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1. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: In a dark-horse move that set both the old and new media aflutter, Bezos bought The Washington Post in August, confirming that there is no industry that he does not see as ripe for disruption. Amazon has no serious rivals in online retail, the stock price is up more than sevenfold since 2008, and the only question is how far Bezos can expand his reach, prompting The New York Times to call him "the natural heir of Steve Jobs as the entrepreneur with the most effect on the way people live now." New ventures include putting storage lockers in cities to make it easy for customers to pick up their orders, an online auction house, and an ambitious attempt to produce its own TV shows—a direct challenge to Netflix.
BIG MOVE: Bezos spent much of the summer working at Lab126, Amazon's Silicon Valley-based hardware-design laboratory, where the company's Kindle tablet was created. Rumor has it Amazon may be building its own cell phone or a TV set-top box.
OFF THE CLOCK: In March, Bezos spent three weeks at sea with a team of explorers in the Atlantic Ocean and retrieved the Apollo 11 F-1 engines.
2. Larry Page & Sergey Brin, Google
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: With Google's stock price up more than 20 percent in the last year and its annual profits topping $10 billion, co-founders Page and Brin have been free to follow a path of perpetual experimentation. To wit: the decision to spend roughly $1 billion on Waze, a crowd-sourced traffic app; their crazily ambitious Project Loon; and Google Glass, a head-mounted computer that is one of the most talked-about new products in years.
BIG MOVE: In August, Google's Motorola Mobility division, which Page acquired for $12.5 billion in 2011, unveiled its new Moto X. The "anti-iPhone," as some have dubbed it, will be offered in 18 colors and will be manufactured in Fort Worth, Texas, making it the first American-made smartphone.
OFF THE CLOCK: In August, a report surfaced that Brin had separated from his wife, Anne Wojcicki, and had taken up with a Google employee, 27-year-old Amanda Rosenberg.
3. Tim Cook & Jonathan Ive, Apple
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: It has been two years since the death of Steve Jobs, and C.E.O. Cook's sophomore year has been full of challenges. The stock price has fallen 35 percent in the past year, as investors fret over a company that is years removed from its last big hit, the 2010 iPad. While many were hoping for more at September's iPhones 5s and 5c unveiling (the stock price dropped in its wake), others believe that Apple still sets the standard for innovation (the fingerprint sensor on the 5s generated oohs and ahhs at the press announcement) and see this as just a warm-up for 2014, when rumor has it that "all the good stuff is coming" out of Ive's vaunted industrial-design workshop.
BIG MOVE: Last fall, after Cook publicly apologized for the embarrassingly buggy Apple Maps, he parted ways with Jobs's longtime software deputy, Scott Forstall, and gave the job of software designer to Ive, solidifying Ive's position as the most important industrial designer in the world.
OFF THE CLOCK: Both Cook and Ive have been involved in high-profile charitable efforts this year, with an auction for a cup of coffee with Tim Cook netting the R.F.K. Center for Justice & Human Rights $610,000. Ive, meanwhile, has partnered with his close friend the designer Marc Newson to curate and create items for a design auction to benefit Bono's (Red).
4. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: A year ago, Facebook looked vulnerable, not just because its long-awaited I.P.O. had fizzled but also because it had been caught flat-footed by the boom in smartphone use. A year later, all is well again at 1 Hacker Way, with a company stock price of about $45, well north of the I.P.O. price. In its most recent quarter, Facebook reported mobile-ad revenue of $656 million, up from roughly zero a year earlier. Advertisers are expected to spend $6 billion on the site in 2013.
BIG MOVE: A nagging worry for Facebook is that teens might flee to newer digital playgrounds. Zuckerberg addressed this last year by agreeing to pay roughly $1 billion to buy one such playground, Instagram, and by aping another, Snapchat.
OFF THE CLOCK: In April, Zuckerberg embarked on his first foray into politics, launching FWD.us, an immigration-reform group run by his old Harvard roommate Joe Green. FWD generated blowback in Silicon Valley after running TV ads that seemed to support the oil industry—and some backers, including Elon Musk, bailed out. In August, Zuckerberg went worldwide with his transformative ambitions, launching Internet.org, dedicated to bringing affordable Internet access to the developing world.
5. Elon Musk, Tesla Motors, Spacex
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Musk's electric-car start-up has flirted with calamity so many times it's been hard to keep track. But after he navigated the company through near bankruptcy in 2008, Tesla is soaring. In August, a quarterly earnings report showing a net income of $26 million defied analysts' expectations for the visionary company, whose market value continues to expand. Tesla's stock price has increased ninefold since its 2010 initial public offering, up almost 400 percent this year alone, and the new Model S was rated by Consumer Reports as the highest-scoring car the magazine had ever tested. (Not long afterward, the car's roof proved so strong that it broke government testing equipment.)
BIG MOVE: Musk's other company, SpaceX, has conquered North America. It continues to fulfill a $1.6 billion contract with NASA—its Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station for its second official mission earlier this year. SpaceX also won a contract to support the most ambitious space program in Canada's history.
OFF THE CLOCK: In August, Musk released details for a potential side project: a Jetsons-like form of transportation he calls the "Hyperloop," which he claims could transport people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 30 minutes, describing it as a combination of "a Concorde, a railgun, and an air-hockey table."
6. Lee Kun-hee & Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Electronics
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Amid the bruising legal battle over the violation of patents held by Apple for the iPhone, Samsung—ruled by the father-and-son duo of Lee Kun-hee and Lee Jae-yong—has transformed itself into Cupertino's most credible challenger. As of this summer the Korean electronics giant was reportedly selling more of its smartphones than Apple was iPhones, while achieving Apple-like profits. Samsung's clever, and successful, ad campaign "The Next Big Thing Is Already Here," timed to the release of the iPhone 5, raised the question, "Is Apple still cool?"
BIG MOVE: Late last year, the elder Lee, whose father founded Samsung in 1938, announced that he was promoting his son and likely heir, Lee Jae-yong, or Jay Y. Lee as he is known in the U.S., to vice-chairman.
OFF THE CLOCK: This summer Jay Y. Lee attended the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference, solidifying Samsung's place as an influential player in the U.S.
7. Keith Alexander, National Security Agency
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The leaks this summer by former computer-security analyst Edward Snowden suggest that the N.S.A. chief has given his organization access to much of the data running through Silicon Valley's biggest companies, including Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Alexander has also reportedly expanded the U.S. military's ability to launch its own cyber-attacks—for instance, the 2010 Stuxnet virus created by the U.S. and Israel to temporarily take down an Iranian nuclear reactor.
BIG MOVE: Since the Snowden leak, Alexander has been outspoken in defense of the N.S.A.'s secret data-gathering programs, claiming at a conference that it has thwarted 54 terrorist plots, including a plan to bomb the New York City subway system.
OFF THE CLOCK: The four-star general unwinds by playing a smartphone game called Bejeweled Blitz.
8. Jack Dorsey, Square, Twitter
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The digital-product savant has finally given up his operational role at Twitter, which he invented and co-founded in 2006 (and which recently filed for an I.P.O.), to focus on Square, which makes a tiny credit-card reader that turns a smartphone or tablet into a sophisticated cash register. The company already hosts more than three million merchants—including 7,000 Starbucks cafés—and has been expanding into online payments.
BIG MOVE: This fall, Square will move into new offices in San Francisco, occupying more than 150,000 square feet, which will allow it to triple its employees. The new space is conveniently located a block from Twitter.
OFF THE CLOCK: Dorsey celebrated Independence Day by renting a red Ford Mustang and driving cross-country with his girlfriend, Kate Greer.
9. Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Andreessen's star power and Horowitz's reputation as a hands-on operator, along with their venture-capital firm's "Founders First" credo and marketing prowess, have made them a magnet for entrepreneurs. Though it's too early to say how good their returns will be, the duo has managed to get a piece of pretty much every important deal of the past few years—including investments in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Skype.
BIG MOVE: Andreessen was one of five winners of the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (for creating the Internet). He had to skip his audience with the Queen, but sent in his place two young engineers, who enjoyed high tea with Her Majesty and the other award winners.
OFF THE CLOCK: Andreessen has been reading history books in preparation for a rematch of his widely watched 2013 Milken debate, on innovation in tech, with rival shaman V.C. Peter Thiel. Horowitz is known for his fondness for rap. He was recently spotted having dinner with Nas and Mark Zuckerberg.
10. Reid Hoffman & Jeff Weiner, Linkedin/Greylock
__STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST:__LinkedIn isn't as sexy as Facebook or Twitter, but with 225 million members posting their résumés to the site, and with pretty much every large American company paying to access those résumés, the so-called Facebook for grown-ups has shown healthy profits and quintupled its stock price since its 2011 I.P.O. It's a triumph for Weiner, and has allowed Hoffman to focus on investing and mentoring. He and his partner David Sze have made Greylock one of the most respected V.C. firms in the Valley.
BIG MOVE: To entice members to the site while not job-hunting, Weiner launched Influencers—which includes columns by 250 big-name contributors, among them Bill Gates and President Obama.
OFF THE CLOCK: Every year Hoffman co-organizes the Ben Franklin-inspired Weekend to Be Named Later, a "gathering of ambitious friends to brainstorm ways to change the world." Weiner gained LinkedIn's employees' devotion when all were given iPad minis earlier this year.
11. Dick Costolo, Twitter
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: All eyes in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street are on Twitter after the announcement last month—in a tweet, of course—that it was filing for an I.P.O., reportedly valuing the company at $10 billion or more. And Costolo seemed to have finally answered pundits' concerns about monetization: television. The short-form messaging service, which has more than 200 million active monthly users, will take in revenue of $583 million this year, according to an analyst's estimate, thanks largely to ads that are sold in conjunction with live TV broadcasts.
BIG MOVE: Last October, Twitter paid a reported $30 million for Vine, a popular Instagram-for-video app. The deal, brokered by co-founder Jack Dorsey, has opened up a new front in Twitter's battle with Facebook.
OFF THE CLOCK: At the Super Bowl this year, arguably Twitter's most important—and lucrative—event, Bill Simmons of ESPN's Grantland pranked Costolo, telling him that the Twitter service was "down." Simmons reported Costolo's "whole body convulsed" before he realized it was a joke.
12. Reed Hastings & Ted Sarandos, Netflix
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Having made the round-trip from new-media darling to near death, Netflix is back on top. In the wake of the Qwikster debacle, Hastings and Sarandos rebranded the service as a next-generation HBO and have been rewarded with a soaring stock price and a growing domestic subscriber base of nearly 30 million—putting it neck and neck with HBO. The company's fans now include Emmy voters, who rewarded it with 14 nominations for House of Cards, Arrested Development, and Hemlock Grove.
BIG MOVE: While most of the attention is focused on the new shows, in August, Hastings and Sarandos announced a high-prestige deal with the Weinstein Company. Combined with a deal with Disney for exclusive streaming rights to new titles beginning in 2016, this solidifies Netflix's position as a critical distribution outlet for Hollywood.
OFF THE CLOCK: When he wants quiet time, Hastings retreats to a glass cube built on the roof of the Netflix headquarters. Sarandos heads to a $10 million Malibu beach house that he and his wife, Nicole Avant, bought from David Spade in July.
13. Ben Silbermann, Pinterest
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Fresh off a venture-capital round that put his company's value at $2.5 billion, Silbermann's scrapbook-cum-social-network has reportedly passed 70 million users—more than triple the figure from 2012. The only thing missing is revenue, which Silbermann is charmingly candid about, but last year he hired Tim Kendall, Facebook's former head of monetization.
BIG MOVE: The company has become one of the most important sources of traffic for online-shopping sites. This spring, Nordstrom started slapping the Pinterest logo onto in-store displays for products that had been especially hot on the site.
OFF THE CLOCK: Low-profile Silbermann was recently spotted at dinner with some of the most notable tech C.E.O.'s: Jack Dorsey, Box's Aaron Levie, and Dick Costolo.
14. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The Facebook C.O.O. took a place on the national stage in March with the publication of Lean In, an empowering manifesto that encourages women to pursue more ambitious career goals. Sandberg's book received a largely positive reception and has remained at the top of the nonfiction bestseller lists, but critics charged that her advice is applicable to only a small sliver of wealthy professional women.
BIG MOVE: Sixteen months after Facebook's badly managed public offering, Sandberg has helped repair relationships with investors, touting the recent gains in mobile advertising.
OFF THE CLOCK: Sandberg insists that she has no plans to enter politics, but her vocal advocacy of her former boss Larry Summers's failed bid to be chairman of the Federal Reserve raised eyebrows.
15. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Tasked with turning around a declining icon of the dot-com era, the Google veteran spent the past year making a flurry of acquisitions, including Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Meanwhile, Mayer has been trying to revamp Yahoo's corporate culture, using a mix of carrots (free smartphones for every employee!) and sticks (no more working from home). So far, the effort has been a mixed bag: Yahoo's stock price has soared by 79 percent and online traffic even topped Google's this summer, but advertising revenue continues to be flat, and rumors of a falling-out with investor Dan Loeb, who recruited Mayer, in the wake of his cashing out of Yahoo and leaving the board have not helped matters.
BIG MOVE: In a bid to improve Yahoo's video offerings and to better compete with YouTube, Mayer is reportedly courting Katie Couric for a Web talk show.
OFF THE CLOCK: Mayer, known for hosting fabulous parties, celebrated her 38th birthday earlier this year on San Francisco's Treasure Island, with a beach-boardwalk theme, sandcastles, and surfboards.
16. Herb Allen III, Allen & Co.
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The Allen & Co. scion—a throwback to a bygone era of discreet Wall Street moneymen—has quietly come into his own. Along with his father, he presides over the renowned Sun Valley schmooze-fest, which continues to be the place where major media deals get hatched—this year, Jeff Bezos's purchase of The Washington Post was sealed there. Allen's other annual gathering for up-and-coming tech entrepreneurs is held almost entirely out of the public eye, at the Ritz-Carlton in Tucson. Attracting an equally rarefied bunch, it is considered by some to be the more important event. Marc Andreessen, Jack Dorsey, and Peter Thiel are regulars.
BIG MOVE: The fact that Donald Graham chose Allen & Co. to quietly shop his family's most high-profile asset speaks volumes about the firm and its C.E.O. His father, Herbert, once said of his son, "Compared to him, I'm outgoing."
OFF THE CLOCK: Allen is rarely seen out on the town, disappointing those who might want to lobby for one of the most coveted invitations around. "In all the years I've known him," a business associate marveled, "I've only seen him out once."
17. Preet Bharara, Attorney
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Having already earned convictions of high-profile Wall Street titans, a growing list of New York City politicians, and even the Times Square would-be bomber, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York has taken aim at perhaps his biggest target yet: SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen. In July, he stunned Wall Street by indicting Cohen's hedge fund for securities fraud. A conviction in the SAC case would cap an already impressive run for Bharara's office of 74 successful insider-trading prosecutions—with no losses to date.
BIG MOVE: Bharara has denied having political ambitions, but insiders speculate that a run for either governor or U.S. Senate seems possible, and Bharara would be a front-runner to succeed Eric Holder as U.S. attorney general were Holder to leave.
OFF THE CLOCK: Last October, Bharara took his wife and guitar-playing middle child to a Bruce Springsteen concert where the Boss dedicated "Death to My Hometown" to the star prosecutor. "It might have been the coolest thing ever," says Bharara, who, like Springsteen, grew up in Monmouth County, New Jersey. "He even pronounced my name correctly."
18. Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: "We're not interested in world domination or empire building," says Wilson of his boutique investment firm, which has stayed small even as competitors on the West Coast have raised billion-dollar funds and made dozens of new investments this year. The New York firm's modest size—on top of Wilson's track record, which includes very early bets on Kickstarter, Tumblr, and Twitter—has lent it an air of exclusivity rivaling that of any of his expansionist competition.
BIG MOVE: After helping to stoke the social-media revolution, Wilson has turned his attention to finance, investing in start-ups that do business in Bitcoin, a controversial virtual currency that Wilson believes could eventually replace traditional national currencies. In a widely read blog post, Wilson wrote, "We have made more money on things that were highly ridiculed than on any other cohort."
OFF THE CLOCK: Wilson and his wife, Joanne, provided the start-up capital to the Academy for Software Engineering, New York's first public high school focused on teaching students how to write code.
19. Tyler Perry, Filmmaker
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Few would have predicted that Oprah Winfrey's new channel would need rescuing, but Perry has emerged as the network's savior since signing a multi-year deal last October. His shows have brought in record viewership for OWN, enabling it to turn a profit this year. Meanwhile, Perry continues to churn out successful, if not always critically loved, films. Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor grossed $52 million in U.S. theaters before topping Nielsen's home-video sales chart in its first week of release.
BIG MOVE: Chintzy dresses, gunplay, and—if past performance is any guide—huge box-office receipts are on the horizon for the holidays, when Perry will reprise his role as a cantankerous grandmother in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas.
OFF THE CLOCK: Perry unwinds by flying an extensive collection of radio-controlled airplanes.
20. Daniel Loeb, Third Point
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The hedge-fund billionaire's modus operandi is simple: Quietly amass stakes in struggling companies, then loudly demand big changes—often in the form of a scathing "public letter" to the C.E.O. he aims to fire. Last year, Loeb engineered the ouster of former Yahoo chief Scott Thompson, helped recruit Marissa Mayer, and then made nearly $600 million by selling off Yahoo shares when the stock price soared. The next target of Loeb's ire was Sony, which has rebuffed his scheme to spin off its entertainment division—a move that incurred the scorn of George Clooney, who accused him of "trying to spread a climate of fear." Uncharacteristically, Loeb backed off. In Loeb's crosshairs most recently is Sotheby's, in which he has a 5.7 percent stake.
BIG MOVE: As concerns about the Eurozone reached a fever pitch last year, Loeb made a counter-intuitive bet on the struggling Greek economy, and made a reported $500 million profit.
OFF THE CLOCK: Loeb studied with an Ashtanga guru in India and married a former yoga instructor.
21. Yuri Milner, Digital Sky Technologies
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: After bankrolling the social-media revolution with a series of savvy bets on Facebook, Twitter, and Airbnb, the Russian billionaire has shifted his sights to China, which he sees as the next big market outside of the U.S.
BIG MOVE: Last December, Milner led a $50 million venture-capital round for 23andMe—the genetic-testing service co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, separated wife of Sergey Brin, allowing 23andMe to drop its price to just $99 per test.
OFF THE CLOCK: This year, Milner brought together fierce competitors—Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan, Brin and Wojcicki, and Apple chairman Arthur Levinson—to launch the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, one of the most lucrative prizes in all of academia.
22. Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Yelp—which attracts more than 100 million users a month who come to read reviews of restaurants, bars, dentists, and pretty much every other kind of business—is on a roll. Second-quarter revenue rose 69 percent year over year, and its stock price has doubled since last summer.
BIG MOVE: As of July, users can order food directly from Yelp's app. The hope is to create an additional revenue stream to help Yelp turn profitable and to fend off an aggressive challenge by Google.
OFF THE CLOCK: Stoppelman is part of a group of tech luminaries who periodically gather for dinner and networking. Other participants have included Marissa Mayer, Jonathan Ive, Reid Hoffman, Michael Birch, and Trevor Traina.
23. Dan Doctoroff, Bloomberg L.P.
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Under Doctoroff's reign, the $8-billion-a-year company has diversified, launching data products for law and government, and even a venture-capital fund to invest in Silicon Valley start-ups. Meanwhile, Bloomberg has been under scrutiny since reports surfaced that some of the company's journalists had accessed client information on the firm's terminals. The revelation prompted a public apology—and in August Bloomberg agreed to appoint an independent senior editor to respond to complaints in the future, as well as a newsroom standards editor.
BIG MOVE: Befitting a company founded by an engineer, Bloomberg has put increasing focus on its digital future under Doctoroff. This summer, Bloomberg.com surpassed Dow Jones, Reuters, and CNBC in terms of Web video streams.
OFF THE CLOCK: Doctoroff has become a major funder of research into amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A.L.S.), which claimed his father's life in 2002. He began a new, $25 million fund-raising campaign earlier this year.
24. Salar Kamangar & Robert Kyncl, YouTube
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The pioneering Web-video company has recently redoubled its efforts to enter the fray of more traditional TV-style programming, opening the 41,000-square-foot YouTube Space LA production facility in a Los Angeles airplane hangar originally built by Howard Hughes.
BIG MOVE: Hollywood and YouTube got a little closer in May when Jeffrey Katzenberg's DreamWorks Animation bought AwesomenessTV, a tween-oriented YouTube network. Kyncl, a Netflix veteran, who now heads up YouTube's content group, helped broker the deal.
OFF THE CLOCK: Last year, The New York Times declared Kamangar one of Silicon Valley's most eligible bachelors.
25. Cory Booker, Politician
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The Newark mayor is the odds-on favorite to win a U.S. Senate seat in October's special election, which would cement him as the Democratic Party's rising star. Booker's backstory (he famously lived in a Newark housing project after graduating from Yale Law School) and his flair for personal heroics (last year he ran into a burning building to save a neighbor) have earned him an outsize reputation.
BIG MOVE: While his speech on social media was a hit at the SXSW conference in March, his foray into tech start-ups has been less successful. Waywire, a video-sharing site he co-founded, has faltered, and in the fall he resigned from the company.
OFF THE CLOCK: Booker was named by Town & Country as one of the "Top 50 Bachelors," though aides tease that Twitter is his real girlfriend.
26. Kevin Systrom, Instagram
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Systrom became the poster boy for the app economy when he agreed to sell Instagram to Facebook for $1 billion, just a year and a half after launching the service. Rather than turning his product over to Zuckerberg and "vesting in peace"—to use the Silicon Valley term—Systrom has taken an active role at the company, operating Instagram as an autonomous division that is arguably Facebook's most important. The photo-sharing app has continued to grow and now has 130 million users, who upload 45 million photos a day.
BIG MOVE: In June, Instagram added a video-sharing feature, which lets users shoot and share 15-second mini-movies. This puts the app in direct competition with Twitter's Vine and continues a brewing drama between the two services.
OFF THE CLOCK: Systrom has become a more frequent presence in gossip columns and was recently spotted in a "selfie" with Kim Kardashian posted on Instagram.
27. Chris Meledandri, Illumination Entertainment
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: Returning
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The animated-film world's scrappy upstart is coming into his own. Meledandri, who was responsible for Twentieth Century Fox's Ice Age, launched Illumination in 2007 with backing from Universal and a business model that called for modestly budgeted animated features. Although Illumination operates with cut-rate budgets—generally $75 million, or less than half what Pixar typically spends—pretty much all of its films so far have been hits. Meledandri's latest, Despicable Me 2, has grossed more than $800 million worldwide to date. NBCUniversal C.E.O. Steve Burke said it would "end up being the single most profitable film in the 100-year history of Universal Studios."
BIG MOVE: Meledandri's partnership with Audrey Geisel, the widow of Dr. Seuss, has already resulted in two films—Horton Hears a Who! and *The Lorax—*and he is also working with Johnny Depp on a live-action biopic on Dr. Seuss's life.
OFF THE CLOCK: Meledandri was not allowed to watch cartoons as a child, a prohibition he has lifted for his own children.
28. Megan & David Ellison, Film Producers
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The Ellisons have used their vast wealth—their father is Oracle co-founder Larry—to emerge as two of Hollywood's most important young producers. Press-shy Megan, who has helped bankroll such critical hits as The Master and Zero Dark Thirty, is known to swoop in to revive lagging productions with quick infusions of cash. Older brother David's Skydance Productions has had more commercial success, partnering with Paramount on blockbusters such as Star Trek Into Darkness and World War Z.
BIG MOVE: Though the Ellisons are said to be competitive with each other, they teamed up to beat out Lionsgate for the rights to the Terminator franchise.
OFF THE CLOCK: Like father, like children. Megan collects pricey real estate. An aerobatic pilot, David is known to spend quality air time with Dad, also an avid aviator.
29. Paul Graham, Y Combinator
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Admission into Graham's vaunted Y Combinator—a three-month program that is part investment fund, part business school—is the closest thing there is for a Silicon Valley start-up kid to finding a golden ticket. The program has an acceptance rate of 2 percent, making it more selective than Harvard or Stanford, and has produced more than 500 start-ups—including Dropbox and Airbnb. As of May, the valuation of all the start-ups funded by Y Combinator was about $11.5 billion.
BIG MOVE: Last year, Graham replaced YC's Start Fund with a new venture-capital program, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Yuri Milner, Maverick Capital, and General Catalyst, which will invest $80,000 into every accepted Y Combinator company.
OFF THE CLOCK: Graham is known for his essays—often about start-ups—which he posts on his Web site. One of the most engaging: "Why Nerds Are Unpopular."
30. Jennifer Lawrence, Actress
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Lawrence is known for her penchant for endearingly human behavior and for having managed her career with remarkable acuity. She is the highest-paid actress under 30, according to Forbes, thanks to roles in The Hunger Games, X-Men: First Class, and Silver Linings Playbook, which won her an Oscar for best actress.
BIG MOVE: Lawrence was reportedly paid $10 million for the forthcoming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
OFF THE CLOCK: Lawrence interrupted an interview during Comic-Con to introduce herself to Jeff Bridges and then began gushing on-camera. "Hi, I'm such a huge fan," said a giggling Lawrence. "Oh my God, this is so cool."
31. Drew Houston, Dropbox
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: If you're bored by the concept of online storage, it might be best to stay away from Silicon Valley right now, where start-ups offering such services are red-hot. Houston's Dropbox is the current king of the space, with a valuation of $4 billion, making it the most valuable company to come out of Paul Graham's Y Combinator boot camp. Houston turned down a "nine figure" acquisition offer from the late Steve Jobs in 2009.
BIG MOVE: With 200 million users—many of whom pay roughly $10 a month for the service—Dropbox is now generating enough cash to begin acquiring smaller start-ups. In March, Houston bought Mailbox, a very buzzy, barely hatched mail app.
OFF THE CLOCK: Last year Houston arrived at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley mogulfest in an unremarkable S.U.V., with a noteworthy driver: Mark Zuckerberg.
32. Peter Thiel, Founders Fund
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Ever since an early investment in Facebook made him a billionaire, the don of the PayPal Mafia (he co-founded the company with Elon Musk and Max Levchin) has emerged as a perpetually provocative iconoclast and one of Silicon Valley's premier investors. He is a backer of Spotify, Palantir, and, recently, Modern Meadow, which is developing synthetic meat using 3-D printing, as well as a separate venture to introduce an artificial plant-based "egg."
BIG MOVE: Thiel, along with Musk and Levchin, is a primary backer of Stripe, a payments start-up founded by Irish brothers John and Patrick Collison, looking to disrupt their former company, PayPal.
OFF THE CLOCK: Thiel taught a wildly popular class on starting companies at Stanford in 2012. He is expanding those lectures into a book, titled Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.
__33. Walt Mossberg & Kara Swisher,__All Things D
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: It's not clear who will own Mossberg and Swisher's All Things D come next year—their contract with News Corp. expires at the end of 2013—but whoever does will be lucky. The gadget critic and the reporter are the two most influential journalists in Silicon Valley, thanks to their scoop-filled tech blog and can't-miss conferences. There's always a chance that the pair may raise an investment round and strike out on their own.
BIG MOVE: The speaker lineup at this year's D: All Things Digital conference was as star-studded as ever. Tim Cook, Dick Costolo, Sheryl Sandberg, and Elon Musk all showed up for onstage interviews. But insiders know that those who come to schmooze are just as influential as those onstage. This year, Marc Andreessen, John Doerr, Reed Hastings, and Arianna Huffington were seen networking at the coffee breaks.
OFF THE CLOCK: Swisher (a V.F. contributor) and Mossberg have known each other since the 90s, when Mossberg helped Swisher land a job at The Wall Street Journal. "I always say it's the best relationship I've had with a man in my whole life," Swisher told Charlie Rose in April. She is married to Megan Smith, a Google executive.
__34. Tony Hsieh,__Zappos
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Since selling his online shoe-and-apparel retailer to Amazon for $1.2 billion in 2009, Hsieh has earned comparisons to both Steve Wynn and Walt Disney by bankrolling an ambitious real-estate project amid the vacant lots and check-cashing stores of downtown Las Vegas. His $350 million redevelopment effort is anchored by a new Zappos headquarters and includes restaurants, bars, schools, and a start-up incubator.
BIG MOVE: Hsieh helped create the Life Is Beautiful festival, a two-day music-and-arts event in Las Vegas, which he describes as "South by Southwest and Coachella combined into one."
OFF THE CLOCK: Hsieh, who grew up in California, maintains some 100 apartments in the Ogden, the Las Vegas building where he lives, which serve as "crash pads" for visiting entrepreneurs.
35. Nate Silver & Bill Simmons, ESPN
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: In July, political-stats geek Silver defected to ESPN from The New York Times, where he had predicted the outcome of the 2012 election with astonishing accuracy. Simmons is the founder of Grantland, the ESPN-affiliated sports-and-culture Web magazine, and persuaded Silver—who had started his journalism career with Baseball Prospectus—to make the switch. "It was a case of hoping the Times would screw it up," says Simmons. "Which they did."
BIG MOVE: Silver's new site for ESPN, which will cover a wide range of topics in addition to politics, will be modeled after Grantland—focusing more on long-form content than on real-time analysis.
OFF THE CLOCK: Simmons and Silver share a fondness for public quarrels. In March, Simmons was briefly suspended from Twitter for suggesting his followers not watch the ESPN show First Take, and in late July, Silver described most political pundits as "completely useless."
36. Susan Wojcicki, Google
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Google gets lots of attention for its futuristic gadgets, but Wojcicki's domain, advertising, is what makes all that fun stuff possible. Wojcicki, whose family's garage served as the search engine's first office, oversees a line of business that generated nearly $44 billion, or 95 percent of Google's revenue, last year. Recently she's been moving Google into glossy brand advertising online, in video, and on tablets, in an attempt, as she puts it, "to revolutionize digital media and advertising."
BIG MOVE: Wojcicki's success was seen as a motivating factor that pushed two of the largest advertising agencies, Omnicom and Publicis, to agree to merge earlier this year, forming the world's second-largest ad agency by revenue. Wojcicki's advertising division is still effectively the largest.
OFF THE CLOCK: Wojcicki owns a one-acre farm in Los Altos, California, where she, her husband, Google executive Dennis Troper, and their four children grow their own produce and make their own honey.
37. Alex Karp, Palantir Technologies
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Though some civil-liberties advocates cry foul about Palantir's information-gathering abilities, and Silicon Valley investors grumble that Karp's company is growing so quickly that it is taking all the good office space in Palo Alto (15 percent of the total at last count), Karp reigns as the Baron of Big Data. Banks and government agencies paid Palantir an estimated $400 million this year for software that ferrets out cyber-attacks and detects possible fraud, among other things. Some figure that Palantir, which Karp co-founded in 2004 with Peter Thiel and others, may be worth as much as $8 billion.
BIG MOVE: One organization that is emphatically not a client: the National Security Agency. Karp suggests that if the N.S.A. had opted to use Palantir's software instead, the Edward Snowden situation would have been less likely to occur.
OFF THE CLOCK: Palantir hosts a monthly event, "Palantir Night Live," in the company's D.C.-area office, which in true Silicon Valley fashion has pool and Foosball tables and a kegerator. It draws a heavy technology-and-government crowd with past speakers such as Michael Chertoff and George Tenet.
38. Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler & Charles Adler, Kickstarter
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Once the province of indie filmmakers, performance artists, and experimental musicians, under the leadership of C.E.O. Chen, Kickstarter is inching its way into the mainstream. The four-year-old Web site, which allows artists and designers to raise funds directly from audiences in exchange for rewards like stickers, digital downloads, and premiere party invitations, has helped generate $679 million for more than 48,000 creative projects to date. Kickstarter has financed six Oscar-nominated films, including this year's winner for best documentary short, "Inocente," and Amanda Palmer's Theatre Is Evil, a Billboard Top 10 album.
BIG MOVE: In July, director Spike Lee launched a campaign to raise $1.25 million for a new feature film. One of Lee's backers was Steven Soderbergh, who pledged $10,000 in exchange for the chance to sit courtside with Lee at a Knicks game.
OFF THE CLOCK: Chen has given to 242 Kickstarter funds to date—including donations to a Marina Abramović art project; the Paul Schrader movie The Canyons; and a New Orleans filmmaker who plans to convert an abandoned house into a playroom full of rubber balls.
39. Jimmy Fallon & Seth Meyers, Comedians
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Late-night television is getting a face-lift courtesy of the two Saturday Night Live alums. Since taking over Late Night from Conan O'Brien, in 2009, Fallon has drawn respectable ratings thanks to a rollicking format which has included a duet with Michelle Obama, "The Evolution of Mom Dancing." Next year, Fallon will take over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno, and Meyers will assume Fallon's Late Night duties.
BIG MOVE: With Fallon's assumption of hosting duties, The Tonight Show will move back to New York, reportedly saving NBC millions thanks to tax credits, but will pit him against David Letterman for booking guests.
OFF THE CLOCK: In July, Fallon and his wife, producer Nancy Juvonen, welcomed a baby girl. In September, Meyers married his longtime girlfriend, lawyer Alexi Ashe.
40. Tony Fadell, Nest Labs
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: It's no surprise that the same oohs and aahs that have greeted many an Apple product have been echoed at first sight of Fadell's Nest Thermostat. Fadell, also known as "the Podfather," led Apple's iPod team and designed some of the earliest versions of the iPhone. He joined up with a former Apple engineer in 2010 with a plan to re-invent unloved products in the home, beginning with a gorgeous thermostat that programs itself. Reviews of the company's $249 Learning Thermostat have been overwhelmingly glowing, and Fadell is gearing up to unveil a new product for release this fall.
BIG MOVE: Fadell has sold "hundreds of thousands" of Nests to date, to such fans as Jared Leto and Tony Hawk.
OFF THE CLOCK: Fadell was an amateur D.J. before he started building iPods, but he says Nest won't be making a music player anytime soon. "I want to just go back to loving music and not being stressed about it," he says. "Maybe one day."
41. Daniel Ek, Spotify
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: While sales of downloaded music fell for the first half of 2013, streaming services such as Ek's, which offer access to an unlimited online catalogue of music, are growing fast. Spotify says it now has more than 24 million users, 6 million of whom pay the company fees of up to $9.99 per month. The music industry seems to be coming around—but for a handful of prominent exceptions. In July, Radiohead's Thom Yorke pulled his solo music off the service, complaining that "new artists get paid fuck all with this model."
BIG MOVE: As it prepares to face competition from Apple's iTunes Radio service this fall, Spotify has hinted it may expand from music to video.
OFF THE CLOCK: Along with other tech luminaries, Ek is an enthusiastic supporter of Scott Harrison's Charity: Water, a clean-water nonprofit.
42. Sebastian Thrun, Udacity
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Thrun, a robotics whiz and founder of Google X—the lab behind Google Glass and the self-driving car—is on to the next thing: bringing low-cost higher education to the masses through massive open online courses (MOOCs). Udacity has raised more than $20 million from investors and has an online enrollment of over 1.5 million in more than 200 countries.
BIG MOVE: In May, Thrun announced a plan with Georgia Tech to offer an online master's degree in computer science for $6,600—85 percent less than the normal price for an out-of-state student. "We're inventing the next generation of university," says Thrun, who gave up his tenured position at Stanford in 2011 and has since refocused his efforts on Udacity.
OFF THE CLOCK: Thrun was the first person to publicly post photographs using Google Glass—one of which was a shot of his young son, Jasper.
43. Travis Kalanick, Uber
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: The Silicon Valley set loves Uber not only for its smartphone-powered car service, which is today perhaps the hippest way to get from, say, Palo Alto to SoMa, but also for Kalanick's bold attempt to take on entrenched taxi and limousine lobbies. The U.C.L.A. computer-science dropout has faced lawsuits and political opposition, but Uber has become a mainstay in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more than 42 other cities worldwide. It recently closed a big venture-capital round, raising $258 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.
BIG MOVE: UberChopper, a limited-time offer/marketing stunt over the July Fourth holiday, allowed customers in N.Y.C. to use their iPhones to summon a helicopter to take them to the Hamptons (price: $3,000, including tip).
OFF THE CLOCK: Kalanick, a devotee of Ayn Rand's, has used the cover of The Fountainhead as his Twitter avatar.
44. Brian Chesky, Airbnb
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Chesky's plan to let people rent out air mattresses and spare rooms to couch-surfing strangers sounded absurd when he launched Airbnb in 2008—and venture capitalists such as Fred Wilson initially passed on the deal. They regret it now. Today, Airbnb offers some 500,000 listings for short-term apartment rentals, bed-and-breakfasts, and more exotic and luxurious possibilities—castles, yurts, houseboats, and islands, for instance. Some have noted that Chesky's company will soon be booking more rooms per night than Hilton Hotels.
BIG MOVE: Chesky is close to eBay C.E.O. John Donahoe, who at a conference in July admitted that he'd like to buy Airbnb—which, according to a source close to the company, raised $200 million at a $2.7 billion valuation late last year—but, he said, "we can't afford it."
OFF THE CLOCK: Chesky spends roughly half his time living in Airbnb rentals. At home in San Francisco, Chesky shares an apartment with co-founder Joe Gebbia; their couch is available on the site for $50 per night—but only to the right guest. "I'm pretty selective about who stays with us," he says.
45. Hosain Rahman & Yves Béhar, Jawbone
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Jawbone's rubbery Up wristband, which tracks the wearer's sleep as well as the number of miles traveled, can be spotted on the wrists of many of the tech elite, and the company recently released the Mini Jambox, a smaller and more powerful version of its wireless speaker. And thanks to the largesse of new board member Marissa Mayer, every Yahoo employee now owns an Up as well. Rahman co-founded Jawbone in 1999 and subsequently partnered with Béhar, the company's chief creative officer.
BIG MOVE: Rahman and Béhar's partnership has been compared to that of Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, but unlike Ive, Béhar continues to take on other projects through his design-and-branding firm, Fuseproject. The big-haired designer serves as the creative co-founder of Ouya, a new video-game console, and the co-creator of August, a $199 "smart lock" for your front door, which can be opened with an iPhone app.
OFF THE CLOCK: Rahman recently renewed his vows with his long-term partner, Alicia Engstrom, in Majorca in a ceremony attended by Marissa Mayer, Mark and Ali Pincus, and Ben Horowitz.
46. Jonah Peretti, Buzzfeed
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: If you click on something on the Web, there's a very good chance Peretti has his digital fingerprints on it. The M.I.T. grad co-founded the Huffington Post and helped turn it into a Google-friendly traffic monster. BuzzFeed, his newest creation, is designed to capitalize on Facebook's billion users, who share his posts with increasing velocity: Peretti says his site attracted 85 million visitors in August. And, just as he did at HuffPo, Peretti is balancing cotton-candy listicles and other ephemera with more sober and substantive journalism, created by a staff he is hiring from august outlets such as The New York Times, steered by influential political reporter Ben Smith, formerly of Politico.
BIG MOVE: Advertisers love Peretti's inventive "native" ads—ads that look just like "real" BuzzFeed stories. They are on track to spend $60 million on his site in 2013 and more than $100 million next year.
OFF THE CLOCK: In 2002, Peretti and his sister, comedienne Chelsea Peretti, co-created Black People Love Us, a defiantly un-P.C. satire site, his first "viral media experiment."
47. Evan Spiegel, Snapchat
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: If only, as many wags have noted, Anthony Weiner had heard of Snapchat. The smartphone app lets users send photographs or videos that disappear from the recipient's phone 10 seconds or less after they are opened. The app, which has proved perfect for explicit sexts and all sorts of other indiscreet uses—Wall Street traders have supposedly been using it to exchange insider tips—is currently processing some 350 million messages per day, by Spiegel's reckoning.
BIG MOVE: Spiegel's and Bobby Murphy's idea was mocked by fellow students in Spiegel's Stanford design class when he proposed it in 2011. However, the start-up is so hot that one of his classmates is suing, claiming that he is a co-founder and deserves a one-third stake of the company, which is now reportedly valued at $1 billion.
OFF THE CLOCK: As this summer began, the 23-year-old Spiegel, who grew up in Pacific Palisades, California, was still living at home with father John, an entertainment lawyer.
48. Ali Pincus & Susan Feldman, One Kings Lane
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Pincus has long played second fiddle in the tech press to her husband, Zynga co-founder Mark. But her privately held One Kings Lane, which she founded in 2009 with Feldman, a former retail executive, is sitting pretty. Revenues are expected to hit $300 million this year.
BIG MOVE: At the end of 2012, One Kings Lane raised $50 million, some of which will help fund Hunters Alley, Pincus and Feldman's first spin-off site, which is positioned as a high-end eBay for vintage décor and furnishings. Earlier this year, Pincus put some of her own money—joining heavyweights such as Marissa Mayer and Google Ventures—into Luvocracy, a social network-cum-shopping site.
OFF THE CLOCK: Pincus keeps an active social schedule, frequenting fashionable events with the San Francisco social elite, including the Gettys and the Trainas.
49. Shane Smith, Vice Media
LAST YEAR'S RANKING: New
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Gonzo journalism has never been so profitable. Vice's pioneering hybrid model—which encompasses a digital network, publisher, record label, and TV-and-film studio—has given the company annual revenues that are said to near $200 million, and has made a trip to the company's Brooklyn offices a modern-day rite of the aging media mogul. Martin Sorrell has been several times, and Rupert Murdoch visited in 2012 at the suggestion of investor Tom Freston. The following year, Murdoch's 21st Century Fox invested $70 million in the company, which has been valued at $1.4 billion.
BIG MOVE: Earlier this year, Smith, who serves as Vice's C.E.O. and its main foreign correspondent, enlisted former basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman to visit North Korea to meet Kim Jong-un for the season finale of its new HBO newsmagazine show.
OFF THE CLOCK: When possible, Smith takes his wife and daughters on his reporting trips. In the past year, the Smith clan has been to Dubai, Turkey, and Greece.
50. David Karp, Tumblr
STAGE OF GLOBAL CONQUEST: Proving that it is indeed possible to hit the tech lottery without much of a business model, Karp sold his blogging platform—beloved by photographers, musicians, and all manner of creative-minded techies—to Yahoo for roughly $1 billion. The New York City-born high-school dropout's big payday, which was reported to be $250 million, prompted Stephen Colbert to quip, "Just imagine how much he could have made if he'd dropped out of grade school."
BIG MOVE: A charm offensive to try to jump-start Tumblr's advertising business has generated some hand-wringing in Tumblr's quirky community.
OFF THE CLOCK: Karp, a gearhead, has been teaching himself motorcycle maintenance. His current project: rebuilding a 1969 Honda CB160 in the living room of his Brooklyn apartment.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:24 am
Post subject: 12feb06
I've been sailing through these very hards quite the thing - but now I'm brought back to earth. I cannot for the life of me see what I'm missing here. Can one of you geniuses help me, please?
Here's where I am . . .
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geoff h
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:32 am
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Hi Nenthorn,
I'm not sure what values you have as possibilities in the missing squares, but as you appear to know what you are doping , I will assume that you have done basic things such as identifying hidden pairs and unique numbers.
What you can firstly do is consider Row 4. As you can see, the only possibilities for Nr.9 in Row 4 are in cells r4c7 and r4c9. Therefore, you can remove Nr.9 from all other cells in Box No. 6 (cell nos. r4c7 - r6c9).
This is particularly meaningful for cell r6c7 as the remaining possibilities for this cell are then 2,3,5,8.
Now, have a close look at Column 7. There is now a naked quadruplet of 2,3,5,8 in cells r6c7, r7c7, r8c7 and r9c7. This means you can delete these numbers from all other cells in Column 7. This then easily leads to placing the Nr.1 in cell r1c7 and then the Nr.4 in cell r1c4 and the Nr.5 in cell r1c2.
You should be okay from there.
Hope this helps.
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:05 pm
Post subject: 12feb06
Thanks Geoff. I had been staring so hard looking for hidden things I couldn't see the naked one! You're a mate.
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Posts: 10
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:31 pm
Post subject: Oh my GOODNESS...blind again!!!!
Listen Mr. Smartypants (geoff h),
I would like to echo Nenthorn's sentiments about this puzzle. I too have been going through them like a razor..I only do the very hard ones...but this one "stumpttteddd" me.
Now you come along and in a casual no nonsense sentence say "naked quad" col. 7....I have been looking at this puzzle for hours!!!!!
Thanks buddy...now I can sleep tonight...after I bang my head into brick wall to punish myself for stupidity.
Thanks again
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:49 pm
Post subject: same thing without seeing a quad
Hallo daykart
I would never see the quad either,
but maybe you would have a better chance at seeing the (complementary) pair instead?
geoff h wrote:
This is particularly meaningful for cell r6c7
i.e. that r6c7 can't be a 9.
Now look where in col7 you can have 7 or 9: not in box9, nor where it crosses row1 or row6. This leaves only r3..4c7 available to hold {7,9}, leaving only r1c7 available for the 1.
This of course begs the question of why you would be looking just there for just that in the first place. No special reason, unless you occasionally check out
Glassman pans
when stuck.
The Glassman pan based at r7..9c7 requires that the values in the rest of box9 are the same as those in the rest of col7. So the {1,7,9} of box9 should somehow fit into r1..6c7.
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Location: Denver, Colorado
Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:09 pm
Post subject: Another way to look at it
Here's another way to get past the spot Nenthorn illustrated.
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There are only two spots for a "7" in row 2, at r2c3 & r2c8. There are only two spots for a "7" in row 5, at r5c2 & r5c8. And there are only two spots for a "7" in the middle left 3x3 box, at r5c2 & r4c3.
If r2c8 = 7 then r5c8 <> 7 ==> r5c2 = 7
If r2c8 <> 7 then r2c3 = 7
Either way there cannot be a "7" at r4c3, so we must have a "7" at r5c2. dcb
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Windows Phone gamers should already be familiar with Russian developer MaxNick's Xbox Live title, Spider Jack. What you might not know is that MaxNick has also published several indie games for the platform, the latest of which is Doodle Invasion.
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The name of the system has been coined "Digital Assets – Job Information"
The corporate branding of the company is a blue theme, and the company logo has a white background, These two elements must be incorporated in the web page. No other hard and fast considerations for design are mandated, but looking for something where staff take notice and say "hey that's nice "


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Work with your veterinarian to develop a plan to maximize the health of your dog's joints. A daily supplement containing glucosamine and chondroitin may help, especially if combined with weight control and the proper exercise plan.
A vitamin/mineral supplement is recommended if your older dog is not receiving adequate amounts through his food. This can occur if your dog is not eating a complete balanced diet. A supplement may also benefit some older animals who tend to absorb fewer vitamins, minerals, and electrolytes through the intestinal tract, and lose more of them through the kidneys and urinary tract. Finally, some older animals eat less (due to conditions such as oral disease) and may not receive their daily needs of vitamins and minerals.
A fiber product such as wheat bran may also be given to help reduce the incidence of constipation if it occurs.
Some evidence in other species suggest that antioxidants such as Vitamins A, E, and C (ascorbic acid) may play a role in protecting against some normal aging processes.
Talk with your veterinarian to determine which supplements may be beneficial for your dog.


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Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way Obama is handling Taxes? (Asked of half sample)
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Question 3 of 59
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With the end of the year approaching, Americans give Obama his highest approval ratings in over a year and key advantages over Republicans in the battle over the so-called 'fiscal cliff.' Still, majorities say both Obama and Republicans are not willing enough to compromise to reach a deal.
This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone Dec. 13-16, 2012, among a random national sample of 1,002 adults, including landline and cell phone-only respondents. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 percentage points. Results for questions 28 to 31 are based on interviews from Dec. 14-16 among 602 adults, with a 4.5-point error margin. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York.


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Aishbagh To Lucknow distanceAishbagh is one of the India city. It is located at the longitude of 80.9 and latitude of 26.8. Lucknow is another India city located at the longitude of 80.6 and latitude of 26.6 . The total distance between Aishbagh to Lucknow is 45 KM (kilometers) and 18.88 meters. Aishbagh is located nearly east side to Lucknow.
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Energy futures markets are in a time of change. Market fundamentals have much to offer both bulls and bears. Technical analysis offers a methodology with which to evaluate the implications of fundamental change and it can provide guidance on where prices might go.
Here we will focus on the fundamental elements now influencing markets and the various technical factors that signal market movements. And since liquid petroleum markets have different fundamentals at work than do natural gas, we'll have something to say about each.
Historically, petroleum liquids have been seen as critically sensitive to international geopolitical events. Constrained crude oil production in Iraq, for example, could influence product prices here at home. At the same time, the United States, and more broadly, North America is developing new crude oil sources that are insulating our markets from international events.
Natural gas, on the other hand, has been treated largely as a domestic matter removed from the uncertainties of international influences. But the lure of higher values for LNG in foreign markets is raising the real prospect of a robust export trade in natural gas – and must be considered when thinking about bearish expectations that have developed from the dramatic expansion of domestic natural gas production.
Market fundamentals for petroleum liquids are mixed. Without doubt, the game changer for the foreseeable future is the advent of domestic crude oil production. Data available from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) for mid-August 2013 confirms increasing U.S. crude oil production. Output reached 7.571 million barrels daily at that time; the gain came from the lower 48 states, offsetting reductions from fields in Alaska.
The reduction in Alaskan production has largely been ignored in our new successes in the contiguous 48 states. Alaskan output ran 456,000 barrels daily during mid-August, continuing long-term slippage from more than 1 million barrels daily in October, 2003. EIA forecasts U.S. total crude oil production will average 7.4 million barrels per day in 2013 and 8.2 million barrels daily in 2014. These represent increases in EIA's expectations.
The impact of domestic crude oil self-sufficiency has been more expansive than generally reported. One example is the improvement in our trade deficit. "America's trade deficit narrowed sharply in June, driven by record exports and a shrinking bill for oil imports, brightening the picture for domestic growth in the second quarter," according to the Wall Street Journal. The trade deficit fell more than 22% during the month, to $34.2 billion from $44.1 billion.
Anticipation of tapering of the Federal Reserve's low interest Quantitative Easing has been bearish. Ironically, Fed action appears now to have become entrenched in the economy and any change in the status quo has roiled energy markets. One of the major discussions now underway relates to how best to disengage from the impact of the Fed's QE activity.
The bearish crude oil situation in North America mitigates bullish events overseas. Interference with crude oil production and export in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) supports price.
At this writing, the geopolitical news revolves around Syria. The country has little production of its own and, in any case, economic sanctions and unrest in the country have cut into any export capability it may have had. More importantly, Syria is near pipelines and the Suez Canal that carry a great deal of crude oil. The EIA estimates that the Suez Canal carries about 800,000 barrels of crude oil and 1.4 million barrels of products daily.
Turkey, just to the north of Syria, houses the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, which carries Iraqi crude oil to the Mediterranean Sea. It also supports the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan route from Central Asia. Iraq, with its Northern Iraqi fields, produced three million barrels daily last year. Iraq is just to Syria's east.
A point so central to Middle East oil distribution would be critical to crude oil security at any time. With events so fraught, the potential for disturbance is much greater.
The Arab Spring unleashed emotions and conflicts not yet resolved. Export capacity in Libya has been constrained and backed up crude oil production. There have been actual interferences already in distribution. Kirkuk-Ceyhan has been attacked; 300,000 barrels daily flow has already been reduced to a trickle. And revenue disputes between the regional government and Baghdad have cut supply from Kurdistan by 15,000 barrels per day.


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The Lenci Group needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 269 designs submitted by 57 freelance designers.
Max Wigs
The Lenci Group is a small corporation with 4 eCommerce sites.
MaxWigs is one of the top sites offering: wigs, hair extensions, hairpieces, etc through strong brand partnerships. Our value is in our Live Customer Service, color exchange program, and our aggressive pricing throughout our product selection.
Truth be told, we're a husband & wife team striving to provide a better life for our daughters. And investing our souls into these sites is our retirement & future.
We also employ 5 wonderful women throughout the Sacramento area, and entrust them with vital operations.
We do have a presence Twitter, Facebook, & YouTube.
Of course, women of all ages, is the main target audience when it comes to hair needs. Up 'til now we have only focused on the Caucasian market, but in Q1 we will be offering product that caters to multi-national ethnicities as well.
When women come to our site, we want them to feel empowered to look their best. To have the confidence in their beauty, and to understand that we're THERE for them. We want them to feel they have a "friend" & source that can assist them in their search for inner & out beauty.
That leads us to another group of consumers that have battled & fought against cancer, or other illnesses, where their hair is an issue. We need to make those consumers comfortable & appreciated when they arrive at MaxWigs.
"Don't worry about the # of entries, we haven't chosen a winner and we're still on the fence about a lot of existing ideas. We want your ideas too. We've increased the prize on this contest because we really need the best designers submitting entries. Our competitors have horrible logos and we need to blow them away."
We need to "refresh" our logo and site colors. Whatever colors the logo takes on, so will the main colors of the website. Brands that we carry:
We do not have any design in mind, although we do have some points we'd like to share with you:
1. Color is important - should be soft, comforting, girly, glitzy.....get creative!
examples: from MAC Cosmetics - http://bit.ly/lillyland
2. We don't mind coming across glitzy or elegant, but it should have a fun-loving attitude to it too. The current logo is too strong & rigid, I think.
3. The tag line we currently have can be changed, or removed altogether. But what we have doesn't exude "Experts".
4. Obviously. nothing silly or cartoonish. Needs to be crisp and clean.
5. Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png). We'll also need files for printing too.
6. It should be able to fit in header area on site - http://www.maxwigs.com
7. We need to set ourselves apart from the pack. Being "just" another wig site, by design, is not going to cut it.
Have fun and good luck.
Thank You
Marcia Lenci
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5 Linux Speed Tips
Quick Launchers, File Manager ShortcutsThere are many ways to do the same tasks in Linux, which is a lovely thing because it means we can tailor our workflows to suit our own personal needs. Efficiency and speed are important; I have better things to do that waste my workday doing everything the hard way.
My personal work habits are a blend of command-line and GUI. Here are five of my favorite Linux speed tips.
Alt+F2, Run Command Quick launchersBoth Gnome and KDE have a quick launcher. Instead of wandering through the system menu, just press Alt+F2, type in the application name, and there it is. In KDE3.5 it has a wealth of useful options, as Figure 1 shows, especially "run as root" which I use a lot.
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KDE 3.5 goes one step better and has a "Run Command" launcher that sits right in the panel (Figure 2.)
For me this is a nice timesaver, just type in the application name or select it from the history, boom done.
Another fast way to open an application as root is to use kdesu (KDE) or gksu (Gnome). Use these in a terminal or a quicklauncher, like this:
$ kdesu kateA dialogue will appear asking for your root password, like Figure 3.
This requires a real separate root account, rather than a sudo account like Ubuntu's default. If you prefer using sudo, then try gksudo [commandname].
KDE4 Kickoff Menu ShortcutsKDE4's new Kickoff Menu has a number of good shortcuts. There is a search bar at the top, a Favorites tab, and a Recently Used tab that includes both applications and documents. Adding an application to Favorites is as easy as falling over: find it in the Applications tab, then right-click and select Add to Favorites.
Dolphin File Manager ShortcutsThe Dolphin file manager in KDE seems to have taken some inspiration from Nautilus, the Gnome file manager. My favorite feature, among many, is the Places tab (Figure 4). One of the biggest hassles with computers is navigating filesystems. The more files you have, the harder it is to find things. I'm riding herd on thousands of data files on multiple hard disks and multiple computers. The Places tab is a real lifesaver. For example, when I'm working on a book I have it organized into multiple directories for chapters and images. So I create entries (which are plain old symlinks) on the Places tab for my current day's work. Then when I'm ready to move on to a new chapter, I delete the old Places links and create new ones.
Another KDE feature I like a lot is the little "clear this field" button. This used to be applied only to the URL bar in Konqueror, which was awesome--one click to clear, then middle-button paste in a new URL. Now this button is showing up everywhere, including fields in Web forms.
In Figure 4 Dolphin is in split-view.
I use this a lot to move files between a remote PC and the local PC via SSHFS. The remote PC is down the hall in the computer room, and the local PC is my laptop. I don't want to be cooped up in the same room all day every day!
Notice how a USB stick automatically appears in Dolphin Places ("Debian Inst"), and right-clicking brings up a "Safely Remove" option, so you don't have to leave Dolphin to remove it.
The more the computer does the work, and the more ways there are to tailor it to do what I want, the more I like it!
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