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In the wake of the Tejpal rape case, some articles and comments in Indian media have propagated certain myths about how "true" rape victims "should" behave. These myths echo depictions of rape in cinema and television, and go something like this:
- rape victims always scream "rape" and display hysterical distress after the assault;
- rape victims always give complete and consistent testimony to the police after the assault.
When one looks at the scientific research on victim responses to sexual assault however, it becomes clear that the expectations that all rape victims "should" behave this way are unfounded. So let's take a look at the research.
The Neurobiology of Sexual Assault
The first resource to see, is this seminar from the U.S. National Institute of Justice (NIJ), titled "The Neurobiology of Sexual Assault". The NIJ is the research and development agency of the U.S. Department of Justice – it improves knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. The seminar is part of a series of seminars on translational criminology, which attempts to guide and improve criminal justice through scientific research. The speaker is Rebecca Campbell, a professor of psychology at Michigan State University, who has conducted research on rape for the past twenty years – in particular on medical, legal and mental systems' responses to rape. The seminar is an hour and a half long (and includes a lengthy Q&A with law enforcement and legal professionals); you can view all the slides along with the audio at the link above, and you can also read the entire written transcript here.
Here are the key research findings she shares during the talk, which are relevant to the above myths. She describes the neurobiology of sexual assault: the hormonal and emotional effects of the assault on the brain. Various hormones come into effect in the victim of a sexual assault – the catecholamines (one of which is adrenaline), cortisol (the "stress hormone"), endogenous opioids (like endorphins), and oxytocin. These hormones affect two parts of the brain: the amygdala, which modulates events that are important for the organism's survival, and the hippocampus, which processes memory. The consequences of this on the victim are:
1) Tonic Immobility, also known as rape-induced paralysis. This is a muscular paralysis experienced by the victim during the assault, and explains why some victims do not fight back. As Dr. Campbell says, (emphasis mine):
The catecholamines are often going to be at very, very high levels during the assault. We talked about how these hormones are very helpful for the fight-or-flight response. On the other hand, we've also hinted at a little bit that those hormones may not be the best things in terms of memory. The other thing that these hormones are not the greatest at is that they impair the circuits in our brain that control rational thought. So the parts of our prefrontal cortex that allow us to do "IF this THEN that" — that's rational thought in simple terms — those circuits literally do not work at their optimal levels when catecholamine levels are high. So a victim under sort of normal levels of catecholamine — meaning not being victimized — might be able to look at a situation and say, "Oh, well of course the rational, logical thing for me to do is this."
The victim literally can't think like that during the assault. The catecholamines have caused structural cellular damage to those circuits. It's not permanent; it's temporary. But at the same time, they can't do that "IF this THEN that" thought. So when they're in the middle of the assault, strategies like "Oh, you coulda, you shoulda, you would have done this" — they can't even think of the options, let alone execute them. So again, kind of a tragic situation where our body is working at cross-purposes. On the one hand, it can help here, and on the other hand it's not going to help the rational thought mechanisms.
[…] And then finally, for some victims, it's the corticosteroids that have dumped out at very high levels and actually reduces the energy available to the body. Now, I've been talking so far about fight-or-flight. It's actually fight, flight, or freeze — that for some victims, they don't fight back. They don't flee the situation. Their body freezes on them because of this hormonal activation by the HPA axis. And it can trigger essentially an entire shutdown in the body. And the technical name for this is tonic immobility. Tonic immobility is often referred to as "rape-induced paralysis." It is an autonomic response, meaning that it's uncontrollable. This is not something a victim decides to do. It is a mammalian response. It is evolutionarily wired into us to protect the survival of the organism. […] Behaviorally, it is marked by increased breathing, eye closure, but the most marked characteristic of tonic immobility is muscular paralysis. A victim in a state of tonic immobility cannot move. She cannot move her hands. She cannot move her arms. She cannot move her legs. She cannot move her torso. She cannot move her head. She is paralyzed in that state of incredible fear.
Research suggests that between 12 and 50 percent of rape victims experience tonic immobility during a sexual assault, and most data suggests that the rate is actually closer to the 50 percent than the 12 percent.
[…] Because they had this reaction, they're afraid of how it's going to be perceived by others, so they're very reluctant to seek help. And when they do come help, it's always there in the back of their mind. They are dreading that question "What did you do?" Because their answer is one that they don't think anybody's going to understand and quite frankly they don't understand, because their answer is "I did nothing. I couldn't do anything. I just laid there." When people disclose tonic immobility, when victims disclose it, family, friends and service providers often react very negatively to this. You got the, "Well you must have wanted it, because you just laid there. You coulda, woulda [skips] something." They can't. Remember, it's an autonomic mammalian response wired into our brains to protect the survival of the organism. So it can be helpful to try to explain tonic immobility and normalize this. Fight, flight, or freeze.
2) The victims' emotional response after the assault is not always "hysterical" and "upset":
Opiates released in very, very high levels during sexual assault, again blocking the physical pain, the emotional pain. But morphine — if any of you have had major surgery — morphine's not sensitive to subtleties. It's out. It blocks the pain. So the affect that a victim might be communicating during the assault and afterward may be very flat, incredibly monotone — like seeing no emotional reaction, which again sometimes can seem counterintuitive to both the victim and other people. It's like "This was a horrible traumatic event. Why aren't you showing these kinds of emotions?" Opiate morphine is not letting it come through. It has been blunted.
[…] These neurobiological changes can lead to very flat affect, that sort of bluntness or what appears to them to be strange emotions, or huge emotional swings that over the course of the interview you can see them high, you can see them low, you can see them somewhere in between. And you can see that all unfold in a span of about 90 seconds or less. And then the cycle will repeat.
So the behavior that they see is due to a hormonal soup. Remember how we talked about how those hormones can sometimes even be working at cross-purposes. Which hormones are released at which levels? We don't know yet. We don't have data on that, but we know that there's a lot — that those are the four main ones that are being released and that they can kind of put the body at cross-purposes. So what is often interpreted as a victim being cavalier because she's just sitting there or interpreted as lying because she seems so cavalier and not upset about it, is very likely attributable to the opiate levels in her body, because those will be released at the time of the assault and they can stay very elevated for 96 hours post assault. So the key thing that practitioners need to know is that there is, in fact, a wide reaction of emotional reactions to sexual assault, and it can be helpful to normalize those reactions for victims, because they don't understand why they're behaving that way either.
3) Memory consolidation and recall is difficult for victims. The encoding and consolidation of a sexual assault into memory happens in a fragmented way. There might be several gaps in memory too, particularly if the victim was assaulted while under the influence of alcohol.
That's why memory can be slow and difficult — because the encoding and the consolidation went down in a fragmented way. It went down on little tiny post-it notes and they were put in all different places in the mind. And you have to sort through all of it, and it's not well-organized, because remember I told you to put some of them in folders that had nothing to do with this. I told you to put one in the pencil jar. It's not where it's supposed to be. It takes a while to find all the pieces and put them together. So that's why victims, when they're trying to talk about this assault, it comes out slow and difficult.
But the question everybody wants to know about is the accuracy of that information, okay. And what we know from the research is that the laying down of that memory is accurate and the recall of it is accurate. So what gets written on the post-it notes — accurate. The storage of it is disorganized and fragmented.
However, there is an exception — alcohol. If the victim was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the assault, the encoding process might not have happened at all or in any degree of accuracy. I think in a group of this size all 21 and over, we can appreciate that alcohol impairs encoding across the board — not just for traumatic events, for a lot of events. So if you have a traumatic event that occurred under the context of alcohol, the information might not have been encoded, and it may not be consolidated, and it may not be transferred into long-term memory. So for victims who are assaulted under the influence of alcohol, they may not have anything to retrieve. So to speak, their post-it notes are just blank. They may not have it, okay? But for those who are able to remember it, either in pieces and parts, it does go in accurately, it does come out accurately, but it comes out slow, steady, fragmented and disorganized.
[…] How are law enforcement and prosecutors trained to handle something that looks fragmented and sketchy? They're trained to believe that that is something that is not truthful, and their job is to hone in on it and look at it from multiple points of views and keep cycling back on it to try to ferret out what is true and what is false. And again, they interpret this victim's behavior as evasiveness or lying. And again, what it really is, most often, is that the victim is having difficulty accessing the memories. Again, the content of the memory the research tell us very clearly is accurate. It's just going to take some time and patience for it to come together.
Victim Responses to Sexual Assault: Counterintuitive or Simply Adaptive?
Here's a second resource on the subject: the publication Victim Responses to Sexual Assault: Counterintuitive or Simply Adaptive? by the U.S. National District Attorneys Association. Again it examines responses to sexual victimisation, and how these responses appear "counterintuitive" to the general public. The authors are careful to explain what they mean by that term:
The term "counterintuitive" is used to explain how a juror may perceive a victim's behavior and not the behavior itself. For local and state prosecutors involved in sexual assault cases, it is important to remember that labeling these certain victim behaviors for members of a jury as "counterintuitive" reinforces the notion that there is an appropriate or "normal" way to behave after a sexual assault and that anything outside the realm of a presupposed reaction is somehow inappropriate or abnormal.
The authors go on to present research on (1) how victims cope with sexual victimisation, (2) the variability in victim responses, and (3) rape myth acceptance.
The need of the day is for us to educate ourselves and others about these myths. As Campbell points out, the widespread ignorance about these issues is partly responsible for the secondary victimisation of rape survivors. The police and prosecutors themselves have misconceptions about victim behaviour, which leads them to not believe the victims' story. In fact, many rape survivors themselves are not aware of these facts, and as a result end up feeling guilty or blaming themselves. Here's Campbell again, quoting one of many emails she receives from rape survivors:
"I cannot believe I am reading this article. After years of blaming myself, questioning myself, feeling tormented, I now understand why I froze every time I was assaulted. It now has a name. I don't have to wonder why or what's wrong with me or why didn't I do anything. I can't tell you how much relief this article brings me. You must know how much your website and your work helps those of us who have suffered in silent torment and agony. You give us a voice. You give us compassion. You give us strength and hope. There are no words to express the gratitude I feel."
Related post: How Rapists Manipulate Their Victims


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Sen. Stephen Saland of Poughkeepsie on Monday won the long count from the Sept. 13 Republican primary by a 107-vote margin of about 9,800 votes cast, said Dutchess County elections official Erik Haight. He defeated Neil DiCarlo in the Hudson Valley District.
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Jay Beagle scored with 1.3 seconds remaining and the Capitals rallied to beat the Hurricanes 4-3 on Friday night.
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NOTES: Aho has goals in three straight games, and Staal has points in four straight. ... The Hurricanes recalled C Lucas Wallmark from their AHL affiliate in Charlotte to replace Pesce. ... RW Lee Stempniak made his season debut for Carolina. He missed the first half of the season with an upper-body injury. ... Washington recalled C Travis Boyd from its AHL affiliate in Hershey, but he was scratched.
Capitals: After their week off, they visit New Jersey on Jan. 18.
Hurricanes: Wrap up a two-game homestand against Calgary on Sunday.
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Last week, Williams created a stir when one of her Tweets complained about a 'new rule' in the locker room regarding no food. Wimbledon officials went on the address the situation, but it marked one of the first times in the tennis world that Twitter has been used a means of unofficial communication, giving the social networking site even more power on the web.
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But he wasn't supposed to get sick the day after. He was throwing up and had a fever that came out of nowhere.
Was it because of me? Is he no longer HIV negative?
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I think my husband is expecting to one day have it. He initially thought he gave it to me, until his blood work came back.
He is always sick; I never am. Before my diagnosis he always had a cold, a sore throat, the flu.
The last time I was really sick was when I had mono back in the spring of 2007. I've only been sick once after that and that was in the hospital when I had our son in July of 2010. Does my body fight off everything and that's why I'm never sick?
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We have gotten over the fear of touching each other. Not sure if every mixed-status couple goes through this. I'm not sure how you single people do it. I have a hard enough time making a move on my husband who I have known most of my life.
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OP-ED: Rape as Collateral Damage
But what is sexual battery if not forcible sex? The fine line drawn between 30 days and life may have less to do with the action being alleged than with the persuasiveness of the allegation, the prosecutor's confidence of winning a conviction, the schedule and budget of the court, the desire of the accuser or victim to participate in a trial, etc.
If the man was guilty, his penalty seems too light, the lack of a trial seems wrong, and some creative restorative justice seems in order. Little has been done to aid the victim or heal the community.
It is entirely possible that he was entirely innocent. People plead to 30-day sentences in our legal system to avoid a risk of life in prison (including the possibility of becoming a serial rape victim while in prison) all the time. Had the threat been five years rather than "five-years-to-life," an innocent man might have been more likely to risk a trial to declare his innocence.
If this man was innocent, his penalty is of course too great. Any penalty would be too great. And the lack of any charges against his false accuser would be a miscarriage of justice.
I have no way of knowing which direction our justice system misfired in this case. I know only that it compromised, choosing to lessen the harm done, but aware of necessarily doing harm. And I can think of many ways the system might be improved.
At the same time, I'm aware that there are systems in the world immeasurably worse. There is no system that imprisons people at the rate the United States does, including largely for nonviolent and victimless crimes. But there are epidemics of rape, of gang rape, of rape and torture, of rape and murder. There are epidemics of rape in societies in which no man can be punished in any way, but in which a woman known to have been raped is herself punished, along with her family, along with her children -- children who grow up seeing only one path to an existence of reduced shame and humiliation: the path of becoming a soldier in the war that produced the epidemic of rape. And there are echoes of all of this in our own society.
Such horrific situations are described in Ann Jones' book, War Is Not Over When It's Over: Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War. They lead her to an interesting conclusion:
"One stronghold of the battered women's movement -- in Maryland, if I remember rightly -- distributed T-shirts bearing the words WORLD PEACE BEGINS AT HOME. I believed it. Raise up children in peaceful homes free of violence, I thought, and they will make peace. But now, having spent the last many years in and around wars, I think the motto is painfully idealistic. The relationship it describes is reciprocal, but not fair. World peace may begin at home, but violence just as surely begins in war; and war does not end."
Jones documents the use of rape in war and its continuation after the announced end of wars, including its adoption by civilian men who did not participate in the war. The rapes that Jones describes are often viciously brutal and sometimes deadly. The physical injuries are severe and lasting, including the inability to sit or to walk, internal bleeding, miscarriages, and sexually transmitted diseases. And then there is the mental damage, the societal damage, and the economic damage.
Jones takes her readers to Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burmese refugees in Thailand, and Iraqi refugees in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Liberia was founded by former U.S. slaves who, Jones writes, brought to Africa "a few of America's worst features: elitism, discrimination, forced labor, religiosity, and a penchant for violence."* Liberia's modern history has been no happier. The World Health Organization in 2005 estimated that 90 percent of Liberian women had suffered physical or sexual violence and 75 percent had been raped.
Following war in the DRC, teachers, pastors, and fathers took up the practice of rape. The same pattern was found in Liberia and Sierra Leone, where horrors unknown or rare before war (civilian rape, child rape, gang rape) became normal. In the DRC, Jones observed a vicious cycle. Husbands abandon raped wives, sometimes departing the village out of shame; so raped wives without visible injuries try to conceal the rape from their husbands. Women are afraid to go outside for wood or water or to work in their fields (much as female U.S. soldiers in Iraq were so afraid of male U.S. soldiers that they would not venture outside to the bathrooms at night). With no crops to sell, women have no money, and their children cannot go to school without money to pay for it. Girls are also afraid to go to school where they may be raped. With nothing left, women and girls turn to prostitution while men turn to the military. A local famine develops, and women are afraid to make the trip to a hospital when ill; so people begin to die from diarrhea, pneumonia, or malaria. A study found 5.4 million "excess deaths" in the DRC between 1998 and 2007, 2.1 million of them after the war "ended."
Good news in war reporting is not always accurate. In 2007 (and right up to this moment with no let-up in sight) USians heard of a successful "surge" in Iraq. Iraqis saw increased civilian death and displacement, increased sectarian segregation, and a surging population of refugees. That war created what the United Nations High Commission for Refugees calls "the most significant displacement in the Middle East" since the Nakba. Iraq now confronts a situation in which millions of its citizens have fled and a million of its women are widows:
"There is more than one way to lose a husband. Illness, accident, assassination, murder, warfare. Rape is another. Many women lose their husbands to rape. How many thousands of Iraqi women and girls have been raped is impossible to know; but rape is commonplace. Of 4,516 cases of sexual violence in Iraq reported to UNHCR in Jordan, women were the victims in 4,233 cases; and for each reported case, there are countless others."
Iraqi men lost their houses, their land, their status, and their self respect. As refugee families in neighboring nations, Iraqis rely on women to make a living. One way in which men try to reassert their authority is domestic violence.
Jones didn't just visit war-torn areas. She brought there something that the U.S. and other western governments would never think to send. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail; and when all you spend money on is soldiers and missiles, you imagine those tools capable of things they are not suited to. Jones brought with her a different tool: photography lessons.
Jones gave women who had never seen a camera or a photograph, cameras and memory chips and lessons in using them. The women did not recoil in superstitious horror. They became artists, activists, and empowered members of communities that until that moment had treated women as objects to be owned.
"Prudence in Zokoguhe photographed a man beating his wife with a broom. Martine in Zokoguhe photographed a woman landing in the dirt face-first and the man who had thrown her to the ground. Jeanette in Koupela-Tenkodoko photographed a man beating his wife with a stick."
Change began swiftly.
"One woman reported that her husband, who had never before shared the proceeds from the family field, now proposed to give a little something to his photographer wife. Another reported that her husband, who had never before provided money for a sick child's medicine, rode his bike all the way to the health center to make sure that his photographer wife and child, who had gone ahead on foot, were being served by the pharmacy. Another told of her neighbor, an habitual wife beater, never deterred by others who tried to intervene. When she threatened to fetch her camera, he stopped hitting his wife and ran away."
Women showed their photographs in a public meeting. Never having spoken in public before, women took over the meeting. The village chief took their side and followed their lead. They began participating in writing laws to stop the violence in their village.
Jones collected her cameras to take them to another country, and by that time the women no longer needed them. But wouldn't it be nice if they could keep them? With a $1.3 trillion military budget in the United States alone, you'd think we could afford a few cameras that actually accomplish things that missiles and soldiers are falsely advertised as accomplishing. In fact, I don't just want to give women cameras. I want to give them websites.
Jones is an advocate for making women part of peace negotiations, part of government. Give women power and rights, and things will improve, Jones believes. And she's right, of course, up to a point. But the notion of "no justice, no peace" has to be reversed. Without peace we cannot build justice. We must end the wars. HOME VIOLENCE BEGINS IN WAR.
We must keep our priorities straight as critics soften their complaints with the pro-torture and pro-murder movie Zero Dark Thirty in part because it was made by a woman, and as a pro-war woman named Hillary Clinton positions herself to run for a presidential office that has been given single-handed power of life and death over great masses of human beings.
* Jones is wrong, I believe, that the first African-American settlers arrived in Africa in 1822, since a group sailed from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone in 1792 including slaves who had escaped to fight for the British, including a man formerly owned by George Washington.* * *
David Swanson's books include "War Is A Lie." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works forhttp://rootsaction.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and FaceBook.//


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Planned by the Lafayette Youth Advisory Committee in partnership with the University of Colorado's Public Achievement program, the event will commence with a March for Peace starting at noon at the northwest corner of W. Waneka Parkway and Public Road. Community members are encouraged to arrive by 11:45 a.m.; the first 250 community members to arrive will receive a free event T-shirt.
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Kurt Busch Finishes 36th at Martinsville
October 20, 2008
"Just a total bummer day," Busch said in describing his eventful encounter with this tough old .526-mile flat asphalt bullring.
"Two out of the last three races, we've had part failures and the one race we didn't, we finished in the top-five...that's pretty much a statement for our season," Busch said. "Today, it was the right rear brake system. I don't know exactly what happened, but something in the bleeder was off when we pitted. I felt the brakes get really spongy and when we pitted, fluid was spewing everywhere.
"NASCAR wouldn't allow us to cap off the line and sent us to the garage to repair it before we could go back onto the track," Busch continued. "So we looked at the rest of the race as a test session trying big changes.
"Like a lot of guys, we had right-front tires problems. I popped two right-front tires and had to pit under green twice. That just drove the dagger through the heart as far as today's race goes. The way the fronts (tires) were popping, I was ready to park it after the second time. We were probably running too much camber as usual."
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Only a few laps earlier, Busch had reported that he felt potential brake problems coming on. Brake issues surfaced during the team's pit stop under the yellow on Lap 63.
When the Miller Lite Dodge came to rest in the pit box, smoke billowed from the right-rear wheel area. It was determined that brake fluid was spraying freely.
Historically, teams could temporarily remedy such a situation by "capping off" the line and rely on three-quarter braking power. But in NASCAR's effort to increase safety, Busch was relegated to the garage to fully repair the right-rear braking components.
After the repairs were made, Busch returned to the action running nine laps down to the leaders. Little did he know at the time that his problems here today were far from being over.
The strategy had turned to trying to utilize the remainder of the race as a huge test session, with Busch suggesting the team try "major changes to really learn some things."
So, instead of "half-pound" and "half-round" changes, the adjustments were two whole pounds and two whole rounds.
After a Lap 105 spin saw Busch go around without making any contact, the flat-spotted tires forced the team to pit for four fresh Goodyears on Lap 119 under the fifth caution period of the race.
Several competitors, including brother Kyle, had already experienced problems with their right-front tires, when the first of two "popped" tires hit Busch on Lap 349. The team lost an additional three laps then.
Newman had right-front tire problems only a handful of laps later. When the No. 2 Dodge lost another right-front tire with 100 laps remaining and was forced to pit yet again, safety concerns saw crew chief Pat Tryson pledge to run no more than 40 laps in between tire changes due a possible "over-cambering" setup.
Three cautions during the final 30 laps kept the 13 cars remaining on the lead lap bunched up and, at the end, forced a green-white-checkered finish.
Jimmie Johnson had shown to have the strongest car for the majority of the race. At the end, he emerged with a 0.708-second win over runner-up Dale Earnhardt Jr. Carl Edwards finished third, with Jeff Gordon fourth and Denny Hamlin fifth. Casey Mears, Kevin Harvick, Matt Kenseth, Clint Bowyer and Martin Truex Jr. rounded out today's top-10 finishers. Brian Vickers, Greg Biffle and David Ragan were the other drivers on the lead lap at the finish.
Busch completed 470 (of the 504) laps and was credited with a 36th-place finish. Newman was the highest-finishing Penske driver, taking the 23rd and completing 501 laps. Rookie Sam Hornish Jr. finished 34th, completing 473 laps.
The Miller Lite Dodge driver maintained the 18th spot in driver points after today's race. With 3,231 points, Busch trails 13th-place Ragan by 571 points and is 181 points behind 15th-place Vickers. He is currently 73 points ahead of 19th-place Jamie McMurray.
As for the Chase for the NASCAR Championship, here's how the points shape up with only four races remaining:
UNOFFICIAL Chase Driver Points Standings [after Martinsville race 32 of 36]:
1) #48-Jimmie Johnson 6073 [6 wins]
2) #16-Greg Biffle 5924 -149 [2 wins]
3) #31-Jeff Burton 5921 -152 [2 wins]
4) #99-Carl Edwards 5875 -198 [6 wins]
5) #07-Clint Bowyer 5831 -242 [1 win]
6) #29-Kevin Harvick 5817 -256
7) #24-Jeff Gordon 5798 -275
8) #20-Tony Stewart 5735 -338 [1 win]
9) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. 5694 -379 [1 win]
10) #17-Matt Kenseth 5665 -408
11) #11-Denny Hamlin 5653 -420 [1 win]
12) #18-Kyle Busch 5628 -445 [8 wins]
The NASCAR Sprint Cup tour now heads back to the lightning-fast Atlanta Motor Speedway for next weekend's running of the Pep Boys Auto 500. The 500-mile/325-lap battle is scheduled to start at 2:00 p.m. EDT next Sunday and features live coverage by ABC-TV and PRN Radio.


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West Coast states and BC to link climate policies
Mon., Oct. 28, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO — The governors of Western U.S. states and a Canadian province will announce a partnership to collectively combat climate change and promote clean energy.
Governors of California, Oregon, Washington and the premier of British Columbia on Monday will announce the partnership at an event in San Francisco. Few specifics were available.
Gov. Jerry Brown's office said the states and Canada will formally align climate policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles and industrial sources.
The deal stems from the Pacific Coast Collaborative, a group meant to organize climate change and clean energy policies. It links together economies with a combined GDP of $2.8 trillion, the fifth largest in the world, according to Brown's office.
The news conference is scheduled for 4 p.m.
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| February 23, 2010, 12:21 pm
If you're not watching Stephen Colbert's sendup of NBC's jingoistic, xenophobic approach to the Olympics, you're missing a fun part of the Games.
Due to copyright restrictions and out of fear of being sued by NBC, Colbert is calling his effort: "THE COLBERT REPORT" EXCLUSIVE VANCOUVERAGE OF THE 2010 QUADRENNIAL COLD WEATHER ATHLETIC COMPETITION.
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Every year thousands of new movies are released, old favourites are replayed, obscure indies capture our hearts, movies that we once knew are updated until they're unrecognisable. We're fickle but we believe Classics never go out of style. MMOs haven't quite gotten popular enough to spawn their own sub-genre of films, apart from the odd fan project or the long-rumored World of Warcraft flick. That doesn't mean that we're lacking good movie role models for our hobby, however. I think that there are plenty of films that are perfectly suited for the MMO fan, even if they've never been thought of as such.
So here are 10 films that speak to us as gamers. To make things interesting, I excluded any movie that shares the same IP as an MMO. Read this list and let me know what you would pick!
1. Tron Legacy
Tron Legacy and its forefather Tron are good-looking if somewhat below-average films that explore a secret world that lives inside computers. Hey, this started back in 1982 when computers were barely understood by the public, so for all anyone knew, little people could have actually formed a society inside the gigantic metal boxes that perched on our desks.
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
You might be thinking that I picked this film because of how prevalent Asian MMOs are in the genre. And sure, you'd have a point, but I like to think of this as a multi-layered selection. CTHD shows off the fluid beauty of physics-defying movement and fighting, both of which are staples of MMOs.
3. Weird Science
At first glance, John Hughes' wacky sci-fi/teen comedy Weird Science may not seem appropriate for this list, but it's the character of Lisa I think merits inclusion. The creation of a virtual persona — our character, our toon, or our avatar — reflects our personal wants, desires, and fantasies.
4. In the Mouth of Madness
MMOs have an interesting relationship with horror that I'd like to explore more in depth at a later juncture. Suffice it to say, I'm including this particular Lovecraft-esque flick because it does the same thing that scary games attempt to do: draw us in, blur the lines of reality, and then mess with our heads.
5. Battle Royale
Battle Royale takes a class full of teens, puts them on an island, and makes them fight to the death.
6. The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride nominally a fantasy, and not only does it poke great fun at romantic tropes ,but it also injects a lot of humor into its setting.
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World represents a complete blurring of games with reality.
8. Cube
This might be the least-known film on this list, but it's definitely worth your time. Cube is an interesting sci-fi/thriller in which strangers wake up in a prison made of interlocking cubes. Some of the cubes contain deadly traps, and there's an urgency to find the exit before one starves or dies of thirst.
9. The Wizard of Oz
If I had to point to a movie to be a complete representation of all that is MMOs, it would have to be the Wizard of Oz.
10. The Care Bears Movie
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Senate hearing blasts Obama's refusal to share details of drone program
Democratic and Republican senators joined a former deputy chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday in urging the Obama administration to make public more information about its top-secret targeted killing program amid questions about the legality and effectiveness of hundreds of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan and elsewhere.
"More transparency is needed to maintain the support of the American people and the international community" for drone strikes, said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., a key Obama ally and the chairman of the Constitution subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The White House refused to send a witness to the Senate's first open hearing on the issue despite President Barack Obama's vow to be more forthcoming about a counterterrorism weapon that has become a despised symbol of U.S. foreign policy in many parts of the world.
"I am disappointed that the administration declined to provide witnesses to testify at today's hearing," Durbin said. His frustration was echoed by several other Democrats and Republicans.
The hearing came nearly 12 years after the United States launched its first drone strike, underscoring what some legal scholars and civil and human rights experts have criticized as insufficient oversight by Congress.
But the killings of four U.S. citizens – three of them accidentally – in Yemen and Obama's appointment of John Brennan, his former counterterrorism chief and overseer of the targeted killing program, to head the CIA have increased pressure on lawmakers to examine the use of drones in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya.
The program remains shrouded in secrecy. The administration insists that civilian casualties have been "exceedingly rare" despite a huge expansion in strikes under Obama. Independent studies put the number of strikes since 2001 at more than 360 and estimate that as many as 3,533 people, including up to 884 civilians, have died, the vast majority in CIA operations in Pakistan's tribal area.
Earlier this month, McClatchy published a review of top-secret U.S. intelligence reports showing that at their height in 2010-2011, scores of CIA drone strikes killed hundreds of unidentified lower-level Afghan, Pakistani and "other" militants in Pakistan. The finding contrasts with the administration's assertion that it targets only known "senior operational leaders" of al Qaida and associated groups involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks who are plotting "imminent" violent attacks on the United States.
In his opening statement, Durbin noted that the Constitution gives Obama the "unique responsibility to protect and defend our country." His authority to do so, however, is based on the rule of law, "which has been abused during times of war," Durbin said, an apparent reference to Bush administration detainee interrogation methods that many experts consider torture.
Moreover, while the CIA's use of drones against al Qaida and other terrorist targets in remote locations has made targeted killing "less costly" because U.S. troops don't have to be employed, "there are long-term consequences, especially when these airstrikes kill innocent civilians."
"That's why many in the national security community are concerned that we may undermine our counterterrorism efforts if we do not carefully measure the benefits and costs of targeted killing," Durbin said – a reference to concerns that civilian casualties have helped militant groups recruit new members.
Farea al Muslimi, a U.S.-educated activist from Yemen, testified that drone strikes have killed many civilians in his country, aiding al Qaida's regional affiliate, al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, by appearing to affirm its propaganda that the United States is waging war against ordinary Yemenis.
"The drones have simply made more mistakes than AQAP has ever done," he said.
Durbin called on the administration to make public more details about "its legal authority to engage in targeted killing and the internal checks and balances involved in U.S. drone strikes."
The administration also should work with Congress to address "serious and challenging questions," he said. Those should include how it determines when an American citizen can be targeted, the basis for drone strikes in areas that aren't active battlefields, and the "moral and legal responsibilities" that the United States might have for confirming civilian casualties and compensating their families.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a tea party-backed freshman, said he worried that drone attacks had eliminated terrorists who, had then been captured and interrogated, could have provided "actionable intelligence" on plots to attack the United States. He said that "the real scope of this hearing and of the concern is on the scope of federal power."
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., an Air Force Reserve officer, said he supported bringing more transparency to the targeted killing program, but he opposed a proposal by some legal scholars and lawmakers for the creation of a special court to approve targeting decisions before they could be implemented.
"If you want to talk about transparency, count me in," said Graham, who added that when it comes to allowing "a bunch of unelected judges" to make such "wartime" decisions, "count me out."
In limited public statements and a leaked Justice Department white paper, the administration insists that drone strikes comply with U.S. and international laws, including the laws of war. Moreover, the administration contends that the strikes are justified by an "inherent right of self-defense" and a congressional resolution passed after the 9/11 attacks that authorized the president to use lethal force to fight al Qaida and associated groups that aided in the attacks.
Retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 2007 to August 2011, said that drones are an effective and accurate method for eliminating dangerous terrorists. But he said that he's worried that the administration's refusal to disclose the legal basis and detailed procedures for how targets are identified away from active battlefields have cost the United States "the moral high ground."
In his prepared remarks, Cartwright said that "legitimate questions remain about the use, authorities and oversight of armed drone activities" away from active battlefields.
"We should now ask: Are the use, authority and oversight protocols actually providing us with the safeguards we want?" asked Cartwright, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from August 2007 to August 2011.
Cartwright called on Obama to establish a government task force to evaluate secret drone strikes, including the extent of civilian casualties and their impacts on communities; the effectiveness of precautions used to avert such casualties; and the means by which the results of strikes are assessed. An unclassified version of the task force's final report should be made public, he said.
Cartwright said the CIA also should publicly acknowledge its role in drone operations outside Afghanistan, establish procedures for declassifying information on those operations after they're over, and provide information to Congress on the impact of drone strikes on civilians.
Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University Law Center professor who served as a Pentagon adviser during the height of the drone strikes, questioned the legality of drone strikes away from active battlefields, saying that the targeted killing policy "is on the verge of doing significant damage to the rule of law."
One reason, she said in her prepared statement, is that the administration has refused to detail publicly the still top-secret legal underpinnings of targeted killings and the internal procedures used to determine who can be targeted.
She pointed to the administration's contention that the United States is in a global war with al Qaida and its terrorist allies.
"On that basis, they (the administration) assert that the law of war is applicable – in any place and at any time – with regard to any person the administration deems a combatant," Brooks said. "The trouble is no one outside a very small group within the U.S. executive branch has any ability to evaluate who is and who isn't a combatant.
"What's more, targeting decisions in this nebulous 'war' are based largely on classified intelligence reporting," she continued. "As a result, administration assertions about who is a combatant and what constitutes a threat are entirely non-falsifiable, because they're based wholly on undisclosed evidence."


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Should there be a law protecting the fat, the unattractive or the short people of America? Is it prejudice to ridicule a female employee or a Supreme Court Justice nominee for being too ugly? In the age of Botox, plastic surgery gone overboard, and the undying trend of youth, professional women face a bigger obstacle than equal pay. As Deborah L. Rhode explains in her book "The Beauty Bias: the injustice of appearance in life and law," more and more Americans are filing discrimination complaints related to appearance, but many people don't see this type of discrimination as infringing on our fundamental rights. How can feminism prevail over this type of prejudice when even the staunchest feminists surrender to wrinkle creams?
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Despite its location on a busy crossroads, inside, the Regal Plaza Hotel is a haven of tranquillity. For a three-star hotel, the rooms at the Regal Plaza Hotel are particularly smart and the furniture of high quality.
The Regal Plaza also offers a good range of dining of dining and entertainment. Goodfellas sports bar has well-trodden wood flooring, gangster posters on the walls, plenty of TVs and a constant flow of human traffic. Alternatively, try the Bollywood Café with its authentic North Western Frontier cuisine, or Rockafallas, featuring a Cajun and Mexican style menu, as well as a live band.
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SHELF LIFE- <I>Much Ado</I>: Something fun afoot in Staunton
For all his gracious and noble romanticism, Shakespeare did not sleep on clean sheets. If one considers that "nothing" (pronounced "noting," and also meaning "no thing") was a vulgar term for certain parts of the female anatomy in the 16th century, then Much Ado About Nothing greatly complicates the distinction between high and low comedy.
Despite the complexity and supreme cleverness of his manipulation of language, Shakespeare was a popular entertainer in his own time. It's a matter of great curiosity, therefore, that perhaps the greatest author of bathroom humor has today been appropriated by the cultural elite.
The reason for this is obvious: theater has been replaced by television, a trend that has blunted many individuals' capacity for delight in mere human interaction. Still, bathroom humor continues to have an immediate and universal appeal, and most people can appreciate the difference between Shakespeare read and Shakespeare performed.
For an authentic and engaging– if occasionally undignified– Shakespeare performance, one need go no further than Staunton to find the world's only replica of Shakespeare's original indoor theater, now home to The American Shakespeare Center (formerly Shenandoah Shakespeare).
A two-story structure built entirely of Virginia white oak, the Blackfriars theater is the fruit of meticulous scholarly research, a re-creation constructed with the strictest attention to detail. Barely five years after its completion, Blackfriars is respected internationally as the younger counterpart to London's Globe Theatre. In the 2005-2006 season, it will host over 300 performances of 14 different Shakespeare productions.
Much Ado About Nothing, one of the master's more popular comedies, is directed by Jaq Bessell, head of the MFA program at Mary Baldwin College. Performed by the Center's traveling troupe, the production is now back in Staunton after a season on the road. After months of practice, the company's performance is flawless.
Bessell, who was formerly head of research at the Globe, describes Blackfriars as "breathtaking" and "exquisite": "Coming from the Globe, it felt strangely familiar. There's the same quality of intimacy," she says.
Bessell is excited about the current production: "Much Ado About Nothing is a very grown-up comedy. It's a fun show, but not a frivolous show."
The play follows developments in Leonato's court in the aftermath of some battlefield victories, focusing on two love affairs, one between the valiant Claudio and Hero, the other between the incorrigible Benedick and the quick-witted Beatrice. The delight of the postwar revelry rests, however, on the fragile balance of overwrought nerves.
A misunderstanding of tragic consequences develops when these fragile nerves are exploited by the deceitful Don John; at his prompting, Claudio wrongly condemns Hero of disloyalty, and the general good will quickly evaporates.
The Blackfriars production has a subtle modern spin. The armed conflict is specifically WWII, and the actors and actresses are dressed in British war uniforms and other contemporary garb.
Bessell sees a connection between the drama and current events: "The fact that the play takes place following a war may have something to do with the way in which the young woman is crucially misunderstood or worse, condemned by characters who you would expect would have a more reasonable attitude," she says.
In the spirit of the theater's motto of "original staging, original practices," the production is performed without dramatic lighting and with only minimal stage props. As in Shakespeare's time, the players are the centerpiece, and the audience shares much of the space with them.
And Blackfriars' players, as evidenced Saturday, April 8, have no reservations about bridging the divide between actors and audience; the audience is literally a part of the performance. Here is Shakespeare at his most authentic: a rollicking, engaging dramatic experience in which audience members are as much a dramatic resource for the players as they are the object of the playwright's social satire.
In short, in Staunton this spring, the cast is offering much ado about something quite wonderful.


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F. M. W. Hird THE INSTITUTE OF COST & MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANTS LONDON, ENGLAND
Now is not the precisely tactful time to ask anthropologists as to the exact moment and place of man's emergence. The road to knowledge has been strewn with pitfalls in the form of practical jokes provided by man and nature. The Piltdown Man was an ob-stacle to progress for years and it was a little unkind that the first almost complete skeleton of Neanderthal Man was that of a poor fellow who suffered badly from arthritis. Lately, discoveries in Africa have added two million years to the previously conceived time scale.
But these are not of present concern; the chimera of the Missing Link is no longer pursued and it can be accepted that "homonids" were a separate development from the apes.
All that is necessary is to postulate individuals who stood and moved on two legs, had binocular vision and who could throw a stone on the run. This modest specification seems scarcely ade-quate and the American author J. B. Cabell gives a vivid descrip-tion of the plight of these creatures.
For it was unpleasantly apparent that man did not excell in physical strength, as set against the other creatures of a planet whereon may be encountered tigers and ele-phants. His senses were of low development, as compared with the senses of insects; and, indeed, senses possessed by some of these small contemporaries man presently found he did not share, nor very clearly understand. The luxury of wings, and even the common comfort of a caudal appendage, was denied him. He walked painfully, without hoofs, and, created naked as a shelled almond, with diffi-culty outlived a season of inclement weather. Physically, he displayed in not a solitary trait a product of nature's more ambitious labour. . . . He, thus, surpassed the rest of


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Red Line's Take on the Lightning's Draft PicksSubmitted by pete on June 25, 2007 - 18:03
Remind me next year to order Red Line three weeks before draft day instead of two...
Anyway, looking through Red Line's draft guide there are a lot of positives for the Lightning coming out of this draft. Here's how they had the picks the Lightning took rated and, where given, the short blurb about each:
#30 Dana Tyrell: "Love his speed, smarts, and competitiveness."
#54 Luca Cunti: "It's a team game, Luca. It's not all about you."
#62 Alexander Killorn: "Blazing fast playmaker. Stock rising like gas prices."
#100 Mitch Fadden: "Dynamic scorer should've been taken last year."
#160 Matt Marshall: "Bull in a china shop, but has no hands or finesse."
#207 Torrie Jung
#290 Michael Ward
NR Johan Harju
NR Justin Courtnall
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Tyrell Pre-Draft VideoSubmitted by chad on June 25, 2007 - 15:34
The following video file is from the Prince George News cable television, and was shot pre-draft, post-combine.
Tyrell missed being the highest Cougar ever taken by about 12 picks. Blair Betts had him beat.
(Of interest: Some Vlad Mihalik [27] sightings on here, including once at the beginning where he dwarfs Tyrell [19], and once at the end with him standing moving into the crease on the PP)
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UNIONDALE, N.Y., Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Carolina's Bobby Sanguinetti scored the go-ahead goal in the third period Sunday, sparking the Hurricanes to a 4-2 comeback win over the New York Islanders.
The Hurricanes spotted the Islanders a 2-0 lead, then tied it with goals less than 1 minute apart from brothers Eric and Jordan Staal as the second period was winding down.
Sanguinetti then put Carolina ahead midway through the final frame on a wrist shot for his first goal of the season. Alexander Semin added an empty-netter to cap the rally.
Semin and Jordan Staal added assists while Cam Ward turned aside 23-of-25 shots as the Hurricanes broke a three-game skid.
John Tavares and Matt Moulson each tallied an assist for the Islanders, who fell in the first of a seven-game home stand.
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Vara Prasad is working on his degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, though he already has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Acharva Nagarjuna University, far far away in India. Vara is very quiet and polite, always on time, dependable, a consistently high-preforming steady worker, and he gives great feedback. Vara is the one who brought it to our attention that the students were typing in hundreds of city names for the Railroad Timetables! When we first made the decision to include cities, the sample timetables we looked at had only a handful of cities! If he had not spoken up, we would have wasted tremendous manhours uselessly, so we are grateful for this kind of feedback. Vara is wonderful at bringing issues to our attention, or problems that need resolving. Vara is one of the best!!


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John C. Reilly is an actor with tremendous range. More than almost anyone. For the past few years, he's produced and starred in a bizarre show called Check it Out! with Dr. Steve Brule. So why does a movie star have a faux cable-access show that runs in the middle of the night on adult swim?
Reilly's comic chops are well-documented in movies like Talladega Nights and Step Brothers. He's also played a number of dramatic roles in movies like Magnolia and Gangs of New York, and was nominated for an Oscar for playing the cuckolded husband in the movie version of Chicago.
This week, John C. Reilly will talk about why he chose to take on the goofy, open-hearted and blustery Dr. Steve Brule with comedy duo Tim and Eric, his summer of fun working on the set of Boogie Nights, and what he thinks his duties are as an actor.
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Over the course of four short years, the teenage members of glam rock band The Runaways released four albums for a major label, toured the world, and unleashed their classic single, "Cherry Bomb". While the group was huge overseas, they never gained the same level of popularity in the US.
Rhythm guitarist and vocalist Joan Jett went on to acclaim with her band Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, but as Evelyn McDonnell tells it, The Runaways have never really gotten their due.
McDonnell wrote the book on the band. She's the author of Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways, based on interviews conducted with the influential "queens of noise". McDonnell found that the band's manager Kim Fowley had a tight grip on the group's sound, and that their studio albums didn't fully capture their unique sound and chemistry.
Join us as Evelyn takes us on a journey to the other side of the Pacific Ocean to hear where the band sounded their best: on a Japanese tour and a their album, Live In Japan.
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Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher of the movie podcast Wham Bam Pow excel at finding the hidden gems amongst the thousands of action and sci-fi films out there, and this week they join us to recommend two you can watch at home.
Cameron recommends something for your Antonio Banderas fix: Desperado starring Selma Hayek and - you guessed it - a gloriously coiffed Antonio Banderas.
Rhea recommends a cop drama with ample amounts of "bro love": End of Watch, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña.
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You might know the actor Kristen Bell best from her years on the teenage detective series Veronica Mars, but that doesn't bother her. The way she tells it, she's got just as much love in her heart for Veronica as any fan of the show.
Veronica Mars, a jaded and sardonic high schooler, is following in her father's footsteps as a private investigator. While attending high school in the fictional beach town of Neptune, Veronica solved mysteries and grappled with the murder of her best friend, the absence of her mother, and boyfriends, all at once.
The show aired for three seasons on UPN and the CW, gathering a cult following and critical acclaim. Fans of the show clamored for more after its cancellation, and Bell and the show's creator, Rob Thomas, were determined to bring the series back to life. They were able to bring Warner Brothers on board with a Kickstarter campaign and the Veronica Mars movie came to fruition. It's now in theaters nationwide and available on VOD.
Since Veronica Mars' TV run has ended, Bell has kept busy with a number of movies, like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Frozen, and TV shows like Party Down and House of Lies.
Bell talks to us about the unique qualities of Veronica Mars, her first movie role in the cult classic Pootie Tang, and transitioning from playing a knowing teenager to a full-fledged grown-up.
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Wrong thread guys. Its sounds like yalls "grass problem" is you need to smoke some.
Scott did call me this afternoon & advised they should of mowed it yesterday. When I told him they didn't he said it should be today then. He said they should be mowing the fairways every 2 weeks & was aware they didn't do a very good job last time. Hopefully this keeps them on top of things but the feeling I got is its just not important to them.
I'm glad there's a positive resolution to this. Citizens of Lee's Summit and disc golfers must voice their opinion to the parks and rec to let them know that we want this course to stay, and mowing is a necessity for that. We dont want to see another course get pulled!
am I old or new... or both.I don't really care, I just wanted to be the 1000th post on the Legacy forum.
wow, I think that I have posted 1000 times in the Cliff Forum:-p


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Leading orthopaedic and sports injury clinic signs contract with Getinge Group to provide turnkey service for new centre in London
Getinge Group has been selected as the turnkey provider for a new dedicated orthopaedic day case centre in London.
Two years ago, Getinge Group were approached to supply an operating theatre suite turnkey solution for the new Fortius medical facility in London, The Fortius Group is the UK's largest single orthopaedic and sports injury medicine group in the UK. The theatre suite was to comprise of 3 operating theatres, scrubs, utility rooms, staff rooms and a 5 bed patient recovery area as well as all associated mechanical and electrical services. The theatre suite would be constructed using Variop Modular wall system (walls, ceiling elements and doors) and include Getinge's Group Maquet Surgical and Anaesthetic ceiling supply units, theatre lights, operating tables and Tegris OR integration to enable video routing, recording and transmission and data management. Demonstrating the expertise and knowledge to provide not only the originally requested products and services but to become the main contractor for the entire design and build project, Getinge was also asked to supply the upstairs area of 5 single patient rooms, 7 single patient pods, nurses station, consultancy rooms, staff changing rooms, pharmacy, clinical store and 2 patient bed lifts to transport patients to and from the theatre suite.
"When selecting a partner for the build of our dedicated orthopaedic day case centre, we were looking for a turnkey service. As a world-leading provider of medical systems, Getinge Group's Maquet products and solutions offered the innovative approach that we needed, together with their reputation for excellence that we could trust. We are a very demanding group with excellence at the core of what we do and the Getinge team has fully met our expectations, demonstrating a genuine partnership approach to our project" said Nicola Aspinall, Chief Operating Officer, Fortius.
The construction is now underway, with an opening date scheduled for October 2016.
About Getinge Group
Getinge Group is a leading global provider of innovative solutions for operating rooms, intensive-care units, Hospital wards, sterilization departments, elderly care and for life science companies and institutions. With genuine passion for life we build quality and safety into every system. Our unique value proposition mirrors the continuum of care, enhancing efficiency throughout the clinical pathway. Based on our first-hand experience and close partnerships, we are able to exceed expectations from customers – improving the every-day life for people, today and tomorrow.
About The Fortius Clinic
The Fortius Group is the UK's largest single orthopaedic and sports injury medicine group in the UK. Home to over 50 leading specialists, Fortius are dedicated to providing innovative and long-term solutions to patients with a range of musculoskeletal conditions, both surgical and non-surgical. Since opening in 2011, Fortius Clinic has established an international reputation for medical expertise and quality of care, becoming the centre of choice for many international sports clubs and elite teams and an accredited FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence.