Summary of new laws passed in the 84th Regular Legislative Session that impact Concealed Handgun Licensing.
Caption: Relating to the authority of a person who is licensed to carry a handgun to openly carry a holstered handgun; creating criminal offense.
Unconcealed handguns, loaded or unloaded, must be carried in a shoulder or belt holster.
Individuals who hold a valid CHL may continue to carry with valid existing license.
A separate license will not be required to open carry. No additional fee will be required.
Individuals currently licensed will not be required to attend additional training. Training curriculum for new applicants will be updated to reflect the new training requirements related to the use of restraint holsters and methods to ensure the secure carrying of openly carried handguns. The new curriculum will be required for all classes beginning January 1, 2016.
The eligibility criteria to obtain a license to carry do not change.
The department will be updating website, forms and training materials to reference License to Carry (LTC) instead of Concealed Handgun License (CHL).
Changes to the laminated license are being developed and will be implemented at a later date.
Private businesses may post signs to indicate entry on the property with a handgun by a license holder is forbidden.
Penal Code Section 30.06 provides the language to be included on signs to indicate license holders are forbidden to carry concealed.
Penal Code Section 30.07 provides the language to be included on signs to indicate license holders are forbidden to open carry.
Posting of both signs is an indication by the business that license holders are forbidden to carry concealed or openly.
Caption: Relating to the carrying of handguns on the campuses of and certain other locations associated with institutions of higher education; providing a criminal penalty.
Authorizes a license holder to carry a concealed handgun on or about the license holder's person while the license holder is on the campus of an institution of higher education or private or independent institution of higher education in this state. Open carrying of handguns is still prohibited at these locations.
Authorizes an institution of higher education or private or independent institution of higher education in this state to establish rules, regulation, or other provisions concerning the storage of handguns in dormitories or other residential facilities that are owned or leased and operated by the institution and located on the campus of the institution.
Requires the president or other chief executive officer of an institution of higher education in this state to establish reasonable rules, regulations, or other provisions regarding the carrying of concealed handguns by license holders on the campus or on specific premises located on the campus.
Authorizes posting of a sign under Penal Code Section 30.06 with respect to any portion of a premises on which license holders may not carry.
Caption: Relating to a defense to prosecution for the offense of possessing or carrying a weapon in or into the secured area of an airport.
Amends the Penal Code to add a defense to prosecution if the actor possessed a handgun that he or she is licensed to carry at the security checkpoint of an airport, and exited the screening checkpoint for the secured area immediately upon completion of the required screening process and notification of possession of the handgun.
Adds the actor cannot be arrested for the sole offense of possessing a handgun that he or she is licensed to carry, unless a police officer gives the actor the opportunity to leave the area and he or she does not immediately comply.
Caption: Relating to the application of certain concealed handgun license laws to community supervision and corrections department officers and juvenile probation officers; reducing a fee.
Allows supervision officers and juvenile probation officers to establish proof of proficiency by a sworn statement that indicates the person demonstrated proficiency with a firearm instructor licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement within the 12 month period preceding the application for the license to carry.
This provision applies to supervision officers appointed or employed under Section 76.004, Government Code, to supervise defendants placed on community supervision.
Reduces the fee for a license to carry to $25 for these individuals.
Individuals applying under this special condition will be required to provide proof they are a supervision officer or juvenile probation officer.
A new fee schedule will be posted on the department's website.
Caption: Relating to a concealed handgun license application that is submitted by a peace officer or a member of the state military forces.
Exempts applicants who are active peace officers from the requirement to submit fingerprints.
Repeals the provisions requiring a sworn statement from the head of the employing law enforcement agency regarding the applicant's conduct and proficiency.
Regulatory Services Division (RSD) is in the process of updating the online application checklist. Until the online application is updated, peace officers may disregard the notations requiring fingerprints and the sworn statement from the head of their employing law enforcement agency.
Updated application instructions for peace officers will be posted on the department's website upon the effective date of this law.
Caption: Relating to the use of a concealed handgun license as valid proof of personal identification.
Amends the Business and Commerce Code to require businesses to accept a concealed handgun license (CHL) as a valid form of personal identification for access to goods, services, or facilities.
Does not affect laws requiring a driver license to operate a motor vehicle.
Does not effect the existing requirement to present a driver license when renting a car.
Does not affect the type of identification required under federal law to access airport premises or to pass through airport security.
Caption: Relating to a voluntary contribution to the fund for veterans' assistance when applying for a concealed handgun license.
Requires DPS to offer CHL applicants an opportunity to contribute money to the fund for veterans' assistance when applying for an original or renewal CHL license.
The applicant will determine the amount of contribution.
RSD is in the process of updating the online application to accept contributions. More information will be posted here when the option to contribute is available.
Caption: Relating to the issuance of a concealed handgun license to certain retired judicial officers.
Authorizes retired federal judges to receive a discounted CHL in the same manner as a retired state judge.
The reduced fee is $25. A new fee schedule will be posted on the department's website.
Caption: Relating to certain offenses relating to carrying concealed handguns on property owned or leased by a governmental entity; providing a civil penalty.
Prohibits a state agency or political subdivision from posting signs stating where CHL holders are prohibited from carrying a concealed handgun on the premises, unless specifically prohibited by Texas Penal Code 46.03 and 46.035.
Provides a civil penalty to a state agency or political subdivision if falsely notifying a CHL holder that entering or remaining on certain governmental premises, leased or owned, is illegal.
Limits the scope of the governmental meeting prohibition by restricting it to the specific room or rooms in which the meeting is being held, and to public meetings for which notice is required under the Open Meetings Act.
Provides an opportunity for the agency or subdivision to cure the violation within three business days of receipt of written notice from a citizen.
Complaints of a violation are reported to the Attorney General Office.
Provides the Attorney General must give notice to the agency or subdivision and provide an opportunity to cure the violation before a civil penalty is imposed.
After tweeting with the #stopRush dummies all day this little lie kept coming around.
I tried to tell them that the quote was wrong, out of context or that they just don't get it. maybe even they are not capable of understanding a great mind like Rush. the fact that was very clear is they do not listen to the Rush limbaugh show, and get their info from places like cnn, huffpost, media matters or straight from the other #stopRush crowd. I highly doubt that any of them have the courage to come here and see the truth or even try to find the truth herein contained. It takes thinking for that to happen.
RUSH: I'm gonna take a stab at answering my question. Obama is literally pushing people to snap, attacking the very sanity of the country. To what end? Aside from wanting everybody's name on a list of some kind, why is Obama doing all of this? I mean, all of this is so in our face. Everything that people hold dear is under assault, deliberately making people upset. This is not what presidents do. Deliberately making people upset.Maybe this is about revenge. You know, Obama used that word when he was on the campaign trail prior to the election. He told his supporters in Ohio to go vote and get their revenge. Revenge against who? Well, obviously, the people that disagree with Obama. But who are those people? He clearly knows who they are, and I think the root of this, I think the answer to my question can be found in the comment that Obama made when he thought he was off the record at a fundraiser in San Francisco, when he talked about the bitter clingers. These are people that the liberals all know. These are the not very bright people that want life to never change. They don't want any progress. They want to remain cloistered in their archaic, antique past, and when things don't go right, when there's too much change, when there's too much progress or progressivism, like when there's civil rights laws, they don't like it. When there's gay rights and gay marriage, they don't like it. When there's all kinds of cultural rot on TV, they don't like it. And so what do these people do? They get bitter, and they cling to their guns, and they cling to their religion. They cling to their antipathy for people that don't look like them, and this would include minorities and immigrants and so forth. Maybe it is that that's who Obama wants revenge on. Maybe he has an active dislike for the people he calls the bitter clingers.
And if you noticed now, Obama has found a way to get back at 'em on every single point. He is in their face on guns. He's in their face on religion. He's in their face on immigration. Amnesty by executive order was revenge on those who don't like immigrants, in his view and the view of a lot of leftists. You people in Kentucky, for example, you in the hills of Kentucky and West Virginia and in Georgia and the Carolinas, down there in Mississippi, Alabama, you people, you're the ones, you don't like all this change so you cling to all these old-fashioned standards. And you're holding this country back from moving forward, being modern and so forth.
Maybe that's it. But clearly he has animosity for these people that he calls the bitter clingers, and everything he's done has been in their face. It really has. And it continued today with this massive new effort now to stop gun violence, which is what they're now calling gun control. I want to go to the audio sound bites here. Let me go back and replay the NRA ad that has the left in a tizzy. Well, they were this morning. They're a little mollified now that Obama has spoken, but the NRA took it right to Obama.
ANNOUNCER: Are the president's kids more important than yours? Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools, when his kids are protected by armed guards at their schools? Mr. Obama demands the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. But he's just another elitist hypocrite when it comes to a fair share of security.
RUSH: Ooh, you don't do that. You don't call Obama an elitist hypocrite. His kids are more important than yours, and you should damn well know that. You should respect that. His kids are more important than yours. He's Barack Obama. He's more important than you are. You ought to understand it's okay for him to do whatever he has to do to stay safe, 'cause he's our leader. We're nothing without him. And he's nothing without his family. You've got to understand that. We can lose your kids. We can have your kids get kidnapped, and that's one thing, but not his kids. Oh, no. The country can't put up with that.
A bunch of leftist bloggers actually started tweeting things that I just said. His kids are more important than yours. Yes, they are. He's the leader. He's a Dear Leader. He's entitled to better food than you have. He's entitled to more travel, better travel. He's entitled to a nicer house than you, because we all need him. That's what they think. Here is the state run media in lockstep on this.
NORAH ODONNELL: The NRA gets personal against the President.
JON KARL: A harsh, personal attack on the President.
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: An ad that gets very personal.
JOHN DICKERSON: It's already pretty personal.
CAROL COSTELLO: It's personal now, a new NRA web ad makes no bones about it. We're going for the jugular.
RUSH: See, Obama's never personal. His bitter clinger comments, that's not personal. When he mocks and makes fun of people who aren't like him, that's not personal. When Obama says he doesn't know what's in Rush Limbaugh's heart, that's not personal. When Obama says whatever he says about the NRA or whatever he said about Romney, that wasn't personnel. Calling Romney a felon in his campaign, accusing Romney of heartlessly standing by while a man's wife died from cancer?
It's not personal! No, no! See, Obama's never personal. Obama's the essence of a wonderful spirit. He's the essence of perfection. The NRA, that's getting mean and nasty and personal now. So Obama can say whoever or whatever about whoever he wants, and it's just the way it is — and you better damn well agree with it. If you don't, and if you voice your disapproval, you're "getting personal," and that makes you a target. You don't do that. Not at all.
Here is Yvette, Gainesville, Florida. I'm glad you waited. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, how are you?
RUSH: Good. Thank you very much for calling.
CALLER: Oh, thank you for having me on. Okay, gun violence is gun control. I like the comments of the children standing behind him and writing the letters. But are they the same the children who wrote letters to Santa Claus, hoping that he's gonna bring them toys and gifts, that Santa Claus who isn't real? So we're gonna put our thoughts or our hopes behind…?
RUSH: Are you questioning the president's commitment to the safety of those children?
CALLER: I'm questioning the president's reality. If he really wants to stop gun violence or reduce gun violence, it's gonna take more or something different than gun control because controlling guns means only the law-abiding citizens will not have guns. Drug dealers will have guns, terrorists will have guns, crazy people will have guns.
RUSH: That's true. I've often wondered, what is so hard for the left to understand about that? By definition, if you have gun control laws, the law-abiding will be the only people that don't have guns. In fact, the most stringent gun control laws in the country today are DC and New York and they've got the highest crime rates with guns. Doesn't that tell them something? So it must be something not to do with guns. It's gotta be about something totally different than gun control.
CALLER: I think it does. It's just terrible that 26 people died in Sandy Hook and 20 of them were children. Terrible. Very sad, coming up to Christmas. Hopes and dreams the young children had, their parents and weddings and congratulations that will never occur. However, on any given day in America, more than 3,000 children are killed from abortion, and we have no problems with that. We're okay with that; it's not an issue.
You can't spend 40 years telling people and telling children that if I make a mistake — if something comes up and this child that I don't want is in the way of my future and the way of me graduating high school, is in the way of me going to college, is the way of me being happy, is in the way of whatever I want out of life — then it's okay for me to kill the baby. But later on when I become a disgruntled employee, when I become an unhappy student at school because children are bullying me, then I want to eliminate them to get them out of the way? It's the same concept.
RUSH: Well, it's a good point. You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.
so now you see the whole truth in context and it is what i said you libs just don't get it. you're to narrow minded to understand, your news source is lying to you. you seek neither truth nor enlightenment.
A dad posted to Twitter a screenshot of what he said was a multiple-choice question from his son's high school health test.
Some responders to Saleton's post noted that mothers and fathers aren't related by blood and that many parents adopt, which would make his son's choice incorrect anyway. Saleton and others noted that often kids are too young to "care for" adults in a household, which makes the "correct" answer insufficient.
What do you say the definition of "family" is? Let us know in the comments!
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Caleb Bonham, editor-in-chief of Campus Reform, recently took to the streets of Boulder, Colorado, with the specific purpose of frustrating people with Common Core math. Needless to say, he accomplished his goal.
Apparently using an actual Common Core math problem, Bonham used a small dry erase board to walk unsuspecting individuals through the steps — and there are many.
After finally solving the simple subtraction problem, Bonham asked the participants if the Common Core method represents the most efficient way to teach mathematics to the next generation of students.
"No," one man responded immediately.
"It's inefficient, you're wasting time," another said.
via Video: See What Happens When Adults Are Subjected to 'Hilarious' Common Core Math | Video | TheBlaze.com.
via Michelle Obama: GOP Is Anti-Science for Allowing Women to Buy Potatoes – The Last Resistance | The Last Resistance.
So much for being pro-choice. But isn't that such a fun phrase, "override science"? Both in its predictable use and its lack of sensible meaning. You can't override science, so why is she claiming a House bill does so? You can override "scientific consensus," which is itself an unscientific idea, but not science. It's a nice, frightening buzz-phrase, though, logic be damned.
If you disagree with a Democrat, you hate science. You also hate children, hate women, hate clean water (personally, muddy drinking water is my favorite), hate nature (yay, litter!), hate Earth, hate non-whites and non-straights, hate the elderly, and hate children with Down's Syndrome. There's no arguing with Democrats. If you disagree with them, there is no possibility for civil discourse. You are simply labeled a hater and a cretin, and that gives the Democrats a good enough excuse not to engage in civil discourse or debate with you. "I don't need to justify myself to a hate-monger." It's really convenient, being a Democrat.
So Republicans want to override science, Michelle tells us, because they want to allow women who are receiving Women, Infants and Children (WIC) assistance the choice to purchase white potatoes. This is like saying that if I have a sweet potato and I have a white potato, and I tell a woman, "Here, take either one," I am overriding science. Giving someone the option to buy white potatoes is anti-science, according to Michelle; science, she believes, does not allow room for freedom of spud choice.
via The Break-Up of the American Family Can Be Traced Directly Back to Liberalism – The Rush Limbaugh Show.
RUSH: Eric, Newtown, Connecticut. It's great to have you on the program. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I really do appreciate you taking calls, giving the few the opportunity to speak to the millions.
RUSH: Well, I'm glad you waited. I appreciate your patience.
CALLER: I gotta also give you a huge pat on the back, too. I'm not sure… You know, fame, it doesn't come in one flavor that everybody wants a piece. What you're doing is really a courageous thing for truth, simply being truthful. It's quite a burden that you have to carry to do that. I really appreciate it. But the point I wanted to make, Rush, was that the problem that's going on in this country right now is broken hearts.
These people, these dysfunctional females are making these young people. Everyone starts off with youth, and if they don't have a father who's showing them how to do life, they want to cling to anything. They really do trust Obama, period! They trust him, and, let me tell you, they'd reelect him. I know. I live and work with these people. They really would reelect Obama right now.
They don't care about the Constitution.
They don't care about how many people died for them to have the right to do anything that's going on around them. It's an every-man-for-himself existence that they live right now, and it really is a sad thing. If people looked at it from this point of view, the people who have had Pops… God bless him. Like you've shared so much of your life, your personal life with us, Rush.
Not everybody had Pops in their life. I did have a strong moral father in my life, but that's where we learned how we don't have to be afraid, and then where did we learn our morals from? We learned it in the church! There's a whole other thing that young people and people in general want to stay away from because that's the place where people gonna get judged.
CALLER: There's no judging these people. That's like a personally attack!
RUSH: I know. People have not been taught to take risks. They have not been taught to learn how to get along on their own.
CALLER: They're scared to death, Rush, and they trust Obama. You know, it's not happening by accident, this whole Obamacare thing. It's not called the Affordable Health Care Act for nothing.
RUSH: I know. It's called the Obama phone. It's called Obama stamps.
CALLER: It's because they trust him.
RUSH: Well, look, that argument that he made is irrefutable when applied certain people. He's basically saying that the breakup of the traditional family causes it. He's focused on lack of father 'cause they're the ones that vamanos mostly and the government comes right in and assumes the role of father — and it doesn't just affect young boys, Eric. Single women likewise end up looking at government as provider, protector, you name it.
None of the rest matters. You exactly right. "Constitution? The hell with that! Free speech? I don't care! Where is my phone? I don't care! Where are my food stamps or whatever. I mean, you gotta eat, and you've got to live, and I don't care about the Fourth Amendment and searches and seizures. I don't care! Where am I gonna get my whatever?" So I know. That's also by design, by the way.
The breakup of the family, you can trace it. You can trace this. You can trace it right back to 1964 and the Great Society and Lyndon Johnson. You can trace it. You can trace the bust-up of the family — you can trace the dissolution of black families, you can trace the rampant increase in poverty, you can trace the amount of money that has been transferred to deal with these inequalities and inequities — and you will see that all of this "charity" quote/unquote has just given rise to the need for more of it.
Eric, I appreciate the call.
New York compliant with the Constitution?
Here's What It Looks Like When a Gun Manufacturer Releases a 'New York Compliant' AR-15 | TheBlaze.com.
A Missouri-based gun manufacturer announced this week that it will release a line of "New York Compliant" rifles, a market-based response to the Empire State's strict new gun laws.
Image source: Black Rain Ordinance's Facebook page.
And if Black Rain's move to create rifles that comply with New York's new guns laws, which have been described as some of the "nation's toughest," sounds familiar, it should: They're not the only company to move in this direction, and stories of such guns have been popping up since May 2013.
In fact, several New York-based gun shops have, for example, offered to replace the grip on non-complaint rifles so that they're square with state's laws.
One gun maker in Rochester, N.Y., Just Right Carbines, manufactures modified semi-automatic rifles that comply with the New York's Safe Act, which was signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January 2013.
Just Right Carbines' general manger, Anthony Testa, told the Guardian that New York authorities signed off on the modified rifles, telling him that his products complied with the law.
The Safe Act, which was the result of the 2012 mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., that claimed the life of 27 people, bans the sale of so-called "assault weapons" and requires that everyone who already owns a rifle categorized as such to register them with the state by 15 April 2014.
Another New York company, H&H Firearms, has been working on modifying its semi-automatic rifles to meet state law.
"It's basically an AR-15 without the features," a lawyer representing H&H Firearms told the Times Union.
Men get hurt too | This Tangled Web. I recommend that you got to this site.
At 'This Tangled Web' we are very aware of male survivors as much as female survivors. The balance of help available for male survivors compared to female survivors is far more in favour on the female side. Here on this page we will try to provide male survivors with good tools & resources for the healing journey.
I am thankful for all those who have been willing to share your feelings and knowledge here. It is vital to recognise that men do indeed get hurt too and deserve the same recognition, help and support… and we live in hope that society as a whole will catch up on this.
People who have been abused deal with things in different ways, and we males are no different in that respect. For some males, the fact that someone has abused them will mean that they will then go on to learn boxing, karate or some other type of self defense. Often, although they become quite proficient at what they learn it never feels enough, and they will strive to learn more. Some males will feel that because they could not protect themselves from the abuse that they can never protect themselves. They will become timid and shy, easily picked on by others at school, which just goes on to reinforce how they feel about themselves. Other males, who are physically strong, often go onto using that strength to prove to themselves that they can now stay safe. Often these males will have problems controlling anger, more likely to suffer road rage, get into fights, etc.
Abuse blurs the emotional development of all people who are abused. Problems can arise when shame, guilt and anger intermix, something that is not at all uncommon for the male abuse survivor. Some males will use sport as an outlet for anger, some will use drugs and drink. Neither of these will work all of the time. The only way forward is to work through recovery. Talk about your anger. Talk about your feelings. Part of the problem is the anger that is felt at ones self for having been abused. By learning that the abuse was NOT your fault, removing the shame and guilt, anger does become easier to control. Part of recovery is to learn to identify your emotions. To learn the difference between been annoyed and been angry.
I use computer games as an anger release. I play Doom, and blast hell out of the monsters that I mentally paint the face of my abusers on. For me this is safe because I do realise that it is only a game, and not real life. I also fully realise the consequences of what would happen if I did such things in real life.
Dr. Howard Fradkin, a psychologist who has worked with more than 1,000 male survivors of sexual abuse, says one of the first steps on the journey toward healing is to practice daily affirmations. Try saying these out loud to yourself or to someone you trust.
Recovery is absolutely possible and achievable for me.
I will practice being disloyal to dysfunction and loyal to functionality.
I give myself permission to connect with loving, affirmative, strong, sensitive, accepting men and women in my community.
I release and forgive myself for any responsibility I have accepted in the past for my abuse.
My abuser(s) from the past chose to hurt me—I will stop repeating the lie that it just "happened" to me.
Giving myself daily compassion is necessary for my healing and growth.
I commit to connecting to the boy inside me today so we can play, laugh and experience joy together, even if just for a minute or two.
I believe deep inside me that I possess the ability to face the truth of my abuse and the tools to heal.
I have the right and the ability to speak the truth of my abuse and deserve to be heard, understood, believed and supported.
Feeling is healing. As I heal, I develop the ability to experience a wider range of emotions to enhance my health and connect to others.
147 Gun Companies Boycott New York | Implied Inference.
This is a list of the firearms-related companies (gunsmiths, dealers, trainers, armorers, etc) that are either refusing to do business with http://thebonfiremedia.com/tag/new-york/" title="View all articles about New York here">New York State altogether, or are restricting sales to http://thebonfiremedia.com/tag/new-york/" title="View all articles about New York here">New York State Law Enforcement and http://thebonfiremedia.com/tag/government/" title="View all articles about Government here">Government Entities, limiting their options to the same ones that civilians in http://thebonfiremedia.com/tag/new-york/" title="View all articles about New York here">New York State are allowed to purchase (e.g. magazines of only up to 7 rounds).
Current # of boycott participants: 147 (Updated 02/03/2014). Previous update: 136 companies, 03/14/2013. NOTE: "NEW" denotes a new addition to the list (since last update), not necessarily how long the company has been publicly supporting 2nd Amendment rights.
Obama Fans Can't Believe Their President Wanted This to Happen – The Rush Limbaugh Show.
RUSH: It was an LA Times story on Obamacare, and these are popping up more and more. An Obamacare fan says, "Now I can't sleep at night. I can't imagine this is how President Obama wanted it to happen." No matter what problems that they've had at the website or the exchanges, you can find some Obamacare supporters who've touted the relative success of some of the state exchanges. One of the ones they point to is Covered California, as a success.
But now, people who have been able to sign up with Covered California, are discovering that doctors are refusing to see 'em. Doctors are refusing to treat cancer patients. This is another thing, folks. I can't tell you how many times that I… I hate doing this. I hate, "See, I Told You So," and I don't want to be misunderstood with this. What really frustrates me is this need not have happened.
This tragedy, this destruction of one of the greatest health care systems the world's ever known, need not have happened. I know it has, but it's still tragic. Some doctors are not seeing cancer patients, the doctors that are choosing to not be in network. This is the thing that I spent a lot of time warning people about. Even if you are able to log in, sign on and enroll, some of you were gonna find out your doctors are not playing.
They don't want any part of this.
They're not gonna be the network.
Some of you, your hospitals are not gonna be in the network, the Obamacare network.
In fact, the top-tier hospitals across the country are pretty much all opted out of the network. LA Times: "After overcoming website glitches and long waits to get Obamacare, some patients are now running into frustrating new roadblocks at the doctor's office. A month into the most sweeping changes to healthcare in half a century, people are having trouble finding doctors at all, getting faulty information on which ones are covered and receiving little help from insurers swamped by new business.
"Experts have warned for months that the logjam was inevitable. But the extent of the problems is taking by surprise many patients — and even doctors — as frustrations mount." Now, this is where I run the risk of getting into trouble, but none of this surprises me. It was all predictable. This is how frustrating it is. When you know that 2 + 2 = 4 and the country's gonna act like it's 5, would that not frustrate you? I wish I could come up with a better analogy than that.
It's just outrageous. There was no way for this to fall out any other way than how it is, and they point to California as one of the successes. Some patients plaintively say this is not what they were promised. "Aliso Viejo resident Danielle Nelson said Anthem Blue Cross promised half a dozen times that her oncologists," that's cancer doctors, for those of you in Rio Linda, "would be covered under her new policy.
I'm gonna assume you're listening. I'm gonna speak to you from my heart. I'm just gonna tell you the truth. I know you're gonna reject it, and you're gonna couple it with whatever you think you've heard about me from the media, but I'm gonna tell you right now, President Obama didn't care. He doesn't even know you. This is the kind of minutia and detail that he either just assumed would magically work because it was his idea or because were there competent people implementing it.
But, no. He knew that wasn't the case because he knew his own website wasn't working. Oh, have you heard the latest on that? How many times have you heard Obama bellyache and whine and moan about outsourcing? His own HealthCare.gov is in Belarus — and that's one of the reasons why it's a security nightmare. I'm not making it up. HealthCare.gov, part of it is outsourced and is run by an outfit in Belarus. Russia, for those of you in Rio Linda.
So, Ms. Nelson, I'm just telling you: President Obama doesn't care. What President Obama cares about is having the government in charge of and in control of the nation's health care system — and what the president eventually wants is for you to only be able to solve your problem by going to somebody in government. President Obama wants government to be looked at as a god by you or as an angel.
President Obama wants you and everybody he can convince to look at government as their only chance, as their last resort, as their first resort, as their angel, as their savior, as their guardian angel, guiding light, what have you — and if it takes a little pain along the way to get there? He doesn't mind if you get mad at your doctor, by the way. He doesn't mind if you get mad at your insurance company. In fact, the madder you get at your insurance company the faster he can get rid of that and have the government become your insurance company.
Now, folks, I'm really not persuading Danielle Nelson while I tell her this. I know that. I wish there was a way to do it. But she's out there, she wants the president to fix it. "Oh, gosh, if Obama knew, he wouldn't permit this!" He doesn't care. He'll say he does, but this is so beneath the long-range objective here. This is so minuscule in relevance to the long-term objective here, that it's just one of the small prices to pay. There gonna be glitches along the way to getting it right.
By the way, I expect if enough people have this problem, the president will try to find a way to blame it on the Republicans or George Bush. Is it the wrong thing to say? I mean, I could sit here and maybe try to reach her another way. I could say, "Well, Ms. Nelson, this is exactly how it was designed to happen because of what the real long-term objective is." That's not gonna work. She's not gonna be persuaded by that. This is a very personal issue.
Ms. Nelson, it didn't have a prayer of working the way it's designed, the way it's implemented, and the people behind it, it never had a prayer of working. The evidence is all around. I cringe to see people used this way, their lives manipulated and toyed with. Now this woman's got non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She doesn't have any options. They've been taken away from her. She thought they were all gonna be amplified better than ever. She probably believe that the Affordable Care Act was the cheaper health care act, and some of it was gonna be free but, whatever, it was gonna be plentiful. I just hate what this is doing to people. I just hate what this ideology does. It rips families apart, it destroys incentive, founded on one lie after another.
If the reality of being turned down for treatment of cancer — folks, stop and think of this. If the reality of being turned down for treatment of cancer can't convince her, how can anyone? What could anyone say? So she's not blaming Obama. He'd fix it if he knew. So somebody, in her mind, is sabotaging her health care. Not him. Maybe her doctors don't want to give their services away. Maybe the doctors want to charge too much. Maybe Obama knows the doctors aren't any good. Who knows what she'll come up with to explain this.
RUSH: Tom in Spring, Texas. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Good afternoon to you, sir. It's an honor and quite a privilege to talk with you today.
RUSH: I appreciate you being here. Thank you very much for that.
CALLER: Everybody should realize when the CBO makes an estimate, they're gonna be wrong generally most of the time. So if they're saying it's only two and a half million jobs to be lost, you can almost guarantee it's gonna be significantly higher than that.
RUSH: Well, let me tell you why that's true, and with all due deference to the CBO, they are limited by law for projecting 10 years out. That's why the first 10-year projection came in the way it did. They can only analyze the data they're given. They're called bipartisan, but if you got a bunch of cheats and frauds giving them incorrect data, you're gonna come out with gobbledygook, and that's what happened. We got a lie. We got health care is gonna cost less than a trillion dollars. We got premiums coming down, more people covered, all of it was a lie. So now the 10-year period covers four years of implementation, and we've added an additional four years to the original 10, and that's where they're saying two and a half million jobs lost. If you go another five years after that, using just the data now — you're right. The two and a half million jobs lost is gonna be even more. That's even more people liberated from the responsibility of working.
RUSH: See, that is the key right there, folks. You know, you'd be charitable to say, "Okay, gross incompetence, people's good intentions but didn't know what they were doing and too embarrassed to admit it so they're trying to make the best of it." Or, it was intentional. Either way, there's enough data, and not just on health care, but on every other economic policy, there's five years of data now. It isn't working! If they really wanted it to work the way the poor woman in the LA Times wants it to work, they would change it. They would make the changes necessary to make it work. Now, what are those changes? Those changes would be admitting that they're wrong. And that is never going to happen because they aren't wrong, because the sad fact is, this is the intent. You can't get around it. There's enough years now, like you say, if this isn't the intent, change it, fix it. Get it back on the right track. No effort whatsoever to do so.
RUSH: Exactly right. And not only that, rather than admit it's not working, they're continuing to try to sell it. They are bribing. I've got the story here. I put it in the middle ofthe Stack. The way they are getting Millennials to sign up, I'll give you the short version of this. They are, 18-34, they are bribing some to sign up. They're paying Millennials if they succeed in registering new enrollees. We have also found out — remember, ladies and gentlemen, when we learned that the National Football League was going to be helping the Regime? It turns out that the Obama administration sat down and wrote some bulk boilerplate tweets and Facebook posts and sent those to the NFL Players Association, the union, and the union just assigned them to random players.
The players themselves did not write those pitches. They didn't write those tweets or messages. They didn't write the salesmanship. They just had their names attached to it. So rather than take any step to fix it, they are continuing to try to sell it. That's what Obama's constant campaigning is about. They're trying to sell this. In other words, this poor woman, as identified by the LA Times: "Hang in there. Hang in there. It's gonna work. We're on the case. We're gonna fix it." It's fraud at the base minimum, what's happening here. But it's all permitted in politics. It's hard to prove fraud in politics. You indict the whole industry.
But you're gonna have two things happen. You're gonna have 2.3 million fewer people pulling the wagon, 2.3 million more people riding in the wagon, 2.3 million fewer full-time workers will mean much lower taxes to pay for these and other government benefits. The question remains, are the American people gonna swallow it?
See, I don't think they are. I think the polling data clearly indicates that they aren't, but I don't know what they can do about it. Or, better stated, I don't know what they think they can do about it, other than find a way to not participate in it for themselves. It's gonna be a free-for-all, you know, everybody for himself, which, in normal circumstances, would not be bad thing, but it's just such a tragic thing. It just didn't have to happen.
Folks, this is not like lamenting the fact that Denver lost the Super Bowl. "Oh, this didn't have to happen. Why, if Denver…" This is a whole different thing. We are in this circumstance because a giant fraud has been perpetrated on the American people by the political class of the country. And what it's doing to people and their lives… you take away the desire, necessity, to work, you're effectively dehumanizing people. You are taking away from many people one of the primary sources of their confidence, self-identity, reason for being, particularly in men, but in more and more women now with feminism and so forth making its giant strides. It's just a tragic thing here that's happening, and it's turning more and more people into satisfied wards of the state.
Listen to what the progressive liberal Democrats are saying to you. They tell you that you can't do stuff without them. That the deck is stacked against you, that you're simply not good enough to run your own life to make your own choices. I simply don't agree with them. Conservative libertarians don't agree with them, we know that you are the best one to run your life. We know that you are the best one to make your own life choices. The only obstacles that are in your way are those obstacles that you have put in your way and that the government has put in your way. If someone is telling you that the deck is stacked against you it is because they are the ones that are holding the cards. If someone is telling you that you can't do something without them it's because they're trying to control. You don't just listen to what the Democrats are saying for your evidence that they are trying to control you and oppress. You look at what they are doing, government is not freedom and government is not individual responsibility, individual prosperity or individual freedom. Government is collective oppression.
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Join your fellow Friedman School alumni for a weekend of fun, education, and celebration in Boston!
Friday, April 27th | 5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
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Look no further. I'm Arlo, your knight in shining armor waiting for you at the Animal Protection Services-Friday Harbor.
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Lenny Kravitz (1964-) est un chanteur, musicien, compositeur et acteur américain.
Zoë Kravitz (1988-) est une actrice, chanteuse et mannequin américaine.

Autres
L'Apprentissage de Duddy Kravitz, roman de Mordechai Richler et film  de Ted Kotcheff
General Motors Products of Canada c. Kravitz, arrêt de principe de la Cour suprême du Canada sur la responsabilité du fabricant en droit civil québécois

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Monique Samuels Says Her Past Miscarriage 'Haunts' Her Current Pregnancy!
Earlier this season on The Real Housewives of Potomac, Monique Samuels revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage. Now, mother of two is opening up about that painful experience. "When I first shared my story, I didn't even realize how many people had experienced miscarriages before," she told PEOPLE. "It was amazing to have that support and to realize that I wasn't alone. And to show so many of these women too that they can get through this."
Monique has since confirmed that she and husband Chris Samuels are expecting another baby — which is due on Dec. 3. But although Monique says she feels "blessed" to add another member to her family, the experience of her miscarriage has changed how she feels about her pregnancy.
"It kind of haunts you," she admits. "The first times I was pregnant, it came so easily. I took that for granted. Now that I'm pregnant again, it's almost like I second guess everything that I'm doing. Even with movement. I'm making sure I'm not moving too fast so I stretch my stomach. It's something I didn't think about with my first two pregnancies."
Adding to her fears was the fact that in week eight, doctors found two tears in Monique's placenta that were causing subchorionic hemorrhages — a complication that could lead to pregnancy loss, reports the publication.
"It was very scary," she recalls. "They say it's not uncommon, but if the placenta detaches completely from the wall, you could lose the pregnancy [even if] the baby is healthy. … It just put more stress on the table. I was a week further along than I was in my last pregnancy. I thought I was past all that. Like, 'Oh God, I don't want [this] to happen again.' "
Monique's doctor prescribed her plenty of rest, meaning no workouts, no chores and no sex. "I could not do anything at all," she says. "He told me, 'You just need to lay around.' And that was hard because I'm such a busybody, I like to stay active. But I did what I was told."
Followup ultrasounds weeks later showed that the tears had healed, though not completely. To be safe side, Monique waited until she she was well out of her first trimester to start telling people, even her own family. The Bravo reality star finally made the public announcement at 16 weeks.
"We just wanted to be sure," she told PEOPLE, adding that she's been focusing on the good things to put the fear of miscarriage out of her mind. "I'm staying positive, staying encouraged, and trying to take it easy. I'm not trying to stress and making sure I eat right … I feel great."
The mom-to-be describes her baby on the way as "definitely an active little fetus" and is "already feeling jabs on the inside." She beams, "I love those little flutters. And they'll be full-fledged kicks too. It's pretty magical."
And though she hasn't experienced any morning sickness, Monique has been feeling exhaustion throughout. "I tell Chris, his babies are greedy from the time they're conceived," she jokes. "You know how when you're really hungry, you feel almost famished? Like, 'I got to eat or else I'm going to pass out'? Well when I'm pregnant, I have that feeling the entire pregnancy."
She explains, "Even when I eat, I still feel like I haven't ate all day. It's almost like the baby takes everything from me. They literally leave nothing for me! That feeling of not being satisfied with my appetite makes it even worse."
Despite the miscarriage trauma, Monique says the experience has changed the way she looks at her pregnancy.
"I appreciate it way more because I realize some of the things that could happen down the road if you were going to lose or miscarry again," she told PEOPLE. "It definitely taught me to value the experience of being pregnant even more than before."
As for the possibility of baby No. 4, Monique says she and her husband Chris will "cross that road after this one's out of me."
"This just happened — we weren't really trying again," Monique says. "I did acupuncture for hormonal balance and increased fertility after my miscarriage but my hormones were totally thrown off from losing the pregnancy, so it was a complete shock when I found out."
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Acanthops contorta est une espèce d'insectes, de  l'ordre des Mantodea, de la famille des Acanthopidae, de la sous-famille des Acanthopinae et de la tribu des Acanthopini.

Dénomination
 Cette espèce a été décrite par Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstäcker en 1889.

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Peter Stoicheff, president, University of Saskatchewan: When you talk about innovation in this country, and the research that leads to innovation, it's going to be happening primarily at – at universities.
Peter Stoicheff: I think of universities as talent engines. They – they attract talent and they produce talent. They circulate talent. And there really is no other sector of society that does that, particularly with people at such a young age who are learning so many things.
From my experience, universities have reasonably close relationships, or at least dialogues, with government. Where the gap is mostly is with industry and with the private sector.
Peter Stoicheff: Some way of closing that gap through industry liaison offices at every institution, with innovation and research parks that are associated with institutions, with incubators that are associated with universities, you know, those are the things that we really need to be much more purposeful about.
University of Saskatchewan president Peter Stoicheff sees universities as the primary drivers of research and innovation in Canada. Universities are talent engines that help close the gap between private and public sectors in R&D through their industry liaisons, research parks, incubators and start-ups.


Could anybody share Update Rollup 2 (no matter if it is discontinued), please?
It seems that M$ have closed their hotfix service all together: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/05/microsofts-hotfix-service-is-no-longer-available/.
This means that all the links to hotfixes on my site no longer work. What is more, those links have also not been archived by the Wayback Machine (perhaps due to robots.txt restrictions?). You can, of course, download the files themselves from my Archive, and I will likely replace all the non-functional official URLs with links to the Archive as well. This is sad to see as my Archive is probably the only publicly available site where the files are being stored right now. I believe that we should have them backed up in more places.
It was redirected to the page with the message @tain quoted above.
I got once more redirected to the page with the message @tain quoted above.
This time I got the old good MS hotfix by e-mail order page, opened the language selection menu and ticked the PTB version (because I already had the ENU one), and gave the e-mail it was to be sent to.
The link to the hotfix inside a zip was sent as usual, and I was able to download the file all right.
and I went stright to the old good MS agreement form and clicked "yes" on it..
Try yourself, if you don't believe me! No telling how long this will remain happening, so better save all that's relevant right away!
It seems that they have just changed the domain where the hotfixes are hosted.
This means that I will just have to fix the URLs .
I come to ask, how to slipstream unofficial updates, in my case I want to slipstream the WinUSB that is in Blackwingcat's WLU. With HFSLIP or maybe with nLite.
Since in my Intel 6 Series C200 Chispet, USB does not work and I have to use CD and a PS/2 keyboard to install this system, but my computer does not have PS/2 ports, I can not go that way, due to this problem I can not install Windows 2000 and since 6 months ago I am looking for a solution to this damn problem.
Please post a link to the specific USB driver. I will try to have to a look at it in my free time. HFSLIP can indeed slipstream drivers, but the documentation is lacking. You will also have to make sure that the driver works in vanilla Windows 2000. If it requires the Extended Kernel, then the whole task will be much more problematic.
It does not exist, hence the "WIP" or "work in progress" tag in the title. Please use my website http://windowsarchives.com/ for the latest list of official updates and hotfixes and use them with HFSLIP2000 to create a fully updated Windows 2000 installation ISO. If this is your first time, make sure to prepare yourself mentally and have a cup of strong coffee as right now there are almost 400 different files to download and categorise into different HFSLIP folders .
Please use my website http://windowsarchives.com/ for the latest list of official updates and hotfixes and use them with HFSLIP2000 to create a fully updated Windows 2000 installation ISO. If this is your first time, make sure to prepare yourself mentally and have a cup of strong coffee as right now there are almost 400 different files to download and categorise into different HFSLIP folders .
Or just save yourself all that trouble, and take advantage of the good work already done by tomasz86, and download the HFSLIP2000_FullPack_09092017.
Or just save yourself all that trouble, and take advantage of the good work already done by tomasz86, and download the HFSLIP2000_FullPack_09092017.
That is an option, but, judging by the country flag, I suspected that @Radovan might perhaps be using a Czech version of Windows 2000, and the FullPack is available only in English.
I was eventually going to update the broken URLs, but the https://hotfixv4.trafficmanager.net seems dead as for today. I am also unable to receive emails for any of the requested hotfixes. Is the MS hotfix hosting infrastructure finally gone?
I'm sorry to say it sure seems so.


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Q: Socket connection error but curl works fine (turned off ipv6)
so, everything works fine in my local machine docker, but when it comes to AWS EC2 docker, this problem happens. I can't connect to my backend server while I still can curl to my backend from the frontend container.
I've seen many people saying that this is about ipv6 issue, so I disabled it through sysctl configuration, and you can also see this from the image. I've also checked my custom docker-bridge network inspect written "EnableIPv6": false, and this was automatically made by docker-compose, so I didn't touch anything.
Can anybody please help me

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Review of the endangered status of some wild plant and animals at CITES COP13, South Africa, 2016.
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Letter of request promotion Council Certificate.
Nigeria Export Promotion Council Certificate.
The company must show evidence that the wood product for export was sustainably harvested by producing logging permit or concessionaire certificate issued by the state Ministry responsible for forestry matters where the exploitation and or processing took place.
The Forestry Department wood utilization/ grading officers undertakes the factory inspection and in addition , ascertain compliance with value added to wood designated for export. This gives room for the Ministry to work in collaboration with the state Ministry to ensure a genuine concessionaire certificate is issued.
Field reports submitted by wood utilization / grading officer are expected to provide needed information for further processing and consideration of vendor application.
A no objective letter is issued by the Honorable commissioner responsible for forestry in keeping with the global transparency standard and chain of custody requirement by international market.
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Top 10 Most Viewed Videos On YouTube
Uploaded by Robert Boyland on January 6, 2020 at 12:24 pm
Here are the top 10 most viewed videos on YouTube of all time.
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Taylor Swift - Shake It Off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM
Katy Perry - Roar (Official) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8
Maroon 5 - Sugar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09R8_2nJtjg
Justin Bieber - Sorry (PURPOSE : The Movement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRh_vgS2dFE
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Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
Wiz Khalifa - See You Again ft. Charlie Puth [Official Video] Furious 7 Soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKAFK5djSk
Ed Sheeran - Shape of You [Official Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwWNGJdvx8
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Taylor Swift – Shake It Off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM
Katy Perry – Roar (Official) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CevxZvSJLk8
Maroon 5 – Sugar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09R8_2nJtjg
Justin Bieber – Sorry (PURPOSE : The Movement) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRh_vgS2dFE
PSY – GANGNAM STYLE(강남스타일) M/V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
Masha and The Bear – Recipe for disaster (Episode 17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYniUCGPGLs
Mark Ronson – Uptown Funk ft. Bruno Mars (Official Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPf0YbXqDm0
Wiz Khalifa – See You Again ft. Charlie Puth [Official Video] Furious 7 Soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgKAFK5djSk
Ed Sheeran – Shape of You [Official Video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwWNGJdvx8
Luis Fonsi – Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk
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Q: PHP PDO UPDATE variable fields using IF I have a function to update up to 3 fields in a mysql table. The function can receive all 3 fields to be updated or just 1 or 2
Right now I am doing it like this (it works) to construct MySQL statement.
if ($foo1){
   $mysql_set = '`foo1` = :foo1';}
if ($foo2){
   if ($mysql_set){$mysql_set .= ', ';}
   $mysql_set .= '`foo2` = :foo2';}
if ($foo3){
   if ($mysql_set){$mysql_set .= ', ';}
   $mysql_set .= '`foo3` = :foo3';}

$update = $db->prepare("UPDATE `bar` SET $mysql_set WHERE `id` = :id");

if ($foo1){
   $update->bindValue(':foo1', $foo1, PDO::PARAM_STR);}
if ($foo2){
   $update->bindValue(':foo2', $foo2, PDO::PARAM_STR);}
if ($foo3){
   $update->bindValue(':foo3', $foo3, PDO::PARAM_STR);}
$update->bindValue(':id', $id, PDO::PARAM_INT);
$update->execute();

As you can see I am repeating "if ($foo1 - $foo3){}" twice to construct this MySQL query. It looks redundant and wondering if there's a better way to handle this scenario.

A: You can give an associative array to execute(), instead of calling bindValue() separately for each parameter.
$param_array = array(':id' => $id);
$set_array = array();
if ($foo1) {
    $param_array[':foo1'] = $foo1;
    $set_array[] = "foo1 = :foo1";
}
if ($foo2) {
    $param_array[':foo2'] = $foo2;
    $set_array[] = "foo2 = :foo2";
}
if ($foo3) {
    $param_array[':foo3'] = $foo3;
    $set_array[] = "foo3 = :foo3";
}
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UFC 65
UFC 65: Bad Intentions
The poster for UFC 65: Bad Intentions.
ARCO Arena
14,666 (12,362 paid)[1]
Total gate
$2,138,020[2]
Buyrate
500,000[3]
Total purse
$457,000 (disclosed)
The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale UFC 65: Bad Intentions UFC Fight Night: Sanchez vs. Riggs
UFC 65: Bad Intentions was a mixed martial arts competition held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on November 18, 2006 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California – the UFC's first show at this venue. It was broadcast live on pay-per-view in the United States and Canada, and was later released on DVD.
The card featured the anticipated rematch between Matt Hughes and Georges St-Pierre for the UFC Welterweight Championship – a fight originally scheduled for UFC 63. UFC 65 also featured a heavyweight title bout between Undisputed UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvia and Jeff Monson.
This event marked one of the few occasions that a UFC card with two non-interim title fights featured the lower weight class' title fight as the card's main event. The UFC had stated afterwards that all cards with two title fights will always have the heavier weight class' title fight as the main event. UFC 169 on February 1, 2014 would later feature two non-interim title fights, with the lighter weight class as main event.[4]
UFC 65's original slated main event was a championship superfight with UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell defending his title against PRIDE Middleweight Champion Wanderlei Silva, a matchup UFC President Dana White announced during UFC 61 on July 8, 2006. Since then, the matchup appeared to have been postponed or cancelled because Tito Ortiz had been guaranteed a title shot at UFC 66, which was too close to UFC 65, as White stated in several interviews.[5]
The Hughes vs. St-Pierre main event was long awaited. It was first officially announced to happen at UFC 63 during the July 17, 2006 edition of The Hot List on ESPNEWS. The fight was announced before, without a date, at a press conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on April 7, 2006, and the matchup was alluded to—but not officially announced—during the pay-per-view broadcast of UFC 58.[6]
Welterweight Georges St-Pierre def. Matt Hughes (c) KO (head kick and punches) 2 1:25 [a]
Heavyweight Tim Sylvia (c) def. Jeff Monson Decision (unanimous) (50–45, 49–46, 49–46) 5 5:00 [b]
Light Heavyweight Drew McFedries def. Alessio Sakara TKO (punches) 1 4:07 [c]
Heavyweight Brandon Vera def. Frank Mir TKO (punches) 1 1:09
Lightweight Joe Stevenson def. Dokonjonosuke Mishima Submission (guillotine choke) 1 2:07
Preliminary Card
Welterweight Nick Diaz def. Gleison Tibau TKO (punches) 2 2:27
Heavyweight Antoni Hardonk def. Sherman Pendergarst KO (leg kick) 1 3:15 [d]
Light Heavyweight James Irvin def. Hector Ramirez TKO (punch and elbows) 2 2:36 [e]
Heavyweight Jake O'Brien def. Josh Schockman Decision (unanimous) (30–27, 30–27, 30–27) 3 5:00
^ For the UFC Welterweight Championship
^ For the UFC Heavyweight Championship.
^ McFedries was a late replacement for Wilson Gouveia.
^ Pendergarst was a late replacement for Brad Imes. This bout aired last on the PPV broadcast following the Hughes vs. St-Pierre fight.
^ This bout aired on the PPV broadcast following the Sakara vs. McFedries fight.
Fight of the Night: James Irvin vs. Hector Ramirez
Knockout of the Night: Georges St-Pierre
Submission of the Night: Joe Stevenson
List of UFC champions
^ http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3235&zoneid=13
^ http://www.wrestlingobserver.com
^ Hernandez, J. Yayo (2011-10-06). "Dana White Talks About Why Jose Aldo Isn't The Main Event, Nick Diaz And Still Liking Lyoto Machida". CageJunkies.com. Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
^ Davidson, Neil (August 11, 2006). "UFC Backs Off Liddell vs. Silva Claims". Canadian Press. MMAWeekly.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved November 23, 2006.
^ Canadian Press (2006-04-07). "FINALLY! RUSH GETS HIS SHOT AT THE TITLE!". TKO Major League MMA Website. Retrieved 2006-09-25.
Official UFC website
Official UFC 65 Site
UFC 65 Results on Sherdog.com
Full Listing of UFC 65 Fighter Salaries
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=UFC_65&oldid=998255774"
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Coffee and cocktail brand Grind was our first project in the UK, today we have delivered over 14 café-bars and restaurants in London, each with their own personality yet unifying brand aesthetic.
See how the brand evolved
Greenwich Grind
Greenwich Grind is a relaxed, all-day venue that brings the inner-city Grind experience to the laidback London suburb. Contemporary colour and detailing infuse the heritage building with the essence of Grind, setting the scene for its unique blend of music, coffee, food and cocktails under a feature glass-atrium roof. The venue is divided into three spaces that function independently and together to create a holistic Grind experience. The grab-and-go deli/takeaway is a fun, bold space with signature pink on the walls and ceiling. The Green Room is an intimate cocktail bar with a deep-turquoise-blue backdrop whilst the main dining room opens to an alfresco area with an abundance of greenery evoking the leafy Greenwich suburb.
Royal Exchange Grind
Royal Exchange Grind is situated in London's historic Royal Exchange building and evolves the design language we have developed for Grind & Co. Taking cues from the building's rich history, we worked with a local heritage architect to develop a minimalist interior that respects the site's past. A refined materials palette combines elegant Carrara marble counters with matte brass foot rails and coat hooks. Underfoot, we restored the century-old floorboards, employing the same herringbone pattern in the marble wall tiles that refines the space.
Clerkenwell Grind
The rich heritage architecture of an 1870s warehouse was the backdrop for our eighth collaboration with Grind. The project occupies a prime location in London's up-and-coming Clerkenwell neighbourhood, alongside some of the city's next generation of dining venues. For the Grind team, this project represented the next step in the growth of their business, marking their transition from successful coffee and cocktail venues to a full-scale restaurant and bar. From a design perspective, this meant redefining the visual language that we developed for their other locations and building a new flagship for the Grind brand that would set the direction for their future venues – a dynamic new take on the contemporary British dining experience.
Liverpool Street Grind
Liverpool Street Grind is our 13th project for Grind and follows hot on the heels of Greenwich Grind. Translating the inner-city Grind experience into a lively all-day offering, the venue offers something for everyone with a restaurant and cocktail bar and dedicated grab-and-go café for takeaway coffee and food.
Exmouth Market Grind
Exmouth Market Grind marks our tenth collaboration with the Grind team. The neighbourhood espresso bar, cocktail bar and restaurant, located on the famous market street in Clerkenwell — Exmouth Market — boasts simple but refined details reminiscent of French bistro feels married with depth and textures of a British dining affair.
London Grind
Housed in the unique and historic establishment of No. 2 London Bridge, our London Grind concept is eclectic whilst respecting the heritage feel of the existing infrastructure. We exposed internal walls to reveal and celebrate the century old brickwork whilst maximising the use of natural light and its impressive five metre high ceilings. White marble bench tops and textured patina bar tiles were selected to contrast the concrete ceiling and reclaimed oak timber flooring. As the first Grind to operate as a full restaurant, patrons have the flexibility to choose to dine in the casual cafe area, bar or in the cosy surrounds of the restaurant banquette.
Whitechapel Grind
Whitechapel Grind is a coffee and cocktail bar adjacent to Aldgate East station in London, UK. The venue is located inside the White Chapel Building and is open to the public. We needed to make sure that for this particular Grind, the style we developed across the other Grind venues remained identifiable yet complimented the building, whilst appealing to the those who worked in the building and those who were just passing by.
Piccadilly Grind
Piccadilly Grind is a pop-up site situated underground in London's Piccadilly Circus tube station. For the duration of the six months occupancy, the brief was simple – work within the confined footprint of the site on the main concourse and maximise its operations for coffee to go orders as well as accommodate a number of sit down orders. We needed to ensure the design style and language we had developed for Grind's other sites was evident here.
Soho Grind
Opened in 2014 as the second Grind venue, Soho Grind is an espresso bar and features a basement cocktail bar hidden beneath Beak Street in the heart of Soho. The design language for the Grind brand is developed here from its first venue in Shoreditch – Shoreditch Grind.
Covent Garden Grind
Located in Covent Garden's hospitality hub of Maiden Lane, this Grind venue is inspired by traditional French bistro dining with a modern twist that feels intimate and electric with a touch of feminism. Evolving the design principles from Grind's typical white toned brick walls, the studio re-envisaged the space with feature pale green walls contrasting dark stained oak paneling. Lighting played an important part in this space, the iconic neon signage featured in all of Grind venues sits on the back wall, scripted in soft pink neon with lyrics from David Bowie's Heroes.
Grind at London Bridge Station
Grind announced late last year that it was partnering with a travel caterer to open its café-bars in airports and train stations across the UK and Europe, the first of which will be opening at London Bridge station. Stay tuned for more updates at grind.co.uk
Holborn Grind
Following the success of Shoreditch Grind, Soho Grind and London Grind, UK enterprise Grind & Co has again collaborated with the studio to deliver sibling site, Holborn Grind. Resisting the urge to take itself too seriously, this venue has been designed to accommodate the transition from cafe to espresso bar, juxtaposing vintage elements with modern detailing to seamlessly work with operations. Bare brick, textured concrete render and reclaimed pale oak provides a raw backdrop upon which marble, brass and iron are layered to deliver an industrial effect. The result captures the unique tone of the neighborhood, all the while declaring, "Love is the drug" in a cursive neon – a reference to one of the Grind & Co founder roots in the music industry.
Shoreditch Grind
Situated on the iconic Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch, London, Shoreditch Grind is the first coffee and espresso bar and the beginning of a beautiful friendship with the Grind team. With an international-grade recording studio upstairs and a fully equipped kitchen, today it serves coffee, food and cocktails and has established itself as a local favourite and Shoreditch landmark. The brief was simple, aligned with the Grind founders, we were to design an experience that would merge their love of coffee and music to fulfil their long-term mission of bringing the best coffee to all Londoners.


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The Order of Bhikkhunis
In the Buddha's dispensation there are four categories of people: they are Bhikkhus (Brethren), Bhikkhunis (Nuns), Upasakas (lay brothers) and Upasikas (lay sisters). Mention has been made about this in the Sutta pitaka, Vinaya pitaka and in numerous other places wherein the history of the dispensation is elaborated. Ven.Dr.Kirinde Dhammananda had said that if the order of the Bhikkhunis were to go out of existence, the Buddha Sasana would be like a table with only three legs.
At times when deliberating on the concept of emancipation in Buddhism, it becomes evident that man has been more predisposed to attain emancipation from the ever recurring cycle of births and deaths (Samsara) than the woman, for the woman has had less opportunity for independent thinking; she has to be a mere hireling of her parents while a child, of her husband in adulthood and finally of children when old and decrepit. Thus she has less of a free and unfettered life.
Though the women is more obstructed on the path to redemption than the man, yet when considering the maintenance of Buddhist temples and monasteries, 80% of the contribution has come from women. If it were not for the Upasikas (lay sisters) who throng the temples, there would perhaps have been no persisting bhikkhus following the rules of monastic life enjoined for them.
It is true that the Buddha initially hesitated when called upon to provide ordination for women. When Prajapati Gotami accosted Buddha with the request for ordination, Buddha said, "Gotami, this is not the time for it." It is clearly evident from this that Buddha who knew thoroughly the three-fold time of past, present and future did not grant ordination for women until it was the right time for doing so. On the 8th year after attaining Buddhahood, five hundred women including Maha Prajapati Gotami were granted ordination. It is true that this was done with the mediation of Ananda thera and by his direct influence. However it is far from truth to state that Bhikkhuni order was begun because of the insistence and pleading by Ananda thera on behalf of women. By instituting the order of the Bhikkhunis, Buddha was not merely agreeing with Ananda thera who was the Buddha's attendant at the time. When a Buddha is called upon to resolve a contentious issue or something controversial, he looks into the past through his divine eye to see how other Buddhas, his predecessors, resolved a similar issue; accordingly it could be surmised that the Buddha too granted ordination for women by imposing on them a framework of eight special rules that stipulate the manner in which they should relate to Bhikkhus and the rest of the society as would have been done by the previous Buddhas.
Upon exploring the Tripitaka, the Buddhist canon, one can find that Bhikkhunis formed an indispensable part of the dispensations of the previous Buddhas. During the dispensation of the present Buddha Gautama, it was arhant bhikkhuni Sanghamittha who brought the branch of the Jaya Srimaha Bodhi tree to Sri Lanka and initiated the order of the bhikkhunis there.
In the current Maha Bhadra Kalpa (great pleasant eon), first Buddha to appear was Kakusadha. During his dispensation an arhant bhikkhuni by the name Rupa Nanda had come to Sri Lanka with the southern branch of his Bodhi-tree "Mahari" to initiate the order of the bhikkhunis. Next similarly during the time of the Buddha Konagamana, an arhant bhikkhuni by the name Kanakadattha had arrived in Sri Lanka with the southern branch of his Bodhi-tree "Udumbara". In the same eon thirdly during the time of the Buddha Kashyapa, an arhant bhikkhuni named Sudharma had come to Sri Lanka with the southern branch of his Bodhi-tree "Nigroda". Thereafter it was theri Sanghamittha during the dispensation of the present Buddha Gautama as has already been mentioned. On each of those occasions the bhikkhuni who arrived with the branch of the Bodhi-tree initiated the establishment of the order of the bhikkhunis in Sri Lanka. This highlights the fact that in the orders of the previous Buddha's too there were the four groups of disciples including the bhikkhunis. How the bhikkhuni order was established during the dispensation of the Buddha Gautama by ordination of Maha Prajapati Gotami has been explained above.
On the fifth year after attaining Buddhahood, when the blessed one was dwelling at Nigrodharama in Kapilavasthu, though some women of royal clan coming along with Prajapati Gotami at the head requested to be ordained, the blessed one thrice consecutively rejected their plea. Nonetheless in the eight year of Buddhahood while dwelling at the Kutagara hall in Vaishali, when thera Ananda mediated on behalf of all womenkind the Buddha granted them ordination on condition that they take up eight special rules of conduct. Women thus received ordination in the Buddha Sasana when five hundred of them including Prajapati Gotami solemnly urged for it by donning yellow robes and getting their heads shaved showing their willingness to take up the proposed eight special rules of conduct (Ashta Garu Dharma).
Some bhikkhunis had not received higher ordination from both a bhikkhu and a bhikkhuni as laid out in the special rule number six. For this reason they entertained the doubt that their higher ordination was yet incomplete and this was put to the Buddha as a query through thera Ananda by bhikkhuni Prajapati Gotami. In reply the Buddha was quoted as having said that the acceptance of the eight special rules itself was their higher ordination.
The order of the bhikkhus in Sri Lanka was ceremonially inaugurated with the ordination of prince Aritta subsequent to the arrival of arhant thera Mahinda in Sri Lanka, while that of the bhikkhunis was similarly inaugurated by the ordination of queen Anula by theri Sanghamittha.
Owing to the successive waves of enemy invasions, the Buddhist dominion in Sri Lanka became weaker with the lapse of time and the order of both bhikkhus and bhikkhunis disappeared from its soil. They were replaced by a class of priests-cum-exorcists who used to tie a yellow thread round their wrists and maintain families while inhabiting the monasteries. The famine Baminithiya Saya was also one of the causes that led to the disappearance of the bhikkhu-bhikkhuni orders from Sri Lanka. Eventually only upasakas and Upasikas were left behind.
In the 18th century by the mediation of Welivita Sri Saranankara Sangharaja thera, who emerged on the scene much like a blossom in marsh land from among the aforesaid class of priests, and by the invitation of his majesty Kirthi Sri Rajasingha, ten maha theras headed by Ven.Upali maha thera were sent to Sri Lanka by the king of Siam (Thailand) to re-establish its defunct order of the bhikkhus. The ordination ceremony was held auspiciously in the chapter house of the Malwatta monastery on the Esala poya day of Buddhist Era 2296. The order of the bhikkhunis however did not receive anybody's attention and nothing was done to revive it then.
In the late nineteenth century although Miss. Catherine De Alwis who was born of an aristocratic Christian family in Southern Sri Lanka sought permission from the bhikkhus at the time to get ordained as a bhikkhuni by renouncing Christianity, she was not even initiated into the ten precepts meant for a lay women. Consequently Miss. Alwis had gone to Burma and got ordained as Sudharmachari. Returning to Sri Lanka in 1905, she had lived in a temple at Katukale, Kandy. Nonetheless, Sri Lankan womanhood once again got the benefit of ordination owing to the services rendered by Ven.Inamaluwe Sumangala thera and the Sangha council of Dambulla on 12th March 1998 in the chapter house of Rangiri Dambulla monastery. Ven.Inamaluwe Sumangala thera got twenty Dasa Sil Mathas who were trained in the Bhikkhuni Educational Institute in Dambulla to participate in the ordination ceremony organized by Forgu An Shen vihara in Taiwan at Buddhagaya on February 1998. With it Bhikkhuni ordination in Sri Lanka was systematically reinstated.
There is a tendency among present day women in Sri Lanka to enter the bhikkhuni order with understanding and reflection. Several decades ago even the sight of a Dasa Sil Matha was a rarity. Nevertheless today we can see women of all age groups seeking ordination. So also we can see monasteries meant for them being constructed and developed.
Background is being set for the good ladies seeking ordination to obtain higher ordination in accordance with the disciplinary rules of Buddhism and thereafter work for the welfare of the Buddha Sasana. Today we can see as well as hear some bhikkhunis delivering sermons very fluently over the National Radio and Television. They do so with as much fluency as their bhikkhu counterparts. It is pleasant to see that bhikkhunis have also got involved in performing the customary rites of Pirith ceremonies and alms givings supplying the deficiency of qualified bhikkhus. This is to be understood as a wholesome tendency in view of the existence of the Sasana.
We've also heard of the involvement of the bhikkhunis in the fields of writing books, teaching in schools and even lecturing in universities. However we are yet to hear of an educational institution solely catering to their needs – an institution that would train them to face boldly the manifold tasks they are to accomplish. In supplementing this deficiency in Buddhist education, the foundation was set to establish the Bhikkhuni Training Centre and International Faculty of Buddhist Studies in the premises of Dekanduwala Dhamma Training and Meditation Centre, Kananwila, Horana, which is affiliated to the Buddhist Cultural Centre Nedimala, Dehiwala. We firmly believe that it would usher in a fruitful tomorrow for both local and foreign bhikkhunis destined to graduate from its hallowed portals.
© Bhikkuni Traning Centre Dekanduwala


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