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Nassau County NY DA Rice is throwing punches back at rival Schneiderman….
Kathleen Rice is the candidate to beat going into the September New York State Democratic Attorney general Primary…
While Andrew Cuomo…
The Democratic front runner and probably next Governor has pushed Rice…
During a straw poll last month she came in first place among five candidates….
When Cuomo tried to get the other guys out of the picture …..
Other democrats complained….
So the other guys are still in the game…
Eric Sneiderman, a New York State Senator, has been Rice's most vocal foe…..
And Rice knows that she must answer his attacks and not let him define her as a reformed Republican from Nassau County Long Island……(She WAS a Republican back in the day )….
Rice is the only DA in the race….
She gained the job in her first run by being tough on drunk drivers..
She has mellowed in office….
And has on occasion explained to crowds the Dog has been at that 'locking up everyone …isn't the answer to every problem'….
The Dog believes she'll be a fine Attorney General for the State of New York…..
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice, the lone woman in the five-way Democratic field for Attorney General, swung hard at rival Eric Schneiderman for saying she fought against key portions of the Rockefeller Drug Law reforms.
Rice also accused the state Senator of political folly as the legislature gets set to vote up or down on a budget extender bill that, if shot down, would prompt New York's first-ever government shutdown.
Her pushback via letter came a day after Schneiderman, who's running with the progressive mantle, challenged her to a debate over the laws that many activists feel are draconian. Schneiderman said Rice had lobbied against moving sentencing for non-violent first-time felony drug offenders away from prosecutors to judges.
Her answer yesterday to him said she "looked forward" to debating the issues and said she supported the reforms.
But today, her team accused him of taking her words on the sentencing reforms out of context.
"While your decision to engage in political attacks in the hours before state government, at least, imposes sweeping cuts to families and neighborhoods across the state, remains the most troubling portion of your actions, the factual inaccuracy of your attack also raises serious questions regarding the integrity of your campaign," her team wrote, accusing him of "egregious distortion" of the facts.
"District Attorney Rice has always supported reforming the Rockefeller-era drug laws. In fact, as the top law enforcement official in Nassau County, District Attorney Rice implemented the key principles of the reforms long before the legislature chose to take action," the letter said.
She also included a separate letter from 2006 to back up her statement.
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The heads of the CIA, FBI, NSA and three other spy agencies were unanimous in saying that Moscow's efforts to disrupt US politics are as strong as they were in 2016.
PIC: WASHINGTON, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) (right) listens to ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) question officials from the intelligence community during a hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill February 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. The intelligence chiefs were called to testify to the committee about 'world wide threats.' (AFP)
UNITED STATES - US intelligence chiefs said Tuesday that Russian attempts to meddle in US politics are continuing un abated -- and pose a threat to mid-term Congressional elections in November.
The heads of the CIA, FBI, NSA and three other spy agencies were unanimous in saying that Moscow's efforts to disrupt US politics are as strong as they were in 2016.
"Throughout the entire community, we have not seen any evidence of any significant change" in Russian behavior, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
America's leading intelligence agencies concluded at the end of 2016 that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed a broad intelligence effort to influence the presidential election that year to undermine the campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton and boost Donald Trump's chances.
That effort included hacking and releasing emails and documents from the Clinton campaign, filling social media with posts and "news" items aimed at discrediting her, as well as targeting voter-registration operations and election databases.
Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo warned late last month that Russian interference has not stopped and can be expected to continue heading into the 2018 midterm elections -- a view unanimously endorsed by his fellow intelligence chiefs at Tuesday's congressional hearings.
"This is not going to change or stop," warned National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers.
"With respect to Russian influence efforts, let me be clear, the Russians utilize this tool because it is relatively cheap, it is low risk, it offers what they perceive as plausible deniability, and it has proven to be effective at sowing division," Coats said.
"We expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false flag personas, sympathetic spokesmen, and other means to influence to try to build on its wide range of operations, and exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States," he added.
"There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 US midterm elections as a potential target for Russian influence operations."
Several congressional investigations have been set up to probe the extent of Russian meddling, while the former FBI chief Robert Mueller has been appointed as special prosecutor to lead a Justice Department investigation into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to tilt the election.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the idea that Moscow helped him -- and all allegations of collusion -- as "fake news."

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January 9, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudan Revolutionary Forces led by Minni Minnawi (SRF Minnawi) has called for establishing a unified opposition centre to overthrow the regime.
In a video message circulated on Tuesday, SRF chairman Minni Minnawi said change is a personal and collective responsibility that rests on the shoulders of the political parties, resistance forces and the civil society organizations as well as the various societal sectors.
He said the opposition forces wouldn't topple the regime unless the opposition is being unified on the bases of a common minimum programme.
"We in the SRF and our partners in the Sudan Call declare our full readiness to discuss ways to form a unified opposition centre to confront the regime and work together to overthrow it" he said
He stressed the RSF support for the Sudanese people in the struggle against the harsh economic policies implemented by the regime, denouncing the violent crackdown on protesters and mass confiscation of newspapers.
The rebel leader called for the immediate release of all political prisoners including the chairman of the opposition Sudanese Congress Party (SCoP) Omer al-Digair and former chairman Ibrahim al-Shiekh.
He also criticized the government confused foreign policy, saying the regime seeks to protect its President Omar al-Bashir who is a fugitive of international justice.
Minnawi further pointed out that the government declaration of the state of emergency in particular states is nothing but an attempt to cover up the human rights violations.
SRF is a coalition established in 2011 between rebel groups in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile including the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Sudan Liberation Movement/SLM-AW led by Abdel-Wahid al-Nour and SLM-MM led by Minni Minnawi and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N).
Divergences appeared within the SRF groups in October 2015 when the three groups from Darfur region, JEM, SLM-AW and SLM-MM, issued a statement announcing the appointment of the leader of JEM, Gibril Ibrahim, as chairman of the rebel umbrella.
The SRF split in October 2015 into two factions one headed by Gibril Ibrahim and the second by Malik Agar after a difference over the chairmanship of the rebel alliance.
In October 2017, the SRF Gibril held its general conference in Paris. The rebel alliance leaders unanimously elected Minni Minnawi as a new chairman for the umbrella organization.


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One sunset by the beach…Friday, December 7th, 2012
Are you in for some cheesy post? Let's start December with some good vibes…
Nigel: Bakit ba gustong gusto niyo yung sunset? Ano bang maganda don?
Me: Hmmm… Sa iba… romantic, maganda yung color hue, drama… Para sakin, maganda kasi kasama kita… 🙂 <3
Nigel: Hmmm… Sabagay… *moves closer to me*
Top: Sunset taken at Ilocos Norte, Pagudpod
Bottom left most: Taken at Panglao Beach, Bohol
Bottom center: Taken at Saud Beach Pagudpod, Ilocos Norte
Bottom right: Taken at Baler, Aurora by Aileta Estalilla


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Plus-Size Inspiration: #WeWearWhatWeWant
Posted by Laurel on 22nd Aug 2016
We all love and need a bit of body positivity from time to time, so we found it both inspiring and powerful when we logged into Twitter recently and discovered an influx of Photoshop-free images of beautiful, voluptuous women on our timelines. It's fair to say that bigger women's stories aren't usually shared but there was really no hiding from them when Simone Mariposa, an LA-based model, started the hashtag #WeWearWhatWeWant that rapidly begun trending.
The self-acclaimed fat, chocolate-covered flower queen was inspired to fuel the movement at the end of last month, upon seeing a story on her own timeline about a fellow plus-size beauty being publicly shamed for wearing something that showed too much skin, something that we find extremely relatable as day to day we personally feel and hear fears of being bullied for wearing crop tops, shorts, bikinis and mini dresses – even in summer! Well, #WeWearWhatWeWant refutes that by proving that showing skin isn't exclusive to smaller girls and it's okay for a plus-size woman to let her body breathe in her clothing.
The hashtag received a vast amount of support, something we were very happy to see, especially in such a small amount of time, including support from the likes of glamour model Tess Holliday and UK vlogger Gracie Francesca. What's more is that the hashtag even gained support from women of smaller sizes promoting unconditional self-love - feel the girl power ladies!
Wearing whatever you want is a super simple concept to conceive, but a difficult one to live by in a society that still upholds the ideal of sample size as the single standard of beauty and one that implicitly states fashion rules. Still, rules are meant to be broken, and whose approval are we looking for anyway? Perhaps what we need to accept is that there will always be women of different shapes and sizes and we should work on creating clothing that fits and flatters all sizes. Luckily at Just Curvy, we do just that!
Check out #WeWearWhatWeWant on Twitter for more inspirational images and follow the originator of the movement @SimoneMariposa for more curvy wisdom.
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TSPY_ZBOT.CQJ is one of the new ZeuS/ZBOT 2.0 variants spotted earlier this year. Let's take a look at one of the methods it uses to steal users' banking credentials.
These new ZBOT variants intercept the information users enter into a bank's Web page by inserting predefined JavaScript code into the said page. At present, this threat successfully inserts its predefined code when affected users use Internet Explorer and Firefox.
A downloaded ZBOT configuration file contains a list of target websites. It also specifies how these targets will be modified. In some cases, Web forms are added for users to fill in. Here's a screenshot of part of a targeted bank's website:
Here is the modified version. Note the added field, Clavo de Operaciones, which refers to another security key:
The latter version has been extensively modified with the addition of a script that was not present in the original version:
This script performs the actual information theft, capturing any entered credential. It prompts the user to fill in the inserted Web form field if left blank/empty.
This second password is used by institutional accounts that have different levels of user privileges. The bank's website will ask for this second password if transactions involve money (such as paying bills, transferring funds, etc.) are made by the user. Clearly, this is something that cybercriminals would like to steal.
Added fields in forms are not the only tactic used. In other cases, a fake secondary login page asking for the second password is displayed instead:
The goal here is similar to the first instance wherein secondary passwords needed to complete financial transactions are stolen.
In addition to detecting the ZBOT files themselves, Trend Micro products now also detect the scripts inserted into Web pages as JS_ZBOT.SM and JS_ZBOT.CNX. A white paper detailing the activities of the ZeuS/ZBOT botnet is also available here.
Additional information provided by Advanced Threats Researcher Ranieri Romera.


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2020 Sankashti Chaturthi Dates
Sankashti Chaturthi is celebrated to worship Lord Ganesha. Sankashti Chaturthi is a day of Lord Ganesha. Chaturthi occurs on fourth day of Krishna Paksha of every month. Sankashti means the end of troubles. If Chaturhi occurs on Tuesday, it is called Angarika Chaturthi. Lord Ganesha is supreme to all deities. Lord Ganesha is the god of knowledge, pleasure and wisdom. Sankashti chaturthi is famous READ MORE
Sankashti Chaturthi Dates 2020Current Location : Delhi, India
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2020 Sankashti Chaturthi Dates
Sankashti Chaturthi is celebrated to worship Lord Ganesha. Sankashti Chaturthi is a day of Lord Ganesha. Chaturthi occurs on fourth day of Krishna Paksha of every month. Sankashti means the end of troubles. If Chaturhi occurs on Tuesday, it is called Angarika Chaturthi. Lord Ganesha is supreme to all deities. Lord Ganesha is the god of knowledge, pleasure and wisdom. Sankashti chaturthi is famous among hindus because it destroy all 'sankats'. So it is celebrated by all. Lord Ganesha got a boon from Lord Shiva that Lord Ganesha will be worshiped first to the end of space and time. He also will be worshiped before any shubh work. Moon is also worshiped on this Chaturthi day. Chaturthi is an auspicious day. Sankashti chaturthi and Angarika Chaturthi is a day when we can receive the blessings of Lord Ganesha.
Katha behind the Sankashti Chaturthi
There is a mythical story behind Sankashti Chaturthi. Once, Indra was passing on a way after seeing saint Bhrushundi. Saint Bhrushundi was a great worshipper of Lord Ganesha. Indra's plane was passing over the kingdom of king Sursena. Suddenly his plane got stopped and landed over the land of kingdom.
In the times of Satyug, a little sin will become so strong. A sinner had seen the Indra's plane and that's why it became stopped and landed over the land. The king and people of kingdom welcomed the divine plane of lord Indra. The king asked the reason of his visit and Indra replied that a sinner had seen his plane so that it became stopped.
Lord requested to the king to find a person who fasted on previous day. That previous day was Chaturthi. After listening the solution king sent all his soldiers to different areas of the state. But they couldn't be able to find someone who fasted on the previous day. Sudden they saw Ganesha dutas taking a body of old woman. They asked the reason behind this. Dutas replied that she had slept all day and woke up at the moon rise to have some food. Ultimately she fasted on the day of Chaturthi and her all sins had destroyed.
The soldiers asked dutas to help them but they refused for help. Suddenly the air blew opposite and carrying away the virtue of old woman to the divine plane of Indra that made it able to fly again. This shows the great power of blessings which we can receive on this day.
Vidhi of Sankashti Chaturthi
Sankahti Chaturthi is celebrated mostly among all Hindus. Without worshipping Lord Ganesha, we could not start any kind of rituals. So this day is so auspicious for us to worship the supreme of all, Lord Ganesha. They also read the katha of Sankashti Chaturthi.
People wake up in morning, take bath and wear clean clothes. They clean the idol of Lord Ganesha and decorate it with garlands and flowers. They start the day with the aarti of Lord Ganesha. They observe fast whole day and in the evening they take some food.
Moon has a special role into this fast. After seeing the moon in the evening (Chandra darshan), you can take a food. They also offered prasad to moon. After this, they offer coconut, banana, sweets, hibiscus flower and durva leaves to the idol of Ganesha. They also chant the mantra of Lord Ganesha on chaturthi. They remember and recall Lord Ganesha on this day and try to seek blessings.
Ganesha is lord of knowledge and intellect. He is the god of light and pleasures. He is supreme beause he shows perfection in every works. Any kind of work like griha pravesh, marriage, upnayan sanskar, naam sanskar and annprashan etc start with Lord Ganesha's name. He is the lord of success; he gives prosperity to his devotees. He destroys evils and sins from our souls. Ganesha lead his devotes the horizon of success. He kills darkness and enlightens our lives. So we hope that Lord Ganesha always keep his divine hand on us and help us to get spirituality and peace. Sankashti chaturthi is day when you can get Lord Ganesha's blessings. Persons who observe fast on this day can make Lord Ganesha happy and show your faith and devotion towards him. We should believe in every ritual and do them with faith and purity.
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- Author : Walter C. Clemens Jr
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 2015-11-17
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President George W. Bush had pinned North Korea to an "axis of evil" but then neglected Pyongyang until it tested a nuclear device. Would the new administration make similar mistakes? When the Clinton White House prepared to bomb North Korea's nuclear facilities, private citizen Jimmy Carter mediated to avert war and set the stage for a deal freezing North Korea's plutonium production. The 1994 Agreed Framework collapsed after eight years, but when Pyongyang went critical, the negotiations got serious. Each time the parties advanced one or two steps, however, their advance seemed to spawn one or two steps backward. Clemens distils lessons from U.S. negotiations with North Korea, Russia, China, and Libya and analyses how they do-and do not-apply to six-party and bilateral talks with North Korea in a new political era.


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Common Security Vulnerabilities Stem From Both External and Internal SourcesMarch 11, 2016 – In The News
Matthew S. Adams was quoted in the 2016 edition of a treatise titled, "eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel."
In the chapter, Adams provides insight on common computer security vulnerabilities that may stem from internal and external sources.
According to Adams, organizations–private and public, large and small—face threats from two primary sources: external and internal. "Typically, organizations are better equipped to defend against external threats, such as malicious e-mails and websites, due to the fact that external threats are much more susceptible to traditional security safeguard," says Adams. "Internal threats—often carried out by disgruntled employees—bypass these safeguards entirely. Moreover, these employees often have intimate knowledge of the organization's business and network infrastructure, which can result in devastating loss following an attack."
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Warning sent out on toxic make-up sets for girls
MANILA, Philippines — The recent Miss Universe pageant may inspire little girls to play beauty queen and use toy cosmetics, but an anti-toxics group warned the public against giving these as Christmas gifts because of their high mercury content.
The EcoWaste Coalition urged consumers not to give "Fashion Girls" and "Pretty Girl" make-up sets to children after sampling 10 items being sold in Divisoria, Manila, at cheap prices ranging from P10 to P50.
"Our investigation shows that some play make-up sets are not safe to play with due to the presence of mercury that can damage the kidneys, reduce skin's resistance to bacterial and fungal infections, as well as cause skin discoloration, rashes and scarring," Aileen Lucero of the EcoWaste's Project Protect said in a statement.
"Girls, in particular, are unknowingly exposing themselves to mercury and other toxic metals when they play actress, princess or Miss Universe and apply unsafe cosmetics to their faces and lips," she added.
Traces of mercury were detected in 8 of the 10 samples in the range of 3.7 to 554 parts per million (ppm), exceeding the government's "allowable limit" of 1 ppm for cosmetics.
EcoWaste said tests detected 554 ppm and 198 ppm of mercury in "Pretty Girl" lipstick and blush-on powder while "Fashion Girls" make-up set showed a level of 179 ppm.
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Other: DACS- special Colloquium: Do I need to fix a failed component now, or can I wait until tomorrow?
When: Nov. 24, 2014, 14:00-15:00
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Who: Michele Sevegnani
Ideally in systems in which failures are monitored and sensed, an engineer would fix a failure immediately. But this might not be possible due to limited resources and/or physical distance to a device. So how does an engineer prioritise and make best use of their resources, while still ensuring the service is operating within acceptable levels of risk of failure?
We hypothesise predictive event-based modelling and reasoning with a stochastic temporal logic can inform decision making when failures occur. We show, with a real industrial case study, that by relating the status of assets to service behaviour in a CTMC model, the risk of service failure now, and over various time frames, future failure rates, and interventions, can be quantified. We reason both in the context of how the system is designed to meet service requirements, and how it actually meets service requirements, when the models are calibrated with rates derived from historical, field data.


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The Friday Lunch Series
October 30, 2010
At the beginning of the semester, my friend Schuyler and I decided that we would make good use of our class-free Friday schedules and always reward ourselves with a lunch out. Well, here we are halfway through the semester and let me tell you, I have had some good lunches. We've yet to repeat a restaurant (other than the den once) and the small culinary vacation is always a welcome treat. Because I love food, I will try my hardest to relive each meal by listing them, starting with yesterday.
Heidi's Deli– Heidi's is what every student crosses their fingers will cater a meeting/event/lunch that provides food. Amazing sandwiches. AMAZING. I had a Cajun Turkey and avacado sandwich on sourdough. MMM. It's also right over the bridge in Auburn AND close to Shaws and starbucks making my other Friday errands easy to check off my list.
The Library Cafe– This pick was Schuyler's, who discovered it at the Taste of Lewiston/ Auburn, which is a showcase for local restaurants for the entire Bates community in the fall. It's a new little spot in the basement of the Auburn Library, and a great stop on our lunch tour. It was pouring rain that day, which also happened to be the opening day of Fuddy Meers, but we walked into the cozy spot and we were greeted by a delicious menu and friendly staff. I had a "Thoreau" (all of the sandwiches had literary names. Get it? Library?) which was some sort of turkey and cheddar sandwich with good spreads on great bread. (I'm kicking myself for not remembering the exact combination. Well, looks like I'll have to go back and check..)
Commons– On the day of Parent's Weekend, in preparation for the gluttonous parent pampering to come, we decided to stick to campus. Boy, we wish we hadn't. We were so used to our calm Fridays in quiet restaurants that a parent-overloaded commons made us immediately swear to go back to our lunching out plans for the rest of the semester.
The Bobcat Den– There have been two times where we've opted to stay on campus, but instead of going to commons we head over to the den. The Den used to be the late night food place at Bates (before my time) when Old Commons was in use. Now, it's operational only during the day, and therefore is a faculty and staff hangout. As we painfully found out, if you go at 12 to the den you will experience a similar horrible rush as going to commons at noon; but instead you will see your boss, your favorite professor, your least favorite professor, and everyone in between. Still, I'm partial to chicken salad on borealis bread when I go to the den, with a hot chai!
Marche- I wrote about Marche in my Parent's Weekend post. It's fuel's (probably the best restaurant in Lewiston) little lunch spot, who also does one dinner on Mondays. Well, you would never guess that it was an 'order at the cash register and pick up your food at the counter" place from the ambiance. It's decorated very well: sophisticated, with a little fun in the pictures on the wall and the objects being displayed. Anyways, I had this amazing steak sandwich with cheese, peppers and onions and with horseradish mayo on a really delicious roll. Schuyler and I both ordered the same thing and were satisfied for probably three days. If anyone's a repeat in this series, it will be Marche.
Grittys- A classic. We headed to this Maine pub-style restaurant early on in the semester. It's a really good place and you know you can fill up on burgers, sandwiches, and other great pub foods no problem (and if the season's appropriate, you can sit outside overlooking the river). I had a burger (of course. I love burgers) with bbq sauce, bacon, and cheddar cheese. MMmmm! Just thinking about it makes my stomach rumble.
There you have it– the Friday lunch series. Although I am spending a little bit of extra cash each week, it's totally worth it and a great little vacation after a full week of work. I think we are almost running out of suggestions, but we have 5 more weeks to fill. We'll see where we end up in the future! Who knows, all I can say is it better be delicious…


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