Malika, in Mudug lingo xun-xunka means young ones, and the literal translation of 'bad' does not apply. kuwa xun-xun = kuwa yar-yar

Chinese are being creative here not to solve a problem, but to prevent one

Inay aad u weynaato waa shiddo mature waxaan ka wadaa 30-45, mar hadday 46 gaadho dhanbay u badatay kuwa xun-xunka ma sheegayyo range kooda laakiin, waa immature, miisan qaldan bay sittaan markay West ga joogaan

What about middle names? When we were in Somalia the naming convention was quite clear. In that naming convention we had three levels in our names---first name, middle name, and the last name. The first name represented your given name, the middle name represented your father’s first name, and the third, last name, represented your grandfather’s first name. That is how the name Cabdi Warsame Isa-aq, olr Mohamed Siyad Barre, is constructed. In the west the middle names tend to be alternative names, and children in a single family may have different middle names. I talked to Kenyan friends and even them employ different formula to choose their children’s middle names. In some tribes, one criterion is used for girls, and a different for the boys. In some Arab countries, last names with regional and tribal connotations are used.

waa beentood naag mature ah ninna ma furo gabdhaha xun-xunka ah weeyye kuwa tabarta loo waayey oo raba lifetime channelka waxay ku arkeen inay kugu xukumaan

October 26, 2009 Salute All Cars, Kids. It’s a Rule in China. By SHARON LaFRANIERE HUANGPING, China — All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in the halls. Take your seat before the bell rings. Raise your hand to ask a question. And oh, yes: Salute every passing car on your way to and from school. Education officials promoted the saluting edict to reduce traffic accidents and teach children courtesy. Critics, who have posted thousands of negative comments about the policy on China’s electronic bulletin boards, beg to differ. “This is just pitiful,” wrote one in a post last year. Only inept officials would burden children with such a requirement rather than install speed bumps, others insisted. This is hardly the only nation where local bureaucrats sometimes run a bit too free. But in China, where many local officials are less than well trained and only the party can eject them from office, local governments’ dubious edicts are common enough that skewering them has become a favorite pastime of China’s Web users. Even the state-run media join in, although they rarely report who was behind the rules or suggest that they indicate a lack of competence to govern. Often, the skewering gets results. In April, one county in Hubei Province in central China drew nationwide ridicule after officials ordered civil servants and employees of state-owned companies to buy a total of 23,000 packs of the province’s brand of cigarettes every year. Departments whose employees failed to buy enough cigarettes or bought other Chinese brands would be fined, the media reported. County officials said the increased revenue from the cigarette tax would buoy the local economy. After several weeks of embarrassment, Gongan County officials posted a short message on the government’s Web site that read: “We have decided to remove this edict.” Officials of Hanchuan, a city in Hubei Province, tried a similar ploy, with the same effect. Determined to boost the local brand of baijiu, a sinus-clearing distilled clear liquor, they ordered state workers to buy a total of about $300,000 worth in a year. Reporters calculated that each employee would have had to buy three bottles a day to meet the quota. The rule was later rescinded. Another county in Guizhou Province in southern China compelled state workers last year to help inflate the number of tourists visiting the ruins of an ancient village. Every government office was ordered to organize field trips to the site so the county could report 5,000 visitors within two months. The involuntary visitors had to take several buses to get to a village 20 miles from the county seat. From there, they hired motorcycles to carry them another nine miles down dirt roads, the newspaper Guangzhou Daily reported. The Guizhou Commercial News reported that some government offices were left unattended while state employees served as tourists. The next month that order, too, was repealed. But a 2003 regulation that bars male officials in Sichuan Province from hiring female secretaries may still be on the books. China Youth Daily reported then that the official who initiated the regulation wanted “to ensure that work can be carried out.” An official in the Communist Party’s provincial office said in an interview that she was not aware of a written rule. No one ever precisely pinned down the origin of an order this May to kill all dogs in the town of Heihe, on the Russian border in the far northwest. Media reports suggested one town official became irate after a dog bit him as he strolled along a river. But the official refused to confirm that. Town leaders organized teams of police officers and ordered them to beat to death any dog who ventured into a public space. China National Radio, a state-run agency, broadcast the citizens’ outrage. “When we need to walk our dogs now, we have to first go out and look for cops,” one dog owner lamented. Scholars say the proliferation of such regulations stems from a lack of professionalism among some local officials. The Communist Party has been trying in recent years to correct these problems by providing better training and more channels for public feedback. Party schools that groom officials now stress administrative skills as well as ideology. Job evaluations are supposed to be based on concrete results. Some local officials who used regulations to bilk the public have been dealt with harshly. The party secretary of Feicheng, a town in northeastern China, was fired after imposing a fine of $73 on any farmer who cut down a corn stalk without a license. Farmers complained that they could not harvest their corn without fear of being penalized. Officials of China’s 637,001 villages seem especially prone to excess regulatory zeal. Until being overruled by higher-ups in 2005, for instance, officials of a village in Chongqing forced unmarried women to pass a chastity test before receiving compensation for farmland appropriated by the government. They argued that only virgins deserved compensation. In comparison, Huangping County’s policy of roadside salutes is arguably benign. Education officials say compliance is strictly voluntary. Asked whether they follow it, elementary students here tend to burst into nervous giggles. The rule’s purpose is twofold: to keep children safer on the county’s corkscrew mountain roads and to teach manners. Nearly 30 schools are located along roads without sidewalks or speed bumps. Signs posting speed limits are few and far between; virtually no signs indicate a school nearby. Long Guoping, deputy chief of the county education bureau, said those measures were coming. “Little by little, the government is installing them,” he said. In the meantime, the salute “might avoid some accidents,” he said. “It allows the drivers to notice the children and the children to notice the drivers.” Luo Rongmei, who teaches first grade at Luolang Elementary School, is all for it. “Since they started saluting there has not been one traffic accident,” she said, as the students ran and shouted in the yard. Guo Yuozhang, 63, whose grandson attends the Loulong school, said he was more ambivalent. If the cars come from one direction, “that is not too bad,” said. Cars coming in both directions is a bigger hassle. “Sometimes they are just turning in circles and they get kind of stuck,” he said. He spun around to illustrate the point, smiling slyly. Xiyun Yang and Sun Huan contributed research from Beijing. Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the location of Hubei Province. It is in central China, not northern China. The earlier version also contained a mispelling of the name of the school at which children are required to wave to salute passing cars. It is the Luolang Elementary School, not Luolong.

lool@xaaji xanduf xaajigu caadi maaha, strategy culus buu somaliland u hayyaa ee waan la dhegeysanayn

Gudi musaalixo oo ka kooban Al-shabaab iyo Xizbul Islaam oo ku soo wajahan Kismaayo Posted to the Web Oct 26, 15:40 Kismaayo:-Wararka naga soo gaaraya magaalada Kismaayo ayaa sheegaya in magaalada ay ku soo wajahan yihiin gudi musaalaxo oo ka kooban 2 kooxood ee Al-shabaab iyo Xizbul islaam sida ilo wareed ku dhow 2 kooxood ay noo sheegeen. Gudigaan musaalixada ayaa waxaa uu ka kooban 4 xubnood oo kala ah 1- Xuseen Fiidow - Alshabaab 2- Cabdiraxmaan Siiro- Alshabaab 3- Cabdullahi Komaandoos- Xizbul Islaam 4- Dulyadayn Xizbul Islaam Gudigaan Musalaxada ah oo ka kooban 4 xubnood ayaa la filayaa in ay soo gaaran Gobolka jubada hoose saacadaha soo socda waxaan ay doonayaan in ay kulamo la qaataan Saraakiisha ciidanka iyo Masuuliyiinta ka kala tirsan Xoogagga Al-shabaab iyo Xizbul Islaam oo dhawaan ku dagaala may magaalada Kismaayo ,ilaa 10 dagaal ayaa dhexmaray waxaan marka lagfa reeb hal dagaal oo ka dhacay gudaha magaalada waxaa ay 9 kale ay ka dhaceen deegaanka Birta Dheer, iyo Buulo Xaaji. Dhinaca kale ilo wareed ku sugan Magaalada Kismaayo ayaa waxaa uu inoo sheegay in Idaacad la oran jiray Idaacatul Quraan oo ay magaalada keenee garab ka tirsan Xizbul Islaam ee Mucaskarka lagta Caanoole in Idaacada ay masuuliyiinta Al-Shabaab ee Kismaayo ay u rarteen magaalada Marka. Ilo wareedkaan oo aan wax ka wiidiinay dad la sheegay in magaalada lagu xirxiray oo lagu eedeeyey in ay taageersan yihiin Ururka Xizbul Islaam ee Jubooyin ka ee uu hogaamiyo Axmed Madoobe aya noo sheegay in warkaas uusan sal iyo raad toona lahayn. Dagaalka u dhexeeya Al-Shabaab iyo Xisbul Islaam ayaa u muuqda haddii aan xal deg deg ah laga gaarin in uu noqon doono dagaal aan la mahdin ciribtiisa Saraakiisha Xizbul Islaam ee ku sugan Jubooyinka ayaa iyagu weli ku jira olole balaaran iyo hub aruursi iyagoo ciidamadooda ku suganaa baro kale duwan u soo rararya agagaarka magaalada Kismaayo. Dhinaca kale Xoogagag Al-shabaab ayaa awoodooda ku soo aruurinaya daafaha magaalada Kismaayo wixii ciidan ah oo ay heli karaan,maamulka Kismaayo ayaa dhinaciisa wada in beelaha degan Kismaayo ,Bay ,Bakoole ku qancinaya in ay difaacaan walaayada Islaamiga ah ee Jubooyinka. Wariyaha Halgan.net ee ku sugan Kismaayo ayaa noo sheegay in uusan jirin wax kacsanaan ah xaalada magaalada Kismaayo ayaa ah mid degan mana jirin wax colaad ah ama dhibaato oo loo geystay ama dad laga qabqabtay magaalada Kismaayo oo taageersan Xizbul Islaam sida ay baahiyeen warbaahinta qaarkod. Cabdi Yare Kismaayo Halgan.net

lool@J11 & Oodweyne good comeback Oodka, laakiin odoga Fadhage ah taarkiisaa isoo gaaray, oo saasuu issue u noqday mooyee, dad badan oo lacagtayada ka mudan waa hubaal inay jiraan

Accept my congrats Ibti. Hadda laga bilaabo, waa inaan kaa leexdaa markaad meelahaan soo gashid

^you are kidding me, right? I now for sure Serenity has rejected all the marriage applications in last month. But you, i guess i have to check with my sources cuz you could be pulling my leg

Ibtisaam and Serenity baa gabdhihii SOL ka haray

Waraa Gheelle , Castro ha igu darin, he might've visited Buur Karoole at one point but I am not sure it was the one at Xamar. The man was at Cairo in 1984 for training

October 23, 2009 Somali Insurgents Attack Airport By MOHAMMED IBRAHIM MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Islamist insurgent group Shabab attacked the main airport here with mortars as the nation’s president prepared to board a plane to Uganda on Thursday, setting off a series of artillery battles between government forces and insurgents that left at least 18 people dead, Somali officials said. The mortars struck the perimeter of the airport, and Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the president of Somalia’s weak but internationally recognized transitional government, was unharmed. The plane took off safely for Kampala, where Mr. Ahmed is attending a summit on displaced people in Africa, Abdulkadir Mohamed Osman, the presidential press officer, said. The mortars and artillery shelling that followed between government forces and insurgents killed at least 18 and wounded more than 60 in several neighborhoods in Mogadishu, witnesses said. “I saw 11 people killed by artillery rounds at Bakara junction,” the city’s largest market area, one witness, Abdirahman Omar, said by telephone. Aamina Hussein, 30, who was slightly wounded by shrapnel in the right leg in the nearby Howlwadaag neighborhood, said she saw five bodies lying on the ground as she was hit. “I am lucky I survived,” she said in an interview. Sources from Lifeline Africa, an emergency volunteer ambulance organization, said that more than 20 dead bodies and 60 wounded were collected from the Howlwadaag and Hodan neighborhoods. Mortars fired by Shabab, which has been linked to Al Qaeda, also struck an African Union peacekeeping base at the airport, officials said. Somalia’s transitional government is facing intense resistance from insurgent groups trying to overthrow it and introduce strict Sharia law in the country. African Union troops in Somalia are protecting the transitional government. Insurgents have relentlessly been attacking them, often with suicide bombs, mortars and roadside explosives. Somalia has been without a functional central government since 1991, when clan militias ousted the country’s last central government and then turned on one another.

^^Hadda ma waxaad i leedahay is caawimaad naga dhexeyso? Gurmadkii soomaalinimadda xatta ma la laalay? War ninka tolweynaha soomaaliyeed hiilkooda haka horjoogsan

^^Uma baqaane asagii baa hadlay oo qayla dhaan ku dhuftay. xeerkii uunbaan daba hasytaa awoowe

An official invitation from Brown

^^war ninku caawimaad buu u baahanyahay, the time for brotherly help is ripe here

Fagadhe allaha caafiyyo I think there is an opportuniyt for Ina Sharmake's government to reach out

Sargaal category starts from xidig and up awoowe. isbatoore waxay ka hoosaysaa xidigta waryaa yaa ku baray sarkaaladdan iyo hawlahan aad ka sheekeyneysid haddaad alshabaab tahay?

Gheelle is right. Sargaal darajo maaha. It's a category in milatery ranking. Xidigle is however is a darajo, isbatoorahoy ka sarreysa

^^Since the expert FUFU has just jioned us, it would be grossly unfair for me to talk about Buur Karoole ya hatu

^^Lol@50s, jzk I know awoowe, raggaani dagaalkii sokeeyey la kawsadeen, and that has sadly become the only measure. Laakiin Cowke waa loo baahnaa

^^caadi ma tihid awoowe. Waad iga qoslisay maanta field trip, local library and Buur Karoole in a one passage