceTime to our customers on other billing plans in the near future."


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Shaken Baby Syndrome often just a cover story for children who are brain damaged by vaccines
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Child abuse comes in many forms, and can result in serious and permanent health conditions such as Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS), a type of brain damage that typically afflicts children younger than one-year-old. But the cause of such abuse is not always physical trauma as many experts claim -- pediatricians, doctors, and government officials routinely abuse children by injecting them with toxic vaccines, which are often the real cause of SBS and other brain damage-related conditions inappropriately blamed on physical abuse allegedly caused by parents and guardians.
It is not something the mainstream media likes to talk about, or that mainstream health authorities will likely ever admit to, but vaccine-induced brain damage is prevalent in today's society, especially as an increasing number of vaccines are added to the childhood vaccination schedule. And based on the available evidence, as well as many years' worth of lengthy investigation into the matter by prominent truth-seekers, SBS in particular appears quite often to be nothing more than a cover condition for brain damage caused by vaccine injections.
SBS, a convenient cover for vaccine-induced brain injuries
The concept of SBS as a legitimate, trauma-induced form of brain damage was first popularized back in the 1970s when it was hypothesized that babies with serious brain injuries that could not be directly linked to external signs of cranial trauma must have been shaken violently by another person. Physical
abuse was essentially declared to be the sole cause of SBS, and eventually became the go-to diagnosis when dealing with inexplicable types of brain damage observed in children.
As time went on; however, those paying attention to the situation began to observe a curious pattern with SBS and its relation to
injections. Many children who had been developing normally and growing at a healthy rate prior to receiving routine childhood vaccines, for instance, suddenly stopped progressing and their health actually began to deteriorate. And typically after the second and third round of injections, some children began to develop symptoms similar to those commonly associated with SBS.
Multivalent vaccines directly linked to causing SBS
In a report published in a 1998 issue of
Nexus Magazine
, Dr. Viera Scheibner, Ph.D., wrote extensively about the connection between SBS and vaccines. Through her research, Dr. Scheibner found that multivalent vaccines in particular, which contain antigens for two or more diseases as opposed to just one antigen for a single disease, were closely associated with causing encephalitis and other forms of
damage. Such vaccines included DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) and the five-in-one pentavalent vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, hepatitis B, and inactivated polio.
Since many of the symptoms associated with vaccine-induced brain damage directly mirror those of SBS, Dr. Scheibner and others became convinced that not all cases of SBS were caused by physically-induced child abuse. They also began to call out the medical community for its reckless blanketing of all SBS cases as having been definitively caused by physical abuse, especially when solid evidence was emerging to suggest otherwise.
"[V]accines like the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine are actually used to induce encephalo-myelitis (experimental allergic encephalomyelitis) in laboratory animals," writes Dr. Scheibner in her paper, referencing a study published in the
American Journal of Pathology
back in 1980. "This (condition) is characterized by brain swelling and hemorrhaging of an extent similar to that caused by mechanical injuries," she adds, referencing another study published in the
Japanese Journal of Medical Science & Biology
several years later in 1985.
Many parents of vaccine-injured children falsely accused of child abuse
What this suggests, of course, is that the steady rise in SBS cases over the past several decades is not necessarily due solely to a corresponding increase in child abuse by parents and caretakers, but also to an increase in vaccine reactions. But the medical establishment continues to ignore this evidence, which has resulted in countless parents being falsely accused by the state of abusing their
following rounds of vaccines that left them injured with SBS-type symptoms.
"Many infants who suffer the so-called 'shaken baby syndrome' may be victims of undiagnosed vaccine damage," adds Dr. Scheibner. "Ever since mass vaccination of infants began, reports of serious brain, cardiovascular, metabolic and other injuries started filling pages of medical journals."
This is not to say that all abuse-related cases of SBS are false, but rather that at least some of them are being misdiagnosed when vaccines are the real culprit. In fact, package inserts for many vaccines, including the hepatitis B and pertussis vaccines, very clearly explain that neurological conditions such as paraesthesia and paralysis, including the infamous Guillain-Barre syndrome and multiple sclerosis, can all arise in response to vaccine injections.
But rather than properly investigate the safety of vaccines, the American justice system, which is heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical and vaccine industries, often blames the parents of vaccine-injured children for harming their children. These same parents may be incarcerated for supposedly inflicting damage on their children, and may even have their children taken away from them by
Child Protective Services
This is precisely what happened to a family from South Dakota whose prematurely-born son died just a few weeks after birth as a result of vaccine damage. According to reports, the child, whose name was Cameron, received several rounds of vaccine injections just after birth in accordance with recommendations from the family's doctor, but quickly developed serious complications. Not long after receiving the three-in-one Pentacel vaccine (DTaP, IPV, and Hib), and just one day after receiving the hepatitis B vaccine, Cameron died.
Not only did Cameron's parents have to deal with the grief and pain of losing their son, but they also had to deal with false accusations that they were somehow responsible for their child's death. The system tried to claim that Cameron's parents shook him to death, which caused his brain to hemorrhage, and subsequently proceeded to kidnap Cameron's twin brother Dalton and hand him over to CPS. And no acknowledgment was ever made during this process that vaccines could have had anything to do with Cameron's death.
Several years later, medical experts finally confirmed that vaccines, and not physical abuse, were the most likely cause of Cameron's death, and Dalton was eventually taken out of the hands of the state and returned to his family. But it took many years of fighting the system for the family to achieve some kind of justice in the matter, and many other families have since had to endure similar abuse by a government that refuses to recognize the dangers of childhood vaccines.
SBS scam continues due to lack of legitimate, long-term vaccine safety studies
Unfortunately, the SBS scam, which protects the vaccine industry from liability for vaccine-induced health damage and death, is unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon. This is due in large part to the fact that long-term safety studies for vaccines are virtually non-existent, making it extremely difficult for parents of vaccine-injured children to defend themselves against child abuse claims.
"Few published studies on vaccine effects include before-and-after studies of immune parameters or brain function studies such as electroencephalograms, or long-term safety monitoring," says Dr. Harold E. Buttram, M.D., about the lack of proper scientific inquiry into the harmful side effects of vaccines. "Inadequate consideration has been given to the additive or synergistic adverse effects of multiple simultaneous vaccines."
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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
Category:OWASP CBT Project
- Overview
- Project Goals
- Project Downloads
- Step by step instruction creating a CBT
- Participants List
- Questions
- First release of OWASP CBT project
OWASP CBT project plans to provide computer-based training for all major OWASP Projects, which is easy to use. This project plans to include careful consideration of content and target audience needs. The design of each online course will start with the definition of learner-focused performance objectives and then proceed to the selection and implementation of instructional strategies and learning activities appropriate for those objectives. Frequent practice questions or exercises, along with assessments, will measure learners' achievement of those objectives. The self-paced environment and unlimited access to instruction and assessment will provide all learners with the opportunity to reach their desired level of mastery within each online course.
The goal of this project is to provide computer based training on OWASP security related initiatives. This project is intended to provide increased access of security training material, convenience and flexibility to learners. It will be self-paced and the learning sessions will be available 24x7. Learners will not be bound to a specific day/time to physically attend classes. They can also pause learning sessions at their convenience.
The goal of this project is to provide targeted training for application security. PCI training track is an example of this kind of initiative.
- PCI Training Presentations Track
- Application Security Overview - Security For Managers And Executives Rev 1-0.ppt
- PCI DSS And PA-DSS Version 2 Training - PCI DSS And PA-DSS Version 2 Training Rev 1-2.ppt
- OWASP Top 10 2010 Training - OWASP Top 10 2010 Training Rev 1-1.ppt
- CWE/SANS Top 25 Training - CWE-SANS Top 25 Training Rev 1-1.ppt
- CERT Secure Coding Training - CERT Secure Coding Training Rev 1-1.ppt
- Security Scanning Training - Security Scanning Training Rev 1-0.ppt
- Web Basic Concepts Training - Web Basic Concepts Training Rev 1-0.ppt
- OWASP Top 10 for 2007 CBT - Download owaspTop10_cbt.zip. Extract the zip and launch owaspTop10_cbt.html
- W3AF - Security Scanning CBT - Download w3af_cbt.zip. Extract the zip and launch w3af_cbt.html
- Compliance (PCI DSS and PA-DSS Version 1.1) CBT - Download PCI_cbt.zip. Extract the zip and launch PCI_cbt.html
- Other Power Point Presentations
- Infrastructure Hardening - Download Infrastructure Hardening.pptx
Steps for creating the CBT:
- Create the power point template with content.
- Export the power point presentation as .jpg or .png.
- Write the script that will go with the power point.
- Record the voice over using Apple GarageBand.
- Export the sound as .mp3.
- Camtasia studio also lets us record any demostration.
- Include any demonsatrion you have recorded along with sound, power point screen shots etc and assemble it in Camtasia Studio.
- Add highlights and help text in Camtasia Studio.
- Then export the video. Exported folder will have a main .html files and few supporting files.
- Launch the html to run the video.
- You need to have Adobe Flash player to run the videos(CBT's).
- Project Lead:
- Nishi Kumar
- Contributor:
- Keith Turpin
- Kaui Hinojosa
- Who is the project lead for OWASP CBT project?
Nishi Kumar is the project lead for OWASP CBT project.
- How will I contribute to this project?
Send an email to [email protected]. Your contribution to this project will be highly appreciated.
- Which tool will be used to create the training material for the first release?
Camtasia Studio
First release of OWASP CBT project is scheduled for July 31st 2011
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Take a 'toxic tour' of Houston with Rothko Chapel and Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services
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Architecture Research Office Wins 2020 AIA Architecture Firm Award
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What's Going on at the Border? The Rothko Chapel Asks Questions and Offers Answers
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10 Remarkable Revelations From a New Biography on Trailblazing Art Patrons John and Dominique de Menil
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Rothko Chapel presents quilt honoring survivors of rape, sexual abuse
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Feeling Overwhelmed? The MFA Says One Minute With A Rothko Painting Could Help
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Pastor pens a Houston Harvey poem that perfectly captures the spirit of the city
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My Father and Music: how Mark Rothko's love of Mozart made his paintings sing
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Take In Tilda Swinton's Wisdom With This Beautiful Speech From The Rothko Chapel
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Feminism and Islam: Uddin wants to change preconceptions about her religion
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text: In a mission to rescue hardware enthusiasts from the eternally twee and precious, Gadget Lab proudly presents this collection of badass gadgets -- shining examples of aggressive, purpose-built hardware design. Each of the products in this round-up is imbued with an aesthetic subtext that approaches you with a face slap, puts you in a submission hold, and whispers coldly in your ear, "Fear me. Respect me. Honor my fearsome posture." Don't be frightened. Cutlery like machetes and tactical tomahawks share billing with more conventional hardware specimens, like a flashlight and a computer mouse. And remember: These aren't necessarily the best gadgets in the product sphere. These are simply the gadgets that exude industrial design overkill — and sometimes outright design belligerence. We kick off our collection with an exceedingly sharp selection that should make all fruit-stand vendors quake in fear. --Jon Phillips Southern Grind GrandDaddy Machete There aren't many tools more obviously badass than a machete, and there aren't many machetes more badass than the Southern Grind GrandDaddy. It jumped out at us from the some 240 machetes available at MacheteSpecialists.com thanks to its bowie-style blade, which features a relatively thinnish tip for skinning animals and inducing terror. And if the tool's shape itself isn't enough to make you say, "Whoa, that's a badass machete," the dusky, 11-inch, reclaimed carbon steel blade — made in badass America, by the way — is ultra-sharp and durable. While we didn't get the chance to hack our way through the Amazon rainforest, we did give the $225 GrandDaddy a run through common produce. It balanced well in our hands, and the composite handle provided a secure grip. This is a substantial, heavy tool that makes it easy to pack power into a swing. It's a machete. It's badass. 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With treads instead of wheels, the Trackchair opens up fields and forests for off-roading. You can also slog through swamps and even ford small streams. How many people can say they took their wheelchair mudding on the weekend? And yes, that's right, it comes in camo. You're not going to chase down any gazelles at the Trackchair's top speed of 5 mph, but available gun racks and mounts make it easier to go hunting when you'd otherwise be stuck watching OLN. With a base price of around $9,000 (plus accessories), the Trackchair is pricier than many ATVs, but nobody said being a badass was free. --Nathan Hurst Photo: Action Manufacturing, Inc. Smith & Wesson Tactical Pen Hey, you never know when you may need to gouge out someone's eye. Scenario: You're on a plane from Dallas to Denver. You couldn't bring your carry piece, because the clowns who run the TSA think civilians aren't qualified to safely discharge firearms in the air. Knives, too, are also banned. But luckily you have your tactical pen. It's a perfectly legal tool for close-quarter combat in the middle of a flight. It's just a pen, after all. But it's also sturdy as hell, and bears a pointy end that's perfect for damaging soft human tissue. When searching for the world's most badass pen, we checked out a few models but eventually landed on the pen you see here made by Smith & Wesson. Did you catch that? It's made by Smith & Wesson. Let's repeat: It's a pen made by Smith & Wesson. And it's branded as such right on the pocket clip. The pen's 5.7-inch shell is machined from hard-anodized aluminum, and features grippy indentations for a confidence-inspiring clutch. The cap screws and unscrews with precision threading. The pen accepts common Parker and Hauser ink cartridges, and while the cartridge tips might look sharp, we don't recommend using them in a defensive posture. The pen's nasty aluminum tip is your tactical defense tool, and that's where your attention should be focused. This is the beauty of tactical pens. They're fully functioning ink pens, but also so full of badass, you can convince yourself you're carrying violence in an aluminum cartridge. --Jon Phillips Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired SSI PRI-MAX Industrial Shredder We wanted to pick a badass paper shredder, one that lurks in the corner of the office and chaws down paper by the ream, mangling staples and paper clips and the occasional necktie, all without flinching. There are plenty out there to choose from, like Staples' Drop & Go Micro-Cut shredder, but here at Gadget Lab, we're interested in superlatives. Why shred 500 sheets of paper at once when you can shred, say, a VW Beetle? Like many things you can do with a badass gadget, shredding a car in SSI's PRI-MAX industrial shredder falls into the "not that you should, but that you could" category. The PRI-MAX is actually made to reduce waste. You can toss in debris from a demolished building by the ton, and the gnarled mixture that comes out takes up less landfill space and ships easier. And who can be worried about details like the 700-horsepower diesel hydraulic motor and processing rates up to 150 tons per hour when SSI's list of shredables includes wood, brick, mattresses, titanium, and whole animal carcasses? --Nathan Hurst Photo: SSI Ammo Can Lunchbox It's heavy, it's tough to open, and it was never meant to be a lunch box. But if you want to be a badass, this ammo case is way better than any Care Bears thermos. The rattle and clank of the steel clasp projects enough badassitude to impress your peers whether you clock in at a construction site or a white-collar desk job. And really, what food item won't fit the theme of an ammo can? A salad? Carrot sticks and hummus? Who cares. Hell, if it's good enough for a strip of .30 cal, it's good enough for your Reuben. And if a Dagwood sandwich is more your style, the cans also come in a .50 caliber size. This isn't some knock-off replica fashioned by a boutique retro designer. We had to hit up Army Surplus Warehouse to find this bad boy. Even better: Buy a used one, and it'll come with dings, scratches and perhaps a little gunpowder on the inside for that gritty, saltpeter flavor. --Nathan Hurst Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Fiskars ShopBoss Scissors aren't multi-tools, but we still expect the world of them. I'm not proud to admit it, but I've used common household scissors to break down cardboard boxes, strip electrical wire, cut through pesky blister packs, and even snip wire fencing. I once even used a pair of scissors as an impromptu throwing knife. It wasn't a self-defense situation, mind you, but I can report that the right pair of stainless steel scissors will easily pierce a watermelon when chucked with vicious intent from 10 paces. Yes, I have mighty high expectations for my scissors, but it's also a wonder I haven't yet maimed myself in some horrible act of scissory misadventure. This is where the Fiskars ShopBoss comes in. It's marketed as "the ultimate hardware snip," but I consider it to be the world's most badass pair of scissors precisely because it's capable of doing so many of the extra-scissicculor activities I often ask my scissors to do. The ShopBoss' finely serrated, titanium-coated main blade is strong enough to cut through pieces of light metal, carpet and flooring. A spring-action design provides for great tension and grip. Integrated wire strippers and wire cutters take care of all my home electrical needs. And there's even a bottle opener, because, yes, enthusiasts of badass gadgets often drink beer. Oh, and each ShopBoss comes with its own belt sheath. You know, so you can wear the scissors like a proper tool — or sidearm weapon. --Jon Phillips Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Gerber Multi-Plier 600 DET Tools built to military specifications are almost guaranteed to be badass. But Gerber's 600 DET is more than just a milspec pair of pliers. It's also an explosive addition to our celebration of badass gadgets. Can you blow something up with your pliers? Didn't think so. Okay, the 600 DET can't blow something up by itself, but the multi-tool is designed primarily to help combat engineers prep and detonate plastic explosives. Most noticeably, the tool features a nearly three-inch-long C4 punch, a vicious-looking spike used to impale a gob of plastic explosives. The pliers-end of the tool has a blasting cap crimper, which attaches a blasting cap to a detonation cord. Drop it into the hole in the C4, stand back, and "boom." The flat-black, stainless-steel exterior of the tool doesn't hurt its badass cred either, and even the tungsten-carbide edge on the included RemGrit saw is designed to cut through rubber, wire, and PVC, all of which are commonly used in munitions preparations. It's not a tool for everyone, but pleasing the masses isn't what being badass is about. --Nathan Hurst Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired LED Lenser X21 Flashlight LED Lenser includes a warning with its X21 Flashlight: "Do not shine the light directly in someone's eyes. If the light beam does shine directly in your eyes, look away immediately." That's because the four D batteries in the X21 put out 1,100 lumens through seven large LEDs. Is it bright? Perhaps too much so. Just the reflection of the X21′s beam off the carpet in the Wired office was enough to cause us to flinch. There will always be an arms race in flashlight lumens, and many flashlight companies claim to sell the brightest light. But lumens by themselves aren't a useful measure. A light's perceived brightness also depends on how focused it is. This German-engineered light employs a quick focusing system to illuminate threats — or targets — as far away as 1,500 feet. Badassery in flashlights is about more than just brightness, though. This giant flashlight (it comes with a shoulder strap, if that tells you anything) is made of black machined aluminum and weighs more than three pounds. If the light beam itself isn't enough to stun a stalking cougar, braining the cat with the heavy end of the X21 is a legitimate second option. --Nathan Hurst Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Oakley Factory Pilot Gloves Brass knuckles are so mid-20th century. Oakley's Factory Pilot gloves are sheathed in carbon fiber to shield you from knuckle-crushing stunts, whether you're mountain biking or combat training. But that's only a fraction of what makes them badass. Oakley also put Unobtanium on the fingertips, for a better grip on your brake levers or M-16 triggers. We don't know how Oakley got a hold of the material, but we're sure it was a rough trip. The Factory Pilot glove was already a badass mountain-biking glove in its own right. So much so that the U.S. military wanted some. What's more, Oakley added a soft, micro-vented leather palm, and finger exhaust ports, befitting enough for a cyborg. Yes, a robot could wear these and look sufficiently badass. --Nathan Hurst Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired MadCatz Cyborg M.M.O. 7 No, it's not mechanized battle beetle from Darpa's collection of militarized robots. Nor is it a prop from Battle: Pasadena, Transformers: Full-Metal Hissy Fit , or whatever the next machines-as-agents-of-armageddon sci-fi movie will be. Can't figure it out? It's a computer mouse. It's a computer mouse purpose-built for hardcore PC gaming, and it's the most badass gaming mouse ever created. The M.M.O. 7 is chock-full silly with removable, tweakable parts. Using an adjustment tool that fits directly into the chassis, you can shorten or lengthen the mouse's total length to accommodate your hand size. You can add and remove up to 30 grams of swappable weights to suit your personal preference for how heavy a mouse should be. The bundle also comes with interchangeable pinkie and palm rests -- one set has a grippy texture, the other a satiny finish. And you can also define your favorite DPI setting among four steps in mousing precision, from 25dpi to 6,400dpi. Even the mouse's backlighting is user-adjustable. Our photo shows default orange illumination, but you can set the lights to shine any RGB color you like. This latest MadCatz gaming mouse is optimized for massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft, but still bears all the precision controls for fast-paced action games and combat shooters. But, hell, you don't need to be a PC gamer to appreciate a bit of badass design on your physical desktop. We say rock this mouse during your next Excel marathon, and let the other cubicle drones in accounts payable quake in fear. --Jon Phillips Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Best Made Smokejumper Belt If you're facing a belt-bursting, all-you-can-eat spread, you could do worse than wrap your gut in Best Made's Smokejumper belt. The woven Kevlar used in the $42 Smokejumper can hold at least 6,500 pounds, supporting your belly through even the worst buffet-line hangover. A Chevy Suburban, by the way, has an approximate curb weight of 6,000 pounds. Not that you would ever need to lift a Suburban with your belt, but hey, who knows? While this belt is badass in its own right, it's also named after one of the most badass professions in history. Smokejumpers are employed by the U.S. Forest Service to parachute directly into wooded areas being ravaged by fire. Like the Kevlar suits worn by smokejumpers, this belt is highly fire-resistant, with a melting point of 800 degrees Fahrenheit. Granted, though, if you're someplace where it's 800 degrees, you're probably not worried about whether your belt is melting. Nonetheless, when you find yourself MacGyvering a winch to get your Land Rover out of a jungle ravine, be glad you were wearing the Smokejumper. But be careful out there: The steel parachute harness Best Made uses for the buckle is rated for only 2,500 pounds. --Nathan Hurst Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired ZBoard Electric Skateboard As a rule, longboards built for stability are friendlier to skateboard commuters than short boards built for tricks -- that is, until you have to go up a hill. As soon as he or she hits a hill to climb, the longboarder is saddled with a larger piece of wood to carry. This is what makes the ZBoard so intriguing -- and so incredibly badass in the greater scheme of skateboarding. An onboard electric motor keeps the board moving even when you encounter a hill. This is accomplished without the wireless remotes and other hand-based controls found on other electric skateboards. Instead, two pads on the board control its motor. Lean on the front pad to go forward; lean on the rear pad to brake. The pads are pressure sensitive, so speeding up or slowing down fluctuates accordingly with your shifting weight. After a quick introduction to the board's simple controls, I was rolling through the Wired newsroom with no problem. And after a few minutes outside, I was rolling up and down the parking lot (and avoiding parked cars) without ever having to propel the board with my legs. Adjusting the speed of the board was just a matter of adjusting my weight. The longboard-inspired design and knobby wheels give the board a smooth ride, while small sidewalk pebbles won't throw you off track. The aggressive wheels also make you feel like to you can tackle anything the road throws at you. Cracked concrete, wavy asphalt, and even the occasional yard-crossing short cut seemed like breeze with monster tires. ZBoard will release two versions, available soon: At $500, the ZBoard Classic will have a range of five miles and a top speed of 15mph, and weigh in at an arm-wrenching 37 pounds. The $750 ZBoard Pro will double the range to 10 miles and raise the top speed to 17mph, but will shave seven pounds off the final weight. --Roberto Baldwin Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired GG&G Battle Hawk If this fearsome assembly of angles, edges and pointy bits doesn't inspire you to question the motivating psychology of close-quarter combat weapon designers, then you need to look inside you own head, and ask, "Good lord, what have I become?" The GG&G Battle Hawk is not a simple tomahawk. Nor is it a run-of-the-mill tactical tomahawk, a type of cutlery engineered for the unique needs of ground troops. Relative to the Battle Hawk, most tactical tomahawks are lighter and bear smaller, thinner blades. They're used for breaching locked entryways, extracting comrades from enemy dungeons, and generally providing a level of high-impact hacking that would damage a knife. But, no, the Battle Hawk seems designed for another tactical mission: Impressing the living hell out of indigenous populations with rich cutlery histories of their own. Indeed, this is a tomahawk that immediately speaks volumes to anyone with an appreciation for knife or tomahawk design -- however over the top (if not impractical) that design may be. The GG&G website calls the Battle Hawk an "extreme use combat tool" and "the perfect weapon for killing zombies," adding the tomahawk is "meant for aggressive use, very aggressive, use." It's really too heavy to be an effective throwing tomahawk, but we're confident it could hack through chain-mail if wielded in anger. The Battle Hawk is pricey at $260, but comes with a 38-minute DVD in which Jeffrey Prather and Darin Ashley, masters of close-quarter combat, demo both lethal and non-lethal tomahawk-based fighting techniques, including responses to bayonet attacks and "sentry interdiction." Are we knife nuts at Gadget Lab? No, not really. But we love a good knife or battle axe that makes us feel all Game of Thrones-y. --Jon Phillips Photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired


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There is teaching. There is learning. Then there is the insignificant.
While I did not take them too seriously at first, I am beginning to learn that she knew well what she was saying. And no learner can not love libraries. Visited the Los Angeles Central Library today. The inscription on its facade makes for a thought-provoking entrance:
"Books alone are liberal and free. They give to all who ask. They emancipate all who serve them faithfully."
The library is a fantastic facility (here is its Wikipedia page) in the heart of Downtown LA, one of the better business districts in the country from my experience. I was loving the vibe as I entered, listening to Ishq Ada Hai from Ada, which only added to the mystique. Stopped at the Library Store, and fell in love with this beautiful tie (the online store page seems to assume the visitor is a woman, what with the 'man in your life' -- what's up with that?). And then I stopped for a couple of postcards on the way out and was pleasantly surprised to see this:
Per the cashier, they had several others that sold fast, which is interesting. Also interesting is that this postcard was printed in the E.U., by an organization named Bizarr with a Munich, Germany address. How cool is that? Anyone seen Do Anjaane?