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Roger Stone and the Trump-Nixon Connection
By Jeffrey Toobin
"Get Me Roger Stone," a new Netflix documentary about the political provocateur and Donald Trump ally, contains a timely message about Richard Nixon's lasting influence on Republican politics.
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"I believe in winning," Roger Stone, the notorious political provocateur, says near the beginning of the fascinating new Netflix documentary about his life. The film, called "Get Me Roger Stone," takes us from his days as a teen-age dirty trickster in the Watergate era through his rise to prominence as a consultant for Ronald Reagan; his precipitous fall in a sex scandal, during Bob Dole's 1996 Presidential campaign; his murky role in the Florida recount of 2000; and, finally, and most important, his long-time sponsorship of the Presidential ambitions of Donald Trump. (Netflix has posted a trailer for the documentary, which will be available for streaming on May 12th. I profiled Stone in 2008, and I'm interviewed in the film.) Stone sometimes appears to be in on the joke about his cartoonish cynicism, but there's a serious message at the core of the film—and in Stone's return to prominence with Trump. For more than a generation, Republican politicos have worshipped at the altar of Reagan and sought to emulate his optimistic vision for a growing nation. Stone worked for Reagan and offers dutiful praise for him, but it's clear that Stone's sentiments are really aligned with a different Republican President. In his heart, Stone is a Richard Nixon man. More to the point, so is Trump.
The documentary premières on Netflix on May 12th. COURTESY NETFLIX
After resigning from the Presidency in disgrace, in 1974, Nixon remained, for the most part, off limits as a political hero. Stone and a small handful of others kept his memory alive by conveying their admiration for Nixon's toughness and determination. (Stone, though, is the rare Nixon follower who has a tattoo of the great man on his back.) It was convenient for many Republicans to pretend that Reagan had excised Nixon from the Party's DNA. But, as the rise of Trump shows, Nixon never really went away.
Reagan is remembered as the keeper of the conservative ideological creed, and Nixon never pretended to have the same kind of philosophical core, or a set of beliefs that was distinct from his opportunism. While Nixon made his name as a red-baiting ally of Senator Joseph McCarthy, as President he opened relations with Communist China. Nixon ran for President based on a Southern strategy of appealing to the white devotees of Jim Crow, but his Administration backed affirmative action. Nixon made his name as a conservative but presided over the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and expansions of the welfare state.
It's Nixon's affect and ferocity, more than any policies, that Stone admires and that Trump reflects. Like Nixon, Trump has held positions all over the spectrum; he's been pro-choice, pro-Iraq War, pro-national health care, and now he holds opposing views on all those issues. But what has remained consistent over the years is Trump's primal need to dominate and humiliate his adversaries. The first hundred days of his Presidency have demonstrated that he's more interested in winning than in governing. Nixon, too, wanted to win more than he wanted to accomplish anything in particular, and his legacy reflects those oddly paired objectives.
Nixon made his name with anti-Communism, at a time when Communist influence was nearly nonexistent in the United States. Likewise, Trump made his name in politics by pushing the false claim that Barack Obama was not born in America—a conspiracy theory that was far more absurd than Nixon's warnings about the Red Menace. But both Nixon and Trump tapped into ugly and real sides of the American character—fear of outsiders, anger at a changing world. When Trump finally ran for President (which Stone had urged him to do for years), he adopted more of Nixon's tropes than Reagan's. Nixon built his Presidential campaign around the slogan of law and order, and so did Trump. When confronted by protesters, Nixon talked about the "silent majority," and so did Trump.
Nixon and Trump ran on fear; Reagan ran on hope. And the contrast is clearest on the issue of immigration. One of Reagan's signature domestic achievements was immigration reform, and his sunny outlook included a generally welcoming attitude toward the newest Americans. Trump's planned wall along the Mexican border is only partly a physical barrier against illegal border crossings; more profoundly, it's an act of aggression against a diverse, modern world, a sentiment that Nixon would recognize and applaud.
It is in the business of campaigns (rather than on any issue) that Stone made his name, and how he remains in the news. During the 2016 Presidential race, he demonstrated extraordinary prescience about forthcoming disclosures from WikiLeaks, which has led to speculation about Stone's connection with that group, with hacking, and about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia. Stone plainly relishes the controversy surrounding his role, and the Netflix documentary itself, because his enduring notoriety will keep him in "in the arena," which also happened to be a favorite phrase of his mentor, President Nixon.
Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993 and the senior legal analyst for CNN since 2002. He is the author of, most recently, "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst."
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Keynesian Liberal
A Miscellany*
I've been away on holiday (Anglo-French hiking around Chichester followed by visiting long-standing friends near Margate) for a couple of weeks, hence no posts. However, here are a few random thoughts on what I've gathered from such of the news I've caught.
Liz Truss is so awful that I find myself willing Rishi Sunak to do well in the debates and interviews (in some of which Truss is too chicken to participate.)
Sadly we need to remember that Sunak is not only a lightweight (see previous comments on his Chancellorship) but also without backbone. His predecessor as Chancellor resigned rather than accept Johnson's demand that the Treasury should sack its advisors and rely on those in Downing Street. Good for Javid. No person of principle would have accepted the job under those conditions. But Sunak did.
Liz Truss promises that under her premiership entrepreneurial economic energies will be released and all sorts of wonderful prospects will eventuate as a result of growth. That myth, if not as old as the hills. goes back at least to Harold Wilson at the opposite end of the political spectrum He promised us that under socialist planning a healthy, caring and prosperous state would emerge and wouldn't cost us a penny (real pennies in those days): It would be financed out of growth. There are two problems with Truss's policy. First there is no lever to pull that will produce wondrous growth in the short run - but poverty-stricken households need help to eat, and heat thee homes, this winter, not is some golden decade in the future. Secondly, she may be right in the long run, maybe even before we're all dead, but additional growth based on additional consumption is gong to exhaust the planet's finite resources and make it uninhabitable, as is evidenced by fires in France, floods in Australia and aridity in Africa, to name but some.
Yet, following on form that last point, both Truss and Sunak cheerfully advocate undoing such modest measures as we have to alleviate global heating. Truss would abandon the Green Levy and Sunak reduce the VAT on fuel. Such short-termism is now totally unacceptable. As Truss said in another context THIS-IS-A-DISGACE.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj49CogLemQ)
In the Guardian on the 10th August George Monbiot quoted some interesting facts about our water industry: not a single new reservoir has been commissioned since privatisation in 1989; the distribution system leaks at the rate of 2.4bn litres per day on current estimates; untreated sewage is poured into our rivers on a regular basis; rather than fix these problems the companies have distributed £72 billion (that's billions, not mere millions,) into the bank accounts of their shareholders.
I don't have any figures to hand, but I suspect much the same can be said of oil industry, as for years it has cheerfully denied that its product has anything to do with the climate crisis (much as the tobacco companies denied that there is any connection between smoking and lung cancer. In Africa one of the most popular cigarette brands was called "Life." )
The use of food banks has increased, is increasing and ought to be not so much diminished as eliminated. In addition we are now reduced to the humiliation of having to create "warm banks" to which we may retreat when they can no longer afford to heat our homes. THIS-IS-A DISGRACE.
The reality is that the economic model touted by the Tories, based on the "trickle down effect"** does not adequately serve the needs of a significant proportion of our population. A tiny proportion - 0.1%, 1% or maybe even 10% - do very well indeed out of it. The vast bulk of us live very comfortably indeed, taking as normal luxuries (foreign holidays, designer clothes if you like that sort of thing, meals out, centrally heated houses, separate bedrooms of the kids, arts and entertainment, gadgetry galore) beyond the wildest dreams of our grandparents and even, for some of us, our parents. But a bottom 20% to 25% are constantly on the breadline, tempted into unaffordable debt, and some can't manage at all without recourse to food banks and, coming shorty, warm banks. THIS-IS-A-DISGRACE. As still one of the richest society in the world we need to be devising ways of sharing our incomes and wealth more equitably. The candidates for the Tory leadership are offering the opposite.
Conservatives, including both leadership candidates, like to indicate that their inhuman and possibly illegal policy towards refugees is aimed at combatting "the evil business of people smuggling." Hmm? If that were the case then the easiest and quickest way to do it would be to set up booths on the coast of France, or wherever else potential migrants are gathering, with banners saying "Welcome to Britain." I forget which European crisis it was which produced a lot of refugees at an airport, and an assertive woman, probably from the WVS or something similar,announced in commanding tones: "Those who wish to come to Britain follow me!" and marched them on to a nearby RAF transport. Whoever they were will have contributed considerably to our prosperity and diversity. The comfortable and ageing Conservatives who form the electorate for our next prime minister might like to ponder how much these and similar migrants have contributed to their comforts. But they won't read about it in the Daily Mail, the Sun or the Express.
*Very old readers may remember this as the heading for a Guardian column.
** Shorthand for cutting taxes and scrapping regulations to release the energies of entrepreneurs and the resulting employment opportunities will eventually benefit the lower orders.
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Mick Taylor 15 August 2022 at 15:26
Spot on Peter. Some people never learn
But a bottom 20% to 25% are constantly on the breadline
Where did you get this statistic from? It sounds suspiciously like the 'one-fifth of the population is in poverty' you trotted out before, but as was established then that's the figure for those in relative poverty, ie, are on less than 60% of the median income. As the median household income in the UK after tax is about £31,000, that means 20% of the population live in households with an after-tax income of below £18,600. That equates to a salary of somewhere in the high £20,000s.
Someone with an after-tax income of £18,600 is not well off, but they are clearly not 'constantly on the breadline' either. So where's the source for that figure?
the easiest and quickest way to do it would be to set up booths on the coast of France, or wherever else potential migrants are gathering
I think I agree with whoever said that the best way to stop people landing on the south coast would be to fill the beaches with GP receptionists. No living soul can get past that barrier.
'On the breadline' is a vague term but it seems to be something to do with being unable to reliably afford food; in which case a good place to look for figures would be the 'State of Hunger' report produced by the Trussell Trust, as that means a diehard leftie can hardly quibble with its use as a source.
That report (p. 10, https://www.stateofhunger.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/State-of-Hunger-Report-November2019-Digital.pdf ) gives:
8-10% of UK households as 'food insecure'
2.8% of UK households experiencing 'severe food insecurity'.
So for accuracy in future if you want to give a figure for the population 'on the breadline' you should probably give one between 2.8% and 10%, depending on whether you think that means 'food insecure' pr 'severely food insecure'.
But certainly the figure is nowhere near 20% let alone 25%.
Peter Wrigley 17 August 2022 at 11:48
Agreed, we've been over this argument before;: "breadline" is a vague term and 20% to 25% are what i believe we can now call "ballpark figures" (ie approximations.) However, the precise extent of the poverty is not the point: it is undoubtedly too large. Your 2.8% people in "severe" food insecurity amounts, given a population of 67m, to 1 876 000 people, presumably many of them children. THIS IS A DISGRACE. 8% in just plain ordinary (ie not "severe" food insecurity is more than the population of either Yorkshire or Scotland. And we are still the sixth richest economy in the world. By any standards it unacceptable.
You are far too dismissive of the concept of "relative poverty." It means an inability to participate in what is regarded as "normal" in a society. "Normal" in a developed country is very different to what is "normal" in, say, sub-Saharan Africa (or what was "normal" in the 1940s when we all had patched trousers and elbows, only two ounces of sweets a week and used the communal lavatories "down the yard.") The median (or is it mean?) income sounds a lot, but if a third of it goes in rent, plus the ring cost of travel to work, school uniforms,10% inflation, rising fuel costs, than many people with insecure housing rights, short-term contacts, child care, juggling with several part-time jobs, punished by the bedroom tax or the two child limit, are not enjoying the secure minimum quality of life our society can well afford to guarantee
20% to 25% are what i believe we can now call "ballpark figures" (ie approximations.)
Something which is out by, at best, a factor of 100%, and at worst, an entire order of magnitude, is not an 'approximation'. An 'exaggeration' would be a better word. Especially when there's no excuse because you have had the true figures pointed out to you.
I can only imagine what your reaction would be if Labour proposed some programme that you were in favour of that would cost £2.8 billion, and the Conservatives started claiming that it would actually cost £25 billion. Would you accept that was just 'an approximation'? I doubt you would. You'd be livid. You'd be jumping up and down spitting tacks about how they were evil and dishonest and a bunch of lying liars not fit to govern, wouldn't you?
it is undoubtedly too large
I agree: it's a serious problem. Which is why we need to be accurate about both the nature, and the scale of the problem, because that's the only way to come up with real strategies to reduce it.
The median (or is it mean?) income sounds a lot
It's median. I wrote 'median' and the reason I wrote 'median' is because it was is the median. If it were the mean I would have written 'mean' instead of 'median', but I did write 'median' because it is the median. I'm not sure how that isn't obvious.
It doesn't sound 'a lot'. What it sounds like is the income which half the people in the country earn above and half earn below, and the reason it sounds like that is because that is what it is.
the secure minimum quality of life our society can well afford to guarantee
And what do you think is the 'secure minimum quality of life our society can well afford to guarantee'? Does it include, say, one foreign holiday a year? Serious question. If a family cannot afford a foreign holiday every year, do you think that family should be described as living in poverty? Or not? I just want to find out precisely where you draw the line, because you obviously have a pretty solid line in mind, and I am curious as to where exactly it is.
Will you answer two questions:
1. Do you agree that there is a serious level of poverty in the UK?
2. Do you believe that, with the political will, his could be reduced to a tiny, but inevitable, minimum?
I can't answer that unless you define what 'a serious level' is. Is 1% a serious level? Is 10%? Is 20%? Tell me what you think is a 'serious level' and I'll tell you whether I think there is that much poverty in the UK.
This one's simple: No. I don't think political will is enough. I think it would also take a proper analysis of the problem and a reasonable amount of competence in delivery. Someone with sufficient 'political will' but no understanding of the realities of the world might well force through well-intentioned but bonkers plans that would be aimed at reducing poverty but would in fact end up unintentionally increasing it instead (eg, communism).
You seem to prefer niggling about the actual size of the problem rather than being concerned about the consequences for the unfortunates involved. For a definitive answer to the question (the minimum to which poverty can be reduced) you'd need to ask a sociologist with expertise in that area. 1% of the UK population is well over half a million. I would hope it could be squeezed down to half that. And of course it can be done, with the will (and without communism.) For example, street sleeping was almost eliminated during the first stages of the pandemic. Now I believe it's back.
You seem to prefer niggling about the actual size of the problem rather than being concerned about the consequences for the unfortunates involved.
I don't understand what you mean here. That isn't an either/or proposition. One can be concerned about the consequences for the unfortunates involves and also think that it is important to be accurate in one's use of figures, and I happen to be both.
I seems to remember you, for example, getting quite het up about a certain inaccurate figure on the side of a bus. It's a bit hypocritical to make a big deal of an inaccurate figure used by someone else and then declare that you don't care whether your figures are accurate. Either be scrupulous about using accurate figures yourself, or lose any moral right to criticise others when they use inaccurate, exaggerated figures just like you. Choose.
For a definitive answer to the question (the minimum to which poverty can be reduced) you'd need to ask a sociologist with expertise in that area.
Sociologists' predictions are about as much use as economists' forecasts, aren't they? Which is to say, neither one has ever given a prediction that has turned out to be even close to reality.
1% of the UK population is well over half a million. I would hope it could be squeezed down to half that.
And I hope I get a pony. See how much good hope is?
And of course it can be done, with the will (and without communism.)
As I wrote, not just the will. Also with the right ideas and the the competence to carry them out. An enthusiastic amateur with a lot of will and no idea can do a lot of damage, and a committee of experts suffering from groupthink can do hundreds of times as much damage as the amateur.
For example, street sleeping was almost eliminated during the first stages of the pandemic. Now I believe it's back.
Yes you can do a lot if you round people up and imprison them. but it's not really how we want to run our society long-term, now, is it?
(Actually maybe imprisoning people for their own good is how technocrats like you want to run our society. Do you admire the efficiency of the Chinese way of doing things, by any chance? Do you wish people like you could be in charge and, like the Chinese Communist Party, just implement the policies that seem rational to you without having to worry about whether the population agrees with you or not, because you're acting in their best interests, as they would see if only they were smart enough to understand, like you?)
Severn Boar 16 August 2022 at 22:32
Perhaps the "Trickle Down" concept should have been put in the hands of the water companies.
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Trauma Updates
Trauma Assessment Team Issues Key Recommendations
An independent seven-member team of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT) has concluded its external review of Florida's current trauma system. The four-day assessment was organized to provide the Florida Department of Health (DOH) with recommendations to improve Florida's trauma system. Individuals who participated on this assessment team had no relationship with Florida by birth, education and training, or employment.
"This ACS site visit represents a milestone in Florida's Trauma System development. For more than five years, the trauma community has been asking for this systems consultation, and now, the Department has delivered," said State Surgeon General and Secretary of Health Dr. John Armstrong. "It is time for the trauma community to come together and use these recommendations to make Florida's trauma system even better. The people of Florida need a trauma system that is inclusive, sustainable and focused on safe, effective, and efficient care for injured patients in Florida."
"Make peace," said Robert J. Winchell, MD, FACS, Team Leader, who reminded stakeholders to find ways to collaboratively develop the system. The systems consultation team identified 18 preliminary key recommendations, including the following:
Convene a small, multi-disciplinary work group to analyze all existing statutes and regulations pertaining to the trauma system
Establish a transparent, broadly accepted process for initial full designation and ongoing re-designation of trauma centers based upon system participation, center performance, and participation in quality improvement programs
Require that all acute care facilities participate in the inclusive and integrated trauma system as a condition of licensure.
Evaluate the content, implementation, and method of enforcement of trauma transport protocols (TTPs) to assure uniformity and efficiency of patient flow both within trauma regions as well as statewide
Collaborate with the Florida Department of Transportation, Highway Safety Office to initiate and conduct a National Highway Traffic Safety EMS Reassessment
The committee identified several assets in the current system including long-standing legislative support, substantial funding and committed Department leadership. A final report from the systems consultation team is expected to be released within several months. The PowerPoint presentation along with the listing of key recommendations are posted below.
DOH protects, promotes and improves the health of all people in Florida through integrated state, county and community efforts.
Florida Trauma System Consultation: PowerPoint Presentation (PDF, 1MB)
Florida Trauma System Consultation: American College of Surgeons—Key Recommendations (PDF, 69kB)
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Apples Lead EWG's 'Dirty Dozen' List
By Mary Rothschild on June 14, 2011
Apples, celery and strawberries are at the top of the latest "Dirty Dozen" list compiled by the Environmental Working Group, while onions, sweet corn and pineapples are among the "Clean 15" fruits and vegetables the EWG says are least likely to carry pesticide residue.
In releasing the 2011 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, its seventh edition, the advocacy group emphasized that the health benefits of a diet abundant with fruits and vegetables outweigh the risk of pesticide exposure.
That observation wasn't enough to prevent a withering reponse from the United Fresh Produce Association, which detests the regularly released lists. United Fresh blasted EWG for "misleading consumers" with "a sensational publicity stunt disguised as science," that it claimed "will almost certainly discourage many people from eating the recommended amounts of fresh produce."
Studies have linked pesticides to nervous system toxicity, cancer, hormone system disruption and IQ deficits. But there's debate and uncertainty about the relative health risks of trace amounts of residue.
The EWG says it uses data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's annual reports on pesticides in food, and rates produce based on a composite score, equally weighing six factors that reflect how many pesticides were found in testing each type of produce and at what levels.
It said "most samples were washed and peeled prior to being tested," so the rankings reflect the amounts of chemicals that would likely be present on food when is it eaten.
USDA says in its latest report, released last month, that less than one-third of 1 percent of the food samples it tested contained pesticide residues exceeding the safe intake tolerances set by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Although about three percent of the foods USDA sampled contained pesticides for which the EPA hasn't set standards, the department's overall conclusion is that pesticide contamination of food is below the EPA limits.
United Fresh Produce Association president and CEO Tom Stenzel noted, in a prepared statement, that "If anything, the USDA data report, from which the Dirty Dozen is purportedly created, underscores the safety of fruits and vegetables."
EWG said the latest USDA report showed that 98 percent of apples tested had at least one pesticide residue, which pushed apples up three spots from the last list, bumping celery from the top of the "Dirty Dozen." On the other hand, only 0.1 percent of fresh sweet corn had a detectable pesticide.
Cilantro made its debut in the new shopper's guide. In testing the herb for the first time, USDA found 33 unapproved pesticides on 44 percent of the samples tested. EWG said that is the highest percentage of unapproved pesticides recorded on any guide item since the organization started analyzing the data in 1995.
For those fruits and vegetables listed as most likely to carry pesticide residues, the EWG suggests shoppers buy organically grown varieties.
Here are the EWG's lists:
Dirty Dozen: Apples, celery, strawberries, peaches, spinach, imported nectarines, imported grades, sweet bell peppers, potatoes, domestic blueberries, lettuce, kale/collard greens.
Clean 15: Onions, sweet corn, pineapples, avocado, asparagus, sweet peas, mangoes, eggplant, domestic cantaloupe, kiwi, cabbage, watermelon, sweet potatoes, grapefruit, mushrooms.
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Our comeback in opposition to Leicester City present we wish to play – Crystal Palace midfielder Jeffery Schlupp
Crystal Palace midfielder, Jeffery Schlupp has stated their late comeback in opposition to Leicester City proves they had been decided to combat.
The former-Leicester man scored simply seconds after being launched within the second half, because the Eagles got here again from 2-0 all the way down to safe some extent on Sunday at Selhurst Park.
"You can see from the way the team performs, how we're transitioning to a possession-based team," Schlupp instructed Sky Sports after the sport. "We're taking part in in defence, we're taking part in out from the again.
"We're taking part in by the midfield, and clearly we're attempting to get behind groups. We're doing that effectively, however clearly, it's nonetheless early on.
"We've all been there before [at half-time]. We knew we had a long task ahead of us. First-half we did well but things didn't go how we wanted, so we just had to stay positive, and we managed to do that."
Schlupp revealed that Vieira had instructed him to assist Edouard within the Palace assault.
"The gaffer has put me on to try and impact the game, and get in the box," he defined. "I managed to do this immediately and clearly I'm completely satisfied to get the objective. I'll take the objectives nonetheless they arrive. I needed to get within the field and with my header, I simply needed to get it on the right track.
"[Vieira] told me to play in the pockets, play close to the strikers as a right-forward and I managed to find myself close to the goal – and I managed to get myself into the box and get a goal."
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UMD Receives NSF Major Research Instrumentation Award in Support of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Visualization tools that allow a surgeon to "see through" a patient during surgery. Wearable sensors that encourage healthier behavior. Virtual-based headsets that train soldiers how to remove a wounded comrade from the battlefield.
Innovations like these and more under development at the University of Maryland just got a big boost.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded UMD a $600,000 Major Research Instrumentation grant in support of virtual and augmented reality research and education. Virtual reality (VR) either mimics real-world settings or creates fantasy worlds; augmented reality (AR) embeds digital information into real-world settings.
Both fields are expected to expand exponentially in the near future in applications tied to scientific visualization, entertainment, military uses, architecture, navigation, education, prototyping, collaborative communication, and more.
The NSF grant will be used to purchase new equipment and provide infrastructure support for a 1,000-square-foot "augmentarium" now under construction. The Virtual and Augmented Reality Laboratory will feature interactive projection displays, robotic mounts and high-speed computing clusters that, university officials say, will position UMD as a leader for the effective visualization of large and complex data.
When launched later this year, the interactive lab will bring together researchers from across campus and beyond to explore ideas and technologies that combine real-time data within virtual settings and backdrops.
"These technologies will engage our faculty and students to explore new pathways of discovery that can have far-reaching scientific and societal benefits," says Jayanth Banavar(link is external), dean of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences(link is external) (CMNS).
The virtual and augmented reality lab is the latest addition to the university's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), with its director, Amitabh Varshney, named as principal investigator of the NSF award.
Projects supported by the grant include: understanding large-scale astronomy data (Lee Mundy(link is external) in astronomy); weather and climate prediction (Kayo Ide(link is external) in atmospheric and oceanic science); characterization of stem cells (Peter Bajcsy(link is external) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Antonio Cardone in UMIACS); large-scale simulation of rotorcraft brownouts via accelerated algorithms (Ramani Duraiswami in computer science and UMIACS); data visualization for cybersecurity (Tudor Dumitras in electrical and computer engineering and UMIACS); user interaction with augmented reality (Catherine Plaisant in UMIACS and Rama Chellappa in electrical and computer engineering and UMIACS); visualization of big data (Joseph JaJa in electrical and computer engineering and UMIACS, and Varshney); and augmented reality-based, image-guided surgical interventions (Rao Gullapalli(link is external) in radiology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and Varshney).
The NSF grant also provides for education and training, with plans for the Maryland Center for Women in Computing(link is external) to develop workshops that encourage middle school and high school girls to participate in VR and AR projects.
Other research will study how people interact with VR and AR technologies, and how they can best be used in an educational setting.
The virtual and augmented reality lab will also take advantage of several cross-institutional partnerships supported by MPowering the State(link is external), which joins scientists at the University of Maryland with physicians, clinicians and other health experts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
"We look forward to further collaboration with our colleagues in Baltimore to identify opportunities and leverage our combined strengths in computing power and clinical expertise," says Varshney.
Researchers from both institutions envision specialized headgear that surgeons can wear in an operating room, providing real-time patient and surgical data that is "overlaid" on top of a patient during surgery.
Additional projects will look at wearable sensors that can track the movement of people suffering from neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease, keeping tabs on the disease's progression in hopes of providing better therapeutic outcomes. Also under discussion are wearable technologies that monitor human activity and offer visual feedback via warnings or positive responses, both of which can promote healthier behavior.
The federal government is very interested in VR and AR applications, including the development of specialized headwear that can provide soldiers with critical information like weather, combat efficiency, and the location of both friendly and adversarial forces. Other applications can train soldiers in essential tasks, such as evacuating wounded comrades while under fire on a virtual battlefield.
Initial seed funding for the UMD virtual and augmented reality lab came from CMNS, with additional support from the university's Division of Research and the provost's office.
To view illustrations of several virtual and augmented reality projects under development at UMD, go here.
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Stephanie Schleis Lindley, DVM, DACVIM
Associate Clinical Professor, Oncology
Department of Clinical Sciences
ses0034@auburn.edu
Dr. Lindley is a native of Louisiana. She graduated from Texas A&M University summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in biology before entering the veterinary program at Louisiana State University.
Following veterinary school graduation with honors in 2004, she completed a one-year rotating small animal internship at Texas A&M University. She completed a three-year residency in medical oncology at the University of Tennessee in 2008.
Dr. Lindley joined the Auburn faculty in 2008. While at Auburn University, she has pursued further interests in veterinary medical communication, equine oncology, marine mammal medicine and oncology, and continued collaboration with other universities for oncology clinical trials and retrospective studies. During her tenure at Auburn, Dr. Lindley has authored more than nine publications.
Lymphoma, hematologic neoplasia, histiocytic diseases, flow cytometry, and equine oncology.
Schleis SE. Cancer Screening Tests for Small Animals. Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 2014 Sep; 44(5):871-81.
Back AR, Schleis SE, Smirkovski OA, Smith AN, Lee JI, Phillips J. Mechlorethamine, vincristine, melphalan, and prednisone (MOMP) for the treatment of relapsed lymphoma in dogs. Vet Comp Oncol. 2013 Aug 5. doi: 10.1111/vco.12055. [epub ahead of print].
Taintor J, Schleis S. Equine Lymphoma. Equine Veterinary Education. 2011 Apr; 23(4):205-213.
Schleis S,Rizzo S, Phillips J, LeBlanc A. Asparaginase Associated Pancreatitis in a Dog. Can Vet J. 2011 Sep; 52(9): 1009-12.
Schleis SE, LeBlanc AK, Neilsen NR, LeBlanc CJ. Flow cytometric evaluation of multidrug resistance proteins on grossly normal canine nodal lympocye membranes. Am J Vet Res 2008 Oct; 69 (10):1310-5


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Real Sociedad 'lining up January move for Juan Mata'
Real Sociedad are reportedly keen to sign Manchester United attacker Juan Mata in January.
The 33-year-old has not played a single minute of Premier League football for the Red Devils during the 2021-22 campaign, with two of his three appearances coming in the Champions League.
Mata's contract at Old Trafford is due to expire next June, and there has been speculation surrounding the Spaniard's future ahead of the January transfer window.
According to The Sun, Real Sociedad are hoping to persuade the 20-time English champions to let the playmaker leave on a free transfer at the start of 2022.
The report claims that the Basque club's head coach Imanol Alguacil wants Mata's 'big-time experience' to help them push for a top-four finish in La Liga this season.
The Spaniard, who has also been linked with Barcelona, came through the youth system at Real Madrid before representing Valencia for four years ahead of a switch to Chelsea.


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Startseite / News / Panorama Magazine – Turbo 3.0 Book Review
English Featured Reviews Turbo 3.0
Panorama Magazine – Turbo 3.0 Book Review
Panorama's May 2018 issue reviewed the Turbo 3.0 book:
Following its domination of the Can-Am racing series in 1972 and 1973, Porsche used its experience with turbocharging technology gained in motorsports for serial sports car production. Launched in 1975 with a turbocharged flat-six engine, flared wheel arches to accommodate wider wheels, and unmistakable "whale tail" rear spoiler, the 930 Turbo was revolutionary in its performance. It was the fastest German production car upon its introduction, helping Porsche to fortify its reputation as a seminal sports car manufacturer.
Following in the considerable wake of his award-winning Carrera 2.7, author Ryan Snodgrass again hones in with laser-like focus on just a single variant of the iconic 930 Turbo—the earliest 3.0-liter examples produced from September 1974 through June 1977—tracing the model's roots and origin during an era that is often referred to as a dark time for performance cars.
Naturally, there are the de rigueur in-depth chapters that one might expect to be found on the subjects of turbocharging, drivetrain, chassis, body, and interior, incorporating first-hand accounts and interviews with factory personnel who worked on the project. Additional content includes sections on accessories; literature; marketing materials; and special bespoke models built by the factory for exhibition, executives, and important clients. Racing derivatives such as the Martini Carrera RSR Turbo 2.14, 934, 934.5, and privateer Turbo 3.0 entries are also examined. An appendix at the end of the book lists all 2,819 Turbo 3.0 chassis numbers complete with notations on original colors, interior, and equipment.
Over 536 beautifully designed pages, the prose is supported by more than 1,500 incredible color and black-and-white images, including illustrations, charts, publications, and internal documents, the majority of them truly uncommon or not published before.
Befitting a book that Snodgrass states demanded almost 5,000 man-hours of research, writing, design, and production time, the attention to detail is incredible, surpassing the already superb levels of data analysis and engineering development insights from the author's previous effort. The book's production quality is on an equal plane of existence with its writing and utilizes special wide-gamut inks and high-resolution, 15-micron stochastic screens, allowing the reader to zoom in on the details should they want to scrutinize the photos more closely with a magnifying glass when researching various minute details for their own restorations.
Available in a slipcased standard Limited Edition, of which 2,500 have been printed, and a numbered-series Publisher's Edition (shown here) limited to just 300 copies containing additional niceties, Turbo 3.0 is a sublime reading experience, automotive book or not, and one that will undoubtedly generate feelings of lust for the 930.
Although a starting price of $395 might seem lofty, consider it a small price to pay—the reader is gleaning the immeasurable benefit of all the hours of effort and achievement the author has invested into uncovering anything an owner, collector, or re- storer could possibly want to know. A monumental piece of work, Turbo 3.0 must be considered one of the finest automotive books extant, and the definitive word on the model.
—Benjamin Shahrabani
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Octane Magazine — Turbo 3.0 Review
Review of the Turbo 3.0 book in Octane magazine's October 2019 issue:
We'll come clean: this book was released last year but our review copy was mislaid during Octane's hastily carried-out office relocation form Bedfordshite to London. It's author, Ryan Snodgrass, very kindly offered to send us another one—and we're so glad he did, because this is a truly exceptional work.
A companion volume to Snodgrass' previous magnum opus, Carrera 2.7, this mammoth 536-page tribute to the Porsche 911 Turbo is printed on creamy archival paper and presented in a stout slipcase. Pay extra for the 300-off Publisher's Edition and you get an even stouter clamshell box that additionally houses convincing reproductions of Porsche ephemera such as press releases and photos, and actual 35mm colour slides, plus a 20-page supplement on how the book was put together.
Is either version worth the money? Emphatically yes, because the level of detail and the production values are stunning. To give just two examples: expert financial book-keepers were hired to check the production data for all 2819 Turbos built; and because no detailed cutaway drawing was ever made of the Turbo, noted cutaway artist Makoto Ouchi was commissioned to draw on. The print specification—which apparently involved '15-micron stochastic hybrid screens' and 'special wide-gamut inks'—will have any bibliophile salivating over their silkscreened linen slipcase.
Every possible aspect of the 1975–77 Turbo is covered in depth: development, build, mechanical, design, one-offs and special editions, racing versions... There's even a spread devoted to specific tyre inflators, jacks and plastic gloves supplied by Porsche for the Turbo's space-save tyre.
As you'll have gathered, we're impressed. It's taken a while for Turbo 3.0 to make it into these pages, but it was well worth the wait.
—Mark Dixon
Panorama Editor-in-Chief picks Turbo 3.0 As Best Book
Rob Sass, Editor-in-Chief of PCA's Panorama magazine, had this to say (at 0:34:16) when asked during a Cars Yeah interview to pick his favorite automotive book:
"Ryan Snodgrass's book on early Porsche Turbos is probably the greatest single model book that I've ever seen in my life. I have not been able to put it down since getting it. It is just full of every bit of geeky goodness about those cars. It is phenomenal."
Of course, when asked at 0:28:07 by Mark Green if manifested into a car, what kind of car would Robb Sass be, his affinity for the Turbo was clear. Sass answered he'd like to be a 1975 or 1976 Turbo Carrera, the first generation Turbo: "I think that they are kind of a little bit edgy. It was the height of the malaise era. A car I really respect as when everything else was slow and crappy, you had this car that would go 0 to 60 in about 5 seconds. Performance on par with a muscle car from ten years before at a time when people were building the Mustang II. If I could aspire to be any car...I'm not a 75-76 Turbo Carrera, but if I could that is probably what it would be as it was so shocking and so surprising and a little bit unpredictable." "Porsche never got the memo that the malaise era was going on."


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Mutek San Fransisco 2018 - Exploring technology on the dance floor Words by Marjolijn Oostermeijer
Mutek San Fransisco 2018
Exploring technology on the dance floor
With the festival season in full swing, there are plenty of great events you can spend your sleepless nights at. Especially if you live in the bustling city of San Francisco. However, one particular event stands out: Mutek is a boundary-pushing festival that explores digital creativity in sound, music and audio-visual art. Kicking off in the Golden Gate city on the 3rd of May for its first edition, it focuses on innovative musicians and artists from the Bay area whilst also including a strong international line-up.
You may already know Mutek from the namesake festivals this non-profit organization has put together in Montreal, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Tokyo, Barcelona and Dubai. Their debut in San Fransisco this weekend will also mark their first event in the United States, making it an exciting exploration of emerging American talent. The festival spans over four days and includes four unique segments with captivating titles such as Digi Lab, A/visions, Nocturne, and Experience. Divided over nine venues across the city, it promises to be a dynamic and transdisciplinary blend of live electronic performances, art installations, audiovisual works, panel discussions and more.
Some unmissable acts include Tim Hecker, who produces experimental soundscapes that are hauntingly beautiful and emotional. Kyoka, the Japanese artist who uses glitches and broken beats to create a new form of minimal techno, and the moody left-field pop produced by Perera Elsewhere. For the visually informed, there is Craig Dorety, an artist that uses mathematics and engineering to create animated sculptures that will change your perception of time.
More audiovisual experiences include Nonotak, an incredible French-Japanese duo blurring the limits between concert, performance, and site-specific installation. Alexandre Burton & Julien Roy, who together form the group Artificiel, which incorporates music, visuals, and new media to create a mesmerizing experience. And Joanie Lemercier's & James Ginzburg's collaboration that will submerge your senses into projections of light in space accompanied by a musical performance. Those who love to dance cannot miss King Most, serving some soulful disco beats. Matias Aguayo will play a life set of genre-diminishing and intelligent sounds that hypnotizes bodies to move, and Bézier is a well-known DJ in the San Fransisco queer rave scene.
Mutek San Francisco will take place from May 3 to 6 in different locations across the city. To check the full program, visit their website.
Marjolijn Oostermeijer