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Federal Courts May Seize Martin Shkreli's Unreleased Wu-Tang Clan & Lil Wayne Albums
Pharma-bro Martin Shkreli is currently awaiting his sentencing while locked up in prison over three felony accounts of security fraud. The federal government may be taking action to seize some of his…
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Notorious Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is currently locked up, awaiting sentencing on three felony accounts of security fraud. On Thursday (Nov. 30), Brooklyn prosecutors asked the federal courts to seize more than $7 million in assets from the 34-year-old criminal. In addition to his $5 million in bail, the government included his Picasso painting, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter V and Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin amongst other items as possibilities for forfeiture.
The former Biotech CEO became known in the public eye after purchasing the elusive Wu album for about $2 million, but Bloomberg News is reporting someone may have sold the project on eBay while Shkreli was locked up for $1 million, even though the buyer is still unidentified.
Shkreli previously played cuts from both LPs while live-streaming shortly after his own conviction. The Brooklyn native got his hands on Tha Carter V after a third party discovered the project in a Bugatti Veyron that Wayne had sold.
Martin Shkreli Is Selling Wu-Tang Clan's 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' Album on eBay
Shkreli's lawyer relayed his client's position in an email obtained by Bloomberg News. "We will vigorously oppose the government motion," said Benjamin Brafman. "Our position is clear. None of the investors lost any money and Martin did not personally benefit from any of the counts of conviction. Accordingly, forfeiture of any assets is not an appropriate remedy."
Stay tuned, as the two exclusive projects could soon be freed.
#BREAKING the government wants Martin Shkreli to hand over the Wu Tang album in forfeiture (!!!) pic.twitter.com/bOzWjlLeOx
— David Mack (@davidmackau) December 1, 2017


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Q: How would I go about making the amount of categories shorten to similarly asked questions? I am currently tasked with a project to make a Chat bot in Pandorabots using AIML.
For this project we need to create the bot with less than 15 categories (to get full marks).
There is a text file we were given which had a list of 49 questions that need to be answered by this bot.
Most of the questions that are asked are like
 "Where is Cardiff"
 "Whereabouts is Cardiff"
 "Tell me where Cardiff is"
 "Where is Cardiff bot"
These sort of questions but changing the city for Bristol, London etc.
I have a Github repo of the project with all the questions in there.
https://github.com/SoberBluee/courseworkbot
In no way am I asking someone to do it for me, I just need some direction on where to start because I'm very new to XML.
/files/questions.aiml is the file that all the questions are stored in.
Many Thanks.

A: Without seeing the questions, it's difficult to guide you but from the examples you gave, you need to look at the <srai> tag in AIML. This can be used to amend the user input and saves you writing lots of categories. Not sure how much guidance you need but here is an example of handling sentences that start with "Whereabouts". If the user's input is "Whereabouts is Cardiff", the bot will process, "Where is Cardiff"
<category>
    <pattern>WHEREABOUTS *</pattern>
    <template><srai>Where <star/></srai></template>
</category>

If you need further guidance, just let me know.

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A Dangerous Year in America Enters Its Most Dangerous Month
News October 5, 2020 techietr
America has now entered what may be one of the most dangerous months in recent memory. That was true even before Thursday night, when...
America has now entered what may be one of the most dangerous months in recent memory. That was true even before Thursday night, when a virus that should have been easy to keep away from a responsible White House sidelined entire ranks of West Wing staff, senior Republican leaders, and hospitalized the president himself.
Now, instead of a country focused on successfully defending and executing a rapidly approaching and logistically complex election, the United States is as splintered and distracted as it has been in modern history.
Trouble and worry mount in every direction. The final run-up to Election Day—and the days after—have been appearing more fraught all year, as US intelligence warnings of foreign interference alternately appear either dire or, just as troubling, silenced entirely, buried out of fear of upsetting the president. At the same time, the president has recklessly spent the fall stoking questions about the legitimacy of an already complicated and unprecedented election, as state election administrators attempt to transition and adopt pandemic-friendly voting systems on the fly.
Throughout this incredible, news-packed year, Twitter jokes and online memes have suggested that the screenwriters of 2020 have gone a bit too heavy on the chaos and apocalyptic overtones. And yet, in the final month before the election, you would be hard-pressed to write an election scenario more worrisome than what the US now faces.
There are seven distinct factors over the next month that threaten to combine, compound, and reinforce each other in unpredictable ways, each contributing to a moment when the nation seems set for trouble:
A President Isolated by Virus and Egomania
President Trump's brief joyride around Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Sunday afternoon epitomized the most troubling aspects of his Covid-19 diagnosis. On the one hand, the leader of the country is isolated in a Maryland hospital suite with an uncertain medium-term prognosis and troubling and conflicting information about his health. Regardless, he will be out of commission for days under the best of circumstances, even if he's discharged back to the White House.
"They don't exercise this stuff. They haven't done any of it."
Senior national security official
And yet just as troubling was the joyride itself, a reckless and unnecessary publicity stunt that put a highly infectious patient inside a hermetically sealed vehicle with otherwise healthy staff. It was immediately reminiscent of the photos circulating of what appears to be the world's most infamous super-spreader event—the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, where the nation's leadership, White House staff, and top GOP officials mingled at length, indoors, often without masks, breaking every piece of public health guidance in the pandemic.
The fact that no one seems able to say no to the president—that he seems incapable of listening to logic and prudence even when he endangers himself and others—presents its own crisis. Presidents normally rely on their staff for advice and to save them from themselves; Trump appears incapable of listening to either medical or political professionals. The fact that he's so poorly staffed, day in and day out, represents a true crisis for American security.
His prognosis—and behavior—presents an ongoing risk to the United States, as for the first time in history, the president is literally prohibited from being in the room with his top advisors. Should a crisis arrive, Trump will be governing and making decisions over a speakerphone or video teleconference, with little of the normal staff structure and aides available to help.
And all of that also presupposes the best case scenario: The president's health rapidly improves, with no complications, and he's fully out of the woods within days. Should his condition worsen, linger, or require medical procedures that involve anesthesia, we might very well find ourselves either without a fully functioning chief executive or with an "acting president," Mike Pence, who would necessarily be politically constrained in the decisions and actions he could make in a crisis. The "acting president" procedures, meanwhile, are filled with thorny legal issues and unsettled constitutional questions.
A West Wing Staff Focused on Themselves, Not the World Beyond
At a moment when all national efforts should focus on securing the election, containing the pandemic, and jump-starting the economy, White House staffers spent the weekend unsure whether they should even report to work on Monday. Exposed unnecessarily to danger, they were then kept in the dark, furious, about the dangers they faced to their own health over the last week—who tested positive, and when. Only on Friday—literally months after the nation broadly began adopting and even mandating mask use—did national security adviser Robert O'Brien order the staff of the National Security Council to wear them in common areas. Only at 8:18 pm ET Sunday night did they get their first guidance about how to care for themselves and what to expect in this week ahead. So many White House staff have apparently tested positive now that White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany refused Sunday to release any additional numbers or names. Monday morning, McEnany herself said she had contracted Covid-19.

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Case in Brief: Barer v. Knight Brothers LLC
Barer v. Knight Brothers LLC
Majority: Justice Clément Gascon dismissed the appeal (Chief Justice Wagner and Justices Abella, Moldaver, Karakatsanis, Rowe, and Martin agreed)
Concurring: Justice Russell Brown said Mr. Barer had not submitted to the Utah court's jurisdiction, but the Utah court still had jurisdiction for other reasons
Dissenting: Justice Suzanne Côté said that Mr. Barer didn't submit to the Utah court's jurisdiction and the Utah court didn't have jurisdiction any other way, and so would have allowed the appeal
On appeal from the Court of Appeal of Quebec
Decision on application (Superior Court of Quebec)
Decision on application (Quebec Court of Appeal)
Appeal (Quebec Court of Appeal)
It's contradictory for Quebec residents to argue that a foreign court doesn't have the power to decide a lawsuit against them, while bringing up points the court could use to resolve the dispute in their favour, the Supreme Court has ruled.
Laws are local. A law passed in one place doesn't automatically apply somewhere else. This means you can't take a court judgment from one place (e.g., where you live) and get it automatically enforced in another (e.g., where someone who owes you money lives). Because laws are local, courts only have "jurisdiction" (power) in their own territories. But life and business today cross borders, so there are rules about how to deal with foreign court decisions fairly and efficiently. These rules are part of a branch of law known as "private international law" or "conflict of laws."
For a foreign decision to be enforced in Quebec, a Quebec court must decide to accept (or "recognize") it in the province. This doesn't mean looking at all the facts and arguments again. It just means the Quebec court will apply Quebec rules to decide if the foreign court had jurisdiction over the Quebec resident. Foreign court decisions will usually be recognized, with some exceptions.
One way a foreign court's decision can be accepted and enforced in Quebec is if the Quebec resident has recognized the foreign court's authority. In legal terms, this is called "submitting to the jurisdiction." If the Quebec resident didn't submit, the Quebec court may decide not to enforce the foreign judgment. In such a case, the person suing the Quebec resident won't be able to be paid in Quebec, even though the foreign court has ordered it. That means it's important to know whether a Quebec resident who is sued abroad has submitted to the foreign court's jurisdiction.
But this isn't always clear. You can submit explicitly by saying so, but you can also submit implicitly by your actions. Judges and legal thinkers have disagreed about which actions will be considered signs of submission. In particular, they've disagreed about whether someone really submits when they argue about the "merits" to avoid a bad outcome while also saying the foreign court doesn't have jurisdiction. (The "merits" are the facts and legal substance of the case.)
This was the issue in Mr. Barer's case. Mr. Barer was a Quebec resident. He was president of two companies, one based in Montreal and one based in the US state of Vermont. Knight Brothers was based in the US state of Utah, where the Vermont-based company was involved in a project. After a contract dispute over the project, Knight Brothers sued Mr. Barer and both of his companies in a Utah court.
Mr. Barer asked the Utah court to summarily dismiss the lawsuit against him (that is, to dismiss it without a full hearing). He said the court didn't have jurisdiction, but also argued that there were legal reasons why Knight Brothers' claim couldn't succeed. The judge rejected his motion to dismiss and Mr. Barer didn't defend himself any more. The Utah court eventually ruled for Knight Brothers. Because Mr. Barer lived (and had assets) in Quebec, Knight Brothers asked a Quebec court to recognize the decision.
The trial judge said the decision could be recognized in Quebec. It said Mr. Barer had submitted to the Utah court's jurisdiction by arguing the merits of the case in his motion to dismiss. The judge said Mr. Barer had to pay Knight Brothers over $1.2 million. The Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal.
The majority at the Supreme Court agreed that the Utah judgment should be recognized in Quebec. It said defendants submit to a court's jurisdiction when they make arguments that (if accepted) would resolve the dispute – or part of the dispute – on its merits. It would be unfair and inefficient if someone could try to convince a foreign court on the merits while still being able to challenge jurisdiction at home if they didn't like the result. When Mr. Barer argued the merits of the case in his motion to dismiss, he submitted to the Utah court's jurisdiction under Quebec law. If the Utah court had accepted this argument, it would have decided in his favour on that issue and Knight Brothers would have had to accept it. Mr. Barer made a strategic choice, and he had to accept the consequences.
This case was specific to Quebec law, found in Quebec's Civil Code. The Civil Code applies to non-criminal legal issues in Quebec.


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Access Management , Cybercrime , Endpoint Security
10 Initial Access Broker Trends: Cybercrime Service Evolves
$5,400 Is the Average Price for Access to Hacked Networks, Kela Reports Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • August 10, 2021
Count of access listings for sale on cybercrime forums (Source: Kela)
The rise of ransomware as a moneymaking powerhouse for online attackers parallels the services being offered by initial access brokers. Such brokers sell access as a service to others, saving them the time, effort and expense of gaining a toehold in an organization's network.
Initial access brokers gain first access to victims' networks in a variety of ways - often via weak remote desktop protocol or remote management software to which they've gained brute force access. Sometimes, attackers exploit an unpatched vulnerability in a system. Whatever the approach, once they have access, brokers can resell it to others, sometimes more than once (see: Ransomware's Helper: Initial Access Brokers Flourish).
For criminals, the advantage of buying ready access to a corporate network is easy to see: Instead of spending time trying to identify victims and gain remote access, buyers can select from a menu of options, picking victims based on their revenue, country and sector, as well as the type of remote access being offered.
As cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has noted: "When criminal malware operators purchase access, it eliminates the need to spend time identifying targets and gaining access, allowing for increased and quicker deployments as well as higher potential for monetization."
For ransomware-wielding criminals in particular, buying access can cost a fraction of what a successful ransom payment brings in, without the hassle of trying to hack into a victim's network first. Security experts say crime gangs practicing big game hunting - taking down large targets in search of bigger ransoms - are especially reliant on initial access brokers for target selection.
So goes the initial access broker business model in recent years, with demand remaining heavy from attackers who wield crypto-locking malware.
What's the current state of the initial access market? Israeli threat intelligence firm Kela reviewed 1,000 access listings offered for sale on publicly accessible cybercrime forums over the past year, of which at least 262 were allegedly confirmed to have been sold.
Based on those listings, here are 10 trends it found:
1. Affordable Access
For the period from July 1, 2020, through June 30, Kela reports that the average price for remote access to a network was $5,400, while the median price was $1,000.
The average access for sale costs $5,400, compared to the ransom being paid by a victim recently averaging $137,000. (Source: Coveware)
For comparison's sake, the average ransom paid by a victim in the second quarter of this year was $137,000, according to ransomware response firm Coveware.
2. RDP and VPN Credentials Rule
Remote desktop protocol and VPN credentials were the most common types of access being listed. But other types of access also get offered - for example, via remote management software, which many managed service providers will install on the endpoints they manage for customers.
Buyer selling access to remote monitoring and management software (Source: Kela)
Some attackers also offer access to specific types of environments. For example, "VMWare's ESXi servers have recently become quite popular among ransomware attackers," says Victoria Kivilevich, a threat intelligence analyst at Kela who wrote the new report.
Buyer selling root-level access to an environment running VMware ESXi servers (Source: Kela)
Indeed, REvil - aka Sodinokibi - as well as DarkSide and now BlackMatter have all built malware capable of crypto-locking Linux devices running ESXi servers so their data can be held for ransom.
3. Active Directory Credentials: Extra Valuable
"The most valuable offers include domain admin privileges on a computer within a company with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue," Kivilevich writes in the report. Having domain-admin access to Microsoft Active Directory means an attacker can use the IT tool to distribute crypto-locking malware onto every endpoint inside an organization. Forcibly encrypting more systems at once might increase the chance that a victim pays a ransom in exchange for the promise of a decryption tool.
4. Top Target: US Organizations
The greatest number of remote access credentials being listed, Kela found, were for targets in the United States, which accounted for 28% of all listings, followed by France, the U.K., Australia, Canada, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Germany and the United Arab Emirates.
Location of victims for which access is being sold by brokers, as analyzed from July 2020 through June 2021 (Source: Kela)
5. Access to Manufacturing Leads Offerings
Organizations in the manufacturing sector were most listed, followed by education, IT, financial services, government and healthcare. And brokers didn't just sell access to large firms; Kela notes that there were "plenty of offers" for access to small firms, often retailing for $100 to $200.
6. One Buyer Often Preferred
Some brokers will list a sample of the access they have for sale and tell buyers to contact them for more details.
Two posts seeking single buyers for a large number of accesses, including "70 Citrix accesses from tier 1 countries" (left), and Active Directory administrator-level access (right)
"These brokers generally are interested in getting one buyer for all the accesses being sold and sometimes go as far as to request a percentage of the ransom if an attack is successful," Kivilevich says.
7. Multiple Monetization Strategies
Some network access brokers appear to sell not just access but also data from victims' environments. One example involved Pakistan International Airlines, to which a broker was selling access for $4,000 late last year. "A week after putting up access to the airline's network, the actor announced that he was also selling all the databases from the airline's network," according to Kela. "Therefore, the actor took two different approaches to try and monetize, leveraging the network access to the airline's network that he obtained to exfiltrate the company's data."
Numerous threat intelligence firms now monitor underground forums for details on potential victims. While this is a paid service, the intelligence gleaned by such monitoring can give victims the ability to more quickly lock down network intrusions they may have missed.
An initial access broker first advertised access to an airline before later selling 15 allegedly stolen databases of Pakistan International Airlines. (Source: Kela)
"The time between network access for sale and a ransomware attack occurring is not imminent, therefore the earlier the detection of weakness in your organization's network, the better chances your security team will have to mitigate that weakness and prevent further damage from a ransomware attack," Kivilevich writes.
8. Brokers React to White House Moves
In recent months, ransomware has become a political hot potato. The Biden administration has demanded that Moscow crack down on criminals hitting U.S. targets from inside Russia, threatening to disrupt them directly if Russian authorities don't act soon (see: Has REvil Disbanded? White House Says It Doesn't Know).
In response, some cybercrime forums - including the Russian-language Exploit and XSS forums - have announced bans on ransomware, although security experts say such prohibitions are not always heavily enforced. Likewise, some initial access brokers appear to have grown more cautious about listing some types of victims, such as healthcare entities.
9. Private Communications Still Happening
But such sales may well still be occurring behind the scenes. Last year, for example, Kela's Kivilevich reported that some brokers were "posting victims from the healthcare sector and then deleting the offers after the criticism from other users" as the pandemic continued, but likely sold them via other means later.
The initial access broker scene is never static. Security experts say new sellers appear constantly, advertising access to yet more fresh victims. But understanding how many organizations have been hit can be difficult, because not all types of access get posted on cybercrime forums. And even when they do, brokers will often obscure the victim's identity, because, of course, they wouldn't want to see the victim get tipped off.
While some forums have restricted ransomware discussions, would-be initial access broker buyers, of course, don't have to say why they're buying such access. Furthermore, while Exploit and XSS banned accounts held by administrators for groups such as DarkSide and REvil, these groups could have simply created new accounts in other names to continue purchasing access or building relationships.
10. Dominant Groups Foster Relationships
Many established brokers appear to form relationships with specific crime groups or affiliates of ransomware operations, leading to them no longer listing their "accesses" for sale on public cybercrime forums, but rather sharing them via private conversations, Kivilevich says.
She says the number of access listings declined in Q2, compared to previous quarters, which may reflect such a shift. Multiple brokers will list partial details on a cybercrime forum, for example, and tell would-be buyers to communicate privately for more details.
Ransomware operators seeking access brokers for exclusive business relationships - or at least a right of first refusal - is a trend that appears to have begun by at least the end of last year. That's when the DarkSide ransomware-as-a-service operation posted on cybercrime forums that it wanted to find brokers who could give it access to U.S. businesses with at least $400 million in annual revenue.
Post by DarkSide operators to a Russian-language cybercrime forum (Source and translation: Kela)
Many larger ransomware operations appear to have cultivated an extensive list of connections and built well-established relationships, says Bob McArdle, director of cybercrime research at security firm Trend Micro. While the individual ransomware groups might come and go, there's nothing to stop operators and affiliates from carrying these connections with them when they leave to start or join new groups.
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NIST Guidance Focuses on Creating 'Cyber Resiliency'
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Executive Editor, DataBreachToday & Europe, ISMG
Schwartz is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience in magazines, newspapers and electronic media. He has covered the information security and privacy sector throughout his career. Before joining Information Security Media Group in 2014, where he now serves as the executive editor, DataBreachToday and for European news coverage, Schwartz was the information security beat reporter for InformationWeek and a frequent contributor to DarkReading, among other publications. He lives in Scotland.
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Q: Signing an assembly with Visual Studio and LibZ Container I have a relatively simple WPF application that I've created in Visual Studio. Because the application has some dependent DLLs (packages pulled down from Nuget), I've also been using a helper application called LibZ Container, which is just like ILMerge except it works with WPF applications. (In other words, it combines the EXE and all DLLs into a single EXE file.)
When I upload my EXE file to the web and subsequently download it, I get a warning -- in whatever browser I'm in -- that the file may be unsafe. For example here's Chrome's warning:

My assumption is that I see this warning because the file was unsigned. So, I purchased a code-signing certificate from Comodo. It took jumping through a lot of different hoops to finally get the certificate in the correct PFX format, but I eventually did, and was able to use it in the "Sign the assembly" portion of the Build properties for my project, in Visual Studio.

That seems to work properly, meaning the project builds successfully and uses the PFX file to do the signing. However, if I check on the file by running signtool verify /pa MyCoolApplication.exe, the signtool utility reports that the file is unsigned. This is even before I've attempted to merge in the DLLs using LibZ container.
When I do use LibZ Container to do the merge, I use this command:

libz inject-dll --assembly MyCoolApplication.exe --include *.dll --move

And as always, that works; however, if I check things with signtool, it still reports that the file is unsigned. I then attempt to use LibZ's built-in signing mechanism by running this command:

libz sign --include MyCoolApplication.exe --key key.pfx --password abc123

However, the console output I get from that ends by saying:

Assembly '.\MyCoolApplication.exe' is already signed so it does not need resigning

I can post the full output of that command if anyone is curious. But again, signtool.exe reports that the file is unsigned. Are there two different types of signing going on here, that I'm not aware of?
How can I get this executable signed, using my code signing certificate, so that the browser warnings will go away? What am I missing?

A: After some research, it seems that this problem (the error message, not the signtool issue) is quite common. Unfortunately, it also seems that there is not one commonly-accepted method to resolve it. Numerous articles and forum postings abound recommending remedies with very tenuous empirical backing. That being said, these are the remedies that seem to have the most reasonable support behind them:

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*Request a review of your site/link from Google

*Add a logo to your executable

*Make sure your headers are in order

*Add your site in Google Webmasters

*Have more people download the file, or just download it yourself multiple times from multiple machines.

Signing your file, which you have attempted to do, is recommended by several posters, but does not seem to have much empirical verification, or any mention by Google.

A: So what I didn't realize when I posted this question is that simply ticking the box to "Sign the Assembly" is really only the first step, but what's also needed is explicitly calling the signtool.exe to sign the executable.
I found a number of guides online all explaining that this is the case. Thanks to those guides, I realized I needed to run these commands:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin\signtool.exe" sign /f key.pfx /p abc123 /t http://timestamp.comodoca.com /v "MyCoolApplication.exe"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1A\Bin\signtool.exe" sign /f key.pfx /p abc123 /fd sha256 /tr http://timestamp.comodoca.com/?td=sha256 /td sha256 /v "MyCoolApplication.exe"

I also discovered the usefulness of a third-party library called StrongNameSigner in automatically giving strong names to the unsigned third-party libraries I was using.


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I have used the opposite colours of purple and orange to add a zesty focal point. When choosing the colours to add in a painting, it's handy to have a basic idea which colours gently sit side by side and which give a shocker of a contrast. By researching the colour wheel you'd find out more about it.


Who will you worship and serve, the God who blesses you or the gods you think will bless you?
Think of all the ways God blesses you daily, and yet we think other things will bless us more. How often do we think certain situations will bless our lives more than God can? For example, we live in a society that worships appearance, prestige, and success. These are good things, until they become gods in our lives. They become gods when we think they will bless and satisfy us more than a relationship with God.
God blesses us, daily, yet we think other things will bless us more. This is not a new idea. In the book of Joshua, Joshua lists all the ways God blessed the people. Here are just some of the ways God blessed the children of Israel: God made Abraham's offspring many, brought them out of the plaque in Egypt, parted the red sea, led them out of the wilderness, destroyed their enemies, delivered them from their enemies, protected them, fought for them, and then gave them land to dwell in and fruit to eat (Joshua 24: 1-13). That is a lot of blessings.
Yet immediately after Joshua lists all of that, he warns the people that they get to make the decision of who to serve, and who to make their God.
God continuously blesses us, and what does he ask of us?
That we would choose daily to worship and serve him. What is interesting about this passage is the order of the sentences. First you have to stop worshiping (the lower case g) gods, and then you can serve (the upper case g) God.
What gods, lower case g, are you worshiping?
Serving God is a choice that we have to make daily. Each day we get to choose if we want to serve the eternal God of the universe or the fleeting gods of this world. It is your decision to make, so what will you choose?
« Maybe we have the wrong mindset.


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Nedunchalai: Trailer
N.Krishna shot to fame with his 1st Tamil film as director, Sillunu Oru Kaadhal (2006).Though the film didn't become a commercial success, it did make headlines because it featured Suriya and Jyothika in the lead and it released during the week that they got married. The film was also noted for its slightly controversial theme and the music by A.R.Rahman. Though N.Krishna had started work finally on his second film Nedunchalai (Highway) in mid 2012, the film has been in the making for quite some time. With Udhayanidhi Stalin's Red Giant Movies finally picking up the distribution rights in late 2013, the film has finally been completed and will now be releasing on 28th March.
Featuring Aari and Shivada Nair in the lead, the supporting cast includes Prashant Narayanan, VTV Ganesh, Thambi Ramaiah, Salim Kumar etc. Nedunchalai is produced by Aaju and C.Soundararajan while C.Sathya has composed the music. Kishore T.E is the editor while Rajavel is the DOP. Nedunchalai is supposedly based on a true incident in the 1980's & draws our attention towards a few characters who live around a National Highway. For now do check out the interesting trailer of the film.
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2 thoughts on "Nedunchalai: Trailer"
Rasik says:
Looks quite interesting..
Ajay Nair says:
Why do all Tamil films look the same now… Ruffians…Policemen… Bearded heroes… rural setting…etc


It's time for that annual ritual of resolving self-improvement in the New Year — exercise more, eat better, lose weight. What about your business? Should you make a New Year's resolution to improve your business in 2016? Probably a good idea, but "improve business" is too broad. How do you measure that improvement? It helps if you start with the end in mind.
To start, pick one specific area of your business you'd like to improve. Make a statement about the different results you want in 2016. Then, use that statement to create a New Year's Resolution for your business and a plan for achieving it.
Be sure to invoice customers immediately after the work is performed, or on a regular schedule for longer projects. Make sure that invoices, contracts/agreements, and purchase orders include payment terms, including penalties for late payment. Automated invoicing and tracking makes the process more efficient.
Paying bills that contain errors costs money, not to mention the extra time spent correcting those errors. Verifying invoices against contract prices and receiving documents before payment reduces costs over the long run. Plus, knowing that you're paying attention keeps vendors on their toes.
Avoid nasty financial surprises by monitoring actual activity vs. the plan (i.e., the budget). Effective monitoring requires up-to-date accounting records and bank reconciliations. Income or expense categories that vary from the budget more than a defined threshold, such as 10%, should be assessed for corrective action.
New Year's resolutions are opportunities to start a new habit, behavior, or process. It could be going to the gym to get healthier, or getting more control over business finances to increase profits. Sounds like if you plan it right, keeping your 2016 New Year's Resolutions can expand your profits and constrict your waistline.
New business owners need help to address questions about business taxes. The answers all depend on the type of business they set up. Sole proprietorship? Corporation? The choices can be confusing.
I recently blogged about operating as a sole proprietor. I described it as the simplest way to establish a business. But what about operating as a Subchapter S Corporation? That could be an option, but it's not for everyone.
A business must qualify to take the Sub-S Election. Requirements for the election include having 100 or fewer domestic shareholders and issuing one class of stock. Some advantages are limited shareholder liability and no double income taxation. Disadvantages include additional legal documents and tax forms and no outside capital funding.
A Sub-S Corporation is required to file a separate federal income tax return, IRS Form 1120S. The Sub-S employs any shareholders, requiring federal, state, and local payroll processing and reporting. Shareholders also receive an IRS Form K-1 for their pro rata share of non-wage income and expenses. Shareholders are responsible for tracking the basis of their shares, which impacts how distributions are taxed.
To prevent underpayment of payroll taxes, the IRS requires that wages paid to shareholders be "reasonable." As noted above, the tax treatment of distributions reported on IRS Form K-1 depends on the basis of the shareholder's shares. While complex, the Sub-S Election provides tax planning opportunities for shareholders.
Any gain on the sale of Sub-S Corporation shares qualifies for more favorable capital gains rates. The tax treatment the gain or loss upon sale for each shareholder depends on her or his share basis.
Taxes are complicated. Sub-S Corporation rules are particularly complex. Knowing the right forms and when to file them can be overwhelming. Consulting a qualified tax professional helps to sort it out, and decide what's best for you and your business.
It happens every year at this time – organizations asking for year-end donations. Whatever charity your heart tells you to support, you also expect to save some tax money.
But how do you know that your donation is going to a qualified charity? Is it deductible? Here are answers to three common questions about charitable donations and their tax deductibility.
Only donations to qualified charities that meet IRS non-profit status requirements are deductible. Qualified charities include humanitarian, religious, educational, scientific, and cruelty-prevention organizations. A list of qualified charities is posted in the IRS' "Exempt Organizations Select Check" tool at http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Exempt-Organizations-Select-Check.
Who Can Take a Deduction?
Eligible charitable donations can only be deducted by taxpayers who itemize their deductions using IRS Schedule A. Deductible amounts could be limited if adjusted gross income exceeds annually adjusted amounts. Donations must be acknowledged in writing at or near the donation date. Donations of $250 or more must be supported by a letter from the charity stating the date and amount of the donation, reduced by the value of anything in received by the donor in return, such as the cost of a fundraising dinner.
Donations don't have to be monetary. Items such as clothing, household goods, vehicles, stock, or real estate, can also be donated, but they are subject to more reporting rules. In general, clothing and household items can only be deducted if they are in good usable condition. The deduction per items is based on the "thrift shop" value, unless an appraisal is obtained. Donated vehicles valued at more than $500 and donated real property and other items valued over $5,000 are subject to even more rules and documentation requirements.
The information presented here is very general. For more information, consult a qualified tax professional or do your own research with IRS Publication 526, Charitable Contributions, at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p526.pdf.
Should You Pay That Invoice?
You are busy running your business or non-profit. Invoices and credit card bills arrive. Your bookkeeper pays them. Should you pay more attention to those invoices than just signing the checks?
Establish a process to ensure that ordered items were received and that services were provided. The process should include receiving documentation that can be matched with the invoice. The matching and verification process should be done before the invoice is paid.
Spot-check invoice prices with the signed contract or other document that reflects the agreed upon price. Every line item does not need attention – focus on larger items and a few of the smaller ones. Take more time with new suppliers and service providers sothey know you are paying attention.
Avoid paying invoices more than once with invoice tracking processes. Log invoices electronically or manually, including the date, when received. Cancel or mark vendor invoices when payment is made. Maintain unpaid electronic or manual invoices separately from paid invoices to avoid confusion.
Even small businesses and non-profits with just a few employees or volunteers can implement these three steps at little or no additional cost. Attention to this part of your business or non-profit not only reduces costly mistakes; it also sends a strong signal to all stakeholders that you are monitoring your organization's payment activities.
Every year, more than 500,000 small businesses are born, according to the SBA. That translates into a lot of new business owners with the same concerns – How do I keep my finances straight? What do I have to do? It has to be EASY!
Even if you have the budget to hire a qualified bookkeeper or accountant to help you out, you need to understand the recordkeeping needed to manage your business. Without that understanding, you won't know enough to make the best investment decisions about your financial systems and processes.
You may not hear this every day, but the IRS is pretty darned helpful. They offer plenty of recordkeeping guidance, whether you keep your business records using paper or a computer. Loads of written instructions and examples about business financial records and taxes are right on their website at http://1.usa.gov/1MRdHHx. A great place to start is Publication 583, Starting a Business and Keeping Records, at http://1.usa.gov/1T3D1h5.
No, the IRS does not specify a particular system or format for business records. Computer software packages purchased online or in retail stores are acceptable. They are generally very helpful and relatively easy to use, and require very little knowledge of bookkeeping and accounting.
The only requirement is that any system you use is set up so your transactions and reports are accurate and complete. To meet this requirement, the financial system must reconcile and provide enough detail to identify the underlying source documents. Those underlying source documents may be kept electronically.
(4) Charts of accounts and detailed account descriptions.
Paying a qualified and experienced professional to help set-up sufficient recordkeeping is a great option. It's even better to get free information and feel confident that your records are adequate for your business and the IRS.


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If your main office is on the Lawrence campus and you travel from Lawrence to KU Edwards Campus to teach, you can be reimbursed for your gasoline use. You will be reimbursed at the IRS rate for a round-trip of 68 miles from the Lawrence Campus. If you choose to take the K-10 Connector bus, you will be reimbursed for the bus fares you purchase for each trip you make to teach your class at the Edwards Campus. For the bus schedule, please go to ridekc.org and select the route schedule for the K-10 Connector.
In compliance with University of Kansas and State of Kansas policy, requests for travel reimbursement must be made within 30 days of the travel date. Please be sure you are submitting your accumulated travel reimbursement form each month to remain in compliance and to provide a more efficient method of processing. It is the decision of the Edwards Campus that requests submitted 60 days or more after the date of travel will be denied. For reimbursement, please submit the faculty reimbursement form or the staff reimbursement form. For questions, contact the Edwards Campus Travel Accounting Specialist at kuec_travel@ku.edu or 785-864-8224.
The first time you request reimbursement for travel, you must complete a W-9 and an Authorization For Electronic Deposit Of Supplier Payment form with an attached voided check. Please request the forms at kuec_asc@ku.edu. Note: The Authorization for Electronic Deposit Of Supplier Payment is not the same form you completed for direct deposit of your paycheck.


A policeman was rushed to hospital for treatment after he was attacked and shot several times by a gunman on Tarrant Drive, an area located close to the Ambrook Lane community, St Andrew on Saturday.
Reports reaching Loop News are that about 11:55 a.m., the traffic police was travelling on a marked motorcycle along the mentioned roadway when he was attacked by a man, who was wanted by the authorities for several crimes.
Reports are that the policeman was shot several times by the man who then escaped from the area.
The injured policeman was rushed to hospital where he has since been admitted.
Reports are that the policeman was shot in his two legs and other parts of his body.
More details to follow as Loop News continue to track the story.


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Jisc, the UK's digital champion for education and research, has announced its full programme for the Jisc Digital Festival 2015
The two-day event will present the best digital talent the UK has to offer under the umbrella theme of 'connect more'. It will feature a diverse line-up of digital innovators and leading technology organisations, including internet giant Google, appealing to stakeholders across further and higher education, skills and research.
By bringing together people working across digital technology in UK education, research, skills and enterprise, alongside leading experts and suppliers, the Jisc Digital Festival offers a platform to share best practice and knowledge, in order to help the UK retain its position as the world's most digitally advanced education and research nation.
Phil Richards, chief innovation officer at Jisc, said: "With digital technology changing faster than ever, education providers need to be sure they are skilled in the use of digital technology to be able to take full advantage of these opportunities. This type of expertise will not only help improve the student experience, but can provide business intelligence, cost savings through digital resources and administration, and even help attract more students. Our festival will offer support and advice on all these areas, alongside sector experts to ensure the UK really leads the way in digital technology. The real question you need to ask is: are you ready for the future of education?"
Programme sessions will include the latest technologies and how they can support teaching and research practices, such as 3D technologies, augmented reality and geospatial services, to ensure institutions are able to make informed decisions about the tools that are available to them.
One day of the festival will feature a set of sessions with a particular resonance for FE and skills delegates. Topics being discussed will include how IT and digital capabilities can enhance student employability, enabling mobile learning and facing FELTAG together. Representatives from high profile tech firms will also be speaking on an FE theme, including internet search giant Google, talking about how the FE community has used Google tools to transform operations.
Sharing the full programme today adds to the already highly anticipated keynote speakers, Simon Nelson, chief executive of FutureLearn, the social learning platform of The Open University, and Carole Goble CBE, professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
The Jisc Digital Festival 2015 takes place from March 9-10 2015 at the ICC in Birmingham. Tickets and a full programme of the event can be found here: www.jisc.ac.uk/digifest.
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All kids have great potential. At the Y, we work every day to help them set and achieve personal and educational goals. Millions of children and teens build skills and confidence as they explore new interests and passions through the Y.
Children's and teens' future success is fostered by caring adults who make them feel competent, happy and healthy. That's why Y staff and volunteers are also mentors and role models, sharing this very important—but very inspiring—responsibility by helping youth realize who they are and what they are capable of achieving.


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Q: What do the checkboxes that appear when editing the card for "Me" do? When I edit my address card in OS X (10.7) Address Book, checkboxes appear next to all of the entries. What are these checkboxes for?

A: It's for selective sharing of details when exporting a contact card, as this Finer Things in Mac post suggests. It allows you to keep the unchecked items more private by omitting them from the sharing aspect of Address Book (soon to be Contacts) on OS X.

Lion's Address Book allows you to select which details to share with others when exporting your contact card. As long as you have told Address Book which card is yours using the Card > Make This My Card option, editing your card will display a checkbox to the right of each detail you've entered. Deselect a checkbox, and that detail will be excluded when you drag your card out of Address Book or click the Share button at the bottom.


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Rolling Credits on Exo One
by Naithin · November 23, 2021
Exo One is quite a change of pace after spending a lot of time with Forza Horizon 5. No longer going at breakneck speeds around corners, or soaring over the dunes of Mexico — instead, it's possible to break the sound barrier and fly high over alien landscapes.
Despite that, Forza is an adrenaline fueling rush whereas Exo One has an almost zen-like quality to diving toward the ground before soaring once more above the clouds. I played the demo back in April and couldn't get enough of it, despite giving us only 10 minutes of play on the first planet. There was just something magic to how the controls, visuals and minimalist music all came together.
I kept coming back for more, with something akin to that 'just one more turn' feeling from the strategy genre at play, making me say here, 'just one more go'. Learning better how to use the clouds to stay aloft for longer, and the best places to employ the gravity drive in a rush to the ground before flattening back out to a disc and transforming that momentum horizontal again.
Soaring high across an alien landscape
The first planet, experienced in the demo of Exo One as well, makes for the perfect training ground. In which, you learn about your gravity drive — enabled multiplying the effects of gravity on you several-fold; while when disabled, you instead have gravity act on you as if on the moon. You learn to control your limited charge, morphing into the form of a disc costs this energy and when it runs out you return to the natural spherical shape.
Rolling along the ground recharges you sure, but so does enabling the gravity drive and plummeting toward the ground for a little bit, or as referenced a few times, soaring through the clouds.
I even recorded my first playthrough of the entire game!
Once you've picked up those basics, the game will slightly vary up the mechanics in some of the planetary experiences, ranging from simply a bit of wind to launch pads which can send you hurtling through space through to a level that sees you only able to activate and deactivate the gravity drive. No other steering, no glide mode, no nothing other than heavy or light — for a while at least. Heck, there is another one that sees you slingshotting around asteroids to make it to the gravity well of the next one!
If you read that last bit and thought, "Ooh, that doesn't sound very 'zen'. I'm not sure about that" then don't worry too much. I've not found any way of 'dying' or otherwise losing the game. And it builds naturally on the skills you've already developed in getting to that point.
By the time you reach that point, it will feel second nature (once you work out what it actually wants you to do, in any case.) ;)
Stills fail to do the game much justice, honestly. But still- gotta say, this was a rather impressive vista.
There is a bit of a story throughline to the proceedings. You're looking to rescue the astronauts aboard a Jupiter mission gone wrong.
The story gets fed to you as you go, between levels or in flashes as you dip through the ocean waves or into the skies above. While the story was certainly — to me at least — a far distant second to the experience itself, I am still reluctant to spoil it.
If I was to point out any niggles with the game — I really only have one.
After you complete it, there is no 'Chapter Select' to let you go back directly into a level of choice. This seemed such an obvious omission for a game of this type that I was honestly confused for a few moments when, post-credits, I landed back on the menu and the option wasn't there. I looked into settings. I hit 'New Game' again to see if perhaps it was a sub-menu option to this. But no, it just doesn't exist.
Others may also dislike how short the game is — I finished it in a bit less than an hour and a half — but I think this was OK. I have no burning desire to play through the game again end-to-end immediately, but there are definitely some levels I'd love the option to jump into directly in the future, perhaps capturing some more of the achievements in the process. :)
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Good vibes at 'beyond beautiful' location
May 24, 2009 / monikaullmann
Vancouver Courier, May 2002
Malibu arts retreat like Esalen North thanks to song, dance and tears
I nearly missed it. The first Arts retreat at the fabled Malibu resort, a place that hasn't been open to the public since 1954, located roughly 100 kilometres north of Vancouver. Malibu's rustic cedar log buildings and weathered walkways straddle a rocky peninsula at the narrow mouth of Princess Louisa Inlet, which rises like a finger from the north end of Jervis Inlet. Currently owned by Young Life, who have run it as a Christian summer camp for teenagers since 1954, this was the first time the public has had access to this remote and fabulous spot, originally built as a retreat for Hollywood's elite.
Here was my chance to catch up to the latest incarnation of the human potential movement first made famous at California's Esalen. Minus the drugs, the booze and the flakiness of course. This four-day retreat was a serious attempt to offer something unique to people who want nature combined with art/music/bodywork in a package deal. Not as expensive or focused as other arts retreats, this one was a bit like an art camp for grownups. And as they might have said during the 'sixties, the vibe was good. On the return trip, many people were already signing up for the next retreat, scheduled for September 19 to 22. The organizers, Artesia Tours and the Coast Cultural Alliance may have a hit on their hands. The 85 guests were obviously thrilled with what they got—and there were only a few snags.
The first was that I somehow got my instructions muddled, and waited for the bus at the wrong place-not the Waterfront Station, but the Waterfront Hotel. So they went off without me. I went home, fuming. After some panicky phone calls, the unflappable director, Catherine Evans, smoothed everything out. She re-booked me on the bus, I boarded it at the right place the next morning, and went off to Malibu via Ruby Lake Resort. I spent a restful day there, and then the adventure began.
Together with another freelance writer and her companion, we set off at 10am next morning, via water taxi from the tiny harbour at Egmont to motor up Jervis Inlet to arrive at Malibu in time for lunch. These cruises are a regular feature during the summer. Jervis inlet is a favourite haunt of yachters, but today it's just us. The water is calm, except where the famous Skookumchuck rapids churn, there's a slight breeze and off we go. Nobody had prepared me for the wonders of Jervis inlet—the snow capped Mt. Churchill carving into the blue sky, the eagles riding the updrafts over 800 metre granite cliffs, the black bears scrabbling in the underbrush, the mottled seals sunning themselves on little islands. And every now and then, giant purple starfish.
When we arrive at Malibu, we've grown accustomed to the majestic scenery, but this location is beyond beautiful—it is almost unreal in its natural perfection. The only "Hollywood" touch is the pool, blasted out of the rocks and surrounded by inviting lounges. Everywhere one looks, there are smooth, grey rock outcroppings with moss and grass finding a foothold in tiny crevasses. Weathered silver grey, the original boardwalks climb all over the rocks, connecting romantic looking cottages with totem poles in front and the more recent large dormitories built by Young Life. I wish I could just get rid of those blocky buildings, and see the original Malibu as it once was. We are warmly greeted by Ms Evans, a tall, slim woman with long dark hair, dark eyes and a friendly, easy going manner. She's been producing tours and retreats all over the world for the last 15 years, which may explain why she appears calm as the rocks on which Malibu is nestled. Because we're late, we each get one of the dormitories, all to ourselves. As befits something built for summer campers, they are not luxurious, but okay. But it doesn't matter-it's off to the huge dining room overlooking both inlets, ringed by snow-capped peaks.
The tables are set with potted pansies, tablecloths, jugs of refreshing lemonade and water, and the menu is Mexican-a delicious array of fillings for the pile of soft fajitas. We dig in; the fresh air makes for a ravenous appetite. A mike is passed around, and people talk about their experience at Malibu. "It's just wonderful here" seems to be the key message. There's a prize for the person who came farthest to get to Malibu; it goes to Pat McMahon, a psychologist from Chicago. She and her sister Mary McMahon, an administrator at the University of Washington in Seattle, decided that this would be perfect for their annual get together. "I just loved it here, the scenery is wonderful and the staff so helpful," says Mary. She took the writing workshop with Jan deGrass, and she even gets up the following night, at a farewell concert, to read a paragraph about a rock she found on a hike early that day. But she's also had plenty of time to sit and do nothing, she says—there's no pressure.
The ten instructors, a diverse and somewhat eccentric lot, are all from the Sunshine Coast, and they are exhausted at the end of the retreat. Sylvain Brochu, the dynamic dance and Yoga instructor says he hasn't slept properly the last two nights and his mane of wild locks looks almost tame. The fiery, bird-like Pauline Le Bel, singer playwright, and force of nature, has lost her voice-she is just whispering at the end of her last class. It is one of two classes I attended that Sunday morning. After getting up at an ungodly 6.30am, I climb up to the Tillicum building to do some Rosen Method movement. It turns out to be a gentle, dance – like discipline whose motto is to 'let the movement happen, don't force it'. The instructor glows; she is pregnant and leads a group of eight women through a program that calmed my screaming joints, cleared my head and left me ravenous.
After breakfast and the coffee fix, I return to this wonderful space for Le Bel's singing class. And find myself in tears. Le Bel had asked us all to 'improvise a lullaby', and this being Mother's Day, I sing to my recently deceased mother, tears streaming down my face. Le Bel puts me in the centre, and has the group sing a lullaby to me while they dance around me in a circle. Before long, the lullaby gets kind of cheeky, and then they start to laugh, and pretty soon I join them and we all dance around, giggling. All the while, someone was in the corner, videotaping. The strange thing is, I don't mind. I feel happy. And what more can one ask of a retreat?
Getting there: Take the Langdale Ferry from Horseshoe Bay, drive north on the Sunshine Coast Highway through Gibsons, Sechelt and to Madeira Park and Egmont. Get on water taxi ($99 per person for a round trip to the tip of Princess Louisa Inlet). Stop off at Malibu; the staff will let you look around if they are not too busy. Return to Egmont and have dinner at the fabulous restaurant at Ruby Lake Resort, which serves excellent Italian food. Stay overnight at one of their cabins, or the brand new B&B.
Call: Laura at 1-604-883-2269, email: talk2us@rubylakeresort.com
http://www.rubylakeresort.com
Or if you want to sign up for the next Malibu Arts retreat, contact Catherine Evans at Artesia Tours 1-800-690-7887
Email: artesiatours@dccnet.com
Web site: http://www.suncoastarts.com
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The 2011–12 Stanford Cardinal men's basketball team represented Stanford University during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Cardinal, led by fourth year head coach Johnny Dawkins, played their home games at Maples Pavilion and are members of the Pac-12 Conference. They finished with the record of 26–11 overall, 10–8 in Pac-12 play. They lost in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament to California. They were invited to the 2012 National Invitation Tournament where they advanced to the championship game and defeated the Minnesota Golden Gophers to become the 2012 NIT Champions.

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Constitution of Texas (1869)
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SECTION I. It shall be the duty of the Legislature of this State, to make suitable provisions for the support and maintenance of a system of Public Free Schools, for the gratuitous instruction of all the inhabitants of this State, between the ages of six and eighteen years.
SECTION II. There shall be a Superintendent of Public Instruction, who, after the first term of office, shall be elected by the people; the first term of office shall be filled by appointment of the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Superintendent shall hold his office for the term of four years. He shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars, until otherwise provided by law. In case of vacancy in the office of the Superintendent, it shall be filled by appointment of the Governor, until the next general election.
SECTION III. The Superintendent shall have the supervision of the Public Free Schools of the State, and shall perform such other duties concerning public instruction as the Legislature may direct. The Legislature may lay off the State into convenient school Districts, and provide for the formation of a Board of School Directors in each District. It may give the District Boards such legislative powers, in regard to the schools, schoolhouses, and school fund of the District, as may be deemed necessary and proper. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to recommend to the Legislature, such provisions of law as may be found necessary, in the progress of time, to the establishment and perfection of a complete system of education, adapted to the circumstances and wants of the people of this State. He shall, at each session of the Legislature, furnish that body with a complete report of all the Free Schools in the State, giving an account of the condition of the same, and the progress of education within the State. Whenever required by either House of the Legislature, it shall be his duty to furnish all information called for, in relation to Public Schools.
SECTION IV. The Legislature shall establish a uniform system of Public Free Schools throughout the State.
SECTION V. The Legislature, at its first session, (or as soon thereafter as may be possible,) shall pass such laws as will require the attendance on the Public Free Schools of the State of al the scholastic population thereof, for the period of at least four months of each and every year; provided, that when any of the scholastic inhabitants may be shown to have received regular instruction, for said period of time in each and every year, from any private teacher having a proper certificate of competency, this shall exempt them from the operation of the laws contemplated by this section.
SECTION VI. As a basis for the establishment and endowment of said Public Free Schools, all the funds, lands, and other property heretofore set apart and appropriated, or that may hereafter be set apart and appropriated, for the support and maintenance of Public Schools, shall constitute the Public School Fund. And all sums of money that may come to this State hereafter from the sale of any portion of the public domain of the State of Texas, shall also constitute a part of the Public School Fund. And the Legislature shall set apart, for the benefit of Public Schools, one fourth of the annual revenue derivable from general taxation; and shall also cause to be levied and collected, an annual poll tax of one dollar, on all male persons in this State, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, for the benefit of Public Schools. And said fund and the income derived therefrom, and the taxes herein provided for school purposes, shall be a perpetual fund, to be applied, as needed, exclusively for the education of all the scholastic inhabitants of this State; and no law shall ever be made appropriating such fund for any other use or purpose whatever.
SECTION VII. The Legislature shall, if necessary, in addition to the income derived from the Public School Fund, and from the taxes for school purposes provided for in the foregoing section, provide for the raising of such amount by taxation, in the several School Districts in the State, as will be necessary to provide the necessary school houses in each district, and insure the education of all the scholastic inhabitants of the several Districts.
SECTION VIII. The public lands heretofore given to counties shall be under the control of the Legislature, and may be sold under such regulations as the Legislature may prescribe; and in such case the proceeds of the same shall be added to the Public School Fund.
SECTION IX. The Legislature shall, at its first session, (and from time to time thereafter, as may be found necessary,) provide all needful rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Article. It is made the imperative duty of the Legislature to see to it, that all the children in the State, with the scholastic age, are, without delay, provided with ample means of education. The Legislature shall annually appropriate for school purposes, and to be equally distributed among all the scholastic population of the State, the interest accruing on the School Fund, and the income derived from taxation for school purposes; and shall, from time to time, as may be necessary, invest the principal of the School Fund in the bonds of the United States Government, and in no other security.
(Transcription, errors in original preserved)
Article IX, Sections I-II
Article IX, Sections II-VI
Article IX, Sections VI-IX
URL: https://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/texas-1869
Subjects: Constitutional history, Constitutions, Constitutions of Texas, Texas


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The world's most famous philosopher arrives in Los Angeles, where he is greeted as a star and announces the Death of Man and the End of History on the David Letterman show. After being sacked from his university position for the use of an offensive anecdote, he decides to 'live a little'. He wakes in the company of a young man who is on the run from his father, a leading software magnate, and they embark on a tense and hedonistic journey across America, in which they discover that the translation from simulation to reality is a shocking one.
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USCIS Announces Change in Policy on Accrued Unlawful Presence by Nonimmigrant Students and Exchange Visitors
USCIS posted a policy memorandum changing how it will calculate unlawful presence for students and exchange visitors in F, J, and M nonimmigrant status, including F-2, J-2, or M-2 dependents, who fail to maintain their status in the United States.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today posted a policy memorandum (PDF, 179 KB)changing how the agency will calculate unlawful presence for students and exchange visitors in F, J, and M nonimmigrant status, including F-2, J-2, or M-2 dependents, who fail to maintain their status in the United States.
This policy aligns with President Trump's Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States to enforce the immigration laws of the country and will go into effect on Aug. 9, 2018.
"USCIS is dedicated to our mission of ensuring the integrity of the immigration system. F, J, and M nonimmigrants are admitted to the United States for a specific purpose, and when that purpose has ended, we expect them to depart, or to obtain another, lawful immigration status," said USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna. "The message is clear: These nonimmigrants cannot overstay their periods of admission or violate the terms of admission and stay illegally in the U.S. anymore."
Individuals in F, J, and M status who failed to maintain their status before Aug. 9, 2018, will start accruing unlawful presence on that date based on that failure, unless they had already started accruing unlawful presence, on the earliest of any of the following:
The day after DHS denied the request for an immigration benefit, if DHS made a formal finding that the individual violated his or her nonimmigrant status while adjudicating a request for another immigration benefit;
The day after their I-94 expired; or
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This policy memorandum is updating Chapter 40.9.2 of the USCIS Adjudicator's Field Manual.
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Treaty 9 History - Aboriginal Cree Perspective
"Kih-chi-itwe-win"
(The Great Declaration or Word)
The James Bay Treaty also known as, "Treaty Number 9" was signed in 1905 between various Anishinaabe (Northern Ojibway) and Mushkegowuk (Northern Cree) bands and the governments of the day (Dominion of Canada and the Province of Ontario). Since 1905, there has been differing perspectives about the way treaty was brought, communicated and "negotiated" with the peoples.
In this essay, we provide the Anishinaabe and Mushkegowuk view and understanding of the treaty. We also provide a "window" into the lives and living conditions of our peoples at the time of the treaty signing.
The Mushkegowuk and Anishinaabe Peoples and Treaty No. 9. A Cree Culture and History Education Game.
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