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Exome sequencing identifies rare damaging variants in ATP8B4 and ABCA1 as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. 54:1786-1794. 2022
Novel genetic loci associated with osteoarthritis in multi-ancestry analyses in the Million Veteran Program and UK Biobank. 54:1816-1826. 2022
Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses identify novel genetic mechanisms in rheumatoid arthritis. 54:1640-1651. 2022
The genomic landscape of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 54:1376-1389. 2022
Genetic regulation of OAS1 nonsense-mediated decay underlies association with COVID-19 hospitalization in patients of European and African ancestries. 54:1103-1116. 2022
Author Correction: A genome-wide association study with 1,126,563 individuals identifies new risk loci for Alzheimer's disease (Nature Genetics, (2021), 53, 9, (1276-1282), 10.1038/s41588-021-00921-z). 54:1062. 2022
Assessing the contribution of rare variants to complex trait heritability from whole-genome sequence data. 54:263-273. 2022
The UGT2A1/UGT2A2 locus is associated with COVID-19-related loss of smell or taste. 54:121-124. 2022
Powerful, scalable and resource-efficient meta-analysis of rare variant associations in large whole genome sequencing studies 2022
Author Correction: A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response (Nature Genetics, (2021), 53, 10, (1504-1516), 10.1038/s41588-021-00935-7). 53:1722. 2021
A high-resolution HLA reference panel capturing global population diversity enables multi-ancestry fine-mapping in HIV host response. 53:1504-1516. 2021
Fine-mapping, trans-ancestral and genomic analyses identify causal variants, cells, genes and drug targets for type 1 diabetes. 53:962-971. 2021
Large-scale association analyses identify host factors influencing human gut microbiome composition. 53:156-165. 2021
Dynamic incorporation of multiple in silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole-genome sequencing studies at scale. 52:969-983. 2020
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes identifies driver rearrangements promoted by LINE-1 retrotransposition. 52:306-319. 2020
Author Correction: Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing (Nature Genetics, (2019), 51, 3, (414-430), 10.1038/s41588-019-0358-2). 51:1423-1424. 2019
Publisher Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity (Nature Genetics, (2018), 50, 1, (26-41), 10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x). 51:1191-1192. 2019
Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder. 51:793-803. 2019
Genomic subtyping and therapeutic targeting of acute erythroleukemia. 51:694-704. 2019
Multi-ancestry genome-wide gene–smoking interaction study of 387,272 individuals identifies new loci associated with serum lipids. 51:636-648. 2019
Genetic meta-analysis of diagnosed Alzheimer's disease identifies new risk loci and implicates Aβ, tau, immunity and lipid processing. 51:414-430. 2019
Protein-coding variants implicate novel genes related to lipid homeostasis contributing to body-fat distribution. 51:452-469. 2019
PAX5-driven subtypes of B-progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 51:296-307. 2019
A precision oncology approach to the pharmacological targeting of mechanistic dependencies in neuroendocrine tumors. 50:979-989. 2018
Multiplex assessment of protein variant abundance by massively parallel sequencing. 50:874-882. 2018
Correction: Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity (Nature Genetics DOI: 10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x). 50:765-766. 2018
Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes. 50:524-537. 2018
Plain-language medical vocabulary for precision diagnosis /692/700/478 /631/208/1516 correspondence. 50:474-476. 2018
Publisher correction: Multiancestry genome-wide association study of 520,000 subjects identifies 32 loci associated with stroke and stroke subtypes(Nature Genetics, (2018) 50, 4, (524-537), 10.1038/s41588-018-0058-3). 51:1192-1193. 2018
Protein-altering variants associated with body mass index implicate pathways that control energy intake and expenditure in obesity. 50:26-35. 2018
Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease. 49:1373-1384. 2017
The genomic landscape of pediatric and young adult T-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 49:1211-1218. 2017
Polygenic transmission disequilibrium confirms that common and rare variation act additively to create risk for autism spectrum disorders. 49:978-985. 2017
The genomic landscape of balanced cytogenetic abnormalities associated with human congenital anomalies. 49:36-45. 2017
A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation. 48:1279-1283. 2016
Genetic predisposition for beta cell fragility underlies type 1 and type 2 diabetes. 48:519-527. 2016
A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants. 48:134-143. 2016
Chimeric EWSR1-FLI1 regulates the Ewing sarcoma susceptibility gene EGR2 via a GGAA microsatellite. 47:1073-1078. 2015
NALP3 inflammasome upregulation and CASP1 cleavage of the glucocorticoid receptor cause glucocorticoid resistance in leukemia cells. 47:607-614. 2015
Fine mapping of type 1 diabetes susceptibility loci and evidence for colocalization of causal variants with lymphoid gene enhancers. 47:381-386. 2015
Discovery of new risk loci for IgA nephropathy implicates genes involved in immunity against intestinal pathogens. 46:1187-1196. 2014
Germline loss-of-function mutations in LZTR1 predispose to an inherited disorder of multiple schwannomas. 46:182-187. 2014
Large-scale meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies six new risk loci for Parkinson's disease. 46:989-993. 2014
Frequent truncating mutations of STAG2 in bladder cancer. 45:1428-1430. 2013
Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs. 45:984-994. 2013
A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry. 45:690-696. 2013
Crowdsourcing genetic prediction of clinical utility in the Rheumatoid Arthritis Responder Challenge. 45:468-469. 2013
The genomic landscape of hypodiploid acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 45:242-252. 2013
Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations. 45:145-154. 2013
David R. Cox 1946-2013.. 45:716. 2013
Common genetic variants in the CLDN2 and PRSS1-PRSS2 loci alter risk for alcohol-related and sporadic pancreatitis. 44:1349-1354. 2012
CSK regulatory polymorphism is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus and influences B-cell signaling and activation. 44:1227-1230. 2012
Genome-wide association study identifies loci influencing concentrations of liver enzymes in plasma. 43:1131-1138. 2011
Genome-wide association study identifies a susceptibility locus for thoracic aortic aneurysms and aortic dissections spanning FBN1 at 15q21.1. 43:996-1002. 2011
Genome-wide association study identifies six new loci influencing pulse pressure and mean arterial pressure. 43:1005-1012. 2011
Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4. 43:977-985. 2011
Common variants at MS4A4/MS4A6E, CD2AP, CD33 and EPHA1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease. 43:436-443. 2011
Ancestry and pharmacogenomics of relapse in acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 43:237-241. 2011
Association of a functional variant downstream of TNFAIP3 with systemic lupus erythematosus. 43:253-258. 2011
Genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for IgA nephropathy. 43:321-329. 2011
Targets and dynamics of promoter DNA methylation during early mouse development. 42:1093-1100. 2010
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. 42:937-948. 2010
Androgen-induced TOP2B-mediated double-strand breaks and prostate cancer gene rearrangements. 42:668-675. 2010
Mixed linear model approach adapted for genome-wide association studies. 42:355-360. 2010
Common genetic variation in the HLA region is associated with late-onset sporadic Parkinson's disease. 42:781. 2010
KLF1 regulates BCL11A expression and γ- to β-globin gene switching. 42:742-744. 2010
A large-scale replication study identifies TNIP1, PRDM1, JAZF1, UHRF1BP1 and IL10 as risk loci for systemic lupus erythematosus. 41:1228-1233. 2009
Rearrangement of CRLF2 in B-progenitor-and Down syndrome-associated acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 41:1243-1246. 2009
Genome-wide association study identifies new multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci on chromosomes 12 and 20. 41:824-828. 2009
REL, encoding a member of the NF-B family of transcription factors, is a newly defined risk locus for rheumatoid arthritis. 41:820-823. 2009
Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis find that over 40 loci affect risk of type 1 diabetes. 41:703-707. 2009
Usp46 is a quantitative trait gene regulating mouse immobile behavior in the tail suspension and forced swimming tests. 41:688-695. 2009
α-Synuclein is part of a diverse and highly conserved interaction network that includes PARK9 and manganese toxicity. 41:308-315. 2009
Repeatability of published microarray gene expression analyses. 41:149-155. 2009
MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African Americans. 40:1185-1192. 2008
Ribosomal mutations cause p53-mediated dark skin and pleiotropic effects. 40:963-970. 2008
THM1 negatively modulates mouse sonic hedgehog signal transduction and affects retrograde intraflagellar transport in cilia. 40:403-410. 2008
A recurrent 15q13.3 microdeletion syndrome associated with mental retardation and seizures. 40:322-328. 2008
A nonsynonymous functional variant in integrin-αM (encoded by ITGAM) is associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. 40:152-154. 2008
Corrigendum: Mutations in smooth muscle α-actin (ACTA2) lead to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections (Nature Genetics (2007) 39, (1488-1493)). 40:255. 2008
Genome-wide association scan in women with systemic lupus erythematosus identifies susceptibility variants in ITGAM, PXK, KIAA1542 and other loci. 40:204-210. 2008
Ciliary proteins link basal body polarization to planar cell polarity regulation. 40:69-77. 2008
Closing gaps in the human genome with fosmid resources generated from multiple individuals.. 40:96-101. 2008
Mutations in smooth muscle α-actin (ACTA2) lead to thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections. 39:1488-1493. 2007
Germline loss-of-function mutations in SPRED1 cause a neurofibromatosis 1-like phenotype. 39:1120-1126. 2007
Chaotic license for genetic instability and cancer. 39:10-11. 2007
Gain-of-function RAF1 mutations cause Noonan and LEOPARD syndromes with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 39:1007-1012. 2007
Conservation of hotspots for recombination in low-copy repeats associated with the NF1 microdeletion. 38:1419-1423. 2006
TRPC6 is a glomerular slit diaphragm-associated channel required for normal renal function. 37:739-744. 2005
Complex trait analysis of gene expression uncovers polygenic and pleiotropic networks that modulate nervous system function. 37:233-242. 2005
Regulation of polarized extension and planar cell polarity in the cochlea by the vertebrate PCP pathway. 37:980-985. 2005
Constitutional aneuploidy and cancer predisposition caused by biallelic mutations in BUB1B. 36:1159-1161. 2004
Towards sound epistemological foundations of statistical methods for high-dimensional biology. 36:943-947. 2004
Chromosome stability, in the absence of apoptosis, is critical for suppression of tumorigenesis in Trp53 mutant mice. 36:63-68. 2004
The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits. 36:1133-1137. 2004
Dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) affects variation in Drosophila longevity. 34:429-433. 2003
Genetic background is an important determinant of metastatic potential [2]. 34:23-25. 2003
Mutant dynactin in motor neuron disease. 33:455-456. 2003
Evidence for an epigenetic mechanism by which Hsp90 acts as a capacitor for morphological evolution. 33:70-74. 2003
Cbfβ interacts with RUNX2 and has a critical role in bone development. 32:639-644. 2002
Synaptic defects in ataxia mice result from a mutation in Usp14, encoding a ubiquitin-specific protease. 32:420-425. 2002
c-fos regulates neuronal excitability and survival. 30:416-420. 2002
Rescue of embryonic lethality in Mdm4-null mice by loss of Trp53 suggests a nonoverlapping pathway with MDM2 to regulate p53. 29:92-95. 2001
Imprinted X inactivation maintained by a mouse Polycomb group gene. 28:371-375. 2001
Mutations in GFAP, encoding glial fibrillary acidic protein, are associated with Alexander disease. 27:117-120. 2001
Gene therapy restores vision in a canine model of childhood blindness. 28:92-95. 2001
IgA nephropathy, the most common cause of glomerulonephritis, is linked to 6q22-23. 26:354-357. 2000
The genetically isolated populations of Finland and Sardinia may not be a panacea for linkage disequilibrium mapping of common disease genes. 25:320-323. 2000
Mutation of a nuclear receptor gene, NR2E3, causes enhanced S cone syndrome, a disorder of retinal cell fate. 24:127-131. 2000
CACP, encoding a secreted proteoglycan, is mutated in camptodactyly- arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis syndrome. 23:319-322. 1999
Mutations in the homeodomain of the human SIX3 gene cause holoprosencephaly. 22:196-198. 1999
Progressive ataxia, myoclonic epilepsy and cerebellar apoptosis in cystatin B-deficient mice. 20:251-258. 1998
Alpha-2 macroglobulin is genetically associated with Alzheimer disease. 19:357-360. 1998
Mutations in CDMP1 cause autosomal dominant brachydactyly type C.. 17:18-19. 1997
Unstable minisatellite expansion causing recessively inherited myoclonus epilepsy, EPM1. 15:393-396. 1997
Retinal-specific guanylate cyclase gene mutations in Leber's congenital amaurosis. 14:461-464. 1996
Genetic analysis of ageing: Role of oxidative damage and environmental stresses. 13:25-34. 1996
A map to the future. 12:117-118. 1996
A potassium channel mutation in weaver mice implicates membrane excitability in granule cell differentiation. 11:126-129. 1995
Autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa caused by mutations in the α subunit of rod cGMP phosphodiesterase. 11:468-471. 1995
Opitz syndrome is genetically heterogeneous, with one locus on Xp22, and a second locus on 22q11.2. 11:459-461. 1995
Release of an inhibitor of angiogenesis upon induction of wild type p53 expression in glioblastoma cells.. 8:171-176. 1994
A common mutation in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 gene in Pfeiffer syndrome. 8:269-274. 1994
Mitochondrial diabetes revisited. 7:458-459. 1994
Occipital horn syndrome and a mild Menkes phenotype associated with splice site mutations at the MNK locus. 8:195-202. 1994
De novo expansion of a (CAG)n repeat in sporadic Huntington's disease. 5:168-173. 1993
Discrepancy resolved. 5:215. 1993
Trinucleotide repeat length instability and age of onset in Huntington's disease. 4:387-392. 1993
Widespread expression of the human and rat Huntington's disease gene in brain and nonneural tissues. 5:259-265. 1993
Maternally transmitted diabetes and deafness associated with a 10.4 kb mitochondrial DNA deletion. 1:11-15. 1992
The Huntington's disease candidate region exhibits many different haplotypes. 1:99-103. 1992


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Q: Tool to return HTML as string after injecting variables Context
I'm building a tool using React and one of it's functionalities is taking several user information through a form and returning a full HTML code for copying and pasting into an .html file.
I did use handlebars on a past project, but server side. I don't know how to implement something like this using only front-end code — I did read Handlebars documentation but couldn't understand it's usage.
In this question I'm using a very stripped down handlebars-like code as an example. The final code would have much more details.
Example
I would have a template:

        <title>{{ user.name }}</title>

I'm a {{ user.job }}

The user would input it's name and job, let's say, John and Doctor.
and after clicking a button it would return:

        <title>John</title>

I'm a Doctor

This code would be production ready, so if the user copy-paste it on a .html file, it would work perfectly.
The question
I thought about creating a template string with all the info and injecting it through good old javascript, but thought: there might be a better way to do this
(And more readable, as a huge HTML file written inside a template string, inside a function, isn't something too nice)
Are there any tools that can help me do that? Am I on the right track?

A: I believe a template string would work:

const returnHTML = (title, name) => {
  return `

              <title>
                ${title}
              </title>

                Welcome, ${name}

          `;
   }

<button onclick="document.write(returnHTML('hi', 'AJ'))">Insert</button>

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Irene, A Ugandan Prostitute, Explains How To Use A Condom
Marc Silver
The interviewer asks the fresh-faced young woman named Irene: "What do you do here in this village?"
"I am a prostitute," she says.
Wilbur Sargunaraj, who's from India, likes to make videos about village life. He did a series, including a music video, for Goats and Soda last year. This past week he published the video "How To Wear The Condom" on YouTube, featuring his interview with Irene.
Sargunaraj went to Uganda in November to film a music video (in partnership with Endiro Coffee, which donates a portion of its profits to help lift Ugandans out of poverty).
While he was there, a staff member with the International Organization for Migration took him on a four-hour drive to the village of Kansensero so he could make a video that would "enter into the world" of people who don't typically have a presence on YouTube. That's where he met Irene.
Irene is in her 20s and has been a prostitute for seven years. She's a little nervous at the start of the interview but goes on to give a lesson about the proper use of a condom (demonstrating on a banana). She also shares her life story, which has its share of tragic moments, including a client who beat her. But she seems remarkably resilient, talking about how she uses her earnings to take care of her two kids.
She is also a peer mentor, teaching other sex workers about the importance of condoms in a village where HIV was first diagnosed in Uganda in the 1980s. Today an estimated 43 percent of the 10,000 residents are HIV positive.
"I am the one who puts on the condom," Irene says. The man might say he'll do it, she says, but then probably won't.
In addition to learning Irene's condom strategies (starting with: check the "expiry" date), Sargunaraj learned something else from her: "The number one thing she taught me is that there is beauty in everything, and that everyone has intrinsic value."
Irene probably hasn't yet seen the YouTube video, Sargunaraj says. He doesn't think her village has internet access. But he hopes to go back to Uganda and make a music video with Irene, who dreams of being an entertainer and says of herself: "I can sing and make a comedy."
Thanks to Sargunaraj, she's now a star on YouTube.
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Q: Calling variadic Obj-C method multiple times causes invalid arguments to appear I have a variadic method that I want to pass multiple enum values to:
typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, Enum) {
    Enum0 = 0,
    Enum1 = 1,
    Enum2 = 2,
    Enum3 = 3,
    Enum4 = 4,
    Enum5 = 5,
    Enum6 = 6,
};

@interface Variadics : NSObject
- (void)test:(Enum)enm, ...;
@end

here's the implementation
@implementation Variadics
- (void)test:(Enum)enm, ... {
    va_list args;
    va_start(args, enm);
    for (; enm != 0; enm = va_arg(args, Enum))
    {
        NSAssert(enm <= Enum6, @"invalid enum");
    }
    va_end(args);
}
@end

And here is how I call it:
Variadics* var = [[Variadics alloc] init];
[var test:Enum1, Enum2, Enum3, Enum4, Enum5, Enum6, 0];

which works fine! But if I change it to this:
Variadics* var = [[Variadics alloc] init];
[var test:Enum1, Enum2, Enum3, Enum4, Enum5, Enum6, 0];
[var test:Enum1, Enum2, Enum3, Enum4, Enum5, Enum6, 0];
[var test:Enum1, Enum2, Enum3, Enum4, Enum5, Enum6, 0];
[var test:Enum1, Enum2, Enum3, Enum4, Enum5, Enum6, 0];

suddenly I hit that assertion and enum == 4294967296. Even weirder, I hit the assertion on the first call. The three later calls never even run.
What is going on?

A: Your zero termination at the end of the argument list is being passed to your function as an int (32-bit) value, but your va_arg is pulling off an NSInteger (aka long) value from the stack. So you're suctioning in an additional 32 bits off of the stack and looking at all of it as one 64-bit value, half of which is the zero you intended and half of which is whatever happened to be adjacent to it in memory at that time.
You would have to do this to get the behavior that you want:
[var test:Enum1, Enum2, Enum3, Enum4, Enum5, Enum6, (NSInteger)0];

As Rob Mayoff clarifies in comments below, an uncast zero literal, being an integer value, is treated as an int. Normal C integer promotion rules apply*; in a varargs list, because the arguments have no declared type, smaller integer types are promoted to-- and passed as-- ints. Because the compiler has no visibility into the actual types you expect to see at runtime, that int will not be not promoted to long for you, thus winds up on the stack as an int.
Typically, varargs termination is either done implicitly (printf style foreknowledge of arg number and types) or with a constant like nil which will be the correct width, and those approaches avoid this issue. In the old 32-bit world where enum values were ints, and NSInteger was int, and the default integer promotion was also to int, these distinctions were hidden.
In practice, what this might mean for your code design is that you'd perhaps reserve a special sentinel enum value (not necessarily zero) to use as a list terminator to guarantee it was of the correct type. Or you'd perhaps modify to prepend the number of arguments to the function call.
*See C18 standard §6.3.1.1 ;-)

Bonus Explainer: Why did you see the value enum == 4294967296?
The decimal number 4294967296 is equal to 0x0000000100000000. The second (lower) half of that was the 32-bit zero you put there. The upper half looks like it's just the number 1. At first I assumed that this would be some other (valid) part of the current stack frame, but some investigation (on a 64-bit Mac using current llvm with Xcode, etc) shows that the compiler sets up the call to -test:... by pushing the enum args with movq (move quad =64bit) and the final zero arg with movl (move long =32bit). Because the stack is 64-bit aligned, a "hole" of 32-bits is left (ie, not overwritten) in the stack memory between the penultimate and terminal args. That's the spot that contained the 0x1. So you're not reading an adjacent argument, or other value that's valid but used for something else. You're reading a ghost value from some earlier function call's workspace. In my debugging, it doesn't appear to be from the alloc/init of Variable-- it's something prior and unrelated to the test code at hand.


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Hello! And welcome to the blog. To get this party started I wanted to introduce myself with 10 Things you definitely don't know about the person behind Manami Design Co.
1. I'm a fan of acro yoga. And actually, I met my husband through acro. if you want to build a relationship on trust–acro yoga is the way to go.
3. I don't really do normal. The best examples to explain... My wedding reception was a pool party bbq. And I have a degree in Design as well as Biology, because why not.
4. We're currently building our first home. We call here Rosewood and she makes launching this business interesting. And yes, I am running two blogs.
5. If you were to drop me off at a design conference for branding or hand lettering I would be in heaven. Those are my two loves (besides my husband) and are what you will see lots of here on the blog.
6. I'm a blog reading addict. Bloglovin' is a blessing & curse for this. A few of my top favs are breanna rose, bleubird, designlovefest and love taza.
7. Manami Design Studio is my biz baby and is set to launch Spring 2016 barring nothing gets in my way. I am accepting clients before then, so please contact me if you're ready to brand your creative business with a timeless brand identity that shares your story.
8. I have lots of goals for the next few years. 101 of them to be exact. I'll be sharing those very soon.
9. If I decide one day to leave the design business it will probably be for a career as a floral designer. When I'm not on the computer I'm probably tending to my plants or at the store buying more. Working with and being surrounded by plants is my bliss.
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It seems just like I woke up an hour ago. Although it felt pretty good to sleep in till 11am on a day off (I know, I know....some of you are saying "Sleep in till 11? Half of the day is already gone! How can you stay sleep past 8am?" - as a programmer, my best work is done between 1-3 AM (as the SunTrust commercial goes, which is true), and sleeping in between 5am-12pm is normal for me).
I worked on a few web-based cosmetic items before lunch, mainly on my blog, and got some coupons for Hardee's. Afterwards, went to Goodwill and found some really good items (won't say what specifically), and then heading back home.
Keat and I watched the end of Psych season 3, and started season 4. Always a winner, always will be.
I fixed a lot of issues on the blog, along with added the twitter feed and the entry editor. I also fixed a server issue with Fire & Ice fest site, along with the NSMT test site.
Friday didn't go as planned. I expected to have a lot more work done today, but what can I say? Friday was here, and now it's gone.


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First published in The Record, Nov. 20, 2018
In New Jersey's idyllic cranberry bogs, a battle for control
Cranberries are lazy, persnickety and wild.
Also, cranberries dislike you. There's a reason why a raw cranberry tastes like a cherry dunked in napalm: rare among plants, the cranberry is simultaneously edible and repulsive.
Cranberry jelly may be a staple Thanksgiving snack. But raw cranberries are so tart, most humans can't stomach more than three in a row.
"What's most surprising about cranberries is that we're eating a fruit that evolved not to be eaten," said Nicholi Vorsa, director of the Marucci Blueberry and Cranberry Research and Extension Center at Rutgers University. "There's no reason why we should eat this fruit that tastes godawful!"
The distaste is mutual. The last thing a cranberry plant wants to do is produce maroon-colored jelly shaped like the ribbed insides of an aluminum can, to say nothing of newer products like Ocean Spray Cranberry Peach Bellini Mocktails, for people, or Zesty Paws Cranberry Bladder Bites with Cran-Max®, for dogs.
Workers at Pine Island Cranberry Co. use yellow booms - similar to those used in containing oil spills - to corral buries for harvest. Photo: Tariq Zehawi/Northjersey.com
When cranberries get their druthers, in fact, they simply run away. If a farmer plants an apple orchard, Vorsa said, she can come back 50 years later and find the same apple tree standing in the same spot.
"A cranberry bog might be gone in 50 years. It might have moved 50 yards down the road," Vorsa said. "There are no other crops that are as difficult to control as cranberries."
Hell. Cranberries don't even grow in water. Contrary to the image made famous by Ocean Spray commercials, popular on television this time of year, cranberries grow in conditions akin to deserts.
Also from TV ads, one might imagine cranberry growers to be simpleton goofballs, always horsing around in rubber waders up to their nipples.
This, too, is mistaken.
Bill Haines Jr. and his family have spent five generations attempting to tame the wild cranberry, and they've done a better job than just about anybody. The official name of the Haines farm is Pine Island Cranberry Company, Inc., located near Chatsworth, Burlington County. Some people call the farm Hog Wallow, because it was founded in 1890 at a low spot in the road where wild pigs liked to cool off.
Haines calls it "The Place." It encompasses 1,440 acres of bogs and nearly 13,000 acres of forest, swamp, reservoirs, canals, dams, big houses, little houses, pumphouses, a sand mine and a private airstrip, carved from the pines and paved in sand.
"You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me easygoing or complacent," said Haines, 65. "This place has been run by unreasonable people for 128 years. And it isn't about to change."
His holdings make Haines the largest cranberry producer in New Jersey, and among the largest landowners in the state. The Oswego River and the west branch of the Wading River run through his farm, and Haines controls both almost entirely.
He controls whether his cranberry vines drink or drown. He controls when they lie dormant. He controls how much food they eat. He struggles with all his considerable might to control whether they reproduce, and how, and with whom.
Haines's power peaks during the fall harvest, when each bog is flooded for about a day. (The practice was popularized in 1961 by his father, Bill Haines Sr.) That's when workers knock berries from the vines, creating the only picture of a cranberry bog most people ever know, with azure ponds covered in scarlet, bobbing fruit.
Every other day of the year is a struggle between man and nature. On the side of man is Bill Haines, a control freak of the highest rank.
At six feet four inches Haines is a lanky man, squarely built, with blue eyes gone crinkly from squinting in the sun. When things are going well this large man speaks in a voice that is disarming and soft. He crosses and re-crosses his legs, flings his hands around loosely, so comfortable in his power he seems to forget all about it.
"We didn't have a clue what we were doing," Haines said of building the first overhead irrigation system in a New Jersey cranberry bog, in 1975. "And every day about 10 o'clock I got hell from my dad for not getting it done."
When things don't go well, another side of Haines jumps out. On a sunny day ten years ago, I rode shotgun in his Ford pickup as Haines gave me a tour. Haines was talking amiably about soil when he stopped the truck hard, swung open the door, and charged a group of workers.
"What's the story of this truck that's been sitting here for two days?" Haines said, jerking his thumb toward a dump truck stalled by a broken pump. "If they get the pump fixed in November it won't do me any damn good! We need that truck moving! Now!"
Of course, the primary obstacle in Hog Wallow is neither the trucks nor the help. It is the riotous, recalcitrant cranberry, always finding ways to squirrel free.
Let's get ornery
Cranberries are the Brillo Pads of fruit. High in benzoic acid, they scour the bellies of mammals like steel wool against a saucepan. Native Americans swallowed the berries to prevent gut infections, and they applied mashed-up cranberry paste to open wounds for the same reason. These tricks were borrowed by early white settlers, who also ate the berries to ward off scurvy.
Scant medical benefits aside, a cranberry's highest achievement is to be a pain in the butt. Cranberries are peripatetic floozies; they will reproduce with just about anybody. Each berry is heterozygous, which means if a single berry drops to the ground, its seeds might sprout any of a thousand different varieties. Bees also pollinate cranberry flowers, creating additional combinations.
"Cranberries are an ornery bunch," Susan Playfair wrote in America's Founding Fruit, a book about cranberries. Playfair's great-grandfather owned a cranberry bog in Massachusetts.
But the cranberry's favorite way to reproduce is to forget this berry business entirely. It prefers to cover the land with vines, which farmers call "runners." These runners search for dry, sandy soil with just enough water underneath for their roots to sip.
"Cranberries live on this edge between wet and dry environments," Vorsa said.
If it finds perfect conditions, a cranberry plant stays put. If not, it keeps running.
"From an evolutionary standpoint, a cranberry has evolved one of the strongest abilities among all plant species" to run away, Vorsa said. "Runners will just go back and forth and colonize the appropriate water level."
Here lies the heart of Bill Haines' struggle. He needs fruit. But growing fruit requires hard work, something cranberry vines disdain.
"Sexual reproduction is good for the species, but it's a stress on the individual plant," Vorsa said. "So you have what I call rogue cranberry plants that come in and out-muscle the variety you want."
Cranberries remain strong-willed because humans are new to breaking them. Corn was domesticated in Mexico about 8,700 years ago. Today, most commercial corn varieties die without human oversight.
When a cranberry plant is left to its own devices, meanwhile, it goes kind of nuts. The tart red berries weren't hemmed into commercial bogs until 1816.
"Cranberries are unique because they've been domesticated only within the last couple years," Vorsa said.
Even today, nearly every cranberry we consume is essentially wild, a genetic individual.
"Cranberries are real finicky," Haines said.
Only now are farmers beginning to plant new varieties bred by Vorsa and his colleagues at the Rutgers extension center specifically to produce more fruit. One is the Mullica Queen, named for the river that starts just south of Haines's bogs. Another is Haines, named for Bill Haines' dad.
"We've got ten acres of Haines," Haines said. "We're pretty proud of that."
Early Black, an old variety, typically produces 200 barrels of berries per acre, Haines said. New varieties more than double that.
"We plan on getting 300,000 barrels" of cranberries this year, he said. "I think someday we could be producing half a million."
Every old bog that Haines replants with new varieties will boost his total production. Eventually, though, he will lose every bog to the old, barren, fast-running invaders.
They come on the wind. They sprout from seeds that drop from vines to the ground. They float from bog to bog in the harvest flood. They hitch rides in the fur of bees.
If Haines manages his farm well, he figures it will take 50 years for the invaders to win. If he screws up, his berry-producing bogs could be lost to vines in a few seasons.
"A bog can go backwards and revert to the wild if you don't pay attention," he said.
UNSTOPPABLE FORCE, MEET YELLOW BULLDOZER
On a cloudy day this fall, I climbed into Haines' Ford pickup for another tour. Haines' mood was bright. Four of his six children and one son-in-law have assumed responsibilities at the farm since my last visit, but Haines remains the ultimate authority.
He is trying to let the young people run things.
"It's not good for them for me to hover around," he said. "It can make them nervous."
Haines is respected, sometimes feared, because no one knows this land like he does. In his youth he worked the farm with his hands, while in his mind he daydreamed of moving water. Haines realized he could open the floodgates at Old Reservoir, letting water from the Oswego River fall south into Old 22 Acre, into Shanty and Big Meadow and Portugee. From those bogs he could shunt the river east through a bog called Dollar and a Half.
"My dad's manager didn't like the bog, and said he wouldn't give a dollar and a half for it," Haines said. "We have another one called Thousand Dollar. Apparently he liked that."
From Dollar and a Half, Haines can switch on his pumps and lift the water uphill to Jonathan Wright Reservoir. There he can open the gates and shake it west through Five Dollar bog to Turf Reservoir, where it follows the drop of the land into a bog called Nadine.
If he chooses, Bill Haines can run the Oswego River sideways.
"We can use water several times," he said. "It's a complicated water system. But you can make it do what you want it to do if you understand it."
It was harvest time. Haines parked the Ford near a flooded bog. A worker drove a John Deere tractor through the bog, knocking berries from vines.
On each pass, however, the tractor's path was blocked by another worker spreading sand across the dam with a yellow bulldozer.
Harvest comes to this bog one day a year. Rebuilding the earthen dams can be done anytime. Yet here sat this lumbering earth mover, in the way, threatening to throw the entire harvest off schedule.
"I'm not quite sure why they chose to do that today," Haines said quietly.
Haines fell silent. His pale cheeks reddened with anger. I asked whether sometimes he finds it difficult to restrain his power, to defer to his managers, to quell his urge to start screaming at his workers to move that damn bulldozer out of the way, now, damn it, now.
Bill Haines said nothing. He clenched his jaw and nodded yes.
First published in The Record.


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Secret Romney Tape Means We Can Finally Stop Talking About Obama's Failed Foreign & Domestic Policy!
Nick Gillespie | 9.18.2012 8:31 AM
Let's not mince words: President Barack Obama is one lucky bastard.
Last week, he got a near-total pass from the press regarding foreign policy due to what was at worst a case of bad timing by GOP challenger Mitt Romney. This week (and possibly beyond), Obama is being helped out big time by the release of a tape in which Romney inveighs against people who receive payouts from the government.
Maybe Romney could have waited another few hours after the killing of our ambassador to Libya but does anyone still think that Obama has any idea of what he's doing with regard to foreign policy?
Yet after disastrous attacks on U.S. people and places in Egypt and Libya—and thoroughly unconvincing claims by the administration that such deadly violence "is not an expression of hostility in the broader sense toward the United States or U.S. policy"—it was Mitt Romney who got tagged as having "the worst week in Washington." According to the media, Romney had finally crossed a line no decent human being ever dare cross by criticizing a sitting president while protesters demonstrated outside something like 20 U.S. embassies around the globe.
As Obama spokesperson Jen Psaki put it, Romney's willingness to criticize the president "does raise a question of whether his team is ready for prime time when it comes to these issues."
You got that? Obama is the president, is the guy who extended the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan, still has folks in Iraq, unilaterally decided to drop bombs in Libya (where our ambassador and other people were just killed by an RPG-armed mob ostensibly annoyed at a YouTube clip), maintains a kill list, and pursues drone strikes in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen (sites of demonstrations). But it's Mitt Romney who's the screwup.
Romney is hardly blameless in all this, of course; as the failure of whatever Obama's mideast and Muslim policies are supposed to be is coming fully into view, he has hardly proposed a meaningful alternative other than looting the treasury to pay for yet more defense and bellicosity throughout the world.
And now, as Peter Suderman noted, his comments about "the 47 percent" will dominate the news cycle from now until the next gaffe. Romney's comments at a private fundraiser were taped and have been released by the progressive magazine Mother Jones under the headline, "Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters."
In the tape, Romney says
There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.
There are plenty of things to pick apart in this statement—and that's already mostly been done. As it happens, entitlement spending generally increases faster under Republican presidents than under Democratic ones, and Romney's devotion to seniors—who often pay no income taxes due to their retired status and reliance in Social Security—has been repaid with their willingness to vote for him. As the conservative writer Ramesh Ponnuru wrote before the tape was released, Mitt Romney, his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Republicans in general are mistaken when they pin Obama's popularity to welfare payouts. After noting that seniors are increasingly voting Republican even as government payouts to them have increased, Ponnuru goes on to say
It's true that Americans with low incomes—more and more of whom now receive food stamps and federally subsidized health insurance—have generally voted for Democrats over Republicans. But in 2010, these voters shifted toward Republicans even as food stamps, unemployment benefits and the like continued to increase.
Conservatives have even less reason for worrying about people who don't pay federal income taxes. A major reason that the number of those people has grown is that a Republican-controlled Congress created, and the Bush administration expanded, a tax credit for parents. If there is any evidence that in recent years middle-class parents have become more Democratic, relative to the general electorate, I haven't seen it.
While the tape may have a different effect on voters due to its "secret" nature, the fact is that the GOP has been pushing the "makers" versus "takers" line for a long time. If that distinction hasn't pushed "takers" such as seniors and younger households who only pay payroll taxes into the arms of Obama and the Democrats already, it's not clear that this story will. As blogger Ann Althouse summarizes her reaction, "Presented at Mother Jones as if it's quite disturbing, but I don't see anything bad in there at all."
From a purely political perspective, the real question is what effect, if any, on swing voters who voted for Obama in 2008 but are up for grabs. These are the people Romney talks about as "the 5 to 6 or 7 percent that we have to bring onto our side." Recent polls had shown Romney up by 15 percentage points with independents, but that could all vanish if they start to feel an ick factor attached to Romney's fundraiser-event comments (despite however much they mirror his stump speeches).
I know plenty of people who lean toward the Republican rhetoric (and it's only rhetoric) when it comes to economic issues but recoil due to the party's positions and attitudes towards gays, immigrants, and broadly defined secularism.
Gallup reports that a sizable 62 percent of independents still think "government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businessess." That can't be good for Obama, whose worldview is very much about expanding government's role in everything.
For me, the real issue is that this mini-flap again deflects attention away from the state of the economy and related issues regardless of who wins. I have little to no use for Romney's platform such as it is. Indeed, the most compelling case for Romney's election was delivered by Clint Eastwood. The Squint's basic pitch had nary to do with the GOP standard-bearer. Rather, Eastwood argued simply that Obama didn't get the job done so he should be fired. That may or may not be effective, but Romney is pretty incidental to it.
But Obama's actual record is worth sussing through. As spun out at the Democratic National Convention, Obama's domestic policy moves have seen nothing but success. Either the stimulus flat-out worked or, if it didn't actually achieve any of its goals in terms of reducing unemployment, it staved off far worse outcomes. You got that, America: If I hadn't gotten to do what I wanted, says President Obama, you'd be even more out of a job. The illegal auto bailout was so successful that it will never earn back what was spent on it. Health care reform, which expands the budget-breaking program Medicare and yet manages to protect completely the budget-breaking program Medicare, will help the country's bottom line because it forces more people to pay for insurance so good they have to be forced to pay for it. The president's plans for the future include more spending, slightly more taxes (but only on the rich) and deficits for at least the next 10 years (his budget proposal only goes that far).
When the focus shifts from economic policy to things such as the drug war, or immigration, or transparency, well…noboby really wants to discuss those things anyway, right?
So thank god for this latest flap over Romney saying in private essentially what he says in public. Because if it weren't for that, we might actually get around to discussing something/anything that actually has a real bearing on just how bad whoever gets elected in November is going to screw things up even more. After all, a presidential campaign is really just not the place for that sort of discussion.
Related: Read Matt Welch's "Romney's 47 Percent Line is a Common GOP Trope, and It's Wrong." And J.D. Tuccille's "Will Americans Things They're Romney's 47 Percent? Or One of the 53 Percent?"
NEXT: China: U.S. Must Use Islands Dispute to Prove It Doesn't Take Sides
Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason.
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September.18.2012 at 8:43 am
Yes, we have no banannas.
Gotta admit, I like Romney better now.
If Secret Tape Romney were the candidate, I'd root for him.
But you know what? I'm just cynical enough that I don't think this tape "caught the real Romney in an unguarded moment". Even THIS Romney is a put-on. It's just the persona he trotted out for Rich Guy Fundraiser.
It's Romneys all the way down.
And Obamas all the way "forward".
Heroic Mulatto
More like a daisy chain of Obamas all butt-fucking each other, because he's that narcissistic.
The Wookie has his penis, so that would not work.
Generic Stranger
He should have let her win…
September.18.2012 at 12:10 pm
I agree. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'd be happy if he doubled down on his statement.
He's right.
Should be *Jen* Psaki, Nick.
Other than that, nicely done.
Night Elf Mohawk
Yes, the coverage is due to luck.
He should secretly leak a sex tape with Ann.
Then when anyone asks him about "the tape", he can say, "Which one?" or "I'm not going to dignify that with a response" or maybe even "That's not me, that's R. Kelly!"
It'd be great if the answer to every question in the debates were "I'm not going to dignify that with a response".
…and it would dispel all those rumors about exactly how up-standing Mormons do do it. Sheets? No sheets? Does the bishop get to watch? etc.
hotsy totsy
Suthenboy
There is never any shortage of squirrels to point to is there?
A+ on the alt-text on the last picture Nick.
CampingInYourPark
Yeah, what is new about this?
"Romney to NAACP: 'Vote for the other guy' if you want free stuff"
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/201…..ree-stuff/
President Barack Obama is one lucky bastard.
Last week, he got a near-total pass from the press regarding foreign policy due to what was at worst a case of bad timing by GOP challenger Mitt Romney.
Romney has nothing to do with the press giving Obama a pass, and luck has got nothing to do with it, either.
VG Zaytsev
September.18.2012 at 10:20 am
Yeah, the tape was recorded a couple of months ago.
Love that pic of The One. He looks like a black John Edwards.
EDG reppin' LBC
In that photo, he looks like Steve O. from Jackass.
The sad thing is I'd vote for Steve-O over Obama.
Wait a minute, Steve-O, Obama, and he uses a big O as his symbol? I can't believe I never connected the dots before now. Obama IS Steve-O in black face! The last 4 years were just a big elaborate Jackass prank on the whole country.
Holy fuck. Mind. Blown.
I'sn't the worst part of the video where he says, "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives"?
That goes completely contrary to what he's been pitching. Getting people back to work, giving the stink eye to China so manufacturing gets back on its feet and undoing Obama's Medicare cuts all targets those people.
I agree that Obama has been one lucky SOB. If he was up against a credible opponent, this would be a walk for the GOP.
That goes completely contrary to what he's been pitching.
His pitch on helping people get jobs back and through his force of personality will bring manufacturing jobs from China. That message is targeted at unemployed people that are likely in that 47% because they're unemployed.
You mean he's trying to get the votes of the 47% even though he told people he wanted money from he isn't going to get them? The horror.
Who the hell wants a manufacturing job if you're getting all kinds of free stuff for doing, basically, nothing?
"I'sn't the worst part of the video where he says, 'My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives?'"
Except he's talking about his job as a candidate. His point to the donors at a fundraiser is that, true or false, he isn't going to get the vote of people that feel entitled to something from gov't.
Hasn't that been his pitch to the elderly? Obama want's to cut Medicare, but I won't let him.
"I'm old! Gimme, gimme, gimme."
*wants
Where do you get the idea that old people don't pay taxes. My dad pays taxes out of the ass. If you have a retirement, they tax that. If you make any money, they tax your social security. If you have any investments or own something, they tax that income.
Old people pay taxes just like everyone else does. Where did this idea that they don't come from?
Depends on which elderly. SS benefits aren't considered taxable income, so if that makes up the bulk of your retirement income (or if other sources are less than standard deduction) than you won't pay taxes. The majority of people that don't pay income or payroll taxes are elderly.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org…..eholds.cfm
Depends on which elderly. SS benefits aren't considered taxable income
If you have enough outside income it is. And no way are a majority of people who don't pay taxes elderly. Most old people make more than just social security. And that is all taxable. If you don't want to pay taxes, own a big house, have a couple of kids and make less than 100K a year.
And no way are a majority of people who don't pay taxes elderly. Most old people make more than just social security.
I didn't say a majority of the elderly don't pay taxes. I said a majority of people that pay no federal taxes (payroll or income taxes) are elderly. Which is what the link I posted showed. They didn't break out the portion that pay payroll taxes, but no federal income taxes, but there's likely a decent number of the elderly there as well. Also, not all non SS income is taxable. There are lots of tax advantaged investments.
September.18.2012 at 6:53 pm
Actually Mo, if you follow your link, you will see that of the 46.4% who paid no federal income tax in 2011, only 10.3% are elderly. That's not a majority. Helps if you actually look at the data on the graphs, rather than how the Brookings Institution chooses to spin them.
Sure, but that has little to do with being at a fundraiser explaining you are probably at a disadvantage with a large percentage of the population in order to try to…oh I don't know…raise funds?
MonsieurOblong
It's true, but the sad thing is, Romney is the best the GOP has to offer. He was the best of a science-denying incompetent bunch of loons in the primary. Ron Paul never stood a chance, nor did Johnson or Huntsman. The party continually insists on opposing a litmus test on anyone crazy enough to run, and it's only getting worse. What I fear is that the GOP will take away from a Romney loss, after a McCain loss, is "see what happens when we vote for a 'moderate' who doesn't believe in a theocracy?" and insist on even more more extremism in the party.
The sad thing is, I could have voted for earlier versions of McCain or Romney, but I could never vote for what the party turned them into.
ThatSkepticGuy
"He was the best of a science-denying incompetent bunch of loons in the primary"
Oh Hell, that stamement can be applied to either party. For a Mormon, Romney has had a pro-science voting record in his time as Gov. that most neoLiberals will never be able to boast.
C. S. P. Schofield
"let's not mince words"
The press is in the tank for Obama. The press will make a fuss over ANYTHING if it will let them duck discussing just how bad a President Obama has been, especially compared to the hype they spread about how great he was going to be. The press has reached levels of sycophantic butt-kissing previously only achieved in countries run by dictators who owned the press. If the journalism majors who are writing this drivel were capable of feeling shame, they would commit suicide.
Romney isn't perfect. He may not even be very good. It is even just barely conceivable that he is worse than Obama. Compared to the press covering this election, he's Jesus Christ, Einstein, and Mohammed Ali rolled into one.
"The Middle East is in flames, American embassies are under attack, and an Ambassador has been assassinated. The economy is tanking and inflation is rising. But our top story tonight – Mitt Romney said something mildly unpleasant."
Stephdumas
Yeah, what a good diversion for the media.
Meanwhile, it's interesting to check on Breitbart.com how that story is covered by curiosity.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G…..nservative
Sycophants or not, I'm not taking as credible a source that is only followed by those who do ever-more-painful backflips to ignore the reality behind what was said here. Media bias in favor of Obama is one thing, but "I-can't-hear-you-la-la-la" unwillingness to check any of the actual facts behind the issues at hand is Romney's (and the GOP's) only remaining constituency. I just can't wait 'till the party implodes so we can get an alternative that is, in fact, pro-liberty, pro-science, pro-logic, and pro-human.
Enjoy Every Sandwich
Aye, I figure it's only a matter of time before they start referring to him as "The Dear Leader" or some such.
Their ballprints-on-the-chin love for him is a little hard for me to fathom. I guess love truly is blind…and deaf…and stupid.
What gets to me is the towering incompetence. They've told the "We're the Press. We're neutral." lie so often that they actually believe it.
See, the press was NEVER neutral. Read Mencken's memoirs; in any town of any size there would likely be two papers. One would back the party in power (and get the government printing contracts), the other would back the opposition (and was usually bankrolled by some rich guy with ambitions to be Governor). And each side knew that the other existed, and would happily exploit any sloppy writing they did. So some kind of minimal standard was upheld, for purely practical reasons.
The modern Press has been Liberal Left by a huge margin for so long that they've forgotten what it is like to have real opposition. And in the time since talk radio and the internet became serious political venues, they haven't learned a damn thing. I've see better writing in High School newspapers. That were covering the election of the Prom Queen.
That were covering the election of the Prom Queen.
Are you sure this isn't a Prom Queen election on a national scale?
Would God that it were. Prom Queen doesn't matter one twentieth as much as the School Paper thinks it does. This election is likely to matter a great deal more than the Press is capable of understanding.
I don't say this in a "Fight for the Soul of the Country" sense. So far as I can see the last President who had a handle on that was Truman. But something needs to be done to get us out of our economic doldrums. Obama is, by his very nature, incapable of doing anything likely to help. Romney may well do anything good that he ends up doing in order to shove money into the hands of people he likes (not that Obama doesn't), but it is at least remotely possible that he will do something that helps, if for the wrong reasons.
Why do I care if we slump through four more years of doldrums? Because I expect a big terror attack sometime soon. Something that will make the 9/11 attacks look like a skinned knee. If we are economically depressed, we will be likelier to lash out. We probably will anyway, but I want to play the odds as much as I can.
I'm really scared that the idiots in the Middle East are going to push us into Imperialism. They don't have the power to destroy us. They probably don't really have the power to seriously hurt us. They DO have the power to make us seriously angry, and if that happens, when the smoke clears we are going to be stuck running most of the Middle East for a couple of hundred years. And that's the OPTIMISTIC outlook.
Makes me wonder how much of the propaganda in places like North Korea is forced at bayonet point and how much is just self delusion.
T o n y
You've typed words, but all I see is "waaaaah!" Like the media shouldn't cover this tape out of, what, fairness?
There are lots of conservative and liberal blowhards in the media. The hard news only seems liberal because Republicans have evolved to be completely incapable of telling the truth except by accident. It's only natural when your basic political platform is to oppose the president no matter which facts get in the way.
Fairness? Who gives a flip! What I'd like to see is some small degree of competence. If you are in the tank for one candidate for office, you are supposed to be at least less obvious than a chess-club geek who the head cheerleader is leading around by the nose … while she's still dating the quarterback. My god, people, have a little PRIDE!
"It's only natural when your basic political platform is to oppose the president no matter which facts get in the way."
. . . and as to those determined to suck Executive Cock, reality be damned?
dinkster
Facts don't stop the big O either, he just drone bombs them.
Jackand Ace
"Yet after disastrous attacks on U.S. people and places in Egypt and Libya – "
Hey Nick…I've got news for you…disastrous attacks occur all the time and under any President. Bush had 8 embassy attacks in his 8 years. Reagan had the barracks bombing that killed 241 Marines in Lebanon. If Gary Johnson gets elected (and it would be great if you once in a while spoke about him) he will have his moments as well, unless you reside in a fantasy world.
But even more telling is this comment from you:
"Because if it weren't for that, we might actually get around to discussing something/anything that actually has a real bearing on just how bad whoever gets elected in November is going to screw things up even more."
Brother…how about you being proactive about electing Gary Johnson instead of just whining about everyone else? If you've already given up, whats the point of all this?
InfernalBear
Yes, PLEASE! Ignore reporting on topics that are in the news and focus your laser beam journalism on Johnson. Narrow your sights a bit!
Report away, but for God's sake stop the incessant whining about everyone else. If all you can do is complain about the other guy, it means your guy has nothing to say.
If you don't take your guy seriously, why should anyone else.
The pessimism and resignation is getting old.
MJGreen
'Our' guy is not going to win. Pessimism and resignation are only logical traits.
Well, thanks MJ for being honest about it.
Then the remaining problem is this…you are still advancing a cause. You may not win this time, but the whole point of this blog, and Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Paul for that mater, is to one day win.
If 99% of the effort is just complaining about the other guy, you won't win many converts.
This website should have one interview per week here with Mr. Johnson, just to advance the cause. An in-depth interview with him just on the Romney tape would be great.
tigtow
Doesnt matter who wins, the American Sheeple are DOOMED either way!
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Best anonobot ever!
Either they've forgotten about "Julia," or they hope you have.
http://www.barackobama.com/life-of-julia/
Alex the wolf
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Azathoth!!
Aren't you supposed to wait until October to use your 'October surprise'?
Because that's what this looks like.
In fact, what this whole thing looks like is that Obama's screwed the second 9/11 thing so badly that he's going to launch his entire October surprise arsenal now in the hopes that his media lapdogs can spin it for the rest of the campaign in order to cover this one thing.
Killazontherun
A first rate rant, Nick. Your rhetorical style fits well when the subject matter naturally fits into a compare and contrast mode as it certainly does here.
This is just the class warfare argument republican style. Obama routinely gets a pass on this kind of talk so hearing Romney do it is just logical at this point.
stogiefan
He said what the whole country knows– so what?!
I bet some of that 47% would LOVE not to be there!
Yeh, even some of the 'Julia's that the Dems want to control from womb to tomb.
Gallup reports that a sizable 62 percent of independents still think "government is trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals and businessess."
I have to call bullshit on the validity of that stat based on voter behavior.
This country desperately needs an honest identification and accounting of the philosophic ideas that are animating our public policy (democratic-socialism here, cultural-relativism abroad); followed by a clear contrast and deftly argued alternative. We're not going to get it from Romney.


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I Don't Miss It, But I'm Grateful for It
I was 5 years old when I saw my first movies: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Jetsons: The Movie. It was 1990.
I was 7 years old when, for some inexplicable reason, I copied onto a sheet of white posterboard by hand a review of the animated movie Bebe's Kids from the Orlando Sentinel. It was 1992.
It was 1999 when I began actually writing movie reviews, for the Teentime pages of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel's weekend Showtime section. I was nearing the end of 8th grade, and I had found a call for writers in those pages. I wrote two test reviews for the editor, Oline Cogdill (One review was of Analyze This, which I had seen at a sneak preview), and was deemed good enough to write regularly for the section. During my three years, I won, at the high school journalism awards that the Sun-Sentinel held every year at the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, 2000 Teentime Movie Reviewer of the Year, 2001 Teentime Movie Reviewer of the Year, and 2002 Teentime Reviewer of the Year. I still think that those awards were for sheer quantity, because I wrote a lot, and there were weeks when I didn't think my reviews were any good. Sure I wrote them, but I didn't feel so vested in them. Step one: Pour out opinion of movie into Word file. Step two: Send review to Oline. Step three: Repeat steps one and two.
No matter those occasional dry, dull weeks, I appreciate the experience because it taught me to write regularly. It gave me a routine about it. It began the process that led to where I am today, undaunted in the face of potentially massive writing projects. Don't mistake that for arrogance. I'm comfortable with the tasks, but it still entails a hell of a lot of work.
In 2002, my time with Teentime had ended because I had graduated high school. And one day, in February 2003, while attending classes at Broward Community College on the smallest campus they had (Which was diagonal from the Southwest Regional library in Pembroke Pines, part of the Broward County library system), I was in the computer lab at the Southwest Regional library and had come upon a website called Film Threat, which was looking for writers. I e-mailed the editor, Eric Campos, asked what was needed, and I sent along many sample reviews, silently praying that they would be good enough as I sent each one. And they were. And until 2009, I wrote countless reviews for the site.
In 2004, I applied for membership to the Online Film Critics Society, which Phil Hall, a fellow writer, had suggested. He was also a member of the Governing Committee of the OFCS. I was rejected because, as Phil had said, my reviews contained too much plot summary and not enough opinion. I made necessary adjustments to my reviews, and I was accepted the next year.
Then, in 2006, I decided to run for a slot on the Governing Committee and was elected. Phil was with me, and it was nice to be at the top. And I had also been impressed that at the end of the year, when Hollywood was pushing so many movies for Oscar consideration, we got screeners too since we had our own awards. Sometimes, movies that I wanted to see arrived this way. And then the entire membership sent ballots of what should be nominated, and a few weeks later, we voted on what should win our awards. In 2006 and 2007, I loved it. In 2008 and 2009, I was tired of it and it was partly why I was glad to eventually leave the OFCS.
It began to feel like a hamster wheel. The screeners were wonderful to have, but it felt like there was an obligation to watch these movies, to see if there were any performances, cinematography, editing, etc. that was remarkable enough to garner a nomination, and then the voting, and that was it for the year. Then it began at the same time the next year. I didn't mind the requirement that you had to have written at least 50 reviews for the year in order to retain membership. It was just this aspect that I slowly began to loathe.
At the same time I became a member of the Governing Committee, Jim Judy, the owner of Screen It (http://www.screenit.com/) posted a message on the private OFCS board looking for writers for his site. It was vastly different from other movie review sites, being that these reviews were geared toward giving parents the most information possible about a movie. Everything from alcohol and drugs to sex to violence and profanity was documented in each review.
I e-mailed Jim, very interested, because unlike Film Threat, Screen It paid per review. Jim e-mailed me back, assigning me two test reviews, one for Bad Boys II and another for Something's Gotta Give. Both were easy to get since I had a 3-DVDs-at-a-time account with Netflix at the time.
Bad Boys II, with the violence, explosions, and profanity was a nightmare. I quickly learned what was involved in documenting an "R"-rated movie and had worked so diligently on all of that, and it took so many hours, that I'd forgotten that a regular movie review had to be written in the "Our Take" section. By the time I was done inserting everything I had written down into the template Jim had provided, I didn't even want to think about what I had thought about the movie.
Jim e-mailed both files with corrections, pointing out what needed to be expanded in my descriptions, what wasn't necessary, and hired me. He wanted reviewers for pre-1996 movies (Screen It began in 1996), so it was a godsend for me since I didn't have to go out to the movie theater and try to get everything down without a pause button. I reviewed Ghostbusters, The Godfather, and Beverly Hills Cop, among others. Some reviews took a week because I was so thorough. Mom thought I was being too thorough, but I felt this obligation to get it all exact, no matter how many hours it took.
In early 2009, my final review for Screen It was Goodfellas, and I couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to write other things. Not only was it not possible for me to be a full-time film critic for a newspaper or a magazine, as I once thought I might be, I didn't want to be that anymore, and I also didn't enjoy movies anymore. I wasn't as enthusiastic about them as I was as a writer for Teentime.
It was in the same year that Phil and I lost re-election to the Governing Committee. After the results were known, he asked me if I wanted to join him in co-writing a book called What If They Lived?, about what actors like James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland and John Belushi might have done in their careers had they not died. It was the second book in his two-book contract with BearManor Media, which specializes in Hollywood history and other books about movies and television and radio. It was going to be published.
I didn't want to do it. It felt like too much work. So many books to read, notes to take, and I also had to find other sources, such as newspaper articles, and people to interview, to speculate about what these actors might have done.
Mom told me I had to do it. I would not get this opportunity again. This book was being handed to me. It was a gift other writers would kill for. I understood, and I told Phil I would join him.
Some of the research was very tedious. I especially remember the evening of July 4th in 2009, sitting at the dining room table while fireworks were shown on CBS, reading a 600-page biography about Judy Garland. Fortunately, I had been reading since I was 2, so I was a pro at speed reading, but having to take notes while reading slowed things down considerably, particularly because the first half of each essay was a straight-out biography about each actor, and I had to choose what I wanted to include about Garland.
The fun part was contacting people to interview about these actors. There was a publicist named Gilda N. Squire who had worked with Aaliyah, who graciously speculated about what her career might have been, believing that she would have become what Beyonce is. Considering what I had read, I believe it, because Beyonce is taking the same path with acting as Aaliyah was planning, and had already begun with Romeo Must Die and Queen of the Damned. The Matrix sequels would have been next for her, in the role that Nona Gaye played. And then she wanted the remake of Sparkle, and Some Kind of Blue, with her playing a woman dating a white jazz musician in a time when that was extremely taboo.
I appreciated that people like Squire gave time to talk about these actors. To talk movies with them was most welcome to me because as a writer, you do spend a lot of time alone, in front of a computer screen, trying to figure out how to make your writing work. To talk to others is always welcome, especially in the thick of a writing project.
After I finished writing and editing my share of the book, and sent what I had to Phil to be put together with his essays, I decided I was done with movie reviews. I would be much happier as a former film critic. I wanted to love movies again. I wanted to only know what was coming out by way of the commercials on TV and the trailers I saw online. I didn't want to request DVDs from publicists anymore, I didn't want to receive press release after press release; I just wanted movies to be one part of my life, not the dominant part anymore.
I don't miss movie reviews. I don't miss the wind-tunnel hype machine of awards season. I don't miss the sniping that went on during Governing Committee election campaigns within the OFCS. I don't miss my encounters with publicists after screenings when I wrote for the Teentime section. They were nice enough people, but you could never be sure if it was truly them or just their PR personality.
However, all these years taught me to write regularly and the book taught me how to do research, what was available to me, and it was the first time I wrote anything over 1,500 words. My reviews, save for Screen It, never went above that, and here I was, writing 8 pages about James Dean. It's difficult to do, but if you've got enough research material, it's bearable.
Without all that, I wouldn't be here as I am right now. Without Phil, I would not be so eager to begin writing books. And now I'm facing choices over what I want my second book to be about. I don't have a publisher this time. I'm going to have to become a salesman in addition to being an author. But now I have some of the confidence necessary to pitch myself because of those years of writing movie reviews, because of What If They Lived?. The rest of the confidence will come once I have a book I want to present to the world.
Here I go.
Posted by Rory L. Aronsky at 11:29 PM
Labels: books, movies
David Wagner October 29, 2011 at 12:59 PM
Are you leaning towards non-fiction again? Or is there a novel idea or two brewing?
I'll definitely keep an eye here for news on your next project.
Thanks for the mini-biography. It was fun to read.
The Writer Currently Known as Rory October 29, 2011 at 9:53 PM
Definitely leaning toward non-fiction. I have two dusty ideas for novels (whereas I have over 10 ideas for nonfiction books), and only one feels viable, but I'm not ready for it. I love to read novels, but I'm not there yet.
You're welcome. As I go on to what's next, I also wanted to have in front of me where I've been and what I take from that.
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Dune Rats have announced their new album, 'Hurry Up And Wait'.
Set for release on 31st January via Ratbag Records/BMG, the full-length follows-up on 2017's 'The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit', which went Number 1 in their home country.
It's also preceded by their new single 'Crazy', and a European tour that'll see the noisy Aussies play London's The Garage on 4th December.
"Crazy is one of our heavier songs that we wrote over in LA when we were surrounded by a lot of excess," the band explain. "Everyone is doing anything and everything because it's available, whether it's taking drugs, eating shitty food or being surrounded by technology. All this stuff at the end of the day, whilst awesome at the time, doesn't leave you any better off even if it feels that way in the moment."
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