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And while there I noticed this basket. Hmmm...
What if I combine the wreath ($2.50) and this basket ($7.50) - would it work?
Girlfriend, you need to get your own TV show! This is fabulous... I love it!
Great job! I love it!
I found your blog via Kimba and I love this idea! It looks fabulous!
I came here via Kimba and I love what you did! I know what I will be doing this weekend!
This is so cute. Great job. You got talent!
It turned out just beautiful! Thanks for sharing such a great idea!
I.love.it! I've been looking for something more original than the usual wreath. Beautiful project! If only I had a local Hobby Lobby but I'll have to check out Michaels. Thanks for the inspiration! :(
Have a great weekend!
Really great idea! Found you through Kimba. She only finds the best stuff!
That is really cute! I love this project,came over from Kimba's.
Kimba had a link to this post on her blog...beautiful wreath...so crafy you are!!!
Hi, came over from Kimba's. I love this project. How creative you are!! I will definitely have to give this a try. Love it. I'll bet every time you see your door it brings a sweet smile to your face. :)
Just went to hob lob TODAY and all that stuff was 50% off!!! Might be headed back...looks wonderful!
Clicked on over from Kimba's :)
Your wreath is soo cute AND I think it looks even better than the original!! ;)
Fabulous! Don't you just love it when you get inspired and end up doing something that looks even better than the inspiration!
Xcellent job!
Turned out so pretty.
I hopped over here from Kimba's...that really is a beautiful wreath! You did great!
wow! love the way that turned out. changing my door look this weekend, hope it turns out as good as yours did!
holy crap! what do you mean "do you think it will work?". ITS AWESOME. BEYOND WORDS.YOU ROCK!!!
Very cool wreath! I try to find unique things instead of the usual just like everyone else's kind of wreath. I like big, and this is just my style.
Very cute and creative!
That's adorable! Hmm...now I'm thinking my front door wreath needs a quick makeover...
Super cute - I want one!! My front door gets baked by the sun all day...if we ever build a front porch (a far off "someday" project) I'll be making one of your wreaths!!
So cute...I enjoyed reading your blog today.
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Tue, Dec 03, 2013 | 11:56 GMT
Xbox One party system "will get better," says Microsoft, improvements inbound
Xbox One's party system has been debated in a Reddit forum, with many gamers decrying the inability to chat cross-game. Microsoft community man Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has responded to cool matters, stressing that "things will get better."
Fri, Nov 01, 2013 | 09:30 GMT
Xbox One game gifting could come after launch, suggests Nelson
Xbox One could allow gamers to gift digital games to their friend after launch, Microsoft community man Larry 'Major Nelson' Hyrb has suggested.
Tue, Oct 08, 2013 | 22:02 BST
Xbox One may get keyboard and mouse support in its post release future
Xbox One may get keyboard and mouse support post release, according to Microsoft's director of Xbox Live programming Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb.
Tue, Oct 08, 2013 | 20:49 BST
XBL Game Store October update: The Wolf Among Us, AC4 season pass, movie themed sale
The Wolf Among Us: Episode One – Faith, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified – Hangar, Minceraft: Skin Pack Battle & Beast 2, and Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion start off the October releases on the Xbox Live Game Store this week. There's more coming you way though, such as Pinball FX2: Star Wars, the season pass for Assassin's Creed 4, a movie themed deal of the week and more
Tue, Oct 08, 2013 | 08:13 BST
Microsoft "seeking correction" for Kinect data release report
Microsoft's Larry Hryb – better known as major nelson – has said the company will not be releasing user data harvested by the Xbox One's Kinect to third parties, and is seeking a correction to a report stating otherwise.
Thu, Sep 12, 2013 | 10:58 BST
Microsoft buys 'Xbone.com' domain, Major Nelson deems it disrespectful
Microsoft has bought the web domain 'Xbone.com', after the popular nickname for Xbox One was been deemed disrespectful by Major Nelson.
Thu, Sep 12, 2013 | 05:55 BST
Major Nelson bringing the Xbox One to Massachusetts, Edmonton and Florida before launch
If you're on the fence about which of the new consoles you want to buy and live near Massachusetts, Florida or Edmonton, then you're in luck as Major Nelson will be bringing one down to your local Microsoft Store. Check out the location and dates below. for your ability to play a bit of Killer Instinct and Forza 5.
Tue, Sep 03, 2013 | 11:31 BST
Xbox One development was not rushed, insists Major Nelson
Microsoft's Larry 'Major Nelson' Hyrb has taken to Reddit to address concerns that Xbox One development has been rushed. He has stressed that this is not the case.
Tue, Aug 13, 2013 | 08:06 BST
Xbox One controller has 40 different improvements, new video discusses them
Microsoft has published a new video in which Xbox community mouthpiece Larry Hyrb and Xbox One general manager Zulfi Alam discuss the creation of the console's brand-new controller.
Sun, Aug 04, 2013 | 22:25 BST
Xbox One GPU speed and graphics driver upgraded
Microsoft corporate vice president Marc Whitten announced during a Major Nelson podcast today that GPU speed for Xbox One has been increased since the console was shown during E3 2013.
Sun, Jul 21, 2013 | 01:33 BST
Xbox One: Microsoft details controller recognition, real-time facial expressions
Microsoft held an Xbox One panel during Comic-Con today, featuring developer discussing some of the console's new features such as smiling avatars and controllers recognizing their owners.
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Microsoft will "absolutely not" block Xbox One games if your Live account is banned, says Nelson
Microsoft's community figure Major Nelson has stated that the company will not block your library of Xbox One games should your Xbox Live account become banned. The statement was given at E3 last week and comes as confusion clouds the matter.
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Xbox One E3 conference won't be about TV
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If these clowns deem it necessary to rebut, there must be something to it. I will go with Palins opinion.
That´s a pretty weak rebuttal.
Hollow points for practice shooting?
Sarah Palin wasn´t alone in wonderful why the government was stockpiling ammunision. Conjecture ranged from them attempting to take bullets off the market and run up the price to preparing for civil war in case of a monetary collapse. So, why attempt to make her appear foolish, when a lot of people were thinking out loud about possibilities. It wasn´t just media created, right wing extremists, who were thinking out loud. Even liberals were wondering; even they could read the rumors too.
Sarah Palin wasn´t alone in wondering why the government was stockpiling ammunition. Conjecture ranged from them attempting to take bullets off the market and run up the price to preparing for civil war in case of a monetary collapse. So, why attempt to make her appear foolish, when a lot of people were thinking out loud about possibilities. It wasn´t just media created, right wing extremists, who were thinking out loud. Even liberals were wondering; even they could read the rumors too.
Sure. There´s nothing to it. Nothing to it at all.So, have you been to your local gun store lately to check their ammo stock? Exactly.
Sarah or the regime? Who to believe? Give me a moment...don´t rush me...
I call BS. Exactly how many employees of DHS are issued firearms? 1.6 Billion rounds is a lot of bullets.Let´s see...according to their website:•Number of DHS employees: 199,492•Number of bullets: 1,600,000,000That would be 8,020 rounds of ammunition for every employee...and I´m guessing not everyone gets a firearm.
The same media that says there were never any WMDs in Iraq and it was a war for oil.
I spend 20 years in the Army. Much of it in ground combat units. Our soldiers never had that much ammo to practice with. Why should I believe or trust the current government?
Very few law enforcement agencies practice with hollow-point bullets. They´re simply too expensive and not appropriate to practice.A hollow-point bullet is designed to expand in flesh, it is an operational round. It is also only for domestic use in law enforcement, it is BANNED under the Laws of Armed Conflict.
According to Tom Gresham, and he would know, the use hollow points for practice because federal law requires them to practice with the same ammunition they carry. Simple as that. It´s a stupid law, but there it is.
That´s just too much ammo for "practice" so whatever the government is up to and their shills are covering for, is scary. I´d trust Palin on this one.
Another Palin hating OP tried to equate her with 0bama. Nice try, I see right through that BS!
I have lived on this earth, in this country for more than a half century. There is not one doubt in my mind that the National Government intends to use these millions of rounds of bullets against the citizens when civil unrest ensues due to the coming economic collapse.
They rebuffed "death squads" as well but that is now part of obamacare.
Palin like the rest of us depends on the media getting their stories correct. She based her opinion on incorrect media reporting. The correction only came out after her FB opinion. Keep in mind this is the second order placed for ammo. I´ve seen no correction to the first large order. The first was large enough not to need another.
"Fear mongering", OP? Like "Death Panels" was fear mongering.I seem to recall a lot of "Palin is irrelevant" declarations. If her comments that come about because of media flubs are so important they warrant a news story, I guess she´s not irrelevant quite yet, is she?Haters gonna hate.
Generally speaking, because of cost, most agencies use FMJ rounds for practice and hollow points to carry. I believe you are required to train with the same caliber round not necessarily the exact type of round (i.e. issue 40 caliber pistols but train with .22 LR).Lets see what the different agencies purchased in the past years and compare what they are buying now. I highly doubt they would be in the numbers being quoted today.
I would believe Sarah a hundred times more than any of the Dem drones in DC.
Many of us have watched these huge purchases of bullets, and many of the purchases have been "hollow point," a very deadly bullet that rips through a body. No one would ever use hollow point ammo for target practice or training. If one adds up the fed´s purchases, they now have enough bullets to kill every man woman and child about seven times. And please tell me why the Social Security Administration would need millions of rounds of hollow point bullets?
#10 has it right: Why should we trust the current government, or, for that matter, their media supporters? They have no record of honesty.
It is so comforting to know that the GOP in Congress is vigorously investigating this! OH, they´re not?Never mind. Look out for yourself!
Hoosier I think you are misinformed. I suspect they have a blue-ribbon panel/commission/study group looking into the very matter. They will have the findings ready in the year 2525! slight s/o
The "target practice" story makes sense - if we assume that all armed Federal employees are at the range 5 days a week and most weekends, banging away and raising a racket that can be heard for miles around. They would have to be practicing their shooting even on major holidays to use up such incredible amounts of ammo. If it were actually the case that there is this much target practicing going on, the same question would remain: how come? What possible need is there for such marksmanship? Who do the Feds plan to be shooting?It would be illuminating to have the statistics on actual practice times and ammunition consumed, as well as the number of times Federal employees discharge a firearm each year in pursuance of duty.People pushing the "target practice" story obviously think Americans are really stupid.I have no idea why the Feds are stockpiling such vast quantities of ammo - but the absurd story that it is merely for routine target practice is an insult to our intelligence. The willingness of the media to accept and defend this preposterous claim is another mark of shame for a once proud and loyal profession.
# 14 - Just like the journ-O-lists and TV media the group of 7 or 8 love finding any negative article about Gov. Palin. Even though she has been proven to be correct in her many comments, either by Facebook, Twitter or in her many speeches. One would assume if the comments were made by Chris Christi, Romney, Jeb Bush, Dewherst or someone comparable to the aforementioned the sounding of trumpets, the bowing of knee and all their wonderful attributes would be recounted time and time again. Even after 5 years their hatred of Gov. Palin sticks out like a sore thumb.What type of ammo was issued to Border Patrol--weren´t they non-lethal bean bag type pellets?
Ah, but #26, it´s pretty simple to be "correct" when you are just following others. The stockpiling of ammo has been discussed for months in the media and on these threads. The difference with Palin is that she has attributed a sinister motive that is unsubstantiated. If she has a source for her claim, I assume she will share it.
The rebuttals are total BS.
Tell a falsehood enough times and it becomes fact.If you look at the original purchasing documents, these reports are off by a factor of 1000 due to misreading the units.I am pretty sure that the reported 1.6 billion should be 1.6 MILLION. This has been fairly widely reported here and elsewhere but apparently people would rather be hysterical instead of looking up the facts.And YES, many agencies will ONLY practice with the same ammo as they use in actual work - two sensible reasons.First - the officers need to know the recoil and point of impact that they are practicing with will be the same in actual use. Second - semiauto pistols will not always function properly with all ammo types. Some hollowpoint ammo will not feed properly. Proper function is best verified by training with the exact ammo to be used in "real life".


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a_mo, how you doing? i doubt you can get an intelligent answer to that one. i used to always ask the nuns to do a timeline for dinosuars and such. never would. i guess now you could also ask if neanderthals had souls? but even the crazy catholics have come out with saying that the story of genesis is just that, a story. not to be taken littelaly. can't do that i guess if you take the koran litterally.
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no idea what genesis is and im ok Tuesday is my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ill be a legal adult :P
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happy birthday. genesis is the first book of the bible. tells the story of creation. look at the advertisement that popped up for me. this google bot is a genius. but i already know i don't have any neanderthal in me. my skull is too thin. Neanderthal DNA 23andMe.com/NeanderthalDNAFind Your Genome-Wide Estimate of Neanderthal DNA. Order a Test Today
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abul rauf
thanks :p :p everyone says i have a thick skull but thats not a compliment.
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Adam lived in Eden´s Garden, so he was never a caveman..
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then he was placed on earth...and supposedly the bones found or whatever were of cavemen...so explain that one to me :)
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Former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis of Alabama is officially leaving the party for the GOP, he announced Tuesday.
"Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities, Davis wrote on his website after lamenting that "this is not Bill Clintons Democratic Party".
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The one-time Democratic rising star had grown critical of the party in recent years, was the only African American member of the House to vote against Democrats' health care reform law, and became increasingly vocal about his disagreements with the Democrats after losing a gubernatorial primary in 2010.
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Reaaaalllly, Artuuuuuur?
And on voter fraud (which he admits he KNEW was going on):
SCREW YOU, Artur. You KNEW about this but said NOTHING? Until NOW?????????????????
"this is not Bill Clintons Democratic Party".
Shows just how bad the Party has become.
Artur Davis makes it official.
This is a surprise to me. I don't remember his voting record being conservative.
Davis was my congresscritter.
His greatest virtue, as I recall it, is that he was not his predecessor, Earl Hilliard. That being said, he was still a black Democrat, with all that that implies about his voting record.
He left office to run for governor. That's why he voted against Obamacare. But that didn't cancel out his voting record with conservative voters, and ticked off mightily his constituency.
I really don't know what he was thinking.
He's been making noises for some time now. It's not that unusual especially after leaving office for someone who you wouldn't peg as as switcher to in fact switch.
Matthew Martinez of Cali had a liberal record when he switched after losing the rat primary in 2000, that jerk Forbes(?) from Long Island who switched to the rats in 1999 had a conservative record. It makes you think how often people just vote the party line no matter what they think or whether they actually care about anything other their own careers and egos.
Maybe it was getting Whitewashed in the rat primary for Governor that started him on this path.
He always had a kernel of reason, maybe it sprouted.
Yes he's a RINO now but this is very very embarrassing to the rats. He was one of the new wave Cory Booker kind of Black democrats, the pre-Obama more moderate White voter friendly types. I welcome him.
Like the Lienz Cossacks, these "converts" need to be kept under watch.
(And before anyone starts trying to sharpshoot at me, I'm not comparing the Republican Party to either the Nazis or Communists.)
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Jane Coyne speaks about her experience with MSF, MSF's withdrawal from Somalia and the strategies that MSF uses to work in conflict zones.
Sophie Delaunay speaks with Leonard Lopate about MSF's difficult decision to leave Somalia and MSF's ongoing response to the catastrophic conflict in Syria.
"Our decision to leave has been among the most painful in MSF's history."
Dr. Unni Karunakara, MSF international president, criticizes Somalia's armed groups and civilian leaders for condoning attacks on MSF's staff, which have forced MSF to withdraw from the country.
MSF's Sophie Delaunay describes how the lack of security assurances in Somalia caused MSF to close its programs in the country.
MSF international president Dr. Unni Karunakara explains why MSF is closing its programs in Somalia after 22 years of providing lifesaving medical and humanitarian aid in the country.
The closure of MSF's programs in Somalia follows years of attacks on its staff. This difficult decision will leave many Somalis without medical and humanitarian aid.
MSF is closing all its medical programs in Somalia due to the repeated killing and abduction of its staff by armed groups with the support or acquiescence of civil authorities.
MSF today announced the closure of all its programs in Somalia, the result of extreme attacks on its staff.
Participants: Dr. Unni Karunakara, international president, MSF; Arjan Hehenkamp, general director, MSF-Amsterdam.
It is with great relief that MSF confirms that Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, abducted from the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya on October 13, 2011, have been released.
Authorities in Yemen have freed more than a thousand Somali and Ethiopian migrants, many suffering from torture and sexual abuse while forcibly held by human smugglers.
Efforts underway at the UN to integrate humanitarian assistance into the international military campaign against opponents of Somalia's government will further threaten the safe delivery of independent and impartial aid to Somalis.
A move to relocate Somali refugees from Kenyan cities to already overcrowded refugee camps nearer the border with Somalia would make an already miserable situation even worse.
A year ago today, Philippe Havet and Andrias Karel Keiluhu were killed while delivering emergency medical assistance in Somalia.
An MSF assessment finds alarming malnutrition rates in many parts of the country, including the outskirts of Mogadishu.
MSF continues to fully support the families of Blanca Thiebaut and Montserrat Serra, two MSF employees who were abducted from Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp while working to help Somali refugees in need.
MSF calls for the plight of the nearly half a million Somali refugees currently living in Kenya's Dadaab camp to be added to the agenda at the annual meeting of the executive committee of the UNHCR.
MSF is responding to increased cases of acute watery diarrhea among children and adults in the city of Kismayo in southern Somalia.
MSF deputy field coordinator Abubakar Mohamed Mahamud describes the plight of the hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees living in the overcrowded Dadaab camps.
Overlooked by the international community, the already-dire situation in Kenya's overcrowded Dadaab refugee camps is worsening.
Giving birth in Somalia is incredibly dangerous, but it's made slightly less so by the huge efforts of MSF's Somali staff.
Michele Trainiti worked in and around Ethiopia's Hiloweyn camp for nearly eight months, first as project coordinator and later as emergency coordinator. In this piece he describes his experience.
In May 2012, after successfully coping with a humanitarian crisis, MSF handed over its project in Hiloweyn refugee camp to an Ethiopian refugee agency.
Following weeks of no new cases, MSF is set to close an emergency cholera intervention in Somalia's Middle Shabelle region.
This document gives an overview of MSF activities related to the humanitarian crisis in Somalia and neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. The data presented, though provisional, account for MSF's medical activities and financial income and expenditures in this region, while the narrative illustrates how MSF as a medical aid organization responded to this evolving crisis.
Shells from the fighting in Daynile, a neighborhood located in an outlying area of Mogadishu, struck Daynile hospital's emergency room and a portion of the surgical ward, causing significant damage.
Measles is sweeping unchecked through parts of southern Somalia, where MSF is still waiting for permission from authorities to conduct a vaccination campaign.
José Luis Dvorzak, an MSF doctor, describes his experiences in Ethiopia's Liben refugee camps, and calls attention to the ongoing plight of Somali refugees.
"Dadaab: Back to Square One" takes stock of the current humanitarian situation in the world's largest refugee camp.
Four-year-old Khalif's uncle brought him 37 miles to Kismayo to receive treatment at MSF's inpatient therapeutic feeding center.
These testimonies from Somali refugees in southern Ethiopia describe the violence that drove them from their homes and the challenges they face in the refugee camps they've settled in.
Following the tragic killings of two staff members in Mogadishu on December 29, 2011, MSF has been forced to end all activities in the Hodan district of the capital.
Recent attacks on aid workers and the ongoing abduction of two colleagues in Somalia jeopordize life-saving medical projects and must be condemned in the strongest terms.
In this year-end issue of Alert we highlight 2011's pictures of the year, share MSF nurse Mary Jo Frawley's remembrance of her time in Haiti, and explore MSF's history of negotiation in the new book Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed.
It is with great sadness that MSF confirms that two of its staff members were killed Thursday morning as a result of a shooting at an MSF compound in Mogadishu, Somalia.
A measles epidemic is spreading. The lack of infrastructure and services is worsening the population's vulnerability. And civilians have endured new military offensives.
Unless the capacity to deliver aid is rapidly increased, it will be extremely difficult to meet the needs of Somalis fleeing to Ethiopia, MSF said today.
The current emergency unfolding in and around Somalia is being portrayed by many aid organizations and the media in one-dimensional terms, such as "famine in the Horn of Africa" or "worst drought in 60 years." But only blaming natural causes ignores the complex geopolitical realities exacerbating the situation and suggests that the solution lies in merely finding funds and shipping enough food to the Horn of Africa.
Throughout the summer, waves of Somalis set out on desperate, arduous journeys, braving desert heat, hunger, and bandits to seek relief from a catastrophe remarkable even by the standards of this long-troubled country.
In this issue of Alert, we share news and images of our response to the ongoing crisis in Somalia, where MSF has spent the summer trying to expand its services to meet the latest emergency to befall the country's people.
MSF treated dozens of people, the majority of them children, after a camp for dispalced Somalis in the Lower Juba region was hit with an aerial bombardment.
The camp, in the town of Jilib, was hit around 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The wounded were treated in the town of in Marere, in Lower Juba Region, where MSF provides medical assistance.
After heavy fighting erupted on October 20 in Daynile, on the outskirts of Mogadishu, MSF was forced to suspend its measles vaccination campaign in the area.
Disassociating itself from armed activities and related declarations following the abduction, MSF is engaging with all relevant actors to seek a safe resolution.
Since July, more than 150,000 Somalis have left the provinces of the country's central region to seek refuge in Mogadishu.
Today in Somalia, measles is among the biggest threats to the survival of tens of thousands of vulnerable malnourished children.
To the extent possible given the conditions, MSF is battling cholera and measles outbreaks in and around the town of Marere in southern Somalia
MSF and VII Photo have launched a four-city tour of "Starved for Attention," a free interactive, multimedia exhibit in which some of the world's top photojournalists highlight the global crisis of malnutrition.
The hospital in Galcaayo North, which is partly supported by MSF, has treated 60 wounded, most of them civilians, while another 20 wounded were treated at an MSF-run hospital in the southern part of the city.
Restrictions and security concerns continue to hinder MSF's attempts to reach the most vulnerable populations in Somalia.
Dr. Faiza Adan Abdirahman, the medical doctor in charge of the pediatric department at Istarlin hospital in Galgaduud, discusses the situation in the area.
As the number of malnourished children continues to rise, it is clear that more assistance is necessary for the already vulnerable Somali population.
Duncan McLean, MSF program manager for Somalia, talks about the difficulties of working in Somalia today.
An interview with Hussein Sheikh Qassim is the Medical Activities Manager in the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Marere, southern Somalia.
MSF staff recently returned from Mogadishu discuss what they saw there and the issues the humanitarian response to the ongoing crisis must address.
Nearly 120,000 Somali refugees are now taking shelter in Ethiopia's Liben region, in camps originally built to house less than half their number.
MSF has sent medical teams and four charter planes carrying 55 tons of medical equipment, medicines and therapeutic food to respond the crisis affecting the Somali population.
MSF teams working in Marere, in southern Somalia, are distributing relief items to thousands of displaced Somalis who have found temporary shelter in the nearby town of Jilib.
Watch ABC News Correspondent David Muir as he makes his way to Dadaab refugee camp and visits the MSF intensive care unit where MSF staff are treating severely malnourished children.
MSF is deeply concerned by the relocation of Somali refugees in Dadaab to the Ifo 3 camp, a move marked by a pronounced lack of transparency, planning, and consultation.
MSF urges all parties in Somalia, neighboring countries, and the international community to improve assistance to the Somali population in the region and remove hurdles preventing the expansion of independent aid in Somalia.
"What is new is that people are now fleeing the rural areas simply because they have no more food to eat."
Malnutrition is of the biggest dangers for the Lower Juba region's eight million people. In the town of Marere, MSF runs the only hospital in southern Somalia that offers free medical care.
Dr. Hussein Sheikh Qassim, MSF Medical Coordinator in Marere, southern Somalia, describes how violence and drought are driving people from their homes in search of care and shelter.
MSF is seeing a dramatic effect on the Somali population—both those in Somalia and the many who have fled to overcrowded camps in Dadaab, Kenya, and parts of Ethiopia.
MSF has found alarmingly high rates of malnutrition among the Somali refugees arriving and settling on the outskirts of the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya.
As a food crisis worsens and conflict continues, many people inside Somalia, and in refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, urgently need assistance.
Nenna Arnold, a community outreach nurse at the Dagahaley refugee camp in northeastern Kenya, cares for Somali refugees fleeing violence, insecurity, and a devastating drought.
Dr. Gedi Mohamed, director of the general hospital at Dagahaley refugee camp, in northeastern Kenya, describes what brought him to Dadaab and how MSF is coping with the severely overcrowded conditions.
Crowded into camps built to house 90,000 people that are now "home" to more than 300,000, Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya, urgently need additional assistance and more shelter.
After two attacks on MSF's compound in Mogadishu's Medina neighborhood, MSF was forced to suspend its medical operations in the area indefinitely.
As fierce fighting continues in and around Mogadishu, MSF medical teams are treating dozens of severely wounded people at the main hospital in Daynile.
Even a quick glance at Doctors Without Borders/Médecins San Frontières (MSF) updates from Somalia over the past two years shows that the country's conflict remains as relentless as ever. February 25, 2009: "121 wounded in 24 hours"; June 2, 2009: "218 treated over two weeks"; January 20, 2010: "111 wounded in 3-day period": February 3, 2010: 89 treated, including 66 women and children, in Mogadishu.
Tens of thousands of Somali refugees live in appalling, overcrowded conditions while a nearby camp lies empty.
MSF staff report a grave shortage of shelter despite up to 1,500 new arrivals every week.
"Having a baby is a joy. Having three is a triple blessing," says Fardows Abu-Bakr, 34, who recently gave birth to healthy triplets in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
"Hundreds of families have been living in makeshift shelters in a no man's land over the past four months, waiting to be relocated to a proper camp," said MSF's head of mission in Kenya.
MSF treats dozens of injured at its project in Danileye
With intense fighting raging in Mogadishu, MSF's Daynile Hospital treated the largest influx of wounded people it has seen since the beginning of the year.
"Health indicators in Somalia have been known to be, for many years already, some of the worst in the world and TB is not an exception."
A high proportion of civilians, including large numbers of women and children, bear the brunt of ongoing warfare in Mogadishu.
MSF has been providing care to more than 30,000 Somali Refugees in Ethiopia's Liben zone since February 2009.
MSF treated 42 people wounded in fighting Mogadishu this past weekend, 23 of whom were women and children under the age of 14.
In recent weeks, MSF has seen an alarming rise in the number of malnourished children being treated at Marere Hospital in Somalia's Lower Juba Region.
MSF has resumed its medical activities in Hawa Abdi in Somalia
On June 5, MSF opened new TB departments in two of its health centers in the Middle Shabelle region of Somalia. The departments will provide free quality TB services, including testing, treatment, and health education to the communities living in the surrounding areas of Mahaday and Gololey.
Following recent clashes in Somalia's Galgaduud region, MSF is treating wounded patients in Istarlin hospital in Guri-el. The 80-bed hospital has been working to near full capacity in most departments, including treating patients for malnutrition, whooping cough and measles.
Concerns about the risk of flooding in Belet Weyne during recent weeks were realized last weekend when the rising water levels led to the displacement of more than 10,000 habitants from the town.
After its clinic in Hawa Abdi was occupied by an armed party, MSF is calling for all parties to respect the neutrality of medical facilities.
On May 5, MSF was forced to temporarily suspend activities in the Hawa Abdi clinic after a security incident not related to MSF's activities degenerated into a major clash.
MSF is still very concerned about the situation in one of the world's most congested camp complexes, located in Dadaab, in northeast Kenya.
Nairobi/New York, February 3, 2010—As fierce fighting once again grips Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) admitted 89 people suffering from blast injuries to its hospital in the Daynile area of the city between January 29 and February 2. Of these, 66 were women and children.
Nairobi, 19 January 2010 - As ongoing fighting in the Hiraan and Galgaduud regions of Somalia takes an ever greater toll on civilians, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has continued to support two hospitals in Guri El and Belet Weyne.
MSF continues activities in Dhusa Mareb, despite growing insecurity due to clashes on Saturday, January 2.
An overview of MSF activities in Somalia in 2009.
"This is the highest number of malnourished children MSF has ever treated in the area. What's more, we are concerned that not everyone is able to reach us. What we see in our program may just be a fraction of a wider crisis," says MSF's head of mission for Somalia.
Medical needs in Somalia are vast, and frequently made worse by violence and drought. The graduates of Benadir University offer a rare hope for the Somali people—the possibility of lifesaving medical care. This year MSF supported and recruited a number of the university's first graduates.
In the central Somali city of Galkayo, Dr. Abdullahi Adan Mohamoud is working for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to provide health care to a vulnerable population trapped in a conflict-ridden and divided city. In this interview, he explains about the medical work needs in Galkayo and about working as a surgeon in Somalia.
Located in the bone-dry central Somalia, the city of Galkayo is divided in half by warring militias and separatist regional governments that continuously clash in armed confrontations. Since MSF was forced to evacuate its international staff in 2008 due to insecurity, MSF's Somali staff has carried on the work of providing medical care to people trapped in a conflict with nowhere else to turn.
There are few health care options for Somalis and very few international organizations present. Before MSF arrived in Jamaame, there were only traditional healers and shops that sold drugs.
Intense fighting among various armed groups claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and displaced thousands more in Somalia in the first half of 2009. The town of Jamaame, in a remote area of southern Somalia's Lower Juba region, is one area where MSF has been able to provide ongoing medical services.
In December 2008, 20 Somali students overcame huge odds and graduated from medical school in Mogadishu—the first batch to do so for almost two decades in the failed Horn of Africa state. Dr. Hafsa Abdurrahman Mohamed, 26, was one of those receiving a diploma from the capital's Benadir University. This is her story.
Intense fighting among various armed groups claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians and displaced thousands more in Somalia in the first half of 2009. In addition, prolonged drought and food shortages worsened the already desperate situation of many of the country's rural communities.
Lifesaving healthcare provided to the community of Jilib in Lower Juba Valley, Somalia, is under threat following the looting of an MSF medical clinic.
"So in August we tried one more time. We had been at sea for four days and four nights when our boat broke down. There were about 50 people on board. We were rescued by a Maltese ship and brought to Malta."
MSF has resumed work in Ta'kandja detention center for migrants and asylum-seekers in Malta after authorities committed to enable the provision of effective medical care and to ensure adequate living conditions for detainees. About 60 percent of patients MSF has treated there are from Somalia.
Nairobi/New York, July 7, 2009—The resumption of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, has forced the majority of people living in the Yaqshid, Karan, and Abdul Azziz districts in the north of the city to flee, according to the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Since April, an outbreak of measles has been sweeping through the town of Guri El and nearby areas in the Galgaduud region of South and Central Somalia. So far, MSF has treated 403 patients for measles-related complications in the area.
In the early evening of Wednesday, June 24, 2009, a private vehicle rented by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was attacked in North Galcayo, Somalia as it returned from referring a patient from one MSF facility in the south of the city to another facility in the north.
Nairobi/Brussels, June 17, 2009 — After nine years of providing health care for the population in Bakool region, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached the regrettable conclusion that it does not have sufficient security to continue its work. This decision was MSF's alone and the organization was not expelled by the authorities. MSF medical activities elsewhere in Somalia continue.
MSF has treated dozens of war-wounded patients following fighting in the town of Webho in Central Somalia on June 5.
As intense violence once again rocks Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, teams from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) continue working throughout the country to provide lifesaving medical care.
Interview with MSF nurse Donna Canali about a recent spike in violence in war-ravaged Somalia that is causing a refugee crisis.
Joke van Peteghem, head of MSF in Kenya, describes the deplorable conditions in Kenyan refugee camps, where thousands of Somalis have fled to.
An estimated 270,000 Somali refugees are enduring difficult living conditions at Dagahaley, Ifo, and Hagadera refugee camps located on the outskirts of Dadaab in northern Kenya.
Nairobi/Geneva/New York, May 18, 2009 – More than 270,000 refugees who have fled war in Somalia are facing such alarming shortages of food, water, and adequate shelter in severely overcrowded camps in northern Kenya that many are considering returning to the Somali war zone, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
After a relative lull in fighting for the last two months in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, violence has erupted once again on the city's streets.
Brussels/New York, April 28, 2009 – Two Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff, abducted on April 19 in the Bakool region of Somalia, were safely released today.
MSF wishes to express its gratitude for messages of concern from the public regarding the well-being of its two workers abducted in Somalia.
The dead were among a group who had departed two days prior from the port of Bosasso, Somalia, fleeing insecurity or extreme poverty on a smuggler's boat. They were travelling in extremely harsh conditions across the Gulf of Aden to reach Yemen.
Contrary to earlier reports in the media, MSF confirms that, based on its own information, its two staff members held captive in Somalia are in good health and are eating well.
MSF confirms that two of its staff members were abducted yesterday in the Bakool region of Somalia.
Current TV features a documentary about the deadly risks at sea Somali refugees and Ethiopian migrants are forced to take in search of a better life in Yemen, and the Doctors Without Borders medical teams helping those who survive.
Some 533 people survived the dangerous journey from northern Somalia across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen on smugglers' boats during one week in December 2008. At least 28 passengers did not survive the trip. Desperate to escape the violence and hopelessness of Somalia, these passengers routinely arrive on Yemen's southern coast after a two- to three-day journey. The risks they have taken to get there are huge: smugglers pack more than 100 people onto boats made for 30; and passengers arrive with reports of brutal treatment.
On Tuesday, February 24, scores of civilians were injured in a new surge in fighting in multiple locations in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. MSF medical teams have so far treated 121 casualties in Daynile Hospital, by far the largest influx of wounded people since MSF opened its surgical program in Daynile, located on the outskirts of Mogadishu, in September 2007.
Nairobi, January 13, 2009 — A new surge in fighting in the Galgaduud region of central Somalia has led to many casualties and forced thousands to flee. Following heavy fighting between two groups last Sunday, Somali medical teams of the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have treated 46 casualties at Istarlin hospital in Guri El. This brings the total of wounded treated there since fighting broke out in the area more than two weeks ago to 86.
Already struggling to survive with little or no access to even basic health-care services, Somalis experienced some of the worst violence in over a decade in 2008, with people in the central and southern parts of the country living under increasingly deteriorating humanitarian conditions.
Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported today in its annual list of the "Top Ten" humanitarian crises.
A representative for Doctors Without Borders describes conditions refugees face on voyages across the Gulf of Aden.
Human smugglers from northern Somalia forced 114 people from a small fishing boat near the village of Al Qashaah on the southern coast of Yemen early on the morning of December 5. The passengers were Somali refugees fleeing war, destitution, and disease. Among them were ten children, including babies.
Since early Monday, December 1, of a presumed 420 people who have arrived on Yemen's shores after traveling through the Gulf of Aden from Somalia, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has assisted 361.
Some of the world's leading photojournalists worked alongside our medical teams throughout 2008, documenting our work and following the lives of our patients and their communities. At the same time, some of our own staff captured unforgettable moments that we are pleased to include in this Year in Pictures issue of Alert, which brings together some of the most moving and telling photographs of the crises to which we responded in 2008.
Every year, thousands of Somalis and Ethiopians risk their lives crossing the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. Hoping to escape the conflict and extreme poverty in their own countries, these desperate passengers are regularly abused and sometimes killed by the brutal smugglers they pay to get them across.
November, 1, 2008, Awhar, Yemen --A team from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) assisting refugees in the south of Yemen found 39 dead bodies on the shore between Friday, October 31 and Sunday, November 2.
Nairobi/Geneva/New York, October 2, 2008 — The recent escalation in fighting in one of Mogadishu's most populated residential areas has resulted in a surge of wounded civilians and has once again displaced thousands of people. The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating some of the wounded and is providing basic relief supplies to newly displaced people.
Since Friday, September 19, amid intensifying violence in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, there has been a sharp increase in the number of admissions of war wounded civilians to the MSF hospital in Daynile, located just outside the capital.
29 bodies found on Yemen beach - MSF assists survivors of deadly sea crossing.
Due to a rise in violence, MSF has been forced to cease medical activities in one of its clinics in the Wardigley/Hodan area of Mogadishu, Somalia.
Thousands of people risk their lives every year to cross the Gulf of Aden to escape from conflict, violence, drought and poverty.
Geneva/Nairobi, June 26, 2008 — The people of Somalia are currently facing a massive humanitarian crisis with unmet critical medical needs. In May alone, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in the Mogadishu suburbs of Hawa Abdi and Afgooye treated more than 2,500 children suffering from acute malnutrition with admissions to MSF nutritional programs doubling in April and doubling again in May.
Press Teleconference: Nicolas de Torrente, executive director of MSF-USA, Benoit Leduc, MSF operations manager for Somalia, and Dr. Greg Elder, MSF deputy operations manager, discuss the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Somalia.
Nairobi/Barcelona, May 7, 2008 – Due to the kidnapping of two of its humanitarian workers last December, the international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) decided to close on the 15th of April all its remaining medical and nutritional operations for the internally displaced people (IDP) living at the outskirts of Bossaso.
Between January 2008 and April 2008, the independent medical humanitarian organization MSF has treated more than 850 victims of conflict in Mogadishu, a majority of whom are civilians, at Dayniile hospital, located nine kilometers outside the capital. Among the 850 people, 455 were admitted for gunshots wounds and 231 for blast wounds consistent with explosive devices.
Remembering three MSF staff who lost their lives in Somalia.
New York/Nairobi, Kenya, April 3, 2008—Following the killing of three staff members on January 28, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has decided to close its project in the southern city of Kismayo, Somalia. Although activities in Kismayo will end, MSF remains committed to providing medical care to the Somali people, therefore projects in other locations in Somalia will continue to operate.
International staff with the independent medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have resumed their humanitarian work in several locations in Somalia. Following the brutal killings of three MSF aid workers on January 28 in the southern city of Kismayo, MSF suspended its international staff presence in the country. Programs continued to be run thanks to the dedication of MSF Somali staff members.
On March 18, a Somali national staff from the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) died at the hospital following severe injuries sustained during an attack on an MSF car the week before. Along with other cars travelling the same route, an MSF vehicle was attacked on March 12. At 1:00 PM local time several armed men opened fire on the vehicles, seriously wounding the MSF Somali staff member, who worked as a security guard. Three other MSF Somali colleagues were slightly injured in the incident.
A car belonging to the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was attacked on March 12 near the town of Balcad in Somalia. At 1 p.m. local time, several armed men opened fire on the vehicle, seriously wounding one of the MSF staff members, a security guard, who was taken to hospital where he is now recovering from a femur fracture. Three other employees were slightly injured in the incident.
New York/Nairobi, February 1, 2008 – The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is outraged by what appears to be an organized attack resulting in the killing of our three colleagues Victor Okumu, Damien Lehalle, and Mohmed Bidhaan, as well as two other people, on Monday January 28 in Kismayo, Somalia.
Nairobi/Amsterdam, January 28, 2008 - It is with great sadness that we confirm that three staff from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were killed this morning in the Somali town of Kismayo, not far from the hospital where MSF works.
Bossaso, Somalia/Barcelona, January 2, 2008 — Mercedes García and Pilar Bauza, a Spanish doctor and an Argentinian nurse who work for Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Somalia, were freed today at 2:30 PM local time. MSF is relieved that the two have been liberated after one week in captivity. Mercedes and Pilar are in a good health.
Bossaso, Somalia/Barcelona, December 28, 2007 - Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) demands that a medical vehicle from the organization be given access to the area where its two workers are detained to assess their health status. Mercedes García and Pilar Bauza, a Spanish doctor and an Argentinian nurse, have been in captivity for more than 48 hours in the area of Bossaso, in Puntland.
Bossaso, Somalia/Barcelona, December 26, 2007 — After confirming that two of its staff members have been taken by force this morning in Bossaso, Somalia, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has urgently called for the immediate and safe release of its colleagues: Mercedes García, a Spanish doctor, and Pilar Bauza, an Argentinean nurse. They were taken while on their way to a MSF feeding center set up to treat malnourished children near camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees in Bossaso, in the Puntland region of Somalia.
Afgooye, Somalia/Geneva, December 11, 2007—Increased fighting inside Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has led to another exodus of the population, adding to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) who have already fled the conflict area since January 2007.
Nairobi, November 7, 2007 — While thousands of people flee the Somali capital Mogadishu, the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is gravely concerned about the remaining population as violence intensifies in the city.
New York, NY, October 31, 2007 - In a study published today in the inaugural issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams detail a dramatic increase in visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala azar, in the Bakool region of south-central Somalia. The current conflict in Somalia and the lack of health infrastructure makes it both difficult to address the problem and to assess the true magnitude of the impact of the disease.
Nairobi, 20 August 2007 — Access to medical care and assistance for civilians and displaced persons in and around the Somali capital of Mogadishu has decreased alarmingly in the past months, according to the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). MSF is urgently calling upon all parties to the conflict to respect the need for medical staff to work unimpeded and for residents and displaced people in and around Mogadishu to have safe access to medical care.
Last May, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) opened a pediatric clinic for children under five in the Halwadag district of Mogadishu. Since then, the clinic has been extended and increasing numbers of children have been admitted for treatment. Now, however, an increase in insecurity is keeping many children from receiving care.
Geneva/New York, July 23, 2007 — Four months into the present crisis triggered by a major wave of violence in Somalia's capital city, Mogadishu, most of the 400,000 displaced people from there (398,000 according to the United Nations) have been unable to return to their homes and remain highly dependent on assistance provided by the few aid organizations present, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
It is with great sadness that MSF learned of the death of Ibrahim Abdi Isse, a hospital watchman for MSF in Beledweyne, who was killed while off duty. The tragic death of Ibrahim Abdi Isse is not linked to his activities with MSF. Sources indicate that the killing was the result of a personal dispute.
On April 17, 2007 MSF launched an emergency medical response in Afgooye, Lower Shabelle Region, about 30 kilometers west of Mogadishu. Due to insecurity in the area, MSF decided to dispatch a team of senior MSF Somali staff from Nairobi and the Dinsor Health Center to evaluate the needs of thousands of displaced people who poured into the town following major fighting in Mogadishu.
On Tuesday, June 5, a car with driver, hired by the international humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was involved in a shooting incident in Mogadishu, Somalia, which resulted in the driver of the rental car being killed, and one MSF staff member wounded.
In March and April 2007, heavy fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia, resulted in a large number of civilian casualties and thousands of people fleeing the capital. The following stories, gathered by MSF, come from people displaced from Mogadishu who arrived at MSF's hospital in South Galcayo in May.
People have been fleeing Mogadishu since the start of the clashes, but the last month has seen a real increase of people arriving in the Hiraan, Galgadud and Bay regions and also in Afgooye. We think that there are about 10 to 12,000 families who have fled to Afgooye from Mogadishu, with an average of 6 people per family. They're mostly women and children, there are very few men.
New York, April 24, 2007 – In the last weeks, tens of thousands of displaced Somalis have fled Mogadishu following a resurgence of violence affecting the capital city of Somalia, already home to many displaced people. This recent spell of violence has put on roads entire columns of people attempting to move to safer areas of the country such as Lower Shabelle region, Hiiraan region, Galguduud region, and Bay region.
New York, 11 April 2007 – Since cholera was confirmed in Mogadishu on March19, 2007, the international humanitarian medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has treated more than 800 patients. However the recent worsening violence is making it increasingly difficult for patients to access MSF's cholera treatment center (CTC), which opened two weeks ago. The fighting is also preventing MSF national staff from reaching other areas of the city.
On January 17, 2007, David Michalski, MSF head of mission in Somalia, delivered the following speech at the "Securing Somalia's Future: Options for Diplomacy, Assistance, and Security Engagement," conference on Somalia hosted by the Center for Strategic International Studies, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
Nairobi/Geneva, December 28, 2006—MSF is gravely concerned for the safety of our staff and patients following a serious incident occurring in an MSF medical facility in Dinsor (Bay region, Somalia) on December 27. After taking control of Dinsor, representatives of military forces entered the MSF medical facility, pressured the Somali medical staff employed by MSF, and confiscated all inpatient confidential medical files.
Heavy rains in the last few weeks have caused flooding of the Juba and Shebelle rivers in southern Somalia, bringing devastation to much of the riverside areas, and highly increasing the needs in one of the most densely populated regions in the country.
Nairobi, November 22, 2006 - Heavy rains over the last few weeks have caused flooding of the Juba and Shebelle rivers in southern Somalia, bringing devastation to much of the surrounding areas and aggravating humanitarian needs in one of the most densely populated regions in the country. Thousands of families have seen their homes destroyed and thousands more are displaced, including hundreds of families trapped in pockets of higher ground.
MSF took over responsibility for Istarlin Hospital in the town of Guri El in early 2006. Since then, 21 percent of the admissions to the hospital have been violence-related. Many of its beds are occupied by patients with disturbingly similar stories.
Anab Mohamud Mohamed is a Somali pharmacist who has been working with MSF in Somalia since 1997. In late June, and thanks to a special visa (Somalia is stateless and its citizens do not have valid passports to leave the country), she visited MSF's office in Barcelona where she shared her views about the situation in Somalia.
Since 1991, Somalia has been a state with no government. Fourteen years of conflict have left the country with enormous humanitarian needs and a high level of everyday violence. MSF was running health care projects in the capital, Mogadishu, as well as northern Somalia when war broke out, having begun working in the country in 1986.
Roda Musa lies on a bed, cradling her arm. Her flowing, colorful clothes are a stark contrast to the white plaster that covers her from hand to shoulder. She looks to be in her early twenties, but her face lines with anger when she explains why she has found herself surrounded by other Somali women in the trauma ward of the MSF-run Galkayo hospital in the north of the town.
It's like it's never going to end. Hundreds of women are walking single file into the huge compound, lining up at its remote end. They're all carrying children and they're all hoping for food. It's a scene that repeats itself every month in the tiny village of Istorte in Somalia's Bakool region. The women and children are here for the nutritional screening, hoping that they will qualify for extra food rations.
What started as a disagreement over prices in the market degenerated into a deadly battle because the two men involved were from rival clans. Some 18 people were killed and more than 37 injured in the resulting gunfight.
The continuing insecurity in many areas and a lack of international attention has resulted in a dearth of meaningful emergency assistance, leaving many desperate segments of society abandoned and all but forgotten. This is an interview with Colin McIlreavy, MSF head of mission in Somalia for the past year.
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Okay... confused. Doesn't the last picture show a 4G iPod being used with this dock?
Will a USB cable charge a 3G iPod using this dock?
Posted by Random iPodder on September 23, 2004 at 6:42 PM (PST)
Sorry about that - it was a sample photo using our 40GB 4G iPod, which actually was perched on top of the iCradle but not docked. Wasn't supposed to be posted, and has been removed because of the confusion factor. Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted by Jeremy Horwitz on September 23, 2004 at 7:02 PM (PST)
I'm sure he meant "20GB/40GB" 4G as opposed to "30GB/40GB"
Posted by Paolo on September 23, 2004 at 7:04 PM (PST)
Oh boy... Did you just call my iPod "Legacy," Jeremy?
*Sigh*... Time to upgrade.
Posted by Jerrod H. in TX on September 23, 2004 at 7:05 PM (PST)
Paolo: ?
Jerrod: Sorry. For what it's worth, I'm still without a personal 4G iPod ever since my two were defective...
Posted by Jeremy Horwitz on September 23, 2004 at 7:19 PM (PST)
I just want a dock which I can put my 3g 20GB iPod in, whilst it's skin is still on it. Is that too much to ask!
Posted by Pete on September 23, 2004 at 11:53 PM (PST)
Global Source http://www.glblsrc.com has a dock similar to this for only $29.99.
Posted by deal on September 24, 2004 at 3:05 AM (PST)
Somehow, the $40 charge for the Apple dock for my 4G iPod is (so far) too much, as all I need it for is the low level inputs to send to my home stereo, and maybe as a charging stand.
The $35 price of the iCradle dock is better, but it still needs a pass through Dock Connector for the cables that come with iPod (power issue), and it needs to be 4G compatible. This bit of engineering can't be _that_ hard, can it?
Posted by FloydC on September 24, 2004 at 7:11 AM (PST)
The $29.99 Global Source iPod Dock is compatible with iPOD 4G 20GB.
Posted by deal on September 24, 2004 at 7:59 AM (PST)
The angle that the ipod rests at when docked seems too steep compared to the Apple one.
Infact the Apple ipod dock is too steep, you have to lower your head to see the LCD properly if your not using the backlight. The steep angle causes hand strain when you operate the controls while docked too.
Mobile phone desk chargers (like the ones by sony-ericsson) are much better in this regard
Posted by dp on September 24, 2004 at 9:16 AM (PST)
Is it only me who would want to use a dock for reloading (or just simply not running my ipod from batteries) while having it connected to to a stereo for listening?
I don't necessarily need it synced, and btw I can't even play music from the ipod mini while it's connected to the computer and I suppose it's like that for all mini users.. I think that would be a huge problem for a dock intended to be connected to an external hifi system.
Or is there a way to connect a power supply to this dock, that wouldn't involve connecting it to a computer?
Posted by David N on September 24, 2004 at 9:56 AM (PST)
Or is there a way to connect a power supply to this dock, that wouldn't involve connecting it to a computer?
All you need is the Apple's Firewire A/C Wall charger to connect to the Firewire cable included to the dock.
Posted by deal on September 24, 2004 at 10:02 AM (PST)
The Global Source dock includes Two free cables: Firewire and USB 2.0 cables
But the two cables cannot be used at the same time.
Posted by deal on September 24, 2004 at 10:05 AM (PST)
It says the Global Source is for Windows PC's only- is this true?
Posted by LukasMcKnight in All Over on September 24, 2004 at 10:15 AM (PST)
The USB 2.0 Cable is used for Windows PC only for data synching, NOT power charging. The Firewire Cable included is for Charging and Synching and can work in Windows PC if you have a Firewire port /card installed.
Posted by deal on September 24, 2004 at 10:23 AM (PST)
Pacific Rim has updated us on a few items and we have modified the article to reflect their new pricing as of today, and their new packaging and marketing claims. The company also is offering free shipping to iPodlounge users through October 13, 2004 with code IPODLOUNGE through the Pacific Rim web site.
Posted by Jeremy Horwitz on September 24, 2004 at 11:19 AM (PST)
If I don't have a dock for my 4G 20 gig, what would someone recommend for a dock?
Posted by LukasMcKnight in All Over on September 24, 2004 at 6:21 PM (PST)
In response to what someone about the angle, Buy an IR or RF remote; it saves alot of hassle that you speak of.
They are cheap and in most stores, however the rf (http://www.engineeredaudio.com) you will probably have to order.
Overall I'm impressed with Pacific Rim's products, and glad to know they care, however they really should consider including a firewire cable for us mac users (and some pc too)
Posted by Ipoddinatah on September 25, 2004 at 11:26 AM (PST)
Just to let everyone knows that Global Source dock with FREE USB 2.0 and Firewire cables http://www.glblsrc.com/shop/customer/product.php?productid=16252 is being sold for $26.99 SHIPPED! Global Source is running a 10% off promo discount on all items.
Posted by deal on September 25, 2004 at 12:28 PM (PST)
where do you put coupon codes in at the pacific rim website? they want to charge me 42 bucks to ship to aus and id want at least some discount - thats more than the actual unit..... but i cant find the coupon code section
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