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Girls fans will be happy to see Lena Dunham's picture of her hugging her co-star Adam with the caption 'Adam' - perhaps a little hint they will be loved up in season 3?
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The first of the Whitman settings, To the Soul, utilises the text made famous in Vaughan Williams's 'Song for Chorus and Orchestra', Toward the Unknown Region, commissioned by the Leeds Festival (under Stanford's aegis) in 1907, raising the question as to whether Stanford was prompted by Vaughan Williams's choice of text or whether it was coincidence. The mood of the song, with its muscular harmonic language and broad architectural strokes, is one of nobility and courage in the face of the unknown region of death and triumphant oblivion beyond.
Joy, shipmate, joy!, famous as the fourth of Delius's Songs of Farewell, deploys and develops the metaphor of a ship, freeing itself joyously from its long anchorage and leaping swiftly from the shore into the unknown expanse of the great sea. Whitman's nautical imagery is reflected in Stanford's wave-like accompanimental contours and the shipmate's cry, though it is perhaps the ship's serene disappearance over the horizon together with the singer's 'distant' exultation that sticks in the mind.
In 1913 Stanford used the material of To the Soul and Joy, shipmate, joy! to create a single choral movement titled Song of the Soul, Op 97b. This was offered to Professor Horatio Parker (of Yale University), President of the Litchfield County Choral Union for their 1915 Festival, though in the end Stanford agreed instead to orchestrate To the Soul and the second Whitman song, Tears, for large forces.
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With the publication of Gurps Ultra Tech for fourth edition we now have examples of how robots are treated in fourth edition. It also raises a few questions for a GM trying to come up with stats for Andromedan robots in his game. Specificaly, what sort of AI's do the Andromedan's use for their robots? For those without UT there are four types of AI's.
Drones: Not realy Artificial Inteligence at all, these are more like the militaries modern remote operated vehicles. Lots of robots with more sophisticated AI's may also have the ability to be remotely operated alowing a "dumb" AI to be taken over by a greater inteligence.
Non Volitional AI: Capable of problem solving, and perhaps learning from experience but no free will. A robot with this AI might be smart enough to repair a warp engine if ordered to, but can't haul itself in for regular maintanance without orders.
Volitional AI: As capable of problem solving and free will as an organic mind.
Cyborg Brain: A living brain surgicaly removed from it's body, outfited with a life supourt system and hardware to alow itself to directly accept computer input and output. If there are organic computers already in use someone dismatling a damaged robot might have trouble telling if the computer is a cyborg brain or a biological machine.
Which sort of AI the Andromedans use has impact on how they should be presented in game. Drones for example can be defeated by jaming the control signal (sparing the energy to jam the signal in the middle of a space battle might be a problem though). Non Volitional AI can be outwited by presenting situations they have no orders for. Volitional AI and Cyborgs can be as adaptaable and cunning as any life form, but also as capable of self presurvation, retreat and surrender.
On a related note, Ultra Tech also mentions the posibilities of AI being hardware or software based. Hardware based AI is hard wired into the computer and posibly the robot body. Software based on the other hand can be run on any computer that's powerfull enough. Which are the Andromedan Boarding robots? If they're software based it raises the specter of having a robot find a unsecured port while boarding a starship and uploading itself into the ships computer to take control of the ship.
What's the oficial answer on what sort of AI they use?
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As far as I know, there IS no official answer yet (in any of the PD stuff I've read - I may have missed something). Why not write something up and submit it?
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There's one interesting nugget from the Rimworld story in Captain's Log 27 - the Andros kidnap 'specimens' of the various species they raid before starting their conquests...
...and it seems there are simulacrum robots which look like humans, Gorns and others aboard their ships! (Maybe even facsimiles based on races from the LMC and Omega, too.)
(And speaking of robots, you could go wild looking into the Drex, and the robots on the Juggernauts, too.)
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There's one interesting nugget from the Rimworld story in Captain's Log 27 - the Andros kidnap 'specimens' of the various species they raid before starting their conquests...
...and it seems there are simulacrum robots which look like humans, Gorns and others aboard their ships! (Maybe even facsimiles based on races from the LMC and Omega, too.)
(And speaking of robots, you could go wild looking into the Drex, and the robots on the Juggernauts, too.)
You could design AI lenses in Gurps for anything using computer controls. Doomsday machines for instance could have Non Volitional AI's with orders that were way too broad. Even the computers on Federation Starships seem to have Non Volitional AI's, at least based on the depictions in clasic Trek.
I was mainly interested in the andromedans because GPD has pictures and descriptions of the three main types of boarding robots, but no game stats.
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The "simulacrums" exist so that Andro robots can use the machinery of the race they are boarding. They are not going to "fool" anybody into thinking that they are an actual member of that species. It's just "size and shape" so that, for example, an Andro robot could drive a Gorn steam shovel.
Andro robots are AI and just as smart as humans, although the command and scout robots may be as smart as a smart human.
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Snowboarding. and redbull hahaha that counts right
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I like soccer, but I'd rather play then cheer from the tv.
Ofc me2 but still you should have a favorite team :D dont you?! and still there is a difference between us and professional players :D thats what i like to watch!
Unless you are a professional already :D
Heat and ny giants
I like all sports but I guess basketball would be my favorite, but my favorite team is the E-A-G-L-E-S, EAGLES!!!
Oh I'm also a huge mma fan notables thiago silva, Alan belcher, bobby lashley, Anthony Johnson I like the underdogs well all but Edgar.
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Football (the real one) is my favourite sport and Real Madrit is my favourite team (considering my av and sig its rather obvious, huh?). I also love volleyball, but there is no club Im interested in, I just support Polish national team.
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Football: Real Madrid
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Handball(European) and my Favorite/s team is/are HSV Hamburg(not the football club) and RK Zagreb.
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The publicity whores at China's Shenzhen Great Loong Brother tablet-PC maker are at it again. First, they raised a worldwild rumpus by floating the prospect of a lawsuit accusing Apple of stealing the design of their tubby P88 slate for the iPad. Now they've blatantly ripped off the look and feel of Mac OS X, pasted it onto …
I think it's called irony, not plagiarism
That's the most humorous -and logical-thing to do if they really think that Cuppertino stole their design (which, to be fair, appears quite likely, as the main point of that article of yours ridiculing the claim was that the devices don't run the same OS -which is, as the claim was about design, pretty far from the point -"several thousand light years appart"-style far).
I mean, whether or not Apple stole their design -my take on this is "yes" but...- there is no way that this company could get justice from an US court (what with Apple pockets being bottomless and merkin IP system only recognizing merkin intellectual "property" -even when it's a blatant rip-off, when there's a metric ton of proven prior art or when the idea is so blindingly obvious that any 3-yo kid in human history probably came up with a similar idea).
So they choosed to flip the bird at Mighty Apple instead, probably making some cash in the process as I can totally see a lot of people parting cash for this, either for it's ironic value or not, especially in China. Mind you, I'm not even remotely Chinese and I would totally get one of those if they were available here, just fo' teh lulz. And chances are Shenzhen can get away with it, too. Which is the way it should be. Frankly that's hillarious, and it's only a skin (i.e. design) so it's appropriate retaliation, too.
hey, i get it!
You said 'merkin' because we're all dumb redneck hicks with drawls here! Touche, my friend - there's no coming back to incisive wit like yours.
RE: hey, i get it!
I'll bet he said "merkin" because it means "pubic wig"
oh, and just in case you couldn't see it for yourself...
...I think if you check you'll find that shenzen and apple both based their tablet designs on the previously-existing iphone/ipod look. I may just be a dumb, arrogant merkin, but it seems like that's an important point.
Grow a sense of humour
As title. If you really have to take the time out of your day to whinge because someone called you a 'Merkin, rather than the correct term ("Yank"), then you need a stronger backbone.
Bloody septics
No sense of humour, any of them!
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Looks like a Gnome panel and an AWN or Cairo dock.......(or peking duck...?)
Wrong name surely!!
Why is it still called "Peking Duck"; surely by now they should have changed it to "Beijing Duck"!!!
(I asked my Chinese (ex)GF this, and she didn't know either!!)
I humbly apologise
"You said 'merkin' because we're all dumb redneck hicks with drawls here! Touche, my friend - there's no coming back to incisive wit like yours."
I humbly apologise to any US citizen who might have been hurt by my -apparently- derogatory use of the colloquialism "merkin". Except, of course for Mr David W. who vehemently demonstrated the validity of such derogatory terms.
Polically coorect answer: you're dumb
My voluntarily provocative answer was nixed by El Reg's iron-fisted mod team (I don't complain: it's fair game).
But the view you express are still the she sign of an incredibly dumd and mislead design sense. Apple's ans Shezen's tablets are identical as far as design goes, and bothe very different from the iPod touch or the iPhone. Just use your eyes. ( I would call you 'm?rk?n' just for the lulz but my post would probably be nixed again)
Seriously, El Reg ...
Do you think this company thinks it is going to compete on a global scale?
Or do you think it is going to advertise to non-English speaking people, pointing to the El Reg article as "proof" that Apple and MS approve of this supposed merger ... complete with pictures, for the folks who can't read/write/speak English?
I know where my money is ...
I too, know where my money is....
... or where it would be, if the P88 was available up here.
As it's sadly not ( and the lesser iPad won't be for a while, either) I'll content myself with my EEE900 until someone comes up with a real tablet -preferably an ARM one (say, like the the TouchBook but with a delivery date that doesn't beg for a time machine).
But then if I was somehow brainwashed into forgetting what `value for money` means, and if I needed a device that doesn`t do fuck all while costing more than my car, I might consider getting an iPad. Maybe.
OK, so he got his publicity - I still don't want one. Does anyone want one? (Didn't think so)
If it has multitouch, and I can install any applications on it that I wish, and tether it to my 3G phone, and not pay the apple tax, then yes, I do want one.
Is that like Long, but longer?
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I want one!
It is more feature rich and less locked down that the Apple iFad at the hardware level (USB etc).
It can run a full, multi-tasking OS.
I know which one I would seriously consider, and it wouldn't be the iFad.
Well done.
So you've established that the iPad isn't aimed at socially inept nerds (hey, if the cap fits). The thing is that most consumers couldn't give a rats arse about having "a full, multi-tasking OS", and that is who Apple are going for with practically all of their devices. You want to know why it'll never be the year of Linux? The consumer market doesn't care.
Linux? WTF?
Who mentioned Linux? Your prejudices are showing through.
But, if people don't want Linux they'd best get rid of all those Tivos then.
And most other PVRs...
And most set-top boxes...
And PS3s...
But I wasn't necessarily talking about Linux (other kernels are available...).
I did not "care" if my washing machine had a pre-soak cycle when I was looking. Really, it was not part of my buying decision. I would "care" though if it could not clean my clothes. I did not know in advance that a pre-soak cycle might have been important (luckily the one I bought has one, but anyway...).
So you are right, general consumers will not "care" in advance about multi-tasking, USB, tethering, video out etc. Right up until the point where it does not do something they expect and then they will "care" mightily.
Oh, and thank you for the ad hominem. it;'s nice to see that the powers of reasoned debate on El Reg are still in the gutter. You do realise the irony in calling me a "socially inept nerd" whilst slinging said insult; don't you?
Well done
So you've established that the iPad i aimed at people who don't need an`electronic social interface` device. Which, given the OS and Apple's vicehold on the thing, is the only possible use of the iPad*. What was your point, again?
*sure, you could also -possibly- watch movies, if you felt like staring down at a small screen on your knees for 2 hrs.
ad hominem
I said "hey, if the cap fits"...
Tell me, too, why I shouldn't want one of these.
(Besides that I already own a Fizzbook Spin, as I believe I've mentioned.)
..and so the Jobs Mob trickle in 2 by 2..
Fair story but I don't think anything will be stolen from Apple. There's plently of other devices in developement which will prove the iFad age rapidly. Oh look, iPhone 4G is on it's way. Can we please talk about something else?
Video of this device
I filmed it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6qtx9Bsjno
They are just showing that you can install any X86 OS, including Windows XP/Vista/7, Linux Ubuntu/Chrome and even Hackintosh OSX sine it runs on Intel.
Where can I buy this P88
Stuff apple, I want a P88, where can I get one?
I'm sueing all of them............
A few years ago I dropped a laptop and the screen fell off. Oooo I thought what a great idea a screen without all the stuff attached, all I need is wifi and touch screen.
Now all these all look just like my detached laptop screen to me so can I please have all my money sent to ......................
Also, when are we getting a review for the TouchBook?
Tablet form-factor, real toch-driven OS, optionnal keyboard doubles battery life, ARM processor (at long last), we want to know what it's really worth!
C'mon El Reg, fingers out of, erm, wherever they might have been all this time, this has been `available` for several month now. As far as tech is concernerned it's several orders of magnitude hotter than a dumb new x86 tablet PC -may it bear the bitten fruit brand- especially when the latter-mentionned device is only a glorified smartphone with no phone function.
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Chapter 31. Personal Protective Equipment
- Kerry Gardiner BSc, PhD, Dip. Occup. Hyg., FFOH1,2 and
- J. Malcolm Harrington CBE, BSc, MSc, MD, FRCP, FFOMI, MFPH, FMedSci3
Published Online: 14 JAN 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470755075.ch31
Copyright © 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Occupational Hygiene, Third Edition
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Howie, R. M. (2005) Personal Protective Equipment, in Occupational Hygiene, Third Edition (eds K. Gardiner and J. M. Harrington), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470755075.ch31
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Professor of Occupational Health, the Medical School, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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International Occupational Health Ltd, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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Emeritus Professor of Occupational Medicine, the University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
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- Published Online: 14 JAN 2008
- Published Print: 1 JAN 2005
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Sunday, 4 March 2012
late 1930's dress, green floral print, and the first day of autumn
Thursday was the first day of Autumn for us here in Australia. The weather was clearly thrilled to let us know that summer was over, and gave us a cold rainy start to the new season.
I have been really looking forward to some cooler days so I can wear my vintage rayon dresses. I think wearing summer clothes in winter can be a tricky thing – there's more to it than just adding tights and cardigans and coats, I think; the weight of the different fabrics has to work, too. But we won't worry about that just yet.
I wore my late 1930's green dress with a red, black and white floral print, with my favourite red shoes – yep, those ones, I think they were a good buy, yes?! – and a pair of black over-the-knee socks that I added at the last minute. I love this dress; it has some great late '30's details which are quite different to those of early 1940's dresses. I think I feel a post about this coming on..!
Anyway, here's to my favourite season!
38 comments:
- Valerie Enríquez said...
Such a gorgeous dress, it especially looks lovely with your hair color! On this end of the world we're just reaching Spring, but it is always fun to transition seasons x
- 4 March 2012 19:54
- Rosalinda Tjioe said...
Gorgeous dress <3<3 Adore! X
- 4 March 2012 20:12
- Hannah, Lost in wishful thinking said...
oh the red shoes bring out the red in the dress so amazingly!
You live in Melbourne right? Autumn there must be amazing, here in Brisbane there isn't much of a change visible.
- 4 March 2012 20:12
- Sher said...
Oh so pretty!! I love your green dress against your red hair and shoes;)
- 4 March 2012 20:29
- Miss Marie said...
Adorable dress! Beautiful colours and print. Would love to see more of the wee details too.
And yay for autumn! 'Tis my favourite season too. I'd be jealous of you except for the fact that I'm rather enjoying seeing the flowers and leaves gradually emerge here for spring.
- 4 March 2012 21:47
- LandGirl1980 said...
Lovely print :)
- 4 March 2012 21:52
I hope you wont mind, but I think you look rather like Shirley Manson with your new red hair and arctic complexion.
- 4 March 2012 22:06
- Carys said...
I may be a little behind the times here, but I absolutely love your hair this colour and length, it suits you perfectly! That dress is gorgeous too!
From Carys of La Ville Inconnue
- 4 March 2012 22:22
- Brenda @ Mira Narnie said...
ooh love this autumn outfit!!! I love the red shoes and think they add a a great pop to the outfit - looking forward to seeing some of those other dresses from the 30's and 40's x
- 4 March 2012 22:25
- Meg Eileen Carroll said...
i like autumn, actually, I would say it's my favourite - red leaves, easter, birthday, but I don't like being forced to sit outside in the rain at school (as we're banned from sitting in classrooms). Your new hair looks amazing with green, and the black tights with the shoes looks fantastic.
- 4 March 2012 22:32
- Miss Tallulah Porkchop said...
That dress is DIVINE - colours, print and style.
You are looking in fine shape lately, you been working out, lady?
Foster kittens says hello to Baby Cat.
- 4 March 2012 22:44
- Claudia said...
The dress is so beautiful!
- 4 March 2012 22:50
- lady liquor vintage. said...
Oh my, this is absolutely perfect! I love the dress & the shoes.
Catherine, XO.
- 4 March 2012 23:16
- Zane said...
the dress is gorgeous, love it with the red shoes
- 4 March 2012 23:21
- Hannah said...
Such a gorgeous dress and those shoes are perfect! x
- 4 March 2012 23:22
- Lynn said...
Wow! Your hair is stunning with the outfit! Or is it the other way 'round! :) I would love for you to post about the clothing details between late 30s early 40s. I have always loved old, vintage, retro, but I used to garden, raise bunnies, and homeschool, so my trend was very Victorian. With a huge life change, I am finding that the 40s/50s are more in tune with what I am doing, and I am absolutely LOVING learning more about that era. Please do share! As always, you look stunning!
- 5 March 2012 00:08
- Miss Maple said...
Like the green dress with your red hair. Good combination! Hugs from Germany!
- 5 March 2012 01:50
- Sarah said...
Your hair is so beautiful. Very good decision :) xxx
- 5 March 2012 03:06
- lauren said...
those are my most favorite dresses, so pretty, so easy to wear and so flattering. love it!
- 5 March 2012 03:37
- Charlie, Feminine Bravery said...
You look absolutely adorable! Great choice of shoes to go with that dress, and the dress fits you perfectly, too!
- 5 March 2012 05:09
- Charmaine said...
Amazing find! I am very envious.
- 5 March 2012 06:17
- THE-LOUDMOUTH said...
So so pretty! Love the dress & shoes!
- 5 March 2012 07:10
- Vintage-von-Virgo said...
You look amazeing and your dress is so cute:)
- 5 March 2012 07:16
- Emily Baker said...
gah!! i love those shoes!!!
- 5 March 2012 07:17
- Lulu said...
those shoes! they are too good to ever leave your feet :) my parents arrived in Oz a few days ago to visit family, I think they are glad cooler weather is on its way!
- 5 March 2012 07:35
- Kit said...
I absolutely love the print on that dress!
- 5 March 2012 07:42
- Vintage Virgin said...
I just love the green colour and print of this dress! Where do you find such gorgeous prints.
- 5 March 2012 10:32
- Mabel said...
Autumn already??? Luck you! Love your dress :)
Mabel Time
- 5 March 2012 11:05
- Mrs Amber Apple said...
i'm so jealous that its Autumn there! Autumn is my favourite season! i love your dress and it paired with those shoes *swoon* --your hair colour is lovely as well!
- 5 March 2012 18:32
- Charis said...
That dress is gorgeous! And your shoes ;)
- 5 March 2012 21:27
- Peachy Keen said...
Such a cute dress and I love those shoes!!
- 6 March 2012 00:47
- SoapyMermaid said...
pretty, pretty, pretty! :)
- 6 March 2012 05:47
- Lauren said...
Stunning dress, and it goes really well with the red shoes! Beautiful!
- 6 March 2012 08:06
- Tegan @ Tegania's Thoughts said...
so pretty. i love the satchel in the back ground too...
- 6 March 2012 09:26
- The Thriftaholic (Leilani) said...
The 1930s silhouette is stunning on you and I'm always a fan of red shoes! I liked your outfit so much that I included one of your photos in my weekly Vintage News, Links & Inspiration post: http://thriftaholic.blogspot.com/2012/03/vintage-news-links-inspiration-of-week.html
- 12 March 2012 10:15
- Jamie Rose said...
Your green dress is so pretty. I just love that color so much! The red shoes are pretty amazing too.
- 13 March 2012 17:13
- Mara said...
That dress is gorgeous! I LOVE the color!
- 16 March 2012 03:59
- shushie said...
Everything is lovely, but the shoes are to die for!
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Reinhard Mohn – Business Leader
"I want to convince people"
When he came home to Germany, a country in ruins, two years after the end of World War II, Reinhard Mohn decided to make use of the opportunities then available to him. Wanting to create something of value, he became managing director of the family printing and publishing business, transforming it into Europe's largest media group.
The war had reduced almost everything to rubble and ashes. Operations had been severely disrupted at the Bertelsmann publishing house; its production facilities and machines had been largely destroyed. The company had been shuttered in 1944 and less than half of its 400 employees were still available to work for it. Prospects for restarting the business were dim.
Although only in his mid-20s, Mohn had already had a number of life-changing experiences. He had learned how important it is to respect the people for whom one is responsible and that a sense of community and a willingness to work together are critical when trying to achieve common goals. He also understood that people want the freedom to develop as they choose, and that they want to participate in the success that joint endeavors bring.
For the young entrepreneur, the rapid growth that Germany experienced in its post-war years was the cause of many sleepless nights. His company was expanding quickly, requiring more financing than skeptical bankers were willing to provide. Mohn turned to his employees instead, suggesting that they help rebuild the publishing house and offering to compensate them with a share of the profits in return. It was a form of partnership that persists at Bertelsmann to this day.
Like almost no other business leader, Mohn knew how to motivate others by allowing them to make decisions for themselves. He did not like rigid hierarchies and created more flexible structures instead. He gave his staff a high degree of freedom, allowing them to take responsibility for their own activities. He organized his growing company in a decentralized manner and delegated responsibility to other managers.
What he learned in those early years became the foundation of his managerial principles, of "his" corporate culture, which is based on a fundamental respect of others.
In 1950 Bertelsmann launched its "Lesering" (Reading Circle), a chain of book clubs that proved highly popular. One year later it had more than 100,000 members. Four years later that figure had grown to one million.
As the company's business grew, the book club expanded to other countries: first to Spain in 1962 and, seven years later, across the Atlantic to South America. In 1970 France Loisirs, the French club, was founded and quickly became the largest of its kind outside of Germany.
At the beginning of the 1990s Mohn transferred almost all of the shares he held in Bertelsmann AG to the Bertelsmann Stiftung, the foundation he had established in 1977. He had created the foundation in light of his conviction that "wealth entails responsibility," as expressed in Germany's Basic Law.
Typically, the decisions he made concerning the company and his role in it were rational and pragmatic. In keeping with the limit he himself had set, he stepped down as CEO and became a member of the Supervisory Board at the age of 60. Ten years later he relinquished his position on the Supervisory Board. Similarly, his work at the foundation was characterized by a concern for what made sense. By transferring his holdings in Bertelsmann AG to the foundation and giving up his voting rights, he made clear that he did not view his role as a corporate leader as a privilege, but as a responsibility to the company, to those who worked there and, ultimately, to society as a whole.
What Reinhard Mohn achieved during his life is one of the greatest personal achievements in the history of modern Germany. He made it possible for a small publishing house specializing in religious texts and based in Gütersloh to become, within six decades, Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA as we know it today: a global player with over 100,000 employees; Europe's largest media group; and the corporate parent of the RTL Group, one of Europe's leading entertainment companies, Random House, the world's largest trade-book publisher, and Gruner+Jahr. The company's printing business, moreover, later became service provider Arvato.


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Norman Whiteside believes it is only a matter of time before Jonny Evans becomes Northern Ireland captain on a full-time basis.
The 25-year-old has long been a mainstay in defence for his country, even if a number of his caps have been won in a full-back role, and is one of the most senior figures available to coach Michael O'Neill.
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The Oil Refinery in Our Bodies
The energy you require to arise from where you are and start walking, to breathe, to open and close your eyes—in short, the energy you need to be alive is made in powerhouses inside your cells, called mitochondria. When we examine the processes carried out in the mitochondria, it becomes clear why comparing them to a powerhouse is no exaggeration.
In the production of energy in the cell, oxygen plays the main role. Oxygen has plenty of helpers. At practically all stages of the production of energy, different enzymes play their part. At any particular step of this process, enzymes that have completed their duty "change shifts" with other enzymes coming into action for the next step. This is done in a most conscious manner, and in this way, the energy stored in foods is converted into a form useful to the cell, as the result of endless chemical reactions, many minor processes, and hundreds of different enzymes going into action. In all of this changing of enzymes, there is not the slightest confusion, nor any mixing up of the order. All the "workers" carry out their duty as if they were part of a well-disciplined team.
The mitochondrion, made up of
And so, it can be said that the energy powerhouse located in a cell, only one hundredth of a millimeter in size, is much more complex than any oil refinery or hydroelectric plant.
An oil refinery is built and run by engineers aware of what petroleum is, who have analyzed crude oil in the laboratory, and who act in the light of this technical information. It would be impossible for anyone ignorant of what petroleum is to build a refinery.
In the same way, knowledge is required to produce energy in a cell which is much more complex than an oil refinery. It's obviously ridiculous to suggest that a cell has the ability to learn. But then how do cells bring about this production?
The truth is, no cell has the opportunity to "learn" any biological process, in its literal sense. If the cell couldn't carry out this process when it first appeared, then it would have no chance of acquiring the necessary skills later on—simply because oxygen, which plays such a central role in energy production, has a destructive effect on the cell. The cell had to have appeared together with this defensive property. This is only one of many proofs that cells didn't appear as the result of any coincidence, but were created by God in one instant.
With this artistry, displayed in an area one-hundredth the size of a millimeter, God shows us the limitlessness to His power.
The power station in our cells, each about one hundredh of a millimeter in size, is more complex than an oil refinery or hydroelectric plant. The energy generated by the cooperation of engineers, technicians, workers and designers, using the most superior technology,is produced much more economically and practically by our cells, which are devoid of consciousness or intelligence and formed from a relatively few atoms. In our cells' power station, every detail from theeconomic use of energy to the putting of waste products to good use has been taken into account. Each of these details has been planned and created without fault.


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2 cap-and-trade program. It's a method that is familiar to utilities and has proven itself workable. There's no reason to re-invent the wheel.
Cap-and-trade has the same effect as a carbon tax. Both are designed to accomplish the same goal. The important thing is that we do something to provide certainty and incent R&D folks to address this problem.
Crane, NRG Energy: I don't understand the thinking that favors a straight tax over cap-and-trade. Cap-and-trade has worked so well on SO 2, why would you do something else? If you turn it into a straight tax, it will raise money but the market will just pass it through. In the U.K., everyone knew in 2003 what the carbon tax would be for 2005, and the forward market just went up by 5 pounds a MWh. That's not the same level of motivation you get from a market system.
Notwithstanding the fact we didn't sign the Kyoto accord, the United States is ahead of Europe in developing technology solutions. You have to wonder, with carbon being priced there for several years, why don't we see the same level of innovation in Europe?
In a federal cap-and-trade system, where less than 100 percent of the credits are allocated, the auctioned credits are effectively a carbon tax anyway. We support that. It's absolutely necessary, and the sooner it gets imposed, the sooner we will know what regime we are operating under, and the sooner we can make the investments we are contemplating.
The worst-case scenario would be a type of regulation that both hurts companies and is counterproductive in addressing climate change. For example, various states and regions are imposing their own carbon taxes as opposed to the federal government. If New York imposes a carbon tax, it will only change the merit order of plants in the market, so electricity will be imported from out-of-state plants that are even worse than the ones in New York. That would hurt companies and be counterproductive.
China First?
Fortnightly: To what degree should U.S. GHG policy depend on international cooperation—particularly from China and India? Arguably GHG constraints will make it even harder for U.S. businesses to compete internationally.
Crane, NRG Energy: I'm not hung up on whether it's a global system as opposed to a national system, or a single sector as opposed to multi-sector. We don't compete with imports from China. And domestically, if lawmakers choose to tax us first, it just means we'll solve our problem before other sectors will.
Saggau, Great River Energy: We dismiss out of hand the argument that because it's a global issue we shouldn't do something nationally. We should be leaders on this issue. If we invest in new technologies to reduce our carbon footprint, those technologies will be used by other countries.
We don't want to damage our nation's competitive position with regulations that won't solve the problem and only create a lot of costs. We have to do it in a rational way that keeps competitiveness in mind. But we can't choose between clean power and cheap