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Retro piracy - Should the Royal Navy kick arse?
As everyone knows, runaway piracy is a terrible threat. Unchecked, pirates might destroy the very business models which underpin much of our economy, bringing legitimate commerce to a halt - with devastating consequences both for those who make things and for those who use them. That may or may not be true on the internet: but …
Good points all around, so just small nitpicking
Quote: "Presumably someone else will provide the actual ships".
I guess they did. The pirates were apprehended JOINTLY by HMS Cumberland and Neustrashimuy. As you correctly noted both were carrying tons of weaponry useless against anything short of an enemy battle group (or submarine fleet). However the Neustrashimuy was carrying aslo guess what? A KA-27 helicopter...
You are quite correct however that one helicopter carrier along with a couple of troop transports for the marines with some support from a couple of spotter planes flying from Djibuty can deal with the piracy off the Horn of Africa once and for all. Sending frigates there is a waste of taxpayer money.
Can't they protect themselves?
Is there any practical reason why merchant ships can't plonk a couple of heavy machine guns somewhere with a good field of fire? (plus someone keeping watch, obviously)
For the bigger ones, it can't be more than a fraction of the cost of the ship - or even having it delayed a week while pirates are negotiated off.
Problem is, I think I remember hearing that it's against the law (on the ocean...?) - maybe time for a change.
Are pirates still liable to summary execution if captured during battle? That would resolve any sticky legal problems of bringing them before a court.
Maybe the Americans could be involved?
let me be the first to say...
"or even a member of the RAF"
But 'tis the shortage o' men t' crew these stout ships that be the problem!
'Tis the return o the Press I be predictin', wi' roamin' gangs o' jolly Jack Tars patrolling the waterfront o' Skegness, Blackpool and many another seaside haven, ready t' tap the noggin' o' any cove rum enough t' be splicin' the mainbrace wi'out bein' mob-handed.
Ye'll all be learnin' t' run from the merry sound o' a hornpipe or shanty played on the concertina, I be thinkin'.
Actually, they do...
I just remembered seeing a (spent?) nuclear fuel transport ship, pretty sure it wasn't Navy, with guns of some sort mounted on it, so this is already done. Somehow.
At Last
Some one who understands what is going on down and around Gulf Of Aden. Although 1 in 1000 is low would you want to be the 1? I dont and I know plenty who dont, I transit the area regularly and have heard attacks carried out on the radio, it is eeirie and disturbing. The Navy have enough to do without watching us, but hey we'll take all the help we can get.
The Americans want to arm Merchant Vessels, however that upsets thier plans for controlling Merchant Vessels visiting their ports.
Follow the French example they dont care if it's one of thiers they will go and get it/ them back, in fact just let the French do it.
No ships at all.
22,000 Ships, 365 days is 60 ships a day.
A ten man armed squad from a nation with a vested interest (Egypt perhaps) on each ship would be about 600 men, more like a 1200 man commitment allowing for spares.
I'm guessing that 1200 Egyptian soldiers and a largish boat, which doesn't even have to be a warship, for them to hang out on. Would cost an unimaginably small fraction of the cost of flying even one helicopter around for a year, and would stop the pirates completely.
Ten is probably too many, and a squad on every other ship would probably be sufficient.
Once the pirates give up the whole op could be scaled back to less than a quarter of the strength.
Be nice to pirates
Couldn't they deliver extra munitions to the pirates? Even if a pirate was in a hurry to get away, I'm sure Bofors et al. produce suitable delivery systems. Just don't tell anyone we're being so generous...
Ooh... an icon that refers to flank speed...
12 mile limit
"International warships generally have no rights to act against pirates inside someone else's 12-mile limit."
Does 'hot pursuit' not apply?
Oh, and the navy did have the right kit for hunting pirates but Pertwee flogged it all off.
My word Lewis, you'd better have a lie down after that piece.
Five pages to say that senior members of the military engage in personal empire-building and that military ops are often undertaken for purely political ends !
I'm sure your commentary is accurate but still, wow !
The solution...
Scupper every pirate vessel (there's a dhow (Davy) Jones sinking joke in there somewhere).
say what?
"Presumably someone else will provide the actual ships. (Good luck with that - other European countries mostly make our navy look massive. The only exception is the French, and they have plenty of admirals of their own.)"
What are you referring to specifically here? the UK has the third largest navy in both number of ships and overall tonnage, so we do have a massive navy, maybe not in the same league as Russia or the US but it's hardly an illusion :P
They've obviously...
...never seen Under Siege...
"A typical modern day sailor - say a radar operator or a cook - may be little handier in a face-to-face fight than a civilian"
Excellent article as always
Is it me, or is the Navy all but redundant these days?
Their only purpose seems to be to provide portable landing strips or missile launch platforms and to defend those assets.
Everything else seems better suited to the Army or Airforce.
Where's the tech content here?
Lewis Page on another rant - yawn.
@AC 14:28 - Harsh
Not at all, just traditional crab-bashing.
Perhaps what's needed is a convoy system through the area - I guess it depends on how much it delays the merchant traffic. Just have a couple of warships waiting around, assemble a dozen merchant vessels (or more), then escort them through.
"with gunmen in speedboats seizing entire ships as often as once a week"
How / how often do they seize 2/3 rds of a ship! :-)
Fight Global Warming...
More Pirates Please!
FSM etc etc...
Make the bastards walk the plank, response to seaborne piracy should be swift and lethal.
Excellent summary...
... as usual, Lewis. I do have to take issue with one point on the first page, though. I understood, from reading the local press, that the problem in this part of the world isn't so much the Singapore Strait, but the Malacca Straits, between Peninsula Malaysia and Sumatra. That would also better match your requirements for a nearby lawless or poor area sheltering them: Johor Baru and Singapore are reasonably provided for, or at least the part of JB that's at the very bottom of Malaysia. It's also an incredibly crowded shipping lane where people have to look out for each other, since the consequences of doing otherwise would be disastrous.
The Malacca Straits, on the other hand, are much bigger, although also very busy. That said, Sumatra is a *very* large island, with lots of places for bad guys to slip away. Also, the Indonesian government seems to take the problem less seriously than the Malaysian government. They have far fewer resources in the area than Malaysia, despite Sumatra being larger than Peninsula Malaysia.
As for a Naval solution, would it not be possible for someone at Thorneycroft or the like to design a new version of an MTB? They seemed to have some success against E-boats a number of years ago, I recall - fast, nippy and with some serious teeth. Perhaps acting as a minor battle group with a helicopter carrier?
Finally, while piracy on the High Seas is still an offence liable to summary capital punishment on the statute books, I believe it ranks alongside arson in Her Majesty's dockyards as an anachronism. Furthermore, I think there just might be some pushback against from other nations, who might decide that RN ships were indulging in piracy every time they were enforcing arms embargoes or the like.
Helicopters - would the need to be of the black kind? Not going for the obvious because, in this part of the world, it ain't no joke.
They should watch they don't raid shipments of CDs/DVDs then sell copies worldwide, The RIAA and the FBI would be invading Somalia by the end of the week.
You're quite correct, the nuclear fuel transport ships are armed. They carry armed guards on board as well. However I believe they are a special case, for understandable reasons... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/389545.stm
I think some of our engineers have got better pictures as we've done some work on them.
Nuclear transport ships
Those are probably PNTL, who I think carry CNC guys on board. They're the specialist "police who aren't police" who protect nuclear sites and materials that are being moved.
pirates vs...
cant we just send in the ninjas?
"or even a member of the RAF"
I'll get you with my moustaches, you bounder!
It's obvious how to catch them.
Step 1. They don't just steal this stuff and then stay at sea, they have to come to shore to sell it, so we put a tracker on something expensive, and demand a ship follow a gps course. If it deviates, we know it's been hijacked immediately.
Step 2. After locating them, we sentence them to death by steam iron.
Hey presto. Problem solved.
Surely the best way to stop piracy is to introduce them to health and safety.
I for one would be interested in reading their risk assessment and I'm pretty sure that the news footage showed no sign of high-visibility clothing.
I'm pretty sure that
the Somali leader gave permission for the Russians, GB and any other interested nation to enter Somali waters and use "whatever means deemed necessary, including military force"
Seems the Somalis have realised that the pirates are a thorn they don't need in their side and the idea of someone else killing them off quite appeals.
I do agree that sending frigates etc is a total waste of time and money, and that smaller helicopter carriers would be a better idea.
But then when did the MOD / UK.gov ever use commonsense in anything??
Example being the Eurofighter, all the wars we are embroiled in currently and lately would have been better fought with a fleet of A-10 close support aircraft than high altitude Multi role fighters....allegedly army and marines find the american A-10 pilots more help the the RAF boys and that afghani militants tend to retreat rapidly when an A-10 shows up.....don't blame them....wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of the "avenger cannon"
Helicopter as thats whats needed
Does anyone else see the connection between HMS Cumberland's involvement and the fact that its national sausage week?
Helicopter problem.
Choppers are notoriously vulnerable to ground fire (you touched on this). Now, while having a standoff FY2 system is all well and good, the situation here was the pirates were challenged, opened fire and got hosed by return for their trouble. Changing this to "That looks like a pirate ship", press button, BOOM, takes the process to a new level. Let's face it, going in for a closer look, to see if they've got shoulder launched rocketry or a nice 20mm cannon squirrelled away somewhere, before going for the "...and the horse you rode in on" option has the drawback of holding quite a high risk of finding out that they have the hard way. You're veering into the Pyrrhan book of tactics here if you're thinking that way
Not that I'm objecting to the concept of subjecting pirates to serious fuckage from range, it makes all the problems go away including repatriation, but I'll bet that it wouldn't go down well with the Guardian readers. I think we're stuck with fast boats and marines to keep the hand-wringing types happy.
Is it wrong?
Is it wrong that I saw the news item's photo depicting the "pirates" in a boat with their hands behind their heads..... and I thought they were doing the french taunt at the cameraman?
12 mile limit
"What idiot let that torpedo stray into territorial waters and sink that -p-i-r-a-t-e- innocent vessel seeking sanctuary from unjust pursuit? Slapsies all round number one and reload the starboard tubes!"
Anti-climax of sorts
Was I alone in expecting the solution to be sharks with frikkin' lasers on their heads? Mechanical ones with cavitation drives. Plus satellite surveillance (mil resolutions natch). Oh right, the UK is not allowed to print dollars.
My other problem is why there were never pirates in the straits of Dover, only in Penzance?
Sea cruise for Marines
Several other countries have very competent equivalents of the Royal Marines. I have always thought that half a squad per cargo ship from the China Sea area through the Suez Canal would be a very good deterrent. No fast pursuit required, the pirates would present themselves for deterring/killing.
Put a warship or five in the relevant areas for helicopter and larger weapon support.
In a year or two the problem would be much reduced.
And the Marines would have had a nice sea cruise.
Who cares about the tech angle?
I thoroughly enjoyed reading that. :)
Unleash the RIAA on them!!
re: They've obviously...
The mere mention of a fighting cook or other ordinary forces person will always end up with Mr Seagull making an appearance. Just one quick flurry of slaps accompanied by the stony face that is hard yet somehow caring will soon put a stop to any threat to the world.
Though I'm not sure that this is big enough for Steve - it may be of the scale required for another Rambo outing, he usually does these small local bookings.
I am in shock
A report by Lewis where he doesn't say lets buy the American one.
I am vastly suprised that he didn't suggest buying American ships as they are better and more cost effictive than the UK one we currently use.
Other than that a good article.
"So let's assume, worst case, that pirates captured on the high seas would need to be brought to the UK for trial. "
Bollocks to that - Cap'n to pass sentence, then keelhaul/cat o' nine or give 'em the Plank. Don't even need to make port.
More RN helicopter carriers?
Unlikely as the Navy would see those as a threat to their new fast-jet carriers. Do we have any anti-tank Lynx choppers left? Surely we could operate a dozen or so off a converted merchantman, seeing as the Army seems keener on the Apache now. Or we could rent a USN Amphibious Assault Ship or whatever they're calling their landing support chopper carriers.
On the note of frigates and destroyers being too big, they do have the loiter capability to hang around off the pirate areas for weeks at a time. A fleet of small attack craft such as Boghammers would need a floating base ship or secure harbour to operate from. There is also the fact that a large warship tends to scare pirates away, which is often the preferred result for the PC brigade, whereas smaller craft may induce sillier pirates to have a go, much as the rigid-raiders used by the RMCs from HMS Cumberland drew fire from the pirates on Tuesday. Such gunfights risk people getting killed - not popular with the PC brigade if they're "disadvantaged third-worlders, or with our voter-sensitive politicians if their our boys and girls.
The only long-term solution would be a Somali Navy, equipped with Boghammer-like craft to allow coastal pursuits, probably co-ordinated by NATO destroyers/frigates and their choppers, but that is unlikely given that the Somali government seems to be concentrating on its own survival on land just now.
Maybe we could just ask a passing USN carrier to make a srike on Ely and sink all the pirate boats, it would garner some relief whilst the pirates tried to buy new boats, and Prez-elect Obama cold dress it up as being tough on crime, the causes of crime, etc, etc. Of course, I'm sure a good community organiser like Obama could just go to Ely and sort out all their problems in no time, without having to resort to that nasty fighting stuff....
@ lIsRT
The ships you mean are PNTL Vessels, and where built with gun mounts, they only carry guns and perosnnel to use them when carrying the re-processed fuel.
We (the Merchant Navy) arent alowed to be armed, much apart from anything, it ups the ante with the pirates and on a British Flagged vessel (there are still some of us) the 'Elf and Safety / Risk Assesment would be a mare.
Remeber some of those "big ships" you all see container and tanker can carry as few as 13 (average 20) people and are leagally usually limited to 30 or so souls depending in Life Saving Appliances carried.
Now I know this is a crap source but.....
These pirate vessels are apparently good for catching merchantmen going 20 knots, so must be good for 25+.
Looking at the RN fleet on wikipedia, I see that only Frigates, Destroyers and Aircraft carriers actually have the pace to catch them.
Can it really be true that the River class patrol boats (best suited to this kind of malarky) can only do 20 knots?
I see your answer
"trying to find some way of putting them ashore locally after capture"
Yes, that would do it. I'm sure they would wash ashore somewhere, someday. If you want to stop piracy on the high seas just tell the RIAA / IFPI it's their stuff getting ripped off.
I honestly hope...
... you've finished creaming yourselves over the Military.
Re: Can't they protect themselves?
It is not. If the ship is formally chartered by the Navy of the operating country. It can after that put a squad of marines onboard and have the pirates done and dusted. This of course does not work very well for all those penny-pinching scumbags operating under Liberian or North Korean flags.
It will in fact be a very good money earning protection racket for any navy with personnel in Djibuti (hehe... let's see if someone French is reading it).
However, you still need some fairly long range helicopters and a few supporting ships to pick up the marine crews once they are done with their jobs. So end of the day it may not be cheaper compared to rotating a helicopter carrier from a different navy every few week for "extended live target practice".
For Once...
...that all sounds eminently sensible. So it DEFINITELY won't happen.
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The passions surprised many. And not just the white people in attendance. Even former Howard High School principal and new public safety coordinator Paul Smith said it's clear the city has it's work cut out to repair the lost trust.
"What this has done is rip the Band-Aid off a gaping wound," said Ash-Lee Henderson, a member of Concerned Citizens for Justice, who questioned the forum's goal.
Perhaps she's right. And her imagery is dead on. For decades, Chattanooga has put a Band-aid on race relations, poverty and classism. But Band-Aids can't do much to heal gaping wounds.
It's time for more than just the newest shiny initiative, offered to the community by a police round-up, a press conference and a one-man city ambassador who is a former high school principal.
Mayor, if you want buy-in on this program, you may have to take it to the streets in person. And you'll have to stay long enough to listen.
You gained high marks when you went to bat for Patten Towers residents last spring after they were left on the street when the smoke cleared from a fire in a ridiculously neglected century-old hotel turned low-income apartment house. Your visits to those residents as they sat on cots at the Salvation Army showed Chattanooga a caring face with the power to make improvements.
If you want this to work, if you want Chattanooga to heal, if you want this to be a place peaceful enough to lure new jobs (and we know you want all of those things), then it's time for that Andy Berke to come out of City Hall again.
Well it seems the mayor and the police did not apologize for something.
Poor Ms. Sohn's pleadings for the police to apologize for something fell on deaf ears.
I guess the killing and the silence about who did the killing will just continue.
There is no place that don't snitch policy is more intense and profound than in the ranks of most any and every police agency around the nation. When they clean up and clean out their own dirt these communities will begin to heal, flourish and thrive on their own volition. As it presently stands, black communities have become nothing more than job guarantee and a source for promotions. Do they actually believe those who are benefitting from their plight are actually serious about fixing it?
The greatest drawback and hold-back in the black community is they don't trust themselves to come together to reach out and uplift one another. They foolishly believe the answers to all their problems lie in outsiders telling them what wrong. Over 500 years later their communities remain like a smaller version of Africa; still being ripped, ravished and raped by outsiders fighting to gain control of all their natural resources they don't realize they have.
Hopefully, if there are future meetings they will be held in a more secular environment, and also one where there's more interaction than people sitting up on a stage looking down upon their subjects. I came, but left early because of the bad acoustics and you couldn't even hear much of what was being said.
And the reason the Highpoint Initiative might not work in Chattanooga is because the reasons behind what has taken place in Chattanooga's black communities is totally different from what and why Highpoint had its problems. There's a feeling of insincerity here that doesn't appear to have been a part of the High approach in N.C.
"I guess the killing and the silence about who did the killing will just continue."
Conserv. did it ever occur to you or anyone the people may not know who's behind these killings? That there are possibly outside forces, with no connections to these communities, that may have played a role in a lot of what's been taking place in these communities?
Did it ever occur to you that you are the only one who believes what you wrote?
Surely it had to "occur" to you who those "outside forces" might be.
Why the "silence?"
Well then, who are these others?
Why didn't you inform Ms. Sohn and Mr. Cook of these "outside forces" in order to stop the killings?
Don't you care?
Again, why the "silence?"
JJ is talkin from where the sun don't shine!!AS USUAL!!He's been on this kick about the police from day one on here! Back beyond say 1960 there may have been a blue wall of silence but no more! Now they put each other in jail!!Remember the sgt. that got busted at riverbend for drinkin on the job? Not too long ago a city cop put a state trooper in jail for dui ,so there ya go!!
That blue wall of silence is just as strong today as it was back the 1960s. The ones you see getting thrown under the bus were likely not considered team players and the department wanted to get rid of anyway. Just try filing a complaint against a bad cop the department likes and want to retain, and you'll see how they'll come after you, your family and anyone else closely associated with you by all kinds of means at their disposal.
Im not speaking from where the sun doesn't shine, but from personal experience of myself and others.
As they've presently come to operate in many of these communities, the communities are better off without them. In fact, with technology as advanced as it's become today, the average street, or patrol cop should be on the way out like the dinosaur. Firemen are pretty much still needed to put out or control fires, but any traffic camera can write out a speeding ticket or catch a crook committing a crime. I see an elite, educated unit on the horizon, but low level street cops are no longer necessary in a technologically advanced society.
The so called Split or divide has more to do with BEHAVIOR than with race or color. Who wants to be around or do anything for morons that act like animals and do not work or get an education and see no problem with not doing one thing for the community? That so called code is the "code of the punk," scared to tell the truth or take responsibility. Let's face it, just about every city in the USA now has an MLK Blvd, which one do you want to take your family and belongings and move to? Scream, yell,whine all you want, until you take personal responsibility you are just spitting in the wind.
jjmez, here's some info for you. YOUR personal experience is the nadir of research. So is your knowledge. The City of Boston thought they could do without police one day. They never tried that again, anyplace in America. People with brains learn from the past. There's tons of info on the "Boston Police Strike." Check it out.Apparently you have figured out the same "secret agents" who brought dope to the underclass so they could go into business, have also been going around doing the shootings and other crimes. The people who are apprehended, convicted, sentenced...then released a couple of months later are actually just innocents who were on the way home from church when some evil police with nothing to do framed them. You sir, are a real whizz bang!
Rosa Koire wrote in her book - Behind the Green Mask: UN Agenda 21 "Community Orientated Policing (under the Department of Justice) will encourage, if not require, people to watch their neighbors and report suspicious activity."
The TFP focus on violence and the community input meeting was nothing but another example of the unholy alliance between big government and big media to crush the rights of the poor with another federal program.
I urge everyone to Google and read the 40+ page document on this High Point program and then ask yourself if you, the mayor, or any council member would ever allow such a thing in your/their neighborhood.
Obviously Chattanooga government in its desperation for federal dollars prostituted its most vulnerable citizens once again for another failed government program that will make the folks at ICLEI very happy.
sagoyewatha if it's anything like the Boston police I recall, they were likely the ones committing the crimes themselves. Boston police were once riddled with mafia types. Now, most are just brutes.
Re: *Who wants to be around or do anything for morons that act like animals *
I agree. Who wants cops police their communities who behave worst than wild animals roaming in packs?
The Commander said... Behind the Green Mask: UN Agenda 21 "Community Orientated Policing (under the Department of Justice) will encourage, if not require, people to watch their neighbors and report suspicious activity."
I'm with you. the Highpoint Initiative can and will only cause matters to worsen and deteriorate more than they already have in these communities. This approach has already been tried in some Chattanooga communities. In some racially and classed mixed communities, it created a lot of harsh feelings, false claims and false accusations against innocent neighbors and brought about even more division, suspicions, frictions and hostilities throughout communities. A small few formed personal friendships and started a campaign to run fellow neighbors from the communities they felt didn't belong or weren't the right shade. It became more about race and class than keeping communities safe. There's already divisions in many of these communities brought on by this by this approach. There are neighbors living next door to one another who no longer even speak, talk to or socialize with one another, the hostility and mistrust is now so great. You had people following neighbors through communities with their guns in preparation, even looking for an excuse. Just another SYG tragedy waiting to happen.
thanks jj.
there is one guy in Pam's article who gets it. I think what he said is brilliant and very accurate:
"The same blighted conditions we had here 27 years ago are still here today. Who's allowed that to happen? You!" Kurt Robinson told the crowd. "You're the ones who allow the same people to get elected over and over, and they get in their offices ... and get fat."
Mr. Robinson is right I'm afraid in everything he said. Everyone on this thread needs to roll his words over a few times in your mind.
Same park, different trailers.jjmiz,to repeat, your personal experience is the nadir of research...it means nothing. It could mean that if you rely on 20 years experience you are talking about one year of repeating your first year's mistakes. Do you have any proof for any of the idiotic statements you are making? Of course not. I want to personally invite all to attend the secret meeting between the government and the media to crush the poor and helpless. Why? Well, because the poor and helpless need to be crushed. Please engage brains before putting mouths in gear.
It's so great a tragedy that many of the individuals in these communities rarely get to see or experience the honorable side of policing. Over the years too man thugs were allowed on the force, and they have forever tainted and done irreparable damage to both the profession and the communities they were suppose to serve and protect.
schizka, what is a "too man thugs?" Can you name any? What department did they represent? Who did they thug on? Did one of them specifically thug on you What ever happened to these creatures? Thanks in advance for providing me with this accurate intelligence as I will need it to debate this issue at the next clandestine meeting of the government and big press as we work out new and devious ways to crush the poor and weak. There was some discussion of forcing them to work or get an education, but the powers that be gave up on that tactic.


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Pratt's body was found on Oct. 12, 2001 in the Oroville Wildlife Area near the Vance Ave., Biggs entrance. After further investigation, deputies determined that Pratt had died at age 41 from a gunshot wound to the head.
According to the Butte County Sheriff's Office, the Shirley Pratt murder investigation has been ongoing and several years ago, detectives began receiving information that linked Marvin Ray Markle, Jr. (AKA "Ziggy") to the case.
The sheriff's office said they used DNA technology to assist with the development of the case. On Thursday, they charged Markle with Pratt's murder.
Markle was serving a 90-day jail sentence for a probation violation and he remains in the Butte County Jail with no bail.
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For Grazia's Christmas campaign we teamed up with Save the Children to help raise money for their Syrian Emergency Fund. Grazia's Zoe Beaty flew to Jordan to report - here, she explains why she wrote this story…
One month ago, I visited Jordan. I went as a reporter to speak to Syrian refugees, to gather stories to tell at home and, hopefully, make people listen. I went with an idea of what they were going to say – that they'd witnessed warfare, how terrifying it was and how much they'd lost. What I couldn't anticipate was how just how much those people would speak to me and how closely their stories would stay with me.
So far, the people I met have survived the war - that is to say, they've escaped the bloodshed and the bombs. Along with a total of two million Syrians exiled from their country since Syrian civil war broke out in March 2011, they no longer face snipers shooting at them as they make their way to work or their school being bombed as they study. But, still, each one has lost their lives. They have lost their money, their country, members of their families. The houses they worked hard to buy or build were levelled in front of them. Amongst the families I meet is one young woman who explained how her sister's children were sleeping upstairs when their house was attacked by airstrikes. The children were killed instantly. I meet a three-year-old orphan, Seren, who lost her mother and father, along with 38 other members of her family when a funeral they were attending was bombed.
Seren survived – along with her elderly grandmother, Bahar. Now, the two live in Za'atari camp amongst 150,000 other refugees in a dust-ridden tent. Their possessions are minimal – a few blankets, precisely folded in the corner, the clothes they are wearing. When we sit on foam mats lining the sides of the tent – their beds – the uneven ground below feels sharp. They survive on food rations donated by Save the Children and little else. Bahar cries, hard, for the entire time we speak – she says she is fearful: for her granddaughter's safety after she heard rumours of a four-year-old being raped nearby; and for her prospects. "We have no future here," she says. "We have nothing."
Za'atari - the world's second biggest refugee camp and Jordan's fourth largest 'city' - is overwhelming. Tents are lined up, shoulder to shoulder in crowded areas, alongside handfuls of tiny metal makeshift flats built in an attempt to protect families from the bitter middle-eastern winter. In the coming months, temperatures will reach near freezing point and severe flooding could mean the tents – and the few possessions inside – literally float away, as they did last year. The children have no warm clothes; some don't even have a pair of socks. I meet a family of five whose parents are stuck in Syria, who are looked after by the oldest sibling, a 13-year-old girl. Their clothes are threadbare and their teeth rotten. They have so little in terms of hygiene that they fall ill frequently, and this will only be exacerbated by the winter.
Many families believe that they can escape the harsh conditions by smuggling themselves out of Za'atari to nearby capital Amman, seeking refuge in apartments so-called host communities. In reality, they only face a whole new set of problems. The families I met there were formerly wealthy pharmacists, property owners and business owners. Now, they live on hand-outs from the Imam at the mosque and eat every other day when a neighbouring restaurant hands over its leftovers.
What affected me most was hearing the war so accurately retold by children. Whilst some were muted by the terrors they saw, others were disturbingly forthcoming. They spoke flippantly about seeing dead bodies lying on the street "everyday", and watching out of their window as gun fire sounded. A five-year-old smiled coyly as she described her father being stripped, beaten and tortured with electrical wires in front of her. Her cousin, a seven-year-old boy, stood proudly to show me how he knew the difference between a machine gun and an assault rifle, meticulously demonstrating how the two are held by soldiers he saw frequently in the street. Afterwards, he looked up, smiling expectantly in search of praise, like he'd just won a race.
The only relief these children get is provided by Save the Children. The charity work tirelessly in Za'atari and the host communities alike to provide food, kindergarten care for young children, child friendly spaces and youth centres for older children. But they need funding to continue. For our Christmas campaign, Grazia teamed up with Save the Children's Syrian Emergency Fund to make a difference to the lives of the Syrian refugees – and we hope that you will help us to do that. However small, your donation has the potential to make a huge impact.
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Need a straight answer for installer folder mayhem
My coworker gave me her Dell Inspirion 1464 laptop running 7 Home Premium, version 6.1.7600 Build 7600.
She complains about running out of space, and after a quick disk inventory it appear as though 60% of the hard drive is being eaten by these cancerous "winsxs" and ".dll" files, which I'm told are installer files.
I'm also told there is a retired Installer Clean Up utility that MAY ruin things if you decide to use it. After an hour on the internet, the best advice I found is
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2) manually delete the files (terrible advice I gather)
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Seriously? I'm a unix guy I need some help. But I don't want to ruin someone else's file structure. Isn't there software we can buy for this? Thanks
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How about providing some specs for the computer?
Make and model.
Drive size and free space.
How much ram.
You don't want to mess with the winsxs directory. If you do, it will only be rebuilt.
I would recommend installing and running Treesize Free to see exactly what is using the hard drive space.
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I'm not sure of the RAM size, but the hard drive is 60 GB and about half is taken up by these files. I downloaded and installed WinDirStat which graphically and numerically showed me the contents of the drive, which is how I ruled out her user folder as the culprit.
Any other thoughts on a next step? If every application does this, why doesn't everyone have this problem? I find it hard to believe that Microsoft hasn't developed a free utility that takes care of this if it's inevitable for the system.
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Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Uh no, those are not installer files. Those are the files that make windows work.
Those are windows and program code libraries and are absolutely necessary for windows and many programs that run on it to function.
The size of the winsxs folder is a bit misleading as well.
Bottom line do not touch anything in there ever
One thing you can try to free up space more safely...
Start->Accessories->System Tools->Disk Cleanup will clean up temp files and such.
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Windows 7 Ultumate x64
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So it solves diagnosis, now what can be done? It's great that it doesn't actually take up space, but how do you get the system to allow you to use that space? Every time we try to run a virus check it claims that there's not enough room...
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The best thing to do is install a larger hard drive, 120, 160 or 250 GB, then you should have plenty of room. You would want to take an image backup of the existing drive then restore it to the new drive unless you have a Win 7 Install DVD or Dell recovery DVD.
You can order the recovery DVD from Dell, $20 to $30 I think. I just ordered a Vista Home Premium from HP for $13.50, no shipping.
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Windows Server 2008 R2
Um - I don't know what exactly is in that machine, but according to Dell that system ships with a 500GB (5400RPM, which is crap, but it's still 500GB) hard disk.
Are you saying 500GB is basically consumed, as far as explorer or the command prompt is concerned (and yes, anything that doesn't read raw disk data will show incorrect usage due to WinSxS and hard links)? It would be very interesting to see a screenshot of WinDirStat or SpaceMonger from that drive...
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Main - Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit; 2nd - Windows Server 2008 R2
The reported size of the drive concerns me - have you checked in Computer Management to see if there might be another partition? I'm wondering if you somehow installed Windows to the Dell recovery partition or something.
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What was previously a theoretical concern for taxpayers holding records with cloud-computing companies has now been resolved, enabling taxpayers to continue their 'walk in the cloud' without fear of falling due to an Inland Revenue backlash.
Following on from the article in our December 2012 Tax Alert, the Inland Revenue has recently published a list of New Zealand companies which have been granted approval to hold their customers' electronic financial records offshore.
As readers will be aware, taxpayers are required to hold their financial records in New Zealand in order to comply with their record keeping obligations. It was and continues to be possible to be granted an exemption, however this can only be done on an individual basis. When the Inland Revenue flagged some three years ago that storing ones records in a cloud that used offshore data centres was unlikely to meet statutory requirements, it became evident that a legislative tweak was necessary.
The reason we mention that the concern was only theoretical to taxpayers is that the staggering uptake of cloud-computing accounting services made it very difficult for the Inland Revenue to act on its contention. The major cloud-computing companies considered the situation to be a prime example of technology moving at a pace unmatched by our legislative system and took steps to liaise with the Inland Revenue to resolve the issue.
Following on from the legislative change that took effect from 2 November 2012, the Inland Revenue has now listed which New Zealand companies have been granted this blanket exemption. At present only three companies have been granted authorisation – these are Xero Limited, CargoWise NZ Limited and MYOB NZ. It is anticipated that this list will be added to over time, where companies are able to prove that information and records stored offshore will remain accessible to the Commissioner and will not impede compliance activities.
Taxpayers should note that where authorisation is given to a third party, this does not replace the taxpayer's responsibility in meeting record keeping obligations. The authorisation enables a taxpayer to store records offshore without being in breach of their obligations however it is the taxpayer who is responsible for ensuring records kept are sufficient to satisfy requirements. That is, they must be adequate to enable the Commissioner to readily ascertain the amounts of tax payable.
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My On-and-Off Teaching Career, Part I
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- Dawn said...
I agree...being an introvert doesn't mean you can't lead a group...precisely because as the leader you have authority. I used to love training, but I am essentially shy. That never seemed odd to me.
- January 9, 2013 at 5:23 PM
- P. J. Grath said...
You are very clever, Dawn, to have seen that from the start. I did learn way back in high school that there was no contradiction between being shy and loving to act onstage. In fact, many actors start out life as shy persons. Give them lines to speak, let them pretend to be someone else, and they're fine. Another way that introverts can work well "out front."
- January 9, 2013 at 5:39 PM
- ShareCare said...
I never got over standing in front of a class or feeling like I didn't know enough to be leading a group of students down a deservedly good path to learning. Even though the responsibility for learning rests, in part, on the students, they still need someone guiding them. I never felt I was that person.
- January 9, 2013 at 7:26 PM
- P. J. Grath said...
Oh, man, I hope you don't say that because a certain tech-phobic TUTOR ran off in a panic. The STUDENTS seemed to be doing fine!
- January 10, 2013 at 3:18 AM
- fleda Brown said...
I also really appreciated the book, Quiet. My daughter gave it to me as part of my birthday present last year. Logic, yes, we could use a lot more of that in early schooling. We know that people make decisions based on instinct, but that can be corralled a bit and directed with logic. If they knew how to use it. Good thoughts. Thanks.
- January 10, 2013 at 7:52 AM
- P. J. Grath said...
Thank you, Fleda, for your visit and your comments.
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Date: 2007-07-25
iKapa Honorary Rangers Ruedi Siegenthaler, Vito Viglietti, George and Sue Smith, painted the graffiti off the historic lighthouse at Cape Point. The light house is in a very high visitor zone and is often the target of graffiti vandals. This type of vandalism occurs not only on the light house but also on the walls and rocks at Cape Point.
SANParks Table Mountain National Park requested the help of the Honorary Rangers to repaint damage done to this historical light house.
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8 Servings
Prep: 20 min. Cook: 7 hours
1 pound ground chicken
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
1 can (11 ounces) whole kernel corn, drained
1 can (10 ounces) enchilada sauce
2 green onions, chopped
1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
1 package (8-1/2 ounces) corn bread/muffin mix
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Mexican cheese blend
Optional toppings: sour cream, salsa and minced fresh cilantro
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Jog on or blog on….
Blogs where people express opinions on their specific area of interest span a plethora of subjects - from food and parenting to tattoos and body piercing – all of which are very informative and in many cases, eye-opening! Some have chosen not to pay as close attention to this medium as others, metaphorically jogging in a different direction, not appreciating that blogs can also be powerful, persuasive and much-underused PR tools.
Can anyone blog? Technically, the answer is 'yes' - Disney even produced a children's programme entitled 'Dog with a Blog'! A firm nod to the fact that blogging is a channel that everyone (and even dogs!) can use… but not everyone does it well. Successful blogs need to be well-written, engaging and with the right mix of information and visual interest.
Blogs, when they are on point, can be extremely influential – they have the power to help politicians in election campaigns and they offer an important voice for popular culture icons and persuaders. Yet not all successful blogs have campaign funds and heavy marketing budgets to raise their profiles. This is where skilled commentators come to the fore and if you are truly passionate about a topic, this can come across but like most situations it can sometimes be hard to find the right words, use the correct tone or find the best images.
People working within PR companies are often said to resemble chameleons – they adapt easily to a writing style specific to any audience, they know what language to use and how to convey the right messages. Blogging fits into their skillset comfortably and in many cases, a blog entry will be adapted from a press release or story and posted online on behalf of clients.
PR professionals will also know how to talk directly to bloggers to put information at their fingertips that could promote a client's product or service to a blogger's followers, which is retold in a popular blogger's own voice.
dcp, a member of global PR network, IPREX, recently conducted a survey into blogging in Northern Ireland, as part of an international blogging survey. We found that this heralded some very interesting information, both for us and our clients. Parenting, fashion and food were the most popular topics for local bloggers and dcp determined that blogging was mostly undertaken by females in their 30s. The information that we gleaned from the survey gave specific insights into the blogging community and how its members prefer to be engaged. It also highlighted how this increasingly popular channel is becoming even more influential.
You can contact senior account director, Suzie Fisher, of dcp strategic communication by the following methods. An informed blogger on behalf of clients, Suzie was part of the team who put together the international blogging survey, giving her a unique global overview. Although she rarely jogs, she appreciates and embraces the power of blogs.
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