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House Votes To Release "Worse Than Watergate" Memo
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The House of Representatives voted Monday night to release a memo written by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and his staff, which allegedly shows shocking misbehavior in America's intelligence agencies.
The scandal, which Republicans in Congress have dubbed "worse than Watergate," could soon reach the American public, if President Trump agrees to permit its release.
Fox News analyst Sebastian Gorka summed up the major implications for the United States, calling it "100 times bigger" than the triggers to the American Revolution in the 1770s.
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"This is 100 times bigger," he added. "This is our government spying on political adversaries. This is federal law enforcement officials obstructing justice. You listed all of the things Clinton and her team did. The FBI destroyed the laptops that were part of the Clinton investigation. Who gave that order?"
Democrats, however, have already sought to downplay the contents of the memo–and accuse Republicans in Congress at misleading the American people. But time will eventually tell which side wins in the court of popular opinion.
Adam Campbell is a former military brat, who grew up all over the world--but considers Milwaukee, WI, where he and his wife currently live, to be his home. He enjoys reporting the real news, without bias.
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Q: Refactoring condition with a range of values How might one refactor this bit of Ruby on Rails code?
    def select_plan
        unless params[:plan] && (params[:plan] == '1' || params[:plan] == '2' || params[:plan] == '3' || params[:plan] == '4' || params[:plan] == '5' || params[:plan] == '6' || params[:plan] == '7' || params[:plan] == '8')
            flash[:notice] = "Please select a membership plan to register."
            redirect_to root_url
        end
    end

A: I would do something like this.
def select_plan
  unless params[:plan].in?('1'..'8')
    flash[:notice] = "Please select a membership plan to register."
    redirect_to root_url
  end
end

Or like mu is too short suggested: Make Plan a real thing. It might be a database model or just a small Ruby Class:
# in app/models/plan.rb
require 'set'
class Plan
  VALID_PLANS = Set.new('1'..'8').freeze

  def self.valid_plan?(plan)
    VALID_PLANS.include?(plan)
  end
end

# used like
def select_plan
  unless Plan.valid_plan?(params[:plan])
    flash[:notice] = "Please select a membership plan to register."
    redirect_to root_url
  end
end

A: If the plan numbers are in the database and there is a Plan model then you could simply say something like:
@plan = Plan.find_by(:id => params[:plan])
if(!@plan)
  flash[:notice] = "Please select a membership plan to register."
  redirect_to root_url
end

Now you have access to the full plan details for the next view so that you can show them the name, description, price, ... and the existence of a plan is stored in only one place (i.e. the database). If you don't need @plan then you could say:
if(!Plan.where(:id => params[:plan]).exists?)
  ...
end

The important point is that there should be exactly one thing that knows what the valid plans are and any time you need to know about plans, you ask that one thing and only that one thing.
The view that ends up calling select_plan would also use the database (instead of the literal numbers one through eight) to get the valid plans:
<% Plan.order(...).each do |p| %>
  whatever you need to display the plan as an option...
<% end %>

Add a new plan to the database and everything still works. Remove/disable a plan and everything still works. Your software will be easier to maintain, have fewer bugs, be easier to understand, and you'll have gained a new good habit rather than a bad one.

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That's a terrible route. You should be able to fly to Heathrow and then it's only 12 hours to Cape Town. We don't spend 36 hours in the air. Hawaii to Atlanta is 9 hours and then 18 hours on one flight to Joburg. The best time I've ever had is 34 hours door to door total travel time from Kona to Joburg but it's not fun. I've met people on the Atlanta flight that do it every month. They normally work for some charity or in Oil & Gas. With that many miles they get business or first so that makes it a lot easier but I'm sure it still takes its toll. I enjoyed looking at your work. I need to spend more time on the road.
However, now only about 10 professional street opera troupes are left in Singapore, drawing an ever-smaller audience of elderly people. The decline of street opera in Singapore was caused by its government's policy to replace dialects (such as Hakka, Hokkien et al) with Mandarin, and the slow erosion of its audience. The spread of television, movies and social media platforms exacerbated the disinterest of the younger generation in this ancient art form.
For the Aztec and Toltec pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase of life. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit, and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth. Nowadays, people flock to cemeteries to be with the souls of the dead, and build private altars with photographs of the dead, and their favorite foods and beverages. The gatherings are often joyous in tone, and the families remember the lives of the departed.
It was in 2006 when I traveled to the sacred city of Varanasi for the third or fourth time; this time in search of real sadhus rather than those I encountered on the ghats of the river Ganges. The more photogenically flamboyant of those would "earn" a few rupees from tourists and photographers who sought to augment their inventory of exotic portraits of these characters; perhaps paying them a tidy sum if they agreed to be photographed in a rowing boat or next to a temple.
This year and I signed a long-term travel photography contract with Cape Town Tourism, the official tourism board in my favorite city in Africa. Meanwhile, I've sold tens of thousands of image licenses through multiple agencies over the years, host local workshops and photowalks in the cities I visit, and I'm constantly working on partnership and sponsorship deals behind-the-scenes. Even my travel photography website works hard for me, as I often get offers and inquiries directly from visitors.
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When you really love photographing a certain subject, it shows in your work. If you've built a cohesive collection of images around a particular people or place, consider hanging it in a gallery or selling prints or photo books online. Share your work with artist's galleries in and around relevant locales until you find someone who bites. Southwestern USA photographer Brett Edge took it a step further and opened his own gorgeous fine art gallery in Moab, Utah. Photographer Vivienne Gucwa published a coffee table book featuring her New York City photography. Just getting started? Share your work online for exposure, and upload it to print-on-demand websites for effortless print sales.
Alessandro Bergamini tells us that he is an Italian travel photographer from Finale Emilia in Italy. He started his photography with an old camera donated by his father, and traveled to some of the most remote regions of the world, capturing the spirit and visual cultures of his encounters. He perfected his post-production techniques to better reflect the atmosphere of the images he gleaned from his travels. During 2019, he offers travel workshops in the Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan) and Kashmir.
Approaching a new client can be a lot easier if you happen to be visiting that region, or if it's where you are based. Start local and contact businesses who you regularly use or that have less than desirable images on their website…put together a proposal and they'll more than likely say yes if it benefits them! If they're just starting out on social media you can offer to create a library of social media images they can use over a 3-6month period to generate interest in their product/region.
Once a black image is created, I clicked on File> Add Layer(s) From File, and used the Quick Mask tool (yellow arrow on left) to "paint" a line around Gui Lian. The Quick Mask tool wasn't sufficiently precise in blacking out all of the targeted areas, so I also used the Masking Brush tool (red arrow) and went over these areas on complete the task....a task that took me no more than 12 minutes; well within my range of tolerance. I then pumped up the saturation using Iridium Developer tools...a task that took under a minute.
Visit Paris, the magnetic City of Light to explore its iconic attractions. Book tickets to Rome to wonder at its various historical structures - the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, and the Pantheon, to name a few. Go to South Island in New Zealand to marvel at its majestic landscapes at every turn. Heart-pumping activities and historic landmarks awaits you in Dubai. Visit it to experience one of-its-kind attractions, including the Burj Khalifa, the Dubai Mall, and the indoor Ski Dubai. Book flights for Santorini to revel in its breath-taking sunsets, pastel-hued villages, and colourful beaches. Take a trip to Hong Kong for its towering skyscrapers, frenzied street markets, and serene Buddhist monasteries.
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Some libraries already have enough travel shots, but the big online stock libraries are always looking for fresh images, and want to offer as much as variety as possible. So, if you want to submit to a particular library, check you have a good range of high-quality images that are different from the library's current selection (and as good as, or better!). Libraries will also take a cut of the money you make from selling your images, typically 50%.
Unfortunately, due the language barriers I wasn't able to interview either of these two actors to gain an insight on their lives and background. They also seemed reluctant to allow me more than a few minutes to photograph them, either because they were waiting to perform (as in the top photograph) or just uncomfortable with the the attention of a stalking photographer (lower photograph).
Mixing the Hanxiang Water Garden photo shoot and another in the water town of Xinchang, I produced "The Legend of Hua"; a complex photo film meshing the topic of ghosts, opium, Shanghai in its 1930's heyday, traditional Chinese cultural and supernatural elements; all revolving around a plot of betrayal. Its plot is influenced by a 1988 movie by Stanley Kwan (in turn based on a novel by Li Pi-Hua (also known as Lillian Lee), one of the most influential Chinese TV writers, film writers and reporters.
Gala Travels is a family owned and operated travel agency/consolidator. We havebeen serving the Canadian travel industry since 1979. Our affiliations include IATA (International Air Transportation Association), BBB (Better Business Bureau), ACTA (Association of Canadian Travel Agents), and TICO (Travel Industry Council of Ontario). Our reputation stands without a blemish amongst the Canadian Travel Community as a whole. In fact, we hold an A+ rating with the BBB.
Lyn's last tip is to have your own website. "Show off your work on Instagram and Facebook, but do ensure you have a good, easy to use website too. It should have some of your best work (with lots of keywords!), any specialities, and awards/competitions you have won, and your contact details. It's too easy to get carried away, add thousands of images, and forget the basics. Keep it simple."
Finally I promised one little girl, who made a long journey to see me and prefer her request, -- and she is a "Dorothy," by the way -- that when a thousand little girls had written me a thousand little letters asking for the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman I would write the book, Either little Dorothy was a fairy in disguise, and waved her magic wand, or the success of the stage production of "The Wizard of OZ" made new friends for the story, For the thousand letters reached their destination long since -- and many more followed them.
Some of these 'singalong' parlors still exist, faded and tired but otherwise unchanged, offering a taste of popular and cheap entertainment from a past era. How these survive in anyone's guess. The parlors usually have an organist (who can also play a guitar) and a handful of habitual customers who sing Cantonese songs...and occasionally Western oldies such as "Sealed With A Kiss" by the Canton Singing House organist.
Travel photography as a genre is one of the most open in terms of the subjects it covers. Many travel photographers specialise in a particular aspect of photography such as travel portraits, landscape or documentary photography as well as shooting all aspects of travel. Much of today's Travel Photography style is derived from early work in Magazines such as National Geographic magazine from photographers such as Steve McCurry. This genre of photography entails shooting a wide variety of subjects under varied available conditions, e.g. low light photography indoors, available ambient light photography for exteriors of buildings and monuments, shooting on the streets where sometimes conditions may be hostile, capturing moments which rarely recur, capturing the magic of light while shooting landscapes, etc.


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Boycotts are a "Real Sad Shame"
"I'm familiar with ALEC because my husband is a state legislator in Wisconsin and there are a lot of people, mostly on the other side, our opponents, who believe it is a group that by their mailings and by their phone calls and by their discussions with lawmakers, that they are somehow the great influencers in these minds of leaders who have been elected by the taxpayers in their states," Kleefisch said.
"That's a sad shame that folks don't believe that these elected leaders, these legislators from around the country can think independently. Think for themselves and for their constituents. So I think that this type of boycott is a real sad shame."
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), identified dozens of bills with ALEC roots moving in Wisconsin. CMD along with Color of Change, Common Cause, People for the American Way, Progress Now and other groups have been asking ALEC corporate funders to drop their affiliations with the group. So far, 10 companies have confirmed that they are no longer members of the organization: McDonald's, Wendy's, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Intuit, Kraft Foods, Mars, the Arizona Public Service Company, American Traffic Solutions, and Reed Elsevier. Kleefisch fails to note that no one is calling for a boycott of the companies, they are simply putting pressure on the companies to drop their ties with ALEC, a "partnership" between corporations and legislators pursuing a radical right-wing agenda to advance voter suppression laws, anti-immigrant bills, and a radical expansion of gun rights including Florida-style "Stand Your Ground" gun laws.
While Kleefisch is comfortable with out-of-state corporations and DC-based ALEC moving cookie-cutter "model" bills in the state like the co-called "Castle Doctrine" or Shoot First law, and voter ID bills that make it harder for American citizens to vote, she blames the recall and the historic Wisconsin protests on out-of-state unions.
Kleefisch warns Fox viewers: "Wisconsin is a harbinger, we are a canary in the coal mine, and we are sounding the alarm across this country right now that if we allow the big union bosses, this big special interest, to wrestle control of the steering wheel of our government and sometimes our economy in Wisconsin away from the taxpayers we are in serious jeopardy for not just our future and our livelihoods but also the futures and livelihoods of our kids. If it can happen in Wisconsin it can happen in any state in the country. We cannot allow one big special interest to take over our government. That is what we are looking at, that is what is at stake in these recall elections, and so we need your help."
As she spun the recall efforts as the plot of "big union bosses," the text under the story was a bit closer to the truth: "WI Poll: 54 percent support recall of Wisconsin Governor."
This woman has to go, Wisconsin needs a new Lt. Gov., Hey Hey Ho Ho Becky Kleefisch has to GO!!!!!!
She needs to go..... I agree Milwaukee Phil. Her interview not impressive!


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Previously part of the Department of Management and International Business, GLAM will leverage the expertise of its faculty to equip students with both specific skills and theoretical background to lead. GLAM offers several highly regarded programs, including an undergraduate major in human resources, and the Master of Science in Human Resource Management (MSHRM), both ranked No. 1 nationally by HR.com.
Sanchez was instrumental in the creation of the MSHRM degree. Now with over 600 graduates, the program boasts chief people officers in Fortune 500 corporations and many of South Florida's top HR executives among its alumni.
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"We try to create a strategic partner who can make a difference on the bottom line," Sanchez said. "The successful HR practitioner needs to be a business driver, someone who knows how to develop and implement strategic management practices that increase the competitive advantage of the organization." The HR curriculum continues to evolve to include additional relevant skills, he said, including coursework in finance and HR metrics. Sanchez envisions that analytics coursework will play a greater role in the curriculum as "our department brings together well-published scholar-practitioners who advocate evidence-based management. For instance, human resources management and recruiting are becoming data-based, and less about intuition," he said.
The management major, one of the most popular at FIU, also rests within GLAM. Sanchez recognizes the department's mission to increase the employability and timely graduation of management majors. To this end, coursework will continue to evolve. This may include certifications in performance coaching, project management, and other areas of high demand.
A key part of GLAM's work is leadership. Nathan Hiller, faculty director of the Center for Leadership (CFL), is part of the department's faculty. This year, HR.com and Leadership Excellence Magazine ranked the program No. 1 in the leadership development open-enrollment category, the fifth consecutive year CFL has ranked among the top three in this competitive category.
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What do you do if your dogs keep fighting with each other?
Take your dogs to the vet to be thoroughly checked over, just to be sure that one of your dogs isn't having a health issue. If there are no health issues, relationship exercises are a good way to get your dogs to get along together, and a positive reinforcement dog trainer can teach you how to do this.
Is it okay to use food when training your dog? Why or why not?
It's a great idea to use treats/food to train your dog. Keep in mind that treats are used to "shape" a behavior. When the dog learns the behavior, the treats can be discontinued and replaced with love and praise. If your dog isn't motivated by treats, you can use a favorite toy or affection and praise.
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All dog breeds can be trained, though some dogs are smarter than others on the learning spectrum.
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This will provide the Country Club with an opportunity to influence its central competencies as regards servicing the traveller in an opulent atmosphere.
The mission for Langley Country Club is dedicated to providing a facility that is dedicated to serving golfers and other tourists on the lookout for a unique environment. The mission of the Country Club is to become the number one choice of visitors to Langley.
Langley Country Club will strive to make each patron think that they are imperative to our business and will give each client value for their money.


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The Top Reasons for Our Expansion to Italy
December 11, 2019 You may have heard that we recenly expanded our service to two of the most iconic resorts in Italy: Cortina d'Ampezzo and Val di Fassa. Why Italy, you may ask? Today on the blog, we'll break down our top reasons for expansion to the beautiful Dolomites.
#1 THE LOCATIONS
Located in northeastern Italy, Cortina is known as the "Queen of the Dolomites," has a thousand year old history, and has been attracting tourists for centuries. With breathtaking views, a cozy village and world famous steep skiing, Cortina has been selected to host the 2021 Alpine Ski World Championships. As with Val di Fassa, Cortina is part of the famed Dolomiti Superski region, which includes three separate groups of ski areas that are all connected. With one ski pass, skiers can take advantage of 450 chairlifts, and 1200km of slopes in 12 separate ski areas.
Also part of the Dolomiti Superski region, Val di Fassa has about 10,000 residents divided into seven different municipalities. The Dolomites, named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009, are famous for not only their beauty, but also for having some of the best skiing in the world. Val di Fassa, in particular, is one of the largest areas in teh Dolomites, featuring seven ski areas in just one valley.
#2 THE CONVENIENCE FACTOR
Do you love nothing more than arriving at your ski vacation destination, having your Ski Butlers come and deliver your gear, and then checking your equipment at a ski valet after each day on the slopes? We do, too. In Italy, however, a "do it yourself" ski culture is very much alive and well. With that said, we knew Italy would be a perfect place to feature our delivery service, which we strive to make the most convenient part of your ski vacation.
#3 THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Don't worry about having to get on a village bus to find a ski shop, we will deliver right to your accommodations. Looking to switch out your gear? As is standard with Ski Butlers, our partners in Italy will also show up to provide timely switch outs to keep you on the slopes and off the road. What's more? We love our partners in Europe, but when you're booking a Ski Butlers delivery, you never have to go to an external site to navigate your order. As with all of your orders in North America, simply log onto SkiButlers.com to reserve your gear.
Author: Nikki BongaertsSenior Content and Communications Manager


He looked at me and said "I don't think I would want to know about my family because they were all just farmers." I guess the look on face said it all because before I could reply he said, "I guess if your family was famous or rich then it would be interesting." Again, I am sure my face gave me away.
I then posed a question to him, "How would you feel if your Great Grandchildren said I don't want to know about my Great Grandfather because he was just a receptionist?" The look on his face was priceless. I went on to tell him that his family were farmers by profession, they themselves were something else altogether. They could have been musicians, dancers. weavers, city leaders or a number of other things. They were definitely Fathers, Mothers, Brothers, Sisters, Aunts or Uncles. Who they were was not defined by what job they performed or how they made their living but by their character and interests.
I offered to help him find some information about his family, so on my next visit he will bring me names, dates, and locations of his Grandparents. I told him to ask his parents about the Family Stories and he might be surprised at what he may find.
I am hoping that I can help this young man find a passion for his Family History. It broke my heart to think that so many of our younger generation probably feel the exact same way. How can we help?
CHALLENGE: What if each one of us offered to help one young person find their Ancestors and their stories? My challenge is for each one of you to find a younger person and introduce them to the wonderful world of Genealogy. Yes it will take some time away from your own research or job or leisure time, but think of the reward of seeing a young person develop a love for their Family History.
If you do take the challenge please leave a comment and let me know how it went. I would love to hear about it.
Throughout the month of May people are posting Blogs entitled "Military Memories" to honor their Ancestors who fought in the various Wars. I have been so moved by all the accounts of bravery, courage and sacrifice of so many of them. I have always loved History so reading these is enjoyable for me. I guess you could say that I have a hard time believing that some people just do not find History to be interesting or exciting.
Last week my youngest Grandson Banon, who is 7 years old and in the first grade, asked me why I was crying while looking at my computer. I told him I was reading a Blog about a young man who was killed in a War and that it was sad. He responded "Grandma, I don't like History, it's so boring!" I was mortified! How could a Grandson of mine feel this way? I asked him why he thought it was boring and he said "Because all those people are dead!" Oh my…where did I go wrong?
As the day wore on I started thinking about what he had said about History being boring. Then it hit me. I need to make it personal for him! So I pulled out the binders I had made for my older Grandkids a few years ago and called him over to me. Now he is a diehard Star Wars fan. He knows every character, every weapon, and every mode of transportation by name. This gave me the idea to make a correlation between Star Wars and the Revolutionary War. Before you think that I have totally lost it, please hear me out. I asked him what it was about the fighting in Star Wars that he liked. He then rattled off his reasons. I then asked him if he would like to hear about a real war where, just like Anakin, people fought to make their families free from a Ruler. He took the bait.
After explaining "briefly" about why America went to war with Britain, I started telling him about the different weapons that were used and how they had used horses and wagons for transportation. I then told him about the way they dressed.…the Red Coats vs. the Blue Coats. Then I finally took one of the binders and showed it to him. I saw a spark appear in his eyes! You see, 5 years ago when my oldest Grand Daughter started High School she told me that they were going to learn about the Revolutionary War in History Class. I told her we had Ancestors who fought in the War and she got excited. So I put together 3 binders with all the information I could find about the Soldiers, the company they fought with, who they fought under and named the Battles they participated in. I used maps and pictures of the Historic places. I also included a linage from that Ancestor to me. She loved them and took them to school. She got an A+ when she did her presentation on the War. I had made it personal to her and she was inspired to do her own research. Over the last few years 2 more Grandchildren have used the binders and since then I have made several more. So I made it personal for Banon and he was enthralled. He asked so many questions he actually wore me out. His teacher even told my daughter that all he talked about since then was those binders and we had to take them to school for the teacher and his class to see.
I have also put together binders for Ancestors who fought in the Civil War, the War of 1812, WWI and WWII. I even have a few binders about our First Ancestors that came to America. I intend to show these to Banon and his brother over the summer.
Sometimes we have to just go that extra mile to engage the younger generation in learning about History and their Genealogy. If we can start them young then they will hopefully develop an interest and excitement in finding their Ancestors and where they came from. Hopefully igniting that spark of curiosity in him will eventually burn with the same kind of passion for Genealogy and History that I have. After all, isn't one of our goals as a Family Historian to be able to pass on what we have discovered to the generations that come after us?


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Biden, a smart, predictable choice by Obama
So. Joe Biden.
Sen. Barack Obama's ultimate running-mate choice was one he needed to make. As I have written here previously, he needed a No. 2 experienced in foreign-policy who would compensate for his own relative lack of time in the field and, thus, reassure voters who at present express greater confidence in Sen. John McCain on foreign policy/national security issues.
/ August 23, 2008
There were others Obama could have chosen with that qualification but Biden, 66 in November, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a 35-year Senate veteran, and a former (twice) presidential candidate in his own right, was probably the most logical one. He certainly possesses stronger foreign-policy credentials than any of the other running-mate finalists who were listed in the 48 hours before Obama made his decision.
The smoke rising in the background comes from Sen. Hillary Clinton and her supporters. Clinton wanted the vice-presidential nomination. Obama did not interview or discuss the matter with Clinton. She was not asked to submit documents for vetting, as many other Democrats were. Clinton and her husband, the former president, will no doubt be expansive and generous at the Denver Democratic convention regarding the Obama-Biden ticket but, believe me, they will not forget what they regard as an unforgiveable slight.
First question: Will Hillary in Denver allow her name to be put in nomination for the presidency, and demand a roll-call vote, or will she gracefully withdraw Sunday night before the convention formally opens?
Now, Joe Biden. Initial polling data, after his choice became public, indicate just about what you would expect. Voters responding were evenly divided over whether he was a good or bad choice and whether he would help or hurt the Democratic ticket this fall. Vice-presidential candidates seldom matter in a national campaign. Lyndon Johnson mattered in 1960 because he enabled the Kennedy-Johnson ticket to carry Texas and, thus, a razor-close election. Running mates such as Spiro Agnew and Dan Quayle — obviously unqualified for national office — can hurt the presidential nominee. But, in both those cases, their presidential nominees (Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush) won anyway. Usually, a presidential candidate runs more strongly in opinion polls without a running mate than with one — any one.
Thus a candidate for No. 2 is to chosen to bring geographic, ideological, or policy balance to the ticket. Biden does that for Obama. He is a Middle Atlantic guy, Irish Catholic, raised in a blue-collar setting, able to connect to some of the Reagan Democratic and other bread-and-butter voters who gave Hillary Clinton their vote in Democratic primaries, and to whom McCain has an appeal. (My article in Saturday's Wall Street Journal explores this point from a historic perspective, going back to the 1968 convention.) Biden also is outspoken and can undertake partisan attacks with which Obama would be uncomfortable. That is another job which vice-presidential candidates traditionally have been asked to do.
But there are some risks with Biden. The first is that, McCain-style, he will erupt and put his foot in his mouth. Biden has mellowed a great deal since he came to the U.S. Senate in 1973 at age 30. But he still is known as being verbose and given to periodic verbal assaults against those who disagree with him. In earlier years he was unpopular with his staff — a warning signal among Capitol Hill regulars. He was forced to withdraw from the 1988 presidential nominating race after being caught utilizing plagiarism in a major speech and misrepresenting his academic background. In 2004 he urged Sen. John Kerry to enlist McCain as his Democratic running mate and is on record with positive statements about McCain. During his 2008 presidential campaign he was recorded in campaign debates, and elsewhere, as outspokenly questioning Obama's credentials for higher office — much as Hillary Clinton was. Both his earlier pro-McCain and anti-Obama statements no doubt will be played back in Republican campaign commercials. None of the above will matter much, however, if Biden proceeds professionally in the campaign and makes no verbal gaffes from this point forward.
In examining the backgrounds and biographies of both Obama and McCain a few days ago, I pointed out that both have undergone experiences and lived lives that bring something extra to their candidacies. The same can be said of Biden. His family originally had money but his father lost everything and Biden grew up poor. In 1966, as a law student at Syracuse University, he married and with his wife had three children. Shortly after his election to the Senate, in 1972, his wife and baby daughter were killed in a car accident and his two sons injured (they recovered after extensive treatment). Biden considered withdrawing from the Senate before he even began his term. He did not but he commuted daily via train to Washington, D.C. to Wilmington, Delaware in order to be with his family. He still does so today (it is a train ride of barely over an hour and Union Station in D.C. is a five-minute walk from the Senate Office Building). In 1977 he remarried and has a daughter by that marriage. Biden's oldest son is attorney general of Delaware. An Army reservist, he recently was recalled to active duty and will go to Iraq this October.
Biden knows not only foreign policy (he originally voted for the intervention in Iraq but, later, became a critic) but is a former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is well versed in anti-narcotics and anti-terrorism issues. He is generally respected by his colleagues as a serious, hard working legislator able to work with Republicans as well as Democrats in developing legislation.
Obama was an Ivy League academic star and has an aura of intellectuality about him. Biden, as McCain, is no intellectual. He is a straight-ahead, hard working, no-nonsense and ambitious driver (also like McCain), and is familiar with the middle-American, blue-collar voters with whom Obama has had trouble relating. He will carry Delaware for the ticket but, also, will help in neighboring Pennsylvania and other Middle Atlantic states with a similar culture. He will be readily recognized there as a homeboy.
Obama's V.P. selection, in the end, turned out to be a quite conventional and predictable choice. Next Friday McCain will name his running mate. I would be greatly surprised if it were anyone but former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney or Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, both heavyweights and both bringing needed balance to McCain's candidacy.
In the meantime, watch how the Clintons conduct themselves next week. Let the games begin.
What happened after the Jan. 6 confrontation in Olympia?
Since the 2021 attack on the capitol campus, security has increased, two people have faced prosecution and reporters continue to feel the shock.
Andrew Engelson
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Updated at 5 p.m. on Jan. 13


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Oral Argument Highlights from Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky
Posted by Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) 0sc on February 28, 2018
Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, a challenge to Minnesota's ban on political apparel at the polling place. RNLA member Ilya Shapiro summarized the problems with the law in the Wall Street Journal:
Minnesota's ban, by contrast, finds no historical parallel. A generic pro-voting message like "Rock the Vote" is arguably a political statement forbidden by the law. But how could it possibly be construed as pressuring anyone to vote for a particular candidate? Whatever legitimate concerns the state may have about the electoral process, it can't justify a ban on voters' nondisruptive speech—let alone on unobtrusive paraphernalia that's unrelated to any issue or candidate on the ballot.
Minnesota's ban on political apparel is so sweeping that another Supreme Court precedent is far more relevant than Burson. In the 1987 case Airport Commissioners v. Jews for Jesus, the high court unanimously struck down a ban on "First Amendment activity" at Los Angeles International Airport. The court explained that such a ban was overbroad because it necessarily extended far beyond speech "that might create problems such as congestion or the disruption of the activities of those who use LAX." . . . That's not to say that places with security or governmental-integrity concerns have to be free-for-alls. Burson was right to allow reasonable regulations that ensure orderly elections. Courtrooms and other sensitive areas—what lawyers call "nonpublic forums"—can impose certain restrictions. But "the wearing of a T-shirt or button that contains a political message," the court explained in Jews for Jesus, "is still protected speech even in a nonpublic forum."
Most fundamentally, Minnesota's law is unjustified because its fear of political expression is so disconnected from normal society. . . . As the Court found in Tinker, which upheld students' rights to wear black armbands to school in protest against the Vietnam War, "undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression."
It's vital that the Supreme Court defend voters' right to express themselves so long as they don't prevent other voters from going about their civic business. . . .
RNLA member Steve Klein described highlights from oral arguments during today's Federalist Society teleforum call:
Except for Justice Thomas, a lot of participation from all the justices, questioning both sides intensely.
Justice Kennedy, Alito, and Roberts wanted an articulation of a limiting principle of what is "political." David Breemer arguing for MVA said that it's clear this law is overbroad.
"Please ID me" buttons – Mr. Breemer acknowledged they could be banned under anti-fraud/deception laws; whether display of an ID (as a means of making other voters think that ID was required) could be banned in the polling place was not raised during oral arguments.
Justice Alito laid out the absurdity of breadth of prohibition.
State has backed off breadth, perhaps in poll worker instructions, saying political is related to election and well-known. Justice Alito said that actually makes it worse. Justice Alito asked if wearing a rainbow shirt was ok, state said yes, as long as gay rights were not on the ballot.
Fact that election judges, who have authority to judge what is allowed, are selected from both major parties is supposed to alleviate concerns about viewpoint discrimination.
Justice Roberts pointed out that the punishment belies the interest in polling place orderliness that state puts forward, because person is allowed to vote but name is taken down for later fine. The force of the law is the chilling effect on speech.
Even if the Court uses non-public forum analysis, there would be de facto viewpoint discrimination (NRA banned but "Parkland Strong" ok; Colin Kaepernick jersey ok, All Lives Matter not). Respondents said these are tough calls but poll workers need to be able to make these calls to maintain order.
Justice Kagan had lighthearted criticism of polling place as place of reverence where we can suspend politics.
Chilling conclusion by Respondents: Justice Kagan jokingly said, maybe you should make the law broader, and they said yes, we could make it broader.
Effort to find limiting principle but aside from Justice Alito, no clear indication where any justice stood
Burson v. Freeman was plurality opinion, and we will likely see different perspectives here also.
Overbreadth law protects against arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.
Mr. Breemer pointed out several times that disruption and delay in the polling place is not caused by a person coming in an NRA shirt but by a poll worker saying the voter cannot wear it, subsequent discussion, taking down the voter's name, etc.
Justice Gorsuch pointed out that state has to put forth an interest that justifies the ban.
Mr. Klein concluded by noting that voting is very important, but there have to be limits on power of polling place workers to restrict voters' rights; the law especially should not punish voters for participating in our democracy.
Given the state's counsel's different responses to hypotheticals proposed by the Court (notably, that a shirt with the text of the Second Amendment would be political, and therefore banned, but not a shirt with the text of the First Amendment), this tweet by Baker Hosteler attorney Andrew Grossman summarized the key issue in the case well:
Which pretty well proves that Minnesota's ban is vague, overbroad, and hopelessly arbitrary in application--even the advocate with months to prepare can't coherently identify what speech is banned and why.
— Andrew M. Grossman (@andrewmgrossman) February 28, 2018
The entire transcript in this important case can be read here, and our past coverage of the case is here.


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Wired Productions, an independent games publisher, is pleased to reveal today that it has signed a worldwide publishing agreement with talented Italian developer LKA.it to bring an updated version of the award-winning psychological adventure The Town of Light to consoles and PC. Offering fresh, story-supporting content and a myriad of enhancements to its original release, The Town of Light will make its retail debut on the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system and Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft in Q2 2017, alongside an improved Windows PC version.
An enhanced edition of the original, this new release of The Town of Light will offer new puzzles, additional story elements, reworked voiceover dialogue, more interactive elements and a huge graphical and UI overhaul that aims to deliver a more polished and immersive experience. A new trailer was released today that highlights the game's tone and narrative with supporting sentiments from press.
Winner of the indieDB Editor's Choice 2015 award for "Best Visuals" and Game Connection Paris 2014 for "Best Narrative," The Town of Light is a first-person, psychological story-driven adventure game set in the Volterra Psychiatric Asylum – a former mental treatment facility based in Tuscany, Italy. The asylum was shut down in the late 1970s due to an Italian law that instructed all asylums to close completely and give back patients their civil rights.
You can check out more of The Town of Light with the screenshots below, along with two YouTube videos as well. Be sure to tell us what you think of the game so far in the comments below!


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Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals
Published by Barbara Kay
I received the news that Sir Roger Scruton had died with a pang in my heart. I did not know him personally, although our paths crossed once. And I am not the sort of fan who says things like "I felt like I knew him," for I am not a sentimentalist. But he was a thinker and writer I admired extravagantly, and he was a beacon of reason in an age that is dominated by irrationality. It does seem to me that a bright star in my personal firmament has been extinguished. The path-crossing I mention took place in Ottawa in 2006. He was the keynote speaker at a symposium, sponsored by an outfit called the Centre for Cultural Renewal, which attracts an audience of citizens, many of them older, bewildered at the lightning social changes they are living through, and a little frightened, too, about where it is all going to end. The topic was "Public morality? Community Standards and the Limits of Harm." Scruton told his listeners what they wanted to hear—namely that …
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Demoted and Placed on Probation
Published by Stuart Reges
It all started in June 2018, when Quillette published my article, "Why Women Don't Code," and things picked up steam when Jordan Peterson shared a link to the article on his Twitter account. A burst of outrage and press coverage followed which I discussed in a follow-up piece. The original article was one of the ten most read pieces published by Quillette in 2018, and continues to generate interest. A recent YouTube video about it has been viewed over 120,000 times, as of this writing: In his tweet promoting my article, Peterson took issue with one of my claims. I had written that I thought I could survive at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering where I work. Peterson disagreed: Make no mistake about it: the Damore incident has already established a precedent. Watch what you say. Or else. https://t.co/3Zzg1g2y9C — Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) June 19, 2018 As it turns out, Peterson was right. My position is not tenured and when my current three-year appointment came up for review …
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'The Report' Review—A Careful Examination of the CIA's Interrogation Methods
Published by Michael J. Totten
The Report, a new film from Vice Studios starring Adam Driver, feels somehow both timely and late. It tells the story of American Senate staffer Daniel Jones (Driver), who was tasked with investigating the U.S. government's "enhanced interrogation" program in the late 2000s. The program, which many denounced as torture, was used to extract intelligence from suspected terrorist detainees at CIA black sites after Al Qaeda's attack on September 11, 2001. It ended years ago and is no longer even legal—the McCain-Feinstein Amendment restricts prisoner interrogation techniques to those listed in the United States Army's field manual, and it passed the Senate with a 78–21 vote in 2015, backed by majorities in both parties. Among the general public, however, the topic remains controversial, with almost half of Americans saying they think torture could be used to obtain "important military information" from "a captured enemy combatant" and only a little more than half saying they think torture is "wrong." During and after his 2016 campaign, President Donald J. Trump, ever-sensitive to divergences between "elite" and "popular" …
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Lessons from Australia's Bushfires: We Need More Science, Less Rhetoric
Published by Claire Lehmann
Over the last two weeks, the Royal Australian Navy has been evacuating thousands of residents fleeing uncontrollable bushfires in the south-eastern part of my country. Amid scenes of desperate Australians being rescued from beaches, national-security writer Craig Hooper has called the operation a "mini-Dunkirk." HMAS Adelaide conducting flight operations operating off Eden. @Australian_Navy #AustralianBushfire pic.twitter.com/XREgyctFv7 — Commander Australian Fleet (@COMAUSFLT) January 6, 2020 At least 24 lives have been lost, and many others are missing. Hundreds of homes and businesses have been incinerated, as have more than 60,000 square kilometres of bushland. The Premier of my home state of New South Wales, the region that's been worst affected, describes the crisis as "uncharted territory," with some towns at risk of being completely wiped out. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who took a brief holiday at the start of the crisis, has been accused of poor leadership. And critics have taken the opportunity to demand that Australia's climate policy be immediately overhauled to reflect this national disaster. But what exactly is causing this year's extreme fire season? …
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The National Book Foundation Defines Diversity Down
Last month the Huffington Post published an essay by Claire Fallon entitled "Was this Decade the Beginning of the End of the Great White Male Writer?" Fallon celebrated the notion that white men are losing their prominence in contemporary American literature and that the best books being published in America today are being written by a wider variety of authors than ever before: "What was once insular is now unifying," National Book Foundation director Lisa Lucas told the crowd at the 2019 National Book Awards Gala, where the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry honors all went to writers of color. "What was once exclusive is now inclusive." Lucas took over the foundation in 2016, at a time when the high-profile awards had a somewhat checkered record with representation. Though historically the honorees had skewed heavily white and male, that began to change around 2010. (However, there had been some other recent embarrassments, like 2014 host Daniel Handler's racist jokes following author Jacqueline Woodson's win for "Brown Girl Dreaming.") Lucas, the first woman and person of color …
Books / Diversity / Literature / Recommended
Bloody Harvest—How Everyone Ignored the Crime of the Century
Published by Aaron Sarin
In June of this year the China Tribunal delivered its Final Judgement and Summary Report.1 An independent committee composed of lawyers, human rights experts, and a transplant surgeon, the Tribunal was established to investigate forced organ harvesting on the Chinese mainland. These rumours have haunted the country for years—lurid tales of the fate suffered by members of the banned Falun Gong religion after being taken into police custody. Their organs, so the rumours go, are cut from their bodies while they are still alive, and then transplanted into waiting patients. The Tribunal examined these claims, extending the group of victims to include Uyghur Muslims (among others), and its findings were unambiguous. "On the basis of all direct and indirect evidence, the Tribunal concludes with certainty that forced organ harvesting has happened in multiple places in the PRC [People's Republic of China] and on multiple occasions for a period of at least twenty years and continues to this day."2 Further to this, "the PRC and its leaders actively incited the persecution, the imprisonment, murder, torture, and …
Asia / Human Rights / Must Reads / Recommended / World Affairs
We 'Gender-Critical' Feminists Pay a Price for Speaking Out. But the Price of Silence is Higher
Published by Libby Emmons
Disagreement over sex and gender have cleaved the feminist community between those who believe that biological sex is immutable, and those who believe that transitioning sex to align body with brain is not only possible, but a legally binding marker of identity. Courts, social-services organizations and schools all have been pushed to adopt the most doctrinaire precepts of trans-rights advocacy. In some cases, the issue has divided "gender-critical" women's-rights advocates from strident trans-rights advocates. It also has caused schisms within feminism; and even within families, with some parents split over the best course of action for their kids. While this drama unfolds publicly in legislatures, town councils and on social media, it also takes a personal toll on those who've gotten caught up in this unusually vicious front in the culture war. This includes "Susan" (all names changed), a gender-critical feminist and mother who plans to attend a forthcoming talk on the subject at the Seattle Public Library. An email exchange between Susan and her brother "Craig" recently was shared by the Hands Across the …
Biology / Recommended
Derailing Australia's Campus Rape Panic
Published by Bettina Arndt
As 2019 draws to a close, the manufactured rape crisis on Australian university campuses has suffered an important setback. Last month, a Queensland Supreme Court ruled that universities have no jurisdiction to adjudicate sexual assault. This prompted a major speech by the Federal Education Minister in which he affirmed that "If a student alleges they are the victim of a crime then our criminal justice system is the appropriate authority to deal with it." This is hugely significant, but the media has been noticeably reluctant to report on this development. Late last year, new regulations were introduced by a number of universities to establish committees and secretive processes to investigate and adjudicate sexual assault. These reversed the burden of proof, denied the accused normal legal rights, and required only a "balance of probabilities" to secure conviction. Many other universities have apparently made plans to proceed down the same path. This followed a campaign orchestrated by activists who have spent the last decade successfully convincing the media that young women are unsafe on our campuses. As …
How Bitcoin Can Protect Free Speech in the Digital Age
Published by Alex Gladstein
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How to Tackle the Unfolding Research Crisis
Published by Les Coleman
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Naomi Osaka withdraws from Australian Open
FILE - Naomi Osaka, of Japan, returns the ball against Sara Sorribes Tormo, of Spain, during their match at the Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, May 1, 2022. The bankruptcy of FTX and the arrest of its founder and former CEO are raising new questions about the role celebrity athletes such as Tom Brady, Steph Curry, Osaka and others played in lending legitimacy to the largely unregulated landscape of crypto, while also reframing the conversation about just how costly blind loyalty to favorite players or teams can be for the average fan. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two-time champion Naomi Osaka has confirmed she will not play at the Australian Open, adding her name to a growing list of notable withdrawals.
Organizers confirmed in a tweet on Sunday that Japan's Osaka, the Open champion in 2019 and 2021, will not be playing in Melbourne.
"Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the Australian Open. We will miss her at #AO2023," the tweet said.
The 25-year-old Osaka's ranking has slipped to 47 and she hasn't played since September after withdrawing during the second round in Tokyo. She won her first round match at that tournament when Australia's Daria Saville withdrew after one game with a knee injury.
Osaka won only one completed match since May and was beaten in the first round of her three previous tournaments, including the US Open at which she also is a two-time champion.
Last week she posted pictures on social media of a trip to Europe with her United States rapper boyfriend Cordae and had been considered unlikely to play in the first Grand Slam of the season.
Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska has been promoted to the main draw in her place.
Osaka took a mental health break after missing the 2021 French Open and later said she had been struggling with depression and anxiety for several years. Her absence from Melbourne adds to uncertainty over when or if she will resume her career.
The Australian Open which starts on Jan. 16 already has lost several leading players including men's world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz who pulled out Saturday with an ankle injury.
Former finalist Simona Halep also is not playing this year and Venus Williams also has handed back a wildcard entry after suffering an injury while practicing in Auckland.
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Notes for December 20
DON'T BE A FLAKE: faithful
Luke 2:1–20 (NLT)
At that time the Roman emperor, Augustus, decreed that a census should be taken throughout the Roman Empire. 2 (This was the first census taken when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 All returned to their own ancestral towns to register for this census. 4 And because Joseph was a descendant of King David, he had to go to Bethlehem in Judea, David's ancient home. He traveled there from the village of Nazareth in Galilee. 5 He took with him Mary, his fiancée, who was now obviously pregnant.
6 And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. 7 She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.
The Shepherds and Angels
8 That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. 9 Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord's glory surrounded them. They were terrified, 10 but the angel reassured them. "Don't be afraid!" he said. "I bring you good news that will bring great joy to all people. 11 The Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born today in Bethlehem, the city of David! 12 And you will recognize him by this sign: You will find a baby wrapped snugly in strips of cloth, lying in a manger."
13 Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying,
14 "Glory to God in highest heaven,
and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased."
15 When the angels had returned to heaven, the shepherds said to each other, "Let's go to Bethlehem! Let's see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."
16 They hurried to the village and found Mary and Joseph. And there was the baby, lying in the manger. 17 After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child. 18 All who heard the shepherds' story were astonished, 19 but Mary kept all these things in her heart and thought about them often. 20 The shepherds went back to their flocks, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen. It was just as the angel had told them.
John 1:14 (NLT)
14 So the Word became human and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father's one and only Son.
BIG IDEA: GOD IS NOT A FLAKE
1 Corinthians 1:9 (NLT)
9 God will do this, for he is faithful to do what he says, and he has invited you into partnership with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
THOUGHT 01 – GOD DOES WHAT HE SAYS.
Isaiah 7:14 (NLT)
All right then, the Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will conceive a child! She will give birth to a son and will call him Immanuel (which means 'God is with us').
1 John 4:10 (NLT)
10 This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
GOD CAME TO US
John 1:14a (NLT)
"14 So the Word became human and made his home among us."
THOUGHT 02 – WE FLAKE
Romans 5:8 (NLT)
8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.
THOUGHT 03 – GOD REMAINS FAITHFUL.
2 Timothy 2:13 (NLT)
13 If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny who he is.
Action Step
ACTION STEP –LIVE FAITHFULLY
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Latex composite can replace Indium Tin Oxide
ERJ staff report (DS)
Eindhoven, Netherlands -- Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed a replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO). ITO is a clear, transparent, electrically-conductive substance widely used in the manufacture of touch-sensitive display screens.
The replacement material is a transparent, conducting film produced in water, and based on electrically conducting carbon nanotubes and plastic nanoparticles. It is made of commonly available materials, and on top of that is also environment-friendly.
The research team has been able to achieve higher conductivity by combining low concentrations of carbon nanotubes and conducting latex in a low-cost polystyrene film. The latex is not based on rubber, but a solution of polymer beads in water).
The results, which also provide new insights into conduction in complex composite materials, were published online on 10 April by the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology.
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7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and uwrapped him in swaddling cloths and vlaid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in wthe inn.3
Lk 2:12
Or guest room
Luke 2:7 — The New International Version (NIV)
7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
Luke 2:7 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — New Living Translation (NLT)
7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.
Luke 2:7 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — New Century Version (NCV)
7 and she gave birth to her first son. Because there were no rooms left in the inn, she wrapped the baby with pieces of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough.
Luke 2:7 — American Standard Version (ASV 1901)
7 And she brought forth her firstborn son; and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
7 and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
7 She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger because there wasn't any room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
7 Then she gave birth to her firstborn Son, and she wrapped Him snugly in cloth and laid Him in a feeding trough—because there was no room for them at the lodging place.
Luke 2:7 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)
7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — New International Reader's Version (NIrV)
7 She gave birth to her first baby. It was a boy. She wrapped him in large strips of cloth. Then she placed him in a manger. There was no room for them in the inn.
Luke 2:7 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.


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"The Fever" by Megan Abbott Review
Author: Megan Abbott
This was the second book I've read by Megan Abbott, following the entertaining Dare Me. Based just on these two books, I would describe her genre as adult fiction focusing on teenage girls involved in murder plots. Nick Hornby turned me on to Ms. Abbott, and I'm glad he did. Abbott has a habit of making the locations and setting of the books feel like they could take place anywhere, and any time (after the invention of cell phones). I'm surprised more of them haven't been turned into movies yet.
The Fever is follows around several characters with very connected lives. The main character is Deenie, a teenage girl whose best friends (Lise, Gabby), occasional rival (Skye) and family (dad Tom and brother Eli) comprise the rest of the perspective characters. When Lise has a medical emergency in school, everybody is shocked and worried as she ends up in a coma with life threatening symptoms. However, when Gabby also has a medical episode at school the worry spreads to panic. When a third girl begins to get sick, the titular fever has become a craze among the students, parents and faculty of the school.
My biggest complaint with this book was that despite the seriousness of the situation for all the girls involved, they preferred to keep everything so secret that it really hamstrung everybody from finding out what was wrong. In particular, there is a huge reluctance to discuss having swam in a possibly contaminated lake. I understand the characters were not supposed to swim in the lake but when it looks like people could be dying it seems like the type of detail you'd want to mention to a medical professional. (I won't spoil whether that ends up being pertinent or not.)
Abbott delayed providing answers for so long that I started to get antsy about whether the payoff would be worth it. Surprisingly it was, and I didn't find it as predictable as the ending of Dare Me; here I guessed what was wrong with most of the girls but did not figure the initiating event ahead of time. The character that really stood out to me was Skye, particularly with how Deenie was instantly jealous of/threatened by her. It was the sort of thing that felt much more authentic that what I find in books with teenage characters. There was also a very sexual component to the book that was handled much better than I usually find in writing. The characters are all aware of/interested in sex, but Abbott doesn't spend time detailing the exploits beyond telling the reader what's happening.
I've read some other reviews where people have problems with the character Tom, particularly how he leers at some of Deenie's teenage friends. While each of Abbott's characters was flawed in certain ways in this book (jealousy, selfishness, dishonesty being the most common), Tom's flaws seemed to revolve around his relationships with women. The leering behavior amounted to three or four sentences throughout the book (much more, if you count an adult french teacher) and contributed to his feeling like a fully formed character instead of just the great dad that stuck around when mom didn't. All of the characters felt like real people, likable at times but not all the time.
4 Barrels, General Fiction, Recommended by Other People
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Tjohnson says:
Awesome review!