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Indian electric two-wheeler sales set to zoom past the 1.35 lakh-unit mark
By Nilesh Wadhwa
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This constitutes an impressive 355 percent year-on-year increase.
Sales of electric two-wheelers, the low-hanging fruit of the EV industry in India, along with the three-wheeler segment, are on a roll. Autocar Professional's analysis of the high-speed e-two-wheeler industry's sales for the first 11 months of this Calendar Year (CY) reveals that sales have surpassed the 1,00,000-unit mark for the first time.
355 percent year-on-year increase
The top three players are Hero Electric, Okinawa and Ather
Total sales from 25 EV OEMs (as exclusively detailed in the accompanying data table below) are 1,16,669 units. This constitutes a 355 percent year-on-year increase (CY2020: 25,598 units), albeit on a low-year total and a pandemic-impacted year. Given the monthly average sales of 18,948 units for the September-November period, total industry sales for CY2021 should be in the region of 1,35,000 units.
Hero Electric maintains leadership position
Market leader Hero Electric, which sold a record 7,102 units in November – its highest monthly tally yet – has chalked up total sales of 40,318 units between January and November. Do the math, and it works out to 3,665 units a month, or 120 Hero e-scooters sold each day of the year till November. What's more, its 11-month sales are a near-400 percent YoY increase (CY2020: 8,111 units).
This performance gives the company a market-leading share of 34.56 percent, thanks to its number of models on offer, including the popular Optima, Photon and Nyx across varying price-points. Its sizable and expanding sales network is also helping the company stamp its presence – over 700 sales and service outlets across the country – along with a widespread charging network and EV-trained roadside mechanics. It is also investing in expanding the EV charging network. Last month, it partnered with Charzer, a Bangalore-based EV charging start-up, to set up 1,00,000 charging stations in a year, further standardising electric vehicle infrastructure between manufacturers.
Okinawa stays plugged in at No. 2, Ather unseats Ampere
Maintaining its CY2020 ranking of India's second biggest e-two-wheeler OEM is Okinawa Autotech – with sales of 23,899 units from January-November, clocking a 329 percent YoY growth (CY2020: 5,564). This gives it a market share of 20.48 percent. The company is averaging monthly sales of 4,257 units and clocked its monthly best numbers in November: 5,421 units.
To future-proof itself in terms of manufacturing capacity, Okinawa is investing between Rs 200 crore-250 crore in a new plant at Bhiwadi, Rajasthan. The company aims to achieve 100 percent localisation by next financial year end (FY2022) and also plans to introduce an e-motorcycle.
Fast-growing Bangalore-based start-up Ather Energy has taken the third place in the Top 25 EV OEM list, unseating Ampere Vehicles. The smart e-scooter maker has sold 14,152 units in the first 11 months of this year. Despite having just two models on offer – Ather 450X and 450 Plus – the company has seen a smart uptick in demand. In addition to investing in its fast-charging network, Ather Grid 2.0, the OEM is also working on a sub-Rs 1,00,000 affordable e-scooter, which is expected to bring in more numbers.
The top three players – Hero Electric, Okinawa and Ather – have together sold 78,369 units, accounting for 67 percent of the total sales. They are also the only ones among 25 OEMs to cross the 10,000-unit sales mark.
Pure EV jumps three ranks to be No. 4
IIT-Hyderabad incubated Pure EV and Greaves Cotton-owned Ampere Vehicles are at fourth and fifth rank, clocking sales of 9,363 units and 9,155 units, respectively. Pure EV's performance is noteworthy, given that it has jumped three ranks, moving up from seventh position in CY2020.
Ranked sixth is TVS Motor Co with 4,068 units, although the tally could be more because November numbers are not in. TVS and Bajaj Auto (which is ranked No. 8 with 3,841 units), are the only ICE players who have diversified into EVs. Their numbers are still on the lower side, but that can be put down to the fact that both their products – the Bajaj Chetak and the TVS iQube – are currently available only in a few cities.
Is the industry headed for overcapacity?
Given the rapid pace of demand for electric two-wheelers, sales can only grow. The recent hike in the FAME II subsidy, wallet-busting prices of petrol (even after the Central Excise duty cut on November 4), and over 20 states across India announcing EV-friendly policies, the scope and potential for these emission-free vehicles on two wheels is immense.
Understandably, EV makers are bullish about growth this year and beyond. While Hero Electric's managing director Naveen Munjal says EV sales are expected to hit the 30-million mark by 2030, Ather Energy's CEO Tarun Mehta believes around 40 percent of petrol-engined scooter sales can be converted to electric scooters by 2025.
The EV buzz is in the news headlines too. Not a day passes without an announcement of new equity infusion, high number of claimed bookings or increased manufacturing capacity.
With new players like Ola, with its S1 and S1 Pro achieving over 1,00,000 bookings, Simple Energy getting over 30,000 bookings and Boom Motors having over 25,000 bookings, EV sales in India are expected to grow substantially.
However, with most OEMs announcing manufacturing capacities running into millions of units with total industry sales at just 1 percent of total ICE two-wheeler sales of 16 million units, it gives rise to many questions: How real is the demand in the Indian electric two-wheeler industry and do the massive manufacturing capacity announcements in the recent past from multiple OEMs warrant it? Is the e-two-wheeler industry headed for overcapacity? What about the supply chain ecosystem and charging infrastructure? Nonetheless, EV start-ups and established OEMs are optimistic that the tide will shift in a bigger way towards e-mobility.
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LOUIS, Missouri (Hurriyet) — Economist Daron Acemoglu, who is a Turkish economist of Armenian descent, has topped the most influential economists list of the Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) for his last 10 years' of publications.
Among leading 2,223 leading economists, Acemoglu, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), topped the list for his works in the last decade.
RePEc rankings are based on data about authors who have registered with the RePEc Author Service, institutions listed on Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC) list, bibliographic data collected by RePEc as well as citation analysis and popularity data compiled, according to RePEC website.
Acemoglu is followed by Andre Shleifer from Harvard University, James J. Heckman from University of Chicago and Robert Barro from Harvard University. The former president of the US Federal Reserve (Fed), Ben Bernanke, ranked 25 on the list.
Acemoglu's name has previously been mentioned for the Nobel Prize. Recently, he has been popular because of his book, Why Nations Fail, co-authored with James Robinson.
His works cover a wide range of areas, from income and wage inequality to human capital and training. He wrote a series of papers attempting to disentangle the relationship between strong governmental institutions and economic development. The research revealed laws in rich countries that protect property and limit executive powers contribute to their prosperity.
Acemoglu's work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Political Economy. He received his BA in economics from the University of York, along with a Master of Science in mathematical economics and econometrics and PhD in economics at the London School of Economics.
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CENTRAL CONTRACTING CORPORATION, a corporation
OSHRC Docket No. 13831
T. A. Housh, Jr., Reg. Sol, USDOL
R. E. Hensley, Secy, Central Contracting Corp., for the employer
This case is before the Commission pursuant to a sua sponte order for review. The parties have filed no objections to the Administrative Law Judge's decision, either by way of petitions for discretionary review or response to the order for review. Accordingly, there has been no appeal to the Commission, and no party has otherwise expressed dissatisfaction with the Administrative Law Judge's decision.
In these circumstances, the Commission declines to pass upon, modify or change the Judge's decision in the absence of compelling public interest. Abbott-Sommer, Inc., 3 BNA OSHC 2032, 1975-76 CCH OSHD para. 20,428 (No. 9507, 1976); Crane Co., 4 BNA OSHC 1015, 1975-76 CCH OSHD para. 20,508 (No. 3336, 1976); see also Keystone Roofing Co., Inc., v. O.S.H.R.C., 539 F.2d 960, 964 (3d Cir. 1976). The order for review in this case describes no compelling public interest issue.
The Judge's decision is accorded the significance of an unreviewed [*2] Judge's decision. Leone Constr. Co., 3 BNA OSHC 1979, 1975-76 CCH OSHD para. 20,387 (No. 4090, 1976).
It is ORDERED that the decision be affirmed.
The 29 C.F.R. § 1926.500(d)(1) charge should be vacated because that standard does not apply to flat roofs. Secretary v. Central City Roofing Co., OSAHRC Docket No. 8173, June 4, 1976. My colleagues, however, have disregarded this established Commission precedent by perfunctorily affirming a Judge's decision that holds to the contrary. In doing so, they have improperly failed to invoke the plain error rule n1 which has previously been utilized to afford relief to another respondent under similar circumstances. Secretary v. Frank Briscoe Co., OSAHRC Docket No. 12136, September 23, 1976. Fundamental fairness requires that this respondent be given equal treatment.
n1 My views on the Commission's obligation to apply the plain error rule are expressed in Secretary v. Puterbaugh Enterprises, Inc., 9 OSAHRC 718 (1974) (dissenting opinion).
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The remaining item should also be vacated because complainant failed to prove that the cited condition constituted a hazard in view of respondent's use of a plywood covering as alternate protection authorized by the cited standard, 29 C.F.R. § 1926.500(b)(5). See Secretary v. Alfred S. Austin Construction Co., OSAHRC Docket No. 4809, April 28, 1976 (dissenting opinion).
Furthermore, for the reasons expressed in my separate opinion in Secretary v. Schultz Roof Truss, Inc., OSAHRC Docket No. 14046, December 20, 1976, I disagree with the manner in which my colleagues are disposing of this case and with their views regarding the significance of decisions rendered by Review Commission Judges.
Since my colleagues do not address any of the matters covered in Judge Carlson's decision, his decision is attached hereto as Appendix A so that the law in this case may be known.
DECISION AND ORDER
Donald R. McCoy, for the Complainant
Raymond E. Hensley, for the Respondent
Carlson, Judge, OSAHRC:
This is a proceeding brought under Section 10 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), hereafter referred [*4] to as "the Act". By citation issued June 3, 1975 the complainant Secretary of Labor alleges that respondent violated the Construction Industry Standards published at 29 CFR 1926.500(d)(1) and 1926.500(b)(5) at a hospital construction site at Kearney, Nebraska. Complainant further charged that the violations (enumerated in the citation as items 1-a and 1-b) were of a serious character and proposed a combined civil penalty of $650.
The matter came regularly on for hearing at Grand Island, Nebraska on September 25, 1975. The scope of the notice of contest filed by respondent was not wholly clear from the pleadings, but the parties were in full agreement at the time of the trial that respondent had not intended to contest the existence of the violations alleged, but challenged the alleged "seriousness" of the violations and the reasonableness of the penalty amount.
No employees or their representatives at any time sought party status. The complainant submitted a post-hearing brief; respondent elected not to do so.
Complainant's citation described the alleged violations in these terms:
(North side of hospital addition)
A standard railing or the equiv-
alent was not provided on the
opensided floor, 60 feet above
ground level, where the crane
operator was working.
29 CFR 1926.500(b)(5)
(Adjacent to old oxygen storage
room) A standard railing for
protection against falling is not
provided on the open side of the
approximately 11 foot deep air
shaft pit.
The cited subparts of the standard provide respectively:
(d) Guarding of open-sided floors, platforms, and runways. (1) Every open-sided floor or platform 6 feet or more above adjacent floor or ground level shall be guarded by a standard railing, or the equivalent, as specified in paragraph (f)(1) of this section, on all open sides, except where there is entrance to a ramp, stairway, or fixed ladder. The railing shall be provided with a standard toeboard wherever, beneath the open sides, persons can pass, or there is moving machinery, or there is equipment with which falling materials could create a hazard.
(b) Guarding of floor openings and floor holes.
(5) Pits and trap-door floor openings shall be guarded by floor opening covers of standard strength and construction. While the cover is not in place, the pit or trap openings shall be protected on all exposed sides by removable standard railings.
No jurisdictional questions are presented here. Respondent, by its answer, admitted engaging in a business affecting commerce and acknowledged its status as an employer.
The undisputed evidence herein discloses [*6] that the citation arose out of an inspection conducted by one of complainant's compliance officers on May 28, 1975, at a major addition which was being constructed at a hospital in Kearney, Nebraska. Respondent corporation was the general contractor. The new wing of the hospital was essentially a three-story brick and steel structure with a basement. At one end, however, the structure rose an additional two stories where the elevator tower had been built high enough to accommodate two possible additional floors. Respondent had 24 employees on the site at the time of inspection.
Item 1a
The uncontroverted evidence discloses that at the time of the inspection one of respondent's employees was standing on the flat covering of the elevator tower from which vantage point he was operating a remote control crane. The crane was mounted on a stationary tower some distance from the building. Its movements were regulated by a control box held in the operator's hand. Masons were bricking the sides of the building at the time in question, and the crane was lifting brick and mortar to their scaffold. The scaffold surrounded the building at a height 20 feet below the crane operator's [*7] station, and about 40 feet above subjacent ground level.
It was further undisputed that neither of the two corners of the elevator tower on which the crane operator stood to do his work was provided with any sort of guardrail when the inspection began on May 28, nor was any other safety barrier or device present which would serve to restrain a fall.
The compliance officer testified that as he watched the crane operator guide materials to the scaffold below him, the operator sometimes approached to about 1 1/2 feet from the edge (Tr. 17). In his own testimony on behalf of respondent, the operator indicated that he was generally back about 3 feet from the edge (Tr. 75), but acknowledged that he could have come closer from time to time (Tr. 77). The compliance officer agreed that the worker went only occasionally to the edge (Tr. 45).
Had the crane operator for any reason lost his balance and fallen from his station, the fall would most likely have ended on the scaffold platform some 20 feet below. Its width was between 6 and 7 feet, and its perimeter was protected by a standard guardrail except at the landing zone for crane loads.
The compliance officer maintained a fall would [*8] likely result in significant injury such as broken bones or damage to internal organs - particularly if pallets of brick or similar items present on the scaffold floor should be struck. He also asserted that some possibility existed that the falling employee could strike the scaffold platform at a point near the load landing zone where there was no guardrail and thus fall another 40 feet to the ground. The crane operator thought this unlikely; he asserted that the unguarded space was 10 to 12 feet from the building edge at his work station.
Originally the crane operator had worked from the scaffold platform itself. About three days in advance of the inspection, however, he had moved to the top of the elevator tower to get a better view of the operation since more materials were being hoisted to the scaffold level. He made the move on his own initiative.
Item 1b
The further item of violation cited concerned an air shaft pit adjacent to an employee passageway. The shaft, which was merely an open space between the existing hospital building and the new addition, was rectangular in shape. Its narrower or "end" dimensions were 5 to 6 feet, and one end lay parallel to and approximately [*9] 2 feet away from the edge of a walkway situated at the foot of a short flight of stairs leading from the existing hospital building. (The 2 feet of separation between the edge of the pit and the natural path of the walkway was provided by a plywood covering which had been secured across the last 2 feet of the shaft.) The shaft opening was 11 feet deep with an earthen bottom upon which some lumps of cement residue were deposited. No guardrail or other fall barrier stood between the walkway and the shaft edge.
The respondent has not disputed that the near edge of the shaft should have been guarded, but suggests that the chance of an employee's falling from the walkway was small. The compliance officer essentially agreed. He pointed out that the stairway and the walkway area at its foot were wide, and there was hence no necessity for respondent's employees to come close to the edge. Nevertheless, it was possible that an employee, perhaps one carrying materials of some sort, could have stumbled while negotiating one of the lower stairs and have fallen in. Without specifying more, the compliance officer testified that the victim of such a fall "might well suffer a serious injury" [*10] due to the distance involved and the presence of the cement residue (Tr. 34-35).
General Matters on Penalty
The compliance officer testified that he followed certain criteria laid down by his superiors in recommending the $650 penalty sum ultimately proposed herein. He reduced a $1,000 raw figure by a "maximum" 20% for what he judged to be respondent's general good faith as evidenced by such matters as its first-aid training program. A further 5% reduction was allowed in view of respondent's "moderate" size of some 50 employees overall, with 24 on the job. A 10% reduction, rather than the "maximum" 20%, was allowed with respect to respondent's prior safety history since the corporation had been earlier inspected with resulting citations which became final through lack of contest. No indication was given that the earlier violations were serious or of a kind related to those in the instant case. (Tr. 35-44.)
Complainant's inspector pointed out that abatement of both violations in the present case was extremely prompt. A railing was erected at the air shaft almost immediately, and standard rails were in place by the following morning at both corners of the elevator shaft [*11] top where the crane operator worked.
Respondent contends that the violations did not qualify as "serious". That term is defined in Section 17(k) of the Act which declares:
"For purposes of this section, a serious violation shall be deemed to exist in a place of employment if there is a substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a condition which exists, or from one or more practices, means, methods, operations, or processes which have been adopted or are in use, in such place of employment unless the employer did not, and could not with the exercise of reasonable diligence, know of the presence of the violation."
Upon the record made herein it is clear that the conceded violation of 29 CFR 1926.500(d)(1) involving the crane operator meets the definition in all respects. Respondent's project superintendent may not have ordered the employee to his position on the roof, but it is inconceivable, if any supervision was present at the worksite, that he was unaware of the violative conduct. The requisite employer knowledge was present.
Neither can it be doubted that the likely consequence of a 20 foot fall to the scaffold platform [*12] would have been serious injury. Seriousness does not depend upon the likelihood that an accident will occur, but upon the probability of severe harm should one occur. n1
n1 Secretary v. Standard Glass and Supply Co., 2 OSAHRC 1488 (1973).
When the same criteria are applied to the air shaft violation of 29 CFR 1926.500(b)(5), I am not persuaded that complainant has borne the burden of proving that dereliction to be serious. The knowledge element was doubtless present. But there was no real testimony from the compliance officer as to a probability (in contrast to possibility) of serious injury (Tr. 34-35); and he forthrightly acknowledged that under policies of his agency in force at the time of trial, the same situation would have been classified as nonserious (Tr. 62). Under the facts, I must hold the air-shaft guarding violation properly ranks as nonserious.
Turning now to the matter of penalty assessment, the evidence convinces me that the proposed $650 sum is too high. Respondent corporation is of modest [*13] size, and it deserves high marks for its general attitude on safety - as exemplified by the swift correction of the present violations.
The most important penalty criterion in the present case, however, is the gravity of the violations. The crane operator was close to the building perimeter for but brief periods and was the sole employee exposed to that hazard. While serious injury was probable had he fallen, the probability of such a fall was not high. As to the air-shaft guarding violation, the extremely low possibility of an accident was conceded.
Giving due consideration to the gravity of the violation, along with the employer's size, good faith and prior history (as mandated by Section 17(j) of the Act), I conclude that $250 is an appropriate penalty for the serious violation. Measured by the same criteria, $50 is appropriate for the nonserious violation.
Upon the entire record, and pursuant to the foregoing discussion, the following findings of fact are entered:
1. At the times material hereto respondent corporation was engaged as general contractor in the building of an addition to a hospital building in Kearney, Nebraska.
2. On May 28, 1975 [*14] one of respondent's employees was working atop an elevator tower from positions which sometimes placed him in close proximity to the perimeter thereof.
3. The perimeter was not guarded by any railing or equivalent barrier; nor was the employee protected from falling by a safety line or other restraint.
4. The employee was exposed to a danger of falling approximately 20 feet to a scaffold platform below his work position. Such a fall would likely have resulted in serious bodily injury.
5. Respondent had constructive knowledge of the conditions above described.
6. At the same worksite various of respondent's employees were exposed to the danger of falling 11 feet from a common walkway into the open end of an air shaft pit, the edge of which was situated some 2 feet from the nearer edge of the walkway. The pit edge was not provided with a guardrail.
7. Because of the width of the walkway the probability of such a fall was remote; and should a fall have occurred, the evidence does not establish a substantial probability of serious injury.
8. Respondent is a corporation of moderate size with some adverse prior history under the Act, but has demonstrated a general record of [*15] good faith in managerial attitudes toward safety matters.
It is concluded:
1. That respondent on May 28, 1975 at its hospital construction site in Kearney, Nebraska violated 29 CFR 1926.500(d)(1); that such violation was "serious" as that term is defined in Section 17(k) of the Act; and that a penalty of $250 is appropriate for such violation.
2. That on the same date at the same site respondent violated 29 CFR 1926.500(b)(5); that such violation was not "serious" within the meaning of Section 17(k) of the Act; and that a penalty of $50 is appropriate for such nonserious violation.
In accordance with the foregoing, item 1a of the citation herein is ORDERED affirmed, and a civil penalty of $250 is assessed in connection therewith; item 1b of the citation is likewise ORDERED affirmed, but the classification of the violation is reduced from serious to nonserious, and a civil penalty of $50 is assessed in connection therewith.
John A. Carlson, Judge, OSAHRC


Middlebury, Vt.. - The Albertus Magnus College men's basketball team fell on the road in overtime to No. 16 Middlebury, 77-73, Tuesday evening in non-conference play at the Pepin Gymnasium.
Albertus Magnus opened the game with a 6-0 run, behind four-points from Amir Maddred (Camden, N.J.) before the hosts tied the game at 10-10 at the 13:29 mark on a layup from Jack Daly. Middlebury would use Daly's layup to spark a 9-4 run, giving the hosts a five-point cushion, 19-14, but a 5-0 spurt by the Falcons tied the game at 19-all. Albertus Magnus would control the final six minutes remaining and holds a 36-34 edge heading into halftime.
Middlebury took over in the second half, regaining the lead, 39-38, just two minutes in. The Falcons saw the visitors' lead grow to 10, 57-47, but two straight three's from A'Jen English (Middlebury, De.) and a free throw from Jahmerikah Green-Younger (Norwalk, Conn.) cut the deficit to within three, 57-54, with 6:48 left to play.
Albertus Magnus continued to chip away at the score and battled back to within two, 64-62, after being down eight at the 4:56 mark. With the clock winding down, senior Jaqhawn Walters (Hartford, Conn.) scored the Falcons' final four of regulation to send the game into overtime.
Middlebury and Albertus Magnus battled back-and-forth in overtime forcing four lead changes and two ties as the Panthers secured the non-conference win, 77-73.
This season, Albertus Magnus is 1-1 in overtime.
Following tonight's win, the Panthers are now 2-0 against the Falcons in the all-time series.
Jaqhawn Walters (Hartford, Conn.) 25-point performance pushes his career-point total to 1,440, ranking him fifth all-time.
Walters now has a total of 940 rebounds and is just 60 shy of recording 1,000. He will be the third player in the program to accomplish this milestone.
Middlebury extends its winning streak to four games and the Panthers are also 1-1 in overtime this season.
At the end of regulation, Middlebury held a 48-45 edge in rebounds and 8-6 advantage in blocks.
Albertus Magnus held a 13-10 advantage in second chance points.
Despite fouling out, Walters led the offense attack with a team-high 25 points, 12 rebounds, an assist, a steal and two blocks.
English also scored in double-digits for the Falcons as the sophomore transfer netted a career-high 19 points on 7-of-17 shooting from the field and 5-of-8 shooting from behind the arc.
Jack Daly led the hosts with a 22-point performance to go along with five rebounds, nine assists and three steals.
Along with Walters, Amir Maddred (Camden, N.J.) posted two blocks.
This game saw seven lead changes and six ties.
Middlebury scored 48 of its 77 points in the paint compared to the Falcons' 32.
Albertus Magnus returns to the court on Thursday, Jan. 18 as the Falcons take on Mount Ida in a GNAC road clash beginning at 7 p.m. Middlebury will host Williams on Saturday, Jan. 20 at 3:00 p.m.


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Peter Righton
Paul Pelham Righton[1] (14 April 1926 – 12 October 2007),[2][3] known as Peter Righton, was a child protection expert and social care worker, and a convicted child molester. In 2013, the Metropolitan Police launched Operation Cayacos to investigate claims that Righton was part of an establishment paedophile network.
2 Child abuse and conviction
CareerEdit
Righton worked in children's homes, including in Maidstone, Kent, and was a lecturer in child protection and residential care, including at the Open University and in Birmingham. He was Director of Education at the National Institute of Social Work,[4] and vice-chairman of governors at New Barns School in Toddington, Gloucestershire.[5] He was also a consultant to the National Children's Bureau.[6] Righton justified relationships between adults and children in his academic work[6] - he wrote in Social Work Today in 1977 that "Provided there is no question of exploitation, sexual relationships freely entered into by residents – including adolescents – should not be a matter for automatic inquiry", and wrote in the book Perspectives on Paedophilia that "Most child molesters, if paedophile at all, are so only incidentally. Most of those I have called 'dispositional' paedophiles, when they engage in sexual activity with children, do not molest them... On the contrary, the child's consent is usually of cardinal importance to them."[7][8]
Child abuse and convictionEdit
Journalist Nick Davies called Righton "a notorious paedophile who attempted to legitimise his obsession in a series of academic studies."[4] Righton was a founding member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (number 51).[6] Child protection manager Peter McKelvie helped in the investigation. Righton, then living in Evesham, was convicted by a magistrates court in September 1992 of importing child pornography magazines and photographs after Customs and Excise intercepted material being sent to him from the Netherlands that April. A police raid on his home, where he lived in a relationship with New Barns headmaster Richard Alston,[9] uncovered other paedophile magazines, and letters to and from other paedophiles containing details of abuse. He was fined £900 with £75 costs for importing child abuse images, had the magazines destroyed, and was cautioned for an historical assault.[3][1][6][10] The BBC's Inside Story documentary reported in 1994 that he was allowed to leave a boarding school under a "gentleman's agreement" after being found to have abused boys. He had confessed past abuse to child protection colleagues, but they did not act on this out of loyalty to him.[11][12] A former student of his wrote that his position of power, authority and charisma allowed him and other paedophiles to avoid detection and to lead some to turn a blind eye to suspicions.[13] Liz Davies, a reader in child protection at London Metropolitan University who was involved in the investigation into his abuses in Islington, wrote that Righton was allowed to live on the Thornham Magna estate of Lord Henniker in Suffolk, where children from Islington continued to be taken, apparently until his death;[14] Member of Parliament Tom Watson wrote that the Chief Constable of Suffolk warned against Righton being allowed to live on the estate but was ignored.[15]
In October 2012, Watson claimed that Righton was involved in a paedophile ring with connections to the British Government.[6] Former West Mercia police detective Terry Shutt made similar claims in 2014.[3] Operation Cayacos, an investigation into historical claims of child abuse being conducted by the Metropolitan Police, began investigating claims of a paedophile network connected to Righton in 2013.[16] Operation Cayacos is a spin-off of Operation Fairbank, investigating the Elm Guest House child abuse scandal.[17]
WorksEdit
Righton, Peter (1981). "The adult". In Brian Taylor (ed.). Perspectives on Paedophilia. London: Batsford Academic and Educational.
Sonia Morgan and Peter Righton, ed. (1989). Child Care: Concerns and Conflicts. A Reader. London: Hodder & Stoughton in association with the Open University.
^ a b Mowbray, Chris (17 September 1992). "Child care expert fined over photographs of naked boys". The Independent. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ England and Wales, Death Index, 1989–2018
^ a b c "Paedophile Peter Righton 'Had Documents Linking Him To Establishment Child Abuse Ring'". Huffington Post UK. 9 July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ a b Davies, Nick (April 1998). "The sheer scale of child sexual abuse in Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ "Child abuse ring's 'link to Number 10'". Evesham Journal. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ a b c d e Fairweather, Eileen (9 November 2012). "'I do not doubt men in smart cars preyed on boys – but justice requires detective work not hearsay '". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
^ Brian Taylor (Ph. D.) (1981). Perspectives on Paedophilia. Batsford Academic and Educational Limited. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7134-3718-8.
^ Wolmar, Christian (27 February 2014). "Looking back to the great British paedophile infiltration campaign of the 1970s". The Independent. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
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Richard Weber was born in the right country; he loves the cold.
Gearing up and getting moving is something Richard does exceptionally well. He was one of the first two Canadians to reach the North Pole on foot (with teammate Brent Boddy in 1986), the first person to reach the Pole from both sides of the Arctic Ocean (Canada and Russia), and holds the world records for number of treks to the Pole (seven to date) and fastest time from Nunavut's Ellesmere Island to the North Pole (41 days).
His adventures have taken him on more than 50 Arctic expeditions, as well as several journeys to the South Pole. In 2009, he completed the trek from Hercules Inlet, Antarctica, to the geographic South Pole in just under 34 days—a record at the time. He was accompanied by fellow Kickass Canadian Ray Zahab and Canuck Kevin Vallely as part of an impossible2Possible expedition.
Jay Ankersmit, Director of the Ottawa High Performance Centre (OHPC), recommended Richard for this website. Having treated Richard, Jay is familiar with his incredible stories and was keen to have them shared with as many people as possible. "When it comes to Arctic adventures, there's no greater storyteller than Richard," says Jay.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Richard's family moved to Ottawa, Ontario when he was one year old. His father had been a successful climber and skier in Switzerland, and was keen to introduce his son to the wonders of winter sports.
Richard was a natural skier. By six, he was cleaning up in his age category at the races. He made the national cross country ski team in 1977, and represented Canada in the 1977, 1979, 1982 and 1985 World Cross Country Ski Championships (now the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships). Over the course of his career, he picked up 20 national skiing titles, as well as the gold medal for biathlon in 1983.
It was while on the national team that he met and fell in love with fellow skier Josée Auclair. Still competing on Canada's behalf, the two headed to the University of Vermont on ski scholarships. Richard graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1985, and Josée finished up soon after with a degree in Botany in 1986. That was also the year they wed. And the year of his first expedition.
"An American colleague of my father's was planning an expedition to the North Pole that would go through the Northwest Territories, and he was looking for a Canadian who could ski," says Richard, referring to Arctic explorer and advocate Will Steger. Hans put his son in touch with Will, and Richard was quick to accept the offer when it came.
The trek was a big deal. Not only did the Will Steger International Polar Expedition mark the first time Canadians reached the North Pole on foot, but it marked the first time a woman had completed the journey—American Ann Bancroft. National Geographic ran a cover story on the expedition in its September 1986 issue.
After successfully completing the mission, Richard was hooked on exploring. He'd had his sights on skiing for Canada in the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, but, he says, "I started doing expeditions and that was a lot more fun." He promptly went on to achieve several more polar firsts.
In 1988, he joined the Soviet-Canadian Polar Bridge Expedition and became the first person to reach the North Pole from both sides of the Arctic Ocean. At the end of the trek in 1989, be became the first to accurately stand at the Geographic North Pole (first GPS to register "90" north).
In 1993, Richard and Josée organized and led the first commercial trek to the North Pole.
In 1995, Richard and his travel companion, Dr. Mikhail (Misha) Malakhov, completed the first unsupported expedition to the North Pole and back—an achievement that has yet to be repeated. "That trek was no doubt my best memory from my expeditions," says Richard. "It was an amazing expedition. Amazing teamwork, unbelievably tough." For more on Richard and Misha's account of the journey, pick up their book Polar Attack.
In 2006, Richard and fellow explorer Conrad Dickinson became the first to trek to the North Pole using snowshoes exclusively.
On Richard's latest expedition to the North Pole in 2010, he was accompanied by his eldest son Tessum. With that journey, Tessum not only became the youngest person to complete the trek (he was 20 at the time), he also became part of a three-generation dynasty of North Pole adventurers; his Swiss grandfather flew to the Pole in 1968 as part of a scientific expedition.
Up and running since 2000, Arctic Watch shares the landscape with a range of animals, including muskox, polar bears, Arctic foxes and birds, as well as thousands of beluga whales. The wilderness resort offers a safe, cozy place from which to discover the Arctic, and is just a 4.5 hour private charter flight from Yellowknife, N.W.T.
In addition to Arctic Watch, Richard and his wife run Weber Arctic, the world's top polar training, guiding and outfitting company. They sell custom polar products, including ski bindings, mukluks, wind suit jacket and pants, sleds and tents, and are well established as the best in the business when it comes to providing polar gear. In fact, the Canadian Forces recently tested out the Weber Polar bindings to see how they suited the soldiers during winter training.
Richard and his family are proud to outfit some of the world's top adventurers, and to expose tourists to the Arctic through their Nunavut resort. But their bigger-picture goal is to bring awareness to the effects of increased human activity in the Arctic, and to do everything they can to protect the beluga whales in the area.
As a starting point, Arctic Watch Lodge was built and is operated with the environment kept top of mind. Their airstrip was designed to decrease impact on the surrounding environment, they maintain a system of trails to prevent land scarring, and sewage and garbage are handled in the most environmentally friendly way possible. They also keep visitors to a minimum so as not to disturb the local ecosystem.
"The climate's really changing quite dramatically," he says. "It's just plain warmer and dryer. The permafrost is receding. Two summers ago we had mosquitoes. There's never been mosquitoes in that part of the Arctic, but we had mosquitoes." Beyond the bugs, the Webers have spotted birds, such as sparrows and sandhill cranes, that aren't native to the area, and seen the number of polar bears mushroom, which they attribute to diminished ice in the northwest passage on Somerset Island.
The educational component of the initiative is set to launch in the summer of 2012. It will start with a two-week program for youth worldwide, although the focus will be on Canadian students, including Inuit youth from Nunavut.
With regard to the scientific research, he expects that it will produce "real numbers" that will determine whether or not the whale population is diminishing. Ultimately, he hopes that the area will be declared a sanctuary for the whales.
Richard's incredible contributions in the Arctic and on both Poles have earned him a number of honours, including: the 1989 UNESCO Fair Play Award; 1989 and 1996 Russian Order of Friendship of Nations; 1992 Canadian Confederation Medal; 1993 Russian Medal for Personal Courage; and both the 1994 and 1996 Canadian Meritorious Service Medal, which made him the only person to be awarded the medal more than once.
Between those impressive distinctions, and his large collection of athletic hardware, Richard is one well-decorated Canadian. But his focus is simpler, and more humble, than racking up medals. As far as expeditions go, next up is a trek to the South Pole in November 2011. He will lead four clients on a 35-day ski to the Pole and a 14-day kite ski back. As for Weber Arctic and Arctic Watch, his goals are to protect the whales, to safeguard Canada's Arctic wilderness and to stay cold.
These things go hand in hand. And they couldn't be in more capable ones.
To keep up with Richard's adventures, 'Like' the Arctic Watch Facebook page and visit weberarctic.com. You can also check out his LinkedIn profile, or email richard@arcticwatch.ca.


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Q: Building a contribution functionality in django (i do not necessarily need the code just an idea) NOTE I am not necessarily asking for code to build this, just ideas on how to do this. Links and blog posts for pointers are welcome.
I am building a rest api.
I have a model
class Showcase(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    description = models.TextField(null=True)
    user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, on_delete=models.DO_NOTHING, related_name="Showcases")
    created_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    updated_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
    slug = models.SlugField(max_length=255, unique=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

I am trying to build a functionality where the user that created a showcase can add users that contributed to the project which is the showcase. I was thinking of making this its own model like this:
class Collaborator(models.Model):
    post = models.ForeignKey(Showcase, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="collaborated_showcases")
    owner = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL,
                            on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="showcase_owner")
    user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL,
                            on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name="collaborators")
    skill = models.ForeignKey(Skill, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, related_name="creative_type")
    role = models.TextField(null=True)
    added_on = models.DateTimeField(null=True)

    def __str__(self):
        return f"{self.user.name} collaborated on {self.post.name}"

The user would have to search for users and then add them as a contributor to the showcase, which is where my brain scrambles a bit.
The other important thing is that I want to be able to randomly go to a user and get ALL the showcases he has contributed to.

A: As I see it, this structure works fine for your use case, though:

*

*models should always be in singular case (Collaborator)

*related_names should be lower case (related_name="showcases")

*and I prefer to explicitly spell out all related_names, so I'd add

*

*Collaborator.post related name collaborated_showcases

*Collaborator.user related name collaborators

*Showcase.user related_name owned_showcases
Then,

*

*To find an user's owned showcases, Showcase.objects.filter(user=user)

*To find an user's collaborated showcases, Showcase.objects.filter(collaborators=user) (I think)

I'd suggest having a Collaborator object for the owner user as well, so you can show their role more easily as well as make these queries simpler.

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Who gets in is another matter. Among people who believe in heaven, one in four thinks access is limited to Christians. More than a third of Protestants feel that way, and this view peaks at 55 percent among Protestants who describe themselves as very religious.


I build software, guide teams and consult with management to help them achieve their goals. I can spend an insane amount of time developing a relationship with a prospect that just isn't going to pan out. From the first 10 minutes of conversation, I can have a pretty accurate assessment of my success chances with the prospect (I'm not kidding).
There are certain things that I hear over and over. They are hints about the client's situation or intention, sometimes without their conscious knowledge. Let me jump right in.
Warning! This might not apply to 100% of the cases, but has been consistently the case in my experience.
Me: "When is this due?"
Prospect: "As early as possible."
They don't have a plan. No plan means that it's not a priority and that there's little value in it. If it had real value, they would have made a solid plan with milestones. This also means that any reasonable price would be too high for them.
Me: "What's your business model?"
Prospect: "We're two friends who partnered up, put in our own money, …"
This answer is obviously not a business model. That kind of talk is only meant to get your sympathy. Nobody talks about how they put their livelihood on the line unless they intend to negotiate you ridiculously low. Many of my clients put their own money to kickstart their project, but they didn't tell me this until much later.
Prospect: "We're looking for a technical partner."
A technical partner is someone who only gets paid if the business succeeds. If the risk was reasonable, they'd have no trouble paying you in the first place. You might even have to invest your own money, in addition to working for free.
Prospect: "Send me a price and I'll get back to you."
This means that they're shopping around and do not see you as a unique, valuable partner. They don't care about developing a trusting relationship, which is a critical part of all my contracts. They'll go for the cheapest one. If they settle for you, you'll have all sorts of trouble. It will be a bad deal and you'll regret it. A price is something that you should say on the phone before sending the contract.


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Co-writer & director Wes Anderson's films are nothing if not a omnibus of art direction, down to each exacting detail. It's no surprise that his interests would eventually lead him to animation, and specifically stop-motion animation, so that he can finally build his dioramas and dollhouses without the interference of real people and real scale. He's done this before, of course, with the 2009 feature Fantastic Mr. Fox. And yet, that film always felt like a collaboration, a partnership between Anderson's Mod-influenced style and Fox book author Roald Dahl's all-ages fable. Here, with Isle Of Dogs, Anderson has made his first (certainly not his last) stop-motion movie that feels more wholly his own.
Working from a story created by himself, frequent collaborators Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, and Japanese performer Kunichi Nomura (who starred in Anderson's last effort, The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014), Anderson tells a (wait for it) shaggy dog story about a Japanese city overrun by sick canines, pushed by a corrupt political cat-loving party into voting to exile all the dogs to "trash island", a nearby offshore landfill. Six months after this decree, a lone 12 year old boy, Atari (Koyu Rankin) steals a small plane and crash lands on the island, looking for his lost dog. From there, the quest to find Spots begins, with a pack of "mean Alpha dogs" (their words, not necessarily true) joining Atari as they journey across the island, dodging evil robot dogs and a government conspiracy while redefining the relationship between man and his best friend. It's a lot of plot—there are side characters and subplots and revisionist mythology galore, but the film always feels light & approachable.
The real star of the show, as with Fox, is the jaw droppingly good stop motion animation, resulting in a film that is perhaps Anderson's most visually rich, and that's saying a lot. It's not just the expressiveness of the figures (I've never seen so many tearful puppets), but the composition of the shots. At times, it's easy to forget you're watching an animated film, so free does the camerawork seem. Of course, helping the clay come to life is a murderer's row of voice talent, mostly coming from the Anderson repertory (hello, Bill Murray, Edward Norton and Jeff Goldblum) but with some most welcome new voices as well (including Liev Schreiber, Bryan Cranston and Greta Gerwig). The cast alone means that Isle will never confuse anyone into thinking it's just another run of the mill talking animal movie.
And another point in its plus column: it's deeply, tonally weird. Anderson's work has always been infused with wistful melancholy, but his recent films have contained some pretty shocking and unflinching moments of violence as well, and Isle surprisingly is no different (within reason: it's still PG-13). This isn't some "animation for adults", to be sure, but it feels refreshingly all-ages in a way that most films using that label tend to not. As such, there are some real emotional stakes here, and a good bit of subtext, with the relationship between faithful beasts of burden and their neglectful masters examined from the former's perspective. If you happen to find yourself tearful along with some of the puppets, that's no mistake.
There is a lingering question hanging over the film, and it's one that, frankly, could be applied to roughly a third of Anderson's work: that of appropriation. It's not entirely justified as to why this story takes place in Japan, only that it's cool that it does, as Anderson homages the films of some of his heroes such as Kurosawa, Seijun Suzuki and old Toho monster movies. It's him using a foreign setting as decoration in much the same way as he did in The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and even Grand Budapest Hotel, to a degree. The question is worth asking, the discussion worth having, but there's no doubt in my mind that Anderson intends his movie as a celebration of Japanese culture, rather than a mocking (or a "can you believe this?" curiosity). The answer is up to you, of course. If you feel as I do, then I heartily recommend catching this movie, especially if you're a dog lover. I mean, I'm allergic to the 'lil guys and I walked out of the theater wanting to adopt one! Such is the power of the eternal bond between humans and small cute furry things.
Woof! Woof woof bark. Gruff. Woof woof! Woof.


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Won't dance to chin music: Patel
Hero of India's fine batting show in the first one-dayer, Parthiv Patel, said he would continue to play his natural, attacking game irrespective of the conditions and situation. Sanjjeev Karan Samyal reports.
india Updated: Sep 06, 2011 19:44 IST
Sanjjeev Karan Samyal
Hero of India's fine batting show in the first one-dayer, Parthiv Patel, said he would continue to play his natural, attacking game irrespective of the conditions and situation. The tourists are struggling to put together a balanced batting line-up in the second one-dayer following a double-injury blow at Chester-le-Street.
"I don't think I need to change my game at all. I've played like that in West Indies and scored runs; I've done it in the first one-dayer here," said Patel, who scored 95 in the first game.
"It's every individual's responsibility to make sure that if he gets in, he goes on and scores big runs," he added.
The Indian batsmen have been targetted with the short stuff by England and the key to success in the opening game was the way Patel and Ajinkya Rahane handled the rising ball.
"I had the advantage of watching England's bowling in Tests, and they obviously had the plan of bowling short. Before coming here, I was in the nets for seven or eight days working on the short ball because I knew I would be opening the batting.
"Obviously, they will come hard at me with the short balls. But I've worked on it. I'm glad I executed those plans in the first game, which is a start, but I want to continue that," the Gujarat left-hander said.
England holds a special place for Patel, as it was here that he made his debut in 2002. He lost the wicketkeeper's spot but he has fought back with his batting.
"I have this belief that I can play as a batsman in any side. That has kept me going. I had age on my side - when I was dropped, I was only 21…a lot of players do not even start playing at 21. So, I had experience and (my) self-belief kept me going."
First Published: Sep 06, 2011 00:21 IST


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Pilot: Next-Generation Honda Pilot Balances Ideal Combination of SUV Strengths and On-road Refinemen
01 Sep 2010, 09:00 am
A prototype of the next-generation Honda Pilot is being unveiled at the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, American Honda Motor Co., Inc., announced today.
The prototype conveys design features of the more boldly-styled 2009 Pilot, set to debut in spring 2008, which emphasizes authentic SUV styling, clever and more accommodating interior packaging and advanced technologies for safety, fuel efficiency and convenience.
"The Pilot's pioneering formula improves for 2009 by enhancing its combination of refinement and efficiency with even more traditional SUV strengths," said John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda. "A powerful exterior design communicates strength and allows for more space inside."
Functional eight-passenger seating, a hallmark of the Pilot, becomes even easier to access in the third row as key dimensions for legroom, cargo and occupant space increase in all seating positions. A redesigned platform allows even more refined handling and ride comfort to exist seamlessly with all-weather and medium-duty off-road capabilities.
To further enhance safety, the Pilot will feature the Honda-exclusive Advanced Compatibility Engineering™ (ACE®) body structure and the most extensive use of high-strength steel in any Honda product to date.
The ACE body structure enhances frontal collision compatibility with vehicles of different sizes and bumper heights. A pedestrian injury mitigation design in the front of the vehicle is designed to help absorb energy in the event of a collision.
A crossover SUV platform underpins the Pilot to provide the best of the car and truck worlds by integrating the refined traits and packaging advantages of a unit body car design with the utility and capability of an SUV design. A V-6 engine introduces the latest generation of Honda fuel-saving Variable Cylinder Management™ (VCM®) technology that operates in 6-cylinder mode for power and 4- and 3-cylinder modes for efficiency, an improvement compared to the existing Pilot's available VCM system that works exclusively in 6- and 3-cylinder modes.
Three rows of seats provide a high degree of adaptability for people and large cargo loads. The first row provides a commanding view of the road from two captains' chairs. A wide center stack and center console form the styling anchor for the interior with a design that emphasizes spaciousness and power, while allowing for convenient access to navigation, entertainment and climate-control systems.
The 60/40 split second row, now more spacious, slides further forward for increased ease of access to the third row. The 60/40 split third row, now supplies enough knee room for an above-average-sized adult male to fit comfortably, making the Pilot's third row among the most practical in the industry. Each side of the second and third row independently folds down for cargo. A flat floor is created when the second and third rows are folded down.
The Pilot originally debuted as a 2003 model in July of 2002. Design and development of the 2003 Pilot and the 2009 Pilot were carried out at Honda R&D Americas in Raymond, Ohio, and Torrance, California. The Pilot is assembled* at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama in Lincoln.
Among its numerous accolades, the Honda Pilot has earned Car and Driver Magazine's prestigious "5Best Truck" award on six consecutive occasions (2002-2007). The current-generation 2008 Pilot is also among an elite group of vehicles to receive both a "Top Safety Pick 2008" from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and a 5-star crash safety rating for frontal and side collisions from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)**.
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that lowering planet-rendering, ship draw-distance, and the more advanced light-effects, often reduced overloads.
a lot of programs are bad at / don't even TRY, to estimate if you'd get crashes from overloading/CPU drag, when you turn multiple rendering options on, or, the difference between your own system, and some unknown-bench-testing average,.. doesn't end up remotely like what your individual system, might or might not have / do / have the capacity to do... etc.
it's worth a try, since you can then experiment turning things back on, or slowly increasing BACK up... instead of trying to guess at which one, one by one, especially if your settings don't get changed properly from the crash!
it might look crap when you start again, but you can at least get MOST of them back on/up-again, if it was only one of them being too much.
a bit like saying if you take a handful of straws off the camel's back per the 'last-straw', metaphor, you can consider which you want back on, in being able to get a bit of an idea which will and which won't... also be OTHER, last-straws-that-will,... rather than not-knowing, which it is you currently have on, that one-at-a-time, do not get it going again.
simply because there might be MORE THAN ONE, preventing it from running smoothly.
if you take more off than you think you need, at least you can test them ONE AT A TIME, as you add them, one at a time, to see if individually, they cause problems.
Welp, I found out why the game was crashing. I've been "running out of memory". Even though my memory usage is less than 30% with everything running. It seems that chrome, ED, or discord (or a combination of them) is requesting a large block of memory while running even though the program isn't "using it". I have never run a swap file with the 960pro SSD (and never had a problem until now) but it seems because physical memory becomes fragmented over time, one of these programs is requesting a contiguous block of memory and it's just not there as one large addressable chunk. So I've had to enable my swap file again. Which isn't a big deal at all. Hope this thread helps someone else out!
It's not that though, actual usage stays below 30%, but one of the apps is trying to reserve a block of continuous memory. Even though there's lots of memory it wants one chunk all together. And it's just not there as it's fragmented.
On a properly configured system that is reasonably stable, there shouldn't be any such thing.
A swap file, even if nothing is ever actually paged out to it, is quite important for memory management purposes.
hmm, might turning off the pre-shading cache, reduce the overall amount loaded, ready-to-go?
it might mean longer times waiting for things to load before you can enter a area, or higher CPU usage?
that might only a little bit tho,.. the game's main expected 'space' needed, is the big one,.. but if you're reeeeealy tight, and windows only needs a little more not-used by the game, the additional might just make space enough for both, so-to speak.
does it crash WHEN that pre-shading step, is happening during the starting of the program, coincidentally?
that i noticed it was happening at the same point during the steps of starting, of loading.
hadn't been thinking i'd need to pay attention to when, until turning off pre-shading became an option.
as it turned out, i was able to re-turn pre-shading back on, after lowering other settings, and knowing i could turn it off again to lower them enough to be able to get into the menu, to lower other settings even lower, and then try again, etc.
thank you for the reply however it is already been solved as my swap file was disabled. I did not have a problem previously playing Elite dangerous without a swap file however something has changed on either my PC or one of the programs I use within the last 2 months. However everything is great now and no crashes in over 24 hours.


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WWE legend 'The American Dream' Dusty Rhodes dead at 69
Virgil Runnels, better known as WWE Hall of Famer "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, passed away on Thursday. He was 69.
WWE confirmed the news in a statement, calling Runnels "one of the most captivating and charismatic figures in sports entertainment history." The statement continued:
"Runnels became a hero to fans around the world thanks to his work ethic, his impassioned interviews and his indomitable spirit. Moreover, Runnels was a dedicated father to WWE Superstars Goldust (Dustin Runnels) and Stardust (Cody Runnels), a caring husband and a creative visionary who helped shape the landscape of WWE long after his in-ring career had ended."
Runnels, who was known for his polka dot tights, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007. He is survived by four children, including "Goldust" Dustin Runnels and "Stardust" Cody Runnels, who both followed in their dad's footsteps to become wrestling superstars.


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So, I thought Inception was pretty great. I'm not going to bother discussing what it's about, like I normally do, because frankly if you haven't seen it yet, you should stop reading this right now and just go see it. Plus I'm going to spoil some crucial stuff.
I spent a lot of enjoyable time during the weekend kicking the movie around in my head, particularly the kicks themselves. For instance, I'm still not sure why Arthur wasn't kicked out of the hotel when the van drove off the bridge. Can the kick be intentionally ignored? If anyone could do that, I suppose it would be Arthur, who seems both very determined and highly professional (at least when he wasn't stealing kisses from Ariadne).
And then there's that damned top. Was it about to fall or not? It was certainly wobbling. I walked out of the theater wishing they hadn't shown the wobbling, so that the viewer could fully make up their own mind. But in the end I decided that it doesn't matter if it keeps spinning. What matters is that Cobb set it down and left it there, a gesture that clearly shows he's accepted the reality that he's in. Besides Saito totally handled it while they were talking in the beginning, so he could have simulated a false replica.
I was surprised for a while that Nolan didn't make the dream worlds more dreamlike, but that was pretty much necessary to pull off the repeated "Am I still dreaming?" cons. And there were a few points where the audience couldn't really know the consequences of what the characters were doing, which drained a bit of the drama. The only thing that really bothered me about the movie, however, was there were way too many shots of people in snowsuits shooting guns in the third level of the dream. Those parts made me feel like I was trying to feign interest in other people playing some multiplayer video game.
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Tag Archives for Michael Faraday
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831- 79)
1864 – Scotland
The Scottish physicist examined Faraday's ideas concerning the link between electricity and magnetism interpreted in terms of fields of force and saw that they were alternative expressions of the same phenomena. Maxwell took the experimental discoveries of Faraday in the field of electromagnetism and provided his unified mathematical explanation, which outlined the relationship between magnetic and electric fields. He then proved this by producing intersecting magnetic and electric waves from a straightforward oscillating electric current.
'Four equations that express mathematically the way electric or magnetic fields behave'
In 1831 – following the demonstration by HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED that passing an electric current through a wire produced a magnetic field around the wire, thereby causing a nearby compass needle to be deflected from north – MICHAEL FARADAY had shown that when a wire moves within the field of a magnet, it causes an electric current to flow along the wire.
This is known as electromagnetic induction.
In 1864 Maxwell published his 'Dynamical Theory of the Electric Field', which offered a unifying, mathematical explanation for electromagnetism.
In 1873 he published 'Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism'.
The equations are complex, but in general terms they describe:
a general relationship between electric field and electric charge
a general relationship between magnetic field and magnetic poles
how a changing magnetic field produces electric current
how an electric current or a changing electric field produces a magnetic field
The equations predict the existence of electromagnetic waves, which travel at the speed of light and consist of electric and magnetic fields vibrating in harmony in directions at right angles to each other. The equations also show that light is related to electricity and magnetism.
Maxwell worked out that the speed of these waves would be similar to the speed of light and concluded, as Faraday had hinted, that normal visible light was a form of electromagnetic radiation. He argued that infrared and ultraviolet light were also forms of electromagnetic radiation, and predicted the existence of other types of wave – outside the ranges known at that time – which would be similarly explainable.
Verification came with the discovery of radio waves in 1888 by HEINRICH RUDOLPH HERTZ. Further confirmation of Maxwell's theory followed with the discovery of X-rays in 1895.
Maxwell undertook important work in thermodynamics. Building on the idea proposed by JAMES JOULE, that heat is a consequence of the movement of molecules in a gas, Maxwell suggested that the speed of these particles would vary greatly due to their collisions with other molecules.
In 1855 as an undergraduate at Cambridge, Maxwell had shown that the rings of Saturn could not be either liquid or solid. Their stability meant that they were made up of many small particles interacting with one another.
In 1859 Maxwell applied this statistical reasoning to the general analysis of molecules in a gas. He produced a statistical model based on the probable distribution of molecules at any given moment, now known as the Maxwell-Boltzmann kinetic theory of gases.
He asked what sort of motion you would expect the molecules to have as they moved around inside their container, colliding with one another and the walls. A reasonably sized vessel, under normal pressure and temperature, contains billions and billions of molecules. Maxwell said the speed of any single molecule is always changing because it is colliding all the time with other molecules. Thus the meaningful quantities are molecular average speed and the distribution about the average. Considering a vessel containing several different types of gas, Maxwell realized there is a sharp peak in the plot of the number of molecules versus their speeds. That is, most of the molecules have speeds within a small range of some particular value. The average value of the speed varies from one kind of molecule to another, but the average value of the kinetic energy, one half the molecular mass times the square of the speed, (1/2 mv2), is almost exactly the same for all molecules. Temperature is also the same for all gases in a vessel in thermal equilibrium. Assuming that temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules, then absolute zero is absolute rest for all molecules.
The Joule-Thomson effect, in which a gas under high pressure cools its surroundings by escaping through a nozzle into a lower pressure environment, is caused by the expanding gas doing work and losing energy, thereby lowering its temperature and drawing heat from its immediate neighbourhood. By contrast, during expansion into an adjacent vacuüm, no energy is lost and temperature is unchanged.
The explanation that heat in gas is the movement of molecules dispensed with the idea of the CALORIC fluid theory of heat.
The first law of thermodynamics states that the heat in a container is the sum of all the molecular kinetic energies.
Thermal energy is another way of describing motion energy, a summing of the very small mechanical kinetic energies of a very large number of molecules; energy neither appears nor disappears.
According to BOYLE's, CHARLES's and GAY-LUSSAC's laws, molecules beating against the container walls cause pressure; the higher the temperature, the faster they move and the greater the pressure. This also explains Gay-Lussac's experiment. Removing the divider separating half a container full of gas from the other, evacuated, half allows the molecules to spread over the whole container, but their average speed does not change. The temperature remains the same because temperature is the average molecular kinetic energy, not the concentration of caloric fluid.
In 1871 Maxwell became the first Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. He died at age 48.
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1831 – England
'A changing magnetic field around a conductor produces an electric current in the conductor. The size of the voltage is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic field'
This phenomenon is called 'electromagnetic induction' and the current produced 'induced current'. Induction is the basis of the electric generator and motor.
Faraday developed HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED's 1820 discovery that electric current could deflect a compass needle. In his experiment Faraday wrapped two coils of insulated wire around opposite sides of an iron ring. One coil was connected to a battery, the other to a wire under which lay a magnetic compass needle. He anticipated that if he passed a current through the first wire it would establish a field in the ring that would induce a current in the second wire. He observed no effect when the current was steady but when he turned the current on and off he noticed the needle moving. He surmised that whenever the current in the first coil changed, current was induced in the second. To test this concept he slipped a magnet in and out of a coil of wire. While the magnet was moving the compass needle registered a current, as he pushed it in it moved one way, as he pulled it out the needle moved in the opposite direction. This was the first production of electricity by non-chemical means.
In 1831, by rotating a copper disc between the poles of a magnet, Faraday was able to produce a steady electric current. This was the world's first dynamo.
NEWTON, with his concept of gravity, had introduced the idea of an invisible force that exerted its effect through empty space, but the idea of 'action-at-a-distance' was rejected by an increasing number of scientists in the early nineteenth century. By 1830, THOMAS YOUNG and AUGUSTIN FRESNEL had shown that light did not travel as particles, as Newton had said, but as waves or vibrations. But if this was so, what was vibrating? To answer this, scientists came up with the idea of a weightless matter, or 'aether'.
Faraday had rejected the concept of electricity as a 'fluid' and instead visualised its 'fields' with lines of force at their edges – the lines of force demonstrated by the pattern of iron fillings around a magnet. This meant that action at a distance simply did not happen, but things moved only when they encountered these lines of force. He believed that magnetism was also induced by fields of force and that it could interrelate with electricity because the respective fields cut across each other. Proving this to be true by producing an electric current via magnetism, Faraday had demonstrated electromagnetic induction.
When Faraday was discovering electromagnetic induction he did so in the guise of a natural philosopher. Physics, as a branch of science, was yet to be given a name.
The Russian physicist HEINRICH LENZ (1804- 65) extended Faraday's work when in 1833 he suggested that 'the changing magnetic field surrounding a conductor gives rise to an electric current whose own magnetic field tends to oppose it.' This is now known as Lenz's law. This law is in fact LE CHATELIER's principle when applied to the interactions of currents and magnetic fields.
Fluctuating Electromagnetic Fields and EM Waves
It took a Scottish mathematician by the name of JAMES CLERK MAXWELL to provide a mathematical interpretation of Faraday's work on electromagnetism.
Describing the complex interplay of electric and magnetic fields, he was able to conclude mathematically that electromagnetic waves move at the speed of light and that light is just one form of electromagnetic wave.
This led to the understanding of light and radiant heat as moving variations in electromagnetic fields. These moving fields have become known collectively as radiation.
Faraday continued to investigate the idea that the natural forces of electricity, magnetism, light and even gravity are somehow 'united', and to develop the idea of fields of force. He focused on how light and gravity relate to electromagnetism.
After experimenting with many transparent substances, he tried a piece of heavy lead glass which led to the discovery of the 'Faraday Effect' in 1845 and proved that polarised light may be affected by a magnet. This opened the way for enquiries into the complete spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.
In 1888 the German physicist HEINRICH HERTZ confirmed the existence of electromagnetic waves – in this case radio waves – traveling at the speed of light.
The unit of capacitance, farad (F) is named in honour of Faraday.
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CHARLES DE COULOMB (1736-1806)
'The force of attraction or repulsion between two charges is directly proportional to the product of the two charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them'
The region around a charged object where it exerts a force is called its electric field. Another charged object placed in this field will have a force exerted on it. Coulomb's rule is used to calculate this force.
Coulomb, a French physicist, made a detailed study of electrical attractions and repulsions between various charged bodies and concluded that electrical forces follow the same type of law as gravitation. Coulomb found a similar principle linking the relationship of magnetic forces. He believed electricity and magnetism, however, to be two separate 'fluids'.
It was left to HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED, ANDRE-MARIE AMPERE and MICHAEL FARADAY to enunciate the phenomenon of electromagnetism.
The SI unit of electric charge, coulomb (C), one unit of which is shifted when a current of one ampere flows for one second, is named in his honour.
He also articulated Coulomb's rule of friction, which outlines a proportional relationship between friction and pressure.
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HANS CHRISTIAN OERSTED (1777-1851)
'Electric current produces a magnetic field'
Oersted discovered that an electric current could make the needle of a magnetic compass swivel. It was the first indication of a link between these two natural forces. Although Oersted discovered electromagnetism he did little about it. This task was left to AMPERE and FARADAY.
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