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Ethiopia: End use of counter-terrorism law to persecute dissenters and opposition members
Ethiopia, News, Press Releases
The Ethiopian Government must end its escalating crackdown on human rights defenders, independent media, peaceful protestors as well as members and leaders of the political opposition through the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (ATP) says a group of civil society organisations (CSOs).
"The government's repression of independent voices has significantly worsened as the Oromo protest movement has grown," said Yared Hailemariam, Director of the Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia (AHRE). "The international community should demand the end of this state-orchestrated clampdown and the immediate release of peaceful critics to prevent the situation from deteriorating further."
The recent escalation in the use of the ATP to prosecute peaceful protesters, journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders, and opposition leaders and members is indicative of the Ethiopian Government's growing intolerance of dissent. Largely peaceful protests began in November 2015 against the dispossession of land without adequate compensation in the Oromia region. In response to the protests, the Ethiopian authorities have arbitrarily arrested thousands of people and several hundred people have been summarily killed by the security services while participating in the protests.
While the bulk of those arrested since February 2016 have not been charged, several are currently being prosecuted under the ATP. These include Getachew Shiferaw (Editor-in-Chief of the online newspaper Negere Ethiopia), Yonathan Tesfaye Regassa (former head of public relations for the opposition Semayawi Party), Bekele Gerba (Deputy Chair, Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC)) and Dejene Tufa (Deputy General Secretary, OFC) and Gurmesa Ayana (secretary, OFC). Fikadu Mirkana, (news editor and a reporter with the public Oromia Radio and TV), was arrested on 19 December 2015, charged under the ATP and released five months later in April 2016.
Getachew was held in Maekelawi Detention Centre after his arrest on 25 December 2015. On 22 April 2016, upon reaching the four-month limit for investigations permissible under the ATP, the court ordered the Federal Police to close the investigation. Yet Getachew remained in police custody and on 23 May was charged under the ATP. He has since been moved to the Kilinto detention centre.
"The Ethiopian government is using laws and judicial processes that fail to meet international human rights standards to harass and stifle dissent, targeting activists, human rights defenders, opposition party leaders and journalists " said Haben Fecadu, Campaigner at Amnesty International.
Despite repeated calls from CSOs, independent UN experts, the European Parliament, and numerous governments, including the United States, the Ethiopian authorities continue to arbitrarily detain and prosecute scores of peaceful protestors for exercising their rights, using the broad provisions of the ATP to criminalise peaceful expressions of dissent. Since the enactment of the ATP in 2009, human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and peaceful protestors have been prosecuted and convicted under its provisions.
"The international community – including the United Nations – should unconditionally condemn the arbitrary arrest and detention of human rights defenders in Ethiopia," said Hassan Shire, Executive Director of DefendDefenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project). "The Ethiopian government's use of counter-terrorism as a smokescreen to target the peaceful work of human rights defenders is an affront to its regional and international obligations."
Most recently, on 10 May 2016, blogger Zelalem Workagenehu was sentenced to five years and four months in prison under the ATP. Zelalem, who works for the independent diaspora blog, De Birhan, was convicted under charges of conspiring to overthrow the government and supporting terrorism under the ATP. The activities on which these charges were based included organising a digital security training course and reporting on the peaceful protest movements in the country. Though the Federal High Court acquitted some of his co-defendants on 15 April 2016, the police re-arrested two of them only hours after they were released from Kilinto Prison on 17 April 2016 and detained them at Maekelawi Prison for a night. Yonathan Wolde and Bahiru Degu were charged with applying to participate in the same training, described by the government as "training to terrorise the country," and of being members of Ginbot 7, a banned Ethiopian opposition party, which they deny.
Zelalem and Bahiru described for the trial court their conditions of and treatment in detention. Zelalem said he was detained in "Siberia" in the central Maekelawi Prison in Addis Ababa and was tortured by interrogators.
"Independent civil society and media is being quashed out of existence in Ethiopia," said Tor Hodenfield, Policy and Advocacy Officer at CIVICUS. "The international community must call for more than tokenistic releases of human rights defenders and encourage the Ethiopian government to support avenues of peaceful dissent."
Several members and leaders of opposition political parties have also been targeted under the ATP. Bekele Gerba and 21 other individuals were arrested on 23 December 2016, and charged under the ATP. They were then held for a four-month long investigation without access to their lawyer. Authorities transferred them to Kilinto Detention Centre on 22 April 2016. On 11 May 2016, the Prison Administration declined to bring the defendants to Lideta Federal High Court since all the defendants wore black suits, in expression of their mourning for the people killed during the protests. On 4 May 2016, former Spokesperson of the opposition Semayawi (Blue) Party, Yonathan Tesfaye Regassa, was charged with "incitement, planning, preparation, conspiracy and attempt" to commit a terrorism related act under the ATP.
On 25 April 2016, the Federal High Court sentenced the former Governor of Gambella Region, Okello Akway Ochalla, to nine years imprisonment under the ATP. Okello fled Ethiopia after the 2003 massacre in the region, and obtained Norwegian citizenship. He was arbitrarily arrested in South Sudan in March 2014 and handed over to Ethiopian security forces. He was originally charged under the ATP. The trial of Okello and his co-defendants was marred by violations of fair trial guarantees and including the use of witness testimonies in exchange for non-prosecution under the ATP.
The undersigned CSOs demand the competent Ethiopian authorities to take the necessary steps to bring the ATP in line with its international, regional and constitutional human rights obligations and immediately and unconditionally release all human rights defenders, journalists, bloggers and opposition party leaders and members imprisoned for peacefully exercising their rights.
Defend Defenders (East and Horn of Africa Human Right Defenders Project)
Ethiopia Human Rights Project (EHRP)
Yared Hailemariam, Executive Director, Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia on: [email protected]
Haben Fecadu, Ethiopia Campaigner, Amnesty International on [email protected]
Hassan Shire, Executive Director, DefendDefenders on: [email protected]

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297-я зенитная ракетная бригада — зенитное ракетное соединение ПВО Сухопутных войск Российской Федерации. Бригада дислоцируется в селе Леонидовка Пензенского района Пензенской области.

Условное наименование — Войсковая часть № 02030 (в/ч 02030). Сокращённое наименование — 297 зрбр.

Соединение находится в составе 2-й гвардейской общевойсковой армии Центрального военного округа.

Предыстория
Предыстория образования 297-a зенитной ракетной бригады ведёт своё начало с августа 1960 года. На базе двух зенитных артиллерийских полков 61-й
артиллерийской дивизии 38-й армии Прикарпатского военного округа в городе Ужгороде был сформирован 177-й отдельный зенитный артиллерийский полк среднего калибра. На вооружении полка находились 100-мм зенитные пушки КС-19, управление которыми осуществлялось с помощью ПУАЗО-6 и СОН-9А.

1 июня 1961 года полк был переформирован в 177-й отдельный зенитно-ракетный полк ПВО. На вооружение полка поступили современные комплексы. Для быстрейшего овладения новой техникой основные специалисты подразделений полка в июне — сентябре 1961 года прошли переобучение. Все дивизионы успешно окончили курс обучения, и уже в сентябре 1961 года полк провёл начальные, боевые стрельбы. Первый пуск осуществляли офицер наведения капитан С. Г. Толстелеев и расчёт сержанта А. Н. Налетова. После проведения начальных стрельб полк в сентябре 1961 года железнодорожным транспортом передислоцировался из города Ужгорода в Венгерскую Народную Республику на аэродром «Bеспрем» и вошёл в состав Южной группы войск. Первым командиром полка был полковник Мельниченко Семён Владимирович.

С 1 января 1962 года в соответствии с приказом командующего ЮГВ полк заступил на боевое дежурство.

На основании приказа Министра обороны СССР от 3 февраля 1962 года установлен годовой праздник части в честь дня её сформирования — 1 июня.

В период Карибского кризиса с 19 октября по 21 ноября 1962 года полк нёс боевую вахту в состоянии повышенной боевой готовности. Личный состав проявил высокие морально-боевые качества, при этом 116 солдат и сержантов подали рапорты с просьбой послать их добровольцами для защиты Кубинской Республики.

На общем собрании полка личный состав третьего года службы выразил готовность служить столько, сколько необходимо для обеспечения безопасности нашей Родины. 1962 учебный год полк закончил с хорошей оценкой.

За отличные и хорошие показатели в боевой и политической подготовке, хорошее содержание боевой техники и оружия полку было присуждено переходящее «КРАСНОЕ ЗНАМЯ» Военного Совета Южной группы войск, личный состав полка был поощрён ценными подарками и грамотами от министра обороны СССР.

В 1963 г. полк был перевооружён на новую технику — зенитный ракетный комплекс С-75М и выполнил боевые стрельбы с оценкой «отлично». Присутствующий на боевых стрельбах Маршал артиллерии В. И. Казаков дал высокую оценку и наградил ценными подарками отличившихся военнослужащих полка.

В 1967 году полк повторно выполнил боевые стрельбы с оценкой «отлично». С этого времени отличная стрельба становится славной боевой традицией соединения. В 1968 году полк под командованием полковника Колочая Дмитрия Максимовича принимал участие в учении войск ПВО Страны «Небесный щит» и показал высокий уровень боевого мастерства.

За отличные и хорошие показатели боевой и политической подготовки, высокую воинскую дисциплину и хорошее содержание вооружения и боевой техники полк в 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1976 годах награждался переходящим «Красным знаменем» Военного Совета Южной группы войск.

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Советский период
В марте 1977 года в месте постоянной дислокации 177-го отдельного зенитного ракетного полка (аэродром «Веспрем») была сформирована 297-я зенитная ракетная бригада под командованием подполковника Капренко Николая Андреевича. Основой формирования явились кадры 177-го зенитного ракетного полка. В бригаду было передано боевое знамя, грамота Президиума Верховного Совета СССР, исторический формуляр и дата годового праздника от 177 полка. Днём образования 297-й зенитной ракетной бригады считается 15 марта 1977 года.

В этом же году бригада была направлена в Оренбургский учебный центр на переобучение на зенитный ракетный комплекс «Круг». Сразу же по прибытии в учебный центр началась напряжённая боевая учёба по освоению новой техники. Все специалисты показали твёрдые знания своих функциональных обязанностей, умение эффективно использовать боевую технику. Боевые стрельбы на Государственном полигоне были выполнены с оценкой «хорошо». 29 января 1981 года соединению и зенитным ракетным дивизионам были вручены боевые красные знамёна.

1983 год стал годом дальнейшего повышения уровня боевой готовности, качественного несения боевого дежурства, укрепления воинской дисциплины. По итогам учебного года соединение было определено лучшим соединением в войсках ПВО ЮГВ.

В мае 1984 года соединение передислоцировалось с г. Веспрема в г. Дунафёльдвар. Прибыв в пункт постоянной дислокации, командиры развернули активную работу по укрытию боевой техники, улучшению быта личного состава, совершенствованию инфраструктуры военного городка.

По итогам стрельб в 1988 году соединение признано лучшим в Войсках ПВО Сухопутных войск и награждено вымпелом Министра обороны СССР «За мужество и воинскую доблесть».

В соответствии с решением Правительства СССР о выводе советских войск, дислоцированных за границей, на территорию СССР, части и подразделения бригады в период с 15 апреля по 20 мая 1990 года были выведены из состава Южной группы войск и перевезены из Венгерской Республики к новому месту постоянной дислокации (посёлок Алкино-2 Чишминского района Башкирской АССР). Передислокация бригады в полном составе, с боевой техникой, вооружением и материальными средствами осуществлялась железнодорожным транспортом. На новом месте бригада вошла в состав Приволжско-Уральского военного округа.

Постсоветский период
С 17 по 23 августа 1992 года, с 29 августа по 1 сентября 1994 года с бригадой проведены тактические учения с выполнением боевых стрельб на Государственном полигоне «Эмба». Общая оценка за тактические учения с боевой стрельбой — «хорошо». В апреле 1997 года в соединении проводилось тактическое учение с выполнением зачётных учебных стрельб по реальным воздушным целям. Офицеры центра боевого применения средств ПВО высоко оценили уровень боевого мастерства личного состава соединения. Общая оценка за учения — также «хорошо».

По итогам 2000 года 297-я зенитная ракетная бригада заняла второе место в Вооружённых силах Российской Федерации по службе войск и обеспечению безопасности условий военной службы. По итогам 2001 года среди лучших частей 2-й общевойсковой армии 297-я зрбр заняла также второе место.

В 2002 году 297-я зенитная ракетная бригада была перевооружена на комплекс «Бук-М1». Переобучение личного состава соединения проводилось в Оренбургском учебном центре с 5 июля по 10 октября 2002 года. Экзаменом на профессиональную зрелось стала боевая стыковочная стрельба на базе 315 учебного центра боевого применения ВВС «Телемба» в Сибирском военном округе. Стрельба проходила в остановке, максимально приближенной к боевой. С оценкой «отлично» бригада вернулась на место постоянной дислокации. В 2004 году в тактических учениях с боевой стрельбой в 42-м учебном центре «Ашулук» соединение ещё раз показало своё мастерство и умение, выполнив программу боевых стрельб на оценку «отлично».

В августе 2005 года, в дни проведения праздничных мероприятий, посвящённых 1000-летию города Казани, бригада осуществляла противовоздушную оборону города. В ходе несения боевого дежурства личный состав показал высокие профессиональные навыки и отличные знания
основ боевой работы.

2006 год для бригады оказался крайне напряжённым. На базе соединения с 9 по 22 марта проводились широкомасштабные мобилизационные учения. По количеству привлекаемых граждан из запаса эти учения явились самыми крупными за последние 15 лет.

В мае 2007 года бригада несла боевое дежурство по обеспечению саммита «Россию в Евросоюз». В октябре 2007 года соединение привлекалось для проведения охранных мероприятий по обеспечению празднования 450-летия добровольного присоединения Башкирии к России. За образцовое выполнение поставленных задач бригаде объявлена благодарность от Президента Российской Федерации.

С марта по апрель 2008 года бригада выезжала на государственный полигон «Капустин Яр», где проводились тактические учения с боевой стрельбой. Действия соединения на учениях было оценено на «отлично».

С 5 августа по 2 октября 2008 года 297-я зенитная ракетная бригада принимала участие в учениях «Стабильность-2008», проходивших на государственном полигоне «Донгузский» Оренбургской области.

В 2009 году бригада перевооружена на новый зенитный ракетный комплекс «Бук-М2». С этого года личный состав бригады постоянно
принимает участие в парадах войск на Красной площади в городе Москве. 30 мая 2009 года 297-й зенитной ракетной бригаде вручено Боевое знамя нового образца.

В сентябре 2011 года бригада принимала участие в стратегических учениях «Центр-2011» на полигоне «Ашулук». Все поставленные тактико-огневые задачи выполнены на оценку «отлично». По итогам учений «Центр-2011» бригада признана лучшим соединением войск ПВО Центрального военного округа и награждена Вымпелом командующего войсками Центрального военного округа «За отличие, проявленное в ходе стратегического учения "Центр-2011"».

После участия в параде на Красной площади в городе Москве личный состав соединения в июне 2013 года принимал участие по охране воздушных рубежей во время проведения «Универсиады» в г. Казани.

В 2015 году 297-я зенитная ракетная бригада несла боевое дежурство по ПВО в ходе проведения охранных мероприятий встречи глав государств ШОС, глав государств и правительств БРИКС в городе Уфа. По завершении мероприятий бригада приняла участие в СКШУ «Центр−2015». Основные этапы учения проводились на полигоне «Ашулук», по результатам учений бригада получила оценку «хорошо».

Командиры
Командиры 297-й зенитной ракетной бригады:
 полковник Мельяченко Семён Владимирович (1960—1965),
 подполковник Дебелый Пётр Поликарпович (1965—1966),
 подполковник Омельяченко Дмитрий Георгиевич (1966—1967),
 полковник Колочай Дмитрий Максимович (1967—1971),
 подполковник Литвинов Владимир Максимович (1971—1975),
 подполковник Карпенко Николай Андреевич (1975—1979),
 подполковник Дектярев Вячеслав Демьянович (1979—1982),
 полковник Сторчук Юрий Алексеевич (1982—1986),
 полковник Корнев Анатолий Семёнович (1986—1987),
 полковник Волков Виктор Иванович (1987—1991),
 полковник Азаров Тимофей Михайлович (1991—1995),
 полковник Кольчевский Сергей Викторович (1995—2005),
 полковник Бояринов Александр Николаевич (2005—2010),
 полковник Золотов Алексей Юрьевич (2010—2012),
 полковник Кукушкин Владимир Витальевич (2012—2013),
 полковник Николаенков Алексей Леонидович (с 2013 по 2019),
 полковник Поляков Владимир Николаевич (с 2019 по н.в.)

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Литература

Воинские формирования Центрального военного округа
Воинские части и формирования, созданные в 1977 году
Формирования ПВО СВ Российской Федерации
Зенитные ракетные бригады Российской Федерации
Формирования ПВО СССР
Бригады СССР
Южная группа войск

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Olivia Wilde Has No Time for Stereotypes
She pushes back on pigeonholing with directorial debut, Booksmart
by Randi Bergman
Olivia Wilde has been pushing boundaries since before it was something Hollywood stars were expected to do. As an actress, she advanced LGBTQ representation in mainstream TV back in 2003, playing Marissa Cooper's love interest, Alex Kelly, on The O.C. As an activist, she's campaigned for Time's Up, Planned Parenthood and the American youth vote. And as a first-time director, she brings us Booksmart, a completely new kind of buddy comedy that has all the ingredients of a high school classic, minus the tropes. Molly (Beanie Feldstein) and Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) are two overachieving best of friends who, on the night before graduation, decide to pack four years' worth of fun into one evening. Hijinks ensue, but along the way, they revisit their preconceived notions about their fellow students. We chatted to Wilde by phone from Los Angeles about why Booksmart represents the next frontier of feminism in film.
Booksmart is pegged on the idea that women can be a multitude of things. Why is this still such a novel concept?
"I think people are still struggling with the idea of nuance with femininity. We've worked so hard to prove that women can be strong and smart that we forget that they can also be sexy and beautiful in the same package. It doesn't need to be one or the other. We lose nuance when we oversimplify human behaviours. There have been a lot of great movies and TV shows that show smart and funny women, but I often find that they accentuate the intelligence of those characters by pitting them against someone who is stupid or crazy, and this oversimplification doesn't further the conversation in society."
Have you ever felt pigeonholed?
"I spent my entire 20s with people being surprised that I wasn't stupid. People would say, 'You're actually smart!' At what point was that okay to say to somebody? Somehow, women allow for it. There's this sense of, 'Gee, thanks for recognizing I'm not an idiot.' I got sick of that."
Do you notice the tides turning at all?
"I actually do notice a change in the way actresses are treated, particularly because of the Time's Up movement. There's a shift happening because of the demand of the younger generation who see things differently. They want to create a much more nuanced, fluid society, and I think that's affecting older people now because they're responding to the desires of the young consumer. So that's allowing for a shift in the conversation around women in Hollywood. For me, becoming a director was also a chance to say, 'I want to be valued for my mind. I want my ideas to be more valuable than my physical appearance.' I have to say it's pretty f—ing satisfying."
Have you always wanted to direct?
"It has always been a secret part of my plan. I was eagerly pursuing this acting career, but [also] chatting with the directors I was working for, asking a lot of questions and really trying to gain the amount of knowledge that would supplement the film school education I'd never had. Once I got to the point where I felt like I could confidently lead a crew and tell a story, then I declared that I wanted to direct. I was met with a lot of support—I believe that if you have a lot of passion and good ideas, this industry is actually really supportive of those ideas. You just have to have a lot of energy to put into them."
You started out directing music videos, for Red Hot Chili Peppers, Daft Punk and 30 Seconds to Mars. How did that help prepare you?
"Music videos are where I cut my teeth and I hope to continue doing them. They're a playground with total creative licence and that's where I discovered that this is the only thing I ever want to do!"
The only thing?
"I mean, I do want to keep acting because acting is catharsis, and it's incredibly fun, but I know that I want to keep directing. Directing fulfills me in a different way."
Why did this feel like the right movie for your directorial debut?
"When I first read the screenplay, it was a very different version of the script and what exists on screen today, but it had the basic concept of best friends who were incredibly smart in an apologetic way. I was really moved by the notion of celebrating female intelligence and comedy without homogenizing it, without making all the female characters smart and funny in the same exact way."
Whether or not we were exactly like these characters, I think everyone, especially women, can relate to this movie. Was that your aim?
"I wanted the movie to encourage people to strip away their judgements of others and themselves, this habit we have of categorizing others out of fear. By introducing the stereotypes right off the bat—the nerd, the jock, the mean girl—I wanted to introduce you to the tropes and then pretty quickly flip them so that you question your own judgement of them and consider how you've judged people in your life, and perhaps even yourself."
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El tahsil es troba a la vall del riu Jumna i inclou la ciutat d'Agra, capital de la divisió d'Agra, del districte d'Agra i del tahsil d'Agra, i de la qual agafa el nom. Sota els britànics la superfície era de 533 km² i la població el 1881 de 266.206 habitants, el 1891 de 272.718 i el 1901 de 291.044. El formaven 10 llogarets i la ciutat d'Agra (que tenia uns dos terços de la població). Està creuat pel canal d'Agra.

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Grijalva puts weight behind Steele candidacy
Democratic candidate trails fellow former lawmaker Heinz in fundraising for primary
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Posted Feb 16, 2016, 12:08 pm
Paul Ingram TucsonSentinel.com
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva endorsed congressional hopeful Victoria Steele on Tuesday, saying the former state representative would fight for women, revitalize public education, and had a "rational view" on the need for comprehensive immigration reform and climate change legislation.
Steele hopes to challenge U.S. Rep. Martha McSally for the CD2 seat in Southern Arizona, but faces another former lawmaker, Matt Heinz, in the Democratic primary.
Grijalva endorsed Steele at the Pima County Democratic Party headquarters in Tucson, saying she should win the primary, and has a "strong national profile" that could carry her through the general election.
"I'm proud to endorse her, and we will do what we can to help her," said Grijalva. "I'm very confident that she will win the primary and I think she will do very well in the general."
Steele thanked Grijalva for his endorsement and for his "strong and honest leadership" in Congress.
"Defeating Martha McSally, and delivering strong leadership that benefits the families of Southern Arizona begins with unifying Democrats, so I'm humbled and honored to receive the endorsement of Rep. Raul Grijalva," said Steele.
Grijlva praised Steele's positions on a number of important issues in the 2016 election, including the need to fix the nation's "broken" immigration system with comprehensive legislation.
"It goes without saying that her view on the need for comprehensive immigration reform is rational, and above all she recognizes that the humanity of the situation," Grijalva said. "It's not just about moving numbers around."
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Later, Grijalva called public education the "great American idea," and called Steele a "defender of that concept." Steele, he said would help renew and revitalize the public education system.
He also said that Steele "doesn't have her head in the ground regarding climate change."
Grijalva said that the election was important to protect the successes of the Obama administration, which he said had gotten the country out of a recession and would get the country "where we need to go."
Heinz, meanwhile, announced Tuesday that his campaign had broken the half-million-dollar mark in fundraising, and touted adding several organizational endorsements to his list of supporters, including the Teamsters union, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and American College of Surgeons.
The physician at Tucson Medical Center was endorsed earlier by U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Phoenix Democrat.
"Defeating Martha McSally is the most important thing Southern Arizona Democrats can do this year, and the stakes couldn't be higher," Heinz said in an email Tuesday.
Steele, a former state legislator who resigned her seat to focus on running for Congress, has trailed Heinz in fundraising.
Steele raised just $99,817 in 2015, while Heinz pulled in $407,397 before Dec. 31.
Meanwhile, the first-term Tucson Republican they're seeking to challenge raised more than $3.2 million last year, topping all but a handful of House members, and had $1.9 million on hand at the end of the year, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filings.
Steele, a counselor and former broadcast journalist before serving in the Legislature, had $43,867 on hand on Dec. 31, according to the FEC. But Heinz ended the year with $305,733 cash on hand.
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The slow flow of cash to the Democratic hopefuls is likely one of the factors behind the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee leaving CD2 off a list of 31 districts it's targeting this year. And political prognosticator Larry Sabato changed his rating of the district from "toss-up" to "leans Republican" last week.
But local Dems are working to tie McSally to national Republicans who might not play so well in Tucson, including presidential candidate Donald Trump.
While $3 million is a lot for challengers to overcome, analysts say other factors, such as the eventual GOP presidential nominee and outside funding, could have a large effect in the district, which is almost evenly split between Republican, Democratic and independent voters.
McSally spokesman Patrick Ptak said that the Democrats are "giving up on re-taking her seat" by leaving CD2 off the list of districts targeted for focused fundraising by the national party. "Given her impressive start and the Democrats' complete 180, it's clear they now consider her unbeatable," he crowed to reporters in an email.
The DCCC hasn't given up on blasting the Republican congresswoman, at least via email.
Trump's win in the New Hampshire primary "potentially crush(es) Martha McSally's dreams of reelection," said DCCC spokesman Tyler Law.
"Sadly for House Republicans, this Latino-hating, women-hating, Muslim-hating man is now their party's standard bearer," Law said in an email. "This begs the question (sic): will McSally pledge to support Donald Trump if he is the nominee?"
"An incumbent sitting there with a couple million dollars is a pretty tall hurdle," said Nathan Gonzales, editor of the Rothenberg and Gonzales Political Report, adding that, "by the numbers, the district is competitive."
Those numbers have been borne out in the last two elections. McSally lost to Democratic Rep. Ron Barber by 2,454 votes out of 292,279 cast in 2012, then came back to beat him two years later by a razor-thin margin of 161 votes out of 219,351.
Cronkite News reporter Danika Worthington contributed to this article.
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Pretty amazing story in the New York Times today, Palestinian Authority Is Ordered to Post $10 Million Bond in Terror Case. I will expound when I have time. Read it.
The Obama administration sides with terrorists and against the interests and lives of its own citizens as well as a United States federal jury's decision. Anybody surprised?
In a widely watched terrorism lawsuit that drew the attention of the Obama administration, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Monday that the Palestinian Authority would have to post $10 million and an additional $1 million monthly to appeal a huge damages award for its role in six terrorist attacks in Israel that had killed and injured Americans.
The bond amount was much lower than lawyers for the victims had sought and matched the amount that lawyers for the Palestinian Authority said in court on Monday that the defendants could pay.
Just two weeks ago, the Obama administration weighed in on the case, expressing concern in a submission to the judge that requiring too high a bond could cause economic and political harm to the Palestinian Authority and the broader peace process.
The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization in February were found liable in the attacks, which occurred between 2002 and 2004, after a lengthy civil trial brought under an antiterrorism law that provided for a tripling of the jury's damages award of $218.5 million, for a total of $655.5 million.
The lawyer for the victims' families, Mr. Yalowitz, originally asked that the Palestinian Authority be required to make payments of $30 million a month while pursuing an appeal, and on Monday he suggested that $20 million a month would be appropriate. Mr. Yalowitz said that the amount proposed by the defendants should "outrage" the court, given that the authority was still paying millions to convicted terrorists imprisoned in Israel. Another of the families' lawyers, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, in a statement from her office in Israel, said, "This is a very serious blow to the terror victims who spent 11 years litigating" the case.
To refresh your memory, you might want to visit this link. The evidence presented in court included handwritten notes from PA chairman Yasir Arafat personally approving payments to the terrorists who carried out the attacks.
The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization were found liable on Monday by a jury in Manhattan for their role in knowingly supporting six terrorist attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004 in which Americans were killed and injured.
The damages are to be $655.5 million, under a special terrorism law that provides for tripling the $218.5 million awarded by the jury in Federal District Court.The verdict came in the seventh week of a civil trial during which the jury heard emotional testimony from survivors of suicide bombings and other attacks in Jerusalem, in which a total of 33 people were killed and more than 450 were injured.The plaintiffs also included the estates of four victims who had been killed in the attacks, which occurred on the street and at a crowded bus stop, inside a bus, and in a cafeteria on the campus of Hebrew University.
"It was a terrible thing to see," one plaintiff, Robert Coulter Sr., 78, testified as he described watching a news report about the cafeteria bombing and realizing his 36-year-old daughter, a New Yorker on a business trip, was one of the victims.
Palestinians plan to appeal the jury decision and ruling.
Upholding the verdict Monday, U.S. District Judge George Daniels rejected complaints from the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority that the trial inappropriately excluded evidence about the political and social context of the attacks.The case is "not about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Daniels said from the bench.
This kind of behavior is far too common with this administration, we apparently live in a time of great moral relativism, where the slider of what constitutes right and wrong is seemingly built on shifting sands. We aren't going to look at the past record of the Iranians because that was ten years ago and ancient history, everybody knows they lied, right. Ditto the Palestinians and Maalot, Munich, Achile Lauro, Merkaz Yeshiva and many more similar incidents.
Forget red lines and promises, it's a brave new world, everything now is about expedition and capitulation. This case is an outrage but I guess I shouldn't be surprised at this point.
This is a nice pice of journalism. It has the facts right and expresses a clear viewpoint on the issues. Particularly regarding moral relativism which is very much a part of the entire business of statecraft. You are not obligated to be evenhanded in your opinion of the case but what this article does that I have not always seen in others here is that it expresses the known facts and the interpretation of those facts in a way that makes it possible to tell which is which. That is quite good and elevates this article above the sort of stuff often found in the blogosphere.
Blathering on he said: The thing I like the most about this article is its persuasiveness. It manages to combine outrage at the damage done to victims with a portrayal of politically motivated decisions that increase the insult and damage. That is really effective. From my biased point of view I think showing the human suffering of Jewish folk is more effective than joining in the general middle eastern rage process. Everyone there seems to hate everyone else and the various strains of rage seem to take over the debate. The 2000 year process of persecuting Jews has to be interrupted and I think most of the US population wants that to happen regardless of political affiliation. If the US can find it in itself to continue as the only country really working toward this end then everything should be done to support the effort. I prefer doing so as a response to the suffering and misery that has been caused by millennia of convenient political expedients rather than in response to a call to smite the bad guys even though I fully realize that the two imperatives are linked.


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The government approved unanimously the law allowing to post cameras at polling stations
by Ifi Reporter Category:Communication Sep 8, 2019
After being unanimously approved at a government meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided not to waste time, bringing the camera law into the law book in the next few days. This is despite the opposition of the Central Election Commission and its chair and contrary to the position of Attorney General. The Knesset plenum will be convened as early as noon tomorrow to discuss the law on first reading.
The law will allow the various party activists to photograph the incoming voters on election day, already placed on the Knesset table. Netanyahu is planning to set up a special committee headed by MK Miki Zohar to advance the law and prepare him for voting in the plenum. Tomorrow the Likud will ask for an exemption from the discount requirement, set up the committee and approve it, and already bring the law to the first reading in the Knesset.
After the first reading, the committee will hold hearings throughout Tuesday, from morning to night. On Wednesday, the law will be voted on by a second and third reading, and it will enter the law book, the coalition hopes.
State President Reuben Rivlin addressed the decision, saying it was "attempts to undermine public confidence." In his remarks, the president sought to strengthen the hands of members of the Central Election Commission and the Supreme Court President Justice Hanan Meltzer and the Supreme Court - following the "baseless and irresponsible political attacks they are currently experiencing."
"I sincerely reject the attempts to undermine public confidence in these bodies and the professionalism that leads them in the process of assessing the upcoming elections," the president noted. Rivlin added that throughout the state, the Election Commission has been professional and loyal. Commenting on the political assault on the Central Election Commission and the Judiciary, the President said: "The debate on this issue has a proper place and it must undoubtedly be conducted, in accordance with the changes that are taking place, in the reality in which we live."
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The $2 Billion Bubble? What the Clippers Sale Means for the NBA and the Players
The sale of the Clippers to Steve Ballmer could not have gone any better for the NBA. Adam Silver hasn't even been on the job for six months, and he already has a triumph that will be in the first or second paragraph of the stories on his retirement two or three decades from now.
by Zach Lowe on May 30, 2014
The sale of the Clippers to Steve Ballmer could not have gone any better for the NBA. Adam Silver hasn't even been on the job for six months and he already has a triumph that will be in the first or second paragraph of the stories about his retirement two or three decades from now.
He confidently stretched the league's constitution almost as far as it could go in fining Donald Sterling the maximum $2.5 million, banishing him for life, and moving immediately to force the sale of the team to a less despicable person. He made clear it would be better for everyone if Sterling and his wife, Rochelle, would sell the team on their own before the NBA stripped them of it.
And, boom: $2 billion, a number that has sources across all areas of the NBA today writing emails and texts filled with exclamation points, like teenage girls gushing about One Direction. There will still be some ugly twists, given reports Sterling will sue the league, but Silver expected that. Everything appears to be on track. Just about everyone agrees that Ballmer is overpaying, perhaps dramatically, in forking over the second-largest purchase price ever for a North American franchise — a price that came in at just less than triple the most recent Forbes valuation of the team.
But the Clippers are debt-free — having a cheapskate owner helps in that regard — and on the verge of renegotiating their undermarket local TV deal, struck before the league's most pathetic franchise somehow teamed up Chris Paul and Blake Griffin. The Clips get only about $20 million or so per season from the deal, according to various reports, roughly one-tenth what Time Warner pays the Lakers every season.
The league's national TV contract, which yields about $30 million per team annually, is up after the 2015-16 season, and the new one will trump that in a landslide.
Franchise valuations are escalating at a nutty pace; the Bucks' sale for $550 million broke the Warriors' previous record, and Ballmer and partners were ready to go well over that to relocate the sad sack Kings to Seattle. Sales figures from 2010 and 2011 look like ancient relics now, like Don Draper paying some absurd price to go to the movies on Mad Men. Michael Jordan's crew got the Bobcats (now Hornets) almost for free, on the condition they assume all the debt the franchise had piled up. A bunch of private equity dudes bought the Sixers, a huge-market team, for $280 million in 2011. Three years later, two other finance wizards paid nearly double that for the freaking Bucks, and they even agreed not to move the team to a more profitable market.
The forces driving this are obvious. The league slaughtered the players, forever disorganized and fighting among themselves, in the 2011 lockout. Players used to get 57 percent of all league revenue; they get 50 percent now, a savings of about $10 million per year for each team. Live sporting events only get more valuable to TV networks as fewer competing programs prove DVR-proof. China and India loom as untapped or only semi-tapped markets.
The league's revenue-sharing system will soon ensure that every team makes a profit, or at least comes close. The Bobcats got $20 million from it last season, and they'll get about that much again this season. The Pacers and Grizzlies snagged about $15 million apiece, according to several league sources, and even big-market teams such as Atlanta and Washington got some extra scratch. Only a short time ago, owning an NBA team was not a hugely profitable business. Owners used the losses as a tax benefit, knowing they'd reap the gain someday by selling the team outright. They just enjoyed the spotlight.
Now more owners and prospective owners are viewing teams as moneymaking ventures in their own right, not just glamour purchases with shaky short-term balance sheets.
The Clippers price is a healthy indicator, but it's also something of an outlier. Los Angeles is a mega-market; it's unclear how much the $2 billion eye-popper really affects what teams in smaller and midsize markets might someday draw, though every precedent matters. The accelerated timetable and auction-style sale created a frenzy that would be hard to replicate.
The Milwaukee price might be more meaningful leaguewide, but even that price is crazy by recent standards. There are burbling worries of a bubble, anxiety that the NBA boom can't possibly persist forever, but there are no signs of a slowdown — and there likely won't be any until well after the beefy new TV deal kicks in.
But there is a growing sense that some owners have to be looking at that $2 billion price tag and thinking, Jesus, how long am I going to wait if I can cash in like that now? Financial advisers are searching for minority and large-share owners seeking an immediate payday, and they're growing optimistic that they might find some takers soon — especially among minority owners with smaller shares.
It seems counterintuitive to cash out now, and some owners big and small will dismiss the idea out of hand. The league is on an upward trajectory, it's fun to own a team, and aging owners can pass a team on to their children. And rising franchise valuations don't apply equally to all owners. A person who owns 3 percent of a team can't necessarily point to the Milwaukee and Los Angeles purchase prices and suggest that the same proportional math should determine the value of their little shares. Some smaller owners don't even get a seat at the table for big franchise decisions. Some have to buy their own tickets when they pop into town for a game on short notice.
But … $2 billion! If you're Herb Simon, having owned a money-losing team in Indiana for so long, aren't you at least thinking about how high the price might go tomorrow? Jerry Reinsdorf doesn't really appear to enjoy owning the Bulls; what would he say if someone just handed him $1.75 billion tomorrow? The Buss family will probably never sell the Lakers, since it would go against the wishes of their beloved father, but if I were a Buss, I'd be the rogue brother chirping about whether we could get $4 billion and just call it a day.
Some of these owners come from the private equity world, where the model in lots of places is to get in, find the profit, and get the hell out — no matter what wreckage you leave behind. Selling on the way up might cost you, but no one knows if the escalator headed up could turn out to be the escalator to nowhere.
In the short term, things will almost certainly stay wonderful. And the short term is what matters here, since both the owners and players' union can opt out of the collective bargaining agreement in 2017. It's unclear how the rash of recent purchases, and particularly this watershed Ballmer deal, will affect the choice on either side.
There is growing resentment today from several players on Twitter, including Ty Lawson and Andrew Bogut. The owners cried poverty in 2011, claiming enormous annual losses. The players countered that those losses were at least in part accounting tricks, and, perhaps more importantly, that the increasing value of an NBA team as an asset overwhelmed the negative balance sheets. Revenue-sharing might put every team in the black going forward, anyway.
The players do not get to share directly in the profits from the sale of a team. They don't put up the capital to buy teams, and the revenue from those sales does not go into the pot they split 50-50 with owners. During the lockout, the union had an internal discussion about proposing rules that would allow players to share in some way in franchise sales at unexpectedly high prices, but the idea never got much traction, sources say. (They even discussed just allowing the players to take a share of those sales profits and put them toward pension funds.)
It was no secret that power agents were unhappy with how the lockout unfolded. They pushed for a line in the sand well above the 50 percent mark, and they worked behind the scenes to decertify the union, depose Billy Hunter, and take over negotiations on their own. That discontent remains in some corners, and the Clips' purchase price may not help.
But the idea that players might preemptively strike in 2017 seems outrageous. Players never strike anymore. Every sports labor dispute is a lockout. The union couldn't even find cell phone numbers for some players in 2011, and they haven't had an executive director in well over a year. They've already scrapped one search process, and they're just starting the next one.
The players haven't demonstrated the clout to take that kind of action or hold out as long as needed while paychecks vanish. It is hard to fathom them negotiating up from 50 percent ever again. The toothpaste is out of the tube, as lawyers like to say. Increases in league revenue are healthy for players, since they get that 50 percent of the growing pie. There will be a divide between agents who want to maintain the partnership and those who want to fight.
It's unclear exactly where the union falls, but it has a lot to be happy about here — a new big-spending owner, signs of increased revenue (of which players get half), and the ability for players to approach the Clippers right away in free agency on July 1 without reservations. It also proves the union was right to trumpet the rising value of franchises.
The owners are the more interesting issue. It has long been assumed they will opt out in 2017, even though things are going swimmingly for them. Rich guys don't turn down the chance to get even richer, and they crush labor underneath their $1,000 shoes. They might not be satisfied with winning the last lockout when they could win another one and trim the players' share of revenue below the 50 percent mark.
But lockouts are work stoppages, which means no games, and at least for a time, no checks from the TV networks. They cost money. If things are going great, there is at least the chance the owners just ride out the CBA until its expiration in 2021. "There's at least a chance they feel they've reached an equilibrium," says Gabe Feldman, a sports law expert and associate law professor at Tulane, "and that we might be on the verge of an era of labor peace."
But Feldman doubts it, even in light of a $2 billion purchase that suggests owners should just want to keep the party going. "I don't think this really has a significant impact," he says. "I don't think it really changes some of the arguments the owners used in the last lockout. Teams don't have to be losing money for owners to lock the players out."
Ballmer's purchase actually proves out one argument the owners put forth last time around, Feldman says: It costs a ton of money to run a team, and those costs are going up as the league expands its digital and international reach. The revenue-sharing system counters some of that spending, since it will lift up the poor teams, but it doesn't help every team equally. "If I'm Steve Ballmer," Feldman says, "I overpaid for this team. I can't give up anything in the next collective bargaining deal."
Ballmer is at or near the top of the league's "wealthiest owner" totem pole, and so he represents another prickly possibility — the potential for another owner willing to blow past the luxury tax in order to win. The league paid lip service to "competitive balance" as a goal of the 2011 lockout, and Silver genuinely cares deeply for that cause, even if ratings for small-market playoff games continue to disappoint. The punitive tax hasn't yet scared off Mikhail Prokhorov and James Dolan; what if it doesn't scare Ballmer, either?
We'll just have to wait to see the implications of this Clippers saga. But one thing is for sure: Silver has achieved a huge victory in ridding us of a disgrace the NBA enabled for too long.


Charles Hardin Holley, better known as Buddy Holly was born on Sept. 7, 1936, died in a plane crash in 1959 at the age of 22.
Do you think the National Transportation Safety Board will reopen the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper? They are considering it according to this story.
Anyone who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s enjoyed some great music that forever changed the music industry. It was a fun time to be a teenager but everyone was filled with sadness when we heard the following news February 3, 1959.
We lost three greats in that tragic crash, Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens. Note: The actual 1959 film of the crash scene below is pretty graphic so don't watch it if films like this disturb you. Go to the next video – you will enjoy it more.
Do you remember this from 1957?
Buddy Holly is such a legend, but he still struggled with record companies. Here is a remarkable phone call between Buddy Holly and Paul Cohen of Decca Records concerning Buddy being cut from Decca in 1957 uploaded to Youtube by Steve Burgan.
You can still visit the crash site. It's in a corn field a little ways off a dirt road in Iowa. The entrance to the site is marked a huge replica of Buddy Holly's famous glasses on the edge of the road. Here is a map to the site, and the Surf ballroom (their last performance was at the Surf ballroom), but it is best to use these GPS coordinates since you must travel down several dirt roads to reach it.
I visited the site one summer a few years ago and it looks much like the video below. The song in the video "Three Stars" is a song written by Tommy Dee and first recorded by EDDIE COCHRAN in 1959 as a tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper. The late Rock pioneer Eddie Cochran died in 1960 aged only 21 years.
When Buddy Holly was killed in that plane crash, no one found his famous glasses. Evidently, they had been thrown some distance from the site and buried in the snow. It wasn't until the snow melted the following spring that someone found the glasses, along with the Big Bopper's watch. Both were immediately given to the Cerro Gordo County Sherriff's office.
The Big Bopper's watch and Buddy Holly's glasses were placed in a sealed manila envelope marked "rec'd April 7, 1959 and then filed away and forgotten for the next 21 years. In 1980, the envelope was discovered again and opened by Sheriff Jerry Allen. The glasses were eventually returned to Holly's widow. They can now be seen in the exhibit at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, Texas.


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Rare spinal clot hit schoolboy like 'shot in the back with a shotgun' and left him paralysed
Kyle Burns' mum thought he was suffering with a back strain after football training - but the rare clot means he will never walk again.
Amanda Keenan
Kyle Burns will spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair
Football kid Kyle Burns will never walk again after being hit by a rare spinal clot.
The 13-year-old collapsed in hospital after being taken in with a suspected back strain.
But it was an embolism which led to a spinal stroke, leaving him paralysed.
Mum Donna said: "Doctors said it to was like being shot in the back with a shotgun."
Kyle was rushed to accident and emergency at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock with a suspected back strain after training with Galston Boys' Club.
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Kyle Burns had been playing football hours before learning he will be in wheelchair for life
The schoolboy collapsed minutes after arriving at A&E and doctors discovered a rare clot on his spinal cord which had caused it to rip – leaving him with no feeling from his ribs down and facing life in a wheelchair.
Mum Donna, 35, said: "When doctors told me the news I just ran out the room crying. I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"Just hours earlier he had been running around playing the sport he lived for and then we were being told Kyle would never walk again."
The promising young player's injuries were so rare, doctors had to take advice from experts in London before deciding how to proceed.
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Donna added: "They said the only thing they could compare it to was like someone being shot in the back with a shotgun.
"The medical staff said that if Kyle had fallen out of a window 10 storeys high the injuries to his spine wouldn't have been as severe.
"They've said they have never had to treat something so bad, that's how rare it is."
Doctors diagnosed a fibrocartilaginous embolism, a sudden blocking of an artery which in turn led to a spinal stroke, causing the cord to tear. Medics ruled out surgery and Kyle's heartbroken family were given the news that there was no treatment to restore his mobility.
The tragedy happened last Thursday and the youngster is now facing weeks of gruelling rehabilitation to become strong enough just to use a wheelchair.
Kyle Burns with mum Donna Burns
Donna, from Galston, Ayrshire, added: "I can't believe this is where we are now. Kyle had come home with his coach complaining of a sore back and walked into accident and emergency.
"Within an hour of arriving, he just deteriorated. He collapsed and said to me, 'Mum, I can't feel my legs, please help me.'
"The doctors at Crosshouse Hospital couldn't believe it was the same boy who had come in and he was bluelighted to the spinal ward at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow." The Loudoun Academy pupil was rushed for MRI scans, which revealed the devastating extent of his injuries.
Donna, who is also mum to Jamie, 18, Thomas, eight, and four-year-old Cooper, decided to wait a few days before breaking the news to Kyle. She admits the youngster is struggling to come to terms with his paralysis.
Kyle Burns has been left paralysed by rare clot
She said: "It was a massive shock for me and I thought, 'How on earth do I tell my 13-year-old son he's never going to walk again?' It's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do. I'm trying to stay strong for Kyle.
"I've spent the last week in tears, I'm heartbroken for him. He dreamed of becoming a footballer and it feels like he's been robbed of the life he wanted.
"I don't want him to see me upset because I have to stay positive. It's just such a horrendous thing for any child to go through. The reality hasn't hit him yet and I don't think he will really process the extent of it all until he is in a wheelchair.
"At the moment, he's lying in a hospital bed in the spinal unit and can't really do much.
"He starts rehab on Tuesday and being in a wheelchair for the first time will be a big challenge for Kyle. He just can't get his head around it."
Kyle Burns was paralysed by a rare spinal clot
Donna, who has been allowed to stay by Kyle's side at the hospital, says the family are overwhelmed by the support they have received from relatives and friends.
They have set up a fundraising drive to buy a state-of-the-art electric wheelchair which they hope will give the teen more independence when he is finally allowed home.
Donna added: "Kyle is such a popular lad at school and everyone is getting behind him.
"He's not seen any of his friends yet and I think not being able to run around and do the things he is used to will be very tough.
"His football team have been in contact to offer their support. No one can believe this has happened.
"He's the type of wee boy who gives everything 100 per cent and he's always been so active. He loves playing football, basketball and rugby but now it has all been taken away from him.
"We want to give him the best wheelchair so that he feels more comfortable. He want's a white one that he thinks looks really cool.
"We also have to look at adapting our home in the future to accommodate Kyle's needs. I've promised him we will do everything we can to make it all happen.
"It's going to be a long road and I want him to be able to life his live to the fullest."
To donate, visit https://www.gofundme.com/xcn2cv-kyle
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The Birthday Report is up!
Here's the Belated Birthday Report. Live Journal readers get to see it entire HOURS before run-of-the-mill, schlockmercenary.com Schlockers.
Um…happy birthday? I take it your birthday is on 29 Feb? Cool! So, no cake in SM? What ever happened to that big cook guy/thing? He was cool! Let us know ahead of time, next yhear and we'll all be able to get ya' something. Unless you make some kind of black shirt with a skull. I think every comic needs black skull shirts.
I am glad that your birthday was a happy one.


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Pop singer Elyana came out of hiatus to perform as a contestant on Gegar Vaganza. Then she shocked fans with a cancer announcement. - Photo: The Star/Syazana Abd Shukur
Pop singer Elyana opens up about living with Stage 4 cancer
March 30, 2018 Entertainment, Music, People
By ANGELIN YEOH
Pop singer Elyana yearns to release a new single. The 31-year-old revealed that she has received various offers from composers and singers whom she admires. But something is holding Elyana back.
"I'm afraid that I can't give my full commitment. Can I really work well with other people due to my health condition? Because I know that I'm prone to having OK and not-OK days," she said frankly, during an interview at Putrajaya.
"What will happen on the not-OK days when I have to work? I don't want to be a burden to anyone."
Elyana has Stage 4 lymphoma cancer. But, at a recent music showcase organised by local radio station Suria, the singer put on a brave face and assured the media she is doing fine, keeping busy as mum to six-year-old Cinta Sumayyah.
"I'm helping her get ready for Standard One next year. When I have more time, I'll do more singing engagements such as this. I do what I can to 'cari makan' (make money)."
Giving her all
Elyana performing on Gegar Vaganza last year. Photo: The Star/Ibrahim Mohtar
Elyana's singing career began when she was just 14. The Selangor-born artiste modelled her image after pop punk princess Avril Lavigne and made waves with songs like Kalis Rindu and Kau Atau Aku.
The bubbly singer has also acted in TV shows like Dunia Baru and starred in Dain Said's unreleased film Dukun. After releasing four albums, she took a break from showbiz in 2010 to focus on raising a family with husband Khairul Anuar Hussin. In 2012, Elyana announced she was making a comeback. However, the comeback never materialised.
It was the same year Elyana was diagnosed with cancer. "The doctor told me that I had one year to live if I didn't start chemotherapy right away," she shared.
Elyana described going through chemotherapy as "painful". She lost her hair and would end up spending most of her time in bed after a session.
"Thankfully, I managed to surpass the doctor's expectations," she added with a smile.
However, Elyana kept mum about her illness. Then in 2017, she made her long-awaited return to the music scene as a contestant on Astro's singing competition Gegar Vaganza Season Four.
"The production team didn't know I was sick. During Gegar Vaganza, I was going back and forth from the studio to the hospital a lot. I was in pain and I had to sit most of the time during production. I couldn't walk much."
In week five of the competition, she gave an emotional performance of Yuni Shara's Sepi but it was not enough to keep her in the running to win the RM100,000 cash prize.
During her elimination, host Nabil Ahmad asked if Elyana would like to say a few words. After thanking her fans and family, she finally revealed her health condition. "To those with cancer, I'm a Stage 4 cancer patient and I'm still standing here. I want to say that we can do anything as long as we're strong," she said on the show.
Baby heartbreak
Elyana updates her fans on her battle with cancer on social media. Photo: Instagram
After the announcement on Gegar Vaganza, Elyana received positive feedback from members of the public. Surrounding herself with positivity and prayers from fans helped lift her mood.
"A lot of strangers called, offering to help. Someone even wanted to take me to China for medical treatment. Fans wanted to give me money. I said I don't need it because my insurance policy is helping to cover my medical expenses. I was really touched."
Unfortunately, some also accused Elyana of trying to gain sympathy and money with her plight.
"I am choosing to ignore negativity," she simply said on the matter. Elyana admitted there are days when she can't help but feel down.
"If you have to know, it's not like I'm just sitting at home feeling happy or having a relaxing time.
"Most of the time, I'm lying down because of the pain. Today, I'm like this (cheerful) because I took painkillers. I got an injection last night as well. The nerves in my leg hurt."
Earlier this month, Elyana experienced another blow. "I found out that I was two months pregnant. I was very happy because I have always wanted to have more children."
Unfortunately, Elyana's health condition meant that she was not able to carry on with the pregnancy. At her doctor's advice and after seeking an Ustaz's opinion, Elyana made the difficult decision to terminate her pregnancy.
"My daughter knew that I was pregnant. She even gave (the baby) a name. I thought I was going to be strong enough to carry the baby but it was not meant to be. It's sad but I can't do anything about it."
Elyana looks to her daughter Cinta as another source of strength. "She knows that I have cancer. She checks on me all the time and asks if I'm hurting today. When I'm down, she understands."
Her daughter is also one of the reasons Elyana has stopped going for chemotherapy sessions opting instead to down up to 80 pills a day. "For now, I don't want to continue chemotherapy. I don't want to hurt myself. I need to take care of my daughter. She doesn't have any siblings and I'm the only one there for her while her dad is working."
Everlasting memories
Having dealt with the disease for six years now, Elyana has come to accept her fate. This is the main reason why she chose to be on Gegar Vaganza despite being in pain almost all the time.
"I thought about how, for as long as I've been in showbiz, I do not have a nice performance video to leave behind. I believe I could give that to my fans through Gegar Vaganza. They can remember me as a singer who was dressed beautifully on a nice stage. I want them to have nice memories of me."
She added that she also did the show for her mum: "I want her to remember her daughter as a singer who had the chance to perform on TV."
One can't help but feel sad upon hearing Elyana's stories but the singer doesn't want people to feel bad on her behalf. When she feels down or things get too much for her, Elyana's remedy is to get out of the house.
She explained: "I'll take a shower, get dressed, put on makeup and tell myself to get out of the house. Don't just sit at home. When I look at my bed, I feel like I'm going to get sick again. I just need to get up and get going."
Constantly moving forward is how Elyana – in her own way – is winning the daily battle.
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March 30, 2018 at 10:16 am Reply ↓
You are a remarkable woman. Full respects on your decision and action.
Johnphoon
So sad to hear about the health condition of Elyana. Let us all pray for her…..
March 30, 2018 at 5:31 pm Reply ↓
Stage 4 : means terminal. You gone on for years, that's very encouraging.
An Oncologist once said, medical science provides 30% of what it takes to win the battle. The 70% left, is within yourself (nothing to do with the will of God).
Believe in success, you will find it then.
June 1, 2018 at 5:11 pm Reply ↓
Don't give up. Elyana, Pray you get well soon. Stop singing for a while to seek medical treatment and rest.
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Title: COME TO REST
Constructor: Gail Grabowski
SIT ON THE FENCE (20A: Avoid making a decision)
LAND RESTORATION (37A: Ecological revival)
SETTLE FOR LESS (53A: Compromise on your expectations)
Theme synopsis: The first word of each theme answer - SIT, LAND, SETTLE - is a way to COME TO REST.
ODE (23A: "___ to the Women on Long Island" (Olivia Gatwood poem)) Olivia Gatwood is the co-creator (with Megan Falley) of a traveling, interactive poetry show called Speak Like a Girl. You can watch a video of Olivia Gatwood performing "ODE to the Women on Long Island." ODE makes frequent crossword appearances. It's fun when the clue introduces me to a new-to-me poet.
DANA (58A: "Desperate Housewives" actress Delany) DANA Delany was originally offered the role of Bree Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives. She turned down the role because it was too similar to the character she played in the TV series Pasadena. DANA eventually joined Desperate Housewives in the fourth season, playing the role of Katherine Mayfair.
SARA (56D: "Grey's Anatomy" actress Ramirez) SARA Ramirez began acting on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for her portrayal of Lady of the Lake in Spamalot. SARA played Dr. Callie Torres in Grey's Anatomy.
PAPER (32A: Origami medium) This was a delightful way to clue PAPER. The word "origami" comes from the Japanese ori meaning "folding" and kami meaning "paper." One time when I was a child sitting in church, I folded my dollar bill into an origami butterfly before placing it in the offering plate.
ETTA (62A: James who sang "All I Could Do Was Cry") ETTA James is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1993), the Grammy Hall of Fame (1999), and the Blues Hall of Fame (2001).
ASS (1D: Mule's sire) A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (ASS) and a female horse.
OED (21D: British lexicon (Abbr.)) In yesterday's write-up I mentioned the crossword-friendly OED, and here it is! The Oxford English Dictionary was first published in 1884. The first electronic version was available in 1988. The OED has been available online since 2000.
BIG SISTER (34D: Little kid's role model, perhaps) I resemble this answer! Appropriately, my "little" sister called me while I was writing this. (Hi, Seester!)
ERIE (16A: Buffalo's Great Lake) Buffalo is the second largest city in New York. It is situated on the U.S./Canada border at the northeastern tip of Lake ERIE and about 30 miles south of Lake Superior.
OCALA (23D: City west of Daytona Beach) OCALA, Florida is home to the OCALA National Forest. I was unfamiliar with this Florida town and was thankful for friendly crosses.
A straightforward theme and puzzle for a smooth, fun solve.
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A Crossword Short Story:
This morning my cat, Willow, was walking all over me, my desk, and my keyboard. I told her she needed
to SETTLE down, find a place to LAND, and SIT down. Finally, she chose to COME TO REST on my lap, draped over my right arm. Any typos this morning are her responsibility.
Gail Grabowski


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