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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
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> "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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> delicious: very buttery, juicy, cream to pale yellow flesh,
> intensely rich with plenty of sugar lemony acidity," she
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>    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.   
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>    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.   
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>    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.   
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>    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.   
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>    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.   
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> 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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> luscious, very buttery, exquisitely textured, pale cream
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>    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.   
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>    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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