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Contrary to Mel Brooks's humorous presentation of Moses and the 10 Commandments on film, Klinghoffer (The Lord Will Gather Me In) does not think these biblical laws are a laughing matter. A writer and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Klinghoffer warns that America is ignoring the commandments and sinking deeper into a quagmire of immorality. Using the Northwest's urban environs in which he lives as a case study, he warns that Seattle suffers from an "advanced case of moral retardation" that could easily spread to the rest of the country. The main culprit is secularism, says Klinghoffer, a "modern and resurgent paganism." Although this seems somewhat overstated, in light of religion's ascendancy in much of America, the author's argument that the U.S. has slighted a communitarian ethic in favor of increased individualism is compelling. Klinghoffer writes with passion and is genuinely concerned with the moral state of the union. However, he often slips into acerbic commentary that distracts from his more salient points. For every example given regarding the moral ineptitude of some residents of Seattle, there could be 10 provided about those who are fighting the good fight and living by God's word. (Aug. 21)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Perilby David Klinghoffer
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Is morality based on some essential truth or is it defined by society? In this highly original critique of American social mores and popular culture, David Klinghoffer argues that the Ten Commandments are essential to maintaining a morally healthy society. With the meticulousness of a scholar, he begins by excavating the meaning of the Commandments. Drawing on the millennia-old rabbinical work Mechilta, he explains that the Decalogue was written on two tablets to show that when a country neglects the Commandments written on the first tablet—those having to do with the relationship between God and people—the interpersonal relationships described on the second tablet suffer irreparable damage as well.
Addressing such timely topics as the controversy over public displays of the Commandments and the battles over intelligent design, Klinghoffer demonstrates that Christians and Jews are united in their opposition to the pagan aspects of our culture. In the tradition of Hebrew prophets like Jeremiah and Isaiah, he describes our failings with humor and compassion but also with anger and disappointment. An unusual, incisive perspective on the role of religion in society, Shattered Tablets is sure to spark debate. In the end Klinghoffer argues that by shrugging off the Bible as a guide and turning toward secularism, America has created a crude, cruel, and dishonest national life.
Editorial Reviews
National Jewish Book Award finalist Klinghoffer (senior fellow, Discovery Inst., Seattle) delivers a lively and spirited discussion continuing in much the same vein as his Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History(2005). With journalistic eloquence, he adds a Jewish viewpoint to the many Christian voices concerned with the "moral degradation" of contemporary American culture. He structures his work in ten vignettes corresponding to the Ten Commandments; through these, he seeks to illustrate his overall point of how the United States has forsaken God. He presents interesting insights with passion, but his work falls short on many counts. His "statements of fact" are often given without corroboration or citation, he frequently alludes to and quotes rabbinical sources without providing the proper context, he regularly operates on the basis of what he considers to be "universally" shared a priori assumptions, and he makes conclusions without sound reason or justification. Additionally, Klinghoffer shows a singular disregard for any religious perspective clashing with his own judgments. Not recommended.
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I am the Lord your God,
who has taken you out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of slavery.
(Exodus 20:2)
On a damp winter night in Seattle, I attended a protest rally against the first commandment. The Oxford biologist and best–selling author Richard Dawkins had come to address a crowd at Town Hall, a cavernous defunct church now used for cultural events. The suave Brit, a type for which Americans swoon, roused and delighted his listeners. Ostensibly, Dawkins's subject was Darwinian evolution, of which he is the English–speaking world's boldest and most charming advocate. But the mostly middle–aged, flannel–bundled Seattlites, packed tightly in the curving wooden pews of the old vaulted sanctuary, seemed less fired up by scientific details than by what the author had to say about modern life and values.
Dawkins set the evening's tone by declaring himself "hostile to all forms of religion." Over and over, he stuck his thumb in the eye of religionists by referring to the Darwinist belief that, far from being God's children, humans are no more than animals. "We are all glorified lungfish," he said with relish, exhaling contempt for any contrary opinion, "cousins of kangaroos and bacteria," "fellow apes."
He warned that with an evangelical Christian like George W. Bush in the White House, "People need to understand what they are up against in a society which is ruled by religious bigotry." The audience clapped and guffawed. When Dawkins reflected on the fact that "My publishers are no fools and planned the best places to go" to promote his book, wild applause interrupted him. He continued: "Of eight states we're visiting, all eight are blue states. Presumably these are states where they read books." More wild clapping and giddy laughter ensued as Dawkins's listeners applauded themselves for not being religious bigots, for living in a blue state, and for reading books. At one point, a member of the audience, standing up to ask a question, put her finger on the very central point, speaking passionately of how she "finds the naturalistic worldview immensely liberating compared to the alternative."
I have set before you the fans of Richard Dawkins only as an initial illustration of a much wider–spread attachment to naturalism, also known as materialism, the viewpoint in which everything that ever happened in cosmic history, from the big bang to today, did so for purely natural, material reasons, never due to supernatural causes. It's not atheism exactly, but it makes God beside the point. Darwinism is a prime example. Secularism, whose effects on our country's national life I intend to measure in this book, is the ideological view that would enshrine materialism as the official quasi–religion of American culture and government.
A goodly number of us assume that anyone who's not an idiot will of course take the purely naturalistic view. This question, which may sound abstract, is tearing America apart.
The Town Hall event occurred as America was heading for a crisis in the war over "ntelligent design," the minority scientific viewpoint that finds evidence of a designer's hand at work in life's history over hundreds of millions of years. Darwinism and religious faith begin from mutually exclusive assumptions about reality. In The Origin of Species, Darwin's working premise is that God has no role in the unfolding of the story of life. In view of this belief, which he never states or defends, but simply assumes, he goes on to detail his theory about natural selection operating on random variation. It is only in the absence of a supreme being working out his will in history that we would even undertake Darwin's search for a purely materialistic explanation of how complex organisms arise. As Darwin himself clarified in his correspondence, "I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of natural selection if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent." Religion, by contrast, does not assume that material reality is all there is. In the struggle between Darwin and intelligent design, a naive literal interpretation of the Bible's creation story is not what is at issue. Rather, the point being debated, ultimately, is whether the universe ever had a need for a designer, whether God or otherwise.
It just so happens that, centuries before Darwin, medieval Jewish scholars understood that the distinction between the "naturalistic worldview" and its "alternative" was exactly the key to understanding the first commandment. Recall the exact wording: "I am the Lord your God, who has taken you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery." The Jewish sages asked why, in defining Himself, God had harked back to the exodus of the Jews from Egyptian slavery, recounted in the Bible's Book of Exodus shortly before the giving of the Ten Commandments, rather than to a still more dramatic event: the creation of the world, which He accomplishes in the Bible's opening chapter. It's as if a parent, wanting to impress her child with the awesomeness of the parent–child bond, were to say, "I'm your mother, who picks you up from school every day," rather than, "I'm your mother, who gave birth to you."
Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno, an Italian sage born about 1470, taught that God saw it as a matter of highest priority to warn against what we today call a naturalistic worldview. If He had defined Himself here as the creator, that would not draw the line sharply enough. After all, there are ways to explain certain aspects of creation within the limits of naturalistic terms. But the Exodus is different. Accompanied by ten bizarre plagues that God inflicted on the Jews' Egyptian oppressors, and climaxing with His splitting of the Sea of Reeds to drown the Egyptian army as it pursued the escaped slaves, the Exodus can only be comprehended as a miracle, a blatant violation of nature's laws.
The point is, God does what He wants. He interferes. He gets involved in our lives and the lives of all creatures past and present, if often from inscrutable motives, reserving the right to direct the whole world down to the smallest details. He runs the show. And He doesn't let nature stand in His way. This is the claim made by the first commandment, and it is one at which many Americans bridle.
Can it be true that such modern–sounding questions are what Moses had in mind in 1312 b.c.e., when, according to tradition, he led two million escaped Egyptian slaves to freedom and gave them the Ten Commandments? Did Moses somehow foresee our contemporary lives of more than three thousand years later? I don't know what Moses thought, but the words attributed to him make an explosive and timely prediction. They predict the way a society's ideas about God will influence the way its members interact with one another. You don't have to be a religious believer to wonder if that prediction accurately reflects the way human cultures work. The United States today—whose culture, high and low, we're about to embark on a tour of—will be our test case.
But the first nation to be confronted with the Ten Commandments and the incisive cultural critique they imply was, of course, that of the Jews. The first generation of the Jewish people, on their way to freedom in the land of Canaan, encamped in the wilderness at the foot of a low mountain, Sinai. There was thunder and lightning and a fire descending on the mountaintop. God instructed the people's leader, Moses, to climb the mountain to receive an indication of what God wanted them to do now that they were no longer slaves. As the Bible's Book of Exodus recounts, the Jews heard God's own voice.
The entire Jewish people, as they would tell their children down through the millennia, heard God pronounce the first two of the Ten Commandments. But the sound of the divine voice was too much for them. They pleaded with God henceforth to communicate directly only with Moses. God agreed. Forty days later, Moses came down from Mount Sinai with a full record of what God had to say. This was the Torah, the Bible's first five books, along with an explanatory tradition, conveyed orally. There is a Written Torah, and an Oral Torah. When I refer to "Torah" without qualification or definite article, I mean the combined tradition, or written and oral together.
This vast Torah, in turn, was summarized in just ten statements, the ultimate CliffsNotes. In the Bible itself, the Ten Commandments aren't numbered. Different religious traditions, Jewish and Christian, number the verses of the scriptural text in slightly different ways, but everyone agrees there are ten separate statements. In this book, I will rely on the oldest tradition, that of Judaism—not only for numbering but for illuminating the meaning of the commandments altogether—because Jewish sages for three thousand years have been reflecting on the Hebrew Bible's text in remarkable detail, basing their interpretations on the ancient oral tradition, or Oral Torah, later written down in the Talmud and the Midrash, for which other religions have no precise parallel. Following in the same spiritual and intellectual vein as the Hebrew prophets, some of the sages I will be introducing in this book lived in Talmudic times (roughly the first through the fourth centuries of the Common Era), others in the Middle Ages. Their unfamiliar names will become familiar as we go along.
I have called the commandments "statements" because the verses in Hebrew aren't literally phrased as commandments, but as affirmations in the future tense. "You will not recognize the gods of others," "You will not take the name of the Lord in vain," "You will not kill," "You will not commit adultery," et cetera.
This is a curious feature of the so–called commandments. So, too, is the fact that God had Moses write them down on two tablets. Why not one? Did Moses lack a font size small enough to fit these relatively few words on a single tablet?
The use of two tablets was not due to an inadequacy in the available word–processing software. It was deliberate, and thus obviously crucial to understanding what the statements mean. As far back as the second century of the Common Era, in the rabbinic book Mechilta, Jewish tradition has taught that the mirror symmetry—five commandments on one tablet, five on the other—show how values influence a society's success in every field of endeavor. The idea is alluded to in a cryptic form, according to the medieval commentator Rashi, in a verse from the Bible's Song of Songs: "Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies" (4:5). The two "breasts," mirroring each other, are the two tablets.
The first five statements deal with man's relationship with God. The second five concern our relationships with other people, thus with how humane and civilized a way of life we enjoy. The nation that gets one through five right will stand a better chance of getting six through ten right also.
We can be more specific. Moses inscribed the commandments in descending rows on each tablet—the first commandment at the top of the column, with the second directly under that, the third under that, and so forth. On the second tablet, the sixth commandment comes first, followed by the seventh under it, and so on. The first lines up horizontally with the sixth, the second with the seventh, et cetera. The commandments can therefore be read not only from top to bottom but also across. So if you picture the first tablet as positioned next to the second, the first commandment may be read as if it were followed not by the second commandment but, rather, moving horizontally to the second tablet, by the sixth commandment. The paired commandments form a series of if/then statements: If a culture understands and reveres the first commandment (whose meaning we are investigating in this chapter), then it will also fulfill the sixth (against murder); if that culture lives by the second commandment (against idolatry), then it will fulfill the seventh (against stealing); et cetera. Since the chapters of this book are organized in the obvious fashion, one chapter per commandment, proceeding in the order the Bible gives, we'll really start to see what this means only when we reach the sixth commandment.
In short, most of us, in contemplating the familiar yet highly enigmatic biblical text, understand a lot less about what Moses was communicating than we think we do. Which brings us back to the most enigmatic of the commandments, the first.
It doesn't sound like a commandment, nor is it an affirmative statement in the future tense like the other nine on our list. It plainly concerns the belief in God—though the word belief doesn't quite convey the factual certainty of the statement, in the Deity's own voice: "I am the Lord your God."
Rashi, the French medieval sage (1040-1105), greatest of the rabbinic expositors of the Bible, highlights the phrase "from the house of slavery." He notes the irony that, having been released from one form of bondage, the Jews were entering another, as if God were saying, "From now on you will be slaves to the King, and not slaves to slaves." Meaning that God is the true King. In relationship to Him, even Egypt's pharaoh, who held the key to the bonds that held the Jews, is only a slave. The truth is, we are all enslaved, if not to a physical master then to a set of ideas. We all have our preset assumptions about how reality works, about how moral questions are adjudicated, about where truth is to be found. Otherwise, we could hardly get through the day. People who regard themselves as "freethinkers" are invariably enslaved to their own "transgressive" or "progressive" notions of right and wrong, notions that they received in turn from earlier self–congratulatory intellectuals or just from breathing the air of "enlightenment" and "open–mindedness" that envelops many of us so closely that, as with breathing actual air, we never realize what we are absorbing deep into ourselves at every moment.
The difference between someone who takes the first commandment to heart and someone who doesn't is that the former accepts servitude to the King, to God, as a conscious act, wide awake, while the latter sleepwalks, never even guessing how enslaved he really is to other people, to the spirit of his times.
However, a more pertinent meaning of the first commandment has to do with negating the perspective of the materialist. In the vocabulary of the Talmud, a materialist is called an apicorus. The ancient rabbis urged believers in the Bible to know how to rebut the philosophical claims of such a person. The hallmark of the apicorus, they said, is the contempt he shows toward the teachers of biblical tradition. Obviously, the conflict between the "naturalistic worldview" and its "alternative" goes back a long way.
The word itself, apicorus, is simply an adaptation of the name of a Greek philosopher, Epicurus, whom scholars today credit with being the first Western thinker to spell out the implications of materialism.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
DAVID KLINGHOFFER, a senior fellow in the Discovery Institute's program in Religion, Liberty & Public Life, is the author of The Lord Will Gather Me In, a memoir of Jewish conversion, The Discovery of God, a spiritual biography of Abraham, and Why the Jews Rejected Jesus. He lives on Mercer Island, Washington.
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Released: Apr 01st, 2001
Running Time: 139
Director: Christoph Clark
Company: Clark Euro Angel Video
Distribution Companies: Evil Angel
Cast: Sylvia (I), Amanda (I), Alberto Rey, Barbara (I), Johny (I), Szobca, Monique (I), Thomas (I), Sandra (I) (Romanian), Kathy Heart, Stefano, Hatman, Joe (I), Loureen Kiss, David Perry, Mercedes (I), Pascal St. James, Christoph Clark, Roxanne (I), Tina Banks, Leslie Taylor, Reapley, Pete (I), Sebastian Barrio, Susy (I)
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Let's face it, folks. No one does anal quite like Evil Angel. In Hardball's 11th outing - a showcase for performer par excellence Monique - Hatman plays a procurer of feminine delights. His aim is to make hot European women, plus Monique, the lone Yank, into super-sex-stars.
Director Christoph Clark plays a goofy guy named Gustav who hires two delightful damsels for an evening where he first coos and kisses them and then ruptures their rectums. A pretty waif is photographed for a photo shoot before she is ravaged on a table by two big-dicked studs, both of whom splooge on the table where she begins lunching on the goo.
There's a terrific trio of beauties who anally attack one another with double-headed dildos and vibrators (and let's not forget big ol' anal beads), the most voracious performer being, of course, Monique, who oozes pure animalistic lust with unadulterated force. She also appears in the final orgy sequence and, as she is d.p.'d, her screams of passion and pleasure erupt forth from her very core. This is a girl who loves to get fucked. She ends the video covered from face to toe in gooey white cum.
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This is a great article from SelfStorage.com highlighting things to think about before moving to Los Angeles: "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: If you can make it in Los Angeles, you can make it in New York. (It's not the other way around). With a population of about 4 million, LA isn't a city […]
Back to the Future – Prepaid Interest Explained
It doesn't take a time traveler to appreciate the fact some folks are just inherently going to have a problem with paying today for something that won't come due until tomorrow. Especially when that something is perhaps ill-explained and/or part of a complex real estate transaction. Even with the rollout of the CFPB's new disclosure forms, the Loan Estimate (LE) and the Closing Disclosure (CD), consumers will likely still proffer some age-old questions about at least one component of a mortgage loan's cost structure. So let's hop in our DeLorean and venture to find out what is prepaid interest?
Why Do I Need to be Pre-Approved Before I Look For a Home?
Buying a home in Los Angeles is not just a matter of looking for one, you need to be ready to make the purchase. Without a formal confirmation from a lender that you qualify for a loan you will not be able to make an offer on a property. And in a sellers' market you need to make yourself competitive.
The Home Inspection in a Multiple Offer Situation
The Los Angeles real estate market is still favoring sellers and many if not most homes for sale receive many offers. In a multiple offer situation the inspection becomes a more delicate matter than usual since there will almost certainly be one or two backup offers waiting in the wings.
Home Buyers, Your Agent Works For You Not Vice Versa
If you are a home buyer, especially in the Los Angeles area, I feel compelled to offer a heads up on what you should be expecting from your agent. This especially applies if your are a first-time home buyer because you may not understand how the process works.
I often get calls from buyers, especially first timers, asking about a property they presume is my listing because it is on my website. Since I run an Internet Data Exchange (IDX) feed on my website, all listings provided by my Multiple Listing Service (MLS) are provided to my site through my IDX, hence the confusion. I am, of course, happy to help them since this is a source for some of my business. However, the first question I ask is if they already have an agent. Many of them do. That is when I feel compelled to explain what the role of their agent is which is what their agent should have already explained to them.
In a Low Inventory Market How Should You Price Your Home?
Much of Los Angeles is experiencing a sellers' market right now. How do you define a sellers' market? It is based on low inventory. Loosely you would take the number of homes sold over the past six months compared with the number of homes for sale; that will give you the number of months it […]
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Masahiro Tanaka is the top free agent pitcher, currently employed by the Nippon Professional League. (AP IMAGES)
We heard more details on proposed changes to the Japanese player posting system earlier this week, but it's not a done deal yet. In fact, Rob Manfred, MLB's chief operating officer, indicated today that an agreement is not close.
According to the New York Times, the snag isn't from the Japanese side of things, but rather that small market MLB teams want the posting fee for players to count toward the luxury tax.
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John Frederick Lewis appeared before a parole board today after serving 15 years of a 20 year sentence.
Lewis was convicted of assault in 1994, when he shot and wounded Clifford Ford outside of Mickey's Lounge.
Ford and his family asked District Attorney Doug Valeska to contest Lewis' parole
The board voted unanimously to deny Lewis' parole for 5 more years.
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The prestigious annual Rose D'Or Awards (now in their 55th year) honour the very best of international radio, TV and online entertainment programmes, and they will take place later this year. Over 400 programmes from more than 130 broadcasters and production companies in 33 different countries were submitted for this year's Rose d'Or awards. For the first time, a new competition category, 'Radio Event Of The Year' was created. We entered European Dawn Chorus in this category, and we're absolutely delighted to let you know that we're one of the final nominees!! And another programme from the Mooney team, called A Very Merry Mooney Tunes, has been shortlisted in the Radio - Music Show category! Click here to read more about the 2016 Rose D'Or Finalists, and click here to relive - and re-listen to - all the beautiful Dawn Chorus birdsong from right across Europe.
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It's been a great week for the Irish so far at Cheltenham – seven winners in the opening two days. Day one belonged to the punters, but yesterday the bookies made a comeback. So who's on the money on Day Three?
RTÉ's Michael Fortune joins Derek to set the scene from Cheltenham, and we also hear from Barry Orr, Public Relations Manager with Betfair. Tony O'Hehir provides the commentary.
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Well, have you bought your leprechaun hat yet? Your lucky shamrock? And your "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" T-shirt? While we Irish aren't as fond of the 'paddywhackery' as our foreign cousins, there is something kind of nice about wearing green and celebrating our Irishness for one day of the year.
And we'll be joined in the celebrations this weekend by an influx of tourists. Fáilte Ireland say we will have at least 120,000 overseas visitors coming especially for St. Patrick's Day – but probably more, considering it is the year of The Gathering.
And the Emerald Isle is going to seem a lot more 'emerald' this weekend as various buildings and monuments are to be 'greened'.
The Office of Public Works are greening 27 OPW buildings & heritage sites including Leinster House, Dublin Castle, The Four Courts, Aras an Uachtarain, The Rock of Cashel, Ross Castle in Kerry, Trim Castle in Meath, Cahir Castle in Tipperary – and loads more. They're switching them on tomorrow for 4 days.
The Temple Bar Company Ltd are switching on 2000 greenbulbs tomorrow in Temple Bar and they're going to have an outdoor trad concert tomorrow night.
The 'green carpet' is being rolled out for 70 journalists who are coming from abroad to cover St Patricks Day and between them they have a reach of 112million viewers, listeners and readers. They'll all march in the Peoples Parade on St Patricks Day, along with 8000 others.
Then, internationally, Tourism Ireland have a 'Global Greening' initiative where buildings and landmarks all over the world go green. This is the fourth year of it. Old favourites are the Sydney Opera House, Niagara Falls, the Empire State Building, Table Mountain – but new this year are: the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, the 'Welcome To Las Vegas' sign, the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, HMS Belfast in London, Bayern Munich's homeground [the Allianz Arena] and the Citadel in Amman in Jordan.
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AbstractNanoSonic would develop low cost manufacturing methods for producing radiation hardened nonvolatile Chalcogenide based Random Access Memory (RAM) and magneto-resistive RAM with BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin to improve near term and next generation MDA programs including Theatre High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), Miniature Kill Vehicles (MKV), and the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS). The DoD's most promising solution for radiation hardened, miniaturized, high density memory lies in solid state devices such as BAE's Chalcogenide based RAM (phase change materials) and MRAM rather than electronic storage. NanoSonic has manufacturing capabilities to lower cost and improve performance of state of the art memory products including: tailored nanoparticle syntheses (up to 20L), expertise in the art of self assembly (on severely curved and large 12" substrates), rapid prototyping via ink-jet printing (drop size 10 pL), and maskless lithography (10 nm). Hexagonal arrays of oxidatively stable, discrete nanoparticles are formed within multifunctional ultrathin films via self assembly. This technology would be combined with advanced polymers and tailored architectures are used to prevent aggregation and intergrain particle interactions through ligand exchange processes. The Chalcogenide and MRAM devices would be tested in Lockheed Martin and BAE products during Phase II.
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I saw a list of almost a 100 mutual funds which have dumped Kimball. Their employee moral is at an all time low. Accounting creativity is at an all time high. The thunder has fallen out of their forestry sale where they sold their hardwood assets to get by. At least the family is paid well.
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Antibody-based therapeutic firm Numab reacquired the rights to ND003 from Sucampo AG, a subsidiary of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals. ND003 is a bispecific anti-IL5RxCD3 antibody fragment for the targeted lysis of eosinophils in severe asthma.
Sucampo AG and Numab entered an R&D collaboration back in September of 2011 that gave Sucampo access to Numab's technology for discovering high-affinity antibodies against up to four targets. This past March, Numab announced the selection of an antibody fragment lead as part of that collaboration, which triggered a CHF 3 million ($3.34 million) milestone payment. That antibody fragment was ND003.
ND003 is being developed for topical administration to the lung in patients suffering from severe asthma. "Current marketed or development stage antibody drugs in severe and refractory asthma are given systemically and fail to effectively reach the lung tissue," Urech added. "Based on its targeted and highly potent mechanism of action ND003 is developed to overcome these challenges and is poised to greatly reduce the morbidity and mortality of severe asthma sufferers."
Now, Numab has decided to go it alone with this candidate. "Together with our autoimmune disease program ND007 we now have two potential breakthrough drugs in our pipeline," David Urech, CSO and co-CEO of Numab, said in a statement. ND007, which targets Th17 cells, is being developed to treat chronic inflammatory disorders.
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Cubs vs. Marlins Weekend Preview
Sorry to be so brief—there's an all-block garage sale happening on our street today and I think I just overheard my 13-year-old agreeing to sell our second car.
Saturday: Anibal Sanchez (1-2, 4.13) v. Ted Lilly (2-2, 3.80). Sanchez is making his first career start at Wrigley Field. Lilly was telling Carrie Muskat about his plans to revive the Cubs attack by generating his own offense, by "going deep" and "maybe swipe a couple bags." Sounds like someone is experiencing delusions of grandeur. TLFC—this is your fault!
Sunday: RIcky Nolasco (1-2, 6.92) v. Carlos Zambrano (2-1, 4.64).
Juan Pierre Ricky Nolasco, who has seemed primed to be the Florida ace, won the Marlins' season opener and has gone winless in the four starts since. As for Zambrano, nice of the Cubs to give their ace pinch-hitter an opportunity to try his hand at pitching. Who knows—maybe the guy will have a future on the mound.
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If we lose to someone named Anabelle I am moving to East St. Louis. Oh, wait, it's Anabolic. No, Anibal. Whatever. Is Hoffpauir officially in the Lou doghouse? I haven't had a chance to watch games lately but I haven't seen his name much.
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Hoffpauir had a bad game in right field, and Lee is back so it's back to the bench for him. The facts that he plays a good first base, hits left handed and has an OPS .300 higher than Lee are not important.
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I see he's in right again today. Maybe they should put Lee in right and Hoff at 1st if they really want to compare their worth, although moving Lee off first means the infielders will have to keep the ball out of the dirt on the throw in.
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Ho long until Lou moves Lee out of the 4 hole and plugs in Theriot? I keed...
Go Mighty Midget!!!!!!
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So much for my calling Theriot/Fontenot supersubs. Theriot is now our best hitter.
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Damn right! Check out Fontenot's stats, too. After last night's game, his OPS was higher than Theriot's even though his batting average is not appealing.
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Good. Easy guys to root for. So, the guaranteed way to strike out D Lee is just throw the ball a quarter inch off the dirt. Nice.
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Holy shit. I guess Lilly wasn't kidding about trying to go deep. Now let's see if he steals third.
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Gotta say, I think we've played as well in the last couple of days as we may have all year.
We're playing so well, in fact, that the widget on the right has no way to quantify it. We're null games back as I write this. Next stop is N/A. Then we'll go after undefined. Gotta play 'em one day at a time.
Love the new logo, btw.
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thnx, got to fix the aliasing around the clock and we'll add some green to the rest of the site to make it blend a little better.
There's also a larger version with flags and the whole scoreboard, we're going to throw on some T-shirts.
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nice new logo. Ms. Pinkerton's 3rd grade class did you guys good. How much cookies and milk did that design cost?
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what crawled up your ass?
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nothing...just ragging on the design.
the colors are off scheme, the sesame street-like sign lacks depth, and the clock part is set to background on white only.
don't take it personally...it's the gateway to the site. better than lip-service of how awesome i think it is when i don't think it is.
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there's an alpha channel, it should work on any background although I have to tweak the clock a little, probably need to clear your cache. The colors are off scheme for the time being, but one step at a time.
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Gotta say that you responded better than I would have.
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That was meant for Rob G. Crunch was just kinda dick about it.
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kinda a dick?
nah, im a total dick.
quit disrespecting me, asshat.
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1. Asshats are oddly comfy.
2. No disrespect intended.
3. Your taking it as disrespect was a nice bonus.
4. I like lists.
5. Good to know you are a total dick.
6. You must be what you eat.
7. That'd make me a pussy.
8. No disrespect to Chad.
9. Still glad they released Gabor.
10. I don't trust Hungarians.
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I gain nothing by responding what I'm really thinking on half these posts. :)
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and that's why you got a better rep than Al and his trained attack dogs.
i love you rob...i wanna have your babies.
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What do you gain by responding in a professional manner? I'm curious about the pros and cons. So far for speaking one's mind I've got: Cons: Gain Nothing. Pros: Nothing, because there is nothing to gain.
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go skred really.
go Z pinch hitting for no f'n reason.
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...feeling better today heilman?
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I don't know what Lou would do without Z PH in a game now. This time for absolutely no reason. Oh well, let;s just hope Z doesn't get hurt.
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Having him pinch hit today was just dumb. Nothing to gain there. Why not give Johnson, Bradley, or Koyie Hill the at bat? Or, better yet, let Lilly bat for himself and maybe start the 9th with the possibility of completing the game.
I wanted to see Lilly try to close the game out (though Heilman did just fine).
Great game, though. Last 16 innings or so have been a lot of fun.
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didn't get to watch any of it, but I assume Lilly was as brilliant as his boxscore?
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Probably located better today than in any other start as a Cub that I've watched.
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bleh...coming thur-sun nothing but early (pre-3pm) day games.
in june there's a stretch of 9 games where 10 of them are day games.
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10 out of 9 games is quite a feat.
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i hate you with great intensity.
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Man... even Mrs. Pinkerton's 3rd grade class could do that math...
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Great Win! I'm still cautious but lets hope that this team starts to play like the talent that they actually have.
Some of these guys around the Mendoza line and under are going to have to start to hit and get those averages up.
Lilly looked awesome today and even had a big hit, awesome for him.
Only negative today was Gathright doing something embarrasing again. I do like his speed on the bench but if they do want to make a move for Fox he'd probably be the guy to go.
Lets get 3 out 4 tomorrow!
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heh...riot's improved his slugging like 50 points the past 2 days.
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I like the new logo; as Crunch said, it needs some depth, shadows and palette integration, but the latter can be easily fixed. It's a nice new look for the site.
Lou responds...
"How about if I get run over by a car on the way to the ballpark?" said Piniella, who has a short bench because of injuries. "I've got [Milton] Bradley, who I didn't want to use, and I've got [Aramis] Ramirez, who I don't want to use, so I've got Reed Johnson and [Koyie] Hill. When you're too cautious at times, you're going to get hurt. When you play the game and throw a little bit of caution to the wind, usually nothing happens. You're always taking chances. The fans enjoy watching [Zambrano] come up, too. He sort of gives the fans that finishing touch for a ballgame. You're right, in a way, but as shorthanded as we are, we have to be careful."
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I like Lou, but it was one of the most idiotic things he has ever down and his reponse to a questions was just as nonsensical. And if he is doing things because the fans like it, why the FUCK is Cotts on this team?
I could only imagine what Cubs fans would be saying if Dusty did and said what Lou did.
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lou has said a lot of stupid crap...in the 3rd week of the season he made a comment about how he just found out about gregg's not being able to be warmed and not used that went mostly ignored.
managers say stupid shit...it happens.
luckily, people currently care more about the players than some elderly fat man.
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1. Comparing choosing a PH to making roster decisions
2. Perepetuating the fantasy that there is some huge risk that Zambrano will get hurt while batting.
3. Implying that the manager has some great influence over the roster, after denying that blatantly obvious fact for 4 years.
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I always thought you were just acting like a dumb fuck, but I guess you really weren't acting.
Please show me where I said there is "some huge risk that Zambrano will get hurt while batting". PLEASE!!
This is like the third time I have called you out in the past couple threads for flat out making shit up that I said. Dumb fuck or piss poor reading comprehension? I actually think both!
Re: Lou responds...
Maybe you two should just not respond to each other?
But I have to say, you did seem to imply on a previous thread that having Z take additional ABs as a pinch hitter increased his risk of injury. Telling people that they should go back and memorize your posts isn't reasonable. If that's not what you said, why not tell us what you said? Or, maybe you could assume that it's at least equally possible that you were unclear as that someone consistently misreads what you wrote.
Can't we even get along after a 6-1 victory? Not that this argument is at all baseball related.
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"But I have to say, you did seem to imply on a previous thread that having Z take additional ABs as a pinch hitter increased his risk of injury."
I absolutely did say that having Z take additional ABs as a pinch hitter increased his risk of injury. And that is 100% true. But I DID NOT say that there is "some huge risk that Zambrano will get hurt while batting." Big difference. But The Real Neal would need to have at least a small grasp of reading comprehension to understand that.
"Or, maybe you could assume that it's at least equally possible that you were unclear as that someone consistently misreads what you wrote."
No, I think it is just The Real Neal as mostly I don't have that problem with anyone else.
Hope that clears it up for you Charlie and yes, GO CUBS!!!
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Sorry Manny, I generally don't read your responses. It takes so much effort to print them out and roll them onto those little cardboard tubes to hang next to my toilet.
But I won't play the 'I didn't say those exact words' game with you. You pull that stuff all the time. Everyone who has read your nonsense about Zambrano pinch hitting over the last three days would agree that you are perpetuating the myth, just like I said.
You fail to understand that simply repeating the same stupid idea ad nauseum does not make it true.
about 1:18 in
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Of course you don't want to play that game because you love to put words in peoples mouths and basically lie about what they say. I don't care if you read my posts or not but just don't change or flat out lie about what I said or I will continue to call you out like I have the past couple days to show everyone the crap you are trying to pull, even though I am sure other regulars on here know those silly reindeer games you play.
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I love Z.
He can PH for me anytime. Until he gets hurt, of course.
He is a better hitter than half the team now, and has as much or more power than anyone save two or three of his team-mates.
If he was on another team, we'd be in awe of his talent and wish we'd have him.
You GO Z! Have fun - you deserve it.
Maybe the other millionaires will figure out a way to outhit you regularly so you won't have to embarrass them by PH-ing.
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as long as he's not up there to bunt i don't mind as much...don't like to see him run the bases, though.
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I like to watch Harden run. He seems hella fast. Doesn't seem to have a clue about how to run the bases, but he's fast.
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Hate to bring up a dead horse, but the first Marlin's hit was a gift from the ump at first, and at home plate Lilly would've been even better than his stats with a little league umpire that sees curves AS THEY GO OVER THE PLATE. Plus he was so stiff he struck out Lee with a pitch at Lee's shoulders because the catcher stood up to make a throw on K-Fu's steal.
Lilly had a conversation with the ump later - Len & Bob didn't comment but Ted shoulda had 10-15 less pitches and maybe a complete game if the ump had called that beautiful curve (at various speeds BTW) correctly.
Umpires today=FAIL
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I agree the strike zone was crazy today BUT I actually thought it benefited Lilly and the Cubs hitters. Lilly was closer to the plate and he could kind of get that big curve up there in nintendo fashion and the ump was calling it.
There was one at bat with Hanley Ramirez where that big thing was outside, but Ramriez was just expecting that ump to call it as a strike.
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Very nice. I saw him in Lansing in May. I'm still stunned that he hit a 400-foot foul ball onto Larch Street ... which is going the other way for a right-handed batter. It was perhaps the most amazing swing I've ever seen a minor league player take. I should also mention that it was about 40 degrees out at the time. Not that it's evidence of anything per se, but I feel his plate approach is way more advanced than Soler was at this stage in his development and that the comparisons aren't really fair to Jimenez. 50/50 chance I'll go to Midland tonight for the low-A debut of Oscar de la Cruz.
Eloy Jimenez grand slam tonight. Hoping Soler power returns and gets hot but future looks bright in the outfield regardless.
Finished the night 4-5, with two doubles - 32(!) on the season - along with the grand slam. Sick
Meanwhile, out West:
SF is 2-11 since the break, lead over LA is down to one game, and they are running out Cain and Peavy this weekend against the Nats. Challenging times by the Bay.
Thanks for the updates Phil. Too bad about Frazier.
The Cubs have released RHRP Scott Frazier (2013 7th round dfraft pick - Pepperdine).
A Cubs pitching coach told me in Spring Training 2014 that he thought Frazier had the best pure stuff in the organization. Absolutely electric fastball & breaking ball combo. Other pitchers would gather behind the screen just to watch him throw "live" BP. That's how amazing he was.
Got a chance to see Diamondbacks RHSP Zack Greinke (15-day DL - strained oblique) throw a rehab start at Sloan Park Friday night. Four of the first seven AZL Cubs hitters singled and the Cubs did score an unearned run in the bottom of the 1st inning, but then Greinke got serious and struck out five in a row.
ZACK GREINKE: 3.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R (0 ER), 0 BB, 5 K, 4/0 GO/AO, 49 pitches (34 strikes)
Have fun - It may be good for Arrieta to be facing a team that doesn't know him as well as the NL teams. A nice shutout would do wonders for his confidence. He is confident in public but baseball is hard and he could use a boost, I'm sure.
Me too. I'll be at the game tomorrow and would love to see Good Arrieta.
Last few games have been the April version of the Cubs that disappeared completely the past two months.
Hope they can sustain it.
Don't sell yourself short, Judge.
I love this team.
Looks like Mother Nature is trying to call this fight.
Hey! I remember this team!
The key for Heyward's offense: get early leads. Heard a stat on Mike & Mike on the way to work that his avg/power much better this year when the Cubs have the lead. And true to form he gets the two run dinger with Cubs winning 3-0 ...
I'm sorry - I was probably not looking at the correct line, or spot, or...who knows!
I could blame it on the weed, but I stopped smoking many years ago.
Fortunately, I can rely on the rest of you sober and astute folks to bring the correct info forth.
Oh yeah! It just felt like one for some reason.
Agreed. I was not including Fowler or Heyward.
I'm just not a fan of 2016 Coghlan.....


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Utah has many ties to Japan
SALT LAKE CITY — Utahns learning about the massive earthquake in Japan were reminded Friday of their personal ties with that country.
Google Crisis Response: 2011 Japanese Earthquake
LDS missionaries and members
The church's headquarters in Salt Lake City issued a statement Saturday morning.
"Church leaders confirmed this morning that all missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints serving in Japan are safe and accounted for."
E-mail to church leaders from current Sendai mission President Reid Tateoka indicated the mission president was traveling when the quake hit. "He attempted to go back to Sendai by car, but the roads and bridges are out and the traffic was such that he's not able to get back into Sendai," Elder Grames said. "The electricty is out. The gas is out. The water is out. The situation is really difficult in terms of all of the utilities."
"We have been able to make contact with at least two-thirds of the mission, the missionaries," Elder Grames said. "There are no reports of injuries to any of the missionaries."
In Tokyo, Elder Conan Grames, a Draper resident who is currently a public affairs missionary at the church's area headquarters in Tokyo, described the quake as violent enough to spin the statue of the Angel Moroni atop the Tokyo temple around. "It has turned and is facing another direction, which gives you some feel," he said.
"There was no serious damage here in Tokyo," he said, adding that church leadership in Japan is currently focused on communications and hopes soon to start offering assistance. "We will be manning the phones and office here for the next 48 hours," Grames said.
Utahns in Japan
Salt Lake attorney Jeff Hunt was in Tokyo with a business partner and client and was walking from the jetway onto a plane at Tokyo's Narita International Airport at the moment the earthquake hit.
"I never felt anything so strong. It felt like the worst turbulence you'd ever experienced, but the plane was on the ground. The plane was bouncing around, people were being thrown around and falling down and crying," Hunt said.
The pilot thought it was safer to have people on the plane than in the terminal. "Once we got seated on the plane, there was a massive aftershock," he said. "You could look at the radio and radar towers at the airport. They were just swaying in the wind like corn stalks."
The plane sat on the tarmac for perhaps six hours. "There was no security or escort to get us off the plane." Meanwhile, the airport itself was being evacuated. Once the runway was checked for damage, the plane, bound for Portland, was allowed to take off.
Kami Ishikawa and her husband were in Kobe, Japan, when a devistating earthquake measuring 6.8 hit in 1995. Now she and her family live in Kawasaki, outside Tokyo. She spent much of the day reassuring family from Utah. "As soon as our power went on, I had over 150 e-mails in my inbox and about 80 more just coming up as I was trying to respond to people."
Her oldest daughter's junior high class was talking about earthquakes when the rumbling started. Ishikawa said she expects the longer-term impacts will be minimal compared to those in other parts of Japan.
Layton resident Betty Tart first learned about the earthquake when her daughter Susan called from Hanamaki, Japan, early Friday. "She described the earthquake as like being a doll in a doll house and having a toddler pick it up and shake it."
Susan has been working in Japan as a teacher since 2009. "She's doing OK physically. With an earthquake of that size, even though they were some distance from the epicenter, they really felt it," her mother said.
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European 'Battery' at Risk With Swiss Nuclear Vote
Switzerland, the transmission hub for 25 percent of Europe's electricity, has four nuclear reactors approaching the end of their life. A nationwide referendum now threatens the industry's future.
Utility bills for households and companies will rise and Switzerland's role as a "battery" for the region may be at risk if voters decide in 2013 to ban reactors that provide 39 percent of the country's power supply, according to analysts, including Ralph Schlaepfer of PricewaterhouseCoopers. A non-binding vote in the canton of Bern last month backed a replacement of a nuclear plant by 51 percent.
"It will certainly be very tight," said Thomas Bernauer, a professor of political science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. "The population is almost evenly split and opinion is bound to swing in both directions in the run-up to a referendum."
The current flow of nuclear energy means Switzerland can make profits by trading electricity from its hydro sources with neighbors, including Germany. Without reactors, the Swiss may have to keep their hydroelectric resources all to themselves. That would wipe out 1 billion francs ($1.08 billion) a year of cross-border energy trading earnings and deprive nations such as Italy of ways to balance their power flows.
'Giant Battery'
"Switzerland functions as a giant battery for Europe," said Schlaepfer, the chief energy consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Switzerland AG. Hydro sources currently provide 56 percent of the country's power needs. When demand is low, power prices fall and Switzerland imports electricity to pump water into Alpine reservoirs. As consumption peaks, water is released to generate hydropower that's exported at a profit.
"With the development of big European wind farms around the North Sea, electricity flow has become more erratic," making Europe more dependent on Switzerland's pumped storage to help even out supplies, Schlaepfer said in a phone interview.
About 40 percent of Switzerland's power from hydro sources was sold abroad in 2007 for a profit, according to the Swiss Energy Foundation, a Zurich-based research institute.
Such gains would vanish unless Switzerland builds new nuclear plants, said Manfred Thumann, chief executive officer of Axpo AG, which has holdings in three Swiss nuclear plants.
"Switzerland faces a power supply gap," he said in an interview at his office in Baden. "So far, we've been successful in making sure it hasn't been felt. But in terms of planning tomorrow's production, that gap needs to be filled."
Higher Prices?
Beznau and Muehleberg, the two oldest of Switzerland's four nuclear plants, were completed in 1969 and 1972 and are reaching the end of their lifespan, while long-term electricity import contracts with France are due to be phased out from 2016, according to Axpo.
"When you are forced to go to the market for something you urgently need, you are in the worst position imaginable to pay a reasonable price," Thumann said.
Axpo teamed up with Swiss competitors Alpiq AG and BKW FMB Energie AG in December to make a joint tender for two new atomic plants. BKW estimates they will cost 7 billion francs to 9 billion francs each. There's no guarantee they'll be built.
"A 'yes' vote is crucial because nuclear plants are so important for the country as an Alpine transit nation," Alpiq CEO Giovanni Leonardi said.
Switzerland isn't alone in pondering its nuclear future. Finland is building Europe's first atomic facility in 15 years, while Spain and Germany have extended the so-called runtimes of their plants.
Germany began phasing out nuclear power in 2000 and in November saw protests against the transport of nuclear fuel turn violent at Gorleben when as many as 50,000 people clashed with about 17,000 police. European Union Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has said the disputes in Germany may affect the Swiss referendum.
'Emotional Debate'
"Unfortunately, we have a very emotional debate in Germany," he said on Jan. 10 at an energy conference in Bern. "There will be new nuclear power plants in Europe if there are investors here and I welcome that."
For now, Axpo, Alpiq and BKW FMB are focusing on technical aspects of the project and have invited bids from reactor suppliers.
"We are moving in parallel and waiting for the political decision," Leonardi said. Kurt Rohrbach, chief executive of BKW FMB, said in a January phone interview that the partners' joint project company, Resun AG, held talks with potential builders of two 1,450-megawatt plants including Paris-based Areva SA, the biggest maker of nuclear reactors. He declined to elaborate.
"The scarcest resource for atomic energy in Switzerland is locations," Leonardi said. "No one wants to give up a valuable site."
A "no-vote" in 2013 isn't something Axpo's Thumann wants to think about. "There's no plan B," he said.


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of course he is for her... someone will have to be president when the draft returns...
Nothing Machiavellian about it. Kristol is simply stating fact.
Conservatives think Hillary will be the
easiest Dem to beat in 2008 and will
support her until the day the nomination is secured. Rather like the Stranger endorsing Bush over McCain in the 2000
primaries. Hope Kristol's endorsement works out as well as that one!
@3 yeah sure, Hillary will be easy to beat, I hope they keep telling themselves that and keep giving their endorsement... from my seat it looks more like punt a sucky team makes to avoid actually having to run their own plays. An HRC ticket is the one ticket dems will not defect from.
With the group the Rs have running they need a reason to show up at the polls. Plenty of Rs who wouldn't show up to vote would make to trip to vote against HRC.
I'm guessing that that is his logic. That asshat wouldn't endorse her otherwise.
Agreed with Monkey. The fundies who might otherwise not vote (as the Rep. winner will not be to their liking) will come out to vote against her; many "independents" will also vote against her because they don't like her. Especially if Guiliani gets it. Hillary is the Republicans' best chance.
The fundies are going to do the same if Obama or Edwards or anybody else wins the Nomination.
Maybe they want Hillary to win because it's the only way the GOP isn't going to completely implode i.e. 90s GOP snark rebirth in 2009.
Kristol is 100% partisan hack. @3 is right: If he's advocating for Hillary, it's because he suspects that she will be the easiest candidate for the Republicans to defeat. (He may be wrong, but that is almost certainly what he believes.)
Technically Bill is the Prince of Neocons. His dad is the King.
I thought Satan called Bill Kristol and Traitor Bob Novak home?
Nothing major here. Clinton, Bill, is the most responsible of the current crop of losers the Democrats are putting out there.
Okay, this is Bill fucking Kristol we're talking about here. If he thinks HRC will be the easiest to beat, that means that if we nominate her, she'll be an unstoppable juggernaut that will crush the GOP into a dust so fine it'll be undetectable without an electron scanning microscope. Why? Because like all neo-cons, Bill Kristol is wrong about absolutely everything.
"There's been a certain amount of pop sociology in America ... that the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular."
--BIll Kristol, 2003
What a genius.
Well, Iraq *was* more secular than most of the Arab world. One reason is that they didn't have a sectarian government that organized power according to religious identity, and the government had a secular ideology and waged war on religious radicals. Now, thanks to us, they have a government of sectarians dedicated to killing each other.
The smart policy would have been to continue with the policy of Oil for Food, which despite its mismanagement finally ended the sanctions-related deaths that were common after the 1991 US invasion while still containing Iraq's military ambitions. Then continue to isolate Saddam, while promising redevelopment aid for an Iraqi government ruled by someone else. Iraq would have remained secular, though politically repressive, but there would have been an opening for long-term peaceful reform. The oil wells would have been kept pumping, too.
I still think the administration knew there were no WMD all along, and their fear was that the inspections would prove that, leading to an end of UN resolutions against Iraq and the associated US bombing and sanctions campaign. So they had to start a war before the WMD inspections could be completed.
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