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Interplay of adiponectin, TNFα and insulin on gene expression, glucose uptake and PPARγ, AKT and TOR pathways in rainbow trout cultured adipocytes.
Bou M., Todorčević M., Rodríguez J., Capilla E., Gutiérrez J., Navarro I.
Adipose tissue is being increasingly recognized as an important endocrine organ that produces and releases a variety of factors. In the present study we have evaluated in primary cultures of rainbow trout adipocytes, obtained from visceral adipose tissue, the interplay of the adiponectin system, TNFα and insulin at a transcriptional level and, their effects on the adipogenic transcription factor PPARγ, as well as on the activation of main insulin signaling pathways. Likewise, the implication of these adipokines in the regulation of glucose uptake in the adipocyte and their interactions with insulin or IGF-I were also evaluated. Similarly to the mammalian model, insulin enhanced adiponectin gene expression, while it exerted a negative modulation on adiponectin receptors. TNFα increased the mRNA levels of adiponectin receptor 1, but neither adiponectin nor TNFα modulated each other expression. Therefore, the reciprocal suppressive effect of both adipokines previously reported in mammals was not present in this model. Furthermore, the anti-adipogenic effect of TNFα was revealed by the down-regulation of PPARγ at a protein level, meanwhile adiponectin increased PPARγ expression in insulin-stimulated adipocytes, supporting its insulin-sensitizing role. Both adipokines stimulated glucose uptake without modifying AKT or TOR phosphorylation; however, glucose uptake in insulin-treated adipocytes was enhanced by TNFα but not by adiponectin. All in all, these results contribute to gain knowledge on the role of adipokines in rainbow trout adipose tissue and, to better understand the mechanisms that regulate glucose metabolism in this species.
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Peter Parker Becomes a Mentor to Miles Morales in 'Marvel's Spider-Man'
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In comics and film, fans are used to seeing Peter Parker as the young new hero being mentored by more experienced crimefighters. However, Disney XD's new animated series Marvel's Spider-Man will flip the story and have Peter as a mentor to Miles Morales.
Cort Lane, Senior Vice President for Animation and Family Entertainment at Marvel explained the new take to Screen Rant.
"As other characters get powers, that complicates Peter's life and that's the story that we want to tell," said Lane. "When Miles gets his powers, Peter has a sense of responsibility for him because he's younger; he doesn't have the lessons from Uncle Ben. He wants to do good, but he's a little more reckless and enthusiastic."
Miles Morales in Marvel's Spider-Man. Source: Screen Rant
Despite not using a villain of the week formula, the series will still see Peter fighting some of Spidey's most notable rogues, including Green Goblin.
"There's a sense of responsibility as other characters develop powers, and as Harry, in his own way, develops powers…not so nice powers. It's really just about how Peter deals with it, and also to create the contrast with how responsibly Peter uses his abilities and how others, even when they are well-meaning, don't necessarily do so as responsibly," said Lane. "The mantra that Peter has about great power and great responsibility is something that truly he seems to understand better than anyone else."
Marvel's Spider-Man premieres on Disney XD Saturday, Aug. 19.
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Q: Backup of a ubi file system with dd? A have a root file system (file system - image containinf folder structure and content) on a flash drive. The flash drive uses UBI as the underlying file system file system - the way the data blocks are mapped into files, like when you say that you're using ext4).
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
ubi0:root on / type ubifs (rw,sync)

I know how to do a backup with dd when there is a physical drive as the first parameter (example. instead of rootfs there would be a /dev/sda), however here I don't know how to address the drive in the current scenario (what is the path for rootfs).
How do i detect to which file does footfs or ubi0:root correspond to?

A: If you want to backup/restore UBIFS partition, make an UBI image with dd from the UBI mount then restore using the ubiupdatevol program from mtd-util.
Example -
Make the image:
dd if=/dev/ubi0_0 of=/save_loc/rfs1.ubi

Unmount the target partition:
umount /.rfs2

Restore the image to the target partition:
ubiupdatevol /dev/ubi1_0 /save_loc/rfs1.ubi

Remount the re-flashed partition:
mount -t ubifs -o compr=zlib,ro ubi1:rootfs /.rfs2

Edit: To clarify on finding the ubi# to name, run the mtd-util 'ubinfo':
ubi0
Volumes count:                           1
Logical eraseblock size:                 126976 bytes, 124.0 KiB
Total amount of logical eraseblocks:     960 (121896960 bytes, 116.2 MiB)
Amount of available logical eraseblocks: 0 (0 bytes)
Maximum count of volumes                 128
Count of bad physical eraseblocks:       0
Count of reserved physical eraseblocks:  80
Current maximum erase counter value:     288
Minimum input/output unit size:          2048 bytes
Character device major/minor:            250:0
Present volumes:                         0

Volume ID:   0 (on ubi0)
Type:        dynamic
Alignment:   1
Size:        874 LEBs (110977024 bytes, 105.8 MiB)
State:       OK
Name:        rootfs
Character device major/minor: 250:1

A: rootfs mounted on / is an in-memory filesystem which typically only contains the tools needed to mount the "real" root filesystem and is emptied after this is done. The initial content of the rootfs are loaded from an initramfs image stored inside or next to the kernel binary and loaded by the bootloader.
The root filesystem on flash is ubi0:root. This is a three-layer system:

*

*At the top, the UBIFS filesystem.

*In the middle, the UBI volume which provides wear leveling on top of raw flash.

*At the bottom, the raw flash interface (MTD).

(Take the rest of this answer with caution, I've never actually worked with UBI.)
The ubi0:root volume is created by arguments to the ubi module or the ubiattach utility. This is not a block device, because the interface between the UBI level and the filesystem on top of it is more complex than "write this byte at this location". You can create a read-only block device on top of UBI with the ubiblock command, then back that up — something like
ubiblock --create /dev/ubi0_0
cat /dev/ubi0_0 >backup
ubiblock --remove /dev/ubi0_0

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YOKOHAMA, Japan, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co posted a 25.4 percent rise in quarterly operating profit on Tuesday as lower discounting in the United States helped the Japanese automaker improve profit in the key market, even as global sales decreased.
Japan's second-biggest automaker posted a profit of 103.3 billion yen ($934.25 million) for the third quarter ended December, compared with 82.4 billion yen a year earlier.
The result compared with an 116.49 billion yen average of nine analyst estimates compiled by Refinitiv.
In its financial statement, Nissan said it had recognised 9.232 billion yen in additional expense in salaries and wages which had not been booked in prior years.
This reflected the more than $80 million in additional compensation related to its allegation that ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn had under-reported in salary, the company said.
Ghosn, arrested and detained in Tokyo since Nov. 19, has been indicted in Japan on charges of under-reporting his salary at Nissan over 2010-2018. He has denied the deferred pay was illegal or required disclosure, while not contesting the agreement's existence.
Ghosn has also denied a separate breach of trust charge over personal investment losses he temporarily transferred to Nissan during the global financial crisis in 2008.
Nissan lowered its full-year profit forecast to 450 billion yen from 540 billion yen previously, based on the assumption that the yen will trade around 110.6 yen to the U.S. dollar through March 31, from a previous forecast for 105 yen. ($1 = 110.5700 yen) (Reporting by Naomi Tajitsu; Editing by Himani Sarkar)


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Featured Stock in September's Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio
September 25, 2018 0Comments by Kyle Guske II
Four new stocks make our Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio this month, which was made available to members on September 20, 2018.
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The best performing large cap stock was up 3%. Overall, four out of the 20 Safest Dividend Yields stocks outperformed the S&P in August.
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Featured Stock for September: Principal Financial Group (PFG: $60/share)
Principal Financial Group (PFG) is the featured stock in September's Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio. PFG was also featured as a Long Idea in February 2018.
Since 2008, PFG has grown after-tax profit (NOPAT) by 20% compounded annually, to $2.0 billion in 2017. The company's NOPAT increased to $2.2 billion over the trailing twelve months (TTM). NOPAT margins have increased from 4% in 2008 to 15% TTM while return on invested capital (ROIC) improved from 3% to 11% over the same time.
Figure 1: PFG Revenue & NOPAT Since 2008
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Free Cash Flow Easily Covers Dividend Payments
Over the past five years, PFG has increased its annual dividend from $0.98/share to $1.87/share, or 18% compounded annually. TTM dividend payments have totaled $2.05/share. This dividend payment has been supported by PFG's free cash flow. From 2013-2017, PFG generated a cumulative $4.4 billion (26% of market cap) in FCF while paying $2.1 billion in dividends. Over the TTM period, PFG has generated $721 million in FCF and paid $573 million in dividends.
Figure 2: PFG's FCF vs. Dividends Since 2013
PFG Remains Undervalued
At its current price of $60/share, PFG has a price-to-economic book value (PEBV) ratio of 0.7. This ratio means the market expects PFG's NOPAT to permanently decline by 30%. This expectation seems pessimistic given that PFG has grown NOPAT by 20% compounded annually since 2008.
If PFG can maintain TTM NOPAT margins (16%) and grow NOPAT by just 3% compounded annually for the next 10 years, the stock is worth $91/share today – a 52% upside. See the math behind this dynamic DCF scenario.
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Income Statement: we made $738 million of adjustments with a net effect of removing $298 million in non-operating income (2% of revenue). See all adjustments made to PFG's income statement here.
Balance Sheet: we made $4.9 billion of adjustments to calculate invested capital with a net decrease of $1.0 billion. The most notable adjustment was $2.9 billion (15% of reported net assets) related to other comprehensive income. See all adjustments to PFG's balance sheet here.
Valuation: we made $701 million of adjustments with a net effect of decreasing shareholder value by $701 million. There were no adjustments that increased shareholder value. The largest adjustment to shareholder value was $254 million in underfunded pensions. This adjustment represents 1% of PFG's market value.
This article originally published on September 25, 2018.
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The area near the accident site remained on the edge as angry locals who were on a sit-in protest near the rail tracks were cleared by the police.
The organisers of the Dussehra event in Amritsar during which 61 people were crushed by a speeding train on Friday faced public anger as protesters threw stones at their home this morning. The organisers, Sourabh Madan Mithu and his father, local councillor Vijay Madan, are missing. Heavy police presence was seen outside their home, which was locked and has broken windows.
No arrests have been made two days after a train hit people watching the Dussehra celebrations near a railway track in the holy city of Punjab. The First Information Report names no one and is against unidentified people on the grounds that the accused in the case were yet to be identified.
The area near the accident site remained on the edge as angry locals who were on a sit-in protest since yesterday near the rail tracks were cleared by the police today. But within minutes, the protesters clashed with the police and threw stones. The residents had blocked the traffic around the Joda Pathak area and raised slogans against the district administration, claiming that some people were still who were near the tracks on that fateful evening are still missing. The protesters demanded that the missing people be traced and also adequate compensation be given to the families of the victims.
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I was working from a Berlin cafe a few days ago when I noticed a young man at a table next to me. He was that typical creative, preppy type. As I glanced across his laptop screen, I spotted the familiar interface of oDesk. He was looking for freelancing gigs.
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In recent times we've seen quite a few posts which reveal that we're quite terrible at making hiring decisions.
Turns out, out trusted interviewing methods are quite poor predictors of on-the-job performance. Many hires don't work out and the cost of such mistakes to is huge (especially for companies with small teams).
Freelancing can be used as an extended trial period during which a person's true colours are revealed. Putting someone through a series of clever interviews is one thing; working with them for 3 months is another.
Studies show that the new generation values flexibility and meaning at their work over pay and perks.
If corporate HR doesn't want to miss out on a pool of young, ambitious, talented people, large enterprise will now require a hybrid workforce of full-time and freelance teams.
In the new economy employers require a new kind of team: one which can be scaled up and down as needed.
This trend is combining with maturity of sites such as LinkedIn, which makes it far easier for HR managers to find freelancers talent through social media and create streamlined, in-house hiring processes on order to effectively support business goals.
How are you using freelancers in the workplace? Have you seen good or bad things from it?
Unfortunately in the US it is becoming much harder to use freelancers or independent contractors. Neither the IRS or the Dept of Labor like you doing so. The contract has to exist, they have to be beyond your behavior control and you have to focus on their results and not their time.


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Pien Sanders (born 11 June 1998) is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a defender for Den Bosch and the Dutch national team.

Personal life
Pien Sanders grew up in Tilburg, Netherlands.

Sanders is sponsored by Brabo Hockey.

Career

Club hockey
In the Dutch Hoofdklasse, Sanders plays for HC Den Bosch.

National teams

Under–18
In 2015, Sanders was a member of the Netherlands U–18 side at the EuroHockey Youth Championship in Santander, Spain. At the tournament, Sanders won a gold medal with the team and was awarded Player of the Tournament.

Under–21
Sanders was a member of the Netherlands Under–21 team at the 2016 FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago, Chile where the team won a silver medal.

Oranje Dames
Pien Sanders made her debut for the Oranje Dames in 2017, during a test series against Spain in Cádiz, Spain.

Since her debut, Sanders has medalled with the Dutch national team on three occasions, winning gold on each occasion. The medals came at the 2017 EuroHockey Championships in Amstelveen, Netherlands; at the 2016–17 FIH World League in Auckland, New Zealand; and at the 2018 Champions Trophy in Changzhou, China.

In 2019, Sanders appeared in the inaugural tournament of the FIH Pro League.

International goals

References

External links

1998 births
living people
Dutch female field hockey players
People from Udenhout
HC Den Bosch players
Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in field hockey
20th-century Dutch women
20th-century Dutch people
21st-century Dutch women
Sportspeople from North Brabant

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Q: Rails 5 Bootstrap Javascript Tags Not Working I'm having strange issues with Bootstrap 4 and the Rails 5 javascript tags. Everything seemed to work fine when I started on this project and I haven't made any changes to any of the js, but suddenly my collapsable navbar dropdowns stopped functioning, and I can see these errors in the console:
GET http://localhost:3000/packs/js/application-48ce69a491950ec17b29.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

GET http://localhost:3000/packs/js/application-48ce69a491950ec17b29.js net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)

I am using Rails 5.2.4.1 with Ruby 2.6.3 and Bootstrap 4.
In my application.html.erb I have these javascript tags at the end of the body:
<%= javascript_include_tag 'application' %>

<%= javascript_pack_tag 'application' %>

But I think the problem must be contained in the tags or the files, because when I directly add these Bootstrap script tags into the application.html my dropdowns start working again:
<!-- JS, Popper.js, and jQuery -->
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-DfXdz2htPH0lsSSs5nCTpuj/zy4C+OGpamoFVy38MVBnE+IbbVYUew+OrCXaRkfj" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
<script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-OgVRvuATP1z7JjHLkuOU7Xw704+h835Lr+6QL9UvYjZE3Ipu6Tp75j7Bh/kR0JKI" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

So this is really confusing me and I want to make sure that the include_tag and pack_tag are actually working so that I can use the asset pipeline to keep other js files organised in folders when I need more.
This is my assets/javascripts/application.js:
//= require rails-ujs
//= require_tree .

And my javascript/packs/application.js:
import "bootstrap";

And here is my config/webpack/environment.js
const { environment } = require('@rails/webpacker')

const webpack = require('webpack')

// Preventing Babel from transpiling NodeModules packages
environment.loaders.delete('nodeModules');

// Bootstrap 4 has a dependency over jQuery & Popper.js:
environment.plugins.prepend('Provide',
  new webpack.ProvidePlugin({
    $: 'jquery',
    jQuery: 'jquery',
    Popper: ['popper.js', 'default']
  })
)

module.exports = environment

I'm using a Devise template made by the LeWagon bootcamp and am not yet confident of how everything is interacting. So here is the gemfile it generated for safe measure:
source 'https://rubygems.org'
ruby '2.6.3'

gem 'bootsnap', require: false
gem 'devise'
gem 'jbuilder', '~> 2.0'
gem 'pg', '~> 0.21'
gem 'puma'
gem 'rails', '5.2.4.1'
gem 'redis'

gem 'autoprefixer-rails'
gem 'font-awesome-sass', '~> 5.12.0'
gem 'sassc-rails'
gem 'simple_form'
gem 'uglifier'
gem 'webpacker'

group :development do
  gem 'web-console', '>= 3.3.0'
end

group :development, :test do
  gem 'pry-byebug'
  gem 'pry-rails'
  gem 'listen', '~> 3.0.5'
  gem 'spring'
  gem 'spring-watcher-listen', '~> 2.0.0'
  gem 'dotenv-rails'
end

Am I forgetting to include any other files that might be affecting this? Hopefully someone can spot a simple problem in here, but happy to add more info if I've missed something. This is really getting on my goat lol.
Thanks in advance!

A: It's not good idea to have javascript_include_tag 'application' and javascript_pack_tag 'application' at the same time
If you use webpacker you don't need app/assets/javascripts folder
And you need to change app/javascript/packs/application.js to something like this:
require("@rails/ujs").start();
require("@rails/activestorage").start();
require("channels");
require("jquery");

import "bootstrap";


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Q: Review Audit shows an answer that's duplicate I just had a review audit which showed a highly voted answer to the original question but showed it with 0 votes. I thought some user just copied the original answer and was spamming the system so I flagged it. And apparently I've failed the audit. What's the purpose of this ridiculous audit which was obviously misleading?

A: Unless I am not understanding what you mean by "misleading", there is absolutely nothing misleading about the audit.  You simply over-thought it.
You saw a post in review, clicked through to see the actual question like a good reviewer should do and found the answer you were asked to review.
That's when you should have realized it was an audit, went back to the review and either upvoted or clicked "Looks Good" and moved on to the next post.
However, you may not have realized that there are audit posts in the review queues and, as such, assumed it was someone copying and pasting an answer given the inconsistency in the post's score.  So you decided to flag the answer in the review.  Nothing you did here was inherently wrong or incorrect, except you just missed the part when you should have recognized the audit post.
The only "failure" in your logic was that if it was someone trying to score free rep and copying & pasting the answer, you would have seen both the upvoted original and the 0-score duplicate answer under the question.  It is a misunderstanding that I've seen other new reviewers make, but posts in the review queues are posted before reviewing, not after, so you are reviewing questions & answers as they appear live on the site (except for audits, which are tweaked slightly to disguise the fact that they are audits)

As for audits themselves, they are supposed to be obvious.
They are not designed to be "teaching tools" but to make it easy for someone who is paying attention and trap someone who robotically clicks "Looks Good" when reviewing.  Everyone gets the audits, even moderators, and everyone fails audits because the audit question selection process is not perfect.
It is not until you fail multiple audits will anything happen.


Reihan Salam, a wonky conservative columnist and all-around interesting person, wrote a bracing, emotional, personal, and far-sighted new book called Melting Pot or Civil War? A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders (2018, Sentinel). He admits that just a few years ago he found his views on immigration pedestrian and mostly aligned with the immigration activists. After a few years of research, he says he is more aligned with those, like President Trump, who think America should be more, not less, selective regarding immigration. This book is part-memoir, part economic and sociology literature review, and part-policy prescription; it is well written, nuanced, and generous. We need more books like this about disparate subjects as soon as possible.
Early on in the book, Salam makes the case that we need to forge a new "middle class melting pot," that minimizes what he calls "between group inequality" (26). Salam is apt to highlight that the current immigration system is "increasing both the number and the share of children being raised in low-income households," and that "today's poor immigrants are raising tomorrow's poor natives" (25), which should worry anyone who cares about the future of a united nation, one that actualizes the "melting mot" mythos of American identity. The data presented by Salam to substantiate his descriptive claims is numerous, and are from sociology, political science, and economics, among other fields.
The question that Salam took on was: How do we make sure we make an integrated America, that precludes racialization and ethnically Balkanized areas of existence? This is where Salam's idiosyncratic mind comes in, one that is largely conservative but not entirely. In short, he thinks we need to limit low-skill immigration, at least for a time (this is Salam's hedge); he claims that "a more selective, skills-based immigration system would yield a more egalitarian economy, in which machines do the dirty work and workers enjoy middle-class stability. And a more egalitarian economy would help heal our country's ethnic divides" (28). But, in the pen-ultimate chapter of the book, he couples this more right-of-center idea with "offering amnesty to the long-resident unauthorized population, and fighting the intergenerational transmission of poverty" (157) sure to satisfy his left-of-center readers. I will get to the details of his package of proposals down below.
In a relatively short book (excluding notes, this book runs a crisp 184 pages), Salam is ambitious, far-reaching and explains complicated ideas simply, yet in a way that respects his reader and that does not engage in simple binary thinking. In chapter two Salam briefly describes the existing immigration systems operative in the world: mongenerational, the Qatari model; multigenerational, the US model; and a hybrid model like those seen in Canada, Australia, and Singapore (60). By doing so, he really focuses the reader to understand the range of alternatives: utopia doesn't exist, and, we have to choose something (though the status-quo has largely remained the same because of a lack of choosing; almost no one thinks that the status-quo is sustainable, however). So, what are we going to choose? Salam's choice is not a limitation on the number of immigrants America takes in, but a shift in which migrants we take in. His proposals assume that a multigenerational model is surely the American model of the future.
He has a chapter focused on the intersection between immigration and group identity, and it he portends a possibly dark future since assimilation is differentiated by groups. He introduces the concepts of amalgamation and racialization here. When immigrants effectively assimilate, they join the "melting-pot mainstream," and become an example of successful amalgamation, or the process of becoming "mainstream American" where ethnic differences become insignificant. When the opposite occurs, ethnic segregation emerges, producing racialized enclaves or ghettos. Both of these realities exist in America. Salam argues that on our current trajectory, the later path is increasingly likely to become reality for second- and third-generation immigrant families. Why does this matter? Because the type of immigration that makes the ethnic enclave life more likely is the family-based system, the one that Salam thinks we should curtail; and because social science research is pessimistic about what happens when ethnic tribalism rises to the surface and becomes political tribalism.
Salam understands that if America did, in fact, decrease low-skill immigration that the source country could be worse off. Salam proposes ambitious solutions here: allow retiring Americans to access Medicare in Mexico, for example. This would create more low-skill jobs in Mexico, staunching the need for Mexicans to move abroad. Salam points out that we will have to get creative to adequately deal with a population that is getting older, sicker, and who are increasingly without kin (137). Salam proposes we shift some of our counternarcotics and counter-human trafficking budget to help develop poorer regions in Mexico (and Central America). Moreover, we should help subsidize Mexico's efforts (already underway and successful enough) to "halt migrants long before they reach" the America-Mexico border. I like this idea and have nothing substantial to really say about the idea as a concept. Political contingencies always come to mind, and social security politics deserves a blog post of its own.
Salam believes that "our long-term objective should be to help all countries achieve broad-based prosperity," because there is no way that America, or Europe, or countries such as China or South Korea, will be able to accommodate the hundreds of millions of people coming of age who will need work and fulfilling lives. So what does he propose? This, too, is where his idiosyncratic and curious mind shows off: the creation of new cities out of cloth. Call it "conservatism for those who read The Economist," if you will. However, this is not a new idea, as Salam acknowledges: the world has already created "charter cities," such as the successful example in China of Shenzhen, which turned a fishing backwater into a "teeming entrepreneurial metropolis of ten million" in just over three decades (144). Also see Paul Romer's "charter cities," TED Talk. The reason this idea is less pie in the sky then it seems is that the alternatives are far worse, and that the need is there. We have no choice argues Salam. We should strive to create "dozens of Shenzhens" (151). This is similar to Paul Romer's idea to create "100 Hong Kongs." However, Hong Kong was created after two wars, an imperial reign by the British, and has a symbiotic (deep financial integration) and contentious (remember the Umbrella Movement; this will flare up again) relationship with China to this day.
Another weakness of this "charter city" idea is he does not address how the creation of megacities could happen. If the goal is to create better governance, we must do it where people live right now; how to do this is contested. China carefully turned Shenzhen into what it is now, backed by the heavy hand of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and is home to visionary and successful (and heavily subsidized) companies such as Huawei. Even as a concept, the idea of "charter cities," is underdeveloped, according to Kee-Cheok Cheong and Kim-Leng Goh, in an article for the international journal of urban policy Citites. I would have loved if Salam got more into this debate since it's the most interesting part of his proposal. I've written an essay on what the future looks like for migrants and it's mind-blowingly complicated, and requires multilateralism at its finest.
Salam digs into his syncretic proposal in the penultimate chapter. His goal is ambitious: how to reconcile those who are aligned with the Dreamers with those who sympathize more with the so-called "angel moms," or parents of children who were killed by unauthorized immigrants (and often those who have committed earlier crimes who were not deported, or who were deported but returned). How so? First, "large-scale amnesty followed by resolute enforcement" (164). This entails support for DACA and Dreamers coupled with a verifiable and enforced E-Verify program. Fair enough; this is a popular idea.
Finally, Salam supports increasing the very successful Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and a "universal child benefit" (177). He does not go into details of what this would do to already existing child programs such as the Child Tax Credit (CTC) except as to say that his proposal would help the 25% of families who have children who do not receive any tax subsidies or food stamps and hurt the "nearly poor families" (178). Before I endorse such a program, I'd have to see more details.
I would support paring back some mortgage tax reduction programs that the upper-middle class receive, highlighted brilliantly by Derek Thompson and Suzanne Mettler. Many believe that the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction (HMID) benefits the middle class but it mostly benefits the rich: three-quarters of the benefits accrue to the top 20% of households, those who make around $130,000 a year (Brookings 2017). Depending on how we reform the deduction, revenues could increase by as high as $60 billion per year, which could help support Salam's proposals and also shore up existing programs such as the CTC. A melting pot requires stirring lest it curdles.
This is a burst of a book; a book that makes you think, and that was written in all earnestness. What should America do about immigration? What should America do about global income equality? What is the balance between humanitarian concerns and concern for second-generation immigrants in your own country? What about the lives of ninth-generation natives or immigrants? None of this is binary, Red or Blue.
I applaud Salam for this effort.
This entry was posted in Book Review, Civil Rights, conservatism, Identity Politics, Immigration and tagged Book review, books, conservatism, immigration policy, Melting Pot or Civil War?, National Review, policy, Reihan Selam on January 14, 2019 by Patrick Foran.
I tweeted out my favorite books of 2018, and I wanted to blog a bit about my selections.
(5) Monica Prasad's The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty is what I categorize as an "ideal type." This book was assigned in a graduate seminar in American Politics and Political Economy. My professor encouraged us to use her first few chapters as a template for any literature reviews we might write. I completely agree. Prasad proves that she has a firm grasp of the alternative arguments that she adds to, takes away from, or directly challenges. This book is one of the most learned, nuanced, and counterintuitive books that I have read on the topic of welfare states, inequality, and historical institutionalism alike.
Prasad brilliantly details that early decisions and putative progressive successes in the late 19th century set American on a path that, paradoxically, entrenched progressive income taxes, and cheap credit which has produced more, not less, inequality. America has a welfare state, like all other advanced welfare states, but it is one that encourages private consumption for goods that are normally more socialized. The reason for the "paradox of poverty" that is seen in the subtitle refers to the fact that this type of welfare state was pushed for by agrarians in the 19th century: progressive successes have produced a welfare state that hurts those worse off and one that benefits the middle class. I won't do this book justice in this blog post: here is a great piece from the author herself that succinctly displays her thesis, which is that America has plenty of government, it has a welfare state; the problem, if you want a more egalitarian society, is the type of welfare state and what function and outcomes it achieves. Read Prasad on political economy and comparative analysis and you will be rewarded.
Deneen's prescriptions – localism, tradition, religion – are the most contentious part: if liberalism is better than fascism and communism, can we guarantee that a post-liberal age that would be more rooted in tradition, small, and local communities, be preferred? I agree with the likes of Tyler Cowen and Ezra Klein that this book is a must read, even if you disagree with the ultimate thesis that liberalism is failing. Personally, I think we need a new "embedded liberalism," that understands that family, tradition, and local-connections that foster human capital is the way to assure that liberalism can be maintained and strengthened.
(3) In How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Northeastern University's Lisa Feldman Barrett produces cutting-edge synthesis on a field that she is a heavyweight in: the science of emotions. A fascinating, and brilliant read. Malcolm Gladwell remarked that this book "turned [his] understanding upside down." For me, this book actually aligns with much of what I have come to believe about emotions: they are socially constructed, not determined by the array of neurochemistry produced by an individual emotion, and that we have much control regarding our experience. "When it comes to your experiences and perceptions, you are much more in the driver's seat than you might think. You are an architect of your experience," writes Barrett (152).
Barret is not saying, of course, that emotions don't have a biological foundation; she is saying that we need to understand that "physical states and actions" (X), combine with "the emotion categories that exist in a particular culture" (Y), and "the contents and the workings of the categories as situated conceptualizations that constitute emotions in a particular culture" (C). Barrett backs up her claims with a rigorous review of the data from psychology accumulated over the last few decades. Her work, if true (which I am convinced of), should (in a just world) revolutionize how we think of mental health (she is a fan of mindfulness), criminal justice law, interpersonal relationships, and, yes, how we think of our emotions and the meaning we attribute to the physiological reality of them. There is even a provocative–some science, some speculation–chapter called "Is a Growling Dog Angry?" about whether animals experience emotions (in her opinion: not exactly, though they do experience "affect").
(2) I picked up On Grand Strategy on a hunch. I knew of Gaddis as a Cold War historian, but was not familiar with hardly any of his work. I picked this book up a few weeks before I started my Fall 2018 semester because I was embarking on research on the history of post-Cold War US grand strategy and this book's title jumped out at me. Little did I know what I was picking up. If I recall correctly, I only used one page or so of this work for my paper. Nonetheless, this book was a superb, erudite read.
On Grand Strategy is a literary fusion of Gaddis' lifelong accumulation of knowledge and wisdom teaching such classes as "Strategy and Policy," from 1975-1977 at the US Naval War College, and "Studies in Grand Strategy," at Yale from 2002 to the present. Gaddis defines "grand strategy" as "the alignment of potentially unlimited aspirations with necessarily limited capabilities" (21). In chapter after beautiful chapter, Gaddis traces acts of good, effective leadership (Lincoln, who he discusses in a chapter called "The Greatest President."), and failures of leadership (Xerxes' failure in 480 BC to invade Greece (for a second time). Lincoln was able to adapt, like Berlin's foxes; Xerxes acted as a hedgehog – overconfident in his aspirations, failing to match his ends (wanting to conquer all of Europe) to his means (uh….not enough to do THAT). Gaddis brings his reader across continents, ages, books, events, and leaders. Distilling wisdom from the likes of Thucydides, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Berlin, Lincoln, Clausewitz, and Tolstoy (the last two he calls "the grandest of strategists") this book is a must read for anyone who wants to be a leader, or who wants to develop strong character.
Gaddis teases out leadership qualities that have been successful across space, time, and scale: the ability to manage polarities, which requires psychological maturity; flexibility; proportionality; "seeing simplicities in complexities"; acquiring a "sense of the whole that reveals the significance of respective parts" (58); and, one that both the Islamic State and Assad's Syria seem to misunderstand, distilled from Augustine and Machiavelli, that "if you have to use force, don't destroy what you're trying to preserve" (111).
These principals, in this blog post, can read abstract; the beauty of this book is the erudite, and literary way that Gaddis brings these principles to life. You really feel like you are watching Xerxes attempt the impossible; you get a sense of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858; and the "a-ha, moment" when one truly grasps that Woodrow Wilson "confused strengths with hopes," for example, is highly effective. Reading this book was a real treat.
(1) Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress was my favorite book of the year. Pinker provides nearly 70 graphs, all (with a few exceptions) in a unilinear direction of progress. Humanity has decreased poverty, rates of child neglect/abuse and undernourishment, child labor; increased literacy rates, leisure time, real GDP per capita, and IQ gains, for example. There are lots to chew over in this book; and Pinker is not all sanguine, contrary to many critical book reviews. He notes potential existential threats on the horizon that could jeopardize these positive, and global, trends: he has a chapter dedicated to nuclear weapons, climate change, and cyber/AI threats.
The most interesting and important parts of this book are the subtle, nuanced explanations regarding why our brains are programmed to be pessimistic; fooled by random, and rare events; And in a similar vein, why journalism has an "if it bleeds, it leads" ethic. The people who won't read this book, need it the most.
EDIT: I decided that my workload this semester is too much to write a longer blog post on what I loved so much about Enlightenment Now. I added the above paragraphs after initially titling this post as "part one," promising to write a separate blog about Pinker. Maybe sometime I will, but not now.
This entry was posted in Bestof2018, Book Review, Economy, Psychology, Strategy and tagged Barrett, best of 2018, Book review, books, Gaddis, grand strategy, Pinker, Prasad on January 12, 2019 by Patrick Foran.
The opening chapter also attempts at defining fascism but does not do so in an very specific way. She sets the scene by relaying to the reader a discussion session that she and her Georgetown graduate students had attempting to answer the question(s) what is fascism? or what makes a fascist…well…a fascist? Albright ends up describing the characteristics of a fascist as "someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence to achieve the goals he or she has." I like the historian Robert O. Paxton's description of fascism better. He writes that fascism is "a compound, a powerful amalgam of different but marriageable conservative, national-socialist and radical Right ingredients, bonded together by common enemies and common passions for a regenerated, energized, and purified nation at whatever cost to free institutions and the rule of law" (2004, 207) However you define it, the important part of getting a reader to really understand something is to give them concrete examples of a phenomenon.
Albright spends a good third of the book giving a sort of biography and history of the birth of twentieth-century fascism, and various pivotal characters and events leading up to, and during, World War II (WWII). She does this first in a chapter on Benito Mussolini. Mussolini rose to power in a post-World War I (WWI) Italy, a country that was part of the winning coalition yet one that felt cheated out of unheeded promises given to them by Britain and France. Socialists had power in the parliament, and Mussolini tapped into discontent and the urge, desire, and belief that Italy needed to become powerful. As Albright puts it, Mussolini "promised all things," in a time of desperation, depression, and in the very alive memory of the last great calamity, WWI, which claimed 1.2 million Italian deaths. Next, she profiles Adolf Hitler. After being appointed chancellor Hitler convinced the parliament to pass the Enabling Law, which began the Third Reich, and, as they say, the rest is some of the darkest history in the modern era. Most of the details she offers regarding fascist Italy and Germany are common knowledge, at least for people most likely to read her book. I do love it when I come across quotes that are chilling. For Mussolini: "It is better to break the bones of the democrats…and the sooner the better;" "Often, I would like to be wrong, but so far it has never happened." For Hitler: " "There are . . .only two possibilities: either the victory of the Aryan side or its annihilation and the victory of the Jews." Such narcissism and binary, black and white thinking is a devastating combination. And, to this day, we keep electing such leaders because of their charisma, and unconcern in over-promising.
She later profiles modern despots such as Chávez/Maduro in Venezuela, Erdogan in Turkey, Putin in Russia, and the recent rise of far-right illiberal parties in Hungary (under Victor Orbán) and Poland (under Jarosław Kaczyński). She also profiles North Korea; the one state that she considers truly fascist. Readers of political science and history know much of what Albright writes about, but it is a decent book for a refresher on some of the most important people, countries, and pivotal moments and events. She adds anecdotes and personal stories from her experience meeting several of the men she profiled. She calls Putin "small, and pale, and so cold as to be almost reptilian," for example (2018, 158). She also was the first secretary of state to visit and speak with the North Korean leader, who was Kim Jung-il at the time. She mentions that President Bill Clinton, with only months to go in his second term, was planning on meeting up with the North Korean president, but instead chose to attempt to make headway regarding the Israel-Palestine situation. The former president has expressed regret that he chose the latter instead of the former.
The final section of the book is the part that she was asked about in interviews during her speaking tour: the rise of Donald Trump in the U.S. It is interesting that Albright mentions a few policies of President Trump in supportive terms. "He deserves credit for preserving Crimea-related sanctions against Russia, sending arms to a beleaguered Ukraine, and managing an effective military campaign against ISIS. In December 2017, he implemented a law, the Global Magnitsky Act, that imposes penalties on individuals and entities accused of corruption and human rights violations," writes the former secretary (2018, 220).
President Trump has continued the Middle East policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, who's administration championed the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, a 75 country organization with multiple goals, including degrading and defeating ISIS in Syria, and Iraq. While the military campaign might be effectively campaigned, ISIS is still alive, Iran has gained an operating base in Syria, and rebuilding efforts will take trillions of dollars and nearly a decade; and that is if efforts are enacted with earnest, little graft, and if the frail peace actually becomes a sturdy peace. It is hard to give Trump credit for simply continuing what was already in motion; and the specific changes that Trump has made, such as "looser rules of engagement," has contributed to a more than 200% increase in civilian deaths, according to AirWars. It is not surprising that Albright does not mention the serious problems with U.S. strategy; but it was disappointing nonetheless.
Albright warns Americans, and her global readers alike, up this new era, one of encroaching authoritarianism. However, there is no action plan, or concrete steps offered. Instead she offers questions we can ask ourselves regarding future leaders. I find myself asking who exactly is this book written for? And I also am reminded of better books that cover the same terrain such as How Democracies Die (2018). Young readers just getting into international affairs and American politics would find this book a helpful primer, as Albright hops around the world and provides decent profiles of important countries right now. However, more educated readers could completely ignore this release. Read The Anatomy of Fascism instead for a deep dive into the ideological and historical contingencies that produce such monstrous regimes.
Albright, Madeleine. 2018. Fascism: A Warning. HarperCollins: New York.
Paxton, Robert O. 2004. The Anatomy of Fascism. Alfred A. Knopf: New York.
This entry was posted in Book Review, Donald Trump, International Affairs, International Relations, U.S. Politics and tagged authoritarianism, Fascism, Madeleine Albright on June 6, 2018 by Patrick Foran.
In her new book, The Chessboard & The Web: Strategies of Connection in a Networked World, Anne-Marie Slaughter, the president and CEO of New America, argues that foreign policy makers still overwhelmingly rely on an outdated paradigm; one that views nation-states as sovereign actors engaged in a security dilemma that ends in zero-sum moves. Slaughter advocates for flipping over the proverbial chessboard and replacing it with something more modern, precise, and fluid: the so-called "networked web." Slaughter posits that academics and practitioners need to understand the links between nation-states and non-governmental organizations (NGOS) to realize that complex interdependence demands a nuanced understanding of the various players, institutions, processes, and norms developed in the last half century.
We are no longer in a zero-sum world of top-down "direct[ion] and control" but rather a world of networks that "are managed and orchestrated," writes Slaughter. Think of it, Slaughter continues, as "the power to evoke rather than to impose." The actors, state or non-state, that can act as the choirmaster on the world stage, dictate the direction of the international order.
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Slaughter read and was fascinated by the seminal work Power and Interdependence, written by the scholars Joseph S. Nye Jr. and Robert Keohane, former Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Professor of International Affairs at Princeton, respectively. Their idea of "complex interdependence" illuminated the world for her. However, that book simply described the web; Slaughter's goal is to begin crafting strategies beginning with understanding the links between the myriad actors on the global stage.
The classic academic paradigm of analyzing international affairs posits that the world is a chessboard, in which each state finds itself in a perpetual game of strategic advantage, engaging in a game of statecraft. Nye Jr., and Keohane updated that image and view in their book Power and Interdependence, released in 1977, by arguing that it is more helpful to think that nation-states are playing a game of three-dimensional chess, in which states have multiple goals instead of only security. Further, they argue that interstate cooperation is possible, with multiple parties winding up better off as opposed to a situation that requires one party to lose for other parties to gain. By contrast, Slaughter maintains Nye Jr. and Keohane did not go far enough to explain the world's relationships accurately. The world we are living in is more like the Internet, the web, argues Slaughter.
The two dominant international relations theories, realism and liberalism, assume that the main unit of analysis is the "state" and that the state of nature is "separation" and the focus should be on "static equilibria," for example. The "state of nature" in international relations theory is simply referring to the fact the world is made up of individual sovereign states acting in self-interest. "Static equilibria" is the goal of organizing the world into a relative balance of power that allows for increased trade, commerce, and diplomatic relations. Slaughter argues that global actors must transcend older notions of statecraft.
Statecraft should be complimented by webcraft, argues Slaughter. A state with careful understanding of the various nodes and links between state and non-state actors, will be able to adeptly situate themselves to "maxim[ize] [its] number of valuable connections." The strategic necessity of maximizing valuable connections, for one, enables countries to take more risks and to diversify their economies, and diplomatic partnerships. Webcraft acknowledges the precariousness of isolationism and having few allies around the world.
Slaughter argues that global problems can fit into three broad categories: resilience problems, execution problems, and scale problems. First, resilience problems require resilience networks to solve them. These networks should aim to "strengthen, deepen, react, respond, bounce back, stabilize, and assist" in solving problems. An example of a resilience problem is climate change; an example of a resilient solution would be the 2015 Paris climate accord, where nearly 200 countries agreed on states-specific targeted reductions of carbon emissions.
Second, execution problems require task networks to solve them. Slaughter describes task networks as "designed to perform more precise and time-bound tasks carried out by small, diverse, but cohesive groups." This type of network was applied in Iraq under General Stanley McChrystal, who directed the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) activities in Iraq. Al-Qaeda is a networked organization. McChrystal knew that in order to defeat al-Qaeda, the U.S. military had to transform from a highly hierarchical and bureaucratic institution into a more flexible "team of teams." This networked-strategy helped weaken Al-Qaeda and was utilized to take out its its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Finally, scale problems abound when considering topics like alleviating poverty, improving health, and increasing literacy worldwide. "Many hands make light work, but how to create the global equivalent of a barn raising or a quilting bee?" is the poetic way Slaughter illuminates this challenge. Scale problems, she continues, should be thought about in three basic ways: replication, gathering in, and parceling out. A successful scale network would be the Bolsa Família Program (BF), an anti-poverty program of remarkable success implemented by Brazil in January 2005.
President Lula was able to replicate the problem; coordinate; streamline; and parcel out the program to the rural and urban poor of Brazil. Jonathan Tepperman, managing editor of Foreign Affairs describes the program as immensely popular. Brazilian voters on both sides of the political spectrum support the program since it has work requirements which satisfy conservatives, and programs that directly target extreme poverty with explicit poverty reduction goals, which satisfy liberals. The BF program cost less than half a percent of the country's total gross domestic product; this amounts to costing "30 percent less per person than more traditional aid programs." Moreover, the program has cut extreme poverty by 15 percent and has "helped lift a total of 36 million people of our general poverty," summarizes Tepperman in Foreign Affairs.
Slaughter promises in the beginning of her book that in the final three chapters she would lay out exactly how network strategies could be implemented globally. She fails to do this with any depth, however. But she does propose that the new international order must be built on three pillars: open governments, open society, and an open international system. This "open global order" must be one in which "states must be waves and particles at the same time." Slaughter uses the physics metaphor to capture the fact that states have to be more flexible in terms of their capacity; states that can maximize their hard and soft power simultaneously will control the web, for example.
This book is a deceptively challenging read. It covers a vast number of fields in an attempt to explain the world as it is, alongside attempting to establish a new paradigm of thinking, with the goal of becoming this generation's The Strategy of Conflict. The reader is treated to fascinating overviews of chaos theory, network analysis, and social physics. However, there could have been more specific examples of how to tackle the world's biggest problems. With that being said, I highly recommend this book for it is a work of great ambition, importance, and scholarship.
This entry was posted in Book Review, International Affairs, International Relations, IR theory, Networks, The Future and tagged Book review, International Affairs, IR theory, Slaughter on August 30, 2017 by Patrick Foran.
Hayes, Chris. 2017. A Colony in A Nation (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.).
The excellent and fastidious Chris Hayes is back with his second book; it's a doozy full of righteous (patriotic) indignation; telling data and statistics; and is bathed in humane empathy in a surprisingly nuanced way. He tries to emphasize with quite literally everyone – that alone should be commended.
The book, A Colony In A Nation, comes off the heels of a highly divisive presidential election, seen by many as largely about identity issues, immigration, and race. The winning candidate, Donald J. Trump, pounced on and utilized white fear in a way that only dog whistles could previously capture.
Hayes' thesis is, as he himself puts it, "simple." We have a divided justice system producing a divided country. One part of the U.S., which Chris dubs the "Nation" has a policing regime fit for the rules based democracy that we purport to be. Another part of our country, dubbed "the Colony," has a policing regime with remarkable similarities to militarily-occupied colonies. These "two distinct regimes," have disproportionate results.
Hayes illuminates the difference not only with hard numbers, but also with his on-the-ground experiences, some from his college years and some from his reporting from the past few years in Ferguson, Baltimore, and other cities.
In one particularly unique passage, Hayes, the host of the award-winning All In w/ Chris Hayes (MSNBC) visited police training headquarters in New Jersey where he participated in a virtual reality simulator. This simulates 85 different scenarios and recruits are assessed based on their actions. One must be quick. Chris draws his weapon in the first scenario; the officer reminds him that that was the incorrect move. "We're only one scene in, and already the self-righteous liberal pundit has draw his weapon on an unarmed man holding a cinder block," Hayes rights – channeling that his training officer was "delighted" to instill some humility into the pundit.
Hayes spoke with many everyday folks, black and white, and referenced many scholarly works on criminal justice, policing, and American history; making this book's potential audience quite wide and it's content myriad. (Down below, I'll finish up my thoughts regarding this strategy).
As Hayes unpacks the causes of this Nation/Colony bifurcation, he starts from the top-down and makes his way downward, to me. You. Voters. Citizens. All of us.
The War on Drugs, beginning with the election of Richard Nixon in 1968 and continuing through to this very day, is a good answer; a good place to start. (It's not the earliest place to start, of course but it's definitely relevant.) It was top-down; Nixon created the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and Congress passed laws such as the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970, for example. But, Hayes, surmises that the War on Drugs is not the only answer. Hayes claims that "20 percent of the increase in incarceration," can be legitimately considered occurring due to the precepts of this so-called War on Drugs.
Hayes leaves no stone unturned; it's quite an impressive feat, he weaves in history and then personal story and then reporting from Baltimore back to law, scholarship, and pointed philosophical musings.
Hayes is his most passionate when he writes about white fear being a "force" that is a "social fact" and "something burned into our individual neural pathways." But far from coming across as morally superior, Hayes is up-front about his own biases and fear, growing up in the Bronx, a "white straight male." He talks about getting a pass from police officers, who found weed on him as a twenty-one-year old; at the Republican National Committee conference in 2000 no less. He opens up about his fears; he agrees that that order is nice. Yet he is aware that order usually comes at the cost of violating Constitutional rights of fellow Americans, who belong in the Nation, but who live in and are policed by The Colony. In fact, in the last few pages of the final chapter, he waxes philosophically, shades of Peter Singer regarding the moral sandpit that comes with valuing order over law.
Hayes isn't careless or ideological when he tackles the War on Drugs. (He does get a bit ideological at other times.) The Crack Years were horrifying and nearly every single crime, violent and non-violent, skyrocketed from the 1970s, into the early 1990s. In fact in 1992, the U.S. "set an all-time violent crime record with 1,932,274 incidents." People are driven by fear and fear is hard to assuage. Fear resides in our brain stem, an ancient part of our brain, Hayes reminds the reader.
Above when I mentioned the top-down side of the creation and propagation of the Colony, I referred to the bottom-up side, too. In the last chapter, Hayes references work from law professor James Whitman who concludes: "it is the strong anti-aristocratic strain in the American legal tradition that has made our punishment system so remorseless and harsh." I agree with this analysis; I also agree that it's madness that we elect prosecutors. Perhaps the most democratic part of our system is our criminal justice system. This doesn't shine a positive light on the American psyche or on direct democracy frankly.
Chirs makes the reader fill in a bunch of details themselves. I simultaneously like this and dislike it.
Solutions? He doesn't investigate any concrete solutions…at all. I know Hayes has ideas; I'm a big admirer of his previous work. In interviews, for example, he talks about needing radical desegregation as a political and societal project that, if continued to be unmet, should be openly considered a moral failure. Now THAT is what I hoped he was going to explore.
I would be remiss to say that Hayes didn't fill out his thesis – he did; I suppose I'm just expressing that I wanted the book to be different than what it was.
This book turns out to be about two-thirds journalistic reporting and one-third memoir. I'm not sure if Hayes would classify it as such, but it is how it reads nevertheless. Overall, I enjoyed reading it. The book is well-written – if sporadic- and needing a bit more of a focus.
I do recommend it if only for the last chapter alone.
This entry was posted in BlackLivesMatter, Book Review, Civil Rights, Ferguson October, Michael Brown, Populism, U.S. Politics and tagged a colony in a nation, Book review, chris hayes, criminal justice, mass incarceration on April 1, 2017 by Patrick Foran.
"Mr. Trump was echoing a strain of anti-Islamic theorizing familiar to anyone who has been immersed in security and counterterrorism debates over the last 20 years. He has embraced a deeply suspicious view of Islam that several of his aides have promoted, notably retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, now his national security adviser, and Stephen K. Bannon, the president's top strategist.
The article was about how President Trump and his team of Culture Warriors at the helm of his administration believe in a far-right notion of radical Islam and have an outsized fear of it. Yeah. Ok. I know.
To say that this worldview borrows from Huntington is akin to saying that because my co-worker said the words "I am Genghis Khan," means he is Genghis Khan. I'm bad at comparisons, I know.
My point is that just because there is a cultural element to Trump' grand strategy and that his chief strategist Steve Bannon believes in a clash of civilizations means that it is borrowing anything from a thesis that was trying to predict how conflicts in the future might look like. Huntington wasn't endorsing clashes of civilization, he was simply arguing that culture – shared values, customs, language, and belief-systems – are likely to spark conflict in the future as opposed to any other possible reason for war, such as trade or land.
All three reporters are fantastic. Scott Shane's book from two years ago about Anwar al-Awlaki was probably my favorite of 2015. This to me is sloppy, lazy and I don't know what purpose it serves, to be honest.
This entry was posted in Donald Trump, Jihadism, Terrorism, Trump administration, U.S. Foreign Policy and tagged Clash of Civilizations, Culture War, Huntington, Trump administration on February 3, 2017 by Patrick Foran.


"And Lamah ... and Gilgal ... and Limhah ... and Jeneum ... and Cumenihah, and Moronihah, and Antionum, and Shiblom, and Shem, and Josh, had fallen with their ten thousand each."
In the final battle at the Hill Cumorah, the Lamanites completely decimated the Nephites. Mormon stated that the Lamanites killed roughly 230,000 of his people.1 Yet this number may, at first, seem impossibly large. One wonders how an army of 230,000 people could exist during a time when the entire population of the world was probably only around 206 million.2 It is impossible to know exactly why these numbers are so high, but there are a few possibilities.
One sees this from the size of actual armies in pre-Columbian America. In Mesoamerica, for example, even after rounding down significantly to account for the above-mentioned tendency of authors to exaggerate, the Aztecs gathered together more than 300,000 people for a war against a neighboring kingdom, and this was not noted as a remarkable event. The Quiche, similarly, were able to put an army of 232,000 men into the field, even though many refused to fight.11 This demonstrates that the casualty figures in Mormon are at least feasible.
Exploring difficulties and potential solutions available—rather than dismissing them out of hand—creates opportunities to learn, discover, grow, and ultimately increase in faith.15 If something about the Book of Mormon seems confusing, out of place, or unexpected, this is what one would expect. This simply means that the Book of Mormon joins the Bible as a book that needs to be pondered and considered carefully if one is to understand seeming oddities in the text.
1. James E. Smith, "How Many Nephites?: The Book of Mormon at the Bar of Demography," in Book of Mormon Authorship Revisited, ed. Noel B. Reynolds (Provo, UT: FARMS, 1997), 255–293.
2. K. Klein Goldewijk and G. van Drecht, "HYDE 3.1: Current and historical population and land cover", in Eds. A. F. Bouwman, T. Kram, and K. Klein Goldewijk, "Integrated modelling of global environmental change. An overview of IMAGE 2.4", Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.
3. "In contrast to the texts of other ancient Near Eastern cultures which typically provide relatively little information about the size of their armies, the Bible includes a great deal of information about the number of Israelite troops. Unfortunately, much of this information is problematic. . . The numbers appear quite high, especially considering the apparent size of the armies of other, better established contemporary nations. . . This difficulty has led many to discount the biblical numbers altogether, or consider them to be intentional exaggerations. Clearly, the Bible does include exaggerations. . . Thus, some argue that the biblical numbers often also exaggerate to make certain points, such as glorifying the God of Israel." Boyd Seevers, Warfare in the Old Testament: The Organization, Weapons, and Tactics of Ancient Near Eastern Armies (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel Academic, 2013), 53. Herodotus, the ancient Greek author, is similarly known for his tendency to never let historical accuracy get in the way of a good story. See Lee L. Brice, Greek Warfare: From the Battle of Marathon to the Conquests of Alexander the Great (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2012), 74.
4. The Exodus account gives a number that could be read differently (see the next paragraph of this KnoWhy) but the figures in Numbers are much less ambiguous and show clear exaggeration. See Kenneth A. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2003), 264; James K. Hoffmeier, Ancient Israel in Sinai: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Wilderness Tradition (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005), 153–159.
5. Carol A. Redmount, "Bitter Lives: Israel In and Out of Egypt," in The Oxford History of the Biblical World, ed. Michael D. Coogan (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998), 70.
6. William J. Hamblin, "The Importance of Warfare in Book of Mormon Studies," in Warfare in the Book of Mormon, ed. Stephen D. Ricks and William J. Hamblin (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and FARMS, 1990), 495–496.
7. Kitchen, On the Reliability of the Old Testament, 264; Hoffmeier, Ancient Israel in Sinai, 153–159.
8. Other ancient cultures used terms like this as well. The Roman military unit "century" was also the word for 100, but these units often did not have 100 people in them. See Smith, "How Many Nephites?" 286.
9. Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), 94.
10. James E. Smith, "Nephi's Descendants? Historical Demography and the Book of Mormon" Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 6, no. 1 (1994): 284–294.
11. John L. Sorenson, Mormon's Codex: An Ancient American Book (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2013), 397–398.
12. Smith, "How Many Nephites?", 286.
13. Sorenson, Mormon's Codex, 286.
14. See Book of Mormon Central, "Why Does The Book Of Mormon Mention Wine, Vineyards, And Wine-Presses? (Mosiah 11:15)," KnoWhy 88 (April 28, 2016).
15. See Book of Mormon Central, "Why are Horses Mentioned in the Book of Mormon? (Enos 1:21)," KnoWhy 75 (April 11, 2016).


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We are standing in front of the Kotel on what can only be described as a magical evening. Most of our JFFS Israel@70 Mission companions arrived in Israel yesterday, and with 17 first-timers, it is wonderful to return to a place I am so familiar with, and at the same time, I am seeing with fresh eyes.
I wanted to send you this short Shabbat message and wish you all a very peaceful week (or two). As I will be traveling, I will resume my Shabbat messages on Friday, November 16.


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Woodjam 2018 was held over the weekend of 4th – 6th 2018 and was once again open to all Scout Troops in the ExBud District and 1st Hemyock. Congratulations to 1st Hemyock Patrol B for winning this year!
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NFL Playoffs: Why the Broncos Need to Start Peyton Manning
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Life in the National Football League can be brutal. A player can be a national hero on top of the world one week, and be cast aside or lose his job the next week. Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning is an excellent example of this. In 2013, Manning turned in the greatest single season by a quarterback in NFL history. He followed that up with another strong season in 2014, and led the Broncos to a 7-2 start to the 2015 season.
After being pulled from the game amidst a disastrous performance against the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 10, the Broncos officials revealed that Manning had been dealing with a torn plantar fascia in his left foot for the entire season. In response, Denver head coach Gary Kubiak inserted backup quarterback Brock Osweiler in the starting lineup to give Manning a chance to rest and rehabilitate his injury. After Osweiler led the Broncos to a 4-2 record — which included wins over the New England Patriots and Cincinnati Bengals — Kubiak announced that Osweiler would remain the team's starting quarterback even if Manning was healthy enough to return.
All said, Manning had gone from being the NFL MVP to being a backup quarterback in less than two years. Just when it looked like we had seen Manning play his last snap as a member of the Broncos — and possibly as an NFL quarterback — Kubiak elected to turn the reins of his offense back over to the 39-year-old signal caller shortly after halftime during the team's game against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday.
Under Osweiler, the Broncos offense had turned the ball over five times — Osweiler was responsible for three of them — in just over two quarters against the Chargers. (Before we go on, we need mention the fact that Osweiler can really only be blamed for one, maybe two, of the turnovers he was responsible for.) Nevertheless, when Manning took over, he led the Broncos on four scoring drives (two field goals and two touchdowns), and helped them fight back from a 13-7 deficit to claim their fifth straight AFC West division title and the No. 1 seed in the AFC Playoffs with a 27-20 win.
While clinching a division title and home-field advantage throughout the AFC Playoffs was cause for celebration in Denver, the Broncos' ongoing quarterback controversy just got a lot more confusing. However, in our eyes, any and all questions as to who should be the Broncos' starting quarterback moving forward were clearly answered in the second half of their Week 17 win over the Chargers.
We were fortunate enough to be among the 75,000 or so people in attendance at Sports Authority Field at Mile High during the Broncos' win on Sunday. When Manning entered there was a noticeable change in the atmosphere throughout the venue. Fans instantly rose to their feet and turned what had become a dead atmosphere for the first 37 minutes of the game into a raucous environment. More importantly, though, Manning's teammates looked like they received a shot of life when the NFL's all-time leader in passing yardage and passing touchdowns entered the game.
On Manning's first drive, he led the team on an efficient, eight-play, 80-yard touchdown drive that more closely resembled something we would have expected out of the 2013 Broncos rather than this year's team. From that point on, everybody in attendance — including the 46 players on the Broncos' sideline, who suddenly appeared to be unwaveringly confident in their abilities — seemed to know that the game against the Chargers was no longer in doubt.
With homefield advantage throughout the playoffs in hand, the Broncos are now the team to beat in the AFC. They have the league's best defense, and Kubiak's decision to replace Michael Schofield with veteran Tyler Polumbus at right tackle looks like it may have solidified one of the league's shakiest offensive lines. Now, with all due respect to Osweiler, who did a standup job in his seven fill-in starts, the Broncos need to commit to Manning for the rest of the season if they truly want to bring home the third Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.
Let's also not forget that the Broncos wouldn't have won their second Super Bowl title in 1998 without the contributions of backup quarterback, Bubby Brister, who started four games during the regular season in place of the greatest player in Broncos history, John Elway, who is now ironically the team's general manager. However, there was never any question that Denver was Elway's team when the postseason came around.
Statistics courtesy of Pro-Football-Reference.com.