^Well, to each his own tutu, jacpher and alpha. We the fanboys like our gizmo pretty much. Jacpher -- I too didn't find the new icon tweaks that much appealing. I think the jailbreak community will find a way to keep old icon rendition with the new goodies this iOS 7 has under its hood. Gheelle have you noticed the new audio Facetime (free international phone calls -- no skype or other third apps needed). That's something I am looking forwqrd to.. God bless biz competition and free market -- when big boys compete for our attention and pennies, we benefit from the innovation that stem from the struggle for excellence.

Wow! Nice stuff. Go Benadir Go! That's real and tangible progress. Ma sha Allah! Keep them coming and please if you would post recent (like weeks old) photos.

Could someone summarize what this vid is showing and the TV is reporting.

No new game changer product (perhaps Mac Pro) was on the menu. iTunes Radi -- (watch out Pandora) OS X Maverick -- beauty and power iOS 7 -- much needed new tweaks and facelift Mac Pro -- for pwer users (again Libaax should know the utility of AppleTV You don't neeed display. Your TV is the display) Watck Keynote @ apple website. www.apple.com Summary -- read NYT http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/live-blog-apple-conference-keynote/

I think I posted on a different thread. I intended to post the below comment in a different thread. Someone please move it to the other thread.

NORF awoowe I never said or thought the constitution was irrelevant. I read it and understood it pretty well. It just so happen that we interpreted differently and we are not alone in reading it differently. Make no mistake I for one thought one has to go back to the primary document and settle things that way. All my posts reflect that deep held understanding.

Illyria, we are hoping that President Hassan will mend his ways and smell the coffee. The minute he does that he wins the alliance of significant constituent in the country. They could help him push his agenda if he consults with them and gets their support before he takes the plunge. Same with all other constituents. There are ways to govern, implement some of your agenda and serve the people. I have a hunch he's humbled and hence will make some changes in his dealings with folks who could help him move things around. Will see.

Is it my browser or what? I don't see the cartoon.

Xiin please ignore the likes of NORF . He's not making sense anymore. NGONGE is raggeedii. I second that he is laacib iyo nus. Abitigiis dropped the ball and NGONGE was quick to see that breif opening. Abtigiis awoowe with all its shortcomings and loopholes, the draft Constritution is the only thing we have. That sorry document is the product of the long and hard roadmap process. This SFG draws its legitimacy from this constitution and the roadmap that made possible to bring all the stakeholders to the dirrin. You can't exhort Madoobe to work with SFG and the same time throw the contract that Hassan swear to uphold. That just does not make sense. At some point in the future government will hopefully come to its senses and take a coorective action in addressing constitutional questions head on. Kismayo was a litmus test and what a litmus test it was

Abtigiis;960839 wrote: Now, I concede the Tolka have lost that mantle of being "fierce nationalists". This Kenya ayaa na wadata thing has ruined it. The tolka are now only a part of the myriad conniving Somali clans who want to get what they regard as their share by hook or crook. Abtigiis is a crowd-pleaser

And they are not asking the moon either. As to the forces of federalism winning! I am not sure about that. I am not an insider but from the looks of it Hassan is not ready for that type of political arrangement. The challenge is how to steer the ship to safety without capsizing it. Do you understand what I mean? That's a huge and monumental challenge in front of all Somalis. He has knowingly and willingly tried to make a mischief in order to appease his constituents. Should "all politics are local" dictum take precedent or the common good and the big picture must also be weighed in this trying times?

In terms of population or size? No. It is not. It has the potential though and given the number of refugees next door, ready and available capital now invested in Kenya and other African markets and the skilled and good-mannered reer Kismayo folks around the world, the city has the potential of becoming one of the highly developed cities in Somalia. Kismayo used to have decent infrastructure. It remains an important economic hub despite of neglect and aging infrastructure. Forgive me for my sentimental longing and wishful affection of the past but I gotta tell you that place is rough in the diamond. When I was growing up Kismayo had number of factories, major ports, two airports and diverse foreign workers (Italians, Egyptians, Russians and Brits). I remember some of my relatives were getting their income from furnished houses rented to Brits who were working on Sugar plant in Mareereey. People were not rich but they were getting by. Not as government workers but as small business owners -- importing tea, biscuits, butter from Mombasa and selling cattle, banana, mango to government (state monopoly)... I have digressed a little from what i wanted to say in this post. Kismayo was a big city way back but anymore due to never-ending conflict that prevented its inhabitants to invest much of the last two decades.

What a leader! I've just heard a calm, collected, fair and sensible statesman with sound judgement. It's too early to shower him praises but given the way he handled this explosive issue and how he articulated his admin's position, Madoobe has come across as skilled and experienced politician: Awoowe hoggaan waxa gaya ninka leh sifooyinka reer miyiga xoolo dhaqatada ah ay kuu xushaan nabadoonkooda (captured in Hadraawi's definitive sonnets): ....nin hoogiyo, Ka hortaga dagaalkoo, Dabka hura baqtiiyoo, Garta hubin yaqaanoo, Xaqa hoos u eegoo, Halistiyo colaadaha, Ku hagoogta dhiigoow, Dadka kala hagaajoo, Kala hagga.... Madoobe hadal qeymo leh oo garasho waayeel ka muuqato buu ku hadlay. Doqontu waxay u qaadaneysaa nuglaan iyo jileec nin raggise waa ogyahay xanuunka iyo shidada colaadu leedahay.

Abtigiis;959186 wrote: Tii 80yadii baa maantana taagan....only the HAG resurgence and domineering bit is missing: ? :D There was time when ****s were the only clan in Somalia opposing the folly and dictatorial nature of inna Bare led military junta. They were the black sheep in the family and as such folks were happy to snitch, expose, prosecute and what have you. By Khaliif Sh. Mohamud 1980 via Radio Kulmis

Abtigiis;959183 wrote: 3- Dear Baashe, yes, Faroole wants an endless center-region acrimony because his version of Federalism is secession without the name. Faroole hates the H clan in Mogadishu intensely. His cooperation with Mogadishu is a factor of whether a Puntlander has the top post in the Federal Government. I recall when Farmaajo was removed and Abdiweli came in, he said "hadda Federalka xidheedhkeenu waa fiican yahay", implying inagii baa nimid. He cannot and will not play a positive role in the efforts to revive the Somalia State. The "respect for constitution" is a hogwash that has helped him mask his identity and true intentions for now. Luckily for him, the likes of President Hassan and HAG with misguided the "center controls everything" mindset are helping him confuse people. Secondly, Faroole has been running to Addis Ababa and Jigjiga to seek succor against national leaders in Mogadishu, even when the national leaders (such as Sheikh Sharif) were very accommodative of his demands. Now, it is the turn of Nairobi, and whether we like it or not, what happened in Nairobi - with block politicians taking their grievances to Uhuru Kenyatta and relishing in his assumed benediction, is a sickening sight. Any Somali should be ashamed of what happened. However, I do realize that this time around Faroole can rightly claim that it is President Hassan who outsourced the solutions to and problems of Kismaayo to IGAD and regional neighbours, hoping to suppress the legitimate concerns of his own people through the borrowed political, diplomatic and (if he can get it) military might of Kenya!! This time Faroole can say "why do I have to be ashamed of going to Uhuru when the national leader is peddling his clan's agenda in Kismaayo?" Well come clean then and tell us how Federalism – the Farole version – works and if it is not in alignment with the draft constitution please refer to the clause he’s deviating from. You gotta be specific -- trivializing and generalizing won’t cut it when you make such accusation. Or else we can safely conclude there is some unexplained personal vendetta between you and the house of Faroole What’s it – spill the beans  On the second charge again you didn't level with the silent readers in SOL awoowe You just made serious charges against Faroole. You singled out a politician (out of many) operating in a toxic, cutthroat clannish environment where the balance of power is determined by how much external support (political, economic, military, etc) players could count on when things go south. What’s it that he has done differently considering the field – SL, AS and Benadir coalitions? Is it not the case that even the very SFG narrative that gives us all hope is being inked in Kampala not long ago? By the way, I am with you on being critical on these politicians, their conduct, their policy and what not. I am not fond of folks who do mashxarad and content being a guulwade defending the politician they support in every occasion. Let me add that Faroole's shortcomings are numerous and could fill 8x11 page if listed. However, this time and on this particular issue he is on the money and doing service for all Somalis.

Read the comments section especially the reader's pick. Lively, astute, penetrating comments -- they are. Love it. They cover all the basis.

The Way to Produce a Person By DAVID BROOKS Published: June 3, 2013 Dylan Matthews had a fascinating piece about a young man named Jason Trigg in The Washington Post on Sunday. Trigg is a 25-year-old computer science graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has hit upon what he thinks is the way he can do maximum good for the world. He goes to work each day at a high-frequency trading hedge fund. But, instead of spending his ample salary, he lives the life of a graduate student and gives a large chunk of his money away. Trigg has seized upon the statistic that a $2,500 donation can prevent one death from malaria, and he figures that, over the course of a lucrative Wall Street career, he can save many lives. He was motivated to think this way by the utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer. From the article, Trigg seems like an earnest, morally serious man, who, if he lives out his plan, could indeed help save many lives. But if you are thinking of following his example, I would really urge caution. First, you might start down this course seeing finance as a convenient means to realize your deepest commitment: fighting malaria. But the brain is a malleable organ. Every time you do an activity, or have a thought, you are changing a piece of yourself into something slightly different than it was before. Every hour you spend with others, you become more like the people around you. Gradually, you become a different person. If there is a large gap between your daily conduct and your core commitment, you will become more like your daily activities and less attached to your original commitment. You will become more hedge fund, less malaria. There’s nothing wrong with working at a hedge fund, but it’s not the priority you started out with. Second, I would be wary of inverting the natural order of affections. If you see the world on a strictly intellectual level, then a child in Pakistan or Zambia is just as valuable as your own child. But not many people actually think this way. Not many people value abstract life perceived as a statistic as much as the actual child being fed, hugged, nurtured and played with. If you choose a profession that doesn’t arouse your everyday passion for the sake of serving instead some abstract faraway good, you might end up as a person who values the far over the near. You might become one of those people who loves humanity in general but not the particular humans immediately around. You might end up enlarging the faculties we use to perceive the far — rationality — and eclipsing the faculties we use to interact with those closest around — affection, the capacity for vulnerability and dependence. Instead of seeing yourself as one person deeply embedded in a particular community, you may end up coolly looking across humanity as a detached god. Third, and most important, I would worry about turning yourself into a means rather than an end. If you go to Wall Street mostly to make money for charity, you may turn yourself into a machine for the redistribution of wealth. You may turn yourself into a fiscal policy. But a human life is not just a means to produce outcomes, it is an end in itself. When we evaluate our friends, we don’t just measure the consequences of their lives. We measure who they intrinsically are. We don’t merely want to know if they have done good. We want to know if they are good. That’s why when most people pick a vocation, they don’t only want one that will be externally useful. They want one that they will enjoy, and that will make them a better person. They want to find that place, as the novelist Frederick Buechner put it, “where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” If you are smart, hard-working, careful and lucky you might even be able to find a job that is both productive and internally ennobling. Taking a job just to make money, on the other hand, is probably going to be corrosive, even if you use the money for charity rather than sports cars. We live in a relentlessly commercial culture, so it’s natural that many people would organize their lives in utilitarian and consequentialist terms. But it’s possible to get carried away with this kind of thinking — to have logic but no wisdom, to become a specialist without spirit. Making yourself is different than producing a product or an external outcome, requiring different logic and different means. I’d think you would be more likely to cultivate a deep soul if you put yourself in the middle of the things that engaged you most seriously. If your profoundest interest is dying children in Africa or Bangladesh, it’s probably best to go to Africa or Bangladesh, not to Wall Street. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/opinion/brooks-the-way-to-produce-a-person.html?src=me&ref=general#commentsContainer

Apple releases OS X 10.8.4 By Sam Oliver Apple on Tuesday released OS X 10.8.4, its latest security and maintenance update for the Mountain Lion operating system for Mac, improving Wi-Fi connectivity and Microsoft Exchange compatibility, and also fixing an issue that prevented making FaceTime calls to non-U.S. numbers. The OS X 10.8.4 update is now available for Mountain Lion users through the Mac App Store. A system restart is required once the update has been installed, and it is recommended by Apple for all users. The full list of changes in OS X 10.8.4, according to Apple, are: •Compatibility improvements when connecting to certain enterprise Wi-Fi networks •Microsoft exchange compatibility improvements in Calendar •A fix for an issue that prevented FaceTime calls to non-U.S. phone numbers •A fix for an issue that may prevent scheduled sleep after using Boot Camp •Improved VoiceOver compatibility with text in PDF documents •Includes Safari 6.0.5 AppleInsider was first to report last week that the release of OS X 10.8.4 was imminent, as Apple closed the seed project for developer testing. In a note to developers last week, Apple thanked participants for testing, and noted that materials related to the seeding project would be shut down. Prior to Tuesday's release, there were a total of eight betas of OS X 10.8.4 released, in which developers were asked to focus their testing on Wi-Fi, Graphics Drivers and Safari. Earlier builds of the software signaled that Apple is also testing high-speed 802.11ac Wi-Fi in OS X, suggesting the hardware capabilities are likely to appear in future Macs. http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/04/apple-releases-os-x-1084-with-wi-fi-exchange-improvements

WWDC 2013: the rumor roundup -- http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/04/wwdc-2013-the-rumor-roundup/

No Steve Jobs performing with his signature "it just works" or "one more thing" but still Apple leads innovation and ners and fanboys will pay attention to what it is up to. For Live Blog -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57587430-37/apples-wwdc-2013-keynote-join-us-monday-live-blog/

Notice how clean and prestine is the beach. Crystal blue. Beauty!

Their generosity knows no bound. This is true even in Qurbo. Thier hospitality is another one.

Inna Galeydh is there too for this...whoa! Perhaps some fence-mending between Faroole and Galeydh is in order. How about Saacid, will he be there? Should he be there? What's his role in all of this?

X-rated stuff Xiin do you have the famous poem recited by poet who returned home after long trip to his first wife. Knowing he will be off tomorrow for another journey, she tried to get him do what's neceassary and satisfy all of her hunger. With the stress of losing his herd in an ill-advised transaction, the poet could not even get it up let alone do all-nighter He composed a poem for his arsenal which let him down... Hadaan lagu ruxaan ruxin, walaa leyna rudsiineyne, .. .. Waxba ha is ridaan ridine, innaga soo rar reerka

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