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> SubscriptionCalifornia governor pardons Robert Downey Jr. in
> drug case
> 24 December 2015, 8:22 pm
> SACRAMENTO,
> Calif. (AP) -- The governor of
> California pardoned Robert Downey Jr. on Thursday for a
> nearly 20-year-old felony drug conviction that led to the
> Oscar-nominated actor's imprisonment for roughly a year.
> Downey was among 91 people granted pardons for criminal
> convictions after demonstrating they had rehabilitated
> themselves and been out of custody for at least 10 years,
> Gov. Jerry Brown's office announced. The pardon does not
> erase records of a conviction, but it restores voting rights
> and is a public proclamation that the person has remained
> out of trouble and demonstrated exemplary behavior,
> according to material on Brown's website. Downey, once a
> courthouse mainstay for a series of drug-related arrests,
> has become one of Hollywood's greatest success stories for
> career and addiction rehabilitation. Since 2008, Downey has
> portrayed "Iron Man" in a series of Disney blockbuster
> films, including "The Avengers," based on the Marvel comic
> books. The 50-year-old actor is a two-time Oscar nominee for
> his roles in 1992's "Chaplin" and 2008's "Tropic Thunder."
> Downey's legal troubles began in June 1996 when he was
> stopped for speeding on Pacific Coast Highway and
> authorities found cocaine, heroin and a pistol in his
> vehicle. In 1999, he was sent to prison for roughly a year
> after he acknowledged violating his probation. Downey
> obtained the pardon after getting a judge to issue a
> certificate of rehabilitation, according to a proclamation
> released by Brown's office. It said Downey has "lived an
> honest and upright life, exhibited good moral character, and
> conducted himself as a law-abiding citizen." An email sent
> to Downey's agent Jim Toth and a call to his attorney Blair
> Berk were not immediately returned. The Democratic governor,
> a former Jesuit seminarian, has made it a practice to issue
> pardons around Christian holidays. The state's
> longest-serving governor has now issued 1,087 pardons,
> including 683 in the past five years and 404 during his
> first eight years in office from 1975-1983, according to his
> office. Most of those pardoned Thursday were convicted of
> drug and property crimes, though three were convicted of
> arson, one of kidnapping and one of vehicular manslaughter.
> Three were convicted of assaults using deadly weapons and
> one of carjacking with a BB gun. Many are now residents of
> other states. The hundreds of pardons Brown has issued in
> each of his four terms are typical - except for his three
> immediate predecessors. Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger
> granted 15, Democrat Gray Davis granted none, and Republican
> Pete Wilson granted 13. Former Republican Gov. Ronald Reagan
> granted nearly 600, according to Brown's office. ---
> McCartney reported from Los Angeles.
>
> APNewsBreak: EPA wants toxic Nevada mine on Superfund list
> 24 December 2015, 8:01 pm
> RENO, Nev.
> (AP) -- Fifteen years after U.S.
> regulators started assessing damage and health risks at an
> abandoned Nevada copper mine, the Environmental Protection
> Agency is moving to designate the contaminated land a
> Superfund site, a step the state could still oppose. Rural
> neighbors of the World War II-era mine that has leaked toxic
> chemicals for decades won a $19.5 million settlement in 2013
> from companies they accused of covering up the contamination
> to drinking water wells near Yerington, about 65 miles
> southeast of Reno. The EPA sent a letter to Gov. Brian
> Sandoval this week announcing its intention to place the
> mine on the list of the nation's most polluted sites to
> "mitigate exposures that are a substantial threat to the
> public health or welfare or the environment." "If we do not
> receive a written response from the state by Jan. 29, we
> will assume that Nevada is in agreement with EPA and will
> proceed with proposing the site for addition to the NPL,"
> Jared Blumenfeld, the agency's regional administrator in San
> Francisco, wrote in a Dec. 22 letter obtained by The
> Associated Press. NPL is the acronym for the Superfund's
> National Priority List. Aides to Sandoval had no immediate
> comment. Nevada has opposed past EPA proposals to list the
> site, fearing an effect on property values and any precedent
> that could be set by federal intervention in the
> mining-friendly state, the world's sixth-biggest producer of
> gold. But Nevada regulators estimated earlier this year that
> it would cost $30.4 million to address only what the EPA
> considers the most immediate health and safety concerns, and
> the state has been unsuccessful in obtaining financial
> assistance from those responsible for the damage. Under the
> Superfund listing, the EPA would cover 90 percent of the
> costs. "Without an identifiable private source of funding,
> the only mechanism to make federal funding available is to
> add the site to the NPL," Blumenfeld said. BP's subsidiary
> Atlantic Richfield has paid for other work on the site, said
> BP spokesman Jason Ryan. It comes after residents filed a
> class-action lawsuit in 2011 accusing Atlantic Richfield Co.
> and parent company BP America Inc. of "intentionally and
> negligently" concealing the extent of uranium, arsenic and
> other pollutants leaking into their drinking water wells
> from the mine. The mine covers 6 square miles of land owned
> partly by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Atlantic
> Richfield acquired the property in 1977 from Anaconda
> Copper, which built the mine in 1941. Previous owners left
> behind 90 million gallons of acidic solution that continues
> to threaten the groundwater, Blumenfeld said. That's
> equivalent to the amount of liquid it would take to cover
> about 80 football fields, 10 feet deep. In 2008, a U.S.
> Labor Department review panel upheld a whistleblower claim
> by ex-mine cleanup supervisor Earle Dixon who said the BLM
> illegally fired him for speaking out about the risks in
> defiance of local politicians. Peggy Pauly, a Yerington
> minister's wife, helped organize efforts to demand
> additional cleanup and filed the lawsuit, joined by about
> 700 past and present neighbors. Steven German, a New
> York-based attorney who represented the residents, called
> her "the real hero in all of this." "This is an important
> next step in getting this massive old mine cleaned up," he
> said Wednesday of the listing. "It is going to cost a
> fortune." Anaconda, the former owner, produced 1.7 billion
> pounds of copper from 1952 to 1978 at the mine in the Mason
> Valley, an irrigated agricultural oasis in the otherwise
> largely barren high desert. The EPA determined that the
> uranium was produced as a byproduct of processing the copper
> and that the radioactive waste was initially dumped into
> dirt-bottomed ponds that leaked into the groundwater.
> Federal studies showed 79 percent of the wells tested north
> of the mine had dangerous levels of uranium, arsenic or both
> that made the water unsafe to drink, including one a
> half-mile away with levels more than 10 times the legal
> drinking water standard. At the mine itself, wells tested as
> high as 100 times the standard. Although the health effects
> of specific levels are not well-understood, long-term
> exposure to high levels of uranium in drinking water may
> cause cancer and damage kidneys, the EPA said.
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> SubscriptionCarson's personal brand benefits from
> presidential campaign
> 24 December 2015, 6:55 pm
> WASHINGTON
> (AP) -- Long before Ben Carson became
> one of the leading Republican presidential candidates, he
> built his own brand by traveling around the country raising
> money for a charity that bears his name, awarding college
> scholarships, promoting his books and earning hefty payments
> to speak to large groups. Carson's name and face adorn the
> walls of dozens of schools in the U.S. and a medical school
> in Nigeria. Mayors have handed him the keys to their cities.
> His charity, founded in 1994, created a national day in his
> honor each year, celebrated by the children who read in
> elementary school reading rooms named after him. Carson's
> campaign has excelled at fundraising, bringing in almost $32
> million through the end of September - more than any other
> 2016 Republican candidate. Speaking fees over a nearly
> two-year period raked in $4.3 million. And his nonprofit
> continues to raise money. All of this is part of a
> well-honed enterprise that promotes Ben Carson as
> presidential candidate, political commentator, paid speaker,
> author, neurosurgeon and champion of children, reading and
> God. It's hard to see where one Carson stops and another
> begins. "I think as people get to know me they'll be able to
> see exactly who I am," Carson said in an interview with The
> Associated Press in late October. "I don't worry about
> that." Carson's campaign imposed boundaries to separate his
> politicking from a two-week publicity tour promoting his
> latest book. Since he declared his candidacy, more than
> 52,000 copies of versions of his signature book, Gifted
> Hands, have sold, according to industry statistics from
> Nielsen BookScan. Most political candidates focus only on
> their campaigns to avoid any potential violation, said
> Lawrence Noble of the Campaign Finance Center, a Washington
> non-profit group that promotes transparency in politics. For
> instance, if a candidate is getting paid to speak at an
> event, he or she has to make sure not to mix that with
> campaigning, he said. Continuing with paid speeches,
> book promotion tours and charity events and keeping those
> separate from the campaign is a challenge, Noble said.
> Carson has continued to give paid speeches since he declared
> his bid for the presidency, and in some cases, he's had
> political events around the same time. Since May when he
> declared his candidacy, he's been paid to speak at seven
> events, bringing in between $210,000 and $500,000, according
> to a financial disclosure he was required by law to file in
> June. Carson was not required to disclose the exact fee
> because the speeches hadn't taken place at the time he
> filed. What Carson says at these paid speaking events is
> critical to evaluating whether Carson violated any campaign
> laws, Noble said. But most of the paid-speaking events
> are not open to the public. On Sept. 22, in Dayton, Ohio,
> Carson was paid between $15,001-$50,000 to speak at an
> anti-abortion group, according to his public financial
> disclosure. The executive director of the nonprofit that
> hosted Carson said the group also paid for his travel. Paul
> Coudron said his organization booked Carson for its annual
> event a year ago. "He did have two other events in the area,
> as a matter of fact, that same day, much to our surprise,
> actually, when we found that out relatively close to the day
> of the event," Coudron said. He would not disclose how much
> the group paid for Carson's travel costs. The sponsor of the
> speaking event cannot subsidize campaign travel, Noble said.
> That could jeopardize the organization's tax-exempt status.
> Carson's spokesman, Doug Watts, said that Carson's room and
> transportation to and from the anti-abortion group's event
> were covered by the Washington Speakers Bureau, which booked
> the paid speech. And Carson's travel to and from Dayton was
> paid for by the campaign. "We segregate as much as
> feasible," Watts said. Some organizations that have paid
> Carson to speak have also contributed to his charity, the
> Carson Scholars Fund. The charity doles out $1,000 college
> scholarships for 4th through 12th graders. It also funds
> "Ben Carson reading rooms" around the country, spaces where
> children can read for pleasure, typically with a poster of
> Carson and quotes from him on the walls. The charity did not
> respond to questions about whether it purchased any of
> Carson's books for fundraisers. ---- Associated Press
> writers Jeff Donn in Boston, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Dan
> Sewell in Cincinnati, Julie Bykowicz, Steve Peoples and
> researcher Monika Mathur in Washington contributed to this
> story.
>
>
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> SubscriptionCarson's personal brand benefits from
> presidential campaign
> 24 December 2015, 6:55 pm
> WASHINGTON
> (AP) -- Long before Ben Carson became
> one of the leading Republican presidential candidates, he
> built his own brand by traveling around the country raising
> money for a charity that bears his name, awarding college
> scholarships, promoting his books and earning hefty payments
> to speak to large groups. Carson's name and face adorn the
> walls of dozens of schools in the U.S. and a medical school
> in Nigeria. Mayors have handed him the keys to their cities.
> His charity, founded in 1994, created a national day in his
> honor each year, celebrated by the children who read in
> elementary school reading rooms named after him. Carson's
> campaign has excelled at fundraising, bringing in almost $32
> million through the end of September - more than any other
> 2016 Republican candidate. Speaking fees over a nearly
> two-year period raked in $4.3 million. And his nonprofit
> continues to raise money. All of this is part of a
> well-honed enterprise that promotes Ben Carson as
> presidential candidate, political commentator, paid speaker,
> author, neurosurgeon and champion of children, reading and
> God. It's hard to see where one Carson stops and another
> begins. "I think as people get to know me they'll be able to
> see exactly who I am," Carson said in an interview with The
> Associated Press in late October. "I don't worry about
> that." Carson's campaign imposed boundaries to separate his
> politicking from a two-week publicity tour promoting his
> latest book. Since he declared his candidacy, more than
> 52,000 copies of versions of his signature book, Gifted
> Hands, have sold, according to industry statistics from
> Nielsen BookScan. Most political candidates focus only on
> their campaigns to avoid any potential violation, said
> Lawrence Noble of the Campaign Finance Center, a Washington
> non-profit group that promotes transparency in politics. For
> instance, if a candidate is getting paid to speak at an
> event, he or she has to make sure not to mix that with
> campaigning, he said. Continuing with paid speeches,
> book promotion tours and charity events and keeping those
> separate from the campaign is a challenge, Noble said.
> Carson has continued to give paid speeches since he declared
> his bid for the presidency, and in some cases, he's had
> political events around the same time. Since May when he
> declared his candidacy, he's been paid to speak at seven
> events, bringing in between $210,000 and $500,000, according
> to a financial disclosure he was required by law to file in
> June. Carson was not required to disclose the exact fee
> because the speeches hadn't taken place at the time he
> filed. What Carson says at these paid speaking events is
> critical to evaluating whether Carson violated any campaign
> laws, Noble said. But most of the paid-speaking events
> are not open to the public. On Sept. 22, in Dayton, Ohio,
> Carson was paid between $15,001-$50,000 to speak at an
> anti-abortion group, according to his public financial
> disclosure. The executive director of the nonprofit that
> hosted Carson said the group also paid for his travel. Paul
> Coudron said his organization booked Carson for its annual
> event a year ago. "He did have two other events in the area,
> as a matter of fact, that same day, much to our surprise,
> actually, when we found that out relatively close to the day
> of the event," Coudron said. He would not disclose how much
> the group paid for Carson's travel costs. The sponsor of the
> speaking event cannot subsidize campaign travel, Noble said.
> That could jeopardize the organization's tax-exempt status.
> Carson's spokesman, Doug Watts, said that Carson's room and
> transportation to and from the anti-abortion group's event
> were covered by the Washington Speakers Bureau, which booked
> the paid speech. And Carson's travel to and from Dayton was
> paid for by the campaign. "We segregate as much as
> feasible," Watts said. Some organizations that have paid
> Carson to speak have also contributed to his charity, the
> Carson Scholars Fund. The charity doles out $1,000 college
> scholarships for 4th through 12th graders. It also funds
> "Ben Carson reading rooms" around the country, spaces where
> children can read for pleasure, typically with a poster of
> Carson and quotes from him on the walls. The charity did not
> respond to questions about whether it purchased any of
> Carson's books for fundraisers. ---- Associated Press
> writers Jeff Donn in Boston, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Dan
> Sewell in Cincinnati, Julie Bykowicz, Steve Peoples and
> researcher Monika Mathur in Washington contributed to this
> story.
>
>
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> SubscriptionMilitary tracks storybook flight of St. Nick for
> 60th year
> 24 December 2015, 2:17 pm
> ANCHORAGE,
> Alaska (AP) -- Santa Claus is
> coming to town, and for the 60th consecutive year, the North
> American Aerospace Defense Command will continue its
> tradition of telling youngsters the location of Kris Kringle
> on his annual storybook world tour. The so-called Santa
> Tracker's hub is at Colorado's Peterson Air Force base,
> where hundreds of volunteers will be answering calls from an
> estimated 125,000 children around the globe looking for
> Santa's whereabouts. In places like Alaska, however, remote
> NORAD identification technicians who monitor computer
> screens 24 hours a day for possible air incursions also
> spend Christmas Eve serving as official Santa "trackers."
> The technicians in Canada and the U.S. report "sightings" of
> a sleigh full of toys pulled by flying reindeer, said Tech.
> Sgt. John Gordinier, an Alaska NORAD spokesman. "It's one of
> the largest military community relations events we have,"
> Gordinier said. --- HOW DOES NORAD TRACK SANTA? A system of
> radar stations and satellites monitor all air traffic
> entering U.S. and Canadian airspace. All aircraft have a
> code to identify themselves. If an aircraft doesn't have a
> code, Gordinier said, NORAD can scramble jets to see who it
> is and what they're doing. Luckily, Santa is good at keeping
> in touch with NORAD, Gordinier said. "When he pops up, we
> call him Big Red One," he said. "That's his call sign." The
> nose on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is a tipoff. It gives
> off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch,
> Gordinier said. --- WHAT IS SANTA'S ROUTE? Santa generally
> departs the North Pole, flies to the international date line
> over the Pacific Ocean, then begins deliveries in island
> nations. He then works his way west in the Northern and
> Southern hemispheres. Alaska is usually his last stop before
> heading home, Gordinier said. --- HOW DO CHILDREN
> PARTICIPATE? Starting at 10 p.m. Alaska time on Dec. 23, and
> for 23 hours covering most of Christmas Eve, children can
> call a toll-free number, 877-446-6723 (877-Hi-NORAD) and
> speak to a live phone operator about Santa's whereabouts.
> They can also send an email to noradtracksanta@outlook.com.
> NORAD has 157 telephone lines and hundreds of volunteers
> ready to answer calls, including first lady Michelle Obama,
> who takes a break from her Hawaii vacation to take forwarded
> calls. NORAD also created a website, www.noradsanta.org; a
> Facebook page, www.facebook.com/noradsanta; and a Twitter
> account @NoradSanta for the program. The sites include
> games, movies and music. "Santacams" stream videos from
> various locations. --- HOW DID NORAD GET INVOLVED WITH
> TRACKING SANTA? A 1955 newspaper advertisement for Sears
> Roebuck and Co. listed a phone number for "kiddies" to call
> Santa Claus but got it wrong. The number was for a crisis
> phone at Air Operations Center at Continental Air Defense
> Command, NORAD's predecessor, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
> Air Force Col. Harry Shoup took a call from a child and
> thought he was being pranked. When he figured out he was
> talking to a little boy, he pretended he was Santa. More
> children called. Shoop eventually instructed airmen
> answering the phone to offer Santa's radar location as he
> crossed the globe. That sparked the tradition that is
> heading into its 60th year.
>
>
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> SubscriptionMilitary tracks storybook flight of St. Nick for
> 60th year
> 24 December 2015, 2:17 pm
> ANCHORAGE,
> Alaska (AP) -- Santa Claus is
> coming to town, and for the 60th consecutive year, the North
> American Aerospace Defense Command will continue its
> tradition of telling youngsters the location of Kris Kringle
> on his annual storybook world tour. The so-called Santa
> Tracker's hub is at Colorado's Peterson Air Force base,
> where hundreds of volunteers will be answering calls from an
> estimated 125,000 children around the globe looking for
> Santa's whereabouts. In places like Alaska, however, remote
> NORAD identification technicians who monitor computer
> screens 24 hours a day for possible air incursions also
> spend Christmas Eve serving as official Santa "trackers."
> The technicians in Canada and the U.S. report "sightings" of
> a sleigh full of toys pulled by flying reindeer, said Tech.
> Sgt. John Gordinier, an Alaska NORAD spokesman. "It's one of
> the largest military community relations events we have,"
> Gordinier said. --- HOW DOES NORAD TRACK SANTA? A system of
> radar stations and satellites monitor all air traffic
> entering U.S. and Canadian airspace. All aircraft have a
> code to identify themselves. If an aircraft doesn't have a
> code, Gordinier said, NORAD can scramble jets to see who it
> is and what they're doing. Luckily, Santa is good at keeping
> in touch with NORAD, Gordinier said. "When he pops up, we
> call him Big Red One," he said. "That's his call sign." The
> nose on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is a tipoff. It gives
> off an infrared signature similar to a missile launch,
> Gordinier said. --- WHAT IS SANTA'S ROUTE? Santa generally
> departs the North Pole, flies to the international date line
> over the Pacific Ocean, then begins deliveries in island
> nations. He then works his way west in the Northern and
> Southern hemispheres. Alaska is usually his last stop before
> heading home, Gordinier said. --- HOW DO CHILDREN
> PARTICIPATE? Starting at 10 p.m. Alaska time on Dec. 23, and
> for 23 hours covering most of Christmas Eve, children can
> call a toll-free number, 877-446-6723 (877-Hi-NORAD) and
> speak to a live phone operator about Santa's whereabouts.
> They can also send an email to noradtracksanta@outlook.com.
> NORAD has 157 telephone lines and hundreds of volunteers
> ready to answer calls, including first lady Michelle Obama,
> who takes a break from her Hawaii vacation to take forwarded
> calls. NORAD also created a website, www.noradsanta.org; a
> Facebook page, www.facebook.com/noradsanta; and a Twitter
> account @NoradSanta for the program. The sites include
> games, movies and music. "Santacams" stream videos from
> various locations. --- HOW DID NORAD GET INVOLVED WITH
> TRACKING SANTA? A 1955 newspaper advertisement for Sears
> Roebuck and Co. listed a phone number for "kiddies" to call
> Santa Claus but got it wrong. The number was for a crisis
> phone at Air Operations Center at Continental Air Defense
> Command, NORAD's predecessor, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
> Air Force Col. Harry Shoup took a call from a child and
> thought he was being pranked. When he figured out he was
> talking to a little boy, he pretended he was Santa. More
> children called. Shoop eventually instructed airmen
> answering the phone to offer Santa's radar location as he
> crossed the globe. That sparked the tradition that is
> heading into its 60th year.
>
>
>
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> SubscriptionIñárritu Delivers A '360-Degree Emotional
> Experience' In 'The Revenant'
> 24 December 2015, 9:55 am
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> Filmmaker
> Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest is called The
> Revenant — a tale of endurance, survival, love and
> revenge. The film was shot using only natural sunlight and
> firelight in remote areas of Canada and Argentina. "Every
> molecule of this film was absolutely difficult," Iñárritu
> says.
>
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> Filmmaker Alejandro González
> Iñárritu's latest is called The Revenant — a tale of
> endurance, survival, love and revenge. The film was shot
> using only natural sunlight and firelight in remote areas of
> Canada and Argentina. "Every molecule of this film was
> absolutely difficult," Iñárritu says.
>
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> Courtesy Twentieth
> Century Fox
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> Last year filmmaker Alejandro González
> Iñárritu won the Best Picture, Best Director and Best
> Screenplay Oscars for Birdman. His new film, set to open
> Christmas Day, is already getting Oscar buzz. The Revenant
> is a Western, set in the American frontier in 1823. It stars
> Leonardo DiCaprio as legendary explorer Hugh Glass. In the
> harsh, icy American wilderness, he gets mauled by a grizzly
> bear. A fellow fur trapper murders Glass' son and then
> buries Glass alive, leaving him to die. The movie chronicles
> the hero's struggle to survive, bent on
> revenge. Iñárritu says The Revenant is
> about endurance, resilience and the love between father and
> son. He wants viewers to feel what it is to "be broken and
> isolated and be dead and reborn again."
>
> 'We were submerged in the same odyssey
> that these trappers were.
>
>
>
> Alejandro González Iñárritu, filmmaker
>
>
> Nature is also a main character in the
> story. Iñárritu says he shot his film chronologically,
> using only natural sunlight and firelight in remote areas of
> Canada and Argentina. "Every molecule of this film was
> absolutely difficult," he says. For 11 months they were "at
> the mercy of the low temperatures, and different conditions
> that changed seven times a day." There was
> sometimes a 25-degree difference between the temperature in
> the morning and the temperature at night. The crew endured
> rain, snow, wind and sun. "We were submerged in the same
> odyssey that these trappers were," the director
> says. Shooting the movie opened
> Iñárritu's eyes to climate change in a very real way. "I
> saw the difference between 1 degree — which is between ice
> and water," he says. In an interview
> provided by Twentieth Century Fox, DiCaprio says Iñárritu
> wanted to "create poetry" in this story. He says he admires
> the director and his longtime collaborator, cinematographer
> Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki.
>
>
>
>
> Leonardo DiCaprio
> (right) says Iñárritu achieves an experience akin to
> virtual reality in the film. "You get the visual perspective
> of a character in the movie, almost," he says.
>
>
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> Leonardo DiCaprio (right) says
> Iñárritu achieves an experience akin to virtual reality in
> the film. "You get the visual perspective of a character in
> the movie, almost," he says.
>
>
> Kimberley
> French/Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox
>
>
>
>
>
> "I think what they quite uniquely achieve
> is this almost virtual reality, where you really feel like
> you're out in the elements with these characters," DiCaprio
> says. "You really feel immersed in their lives. But he's
> also able to have that camera move all the way through the
> wilderness, but stop at a very intimate moment with the
> character and then travel on. So you almost feel like some
> strange, delusional wanderer watching all this chaos ensue.
> And you get the visual perspective of a character in the
> movie, almost." Sometimes DiCaprio's breath
> fogs the camera lens. Other shots are long scenes of the
> river rushing by, or wind rustling through the trees. The
> camera also weaves through battle
> scenes. "We choreograph all this very
> meticulously," Iñárritu says. "There's this beautiful
> dance between the camera and the actor, and even animals,
> and avalanches, and mountains. ... These long takes are
> extremely exciting and it creates a dramatic
> tension." The result is a "360-degree
> emotional experience," he says. Iñárritu
> and Lubezki also played with the camera for Birdman, filmed
> to seem like one long, continuous shot. Michael Keaton
> earned an Oscar for his performance of a washed-up superhero
> actor in that film. He told TV host Jimmy Kimmel that he
> admired Iñárritu for being a demanding
> perfectionist. "He's an artist," Keaton
> said. "I joke — I call him a madman — 'cause he is a
> madman, but he's an artist and you want to follow guys like
> that into the jungle." Iñárritu's first
> feature film in 2000, Amores Perros, was filled with the
> frenetic energy of his hometown, Mexico City. Director
> Guillermo del Toro says he helped out in the editing
> booth. "Even back then, in his first film,
> it was quite evident to me that the guy was quite a
> brilliant filmmaker," del Toro says. Del
> Toro says he, Iñárritu, and another Oscar winning
> director, Alfonso Cuarón, often collaborate behind the
> scenes. For a time, the "tres amigos" — as the three
> Mexican directors were known — had a production company
> called Cha Cha Cha Films. They've been outspoken
> politically, defending Mexican immigrants in the
> U.S. In the time they've known each other,
> Del Toro says his friend Iñárritu has matured as a
> filmmaker. "His first movies depended
> enormously on a chain of tragedies," Del Toro says. "And I
> think with Birdman and Revenant, he is truly more curious
> about character. He is also very interested in the small
> moments. His sense of motion and action and his sense of
> place and character is almost like combat photography done
> by a virtuoso."
>
>
> The soundtrack of The Revenant mixes beats
> with DiCaprio's breaths. Iñárritu says each of his films
> — Amores Perros, Babel, Biutiful, Birdman and this —
> have their own rhythm and tempo. It's something he first
> learned to appreciate as a radio DJ in Mexico City in the
> 1980s. "I think there's a cosmic order, and
> everything is musical," he says. When he
> riffs about making movies he sounds like a jazz
> musician. "Cinema's an ocean," he says. "We
> filmmakers, we go out with our boats as sailors and we are
> just navigating a couple of waves. So you find a wave and
> you try to survive, then the next one. And every time you
> approach it different depending on the wind. ... How we can
> tell stories about humans in a cinematic spectacular way —
> it's a process. I'm still finding out."
>
>
>
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> Filmmaker
> Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest is called The
> Revenant — a tale of endurance, survival, love and
> revenge. The film was shot using only natural sunlight and
> firelight in remote areas of Canada and Argentina. "Every
> molecule of this film was absolutely difficult," Iñárritu
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> endurance, survival, love and revenge. The film was shot
> using only natural sunlight and firelight in remote areas of
> Canada and Argentina. "Every molecule of this film was
> absolutely difficult," Iñárritu says.
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> Last year filmmaker Alejandro González
> Iñárritu won the Best Picture, Best Director and Best
> Screenplay Oscars for Birdman. His new film, set to open
> Christmas Day, is already getting Oscar buzz. The Revenant
> is a Western, set in the American frontier in 1823. It stars
> Leonardo DiCaprio as legendary explorer Hugh Glass. In the
> harsh, icy American wilderness, he gets mauled by a grizzly
> bear. A fellow fur trapper murders Glass' son and then
> buries Glass alive, leaving him to die. The movie chronicles
> the hero's struggle to survive, bent on
> revenge. Iñárritu says The Revenant is
> about endurance, resilience and the love between father and
> son. He wants viewers to feel what it is to "be broken and
> isolated and be dead and reborn again."
>
> 'We were submerged in the same odyssey
> that these trappers were.
>
>
>
> Alejandro González Iñárritu, filmmaker
>
>
> Nature is also a main character in the
> story. Iñárritu says he shot his film chronologically,
> using only natural sunlight and firelight in remote areas of
> Canada and Argentina. "Every molecule of this film was
> absolutely difficult," he says. For 11 months they were "at
> the mercy of the low temperatures, and different conditions
> that changed seven times a day." There was
> sometimes a 25-degree difference between the temperature in
> the morning and the temperature at night. The crew endured
> rain, snow, wind and sun. "We were submerged in the same
> odyssey that these trappers were," the director
> says. Shooting the movie opened
> Iñárritu's eyes to climate change in a very real way. "I
> saw the difference between 1 degree — which is between ice
> and water," he says. In an interview
> provided by Twentieth Century Fox, DiCaprio says Iñárritu
> wanted to "create poetry" in this story. He says he admires
> the director and his longtime collaborator, cinematographer
> Emmanuel "Chivo" Lubezki.
>
>
>
>
> Leonardo DiCaprio
> (right) says Iñárritu achieves an experience akin to
> virtual reality in the film. "You get the visual perspective
> of a character in the movie, almost," he says.
>
>
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> Leonardo DiCaprio (right) says
> Iñárritu achieves an experience akin to virtual reality in
> the film. "You get the visual perspective of a character in
> the movie, almost," he says.
>
>
> Kimberley
> French/Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox
>
>
>
>
>
> "I think what they quite uniquely achieve
> is this almost virtual reality, where you really feel like
> you're out in the elements with these characters," DiCaprio
> says. "You really feel immersed in their lives. But he's
> also able to have that camera move all the way through the
> wilderness, but stop at a very intimate moment with the
> character and then travel on. So you almost feel like some
> strange, delusional wanderer watching all this chaos ensue.
> And you get the visual perspective of a character in the
> movie, almost." Sometimes DiCaprio's breath
> fogs the camera lens. Other shots are long scenes of the
> river rushing by, or wind rustling through the trees. The
> camera also weaves through battle
> scenes. "We choreograph all this very
> meticulously," Iñárritu says. "There's this beautiful
> dance between the camera and the actor, and even animals,
> and avalanches, and mountains. ... These long takes are
> extremely exciting and it creates a dramatic
> tension." The result is a "360-degree
> emotional experience," he says. Iñárritu
> and Lubezki also played with the camera for Birdman, filmed
> to seem like one long, continuous shot. Michael Keaton
> earned an Oscar for his performance of a washed-up superhero
> actor in that film. He told TV host Jimmy Kimmel that he
> admired Iñárritu for being a demanding
> perfectionist. "He's an artist," Keaton
> said. "I joke — I call him a madman — 'cause he is a
> madman, but he's an artist and you want to follow guys like
> that into the jungle." Iñárritu's first
> feature film in 2000, Amores Perros, was filled with the
> frenetic energy of his hometown, Mexico City. Director
> Guillermo del Toro says he helped out in the editing
> booth. "Even back then, in his first film,
> it was quite evident to me that the guy was quite a
> brilliant filmmaker," del Toro says. Del
> Toro says he, Iñárritu, and another Oscar winning
> director, Alfonso Cuarón, often collaborate behind the
> scenes. For a time, the "tres amigos" — as the three
> Mexican directors were known — had a production company
> called Cha Cha Cha Films. They've been outspoken
> politically, defending Mexican immigrants in the
> U.S. In the time they've known each other,
> Del Toro says his friend Iñárritu has matured as a
> filmmaker. "His first movies depended
> enormously on a chain of tragedies," Del Toro says. "And I
> think with Birdman and Revenant, he is truly more curious
> about character. He is also very interested in the small
> moments. His sense of motion and action and his sense of
> place and character is almost like combat photography done
> by a virtuoso."
>
>
> The soundtrack of The Revenant mixes beats
> with DiCaprio's breaths. Iñárritu says each of his films
> — Amores Perros, Babel, Biutiful, Birdman and this —
> have their own rhythm and tempo. It's something he first
> learned to appreciate as a radio DJ in Mexico City in the
> 1980s. "I think there's a cosmic order, and
> everything is musical," he says. When he
> riffs about making movies he sounds like a jazz
> musician. "Cinema's an ocean," he says. "We
> filmmakers, we go out with our boats as sailors and we are
> just navigating a couple of waves. So you find a wave and
> you try to survive, then the next one. And every time you
> approach it different depending on the wind. ... How we can
> tell stories about humans in a cinematic spectacular way —
> it's a process. I'm still finding out."
>
>
>
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> storage unit
> 15 December 2015, 8:30 pm
> SAN FRANCISCO
> (AP) -- Homicides detectives were
> investigating Tuesday after authorities found two children
> dead inside a commercial storage unit in Northern
> California. Autopsies were planned Wednesday for the
> 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy, whose names were not
> released. No charges have been filed in their deaths. The
> investigation also led to a starved and injured 9-year-old
> girl, who was taken to a hospital, the Plumas County
> Sheriff's Office said. It began with a call about a possible
> child abuse case in the small town of Quincy, about 220
> miles northeast of San Francisco. On Friday, authorities
> found the 9-year-old at a Quincy home, according to a news
> release from the Sheriff's Office. Her name and medical
> condition were not available Tuesday. Sheriff's officials
> later arrested a 17-year-old boy and 39-year-old woman on
> suspicion of felony child abuse, torture and mayhem. Each
> remained jailed Tuesday on $1 million bail. Attorneys
> Douglas Prouty, who represents the 39-year-old, and Robert
> Zernich, who represents the teen, both declined to comment.
> The Associated Press typically does not identify abuse
> victims; it is not using the names of the teen or the woman
> because their relationship to the children is unclear. The
> investigation led authorities to the Redding storage
> facility where they found the bodies. A woman who answered
> the phone there Tuesday declined to comment. Redding Police
> Lt. Pete Brindley wouldn't say whether the two children were
> killed in the storage unit or elsewhere. No other details
> were released. Redding is about 140 miles northwest of
> Quincy. Meanwhile, south of San Francisco, authorities
> searched a home in Salinas, where the teen and woman
> recently lived. They did not say whether they found
> anything. Social services had investigated the 39-year-old
> and her family within the last year for general neglect,
> said Elliott Robinson, director of social services for
> Monterey County. Robinson's office filed the death reports
> for the two children found in Redding. He declined to
> comment further. Brindley said he expects more details to be
> released later Tuesday.
>
> The Latest: DOJ traditionally grants police review requests
> 15 December 2015, 8:00 pm
> MILWAUKEE
> (AP) -- 1:40 p.m. (CST) The Justice
> Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services,
> or COPS, traditionally agrees to police department requests
> for review. Such reviews are considered less of a stigma for
> a troubled department than patterns and practices
> investigations undertaken by civil rights investigators,
> which can lead to an overhaul in policies and protocols as
> well as court-enforceable agreements between the police
> force and the federal government. Milwaukee Police Chief Ed
> Flynn invited a partnership and examination from the DOJ
> after it announced last month that it wouldn't charge
> Christopher Manney in the death of Dontre Hamilton. Flynn
> hasn't responded to a request seeking comment on why he
> asked for the review. --- Associated Press writer Eric
> Tucker contributed to this report from Washington, D.C. ---
> 1:05 p.m. (CST) The U.S. Justice Department says it will
> announce a plan for enacting significant reforms in the
> Milwaukee Police Department. The brief news release makes no
> mention of what sparked the announcement, which is scheduled
> for Thursday. Several police agencies nationwide are
> involved in similar action. Among them are Baltimore and St.
> Louis County, which have been involved in widespread
> protesting following high-profile deaths. In Milwaukee, a
> black man was killed by a white officer in a downtown park
> in 2014. The death has prompted ongoing demonstrations. The
> DOJ announced last month that it wouldn't pursue criminal
> civil rights charges against the officer, and Police Chief
> Ed Flynn responded by saying he invited a partnership and
> examination from the agency. Milwaukee police didn't
> immediately respond to a request for comment.
>
> Republicans take debate stage in race reshaped by attacks
> 15 December 2015, 7:52 pm
> LAS VEGAS
> (AP) -- Republican presidential
> candidates take the debate stage Tuesday night for the first
> time in a month, their race reshaped by national security
> threats but still dominated by outsider contenders. Now it's
> Ted Cruz challenging front-runner Donald Trump. Trump will
> once again be standing at center stage, reflecting the
> billionaire businessman's surprising dominance in the GOP
> primary campaign. His newest test, at least in the leadoff
> Iowa caucus, comes from Texas Sen. Cruz, a chief antagonist
> of Republican leaders in Washington. The debate will be the
> first for Republicans since the attacks in Paris and San
> Bernardino, California, that increased concerns about
> terrorism in the United States. Hours before the debate was
> to begin, officials in Los Angeles closed all schools after
> an emailed threat. Trump's response to the terror attacks
> was to call for a total ban on Muslims entering the U.S. The
> proposal was roundly criticized by his rivals but appears to
> be resonating with some of his supporters. With less than
> two months until voting begins, Cruz is trying to pitch
> himself as a more electable alternative to Trump. The Texas
> senator has a robust campaign infrastructure and
> conservative appeal, though some Republican leaders believe
> his hardline positions and prickly demeanor would put him at
> a disadvantage in a general election contest against
> Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Trump and Cruz have
> maintained a friendly relationship for months, but signs of
> a split have emerged in recent days, with Cruz appearing to
> question Trump's judgment at a private fundraiser, according
> to audio obtained by The New York Times, and Trump calling
> Cruz "a little bit of a maniac." Trump didn't go after Cruz
> by name during a Las Vegas rally on the eve of the debate,
> but said the prime-time faceoff could turn messy. "I am
> giving them a chance for them to make total fools of
> themselves in front of millions of people," Trump said,
> adding that he was expecting to be attacked. "This will not
> be like an evening in paradise for me. Do we agree?" he
> asked. Another dynamic in Tuesday's debate involves Cruz and
> Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another first-term senator and
> Cuban-American. Cruz and Rubio have been sparring from afar,
> particularly over national security. Rubio has tried to
> brand Cruz as an isolationist and has criticized his support
> for ending the bulk collection of Americans' phone records,
> saying it weakens the government's ability to identify
> potential terrorists. "There are some differences in
> policy," Rubio said of Cruz in an interview Monday with The
> Associated Press. "I think we need to be the national
> security party, the party of strong national security,
> committed to ensuring we have the strongest military force
> in the world." More broadly, Rubio's campaign is eager to
> cast Cruz, who prides himself on being a conservative
> "truth-teller," as a politically expedient flip-flopper who
> is willing to say whatever is necessary to win an election.
> Rubio's campaign has raised questions about Cruz's position
> on sending troops to the Middle East as well as whether he
> would allow immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to stay
> here. Cruz's campaign has dismissed the criticism, with
> spokesman Rick Tyler saying, "Nobody believes Senator Cruz
> is weak on national defense and security." The debate is
> particularly crucial for some of the more experienced GOP
> politicians who have struggled to gain traction in a crowded
> field. That's particularly true for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,
> the former front-runner and elite fundraiser who has been
> languishing for months. While Bush's advisers have brushed
> aside suggestions he should drop out of the race before
> voting begins, a weak performance would increase those
> calls. One establishment candidate who does appear to be
> gaining ground is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He's
> hanging his White House hopes on a strong finish in New
> Hampshire, where he's winning important endorsements and
> climbing in preference polls. "I've been making executive
> decisions for 13 years and been held accountable for them,"
> Christie told the AP Monday. "There's no other way to get
> ready for the presidency than that; you have to have
> executive experience to be successful." Also on the main
> stage Tuesday night will be retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson,
> whose campaign is on the decline after a surge in early
> fall; former business executive Carly Fiorina; Ohio Gov.
> John Kasich and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. Four lower-polling
> candidates will appear at an earlier event: former Arkansas
> Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum,
> former New York Gov. George Pataki and South Carolina Sen.
> Lindsey Graham. --- Pace reported from Washington.
> Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin,
> Kathleen Ronayne in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and Michelle
> Rindels in Las Vegas contributed to this report. -- Follow
> Julie Pace at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC and Julie
> Bykowicz at http://twitter.com/bykowicz
>
> 'The Book of Pears': A Love Letter To A Once Pre-Eminent
> Fruit
> 15 December 2015, 7:33 pm
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Author Joan Morgan
> says Beurré Superfin is one of her favorite pears. It's
> "truly delicious: very buttery, juicy, cream to pale yellow
> flesh, intensely rich with plenty of sugar lemony acidity,"
> she writes in The Book of Pears.
>
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> Author Joan Morgan says Beurré
> Superfin is one of her favorite pears. It's "truly
> delicious: very buttery, juicy, cream to pale yellow flesh,
> intensely rich with plenty of sugar lemony acidity," she
> writes in The Book of Pears.
>
>
> Courtesy of Joan
> Morgan
>
>
>
>
>
> Tour the produce section of a modern
> grocery store and you may conclude that we live in an age of
> unprecedented variety and
> abundance. Indeed, it's never been easier
> to experience exotic fruit flavors like durian, dragon fruit
> or lychee and find staple fruits like blueberries and
> oranges pretty much any time of year.
>
>
> But flip through The Book of Pears, The
> Definitive History And Guide To Over 500 Varieties, and it
> may dawn on you that we actually missed one of the great
> eras in fruit history. As this gorgeously illustrated
> compendium on the pear reveals, various generations of
> Europeans feasted on a wider and better selection of pears
> than we do today. Of course, Harry &
> David, the Oregon company that invented mail order pears in
> the 1930s, helped bring the superlative pear experience to
> Americans. One of my great aunts used to send us a box of
> the rosy, juicy and buttery Royal Riviera pears — known in
> Europe as Comice pears — from Harry & David nearly
> every Christmas. The tissue wrapping around each fat fruit
> signaled to me just how special and luxurious they
> were. But "peak pear" occurred in Europe
> over a century ago, according to Joan Morgan, who published
> The Book of Pears this October, after researching the fruit
> for some 10 years. Since then, pear growers' attention has
> increasingly turned to commercial production, bringing about
> more uniformity and less consumer appreciation for the pears
> planted around the world. Morgan, a
> pomologist and fruit historian who also wrote 1993's The
> Book of Apples with Alison Richards (who, full disclosure,
> is an editor at NPR), says we're beginning to seriously
> reconsider the pear. We're rediscovering not just the rich
> diversity of varieties that exist, but also the value of
> pear orchards to our landscapes.
>
>
> And for those eager to dive in deep,
> there's a companion website with a gallery of photographs of
> almost every one of the 500 or so pears described in the
> book.
>
>
> We reached Morgan at her home in Kent,
> England, to chat about her exhaustive exploration of the
> pear, which took her to fruit research centers in Iran and
> Syria, among other places. Here's part of our conversation,
> edited for brevity and clarity. When was
> peak pear culture? France was a place where
> the pear was appreciated above the apple in the 17th century
> and 18th century and, indeed, until comparatively recent
> times. I suppose the next era of feverish
> pear breeding activity was in Flanders, in the area that
> became Belgium, in the 18th and 19th centuries. There were
> an extraordinary number of people raising pears, and records
> say that there were about 1,000 named
> varieties. And the pear certainly reached
> its zenith in Victorian England, where head gardeners might
> be growing 50 to 100 different varieties of pears, so that
> you would have these successions of gorgeous, buttery,
> melting flesh pears, with all sorts of exotic perfumes. It
> was a wonderful, wonderful celebration of fruit, and in
> particular the pear. Can you explain that
> idea of a succession of pears? If you look
> at the peak in Victorian England, you needed a succession of
> fruit to serve at meals through the year. So you are needing
> a range of different pears in August, a different selection
> for September, different ones again October, and so on, with
> exquisite ones for Christmas ... right through almost to
> springtime. So the objective of the private
> garden in England has always been to have lots of different
> varieties to give this succession of interest, but also to
> give the different seasons.
>
>
>
>
> An illustration of
> a French property with pear and other fruit trees trained
> against the walls.
>
>
>
>
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> property with pear and other fruit trees trained against the
> walls.
>
>
> Courtesy of
> Penguin Random House UK
>
>
>
>
>
> And pears were considered a most special
> dessert, weren't they? For centuries,
> dessert referred to the absolute finale, which could be a
> selection of fresh fruit and all sorts of sweet delicacies,
> like crystallized fruits, sugared nuts and jellies. When we
> get to Victorian England in the grandest situations where
> they had enormous fruit collections and dozens of gardeners
> fussing over them, this finale (after the puddings) would be
> entirely fresh fruit: grapes, peaches, pears, strawberries,
> whatever the season was. Perhaps today we
> should do away with puddings and have fresh fruit instead;
> that's the moment to treasure these perfectly ripe
> specimens. You describe three qualities
> that set the pear apart from the apple and other tree fruits
> — qualities that make it, as you write, "the most exciting
> of the tree fruits." Can you talk a little bit about its
> "luscious textures, boudoir perfumes and richness of
> taste"? Summer pears you can eat fresh from
> the tree. But all other varieties, across the seasons, you
> pick them from the tree and store them in a cool, dark place
> to mature and develop these wonderful textures and exotic
> flavors. And you get these very fine, luscious textures in
> the very best varieties. And also in the very best
> varieties, you get these exotic scents: perfumes like
> rosewater, musk and vanilla. They are aromatic compounds,
> synthesized in the pear during [storage], and then when you
> bite in, they are released into the
> mouth.
>
>
>
>
> The Doyenne du
> Comice pear is a "pear of superlatives; grown all over the
> world in gardens and for market. Handsome, generous
> appearance with rich, luscious, very buttery, exquisitely
> textured, pale cream flesh," writes Morgan.
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> The Doyenne du Comice pear is a
> "pear of superlatives; grown all over the world in gardens
> and for market. Handsome, generous appearance with rich,
> luscious, very buttery, exquisitely textured, pale cream
> flesh," writes Morgan.
>
>
> Elisabeth
> Dowle/Penguin Random House UK
>
>
>
>
>
> As you bite into the finest pears, the
> reason why you have Buerre as part of name of many varieties
> of pears is because they liken the texture of the flesh to
> butter. When you just bite into it, there's a little bit of
> resistance, and then it melts in your mouth like
> butter. So how, then, was the pear slowly
> and subtlety eclipsed by the apple and other tree
> fruit? One of the problems with the pear is
> that hitting it right, getting it at this point of
> perfection, is quite difficult. Pears will be sold unripe,
> and you need to ripen them at home. That has always
> presented in the marketplace a challenge for the people
> selling the fruit and the people buying it. You have to to
> have knowledge, you have to have patience and treat the pear
> properly, and ripen it up at home. It's
> also that generally, I suppose, apples are easier to grow
> for gardeners and commercial producers. And all the research
> development in recent years has focused much more on apples
> than pears. Also, pears are not quite so
> easy to handle — they can bruise easily. And since
> generally apples have a rounded shape, they are easier to
> pack. Pears have a pyriform shape, more elongated, and are
> generally a bit more challenging.
>
>
> How do you know when a pear is perfectly
> ripe? When you press it very gently around
> the stalk end, it will yield a little bit and that will
> indicate that it's right. You musn't handle them too much or
> they will bruise and go over, and you musn't forget them, of
> course. If you forget them, they will certainly go over and
> they will be a great disappointment. In
> your final chapter, you mention that there has been some
> revival in the appreciation of what makes the pear special
> and more interest in discovering new varieties. Do you think
> there is a true revival of pear culture
> happening? There's been a great revival in
> interest in apples — huge interest in traditional
> varieties and regional varieties. We now [in England] have
> things like Apple Day, apple festivals, all these regional
> fruit societies, regional groups building up
> orchards. I think it's time we also
> embraced the pear in this revival. Pear trees can live
> longer than apples trees. They can be magnificent specimens,
> and contribute to the landscape of an area, as they
> traditionally do in the parts of England where they're grown
> to turn into perry [a beverage, similar to cider, made with
> pears]. As with apples, we also need to
> recover the local traditions associated with pear — the
> particular varieties that might have been planted in
> areas. Above all, we want to recover this
> ancient tradition of celebrating fruit — celebrating it
> for its wonderful, glorious colors, its wonderful tastes,
> perfumes, textures and so on. [We] really
> can make fruit a much more prominent thing, rather than
> something that nowadays we seem to just crunch and forget.
> This can be a memorable occasion: eating a truly perfect,
> ripe, luscious pear. And if you could eat
> any pear right now, which variety would you
> choose? This is difficult to say. I like
> Doyenné du Comice very much indeed. Also, Fondante
> d'Automne (called Belle Lucrative in U.S.) is wonderful. But
> perhaps even better is Beurré Superfin. Then there is also
> Joséphine de Malines, which is a later season pear. But I
> do really like Beurré Superfin.
>
>
>
>
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> storage unit
> 15 December 2015, 8:30 pm
> SAN FRANCISCO
> (AP) -- Homicides detectives were
> investigating Tuesday after authorities found two children
> dead inside a commercial storage unit in Northern
> California. Autopsies were planned Wednesday for the
> 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy, whose names were not
> released. No charges have been filed in their deaths. The
> investigation also led to a starved and injured 9-year-old
> girl, who was taken to a hospital, the Plumas County
> Sheriff's Office said. It began with a call about a possible
> child abuse case in the small town of Quincy, about 220
> miles northeast of San Francisco. On Friday, authorities
> found the 9-year-old at a Quincy home, according to a news
> release from the Sheriff's Office. Her name and medical
> condition were not available Tuesday. Sheriff's officials
> later arrested a 17-year-old boy and 39-year-old woman on
> suspicion of felony child abuse, torture and mayhem. Each
> remained jailed Tuesday on $1 million bail. Attorneys
> Douglas Prouty, who represents the 39-year-old, and Robert
> Zernich, who represents the teen, both declined to comment.
> The Associated Press typically does not identify abuse
> victims; it is not using the names of the teen or the woman
> because their relationship to the children is unclear. The
> investigation led authorities to the Redding storage
> facility where they found the bodies. A woman who answered
> the phone there Tuesday declined to comment. Redding Police
> Lt. Pete Brindley wouldn't say whether the two children were
> killed in the storage unit or elsewhere. No other details
> were released. Redding is about 140 miles northwest of
> Quincy. Meanwhile, south of San Francisco, authorities
> searched a home in Salinas, where the teen and woman
> recently lived. They did not say whether they found
> anything. Social services had investigated the 39-year-old
> and her family within the last year for general neglect,
> said Elliott Robinson, director of social services for
> Monterey County. Robinson's office filed the death reports
> for the two children found in Redding. He declined to
> comment further. Brindley said he expects more details to be
> released later Tuesday.
>
> The Latest: DOJ traditionally grants police review requests
> 15 December 2015, 8:00 pm
> MILWAUKEE
> (AP) -- 1:40 p.m. (CST) The Justice
> Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services,
> or COPS, traditionally agrees to police department requests
> for review. Such reviews are considered less of a stigma for
> a troubled department than patterns and practices
> investigations undertaken by civil rights investigators,
> which can lead to an overhaul in policies and protocols as
> well as court-enforceable agreements between the police
> force and the federal government. Milwaukee Police Chief Ed
> Flynn invited a partnership and examination from the DOJ
> after it announced last month that it wouldn't charge
> Christopher Manney in the death of Dontre Hamilton. Flynn
> hasn't responded to a request seeking comment on why he
> asked for the review. --- Associated Press writer Eric
> Tucker contributed to this report from Washington, D.C. ---
> 1:05 p.m. (CST) The U.S. Justice Department says it will
> announce a plan for enacting significant reforms in the
> Milwaukee Police Department. The brief news release makes no
> mention of what sparked the announcement, which is scheduled
> for Thursday. Several police agencies nationwide are
> involved in similar action. Among them are Baltimore and St.
> Louis County, which have been involved in widespread
> protesting following high-profile deaths. In Milwaukee, a
> black man was killed by a white officer in a downtown park
> in 2014. The death has prompted ongoing demonstrations. The
> DOJ announced last month that it wouldn't pursue criminal
> civil rights charges against the officer, and Police Chief
> Ed Flynn responded by saying he invited a partnership and
> examination from the agency. Milwaukee police didn't
> immediately respond to a request for comment.
>
> Republicans take debate stage in race reshaped by attacks
> 15 December 2015, 7:52 pm
> LAS VEGAS
> (AP) -- Republican presidential
> candidates take the debate stage Tuesday night for the first
> time in a month, their race reshaped by national security
> threats but still dominated by outsider contenders. Now it's
> Ted Cruz challenging front-runner Donald Trump. Trump will
> once again be standing at center stage, reflecting the
> billionaire businessman's surprising dominance in the GOP
> primary campaign. His newest test, at least in the leadoff
> Iowa caucus, comes from Texas Sen. Cruz, a chief antagonist
> of Republican leaders in Washington. The debate will be the
> first for Republicans since the attacks in Paris and San
> Bernardino, California, that increased concerns about
> terrorism in the United States. Hours before the debate was
> to begin, officials in Los Angeles closed all schools after
> an emailed threat. Trump's response to the terror attacks
> was to call for a total ban on Muslims entering the U.S. The
> proposal was roundly criticized by his rivals but appears to
> be resonating with some of his supporters. With less than
> two months until voting begins, Cruz is trying to pitch
> himself as a more electable alternative to Trump. The Texas
> senator has a robust campaign infrastructure and
> conservative appeal, though some Republican leaders believe
> his hardline positions and prickly demeanor would put him at
> a disadvantage in a general election contest against
> Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Trump and Cruz have
> maintained a friendly relationship for months, but signs of
> a split have emerged in recent days, with Cruz appearing to
> question Trump's judgment at a private fundraiser, according
> to audio obtained by The New York Times, and Trump calling
> Cruz "a little bit of a maniac." Trump didn't go after Cruz
> by name during a Las Vegas rally on the eve of the debate,
> but said the prime-time faceoff could turn messy. "I am
> giving them a chance for them to make total fools of
> themselves in front of millions of people," Trump said,
> adding that he was expecting to be attacked. "This will not
> be like an evening in paradise for me. Do we agree?" he
> asked. Another dynamic in Tuesday's debate involves Cruz and
> Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, another first-term senator and
> Cuban-American. Cruz and Rubio have been sparring from afar,
> particularly over national security. Rubio has tried to
> brand Cruz as an isolationist and has criticized his support
> for ending the bulk collection of Americans' phone records,
> saying it weakens the government's ability to identify
> potential terrorists. "There are some differences in
> policy," Rubio said of Cruz in an interview Monday with The
> Associated Press. "I think we need to be the national
> security party, the party of strong national security,
> committed to ensuring we have the strongest military force
> in the world." More broadly, Rubio's campaign is eager to
> cast Cruz, who prides himself on being a conservative
> "truth-teller," as a politically expedient flip-flopper who
> is willing to say whatever is necessary to win an election.
> Rubio's campaign has raised questions about Cruz's position
> on sending troops to the Middle East as well as whether he
> would allow immigrants living in the U.S. illegally to stay
> here. Cruz's campaign has dismissed the criticism, with
> spokesman Rick Tyler saying, "Nobody believes Senator Cruz
> is weak on national defense and security." The debate is
> particularly crucial for some of the more experienced GOP
> politicians who have struggled to gain traction in a crowded
> field. That's particularly true for Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,
> the former front-runner and elite fundraiser who has been
> languishing for months. While Bush's advisers have brushed
> aside suggestions he should drop out of the race before
> voting begins, a weak performance would increase those
> calls. One establishment candidate who does appear to be
> gaining ground is New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He's
> hanging his White House hopes on a strong finish in New
> Hampshire, where he's winning important endorsements and
> climbing in preference polls. "I've been making executive
> decisions for 13 years and been held accountable for them,"
> Christie told the AP Monday. "There's no other way to get
> ready for the presidency than that; you have to have
> executive experience to be successful." Also on the main
> stage Tuesday night will be retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson,
> whose campaign is on the decline after a surge in early
> fall; former business executive Carly Fiorina; Ohio Gov.
> John Kasich and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. Four lower-polling
> candidates will appear at an earlier event: former Arkansas
> Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum,
> former New York Gov. George Pataki and South Carolina Sen.
> Lindsey Graham. --- Pace reported from Washington.
> Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin,
> Kathleen Ronayne in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and Michelle
> Rindels in Las Vegas contributed to this report. -- Follow
> Julie Pace at http://twitter.com/jpaceDC and Julie
> Bykowicz at http://twitter.com/bykowicz
>
> 'The Book of Pears': A Love Letter To A Once Pre-Eminent
> Fruit
> 15 December 2015, 7:33 pm
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Author Joan Morgan
> says Beurré Superfin is one of her favorite pears. It's
> "truly delicious: very buttery, juicy, cream to pale yellow
> flesh, intensely rich with plenty of sugar lemony acidity,"
> she writes in The Book of Pears.
>
>
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> Author Joan Morgan says Beurré
> Superfin is one of her favorite pears. It's "truly
> delicious: very buttery, juicy, cream to pale yellow flesh,
> intensely rich with plenty of sugar lemony acidity," she
> writes in The Book of Pears.
>
>
> Courtesy of Joan
> Morgan
>
>
>
>
>
> Tour the produce section of a modern
> grocery store and you may conclude that we live in an age of
> unprecedented variety and
> abundance. Indeed, it's never been easier
> to experience exotic fruit flavors like durian, dragon fruit
> or lychee and find staple fruits like blueberries and
> oranges pretty much any time of year.
>
>
> But flip through The Book of Pears, The
> Definitive History And Guide To Over 500 Varieties, and it
> may dawn on you that we actually missed one of the great
> eras in fruit history. As this gorgeously illustrated
> compendium on the pear reveals, various generations of
> Europeans feasted on a wider and better selection of pears
> than we do today. Of course, Harry &
> David, the Oregon company that invented mail order pears in
> the 1930s, helped bring the superlative pear experience to
> Americans. One of my great aunts used to send us a box of
> the rosy, juicy and buttery Royal Riviera pears — known in
> Europe as Comice pears — from Harry & David nearly
> every Christmas. The tissue wrapping around each fat fruit
> signaled to me just how special and luxurious they
> were. But "peak pear" occurred in Europe
> over a century ago, according to Joan Morgan, who published
> The Book of Pears this October, after researching the fruit
> for some 10 years. Since then, pear growers' attention has
> increasingly turned to commercial production, bringing about
> more uniformity and less consumer appreciation for the pears
> planted around the world. Morgan, a
> pomologist and fruit historian who also wrote 1993's The
> Book of Apples with Alison Richards (who, full disclosure,
> is an editor at NPR), says we're beginning to seriously
> reconsider the pear. We're rediscovering not just the rich
> diversity of varieties that exist, but also the value of
> pear orchards to our landscapes.
>
>
> And for those eager to dive in deep,
> there's a companion website with a gallery of photographs of
> almost every one of the 500 or so pears described in the
> book.
>
>
> We reached Morgan at her home in Kent,
> England, to chat about her exhaustive exploration of the
> pear, which took her to fruit research centers in Iran and
> Syria, among other places. Here's part of our conversation,
> edited for brevity and clarity. When was
> peak pear culture? France was a place where
> the pear was appreciated above the apple in the 17th century
> and 18th century and, indeed, until comparatively recent
> times. I suppose the next era of feverish
> pear breeding activity was in Flanders, in the area that
> became Belgium, in the 18th and 19th centuries. There were
> an extraordinary number of people raising pears, and records
> say that there were about 1,000 named
> varieties. And the pear certainly reached
> its zenith in Victorian England, where head gardeners might
> be growing 50 to 100 different varieties of pears, so that
> you would have these successions of gorgeous, buttery,
> melting flesh pears, with all sorts of exotic perfumes. It
> was a wonderful, wonderful celebration of fruit, and in
> particular the pear. Can you explain that
> idea of a succession of pears? If you look
> at the peak in Victorian England, you needed a succession of
> fruit to serve at meals through the year. So you are needing
> a range of different pears in August, a different selection
> for September, different ones again October, and so on, with
> exquisite ones for Christmas ... right through almost to
> springtime. So the objective of the private
> garden in England has always been to have lots of different
> varieties to give this succession of interest, but also to
> give the different seasons.
>
>
>
>
> An illustration of
> a French property with pear and other fruit trees trained
> against the walls.
>
>
>
>
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> property with pear and other fruit trees trained against the
> walls.
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> Courtesy of
> Penguin Random House UK
>
>
>
>
>
> And pears were considered a most special
> dessert, weren't they? For centuries,
> dessert referred to the absolute finale, which could be a
> selection of fresh fruit and all sorts of sweet delicacies,
> like crystallized fruits, sugared nuts and jellies. When we
> get to Victorian England in the grandest situations where
> they had enormous fruit collections and dozens of gardeners
> fussing over them, this finale (after the puddings) would be
> entirely fresh fruit: grapes, peaches, pears, strawberries,
> whatever the season was. Perhaps today we
> should do away with puddings and have fresh fruit instead;
> that's the moment to treasure these perfectly ripe
> specimens. You describe three qualities
> that set the pear apart from the apple and other tree fruits
> — qualities that make it, as you write, "the most exciting
> of the tree fruits." Can you talk a little bit about its
> "luscious textures, boudoir perfumes and richness of
> taste"? Summer pears you can eat fresh from
> the tree. But all other varieties, across the seasons, you
> pick them from the tree and store them in a cool, dark place
> to mature and develop these wonderful textures and exotic
> flavors. And you get these very fine, luscious textures in
> the very best varieties. And also in the very best
> varieties, you get these exotic scents: perfumes like
> rosewater, musk and vanilla. They are aromatic compounds,
> synthesized in the pear during [storage], and then when you
> bite in, they are released into the
> mouth.
>
>
>
>
> The Doyenne du
> Comice pear is a "pear of superlatives; grown all over the
> world in gardens and for market. Handsome, generous
> appearance with rich, luscious, very buttery, exquisitely
> textured, pale cream flesh," writes Morgan.
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> The Doyenne du Comice pear is a
> "pear of superlatives; grown all over the world in gardens
> and for market. Handsome, generous appearance with rich,
> luscious, very buttery, exquisitely textured, pale cream
> flesh," writes Morgan.
>
>
> Elisabeth
> Dowle/Penguin Random House UK
>
>
>
>
>
> As you bite into the finest pears, the
> reason why you have Buerre as part of name of many varieties
> of pears is because they liken the texture of the flesh to
> butter. When you just bite into it, there's a little bit of
> resistance, and then it melts in your mouth like
> butter. So how, then, was the pear slowly
> and subtlety eclipsed by the apple and other tree
> fruit? One of the problems with the pear is
> that hitting it right, getting it at this point of
> perfection, is quite difficult. Pears will be sold unripe,
> and you need to ripen them at home. That has always
> presented in the marketplace a challenge for the people
> selling the fruit and the people buying it. You have to to
> have knowledge, you have to have patience and treat the pear
> properly, and ripen it up at home. It's
> also that generally, I suppose, apples are easier to grow
> for gardeners and commercial producers. And all the research
> development in recent years has focused much more on apples
> than pears. Also, pears are not quite so
> easy to handle — they can bruise easily. And since
> generally apples have a rounded shape, they are easier to
> pack. Pears have a pyriform shape, more elongated, and are
> generally a bit more challenging.
>
>
> How do you know when a pear is perfectly
> ripe? When you press it very gently around
> the stalk end, it will yield a little bit and that will
> indicate that it's right. You musn't handle them too much or
> they will bruise and go over, and you musn't forget them, of
> course. If you forget them, they will certainly go over and
> they will be a great disappointment. In
> your final chapter, you mention that there has been some
> revival in the appreciation of what makes the pear special
> and more interest in discovering new varieties. Do you think
> there is a true revival of pear culture
> happening? There's been a great revival in
> interest in apples — huge interest in traditional
> varieties and regional varieties. We now [in England] have
> things like Apple Day, apple festivals, all these regional
> fruit societies, regional groups building up
> orchards. I think it's time we also
> embraced the pear in this revival. Pear trees can live
> longer than apples trees. They can be magnificent specimens,
> and contribute to the landscape of an area, as they
> traditionally do in the parts of England where they're grown
> to turn into perry [a beverage, similar to cider, made with
> pears]. As with apples, we also need to
> recover the local traditions associated with pear — the
> particular varieties that might have been planted in
> areas. Above all, we want to recover this
> ancient tradition of celebrating fruit — celebrating it
> for its wonderful, glorious colors, its wonderful tastes,
> perfumes, textures and so on. [We] really
> can make fruit a much more prominent thing, rather than
> something that nowadays we seem to just crunch and forget.
> This can be a memorable occasion: eating a truly perfect,
> ripe, luscious pear. And if you could eat
> any pear right now, which variety would you
> choose? This is difficult to say. I like
> Doyenné du Comice very much indeed. Also, Fondante
> d'Automne (called Belle Lucrative in U.S.) is wonderful. But
> perhaps even better is Beurré Superfin. Then there is also
> Joséphine de Malines, which is a later season pear. But I
> do really like Beurré Superfin.
>
>
>
>
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> SubscriptionMade just for his kids, prof's board game is now
> taking off
> 15 December 2015, 6:53 pm
> BOSTON
> (AP) -- When Darren Kisgen decided to make a
> board game, his only goal was to entertain his family. But
> over the past few months, the finance professor at Boston
> College has seen his game selling thousands of copies around
> the world and winning a big prize. "I'm surprised by all of
> this," said Kisgen, a former Wall Street investment banker
> who now lives outside Boston. "Frankly, it's been a lot of
> fun." Called Dragonwood, the game borrows ideas from poker
> and rummy but blends them into a fantasy world of dragons
> and goblins. By drawing a strong hand, players can boost
> their chances of "capturing" mythical creatures in a
> fictional forest, which helps them win the game. It's
> advertised for anyone 8 years old and up. The idea struck
> Kisgen two years ago after he found that most fantasy games
> were too complicated or violent for his two children, who
> were 5 and 7 at the time. "I felt like I was missing a game
> that I would want to play with them, so I decided to try to
> come up with that game myself," he said. He called it Forest
> Quest, built with ordinary playing cards and dice. But over
> time, Kisgen thought it would be more fun with colorful
> cards illustrating the dragons, trolls and ogres. So he sent
> a prototype to a nearby game publisher, Gamewright, which
> provided art for the cards and began selling it as
> Dragonwood earlier this year. The game has sold more than
> 20,000 copies since summer, Gamewright said, making it one
> of the top-selling games from the Massachusetts publisher.
> It also won a top gaming prize from Mensa, a society for
> people with high IQs. Once a year, members of Mensa meet for
> a weekend to test dozens of new board games and recognize
> those seen as original, challenging and well-designed. This
> year, Kisgen's game was one of five winners out of more than
> 60 they tested. Greg Webster, the event's chief judge,
> praised Dragonwood for its simplicity but said it also lets
> players employ a variety of strategies that can lead to
> victory. "It makes it interesting to play when you've got
> different options and you're not locked in," he said. In
> recent years, Webster added, it has become more common to
> see popular games that started out as a casual idea in
> someone's living room. "They say this is the golden age of
> board gaming, and I think that's true," he said. "There are
> so many ways for someone who has an idea for a board game to
> pull it together." The game is also winning nods as an
> educational tool that can teach kids about arithmetic,
> number patterns and probability. Kisgen, who grew up in
> Omaha, Nebraska, said he remembers devising games for his
> brother and sister as a kid. But there's little overlap
> between gaming and his finance career. "To design a game
> takes some logic, takes understanding strategy, and this
> game has a lot of numbers in it," he said. "But that's where
> it ends." After hearing feedback from players around the
> world, Kisgen said he's already thinking of ways to expand
> the game - but not too much. He still wants to keep it
> simple.
>
> Kenya Barris Creates An 'Absolutely Black' Family for Prime
> Time
> 15 December 2015, 6:47 pm
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>
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris, the
> creator and writer of Black-ish, in his office on the ABC
> lot in Burbank, Calif., in December. Black-ish is now in its
> second season, airing on ABC.
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> writer of Black-ish, in his office on the ABC lot in
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> season, airing on ABC.
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> Kenya Barris sometimes looks at his five
> kids in wonderment. Private schools, professional parents
> who can give them things and open doors. No sense of
> privation. And the kicker is, he's responsible! "We're kind
> of taught to give your kids more than you had," Barris
> muses. "But in giving them more, what do they
> lose?" And that, friends, is the core of
> Black-ish, which examines the life of advertising exec Andre
> Johnson, his pediatrician wife Rainbow (her parents were
> hippies) and their four children. Like the Cosbys before
> them, the Johnsons are black, prosperous and well-educated.
> And just like Barris, who created the show, Andre has given
> his kids the opportunity to grow up with serious material
> advantages and a multiracial cast of friends while worrying
> it's a "filtered version" of the black
> experience. Barris says although many of
> the storylines from Black-ish come directly from experiences
> he and his writing team have had in real life, they can also
> be universal. Around the Los Angeles suburb where his family
> lives, he's noticed parents dealing the same sort of
> anxieties about their own cultural traditions — their kids
> were growing up Persian-ish, Chinese-ish and so forth. He
> believes these kids, although not black, are way better
> versed in black pop culture, through the music they listen
> to and the celebrities they follow, than the non-black kids
> he knew as a teen. And the parents' parents were giving
> their adult kids the side-eye for allowing the cultural
> dilution: "This is your fault!" Parents and
> grandparents of all ethnicities worry about how cultural
> ties are loosening with each generation, even as they look
> with satisfaction on the widening spectrum of choice their
> kids now have. What if your kids' choices pull them away
> from how you were raised? Growing up in
> Compton, Barris says, he had a very specific idea of what
> black was, what it sounded like, how it moved, and what its
> obligations, joys and challenges were. His kids seem to have
> a different, wider idea of what black is. That realization
> was "beautiful in some sense, and in other senses it was
> scary."
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris plots
> out the storyline of upcoming episodes with the other show
> writers in the writer's room on the ABC lot in Burbank,
> Calif.
>
>
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
> hide caption
>
>
> toggle caption
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
>
>
> As a kid, Barris watched many of Norman
> Lear's comedies, and remains, to this day, a huge fan. "He
> was telling comedy, but he was also talking about things."
> Sometimes difficult things, like the changing roles of race
> or class or gender. "He was pulling the curtain back and
> giving America a look at part of society that they were
> living next to, but didn't know how they
> lived." Via the Johnsons, Barris is doing
> the same thing, in an equally fraught racial climate. Now in
> its second season, Black-ish has handled some, well, ish:
> What makes someone authentically black. Bringing ' hood
> cousins to the burbs. Deciding how to react when the white
> neighbors are astonished that yes, you really are a medical
> doctor. Whether or not to spank that disrespectful kid's
> booty. This season includes a pretty
> complicated examination of who can use the "N-word" and why.
> Andre, who also goes by Dre, is appalled when teen daughter
> Zoey says all her friends use it. "It's just a word," she
> explains. Dre begs to differ — he says his generation
> fought hard to reclaim that word, turning it into an
> in-group salutation used with affection. "And now you're
> just giving it away to everybody!" His Pops believes the
> current problem started with Dre's generation, with all
> their saggy pants, font of all evil in Pops' opinion, and
> their "willy-nilly, hippity-hoppity, 'Yo, what up, my
> n——-?'" greetings.
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris, the
> creator and writer of Black-ish, sits outside his office on
> the ABC lot in Burbank, Calif., in December.
>
>
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
> hide caption
>
>
> toggle caption
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
>
>
> Pops' kids (and Dre's) take things for
> granted, just as Barris did, as the first generation to
> benefit from the civil rights struggle. "Our parents fought
> so we didn't need to avoid those obstacles," he says. So
> when it comes to making the right choices, he says, "maybe I
> don't bang on my own kids so hard." Barris
> and his staff of writers didn't want to put Cosby 2.0 or
> Race 101 on the network grid. Instead, he says, "We're
> trying to pull the curtain back on this one family's point
> of view, "he says. "And maybe you'll see some things you
> hadn't seen before." And maybe as they're laughing, viewers
> may rethink some race-based assumptions they weren't aware
> they had. So far, walking that fine line
> has worked: In October, Barris was signed to a three year
> deal to continue Black-ish and develop several new products
> for ABC.
>
>
> British police arrest 21-year-old man in VTech hacking
> 15 December 2015, 6:38 pm
> NEW YORK
> (AP) -- Police in the UK say they've made an
> arrest in the hacking of kids' technology maker VTech, which
> compromised the personal information of more than 6 million
> children around the world. The South East Regional Organised
> Crime Unit, a regional task force made up of a handful of
> English police departments, says its cybercrime unit
> arrested a 21-year-old man was on hacking-related charges
> Tuesday morning in Bracknell, a town about 30 miles west of
> London. Police seized a number of electronic items that will
> be examined by a cybercrime forensics unit. Craig Jones, who
> heads the cybercrime unit, says in a statement that the
> investigation remains in its early stages and much work
> still needs to be done. Few other details were provided.
> VTech officials didn't immediately return emails seeking
> comment. The November hacking of Hong Kong-based VTech
> Holdings Ltd.'s Learning Lodge database compromised the
> profiles of 6.4 million kids around the world, along with
> the 4.9 million parent accounts that they were connected to.
> News of the breach came just as the holiday shopping season
> was shifting into high gear. Kid-friendly tablets,
> smartwatches and other connected toys made by companies such
> as VTech are often high on the holiday wish lists of many
> children. The company also has drawn fire in the weeks since
> the breach from some members of Congress who have demanded
> to know the details of how VTech collects and secures the
> personal information of children. The information contained
> in the parental accounts included names, email addresses,
> secret questions and answers for password retrieval, numeric
> Internet Protocol addresses, mailing addresses, download
> histories and encrypted passwords. Information in the
> children's accounts was restricted to names, ages and
> genders, the company says. But security experts warn that
> the stolen information could potentially be used to build
> profiles of children, potentially setting them up for
> identity theft or worse down the road. The breach didn't
> expose any credit-card or other financial account
> information, as payments are handled by an outside company
> on a separate website, VTech says. Some reports suggested
> that photos of children and chats between kids and their
> parents might also have been accessed, but VTech has yet to
> confirm that. --- Follow Bree Fowler at http://twitter.com/APBreeFowler. Her work can be found
> at http://bigstory.ap.org/author/bree-fowler.
>
>
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> SubscriptionMade just for his kids, prof's board game is now
> taking off
> 15 December 2015, 6:53 pm
> BOSTON
> (AP) -- When Darren Kisgen decided to make a
> board game, his only goal was to entertain his family. But
> over the past few months, the finance professor at Boston
> College has seen his game selling thousands of copies around
> the world and winning a big prize. "I'm surprised by all of
> this," said Kisgen, a former Wall Street investment banker
> who now lives outside Boston. "Frankly, it's been a lot of
> fun." Called Dragonwood, the game borrows ideas from poker
> and rummy but blends them into a fantasy world of dragons
> and goblins. By drawing a strong hand, players can boost
> their chances of "capturing" mythical creatures in a
> fictional forest, which helps them win the game. It's
> advertised for anyone 8 years old and up. The idea struck
> Kisgen two years ago after he found that most fantasy games
> were too complicated or violent for his two children, who
> were 5 and 7 at the time. "I felt like I was missing a game
> that I would want to play with them, so I decided to try to
> come up with that game myself," he said. He called it Forest
> Quest, built with ordinary playing cards and dice. But over
> time, Kisgen thought it would be more fun with colorful
> cards illustrating the dragons, trolls and ogres. So he sent
> a prototype to a nearby game publisher, Gamewright, which
> provided art for the cards and began selling it as
> Dragonwood earlier this year. The game has sold more than
> 20,000 copies since summer, Gamewright said, making it one
> of the top-selling games from the Massachusetts publisher.
> It also won a top gaming prize from Mensa, a society for
> people with high IQs. Once a year, members of Mensa meet for
> a weekend to test dozens of new board games and recognize
> those seen as original, challenging and well-designed. This
> year, Kisgen's game was one of five winners out of more than
> 60 they tested. Greg Webster, the event's chief judge,
> praised Dragonwood for its simplicity but said it also lets
> players employ a variety of strategies that can lead to
> victory. "It makes it interesting to play when you've got
> different options and you're not locked in," he said. In
> recent years, Webster added, it has become more common to
> see popular games that started out as a casual idea in
> someone's living room. "They say this is the golden age of
> board gaming, and I think that's true," he said. "There are
> so many ways for someone who has an idea for a board game to
> pull it together." The game is also winning nods as an
> educational tool that can teach kids about arithmetic,
> number patterns and probability. Kisgen, who grew up in
> Omaha, Nebraska, said he remembers devising games for his
> brother and sister as a kid. But there's little overlap
> between gaming and his finance career. "To design a game
> takes some logic, takes understanding strategy, and this
> game has a lot of numbers in it," he said. "But that's where
> it ends." After hearing feedback from players around the
> world, Kisgen said he's already thinking of ways to expand
> the game - but not too much. He still wants to keep it
> simple.
>
> Kenya Barris Creates An 'Absolutely Black' Family for Prime
> Time
> 15 December 2015, 6:47 pm
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris, the
> creator and writer of Black-ish, in his office on the ABC
> lot in Burbank, Calif., in December. Black-ish is now in its
> second season, airing on ABC.
>
>
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
> hide caption
>
>
> toggle caption
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris, the creator and
> writer of Black-ish, in his office on the ABC lot in
> Burbank, Calif., in December. Black-ish is now in its second
> season, airing on ABC.
>
>
> Megan Miller for
> NPR
>
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris sometimes looks at his five
> kids in wonderment. Private schools, professional parents
> who can give them things and open doors. No sense of
> privation. And the kicker is, he's responsible! "We're kind
> of taught to give your kids more than you had," Barris
> muses. "But in giving them more, what do they
> lose?" And that, friends, is the core of
> Black-ish, which examines the life of advertising exec Andre
> Johnson, his pediatrician wife Rainbow (her parents were
> hippies) and their four children. Like the Cosbys before
> them, the Johnsons are black, prosperous and well-educated.
> And just like Barris, who created the show, Andre has given
> his kids the opportunity to grow up with serious material
> advantages and a multiracial cast of friends while worrying
> it's a "filtered version" of the black
> experience. Barris says although many of
> the storylines from Black-ish come directly from experiences
> he and his writing team have had in real life, they can also
> be universal. Around the Los Angeles suburb where his family
> lives, he's noticed parents dealing the same sort of
> anxieties about their own cultural traditions — their kids
> were growing up Persian-ish, Chinese-ish and so forth. He
> believes these kids, although not black, are way better
> versed in black pop culture, through the music they listen
> to and the celebrities they follow, than the non-black kids
> he knew as a teen. And the parents' parents were giving
> their adult kids the side-eye for allowing the cultural
> dilution: "This is your fault!" Parents and
> grandparents of all ethnicities worry about how cultural
> ties are loosening with each generation, even as they look
> with satisfaction on the widening spectrum of choice their
> kids now have. What if your kids' choices pull them away
> from how you were raised? Growing up in
> Compton, Barris says, he had a very specific idea of what
> black was, what it sounded like, how it moved, and what its
> obligations, joys and challenges were. His kids seem to have
> a different, wider idea of what black is. That realization
> was "beautiful in some sense, and in other senses it was
> scary."
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris plots
> out the storyline of upcoming episodes with the other show
> writers in the writer's room on the ABC lot in Burbank,
> Calif.
>
>
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
> hide caption
>
>
> toggle caption
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
>
>
> As a kid, Barris watched many of Norman
> Lear's comedies, and remains, to this day, a huge fan. "He
> was telling comedy, but he was also talking about things."
> Sometimes difficult things, like the changing roles of race
> or class or gender. "He was pulling the curtain back and
> giving America a look at part of society that they were
> living next to, but didn't know how they
> lived." Via the Johnsons, Barris is doing
> the same thing, in an equally fraught racial climate. Now in
> its second season, Black-ish has handled some, well, ish:
> What makes someone authentically black. Bringing ' hood
> cousins to the burbs. Deciding how to react when the white
> neighbors are astonished that yes, you really are a medical
> doctor. Whether or not to spank that disrespectful kid's
> booty. This season includes a pretty
> complicated examination of who can use the "N-word" and why.
> Andre, who also goes by Dre, is appalled when teen daughter
> Zoey says all her friends use it. "It's just a word," she
> explains. Dre begs to differ — he says his generation
> fought hard to reclaim that word, turning it into an
> in-group salutation used with affection. "And now you're
> just giving it away to everybody!" His Pops believes the
> current problem started with Dre's generation, with all
> their saggy pants, font of all evil in Pops' opinion, and
> their "willy-nilly, hippity-hoppity, 'Yo, what up, my
> n——-?'" greetings.
>
>
>
>
> Kenya Barris, the
> creator and writer of Black-ish, sits outside his office on
> the ABC lot in Burbank, Calif., in December.
>
>
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
> hide caption
>
>
> toggle caption
>
>
> Megan Miller for NPR
>
>
>
>
> Pops' kids (and Dre's) take things for
> granted, just as Barris did, as the first generation to
> benefit from the civil rights struggle. "Our parents fought
> so we didn't need to avoid those obstacles," he says. So
> when it comes to making the right choices, he says, "maybe I
> don't bang on my own kids so hard." Barris
> and his staff of writers didn't want to put Cosby 2.0 or
> Race 101 on the network grid. Instead, he says, "We're
> trying to pull the curtain back on this one family's point
> of view, "he says. "And maybe you'll see some things you
> hadn't seen before." And maybe as they're laughing, viewers
> may rethink some race-based assumptions they weren't aware
> they had. So far, walking that fine line
> has worked: In October, Barris was signed to a three year
> deal to continue Black-ish and develop several new products
> for ABC.
>
>
> British police arrest 21-year-old man in VTech hacking
> 15 December 2015, 6:38 pm
> NEW YORK
> (AP) -- Police in the UK say they've made an
> arrest in the hacking of kids' technology maker VTech, which
> compromised the personal information of more than 6 million
> children around the world. The South East Regional Organised
> Crime Unit, a regional task force made up of a handful of
> English police departments, says its cybercrime unit
> arrested a 21-year-old man was on hacking-related charges
> Tuesday morning in Bracknell, a town about 30 miles west of
> London. Police seized a number of electronic items that will
> be examined by a cybercrime forensics unit. Craig Jones, who
> heads the cybercrime unit, says in a statement that the
> investigation remains in its early stages and much work
> still needs to be done. Few other details were provided.
> VTech officials didn't immediately return emails seeking
> comment. The November hacking of Hong Kong-based VTech
> Holdings Ltd.'s Learning Lodge database compromised the
> profiles of 6.4 million kids around the world, along with
> the 4.9 million parent accounts that they were connected to.
> News of the breach came just as the holiday shopping season
> was shifting into high gear. Kid-friendly tablets,
> smartwatches and other connected toys made by companies such
> as VTech are often high on the holiday wish lists of many
> children. The company also has drawn fire in the weeks since
> the breach from some members of Congress who have demanded
> to know the details of how VTech collects and secures the
> personal information of children. The information contained
> in the parental accounts included names, email addresses,
> secret questions and answers for password retrieval, numeric
> Internet Protocol addresses, mailing addresses, download
> histories and encrypted passwords. Information in the
> children's accounts was restricted to names, ages and
> genders, the company says. But security experts warn that
> the stolen information could potentially be used to build
> profiles of children, potentially setting them up for
> identity theft or worse down the road. The breach didn't
> expose any credit-card or other financial account
> information, as payments are handled by an outside company
> on a separate website, VTech says. Some reports suggested
> that photos of children and chats between kids and their
> parents might also have been accessed, but VTech has yet to
> confirm that. --- Follow Bree Fowler at http://twitter.com/APBreeFowler. Her work can be found
> at http://bigstory.ap.org/author/bree-fowler.
>
>
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> SubscriptionRebel Brew: What The Boston Tea Party And The
> Mad Hatter Had In Common
> 15 December 2015, 4:57 pm
>
>
> This week marks the 242nd anniversary of
> the Boston Tea Party. This year marks the 150th anniversary
> of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. On the surface, these two
> events seem to have very little in common. But if you'll
> follow us down the rabbit hole for a bit, you'll find some
> surprising links. On Dec. 16, 1773, the
> Sons of Liberty in Boston, disguised as Mohawks, stole
> aboard three British ships and tipped 342 chests of good
> East India Company tea into the harbor to protest England's
> unjust taxation policy. This dumping of tea leaves was the
> spark that accelerated the Revolutionary War, culminating in
> the rout of the redcoats and the triumph of
> red-white-and-blue. The Mad Hatter's Tea
> Party has more idyllic roots. On a "golden afternoon" in
> 1862, a shy, young mathematics don named Charles Lutwidge
> Dodgson took the three daughters of his college dean on a
> boating expedition. Having rowed them up the river Isis,
> Dodgson, accompanied by fellow Oxford don Richard Duckworth,
> and the three Liddle girls (one of whom was Alice),
> disembarked at Godstow, and took tea near a haystack.
> Dodgson entertained his young companions with a story of how
> an inquisitive and bossy but very likable little girl pops
> down a large rabbit hole, "never once considering how in the
> world she was to get out again." Three
> years later, in 1865, an expanded and delightfully
> illustrated version of the story was published as Alice's
> Adventures in Wonderland under Dodgson's pseudonym, Lewis
> Carroll. As luck would have it, the "golden
> afternoon" on which Carroll told the story fell on the
> Fourth of July, a detail he worked into the story. When the
> Mad Hatterasks Alice what day of the month is it, she
> promptly replies, "The fourth." Not much
> tea gets drunk at either party. At Boston it ends up
> staining the Atlantic, and in Wonderland, Alice barely pours
> herself a cup, when the Hatter decides everyone should
> change places. But these two tea parties
> have something else in common: poking fun at the elaborate
> upper-class English ritual of evening tea. The Boston Tea
> Party was not called by that elegant name till the 1830s.
> Initially, it was known simply as "the Destruction of the
> Tea in Boston." So how did it get its name?
> According to the historian Alfred F. Young in The Shoemaker
> and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, the
> name evolved to parody the colonial practice of high tea.
> Young quotes the first known American minstrel song,
> Backside Albany, from 1815, which mocks a British general
> for fleeing the field, leaving behind "powder, ball, canon,
> tea-pot and kittle." In this context, the "Boston Tea Party"
> had a pleasant ironic ring to it. The
> Victorian ceremony of high tea, where one was expected to be
> as clotted as cream, was what Carroll was sending up, too.
> There is a riot of rudeness at the Mad Hatter's tea party,
> from Alice sitting down uninvited, to elbows on the table,
> to the March Hare majestically offering Alice wine where
> there is no wine, and the Hatter making personal remarks
> such as, "Your hair wants cutting." Carroll upsets the
> genteel conventions as blithely as the March Hare upsets the
> milk jug. Instead of silly small talk, there is hilarious
> nonsense talk: "Take some more tea," the
> March Hare said to Alice, very
> earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice
> replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take
> more." "You mean you can't take less," said
> the Hatter: "It's very easy to take more than
> nothing." "Nobody asked your opinion," said
> Alice. "Who's making personal remarks now?"
> the Hatter asked triumphantly. What Carroll
> was not making fun of was the meal itself – he knew how
> much young children looked forward to the delicious snacks
> served at tea time. He himself loved preparing high tea for
> little girls, with sticky buns, scones, cakes, biscuits, and
> producing all kinds of mechanical toys and puzzles to keep
> them engaged. He was known to walk around his rooms at
> Christ Church College, gently rocking the teapot for 10
> minutes for the tea to brew properly. In his latter years,
> however, he turned on the beverage, calling it "an
> unwholesome drug." Though Carroll never
> visited Boston, he had a unique connection with it in the
> form of an 1888 correspondence he carried on with the fourth
> graders of the Girl's Latin School at Boston, who started a
> magazine called The Jabberwock, after the flaming-eyed
> monster in the sequel to Alice, Through the Looking-Glass.
> After once reprimanding them for an inappropriate joke in
> the magazine, Carroll offered a conciliatory tea metaphor in
> his next letter: "After the Black Draught of serious
> remonstrance which I ventured to send to you the other day,
> surely a Lump of Sugar will not be unacceptable?" He no
> doubt knew that for the little Bostonians, tea had a special
> significance. The sepia ripples of the
> Boston Tea Party were felt across the world. In 1930, when
> Mahatma Gandhi – who was protesting the salt tax imposed
> by the British – was taking tea with the British viceroy,
> he mischievously added a pinch of salt to his cup as a
> reminder, he said, of "the famous Boston Tea
> Party." More contemporary, of course, is
> the conservative Tea Party movement in America. Launched in
> 2009 to protest the government's stimulus package to bail
> out big banks, it traces its ideological roots back to that
> famous December dumping. At one gathering, a libertarian Tea
> Party member was spotted in a tricornered hat carrying a
> sign that read: "I Can Stimulate Myself" – a statement
> open to some rather risqué
> interpretations. Indeed, some might say
> that the choice of party name has proved unfortunate. As
> novelist Salman Rushdie joked, "If I were going to start a
> political movement, I would not call it a tea party; it
> makes one think of mad hatters running about."
> Tea Tuesdays is an occasional series exploring the
> science, history, culture and economics of this ancient
> brewed beverage. Nina Martyris is a
> freelance journalist based in Knoxville,
> Tenn.
>
>
> Emailed threat shuts down second-largest US school district
> 15 December 2015, 4:55 pm
> LOS ANGELES
> (AP) -- The nation's second-largest
> school district shut down Tuesday after a school board
> member received an emailed threat that raised fears of
> another attack like the deadly shooting in nearby San
> Bernardino. Authorities in New York City said they received
> the same threat but quickly concluded that it was a hoax.
> New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters that he was
> "absolutely convinced" there was no danger to schoolchildren
> in his city. "There was nothing credible about the threat.
> It was so outlandish," de Blasio said. Police Commissioner
> William Bratton quipped that it looked like the sender of
> the threat watched a lot of the Showtime terrorism drama
> "Homeland." The shutdown abruptly closed more than 900
> public schools and 187 charter schools attended by 640,000
> students across Los Angeles. Superintendent Ramon Cortines
> said every campus would be searched, and he asked for a
> report on the searches certifying that all buildings are
> safe. The threat, de Blasio and Bratton said, came in the
> form of a "generic" email to many cities around the country.
> In New York, it was received by a superintendent early
> Tuesday. Bratton called the closure a "significant
> overreaction." "We cannot allow ourselves to raise levels of
> fear," said Bratton, who once ran the Los Angeles Police
> Department. The person who wrote the note, Bratton said,
> claimed to be a jihadist but made errors that indicated the
> writer was really a prankster, including spelling the word
> "Allah" with a lowercase "a." Lupita Vela, who has a
> daughter in the third grade and a son who is a high school
> senior, called the threat "absolutely terrifying" in light
> of the San Bernardino attack, which killed 14 people earlier
> this month. She got an automated phone call informing her of
> the closure. "I know the kids are anxious," she said.
> District spokeswoman Shannon Haber said the threat was sent
> by email to a school board member and was believed to have
> come from an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany. Authorities
> would not elaborate on the threat, saying it was still being
> evaluated. They described the shutdown was a precaution. Los
> Angeles schools commonly get threats, but Cortines called
> this one rare. "It was not to one school, two schools or
> three schools," he said at a news conference. "It was many
> schools, not specifically identified. But there were many
> schools. That's the reason I took the action that I did ...
> It was to students at schools." The San Bernardino attack
> influenced the decision to close the entire district,
> Cortines said. The superintendent said the district police
> chief informed him about the threat shortly after 5 a.m. "He
> shared with me that some of the details talked about
> backpacks, talked about other packages," Cortines said. Vela
> said she worries about talking to her kids about the threat
> and terrorism in general. She's concerned about her daughter
> feeling safe in class. "I don't want this to be in the back
> of her head," she said. "Who knows what it does
> psychologically to kids? Is this going to cause her some
> kind of trauma so that she's not going to feel safe at
> school?" The closure came the same day classes were canceled
> at San Bernardino Valley College because of a bomb threat.
> --- Associated Press Writer Colleen Long in New York
> contributed to this report.
>
> Ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle appealing child porn
> sentence
> 15 December 2015, 4:47 pm
> INDIANAPOLIS
> (AP) -- Former Subway pitchman Jared
> Fogle is appealing the more than 15-year prison sentence he
> received for possessing child pornography and having sex
> with underage prostitutes, which was longer than the maximum
> term prosecutors agreed to pursue as part of his plea deal.
> Attorney Ron Elberger said Tuesday that he's appealing
> Fogle's sentence, but he declined to discuss it in detail.
> He filed the notice of appeal in federal court in
> Indianapolis on Monday. Fogle pleaded guilty last month to
> one count each of distributing and receiving child porn and
> traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a child.
> As part of his plea deal, he agreed not to seek a sentence
> of less than five years in prison and prosecutors agreed not
> to push for more than 12½ years behind bars. Judge Tanya
> Walton Pratt sentenced Fogle to more than 15 years in
> prison, though, giving him grounds to appeal because it
> exceeded the maximum term prosecutors agreed to pursue.
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota, who prosecuted the
> case, said he couldn't comment because Elberger hadn't filed
> a brief detailing the grounds for Fogle's appeal. Elberger
> said he has to file that brief by Jan. 25. The Seventh
> Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago will hear the appeal.
> Fogle admitted that he paid for sex at New York City hotels
> with girls who were 16 or 17 years old and that he had
> received child pornography produced by the head of his
> anti-obesity charity, Russell Taylor. Taylor was sentenced
> last week to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to 12
> counts of child exploitation and one count of distributing
> child pornography. Prosecutors say Taylor used hidden
> cameras in his Indianapolis-area homes to secretly film 12
> minors who were nude, changing clothes, or engaged in other
> activities.
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> SubscriptionRebel Brew: What The Boston Tea Party And The
> Mad Hatter Had In Common
> 15 December 2015, 4:57 pm
>
>
> This week marks the 242nd anniversary of
> the Boston Tea Party. This year marks the 150th anniversary
> of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. On the surface, these two
> events seem to have very little in common. But if you'll
> follow us down the rabbit hole for a bit, you'll find some
> surprising links. On Dec. 16, 1773, the
> Sons of Liberty in Boston, disguised as Mohawks, stole
> aboard three British ships and tipped 342 chests of good
> East India Company tea into the harbor to protest England's
> unjust taxation policy. This dumping of tea leaves was the
> spark that accelerated the Revolutionary War, culminating in
> the rout of the redcoats and the triumph of
> red-white-and-blue. The Mad Hatter's Tea
> Party has more idyllic roots. On a "golden afternoon" in
> 1862, a shy, young mathematics don named Charles Lutwidge
> Dodgson took the three daughters of his college dean on a
> boating expedition. Having rowed them up the river Isis,
> Dodgson, accompanied by fellow Oxford don Richard Duckworth,
> and the three Liddle girls (one of whom was Alice),
> disembarked at Godstow, and took tea near a haystack.
> Dodgson entertained his young companions with a story of how
> an inquisitive and bossy but very likable little girl pops
> down a large rabbit hole, "never once considering how in the
> world she was to get out again." Three
> years later, in 1865, an expanded and delightfully
> illustrated version of the story was published as Alice's
> Adventures in Wonderland under Dodgson's pseudonym, Lewis
> Carroll. As luck would have it, the "golden
> afternoon" on which Carroll told the story fell on the
> Fourth of July, a detail he worked into the story. When the
> Mad Hatterasks Alice what day of the month is it, she
> promptly replies, "The fourth." Not much
> tea gets drunk at either party. At Boston it ends up
> staining the Atlantic, and in Wonderland, Alice barely pours
> herself a cup, when the Hatter decides everyone should
> change places. But these two tea parties
> have something else in common: poking fun at the elaborate
> upper-class English ritual of evening tea. The Boston Tea
> Party was not called by that elegant name till the 1830s.
> Initially, it was known simply as "the Destruction of the
> Tea in Boston." So how did it get its name?
> According to the historian Alfred F. Young in The Shoemaker
> and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, the
> name evolved to parody the colonial practice of high tea.
> Young quotes the first known American minstrel song,
> Backside Albany, from 1815, which mocks a British general
> for fleeing the field, leaving behind "powder, ball, canon,
> tea-pot and kittle." In this context, the "Boston Tea Party"
> had a pleasant ironic ring to it. The
> Victorian ceremony of high tea, where one was expected to be
> as clotted as cream, was what Carroll was sending up, too.
> There is a riot of rudeness at the Mad Hatter's tea party,
> from Alice sitting down uninvited, to elbows on the table,
> to the March Hare majestically offering Alice wine where
> there is no wine, and the Hatter making personal remarks
> such as, "Your hair wants cutting." Carroll upsets the
> genteel conventions as blithely as the March Hare upsets the
> milk jug. Instead of silly small talk, there is hilarious
> nonsense talk: "Take some more tea," the
> March Hare said to Alice, very
> earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice
> replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take
> more." "You mean you can't take less," said
> the Hatter: "It's very easy to take more than
> nothing." "Nobody asked your opinion," said
> Alice. "Who's making personal remarks now?"
> the Hatter asked triumphantly. What Carroll
> was not making fun of was the meal itself – he knew how
> much young children looked forward to the delicious snacks
> served at tea time. He himself loved preparing high tea for
> little girls, with sticky buns, scones, cakes, biscuits, and
> producing all kinds of mechanical toys and puzzles to keep
> them engaged. He was known to walk around his rooms at
> Christ Church College, gently rocking the teapot for 10
> minutes for the tea to brew properly. In his latter years,
> however, he turned on the beverage, calling it "an
> unwholesome drug." Though Carroll never
> visited Boston, he had a unique connection with it in the
> form of an 1888 correspondence he carried on with the fourth
> graders of the Girl's Latin School at Boston, who started a
> magazine called The Jabberwock, after the flaming-eyed
> monster in the sequel to Alice, Through the Looking-Glass.
> After once reprimanding them for an inappropriate joke in
> the magazine, Carroll offered a conciliatory tea metaphor in
> his next letter: "After the Black Draught of serious
> remonstrance which I ventured to send to you the other day,
> surely a Lump of Sugar will not be unacceptable?" He no
> doubt knew that for the little Bostonians, tea had a special
> significance. The sepia ripples of the
> Boston Tea Party were felt across the world. In 1930, when
> Mahatma Gandhi – who was protesting the salt tax imposed
> by the British – was taking tea with the British viceroy,
> he mischievously added a pinch of salt to his cup as a
> reminder, he said, of "the famous Boston Tea
> Party." More contemporary, of course, is
> the conservative Tea Party movement in America. Launched in
> 2009 to protest the government's stimulus package to bail
> out big banks, it traces its ideological roots back to that
> famous December dumping. At one gathering, a libertarian Tea
> Party member was spotted in a tricornered hat carrying a
> sign that read: "I Can Stimulate Myself" – a statement
> open to some rather risqué
> interpretations. Indeed, some might say
> that the choice of party name has proved unfortunate. As
> novelist Salman Rushdie joked, "If I were going to start a
> political movement, I would not call it a tea party; it
> makes one think of mad hatters running about."
> Tea Tuesdays is an occasional series exploring the
> science, history, culture and economics of this ancient
> brewed beverage. Nina Martyris is a
> freelance journalist based in Knoxville,
> Tenn.
>
>
> Emailed threat shuts down second-largest US school district
> 15 December 2015, 4:55 pm
> LOS ANGELES
> (AP) -- The nation's second-largest
> school district shut down Tuesday after a school board
> member received an emailed threat that raised fears of
> another attack like the deadly shooting in nearby San
> Bernardino. Authorities in New York City said they received
> the same threat but quickly concluded that it was a hoax.
> New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told reporters that he was
> "absolutely convinced" there was no danger to schoolchildren
> in his city. "There was nothing credible about the threat.
> It was so outlandish," de Blasio said. Police Commissioner
> William Bratton quipped that it looked like the sender of
> the threat watched a lot of the Showtime terrorism drama
> "Homeland." The shutdown abruptly closed more than 900
> public schools and 187 charter schools attended by 640,000
> students across Los Angeles. Superintendent Ramon Cortines
> said every campus would be searched, and he asked for a
> report on the searches certifying that all buildings are
> safe. The threat, de Blasio and Bratton said, came in the
> form of a "generic" email to many cities around the country.
> In New York, it was received by a superintendent early
> Tuesday. Bratton called the closure a "significant
> overreaction." "We cannot allow ourselves to raise levels of
> fear," said Bratton, who once ran the Los Angeles Police
> Department. The person who wrote the note, Bratton said,
> claimed to be a jihadist but made errors that indicated the
> writer was really a prankster, including spelling the word
> "Allah" with a lowercase "a." Lupita Vela, who has a
> daughter in the third grade and a son who is a high school
> senior, called the threat "absolutely terrifying" in light
> of the San Bernardino attack, which killed 14 people earlier
> this month. She got an automated phone call informing her of
> the closure. "I know the kids are anxious," she said.
> District spokeswoman Shannon Haber said the threat was sent
> by email to a school board member and was believed to have
> come from an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany. Authorities
> would not elaborate on the threat, saying it was still being
> evaluated. They described the shutdown was a precaution. Los
> Angeles schools commonly get threats, but Cortines called
> this one rare. "It was not to one school, two schools or
> three schools," he said at a news conference. "It was many
> schools, not specifically identified. But there were many
> schools. That's the reason I took the action that I did ...
> It was to students at schools." The San Bernardino attack
> influenced the decision to close the entire district,
> Cortines said. The superintendent said the district police
> chief informed him about the threat shortly after 5 a.m. "He
> shared with me that some of the details talked about
> backpacks, talked about other packages," Cortines said. Vela
> said she worries about talking to her kids about the threat
> and terrorism in general. She's concerned about her daughter
> feeling safe in class. "I don't want this to be in the back
> of her head," she said. "Who knows what it does
> psychologically to kids? Is this going to cause her some
> kind of trauma so that she's not going to feel safe at
> school?" The closure came the same day classes were canceled
> at San Bernardino Valley College because of a bomb threat.
> --- Associated Press Writer Colleen Long in New York
> contributed to this report.
>
> Ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle appealing child porn
> sentence
> 15 December 2015, 4:47 pm
> INDIANAPOLIS
> (AP) -- Former Subway pitchman Jared
> Fogle is appealing the more than 15-year prison sentence he
> received for possessing child pornography and having sex
> with underage prostitutes, which was longer than the maximum
> term prosecutors agreed to pursue as part of his plea deal.
> Attorney Ron Elberger said Tuesday that he's appealing
> Fogle's sentence, but he declined to discuss it in detail.
> He filed the notice of appeal in federal court in
> Indianapolis on Monday. Fogle pleaded guilty last month to
> one count each of distributing and receiving child porn and
> traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a child.
> As part of his plea deal, he agreed not to seek a sentence
> of less than five years in prison and prosecutors agreed not
> to push for more than 12½ years behind bars. Judge Tanya
> Walton Pratt sentenced Fogle to more than 15 years in
> prison, though, giving him grounds to appeal because it
> exceeded the maximum term prosecutors agreed to pursue.
> Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven DeBrota, who prosecuted the
> case, said he couldn't comment because Elberger hadn't filed
> a brief detailing the grounds for Fogle's appeal. Elberger
> said he has to file that brief by Jan. 25. The Seventh
> Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago will hear the appeal.
> Fogle admitted that he paid for sex at New York City hotels
> with girls who were 16 or 17 years old and that he had
> received child pornography produced by the head of his
> anti-obesity charity, Russell Taylor. Taylor was sentenced
> last week to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to 12
> counts of child exploitation and one count of distributing
> child pornography. Prosecutors say Taylor used hidden
> cameras in his Indianapolis-area homes to secretly film 12
> minors who were nude, changing clothes, or engaged in other
> activities.
>
>
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> SubscriptionLos Angeles schools closed due to threat
> 15 December 2015, 3:24 pm
> LOS ANGELES
> (AP) -- All schools in the vast Los
> Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second
> largest, have been ordered closed due to an electronic
> threat Tuesday. During a press conference Tuesday, Los
> Angeles Unified School District police Chief Steven
> Zipperman said the threat was still being evaluated. Schools
> would remain closed until the threat was cleared, which
> officials said could happen by the end of the day. "We need
> to cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today," said
> school board President Steve Zimmer. "We need families and
> neighbors to work together with our schools and with our
> employees to make sure our schools are safe throughout
> today." District Superintendent Ramon Cortines would not
> detail the threat but described it generally as a "message."
> "It was not to one school, two schools or three schools. It
> was many schools, not specifically identified. But there
> were many schools. That's the reason I took the action that
> I did ... It was to students at schools." The district has
> 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade and more
> than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools. The
> district spans 720 square miles including Los Angeles and
> all or part of more than 30 smaller cities and some
> unincorporated areas. The closure came the same day classes
> were canceled at San Bernardino Valley College because of a
> bomb threat. Students and staff were sent home around 5:30
> p.m. Monday after the threat was made.
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> 15 December 2015, 3:24 pm
> LOS ANGELES
> (AP) -- All schools in the vast Los
> Angeles Unified School District, the nation's second
> largest, have been ordered closed due to an electronic
> threat Tuesday. During a press conference Tuesday, Los
> Angeles Unified School District police Chief Steven
> Zipperman said the threat was still being evaluated. Schools
> would remain closed until the threat was cleared, which
> officials said could happen by the end of the day. "We need
> to cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today," said
> school board President Steve Zimmer. "We need families and
> neighbors to work together with our schools and with our
> employees to make sure our schools are safe throughout
> today." District Superintendent Ramon Cortines would not
> detail the threat but described it generally as a "message."
> "It was not to one school, two schools or three schools. It
> was many schools, not specifically identified. But there
> were many schools. That's the reason I took the action that
> I did ... It was to students at schools." The district has
> 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade and more
> than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools. The
> district spans 720 square miles including Los Angeles and
> all or part of more than 30 smaller cities and some
> unincorporated areas. The closure came the same day classes
> were canceled at San Bernardino Valley College because of a
> bomb threat. Students and staff were sent home around 5:30
> p.m. Monday after the threat was made.
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> SubscriptionActor Morgan Freeman unhurt after plane's
> unexpected landing
> 6 December 2015, 5:36 am
> TUNICA, Miss.
> (AP) -- Morgan Freeman says he was
> aboard his plane when it had to make an unexpected landing
> in Mississippi, but nobody was injured. Mayor Bill Luckett
> of Clarksdale, a longtime friend of the actor, confirms the
> plane made a controlled forced landing before dark Saturday.
> Freeman released a statement saying he was headed to Texas
> to shoot a segment for the series "The Story of God." He
> says, "Sometimes things don't go as planned and a tire blew
> on takeoff, which caused other problems." But he said they
> "landed safely without a scratch." He says he can't say the
> same about his plane. Luckett says Freeman and the pilot
> were aboard the flight that originated in Clarksdale, and
> another plane was en route to Tunica, the landing site, to
> pick Freeman up
>
> Police say suspect shot and killed in robbery attempt
> 6 December 2015, 5:18 am
> MIAMI BEACH,
> Fla. (AP) -- Police in Miami
> Beach say they killed a razor-wielding man suspected in a
> bank robbery early Saturday. Kathleen Prieto of the Miami
> Beach Police Department said in an email that police
> responded to an emergency call from a Bank of America branch
> on Alton Road. The person who made the 911 call said a
> suspect was armed with a bomb and had passed a note to the
> teller. Prieto said police arrived at the scene and found
> the suspect inside a barber shop. He then exited the shop
> with a "straight edge razor in his hand." Shots were fired
> and the suspect was killed. Witnesses told The Miami Herald
> (http://hrld.us/1NO2Pjw ) that the man was seen causing
> a commotion inside the barber shop. A video of a shooting on
> Miami Beach was posted on Instagram and elsewhere on social
> media. In the video, a man without a shirt is seen briefly
> confronting what appeared to be at least three police
> officers outside a shopping center. The man is shot and
> falls to the ground. Police Chief Daniel Oates said one
> officer on the scene was wearing a body camera that also
> captured the deadly encounter, but that the video cannot be
> released to the public yet under state law. Mayor Philip
> Levine called the shooting "a horrible, isolated incident."
> "As we learn more about this incident from Miami-Dade
> police, from the state attorney's office, we will make sure
> to keep everyone informed," he said. Witness Sylvia
> Rodriguez told the newspaper that she was walking to a
> nearby corner store when the shooting happened. "Everything
> seemed under control. It wasn't fast. It was pretty chill,"
> she said. "He was not acting erratic." Then the shirtless
> suspect, who was holding was holding some kind of knife,
> took a step forward and was shot. "It went boom-boom,
> twice," Rodriguez said. She said she did not see a Taser go
> off. Police could not immediately verify if officers fired a
> Taser during the encounter. Miami-Dade County Police
> Department will handle the investigation into the shooting.
> The FBI and Miami Beach Police Department will investigate
> the alleged bank robbery. --- This story has been corrected
> to show the spelling of the witness' last name Rodriguez,
> not Rodrigues.
>
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> SubscriptionActor Morgan Freeman unhurt after plane's
> unexpected landing
> 6 December 2015, 5:36 am
> TUNICA, Miss.
> (AP) -- Morgan Freeman says he was
> aboard his plane when it had to make an unexpected landing
> in Mississippi, but nobody was injured. Mayor Bill Luckett
> of Clarksdale, a longtime friend of the actor, confirms the
> plane made a controlled forced landing before dark Saturday.
> Freeman released a statement saying he was headed to Texas
> to shoot a segment for the series "The Story of God." He
> says, "Sometimes things don't go as planned and a tire blew
> on takeoff, which caused other problems." But he said they
> "landed safely without a scratch." He says he can't say the
> same about his plane. Luckett says Freeman and the pilot
> were aboard the flight that originated in Clarksdale, and
> another plane was en route to Tunica, the landing site, to
> pick Freeman up
>
> Police say suspect shot and killed in robbery attempt
> 6 December 2015, 5:18 am
> MIAMI BEACH,
> Fla. (AP) -- Police in Miami
> Beach say they killed a razor-wielding man suspected in a
> bank robbery early Saturday. Kathleen Prieto of the Miami
> Beach Police Department said in an email that police
> responded to an emergency call from a Bank of America branch
> on Alton Road. The person who made the 911 call said a
> suspect was armed with a bomb and had passed a note to the
> teller. Prieto said police arrived at the scene and found
> the suspect inside a barber shop. He then exited the shop
> with a "straight edge razor in his hand." Shots were fired
> and the suspect was killed. Witnesses told The Miami Herald
> (http://hrld.us/1NO2Pjw ) that the man was seen causing
> a commotion inside the barber shop. A video of a shooting on
> Miami Beach was posted on Instagram and elsewhere on social
> media. In the video, a man without a shirt is seen briefly
> confronting what appeared to be at least three police
> officers outside a shopping center. The man is shot and
> falls to the ground. Police Chief Daniel Oates said one
> officer on the scene was wearing a body camera that also
> captured the deadly encounter, but that the video cannot be
> released to the public yet under state law. Mayor Philip
> Levine called the shooting "a horrible, isolated incident."
> "As we learn more about this incident from Miami-Dade
> police, from the state attorney's office, we will make sure
> to keep everyone informed," he said. Witness Sylvia
> Rodriguez told the newspaper that she was walking to a
> nearby corner store when the shooting happened. "Everything
> seemed under control. It wasn't fast. It was pretty chill,"
> she said. "He was not acting erratic." Then the shirtless
> suspect, who was holding was holding some kind of knife,
> took a step forward and was shot. "It went boom-boom,
> twice," Rodriguez said. She said she did not see a Taser go
> off. Police could not immediately verify if officers fired a
> Taser during the encounter. Miami-Dade County Police
> Department will handle the investigation into the shooting.
> The FBI and Miami Beach Police Department will investigate
> the alleged bank robbery. --- This story has been corrected
> to show the spelling of the witness' last name Rodriguez,
> not Rodrigues.
>
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