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GAMES CHINA PLAYS - India's insecurities allow China to get its own way
Kanwal Sibal
Member Advisory Board, VIF
The 50th anniversary of the 1962 India-China border conflict provides an appropriate occasion to reflect on border differences between the two countries and the outlook for the future. India's view of China is heavily etched by the 1962 events. At the strategic level, the distrust of China is deep, with China's policies since 1962 reinforcing the general belief that its posture towards India is basically adversarial, and will remain so in the foreseeable future.
Antagonism does not necessarily mean a recourse to arms to settle differences. India has no design to recover disputed territory by force. India accepts that the Tibetan Autonomous Region is an integral part of the People's Republic of China. Even though China does not respect Tibet's autonomy and occupies it militarily against the wishes of its people, India has no agenda of destabilizing China's rule in Tibet. If the dialogue between China and the Tibetan leadership has collapsed, it denotes a failure of China's political management rather than any interference by India. The Chinese political system seems incapable of handling dissent or an internal challenge to political authority without repression.
The claim that the Dalai Lama's presence in India is a political provocation to China is disputable. He has been in India since 1959, and if over the past 63 years the Chinese have not developed a clear understanding of India's extremely cautious policy towards Tibet and the Dalai Lama, it is again a reflection of China's closed political mind when it comes to handling issues of sharing power internally with different political forces, apart from muscle-flexing on "sovereignty" issues.
China can be accused of failing to create conditions for the Dalai Lama to return home with minimum dignity. It could learn a lesson from India's handling of its Northeast. China is much more favourably placed than the Indian government as there is no Tibetan insurgency and no outside power is providing arms. Critically, the struggle for Tibet's autonomy is being led not by a military figure but the world's foremost spiritual figure deeply wedded to non-violence. India would be relieved if China and the Tibetan leadership could overcome differences and reach an agreement. It will not be at India's cost as India has already paid the full cost of its timorous Tibetan policy since 1954 when it recognized China's sovereignty over Tibet without any quid pro quo.
China bases its territorial claims on India by virtue of its occupation of Tibet. India has, unfortunately, allowed itself to be manoeuvred into a situation where it is now unable to contest China's Tibet-grab and consequently reject territorial claims being made in the name of Tibet on Arunachal Pradesh. Meanwhile, China has developed an extensive military infrastructure in Tibet, which it does not need to retain its physical hold over the territory as a military uprising in Tibet with external support can be ruled out. If, unsure about potential mischief by India, these Chinese dispositions are intended to deter India, what would be the basis of such fears given our repeated assertions that we recognize Tibet as part of China?
It is clear that China has no intention to settle the Tibetan issue through negotiations with the Dalai Lama. By extension, it does not intend to settle the border issue with India, as the settlement of the first dispute would require a show of flexibility on China's part, and the logical consequence of such accommodation would be stepping back from China's untenable claims on "South Tibet". The Chinese leadership is openly proclaiming that the border issue will take a very long time to settle, if at all. Why this should be so is not explained as China has settled its borders with all neighbours of India, the Central Asian countries and even Russia. Why would the next generation in the India-China case be in a better position to reach agreement? China is already moving inexorably towards number two status globally in terms of national power. Why should a stronger, more nationalistic China discard territorial demands on India that the present leadership cannot? Is it the Chinese calculation that China's heavier weight will play in its favour in future negotiations with India? Even such reasoning is not persuasive as Indian economic and military strength will also grow in the years ahead, and the balance may be narrowed rather than expanding ceaselessly.
China's position on the border issue is not transparent. It does not want to identify on the map the size of the disputed pockets sector by sector so that both sides are aware of each other's perception of where the line of actual control lies on the ground, creating the practical basis for a compromise solution. It has cynically used the mechanism of the special representatives — established to explore a solution based on political and strategic considerations — to make a claim on Tawang which China does not actually control. Even that mechanism has been diverted from its original purpose, with the SRs now reviewing the totality of the relationship.
Meanwhile, China has outmanoeuvred India diplomatically by inducing it to accept, contrary to reality, that China does not constitute a threat to it. We are now having a strategic dialogue with China, just as we have with the United States of America, Russia and a select group of countries. A high-level economic dialogue with China has been instituted, replicating the one with the US. China is, at the same time, unwilling to discuss with us its nuclear and missile relationship with Pakistan. It does not consider us eligible to discuss nuclear issues bilaterally as we are not a nuclear weapons State in its eyes. Its policies around us make it more difficult for us to manage our relations with our neighbours.
Ironically, China can continue to assert territorial claims against us even as we constantly endorse its territorial sovereignty over Tibet. It limits discussions on the border issue to the maintaining of peace and tranquillity and not sincerely finding a solution. Even the peace dividend from the 1993 and 1996 peace and confidence building agreements is not available to India as China has vastly improved its military infrastructure in Tibet, compelling India belatedly to do likewise on its own side. Instead of demilitarization, the border is being increasingly militarized. China induces us to put curbs on the Dalai Lama and assume responsibility for the good behaviour of the Tibetans, while repressing them inside Tibet. It arms Pakistan and continues to give it nuclear and missile support to bolster its capacity to pursue its confrontational policies towards India. While strengthening its physical presence in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, China questions our sovereignty over Jammu and Kashmir. Instead of paying any price for these policies, it has become India's largest trade partner in goods, with vested interests on the Indian side advocating closer ties with China, irrespective of its conduct. China's behaviour in the South China Sea carries a lesson for India. Its calculated overtures to India should be seen for what they are — manipulating India diplomatically while containing its rise as much as possible.
We are playing China's game because we cannot overcome our sense of great insecurity regarding it and assume consequently the burden of being unilaterally "statesmanlike" in avoiding contention.
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Suncity, Chau no need of multiplier bets: closing defence
Nov 29, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck
Former Macau junket operator Suncity Group had no commercial need to seek illicit gains from under-the-table betting via the "multiplier", as the company had a huge gaming business generating billions of patacas in taxation for the Macau government, said on Tuesday a defence lawyer representing the Suncity Group founder and former boss, Alvin Chau Cheok Wa.
Mr Chau and 20 other defendants at the city's Court of First Instance face charges of illegal gaming, criminal association, fraud, and money laundering. Mr Chau is also charged with leading a criminal group. Closing arguments in the case started on Tuesday, as had been latterly scheduled.
Leong Hon Man, defending Mr Chau, said Suncity Group had not been somehow "running criminal business". The junket operator had, since its inception, contributed "MOP300 billion" (US$37.3 billion) in gaming taxation to the Macau government, and achieved commission income that peaked at as much as "HKD20 billion" (US$2.56 billion) a year, Mr Leong claimed.
The rolling chip turnover that Suncity Group had achieved in its heyday had rivalled that of the "Macau casino operators", Mr Leong added, referring latterly to the underlying gaming business of the concessionaires and sub-concessionaires.
He questioned whether a company with "huge income" like Suncity Group would need illicit gains from under-the-table betting. The "multiplier" is said to be a private arrangement where the face value of the player's bet shown on a table is multiplied many times for the purposes of play and bet settlement. That system is also said to be a way of avoiding the near-40 percent tax that would otherwise be due on gross bets properly declared.
No incentive to risk legit business
Defence lawyer Mr Leong observed in his summing up, referring to evidence offered by the prosecution in the weeks-long trial, that "the Judiciary Police said the illicit gains generated from under-the-table betting amounted to over HKD21 billion [US$2.6 billion] throughout the years from 2013 to 2021″.
But he added: "Such amount is only minimal in proportion to the commission income it [Suncity Goup] had earned, which ranged from HKD14 billion to HKD20 billion [a year]."
The lawyer further noted that with the "scale" Suncity Group had, "and…the social status that Mr Chau had, would he really have risked – with the thousands of workers he employed – committing these illegal activities?"
The idea of such a criminal motive was " illogical, which we hope the court will consider," said the legal counsel.
Mr Leong also noted evidence given in court by staff from the city's casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, a body also known as DICJ, that they had not found any "irregularities" or received an "complaints" against Suncity Group.
The Judiciary Police had been able to support their accusations against Mr Chau and Suncity Group for the under-the-table bets only via some financial data found on the company's server, but did not have corroborating records of real table play from either the Macau casino regulator or the casino operators, to prove the the existence of under-the-table bets, Mr Leong also stressed.
During the trial, the Judiciary Police had also stated in court that several multiplier-bet groups had been formed over a number of years, and that some of them were directly operated by Suncity Group. Mr Leong countered that the police had admitted they had not yet been able to identify money transactions of the alleged multiplier bet groups, or to find out who were their purported shareholders. There was a lack of proof that Mr Chau had made gains from the alleged multiplier bet groups, Mr Leong argued.
The Tuesday session has also heard from a number of other lawyers concluding their respective defence of Mr Chau's co-accused: including people that were formerly Suncity Group senior executives.
Also in court were lawyers for Macau operators Wynn Macau Ltd, MGM China Holdings Ltd, SJM Holdings Ltd, Sands China Ltd, and Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. Those firms are separately claiming civil damages for losses allegedly arising from under-the-table betting linked to Suncity Group.
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Money's too tight to mention (but DIY can't do it all)!
Money's too tight to mention! In this new environment where an access to almost everything is given from a single click, many are those of us who've ended up mistakin' themselves, thinkin' we could deal with everything, and therefore instantly reach the next stage… This is just forgetting about the necessary time we need to get the savoir-faire. Itself only being one half of the job done with the second one (and it's a way other one) being the… faire-savoir!
Of course, DIY (do it yourself) has ended up prevailing for a big majority of us. With this for obvious financial reasons. But let's be honest at least for a while… Has this contributed to make our world as our daily life better at the end?
One might tend to think that we to some extend have become autonomous. This in comparison to a relatively recent period when we needed a surrounding in order to achieve certain things. Like the publication of a magazine for instance, the shooting of a video or the recording of a piece of music. As many things speakin' of which lesser people are needed nowadays. With thanks to the assistance of an ever performing technology!
Of course, each of us is in the position to reach way more people nowadays. This while using the self-proclaimed social networks. But is this really it?!?
Let's have a quick look at what artists have to do these days in order to at least exist… First and foremost, they would need to put out music. Meaning, for a big majority of them, putting their own money as advance for the people they're working with (singers, musicians, sound engineers). But also the artworks, the conditioning of their products, then some distribution deal. With many of them still thinking that this is pretty much about it! Fine then, but what about the necessary communication, just like the in house PR/marketing services use to do in the few remaining major companies???
Money's too tight to mention. But wait a minute, as this is just half of the job done. Besides, if ever we only needed talent to make it, this would have been standing as an evidence for quite some time already, huh?
Alright, you might then object that the evolution of technology has been synonymous with the arrival a whole bunch of useful tools. Beginning with websites, platforms and social networks to spread the word. But how about the time one needs to put out a website… From being familiar with its use. But also its running which means dealing simultaneously with so many challenges???
Any doubt about this? Google is full of countless interesting topics regarding the matter… Then how about the time to set up a real base of likers or followers on the social networks? How about the time required to really know as to how they're working? To interact in an optimal way with the fans? Then when, and if ever this achieved which is a big every day task, what and how about reaching the major media (radios, TV's). And, by that, a massive audience???
"Money's too tight to mention…" This gets me back to what some of my friends doin' PR regularly tell me about artists, independent labels remaining inactive when suggested to spend a bit of extra money on external communication. With this being nothing – like it or not – but another necessary part of the faire-savoir… Forgetting the fact that getting radio airplay is certainly the shortest way to get return on that specific investment. With more to be read in an informative article by the likes of Christopher Knab on Music Biz Academy.
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Even a draw would have left Germany needing to win their final game against South Korea while hoping the Swedes lost to Mexico. "The main thing is that we score one goal more than Mexico after 90 minutes, and if it will come in the 85th minute that's quite alright", Prahl said.
It is another weird story during this World Cup so far, along with Gareth Southgate dislocating his shoulder and a dancing bear celebrating Russia's opening win. The congress in Moscow is set to choose the host or hosts for the 2026 World Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo became Europe's all-time leading scorer as Portugal beat Morocco 1-0 in their FIFA World Cup Group B match here at the Luzhniki Stadium here on Wednesday.
Cilic, who was the runner-up at Wimbledon past year and at the Australian Open this season, will be playing his fourth Queen's Club final. "As expected a couple of points made the difference in the tiebreaks". Despite missing out on a set point at 5-4, last year's Wimbledon finalist was too strong in the first-set tiebreaker and went on to win nine points in a row to secure the second set and the match.
Timo Werner said he was nearly in tears after Toni Kroos' 95th-minute victor rescued German hopes of qualifying for the World Cup last 16. The Swedes looked like securing a draw until Kroos struck deep into stoppage time to secure a 2-1 win and emotions boiled over after the final whistle as an angry Sweden coach Janne Andersson accused German officials of taunting his side.
And the pressure is.you can see how close it is between us all. "It's really, really great to have this result, and a one-two". Defending champion Hamilton, who also topped both practice sessions on Friday, and teammate Bottas benefited from an engine upgrade that Mercedes had failed to roll out in the last round when Hamilton lost the lead to Vettel.
If the referee hasn't seen it then fair enough but why aren't they looking at it? ". In the letter addressed to FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Caboclo questions the "conduct of the referee Mr. He said: "Would it have been given in the Premier League?" How has it gone so far? Action had been allowed to continue for a significant period before the ball next went out of play and referee Andres Cunha paused things in order to look at a replay of the incident.
Lionel Messi is yet to score a goal in this tournament and even missed a penalty against Iceland in Argentina's first game. They've been bad when they featured Messi and bad when making Messi's game secondary to the team. With their strongest squad for years and in pole position in the group, Croatia dream of rivalling the glories of 1998, when they reached the World Cup semi-finals and finished third after a 2-1 win over the Netherlands in the playoff.
And look where he's at today. "And then Collin, we got to get there with experience as well". Colin Sexton, flanked by Koby Altman and Tyronn Lue at his introductory presser in Independence. "Always wanted to win here". And our guys, our young guys, got some really good experience this year. 'You can't be thinking how this pick will impact what James is going to do'.
Martinez insisted he was giving no thought to whether it might be better to finish second rather than top the group, which carries a risk of running into Brazil or Germany in the quarter-finals. "We played well and scored five goals". Speaking in an interview with Sky Sports , Hazard said: "As the captain, even if I am not the captain I can talk, on the pitch I try to give my best, if I can help players to be better - I will".
The defending champion raced into a 4-0 lead in the first set before being pegged back by Gavrilova in a match lasting almost one hour 20 minutes. Strycova beat the top-seeded Spaniard, 6-4, 6-4, in one hour, 26 minutes. "I'm going to practice more to get ready for Wimbledon". You know last time I was really just enjoying being on the grass playing tennis. Kvitova said: "I played Julia a couple times this year, but not on grass, probably never on grass".
With Doncic playing competitively for most of the past 10 months, the Mavs believe he would benefit more from a break than from playing in the NBA's summer league . "We've got to understand that he is 19", Dallas coach Rick Carlisle said, via MacMahon . NO BALL . Although no longer a devout one for sure, I was raised a Roman Catholic and I still practice some of the virtues I was taught growing up, including this: Do not rejoice in the misery of others .
Kroos' goal from a set piece came in the fifth and final minute of injury time. Germany's Sunday night hero Kroos, after the match, said his last-gasp victor to seal a dramatic 2-1 win for Germany over Sweden made amends for his earlier mistake and kept the holders' World Cup dreams alive.
The hapless Koreans, who have no points after two matches and have only won one of their last 11 World Cup fixtures, will be eliminated if Sweden draw or win against Germany. "What often happens against teams with less history is that the human being tends to relax but we dedicated all week to making sure we did not let that happen and fortunately the message didn't get lost among all the praise the team has received", he said.
Prior to this injury, the Pelicans were expected to be in line to offer him a max contract in free agency, but there is no certainty that he can return to being the player he was before this major ailment. "I was just really in total shock because I wasn't expecting it to happen", Howard said . "This season I made the most jump shots that I've made my whole career".


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It's finally here! The long awaited Capitol Couture summer issue has arrived in style. Titled "Zoetic Sol", it features an exciting look at our favourite unpredictable victor from District 7, Johanna Mason.
"Summer in the Capitol beckons leisure and repose. It's a season devoted to lighter, frothier fashion and whimsical pursuits. Join us in stylish recess and loyalty with Zoetic Sol."
Check out the pictures below (click to enlarge), and head over to CC for the full profile!


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Our research team analyzes every real estate transaction in every town to verify who the Top Producers are in your community. Our statistical modeling system analyzes a number of factors to determine our Agent Productivity Index, including; the number of transactions, days on the market, actual price versus original price, etc. And since all real estate is 'local', we then take the numerical result and compare it against all the other agents in that community. That gives us an accurate representation of the most productive agents as they relate to each other in that community. So no matter where you live, you can be confident of the result. We take the integrity of our recommendations very seriously. It is the basic principle of our business.
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Hardee's has brought back their Pork Chop 'N' Gravy Biscuit!
It was introduced back in 2008, taken off the menu, brought back in 2013, taken off the menu again, and, fast forward to 2016, now it's back for a limited time.
The breakfast sandwich features a boneless, deep-fried pork chop in between two layers of sausage gravy, all of which is sandwiched between Hardee's Made From Scratch Biscuit. It's available at participating locations and can be ordered by itself for $2.89, or as a combo meal with hash rounds and a drink for $4.59. Prices may vary by location.
If you've tried it, let us know what you think of it in the comments. And if you're reading this a few weeks from now when it disappears again, voice your frustration about it being gone again in the comments.
I love the pork chop and gravy biscuit. Please let it stay on the menu!!!
Please leave the pork chop and gravy biscuit on the menu permanently. I go out of my way to buy when they are on the menu.
The pork chop biscuit is the best breakfast one can get through a drive through. Please keep it on the menu. No one else does it better.
I don't eat the gravy but I love the plain pork chop biscuit. I never go to Hardee's when it's not on the menu. Please keep it.
Our local Hardee's isn't even carrying it. I really liked that breakfast sandwich before (2013). When you work night shift, you aren't interested in breakfast food. This was acceptable as after work meal. Too bad they can't seem to keep this on the menu or on the menu at all, in my case. I have a coupon I got in my paper, but our Hardee's doesn't have it on the menu. Disappointing.
Pleasantly surprised by pork chop biscuit! It's delicious! The quality of the pork chop is great-not processed-but genuine boneless chop. It's tender and the gravy is just the right touch. One of the best breakfast sandwiches around! It's a keeper!
Love the porkchop and gravy biscuit. I travel 30 minutes just to get this sandwich. Best sandwich ever.
Please leave the pork chop and gravy biscuit on the menu. It is a very good biscuit.
We just had it on the way home from Panama City Beach FL. Stopped at Hardee's in Alabama. It was excellent! They are building a new Hardee's here by us in Monroe MI. I sure hope they have it!


Fleet telematics can help construction companies increase equipment utilization and profitability.
Combine telecommunications, especially wireless telecommunications, with informatics, a branch of computer science that involves information systems, and you get telematics. The context these days is usually vehicle or fleet telematics, which can provide actionable information to fleet managers, including construction fleet managers.
Simply put, "Telematics is the remote monitoring of equipment and vehicles via any number of electronic methods," said Mike Bierschbach, director of fleet intelligence and technology for United Rentals.
A telematics device, aka "black box," typically contains a GPS receiver, a small computer control board and a cellular or satellite antenna. It collects and stores data and sends it wirelessly to a cloud server and ultimately to the user interface, accessed on a computer or smartphone.
These devices can be installed by the manufacturer in the factory or by third parties. When the manufacturer installs the device, it's often hardwired into the CAN bus, the machine's "brain center." Construction OEMs such as John Deere, Komatsu and Volvo install telematics devices in many of their construction vehicles. Each manufacturer has a corresponding telematics software system.
When United Rentals adds telematics devices to vehicles and equipment in its rental fleet, it uses a custom wiring harness to connect the device to the engine and other key components such as the fuel gauge.
The data provided depends on the telematics system. It can be as simple as location and run hours or as advanced as hydraulic pressure and capacity overloads. Some systems can monitor fluid levels and/or the temperature of critical engine parts, for example, and then send alerts via text message or email when the equipment needs maintenance or is in danger of breaking down. In the case of on-road vehicles, information on speed, turning and braking can clue a manager into aggressive driving habits.
Use equipment more efficiently. Managers can easily see equipment that's sitting idle and allocate it to other jobsites or return it if it's rented.
Reduce equipment downtime through predictive maintenance.
Prevent unauthorized use of equipment. A telematics system can send alerts when a piece of equipment moves outside a certain geographic area (geofencing) or is used outside of a given time frame (time-fencing). Some systems enable operators to remotely disable a machine to prevent it from operating outside of those parameters.
Lower insurance premiums. Targeted driver training based on identified driving behavior can reduce the risk that vehicles will be involved in accidents or that drivers will get ticketed while on the job. Better driving records can help managers of on-road fleets get breaks on insurance premiums.
Telematics benefits managers in industries such as power and mining in addition to construction fleet managers.
As OEM telematics systems in particular become more sophisticated and offer more data, some construction contractors may find themselves faced with having more information than solutions. But using telematics to see even the most basic data points, such as where equipment is located and whether it's idle, can help reduce costs by boosting equipment utilization.
Beyond fleet telematics, telematics solutions for construction tools and also materials are on their way. Their advent will likely make telematics an even larger driver of increased productivity on jobsites.


A new Trent class lifeboat has been allocated to Dunbar lifeboat station, in the Scottish Borders, after their own boat, Sir Ronald Pechell Bt, was damaged beyond repair when she grounded on the rock armouring of Torness Power Station on 21 March.
In a force ten gale, the boat's moorings broke and she was swept onto rocks causing very serious damage to hull and keel, although the boat remained intact. The Trent lifeboat, built in 1996, was damaged beyond repair and has now been permanently replaced by another newer Trent lifeboat, John Neville Taylor, which has been reallocated from the relief fleet.
John Neville Taylor, which travelled from the RNLI Headquarters at Poole via Dover, Lowestoft, Grimsby, and Whitby, arrived on 3 May 2008 and was escorted into Dunbar harbour by Windsor Runner (Civil Service No.42), the lifeboat which has been on temporary duty since the station's own boat was damaged.


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A'town News 72-22: From crisis to hope in battle to save our surrounds
FOR LOVE OF NATURE: Volunteers help award-winning nature activist Aaron Kelly dig out a wildlife pool on Divis Mountain this year
You'll find plenty to celebrate in this half-century supplement championing not only this great community paper, but the community that it served. It's a half-century journey of triumph over adversity in so many areas of life.
Dúlra would love to be able to add to this general feelgood atmosphere, but when it comes to the environment, Greta Thunberg is right. It's in a state of absolute crisis. But Dúlra is torn between two worlds.
He feels he has to highlight the incessant deterioration of our countryside, but he also has to celebrate the new generation who fully understand the importance of nature and whose successes are reported week after week in the news pages of this paper. And it's the passionate determination of our young people about the environment that will surely triumph.
They know the importance of nature in a way their parents and grandparents, by and large, didn't. No matter how cold it is, you'll find young people on our hills and in our parks planting trees, volunteering for litter lifts or even digging out ponds on our hillsides.
Unlike Dúlra's generation, they know that the survival of nature is intertwined with their own survival. In simple terms, if the bees vanish, the human race won't be far behind them. In the 1970s, schoolboy Dúlra collected birds' eggs – as did all his mates.
It's impossible to measure the damage we did, each teen with scores of hollowed out shells resting on sawdust in old chocolate boxes or biscuit tins, usually kept under the bed. We never once thought it was wrong – in fact it wasn't much different from the attitude of the gentry a century earlier who shot every bird they could find, stuffing them for their private collections.
You could fill a book with the fabulous birds that were shot into extinction in Ireland, from the bittern that features in so many Irish language songs and poems, to the crane and the eagles and the ospreys. The good news is that not a single young person today would ever consider doing something so damaging as collecting birds' eggs.
They're much too aware of the importance of the natural world. For the last half-century, nature has been collateral damage as we put our own welfare and wants before everything. Even in the last few years, many hedgerows around Belfast have been chopped down.
There's one incident from Dúlra's youth that perhaps more than any other highlights how much things have changed. It was the day he actually got his hands on a bird that today is considered one of the most endangered in the world.
It's hard to believe that the rare corncrake bred, not just on the Belfast Hills – from Dúlra's street you could hear them calling – but in the city itself in places like Horner's field beside the Gaeltacht homes, on Stockman's Lane and Smicker's field which is now Coolnasilla.
One day, the young Dúlra answered a knock at the front door to find two boys, even younger than him, holding a cardboard box. "Are you the guy who keep birds?" one of the asked. Dúlra said he did – in the shed he had zebra finches, canaries and an an assortment of wild birds he'd managed to trap.
"We found this down in Smicker's field and we think it's injured," they said. Dúlra peered into the box and saw a… corncrake! He put it the aviary overnight before taking it back to Smicker's field and releasing it, apparently unharmed. Today, of course, you'll have to go to the western fringes of Donegal to hear the corncrake's famous call.
If there's a story that better illustrates how nature in West Belfast has changed, he's yet to hear it. Of all the adventures Dúlra reported on, the obituary he wrote for terrier Shep always stands out as a great tail, sorry tale.
Dúlra can safely say it was the first obituary for a dog ever printed in the Andersontown News – before or since! Mountain man Steek Megaw's beloved dog was killed on the Glen Road – and truth be told, it was no surprise to us.
Because Shep loved those hills so much that when we had walked the legs of ourselves and decided to head back home, Shep simply refused. We'd whistle and holler and cajole, but to no avail.
So we'd just leave him up there all in his own, chasing rabbits though ditches until he tired himself out and returned of his own accord, hours later when darkness fell and he was exhausted. But without a person to see him across the busy Glen Road on a lead, it was always treacherous – and one day he paid the ultimate price.
Two stories about Shep stood out for Dúlra which demanded mention in his obit. One Sunday, after Dúlra and Steek traipsed all over Black Mountain, we went home without him, as usual. He'd return that night, we thought. But he didn't. Nor the next day.
Three days later, Steek appeared at the door. He'd have to head back to the mountain, retrace our steps and hope to find some sign his beloved dog. It was teeming and for a moment Dúlra considered saying no and letting Steek go on his own.
But he couldn't let him down. And so, wet and miserable, we zigzagged our way to the summit once more, calling and whistling. We'd shout his name down rabbit warrens and badger sets. It was futile, Shep was clearly gone. And then… a faint yelp came from one of the old badger sets now used by rabbits at the summit. Shep was down there, stuck.
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We walked to the nearby quarry and borrowed two long-tail shovels off the watchman and started to dig. The crater we excavated can still be seen from space, along with Great Wall of China. Dúlra remembers finally seeing Shep's face trapped between two boulders. Steek reached deep down and freed him.
Shep was as skinny as a rake and as weak as water. But he was alive! We took him home – on a lead – both of us covered from hair to toe in muck.
Another time young Dúlra was getting the number 13 bus into town one Saturday afternoon when he realised Shep had followed him on and was sitting under the seat.
The town was so busy that Dúlra lost him in the crowds, and had the whole bus journey back home to think about how he was going to explain losing Shep to his owner.
Dúlra was sweating blood walking up to Steek's house – how could you explain taking someone's dog all the way into town and then losing it? And as Dúlra approached the front door, who was sitting there but Shep.
And do you know what? When a delighted and relieved Dúlra shouted "Shep!" the dog just looked the other way, as if to say, You're dead to me! Anyway, it's been an honour to write about the environment for this newspaper for 31 years now.
The last half-century has seen unimaginable changes in West Belfast society, but the new awareness of environmental issues among young people is perhaps the most overlooked.
But it could well be, at the end of the day, the most significant of them all.
Go raibh maith agaibh.
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We say that PolitiFact's graphs and charts, including its PunditFact collections of ratings for news networks, routinely mislead readers. But PolitiFact Editor Angie Drobnic Holan says there isn't much reader confusion.
Ho-hum. Another day, another example showing that PolitiFact's charts and graphs mislead its readers.
When Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced he was running for president, PolitiFact was on the case looking for clicks by publishing one of its misleading graphs of Booker's (subjective) "Truth-O-Meter" ratings.
PolitiFact used a pie chart visual with its Facebook posting:
Note the absence of any disclaimer admitting that selection bias affects story selection, along with no mention of the fundamental subjectivity of the "Truth-O-Meter" ratings.
How is this type of graph supposed to help inform PolitiFact's readers? We say it misinforms readers, such as those making these types of comments (actual comments from PolitiFact's Facebook page in response to the Booker posting):
"A pretty sad state of affairs when a candidate lies or exaggerates 35% of the time."
"Funny how Politifact find Trump lying about 70% of the time."
"(W)hile that's much better than (T)rump's scorecard, it's not honest enough for my tastes."
PolitiFact seems to want people to vote for the candidate with the best-looking scorecard. But given that the ratings are subjective and the stories are selected in a non-random manner (nearly guaranteeing selection bias), the "best" scorecard is, in effect, an editorial position based on opinions, not facts.
PolitiFact is selling editorials to its readers with these graphs.
Many in the fact-checking community oppose the use of gimmicky meters (FactCheck.org, Full Fact (UK), for example). If the International Fact-Checking Network and PolitiFact were not both under the auspices of the Poynter Institute then perhaps we'd soon see an end to the cheesy meters.
Correction May 3, 2019: We did XI twice! We updated the second XI to change the title to XII and now we're changing the title of this one to XIII.
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'Sunday, I'll for sure be there' | Kanye West fans react to rapper's pending visit to Lakewood Church
West, who has a new gospel album, accepted an invitation from Lakewood Pastor Joel Osteen.
Author: Jason Miles
HOUSTON — Many people are singing the praises of Kanye West's pending visit to Lakewood Church.
"Oh, yeah. Sunday, I'll for sure be there," said Caleb Hodder of Houston.
Hodder and his friend were reading about the visit before our interview and said it's even more motivation to attend the mega church he's been to before.
"I'm a big Kanye West fan," Hodder said. "I was a fan before he became a Christian. But I also believe in Jesus, so it's like two worlds clashing, which, is like, for me, it's just awesome."
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"I was skeptical at first," said Melanie Hugele of Cypress. "And thought, 'OK, let me just really see how this guy is.' He seems legit. He seems like his heart has really changed. So I wish him all the best."
Lakewood Pastor Joel Osteen invited West to his church about two weeks ago. It was soon after the release of the rapper's gospel album called "Jesus is King."
"It's only available digitally right now," said Cris Acuna of Cactus Records. "But we've had several people asking about it."
Acuna has also been a longtime Kanye West fan. But she isn't planning to make the short drive to Lakewood Church this weekend.
"I have many reservations about the whole thing," Acuna said. "It seems kind of weird to me."
West has conducted Sunday services on his own property in California in addition to venues around the country. He's even performed on the street. But his Lakewood Church visit might not include music at all.
In a brief blast to Lakewood congregants, the church simply states an "inspiring service" is planned Sunday morning with a "brief conversation" between Osteen and West.
However, TMZ reported West was bringing his own choir for an evening performance at the church.
Lakewood said more details would be released in the coming days.
"If he doesn't perform, that's OK," Hodder said. "Just because I've watched his interviews when he's just talking, and if we can get some of that, that would be awesome."
At this point, KHOU 11 has not received any information concerning logistics come Sunday. But under normal circumstances, church attendance at Lakewood Church is free. There is also free parking and plenty of security supplemented by Houston Police officers who work extra duty.
Late Tuesday, KHOU 11 confirmed that West will perform at Lakewood on Sunday at 7 p.m.
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Technology impacts every facet of business in the 21st Century. The Greater Killeen Chamber of Commerce, through its Information Technology Council, will be leaders in the adoption, knowledge-sharing, and advocacy of the Chamber.
PURPOSE: Provide unique value to investors with technology components to their business.
PURPOSE: Position the Chamber as regional leader in Technology.
OBJECTIVE 1: Create a forum for investors with technology components where they can build relationships that enhance professional development, share ideas, and gain new insights to enhance the productive impact of technology on their organizations.
OBJECTIVE 1: Advise the professional staff of the Chamber on how to best leverage technology.
OBJECTIVE 2: Develop educational programs for Chamber Investors.
OBJECTIVE 3: Develop policy position recommendations related to local and regional technology issues. Serve as a technology industry advocate to educate local and state leaders about the unique issues and requirements of high-tech businesses.
OBJECTIVE 4: Support the attraction of high-tech business to the region.
The Chair of the Advisory Committee is appointed by the GKCC Board of Directors.
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The IT Council are individual representatives of GKCC Investors at Leadership Investor or higher.
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John Molloy Gallery is pleased to announce "GEOMETRIES, American Geometric Abstraction 1880 – 2016", opening January 14th, 2016. The exhibition adds a new dimension to this canon in American Art with the inclusion of Plains and Plateau Indian Parfleches from the 1880s to the early 20th century. Fifty years before Ilya Bolotowsky made his work, these rawhide objects were painted with geometric motifs and primary colors, using a visually similar pictorial language. The lines, shapes, composition and color of the Native American works provide a stunning comparison to the more contemporary works included here by such artists as Bolotowsky, Betty Parsons and Larissa Nowicki. Comparisons between indigenous and modern art are classic art historical conversations, with our understanding of each body of work enriched by an enlarged context.
"GEOMETRIES" includes a collection of painted parfleche from various tribes, including Lakota, Umatilla and an especially notable pair of historically and artistically important Crow Indian horse armor. This is only one of three pair extant. The bold colors and form as well as the abstracted celestial imagery make this beautiful pair a significant statement in the history of American abstraction. It is a striking companion to the large "Rising Tondo" by Ilya Bolotowsky from 1968, as well as to the Betty Parsons mixed media "Eye of the Cross" from 1976.
Parfleche is painted in what was essentially a fresco technique. The intensely saturated color is as bold and vibrant as the commercial pigments used by the later artists on canvas or wood. The circular motif and saturated color is reflected in Andy Hammerstein's painting, "Sunspot," and again in new work by Larissa Nowicki. Meticulously woven paper constructions are Nowicki's signature geometric vocabulary.
The Betty Parsons mixed media constructions from the 1970's share the spontaneity of the parfleche paintings, and make reference to the natural world. Painted wooden geometries of a different sort are found in new paintings by Max Estenger, whose work is in a group show at the University of Denver Museum, "Learning to See Color" from January 14 to March 6, 2016. Estenger is having a mid-career survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ from February 13 to May 29, 2016.
Cognitive science confirms that the bold colors and shapes used by all the artists exhibited here reach beyond cultural boundaries to specific neural receptors in our brains. From a purely visual perspective, before any discussion of intent or influence, this exhibition broadens the category of American Geometric Abstraction in America.
"GEOMETRIES" opens with an artists' reception Thursday, January 14th from 6-8 pm and runs through February 27th, 2016.
Larissa Nowicki, untitled, woven paper, 5 x 6 3/4"


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Islam... Is our Religion!: What Your Tree? What do you want to be?
What Your Tree? What do you want to be?
>forget to change the subject line to your tree.
>very generous, many talents, loves children, needs affectionate partner.
>companion, keen on keeping fit (diets, sports, etc.).
>little ambition, creates a calm and content atmosphere.
>optimism, waits for the one true love, able to make quick decisions.
>loyal in love, physically fit.
>knowledge, needs to be needed.
>noble-minded, generous, good sense of humor, practical.
>loves to read and the company of sophisticated people.
>esteem, needs affection and reassurance.
>in any situation, takes partnership seriously.
>passionate, emotional, good company, does not forgive.
>jealous and passionate, no compromise.
>find that one loyal, steadfast partner; loves to make others laugh.
hmm, this sounds a little like horoscopes (u know, predicting the future and the like)which is haram because only Allah (SWT) knows what will happen to us and is in control of our hearts.


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Martha Raddatz is ABC News chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." She has covered national security, foreign policy and politics for decades – reporting from the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House and conflict zones around the world.
She began covering war during the crisis in Bosnia in the late 1990s, but it is Iraq and Afghanistan where she has spent most of her time overseas. Even during her stint as White House correspondent during President George W. Bush's administration, she continued to make regular trips into war-torn Iraq.
Raddatz embedded with U.S. forces during dozens of trips abroad, from the sands of Al Anbar province to the mountains of the Hindu Kush. She is the only television reporter allowed to fly in an F-15 fighter jet on combat missions over Afghanistan, spending nearly 10 hours in the air on two separate missions. In 2011 she reported exclusive details on the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. That same year she was one of the few reporters on the last major convoy out of Iraq. She also had an exclusive interview on the USS Kearsarge off the coast of Libya with the Marines who helped rescue two American pilots who had gone down in Libya. In 2012, Raddatz was on a U.S. destroyer as it made its way through the Strait of Hormuz. Raddatz reported exclusively from the USS George H.W. Bush, covering the airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq in 2014, and again in March 2016 from the USS Truman. In 2015, she was granted exclusive access to the anti-ISIS command center at an undisclosed location in the Middle East and anchored "This Week" from an air base from which drone warfare is conducted.
In addition, her reporting trips have taken her to Yemen, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey, Libya, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and numerous countries in Africa and Asia.
In October 2012, Raddatz moderated the only Vice Presidential debate between Congressman Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden, which covered both domestic and foreign topics. Post-debate Raddatz received an outpouring of praise for asking pointed questions on a range of issues while asserting control over the conversation. She received the Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in political journalism with a special commendation for debate moderation. During the 2016 election Raddatz co-moderated the Democratic and Republican primary presidential debates on ABC as well a presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, for which she once again received praise for her moderating skills.
From 1993-1998, Raddatz was the Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). Prior to joining NPR in 1993, she was the chief correspondent at the ABC News Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. In addition to covering several Presidential campaigns, she reported from the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines and Europe.
In 2012, Raddatz received the First Amendment Award from the Radio Television Digital News Foundation (RTDNF) for excellence in journalism, as well as the prestigious Fred Friendly First Amendment Award. She received four Emmy Awards, including an Emmy for being on the team covering the inauguration of Barack Obama, the attacks of September 11th and the killing of Osama Bin Laden. She was also the recipient of the 2007 International Urbino Press Award, the 2005 Daniel Pearl Award from the Chicago Journalists Association, and a 1996 Overseas Press Club Award for her live coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. In 2007 the White House Correspondents' Association awarded her the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for excellence in Presidential news coverage under deadline pressure.
Raddatz is the author of The Long Road Home—a Story of War and Family, a highly acclaimed book about a battle in Iraq that made both The New York Times and The Washington Post bestseller lists. The Washington Post described the book as "a masterpiece of literary non-fiction that rivals any war-related classic that has preceded it."
Raddatz is the mother of a daughter and a son. She is also on the board of the Bob Woodruff Foundation that supports wounded veterans and their families.
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Q: Django model form field language is not changing I am using django 2.2. and python 3.6. Bootstrap 4.
I have a template and crispy form inserted in template.
This form is created from model.
There is an imagefield field in model.
photo = models.ImageField(upload_to="staff/", null=True, blank=True, verbose_name=_("Fotoğraf"))

The crispyform is creating the field in the template but the language shown in the field is english. But i want to show turkish language.
The Choose File and Browse should be turkish.
So i changed settings.py as;
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'tr-tur'

But still it is written Choose File and Browse in the field in the page.

You can see in the screenshot that everything is Turkish language except "Choose File" and "Browse".

A: "Choose file" and "Browse" don't become translated, because this is a part of bootstrap generated fields.
You can try to create pseudo class as described here in Translating or customizing the strings section. Shortly, as CSS code it should be like this:
$custom-file-text: (
  en: "Browse",
  es: "Elegir"
);

A: Problem is solved. First of all to change "Choose File" part:
Add a script that will change the label textContent,
<script>
var input = document.getElementById('id_photo');
var label = input.labels[1];
label.textContent = 'Dosya Seçin'
</script>

Secondly to change Browse part you have to edit bootstrap.min.css and change custom-file-label parts content:"Browse" to content:"What ever you want" there may be multiple content:"Browse" definitions, change all.

A: Try to change Django's default language in built-in forms, by including 'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware' in MIDDLEWARE, in settings.py


ASTORIA, OR – The popularity of homestay lodging booked on platforms including but not limited to AirBnB and VRBO has opened up the need to create guidelines and enforcement for such short-term rentals that will not take away long term rental opportunities. Homeowners have also been looking to the City for clarity regarding opening their homes as short-term vacation rentals on these advertising sites.
At the December 3, 2018 City Council Meeting City Council adopted the City Ordinance for Home Stay Lodging Licenses and staff began to develop the process for home owners to apply for a permit to use their occupied home as a short term vacation rental. The Permit process ensures that facilities are appropriately located; meet zoning requirements; adhere to safety regulations and don't reduce the number of potential long-term housing units. Vacation (whole house) rentals have only been permitted in commercial zones, where hotels and motels are currently located.
Starting this week, Astoria residents may apply for Homestay Lodging Permits through the City of Astoria Community Development Department.
The HOMESTAY LODGING on the City website contains the Homestay Lodging Permit Application Packet with a step by step guide to understand the requirements to start your own homestay facility as well as the materials to gather, and licenses and permits required to remain compliant. The FAQ section will provide additional information and definitions.
City staff will also be holding specific "office hours" on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM to submit applications or for help answering questions and filling out forms. You may also request an appointment outside of those hours by calling 503-338-5183 or emailing comdevadmin@astoria.or.us.


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Today, advances in manufacturing technology has allowed for the fabrication of lightweight, intricate and high quality moulding at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods. They have become so easy to install that any capable homeowner can tackle the project in a matter of days. The many advantages of plaster coated foam moulding has made interior moulding accessible to everyone. These are just a few.
TRIMROC™ Interior Plaster Moulding are made with a polystyrene foam core that is coated with a durable cementitious basecoat and a revolutionary, smooth acrylic finish. It is manufactured in one piece as opposed to multiple layers of wood used in traditional moulding options, saving time and labour. Due to this unique manufacturing process, TRIMROC™ moulding products are extremely light when compared to traditional moulding products which makes installation fast and easy.
Another great feature of TRIMROC™ Interior Plaster Mouldings is the simplicity in the execution. TRIMROC™ eliminates the need for nails, screws, clips, clamps or fasteners of any kind. All that is needed is a mitre saw and drywall compound. Some sandpaper and a variety of putty knives may also be required to achieve a proper finished look. Any competent do-it-yourselfer can now add their desired decorations with a basic skillset.
Don't let the lightweight easy to use nature of TRIMROC™ give you the wrong impression. The tough, high quality plaster coating gives it a clean, durable finish that will last for years to come and still look great years later. The materials that make up TRIMROC™ mouldings results in a very strong and stable product. It does not expand or contract so it is not susceptible to warping like traditional wood moulding.
The low cost of TRIMROC™ moulding makes adding these decorative features an easy option for homeowners. Especially those unsure about the perceived high costs associated with decorating their home with moulding. In reality, homeowners can save as much as 25% off the cost of materials when compared to traditional moulding options such as full plaster moulding and even more when considering custom wood moulding. Since it's so easy to install, they can save all of the labour costs by doing it themselves. If you would rather have a professional do the work, there is still a significant cost savings because of the quick turnaround time of installation.
All TRIMROC™ products are available in a variety of styles that are sure to fit the design of any space and will add character to mundane, uninspired rooms throughout the home. Contact us today and our designers will work with you to achieve that perfect look.


Welcome to the Lenscraft Newsletter December 2017.
This month, I want to share how I fixed a long-term space issue on my computer. If you use photo editing software from the likes of Adobe, Topaz or On1, you probably have lots of wasted space. You also probably don't know about this unless you're near to filling your hard drive. Please don't be put off by the technical appearance of the screen shots, this is much easier to fix than it may appear.
I also want to tell you about the new Kase filters I have begun to use, switching from Lee. If you use filters and don't know about Kase Wolverine, you need to read this.
Finally, if your fed up with Black Friday/Cyber Monday special offers that aren't special, I have an antidote – news about the Lenscraft Christmas Gift.
When I purchased my last Windows desktop PC, I had it custom built. Prior to this my computers often struggled to run Lightroom / Photoshop. Despite this being a big investment, I still believe it was the right decision. Even now, some 4 years later the PC is very fast and handles huge files without a problem.
Despite the great performance from this PC, it hasn't been without problem. It came with Windows 7 Pro loaded and when launched, I would receive a free upgrade to Windows 10.
All the drives in my computer were swapped around and given new drive letters (except for the C: drive). This caused many of my software applications to stop working. Worse still, if you tried to uninstall the "broken" application, the uninstall routine failed. I had to spend hours manually removing these software packages and reinstalling them.
Although my C: drive which ran Windows wasn't remapped, it had another problem. It appeared to fill up, going from about 40% full to over 90%.
At this point I need to share a few technical details about my computer hardware. My C: drive is what's known as a Solid State Drive (SSD) and is only 111Gb. These drives are very fast and very expensive which is why it's quite small. The design of the computer is that this SSD drive will be used to run Windows, allowing the computer to start up in seconds.
The computer is also fitted with a second 250Gb SSD drive where I install applications. This drive is also partitioned to create two further logic drives (50Gb each). These are used as scratch disks by Lightroom and Photoshop. Scratch disks are used for memory caching by both applications when working with large files. Because the SSD driver are many times faster than a standard hard drive (almost as fast as memory), they can dramatically improve performance.
You can see my drive configuration in the dialog box below.
If you check the C: drive in the screenshot, you will see that it now has 35.3Gb of free space. Prior to the clean-up that I'm about to explain, this drive had less than 1Gb free and would run out of space almost weekly. This was a big headache when you consider all that was installed on the drive was Windows.
The reason I realised I had a space issue was because my C: drive is small. Fortunately, because it was a Solid State Drive, the computer performance wasn't dramatically hurt (it's now better following the clean up). But had this drive been a traditional hard drive, the lack of space would have slowed it to a crawl. It's quite likely that you will be able to free up Gb of space on your computer that could be hurting its performance.
Here's how I fixed my problem.
I installed a free application called WinDirStat. A quick Google search will give you lots of options for where to download this from (I usually use CNet). This is a great application that will analyse the contents of a hard drive and allow you to explore what's taking up the space.
When you open WinDirStat you see a dialog allowing you to analyse All Local Drives or Individual Drives. This is the same dialog shown previously above. Run the analysis against one of the drives and you see a screen like the one below.
Don't be put off by this as it's much easier to read than it first appears.
To the top left is the folder structure of the drive that's been analysed. These folders are not listed in alphabetical order but rather by how much space they take up on the disk. You can see from the screenshot below that my "Users" folder has taken up the most space (22.1Gb) followed by Windows (16.6Gb).
To the top left is a list of file types on the disk together with the space they use. In the example below, you can see JPG images take up 9.3Gb which looks like a problem. I would expect to see some, but nowhere near this size.
The area at the bottom of the screen shows a graphical illustration of the files on the disk. When you click on a file type using the top part of the screen, the files are then highlighted in white on the graphic as shown below.
The squares in the graphic represent files on your disk. The bigger the square, the larger the file. When you click on a square, the file is displayed in the folder tree so you can see what it is.
After running the analysis of my problem C: drive for the first time, I could see two huge files. One was called Pagefile.SYS (4Gb) and the other, Hiberfil.SYS was a whopping 16Gb. Following some research on Google I understood what these were. Pagefile.SYS is rather technical to explain but basically, it's not a good idea to delete this. Hiberfil.SYS on the other hand isn't essential.
Hiberfil.SYS is used by the Windows sleep function. If you don't use Sleep on your computer, you don't need it. As I never use the Sleep option (I like to shut my computer down), I decided to turn it off and release the 16Gb of space.
If you want to know how to do this, here's a link to a good article.
Now using WinDirStat I could see the problem files and folders. My "Users" folder was the biggest consumer of space; I can't recall the exact figures, but it was in excess of 40GB. Expanding the User folder and those beneath it, I could see various applications were storing files here. You can see an example below.
The largest consumer of space was Photoshop in the Adobe folder. At the time, this had used over 12Gb. By expanding the sub-folders, I could identify the files stored there. Appeared to be the various Custom Brushes and Patterns I had installed. These alone were taking up 1.8Gb of space. Worse still, I could see the different historic versions of Photoshop back to CS5 all contained the same files.
Each version of Photoshop had copied the custom brushes and image files I had installed as part of its upgrade but then left the files behind in the folders of the previous version. All I really needed were the brushes and patterns installed in the latest version's folders.
If you're thinking this is only a problem with Adobe, it's not. This same approach is followed by many software providers. For example, I had to remove almost 3Gb of data from various Topaz applications. If you look back to the screenshot above, you will see two folders for ON1 and OnOne Software. These both contain historic versions of the same On One software and contain duplicate files, many of them quite large.
To provide an example, I recently upgraded from On1 Photo RAW 2017 to version 2018. In the screenshot below, you can see both of these folders within the User folder. This has happened even though I clicked the option to remove the old software during the installation.
Notice the two versions both take up 1.2Gb on the disk and rather strangely, both contain 420 files. Expanding these two folders I can see the same folder structure under both. You can see part of this in the screenshot below.
When you explore the folders, you find the 2018 version contains the same 1.2Gb of add on files (for example textures) that the 2017 version has. With many vendors now adopting an annual (or more frequent) release schedule, this is a growing problem – quite literally.
Following a clean-up of the On1 historic folders my User folder has been reduced from 22.1Gb to 18.9Gb as shown in the screenshot below.
At this point I do need to issue a warning. Be careful when deleting files. If you right-click on one of the folders, you will see two options to Delete as shown below.
It's usually best to "Delete (to Recycle Bin)". You can then try the latest version of the software you deleted files from. If it still works and everything is present, you can empty the Recycle Bin. If you find you have a problem, you will need to restore the deleted files from the Windows Recycle Bin.
I also recommend you create a System Restore Point before you start cleaning up your PC. If you inadvertently make a mistake with vital system files, you will have a restore point to return to.
Hopefully this article will help you maintain your computers free space and performance.
If you follow my Lightweight Photographer blog, you may be aware I have been trying a new filter system. Despite my being a long-term user of Lee resin filters, I have been frustrated by how easily they scratch. I also finding my older filters are not quite as neutral as I thought they were and may have discoloured with time.
Following a lot of internal debate with myself, I decided to switch to glass filters. Initially I considered the Nisi filter range when someone mentioned Kase Wolverine to me. Kase Wolverine are relatively new to the UK so I was keen to try them out. On the plus side, they appeared compatible with my Lee filter holder, but the high price put me off. What really changed my mind was seeing a Kase Wolverine glass filter dropped on a stone floor without breaking or suffering any damage.
I decided to make an initial purchase of three filters. As I mentioned I was going to use them with the Lee filter holder, the supplier also sent me free replacement plastic inserts for the holder. These replace the standard Lee inserts, which don't produce enough friction to prevent glass filters sliding in the holder. With the new inserts in place I can use either the glass filters or original Lee filters.
I have been using the ND Grad Kase Wolverine filters for a couple of months now and I love them. They appear to be completely neutral. The resist flaring very well, and I can even shoot directly into the sun without flare. When they get wet, water just beads up and rolls off. Another nice benefit is that the focus problem I have when using resin filters with my Fuji long lenses is also resolved with the Kase filters.
But the real benefit is when you use the filters to shoot an image. The effect is very difficult to express in words. Images appears to have a clarity that you just don't get with resin filters. The darkening effect on the sky is also very natural.
I have been so impressed by the filters that I asked to become a reseller in the UK and now offer the filters and kits through my Lenscraft Store (https://lenscraft.co.uk/kase-photography-filters-kits/).
At present I can supply a range of 100mm filters and kits. I also have a more limited range of 150mm filters and kits, but I don't yet have these in the store.
If your thinking of trying glass filters I would very much encourage you to consider Kase.
I have been working on the Christmas Gift for a couple of months now. The question that keeps coming to mind is "am I attempting too much"? I'm hoping the answer to this is no but I'm running out of time. If I can pull this off it will certainly be my best gift and may even be the best I will ever be able to offer. For now, I'm going to keep you guessing as to what the gift is, but it relates to my recently published book (Mastering Photoshop Masks).
Assuming all goes well, I will be sending out an announcement towards mid-December. Unlike previous years, this gift will go on sale at full price in the New Year, so it's essential you act quickly when you receive the message.
Thank you Robin for your Christmas free gift, I have downloaded the tutorial and did purchase your book shortly after you advertised it. I have not had much time as yet to really look at it but what I have seen is very good.
I always use Revo Uninstaller for uninstalling programs. It cleans out all the leftover files & Registry entries. Ashisoft's Duplicate File Finder is also very useful at finding and removing file duplication.
The Windows Swapfile is only used for paging out memory, so if there is sufficient physical memory in the PC, it gets little or no use, so can be set to a small size.
I think it's still worth running WinDirStat.
I have also had a few people email me to say you don't have this problem on a Mac – I have bad news. You have exactly the same problem on the Mac. I just cleaned up 100Gb on my main Mac and there is much more I could remove. If anything, it appears worse than Windows.
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Win 10 performance (and PS performance) is affected by Win setting, some of which you cover. Set advanced properties to 'performance' and you can also place and size the swapfile (Win Cache). I can offer particulars if interested.
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My experience with Win 10 is similar to yours. Net: set advanced properties to 'performance'; then you can also set the size and placement of the swapfile (Windows Cache); you can get a significant change in performance by playing with these settings. If anyone is interested, I can offer particulars. I also have an SSD drive for my C: drive and Win install. I try to keep it as small as possible for various reasons.