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The Giant Covenant ship orbited silently above in space.On the bridge of the ship,the high Prophets of the Covenant were in conversation.'The humans are retreating,we should destroy them NOW!,said the Prophet of Truth.'I agree,said the Prophet of Mercy.'You underestimate the humans,said the Prophet of Regret,they are not dumb animals.'But we have them cornered,said Truth angrily.Mercy nodded in agreemeant.
'You are too interested in fighting them in the open,replied Regret.Truth scowled at him.Mercy didn't say anything.He was watching his fellow Hierarchs intently,hoping they would start to fight.'We will need to use stealth if we are to defeat these humans,'said Regret.Amazingly,Truth seemed to agree.Mercy sighed,his hopes for a fight gone.
'Direct the ship towards the main fleet,'ordered Regret.The Sangheili pilot nodded and put in the coordinates into the computer.The ship fired up its engines and flew towards the Covenant main fleet.The Prophet of Regret smiled,a plan already forming in his mind.

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The main trend is a bullish one, but the price is still moving up and down in a range above the previously broken "Triangle". So, the current flat is likely going to be continued. Therefore, the pair is probably going to get a support at 1.1341 – 1.1326 and a resistance at 1.1409 – 1.1437 afterwards.
We've got two "Thorns" in a row on the one-hour chart. There's a possible "Rectangle" in progress. The market is likely going to decline towards the lower side of this pattern. If a pullback arrives afterwards, the price will have a chance to reach a resistance area between the 34 Moving Average and the level 1.1409.


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June 18, 2013
A measles vaccination campaign, targeting over 300,000 children in Al-Gedaref state, ended on May 26, 2013. With the Sudanese Ministry of Health, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a measles vaccinbation campaign in five localities in Al-Gedaref state, providing medical and logisitical support in an effort to prevent a measles epidemic.
Three children under the age of 15 died of measles in March, with 32 cases confirmed by the Ministry of Health and over 200 suspected cases reported in Al-Gedaref state.
"To reinforce Ministry of Health teams, the first MSF emergency team arrived within 24 hours," said Karina Rashidova, MSF's head of mission in Sudan. "One laboratory-confirmed case is enough to call it an outbreak. As measles is a highly contagious disease, immediate vaccination is necessary." MSF supported the campaign in five localities in Al-Gedaref, including East Galabat, West Galabat, Gala Alnahal, Basunda and Rahad. MSF support included ensuring vaccines were shipped and stored appropriatelly; measles vaccines must be kept cold at all times before they are administered.
There is no specific treament for this viral disease, so doctors focus on treating the symptoms and associated complications of measles, including high fever, runny nose, cough, eye infection, rash, diarrhoea, chest infection and malnutrition. With the Ministry of Health, MSF treated 954 patients suspected of having measles in the five localities. Since March, MSF has supported the treatement of 24 patients requiring hopsitalization who were referred to Al-Gedaref hostpial. Twenty of those patients have been discharged, with four reported deaths.
Vaccination remains the best form of protection against measles. "Mobile teams were sent out to mobilize local communities and carry out vaccinations, resulting in the vaccination of over 1,000 children daily," said Rashidova.
As measles is highly contagious, close-living settings of Al-Gedaref state increase the risk of infection. The vaccination campaign targeted children between the ages of six months and 15 years old, as they are at a higher of risk of becoming infected because their immune systems are still developing. Children under the age of five suffering from malnutrition are highly vulnerable to the disease.
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Volkswagen CEO Michael Horn's sudden resignation this week is the prelude to an even bigger drama coming up at the end of the month. That's when VW lawyers must appear before a federal judge and explain how the carmaker plans to fix nearly 600,000 "clean diesel" cars in the U.S. that cheat on emissions tests.
Meanwhile, automotive site Autolist has presented more evidence of a damaged VW brand and how U.S. automakers are benefiting.
Autolist is an online automotive marketplace where cars are listed for sale. Autolist has monitored recent search traffic and concluded that, as the VW emissions cheating scandal has unfolded, Volkswagen has fallen in the eyes of the American consumer while the status of U.S. carmakers has risen.
VW prices at all-time lows
The site says its most recent analysis of 42 million bits of data shows that list prices for Volkswagens among the 600,000 models tainted by the scandal have fallen to all-time lows. The price of those cars are 6.4% less than expected while the list price of VW models not involved in the scandal are down 2.4%.
It's also taking a lot longer to sell a Volkswagen. The Autolist report shows the time spent on the market by scandal-tainted cars is 88% above average, at 178 days. But even the VWs not touched by scandal are taking longer to sell, 13% above average at 106 days.
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Volkswagen's losses appear to be American carmakers' gains. Chevrolet and Ford are both selling faster since the diesel scandal, with Chevy selling 13.5 days faster and Ford shedding 14.5 days on the market.
Autolist says that trend might continue for a while, since public opinion about U.S. brands is on the rise. Again, it appears to be Ford and Chevrolet that have benefited most.
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At the time it seemed like little more than cheap point-scoring but the comments made by Michael Grade when he last put himself forward for the chairmanship of the BBC now seem deeply insightful. As he threw his name into the ring to succeed outgoing chairman Christopher Bland three years ago, Mr Grade took a side-swipe at his chief rival Gavyn Davies: "His association with the current government is not a reflection on him, but I'd like to see politics taken out of the top BBC appointments. In a regulated national cultural institution like the BBC, it's wrong that people with known political affiliations should be in the top jobs, director-general excepted."
At the time it seemed like little more than cheap point-scoring but the comments made by Michael Grade when he last put himself forward for the chairmanship of the BBC now seem deeply insightful. As he threw his name into the ring to succeed outgoing chairman Christopher Bland three years ago, Mr Grade took a side-swipe at his chief rival Gavyn Davies: "His association with the current government is not a reflection on him, but I'd like to see politics taken out of the top BBC appointments. In a regulated national cultural institution like the BBC, it's wrong that people with known political affiliations should be in the top jobs, director-general excepted."
Davies got the job, of course. Only to be brought down by a misjudgement over the Dr Kelly affair as he desperately sought to demonstrate that despite his political allegiances he really was independent of government.
The departure opens the door for Grade once again. He emerged from his interview at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) last week declining to shed light on how it had gone. "I've no idea. I'm sure they'll let me know," he told reporters. His approach was very different from 2001 when Grade publicly threw down a challenge to the Government in an interview in which he said there were two certainties in his life. "One is that I would like to be chairman of the BBC. The second is that no one will ever ask me. I'm a bit of a strong taste, I think. Bit too independent." That tactic did not work. But failing to get the chairmanship in 2001 has not diminished his standing a jot.
Within months Grade had been appointed chairman of Camelot, operators of the National Lottery. Whenever a top job in broadcasting becomes vacant, Grade's name is inevitably mentioned. He was tipped to become chief executive of ITV but said he was not interested. As recently as January, he was being suggested as chairman of Scottish Media Group, where he is already a director. But that was the week of the Hutton report. The week when the British broadcasting landscape changed in a way that no one (not even Grade, in spite of his warnings of the dangers of political affiliation) could have predicted.
Now, within and without the BBC there is a feeling that Grade's time has come. One senior industry figure says: "The BBC needs a big character, a player who knows the industry, knows about public service broadcasting and who is not afraid of politicians. In any other country in the world except this one they would not believe their luck in being able to get someone like that for £81,000."
Grade's supporters point out that since he shocked the broadcasting world by leaving his position as chief executive of Channel 4, he has spent the past seven years running major companies.
Camelot and SMG aside, he is also the executive chairman of Pinewood-Shepperton film studios and is non-executive chair of Hemscott, the business information group. He is a director of the major independent production company Television Corporation and of his favourite football club, Charlton Athletic. Cabinet Office documents leaked just before Christmas revealed that he was being considered for a knighthood. All that after 23 years in broadcasting, working as a senior executive at London Weekend Television, becoming director of programmes at the BBC and going on to run Channel 4 for nine years.
The value of such experience to a board of governors whose shortcomings were so exposed by Hutton is obvious, say Grade's supporters. "It is no good having a bunch of people who are well suited to running a local hospital running the fifth largest media empire in the world with no experience at all," says one. "It's just absurd. They've got to move to another age."
Grade, 61, has not always been such a popular figure. His early career - as a sports journalist on the Daily Mirror turned theatrical agent - meant that he had to fight a hard battle for acceptance by the liberal elite in British television. As BBC director of programmes, he was attacked at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival by Channel 4 chief Jeremy Isaacs, who accused him of chasing ratings, to the detriment of the BBC. When Grade was shortly afterwards appointed as Isaacs' successor at Channel 4, Isaacs is said to have wept.
Grade believes that much of the hostility directed at him was born out of snobbery. "A lot of people believed the caricature of Grade the Barbarian who was going to come in and privatise the channel and turn it into ITV 2 and bring in Wogan and Des O'Connor," he later suggested. But the gasps of horror from the liberal intelligentsia that greeted his appointment at Channel 4 were soon replaced with a new animus from the commentators of the right.
His sanctioning of programmes such as The Word (featuring viewers eating worms or bathing in pigs' urine), Eurotrash (nudity and transvestism) and Dyke TV enraged the Daily Mail, whose columnist Paul Johnson famously dubbed Grade "Pornographer-in-Chief". Grade, said Johnson, was "a 52-year-old who grew not entirely to maturity in the 1960s".
Those that worked at Channel 4 remember things rather differently. Stephen Garrett, now running the independent company Kudos and the executive producer of the hit drama Spooks, remembers Grade as a "charismatic leader" and a "professional maverick". "During his time at Channel 4 he was someone who was incredibly supportive of risk taking, which is something that people are starting to mourn in anticipation as disappearing from the BBC," he says. "Allowing a creative team to have its head is one of the signs of a really healthy broadcasting organisation. He's someone to both inspire and encourage that."
Others describe Grade as "flamboyant" (he is known for his cigars, red socks and red power braces), "creative" (he backed the fledgling EastEnders at the BBC and co-financed Film Four projects such as Trainspotting and Four Weddings and a Funeral), and possessing "room-filling arrogance". He once railed at the British for "revelling in coming second" and being "grotesquely embarrassed" when things are going well.
His personality is partly the product of an upbringing that combined the glamour of being part of one of Britain's best-known theatrical families with the trauma of his parents' troubled relationship. He was only three when his mother left his father (the theatrical agent Leslie Grade) and left him to be brought up by his grandmother, Olga Winogradski, who is mentioned in his entry in Who's Who (unlike his mother, whom he has not seen since she left).
Grade's uncles were the impresarios Lew Grade (who ran ATV) and Bernard (later Lord) Delfont. He attended Stowe public school but left to finish his education at St Dunstan's College in south London. After a spell at the Mirror, which he joined at the age of 17, he worked for seven years as a theatrical agent in London, developing what he calls his "silver tongue". It was this asset that later helped him to clinch countless deals and to keep Chris Evans at Channel 4 during the heady times of Don't Forget Your Toothbrush and TFI Friday.
Learning the television trade at LWT in the 1970s he struck up a rapport with John Birt, who was later to become director-general of the BBC, and who as Lord Birt is now said to be agitating to overturn the cultural changes introduced to the corporation by his much-admired successor Greg Dyke. In Lord Birt's autobiography, The Harder Path, he recalls that the young Grade was "modest and honest about his handicaps, quick-thinking and street-smart".
But that friendship was not to last. When the pair became colleagues at the BBC in the late 1980s, internal politics caused Birt to fall out with Grade, who had been brought to the BBC by the corporation's managing director of television, Billy Cotton, a childhood friend and mentor.
Birt says in his autobiography that he had been "genuinely fond" of Grade. Then he adds: "I knew from close observation and from succeeding him at LWT, that he was weak creatively, managerially and strategically; but I had admired his quick-witted enterprise." A letter to Grade, offering to make up, was ineffective. Grade, by now at Channel 4, wrote back: "I'm sad it's come to this after all these years, but that was your choice. No point in meeting up really."
Grade left Channel 4 in good financial shape and drove up its audience share from 7 to 11 per cent, partly through pioneering the current vogue for buying quality American programmes. At the BBC his main successes included driving up the audiences for such programmes as Panorama and Omnibus by clever scheduling.
Since leaving television for the world of business, he has enjoyed mixed success. His tenure at Lord Delfont's First Leisure empire was not without its problems and he was accused by his aunt of "selling off the family silver" when the company disposed of Blackpool Tower and other assets. The Cabinet Office found that his difficulties at Camelot were "beyond his control". Now the Government must decide whether the time is right for him to return to broadcasting.
One former rival of Grade's admits he is the best candidate known to be on the shortlist. "The BBC needs a big personality to help with morale and he's certainly in the same category as Greg and would be welcomed at the Beeb," he says. "He came second last time and has the qualifications although I'm surprised he's willing to do the work for the money."
But the salary will not be a problem. When Grade last came to the BBC in 1984, after a spell working in America, he said: "I gave up my job in Hollywood on a basic salary of £500,000 to join the BBC on £38,000. That probably means I should be certified but money is the wrong reason to take a job." And neither should his political leanings prove an obstacle. As one senior industry figure and former colleague says: "I don't think any editor in the world could tell you how he votes."
A life in brief
Born: 8 March 1943, son of the theatrical agent Leslie Grade.
Family: Married Penelope Jane, 1967 (marriage dissolved, 1981), one son one daughter; Sarah Lawson, 1982 (marriage dissolved, 1991); Francesca Mary, 1998, one son.
Education: Stowe School; St Dunstan's College, London; Daily Mirror trainee journalist, 1960.
Career: Sports columnist 1964-66; theatrical agent, 1966-73; television programmer, London Weekend, 1973-81; director of programmes, BBC TV, 1986-87; chief executive, Channel 4, 1988-97; chief executive, First Leisure Corporation, 1997-2000; chairman, Octopus Publishing Company, 2000-01; chairman, Camelot, 2001-present.
He says... "I've had to work with governments of various persuasions and I've always kept my voting habits personal. I've never joined a political party. I've kept myself pure in that regard."
They say... "Thank God Michael Grade is not director-general of the BBC or we'd face a demand for doubled licence fees and have twice as much dirt, smut and other rubbish on its channels." - Norman Tebbit
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Twenty villagers from Adilabad district in Telengana were booked on Friday after they tried to hush up the alleged gangrape of a 16-year-old girl in the village.
The minor girl alleged she was impregnated after five people repeatedly raped her over the past 16 months. The 20 villagers reportedly sought to settle the issue by holding a panchayat where the accused offered Rs 2.5 lakh to hush up the case.
The victim lodged a complaint with Madamarri police station on Thursday, alleging that five persons, who are her neighbours, threatened her and raped her separately since January 2015, police inspector P Sadaiah said.
The girl said she approached the villagers of Pallemguda of Kasipet mandal of Adilabad, who held a panchayat over the issue, even as one of the accused came forward to marry her. Also, she was offered Rs 2.5 lakh (Rs 50,000 each) by the five accused "to settle the matter", though she and her family members lodged a police complaint, deputy superintendent of Police (Bellampalli Sub-Division) Ramana Reddy said.
"The villagers, who held the Panchayat should have actually informed the police about the matter (of rape). However, it did not happen. Hence, a case under section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence) of IPC has been registered against the 20 villagers, who organised the panchayat," the DSP said.
The minor girl has been sent for medical examination, and the report would confirm whether she is pregnant or not, the inspector said. The five persons were booked on charge of rape and criminal intimidation under relevant sections of IPC besides under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the Inspector said. He, however, refused to divulge if the five accused were detained or are being questioned saying the matter is under investigation.


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Saung Budaya is an Indonesian Dance Group based in New York City. It was founded by Amalia Suryani in 2006 with intentions to introduce Indonesian culture through music and dances. The group has presented an array of traditional and contemporary art and culture from Indonesia. In this tenth year, through a show titled "GONG: Spirits of the Archipelago", Saung Budaya is proud to present eight newly choreographed traditional dances from Papua, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java, in addition to contemporary dances accompanied by a live music ensemble from Indonesia. The title GONG, is based on the South East Asian metal percussion instrument that is hit with a mallet. Though Indonesia's various islands have different cultures, stories, and souls, the one constant in all things music is the sound of the Gong. Its distinct sound is quite deep and subtle however it is a sound that is familiar to the people of Indonesia. Its significance in daily life is to bring communities together for a start of a celebration; in music and dance, it is the constant sound for tempo and movement. Like the Gong, Saung Budaya has a similar role within the Indonesian American community. This production will showcase the different stories of these islands through the subtle yet important sounds of the Gong and how it unifies Indonesian people and its various cultures.
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Campaigners fighting to save South Leeds Sports Centre for closure are to press ahead with a protest march - despite the council giving the facility a four-month reprieve.
The council yesterday said it plans to postpone its decision over the future of the sports centre to allow more time for a community consortium led by Hillside-based social enterprise Tiger 11 to put together a business plan to take the facility into community control.
But members of the Splashback group campaigning against the centre's closure have said they will continue with their plans for a march and rally around Beeston and Holbeck on Saturday.
Organiser Sally Cieslik said:
"The march is going ahead - in fact it's even more important now in some ways as this is only a short reprieve.
"I'm delighted that in the short term it is going to be open through the school summer holidays so that young people can access it, but this is no guarantee for the long term. We don't want to be doing this again in another two years.
"We want everyone to come out onto the streets and say thank you to the council for seeing good sense and keeping the centre open for the next few months. But we're not going away and we'll be using every opportunity in the next crucial period to put our message across – that we need a sustainable community sports centre in our area."
The protest march starts outside St Matthew's Community Centre in Holbeck at 3pm.
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Jeremy Morton of Tiger 11 said:
"This is very good news. It gives us more time to get the kinks out of the plan and get a viable proposal together.
"I am reasonably confident we'll be able to do that within the timescale. There are some issues to resolve. In the meantime, the community can continue to use the facilities over the summer, so it's a 'win win' situation all round."
Tiger 11's plan is to refurbish the building and run it as an independent social enterprise.
The sports centre was earmarked by the previous Tory-Lib Dem coalition to close later this month following the opening of a new leisure centre in Morley.
Campaigners say it should stay open as other facilities are too far to travel to, are not easily reached by public transport and keep young people healthy, engaged and off the streets in an area of deprivation.


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It was the third anniversary of Barry Harris's death on Wednesday. The 67-year-old former civil engineer, who had gone into the Queen's hospital, Burton, in Staffordshire, to have a knee replacement, died at his home three days after being discharged.
An inquest later heard that he had died from an obstruction in his lower intestine due to recurrent twisting. The coroner recorded a verdict of natural causes.
But the family had felt the hospital, part of the Burton Hospital NHS trust, now under special measures because of the quality and safety of care, had been wrong to let Barry go home with constipation medication when they had not diagnosed what had left him with a distended abdomen and feeling uncomfortable.
The initial operation went well, according to his wife Valerie, 70, but when she first went to pick him up five days after she had taken him in, she was told he had to stay because he had not yet had a bowel movement. By the Monday, a week after Barry had been admitted, he underwent a procedure to see what the problem was. She says staff told her "it looked like a kink in the lower intestine". On the Wednesday, he was sent for a further examination. This time he was allowed to go home. "We waited and were given his discharge notes and constipation powders," said Valerie. "They hadn't really formed any actual conclusions as to what was causing his condition. I was a teacher, he was a civil engineer. We didn't question. You put your trust in professional hands. He wanted to go home so I brought him home."
Two days later, stitches were removed from Barry's leg. "He went up and down the stairs and just thought nature would take its course. On Saturday morning, he got up, had a shower, a small slice of toast, had a cup of tea. But later in the day, he collapsed. He had come into the kitchen, and he had what I thought was a fit. I called the neighbours. They came round and called 999. He was dead within the hour."
A few weeks ago, said Valerie, the trust admitted liability and paid the family a "significant" amount, she said. "But it doesn't replace my husband. I feel quite empty about it."
Laura Ralfe, from lawyers Irwin Mitchell, which represented the family, said: "Barry's care at Burton hospital raised a number of urgent questions. Our investigations found hospital staff missed multiple opportunities to investigate the cause of Barry's bowel problems and ignored obvious symptoms, which we believe, if treated, would in all likelihood have avoided his death."
In another case earlier this month, United Lincolnshire Hospital NHS trust was fined £30,000 and ordered to pay more than £15,000 costs for allowing a radiologist to be exposed to more than double the annual dose limit for skin exposure in just over three months. The radiologist at Pilgrim hospital, Boston, used a CT scanner, but favoured an x-ray method, which meant he stayed in the room rather than leaving, as other consultants did.
The hospital said it had taken measures to correct "this isolated incident", reviewing working practices for all staff working with ionising radiation, and developing checklists for all areas that radiologists work in to provide a more comprehensive training record. No patient was exposed to excess radiation.


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On Thursday's Late Show, actress Renee Zellweger recounted her "emotional" experience seeing Barack Obama's inauguration, but Obama isn't the only liberal politician she idolizes. Zellweger, who stars in a new movie that apparently ridicules small town America and Christians, told USA Today: "I have a crush on Jimmy Carter. I admit it. He has an extraordinary mind. He's an exceptional human being. And he writes poetry, for crying out loud. He's all good things."
In a Friday "Life" section profile, "A low-key Renee Zellweger loves to hide in plain sight," reporter Donna Freydkin relayed: "So wowed was Zellweger that she waited in the blistering Manhattan cold for 2 1/2 hours on Monday to have the 39th President sign her copy of his latest book, We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work."
Humorously, three pages later, USA Today film reviewer Claudia Puig trashed Zellweger's movie which opened Friday, The New Town, as not only "the worst movie of this fledgling year," but as "one of the worst movies of any year." Puig condemned it: "Not content to be merely inane and predictable, it is downright insulting, humorlessly deriding those who choose to live in rural America, labor in factories or have a strong Christian faith."
Internet Movie Database's page for Zellweger, who is probably best-known for her title role in 2001's Bridget Jones's Diary.
Freydkin's profile included a look at Zellweger's quest to hear Obama's inaugural address:
With visible glee, Zellweger recounts her morning running around the capital, trying to find an unblocked street that would let her be near Barack Obama's new home and hear the swearing-in.
"And now it's 10 to 12. And I knew I wasn't going to make it. I'm feeling the energy of all these people," she says. "I feel that something magnificent is about to happen in our country, something very right is coming to be. So I had to get in earshot. I start running. There's a police barricade on First Street. I see an opening on one of those. There's a lady leaning on it. It just so happens that she's blind so she didn't need to stand up. I stand up behind her. I have no ticket, I have no plan. I just wanted to hear him."
From the top of Puig's January 30 review, "'New in Town': Don't go there, seriously," which she gave just one star:
To say that New in Town is the worst movie of this fledgling year is to damn it with faint praise. It may be one of the worst movies of any year. Not content to be merely inane and predictable, it is downright insulting, humorlessly deriding those who choose to live in rural America, labor in factories or have a strong Christian faith.
It treats this giant swath of Americans as foolish, if lovable, buffoons, essentially insulting viewers by making the audience unwitting co-conspirators simply by watching this dreck.
It follows a particularly abhorrent Hollywood formula: Ridicule the friendly, rural folks, show how stupid they are, then by the end, place their small-town values and inherent decency on a pedestal....
As dunderheaded as the folks of New Ulm, Minn., are portrayed, Lucy, the ambitious, self-absorbed executive played awkwardly by Renee Zellweger, comes off even worse. She's a citified cliché-and-a-half....


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We often lose valuable photos from out phone. That is the reason why we create backups. The reason for data loss could be a accidental deletion, a virus attack, device broken, jailbreak failure, or simply an upgrade issue. If you have created frequent backups to your iCloud account, then you have 2 perfect chances to recover photos from iCloud in a few simple steps.
1 Recover Photos from iCloud.com
If you have recently deleted photos from your iCloud account, you still have an opportunity to get them back by logging to your account. Select Photos in your account and choose Albums at the top of the menu bar. You will notice that you have the feature "Recently Deleted." Click the option to see the images deleted recently. From the available pictures, you can mark the files that you need to get back and hit the "Recover" button.
If you were unable to obtain back all the pictures, then it is the time that you choose data recovery programs for iPhone. With the help of these applications, it is possible for you to recover all the deleted images from the device as well as from your iCloud or iTunes account.
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Click the start button that you see on the main screen. The program will then prompt you to select the file type that you wish to recover. In the following screen, choose photo and app photo as the retrievable file format. Then, click the "Next" button at the bottom of the screen.
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iMyfone D-Back will prompt you to enter iCloud account credentials. Log into the account using your username and password. Please note that the program does not record any of your login credentials.
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iMyfone D-Back iPhone data recovery Win or iPhone data recovery Mac will prompt you to choose a path or a folder on your computer where you wish to save the recoverable images. You can create a new folder or navigate to an existing one and wait for the program to complete the saving process. Once done, you can browse the folder to look at the deleted images or all the selective photographs extracted from your iCloud backup file.


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5 Lovely Things to Do for A New Mum
I have never forgotten the kind things friends and family did for me in the early days of new motherhood. If someone close to you has just had a baby, perhaps you might like to do one of these for her?
1. Bring new mum a big pot of highly nutritious, freshly-made food such as chicken soup or stew that can be reheated and eaten when she has time. Keep the spices to a minimum if she is breastfeeding.
Offer to rub her feet or paint her toenails
2. I will be forever grateful to the friend who rubbed my feet while I fed my newborn baby. So comforting and grounding.
Run mum a bath and take her baby for a stroll
3. A lovely warm bath, perhaps with a few drops of essential oils such as lavender can be very soothing to new mums still raw from labour and breastfeeding. Offering to take her newborn out for a stroll means mum can unwind. Make sure she knows how long you'll take the baby out for so she doesn't get anxious.
Listen to her
4. Sometimes all a new mum needs is someone to listen to her and hear how she is feeling. Perhaps she needs to tell her birth story. Perhaps she needs to share every detail of her wonderous new baby with you. Let her.
Gift Services
5. There are lots of lovely gift services for new mums now. Toucan Box for example, offer a subscription service which delivers boxes of mum and baby products from great brands every month. I loved my Neals Yard Mother and Baby gift box containing natural, organic products, and a neutral knit set from Jojomamanbebe is lovely.
What was the nicest thing someone did for you when you were a new mum?
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Just shy of 1,000 law departments in Release 4.0 of GC Metrics' benchmark study
Some 970 law departments had participated in the General Counsel Metrics global benchmark survey when Release 4.0 went out on Dec. 12th. The 65-page report is absolutely free to participating departments. The fifth and final release will go out in late January.
Release 4.0 has 27 industries with their key benchmark metrics, along with a breakout by size and names of the participating companies. Additionally, the compensation charts include base salary, cash bonus, and total compensation by industry. Continuing the series started in Release 2.0, this latest Release includes findings on contract management and matter management software. Finally, the blog posts at the end of the report explain Bayesian statistics.
If you or someone you know in a legal department care about performance metrics for in-house legal teams, go to this site and complete the few questions about 2011 data on staffing and spending: https://novisurvey.net/n/benchmarkmetrics2012.aspx


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Google Analytics Goes Real Time
Google Analytics is one of those useful "freebies" that Google distributed free to all, as they can (and because they like the fact that the websites around the world depend on them to analyze their success or failure). Last few days have been busy with the Google regarding the continued upgrading of the service from its presentation, updated in real time and offer a premium rate.
Ready for a new look which is coming next week.
As per Google Analytics blog, "The biggest change you will notice is that we have simplified the primary navigation into three tabs – Home, Standard Reporting, and Custom Reporting – to give you quicker access to the information that matters. We also incorporated the second layer of navigation that appeared in "My Site" throughout the Home and Standard Reporting tabs".
Next comes analytics in Real Time. It's pretty cool. Analytics Blog is the instance of how the new Real-Time analysis can help measure the effect of a social media campaign.
Other advice coming through Google Real-Time capabilities to quickly check if your tracking is correct before that goes live in a campaign. As the service evolves expect there to be many more applications of real time data.
And the final comes the announcement of Google Analytics Premium. This is for big sites with very specific needs that go well beyond the average website.
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- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 small green pepper
- 1 garlic clove
- 1⁄2 cup corn
- 1⁄2 cup salsa
- 1 pint cherry tomatoes
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- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon cilantro
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
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- In a skillet, heat oil and add green peppers.
- Cook 3 minutes.
- Add garlic.
- Stir in corn and salsa.
- Bring to a boil.
- Stir in tomatoes and shrimp.
- Cook 1 minute.
- Stir in butter.
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-call me Ru.
-Ru? Harry wondered.
-it's a shortcut to the anagram of my name.
-why would you anagram your name? Harry insisted
-its cool.
Harry took into serious consideration the words of Uriel and asked no further.
Ru was no ordinary angel. Seg knew this and he hoped someone of less power would show up. He didn't have a form but you could discern some human anatomy.
He was a being of light and the light would not allow any characteristics observation.
-good evening dear ladies and germs. How can I be of use? Just make it quick because I left the water heating back home.
Seg made the first move.
-the king of our galaxy died in some accident, chaos is developing really fast and out neighbour galaxy is planning an attack.
-chaos huh? Mm. the angel was looking at Threephase while listening to the words of Seg.
-we need a plan. An advice. Seg begged him. The system is in danger, isnt that correct? Chaos threatens the system!
-chaos threatens everything. Even Doomsday might come.
-Doomsday??? All three said in one voice
-gimme two minutes.
Said the angel and made a move like he was tearing a piece of paper in the air.
A breach was created in spacetime and Uriel put his head in it.
It seemed that he was looking around, although his head had disappeared in the gap.
Harry admited that was pretty impressive.
The angel finally pulled his head back and the gap healed at once.
-just like I thought. The king is not dead.
Aclamations of joy and surprise were heard from inside the circle.
-he's in a parallel and he's eating.
-can you bring him back?
-no, I don't have enough time for that. Maybe someone else could though
-like who?
-I don't know. Someone with plenty of free time.
-I know lots of guys with plenty of time! Harry jumped.
-see? But that's not the point.
-what about chaos? Threephase asked.
As if Uriel was puzzled by Threephase's voice, he came closer to the circle to see her.
Seg panicked.
-you don't have to come any closer. He commanded
Uriel ignored him and came very close to the circle to examine Threephase.
The girl turned her eyes to another direction and felt her entire body aching.
Seg feared the angel might break the circle, he was really able to.
The angel then turned to Seg and looked at him. He obeyed rather displeased.
-the system will take care of chaos. Uriel said and his voice resembled a thunder with a stomachache.
-and the king?
-cant your gods deal with the matter? Its their job you know..
-noone wants to deal with it
-maybe they're afraid of Doomsday? Harry said with a low voice and regreted it
Uriel seemed to be hesitating for a minute. He was still looking at Theephase and starting getting on her nerves.
-I can send one of you to that parallel now, but I wont have the time to turn him back. They'll have to find their way back alone. But I have maps of the parallels, its not a big deal travelling in those.
They looked at each other.
-who will go? Threephase got stressed
-I say he goes. Harry pointed Seg
The wizard took a deep breath. He got stressed too.
-its very dangerous. None of us has to go. The witch advised
-no, Harry's right. I will go.
-Seg? The girl's heart cracked like it was breaking.
-I'll be fine, don't worry.
-no, Seg. Don't go.
-I'm in a hurry? The water's heating?
Seg touched the girls hands and looked inside her eyes with honesty. He had feelings for her too and tried to show it with a kiss. A modest one. In the forehead.
She cried and nodded.
-I will save the king.
The wizard turned to the angel
-about time. take my hand.
Seg reached outside the circle to take uriel's hand.
-what's this? You cant get out of this planet you idiot. Oh, this is bad, the heater…
Seg pulled back in the circle.
-what happened?
-when Lon made us, he bound our fate with this planet. I cannot leave it, unless it is destroyed.
-what a useless bump. Harry shouted. Threephase, you go then.
-someone has to go save the king
-I'm not going. I don't know him. You should go, you met him once.
-that was just once and it was an accident. That meant nothing. You really should go. You're a witch afterall.
-basically.. you are. Seg dared to say.
-I'm afraid to go
-Harry go with her.
-forget it
-someone has to go with the angel
-yeah hello? Remember me? The angel? With the heater on and the food on fire?
-noone goes then!
-the galaxy will be destroyed you brainless woman
-calm down
-you should go save the galaxy then!
-you 've led us in your stupid desert and your stupid wizard, now eat them!
-stop it
-I thought you wanted to help!
-I did! Whaddya want me to do? Fall in the hole too?
-that's not necessary.. the angel said crossing his legs and lighting up a smoke
-you should do nothing!
-that's what I wanted to do from the beginning!
-but I knoooow why you wont go… you're afraid to lose your precious magician, as if you ever had a chance with him!
Threephase got mad.
Seg got red like a rootbeet
-Threephase, really, it ok…
-how is it ok, you worthless wizard? The king is out there and she's fooling around here with romances and green horses!
-you look pretty white from here. Uriel noticed
-is it that bad wanting to stay here with you? Threephase pleaded Seg
-Ya see? Do ya see?? Harry turned to the angel. This is why this universe goes from worse to worst. The unimportant decide the fates of the important ones! BLASPHEMY!
-Threephase.. said the wizard softly. It wouldn't have worked anyway between us…
-what do you mean Seg?? The witch was hanging from his lips.
-lip stretching? Uriel wondered
-I already have an affair..
-WHAT??? All screamed at once
-ooh this is rather exciting! Uriel was clapping hands
-it was too early, I'd have never thought you…
-I'm such a fool! A fool!
-no, I mean you're very attractive, I like you a lot, but I'm engaged..
-yuuum yum, smells like noodles!*
*literally in greek when you say "I ate noodles" or "mushpie" it means I got the mitten, I got dumped.
Threephase hid her face and tears. Seg tried to pick her up but she pushed him away.
Dramatic music was heard in the temple.
The witch went wild and her hairs stood up.
The energy field withered and a heavy moan of unknown id upset everyone.
Uriel stood up in awe. Seg screamed.
Harry froze.
Threephase broke the circle and they all found themselves hanging in the void, without being able to tell if they were falling or floating.
The angel flew and grabbed Threephase and the horse, leaving the wizard sinking in depths, unconscious.
-are you ready to transform
-to what??? Harry screamed
When they opened their eyes, they saw Uriel smiling at them.
They could see some of his characteristics now, like a mouth and the eyes, but he was still covered in thick light.
Harry got up first and shook his tail, neighing.
He threw a pity look to Threephase but then he regreted it and replaced it with a surprise scream.
And Threephase right back at him, she pointed with her finger.
-Threephase! Your hair! Your skin!
The witch looked at her pointing hand and realized it was gold, as if someone painted it.
She stared at her palms and started rubbing them. It wasn't paint. She picked a tuft of hair and brought it in front of her eyes.
Her hair were white, too white, very white.
Harry looked at his front muscular legs and realized in horror they were black.
-that was part of the transformation. Said the angel to the witch. You guys switched some of your characteristics. Your hair are white like the horse used to be, and your body is gold like the horse's eyes used to be.
-WHY AM I LIKE A NIGGER THEN? Harry complained
-aah, that. Well, you know, all women have a pitch black soul.
Harry was no ordinary horse for sure now. His hair have been replaced by fires and his eyes were like two sparks. His tail was waving the same way a fire behaves at space, like liquid flames moving towards all directions. His body, more smooth and black, would make even Death sell his horse and give Harry a hiring paycheck.
Threephase was even more impressive.
Her skin was pure gold and glowing in the light, while her hair and eyes were de-colored white. She had no pupils, no eyelids and no eyebrows, but she could see better than ever.
-what happened to Seg?
-he's fine. He'll wake up at home with a headache.
Uriel helped her to get up
-one day, you'll become an angel. No reason to be afraid.
She tried to look in his eyes and touch his face but he pulled back.
-time to work! Come on. Uriel said and radiated bright like a sun.


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Lamar Odom gets Sixth Man Award
Lamar Odom finally got what he deserves: Sixth Man of the Year Award! He was honored with the award at a presentation ceremony in a ballroom at a LA area hotel, last night (pics gallery below). He is the first Laker to get the coveted award! Kobe, Pau Gasol, Derek Fisher, Luke Walton, and Shannon Brown all came to support their teammate.
The Sixth Man Award goes to the league's top reserve player and started in 1983. Odom passed the only requirement: to come in as a reserve more times than a starter. Odom started 35 games and entered off the bench in 47. He also averaged 14.4 points, 8.7 boards, and three assists per game while shooting 53% from the field, the highest shooting mark of his 12-year career. Read the quotes:
"This has been a long time coming," said the 31-year-old Odom. "I just kept at it.
"At the end of the day, I'm blessed. Some people call it luck, I call it blessed."
"I'm very happy for him," Kobe Bryant said after the Lakers' workout Tuesday. "It's extremely well-deserved."
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Split 12" from these two European bands. Inu are from Spain and play burly, Japanese-style burning spirits guitar with a distinctly Spanish flavor. The riffs are big and meaty like Death Side and there are some Maiden-esque leads, but the unique lilt of the Spanish language means it can't help bud recall old Spanish stuff as well. As for Catholic Guilt, they're from Austria and play dense, discordant hardcore in the Die Kreuzen tradition. When the label told me about this release they actually mentioned Sickoids, and with the Die Kreuzen-esque riffs and chorus-ed guitar this really does sound quite a lot like Sickoids, perhaps mixed with some Polish hardcore like Dezerter. A band well-worth checking out if you ask me. This is also housed in a really swank-looking 2-color silk-screened jacket.


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Phoenix Suns assistant coach Dan Majerle has left his job and fellow assistant Elston Turner remains away from the team after Lindsey Hunter took over as interim coach last week. Hunter, the team's player development director, replaced Alvin Gentry as head coach last Friday. The Suns called Gentry's departure a mutual agreement. Majerle, a popular former Suns player, and Turner were passed over for the job. "Dan told (Hunter) and me that he wanted to move on," general manager Lance Blanks said, according to The Arizona Republic. "Change is hard for people, and I understand that." Blanks plans to meet with Turner on Thursday to discuss his future. "There's been an emotional element for all parts involved," Blanks said. "Because of that, the decision with Elston's situation got lost in all of that. I hope he feels good and wants to be here." Majerle has indicated that he was offended by the decision to make Hunter the interim coach. "I understand their situation," Hunter said. "As an aspiring coach this is what you want to do in life and it's disappointing when you don't get an opportunity." Suns assistant Igor Kokoskov, who interviewed for the head-coaching job, will be Hunter's lead assistant.
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Interesting new indicator here from CNN Money that attempts to track the level of fear and greed in the market. They calculate the index using 7 indicators:
Investors are driven by two emotions: fear and greed. Too much fear can sink stocks well below where they should be. When investors get greedy, they can bid up stock prices way too far.
So what emotion is driving the market now? CNNMoney's Fear & Greed index makes it clear.
The current reading of 86 is consistent with a market in which participants are extremely greedy. I haven't run much in terms of backtesting this indicator, but it looks like one that's worth keeping an eye on.
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I know commands. I can sit, stay, lie down, roll, play dead, go to my bed, run, potty, drop ball, go in the house, go to the other side of the yard, sit and wait on my food bowl and wait to be told when to eat. I even know what 'no' means. However, I am too smart for my own good. I will do what I want when I want and ignore you some times. I am food and toy driven. Some of these commands I knew already and some I have learned very quickly because I am driven to please. I am housetrained and I have never gone in the house. My puppy side tells me to chew but I am learning to curb that habit. Baths are cool and pools are better. I love to dig right after, before, and during my pool time. I also dig when I am looking for hidden treasure that I am sure has to be under the carport or the dog house. Car rides are so enjoyable. But you can't leave the window down because I am curious and will lean out too far and even step out.
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text: BOSTON, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fleetmatics Group PLC (NYSE: FLTX) announced today its enterprise fleet management solution, SageQuest, was chosen by Virgin Media for its 2,600 vehicle fleet serving the U.K. and Ireland. "Our customers look to us for answers and insights that help improve their operations and reduce costs, so we are honored that Virgin Media sees our SageQuest fleet management solution as a contributor to reducing its environmental impact," said Jim Travers, CEO, Fleetmatics Group. "Our success serving U.S. companies with large fleets and complex technology needs has given us the experience and product strength needed to launch SageQuest in the UK marketplace." Many of the management reporting tools provided by SageQuest support Virgin Media's goal of continuous improvement in environmental performance, according to Maurice Daw, Executive Director—Access, Virgin Media. The solution's reports allow for reductions in fuel usage, enhancements in driver safety, and advancements in customer service. "We've been able to replace assumptions with facts," said Daw. "SageQuest gives us an unbiased, real-time view of what is going on in the field with instant access to data, scaled so that any number of users can access the system without slowing or crashing." SageQuest's fuel saving features include monitoring of engine idling and a provision for alerts that helps drivers avoid traffic congestion. Daw indicated Virgin Media expects immediate impact from these, per a 2012 study by Argonne National Laboratory that reported one hour of idling is equivalent to 25 miles of driving by the typical fleet vehicle. Safety improvements are encouraged by SageQuest's real-time ability to monitor for speeding, fast cornering, hard braking and excessive acceleration. The solution also provides management alerts to prompt actions that discourage these behaviors, which are known to increase the likelihood of traffic accidents. "The safety of our field technicians is paramount," said Daw. "This system alerts management to put appropriate protections in place."