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You could also try baking the patties rather than cooking them in a skillet. These are great in the summer with fresh sweet corn, but frozen works fine too.
1 1/2 cups fresh corn kernels (about 3 ears)
1 cup chopped onion
1 teaspoon minced fresh or 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1 (19-ounce) can chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed and drained
1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs
3 tablespoons cornmeal, divided
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
Cooking spray
Heat 1 tablespoon water in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add corn, onion, and thyme; sauté 2 minutes. Place onion mixture, chickpeas, breadcrumbs, 2 tablespoons cornmeal, salt, and red pepper in a food processor. Pulse 2 times or until combined and chunky.
Divide chickpea mixture into 4 equal portions, shaping each into a 1/2-inch-thick patty; dredge patties in 1 tablespoon cornmeal. Heat a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Add patties; cook 5 minutes. Carefully turn patties over; cook 5 minutes or until golden.

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Navarro's homer leads Cubs against Giants
MESA, Ariz. -- Jeff Samardzija was able to avoid getting hit by a comebacker Sunday. Matt Cain wasn't as lucky.
Cain took a shot off his right leg and was limited to one inning in the Giants' 4-3 loss to the Cubs.
Alfonso Soriano lined a single off Cain's leg in the first. Soriano's hit loaded the bases with one out, and Nate Schierholtz then grounded out to first, driving in a run. Dioner Navarro followed with a three-run homer to open a 4-0 lead. Cain was pulled after the one inning.
"It's part of the game. You hope you get out of the way," said Cain, who was not expected to miss his next outing.
Francisco Peguero doubled with two outs in the Giants' first and scored on Guillermo Quiroz's single off Samardzija. Pablo Sandoval hit an RBI double in the third and Quiroz added a sacrifice fly in the fourth to make it 4-3.
Samardzija was able to work his fastball and split but called his slider "garbage." He'll try to get a feel for that in his next start.
"The slider last year was key for me," said the right-hander, who is entering his second full season as a starter. "To be pulling it in and leaving it up high was unfortunate but it's first time out. It's a big pitch for me."
He also showed his quick reflexes, dodging a shot from Quiroz in the second. Teammate Darwin Barney hit a comebacker at Samardzija during a live batting-practice session at Fitch Park before games began.
"Both of them were about as close as they get," Samardzija said. "I got out of there in proper time. Apparently, the coaches in Spring Training said, 'Stay up the middle' with these hitters. Cain took a couple up the middle and I did, too. It's part of the fun. You have to be on your toes and ready to go."
Samardzija did field a hard-hit comebacker by Kensuke Tanaka in the first. Navarro went out to talk to his pitcher after Quiroz's single nearly clipped Samardzija.
"After the second time, I went out there and asked him where the magnet was," Navarro said.
Up next: Carlos Villanueva will make his Cubs debut Monday when the team travels to Glendale to face the Dodgers. Villanueva is projected for the Cubs' bullpen but may start depending on the health of Matt Garza and Scott Baker. Also slated to make the trip are Luis Valbuena, Nate Schierholtz, Junior Lake and Welington Castillo. The game will be broadcast on Cubs.com.


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Yesterday our lunch was Cabbage Rolls (Malfouf). Today We had Cabbage Soup. Within few days I will have this wonderful cabbage salad.ReplyDelete
Cabbage has great health benefits!
I love cabbage salad, it looks delicious!!!ReplyDelete
Have a great day:)
Wow...love that color....ReplyDelete
Healthy and what a colorful salad..ReplyDelete
Parece una ensalada muy rica :) Se ve apetecible. BesosReplyDelete
So pretty and am partial to red cabbage - it's a winter salad!ReplyDelete
delicious and healthy salad...ReplyDelete
colorful,tasty n healthy cabbage salad :)ReplyDelete
Lovely salad !! Looks refreshing !!ReplyDelete
nice color.....healthy saladReplyDelete
lovely!! easy to make as well......will i try it?? a definite YES!ReplyDelete
Quick and yummy...ReplyDelete
really beautiful...very vibrant......tasty salad.ReplyDelete
What an awesome and colorful looking preparation.ReplyDelete
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healthy salad and colourfulReplyDelete
Wonderful simple cabbage recipe and I can't get enough of looking at the pic.ReplyDelete
Love that you used red cabbage for this - the colour is so beautiful.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing this at Cookbook Sundays.
Sue :-)
Wooh!! I'm all blown away by this beautiful-looking, super-healthy salad!! This one is a must try. :)ReplyDelete
delicious salad,love the colourful salad...ReplyDelete
What an easy salad recipe. I often buy a cabbage and only use half of it then don't know what to do with the rest. Thanks for the inspiration.ReplyDelete
healthy and very beautiful saladReplyDelete
delicious salad!!ReplyDelete
What a glorious colour! Lovely.ReplyDelete
Your cabbage salad looks beautiful just like rose petals and it would be tasty too.ReplyDelete
Great Salad Recipe....ReplyDelete
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Such great color in this salad! Thanks for sharing it with Souper Sundays. ;-)ReplyDelete
Nice red cabbage dish, looks lovely.ReplyDelete
Delicious salad and I am a big fan of cabbages.ReplyDelete
looks super yummy & inviting..;)ReplyDelete
You mentioned any kind of cabbage but I want to get the same type you have used...I love the color. Will be great for Valentine's dinner date at home. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
looks so healthy & colourfulReplyDelete
I've got to try this... I'm sure we';ll love this salad.ReplyDelete
First I thought these are Beets, Will try this Red Cabbage Salad in your way..ReplyDelete
Yum! Yum! Yum!
How pinky !!! I was so confused about the vegetable...!!!beautifulReplyDelete
I love red cabbage and often make it the "German" way. Your recipe is similar in some ways (the sweet and sour), but it's the addition of the chilli that intrigues me!ReplyDelete
Love how delicious and healthy that salad is! And the color is perfect for Valentine's! :)ReplyDelete
Happy Valentine's Day to you, Akheela!
I love salad using cabbage! This is very simple to make and using red cabbage is a nice idea!ReplyDelete
I love the cabbage colour and the salad. purple colour is attracting much.ReplyDelete
Hi Akheela, happy valentine day.ReplyDelete
Your salad look good and tempting.
I don't know why I only make cabbage salad in the summer...yours looks wonderful!ReplyDelete
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What a beautiful salad...love the color!ReplyDelete
Happy Valentines Day to you and your family :)
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This cabbage salad looks great...like that you place them in a boiling water...beautiful color as well.ReplyDelete
Happy Valentine's Day :)
Dutch people love their red cabbage. They usually buy them premade from a jar or from the freezer. They should try your recipe. I bet they will never by it premade again!ReplyDelete
Happy Valentine's day!
Rica ensalada y además muy sana, me quedo con la receta con tu permiso para hacerla algún día, saludosReplyDelete
What a nice easy way to cook cabbage!ReplyDelete
Masha ALLAH! what lovely salad! love its beautiful colour too. very handy when time is too scarce..ReplyDelete
Delicious and so healthy, lovely salad recipe!ReplyDelete
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I love red cabbage with fish. u r salad inspired me to try something out! thx for sharing
This looks awesome--great flavors!ReplyDelete
Very tasty salad and so pretty in the deep purple..for a second I thought that you used beets to get that beautiful color! Well done!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness this is so pretty. The colour just pops. That's amazing.ReplyDelete
There is nothing more refreshing than a cabbage salad.ReplyDelete
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Chris Froome wins time trial to extend Tour de France lead
Last updated on .From the section Cycling
Britain's Chris Froome won Wednesday's Tour de France time trial by nine seconds from Alberto Contador to tighten his grip on the yellow jersey.
Contador is now Froome's closest rival in the overall standings, but trails the Team Sky rider by four minutes 34 seconds with four stages left.
A mid-stage switch from a road bike to a time-trial model proved crucial as Froome triumphed over the 32km run.
Joaquim Rodriguez was third while Bauke Mollema lost more than two minutes.
Dutch Belkin rider Mollema started the day as the nearest rider to Froome in the general classification, but is now fourth, more than six minutes adrift.
"Visiting the podium three times was just incredible," said Froome, who has also won stages on Mont Ventoux and in the Pyreenes.
"I'm really happy with the result from today. I wanted to hold back a little bit for the days ahead and I was actually prepared to lose a little bit of time, so I'm quite surprised I won the stage."
After beating the other contenders for the yellow jersey by about two minutes in the Tour's other time trial at Mont St Michel, Froome had been expected to extend his lead on stage 17, between Embrun and Chorges.
But his rivals may be content that the 28-year-old Briton is still just about within range with the traditional last-day procession to Paris leaving them only three competitive stages to attack the leader.
Froome's third stage win of this year's Tour came courtesy of a combination of powerful riding and canny strategy.
With two category-two climbs on a twisting, technical route, most riders opted to stay on their usual road bicycles rather than swap to the time-trial specific machines that help their aerodynamics on straighter, flatter stretches.
Race rules, however, allow riders to change bikes at any point and Froome's decision to take a time-trial model from his team's support car for the final 12km descent proved wise.
Despite contending with drizzle on the upper slopes, he was able to make up 20 seconds on Contador, who remained on his normal bike.
Contador's Saxo-Tinkoff team-mate Roman Kreuziger climbed into third in the overall standings, four minutes 51 adrift of Froome, by finishing the stage in fourth.
Colombian Nairo Quintana reinforced his position as the race's best young rider by taking sixth place, while 2010 winner Andy Schleck returned to form, descending well to finish 15th in his unfavoured discipline.
However Jean-Christophe Peraud, the highest ranked Frenchman in the general classification coming into the day's stage, was forced to abandon the race after fracturing a collarbone on a morning reconnaissance ride and then falling on the same joint as he struggled in the afternoon.
Froome's bid to succeed compatriot Sir Bradley Wiggins as overall champion will be tested again on Thursday as the field climb Alpe d'Huez twice in the centrepiece stage on the 100th edition of the Tour.
But he believes that race organisers should shorten the stage if the thunderstorms, which are forecast, strike.
"I think it would be sad not to do the planned parcours and the two ascents of Alpe d'Huez as it's something special to go along with the 100th Tour de France," he said.
"But having said that, safety definitely comes first. It's a dangerous descent but if it starts raining I would hope the race organisers make the decision to make it just one climb. The safety of riders has to come first.
"I completely understand that at the end of the day all the riders will be in the same conditions.
"If we have to do the dangerous descent in the wet we'll be up for it. Everyone is in the same boat as us in that regard. I just hope that it is not going to come to that."
Results of stage 16:
1. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) 51:33"
2. Alberto Contador (Spain/Saxo- Tinkoff) +9"
3. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain/Katusha) +10"
4. Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic/Saxo-Tinkoff) +23"
5. Alejandro Valverde (Spain/Movistar) +30"
6. Nairo Quintana (Colombia/Movistar) +1:11"
7. Michal Kwiatkowski (Poland/Omega Pharma-Quick-Step) +1:33"
8. Jakob Fuglsang (Denmark/Astana) +1:34"
Overall standings after stage 16:
1. Chris Froome (Britain/Team Sky) 66:07:09"
2. Alberto Contador (Spain/Saxo-Tinkoff) +4:34"
3. Roman Kreuziger (Czech Republic/Saxo-Tinkoff) +4:51"
4. Bauke Mollema (Netherlands/Belkin) +6:23"
5. Nairo Quintana (Colombia/Movistar) +6:58"


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My refund is a lot smaller than the average amount but I'm probably going to spend it on getting my car up and running smoothly again. It has a couple little things that need repairs and it's the perfect time to do it.
According to the IRS, the average tax refund for the 2012 filing season is $2,899. Although that amount is nearly $100 less than we received in 2011, it's still nothing to shake a stick at.
Who couldn't use $3,000, right? But in order for that fast cash to make a difference, you must use it wisely.
Before you get too excited and start burning through a check you don't even have yet, consider these responsible ways — an extension of last year's post on 8 Smart Things to Do With Your Tax Refund — to help manage your personalized stimulus package. (See also: What If I Skip My Taxes This Year?)
We're always fixing little things around the house — a squeaky door, a leaky faucet, that light bulb that always burns out — but not many of us think of the bigger picture when it comes to home improvements. When you receive your refund this year, concentrate on the long-term sustainability of your home instead of the quick fixes. Upgrading to energy-efficient appliances, installing solar panels, and building a garden are all great ways to add value to your property while preparing it for the future. The money you'll start saving on heating, cooling, and grocery bills won't hurt either. Don't forget to stretch your dollar even more by DIYing the improvements (you do not need to hire someone to plant tomatoes in your back yard!) and searching for the best prices possible on eco-friendly supplies.
On one of the last days of class at the end of my senior year in college, I remember one of my professors asking us to reflect on the time and money we spent on our education. He asked us if we would have done it all over again given the circumstances. Emphatically, I said yes! That is, until I got the bill. I'm being facetious, of course — I wouldn't trade my college experience for anything — but I wouldn't be opposed to a generous benefactor (anyone out there?) paying off my loans; despite the financial aid I received, the cost was still unbelievable. Alas, until the day comes when a rich person who's put me in their will kicks it, I have to send out a check every month to avoid financial ruin. Thus, I take every chance I get to send the bank extra money in order to pay off my debt off sooner — and so should you.
One of the great parts of a windfall payday like a tax refund is that you can finally afford big-ticket items. That doesn't mean you should book yourself an all-expenses paid vacation, however. Use this opportunity to pick up an expensive item that you need around the house, like a new vacuum cleaner, washer and dryer, or computer. There's nothing wrong with dropping decent coin on something that will somehow make your life a little easier. If you're a small business owner buying items you'll use for work, keep the receipt. Next year that purchase will qualify as a deduction, so you definitely don't want to miss out on that.
We all know that credit cards are a no-no, but sometimes they're a necessary evil when we're in a bind. If you've racked up the charges on your plastic this past year, by all means try to eliminate that debt. By consistently brushing off what you owe, you're incurring late fees that are driving up the amount you're required to pay back while also hurting your credit score, which can affect your ability to buy a home, car, or anything else for which you'll need a loan. Just pay it off and be done with it — if only so your phone will stop ringing.
I know some of you are going to laugh at this, brush it off, and call me a kook — but you'll be sorry when the zombie apocalypse begins and you're not prepared. That's a bit tongue-in-cheek, of course, but really, how prepared are you for disasters? The walking dead aside, crisis can strike at any moment, whether it be from Mother Nature or man made, and it's not a bad idea to at least pick up the essential survival tools that one needs to make it through a week or so inside the home (or, worse, on foot) without running water, the ability to find fresh foods, or access to technology. My go-to survival-tool source is Ready America. Its prepacked bags contain everything you'll need to stay alive at an affordable price. You can thank me for the tip when we get to the zombie refugee camp.
Like with those school loans, it's always beneficial when you can send in extra cash on whatever outstanding debts you have (such as a car loan or mortgage). But car payments and mortgages notwithstanding, there are plenty more of life's necessities that need TLC — tender, loving cash. If you're on the hunt for a new job, don't be afraid to splurge on an interview outfit that makes you look like you mean business; the Shop It to Me blog recently published helpful advice from frugal fashionistas that will have you looking your best without going broke. For those of you with kids, well, they always need money for something; there's no time like the present to stash a bit away for a rainy day.
This may seem like a frivolous purchase — and in some regards it is — but a cell phone upgrade isn't all for pleasure. Because of my iPhone, I'm able to get infinitely more work done while I'm on the go than I would if I had one of the ancient models I used to have (remember the Motorola Razr? So primitive in hindsight). I can check and respond to e-mails, start writing new posts in the Notes, and plan my meetings, all which give me more time to concentrate when I'm back in the office. Plus, smartphones have an excellent resale value. Since I switched to an iPhone upon its launch, I have always sold the previous model for the price I pay for the latest version when I upgrade. Zero money out of pocket is my favorite kind of buy.
Trust me, I know that saving your tax refund and letting it sit in an invisible vault isn't as satisfying as handing over dead presidents to a bartender in a tropical locale, but your self-control will pay off in the long run. To make yourself feel better about your very-adult-but-no-fun-at-all decision, assign the money you're putting in the savings account toward something tangible. Maybe it's a new car, a down payment on a home, or another large purchase that will improve your life. When you have a goal to reach and a reason to send that money someplace you can't see it, you feel better in the short term about how being responsible totally sucks sometimes.
Tell me — what do you plan to do with your tax refund? Make it good, and let me know in the comments below.
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My refund is a lot smaller than the average amount but I'm probably going to spend it on getting my car up and running smoothly again. It has a couple little things that need repairs and it's the perfect time to do it.
I'm in the military, and I can tell you that those survival kits are a joke. It makes me question the sense and creditability of this article's writer. Only someone who was born and raised in the city would consider that a good idea. If a major disaster strikes the U.S., it would appear that many of us are doomed.


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Paul Kingsnorth's impressive and heartfelt essay traces the evolution of modern environmental thought and practice through the prism of his personal experience (see Paul Kingsnorth, "Confessions of a recovering environmentalist", 16 August 2010). I was struck by how closely this experience matches the trajectory of a book I first published in 1990 called Green Political Thought and which has been through three more editions since.
I don't know what Paul Kingsnorth was reading at university when he came across "ecocentrism" and "green political thought" and "felt [my] mind levering itself open", but it's just possible that he read Green Political Thought - or something very much like it. In any case, recalling the life of that book might be useful in reflecting on the larger themes that Kingsnorth raises about the limits of "environmentalism" and the future of ways of living on the planet.
In the book I tried to describe and assess what seemed to me at the time to be a new political ideology to set alongside all the more familiar ones such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, anarchism, and fascism.
I called this ideology "ecologism". I regarded it as a separate and new ideology because it could not be "contained" in and by any of the others without changing them in a fundamental way. I contrasted ecologism with "environmentalism", which I regarded as a managerial approach to environmental problems and which could comfortably be accommodated by the traditional ideologies. So you could be a socialist environmentalist, but you couldn't be a socialist political ecologist.
Every ideology has something at its heart that it can only give up at the cost of giving up its distinctiveness as an ideology. For socialists it's equality, for liberals it's freedom, and for conservatives it's something like tradition, or honouring the past.
At the heart of ecologism, as I saw it in 1990, there were two non-negotiable ideas: limits to growth, and the one Kingsnorth refers to - ecocentrism. Limits to growth is the recognition that we have only one planet, that it's of finite size, and so aspirations of unlimited economic growth (largely unquestioned by other ideologies) are unrealistic.
Ecocentrism is the belief that the non-human natural world has value irrespective of whether it's useful for human beings or not. Kingsnorth comments on the notion: "This word crystallised everything I had been feeling for years. I had no idea that there were words for it or that other people felt it too, or had written intimidating books about it". The idea made sense of his enduring refusal to believe "that humans were the centre of the world, that the Earth was their playground..."
So in 1990, ecocentrism was a key component of the newest ideological kid on the block: ecologism. As the years have gone by I have been asked to update Green Political Thought and it's now in its fourth edition. With each edition I have had to ask myself the same question: what is it that makes ecologism different from other political ideologies? The answer always depends to some degree on "ideas themselves", but it also depends on how many people hold those ideas. So a proper answer rests on a complex relationship between there being such a thing as "ecocentrism" and people actually subscribing to it.
The fourth edition was published in 2007 and by then - like Paul Kingsnorth - I was no longer so sure that ecocentrism was at the non-negotiable heart of ecologism. This wasn't because ecocentrism (as idea) didn't exist any more, but because environmentalists didn't seem talk about it so much. Just as Kingsnorth says, the sound of ecocentrism has been drowned out by the sound of pragmatic environmentalism. So while Kingsnorth might have felt himself in the vanguard twenty years ago, he's now fighting in the rearguard, desperately nurturing what he sees as the true flame of the movement from which he now feels so estranged.
And yet … and yet …
Are things really as bleak as Kingsnorth says? He offers us two extremes - ecocentrism or cornucopianism. His claim is that many in the environmental movement have joined the cornucopians by embracing a "save-the-world-with windfarms narrative". Kingsnorth characterises this as business-as-usual without the carbon. But this group is much more differentiated than Kingsnorth gives credit. There may indeed be a few who want a world exactly the same in all respects as the one we have now, but with fossil-fuels replaced by windfarms and solar-panels. But I suspect there are many more who are well aware that a low-carbon world will also be a low-energy world. Of necessity, human impact on the environment in this low-energy world will be lighter than it is at the moment, and that should please Kingsnorth a little.
This "energy descent" will be politically and socially perilous - there will be winners and losers, and history shows that in transitions of this sort it is nearly always the weak and vulnerable who suffer most. This is why the "environmental justice" of which Kingsnorth speaks so disparagingly is not an optional extra but an absolutely necessary feature of any commitment to a progressive transition to a low-energy world. If you want a presage of what the transition will be like without justice, look at Pakistan and Russia in these days of mid-summer 2010. One is inundated, with around 14 million people suffering dislocation at best and death at worst; the other burns in temperatures topping 40 degrees C, razing huge parts of Siberia. The rich suffer mild discomfort in times of stress and change, while the poor and vulnerable have no way out.
The real question
So the choice is not so much between ecocentrism and cornucopianism as between a hard landing or a soft landing on the shores of a low-energy future. Kingsnorth is right that our chances of making a soft landing will be improved if we can plug into his "emotional reaction to wild places and the other-than-human world". But he sets the bar too high and makes this reaction seem too difficult to achieve. This is very common in ecocentrics. The so-called "father of deep ecology", Arne Naess, lived on a Norwegian mountainside and it sometimes seemed as though he believed this isolation was a precondition for nurturing the right sensibility. Kingsnorth had his epiphany after boating up rivers in Borneo by moonlight - a "two-month immersion in something raw and unmediated". If this is what has to happen for us to reconnect, then we surely are in deep trouble.
Fortunately, it's not like that. Most people have a much lower nature tolerance than Kingsnorth, so we need less exposure to nature to get the same hit as he does. This is good news: I can see something worth protecting just about everywhere, and not only where nature is at its wildest.
So I don't believe the rift between Paul Kingsnorth and the rest of us to be as wide and deep as he makes out. But we need to recalibrate the question. It's not about nature's intrinsic value but about the human species adapting to a long era of low-energy living. This, I think, is where recovering environmentalists will meet - not (just) on the rivers of Borneo or in the mountains of Norway, but everywhere the human species is powering down to a potentially quieter, more restrained way of life. The challenge then will not be protecting nature alone, but protecting the weak and vulnerable of all species - humans included - as we embark on the energy descent.
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The government will in next three weeks decide on the pricing of spectrum that will be sold in the second round of auction beginning March 11, Telecom Minister Kabil Sibal said on Tuesday.
The auction, he said, will be completed before March-end.
The Supreme Court yesterday allowed mobile phone operators, whose permits were due to be revoked this week as per an earlier court order, to continue service until it hears the case next on February 4.
It asked the government to explain the price these companies will have to pay for spectrum usage since cancellation of their licenses in February last year.
The Department of Telecommunications had urged the court to allow companies to operate until the next airwave auction.
Mr. Sibal termed the apex court order as "positive" and said all the spectrum pricing issues will be decided before February 4, when the apex court will again hear the matter.
"I think it's a positive sign and I am sure that just as the previous auction process was completed without any problem the new auctions will also be completed within the time-frame and before the end of March," Mr Sibal told reporters in New Delhi.
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) headed by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram had last week recommended reducing minimum price for sale of spectrum used by CDMA mobile operators and the unsold airwaves of first round by up to 50 per cent.
The government is likely to raise Rs. 45,000 crore from the second round of spectrum sale that is scheduled to start from March 11.
About 70 per cent of the airwaves went unsold in the November auction that raised Rs. 9,410 crore, less than 25 per cent of the amount the government was targeting to raise from spectrum sale this fiscal.
"The Supreme Court order extending the date from January 18 to February 4 is reflective of the fact that we have fully explained as to how we have move forward in the previous auction and how we are moving forward in the next auction to ensure that an appropriate procedure has been set in place and to give the operators a chance of buying spectrum," Mr. Sibal said.
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Weavers Mennonite Church (Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA)
Weavers Mennonite Church (Mennonite Church), located 2½ miles west of Harrisonburg, Virginia, on the Rawley Pike in the Middle District of the Virginia Mennonite Conference, was the largest congregation in the conference in the late 1950s. The congregation was first known as the Burkholder church because of the part played by Bishop Peter Burkholder in the early 19th century in building the meetinghouse. Later Samuel Weaver bought and occupied land west of the church. He became its lifelong sexton and in time the church was called Weavers after him. The first meetinghouse, built in 1827, was a small log church covered with weatherboards, which stood broadside to the highway. It was replaced in 1881 and again in 1941, this time on the south side of Rawley Pike, built of native limestone. The first church was used by Union soldiers in the Civil War as a camping place. Cuts or scars made by the spurs worn by the soldiers on the long open pulpit indicated that it was used as a sleeping bunk.
Two schoolhouses have stood on the church grounds; one was built by the Mennonites, the other later by the county.
The first session of the Virginia Conference was held here in 1835. John S. Coffman held the first series of revival meetings in the Virginia Conference at Weavers in 1888.
Since 1900 the Weavers church has served as the center of the Harmonia Sacra singing movement in the Shenandoah Valley; more than fifty annual singings have been held here on New Year's Day.
In 1958 Oliver Keener and Isaac Risser were serving as pastors of the church, with D. W. Lehman as bishop and a membership of 302.
In 2014 the church was served by Ministers Regina Slabach Brubaker, Jay Michael Harnish, and Philip C. Kanagy. Membership was 315.
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Washington, DC – Justin Peters made 26 saves for his second career shutout and the Carolina Hurricanes beat the Washington Capitals, 4-0, in the opener of a home-and-home series.
Riley Nash had two goals for the Hurricanes, who have won two straight and six of seven. Patrick Dwyer and Joe Corvo also lit the lamp.
"It's a lot of fun just to get an opportunity to play in this league and every time I get an opportunity, I want to try and take advantage of it," Peters said. "We played an awesome game tonight as a team right from the drop of the puck, right to the last buzzer. That was a total group effort tonight and a huge confidence booster for us."
Braden Holtby stopped 32-of-35 shots for the Capitals, who have lost three in a row.
Corvo got Carolina's offense going at the 3:55 mark of the first period. He was near the boards when his shot along the goal line hit Holtby in the back and went in.
Nash scored a pair of goals in the middle stanza to increase the Hurricanes' margin to three.
At the 5:55 mark, Nash deflected Jay Harrison's shot from along the left boards, and with 1:34 left, Dwyer nullified an icing call and found Nash in the slot to make it 3-0.
Dwyer added an empty-net goal late in the third period to account for the final margin.
"We had a lot of good scoring chances," Capitals forward Matt Hendricks said. "Ovie [Alex Ovechkin] and Marcus [Johansson] and Ribs [Mike Ribero] came out and we had a lot of good movement in the beginning. We had some more in the second; [Troy] Brouwer got a shorthanded breakaway. We just couldn't find the net tonight."
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These two teams will play Thursday at Carolina ... Washington defenseman Tom Poti missed the game with an upper-body injury ... The Capitals recalled defenseman Cameron Schilling from Hershey of the AHL. He made his NHL debut.


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The "Mountain Area" of Steamboat Springs is just what it implies. These are the neighborhoods in the closest proximity to the Steamboat Ski Area. If you enjoy being just a few blocks away from your hot tub after a long day on the slopes, or if you are looking for a vacation property that will generate good nightly rental income, the mountain area is the place for you.
The classic real estate adage is, "location, location, location," and that holds true for mountain area real estate as with any other. With a wide variety of property around our world-class ski resort, it's no wonder why this neighborhood is in such high demand—the backyard here is really something to see!
The easy access to Steamboat Springs Champagne Powder makes first tracks a given on big snowfall mornings. Furthermore, the mountain area offers a wide variety of year-round activities ranging from World Cup ski events, professional mountain bike races and a fantastic lineup of concerts all surrounded by dozens of restaurants and local boutiques.
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Everett E. Lowry began his career as a newspaper strip artist in the beginning of the twentieth century. He created the comic 'Peg Leg Pete' for The Philadelphia Inquirer' in 1903, and a year later the title was changed to 'Barnacle Bill'. The McClure Syndicate, for which Lowry worked, renamed it 'Poor Ol' Robinson Crusoe' in 1909, after which it ran until 1911 - at first drawn by Lowry, later taken over by an unknown artist. The cast of the strip is always the same: the crew of a ship, composed by Barnacle Bill, Bunk, Captain Peg Leg Pete, Ol1 Walrus, a parrot, a monkey named Davy Jones, etc. The name "Barnacle Bill" was inspired by "Binnacle Jim", the leading character of an old series of English sea ballads, many of them particularly bawdy.
Other titles by Everett Lowry are: 'Pete the Monkey' (1903), 'Man with an Elephant' (1905), 'Bub, He's Always To Blame' (1906), 'Professor Fakem' (1907), 'And His Name Is Mister Bones' (1914) and 'Hippo and the Monks' (1904).


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The North Koreans and the Iranians have joined the international effort to defend earth against the alien spaceships.
The North Koreans had been reluctant to work with the U.S. and the west in defending our planet against the approaching aliens ships from Planet Gootan. But yesterday, the North Koreans said that their army is mobilized and ready to fight the Gootans.
Supreme Leader Kim Jong il told Vladmir Putin, who has taken charge of global Alien Defense Systems, that his armies, weaponry and missiles are all available to be used against the aliens. Kim Jong il went further and wanted to take the reins and lead the effort, but after speaking to Hu Jintao of China, Jong il was satisfied to take a supporting role.
"The North Koreans have the best army on this planet and we are the best able to fight any aliens," Jong il told Putin on a conference call heard by WWN.
The mainstream media around the world continue to coverup this story and they continue to scrub the internet of all stories related to the alien attack. WWN repeatedly has to re-post and use our internal algorithms (which took us years to develop) to bypass the cyber attacks on our site.
After the North Koreans said they were ready to fight, the Iranians quickly joined in as well. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Putin that the Iranians would participate and, also said, that he was willing to take a leadership role in the defense of the planet.
Both the Iranians and the North Koreans fired test missiles in advance of the attack.
The Americans and Europeans were skeptical of the involvement of the North Koreans and Iranians, but there is no other choice. If the alien spaceships land near North Korean or Iran – or near those countries – the world needs those countries to work with the global community. If they don't the whole world could be vulnerable.
Banesh Bannerjee of the U.N. Panel on Extraterrestrials was extremely pleased to learn that the Iranians and North Koreans are now "on board" with the global community. In fact, this is the first time in the history of the planet that every country on earth has agreed on any one proposal, or course of action.
"It's remarkable to see how simple it is to get every country to agree, when we have a common goal – a common enemy. This whole process has been enlightening."
Bannerjee said that he is hoping that it's not too little, too late. "We only have two days left before the attack. Let's hope the global community, under the leadership of Vladmir Putin, can put together a strong defense."
Meanwhile, President Obama played two more rounds of golf. Reportedly, he will be taken to his alien defense bunker on the 29th.
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Is it time to sue your mortgage lender?
Have you made your three mandatory trial loan modification payments but still have not been approved for a permanent loan mod? Do you believe your home was wrongfully foreclosed? Have you been approved for loan modification but have still been sent a foreclosure notice? Do you struggle day in and day out to communicate with your servicer or mortgage lender?
Perhaps it is time to think about suing your lender or servicer to finally get their attention.
While suing mortgage lenders and servicers over mortgage foreclosures and denied loan modifications is nothing new, it can work, but it will not be easy.
Before you decide to sue…
MaryLou Urrutria of The Grace Group advises that you persist with your lender before pulling the trigger on a lawsuit. "Be persistent with your bank if you really want to keep your house," she says. "Depending on your situation and value of your house in relation to your mortgage, you may want to fight for the modification."
If you have a second mortgage, your best bet may be to consolidate those products into one, says Urrutria. "If you are really upside down and have a second mortgage, negotiate a settlement on the second and if it has been sold to another servicer or collection agency, you may be able to settle for 1-3 percent of the balance of the second. Getting rid of the second mortgage may put your amount owed on your mortgage closer to the value of the house."
Help may already be on the way
One settlement between eight of the country's largest mortgage servicers and federal regulators has resulted in an agreement in which servicers have to hire independent firms to go through loans and look for improper procedures like robo-signing.
The actions also require each servicer to establish a process for borrowers who believe they have been financially harmed by such defects to make submissions to be considered for remediation. Each servicer must also submit a plan to compensate borrowers for errors, misrepresentations, or other deficiencies identified in the independent consultant's findings.
Trial payments do not guarantee a mod
Many lawsuits making their way through the courts these days claim that by denying modifications once the borrowers made three trial modification payments, that lenders are breaching contracts with homeowners. The lenders have countered that trial modifications are not contracts. Treasury Department officials agree, saying homeowners in HAMP trial plans are not promised permanent modifications. This claim has not paid off for anyone yet, despite the slew of law firms that have independently pursued it.
MERS cannot save your home either
In foreclosure litigation, the class action big guns have turned their attention to MERS filings--the Mortgage Electronic Registration System that keeps track of the ownership of many American mortgages. Most of these lawsuits center on the principle that the firm lacks standing to foreclose because it is not the true owner of the mortgages, or that the paperwork proving ownership has not been presented.
These suits have caused courts in some jurisdictions to require that the true owner of the mortgages do the foreclosing, not MERS. In some cases, these suits cause a delay in foreclosure proceedings--but no one yet has gotten their house back because of a MERS issue.
Class action lawsuits have had little success
While an online search turns up plenty of class action filings, they have mostly been dismissed or are not yet resolved. Experts attribute this overall lack of big class action success in the courts thus far to the fact that the plaintiffs bring rather basic claims, such as "I made my trial payments on time and I still have not been approved for a loan modification."
Individual cases have had more success
That said, the home affordable modification program (HAMP) and foreclosure lawsuits that have been successful are exactly those kinds of claims--brought by individual homeowners alleging bad faith by lenders in courts all across the country--from US Bank Natl. Assn. v Alejandra Padilla in New York, to the Small Claims case in Big Bear City, Calif., in which homeowner Dave Graham successfully sued Bank of America all by himself.
How to win a foreclosure or modification battle in court
Storm Bradford, of Mortgage Fraud Examiners, says if you are trying to get a mortgage modification or avoid foreclosure, you can make your own luck. Before going hat in hand to your lender, he advises you get a high-quality forensic evaluation of your mortgage. Irregularities in the loan origination process are common, particularly in the appraisal. Discovering these irregularities puts you in a much better position to negotiate out of your mortgage difficulties.
"Nothing works like the lawsuit or the threat of a lawsuit" when dealing with a mortgage lender, he says. Want proof? "Check the language of a modification agreement--they always put an indemnity clause in there that keeps you from going after them if you discover something illegal or fraudulent--because there are things that are wrong in there, and they know it."
Beware of class-action scams
The Better Business Bureau is warning homeowners to be aware of the latest scam designed to get you to pay upfront mortgage assistance costs of as much as $5,000. This new crop of foreclosure and modification "help" is masking itself as the nation-wide "mass joinder" lawsuit against mortgage companies.
Homeowners receive letters promising a loan modification, foreclosure stoppage, cash settlement, lien stripping, or even free and clear title. Do not fall for this--it is merely a way for firms to get around the laws prohibiting the collection of upfront fees for mortgage modification help.
Talk to a lawyer
"I regularly meet clients who have been repeatedly denied mortgage modification requests, and are faced with foreclosure lawsuits initiated against them by their mortgage companies," says New Jersey attorney David Giller. "Most of these homeowners don't realize that a qualified attorney can help them in many ways."
Have you considered bankruptcy?
One final available weapon is a bankruptcy filing. "Although most homeowners are afraid of filing for bankruptcy, there are many solutions available through the bankruptcy laws which are not available in foreclosure defense," Giller says. "These solutions help get the clients the mortgage modification they desperately sought from their mortgage company in a far more efficient manner."
The original article can be found at HSH.com:Is it time to sue your mortgage lender?


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An eight-year-old Nanaimo boy died on the weekend after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle.
According to Nanaimo RCMP, the incident happened at about 11:40 a.m. on Sunday in the 1000 block of Nelson Street.
Police, firefighters and B.C. Ambulance responded to the scene and emergency first aid was rendered almost immediately by several Good Samaritans and first responders.
The injured child was transported to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital where he received emergency care by medical staff, but due to his injuries he was eventually pronounced dead.
A GoFundMe in support of the family has identified the boy as Linden Baglo.
Investigators obtained multiple statements and spoke with the driver of the truck who remained at the scene and co-operated with investigators. Officers were able to determine the boy, who was wearing a bike helmet, was with a sibling when he rode out of a driveway and collided with the truck, described as a F-350 pickup. Alcohol, speed and drugs are not believed to be contributing factors. The vehicle has been seized by investigators and will undergo a mechanical inspection.
Nanaimo RCMP Victim Services also attended the scene to assist the family and those involved.
As the boy was a student of School District 68, school district officials were notified. RCMP school liaison officers along with grief counsellors will be in place to assist with any students and staff impacted by the incident.
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These bystanders, who rendered first aid, departed before investigators could speak with them and investigators would like to speak with those people. Anyone with information about this incident or the names of the Good Samaritans is asked to contact the Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345.
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I suggest that you use cooked meat if not able to do kibble or mutton, cooked meat is just as effective with the thylo as prime meat.
More Thylacoleo Taming & KO Tips
I actually tamed one of these on accident. I had built a trap for taming a Trike and when searching for one to agro I got jumped at by a Thyla and freaked out and ran to my base but the beast just jumped right into my trap. After that it was easy to knock him out with my tranqs. I named him Cole btw, he was a great guy. But just like any story about your perfect pet on ark.... you lose them. We were on a metal run and I was taking him because he can jump far. When I saw some metal I got off and started hitting it but suddenly I got attacked by 3 terror birds and Cole jumped right off a cliff to catch one. Normally these guys can survive a fall but after saving me from the terror bird he had fallen into a swamp :( . Instantly he was ambushed by a Kapro and two Sarcos. He fought well and killed the first Sarco but in the end he died. I have a gravestone at my old base which reads " here lies a great frienship that came about by what seems to have been chance but was the invisible connection between him and his soon to be owner that would spend so much time together and still be protecting his beloved friend to his death." RIP Cole 😰😥😭
This valiant Thyla who life was so unfair to. I just wish I had more time to tell him how much he meant to me. 😟
(We love you Cole! :D)
You can use a snow owl's heat vision ablitiy to see thylas in trees!
Rip cole😢😢 A great Thyla who deserved better
I was upset the app doesn't have it listed in Fjördur, but Thylas are actually on the map. Let's try to get it updated!
They prefer cooked meat over raw. Don't waste your precious raw mutton, better cook it, as it tames faster and with higher efficiency.
Rip cole the thylacoleo u live god life 🙏 💔
Set a parasaur on turret mode and fly over redwoods carrying it with a flyer. Any of these things will get marked.
Rip Cole we thank thee for your service…🥺😔
Fly around on an argie while holding a parasaur on turret mode, the parasaur will sense it but make sure the thylacoleo can't reach you by flying high above so it hits the parasaur rather than you.
How To Tame A Thylacoleo:
1. Make a bear trap and crossbow with tranq arrows or a longneck with tranq darts
2. Go into the Redwoods on any map, DO NOT fly on anything because the Thylacoleo can jump out of trees and take out your flyer, on Scorched Earth it spawns pretty close to the Wyvern Trench, so be careful
3. Look for a decent Thyla, I'd recommend 145-150 you can usually find them chasing a Gallimimus
4. Place down a bear trap and lure the Thyla into the trap
5. Repeatedly shoot it in the head with whatever you're using to knock it out
6. Once it's knocked out, place COOKED meat in its inventory, it's the only creature that prefers cooked meat over raw. You can also use Extraordinary kibble, which is produced by Magmasaur, Yutyrannus, Deinonychus, Rock Drake, Wyverns and Hespornis(golden egg)
7. Name your new Thylacoleo! It provides a bleeding effect to any wild creature, it can also climb vertical surfaces and pounce on creatures, it's one of the best cave clearers out there!
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Fresno's Betsuin Buddhist Temple Finds the Right Balance with Line 6
The Fresno Betsuin Buddhist Temple Dharma Center's mission is to promote peace and tranquility throughout the world, so it comes as no surprise that they embraced an elegant yet high-tech approach to upgrading their AV systems. Working with local system designer Tim McFarland of American Music, the Dharma Center chose the new Line 6® StageScape M20d smart mixing system to bring improved quality and ease of use to their presentations.
"After learning their needs, I thought the StageScape M20d was a good fit for the Dharma Center," says American Music owner Tim McFarland. "The system offers all this great technology, but without a big learning curve, which is important since they don't have any professional guys on staff. When I described the system to them in one of our meetings, they thought it would be perfect, so we went for it."
The Line 6 StageScape M20d is a self-contained, touchscreen-driven digital mixing system for live sound that incorporates sophisticated DSP and dynamics/EQ processing, enabling the user to craft their sound through an elegant, intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). It also enables detailed manipulation of features like compression, reverb and delay through its Tweak mode, and offers feedback suppression, scene recall, and multi-track recording without additional hardware. This is made even more intuitive through a "Quick" tweak mode and X/Y pad, that through the movement of a finger across the screen towards a descriptive parameter, changes multiple parameters under the hood, leaving the user just to 'listen' for the desired setting. StageScape has 12 auto-sensing mic/line inputs, that really simplify setup, along with four additional line level balanced inputs and a stereo auxiliary input, which made it a good fit for the Dharma Center's needs.
Greg Tsudama, a member of the Dharma Center and professional IT manager, has taken on the role of primary audio-visual technician. "When Tim McFarland told us about the StageScape system, it really seemed to address a lot of the issues we'd been having with our old analog system," he confirms. "When the rep came down and did a demonstration for us, we could see how quick and easy it is to use the touchscreen and visual cues to manipulate the sound. It takes away a lot of the intimidation of all the knobs and dials that our previous system had."
The Dharma Center was also enthusiastic about having the ability to control StageScape remotely via one or more iPad® devices. "Because the temple keeps all its control equipment in a rack back in the office, having the full StageScape control surface accessible on an iPad was a key feature for them," says Tim McFarland.
The full project included several other component upgrades, including a video projection system, and the addition of secondary loudspeakers to improve intelligibility by reducing the room's strong natural reverberation. In addition, the temple's two outdated, single-channel wireless microphones were replaced with Line 6 XD-V75 digital systems, which operate in the license-free 2.4GHz band. "Again, my product recommendation was based on reliability and ease of use," McFarland explains. "The Line 6 wireless system was ideal for this situation, because it offers advanced technology in a very user-friendly package."
Services at the Dharma Center include both spoken word and music, and Greg Tsudama is enthusiastic about improvements resulting from the new, StageScape M20d-based sound system. "As soon as we started using the new system, we heard a lot of comments about how much better everything sounded, especially being able to understand the minister without turning everything louder," he relates. "We also have it tied into our assistive listening system, and people listening on headphones or earbuds have said that they can hear things much better now as well."
Thanks to a training session from American Music and the StageScape mixer's intuitive visual interface, the transition from the temple's old analog equipment went smoothly. "We caught on to the StageScape system pretty quickly," say Tsudama. "Tim and the rep installed it and did a demo for us. The touchscreen and visual cues give you a quick and easy way to manipulate the system, and I immediately download and installed the free StageScape app for iPad as well. Being able to mix from anywhere in the room is a big upgrade for us, and I like the fact that the app mimics the console interface, down to the knobs below the touchscreen, so you have all the same functions."
Tsudama feels that the StageScape M20d mixer's ease of use will help the temple in a variety of ways. "All you do is turn on the system power, then just touch the screen and it pulls up our saved settings, so anyone can use it," he notes. "We're hoping that the usage of this system will go up, because it does offer quite a few new capabilities. For instance, we can record choir practice and play it back for immediate listening. We want to encourage more of our members who play instruments to start playing sessions."
For Tim McFarland of American Music, recommending Line 6 StageScape M20d was simply a matter of learning his customer's needs and fulfilling them in a creative way. "When a new client requests a digital console, what they usually want is repeatability, but not necessarily complexity," he notes. "That's the big innovation that Line 6 came up with in this mixer. You get all the full advantages of digital audio presented on an interface that's easy to understand and use—especially for anyone who uses touchscreen devices like a smartphone or iPad. The Dharma Center turned out to be a perfect venue for StageScape M20d."
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Date: Fri Sep 16 2011 - 14:20:57 EDT
Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene
man/index.html?inline=nyt-per> JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Published: September 16, 2011
DOLO, Somalia — Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death?
The United Nations' warnings could not be clearer. A drought-induced
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/world/africa/06somalia.html> famine is
steadily creeping across Somalia and tens of thousands of people have
already died. The Islamist militant group the
ab/index.html?inline=nyt-org> Shabab is
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/world/africa/02somalia.html> blocking
most aid agencies from accessing the areas it controls, and in the next few
months three-quarters of a million people could run out of food, United
Nations officials say.
Soon, the rains will start pounding down, but before any crops will grow,
disease will bloom. Malaria, cholera, typhoid and measles will sweep through
immune-suppressed populations, aid agencies say, killing countless
malnourished people.
In a way, this is all déjŕ vu. In the early 1990s, Somalia was hit by
famine, precipitated by drought and similarly callous thugs blocking
ex.html?inline=nyt-classifier> food aid and producing similarly appalling
images of skeletal children dying in the sand. In fact, the famine back then
was in the same area of Somalia, the lower third, home to powerless minority
clans that often bear the brunt of this country's chronic troubles.
But in the 1990s, the world was more willing to intervene. The United
Nations rallied behind more than 25,000 American troops, who embarked on a
multibillion-dollar mission to beat back the gunmen long enough to get food
into the mouths of starving people.
Contrast that with what happened last week. At a lackluster famine summit
meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, proposed
to forcefully establish humanitarian corridors, so that food aid could be
delivered to Shabab-controlled areas. Few Western donors were enthused.
"There's no mood for intervention," said one American official, who was not
authorized to speak publicly on the matter. "People remember what happened
in the 1990s. 'It doesn't work' was the conclusion."
Foreign military force, analysts say, has never succeeded in solving
Somalia's problems and it is not going to solve them now. This famine is not
just about the Shabab's blocking food aid. It is about a broken state and
the human wreckage it is causing.
Take Mogadishu, the capital. The Shabab more or less pulled out in August,
leaving Somalia's transitional government in control of large swathes of the
city, including the sprawling camp for displaced refugees. But government
"control" — and that term seems more aspirational than meaningful — does not
translate into a smooth aid operation. Instead, government soldiers have
looted aid trucks and shot starving people.
Somalia's politicians have been too busy squabbling with one another to
build institutions like a functioning health ministry or a sanitation
department that would help drought victims. Some of the informal clusters of
people in Mogadishu camped out for aid are already breaking up, and it is
not clear where the displaced people are trudging to. Many aid agencies —
and Western militaries — are justifiably wary of this environment, and so
far the response to the famine has been well short of what is needed to stem
the crisis.
"I don't think that there's a case to be made that the famine can be
mitigated through military intervention," said Bronwyn E. Bruton, a
democracy and governance expert who wrote
<http://www.cfr.org/somalia/somalia/p21421> a provocative essay published by
the Council on Foreign Relations urging the West to withdraw from Somalia.
The African Union, which has 9,000
er> peacekeepers in Mogadishu, "isn't able to safeguard the delivery of aid
in Mogadishu," Ms. Bruton said. "How could they possibly extend their reach
outside the capital?"
"Theft, corruption and violence are endemic," she added. "The problem
extends past Al Shabab to anybody with a gun."
In Somalia, there are many of them. This was the problem in the 1990s. The
United Nations urged American forces to disarm the warlords and their
flip-flop-clad militias, but the Pentagon did not want to risk many American
lives to do that. Instead, the United States opted for a narrowly scoped
intervention and then hastily withdrew after 18 servicemen were killed in an
epic street battle immortalized in the "Black Hawk Down" book and movie (and
video game). According to a study by the Refugee Policy Group, the
American-led operation and the attendant relief effort saved around 110,000
lives, while 240,000 were lost to the famine.
It is grim math, especially considering how enormous the aid operation was.
The Refugee Policy Group study has a graph showing famine casualties, which
tend to come in two spikes: one at the onset of the crisis, before the bulk
of aid arrives; the other when the rains come. For the current famine,
analysts are now bracing for possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths.
"We've lost this round," said
<http://www.davidson.edu/academic/political/menkhaus.html> Ken Menkhaus, a
political science professor at Davidson College. "The numbers are going to
be horrifying. We're too late."
Famines do not turn on a dime. Bodies are depleted by months of malnutrition
and stress. Many Somalis, as evidenced by the throngs of half-living people
stumbling into the camps in Mogadishu or the ones here in Dolo, a little
town on the Ethiopian border, are too far gone.
"One or two people are surviving from each family," said Lul Mahamoud Ali,
a mother of four who recently arrived from a famine-stricken village. Her
children were listless and glassy-eyed, and Mrs. Lul carried with her all
she owned — a thin mattress, a red mat and a wooden chest, which was empty.
Mr. Menkhaus worked as an aid consultant in Somalia in the 1990s and said:
"Back then, we were just making it up as we went along. Today it's so much
more scientific."
For instance, the American government has helped set up the
<http://www.fews.net/Pages/default.aspx> Famine Early Warning Systems
Network, which tracks everything from rainfall to the price of goats to
forecast potential famines worldwide. This has helped aid groups
pre-position food in Somalia and prepare for the deluge of refugees, though
it seems that few anticipated just how bad this famine would be.
Another lesson learned was how to feed people. The approach in the 1990s was
to flood Somalia with food aid, which empowered militias, set off conflict
between them and created a flourishing criminal network of war profiteers
who stood to make millions off looted grain. This time around, the World
Food Program and others are still handing out food, but more aid agencies
are turning to cash or to food vouchers, enabling hungry people to buy their
own supplies, which is intended to encourage private enterprise and not make
enemies of Somalia's powerful businessmen.
The other day, Chris Smoot, an official with the
19> World Vision aid group, arrived in Dolo with a thick book of food
vouchers. He presented them to the young district commissioner, who sat in a
twig hut and revealed that he had little experience in dealing with
emergencies and little schooling.
"Imagine," Mr. Smoot said. "You're 35 years old, you have a primary school
education, you're the D.C., and now you're confronted with this?"
Twenty years after the central government collapsed, this is the story
across so much of Somalia. And given the world's limited interest in a major
intervention, that is not likely to change anytime soon.
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