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In the court filing, Barnett said LaBeouf was so frightening and unpredictable, she was scared to even get out of bed in the middle of the night so as not to startle him, worried that he might mistake her as an intruder and shoot her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnett’s version of events is also corroborated in part by other on-record witnesses. One housekeeper states that she saw LaBeouf pick Barnett up, lock her in a room with him and verbally abuse her after Barnett refused to leave the house with him. Karolyn Pho, another ex-girlfriend of LaBeouf’s, details similar experiences, including one occasion on which he head-butted her hard enough to draw blood. 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Later, he added that “I am not cured of my PTSD and alcoholism, but I am committed to doing what I need to do to recover, and I will forever be sorry to the people that I may have harmed along the way.” He also made a point to say he was currently “a sober member of a 12-step program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s true that addiction and abuse often do go hand-in-hand—\u003ca href=\"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21949956/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to the UCLA Center For Health Policy Research\u003c/a>, almost half of all victims of intimate partner violence say their abuser was under the influence when it happened. However, the allegations against LaBeouf in Barnett’s lawsuit go far beyond what one would expect from abuse spurred on by intoxication. In fact, some of the behavior described is regimented and around-the-clock—LaBeouf is even said to have had rules about how many specific times a day Barnett was expected to kiss him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the unlikelihood that LaBeouf was intoxicated for that entire period, pointing to an alcohol addiction as a reason for behavior this abhorrent in no way justifies it. One of the more egregious examples in the lawsuit describes an occasion in February 2019. On that day, Barnett says, LaBeouf drove dangerously and threatened to crash the car unless she immediately professed her love for him. Barnett says that after she finally persuaded him to pull over into a gas station, she attempted to leave but was thrown against the car, screamed at and then physically forced back into the vehicle. 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"content": "\u003cp>He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, and he’s the only home invader to be regularly greeted by cookies and a beverage. No wonder. According to many legends, the life of St. Nicholas was awash with heroic acts, miraculous saves and the kind of fiery temper we’re accustomed to admiring in our action heroes. Here are five legends that’ll make you see Santa in a whole new light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Saved Three Sisters From Slavery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 744px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Winschsantabiplane___Gallery.jpg\" alt=\"A Victorian depiction of Santa in a biplane, throwing gifts towards children standing at an open window.\" width=\"744\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Winschsantabiplane___Gallery.jpg 744w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Winschsantabiplane___Gallery-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa hurling gifts at kids from his festive… biplane?\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Picture it: Turkey, 280 A.D. You’re a beautiful young Roman-Greek girl, the eldest of three sisters, and you wanna get hitched. But there’s a problem: your dad is poor as hell and your boyfriend’s family won’t agree to a marriage unless you have a dowry. In fact, \u003cem>no\u003c/em> families in the region will let their sons marry unless the bride shows up with a big ol’ bag of cash. Even worse than that, poor, unmarried women usually get forced into a life of (probably sexual) slavery. [aside postid='pop_107720']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the prospect of this is so devastating that all you and your sisters and dad do all day is lie around and cry about it. Then one night, a bag of gold gets pitched through your window and magically lands in a stocking that’s been hung to dry over the fireplace. You’re saved! You can marry your beau! Then, on two subsequent nights, more bags of gold arrive for your sisters. They’re saved too! Then your dad figures out where the gold came from—the new bishop in town. Turns out the holy man inherited great wealth in his teens, after his parents died of the plague. When your dad tries to tell him thanks, the humble bishop replies, “You must thank God alone for providing these gifts in answer to your prayers for deliverance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bishop was a young St. Nicholas, and is the reason Santa’s now expected to fill every stocking on Earth each Dec. 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Saved Three Boys From Being Eaten\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-800x502.png\" alt=\"Four classic depictions of St. Nicholas saving three boys from being pickled in a barrel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-800x502.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-768x482.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM.png 821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four classic depictions of St. Nicholas saving three boys from being pickled in a barrel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the ninth century, numerous sources and paintings have suggested that St. Nick resurrected three murdered boys whose flesh was to be sold as meat. (I know, I know—there was a famine or something.) The children were apparently tricked by an evil innkeeper, and chopped up and pickled in a barrel. When the innkeeper tried to pass off the meat as ham in order to sell it, St. Nicholas realized evil was afoot, cried out to God, and raised the children from the dead. [aside postid='arts_13872372']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1948, Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier immortalized the gory incident in their cantata \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXSm0OpYR4&t=113s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Saint Nicholas\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The seventh movement sees the parents of the murdered boys sitting down and getting ready to unwittingly eat their own offspring, when Nicholas intervenes. After instructing them, “O do not taste, O do not feed on sin,” St. Nick revives the boys with the following words: “Timothy, Mark and John / Put your fleshly garments on!” (Catchy!) The boys arrive just moments later, holding hands and singing, “Alleluia to their King!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No word on what happened to that damn cannibal innkeeper, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Was an Exorcist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 761px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.11.11-PM.png\" alt=\"Two depictions of Saint Nicholas working alongside Krampus in chains.\" width=\"761\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.11.11-PM.png 761w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.11.11-PM-160x100.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two depictions of Saint Nicholas working alongside Krampus in chains.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>St. Nicholas was said to be masterful at both demon taming and expulsion. \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/traditional-stories/early-miracles/come-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blessing the possessed\u003c/a>, book of gospels in hand, was all in a day’s work for Nick. He was so good, he’s even said to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/traditional-stories/early-miracles/demons-be-gone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expelled demons\u003c/a> from a Cypress tree in the village of Plakoma. (All he had to do was swing an axe and off they went.) Which is why, for centuries, Santa has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/around-the-world/who-travels-with-st-nicholas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depicted\u003c/a> in some parts of the world (particularly Slovakia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Bavaria) alongside a chained \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Krampus\u003c/a>. Sure, Santa keeps the bad guy on hand to deal with naughty children, but he keeps that demon-goat restrained so as not to harm the good ones. Totally reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Saved His People From Famine Using Only Psychic Powers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"A Victorian Christmas card depicts Santa with large, mesmerizing eyes and fluffy white beard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8.jpg 1676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Look into my eyes… You are feeling very, very sleepy…”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When famine was raging in ancient Lycia (the region of southwest Turkey where he lived), St. Nick was determined to save his people from starvation. One night, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/traditional-stories/life-of-nicholas/famine-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">psychically located a merchant\u003c/a> in Italy (don’t ask questions) who was about to set sail for Egypt with a ship full of grain. Nicholas appeared to the merchant in a dream and bribed him with three gold coins, magically transferring them into the merchant’s hand while he was sleeping three countries away. (Again, don’t ask questions.) Nicholas told the merchant to bring the grain to Turkey, and sell it there instead. Scared and surprised, the man did as he was told, saved the Lycians, and told all who would listen the magical reason for his unexpected journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Slapped a Priest For Jesus\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890139\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890139\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-11.38.02-AM-800x618.png\" alt=\"St. Nick slapping down the priest Arius for talking smack about Jesus, in art by Alexander Boguslawski.\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-11.38.02-AM-800x618.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-11.38.02-AM-160x124.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-11.38.02-AM-768x593.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-11.38.02-AM.png 892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Nick slapping down the priest Arius for talking smack about Jesus, in art by Alexander Boguslawski. \u003ccite>(StNicholasCenter.org)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_97685']The most \u003ca href=\"https://charlotteriggle.com/st-nicholas-and-arius-at-the-council-of-nicea/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">controversial\u003c/a> moment in St. Nick’s backstory occurred when he was naughty in Nicea. Three hundred bishops and 1,700 other holy men had met in the Greek city to discuss the scriptures. When a priest named Arius was given the floor, much of the crowd was angered by his assertion that Jesus Christ was not equal to God the Father. Nicholas was apparently the most enraged of all, because he promptly approached Arius and slapped him across the face. Embarrassed by the outburst, the other bishops threw Nick in a dungeon. He didn’t stay in there for long. After a number of the holy men dreamed of Nick in his jail cell that night, accompanied by both Jesus and Mary, they decided to free him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>God bless us, everyone! (Except for child picklers, obviously…)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, and he’s the only home invader to be regularly greeted by cookies and a beverage. No wonder. According to many legends, the life of St. Nicholas was awash with heroic acts, miraculous saves and the kind of fiery temper we’re accustomed to admiring in our action heroes. Here are five legends that’ll make you see Santa in a whole new light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Saved Three Sisters From Slavery\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890135\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 744px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890135\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Winschsantabiplane___Gallery.jpg\" alt=\"A Victorian depiction of Santa in a biplane, throwing gifts towards children standing at an open window.\" width=\"744\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Winschsantabiplane___Gallery.jpg 744w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Winschsantabiplane___Gallery-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa hurling gifts at kids from his festive… biplane?\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Picture it: Turkey, 280 A.D. You’re a beautiful young Roman-Greek girl, the eldest of three sisters, and you wanna get hitched. But there’s a problem: your dad is poor as hell and your boyfriend’s family won’t agree to a marriage unless you have a dowry. In fact, \u003cem>no\u003c/em> families in the region will let their sons marry unless the bride shows up with a big ol’ bag of cash. Even worse than that, poor, unmarried women usually get forced into a life of (probably sexual) slavery. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Saved Three Boys From Being Eaten\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890134\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-800x502.png\" alt=\"Four classic depictions of St. Nicholas saving three boys from being pickled in a barrel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-800x502.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM-768x482.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-10.56.00-AM.png 821w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four classic depictions of St. Nicholas saving three boys from being pickled in a barrel.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the ninth century, numerous sources and paintings have suggested that St. Nick resurrected three murdered boys whose flesh was to be sold as meat. (I know, I know—there was a famine or something.) The children were apparently tricked by an evil innkeeper, and chopped up and pickled in a barrel. When the innkeeper tried to pass off the meat as ham in order to sell it, St. Nicholas realized evil was afoot, cried out to God, and raised the children from the dead. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1948, Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier immortalized the gory incident in their cantata \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wXSm0OpYR4&t=113s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Saint Nicholas\u003c/em>\u003c/a>. The seventh movement sees the parents of the murdered boys sitting down and getting ready to unwittingly eat their own offspring, when Nicholas intervenes. After instructing them, “O do not taste, O do not feed on sin,” St. Nick revives the boys with the following words: “Timothy, Mark and John / Put your fleshly garments on!” (Catchy!) The boys arrive just moments later, holding hands and singing, “Alleluia to their King!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No word on what happened to that damn cannibal innkeeper, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Was an Exorcist\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890142\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 761px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13890142\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.11.11-PM.png\" alt=\"Two depictions of Saint Nicholas working alongside Krampus in chains.\" width=\"761\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.11.11-PM.png 761w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2020-12-09-at-1.11.11-PM-160x100.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two depictions of Saint Nicholas working alongside Krampus in chains.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>St. Nicholas was said to be masterful at both demon taming and expulsion. \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/traditional-stories/early-miracles/come-out\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blessing the possessed\u003c/a>, book of gospels in hand, was all in a day’s work for Nick. He was so good, he’s even said to have \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/traditional-stories/early-miracles/demons-be-gone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expelled demons\u003c/a> from a Cypress tree in the village of Plakoma. (All he had to do was swing an axe and off they went.) Which is why, for centuries, Santa has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/around-the-world/who-travels-with-st-nicholas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">depicted\u003c/a> in some parts of the world (particularly Slovakia, Austria, the Czech Republic and Bavaria) alongside a chained \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Krampus\u003c/a>. Sure, Santa keeps the bad guy on hand to deal with naughty children, but he keeps that demon-goat restrained so as not to harm the good ones. Totally reasonable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He Saved His People From Famine Using Only Psychic Powers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13890137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13890137\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"A Victorian Christmas card depicts Santa with large, mesmerizing eyes and fluffy white beard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/12/SantaPostcardPurple-589d25463df78c4758bb1ad8.jpg 1676w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Look into my eyes… You are feeling very, very sleepy…”\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When famine was raging in ancient Lycia (the region of southwest Turkey where he lived), St. Nick was determined to save his people from starvation. One night, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.stnicholascenter.org/who-is-st-nicholas/stories-legends/traditional-stories/life-of-nicholas/famine-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">psychically located a merchant\u003c/a> in Italy (don’t ask questions) who was about to set sail for Egypt with a ship full of grain. Nicholas appeared to the merchant in a dream and bribed him with three gold coins, magically transferring them into the merchant’s hand while he was sleeping three countries away. (Again, don’t ask questions.) Nicholas told the merchant to bring the grain to Turkey, and sell it there instead. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the days of counting that followed election night, there was plenty of stress in the Biden and Harris families. And the whole world could follow along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eldest granddaughter of President-elect Joe Biden, Naomi Biden, joked to her 188,000 Twitter followers that she couldn’t stop watching cable news and that she’d “kill to be one of those people who ‘can’t eat when they’re stressed’ right about now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NaomiBiden/status/1324460719132315654\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Harris-Emhoff household, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@meena/video/6891148118784478469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TikTok of Ella Emhoff\u003c/a>, the 21-year-old stepdaughter of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, was gaining millions of likes. Taken by Harris’ niece, Meena, it showed Emhoff trying her first McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish while watching election returns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when the race was called for Biden on Nov. 7, his granddaughters Naomi \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/foryou?lang=en#/@scoobeydoobey/video/6892462788661366021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and Maisy\u003c/a> let the world see what it was like as their family finally tasted victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NaomiBiden/status/1325190941058113536\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the lives of presidential children and grandchildren have historically been kept mostly private, Biden’s four granddaughters—Naomi, Finnegan, Maisy and Natalie Biden—as well as Harris’ stepchildren, Ella and Cole Emhoff, have formed their own public personas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ranging in age from their late teens to mid-20s, they use Twitter, Instagram and TikTok. They did campaign \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1252334221361848320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">videos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/stridinstrider/status/1300833961577504771\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">events\u003c/a>, took part in \u003ca href=\"https://www.glamour.com/story/doug-emhoff-cole-and-ella-emhoff-zoom-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magazine interviews\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/YAFBiden/status/1314721327446712322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">talked\u003c/a> with \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh6ZccgQBS8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube personalities\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CGIrVpeJsVS/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comedians\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQy-o5OuCtM&ab_channel=TellEVision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebrities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CGIrVpeJsVS/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some, like Naomi Biden, share their political views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, her voice has particularly gotten louder over social media. From tweeting \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NaomiBiden/status/1229738553313300480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supportive messages\u003c/a> about her “pop” to sharing \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NaomiBiden/status/1317481188701933569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden-themed memes\u003c/a>, the 26-year-old’s posts have racked up tens of thousands of likes and provided another personal side to the Biden family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maisy Biden, who is in her late teens, also has been fairly active on her public TikTok account. The third-eldest grandchild of the president-elect often posts \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@scoobeydoobey/video/6893206912515525894?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comedic videos\u003c/a> that are less overtly political but have featured \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@scoobeydoobey/video/6889921076499909894?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cameos\u003c/a> from her family, \u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@scoobeydoobey/video/6897716633889000710?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including her father\u003c/a>, Hunter Biden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In campaigns, operatives used to say, ‘Is the candidate somebody you could see sitting at your kitchen table and having a meal with?’ ” said Lisa Caputo, the press secretary to Hillary Clinton when she was first lady. “I think the Biden grandchildren’s social media presence, led by Naomi, does just that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s relatable to begin with,” Caputo added. “But to hear it through the voice and through the eyes of his granddaughter and his other grandchildren I think just puts a whole other lens of relatability onto him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidential historians say that the increased use of social media over the past decade has amplified the voices of the first and second families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first children have been mentioned in the past, but they didn’t really have the opportunity to broadcast their own opinions in the same way. And so now social media gives the Biden family an opportunity to do that,” said historian Tevi Troy, who has studied presidential usage of popular culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy says that while Twitter was around during the Obama administration, the 44th president’s children were too young and social media was less accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The time seems to be right to have a president who has a bunch of family members who are active on social media, and social media is not a weird or elite thing,” Troy added. “It’s a kind of common thing today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Unprecedented individualism\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Presidential families have played public roles before. Historian and journalist Kate Brower pointed to the support President Richard Nixon received from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymmUBjkWOFk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his daughter Julie\u003c/a> during the Watergate scandal and the young adult children of President Jimmy Carter campaigning for him, but Brower added that the Biden and Emhoff young adults stand out because of their ability to form their own public identities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that this is really a first, where we’re seeing this kind of individualism and the support of the family,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brower said she was particularly struck by Ella Emhoff’s presence on Instagram. Emhoff is an art student at the Parsons School of Design, often posting photos of her visual art and clothing she has made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZQ02jFEJw/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emhoff recently\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CHdI-NdlepT/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> raffled off\u003c/a> some of her clothing over Instagram, and the proceeds went to an organization supporting Black transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s capturing that individualism,” Brower explained, “and I think there’s been this sense of uniformity for the past four years in Washington with Ivanka and the Trump kids looking a certain way and being a certain way. And now you have this blended family representing different cultures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two years ago, when Biden was deciding whether to run for president again, he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/698409206/joe-biden-very-close-to-2020-decision-as-his-family-gives-its-blessing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke about the importance\u003c/a> of his family, a factor that prevented him from running four years earlier after his eldest son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his granddaughters explained in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No51xhtuA3w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u003c/a> for the Democratic National Convention how they had all encouraged their grandfather to run for president this time around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He thought we were calling a meeting sort of to like discuss, you know, whether or not we wanted him to [run,]” Naomi said, sitting on a white couch squished between Maisy, Finnegan and Natalie. “But really we were calling it to be like, ‘Get in that race. Hurry up.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, Biden’s run for president has put an added spotlight on his younger son, Hunter Biden, who was repeatedly criticized by Republicans throughout the campaign over his foreign business dealings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Senate Republicans released a report that characterized his work as “problematic.” The report largely had no repercussions, much like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/24/763502822/what-were-the-bidens-doing-in-ukraine-5-questions-answered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous information\u003c/a> on the topic. In response, the Biden campaign put out a statement and fact sheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naomi Biden, Hunter’s eldest child, took to Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Though the whole world knows his name, no one knows who he is,” she wrote. “Here’s a thread on my dad, Hunter Biden – free of charge to the taxpayers and free of the corrosive influence of power-at-all-costs politics. The truth of a man filled with love, integrity, and human struggles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NaomiBiden/status/1308823998415933440\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a series of tweets, Naomi cast her father in an emotional and intimate light, detailing his struggle to get into Yale Law School and his commitment to his older brother, Beau, when Beau got sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pain [Hunter] has endured would be enough to make a lesser man give up on life all together. But despite the best efforts of [a] cruel few to destroy a private man, he is sober, happy, and as at peace as ever today because as long [as] his family needs him, he has not lost his purpose,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of people retweeted Naomi’s thread, with the first post alone getting 55,700 likes and over 17,000 retweets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it really did cut through a lot of the noise, to see and to read this heartfelt testament to her father,” said Caputo. “I found that to be incredibly effective, incredibly thoughtful and incredibly loving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Inauguration Day approaches, it remains unclear if some of the young adult members of the incoming first and second families will continue to be so public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as presidential history goes, Brower explained that some younger members of past first families have taken a step back after their family’s campaign ends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tend to disappear,” she said. “I’m curious to see if the Biden grandchildren in particular really take this public-facing role once he’s in office,” Brower added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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And we’ll learn that all these people have their own sadnesses? Sure. The complication is this: Not only has Harper’s family not met Abby, but they don’t know that Harper is gay, so when she brings Abby home, it’s on the pretext that Abby is just her roommate and pal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the film goes to some lengths to try to create circumstances under which this could happen (because … why would you bring your girlfriend home if you weren’t out, and why would she go?), and they’re not terribly convincing, but that’s okay. Everybody is different, after all, and a little bit of going with the flow is very much expected in holiday movies and romcoms and especially in holiday romcoms. Once Abby gets there and understands the situation, she starts explaining it on the phone to her friend John (played by \u003cem>Schitt’s Creek\u003c/em>‘s Dan Levy), who coaches her about how to handle it, much like Lil Rel coached Daniel Kaluuya in \u003cem>Get Out\u003c/em>. There are some comedic set pieces, there’s some warm family business, and there’s Aubrey Plaza playing Harper’s ex, Riley, who plays a significant role in revealing how Harper got into this situation in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h58HkQV1gHY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest challenge is that the character of Harper is … opaque, for lack of a better word. Her motives are a little hard to understand some of the time. That’s emphatically not because she’s not out to her parents—the film, directed by Clea Duvall, is sensitive about explaining explicitly that people not being out to their families doesn’t reflect poorly on them, and it doesn’t mean they don’t love their partners. But the particular ways Harper treats Abby, and the situations she puts Abby in, strain the necessary part of this story in which you root for this couple. Nobody wants to follow a romance that you sense will end with a couple together while increasingly thinking that … maybe they should break up? I never reached that point with \u003cem>Happiest Season\u003c/em>, but I wobbled a few times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t because the characters were complex and flawed (though they are). It was because Harper isn’t nearly as well-rounded as Abby as a character. An early scene with the two sitting on a roof is asked to do too much work establishing Harper as a loving partner and explaining why they’re happy together. By the time Abby considers getting out of the family house (again, like in \u003cem>Get Out\u003c/em>), I wasn’t fully invested in whether she came back. In fairness, those delicate balances are really hard, and I think ultimately, the film gets away with the incomplete development of Harper because of the terrific cast. That means the leads, but also MVP drop-ins that I don’t want to spoil, and the presence of people like Mary Holland, who is one of the most indispensable comic actresses we have. Her every line reading kills, and she manages to make her character deeply funny but never pitiful; she might be the most decent person in the whole family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s particularly satisfying to see Kristen Stewart getting, and enjoying, this kind of work. She’s done plenty of good things that have established her acting chops, but this is a laid-back, charming, funny performance that makes Abby the clear hero of the movie, and the one with the most successfully excavated feelings. In an interesting bend to the formula, it’s Abby who winds up befriending Riley, and seeing the two women—Harper’s ex-partner and current partner—talk about what it’s like to be with her turns out to be perhaps more fun than seeing Abby and Harper together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of dissection might make it sound like I didn’t enjoy the film, and I emphatically did. It’s funny, it’s charming, it’s warm, and it’s got a bunch of really good performances. It’s so good to see queer creators and characters given their own space in this kind of popular genre entertainment. Stewart is just terrific in it, and I don’t think the issue with Harper is Davis, considering how many things she’s also been terrific in. I think getting absolutely everything in balance with this kind of story is almost impossible, and to their credit, they come pretty close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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The Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Minutes after Joe Biden was declared president-elect on Saturday, Rudy Giuliani held a press conference in the dilapidated parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia, after a White House staffer mistook it for the luxury hotel. 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(Orders for the “Make America Rake Again” and “Lawn and Order” T-shirts have since \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=4075392709142797&id=168655773149863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overwhelmed\u003c/a> the company.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. \u003cb>The most unbelievable hole-in-one … ever?!\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The “Can that possibly be real?” party continued during the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. It’s tradition during practice rounds at the golf tournament for players to skip a ball across the pond at the par-3 16th hole. When Spanish golfer Jon Rahm attempted the impossible shot, he got a hole-in-one that in no way looked real at all. OH. And it happened on his 26th birthday because of course it did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TheMasters/status/1326232433373704194\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3. The virtual reality furry party (a.k.a. the Four Seasons Total Landscaping debacle part two)\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It took furries just over 24 hours after Giuliani’s weird press conference to come through and make the situation even more surreal. A tom cat named Cooper went about building Four Seasons Total Landscaping as a virtual reality chat world, and promptly invited all his furry friends in for a hangout. Probably knowing the event sounded too ridiculous to be true, Cooper did the world the kindness of sharing some footage. (The background music really pushes this thing over the edge.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1325710953305026560\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. THAT Spanish restoration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mid-week, word began to spread about an attempted restoration of a statue in Palencia, Spain that had gone terribly wrong. The results reminded the internet of both \u003ca href=\"https://people.com/human-interest/spanish-statue-draws-potato-head-comparisons-after-failed-restoration/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mr. Potato Head\u003c/a> and what 2020 has wrought upon us all collectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/russellbrandom/status/1326605388951728129\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. The cat translator app\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While you were busy worrying about the end of the world as we know it, a former Amazon engineer was building a cat translation app called Meow Talk. “[Cats] have a vocabulary that they use consistently,” Javier Sanchez told NBC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/former-amazon-engineer-creates-app-that-reportedly-translates-your-cats-meows/281-f8aed66a-75f0-45e0-94fa-250a4e9e6818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">King 5\u003c/a> with a straight face. “It’s not a language. They don’t share words and they don’t communicate with each other… But they can tell you what they want you to do.” Translated phrases on the prototype Meow Talk app include: “I’m in pain,” “I’m hungry,” “I’m happy,” “I’m gonna fight,” and “Where’s my mommy?” (I am not making this up, I swear.)\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. The Dean Browning/Dan Purdy Fiasco\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, a straight, white, former Republican commissioner from Pennsylvania \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/BarkleyYarg/status/1326925736414904320/photo/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted\u003c/a>: “I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internet quickly concluded, after hours of social media sleuthing, that Browning had a fake Twitter account where he posed as a gay Black Republican named Dan Purdy, and that he’d accidentally tweeted from the wrong account. First, Browning offered this explanation that nobody believed at all:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/DeanBrowningPA/status/1326270188682178560?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a video emerged of a man claiming to be Dan Purdy. (I would post it, but his \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DanPurdy322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">account has since been suspended\u003c/a>.) In the clip, “Purdy” says, amid a number of pro-Donald Trump messages, “I sent that message to Dean, Dean accidentally posted it somehow, and that’s the end of the story. No, he’s not a sock puppet. 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