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A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe
Posted on Sep 10, 2011
By Chris Hedges
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The dead in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania were used to sanctify the state's lust for war. To question the rush to war became to dishonor our martyrs. Those of us who knew that the attacks were rooted in the long night of humiliation and suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinians, the imposition of our military bases in the Middle East and in the brutal Arab dictatorships that we funded and supported became apostates. We became defenders of the indefensible. We were apologists, as Christopher Hitchens shouted at me on a stage in Berkeley, "for suicide bombers."
Because few cared to examine our activities in the Muslim world, the attacks became certified as incomprehensible by the state and its lap dogs, the press. Those who carried out the attacks were branded as rising out of a culture and religion that was at best primitive and probably evil. The Quran—although it forbids suicide as well as the murder of women and children—was painted as a manual for fanaticism and terror. The attackers embodied the titanic clash of civilizations, the cosmic battle under way between good and evil, the forces of light and darkness. Images of the planes crashing into the towers and heroic rescuers emerging from the rubble were played and replayed. We were deluged with painful stories of the survivors and victims. The deaths and falling towers became iconographic. The ceremonies of remembrance were skillfully hijacked by the purveyors of war and hatred. They became vehicles to justify doing to others what had been done to us. And as innocents died here, soon other innocents began to die in the Muslim world. A life for a life. Murder for murder. Death for death. Terror for terror.
What was played out in the weeks after the attacks was the old, familiar battle between force and human imagination, between the crude instruments of violence and the capacity for empathy and understanding. Human imagination lost. Coldblooded reason, which does not speak the language of the imagination, won. We began to speak and think in the empty, mindless nationalist clichés about terror that the state handed to us. We became what we abhorred. The deaths were used to justify pre-emptive war, invasion, Shock and Awe, prolonged occupation, targeted assassinations, torture, offshore penal colonies, gunning down families at checkpoints, massive aerial bombardments, drone attacks, missile strikes and the killing of dozens and soon hundreds and then thousands and later tens of thousands and finally hundreds of thousands of innocent people. We produced piles of corpses in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and extended the reach of our killing machine to Yemen and Somalia. And by beatifying our dead, by cementing into the national psyche fear and the imperative of permanent war, and by stoking our collective humiliation, the state carried out crimes, atrocities and killings that dwarfed anything carried out against us on 9/11. The best that force can do is impose order. It can never elicit harmony. And force was justified, and is still justified, by the first dead. Ten years later these dead haunt us like Banquo's ghost.
"It is the first death which infects everyone with the feelings of being threatened," wrote Elias Canetti. "It is impossible to overrate the part played by the first dead man in the kindling of wars. Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. It needs not be anyone of particular importance, and can even be someone quite unknown. Nothing matters except his death; and it must be believed that the enemy is responsible for this. Every possible cause of his death is suppressed except one: his membership of the group to which one belongs oneself."
Square, Site wide
We have still not woken up to whom we have become, to the fatal erosion of domestic and international law and the senseless waste of lives, resources and trillions of dollars to wage wars that ultimately we can never win. We do not see that our own faces have become as contorted as the faces of the demented hijackers who seized the three commercial jetliners a decade ago. We do not grasp that Osama bin Laden's twisted vision of a world of indiscriminate violence and terror has triumphed. The attacks turned us into monsters, grotesque ghouls, sadists and killers who drop bombs on village children and waterboard those we kidnap, strip of their rights and hold for years without due process. We acted before we were able to think. And it is the satanic lust of violence that has us locked in its grip.
As Wordsworth wrote:
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By ides1056, September 11, 2011 at 10:06 am Link to this comment
I waited eight years, holding my breath, finger in the wind waiting for it to change.
We have the best armed emerging proletariat in the world.
I know the man that took the photo, fairly well. He was standing behind Bobby
I am reading your current book with great interest. Thanks, more than I can tell,
By bobglob, September 11, 2011 at 10:03 am Link to this comment
Once again Chris has served up a well crafted literary entrée. It's just hard to maintain an appetite with the steaming pile of shit that comes with it.
By Sylvain Despretz, September 11, 2011 at 9:22 am Link to this comment
Thank you Chris Hedges, for this.
By TMR, September 11, 2011 at 9:14 am Link to this comment
Thank you for your columns. It's greatly appreciated.
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."—Martin Luther King, Jr
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."—Mohandas Gandhi
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."—Mohandas Gandhi
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompentent" Asimov
"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."—Martin Luther King, Jr.
By David, September 11, 2011 at 8:20 am Link to this comment
The 2004 U.S. Senate 9/11 Commission concluded that
In the same year the Pentagon's Defense Science Board
By french man, September 11, 2011 at 7:30 am Link to this comment
To raja1031: Some of the Atheists are as fundamentalists as some flavours of
By lawrence fitton, September 11, 2011 at 7:22 am Link to this comment
imagine a 9/11 everyday. big cheese over here in the shining city on the hill.
By Ken Prazak, September 11, 2011 at 6:48 am Link to this comment
Re: the youtube where Hitchens supposedly leaves Hedges speechless. Garbage. Hedges answers have been edited out. Obviously. Not even a good edit.
By french man, September 11, 2011 at 6:33 am Link to this comment
Chris Hedges, helps us understand what media chooses to publish and why. Media
Sure, there will come a time when there will be no earth let alone humans, but as
By Charles H. Green, September 11, 2011 at 6:26 am Link to this comment
Back in 2006 I wrote about the corrosive effect on our trust of the media
Chris is quite right. We need to see the truth.
By ma77hew, September 11, 2011 at 6:13 am Link to this comment
Oh oh don't break my snow globe view of 9/11, don't make me read why this mind
TIme to grow up folks and really look at reality and challenge your view of HIstory
By myna lee johnstone, September 11, 2011 at 5:29 am Link to this comment
The Falling Man photograph is now a classic.
By bogi666, September 11, 2011 at 5:14 am Link to this comment
Just as the Yiddish proverb advises "choose your enemies well for you will become just like them". That's all that needs to be said,the USG has become just like "them" those we loath.
By Dr Bones, September 11, 2011 at 3:56 am Link to this comment
I posted some key words on other websites and was censored for poor taste….
Project for New American Century, Curve Ball, sexed up intelligence, yellow cake, Joe Wilson & Valerie Plame, mushroom clouds & smoking guns, aluminum tubes, Necons, Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive strike, Pat Tillman, water-boarding, torture, enhanced interrogation methods, Abu Grihab, secret renditions, secret prisons, black sites, Black Water, Fallujah, yellow pete, depleted uranium, impeachment is off the table, time to Look Forward – Not Back, War is Peace, Mission Accomplished.
By mvonballmo, September 11, 2011 at 3:08 am Link to this comment
> who seized the three commercial jetliners a decade ago
It's been ten years, but weren't there *four* jetliners?
By Marian Griffith, September 11, 2011 at 2:49 am Link to this comment
This kind of introspection into your own failures and how, while they by no means justify what is done, might have inspired crimes commited against you requires a certain maturity and, for lack of better word, grandness of spirit.
For a country to look deep into itself, its motivations and its actions without flinching you need somebody to lead it there, a person of unquestioned moral authority who can confront us with the harsh truths about ourselves without triggering the mental self defenses we all erect around ourselves to function in the dichotomy of a morally grey reality and a black and white ideal of it.
And I think that while that state lasts there will be no introspection, and no escape from being easily manipulated by those who know to say the right words to make the population not just do, but fanatically -believe-. I can only hope it will not take world war 3 to get us all out of this state of mindless frenzy.
By MikeB, September 11, 2011 at 1:53 am Link to this comment
"Why does Hedges ALWAYS manage to get a shot in about Hitchens or atheists?"
Because he can't get over the ass-whupping Hitchens gave him during a debate:
By Konundrum, September 11, 2011 at 12:54 am Link to this comment
"We could have built on the profound sympathy and empathy that swept through the world following the attacks. The revulsion over the crimes that took place 10 years ago, including in the Muslim world, where I was working in the weeks and months after 9/11, was nearly universal."
This is right on point, we threw away our chance at diplomacy in the Muslim world, to really make those deaths promote human progress.
By xraymike79, September 11, 2011 at 12:26 am Link to this comment
This is the best essay for the 10th anniversary of 9-11 I have read. Still to this day the MSM paints this tragic event as Hedges describes it—a tool to stoke nationalism and justify our global war on terror.
By raja1031, September 10, 2011 at 11:44 pm Link to this comment
Why does Hedges ALWAYS manage to get a shot in about Hitchens or atheists? It's like he has an itch that just won't go away no matter how hard he scratches.
By Shane, September 10, 2011 at 10:06 pm Link to this comment
Yer an ass for posting this picture.
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Glee Stars Open Up On Lea Michele's Diva Behavior — 'She's Always Ordering Everyone Around!'
Everything may look perfect on the hit show, which brought in a record 12.9 viewers during its Sept. 21 premiere, but behind the scenes the cast is either fighting, hooking up, or trying to lose more weight according to reports!
They sing and dance as if they are the best of friends every Tuesday evening on Fox, but behind the scenes things seem to be spinning out of control on the set of Glee! Star reports that Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes on the show, recently said of Lea Michele's diva behavior, "She's always ordering everyone around, demanding a particular outfit or a particular food at the snack table." Looks like those reports of Lea's inflated ego may have been pretty accurate!
That's not all either! Another source says of Lea, "She bends over backward to make friends with the writers so they'll give her better storylines, but she's so fake."
As for cast relations, Lea, Cory Monteith, and Mark Salling consider themselves the "cool clique" and alienate themselves from Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, and Heather Morris, who refuse to let their new found fame go to their head according to the report. Amber, Chris Colfer, and Naya Rivera meanwhile, "think they're too good for their costars."
Another issue on the set has been Lea and Jenna's recent weight loss. Lea is a vegan and Jenna a vegetarian who are estimated to have lost 30 and 10 lbs. respectively.
Not mentioned much in the article is Dianna Agron, who is looking like she may be the show's true breakout star. Having just wrapped the Steven Spielberg produced I Am Number Four and currently starring in The Romantics alongside Anna Paquin and Katie Holmes, it looks like Dianna may be focusing more on her career and less on the behind the scenes drama of her show!
What do you think about these reports HollywoodLifers?

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Many of us use credit cards that offer CashBack on certain categories of purchases, eg. "office supplies". In trying to find out whether I would get Citicard's 5% CashBack promo on my "electronics stores" purchases (thread here), I learnt that it all depends on whether the store I purchase from has a MCC that categorizes it under "electronics".
You can figure that the same MCC thing would appply when deciding whether you purchased your breakfast from a "food store" or a "restaurant", etc.
Though I still do not know what's the MCC for LenovoOutlet (can someone post if they know?), I've gotten this list of MCC from the IRS website for our future reference, and to help select the card that would provide highest CashBack for purchases from a specific store (depending on the store's MCC).
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0763 Agricultural Cooperative Yes
0780 Landscaping Services Yes
1520 General Contractors Yes
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5812 Eating Places, Restaurants No1.6041-3(c)
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7216 Dry Cleaners Yes
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7230 Barber and Beauty Shops Yes
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7261 Funeral Services, Crematories Yes
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7277 Counseling Services Yes
7278 Buying/Shopping Services Yes
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7297 Massage Parlors Yes
7298 Health and Beauty Spas Yes
7299 Miscellaneous General Services Yes
7311 Advertising Services Yes
7321 Credit Reporting Agencies Yes
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7338 Quick Copy, Repro, and Blueprint Yes
7339 Secretarial Support Services Yes
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7395 Photo Developing Yes
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7511 Truck Stop Yes
7512 Car Rental Agencies Yes
7513 Truck/Utility Trailer Rentals Yes
7519 Recreational Vehicle Rentals Yes
7523 Parking Lots, Garages Yes
7531 Auto Body Repair Shops Yes
7534 Tire Retreading and Repair Yes
7535 Auto Paint Shops Yes
7538 Auto Service Shops Yes
7542 Car Washes Yes
7549 Towing Services Yes
7622 Electronics Repair Shops Yes
7623 A/C, Refrigeration Repair Yes
7629 Small Appliance Repair Yes
7631 Watch/Jewelry Repair Yes
7641 Furniture Repair, Refinishing Yes
7692 Welding Repair Yes
7699 Miscellaneous Repair Shops Yes
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7841 Video Tape Rental Stores Yes
7911 Dance Hall, Studios, Schools Yes
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7929 Bands, Orchestras Yes
7932 Billiard/Pool Establishments Yes
7933 Bowling Alleys Yes
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7991 Tourist Attractions and Exhibits Yes
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7997 Country Clubs Yes
7998 Aquariums Yes
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8021 Dentists, Orthodontists Yes
8031 Osteopaths Yes
8041 Chiropractors Yes
8042 Optometrists, Ophthalmologist Yes
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8062 Hospitals Yes
8071 Medical and Dental Labs Yes
8099 Medical Services Yes
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The magazine claims Rupert Murdoch and his sons Lachlan and James have agreed Ailes should depart, although they don't yet know how or when it will happen
Thiel has financed Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker because, he said, the gossip site too often operates with 'no connection to the public interest'
Adding fuel to the fire, Deng was recently spotted boarding a yacht belonging to Roman Abramovich (a friend of Putin's) in St. Bart's
Economic figures from January are so good, they might not be true. Maybe Bill Morneau doesn't need to borrow all that money after all. (But he probably still will)
Whatever her intentions or those of her intended, Hall's attitude toward marriage — or, at least her attitude decades ago —means that this union may have a chance
Murdoch, 84, the chairman of News Corp., and Hall, 59, who has four children with Mick Jagger, have been dating since late summer
'Ben and Candy Carson terrific,' Murdoch wrote. 'What about a real black President who can properly address the racial divide? And much else'
On Wednesday, Murdoch's 21st Century Fox paid $725 million for 73 per cent control of a partnership with National Geographic's media arm
Canada's Supreme Courters must love it when another case involving the federal government and the Constitution lands on its doorstep. Great, another chance to run the country!
'I said that it was speculation and not to trust reports by people unconnected to The Sun," the tabloid's spokesman said. 'A lot of people are about to look very silly'


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Slattery most recently served as chief quality and compliance officer with MedHOK Healthcare Solutions, LLC, in Tampa, Fla. There she developed business partnerships and provided oversight for clinical, quality and compliance software modules.
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Aug 13, 2007 In the much-anticipated season finale, the last two contestants come face-to-face to with Chef Ramsay to learn which of them he will designate winner of HELL'S KITCHEN. To complete their final challenge, Chef Ramsay brings in some helping hands to staff the dinner service, and tempers blaze as the competing chefs do their best to impress Chef Ramsay. See who survives the pressure cooker and becomes the new head chef at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa and Casino in Las Vegas.
Episode 310
2 Chefs Compete
Aug 6, 2007 It's down to the final stretch as the last two contestants are one dinner service away from being crowned the winner of HELL'S KITCHEN. After overcoming several failed tasks and watching Chef Ramsay eliminate their opponents, the final two face the ultimate test: to design and run their own restaurant. From the menu to the dcor, they must combine cooking skills with creativity and passion to prove their worth to Ramsay.
Episode 309
3 Chefs Compete
Jul 30, 2007 At their next challenge, Chef Ramsay instructs the Top 3 contestants to take a classic American dish and transform it into an entre worthy of fine-dining, noting that special guests of honor will be judging their creations. In one of the most emotional reunions yet, the contestants learn that the greatest home-cooking experts they know their very own mothers have come to HELL'S KITCHEN to vote for their favorite entre. Not knowing who made what, the mothers select a winner, who is treated to a memorable meal. That evening in a critical dinner service, Chef Ramsay informs the chefs that each of them will have a shot at running the kitchen in his place, so that he can separate the cooks from the leaders.
Episode 308
5 Chefs Compete
Jul 23, 2007 With only five chefs remaining in the competition, Chef Ramsay combines them into one team and they celebrate their survival thus far. Chef Ramsay tells the contestants that their next challenge will involve competing head-to-head with individual dishes to impress some very special trendsetters. The contestants are blindfolded and escorted off-site, only to find that the judges-of-honor are 100 hungry and very opinionated high school students. Back in the kitchen, the contestants prepare the restaurant for the upcoming dinner service. That evening, the job goes anything but smoothly as two contestants engage in a heated power struggle. After one too many mistakes, Chef Ramsay loses his patience, and in a fit of rage sends one contestant packing in the middle of dinner service. Then, at a very emotional elimination that evening, Chef Ramsay makes a heartfelt offer to a deserving contestant.
Episode 307
6 Chefs Compete
Jul 16, 2007 After a decisive dinner service and a swift elimination the night before, the remaining six contestants prepare for their next challenge. Chef Ramsay informs them they must turn trays full of leftovers into delectable meals in just 30 minutes, a challenge he always gives his chefs to test their resourcefulness and creativity. It's a mad dash as each team sifts through the leftover ingredients in order to come up with one appetizer and two entrees tasty enough to impress Chef Ramsay. While one team fails to "wow" him, the winning team is elated at the challenge reward when they are given the ultimate chance for revenge on Chef Ramsay. At dinner service that evening, the competition gets serious as each team designs and executes its own original menu.
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Jul 9, 2007 After barely surviving dinner service the previous night, the remaining seven contestants are faced with their next challenge: lobster. Chef Ramsay has given Melissa a new lease on life as a member of the blue team, but the boys may not consider her a welcome addition. Chef Ramsay challenges each team to prepare three appetizing and creative lobster dishes in one hour, noting that they will have to do the dirty work of picking the lobsters from their tanks and killing them. While some contestants jump at the chance, others are wary of killing their crustacean friends. In a very close decision, Chef Ramsay chooses the winning team to accompany him on a glamorous reward, while the losing team is stuck back at Hell's Kitchen with a decidedly less-than-glamorous task. That night at dinner service, the teams go head-to-head to prepare the winning lobster recipes for the customers. When one team has its worst dinner service of the competition thus far, an exasperated Chef Ramsay forces them to decide as a team who will go to the chopping block.
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12 Chefs Compete
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Time Slot: Tuesdays at 8pm
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The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered Monsanto Co.'s ability to control the use of its genetically modified seeds, ruling that companies can block efforts to circumvent patents on self-replicating technologies.
The justices unanimously upheld an $84,456 award Monsanto won in a lawsuit against Vernon Hugh Bowman, an Indiana farmer. Rather than buying herbicide-resistant soybean seeds from a Monsanto-authorized dealer, Bowman used harvested soybeans containing the technology to plant his crops.
"Bowman planted Monsanto's patented soybeans solely to make and market replicas of them, thus depriving the company of the reward patent law provides for the sale of each article," Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court. Kagan rejected Bowman's contention that he wasn't legally responsible for making those replicas, dismissing what she called his "blame-the-bean defense."
The case may affect makers of live vaccines, genetically modified salmon, and bacteria strains used in medical research, potentially helping makers of those products restrict use beyond the first generation. Even so, the court said its ruling was a narrow one that didn't resolve all issues concerning patents on self-replicating technologies.
"We recognize that such inventions are becoming ever more prevalent, complex and diverse," Kagan wrote. "In another case, the article's self-replication might occur outside the purchaser's control. Or it might be a necessary but incidental step in using the item for another purpose."
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The case centered on a technology that has helped make Monsanto the world's largest seed company, with $14.7 billion in annual revenue, as well as a prime target for opponents of genetically modified food.
St. Louis-based Monsanto inserts genes into crops, letting them withstand application of the herbicide Roundup. Farmers who buy so-called Roundup Ready seeds must accept restrictions on their use, agreeing not to save the harvest for planting in a later season.
Monsanto has sued 146 U.S. farmers for saving Roundup Ready soybeans since 1997, winning all 11 cases that went to trial, the company says.
Today's ruling "reflects the court's sensitivity to the importance of patent protection not only for agriculture companies such as Monsanto, but for the basic incentive structure the patent system provides for innovation," the company said in a statement. Monsanto fell 1.2 percent to $106.83 at the close in New York.
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Bowman's lawyer, Mark Walters, said in an e-mail that the ruling "makes infringers out of 95 percent of America's soybean farmers, dependent on the grace of a single company to avoid liability."
For Monsanto, "this is fantastic for their business model," said Patrice Jean, a patent lawyer with Kenyon & Kenyon in New York who has a doctorate in molecular biology. "It solidifies what they can cover and enforce under the patent law. Who wants to have the technology patented and as soon as they sell it, that's it?"
Biotechnology companies, software makers and research universities backed Monsanto in the case. Makers of replacement auto parts and the American Antitrust Institute supported Bowman. The Obama administration largely supported Monsanto.
Bowman sought to get around Monsanto's rules from 1999 to 2007 by buying less-expensive soybeans from a grain elevator. Because the elevator accepted harvests from farmers using Monsanto seeds, the second-generation beans proved to be herbicide-resistant. The farmer says he saved $30,000 for his farm.
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When Monsanto found out about the practice, the company sued Bowman. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the award against Bowman in 2011.
The Supreme Court today rejected Bowman's contention that Monsanto had "exhausted" its patent rights by the time he bought the seed.
The legal principle of patent exhaustion "does not enable Bowman to make additional patented soybeans without Monsanto's permission," Kagan wrote. She said the patent owner "retains an undiminished right to prohibit others from making the thing his patent protects."
That language will help biotechnology companies protect their patented work, Jean said. "It does give a lot of teeth to people who own patents in this area," she said.
Monsanto said before the ruling that a loss would force the seed industry to shift research away from soybeans, canola and wheat -- crops that produce exact replicas of themselves because they are self-pollinating. Grain from hybrid crops such as corn isn't typically replanted because the offspring are less productive.
Genetic traits require an average of $136 million to develop and commercialize, a process that takes 13 years, according to CropLife International, an industry group based in Brussels. Monsanto in 2012 reported $1.51 billion in research and development spending.
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The brazen assault took place in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and comes just a day after a suicide bombing near a mosque in another northwestern town, Hangu, killed at least 26 people. A spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed responsibility and said it was to avenge the death of two Taliban commanders who were killed in US drone strikes.
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Spiro Sports Center • Staten Island, N.Y.
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Play-by-Play: Jim Colony
Color: Jen Tuscano
Social Media: Twitter: @PittWomensHoops; Facebook: Like Pitt Women's Basketball
Series History: Pitt leads, 3-0.
At Pittsburgh: Pitt leads, 2-0.
At Wagner: Pitt leads 1-0.
Last Meeting: Nov. 20, 2012: Pitt 63, Wagner 39
First Meeting: Dec. 30, 2007: Pitt 85, Wagner 41
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• Brianna Kiesel is 24 points away from 1,000 in her career.
• Pitt has dominated the series with Wagner, winning the first three games by an average of 42.3 ppg.
• Asia Logan scored 22 points against Wagner last season at the Petersen Events Center
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - After a three-game homestand, the University of Pittsburgh women's basketball team hits the road this Saturday for a contest at Wagner with tip set for Noon at the Spiro Sports Center.
About the Match-Up:
Each team will look to end losing-streaks as Pitt has dropped its last two games and Wagner its last four. After a 78-43 victory over Mount St. Mary's, Pitt has lost back-to-back games to Buffalo and James Madison. Wagner started the season at 1-1, but has since suffered losses to Iona, Seton Hall, Vermont and VCU.
Brianna Kiesel continues her march towards entering the prestigious 1,000 point club at Pitt. She has scored 976 career points and needs just 24 more heading into Saturday's contest. If Kiesel were to achieve the feat, she would be the 18th player in program history to do so.
Fred Potvin will also look to continue her solid play of late. The Montreal native has scored in double-figures in each of Pitt's last four games and is heating up from behind the arch as well. In her past three outings, Potvin has connected on 11 of her 21 from long range and has raised her scoring average to 7.7 points per game.
Last Time Out:
After a very closely contested first half, the Panthers team was not able to keep pace with James Madison and ultimately dropped a 71-61 decision to the Dukes.
JMU's Toia Giggetts scored a game-high 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting, and CAA Preseason Player of the Year Kirby Burkholder contributed 14 points to send Pitt (4-4) to its second-straight loss. Kiesel scored team-high 15 points for the Panthers, while Potvin joined Kiesel in double-figures with 10.
With JMU up one at 18-17, the Dukes (6-2) reeled off an 8-2 run which was helped by the Panthers who shot 1-of-5 and committed four turnovers during that span. Pitt would regain its balance and scored nine of the final 13 points of the half, including a bucket from Kiesel as time expired.
The first half featured three ties and three lead changes, but JMU took a two point lead into the break at 30-28. Bubbles Anderson scored six of her eight total points in the first half, and also tallied three rebounds, three blocks and two steals in the first 20 minutes.
JMU came out red-hot in the second half, making seven of its first eight shots and stretched a two point halftime lead into 14 point advantage (52-38) when Burkholder nailed a three-pointer with 12 minutes remaining.
The Dukes' lead would swell to 20 with three minutes remaining, but Pitt refused to give up and scored the final 10 points of the game, bringing the final score to 71-61.
James Madison shot 47.6 percent for the game (30-of-63), including 51.5 percent in the second half, while Pitt was 37.9 percent overall (22-of-58). The Panthers were plus-8 on the free throw line, but were out-rebounded 41-34.
Scouting Wagner:
Wagner (1-5) enters the game with Pitt having lost four in a row. The Seahawks have been outscored by 102 points thus far thus far and allow opposing teams to shoot 43.7 percent against them. Of the 11 players on the Seahawks' roster, 10 of them average at least 11.0 minutes per game and Coach Lisa Cermignano has used the same starting lineup every game this year.
Jordyn Peck and Jasmine Nwajei carry the offensive load for the Seahawks. Peck is the team's leading scorer at 17.7 points per game, while Nwajei contributes 13.7 per game. The two have combined to score just about half of Wagner's total points (188 of 378 total points).
Ugo Nwaigwe anchors the defensive efforts, averaging a team-best 7.8 rebounds per contest. She has also blocked 20 shots so far this season (3.3/game).
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In a series dominated by the Panthers, this will be the fourth all-time meeting between the two schools. Pitt is 3-0 and has won each game by an average of 42.3 points.
Saturday's game is the back-end of a home-and-home as Wagner visited Pittsburgh last season on Nov. 20, 2012. The Panthers defeated the Seahawks 63-39 last season at the Petersen Events Center and were led by Asia Logan who poured in 22 points.
Wagner has not managed to score many points against the Panthers in the three previous contests. The Seahawks average 40.3 points against the Pitt and have not scored more than 41 points in any contest. The 98-41 victory for Pitt on Dec. 16, 2008 tied a school record for margin of victory (+57) against a Division I school. They also beat Youngstown State by 57 that year.
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Pitt holds a 44-3 record against teams from the Northeast Conference (NEC). The only three losses to current NEC league members have come to state rival Saint Francis. Wagner will be the second team from the NEC Pitt has faced the season. The Panthers defeated Mount St. Mary's on Nov. 26 by a score of 78-43.
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Mount St. Mary's: 7-0
Robert Morris: 24-0
Sacred Heart: 1-0
Saint Francis University (PA): 7-3
St. Francis (NY): 1-0
Wagner: 3-0
Totals: 44-3
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The Panthers will be off for eight days before hosting Old Dominion on December 15 inside the Petersen Events Center. Tip is set for 2 p.m. against the Lady Monarchs.
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England's group - Pool A - will be completed by two qualifiers, Oceania 1 (probably Fiji) and the play-off winner, possibly Uruguay.
Ireland have landed France, Italy, Americas 1 and Europe 2 in Pool D, while Scotland are in with Pool B rivals South Africa, Samoa, Asia 1 and Americas 2.
The All Blacks, meanwhile, look to have secured the easiest pool, being bracketed alongside Argentina, Tonga, Europe 1 and Africa 1.
The tournament kicks off on September 18, 2015, with Twickenham staging the final six weeks later.
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Wales, World Cup semi-finalists last year, have paid a price for dropping to ninth in the International Rugby Board rankings following successive autumn defeats against Argentina, Samoa, New Zealand and Australia.
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Scotland, whose coach Andy Robinson resigned last month following autumn losses to the All Blacks, South Africa and Tonga, have their work cut out in Pool B.
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I have meaty legs(my legs look like mischa bartons legs), my legs are big compared to the rest of my body and I have a pear shape so no matter how much weight I lose my legs will still be meaty looking i heard of liposuction but how can big calves and ankles be fix through liposuction? there not a lot of fat there
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Liposuction for Calves and Ankles
The answer to your question lies in the percentage of fat that you have in your leg or calf versus the percentage of muscle tissue that you have in the area. If you truly have mostly muscle, which can be determined during a physical exam by your board certified plastic surgeon, then lipo obviously will not diminish muscle mass nor would this be desirable. Lipo is effective in the leg and calf region if you have a significant amount of fatty tissue in these areas. An in-person evaluation will better answer your questions.
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Liposuction is done by specialists for fatty accumulation of the lower legs, calves and ankles. Healing is more prolonged in this location than upper body sites, with swelling lasting up to six months or more. Risks of poor healing are also increased comparatively compared with upper body liposuction because of the differences in blood flow and oxygenation of the lower legs. Some patients have hypertrophic muscles and not enough fat to warrant the procedure, but with an examination of a board-certified physician who performs liposuction a lot on the legs a determination can be made if you are a liposuction candidate.
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But how can big calves and ankles be fix through liposuction
"Meaty" legs can often be corrected with liposuction. I perform a lot of calf and ankle liposculpting, and get excellent results. This area can be deceiving, and typically alot more fat can be removed than what you may think. But you definately need to be evaluated to determine if you are a good candidate.
Liposuction for calves and ankles
I'm not familiar with Mischa Barton but I will Google her to see. I imagine a thick calf and ankle which some call 'cankles' with no definition between the two. Liposuction has been applied to the calf and ankle and you are right, there is not much fat there. Using a slender cannula and care subtle results will show after suctioning, though you must temper your expectations. Without care, dents are common so look for an experienced surgeon who does not give big promises.
Best of luck,
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Have you ever had a conversation that rattles around in your head for days? Maybe, it changed what you thought you knew about the world. Perhaps the ideas or comments did not make any sense. I had a discussion last week and it seemed that logic stood on its head. The means was defined by the end, with no connection to the beginning, or more exactly, the tail wagged the dog.
A skilled, respected physician and I were considering a challenging case. The patient had an unusual problem and the therapy was not obvious. We boiled down the therapeutic possibilities to three. The first choice was a standard, the most used, best-studied treatment. The second was a little radical with a small track record, but had been reviewed in two publications. The third made theoretical sense, but had rarely, if ever, been used to treat this disease and we could find no supporting research.
I was in favor of the first treatment, the old standard. My colleague, who is naturally more aggressive than I, suggested the last, the unproven, despite a lack of data. I said, "But, there is no information, no research, no real proof it could work." To which he countered, "Maybe, but Medicare has approved it and will pay for it."
This is a staggering piece of illogic. It suggests that medicine has evolved to the place that doctors take their lead in making decisions from insurance companies, in this case the federal government's Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Payment "approval" is the same thing as being medically appropriate. This doctor did not say, "Well, I think the third choice is right because it has a real chance to work with the least side effects, and, by the way, I think CMS will pay for it." Rather he said that primary reason to choose a medically questionable treatment is that the government has deemed it worthy, and therefore agreed to lay-out precious dollars.
Ergo; the therapy is right, because government and insurance actuaries can never be wrong and guarantee of payment is the same as guarantee of clinical benefit. Money = cure.
Apparently, this doctor, like many others, has been beaten down so long by the insurance industry's pre-approval process, the constant need to beg an anonymous insurance representative to give that warm and fuzzy "OK" to the doctor's care, that things have gotten flipped in his head. Now, at least some of the time, we do not start with what the patient might need, but what the insurance industry will support, and choose therapy from that restricted list.
Once upon a time, the differential was a list of possible diagnoses, which might explain the patient's symptoms. Then doctors studied the list to determine the actual disease and then, and only then, the physician picked possible therapies. Now the differential is a limited number of the treatments which have been chosen by the insurance industry, possibly because they work and definitely because they are what the corporation, stockholders and taxpayers can afford.
There is a warning here for patients and doctors. If your doctor is recommending a treatment, confirm the logic that lead to the diagnosis and understand the data. Be careful that the therapy is not second best, because the indicated treatment is not on the insurance company's "formulary."
More important, doctors must endeavor to command the logical high ground, based on a system of medical analysis as old as Hypocrites, which is designed to produce the best care. Only when we have made the diagnosis and our recommendation of the best treatment, should we play the insurance game. We must end at the "formulary," not begin, and we must be ready to fight for payment for what is medically necessary and right. If we make our decisions based on solid science, we will eventually prevail. Otherwise, we will find that we are simply dogs, being wagged by our tails.
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At the end of this month, if the government is not made to see reason, that doctor may not be able to afford that patient. The government may not effect another "patch" to postpone cuts to what your colleague will get for treating
Being ready to fight is good, but some of us are sick now.And we're paying for Medicare from our social security. And this patient should be thrilled to have a doctor who even takes Medicare!
Last week a friend recommend a doctor. I called. He,does not take Medicare. I asked my surgeon to suggest another doctor who does. He cannot think of a single one. If the payments to doctors go down, where will we go?
So true….for low income persons this is nothing new…..
But the larger point here is that, to many docs, insurance or insurance fund reimbursement dictates treatment, not medical benefit or need. That is distorted, but a result of insurance administration of the medical-care-for-profit system in the US. That will only deepen with the ACA regulations – aka Obamacare. And this observation is coming from a supporter of universal health care.
Staff at the medical office of my opthalmologist tell me that they could run that office with one person if they did not have to deal with the multiplicity of insurance companies and plans, as well as all those routine delays and denials. Instead they have 3 times that many doing what is necessary, but entirely unproductive work.
This is a rather daring post and I'd tip my hat to you if I wore one. I must agree with the others that things are likely to get worse with ACA.
However, you left out a couple other things that have been taken out of their original context and given additional (reimbursement) importance by both insurers and the government:
Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) = Cure
Standard of Care (SOC) = Cure
Evidence-Based Medicine has been degraded into number of peer review papers and number of participants in clinical trials as a means to strengthen "efficacy" dollars. We've all seen how some of those papers, trials, statistics have been purposely skewed all the way to falsified.
Standard of Care has NO medical definition, only a legal one. I'll never forget the doctor who told us that there was no more he could do because the "standard of care" and the hospital (bureaucracy, aka the insurance company) tied his hands to allow him to do only what the hospital could definitively get reimbursed for.
This is not "a jab" at you but I suspect it won't be long before we can add
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) = Cure
to that list. Then if you don't have EMR, you won't likely get reimbursed. Anything that can be written as an acronym seems to gather far more importance than it should.
Of the three college buddies and I who began our medical school path, "how much money we could likely make" was the driving force for 75% of our quartet. That same 75% were willing to pay others to do their classwork for them.
Kind of soured me on the whole thing.
If I may say, there is an interesting article from last year on one of your links (Kevinmd.com) titled, 'Medical malpractice: Equating standard of care to best practice.' It's worth a read.


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On Tuesday, the British pound managed to extend its losses against the greenback, as Brexit fears persisted, while the Japanese yen lost ground against the US dollar.
On Monday, the British pound dropped to $1.2304, from $1.2348 late in New York. The sterling's loss this month has reached 5%, following worries regarding a potential hit from tough Brexit or a clean break with the EU after Britain's June vote to exit the block.
The United Kingdom faces tax profit losses of £66 billion annually if that tough Brexit turns to be a reality, in accordance with leaked government papers cited in media reports on Tuesday. The given loss would be due to the UK's exit from the EU, reverting to World Trade Organization rules, that would result in a 9.5% sag in the British GDP.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Sophomore forward Alex Guptill (Newmarket, Ontario) of the University of Michigan ice hockey team was named the CCHA Offensive Player of the Week on Monday (Feb. 25).
Guptill registered a four-point weekend with three goals in the Wolverines' weekend sweep (Fri-Sat., Feb. 22-23) of the Ohio State Buckeyes. The sweep marked U-M's first back-to-back road victories of the 2012-13 campaign.
On Saturday night, Guptill scored the game-winner at 5:25 in the third period to record his 11th goal of the season. He also added an assist in the 6-3 win. Guptill tallied two goals during Friday's 5-3 victory, including a power-play marker. He was also named the Perani Cup second star.
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Washington and Lee's 325 acre campus sits at the heart of Lexington and abuts the Virginia Military Institute in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains. The rural campus is approximately 50 miles from Roanoke, Virginia, 140 miles from Richmond, Virginia, and 180 miles from Washington, D.C.
Washington and Lee was founded in 1749 as a small classical school by Scots-Irish Presbyterian pioneers, though the University has never claimed any sectarian affiliation. In 1796, George Washington endowed the struggling academy with a gift of stock. In gratitude, the school was renamed for the first United States President. In 1865, General Robert E. Lee served as president of the college until his death in 1870, prompting the college to be renamed as Washington and Lee University. Washington and Lee is the ninth oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the second oldest in Virginia.
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text: Bjork and director Michel Gondry have resumed their working relationship for this clip of "Crystalline" from the forthcoming Biophilia. It's a typically inventive piece from Gondry, with Bjork stuck in a ball in the sky that zaps light rays at a planet below. At times it's reminiscent of vintage children's TV shows that leaned hard on stop-motion animation, but there's also plenty of digital graphics deployed here as well. The best part of the song and video is that Squarepusher-like breakdown at the end, which causes a blonde dancer to hop across the planet in a series of bubbles. Check it out above.


text: No recent wiki edits to this page. Ultimecia is the main antagonist of the game Final Fantasy VIII. She drives much of the story, albeit from behind the scenes. Throughout much of the game, she merely possesses other sorceresses in order to compress time and return to her own body and rule the world. Ultimecia first came to be by possessing Edea Kramer. Sorceress Edea then became an aide to President Deling of Galbadia, and after killing him, came into power. She used this to her advantage, and after capturing Squall and other SeeD members, she tortured him with Galbadian prisons to find out the true purpose of SeeD.She continues to circle the globe, seeking out all SeeD members, and is eventually taken on by all of Balamb Garden, which is full of SeeDs. Squall and the group take her down, only to discover that it wasn't Edea they needed to worry about, but rather the soul of another, more powerful sorceress by the name of Ultimecia. Ultimecia possesses Rinoa, who tells Seifer to go and help release Lunatic Pandora.She then puts Rinoa into a comatose state, and when the time is right, she uses Rinoa to release the notorious sorceress Adel. This, along with the Lunatic Pandora and Moon in the sky, results in the Lunar Cry, sending hundreds of thousands of creatures onto their world.It is eventually learned that Ultimecia is using a machine from the future to go back in time to possess other sorceresses, all in an effort to get "Time Compression", a melding of all eras of time into one. Taking advantage of this, Squall and the gang slip into Ultimecia's time, and challenge and defeat her.Final Battle:Ultimecia's final battle is divided into 3 stages:The first stage, she is sitting on her throne, hardly giving a care about your attack. You start with a random party, and whenever she kills a character, they get replaced. Eventually you'll have the party you want. Stage 2 she pulls out Squall's beloved friend Griever as a GF, and you must battle him. Upon his "defeat", it's a combination battle with Ultimecia and Griever. Stage 3 comes and it's the final form. Ultimecia's last form, and after so much damage, the lower half of body is revealed. From there she (and you) can use the powerful spell Apocalypse. Defeating this form results in the end of the game.


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March 20, 2014
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Since the final buzzer sounded at 11:41 p.m., on Wednesday in Dayton, the Vols flew to Raleigh and got few a ZZZZs before they prepared to face UMass in the NCAA Tourney Second Round.
It has been a euphoric, yet focused 24 hours since the Vols secured their first NCAA Tournament win in 1,454 days. The Vols landed in North Carolina at 2:45 a.m. and checked into their hotel around 3:45 a.m. After some sleep, it was time to gameplan for the sixth-seed Minutemen. Check out a behind-the-scenes look right here:


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