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Monday, January 10, 2011
Stubby was a wise, kind, and all around incredibly awesome pug. He taught me many things about the world. Like how to be generous. And how to be green. He brought many joys into my life, like Popeye's nuggets and true bromance.
Stubby lived a long and awesome life full of love, good food, and adventure. On the day he went to sleep, his humans made him bacon for breakfast and took him to Popeye's for lunch. I hope my life is as long as good as Stubby's and ends with a tasty meal of bacon and nuggets.
Stubbs - dude, you will be missed by all.
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Rest peacefully Stubby. Thanks for all of your pugnificent efforts and helping Puglet to learn all of your wisdom you had to offer.
Megan & the herd - January 10, 2011 at 8:15 AM
Oh Puglet, You are making my Mommy's eyes leak a lot. She has quietly read Stubby's blog as long as she has read your's. We loved his Autumn quote about a time for all things... Sending Stubby's humans many pug hugs, snuffles, and people's prayers. Surely a Pug as wonderful as Stubby is playing at the Bridge right now. Pug Hugs, Canadian Lola (I used to be Las Vegas Lola!)
- January 10, 2011 at 8:18 AM
- Barbara said...
We heard this weekend and were very sad. Stubby was a good friend to many people.
- January 10, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- moPSY+MISIOber said...
very sad news :( it must be very hard especially to Stubby's human, my thoughts are with her:( I know that over the rainbow bridge Stubby has a lots of bacon and other stuff he loves, and that he will live forever in or hearts :(
- January 10, 2011 at 8:25 AM
this breaks my heart
- January 10, 2011 at 8:34 AM
This is sad to hear. I loved Stubby and his popeyes nuggets. Puglet and Dutch are going to miss him dearly. Rest in peace, Stubby.
- January 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM
RIP Stubby. My condolences to Stubby's humans and to you, Puglet. It's so hard to lose a good friend.
- January 10, 2011 at 8:41 AM
I just read Stubby's last blog and now I'm all leaky. Big hugs to his humans and to the friends who will miss him, like you Puglet. R.I.P. little guy.
- January 10, 2011 at 8:45 AM
Even though I didn't personally know Stubby I felt as if he was a good friend because of the wonderful adventures you all shared with us. Thoughts, prayers, and well wishes go to Stubby's family and friends everywhere.
- January 10, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Molly in PA said...
It's a sad, sad day, Pug :( I 'knew' Stubby through your blog and followed his blog too, it made me sad a few weeks ago to hear about some of his health problems.
Stubby is in pug heaven and is playing amongst green grass with his cart sitting nearby, all while waiting for his next nugget.
Prayers are with Stubby's family and friends during this difficult time.
Molly in PA - January 10, 2011 at 9:02 AM
I loved reading Stubby's adventures. I'm sure you will miss him lots! He was an awesome dude, one of the best there is! My human and I had rainy eyes when we read your post today. Maybe your human will pay tribute to Stubby by taking you to Popeye's? I'm going to see if my human will too. Let's do it for Stubby.
- January 10, 2011 at 9:02 AM
Aww Puglet we are so sad to hear about Stubby. We know he was an awesome friend to you, Dutch and your human.
At least now the monster in Stubby's head is quiet and he can head peacefully over the rainbow bridge.
His humans showed him love until the end by letting him have bacon and Popeyes on his last day with them. Our thoughts and our hearts are with Stubby's humans.
Enjoy life on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge Stubby we will miss you!
Gabby, Gunnie and Our Human - January 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM
Good Morning Puglet,
We got to Stubby thru you. Your kind heart and special friendship we know meant a lot to Stubby.
Stay strong Puglet
Ellie, Emmitt and Eli from San Antonio - January 10, 2011 at 9:10 AM
Rest in Peace Stubby, we all feel like we knew you personally.
Pearl and Tessa - January 10, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Oisín said...
Such a bueatiful photo of a bueatiful pug
Amanda and Oisín xxx - January 10, 2011 at 9:25 AM
- I Love Lucy said...
My mommy and I are very sad today, but I told her to try not to cry too much because Stubby just made Rainbow Bridge a bit more beautiful.
Warm hugs to Stubby's family.
We love you Stubby. Hang in there Puglet. - January 10, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Pugs2Luv said...
Our hearts go out to Stubby's sweet parents. We so enjoyed meeting them this summer. They are in thoughts and prayers.
Lov, Zoey, Phoebe and our human - January 10, 2011 at 9:47 AM
I'm very sorry for you Puglet and for Stubby's family. I'm sure he is in Pug-heaven.
Feel like a loss, even if I didn't know him personally. - January 10, 2011 at 9:48 AM
We are so very sorry to hear about Stubby!
R.I.P Stubby you were very loved and will be missed greatly.
Trunks from Fl - January 10, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Brutus, Ellie, Pippa and Otto said...
We were so sad to hear about Stubby and our hearts go out to his family. We were lucky enough to meet Stubby back in October and he really was a wonderful pug. He will be missed :'(
Pugs & Kisses,
Yoda, Brutus & Ellie - January 10, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- pugsmom said...
Thank you for that loving tribute to Stubby. My human mama is leaking like crazy right now and keeps hugging us puggies over and over. Much love to Stubby's family and to all the people who loved Stubby and will miss him.
Phoebe in Oregon - January 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM
- DMBY said...
Oh Stubby! I hope he is bounding across a beach next to the rainbow bridge. I was so happy to meet him on his World Tour.
- January 10, 2011 at 10:41 AM
I'm so sorry for the loss of Stubby. I enjoyed reading his blog too. My sincerest condolences to his mom & family. RIP Stubby - you can now eat all the Popeyes you want. :(
Ann, Frodo, Molly & Cleo - January 10, 2011 at 12:26 PM
We will miss Stubby and the wiseness that he shared woth you, Puglet. We're all so grateful that he shared Popeye's with us, and introduced us to the magic nugget. Even though I never got to sniff his butt, I feel like I know him because of all you told us about him. We will miss him and send all our big pug hugs and kisses to his family.
See you at the bridge, Stubby.
Lafayette Lola - January 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM
At least you got to meet him in the fur. It will make your memories of him all the more precious.
- January 10, 2011 at 12:46 PM
- Buford T. Justice said...
Our thoughts and prayers go to Stubby's family....... He will definitely be missed by all.
Pug hugs and kisses,
Buford T. Justice, Bambi, Peg, Per-Li-Mae and Miss Lacy - January 10, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Rambo and Miss Ellie said...
We are so very sorry to hear about Stubby, he had the most wonderful smile.
Puglet is right you will be miss. - January 10, 2011 at 2:21 PM
- Ollie said...
What a sad day, Puglet. Through your blog I got to know just how wise and kind he was. Stubby brought the joy of Popeye's to us all and that make's him one very special pug in my book.
Losing someone you love is never easy, so I'm sending healing beagle thoughts to Stubby's family and all those who mourn his passing, to help ease the hurt, just a little. - January 10, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Noodle said...
We will all miss Stubby. Big pug hugs from my house to Stubby's family and all his friends.
- January 10, 2011 at 2:40 PM
Our hearts go out to Stubby's family and everyone who loved him.
Godspeed, Stubby. - January 10, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- Wilma said...
What a beautiful picture your human took of Stubby. It captures hisnspirit perfectly. We are sad for Stubby's family and friends, but feel grateful that he doesn't have to worry about the monsters anymore. I am sorry you lost your good friend Puglet.
- January 10, 2011 at 3:26 PM
- Mel said...
*tears* My heart is with all who knew Stubby today, especially his family.
- January 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Long live the famous Stubby! We followed you on your adventures, and loved the life you lead. A truly wise and admirable pug!
- January 10, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Christine said...
RIP Stubby-- wish we got to meet you when you came to visit. Hope there is a ton of Popeye's chicken up in doggy heaven :)
- January 10, 2011 at 6:19 PM
I wish we had had the opportunity to meet the Stubby guy when he was in Northern Cal...maybe we need some type of annual Pug meetup in his honor. The girls and I are sorry we never had the opportunity to meet him, but we do feel like we know him. Yes, I am sure there are lots of good treats in doggy heaven.
Kris, Pearl and Tessa - January 10, 2011 at 6:45 PM
- Crabbie Chris said...
Our heart hurts for Stubby's 'rents, but we know he's bringing the joy of Popeye's to everyone at the bridge.
XOXOXO Bellatrix
My thoughts are with his family. Our lives are enriched by the love of our beloved pugs. I hope, with time, your heart heals.
XOXOXO Chris - January 10, 2011 at 7:49 PM
- Caitlin Williams, MFA, CPC said...
Dear Pug~
I know how much you like romping at the beach, cause of all your pictures. Perhaps one starry night when it's not too cold and the SF fog hasn't rolled in and blocked everything, you can ask your human to take you there (and bring Dutch) and when you go, look up into the sky, at all the billions and billions of twinkly stars above your head.
You know what? One of those is Stubby. His body kinda wore out, but his little pug spirit remains....you can even talk to him up there, if you want, and tell him things about your day, and guess what, Pug?
He'll hear you. Maybe it'll make your heart feel a little less achy, too.
We're sad, too, Pug.
Hugs from your pug-lovin' feline buddies in Portland, Abby & Audrey~ - January 10, 2011 at 8:23 PM
- SpencerBartholomew said...
Pug- I met Stubby because of you and I can't thank you enough. He was the wisest, kindest, most thoughtful pug I have ever met and I am so grateful I got to meet him personally on his world tour. Further than this, we were so touched by the kindness and warmth shining from Stubby's humans; one can only be so lucky to meet people like Michelle and her hubby. Because of them Stubby had an amazing life and one I can only hope to give to my Spencer.
Stubby was a friend, a leader, and a star. A star that guided all of us to challenge ourselves and the world around us; a shining light that offered words of wisdom and a friendship that burns with eternity. Here's to my friend Stubby: may your light shine down on all of us while you light up the sky with your brilliance.
As I think of you and your humans I will hold Spencer close and remember the wonderful day we met. We love you Stubby.
-Kayla & Spencer - January 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Our heart breaks for Stubby's parents. Pug, thank you so much for introducing us to such a great pug!
<3 Mocha, Latte, and Katie - January 11, 2011 at 4:02 AM
Goodbye Stubby, Debbo and I will miss reading all about your adventures. You were a role model to us younger pugs. Our hearts go out to all your family and friends x
- January 11, 2011 at 4:12 AM
Such sad news!! We met Stubby during his World Tour at Crissy Field and he shared his Popeye chicken with us, such a cool pug. It was wonderful meeting you Stubby, and until we meet again, rest in peace my friend.
Pug hugs,
Petey & Brodie - January 11, 2011 at 8:16 AM
Dearest Puglet and Dutch - I'm leaky too. BUT - thanks to your human, I can smile just a little bit when I look at Stubby's beautiful happy face. Please send lots of pug hugs to stubby's folks - it's an unspeakably hard time for them.
- January 11, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Christy said...
Awww I'm so sorry to hear about Stubby. My thoughts are with his family who I'm sure misses him very much. I know how they feel--today (1.11.11) would've been our pug Jasmine's 18th birthday.
Puglet, you need to go over to Stubby's house and let them shower pug love on someone. That always helps. - January 11, 2011 at 9:01 AM
- Emily Griffin said...
Rest in Peace Stubby.
- January 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Kind thoughts from a curly-girly called Lily in San Diego.
Rest well Stubby. - January 11, 2011 at 1:34 PM
- Jorge said...
man, these are one of saddest and most beautiful lines I've read here. didnt know stubby but I miss him already
- January 11, 2011 at 2:58 PM
Stubby, we thank you for your generosity and kindly bringing to our human's attention the need for every pug to experience the sheer joy and delight of both bacon and fried, crunchy chicken bits.
Generosity and love are the only things we can really give. xo to Stubby's mom :( - January 11, 2011 at 4:10 PM
- Foodie Girl said...
I'm very sorry for your loss Puglet. I feel like I lost a friend too in Stubby. Because of him, my human found the Popeyes nuggets. I hope he is chasing a lot of squirrels and eating tons of bacon and nuggets at Rainbow Bridge.
~ Mookie - January 11, 2011 at 4:11 PM
- gini said...
I am very sad to hear of your loss, Puglet. It is difficult to loose the companionship of friend and loved one. I know Stubby is in Pug Heaven having fun running free and off leash forever! No more collar, no more tags, no more leash, only time to wag, wag, wag!
Tawny, Winston, Buster and our humans. - January 11, 2011 at 6:25 PM
We are so sad.
Love Packer and Gumbo - January 11, 2011 at 6:56 PM
- Tweedles -- that's me said...
Sweet friends
When Stubby told me about his ducks and geese, he told me about you. He told me how such a wonderful frined you were to him.
I am so sad too,, along with you and all his friends. The world loved Stubby... that says so much. Mother Earth is sad,,, but it is for all of us who are left behind,,
Stubby is part of Mother Earth. No matter where we look,,, in the rain, or snow flakes, the sunshine, the twinkly stars and the rainbows,,, it is all Stubby.
It is so hard to let go, and say goodbye...
my eyes cry with you.... cause I know you were his best friend.
tweedles - January 11, 2011 at 7:02 PM
- Meredith LeBlanc said...
Lots of love to you Puglet, Stubby is in good paws in Heaven. My girl Nicki is there and she'll show him around.
We're all lucky to have had wonderful doggies in our lives like Stubby, and we're better for it. And we're lucky to have you.
Meredith & Scarlet - January 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Hi Puglet,
My mom have tears, because Stubby and Moby and she is thinking that dont want to think in this "hour". Its so sad moment. We also followed your adventures. We can imagine the felling of loss inside his human family and his friends.
Love and peace,
Fred and my human - January 13, 2011 at 5:37 AM
- Vivian said...
We lost Bucky eight days after Stubby. I'm sure they are happily playing together now, over the beautiful rainbow bridge. Thank you Puglet for remembering the oldies.
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America responsible for evils of world.ADDED: Actually, Obama said "I'm grateful that President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old." That rhetoric sounded familiar. Remember this?
Ortega angry.
I'm bored.
Communism... good for Cuba? Wd b much more successful if not for U.S. evil.
expansionist policy of U.S.
Look serious. Pretend these are real notes. Listen thoughtfully.
Sandinistas... Contras... check info
Look thoughtful
He can't blame me. I was 3.
When is this idiot going to shut up?
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Not sure why he needed to take notes since he listened to the same sermon at Trinity Church for 20 years. You'd think he'd have it memorized by now.


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WASHINGTON — Unemployment rates fell in less than half of U.S. states last month, as steady but slow hiring is making only gradual improvement in the job market.
The Labor Department said Friday that rates fell in 22 states in December and rose in 16. They were unchanged in 12.
The department's monthly report also shows that steady hiring nationwide in the past two years has lowered the unemployment rate in many parts of the country. The rate is now below 7 percent in 25 states. And some of the states hardest hit in the recession have seen solid gains.
Nevada's unemployment rate, the highest in the nation, plummeted 0.6 percentage points last month to 10.2 percent. Rhode Island's rate, also 10.2 percent, fell from 10.4 percent in November.
A year ago, Nevada reported an unemployment rate of 13 percent. Its 2.8 percentage point drop in 2012 was the biggest in the nation.
Much of that decline stems from a smaller labor force. Many of those in Nevada who were out of work have given up looking for jobs or have left the state. People are only counted as unemployed if they are actively looking for work. Nevada's workforce fell nearly 2 percent last year.
But some of the unemployed have found jobs. In the past year, the state has gained nearly 20,000 jobs.
California has the third-highest unemployment rate, at 9.8 percent, the same as the previous month but down from 11.2 percent a year ago.
Nationwide, the rate remained at 7.8 percent in December. Employers added 155,000 jobs last month, nearly matching the average of 153,000 in 2012 and 2011. That's just enough to slowly reduce the unemployment rate, which declined 0.7 percentage points nationwide last year.
Employers added jobs in 27 states, the department said, while they cut jobs in 23 states. The job totals come from a survey of employers, while the unemployment rate is calculated from a separate survey of households.
New York and New Jersey reported the biggest job gains last month, likely reflecting a bounce back from Superstorm Sandy, which caused job losses in both states in November. New York gained nearly 9,000 construction jobs, while New Jersey added 4,200.
That's nearly half the 30,000 construction jobs created last month nationwide, the biggest increase in 15 months.
Still, New Jersey now has the nation's fourth-highest unemployment rate, at 9.6 percent. That's down slightly from the previous month but a half-point higher than a year ago.
North Dakota reported the nation's lowest unemployment rate, at 3.2 percent. Nebraska had the second-lowest rate, at 3.7 percent, followed by South Dakota at 4.4 percent.


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LOS ANGELES It's official. The force is with J.J. Abrams.
The Walt Disney Co. issued a statement Friday night confirming reports that had been circulating for two days that Abrams, Emmy-award-winning creator of TV's "Lost" and director of 2009's "Star Trek" movie, has been pegged to direct the seventh installment of the "Star Wars" franchise.
"J.J. is the perfect director to helm this," said Kathleen Kennedy, the movie's producer and president of Lucasfilm, which was acquired by Disney last month for $4.06 billion.
"Beyond having such great instincts as a filmmaker, he has an intuitive understanding of this franchise. He understands the essence of the Star Wars experience," Kennedy said in the statement.
- Reports: J.J. Abrams to helm next "Star Wars" movie
- Disney buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, slates new "Star Wars" movie for 2015
The movie will have a script from "Toy Story 3" writer Michael Arndt and a 2015 release.
Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" in the original trilogy, will work as a consultant on the new project.
Abrams has already headed the reboot of another storied space franchise, "Star Trek," for rival studio Paramount Pictures. The next installment in that series, "Star Trek: Into Darkness," is set to hit theaters May 17.
But he has long been known as a "Star Wars" devotee. Abrams spoke about the plot of the original "Star Wars" in the lecture series "TED Talks" in March 2007, and reportedly became enamored of "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof partly because Lindelof was wearing a "Star Wars" T-shirt when they first met.
In 2009, Abrams told the Los Angeles Times: "As a kid, `Star Wars' was much more my thing than `Star Trek' was."
In Friday night's statement he called it an "absolute honor" to get the job.
"I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid," Abrams said.
Lucas himself said in the statement that "I've consistently been impressed with J.J. as a filmmaker and storyteller. He's an ideal choice to direct the new Star Wars film and the legacy couldn't be in better hands."


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I am curious if there is a way to link 2 chatbots that you have created in MS Virtual Agents. Are they able to be connected?
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At this time, the bots cannot trigger each other or interact with each other.
please consider adding the idea here:
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Adding a quick comment on the @Jcook answer, we already have an idea here: Create a Master bot and redirect to another bots -... - Power Platform Community (microsoft.com)
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I'd said that I was going to try to get through April's backlog of queries before term starts. Well, term starts tomorrow, and I have more than one April query left, so it's looking unlikely. But here's one. Philip, the man responsible for my shot at Saturday night television fame, wrote back in the spring to ask:
If you want to order a salt beef sandwich in the US, what do you ask for?My reply was that you order a corned beef sandwich. Both countries have a beef called corned beef, but they tend to be a bit different, with American corned beef being more spiced than the British kind and not usually prised from a (BrE) tin/(AmE) can. As Wikipedia said (back in April when I first checked it on this subject): "In Britain, corned beef is almost always found in trapezoid cans and imported from South America."
In the US, corned beef is associated mainly with two ethnic subcultures, starting with the Jews. Corned beef, like pastrami, is a major element of Jewish delicatessen fare in the US. (See this menu, for example.) It is the meat of one of the most archetypal deli sandwiches, the Reuben: rye bread, corned beef, Swiss cheese (more commonly referred to in BrE as Emmental--which is what 'Swiss cheese' usually is; it's just not usually called that in American), sauerkraut and Russian dressing -- an American condiment that has little to do with Russia. This is in contrast to the Reuben at a Brighton delicatessen, which is a bagel with pastrami, Swiss cheese, (AmE) dill pickles/(BrE) dill cucumbers (though they do use the more AmE name on the menu), tomatoes and mild (i.e. American-style yellow) mustard. I am always tempted to accuse that deli of misusing the name Reuben, but since (not being a sauerkraut fan) I like that kind of Reuben better than the AmE kind, I figure I should put up and shut up (playing on the primarily AmE phrase, put up or shut up).
The other American ethnic group associated with corned beef is the Irish-Americans, who eat it boiled with cabbage and potatoes as a St Patrick's Day tradition (and at other times too). On this Wikipedia comments:
According to the History Channel, while cabbage has become a traditional food item for Irish-Americans, corned beef was originally a substitute for Irish bacon in the late 1800s. Irish immigrants living in New York City's Lower East Side sought an equivalent in taste and texture to their traditional Irish bacon, and learned about this cheaper alternative to bacon from their Jewish neighbors. A similar dish is the New England boiled dinner, consisting of corned beef, cabbage, and root vegetables such as carrots, turnips, and potatoes, which is popular in New England and parts of Atlantic Canada.And that's what I remember eating every St Patrick's Day during my childhood (although some of those must have fallen on Fridays, and my parents weren't the kind of Catholics who would put Irish-American tradition ahead of Lenten custom, so we might've had it on St Patrick's Eve sometimes...).
The Saint Patrick Day tradition caused controversy among American Catholic dioceses in 2000 and 2006, when the holiday fell on a Friday during Lent. Lenten custom dictates that no meat be consumed on Fridays during Lent, but some bishops granted dispensations to their dioceses for eating corned beef on St Patrick's Day.
The OED doesn't give salt beef its own entry, so I don't have a lot of information about the term's history, though since beef has been salted for centuries, it goes back some way. But what's interesting for Americans is to go into delis in the UK that claim to be 'Authentic New York Delicatessen' and find that the sandwiches are filled with a meat with some mysterious (to us) name. I would assume that British "New York-style" delis stick with salt beef because corned beef has such negative associations with unsavo(u)ry (BrE) tinned/(AmE) canned meat, also known in the UK as Bully beef. I don't care what it's called, so long as I can get a good corned/salt beef sandwich in the event of a hangover. I don't know that it has any curative properties, but it's only when I'm in a rough state that I can justify the calories to myself.


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Below some online resource to help you in understanding plagiarism:
- Roig, M. Avoiding plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and other questionable writing practices: A guide to ethical writing. St Johns University.
- Long TC, Errami M, George AC, et al. Responding to Possible Plagiarism. Science 2009; 323:1293-1294.
- Lewis J, Ossowski S, Hicks J, Errami M, and Garner HR. Text similarity: an alternative way to search MEDLINE. Bioinformatics 2006; 22:2298-2304.
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Two former top editors at News Corp.'s now defunct News of the World tabloid in the U.K., including a man who later became a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron, now face criminal charges related to the so-called hacking scandal.
The BBC writes that "eight people, including Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, will face a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking, the Crown Prosecution Service" announced today. Coulson, after leaving Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., worked for Cameron.
According to The Guardian, Brooks, Coulson, "five other former News of the World journalists ... [and] private investigator Glenn Mulcaire" are being charged. Brooks, the Guardian adds, has issued a statement saying:
"I am not guilty of these charges. I did not authorise, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship."
The BBC reports that:
-- "Brooks, who is also a former News International chief executive, faces three charges relating to the alleged accessing the voicemails of Milly Dowler and former trade union boss Andrew Gilchrist."
-- "Coulson, the prime minister's former communications chief, will face four charges linked to accusations of accessing the phone messages of Milly Dowler, [politician] David Blunkett, [politician] Charles Clarke and [late soccer star] George Best's son Calum Best."
All told, says NPR's David Folkenflik, British prosecutors are alleging there was a conspiracy going to the newspaper's top levels that led to the hacking of cellphone voicemails of more than 600 people over a six-year period. Both Brooks and Coulson were News of the World's top editor at points during those six years.
Milly Dowler is a 13-year-old British girl who went missing in 2002. During the search for Milly, private investigator Mulcaire — who was being paid by News of the World — accessed her cellphone's voicemails. To make room for more messages, he deleted some. That gave Milly's parents hope that she might still be living and may have affected the investigation into her disappearance. She wasn't alive. Milly had been murdered.
The revelation of that hacking caused an uproar in the U.K., which in turn led to investigations into the News Corp.' tabloids actions and more revelations. News of the World was eventually folded. Murdoch's newspaper holdings in the U.K. have been rocked.
NPR's Philip Reeves adds from London that the charges against Coulson are an embarrassment for both Cameron and Murdoch. Correspondent Larry Miller tells out Newscast Desk that others who were alleged targets of the tabloid's hacking included former Beatle Paul McCartney.
Update at 9:35 a.m. ET. Coulson Comments.
The BBC's Norman Smith tweets that:
-- "Andy Coulson in statement outside his house says : 'At News of the World we worked on behalf of victims of crime' "
-- "Andy Coulson: 'The idea i wd sit in my office dreaming up schemes to undermine (police) investigations is simply untrue' "
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Between January 27 and 28, 1922, a massive snowstorm dumped more than two feet of snow on the Washington area. The Knickerbocker Storm, as it was dubbed, holds the official Washington record of 28 inches since documentation has been kept.
In Alexandria, snow made the streets impassible and shut down streetcar and train service. Firefighters, unable to reach the hydrants buried by snow, had difficulty fighting a blaze that broke out at a church. When funding to remove the snow had been exhausted, the City Council authorized an additional expenditure of $3,000. A group of 150 workers, like this crew in the 400 block of King Street, cleared streets and removed snow from the hydrants. The snow was packed onto Washington-Alexandria Railway dump cars and hauled away to Hunting Creek.
Within two days of the snow ending, travel between Alexandria and Washington had been restored with cars and a bus line able to make the trip with minimal difficulty.Another priority was removing snow from the roofs of homes and businesses, but the roof of a car garage on South Lee Street did collapse, damaging vehicles inside.
In Washington, the roof of Knickerbocker Theatre caved in and nearly 100 people were killed, with three members of the Fleming family, formerly of Alexandria, among the victims. Joseph P. Morgan, general manager of the company that owned the Knickerbocker, had been married earlier that month at St. Mary's in Alexandria, accompanied by theater owner Harry M. Crandall. The wedding announcement appeared in newspapers on the morning of the tragedy. Neither Morgan nor Crandall was at the Knickerbocker when it collapsed, but Crandall never recovered from the disaster and later committed suicide.
Out of the Attic is provided by the Office of Historic Alexandria.


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It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep. Good morning. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be shared by three scientists who took chemistry inside the world of computing. This powerful technology is now used to develop drugs and perform all sorts of vital tasks in chemistry. The three winners were all born overseas but collaborated in the United States and elsewhere in the 1970s, where they started their work.
Joining us to introduce the laureates and talk about their work, which is so advanced the rest of us could barely understand it, is NPR science correspondent Richard Harris. Richard, good morning.
RICHARD HARRIS, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve. Yeah, this is a tough one. But it's fun and it is so fundamental to what's going on in chemistry.
HARRIS: It's worth spending a moment to understand it. But let's start with the guys who won.
INSKEEP: All right.
HARRIS: And first is Martin Karplus, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1930.
INSKEEP: All right.
HARRIS: He came to the U.S. to get his Ph.D. and now he's a professor both at Harvard - where he's done a lot of his work - and at the University of Strasbourg in France. He shares the prize with Michael Levitt who was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1947, but he now has joint U.S. and British citizenship and he's at the Stanford University medical school.
And third, Arieh Warshel, who was born on a kibbutz in 1940 and is now a joint U.S.-Israeli citizen. And he is at the University of Southern California. So talk about international science, you can't get much more international than this.
INSKEEP: And another Nobel Prize for, in effect, a collaboration, a reminder that we're talking about things that are so complex it's hard to fit them in one brain, basically. What do they do?
HARRIS: Absolutely. Yeah. Well, what they did was - this story really goes back to the early 1970s. Martin Karplus was working at Harvard and he and his group were trying to work in the sort of the spooky world of quantum mechanics. Now if you have - want to understand chemistry, you can have those ball and stick models which is kind of a classical way of looking chemistry, or you can do the fancy math of quantum mechanics that sort of looks at how electrons float back and forth in ways that are really not intuitive but are mathematically...
INSKEEP: When we say chemistry in this case we're talking about substances at an atomic level.
HARRIS: Absolutely.
INSKEEP: And how they interact.
HARRIS: Yeah. So he was trying to understand molecules at this really basic physical atomic level and he could do some very basic simulations of that with his computer models but he couldn't really do big, big simulations. But interestingly, Arieh Warshel, who was working in Israel getting his Ph.D., was working with Michael Levitt, actually, and the two of them were working on computer simulations that were more like the familiar ball and stick model of molecules. They were able to do much bigger simulations of chemistry.
INSKEEP: Oh, you mean those drawings that you see in classrooms that model...
HARRIS: The drawings or even the, sort of the Tinker Toy kinds of models...
HARRIS: ...that chemists often use. So at any rate, so that allowed them to solve much bigger problems but they couldn't get the detail that you could get by doing the quantum mechanics. So at any rate, Warshel shows up in Karplus' lab at Harvard and they realized there might be a way to pull these two approaches together, kind of the chocolate and peanut butter combination, if you will.
And they actually were able to say, let's do a model that includes quantum mechanics and these more sort of standard ball-and-stick kinds of models. And lo and behold, they figured out a way to bring those two very different methods together to provide incredibly powerful computer models of molecules.
INSKEEP: OK. So I'm imagining this like a zoom lens on a camera. They want to get in finer and finer and finer resolution on what they're trying to understand. They did what they did. So what are their discoveries good for?
HARRIS: Well, all sorts of things because these days these models are used everywhere. For drug development, you take a computer model. Instead of having to do a million chemical experiments in a lab, you can create one of these computer models of an enzyme if you want to have a drug that's working against - working to change the enzyme. And you can sort of figure out how things will fit together on this.
And so it's for - you could do that for that, for catalysts, like the catalyst inside your automobile that cleans the exhaust, understanding how that works. Just, you know, it's endless. Anything that you can do in chemistry is done with computers these days.
INSKEEP: From medicine to mechanics. Richard, thanks very much.
HARRIS: My pleasure.
INSKEEP: With the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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It's hard to believe that the year is slowly but very surely coming to an end. At this time last year there were so many plans and new beginnings being schemed. If anything 2009 has really taught us how things can backfire and that even the most immaculately drafted plan can fall apart.
But we look forward and make new plans and aspire to aim for new goals. It's what keeps us going.
So, I am looking forward. I want to put an end to 2009 and look forward to 2010. However, even with the downs this year has supplied, I do have several things I need to be thankful for. I have learned many lessons and gained so much. That in itself has been an enrichment.
This year Thanksgiving is going to be different around here. Over the past years we were the Thanksgiving hosts for many of our German friends. It was a great reason to come together and enjoy each others company over food and drink. This year however, friends of ours have taken over the hosting and I have to say I am thankful for it.
While I prepare myself for the Food Bloggers Connect in London on Saturday and complete a few photography and writing jobs, I would have crumbled under the pressure of creating a huge Thanksgiving meal. My friends are darlings and considerately observed my current frantic hecticness and decided to relieve me of my Thanksgiving duties. "Just bring dessert!" was the request.
Dessert – yes – sweet treats for sweet friends. Something I want to share with my readers and blog friends too. A thank you for all your support, motivation and encouragement. I have gained many a firm friendship over the past months and years and am extremely excited to finally meet some of them in London this weekend. You all know who you are!
Last year I shared an extensive Thanksgiving Menu Planer with a comprehensive outline on how to plan a stress-free meal. I hope you will find it helpful this year too! While I am not making much this year I still want to offer you a few suggestions for inspiration. So hope you find my ideas below helpful!
Soups, Salads and Starters
- Chestnut Potato Soup
- Ginger Carrot Soup with Lemon Cream
- Leafy Green Salad with Brie and Honey Mustard Raspberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
- Mushroom Cream Soup with Thyme Parmesan Chips
- Roasted Pumpkin & Mushroom Salad
Vegetable Sides
- Butter Beans and Leeks
- Roasted Sweet Potato with Corn and Bacon
- Roasted Thyme Jerusalem Artichoke, Kohlrabi and Butternut
- Red Cabbage with Pomegranate Seeds
- Potato Dumpling Cakes
- Apple Glazed Duck Filets
- Turkey Roulade with Cranberry Mushroom Stuffing
- Turkey Breast and Roasted Pumpkin
- Italian Roasted Chicken and Vegetables
- Lime Chicken and Vegetable Farro Risotto
Desserts & Sweets
- Panna Cotta - Quark Vanilla with Star Anise Cranberry Compote and Spiced Pecan Brittle
- Chai Latte Cream
- Banana Brioche Pudding with Baileys Caramel Cream
- Chocolate Cranberry Tart
- Roasted Pumpkin & Chocolate Bread Pudding
- Macarons - Pistachio Lemon Cream
- Macarons - Saffron with Cardamom White Chocolate Ganache
- Matcha White Chocolate Pralines with Pistachios
and of course this sensational mousse creation!
This layered mousse brings together two wonderful and rather opposite flavored fruit varieties together. The sweet and juicy mango plays-off the tart and zesty flavored cranberries perfectly. For the mango mousse you can make a portion of my eggless mango mousse or if fresh mangoes are not available do what I did – see recipe below!
Layered Cranberry and Mango Mousse (eggless)
Printable version of recipe here
For cranberry mousse
230g fresh cranberries, washed and picked over
100g fine sugar, divided
juice and zest from one orange
1/2 envelope/sheet gelatin
200 ml heavy creamFor mango mousse
250g mango yogurt, I used Alphonso mango yogurt from Emmi's Swiss Yogurt (DELICIOUS)
1 envelop/sheet gelatinhandful of pistachios, chopped
For cranberry mousse
- Soak the gelatin in cold water for approx. 5 minutes.
- Place cranberries in a small saucepan with orange juice and zest and 50g sugar over medium heat and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat and continue cooking, stirring frequently, until cranberries pop and break up - about 15 minutes.
- Remove from heat. Take two tablespoons of the mixture and dissolve the gelatin in the hot mixture. Pour into the rest of the cranberry mixture and stir to incorporate.
- Transfer to a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Press the cranberry mixture through a sieve and discard the rest.
- Place in the refrigerator to cool and until the mixture just begins to thicken. In the meantime whip the cream until stiff peaks form, then drizzle in the remaining sugar and whip till incorporated.
- Remove the cranberry mixture from the fridge and gently fold in the whipped cream.
- In individual dessert bowls fill the cranberry mousse mixture half way up. Tap gently on the countertop to even out then place in the fridge to set for about four hours.
- Prepare mango mousse
For mango mousse
- Soak the gelatin in cold water for approx. 5 minutes.
- Heat approx. 2 tablespoons of mango yogurt in a small saucepan and dissolve the gelatin in it. Transfer to a bowl and whisk in the rest of the yogurt.
- Place in the refrigerator until mixture begins to thicken. Then take out and give it a good whisking.
Assembling the mousses
Make sure the cranberry mousse has completely set in the dessert bowls. Pour the mango mousse over it and allow to set once again for another four hours, preferably overnight.
Serve with a sprinkling of pistachios.
Food Guide Tips:
- Pistachios – the Queen of nuts!
- Cranberries – selecting and storing
Not only does this please the eyes with the flamboyant way it is presented, it's double fruity flavors really add a spectacular pizzazz. You can spruce the cranberry mousse with a bit of orange liqueur for added bounce, however if you have kids it would be a good idea to leave it out.
So, I hope you all have a fantastic Thanksgiving feast this week. Eat good and party hard. Rest relax and enjoy the family. I'll be back on Friday with the Daring Bakers scrumptious challenge!
Take care!
You might like these dessert ideas from WFLH:
Crème Fraîche Strawberry Basil Ice-Cream | Figs in Cherry Caramel | Sweet Potato Flan |
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Google took the stage at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (10 a.m. PST) this afternoon at its headquarters in California for a little announcement. Okay — a BIG announcement; Google has unveiled what it calls the "next stage in evolution for the Android" — the much rumored Nexus One (N1) smartphone, fondly nicknamed the "Google Phone" by the blogosphere.
The company calls the new phone a member of a new class of devices called "superphones" — ultra-capable, web-ready phones. Mario, VP of Product Development at Google took the stage to personally introduce the phone. He describes, "[We're often asked] what if we work even more closely with our partners to bring devices to market to showcase the great software technology we're working on at Google."
He says the N1 is the answer to that question and the "exemplar" of what can be done with Android. He also revealed the hardware partner, stating, "The Nexus One was designed in very close partnership with HTC."
Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, then took the stage to fill in the hardware details. The phone features a eye-catching 3.7″ 480×800 AMOLED display (bigger than the iPhone's 3.5″ screen and higher resolution than the iPhone's 320×480). The phone is also powered by the 1 GHz Snapdragon QSD 8250 processor from Qualcomm, as rumored. That makes it on paper faster than the the current generation iPhone 3G S, due to the latter's underclocking (which is powered by a Samsung S5PC100 ARM Cortex-A8 833 MHz CPU underclocked to 600 MHz).
Whereas the iPhone features a plain nondescript home button, the Nexus One's bottom interface device doubles both as a trackball and a button and a multi-color LED notification device. The phone also features a wealth of sensors to enrich the performance, including light and proximity sensors, compass, GPS and accelerometer (it draws the iPhone in this category).
The phone is 11.5 mm thin and a mere 130 grams (narrowly beating the iPhone 3G S in both categories). It features a 5 MP camera with LED flash, MPEG4 capabilities, and one-touch YouTube uploads. The phone features stereo Bluetooth, a 3.5mm headphone jack (four contact points for microphone and remote), and active noise cancellation. A second microphone in the back of the phone provides active noise cancellation during phone calls. To top off the sweet hardware package, you can get custom engraving on the metal bezel on the backplate.
The 1400 mAh battery is expected to deliver 290 hours on standby, 10 hours talk time or 5 hours while browsing the internet.
The phone's only serious weak point is app memory — currently you can only store apps on the 512 MB internal ROM, though soon you will be able to copy apps to the SD expansion. Considering iPhone apps run as large as 10 MB, this is a serious shortcoming.
The phone also features Android 2.1, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system. The new OS is compatible with Facebook, Google Maps, and all the other apps from past versions of Android. The phone features five home screens, so you have a fair amount of room for your favorite apps. The phone features a rather nice news and weather widget that helps you get your info fix on the go.
Arguably the phone's single most impressive feature, though, is its incredible voice-to-text interface that allows you to literally read email messages and texts to your phone, which the N1 faithfully transcribes. All text fields on the phone can be given text by voice.
The phone also offers a rich graphical environment, including some pretty sweet looking "interactive wallpapers". The one demoed was a fall lake, with leaves falling into it. Touching the screen would create ripples in the water, as did the falling leaves — pure eye-candy, of course, but nice touches, nonetheless. The phone also gets a special tilt-driven Cover Flow-esque photo interface that automatically syncs to your Picasa account if you have one.
The phone's powerful graphical capabilities also power a new mobile version of Google Earth that allows a 3D "flight" mode, that lets you explore the world in full 3D magic.
You can purchase the N1 through Google's new Google web store, which aims to offer a "simple purchasing process" and "simple offering of plans from operators". Currently, the N1 is offered through the site, but more phones, including some from Motorola are coming. Once you select a phone, you can check out or select one of the available carriers for a discount on the device and new contract. The N1 is currently only offered on T-Mobile, but will be available on Verizon and Vodafone sometime in the spring (though it's unclear whether this CDMA-ready version will retain its GSM capability). The phone will currently work with AT&T, but only on the slower EDGE network — rather disappointing.
The T-Mobile phone can be had for $179 for new customers (or $280 if you're a returning customer w/out a data package, or $380 for returning customers with a data package), while an unlocked N1 retails for $529. T-Mobile's plan runs $79.99 per month and includes unlimited texting/MMS, web data and unlimited minutes. The purchase web form allows you to specify your custom engraving (2 lines), if you want it. The store current ships to the U.S., UK, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The new online store idea seems like a great one — you can get your new smartphone and not have to worry about being accosted by phone store sales staff.