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[Update Tuesday, June 5, 2012] Abu Yahya al-Libi, the No. 2 man in al Qaeda and a longtime public face of the terror network, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan, a U.S. official said Tuesday. He appeared in this list of Most Wanted terrorists earlier this year.
[Original post]As the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death approaches, CNN has updated this list, originally published in September 2011, taking a look at some of the dead, captured and the remaining most wanted terrorists from the last 10 years.
While progress has been made, there are still terrorists being sought by the U.S. government. CNN spoke with a number of intelligence agencies to come up with this list of "dirty dozens." Here are the 12 most significant terrorists who are now dead, have been captured and those who are still being hunted. The lists are obviously subjective–there are many more candidates–but these are some of the top combatants in the war on terror.
1. Ayman al-Zawahiri
A physician, long time deputy to Osama Bin Laden who recently was named leader of al Qaeda following Bin Laden's death. He has been seen and heard in numerous al Qaeda videos and audio tapes on the web. He is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list, was indicted in the U.S. for his role in the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
2. Saif al-Adel
A member of the senior leadership of al Qaeda who is believed to be in Iran. He is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list and was indicted by the U.S. in connection with the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
3. Anas al-Liby
A computer expert for al Qaeda who is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list, and has been indicted for his role in the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
4. Ibrahim al-Asiri
Suspected of being the chief bombmaker for AQAP, Asiri is believed to be responsible for designing the explosive devices used in the unsuccessful Christmas Day 2009 plot to blow up a US airliner as it landed in Detroit and in the cargo plane bomb plot in 2010.
5. Adnan el Shukrijumah
A senior leader of al Qaeda's external operations program who is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list and has been indicted by the U.S. in the 2009 plot to attack the New York City subway system as well as targets in the United Kingdom.
6. Hakimullah Mehsud
A leader of the Pakistan Taliban with close ties to al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban. He claimed responsibility for the 2009 bombing a the Khost Forward Operating Base which killed 7 CIA employees. He is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.
7. Abu Yahya al-Libi
Islamic scholar, high ranking member of al Qaeda, seen as the public face of al Qaeda, appearing frequently in internet videos
8. Adam Gadahn
American propagandist for al Qaeda who is frequently seen on al Qaeda website videos. He is on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists List and has been indicted for treason and material support for al Qaeda.
9. Mullah Mohammad Omar
Leader of the Afghanistan Taliban who allowed Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven in Afghanistan when the Taliban controlled the country prior to the 9/11 terrorist attack on the U.S.
10. Nasser Al Wahishi
Leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), former private secretary to Osama Bin Laden. He has vowed to avenge Bin Laden's death.
11. Sirajuddin Haqqani
Senior leader of the Haqqani network in Afghanistan which maintains close ties to al Qaeda and who is believed to have planned an assassination attempt against Afghani President Hamid Karzai
12. Wali Ur Rehman
Senior member of Pakistani Taliban who has participated in cross border attacks against US and coalition forces in Afghanistan
1. Osama Bin Laden:
Founder and leader of al Qaeda, responsible for the 9/11 attacks against the US as well as numerous other mass casualty attacks. He was killed by US Navy Seals during a raid on his compound in Abbottabad,Pakistan in May 2011
2. Muhammad Atef
Founding member and military chief of al Qaeda. He was killed by a US airstrike during early fighting in Afghanistan in November 2001
3. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
A militant jihadist who opposed US presence in the Middle East and had a profound hatred for Israel. He formed his own terrorist group, Tawhid wal-Jihad. In 2004, he pledged alliance to al Qaeda and changed the name of his group to al Qaeda in Iraq. He was responsible for hundreds of attacks in Iraq. US bombs killed Zarqawi in Iraq in June 2006.
4. Abu Layth al-Libi
Senior al Qaeda military commander who planned attacks against US and coalition forces in Afghanistan including a 2007 bombing of the Bagram Air Base during a visit by then Vice President Richard Cheney. He was killed in a drone attack in Pakistan in March 2008
5. Atiyah Abd al-Rahman
Until his recent death, he was the number 2 to al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and was a key facilitator with al Qaeda affiliates. Materials seized in the Bin Laden compound showed Rahman was in frequent contact with Bin Laden. He was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan in August 2011
6. Abu Hamza Rabia
Third ranking member of al Qaeda who replaced Muhammad Atef after his death. He served as an operational planner for attacks against the US and was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan in November 2005
7. Abu Ayyub al Masri
Replaced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as leader of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and the insurgency in Iraq. He was killed in a joint US/Iraq operation in April 2010
8. Sayeed al-Masri (also known as Abu Shaykh Mustafa Abu al-Yazid)
Number 3 in al Qaeda hierarchy, commander of operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and chief financial officer. He was killed in drone strike in Pakistan in May 2010
9. Mohammad Hasan Khalil al-Hakim
Senior operational manager, deputy chief of external operations, head of propaganda for al Qaeda. He was killed by a drone strike in Pakistan in October 2008
10. Abu Khabab al-Masri (also known as Midhat Mursi)
Al Qaeda's chief bomb maker and chemical weapons expert. He was killed in a drone attack in Pakistan in July 2008
11. Abu Obeidah al Masri
Senior al Qaeda operative who was implicated in the 2006 Trans-Atlantic plot to bomb commercial airliners after take off from London. He died of natural causes in December 2007
12. Anwar al-Awlaki
Yemeni American, Muslim cleric who advocated violent jihad against the United States. He was connected to two of the 9/11 hijackers as well as the accused Ft. Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Milik Hasan and suspected underwear bomber Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab. He was considered an operational leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen. A CIA drone strike killed Awlaki in September 2011.
1. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM)
Third ranking member of al Qaeda, operational planner and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003, and is held at Guantanamo Bay (GITMO), Cuba
2. Abu Faraj al-Libi
Replaced KSM after his capture, directed operations against US and coalition forces in Afghanistan, planned 2003 assassination attempt against then Pakistani President Pervez Musharref. He was captured in May 2005 and is held at GITMO
3. Ramzi Bin al-Shibh
Involved in planning of 9/11 attacks, associated with some of the 9/11 hijackers, believed to have been targeted to be the 20th hijacker but was unable to get into the US. He was captured in September 2002 and is held at GITMO
4. Abu Zubaydah
Initially believed to be a high ranking al Qaeda leader, but the US later concluded he held a much lesser position. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and is held at GITMO.
5. Umar Patek
Connected to the 2002 Bali nightclub bombing which killed more than 200 people including 7 Americans. He was captured by Pakistani forces in January 2011 and sent to Indonesia
6. Younis al-Mauretani
A key planner for al Qaeda who is believed to have had direct contact with Osama Bin Laden and was involved in planning attacks in Europe. He was captured by Pakistani forces in September 2011 and is held by the Pakistanis.
7. Hambali (also Riduan Isamuddin)
Operations Chief for the terrorist group Jemaah Islamiya (JI), often described as Bin Laden's leader in Southeast Asia, believed to be connected to a number of deadly bombing attacks in Indonsia. He was captured in a joint US/Thai operation in Thailand in August 2003 and is held at GITMO
8. al Rahim al Nashiri
Head of al Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf, believed to be the mastermind of the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 which killed 17 US sailors. He was captured in November 2002 and is held at GITMO
9. Ali al Aziz Ali
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's nephew and chief deputy who helped train some of the 9/11 hijackers. He was captured in April 2003 and is held at GITMO
10. Walid bin Attash
Former Bin Laden body guard, assisted 9/11 hijackers, helped with preparations for the 1998 bombings of the US Embassies in East Africa and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole. He was captured in April 2003 and is held at GITMO
11. Mustafa Ahman al Hawsawi
Worked with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on numerous al Qaeda plots including providing assistance to 9/11 hijackers. He was captured with KSM in March 2003 in Pakistan and is held in GITMO
12. Abdul Ghani Baradar
A founder of Afghan Taliban, deputy to leader Mullah Omar, directed the insurgency against US and coalition forces from Pakistan. He was captured by Pakistani and American intelligence forces in February 2010 and is held by the Pakistanis
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Mark Wheatley has announced that his Image Comics hit, Frankenstein Mobster, will be making the real life journey to Transylvania.
With Halloween just a few weeks away, a group of dedicated night owls are gathering for the ultimate Halloween adventure: one full week of haunted horror happenings in Transylvania!
Billed as "DraculaTour" and now in its seventh year, a professionally-guided, fully-escorted journey is set for Romania's famous (or infamous) Transylvania region, October 27 through November 3, 2004. Travelers from all over the U.S. will be partying for a week of fear-filled fun and festivities under the theme of a "vampire vacation." And their vacation now includes Frankenstein Mobster.
Charles F. Rosenay, who runs the DraculaTour, said copies of Frankenstein Mobster will be included in the trick-or-treat bags all tour participants receive.
"We're always looking for ways to reach readers outside our traditional audience," said Mark Wheatley, "and Transylvania is definitely pretty far outside our traditional audience. It seems like a great fit."
Travelers on the tour will actually follow in the footsteps of Jonathan Harker's trail from Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. They spend time in ancient Bucharest ascending the Carpethian Mountains to Vlad Castle. They visit medieval Sighisoara, birthplace of Dracula, as well as climb up eerie Clock Tower with time for the nearby gruesome Square History Torture Museum. All participants journey through Borgo Pass to Dracula's Castle to experience the definitive Halloween eve –Masquerade Ball, Vampire Show, Bonfire, Dinner and "Monster Mash" Dance Party right in Dracula's Castle! It's scary, spooky but most of all, fun.
"This is the kind of thing that I think Frankenstein Mobster readers will enjoy, and Frankenstein Mobster has the kind of odd and somewhat whimsical horror that the folks on the tour should love," Wheatley said.
Couples, families and single travelers all take this trek of terror. For the third year in a row, there is even one couple getting married in Dracula's Castle. This year's tour is the first time all participants will receive a travel goodie bag, which will include horror film posters, magazines, DVDs and copies Frankenstein Mobster.
Dracula Tour is a $3300 value for only $1699 per person including airfare from N.Y., $1999 including airfare from L.A., based on double occupancy. Package price includes round-trip airfare to Bucharest, deluxe hotel accommodations, transfers, luxury coach ground transportation, all events – attractions – admissions and of course, copies of Frankenstein Mobster! Space is limited.
For those who can't go this year, or can't ever go during Halloween, the tour organizers have scheduled a similar version of this haunted travel adventure for July 11-18, 2005. As a special treat, the guest host for that tour is actor Butch Patrick, TV's Eddie Munster.
To read about past vampire vacations, or for any additional information, visit the website:
Frankenstein Mobster, which is concluding its acclaimed original story arc "Made Man," is available bi-monthly from Image Comics, . The online Frankenstein Mobster comic strip is also presently running on in addition to Imagecomics.com, Wheatley's Sunnyfundays.com and many other websites.
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Set Black Sails For IDW Publishing
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Set Black Sails For IDW Publishing
Vampires, Pirates, and Horror On The High Seas
San Diego, CA (Date) IDW Publishing is very proud to announce that they are working with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips to publish their creator-owned miniseries, Black Sails.
Black Sails mixes high adventure and horror in a vampire tale like no other. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the creative team behind the hit comic Sleeper, cast a three-issue tale of mysterious vampire pirates with an intriguing hook: these men are manning the very ship on which Dracula himself once sailed.
In Black Sails, Depression-era coastal towns are terrorized by a mysterious ship that sails only by night, drifting in with the fog, and leaving bloody waters in its wake. Brubaker's moody and horrific story follows a darker path than readers are accustomed to seeing from him, and Phillips's textured artwork is again the perfect complement to his prose. The series should hit your port in Spring of 2005.
"Working with Sean has been one of the most fulfilling parts of my career, and now to be continuing that partnership on work we own, at a company that I feel puts out some of the most beautiful packages on the shelves, is just perfect," said Brubaker. "Black Sails is an idea that just hit me out of the blue, and seemed like the perfect way to start a relationship at IDW, bringing what we do to a genre they've done very well with, and giving it a twist that I've never seen done before. Of course, I immediately sent my idea to Sean, and by way of his acceptance, got back a color rough of his first cover idea."
Chris Ryall, Editor-in-Chief of IDW Publishing, added that "Ed and Sean are among the best creative teams in comics today, and I couldn't be happier that they're bringing a book like Black Sails to IDW. People are really in for a surprise here—this is unlike anything they've done before."
IDW PUBLISHING is a division of Idea + Design Works, LLC, a revolutionary creative service company with a wide range of clients including The Upper Deck Company, Electronic Arts, Ultima Online, WizKids, Cartoon Network, Sony Online Entertainment, Nickelodeon, and many more. IDW Publishing focuses on a small number of high-quality titles. Among them are CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's 30 Days of Night and its sequels, Dark Days and Return to Barrow; Ashley Wood's Lore; CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations; Beau Smith's Wynonna Earp; and Steve Niles' Wake The Dead. Columbia Pictures has optioned the movie rights to 30 Days of Night, with Sam Raimi attached to produce. Konami is producing a video game based on CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations. Dimension Films has optioned the movie rights to Wake The Dead and Hyde. Paramount Pictures has optioned the movie rights to Aleister Arcane.
Archaia Studios Press (ASP) Press Release
For Immediate Release
Fort Lee, NJ — October 5, 2004 — Archaia Studios Press (ASP) is pleased to announce that the 2004 DIY Book Festival has chosen Artesia as the best entry in their self-published Comics and Zines category. Specifically, the entire Artesia collection (Artesia, Artesia Afield and Artesia Afire) was voted as the category winner at this year's festival, announced last week. This is the third award Artesia has won this year, following the Gold in ForeWord Magazine's 2003 Graphic Novel Book of the Year Award and BrokenFrontier.com's Paper Screen Gem for Fantasy Award.
The DIY Book Festivals consider self-published or independently published works in a variety of categories and are part of a series of annual festivals sponsored by L.A.-based DIY Conventions that look for the best in self-published and self-produced literature, music, photography and film . The winners were selected by a panel of publishing industry experts and were required to meet a single criterion: General excellence that exhibits the author's passion for telling a good story.
Also, in a bit of product placement news, keep an eye out for Artesia comics and trade paperbacks making a possible appearance in next year's New Regency/Fox film Mr. & Mrs. Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. The film is being described as a spy adventure-romance in which Pitt and Jolie play John and Jane Smith, an ordinary suburban couple with an ordinary, lifeless suburban marriage. But each of them has a secret — unbeknownst to each other, they are actually both legendary assassins working for competing organizations.
According to Mark Smylie, creator of Artesia: "Apparently the character played by Brad Pitt reads and collects comics, and the production company has asked to use issues of Artesia as part of the set dressing in a scene or two. So if Lady Luck smiles, we might get to see Artesia lurking in the background as part of Mr. Smith's comic book collection…"
Written and painted by Mark Smylie, Artesia is a comic book rich in fantasy, mysticism, and mythology, an epic and strange tale of war and magic set in the strife-riven realms of the Known World. Artesia ($24.95, ISBN: 1-932386-00-9, 192 pages), Artesia Afield ($24.95, ISBN: 1-932386-02-5, 192 pages) and Artesia Afire ($24.95, ISBN: 1-932386-08-4, 240 pages) are available at finer bookstores and comic book shops everywhere. A new roleplaying game, Artesia: Adventures in The Known World, (ISBN: 1-932386-10-6, Stock# ASP1010, $29.95, 192 pages, full-color, 8.5″ x 11″) is slated for a December 2004 release.
Mark Smylie founded Archaia Studios Press (ASP) in 2002 as the home for his epic fantasy comic book, Artesia. Artesia was first published by Sirius Entertainment beginning in 1999 and was followed by the sequel series Artesia Afield. Artesia Afire, the third installment in the Book of Dooms, is the most recent storyline and the first one published under the ASP label. The next installment, Artesia Besieged, is slated for a spring 2005 release.
Super heroes save lives and now, here's your chance to be heroic, as well! This year at MID-OHIO-CON, when you make a donation of $5.00 or more to the CHARITY JAR, you not only get to help fund the work of the American Diabetes Association, you get a copy of George Broderick, Jr.'s COURAGEOUS MAN ADVENTURES, signed by creator George Broderick, Jr.
"I love Mid-Ohio-Con! I've helped raise money for Diabetes education & research in past years, and am pleased to be doing so again," claims Broderick, "especially, for their twenty-fifth anniversary show! Roger Price and his crew always put on a great, family-friendly show! They ROCK!"
"I can think of no better way to help celebrate this milestone," Broderick continues, "than by continuing a tradition started by my collaborator, Chris Yambar, and myself, several years ago and offering a signed comic in exchange for a charitable donation… and having my character, Courageous Man as a 'spokesman' seems very appropriate! CM is all about courage, as his name implies, and people dealing with diabetes (especially children) must show their courage daily. Now, the fans have a chance to demonstrate the 'courage of their convictions' and help battle this serious disease…it's the perfect kick-off to the Christmas season, the season of giving!"
Courageous Man Adventures is a throwback to the early days of the Silver Age of comics (with a 21st Century sensibility) when men were men, villains were vile and caption boxes were unwieldy enough to cripple a charging bull elephant – the African ones, of course, not those runty Indian jobbies. Yes, evoking images of the sanitized, code-approved 50's and early 60's is what Courageous Man is all about! All-ages fun in the classic mold… Huzzah! But, bring your thesauruses, because in Townburg City, they don't accept American Express, and they don't suffer monosyllabic Gen-X wastrels!
The 25th annual Mid-Ohio-Con will be held November 27 & 28 at the Hilton Columbus: Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio. For more about the show, including a full guest list, ticket info and more, go to: http://www.midohiocon.com.
IDW Publishing To Release Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking
IDW Publishing To Release Will Eisner's John Law: Dead Man Walking
Collection of Classic John Law Adventures and New Stories Arrives in December
San Diego, CA (9/23/04 Comicdom's master craftsman Will Eisner and his classic hero John Law return in John Law: Dead Man Walking, a collection of all-new stories and classic tales. Award-winning writer/artist Gary Chaloner was contracted by Eisner to develop all-new adventures featuring his pipe-smoking, one-eyed Crossroads cop, John Law.
These stories, the first original John Law adventures since Eisner worked on the character in 1948, will be available in print exclusively from IDW.
This special 80-page collection will be available in both a softcover collection as well as a limited hardcover volume. The special hardcover edition will feature a numbered tip-in plate signed by Will Eisner himself. The book includes both Chaloner's new material and classic John Law tales by Will Eisner. Every page of art has been lovingly re-toned by Chaloner to capture Eisner's full noir stylings.
"John Law: Dead Man Walking is a terrific book that is worth the wait," said Ted Adams, IDW's President and Publisher. "I'm anxious for readers to see the amazing work by Will Eisner and Gary Chaloner. I know they won't be disappointed."
John Law: Dead Man Walking is a black and white and graytone, 80-page trade paperback on sale in December 2004, with a retail price of $14.99.
IDW PUBLISHING is a division of Idea + Design Works, LLC, a revolutionary creative service company with a wide range of clients including The Upper Deck Company, Electronic Arts, Ultima Online, WizKids, Cartoon Network, Sony Online Entertainment, Nickelodeon, and many more. IDW Publishing focuses on a small number of high-quality titles. Among them are CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's 30 Days of Night and its sequels, Dark Days and Return to Barrow; Ashley Wood's Lore; CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations; Beau Smith's Wynonna Earp; and Steve Niles' Wake The Dead. Columbia Pictures has optioned the movie rights to 30 Days of Night, with Sam Raimi attached to produce. Konami is producing a video game based on CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations. Dimension Films has optioned the movie rights to Wake The Dead and Hyde. Paramount Pictures has optioned the movie rights to Aleister Arcane.

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Okay, I can't help it. I love feathers and I love creative fashion. It's one of the reasons me working for *SoliDea FoliEs* is such a good fit. Mila Tatham designs very creatively. But there are a lot of these truly creative designers out there. One of the others brands I simply can't live without is Faint Paulse's Ladies Who Lunch. I started playing with this outfit Saturday, but it was such a nightmare in SL getting anything to attach I finally said "uncle" and left. I think today was a little better, and I hope you like. I am keeping with the low velocity one more day, so Draakje? short and sweet, so there!
Take from? There is a new round of Hottie Cooterati's Zodiac, and its Taurus, and I'm a Taurus, so HAVE fun for my birthday month! And buy me lots of prezzy's, okay? See, so nice, I'll even include the taxi. Taxi to Zodiac!:
Outfit One:
Skin: Essences, Taurus **Hottie Cooterati Zodiac event** (Thanks Anderian Sugarplum :**)
Hat: [LWL], Blush Veil hat
Hair: Tuty's, Adorable
Earrings: Mandala, Leather Feather
Makeup: Mons, Burning eyeshadow (**Taurus Hottie Cooterati Zodiac event**)
Gloves: Mimikri
"Wings": [LWL], Vesuvius, feather part of hip pieces
Shirt: [LWL], MFM11 Aviary Top
Tutu: [LWL], Aviary Tutu
Socks: ALB, Joy (part of a boot set)
Shoos: [LWL], Faint! Precarious Platforms


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A security executive for the internet browser company Mozilla says he was shocked by the recordings of his family that were collected and retained by Amazon's popular Alexa voice-activated interactive speaker.
Alan Davidson, Mozilla's vice-president of global policy, trust and security, says the Amazon Echo device is a wonderful product but when he recently examined what his family's had recorded and stored, he found it included conversations among his young children.
He says none of that may be wrong or unlawful, but he says it highlights the problems with how consumers actively give consent to tech companies.
Davidson says internet companies need to do more to give customers more "granular" consent options for how specific pieces of personal information are collected and used by high-tech companies.
Mark Ryland, the chief security officer for Amazon Web Services, says Amazon makes it very clear that consent is part of the Alexa experience, and that customers can delete any collected data if they like.
Davidson and Ryland were testifying in Ottawa before the international grand committee on big data, privacy and democracy, which includes politicians from Canada, Britain, and several other countries.
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Direct from Provence, this beautiful towel will be a great addition to your kitchen. Made of 100% cotton, this towel will handle the toughest jobs thanks to its waffle-weave texture. This cream towel is embroidered with an olive branch and the word 'Provence'. It comes rolled as on the picture, perfect for offering as a gift. The motif is embroidered at the bottom center of the towel. Measures 20x28". Made in Turkey.


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Claire Aho worked as a photographer during an age when the advertising and photography world was dominated by men, as depicted in the popular television show, "Man Men." "In the 1950s I never thought I did pioneering work. I just worked hard," she says. "The expression 'pioneer' was affixed to me later."
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Storm puts damper on Thunder Beach, bikers say
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Keith and Michelle Williams have traveled from Jackson, Tenn. for Thunder Beach the last five years, but this is the first time they've had their eyes on the weather as much as the motorcycles.
Sitting outside Ms. Newby's bar and liquor store Friday afternoon with dozens of other bikers, Keith Williams said he's been checking for updates on Tropical Storm Karen two or three times a day.
"I hate it. I hate rain. It's no fun. It takes all the fun out of riding a bike. You come down here for sunshine and this," he said, gesturing toward a fleet of motorcycles parked nearby. "And a lot of people like to go to the beach."
Though weather conditions have been sunny and pleasant during Thunder Beach, for the most part, several bikers said that many of their two-wheeling brethren are cutting short their visit to the annual rally to avoid Tropical Storm Karen.
From behind a pair of black sunglasses, Lee Hudson looked around the parking lot at Ms. Newby's on Friday and shook his head.
"Usually this whole parking lot and the street is full," he said. "Half my friends left yesterday because of the storm. They rode their bikes back to avoid the storm, so then you've got half the turnout."
Hudson was checking the weather app on his cellphone for storm updates Friday. The concern for motorcyclists, he said, is that they're especially endangered by high winds and wet roads. And as Tropical Storm Karen is expected to dump rain across the Southeast after moving over the Panhandle, it would be a long and dangerous ride home for out-of-town bikers.
"I'm not going to do that. I'm going to trailer mine," Hudson said. "They called me a sissy the entire way down here because I was going to trailer my bike. But you see who left early."
Keith Williams shared his sentiment.
"If I was riding up and down the street, I'd be miserable," he said.
Friday night, Thunder Beach officials had not announced any event cancellations due to Tropical Storm Karen. A spokesperson for the motorcycle rally could not be reached for comment.
Several Thunder Beach vendors selling T-shirts, food and motorcycle paraphernalia said they were already prepared to skip the last day of the rally, which is Sunday. Tropical Storm Karen is expected to make landfall on the Panhandle Sunday.
"I'm concerned about it," said Dan Chagnon, who was selling cigars outside Ms. Newby's on Friday. "Every hour that we lose, we're losing money."
Some beach hotels and condominiums also were losing money thanks to Tropical Storm Karen. Paradise Found Resorts & Hotels vice president Julie Hilton said Friday the company had seen cancellations from 30-40 percent of guests at Holiday Inn Resort, Paradise Palms, Holiday Inn Select, Days Inn Beach and Casa Loma. Hilton said the hotels usually draw big crowds for Thunder Beach, but presumed many bikers didn't want to risk bad weather.
"It hurts us really badly," she said. "We were expecting a great weekend, and we're going to be significantly behind last year."
It was different story at properties managed by the Resort Collection, according to Paul Wohlford, the group's vice president of sales and marketing. He said staffers fielded several calls from concerned guests earlier in the week regarding Karen's path and the agency's cancellation policy, but Friday afternoon was business as usual.
"We've had very few cancellations, especially with Thunder Beach going on and concerts going on," Wohlford said. "Especially since the storm has kicked west a little bit, we haven't gotten many calls today at all."
The Resort Collection manages Edgewater Beach Resort, which is an official Thunder Beach venue.
-The Panama City Beach Fire Department annual Fire Prevention Open House that had been scheduled for Saturday will be postponed until Nov. 9, due to the potential for bad weather.
-Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Michael Crews announced Friday the cancellation of weekend visitation at Pensacola and Panama City work release centers. The cancellation until further notice is due to weather from what is currently Tropical Storm Karen.
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By the late 1950s, it was painfully obvious to Porsche that it's workhorse 356 sports car (released in 1948) was getting it's doors blown off by the competition in terms of performance and price. An innovative and inspired redesign was badly needed, and in Fall of 1963 after years of development and refining, the 911 was launched. For brand purists, it remains the only true Porsche– the only model that truly harkens back to the heritage of the original 356. And what a heritage it is. The birth of the 911 was largely a family affair– a daring initiative mostly instigated by Ferry Porsche, son of founder Ferdinand, with his own son Butzi Porsche alongside as the body stylist. Porsche could hope, but surely never could have known with certainty that the new 911 would carry the Porsche torch well into the future, and ultimately become a design and engineering legend.
The longevity of Porsche's 911 is no accident. Porsche-style has labored very thoughtfully over the years to constantly freshen and innovate the 911. They've done an incredible job keeping it up to date, all the while staying true to the design and spirit of the original 911– not an easy feat anyway you slice it, and a very commendable one at that. Those of us in the design industry can certainly acknowledge the mastery involved in keeping a classic icon relevant while remaining faithful to it's essence. The art of timelessness evolving with the times.


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The Success of Open Source
Harvard University Press, 30 jun 2009 - 320 pagina's
Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most sophisticated developments in computer technology, including, most notably, Linux and Apache, which pose a significant challenge to Microsoft in the marketplace. As Steven Weber discusses, open source's success in a highly competitive industry has subverted many assumptions about how businesses are run, and how intellectual products are created and protected.
Traditionally, intellectual property law has allowed companies to control knowledge and has guarded the rights of the innovator, at the expense of industry-wide cooperation. In turn, engineers of new software code are richly rewarded; but, as Weber shows, in spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can empower a more effective process for building intellectual products. In the case of Open Source, independent programmers--sometimes hundreds or thousands of them--make unpaid contributions to software that develops organically, through trial and error.
Weber argues that the success of open source is not a freakish exception to economic principles. The open source community is guided by standards, rules, decisionmaking procedures, and sanctioning mechanisms. Weber explains the political and economic dynamics of this mysterious but important market development.
Table of Contents:
1. Property and the Problem of Software
Reviews of this book:
In the world of open-source software, true believers can be a fervent bunch. Linux, for example, may act as a credo as well as an operating system. But there is much substance beyond zealotry, says Steven Weber, the author of The Success of Open Source...An open-source operating system offers its source code up to be played with, extended, debugged, and otherwise tweaked in an orgy of user collaboration. The author traces the roots of that ethos and process in the early years of computers...He also analyzes the interface between open source and the worlds of business and law, as well as wider issues in the clash between hierarchical structures and networks, a subject with relevance beyond the software industry to the war on terrorism.
--Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education
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A valuable new account of the [open-source software] movement.
--Edward Rothstein, New York Times
We can blindly continue to develop, reward, protect, and organize around knowledge assets on the comfortable assumption that their traditional property rights remain inviolate. Or we can listen to Steven Weber and begin to make our peace with the uncomfortable fact that the very foundations of our familiar "knowledge as property" world have irrevocably shifted.
--Alan Kantrow, Chief Knowledge Officer, Monitor Group
Ever since the invention of agriculture, human beings have had only three social-engineering tools for organizing any large-scale division of labor: markets (and the carrots of material benefits they offer), hierarchies (and the sticks of punishment they impose), and charisma (and the promises of rapture they offer). Now there is the possibility of a fourth mode of effective social organization--one that we perhaps see in embryo in the creation and maintenance of open-source software. My Berkeley colleague Steven Weber's book is a brilliant exploration of this fascinating topic.
--J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley
Steven Weber has produced a significant, insightful book that is both smart and important. The most impressive achievement of this volume is that Weber has spent the time to learn and think about the technological, sociological, business, and legal perspectives related to open source. The Success of Open Source is timely and more thought provoking than almost anything I've come across in the past several years. It deserves careful reading by a wide audience.
--Jonathan Aronson, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California
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Solid Hardwood Bunk Bed w Slide Platform End - Modular Design - Slatted - 61" H - Twin XL over Twin XL - Chestnut
ID# MX-ABRAXL-S-CModular Collection
Length: 102.5Width: 42.5Height: 61.5
Weight & Dimensions
Features & Specifications
|Knot-free Solid Birch, Maple, or Aspen.
|Weight capacity
|Rated for 400 lb, tested for up to 800 lb. Lower bunk is not rated.
|Warranty Note
|1 year
|Entry styles are reversible and can be positioned on either side of the bed.
|Made in
This Modular design hardwood bunk bed with Sliding Platform is part of our Modular Design collection. The name is because of the fact that it is made of many building blocks which give you a lot of choices.
Headboard is Slated style and it is a contemporary take on the traditional mission design.
Color, or stain, is in Chestnut finish and you can see the wood grains as well. Chestnut color is reddish in tone and is a traditional finish.
The overall height is 61 inches which is on the short side of the spectrum. You can split this bunk bed into two beds. All four headboards are at equal heights at 31" each so, this means you will end up with technically two identical daybeds if you choose to split the bunk.
Size of this bunk bed is Twin extra long over Twin extra long. Twin is the same as single. Twin XL has the same length as Queen size.
The modular design means you have zillions of options before your purchase and lots of possibilities in the future. This is because you can purchase parts separately that you can use to convert your bunk into something else. You can also use this sliding platform with or without the slide and therefore use it for a very long time.
You can use our modular design hardwood bunk bed for kids, teens or adults. It is also suitable for commercial use in your BnB or rental property.
Solid Wood Frame
We use solid hardwood for this bunk bed. Our factory uses Aspen, Maple, or Birch wood interchangeably for the production of this unit. To achieve maximum strength, we use premium knot-free hardwood for this bunk bed.
Its slats are made of plywood. They are about 2.5" wide and 2.5" apart from each other. Each slat comes with holes. So, you can secure every slat to the frame with two wood screws.
Under Bed Storage
There are a variety of under-bed storage solutions for this collection. You can add a storage trundle, or an under-bed dresser. Alternatively, you can add two independent and large roll-in-out drawers under this bunk bed.
Sliding Platform
Platform is made of solid hardwood. Slide is also made of solid hardwood on the sides and ends. It has this smooth surface of MDF for easy sliding. Depending on your bunk bed's entrance option, you can install the platform on the left or right hand side or on either end.
The advantage of this sliding platform is that it requires much less space with the slide connecting directly in front of the platform on end. Another advantage is that you can use one size slide platform for all bunks and loft beds in this collection.
This slide connects to the platform using metal hooks. There are two safety pieces that go over these hooks so you do not remove the slide accidentally.
This modular design hardwood bunk bed can hold a tested 400lb weight capacity on the upper deck. The lower deck can almost also hold the same weight, but we do not test the lower deck.
All sizes have center support on the upper deck except for the twin. For the lower deck, the center support is available only for XL sizes and Queen sizes.
The modular design has 4 metal pings, purpose built Rocklocks which lock the upper and lower headboards.
We use acrylic paint for the white finish. For natural and chestnut finishes we use nc lacquer (nitro cellulose). Also, we test the finishes for chemical compliance with US and EU safety standards.
Assembly of this Modular Design hardwood bunk bed is reasonably simple. No need to assemble the headboards. You need to assemble the ladder, the guard rails, connect mattress rails, and slats. You also need to assemble the platform and the slide. The tricky bit is installing the Rocklock.
Standard size mattress fits this bunk bed just fine. For the upper bunk, you can use a maximum 6" thick mattress. For the lower bunk, depending on which height you are going to choose, use a mattress between 6 to 8" thick.
- Part of our Modular Design collection.
- The design allows you to modify your furniture as your needs evolve.
- Made from knot-free premium solid hardwood.
- Converts into two beds or loft with additional pieces.
- Includes bunk bed Frame, slide and platform.
- Install the sliding platform on either end.
- Solid wood slats.
- Non-toxic low VOC finish.
- Add under bed storage to maximize space saving.
Shipping Box Dimensions
|Box ID
|L x W x H (inch)
|Weight (lbs)
|Box 1
|43.7 x 31.5 x 5.3
|Box 2
|43.7 x 31.5 x 5.5
|Box 3
|39.4 x 7.5 x 5.5
|Box 4
|39.4 x 7.5 x 5.5
|Box 5
|81 x 4 x 6
|Box 6
|81 x 4 x 6
|Box 7
|82 x 3 x 5
|Box 8
|82 x 3 x 5
|Box 9
|73.2 x 22.2 x 6.5
|Box 10
|64.8 x 15.2 x 2.6
Assembly Information
What's Included
We offer curbside delivery to cities of the following provinces:
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec.
For cities in remote areas such as small islands or townships or rural communities (cities with less than ~10k population), we may have to ship to the nearest depot for you to pick up from. We do not ship to PO Boxes.
Shipping Rates
|Order amount
|Shipping Cost
For Atlantic Canada and Territories, please contact us for the shipping rate.
Our products are bulky and heavy. Shipping is a significant portion of the total cost. Normally, the shipping rate can cost anywhere from %10 to %30 of actual products. For the time being, we can not offer a flat rate to the Atlantic and Territories.
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The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else.
With the decision now made, will we go back to business as usual? Not a chance, because the challenge was about more than international status, prestige, and a corner office at an international financial institution. This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy.
Conventional wisdom has it that the traditional arrangement raises hackles because it is a dated relic of the bipolar Cold War Western power era. That's correct so far as it goes—but it doesn't go nearly far enough. There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.
But haven't we heard this before? Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for. In the 1970s, particularly following the oil crisis of 1973, developing countries used the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which had been set up in 1964 as a counter to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, the forerunner of the World Trade Organization, WTO), to press for changes in the management of the global economic system. Their demands were embodied in the Declaration for the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in May 1974.
It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. Then as now, the emerging market players called for management of volatile commodity markets, preferential trade access to rich country markets, greater stability in exchange rates, monitoring of trans-border capital flows, greater aid to the least developed, favorable debt rescheduling, and regulation of multinational corporations to ensure that they comply with national laws and foster technology transfers. All this represents a considerable turn away from anything resembling a Washington Consensus and towards a more highly managed system favoring preferential terms for developing countries and redistribution over competition and efficiency.
Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system. They could supplement the existing system by moving to reduce the burden of poverty in the poorest developing countries. More radically, they could agree to restructure global economic institutions or change the agenda of existing institutions. For their part, developing countries could ignore the rich world and pursue self-reliance, or press for either institutional change or a change in the agenda as well.
So, what choices were made and what did happen to the NIEO demands of the 1970s? In retrospect, not very much. Some efforts were made to provide developing countries with additional trade preferences. The IMF created a trust fund to help developing countries by selling off a third of its gold holdings, particularly by the Europeans. A few commodity agreements were signed, for example in sugar and rubber. But for the most part, the general strategy of the rich countries was to reject the NIEO broadly. This meant rejecting the idea that the problems of the developing countries were the responsibility of the rich countries, brushing off the idea that developing countries had meaningfully shared interests, and more or less dismissing the notion that any good would come from having these countries participate at a higher level in international institutions. The rich countries were confident they could win the argument because they believed the developing countries had little or no power to push their position—and that what power they did have as a result of control of oil supplies could be countered and would fade.
In light of this history, many observers suspect that the new NIEO-style demands of 2012 are just more of the same, and will meet with the same outcome. We believe otherwise, for the simple reason that a massive shift in economic power is underway, in favor of the demanders for change. Consider the differences in various shares of the top ten emerging markets in comparative perspective. This time around (looking at 2010 data), the emerging markets account for over 23% of global GDP as opposed to 11% in 1975 (at current, not purchasing power parity, prices, which give them an even greater share). From less than 10% of world exports, they account for nearly 20%. Their gross capital formation has gone from 12% to 35%. Even outflows of investment have increased from near-nothing to 13%. Finally, the same states have 47% of the world's foreign exchange reserves as compared to under 13% in 1975.
Many Western analysts think these numbers don't change the game. It is possible, for example, to point to the same data and argue that because the developing countries are getting richer, what they want out of the global economic system will come to more closely match the preferences of today's rich countries. This convergence hypothesis is reassuring on many fronts. Consider, for example, this familiar argument: as Chinese companies run up against the limits of fast-follower copying, approach the technology horizon, and begin to generate fundamental innovation capacities, they will drive the Chinese government toward compliance with a US-style patent regime, and today's global fights over intellectual property will fade.
But where's the evidence for convergence? Certainly not in the NIEO-style demands of the BRIC countries at their summit meetings or UNCTAD. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.
Another way to discount the demands is to argue that there is no such thing as "the developing world" or "the emerging markets" as a unified force. Agreement on a set of broad NIEO principles among these countries could be extremely shallow, and possibly just a rhetorical exercise. It's certainly correct to say that India, China, Brazil, and others have different interests in the global economy. But it's at least as accurate to say that the United States, France, and Japan have different interests—and yet analysts are comfortable talking about the shared interests of "rich countries" or "The West." It would be better to recognize that in both cases, there is a mix of shared and different interests. And that if The West can act (enough) in concert to shape broad principles of global political economy, it might just be the case that the developing economies can do so as well.
What should countries and companies do if we are right and the challenge this time around is a serious one? The rejectionist stance that worked pretty well in the 1970s won't work this time. Instead, Western governments need to take the demands of emerging markets quite seriously. This doesn't mean agreeing to a new NIEO lock, stock, and barrel, or accepting a move away from global capitalism. It simply means that Western governments need to engage in substantive negotiations over the restructuring of the global economic agenda at a minimum, and possibly agree to significant reform of institutions as well. It means recognizing that not everyone is, at the end of the day, a neo-liberal. State capitalism and greater government control of markets is going to continue, with real economic power behind it. The demands associated with those trends aren't going away. If the 'West' pretends otherwise, it is certain to see more ugly incidents like the World Bank presidency fights, and the possibility that things could get much worse, up to and including a broad breakdown of institutional cooperation.
For globally oriented firms (which will be almost all firms, if it isn't already) doing business as they were in the decade before the financial crisis will not work. Thinking about how to influence the evolving global rules may seem very far from the daily pressures of managing one's company. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability. Managers need to think about different scenarios for the rules that govern the global economic system, and understand both the global transformation in the relative economic power of states, and the international regimes that manage the system. Without sustained attention to proactively developing integrated market and nonmarket strategies, firms will be like generals fighting the last war.
The authors would like to thank Patricia Sun for research assistance.


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Last weekend, I brought out one of the family bibles in my collection, so that my two youngest could see some of the "artifacts" that have been maintained, safely inside, for more than a century. In particular, I wanted to show them these items…
… a death poem, a "cypher"/multiplication table, and a lock of hair.
The death poem was written about my great grand aunt, Sudie Victoria Nicholson, probably soon after she died, on November 10, 1897. There's nothing to say, anywhere, that the lock of hair and the multiplication table belonged to Sudie, but, I have a hunch that they did… and that the lock of hair is actually a death lock, so commonly kept among Victorian-era families.
Interesting, but… there is, I think, a bigger story behind these items… and so begins the build-up to that story…
The Nicholson family was one of a few families who made their homes in the hollows of Madison County, Virginia… having "rooted" there, as far back as the late 1790s, when John Nicholson (a veteran of the 3rd Virginia Continental Line), began considering land on the Hughes River, near the "mouth" of what became known as "Nicholson Hollow".
In June 1799, John purchased 170 acres, from Mark and Eve Finks, for 5,000 pounds of tobacco.
Less than six years later, between March 7 and March 16, 1805, John and his wife, Anne, began dividing 80 acres among their sons; 20 acres to Benjamin for $50; 20 acres to Aaron for $50; and 40 acres to Shadrack for $100.
With the division of these tracts, it's probably a good point for me to introduce the story of this family's isolationism, especially when considering the fact that… all three of these sons are my direct ancestors.
From the three sons (there were more than just three) mentioned… one of Shadrack's sons, Peter, married one of Aaron's daughters, Elizabeth… first cousins (and my fourth great grandparents). One generation later, one of Peter and Elizabeth's sons, Garnett, married a granddaughter (Martha "Patsey") of the aforementioned Benjamin… making this couple(my third great grandparents), second cousins (incidentally, it may be that this couple married each other twice, because of legal complications, perhaps… or had children out of wedlock, at least seven years before the official date of marriage, in 1852). Even so, apart from these two instances, in which Nicholson married Nicholson, other marriages in this line were to members of the neighboring Sandy, Dodson, and Ramsbottom families, demonstrating that the Nicholson family situation wasn't entirely isolationist.
Marital isolation being downplayed, it may be that, by the time of the Civil War, we actually begin to see what isolationism truly meant to this family… especially considering the general "leave-alone'r" attitude when it came to military service. In fact, the family did well to avoid Confederate conscription, until the latter part of the war.
In the early part of the war, though called into service with his militia unit, in July, 1861, following the disbanding of that unit, a month later, my third great-grandfather, Garnett, remains absent from Confederate service records for the balance of the war, despite his age-eligibility (born ca. 1826)
In the story of Garnett's brother-in-law, Chrisley Nicholson, we begin to see even greater intolerance for government intervention, and a desire for isolationism. After what appears to be his desertion following conscription (since last writing about Chrisley, I've found what I believe to be evidence that he was initially assigned, after conscription, to Co. G, 12th Virginia Cavalry… deserting on June 2, 1862. Two years later, one of Chrisley's younger brothers, Vancouver, was enrolled in the same company), he became so annoyed as to temporarily move his family, as refugees, to New Jersey (!).
Other evidence of this resentment of authority, wielded by the Confederacy (and/or the Commonwealth of Virginia), appears in the actions of Chrisley's brothers… though not (that I know of) to the extreme shown in Chrisley's situation. Joseph was enrolled, along with his cousin, James K. Polk Nicholson (who happened to be a brother to the above-mentioned Martha "Patsy" Nicholson), on April 29, 1864, assigned to Co. H, 38th Virginia Infantry on May 5, and… deserted together, by May 20. Both later reappear in the rolls (having been brought back?), and Joseph was later captured at Five Forks. Despite their involuntary service, it appears they didn't mind cashing-in on the Confederate veteran pension deal offered by the state in later years… and, to be honest… why not? All of the Nicholson men who applied, ended service on honorable terms, therefore qualifying for the pensions, despite what appears to be disinterest in the idea of serving in the first place.
Another factor to consider is whether or not the decision to remain distanced from the war centered on knowing that close kin, who had relocated to Doddridge County, Virginia (West Virginia) prior to the war, were serving in the Union Army.*
Though Chrisley lost his life, and some of the men had been involuntarily wrangled into service, it appears the family and life in general was little impacted.
In either the late 1860s or early 1870s, a few family members began to move out of Nicholson Hollow. Some spread out, into the county, as well as neighboring Rappahannock County, while others moved west across the Blue Ridge. Among Garnett and Patsey's children, Slaughter Bradford Nicholson and James Jordan Nicholson took the latter route; Slaughter, settling in Doddridge County, West Virginia (where a considerable number of the Nicholson family had relocated before the Civil War… and where many enlisted in the Union army), and James, in the Ida Valley, in Page County. Considering the terrain of both locations, it would appear that there was still a preference for surroundings similar to those of home, in Nicholson Hollow.
While life in Nicholson Hollow appears to have remained otherwise unchanged, the self-imposition of one person, in 1886, may have been a significant catalyst for change. In October of that year, 16 year-old George Freeman Pollock…a native of Massachusetts… headed for Madison County…
More to follow in part 2…
*A list of all Nicholson kin, and their relation to this particular part of the family (the line of Garnett and Patsy) will be added here in a bit…


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The laptop landscape is dominated by sleek Ultrabooks, but we're pleased to see machines such as the Toshiba Satellite P70-A-109 emerge - it's a larger laptop that has more versatility and power than any ultraportable notebook can hope to match.
It's built around a high-end Haswell processor, and the rest of the specification is suitably impressive: a discrete Nvidia graphics core, two hard disks, 16GB of RAM and a Blu-ray writer. The 17-inch screen has a Full HD resolution, too.
The Toshiba Satellite P70 needs to impress, though, because it's up against some heavyweight competition. The Samsung Series 7 Chronos - now known in some circles as the Ativ Book 8 - includes a powerful processor and a superb 15.6-inch screen in a sleek chassis, and the HP Spectre XT TouchSmart arrives with a swish all-aluminium build.
The 15.6-inch Asus Zenbook U500 mixes power with the reassuringly expensive stylings only found in Ultrabooks, and the final contender comes from Gigabyte. Its chunky P2742G has plenty of power, a 17-inch display, and reasonable battery life.
The Toshiba doesn't get off to a great start. Brushed aluminium is used for the base and the lid, and it looks good, but much of this machine is made from plastic - something that similarly priced rivals such as the Samsung and HP machines manage to avoid.
We don't like the look of the visible seals around the edges, either - it looks cheap in an age where unibody laptops are becoming more popular.
Build quality is only average, too - we pressed the base and the wrist-rest and there was a little too much flex for our liking. It's not as if the Satellite P70 is a lightweight laptop, either: its 34.1mm girth and 3kg weight make it bulkier than the 2.5kg Series 7 Chronos and the 2.25kg Spectre XT TouchSmart, and it's not far off the 3.2kg P2742G.
So it's not good-looking or light - but the Toshiba makes up for this with practical additions elsewhere. The keyboard has a firm base and a snappy, fast typing action, and the sheer size of this machine means there's room for a full-size number pad and no dodgy layout options - so you get large Return and Space keys.
The Satellite P70 allows for more internal access than we're used to seeing from more stylish unibody machines. A single large panel can be lifted away from the base, and it grants access to two RAM slots, the pair of hard disk bays and the wireless card.


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Prisoners is an effectively moody child-abduction potboiler that spends much of its two and a half hour running time threatening to become some sort of allegory; however, its religious themes and War On Terror imagery prove to be red herrings, and while the movie is certainly less than the sum of its referents, it nonetheless works as a formally controlled genre piece.
Making his English-language debut, Quebeçois director Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) filters the thick-paperback plot—wherein two suburban girls go missing, and one of their fathers kidnaps the man he believes was responsible—through an arty sensibility that favors terse pacing and purposeful camera movements that make the action seem more enigmatic than it really is. (Attentive viewers will be able to solve most of the movie's central crime after about an hour.) The air of mystery takes precedence over everything else; one of Villeneuve's favorite techniques involves shooting through rain-streaked windows and focusing on the glass, turning the ostensible subjects of the frame into intriguing blurs.
Set in Pennsylvania—though actually shot in Georgia's Piedmont region, which provides cinematographer Roger Deakins with plenty of opportunities to pan down hillsides—during the week following Thanksgiving, Prisoners stars Hugh Jackman as the vigilante father who holds one-time suspect Paul Dano captive in a decrepit apartment building while police pursue other leads. (It doesn't help that Dano, dressed in a turtleneck and big-frame glasses, looks like the pedophile creep of suburban parents' nightmares.)
While Jackman subjects Dano to increasingly brutal torture, top cop Jake Gyllenhaal tries to unravel the case the legal way. The presence of Gyllenhaal—combined with the movie's chiaroscuro lighting, emphasis on destructive obsession, and many narrative dead ends—brings to mind David Fincher's Zodiac; as if to underscore this, Gyllenhaal's character has zodiac signs tattooed on his knuckles, and is introduced discussing the Chinese Zodiac with a waitress.
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But like the movie's allusions to the need for religious meaning (which range from an opening recitation of the Lord's Prayer to a sign for "Valis Realty"), its Zodiac game is ultimately just a way to lend secondhand depth to a simple story. The villain isn't obsession or vigilantism (which the movie ends up tacitly condoning), but a real, honest-to-God child-abducting bogeyman who provides the mystery with a sense of closure but exposes its Big Themes as mere pretensions. Still, it makes for a compelling viewing experience, thanks to Villeneuve's formal chops and the uniformly strong performances, including Terrence Howard as the father of the other kidnapped girl; in one long take, framed around Jackman as he tortures Dano, Howard's face registers a sickly sense of complicity that displays a more complex worldview than all of Jackman's religious fervor.
For thoughts on, and a place to discuss, the plot details not revealed in this review, visit Prisoners' Spoiler Space.


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Linux Desktop CPU Roundup: Cutting Edge Penguin Performanceby Kristopher Kubicki on September 19, 2004 8:00 PM EST
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IntroductionAlthough we have performed a few interesting benchmarks of processors on Linux in our past benchmarks, whenever I get cornered by a professor on campus or guest speak at a Linux Users Group, the first question anyone asks me is, "Which processor should I get for my new workstation?" Although the possibilities are totally limitless, the Linux users whom I have met generally have the mentality of "build something out of complete new parts, so it lasts" or "build something out of stuff that I find for free." Generally, the latter doesn't present many options, so today, we will address the first scenario - which new components make the ultimate Linux workstation. We found a few high end AMD and Intel processors to pit against our comprehensive Linux benchmark suite. Of course, don't forget to check out some of our other benchmarks including AMD Sempron, Opteron 150 and Nocona 3.6 from last month.
With so many socket, memory and processor configurations, recent computer configurations can be extremely confusing. DDR2 or DDR1? AMD or Intel? 1MB L2 cache or 512KB? HyperThreading on or off? None of these are easy questions, particularly if we throw an alternative opterating system in the mix. We set up all of our benchmarks so that they can be replicated easily by anyone using a similar configuration. Below, you can see which configurations were used for the benchmark analysis.
|Performance Test Configuration
|AMD Athlon FX-53 (130nm, 2.4GHz, 1MB L2 Cache, Socket 939)
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (130nm, 2.4GHz, 512KB L2 Cache)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (130nm, 2.2GHz, 512KB L2 Cache)
Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.4GHz (130nm, 512KB L2 Cache, 2MB L3 Cache)
Intel Pentium 4 560 3.6GHz (90nm, 1MB L2 Cache)
Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0GHz (90nm, 1MB L2 Cache)
|2 x 512MB Mushkin PC-3200 CL2 (400MHz)
2 x 512MB Corsair PC2-5400 CL3 (475MHz)
|DFI LanParty 915P-T12 (Socket 775)
MSI K8T Neo2 (Socket 939)
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|Operating System(s):
|SuSE 9.1 Professional
Kernel 2.6.5-7.108
|linux:~ # gcc -v
Reading specs from /opt/gcc-mainline/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/3.4.1/specs
Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/opt/gcc-mainline --with-local-prefix=/usr/local --infodir=/opt/gcc-mainline/share/info --mandir=/opt/gcc-mainline/share/man --libdir=/opt/gcc-mainline/lib --libexecdir=/opt/gcc-mainline/lib --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc,java,ada --enable-checking --enable-libgcj --with-gxx-include-dir=/opt/gcc-mainline/include/g++ --with-slibdir=/lib --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit i586-suse-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.1 20040508 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
For the majority of the benchmark analysis, we leave the HyperThreading capabilities of the Intel processors off. Unfortunately, most workstation applications are not capable of multi-threading applications, and running HyperThreading penalizes the Intel processors when it isn't needed. We do run some benchmarks where multiple threads are utilized, and in those instances, we take some special consideration with multiple benchmarks. For most of our tests, you will see 32-bit binaries on 32-bit Linux kernels. Moving the mouse over these benchmark graphs will actually reveal the 64-bit tests that we have done with our Athlon 64 processors. The Intel processors in this analysis do not have 64-bit capabilities.
We also have a small DDR2 versus DDR1 comparison near the end of this article. For the Intel processors, we use the DDR2 memory provided by Corsair exclusively except for the DDR2 versus DDR1 comparison. We chose the MSI K8T board for our AMD tests, since it was one of the most stable and reasonabily priced motherboards for the 939 architecture. DFI won our spot as the Socket 775 test bed for its DDR2/DDR1 support and solid stability. Testing DDR2 versus DDR1 was extremely relevant to this motherboard, since we could just swap memory modules without changing motherboards. Let's jump right into benchmarking.
Generally, all of our benchmarks are taken three times and then the highest marks are recorded unless stated otherwise. Note that we have updated to the more current GCC 3.4.1.
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ravedave - Monday, September 20, 2004 - linkWhat klah is trying to say in too many and too big of words : Make the scale the same for the mouseover pics.
Also make the picture height the same as well if possible.
Otherwise a very good article.
Has anyone thought of making an open office benchmark for linux?
klah - Monday, September 20, 2004 - linkGood article, but I have a comment on the mouse-over graphs. They work well in other articles such as the recent DVR-108D article where the scale and axes remain constant. In this case however the layout and in some cases even the scale are different between the two graphs. It would be easier to compare the two if the scale was the same and processors were in the same layout(spacing/location), with the inapplicable processors still listed to maintain the same appearance between the two.
If that explanation is nonsensical I can create a few images to try to elucidate my point.
Decoder - Monday, September 20, 2004 - link"Hold your mouse over for the 64-bit graph."
I like to see the 32 and 64 bits on the same graph. Why not use Athlon FX-53 (32) and Athlon FX-53 (64) for labels?


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Well since we don't appear to have a dedicated media section for the other BEST holiday ever. I figured we might want to sticky this one..There has been many programs so lets get a cracking.
Raggedy Ann and Andy in the Pumpkin that could not smile
The Worst Witch (got to love Tim Curry)
Garfield Halloween special
PAC MAN Halloween
Halloween is Grinch night
The Paul Lynde Special Just picked that one up on Netflix and it was lots of fun
Trick Or Treat 80's rock and roll horror
Halloween III ( this was my fav Halloween movie, so go shoot me)


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This week in the UK saw the publication of a much-awaited report on social mobility. Member of Parliament Alan Milburn chaired the "Panel on Fair Access to the Professions," which studied which segments of the British population are advancing upward into the professional class. The report has generated coverage and discussion in nearly every media outlet. So what did the report conclude? read more »
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