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Rohan was a Mannish kingdom on the northern borders of Gondor. It was the territory of the Rohirrim, a people of herdsmen and farmers. Well-known for their horses and cavalry, they were Gondor's most important ally.
In the 1200s of the Third Age, the Kings of Gondor made close alliances with the Northmen of Rhovanion, a people akin to the Three Houses of the Edain (later the Dúnedain) from the First Age. In the 2000s, a remnant tribe of such Northmen that called itself the Éothéod moved from the valleys of Anduin to the north west of Mirkwood, clearing out what remained of the recently defeated witch kingdom of Angmar, east of the Misty Mountains.
In the meantime, the Gondorian province of Calenardhon was deserted by the Great Plague and during the Watchful Peace and local chieftains, such as Dunlendings gained control.[1] During the time of Cirion the Steward of Gondor, Calenardhon was overrun by the Balchoth.
In 2509, Cirion sent summons to the Éothéod for aid in stopping a combined invasion of Men from the north east of Middle-earth, and Orcs from the Misty Mountains. Borondir reached Eorl the Young, king of the Éothéod, who answered the summons, and arrived unexpectedly at a decisive battle of the Field of Celebrant.
As a reward, Cirion invited Eorl on Amon Anwar, over the tomb of Elendil and he swore mutual alliance and cooperation between the two peoples. The Steward also gave Eorl the deserted but fertile area of Calenardhon to take as their own and repopulate.
Eorl moved his people there driving out the Dunlendings who attempted to repopulate it without Gondor's consent. Eorl also built the first city of Rohan, Aldburg. Eorl lost his life fighting the Easterlings in the Wold.[2] Migration was continued to the days of second king Brego who defended the borders against the Dunlendings and Easterlings, and drove the remaining Orcs and Balchoth off the Wold. Brego also built the Golden Hall of Meduseld, and made Edoras the capital of Rohan.
King Aldor was the founder of a golden age in Rohan's history, during which he completed Rohan's conquest east of the Isen and the Rohirrim increased greatly in numbers, who even settled valleys of Ered Nimrais including Harrowdale. It was he who succeeded in driving all the remaining Dunlendings from his realm. Rohan continued to prosper during Goldwine's rule; but as the guard of the borders lessened, the Dunlendings slowly began to return to northern Westfold, settling the area around the (friendly to them) Ring of Isengard and the southern eaves of Fangorn Forest[3]. A powerful Dunlendish force had been established, and King Déor was forced to ride northward from Edoras, ultimately to defeat his enemies but he was unable to recapture the Ring of Isengard. The following years the Dunlendings harassed and mingled with the Rohirrim.
The first line of kings lasted for 249 years, until the ninth king Helm Hammerhand. In T.A. 2758, Rohan was invaded by Dunlendings under Wulf, son of Freca, of mixed Dunland and Rohan blood. The King, Helm Hammerhand, took refuge in the Hornburg until reinforcements from Gondor and Dunharrow (a refuge of the Rohirrim) arrived a year later and defeated the invaders. In a daring raid Fréaláfrecaptured Edoras, and managed to reclaim it. He eventually drove the Dunlendings back across the rivers Isen and Adorn, freeing all of Rohan.
The Rohirrim now kept a strong force in north Westfold, however at some time King Folcwine would need the help of Gondor to drive some of them from the area.[4] He was successful but the people who remained were largely of mixed blood, and not loyal to Edoras.
It was soon after this that Saruman arrived and took over Isengard, and was welcomed as a strong ally, since it would take Rohan close to 200 years to recover its strength after the invasion.
As Rohan was still recovering from the war with the Dunlendings, hostilities remained at the western borders. For two generations, during the coincidental conflict many thousands of Orcs tried to claim a refuge in the White Mountains and troubled the Rohirrim; Brytta fought them off, and when he died it was believed Rohan was free of Orcs; they were not entirely driven from the White Mountains until T.A. 2864 by Folca.
During Thengel's reign, a mysterious Northerner calling himself Thorongil entered his service, and rode with him for some time.
Around 2960 Saruman started to harass Rohan and in 3014, he began using his influence to weaken the King, Théoden, as part of a campaign to invade or take over the kingdom. In 3019, he launched a full-scale invasion of Rohan, with victories; (Théoden's son, Théodred was killed during the First Battle of the Fords of Isen) and defeat at the Battle of the Hornburg, where the Huorns came to the aid of the Rohirrim.
On the heels of this victory, Théoden rode with an army to Minas Tirith and helped break its siege in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, where he was slain. Éomer, the nephew of King Théoden, then succeeded to the throne, beginning the third line. Éomer rode with the armies of Gondor to the gates of Mordor and took part in the final battle with the forces of Sauron, who was defeated when the Ruling Ring was destroyed.
The rule of the Stewards of Gondor was now over. King Éomer and the new king of Gondor, Aragorn II (Aragorn), renewed their oath of alliance, and reaffirmed Cirion's grant of Calenardhon to the Rohirrim. But though Sauron had perished Éomer often fulfilled the Oath of Eorl and went with King Elessar far into the East and South. He was known as Éomer Éadig, or 'the Blessed', because during his reign Rohan recovered from the hurts of the War and became a rich and fruitful land again.
The borders of Rohan were the river Isen in the west, bordering Saruman's Isengard; the river Adorn, a tributary of Isen, also in the west, forming the border with the unfriendly Dunlendings); the White Mountains in the south; the Mering Stream in the southeast, at the border between Rohan and Gondor; the Mouths of Entwash in the east; and the Limlight, a tributary of the Anduin as the northern border.
The most significant feature of Rohan's geography was the river Entwash, which divided the country between Eastemnet and Westemnet, itself divided as Eastfold and Westfold. Other lands were the Wold, the Folde, the Downs and the Undeeps.
The Rohirrim found abandoned Gondorian fortresses and refuges in the White Mountains, such as the Dunharrow, the Orthanc and the Hornburg which they restored and used themselves.
The capital of Rohan was the hill fort of Edoras which lay on the slopes of the White Mountains. Another large city was Aldburg, the capital city of the Eastfold and original city of Eorl the Young. Other cities must have existed but are not named.
At the time of the War of the Ring, Rohan was roughly a third the size of Gondor, whose borders had slowly been shrinking for decades.
Climate and Countryside
The countryside of Rohan was described as a land of pastures and lush tall grassland. The lands of Rohan are frequently described as appearing like 'seas of grass'. Most of the Rohirrim dwelt in small villages or farms.
The military of the Rohirrim was commanded by Marshals. The First Marshal of the Riddermark was the highest military rank and commanded the Muster of Edoras: Riders of the capital Edoras and the surrounding lands, including the King's Lands and Harrowdale. In his youth, King Théoden had led the Riders of the Muster of Edoras himself, so that no First Marshal was needed and at the time of the War of the Ring, there was no First Marshal.
The Second and Third Marshals had no fixed duties, and their roles changed according to the needs of the time. The Second Marshal of the Riddermark and was based in the Helm's Deep and around the War of the Ring it was filled by Théoden's son, Prince Théodred. The Third Marshal of the Riddermark was based at Aldburg in the Folde and around the War of the Ring it was filled by Éomer.
After the War of the Rings, the new rank of Marshal of the East-mark was created for the eastern Rohan by King Éomer. The first Rider to hold it was his lieutenant, Elfhelm.
Alliance with Gondor
The alliance between Rohan and Gondor came into existence in the year 2510 of the Third Age. In that year the Easterlings launched a massive invasion of Gondor. The army of Gondor was defeated and trapped between the Limlight and the Celebrant. Gondor, which had always been on friendly terms with the different tribes of the Northmen, sent messengers to the closest tribe, the Éothéod. Although it was unlikely that the message calling for aid would come through, it did. Then Eorl the Young and his fierce Éothéod Riders unexpectedly took the field during the Battle of Celebrant and turned the tide in the favour of Gondor. As a reward Cirion, the Steward of Gondor, gave Eorl the depopulated province of Calenardhon for his people to settle, while fulfilling Gondor's need for a strong ally. The Oath of Eorl was sworn by both Cirion and Eorl. Neither nation has ever broken the alliance ever since. Rohan has gone through great lengths to fulfill their part of the treaty including sacrificing two of its heirs when Gondor was under threat from the Haradrim in 2885, when Fastred and Folcred, the twin sons of King Folcwine, were killed during the Battle of Crossings of Poros. King Théoden once again honoured the alliance in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
War with the Dunlendings
To the west of Rohan lived the Dunlendings, a native people who had been hostile against the Free Peoples for a long time. The Dunlending Wulf briefly usurped of the throne of Rohan during the long winter.
During the War of the Ring, Saruman would incite them against the Rohirrim and they would fight alongside the Uruk-hai in the Battle of the Hornburg.
When king Théoden began to grow old, he took as an advisor Gríma, later called Wormtongue. Gríma quickly became Théoden's chief advisor, but unknown to all he was secretly working for Saruman. Gríma played on Théoden's fears to further weaken the strength of the king and all of Rohan, always advising retreat where an attack was needed. He may have also begun poisoning the king at this time. This nearly proved disastrous for Rohan, and also for Gondor, by robbing them of their strongest ally in the north. Gríma Wormtongue's plans were not revealed until Gandalf arrived in Edoras during the War of the Ring.
The name Rohan (coined by Hallas) is Gondor Sindarin, meaning 'Horse-country'. Rohan is a debased form of the proper Sindarin name Rochand (or Rochan), containing the elements roch ('horse') and the toponymical ending -and.
The native name of the country was Riddermark, or simply the Mark.
In a draft of The Appendices, Tolkien noted that Rohan 'is of Noldorin origin, a translation of the native Lōgrad', having the 'strictly correct form [...] Rochann.'
Other Versions of the Legendarium
Conceptualized as the 'Horse kings of Rohan' allied with Mordor in early drafts of 1939, the Rohirrim took their final form in 1942 when the text of the Lord of the Rings was completed to about one third.
Several aspects of Rohan's culture and history seem to be inspired by both Goths, Scandinavians and the medieval Anglo-Saxons.
Just like the Germanic Ostrogoths, Rohirric culture was a mounted culture. It had separated from the Northmen, moved south, and had settled in close proximity with a civilization. In the Goths' case it was the Byzantine Empire and in the case of the Rohirrim, it was Gondor.
Especially Hervarar saga, with its Mirkwood, Gothic horsemen and shieldmaidens, appears to have inspired Tolkien when creating the Rohirrim, although he exchanged the Gothic tongue with the Anglo-Saxon.
The antipathy between the Rohirrim and the Dunlendings resembles the historical tension between the Anglo-Saxon settlers of Britain and the native Celts.


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Maybe he doesn't need a will. I didn't know exactly since self-help estate planning frequently leads to mistakes or property that doesn't have the proper designations. In this situation a will is prophylactic. It ensures that if a mistake is made or a beneficiary designation fails, that property passes to the intended recipient.
I turned the discussion from planning for death to what type of planning he had for his life. I asked if he had a power of attorney for finances. His answer was no. "Do you have an advanced health care directive (aka health care power of attorney)?" "No."
The lack of such planning concerned me since I knew he didn't have a significant other or children to care for him if he were unable to care for himself. What would happen to him if he had a stroke or suffered from dementia or Alzheimer's? Perhaps his siblings would step in to care for him – but how? They would have to spend his money to set up a conservatorship and guardianship or other court proceedings. These processes take time and money to set up and are expensive to administer.
To help deal with his finances he could execute a springing power of attorney for finances that would give a sibling or trusted relative the ability to manage his finances if he became incapacitated and unable to do so. It's called a springing power of attorney because it only becomes effective upon incapacity. The power of attorney can provide broad powers and sets forth detailed instructions concerning what the designated agent can and cannot do on the individual's behalf. More importantly, it would allow the caller to designate who he wanted to manage his finances – not a judge. Drafting and executing a power of attorney in this situation is relatively inexpensive when compared to the cost of setting up and maintaining a conservatorship.
In Oregon, an advance health care directive would assist the caller by designating a health care agent to make health care decisions on his behalf when he's unable to. It would potentially eliminate the need for guardianship proceedings. The representative can make decisions based on directions that are left in the directive. Among the decisions the representative can make is whether to withhold or remove life support, food or hydration. The advance heath care directive does not authorize euthanasia, assisted suicide or any overt action to end the person's life.
This example is a part of the problem with self-help planning. Although the caller was very thorough with his death planning he didn't give any thought to his life. In this caller's case, life planning was much more important than death planning, but he hadn't given it any thought.
© 9/27/2013 Kevin J. Tillson of Hunt & Associates, P.C. All rights reserved.

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From Openmoko
The devirginator is a program that can be used in combination with dfu-util, OpenOCD and Debug Board to completely (factory-re-)program a phone from scratch.
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Source code
The source code of devirginator is available at http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/devirginator/
NOTE: This is derived from http://svn.openmoko.org/trunk/src/host/devirginator/README rev. 1215 and might be outdated |
Quick start
% cp config.example config
and may changes as needed. In particular, you must set SNAPSHOT. Then
% make
This requires Netpbm and transfig. Finally, make sure that openocd runs, power the device up, become root, and run
# ./devirginate
The device must be connected to:
- JTAG, with an interface supported by OpenOCD (required for all stages)
- USB, connected to the machine running "devirginate" (only required for stage 2 and beyond)
Furthermore, if a serial console is connected to the device, installation progress can be monitored.
The following programs are needed:
- dfu-util must be accessible from the machine running "devirginate". If dfu-util is not in PATH, you can set an explicit path in "config".
To build dfu-util, do this:
cd $OMDIR/openmoko/trunk/src/host/dfu-util ./autogen.sh ./configure make
OpenOCD SVN revision 130 with libftdi 0.8 is known to work. Other combinations may also work. The following patch is required:
For build instructions, see http://svn.openmoko.org/developers/werner/notes/openocd
If you're using the version of OpenOCD built by the Openmoko distribution (SVN revision 1180 or later), the patch is already applied.
To use the OpenOCD built by the MokoMakefile:
cd $OMDIR make openmoko-devel-tools export PATH=$OMDIR/tmp/staging/i686-linux/bin:$PATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OMDIR/build/tmp/staging/i686-linux/lib
Furthermore, "devirginate" requires telnet.
netpbm, transfig, wget, perl
"setup.sh" can be run from a different machine sharing the same file system hierarchy. It requires Netpbm, transfig, wget, and Perl.
The devirginator first needs to be set up. This includes
- downloading binaries for u-boot, kernel, etc.
- generating/converting various files used during the setup process
At the moment, the setup must be done in the directory containing all files belonging to the devirginator. The files generated during setup are stored in the directory tmp/. The files in tmp/ are also used during devirgination.
First, copy config.example to "config" and make the necessary changes. Almost all settings have reasonable defaults, but the least thing you will have to do is set SNAPSHOT to the date code of the snapshot you desire.
Next, run either ./setup.sh or just make .
setup.sh will now download any missing files, and perform the various conversions. If any error occur during this, e.g., because of missing tools or a configuration error, setup.sh will stop with an error. You then have to correct the problem and retry. Files already downloaded to tmp/ will be skipped in the retry (setup.sh will still probe if they have changed).
setup.sh also checks if executables used during devirgination are available and prints a warning if it finds anything missing. In general, one can run setup.sh on a different machine than "devirginate", in which case these warnings can be ignored.
- crc32.pl -Provides the function crc32, which computes the IEEE CRC-32. This script is used by other Perl scripts, with "do".
- envedit.pl
- openocdcmd.pl
- scriptify.pl
- setup.sh
User configuration
Static configuration files
The following files contain scripts and other "static" configuration information that is used in the devirgination process. In general, it is only necessary to edit these files when changing functionality of the setup process.
Each of these files is converted in some way by setup.sh. Below, we indicate the name of the respective resulting file after the arrow.
- openocd.in -> tmp/script.ocd
Commands to execute by OpenOCD in phase 0. To perform variable expansion, each line of this file is processed by the shell with eval "echo $line". Due to this, shell meta-characters should be avoided.
If changing any addresses in openocd.in, you also need to update u-boot.in.
- u-boot.in -> tmp/u-boot.out
Commands to execute in u-boot during stage 0. This file is converted to an image understood by u-boot, and then executed from memory with u-boot's "autoscr" command.
- environment.in -> tmp/environment
Environment settings for the regular u-boot environment. Note that the changes in this file are made on top of the interim environment produced in stage 0. In particular, the "mtdparts" variable is retained from that stage.
Long lines can be split in environment.in by simply indenting the continuation. Note that the newline and the indentation are replaced with one space. E.g.,
foo=some thing
would yield foo=some thing
- smiley.fig -> tmp/smiley.gz
The stage 0 splash screen, a smiling face on a green background.
Download cache
- tmp/System_boot.png -> tmp/splash.gz
This is a copy of the Openmoko logo, which then gets converted to a gzip-ed raw framebuffer image.
- tmp/openmoko-devel-image-*.rootfs.jffs2
- tmp/lowlevel_foo-*.bin
- tmp/u-boot-*.bin
- tmp/uImage-*.bin
- tmp/env.old
- tmp/env.new
- tmp/preboot_override
- tmp/preboot_override.noscrub
- tmp/preboot_override.scrub
The first few messages should look like this:
Open On-Chip Debugger > script /home/moko/om/trunk/src/host/devirginator/tmp/script.ocd reset halt wait_halt waiting for target halted... Target 0 halted target halted in ARM state due to debug request, current mode: Supervisor cpsr: 0x400000d3 pc: 0x00000000 [...]
The "pc: 0x00000000" is important. If the number is different, e.g., something like "pc: 0xffffffed", the device is probably not turned on. In this case, you can try to restart, or, if openocd is stuck,
- kill openocd
- pull and then replace the USB plug of the JTAGkey or debug v2 board
- start openocd
The setup process is divided into three stages (plus a special zero stage, see below). Each stage leaves the device in a stable state. An installation run can include all or only some stages. Each stage requires successful completion of all previous ones.
- Stage 1: erases all previous NAND content, installs u-boot, and makes the device ready to receive further updates by DFU.
- Stage 2: installs Linux and the root file system.
- Stage 3: To be defined.
Note that you most likely require privileges for some of the USB operations "devirginate" performs. Therefore, do all this as "root".
To perform all stages, run
# ./devirginate
from the trunk/src/host/devirginator/ directory.
To run only individual stages, specify the stage numbers, each prefixed by "-", e.g.,
# ./devirginate -1
Stage 0
If the NAND bad block table is invalid, it can be erased at the beginning of stage 1. We call this "stage 0".
In general, this is not a desirable option, because if the last NAND blocks are defective, this information will be lost, and unreliable operation may result. By default, stage 0 is not performed.
Stage 1
Immediately after starting, the screen lights up, showing random junk. This is an indication that the setup process has started. Note that the screen content may change ("decay") during all this. This is normal.
After 10-30 seconds, the screen will go dark. This indicates that we now a have u-boot running on the device.
About 60-90 seconds later, the screen will light up again and show a smiling face on a green background. This indicates that the first stage has completed. The smiling face will appear each time you activate the device.
The device now contains:
- a bad block table (BBT)
- u-boot, with DFU capability
- a basic set of u-boot environment variables
- the interim splash screen
What is still missing:
- the Linux kernel
- the root file system
- the final environment
- the final splash screen
Stage 2
To begin phase 2, activate the device. The stage 1 smiley will show.
Phase 2 can take several minutes. Progress of the download procedure is indicated by hash signs (#) printed on the terminal where "devirginate" runs.
At the end of phase 2, the device resets, displays a partial Openmoko splash screen, then resets again, displays the correct splash screen and finally boots Linux.
Stage 3
Reflashing the neo1973 manually
This is how to manually do the above. It may be outdated, perhaps dangerously so. Manually_re-flashing_the_u-boot


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Struggling to make his down-and-out orchestra plucky and profitable, Phil Harris conducts his zany sidekick, winsome wife, precocious kids, and grouchy grocery boy through a symphony of silliness. If you long for a series where the drinks are stiff and the whimsy is wicked, you've come to the right place!
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In the days leading up to Tuesday's primary, with so much political activity compressed into such a small state, New Hampshire is pretty much nirvana for anyone fascinated by politics. Yes, all the candidates are there. But so are reporters, pundits, researchers, and as NPR's Greg Allen discovered, political tourists.
GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: I was interviewing attendees at a town meeting held by Jon Huntsman in Newport, out in western New Hampshire. When I started talking to Bob Feldman, I quickly found out he's not a typical New Hampshire voter. In fact, he's not from New Hampshire at all.
BOB FELDMAN: I'm here with my two friends from Baltimore because every four years - we're political junkies - and this is one of the rare times you can get up close and personal at a small rec center or a high school gym, and actually see professional politicians who could be the president of the United States someday.
ALLEN: For Dave Bathe(ph) it's his third New Hampshire primary. This year, he and Feldman recruited Jack Skurnick(ph), a friend from the Social Security Administration in Baltimore, where they all work. Feldman says they arrived Wednesday night and the fun began.
FELDMAN: We saw Newt Gingrich this morning. Where was that, Dave?
DAVE BATHE: Plymouth. Plymouth, New Hampshire.
FELDMAN: Yeah, we saw Newt Gingrich in Plymouth. And then at the Tilton Diner, Rick Santorum came through around one o'clock. And he got to us...
BATHE: Boy, you saw the Ravens sack and he reacted immediately to that. He says, of course, I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers fan...
BATHE: ...and we want to beat you. Jack called him a Pittsburgh Squealer's fan, didn't he?
JACK SKURNICK: I did. I have to admit I'm a major Baltimore Ravens' fanatic. And it's hard to pass by a Steelers fan, since we are big rivals.
ALLEN: As vacations go, it's not for everyone; temperatures in the teens, hours on lonely roads, meals where you can find them. The Baltimore crew has run into other out-of-state visitors here for the same thing - hot and cold running campaign speeches, and a chance to press the flesh of people who most folks only see on TV.
For those who follow the election like the NFL season, it's a tailgating party and the big game all wrapped up in one. Feldman says he can't get this back home.
FELDMAN: Well, you know, in Maryland it's a pretty reliably blue state. So we don't get all of this stuff that you would get in a battleground state or an early primary state.
ALLEN: And as for their wives, well, they're just as happy to watch it all on TV.
Greg Allen, NPR News, Manchester, New Hampshire.
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Lithium ion batteries are very particular about their operating conditions, and there are a lot of many things that can contribute to better quality of life. Li-ion batteries have a reasonably finite lifespan and can hold only a fraction of their original capacity after a few years, but things like operating temperature, how long the battery spends plugged in, how the battery is used, and the charge cycling you asked about can contribute to how long the battery lasts.
One of the worst things you can do to a Li-ion battery is to run it out completely. Full discharges put a lot of strain on the battery, and it's much better practice to do shallow discharges to no lower than 20 percent. In a way, this is like people running for exercise— running a few miles a day is fine, but running a marathon every day is generally not sustainable. If your Li-ion powered device is running out of juice on a daily basis, you're decreasing its overall useful lifespan, and should probably work some charging stations into your day or change your devices' settings so that it's not churning through its battery so quickly.
There used to be certain types of batteries whose "memory" of their total charge capacity seemed to get confused by shallow discharges. This is not, and never was, the case with Li-ion batteries. However, if you are using something like a notebook computer that gives you time estimates of how much longer the battery will last, this clock can be confused by shallow charging intervals. Most manufacturers recommend that you do a full discharge of the battery about once a month to help your device calibrate the time gauge.
One common misconception is that Li-ion batteries will only count charge cycles if the battery is drained completely in one session; another is that the battery counts one charge cycle for every instance the device is unplugged and plugged in again. Neither of these is true—Li-ion batteries actually count charge cycles based on a 100 percent discharge even when it's summed over multiple sessions. For example, if you discharge a battery to 50 percent one day, charge it back to 100 percent, then discharge it 50 percent again the next day, that is counted as one "cycle" of the battery. So shallow discharges, in all these regards, are ideal for a Li-ion battery.
On the other end of the spectrum, keeping a Li-ion battery fully charged is not good for it either. This isn't because Li-ion batteries can get "overcharged" (something that people used to worry about in The Olden Days of portable computers), but a Li-ion battery that doesn't get used will suffer from capacity loss, meaning that it won't be able to hold as much charge and power your gadgets for as long. Extremely shallow discharges of only a couple percent are also not enough to keep a Li-ion battery in practice, so if you're going to pull the plug, let the battery run down for a little bit.
Another thing that Li-ion batteries hate is heat. This is somewhat less of a problem for cell phones, but a larger problem for notebooks. Using a battery at room temperature for a year can bring its capacity down by as much as 20 percent, and the interior of most computers is much warmer that that. Therefore, laptop batteries usually spend the most time in the worst possible state: plugged in all of the time, running at high temperatures.
There's usually not too much you can do about the temperature issue. If you're going to be using a notebook plugged in at a desk for an extended amount of time, possibly running some intensive programs, you can remove the battery to spare it the heat wave. Turning off your computer when you're not using it is a tiny bit helpful. But for any gadget with a Li-ion battery, keep it out of attics, direct sunlight, the tundra, or anywhere there will be extreme temperatures. To the smartphones I've let sit on picnic tables in the sun and the mp3 players I've left in cars all day long: I'm sorry.
Running the battery out very quickly by drawing a lot of power at once is another way to cause it a lot of strain. For example, running a graphics-intensive game on a smartphone or a notebook for a couple of hours while unplugged is worse for the battery than depleting it over several hours while e-mailing or Internet-browsing (heat is a factor here, too). Again with the running analogy: it's probably harder on you to sprint a mile than to jog it.
If you have a spare battery you don't use that often, manufacturers say the best way to store it is at 40 or 50 percent charge in a cool place, like a refrigerator (but not too cold, as extreme temperatures cause capacity loss, so don't put it in the freezer just because there's extra room next to the peas).
These usage points are not going to drastically affect the lifespan of your battery; that is, you can't make it last forever if your carefully cycle the battery down to 50 percent the second it's full and never use it for anything more intensive than the occasional flash game. Most manufacturers will give you an "up to" figure (up to 80 percent of its original capacity after 1,000 cycles, for example), and careful use will help you reach that, but you won't get too far beyond it. However, following these guidelines (Use your battery. Not too much. Mostly for small apps.) will help your reach the upper echelons of manufacturer estimates.


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Section 136
The word and will of the Lord, given through President Brigham Young at Winter Quarters, the camp of Israel, Omaha Nation, on the west bank of the Missouri River, near Council Bluffs, Iowa.
1–16, How the camp of Israel is to be organized for the westward journey is explained; 17–27, The Saints are commanded to live by numerous gospel standards; 28–33, The Saints should sing, dance, pray, and learn wisdom; 34–42, Prophets are slain so that they might be honored and the wicked condemned.
1 The Word and aWill of the Lord concerning the Camp of bIsrael in their journeyings to the West:
2 Let all the people of aThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and those who journey with them, be organized into companies, with a covenant and promise to bkeep all the commandments and statutes of the Lord our God.
3 Let the companies be organized with captains of ahundreds, captains of fifties, and captains of tens, with a president and his two counselors at their head, under the direction of the Twelve bApostles.
4 And this shall be our acovenant—that we will bwalk in all the cordinances of the Lord.
5 Let each company provide themselves with all the teams, wagons, provisions, clothing, and other necessaries for the journey, that they can.
6 When the companies are organized let them go to with their amight, to prepare for those who are to tarry.
7 Let each company, with their captains and presidents, decide how many can go next spring; then choose out a sufficient number of able-bodied and expert men, to take teams, seeds, and farming utensils, to go as pioneers to prepare for putting in spring crops.
8 Let each company abear an equal proportion, according to the dividend of their property, in taking the poor, the bwidows, the cfatherless, and the families of those who have gone into the army, that the cries of the widow and the dfatherless come not up into the ears of the Lord against this people.
9 Let each company prepare houses, and fields for raising agrain, for those who are to remain behind this season; and this is the will of the Lord concerning his people.
10 Let every man use all his influence and property to remove this people to the place where the Lord shall locate a astake of Zion.
11 And if ye do this with a pure heart, in all faithfulness, ye shall be blessed; you shall be ablessed in your flocks, and in your herds, and in your fields, and in your houses, and in your families.
12 Let my servants Ezra T. Benson and Erastus Snow organize a company.
13 And let my servants Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff organize a company.
14 Also, let my servants Amasa Lyman and George A. Smith organize a company.
15 And appoint presidents, and acaptains of hundreds, and of fifties, and of tens.
16 And let my servants that have been appointed go and ateach this, my will, to the saints, that they may be ready to go to a land of peace.
17 Go thy way and do as I have told you, and afear not thine enemies; for they shall not have power to stop my work.
18 Zion shall be aredeemed in mine own due time.
19 And if any man shall seek to build up himself, and seeketh not my acounsel, he shall have no power, and his bfolly shall be made manifest.
20 aSeek ye; and keep all your bpledges one with another; and ccovet not that which is thy brother's.
21 aKeep yourselves from evil to take the name of the Lord in vain, for I am the Lord your God, even the bGod of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob.
22 I am he who aled the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; and my arm is stretched out in the last days, to bsave my people Israel.
23 Cease to acontend one with another; cease to speak bevil one of another.
24 Cease adrunkenness; and let your words tend to bedifying one another.
25 If thou aborrowest of thy bneighbor, thou shalt crestore that which thou hast borrowed; and if thou canst not repay then go straightway and tell thy neighbor, lest he condemn thee.
26 If thou shalt find that which thy neighbor has alost, thou shalt make diligent search till thou shalt bdeliver it to him again.
27 Thou shalt be adiligent in bpreserving what thou hast, that thou mayest be a wise csteward; for it is the free gift of the Lord thy God, and thou art his steward.
28 If thou art amerry, bpraise the Lord with singing, with music, with cdancing, and with a dprayer of praise and ethanksgiving.
29 If thou art asorrowful, call on the Lord thy God with supplication, that your souls may be bjoyful.
30 Fear not thine aenemies, for they are in mine hands and I will do my pleasure with them.
31 My people must be atried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the bglory that I have for them, even the glory of Zion; and he that will not cbear chastisement is not worthy of my kingdom.
32 Let him that is aignorant blearn cwisdom by dhumbling himself and calling upon the Lord his God, that his eeyes may be opened that he may see, and his ears opened that he may hear;
33 For my aSpirit is sent forth into the world to enlighten the bhumble and contrite, and to the ccondemnation of the ungodly.
34 Thy brethren have rejected you and your testimony, even the nation that has adriven you out;
35 And now cometh the day of their calamity, even the days of sorrow, like a woman that is taken in travail; and their asorrow shall be great unless they speedily repent, yea, very speedily.
36 For they akilled the prophets, and them that were sent unto them; and they have bshed innocent blood, which crieth from the ground against them.
37 Therefore, marvel not at these things, for ye are not yet apure; ye can not yet bear my glory; but ye shall behold it if ye are faithful in keeping all my words that I have bgiven you, from the days of Adam to Abraham, from Abraham to Moses, from Moses to Jesus and his apostles, and from Jesus and his apostles to Joseph Smith, whom I did call upon by mine cangels, my ministering servants, and by mine own voice out of the heavens, to bring forth my work;
38 Which afoundation he did lay, and was faithful; and I took him to myself.
39 Many have marveled because of his death; but it was needful that he should aseal his btestimony with his cblood, that he might be dhonored and the wicked might be condemned.
40 Have I not delivered you from your aenemies, only in that I have left a witness of my name?
41 Now, therefore, hearken, O ye people of my achurch; and ye elders listen together; you have received my bkingdom.
42 Be adiligent in keeping all my commandments, lest judgments come upon you, and your faith fail you, and your enemies triumph over you. So no more at present. Amen and Amen.


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Through examining his skeletal remains, scientists found evidence that at a young age, Shanidar 1 experienced a crushing blow to his head. The blow damaged the left eye (possibly blinding him) and the brain area controling the right side of the body, leading to a withered right arm and possible paralysis that also crippled his right leg. One of Shanidar 1's middle foot bones (metatarsal) on his right foot shows a healed fracture, which probably only enhanced his noticeable limp. All of Shanidar 1's injuries show signs of healing, so none of them resulted in his death. In fact, scientists estimate he lived until 35–45 years of age. He would have been considered old to another Neandertal, and he would probably not have been able to survive without the care of his social group.


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The other day, I mentioned to my dad that I'd like to take a photography class. My dad used to be Mr. Photo-Guy. I mean, wherever we went (especially on vacations), there he was with the camera and the 80,000 lenses and filters. "Just stand over there. OK, now climb up in that tree. Just one more picture. OK, now let me change the lens. OK, stand over there. Look that way. OK, now look at your sister. Get back up in the tree....." Meanwhile, 4 days of vacation have passed by and we have yet to leave the hotel grounds. On the bright side, he has 4000 pictures of my sister and me in a tree.
Anyway, my dad gave me a couple of his old photography books to borrow: The 9th Here's How book by Kodak, published in 1974 and Adventures in Color-Slide Photography by Kodak, published in 1976. There are probably some good helpful hints in them, but the little kid in me couldn't stop giggling at the pictures long enough to read anything.
Before and after grandpa looked at Medusa.
"Huh? Platypus tail? I don't know what you're talking about...oh this? No, silly. That's just my tie."
Name 3 things wrong with this picture. The grown man playing with the kitty? The gorgeous blanket? The guy's plaid pants? The overall orange color that burns your retinas?
"I solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I didn't steal the bone."
"Oh you have GOT to be kidding me. I'm not even English!"
"Look Dad! Look! Fido can fly! All you have to do is poke him in the butt with this stick!"
"I know you're busy riding your chicken and all, but I just wanted to come over here and tell you that I love your hat! It's almost as sexy as my pants."
"OW! The pain! I think I broke my hip!"
"Darn kids making us lie on the ground. Just smile, honey and let's get this over with. Then we'll rewrite our will."
Ahhh remember the days of playgrounds with metal equipment? With 50 foot slides o' death and those things that spun around like a centrifuge until kids went flying off and/or puked? Ahhh good times, good times.
Yes, the family portrait. A little stiff; a little formal. I think this family can do better, don't you?
"Now you sit over there, Bobby. No, there. Move over 2 more inches. Yes, right there! Now Sally, look at the camera. Ok, Timmy, you hold this wreath and pretend to hang it up. Martha, tilt your head a little. There we go. Now everyone, we don't want to have a stuffy, posed picture like last Christmas, so look natural!"
There are no words. Oh wait, maybe this is a photography lesson on turning the camera around on the peeping Tom outside your window. The naked, peeping Tom. Hmmm, actually scratch that. There are no words.
"And here's a picture of Mother and me at home on Scrabble night."
"The most important lesson in taking good pictures is to always have your lucky pet armadillo on your camera. It distracts people from the comb-over area of slightly thinning hair."
"OK, I'll distract and confuse the bear with my pants; you take the picture."
Is the groom wearing make-up? Do the best man's glasses weigh 4 1/2 pounds? What color was the bowl the groom used to cut his hair? And most disturbingly, why is the best man looking longingly at the groom??? Ohhh, that's not the best man? That's the father of the bride, you say? Oh well, then everything makes perfect sense now.
I have more of these pictures, but I don't want to scare you too much in one night. The rest will have to wait.
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Fallout 3 Censorship Goes Global
"We want to make sure folks understand that the Australian version of Fallout 3 is identical to both the UK and North American versions in every way, on every platform," Bethesda VP Pete Hines told Edge.
Fallout 3, a sequel expanding on Black Isle's classic PC RPG series, was initially refused classification in Australia, effectively banning the game from sale. The game was modified so that "the reward and incentive" for in-game drug use was reduced significantly and then given an MA-15+ rating.
Names for real-world drugs have also been removed from the game.
Hines asserted, "An issue was raised concerning references to real world, proscribed drugs in the game, and we subsequently removed those references and replaced them with fictional names."


text: Adolphe Adam was born in Paris July 24, 1803 as the son of a music professor at the Conservatoire. His mother the daughter of a notable physician. As a child, he preferred to improvise music of his own rather than study music seriously. Adam began musical studies at boarding school and entered the Conservatoire in 1821, studying organ and harmonium under Benoist and later Boieldieu. His father did not encourage him to pursue a musical career. Rather it was his friendship with one of his father's students, Ferdinand Herold (who is best known today as the composer of La Fille mal gardee), that influenced Adolphe to want to be a composer, specifically for the theater. Boieldieu also encouraged him at this pursuit. By age 20 Adam was writing songs for Parisian vaudeville houses and was playing in the orchestra at the Gymnase, where he would later become chorus master. In 1825 Adam helped Boieldieu with the preparation of his opera "La Dame blanche", which he also transcribed to piano for popular sale. With money he made from this enterprise Adam traveled to Belgium, Holland, Germany and Switzerland. In Geneva he met Eugene Scribe with whom he would collaborate on numerous operas over the coming 30 years. By 1830 Adam had completed 28 theater works including some dances. His first dramatic composition was a one act operetta, Pierre et Catherine that was performed at the Opera Comique in 1829, and went on for another 80 performances. His first 3 act opera, Danilowa, came in 1830, but performances were interrupted by the Revolution. Adam returned to his vaudeville activities and co-wrote his first ballet, La Chatte blanche, with Casmir Gide the same year. Adam's first solo ballet composition was Faust in1833 for choreographer Andre Deshayes at the King's Theatre in London. His first work for the Paris Opera was the music for the ballet "La Fille du Danube" for Taglioni in 1836. He traveled to St. Petersburg to present the same work, a new ballet, L'ecumeur de mer, and an opera for the court of Tsar Nicholas I. Adam's next important work was the music for the ballet "Giselle", for which he is probably best known today. It premiered at the Paris Opera June 28, 1841. Shortly after the successful "Giselle", a new director was in place at the Opera with whom Adam had serious quarrels. It was made known that a work of his would never again be performed at the theater. Adam invested his own money and borrowed heavily to open a third opera house of his own. In 1847 Adam opened the Theatre National, in Paris, as a showcase for young composers. Due to the Revolution it had to be closed the following year, leaving Adam in huge debt. Assigning all his royalties to pay off the debt, he turned to journalism to earn some money. In 1849 Adam became Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire, a position he held until his death. All the while he continued his compositions, among others his ballet "Le Corsaire" premiered January 1856. Eventually, through hard work, he paid off all the debts but at the cost of his own health. Adolphe Adam died May 3, 1856 in Paris having written 40 operas, 14 ballets and numerous light operas and vaudevilles.


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Section 43
Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio, in February 1831. At this time some members of the Church were disturbed by people making false claims as revelators. The Prophet inquired of the Lord and received this communication addressed to the elders of the Church. The first part deals with matters of Church polity; the latter part contains a warning that the elders are to give to the nations of the earth.
1–7, Revelations and commandments come only through the one appointed; 8–14, The Saints are sanctified by acting in all holiness before the Lord; 15–22, Elders are sent forth to cry repentance and prepare men for the great day of the Lord; 23–28, The Lord calls upon men by His own voice and through the forces of nature; 29–35, The Millennium and the binding of Satan will come.
1 O hearken, ye elders of my church, and give ear to the words which I shall speak unto you.
2 For behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye have received a commandment for a alaw unto my church, through him whom I have appointed unto you to receive commandments and brevelations from my hand.
3 And this ye shall know assuredly—that there is anone other appointed unto you to receive bcommandments and revelations until he be taken, if he cabide in me.
4 But verily, verily, I say unto you, that anone else shall be appointed unto this gift except it be through him; for if it be taken from him he shall not have power except to appoint another in his stead.
5 And this shall be a law unto you, that ye areceive not the bteachings of any that shall come before you as revelations or commandments;
6 And this I give unto you that you may not be adeceived, that you may know they are not of me.
7 For verily I say unto you, that he that is aordained of me shall come in at the bgate and be ordained as I have told you before, to teach those crevelations which you have received and shall receive through him whom I have appointed.
8 And now, behold, I give unto you a acommandment, that when ye are bassembled together ye shall cinstruct and dedify each other, that ye may know ehow to act and direct my church, how to act upon the points of my law and commandments, which I have given.
9 And thus ye shall become instructed in the law of my church, and be asanctified by that which ye have received, and ye shall bind yourselves to act in all holiness before me—
10 That inasmuch as ye do this, glory shall be aadded to the kingdom which ye have received. Inasmuch as ye do it not, it shall be btaken, even that which ye have received.
11 aPurge ye out the biniquity which is among you; sanctify yourselves before me;
12 And if ye desire the glories of the kingdom, aappoint ye my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., and uphold him before me by the prayer of faith.
13 And again, I say unto you, that if ye desire the amysteries of the kingdom, provide for him food and raiment, and whatsoever thing he needeth to accomplish the work wherewith I have commanded him;
14 And if ye do it not he shall remain unto them that have received him, that I may reserve unto myself a apure bpeople before me.
15 Again I say, hearken ye elders of my achurch, whom I have appointed: Ye are not sent forth to be btaught, but to cteach the children of men the things which I have put into your hands by the power of my dSpirit;
16 And ye are to be ataught from on high. bSanctify yourselves and ye shall be cendowed with power, that ye may give even as I have spoken.
17 Hearken ye, for, behold, the agreat bday of the Lord is nigh at hand.
18 For the day cometh that the Lord shall utter his avoice out of heaven; the heavens shall bshake and the earth shall ctremble, and the dtrump of God shall sound both long and loud, and shall say to the sleeping nations: Ye saints earise and live; ye sinners fstay and gsleep until I shall call again.
19 Wherefore gird up your loins lest ye be found among the wicked.
20 Lift up your voices and spare not. Call upon the nations to repent, both old and young, both abond and free, saying: Prepare yourselves for the great day of the Lord;
21 For if I, who am a man, do lift up my voice and call upon you to repent, and ye ahate me, what will ye say when the bday cometh when the cthunders shall utter their voices from the ends of the earth, speaking to the ears of all that live, saying—Repent, and prepare for the great day of the Lord?
22 Yea, and again, when the alightnings shall streak forth from the east unto the west, and shall utter forth their voices unto all that live, and make the ears of all tingle that hear, saying these words—Repent ye, for the great day of the Lord is come?
23 And again, the Lord shall utter his voice out of heaven, saying: Hearken, O ye nations of the earth, and hear the words of that God who amade you.
24 O, ye nations of the earth, how often would I have gathered you together as a ahen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye bwould not!
25 How oft have I acalled upon you by the mouth of my bservants, and by the cministering of angels, and by mine own voice, and by the voice of dthunderings, and by the voice of lightnings, and by the voice of tempests, and by the voice of earthquakes, and great hailstorms, and by the voice of efamines and pestilences of every kind, and by the great sound of a ftrump, and by the voice of judgment, and by the voice of gmercy all the day long, and by the voice of glory and honor and the hriches of eternal life, and would have saved you with an ieverlasting salvation, but ye would not!
26 Behold, the day has come, when the acup of the bwrath of mine indignation is full.
27 Behold, verily I say unto you, that these are the words of the Lord your God.
28 Wherefore, labor ye, alabor ye in my vineyard for the last time—for the last time call upon the inhabitants of the earth.
29 For in mine own due time will I acome upon the earth in bjudgment, and my people shall be credeemed and shall dreign with me on earth.
30 For the great aMillennium, of which I have spoken by the mouth of my servants, shall come.
31 For aSatan shall be bbound, and when he is loosed again he shall only reign for a clittle season, and then cometh the dend of the earth.
32 And he that liveth in arighteousness shall be bchanged in the twinkling of an eye, and the earth shall pass away so as by cfire.
33 And the wicked shall go away into unquenchable afire, and their end no man knoweth on earth, nor ever shall know, until they come before me in bjudgment.
34 Hearken ye to these words. Behold, I am Jesus Christ, the aSavior of the world. bTreasure these things up in your hearts, and let the csolemnities of deternity erest upon your fminds.
35 Be asober. Keep all my commandments. Even so. Amen.


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Although Kate Middleton and Prince William have only told their parents the sex of their baby, a slip of the tongue made it clear that Kate might be playing uteran hostess—I picture it as an upscale B&B, complete with L'Occitane bath products and tiny decorative soaps and a Jonathan Adler guestbook—to a tiny future Queen.
She was handed a teddy bear as a gift, and responded:
"Thank you, I'll take that for my d—" and then stopped herself.
Asked if she was about to say "daughter," all Kate would say was, "We're not telling,"
GAME-CHANGER. Especially since the new Succession the Crown bill decreed that their offspring would be heir to the throne regardless of his/her gender, a first in the long, fusty house of Wales. Personally, I think she was saying "dick." Like, her own. I'll take that for my dick. Middleton, out. [Newser]
If you feel like believing the Enquirer, Kate wants her party-hardy siblings Pippa and James Middleton to be the godparents but Queen Elizabeth is not into it.
Will the ostensible royal girl be called Lilibet? Libby? I still like Frogmella. [Hello! Magazine]
Valerie Harper, who played indomitable New York Jewess Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and her own spinoff Rhoda, exclusively told People that she has been diagnosed with a rare form of terminal brain cancer called leptomeningeal carcinomatosis. Her doctors say she has less than three months to live.
The 79-year-old Harper, who previously battled cancer in 2009, says "I don't think of dying. I think of being here now." Fuck. It's the sidekicks that really get you choked up. [People]
Human pustule Donald Trump keeps forgetting that he's just a collection of teeth and hair and fancy charmless buildings and tiny food plated American Psycho-style and blatant, outdated sexism. Oh, The Donald! He took it to a new level on this week's Celebrity Apprentice:
Bret explains to his eventual executioners that, at one point, Brande "got down on her knees and passionately said, 'I want to do this.'" The innuendo was too thick for a goon like Donald Trump to let the statement simply slide.
"Excuse me, you DROPPED to your knees?" Trump directs towards Brande.
"Yes," Brande responds.
"It must be a pretty picture. You dropping to your knees."
At which point he and noted slimeball Piers Morgan exchange looks and chuckles because that's what Real Men Say. But also, Bret Michaels was there? So basically it's all just a fever dream. [VH1]
Jon Stewart is taking a 12-week hiatus from The Daily Show to direct Rosewater, a political drama about a Canadian-Iranian journalist named Maziar Bahari who was accused of conspiring against the government and jailed in Tehran for four months. (Stewart adapted the screenplay from Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival, by Bahari and Aimee Molloy.) Daily Show contributor John Oliver will fill in for eight weeks until summer starts. [NYT]
"Elton John asked for an extra room in the hotel for some of his collection of glasses because he needs a temperature of 16C to preserve the accessories."
My gif is my song and this one's for you. [Contact Music]
- Lisa Vanderpump and Adrienne Maloof are opening feuding restaurants that you probably will not eat at, ever. [TMZ]
- Warm, welcoming children's performer DMX is being sued by a club. [TMZ]
- Justin Bieber called his ex Selena Gomez to whine about his terrible birthday but she was not having it. [Hollywood Life]
- Edward Furlong was sentenced to six months in jail for violating his 2010 probation. [USA Today]
- Carrie Fisher will be reprising her role as Princess Leia in the next Star Wars. [HuffPo]
- "They don't like Givenchy Kanye. They don't like Kanye in a kilt. They don't like Kanye in a relationship." —Kanye on what we do and do not like about Kanye, during a call in to Hot 97. [Billboard]
- Kristen Stewart may have been a sullen lil' flirtini with Patrick Schwarzenegger. [Radar]
- Taylor Swift is afraid of ending up "awful, intolerable" and alone:
- "Laying in a marble bathtub by myself, like sad, with a glass of wine just complaining that my life ended up alone because I pushed everyone away because I thought I was too good to hang out with anybody. The typical Hollywood sad cliché of the poor lonely starlet with no one because she put up all these walls and didn't trust anyone. That's my fear. And that's why I live my life the way I live my life because I'd so much rather feel everything than end up like that."
- Oh, T-Swizzle. Fuck it, I LIKE her, guys. Always have, always will. [Mirror UK]
- On the bright side, if she ends up in that bathtub she can fill it with the $1 millon dollars she made off the sale of her Hyannis Port property, which she bought back when she was trying to moonwalk into Kennedyland/Camelot. Probably hidden in a shrub and moving occasionally when nobody was looking, like in cartoons. [E!]
- Speaking of which, Harry Styles stood up his latest model/potential girlfriend on a date. [Daily Mail]
- Ohmaaagaaad, this picture of adorable Taye Diggs and his adorable (x2) son in a Got Milk ad just broke my brain. [Contact Music]
- Cindy Crawford says that her marriage to Richard Gere didn't work out because "I was too young to be Mrs. Gere." Aren't we all? Like, metaphorically or something? [Zee News]
- Girls Next Door and Playboy Bunny reality star Holly Madison birthed a baby
future subject of the male gazegirl. [People] - Cuba Gooding Jr. is running around saying bizarre shit and calling himself "Dick McWilly" now, which is normal. [Page Six]
- The actual Neverending Story: Demi Moore is finally, finally filing divorce papers with Ashton Kutcher. [Page Six]
- Mary-Kate Olsen and Olivier Sarkozy are still together. What the fuuuuck is that about. [Page Six]
- Anna Kendrick went on vacation in a cute black one-piece. [NYDN]
- Corey and Topanga's son on the Boy Meets World redux Girl Meets World has been cast. [TVLine]
- Kris Jenner does not want Kim Kardashian to quit Keeping Up With the Kardashians. What was the name of that 16th century Hungarian countess who bathed in the blood of girls in order to maintain her youth? Oh right, Kris Jenner. [Radar Online]


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NEW YORK (AP) — For a few surreal minutes, a mere 12 words on Twitter caused the world's mightiest stock market to tremble.
No sooner did hackers send a false Associated Press tweet reporting explosions at the White House on Tuesday than investors started dumping stocks — eventually unloading $134 billion worth.
Except most of the investors weren't human. They were computers, selling on autopilot beyond the control of humans, like a scene from a sci-fi horror film.
"Before you could blink, it was over," said Joe Saluzzi, co-founder of Themis Trading and an outspoken critic of high-speed computerized trading. "With people, you wouldn't have this type of reaction."
For decades, computers have been sorting through data and news to help investment funds decide whether to buy or sell. But that's old school. Now "algorithmic" trading programs sift through data, news, even tweets, and execute trades by themselves in fractions of a second, without slowpoke humans getting in the way. More than half of stock trading every day is done this way.
Markets quickly recovered after Tuesday's plunge. But the incident rattled traders and highlighted the danger of handing control to the machines. It also raised questions about whether regulators should be doing more to monitor the relationship between social media and the markets.
Irene Aldridge, a consultant to hedge funds on algorithmic programs, said many of the trading systems just count the number of positive and negative words, without any filter. She wants regulators to do more but believes that glitches and plunges may be inevitable.
"You can't ban Twitter," said Aldridge, author of "High-Frequency Trading," a guide to algorithmic trading.
Just how exactly the trading unfolded Tuesday is still a bit of a mystery.
Some experts say the computers took their cue from humans, picking up on a pause in buying as traders read the phony tweet. In Wall Street's insanely fast trading world, humans holding back for even a second could have signaled to computers that buyers were drying up and that prices could fall, and so the computers should sell fast.
Others, like Saluzzi, think computers may have sold on the tweet itself. That's possible because computer trading programs are increasingly written to read, and react to, news from social media outlets like Twitter.
Experts say the fake tweet seemed designed to catch a computer's attention.
Rich Brown, head of Elektron Analytics, a Thomson-Reuters unit that sells news feeds that computers can read, said that the words "explosions" or "Obama" alone wouldn't have triggered selling. But add "White House," and it's a combination even the slowest computer couldn't miss.
Brown said his service doesn't include Twitter in its feeds because there's too much useless "noise" in the deluge of tweets and, given the 140-character limit to tweets, often too little context.
Before the fake tweet appeared on Tuesday, it looked like any other good day on Wall Street. Unexpectedly strong earnings reports sent stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average up 1 percent to 14,697 with three hours to go in the trading day.
Then, at 1:08 p.m. EDT, a tweet appeared on the hacked AP Twitter account stating that two explosions at the White House had injured President Barack Obama. Stocks immediately started falling and tumbled for two minutes.
The Dow dropped from 14,697 to 14,554, losing 143 points, or 1 percent. In the frenzied selling, oil prices dropped, gold rose, the dollar rallied and the price of Treasury notes, seen by many investors as a hiding spot, shot higher, briefly knocking yields to their lowest level of the year.
The AP quickly announced that its account had been hijacked and the report was false. The Dow began to climb again, recovering all its losses by 1:18 p.m. That was 10 minutes after the fake tweet, according to FactSet, a financial data provider.
A group called the Syrian Electronic Army said it was responsible for the hack. But the claim has not been corroborated. The FBI and the Securities and Exchange Commission said they had opened investigations into the incident.
Some Wall Street pros were surprised that a single tweet could move markets so much.
Julian Brigden, managing partner of Macro Intelligence 2 Partners, an investment consultancy, said the drop suggested an "unstable" trading environment dominated by investors too quick to buy or sell without any thought.
"To me, it's indicative of a very dangerous market," he said.
Though stocks eventually recovered for the day, investors have been on edge recently.
"People are looking for a reason to sell, and (Tuesday) it was a fake tweet," said Adam Sussman, head of research at Tabb Group, a research firm. "Of course, once they realized it was fake, they bought back in, or they stopped selling."
But he thinks humans played only a minor role in the stock plunge. He said most professional investors are too savvy to sell on a tweet.
"They'd get a tweet from AP and then say, 'Oh, was there a corroborating tweet from Bloomberg? A corroborating tweet from Thomson Reuters?' and so forth," he said. "So I don't believe that anyone selling substantial money saw that tweet and just began selling off billions of dollars."
Joe Fox, founder of online brokerage Ditto Trade, said the selling was too fast for humans to have pulled off, and computers were to blame.
"Whoever this jerk (who wrote the tweet) is probably cost some people millions of dollars in a matter of minutes," he said.
Computer programs have come to dominate stock-market trading over the past 20 years. The goal is speed, and it's led to an arms race as companies develop ever-faster programs. High-speed trading came under public scrutiny following the "flash crash" of May 6, 2010, when a glitch erased 600 points from the Dow in five minutes.
One of the latest weapons in the arms race is machine-readable news. The Thomson Reuters service, one of the more popular offerings, scans 50,000 news sources and 4 million social media sites for stories.
Brown says his programs take news articles and announcements and automatically flag answers to the essential questions — who, what, where, when and why. The answers are translated into a code that an investment firm's trading program can understand and then sent to clients. All of that takes less than one-thousandth of a second.
It's up to the investment fund to place a value on each word and rank established news outlets over other sources like blogs or social media websites, Brown said.
Tapping into the stream of comments on Twitter has become increasingly popular. Earlier this month, the SEC cleared companies to release key announcements on Twitter, Facebook and other social-media venues. Bloomberg also added Twitter to its terminals, a fixture on every big bank's trading floor.
Regulators have been studying the problems posed by automatic computer trading for years. Last month, the SEC proposed tighter oversight of automatic trading. Stock exchanges would be required to test their trading systems routinely, and report to the SEC about problems that could damage trading, like hacking.
"The exchanges love speed," said Bart Chilton, a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a regulator that has been reviewing high-speed programs. "I'm not so sure that fast is always better."