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Day County, SD
Day County, South Dakota (SD)
County owner-occupied with a mortgage or a loan houses and condos in 2010: 803
County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 1,115
Land area: 1029 sq. mi.
Population density: 5 people per square mile (very low).
March 2019 cost of living index in Day County: 76.7 (low, U.S. average is 100)
Industries providing employment: Educational, health and social services (23.8%), Agriculture,forestry,fishing and hunting, and mining (15.4%), Manufacturing (11.1%).
56410.2%American Indian and Alaska Native alone
1001.8%Two or more races
70.1%Asian alone
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Thefts: 14
(11.5% for White Non-Hispanic residents, 11.4% for Hispanic or Latino residents, 42.4% for American Indian residents, 30.8% for two or more races residents)
(Median age for: White residents: 51.7 years old, American Indian residents: 20.5 years old, Asian residents: 25.1 years old, Hispanic or Latino residents: 18.1 years old, Other race residents: 37.9 years old)
Fair market rent in 2006 for a 1-bedroom apartment in Day County is $368 a month.
Cities in this county include: Webster, Waubay, Bristol, Roslyn, Pierpont, Andover, Grenville, Lily, Butler.
Day County has a predicted average indoor radon screening level greater than 4 pCi/L (pico curies per liter) - Highest Potential
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Notable locations in this county outside city limits:
Reservoir: Big Stone Lake (A). Display/hide its location on the map
River: Whetstone River (A). Display/hide its location on the map
Neighboring counties: Big Horn County, Montana , Coos County, New Hampshire , Brown County , Oxford County, Maine , Charlevoix County, Michigan , Marion County, Oregon , Kandiyohi County, Minnesota .
Number of foreign born residents: 35 (42.3% naturalized citizens)
72010 or later
Two: 10
3 or 4: 182
50 or more: 1
Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Housing units in Day County with a mortgage: 761 (8 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,228
Religion statistics for Day County
Mainline Protestant 2,494 13
Catholic 1,808 4
None 830 -
Day County Religion Details
14.14 / 10,000 pop.
Agriculture in Day County:
Average value of agricultural products sold per farm: $80,613
Average total farm production expenses per farm: $61,635
Average market value of all machinery and equipment per farm: $84,535
Average number of cattle and calves per 100 acres of all land in farms: 8.13
Soybeans for beans: 100505 harvested acres
Day County historical area-adjusted tornado activity is significantly below South Dakota state average. It is 27017507.0 times below overall U.S. average.
Day County-area historical earthquake activity is significantly above South Dakota state average. It is 1% greater than the overall U.S. average.
On 7/9/1975 at 14:54:15, a magnitude 4.6 (4.6 MB, Class: Light, Intensity: IV - V) earthquake occurred 77.0 miles away from Day County center
On 10/20/1995 at 15:57:18, a magnitude 3.7 (3.7 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: II - III) earthquake occurred 44.7 miles away from Day County center
On 11/3/2002 at 20:41:56, a magnitude 4.3 (4.3 MB, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 191.9 miles away from the county center
South Dakota Severe Storms, Tornadoes, And Flooding, Incident Period: September 9, 2019 - September 26, 2019, Major Disaster (Presidential) Declared DR-4469-SD: November 18, 2019, FEMA Id: 4469, Natural disaster type: Storm, Tornado, Flood
South Dakota Severe Winter Storm, Incident Period: January 20, 2010 to January 26, 2010, Major Disaster (Presidential) Declared DR-1887: March 10, 2010, FEMA Id: 1887, Natural disaster type: Winter Storm
South Dakota Severe Storms and Flooding, Incident Period: March 11, 2009 to July 06, 2009, Major Disaster (Presidential) Declared DR-1844: June 16, 2009, FEMA Id: 1844, Natural disaster type: Storm, Flood
South Dakota Severe Storms, Tornadoes, and Flooding, Incident Period: May 04, 2007 to June 08, 2007, Major Disaster (Presidential) Declared DR-1702: May 22, 2007, FEMA Id: 1702, Natural disaster type: Storm, Tornado, Flood
10 other natural disasters have been reported since 1953.
The number of natural disasters in Day County (20) is greater than the US average (15).
Causes of natural disasters: Floods: 12, Storms: 10, Winter Storms: 5, Tornadoes: 4, Blizzard: 1, Drought: 1, Hurricane: 1, Snowstorm: 1, Other: 1 (Note: some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
Bicycle: 13 (0.6%)
Manufacturing (8%)
Retail trade (6%)
Public administration (4%)
Transportation occupations (10%)
Construction and extraction occupations (9%)
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations (6%)
Food preparation and serving related occupations (9%)
Health technologists and technicians (6%)
Australia (23%)
Philippines (19%)
Other Eastern Europe (6%)
Germany (6%)
Croatia (3%)
Norway (0%)
Polish (10%)
Scandinavian (1%)
People in group quarters in Day County, South Dakota in 2000:
137 people in nursing homes
9 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
11 people in local jails and other municipal confinement facilities
from Brown County, SD 1.02% ($37,565 average AGI)
to Brown County, SD 0.94% ($32,143 average AGI)
Infant deaths per 1000 live births from 1990 to 1999: 16.0
Population without health insurance coverage in 2018: 14.1%
Percentage of population without health insurance coverage in Day County
Persons enrolled in hospital insurance and/or supplemental medical insurance (Medicare) in July 1, 2007: 1,368 (1,236 aged, 132 disabled)
Most common underlying causes of death in Day County, South Dakota in 1999 - 2019:
Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (307)
Bronchus or lung, unspecified - Malignant neoplasms (10)
Short term general hospitals per 100,000 population in 2004: 17.05
Short term general hospital admissions per 100,000 population in 2004: 4,672
Short term general hospital beds per 100,000 population in 2004: 426
Emergency room visits per 100,000 population in 2004: 16,198
Total births per 100,000 population, July 2005 - July 2006 : 31
1,301 spouses (1,294 opposite-sex spouses), 154 unmarried partners, (154 opposite-sex unmarried partners), 1,203 children (1,151 natural, 19 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 89 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 0 foster children, 31 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
Size of family households: 916 2-persons, 296 3-persons, 248 4-persons, 140 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons.
Size of nonfamily households: 884 1-person, 96 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 8 4-persons.
806 married couples with children.
301 single-parent households (91 men, 210 women).
99.0% of residents of Day speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Federal Government expenditure: $67,313,000 ($11,477 per capita)
Department of Defense expenditure: $1,495,000
Federal other direct payments to individuals: $10,646,000
Federal direct payments not to individuals: $14,773,000
Federal grants: $19,489,000
Federal procurement contracts: $633,000 ($0,000 Department of Defense)
Federal salaries and wages: $3,839,000 ($890,000 Department of Defense)
Federal Government direct loans: $1,521,000
Net international migration: +21
Net internal migration: -307
Here: -53 per 1000 residents
Year house built in Day County, South Dakota
1,2061939 or earlier
Rooms in houses/apartments in Day County, South Dakota
Rooms in owner-occupied houses in Day County, South Dakota
Rooms in renter-occupied apartments in Day County, South Dakota
Bedrooms in houses/apartments in Day County, South Dakota
Bedrooms in owner-occupied houses in Day County, South Dakota
Bedrooms in renter-occupied apartments in Day County, South Dakota
1201 bedroom
Cars and other vehicles available in Day County, South Dakota in houses/condos/apartments
Cars and other vehicles available in Day County in owner-occupied houses/condos
Cars and other vehicles available in Day County in renter-occupied apartments
05+ vehicles
90.2% of Day County residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.
Northeast: 26
South: 67
Most commonly used house heating fuel in Day County
0.3%Solar energy
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 106
Day County government finances - Expenditure in 2018:
Bond Funds - Cash and Securities: $1,382,000
Charges - Other: $161,000
Regular Highways: $50,000
Correctional Institutions: $223,000
Health - Other: $121,000
Public Welfare, Vendor Payments for Medical Care: $109,000
Parks and Recreation: $9,000
Federal Intergovernmental - Other: $14,000
General Local Government Support: $5,000
Highways: $1,000
Miscellaneous - Sale of Property: $71,000
Fines and Forfeits: $26,000
General Revenue - Other: $8,000
State Intergovernmental - Highways: $1,006,000
Documentary and Stock Transfer: $1,000
Total Salaries and Wages: $950,000
Day County government finances - Revenue in 2018:
Day County government finances - Debt in 2018:
Day County government finances - Cash and Securities in 2018:
Total number of recipients: 111
Most common first names in Day County, SD among deceased individuals
Frank 35 81.8 years
Elmer 31 83.9 years
Most common last names in Day County, SD among deceased individuals
Nelson 27 83.6 years
Hanson 26 80.4 years
Zubke 18 77.3 years
Block 17 76.4 years
Herr 16 80.3 years
Businesses in Day County, SD
Alco Stores 1 Pizza Hut 1
Chevrolet 1 Subway 1
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Day County on our top lists:
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Blog Candy Contest starts today with The Things I Love Card. Starting today and for the next 4 or 5 posts I will have clues you need in order to answer the question correctly. Contest rules at the end of this post. On this card I used a color block background to highlight the stamps. I love how the black makes everything pop!
Here are the contest details: When I was at the beauty salon last week I had about 10 minutes to look through a magazine. I saw a lot of different color combinations and, well I get my inspiration in a lot of places, so I thought these colors would make a nice card! So I started writing down the color combinations in the various pictures that looked like Stampin' Up! colors. Any colors in bold in the recipe above were in a single picture. I wrote down the name of the magazine and the month and about 6 different color combinations all in the same magazine. This weekend I made cards using those color combinations I wrote down. I have 4 cards down for this week and hope to have the other two ready to post next week. Your Challenge is find the magazine I looked at that has these color combinations! The first person to name the magazine and correct month/year will win the blog candy. I will give the blog candy away at the end of the month. If no one answers correctly, I will draw a name from everyone who posted a comment between April 13- April 30. Good Luck and don't forget to post a comment to be eligible for the blog candy. Good Luck and start looking at pictures/advertisments in magazines when out and about and you may win!! NOTE: You are eligible to enter if you live in the continental United States only. I will mail blog candy (it's a surprise!) to only US addresses that accepts Priority flat rate package.


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Deputies shoot, kill Lady Lake man during domestic dispute
LADY LAKE — Sumter County deputies shot and killed a man who allegedly pointed a gun at them while they were investigating a domestic dispute between the man and his wife.
According to a press release, deputies responded to a call about a "domestic disturbance" at 6:20 p.m. Friday at Northeast 105th Lane in Lady Lake. The woman met deputies at a nearby church and told them her husband punched their dog in the face three times. They began to argue, and the man pushed her, so she gathered her children, left and called law enforcement.
While deputies were interviewing the victim, they heard gunshots nearby and found the suspect. They confronted him and said he refused to comply with their commands to surrender, then he raised his firearm at deputies. Two deputies shot him.
The man, who was not immediately identified, was flown to the trauma center at Ocala Regional Medical Center where he died a few hours later, according to the Associated Press.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting, which is standard procedure in all officer-involved shootings.

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Q: When so many things can go wrong all you do is try, try, try Seriously, how can you handle all those exceptions without going nuts? Have I read one too many articles on exception handling or what? I tried refactoring this a couple of times and each time I seem to end up with something even worse. Maybe I should admit exceptions do happen and simply enjoy coding just the happy path? ;) So what's wrong with this code (besides the fact that I was lazy enough just to throw Exception instead of something more specific)? And by all means, don't go easy on me.
public void Export(Database dstDb)
{
    try
    {
        using (DbConnection connection = dstDb.CreateConnection())
        {
            connection.Open();
            DbTransaction transaction = connection.BeginTransaction();
            try
            {
                // Export all data here (insert into dstDb)
                transaction.Commit();
            }
            catch (SqlException sqlex)
            {
                ExceptionHelper.LogException(sqlex);
                try
                {
                    transaction.Rollback();
                }
                catch (Exception rollbackEx)
                {
                    logger.Error("An exception of type " + rollbackEx.GetType() +
                                      " was encountered while attempting to roll back the transaction.");
                }
                throw new Exception("Error exporting message " + Type + " #" + Id + ": [" + sqlex.GetType() + "] " + sqlex.Message, sqlex);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                try
                {
                    transaction.Rollback();
                }
                catch (Exception rollbackEx)
                {
                    logger.Error("An exception of type " + rollbackEx.GetType() +
                                      " was encountered while attempting to roll back the transaction.");
                }
                throw new Exception("Error exporting message " + Type + " #" + Id + ": [" + ex.GetType() + "] " + ex.Message, ex);
            }
        }

        try
        {
            Status = MessageStatus.FINISHED;
            srcDb.UpdateDataSet(drHeader.Table.DataSet, HEADERS,
                CreateHeaderInsertCommand(), CreateHeaderUpdateCommand(), null);
        }
        catch (Exception statusEx)
        {
            logger.ErrorException("Failed to change message status to FINISHED: " +
                                    Type + " #" + Id + ": " + statusEx.Message, statusEx);
        }
    }
    catch (Exception importEx)
    {
        try
        {
            Status = MessageStatus.ERROR;
            srcDb.UpdateDataSet(drHeader.Table.DataSet, HEADERS,
                    CreateHeaderInsertCommand(), CreateHeaderUpdateCommand(), null);
        }
        catch (Exception statusEx)
        {
            logger.ErrorException("Failed to change message status to ERROR: " +
                                    Type + " #" + Id + ": " + statusEx.Message, statusEx);
        }
        AddErrorDescription(importEx.Message);
        throw new Exception("Couldn't export message " + Type + " #" + Id + ", exception: " + importEx.Message, importEx);
    }
}

Btw. So many times I tried really hard to be as specific as possible when forming questions -  the result was no visits, no answers and no idea how to solve the problem. This time I thought about all the times when someone else's question caught my attention, guess this was the right thing to do :)
Update:
I've tried putting some of the tips into practice and here's what I came up with so far. I decided to change the behavior slightly: when it's not possible to set message status to FINISHED after successful export I consider it as job not fully done and I rollback and throw an exception. If you guys still have some patience left, please let me know if it's any better. Or throw some more criticism at me. Btw. Thanks for all the answers, I analyze every single one of them.
Throwing an instance of System.Exception didn't feel right, so I got rid of that, as suggested, and instead decided to introduce a custom exception. This, by the way, also doesn't seem right - overkill? This appears to be fine with public methods but a bit over-engineered for a private member, yet still I want to know there was a problem with changing message status instead of a problem with database connection or something.
I can see couple of ways of extracting methods here, but all of them seem to mix responsibilities which jgauffin mentioned in his comment: managing database connection, handling database operations, business logic (export data). Say the ChangeStatus method - it's some level of abstraction - you change the status of a message and you're not interested in how this thing happens, how the message is persisted, etc. Maybe I should use a Data Mapper pattern to further separate responsibilities, but in this still quite simple scenario I thought I'd get away with Active Record. Maybe the whole design is so convoluted right now, that I don't see where to make the cuts?
public void Export(Database dstDb)
{
    try
    {
        using (DbConnection connection = dstDb.CreateConnection())
        {
            connection.Open();
            using (DbTransaction transaction = connection.BeginTransaction())
            {
                // Export all data here (insert into dstDb)
                ChangeStatus(MessageStatus.FINISHED);
                transaction.Commit();
            }
        }
    }
    catch (Exception exportEx)
    {
        try
        {
            ChangeStatus(MessageStatus.ERROR);
            AddErrorDescription(exportEx.Message);
        }
        catch (Exception statusEx)
        {
            throw new MessageException("Couldn't export message and set its status to ERROR: " +
                    exportExt.Message + "; " + statusEx.Message, Type, Id, statusEx);
        }
        throw new MessageException("Couldn't export message, exception: " + exportEx.Message, Type, Id, exportEx);
    }
}

private void ChangeStatus(MessageStatus status)
{
    try
    {
        Status = status;
        srcDb.UpdateDataSet(drHeader.Table.DataSet, HEADERS,
            CreateHeaderInsertCommand(), CreateHeaderUpdateCommand(), null);
    }
    catch (Exception statusEx)
    {
        throw new MessageException("Failed to change message status to " + status + ":" + statusEx.Message, statusEx);
    }
}

A: Additionally to the great answer of jgauffin.
6 . don't catch exceptions just to log them. catch them on the top most level and log all the exceptions there.
Edit:
Because exception logging all over the place has at least these disadvantages:

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*The same exception may be logged several times, which fills the log unnecessarily. It's hard to tell how many errors actually occurred.

*If the exception is caught and handled or ignored by the caller, there are still error messages in the log file, which is at least confusing.

A: Exception handling is a well discussed and is implemented in a well varied number of ways.  There are some rules I try to abide by when handling exceptions:

*

*Never throw System.Exception, generally there are enough types of exceptions to fill your requirement, if not, specialise. See: http://www.fidelitydesign.net/?p=45

*Only ever throw an exception if the method itself cannot do anything but throw an exception.  If a method can recover/handle expected variations of input/behaviour, then don't throw an exception.  Throwing exceptions is a resource-intensive process.

*Never catch an exception just to rethrow it.  Catch and re-throw if you need to perform some additional work, such as reporting the exception, or wrapping the exception in another exception (typically I do this for WCF work, or transactional work).

These are just the things I do personally, a lot of developers prefer doing it ways in which they are comfortable....

A: *

*Datasets are the root of all evil ;) Try using a ORM instead.

*Read about single responsibility principle. your code does a lot of different things.

*Do not catch exceptions only to rethrow them

*Use using statement on transaction and connection.

*No need to catch all different exceptions when all exception handlers do the same thing. The exception details (Exception type and Message property) will provide info.

A: Create a log class that handles fall backs for its own failures (i.e. tries SQL, if that fails writes to event log, if that fails, writes to a local log file, etc).
Also I don't recommend you catch an error and throw a different one. Every time you do so you are losing valuable trace/debug information about the original exception source.
public void Export(Database dstDb)
{
  try
  {
    using (DbConnection connection = dstDb.CreateConnection())
    {
        connection.Open();
        using (DbTransaction transaction = connection.BeginTransaction())
        {
            // Export all data here (insert into dstDb)
            ChangeStatus(MessageStatus.FINISHED);
            transaction.Commit();
        }
    }
  }
  catch (Exception exportEx)
  {
    LogError(exportEx);// create a log class for cross-cutting concerns
        ChangeStatus(MessageStatus.ERROR);
        AddErrorDescription(exportEx.Message);

    throw; // throw preserves original call stack for debugging/logging
  }
}

private void ChangeStatus(MessageStatus status)
{
  try
  {
    Status = status;
    srcDb.UpdateDataSet(drHeader.Table.DataSet, HEADERS,
        CreateHeaderInsertCommand(), CreateHeaderUpdateCommand(), null);
  }
  catch (Exception statusEx)
  {
   Log.Error(statusEx);
   throw;
  }
}

Also for any situation where you feel there are additional try/catch blocks needed, make them their own method if they are too ugly. I like Stefan Steinegger's answer, where the top level call in your app is the best place to catch.
Part of the problem here I imagine is that something is mutable that causes you to try to set the status after a failure. If you can factor your object to being in a consistent state whether or not your transaction works you don't have to worry about that part.

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Margaret Wellington Part One: 'The Peppy Kid' and the 1948 London Olympic Games
Posted by Jean Williams | Jun 14, 2016 | Gender and Sport, Swimming | 0
Mum was a swimmer until she was 85, ideally in a 50m pool and with a dedicated lane to herself. Her determination to be a swimmer – apparently originating in her childhood – was an amazingly inspirational journey. Working full-time, she often swam three times a day, postwar, in a time of rationing; a small slight woman, she demonstrated how dreams can come true, if someone is determined enough and willing to practice.1
I have been researching the history of British women Olympians for over a decade, prompted by the award of the 2012 Games to London. Having first hosted the Olympic Games in 1908, at the height of the suffragette campaign and in a context of Irish Home rule dominating domestic politics, the second London Olympic Games in 1948 were less controversial but nevertheless historically significant.
Robert Edelman has argued that 1948 should be seen as, 'The last of the pre-war Games' before Cold War rivalries changed the intensity of nationalism from the 1952 Helsinki Olympics onwards.2 In the assessment of Bob Phillips, London 'rescued' the Olympic Games, from the highly politicised atmosphere in Berlin.3 This goes a little far, as the degree of pomp and ceremonial British nationalism made them a political statement in their own right.4 But who were the women who represented Great Britain?
The swimmer Margaret Wellington was one British representative amongst approximately 390 women athletes, compared with roughly 3,714 male Olympic contestants.5 Though statistically small, this number was a ten-fold increase on the women competitors at the first London Olympics in 1908. The following biographical information is based on an interview with Margaret's daughter, Lesley, in December 2015. Born in Sydenham in December 1926, Margaret had an elder brother born the previous January, Peter Beresford Wellington. She did not care for her middle name, Olive, but preferred Maggie and this was one of several nicknames she would acquire throughout life, including being dubbed by the newspapers 'The Peppy Kid'. Although not a medalist in 1948, Maggie was to achieve a degree of world-wide fame as a result of becoming an Olympic and Empire Games/Commonwealth Games competitor. This article focuses on her 1948 Olympic appearance and a subsequent article will compare this with her Commonwealth representation.
Margaret attended Alexandra Junior School and then Beckenham Girls' Grammar School and was said to have wanted to swim to a high level – 'to be a champion' – from the age of seven. The physical signs of a future Olympian were not initially evident if Margaret's own account is to be believed, as she reported having 'tried almost every other game and had been a miserable failure…If there is one thing I have proved in my life as a sportswoman, it is that a national swimming champion can be fashioned out of the most hopeless-looking material.'6 Margaret was small, had glasses from an early age and for a while had to wear a patch over one eye, leading to the unkind nickname 'five eyes' at school.
At the relatively late age of fifteen and a half, Margaret set her mind to swim seriously, seven days a week and train with Beckenham Ladies Swimming Club. As well as strong school performances in the Freestyle, Margaret became Junior Southern champion in 1942. In 1944 she came to national prominence as a potential Olympic hopeful in the Freestyle events over both 100 and 400 metres. For the next three years her friendship and rivalry with the Scottish Freestyle competitors Cathie Gibson and Nancy Riach provided a South versus North narrative that many newspapers capitalised upon.
Margaret's appetite for increased training had a dramatic effect, as she would finish second in the 100 yards Freestyle final, third in the 220 yards race and fourth over 440 yards at the National Championships in 1946 in New Brighton. A close third to Riach and Gibson followed in the 1947 national finals, held at Hastings, and Pathé News dubbed Wellington the 'Mermaid in the City'.7 Often called 'the personality girl' of the English or British team, Wellington was also frequently described as 'tawny-haired' in the newspapers.
Margaret then set herself a series of goals and these were 'To win all three Freestyle national titles, and to represent Great Britain in the European, Empire and Olympic Games.'8 She would go on to achieve all of these targets between 1947 and 1950, although she represented England, rather than Great Britain in the Empire Games.
In perhaps the most intensely competitive Olympic women's swimming event in 1948, Margaret Wellington, Lillian Preece and Patricia Neilsen were all eliminated in their respective heats in the 100 metres metres Freestyle individual race. However, Maggie was national 100 yards Freestyle champion that year, having taken the title in Scarborough. In 1949 she would go on to take both the 220 yards and 400 yards Freestyle national championships in Derby.
Margaret Wellington remained well known following her Olympic appearance. For example, in 1949 the BBC paid her ten guineas and all travelling expenses to deliver an eight-minute talk as part of a light programme, called 'Hullo Children: Spotlight On Swimming.'9 However, she was an amateur in both attitude and in status. Before describing her subsequent Commonwealth career, it is worth leaving the last word to her daughter.
A vivacious, vibrant member of the British team, she eat, drank, dreamt, lived, breathed swimming. Gutsy, committed and determined, she especially loved the time she spent at Loughborough University; every day dedicated to improving her talent. Mum was extremely proud to be an amateur, never wanting to associate money with her skill. She believed that swimming is not only the best exercise for the whole body, but is also a sport available to everyone.10
Article © Jean Williams
Lesley Restorick Margaret Wellington: Personal Communication 20 January 2016
Robert Edelman Serious Fun: A History of Spectator Sport in the USSR New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 p. 25.
Bob Phillips The 1948 Olympics: How London Rescued the Games London: Sports Pages, 2007.
Janie Hampton London Olympics, 1908 and 1948 London: Shire, 2011; Janie Hampton The Austerity Olympics: When the Games Came to London in 1948 London: Aurum Press, 2012.
Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad Part One and Part Two London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, 1948.
Margaret Wellington 'Swimming to be a Champion-7 Days a Week' in Carolyn Dingle (ed.) News Chronicle: Sport For Girls London: News Chronicle Publications Department, 1951 p. 29.
British Pathé Margaret Wellington: Mermaid in the City 1946 film number 1388.02 http://www.britishpathe.com/video/mermaid-in-the-city accessed 26 May 2016.
Margaret Wellington 'Swimming to be a Champion' p. 31.
British Broadcasting Corporation Margaret Wellington: Hullo Children London: Broadcasting House 12 December 1949.
Lesley Restorick Margaret Wellington: Personal Communication 20 January 2016.
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A future quantum network will consist of quantum processors that are connected by quantum channels, just like conventional computers are wired up to form the Internet. In contrast to classical devices, however, the information that can be encoded in a quantum network grows exponentially with the number of nodes, and entanglement of remote particles gives rise to non-local correlations. Exploring these effects facilitates fundamental tests of quantum theory and the quantum-to-classical transition. In addition, quantum networks will enable applications in precision sensing and in distributed quantum information processing, which will fundamentally enhance computational power and ensure unbreakable encryption over global distances.
Pioneering experiments with atomic ensembles, single trapped atoms and solid-state spins have demonstrated the connection and entanglement of two quantum nodes separated by up to 1.3 km. However, accessing the full potential of quantum networks requires scaling of these prototypes to more network nodes and even larger distances. To this end, a new technology that overcomes the bottlenecks of existing physical systems has to be developed.
In this context, we employ the spin of individual rare-earth ions embedded into thin crystals. In contrast to other impurities, rare-earth ions exhibit optical transitions between inner-shell 4f levels. Like in a Faraday cage, the electrons in these levels are largely shielded from the electric fields of the crystal by the outer shell 5s and 5p electrons. When operating at a specific magnetic field, also the spin transition frequencies can be made insensitive to magnetic fluctuations. In this way, the current world record of six hours of quantum coherence time has been achieved (using Eu3+ in Y2SiO5 crystals in M. Sellars' group, ANU Canberra).
The remaining challenge in the context of quantum networks is that the long-lived optical transitions of rare-earth impurities typically lead to a small fluorescence rate, which makes optical detection and readout challenging. To solve this task, we will embed rare-earth-doped crystals into optical resonators. In this setting, the excited state lifetime can be strongly reduced by the Purcell effect, and the emission of individual ions is efficiently channeled into an optical output mode.
Our main focus lies on the rare-earth element Erbium because it is the only known impurity that has coherent optical transitions within the "telecommunications" wavelength regime. This allows us to reduce the experimental overhead by harnessing existing photonic technologies. In addition, loss in optical fibers is minimal at these frequencies: compared to the visible, the transmission over 100km of optical fiber is improved by about 40 orders of magnitude. This is mandatory to realize quantum networks that span global distances.
Entanglement distillation between solid-state quantum network nodes. N. Kalb*, A. Reiserer*, P. C. Humphreys*, J. J. W. Bakermans, S. J. Kamerling, N. H. Nickerson, S. C. Benjamin, D. J. Twitchen, M. Markham, R. Hanson; Science 356, 928 (2017).


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Key Senators Agree on Plan to Replace Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at 12:02 am | י' אדר ב' תשע"ד
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Congressional efforts to shut down bailed-out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac took a significant step forward Tuesday, as key senators announced bipartisan agreement on a plan to overhaul the housing-finance system.
The proposal, which will be detailed in the coming days, would slowly shrink the government-controlled companies and replace them with a scaled-back government guarantee for mortgages.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the federal government in 2008 as they neared bankruptcy from bad loans they guaranteed during the subprime housing boom.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and the panel's top Republican, Mike Crapo of Idaho, said they had reached agreement after a series of hearings last year on how to overhaul the complex housing system and reduce the role of the federal government in backing home loans.
Since the 2008 financial crisis, Fannie, Freddie and the Federal Housing Administration have backed about 90 percent of all new mortgages.
"There is near-unanimous agreement that our current housing-finance system is not sustainable in the long term, and reform is necessary to help strengthen and stabilize the economy," Johnson said as he and Crapo released the principles they had agreed should be part of legislation.
The White House praised the announcement as "a good-faith compromise."
"We support this effort and believe it is a workable bipartisan approach to complete the biggest remaining piece of post-recession financial reform," said White House spokesman Bobby Whithorne.
While there is strong bipartisan agreement that Fannie and Freddie should be shut down and the housing-finance system overhauled, Democrats and Republicans remain at odds about how exactly to do it.
The proposal from Johnson and Crapo builds on bipartisan legislation unveiled last year by Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.
That bill, which has five Democratic and five Republican co-sponsors on the banking committee, would try to reduce future risk to taxpayers from a housing downturn by requiring banks and other private firms that package mortgages into securities to hold at least 10 cents in capital for every dollar of the underlying loans to cover the first wave of losses.
A centerpiece of that plan would be a new agency, the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corp., that would collect fees from the industry and pay to cover losses on mortgage securities after the 10 percent private capital behind the securities was paid out.
Johnson and Crapo endorsed the idea of the new agency.
Warner and Corker said they're pleased the overhaul process is moving forward. And the Financial Services Roundtable, which represents large banks, called the principles from Johnson and Crapo "a positive step toward needed reform."
But House Republicans want to take a different approach. A bill passed by the House Financial Services Committee would gradually close Fannie and Freddie over five years but would not replace their role with any new government mortgage guarantee. That job would be left to the private sector.
Rep. Scott Garrett, R-N.J., a key supporter of that bill, said he's pleased the Senate is moving on the issue but believes the House approach is the right one.
"The federal government's domination of the housing finance market has left taxpayers on the hook for trillions in mortgage guarantees," Garrett said.
Fannie and Freddie have become symbols of the financial crisis, and the government has pumped a total of $187.5 billion into the two companies to keep them afloat since 2008.
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"When I started to speak up about addiction I realized that I'm telling the addiction, 'I'm fighting you for the sake of my son,' " Swenson said. Speaking up is noisy, she said, but that's part of the deal. "We can't fight addiction, we can't break down stereotypes, if we're quiet. The world is not going to believe addiction is a disease if we moms treat it like it is a disgrace." ~Sandra Swenson
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After fighting her son's addiction for years, one mother learned to let go
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As she watched her son Joey slip into addiction, Sandra Swenson became obsessed with his every movement.
"I literally was stalking him," Swenson said, explaining that during Joey's teenage years, her obsessive observation felt like good parenting: "I would go find him if he wasn't where he was supposed to be. I had his passwords from early on in high school when he was doing college applications, so I'd check his emails, his Facebook posts, everything I could get my hands on."
But when Joey's struggles continued into adulthood, Swenson said her stalking grew out of control. She was trying to save her son's life, she explained — but it got to the point that she had no life of her own.
"My husband would stand at the door of the den, literally blocking the way to the computer," she recalled. "He'd say, 'You shouldn't be doing this. It is so unhealthy.' "
Despite her family's tireless efforts to help Joey achieve sobriety, he bounced in and out of treatment programs (including Hazelden), dropped out of college, ran into trouble with the law, overdosed and attempted suicide. Swenson couldn't help but feel like a failure. Filled with guilt and shame, she retreated into a sad sort of seclusion.
This kind of behavior isn't unusual for mothers of addicted children, Swenson said.
"I think many mothers in the same situation hide from the world because we are so ashamed of what is happening to our children. We feel lonely and scared. We just flounder around in our fear. And that fear can cause us to act irrationally or obsessively.
Swenson's obsessive focus on her oldest son's every movement eventually had to stop. Joey was enrolled in yet another sobriety program when she realized that staff needed to know some of the things she'd covertly uncovered about her son's addictive behaviors.
"I knew that if I told them I would have to explain how I learned that information," she said. "There was a lot of shame in that, and a lot of fear about Joey's potential reaction, but I told the truth. The gig was up. I was forced into doing something I should've done a long time ago."
The realization that no matter how desperately she wanted to save her son, Swenson had to back off and let him live his own life was the inspiration for her first book, "The Joey Song" (Central Recovery Press, 2014), a memoir designed for parents of addicted children.
The book, Swenson said, "is about me trying to fix my son for years and finally realizing that that I couldn't do that for him. I tried and tried and tried before I eventually realized that I had to do my part in this journey, which is separate from his part. It was incredibly difficult, but now that's what I focus on now."
Life after separation
After Swenson vowed to let go and let her son live his own life, the two developed an uneasy sort of truce.
Joey lives in Florida, and Swenson, who grew up in Minnesota, lives in Texas, so they see each other usually once a year. As far as she knows, Joey is still addicted, but Swenson resists the urge to ask him about it.
"There was a time when I would know exactly how he was doing in his addiction journey," she said. "Now we don't talk about it. We spend the time that we do have together making new pleasant memories so that we have something healthy left over when hopefully he does find recovery."
Swenson believes that this truce is better than the alternative — which is her son cutting off all contact with his family — but it never feels like an easy solution.
"It's not what any mother would dream of," she said, "but it is way better than it could have been. I'm grateful for that."
Swenson's second book, "Tending Dandelions: Honest Meditations for Mothers With AddictedChildren," (Hazelden Meditations, 2017), grew out of that realization. It's a support book for mothers struggling to maintain relationships with their addicted children, but it's more than that: It's also an acknowledgement of the innate power of mothers — even in situations that make them feel powerless.
It wasn't an easy book to write, Swenson said.
"The first book was about Joey's struggles, about my coming to terms with and even understanding that he had struggles at all. This book is focused on my part of the journey. As a mother, it's hard to shift the attention back to yourself, but it's what I had to do to maintain my sanity."
Remember that isolation that so many mothers of addicted children retreat into? Swenson hopes that her books help them find a community of support that will help them navigate the torturous twists and turns of loving a child who struggles with substance use.
That's where the title "Tending Dandelions" comes from.
"I feel like we moms are those deceptively delicate dandelions," Swenson said. "We feel fragile, but together we're strong and we're many. We're a movement now. We are starting to stand up and talk about this disease. Things have changed: I feel no shame about this disease whatsoever anymore."
It helped Swenson to attend support groups like Al-Anon — and to meet people who had read her books. Finding a community helped her feel stronger and less ashamed. She wants the same thing for her readers.
"When I started to speak up about addiction I realized that I'm telling the addiction, 'I'm fighting you for the sake of my son,' " Swenson said. Speaking up is noisy, she said, but that's part of the deal. "We can't fight addiction, we can't break down stereotypes, if we're quiet. The world is not going to believe addiction is a disease if we moms treat it like it is a disgrace."
This summer, Swenson will be in Minnesota June 22-24 to lead a two-day workshop called "Mom to Mom: Where Love and Addiction Meet" at Hazelden's Dan Anderson Renewal Center.
At the workshop, Swenson said, attendees will discuss "the struggle and the horrors of this thing called addiction, and how as mothers we can come to terms with the fact that we cannot do this for our children."
Swenson said that she wants to show that letting go is not a sign of weakness.
"We have a lot of power as moms to overpower the destruction that the disease of addiction spreads. At the workshop, we will work on finding that power within ourselves by shedding the shame and the guilt and turning it into something that can actually do good. We want to change the way our community perceives addiction and make it an easier journey for our children."
This will be the first workshop that Swenson has led. She can't wait to get big group of mothers together in the same room — the energy they create has the potential to be unstoppable.
"I'm very excited," Swenson said. "It's going to be a wonderful weekend. I feel so connected to moms who are on the same journey as I am, moms who are trying to understand that sometimes help enables and hope hurts: We feel so helpless in the face of this disease, but together we are strong."
Registration for "Mom to Mom: Where Love and Addiction Meet" is available online.
"There was a time when I would know exactly how he was doing in his addiction journey," she said. "Now we don't talk about it. We spend the time that we do have together making new pleasant memories so that we have something healthy left over when hopefully he does find recovery." ~Sandra Swenson
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Q: I have LOTS of TAP-Win32 Adapter OAS and TAP-Windows Adapter V9 What are these, and what are they used for; how do I get rid of this? Because I haven't got OpenVPN or any other VPN-client installed on my computer (to my knowledge).
I am not sure but I thing this makes my computer "not connect to the Internet as fast as it should" on start-up.
Provided image displays my annoyance. (It's Norwegian)

A: Do the following and they will disappear
Win+R -> Type in msinfo32 and press Enter.
Now you will see the following Console Window.

In the left pane navigate to components ->Network -> Adapter Here you can see all the Network Adapters listed Find the TAP adapters and see the Driver location as shown in the below image

I have given a sample image as i have already deleted the TAP adapters. Don't delete the Microsoft Adapters. Find the Tap adapters location in listed adapters & go to the location for example: "C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\TAP.sys" and delete them.
After this Just Go to device Management and uninstall the TAP adapters under Network Adapters.
Note: While uninstalling tick the option "Delete the Driver" if asked for a prompt.
That's it, you're done.

A: Do you use Auto KMS for Licencing Microsoft products?
Well I had the same problem 2 weeks ago. It seem recently i installed a copy of Office 2013 which came with Auto KMS activation. Ever since then a process called Auto KMS appeared in my processes.
Anyway I tried to install all the unwanted TAP drivers but it didn't allowed me.Then what I did is manually uninstalled the drivers from device manager.
Then opened the file location of the AutoKMS.exe from my task manager and deleted it. Gave a restart, and my all drivers were gone forever. As for my Office....its still working and licensed.

A: I know that this question is old, but maybe it can help other people that come across with this same question. I found a solution, though it is not a permanent solution, the TAP adapters will keep coming while you keep a KMS activator or a VPN client of sorts running, which can keep installing these adapters over and over (the reason for that I don't really know, bad programmers maybe? :P ).
Anyways, here's what you can do:

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*Download OpenVPN: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/downloads.html

*Uncheck all the boxes except the TAP Adapter utility and install.

*Open your Notepad with admin privileges and open the file C:\Program Files\TAP-Windows\bin\deltapall.bat

*Replace "remove tap0901" for "remove tapoas"

*Save the script in the same folder with the name 'deltapall2.bat' (or any name you would like to give to it, doesn't matter, as long the extension is bat)

*Open your command prompt with admin privileges.

*cd "c:\program files\tap-windows\bin"

*deltapall and wait for it finish

*deltapall2 and wait for it to finish

*Go to your Devices Manager and you will see that all TAP adapters are removed.

*Restart your PC and you are ready to go!

To prevent a KMS tool to install these TAP adapters again and again and again, go to the Task Scheduler and disable or delete all of the KMS tasks that were created. Though the KMS tool service may create those tasks all over again! So yeah... there is nothing to do about that.
If you are using a KMS tool, I would recommend you to stop using these activators and just support the developers of the software you are using by buying a license! You would avoid all this confusion.
Finally, be advised that if you actually use VPN, you will probably be unable to access it without a TAP Adapter. So if you use VPN you may want to keep your VPN adapter, if it is a TAP adapter, reinstall it running your VPN's install software, or the OpenVPN's one, or using the 'addtap' script included in the same folder as the 'deltapall'.
I hope it helps!

A: After downloading OpenVPN 2.5.0 and installing just "Drivers\TAP-Windows6" component and then uninstalling it, all TAP devices disappear.

A: I had the same issue (150 TAP adapters, which significantly slowed down my computer) and in my case the reason was an application called TAP Windows. I don't remember installing that app, so maybe it was installed together with an another software. Anyway uninstalling TAP Windows helped, all tap adapters were gone instantly.


Image caption Nelly Furtado gave a private show at a hotel in Italy in 2007 for the Gaddafi "clan"
Singer Nelly Furtado has said that she will give away $1 million (£615,000) she was paid to perform for the family of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The star said on Twitter she had given a private 45-minute show for Gaddafi's "clan" in 2007 at a hotel in Italy.
The 32-year-old did not say which charity she would donate the money to.
Meanwhile, Beyonce has revealed money she earned from a 2009 gig was donated to charity when it emerged the promoter was linked to the Gaddafi family.
In a statement the star's publicist said: "All monies paid to Beyonce for her performance at a private party at Nikki Beach, St Barts on New Year's Eve 2009, including the commissions paid to her booking agency, were donated to the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, over a year ago."
Once it became known the third party promoter was linked to the Gaddafi family, the statement went on, "the decision was made to put that payment to a good cause".
Another artist, US singer Usher, is reportedly facing music industry calls to surrender fees earned from performing for Gaddafi's family.
According to Rolling Stone, the singer received an undisclosed sum for performing at the same party as Beyonce Knowles in 2009.
Mariah Carey, the magazine went on, accepted $1m to perform for Gaddafi's son Muatassim in 2008, while rapper 50 Cent gave a show for him at the 2005 Venice film festival.
On Thursday, Carey said she had been "naive and unaware of who I was booked to perform for".
"I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this mess," she said in a statement. "This is a lesson for all artists to learn from."
Managers for Usher and 50 Cent have so far declined to comment.
Colonel Gaddafi is facing international condemnation for using violence to quell a popular uprising in Libya.


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To December 4- Australian climate and nuclear news
The world is at the crossroads as U.N. Climate Change Conference takes place in Poland. Many experts think that we have passed the point of no return. UN Climate Conference faces the daunting need for the world to quit coal. World Bank funding for action on climate change, and for adaptation to climate change. David Attenborough urges world leaders to LEAD .
Nuclear power, touted as the solution to climate change, is on fact, only a hindrance to action on climate change.
With bushfires and floods, Australia now ranks in the top 10 world's natural disaster counntries.
Bushfires, Climate Change, and Nuclear Sites – how the threats of climate and nuclear merge.
Release of Federal Inquiry Report into community contamination from toxic chemicals.
NUCLEAR. Nuclear authorities planning for NUCLEAR PROCESSING at Kimba or Hawker dump site! Government Divides Hawker and Kimba Communities While Hiding Suitable Alternate Radioactive Waste Sites. Community excluded from Australia's nuclear waste dump Community Consultation. Concerned citizens of Kimba petition the Senate to remove Kimba site from radioactive waste site shortlist. Woomera a more suitable site for a nuclear waste dump – Senator Rex Patrick. Was Woomera rejected as nuclear dump site, because the plan is to later IMPORT NUCLEAR WASTE?
Western Australia's uranium promise: 10 years later it's a complete flop. Report casts doubt over the viability of the Mulga Rock project.
CLIMATE. Total fire ban South Australia -(including Flinders) a dangerous place to put a nuclear waste dump? Multiple bushfires on Yorke Peninsula South Australia. Queensland experiencing fires of unprecedented fury, similar to California's wildfires. Western Australia set for a scorching summer.
Schoolkids say -Climate change is the biggest threat to our futures, not striking from school. Yes, Prime Minister, I'm striking from school: consider it a climate lesson. School students who went on strike for climate action are more likely to have successful careers. Australia's climate action schoolkids – more intelligent, better informed, than Australia's government. Australia's Resources Minister Matt Canavan scorns children who protest for climate action. Weird responses of righteous fury, against students who protested about about climate change.
Michael West shows the obstacles to Adani actually starting the Carmichael coal project. Queensland Premier sceptical that Adani coal mine will ever eventuate. Adani's announcement they are 'ready to go' must be reality tested.
Climate change and the Great Barrier Reef. Research on Australia's climate history. Al Gore to conduct climate leadership training in Brisbane.
Noongar traditional owners challenge settlement that will extinguish native title. Native title win for Nanda people in Western Australia.
False claims against Julian Assange pave the way for USA to imprison him (DOES AUSTRALIA NOT CARE?)
RENEWABLE ENERGY South Australia now supplying electricity to Victoria, as wind power surges. Renewables to be providing 80 per cent of electricity market by 2030. UK company chooses Sydney for Australian HQ . Why coal – and not renewables – is root cause of surging Australia power prices. Milestone – Australia renewables output hits 9GW for first time. Top solar postcodes of Australia – state by state. Clean Energy Council calls for NSW renewables target, as another state election looms.
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World Bank – $200 billion for action on climate change, emphasis on adaptation
World Bank to raise $200 billion to fight climate change SBS News 4 Dec 18 The World Bank Group will spearhead a five-year, $200 billion investment to fight climate change. The World Bank has unveiled a $200 billion in climate action investment for 2021-25, adding this amounts to a doubling of its current five-year funding.
The World Bank said the move, coinciding with a UN climate summit meeting of some 200 nations in Poland, represented a "significantly ramped up ambition" to tackle climate change, "sending an important signal to the wider global community to do the same."
Developed countries are committed to lifting combined annual public and private spending to $100 billion in developing countries by 2020 to fight the impact of climate change — up from 48.5 billion in 2016 and 56.7 billion last year, according to latest OECD data.
Southern hemisphere countries fighting the impact of warming temperatures are nonetheless pushing northern counterparts for firmer commitments.
In a statement, the World Bank said the breakdown of the $200 billion would comprise "approximately $100 billion in direct finance from the World Bank."
Around one third of the remaining funding will come from two World Bank Group agencies with the rest private capital "mobilised by the World Bank Group."……..
Much of the climate action financing is being set aside for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, notably through development of renewable energy strategies.
However, the World Bank stated that "a key priority is boosting support for climate adaptation," given the millions of people already battling the consequences of extreme weather.
"By ramping up direct adaptation finance to reach around $50 billion over (fiscal) 21-25, the World Bank will, for the first time, give this equal emphasis alongside investments that reduce emissions," the bank stated.
Given the urgency to act in the face of sea level rise, flooding and drought "we must fight the causes, but also adapt to the consequences that are often most dramatic for the world's poorest people," said World Bank CEO Kristalina Georgieva.
The countries whose representatives are meeting at the UN climate summit which opened Sunday in the Polish city of Katowice are seeking to make good on commitments made in the 2015 Paris climate accord.
That agreement saw countries commit to limiting global temperature rises to well below two degrees Celsius and to the safer cap of 1.5C if at all possible. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/world-bank-to-raise-200-billion-to-fight-climate-change
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REPORT CASTS DOUBT OVER THE VIABILITY OF THE MULGA ROCK URANIUM PROJECT
Vimy Resources has relied on heroic assumptions about prices, unfounded optimism about a booming nuclear industry, and has ignored regulatory risks and mine closure costs in its Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) for the proposed Mulga Rock uranium mine to the east of Kalgoorlie, a new report by the Australia Institute has found.
The report, commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and the Conservation Council of WA (CCWA), will be released tomorrow as shareholders gather at Vimy Resources AGM in Perth.
Dr Cameron Murray of The Australia Institute said, "The report clearly shows that, based on plausible assumptions about exchange rates and uranium prices, the proposed Mulga Rock uranium mine is unprofitable.
"The Mulga Rock DFS is ambitious to the point of heroic. The projections for the future role of nuclear power are extremely optimistic, and the economic assessment of the project's position in the global uranium marketplace fails to accurately reflect the international situation," Dr Murray said.
CCWA Nuclear Free Campaigner Mia Pepper said, "This report is a reality check for shareholders making investment decisions that would not only adversely affect their back pocket, but also impact a unique part of WA's backyard."
"Vimy Resources is putting a brave face on a speculative roll of the dice," said ACF Nuclear Free Campaigner Dave Sweeney.
"The company lacks finance, full approvals, social licence, and a market. Having a gamble is hardly news in the mining sector, but gambling with the product that fuelled Fukushima and always generates long lived radioactive waste is not acceptable, and will be actively contested."
For the full report go to http://www.ccwa.org.au/nuclearfreewa scroll down to Reports.
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Queensland heatwave set to continue until mid-week, bushfires keep raging
ABC, 3 Dec 18 By Laura Gartry and Andree Withey
A community meeting will be held on North Stradbroke Island as authorities monitor bushfire threat
Three "watch and act" warnings are in place for Captain Creek, Lowmead and Curtis Island
The fire has now burnt through more than 520,000 hectares………https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/queensland-bushfire-crisis-continues-into-second-week/10573460
David Attenborough urges world leaders to LEAD – on climate change action
Our greatest threat': David Attenborough's grim warning on climate Naturalist David Attenborough has told delegates at a UN conference the world is facing the end of civilisation if it does not unite to tackle climate change. SBS News, 4 Dec 18 British broadcaster and environmentalist David Attenborough has urged world leaders, meeting in Poland to agree ways to limit global warming, to get on and tackle "our greatest threat in thousands of years".Known for countless nature films, Attenborough has gained prominence recently with his Blue Planet II series, which highlighted the devastating effect of pollution on the oceans.
Leaders of the world, you must lead," said the naturalist, given a "People's seat" at the two-week UN climate conference in the Polish coal city of Katowice alongside two dozen heads of state and government.
"The continuation of our civilisations and the natural world upon which we depend, is in your hands," he said.
"Climate change is running faster than we are and we must catch up sooner rather than later before it is too late."
Attenborough told the delegates: "Right now, we are facing a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years. Climate Change."……….
Representatives of some of the most powerful countries and biggest polluters were conspicuous by their absence, and the United States is quitting the UN climate process.
To maximise the chances of success in Poland, technical talks began on Sunday, a day early, with delegates from nearly 200 nations debating how to meet the Paris target of limiting global warming to between 1.5 and 2.0 degrees Celsius (2.7 and 3.6 Fahrenheit).
Michal Kurtyka, Poland's deputy environment minister and president of the talks, said that without success in Katowice, Paris would not be a success, as it had only decided what was needed, not how it could be done.
Moreover, the wider political environment had changed.
"The wave of optimism and global co-operation that carried us to and through Paris has now crested, broken and is now tumbling," he told delegates. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/our-greatest-threat-david-attenborough-s-grim-warning-on-climate
December 3, 2018 Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | 1 Comment
Behind the scenes, it's the military, not civilian energy, that want Small Modular nuclear Reactors
the decision to pursue Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors (MSRs )may not be based on market laws. For MSRs to succeed, they will likely be developed with appropriate political support and military funding.
If a nation wants an unlimited power supply for cutting-edge military technologies, then the MSR is indeed a very good candidate.
small modular reactors fitted with MSR technology could effectively supply electricity at remote military bases.
When a technology has some potential, the military sector can provide appropriate funding to quickly prototype products, which won't necessarily have commercially viable features
Molten Salt Reactors: Military Applications Behind the Energy Promises, POWER,12/02/2018 | Jean-Baptiste Peu-Duvallon The commercial nuclear power sector has evolved with great help from the military-industrial complex. Research and development funded for the purpose of national defense has resulted in advances directly applicable to the power industry. For molten salt reactor designs to succeed, political support and military dollars may again be necessary. Continue reading →
Indeed, we could see those articles as pivotal in the current hostile environment against Assange; the purpose of which is presumably to prepare the way for the extradition of Assange to the US. Meanwhile, the Mueller inquiry into alleged links between US president Donald Trump and Russia – and Assange – is gaining headlines on an almost daily basis. And there is evidence that Assange has been secretly indicted and that an extradition request is imminent.
In such an environment, media outlets must provide hard evidence to substantiate allegations, and not simply fall back on anonymous 'sources' (usually code for spooks). The people these allegations target deserve better, and so do readers
Former diplomat challenges 'fake' Guardian claims about Julian Assange meeting Paul Manafort The Canary Tom Coburg 3rd December 2018 A former consul and first secretary at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has spoken out against a "fake story" from the Guardian. Speaking to The Canary, Fidel Narváez insisted that the claim that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is entirely false. Continue reading →
December 3, 2018 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, secrets and lies | Leave a comment
Weird responses of righteous fury, against students who protested about about climate change
The weirdest right-wing takes on the student climate protest , Australia's free speech warriors took a righteous stand against children fighting for their future. Crikey, KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN DEC 03, 2018 After years of apocalyptic headlines and government intransigence on climate change, the sight of thousands of high school students packing Sydney's Martin Place last Friday provided a jolt of much-needed hope for the future. Armed with loudspeakers, and some incredibly creative posters, the strike — which also took place in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Coffs Harbour, Bendigo and other city centres — represented part of a global surge of student-led climate change protests.
It also caused a surge of righteous fury among conservative politicians and commentators; a feeling that was not shared by most Australians who are more worried about climate change than ever, and increasingly are in favour of more renewable energy. Here's a selection of the responses from those who chose to take a stand against the children advocating for their future: … (subscribers only)
https://www.crikey.com.au/2018/12/03/student-climate-protest-takes/
December 3, 2018 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics | Leave a comment
South Australia now supplying electricity to Victoria, as wind power surges
Victoria now relying on SA for power as wind production rises and coal plants close, Adelaide Now Daniel Wills, State Political Editor, The Advertiser December 3, 2018 Green-powered South Australia is now sending Victoria more electricity than it takes back as wind production surges, leading energy experts to warn that more storage is the key to keeping the local grid stable.
A major report from the Australian Energy Market Operator has revealed SA was a net exporter to Victoria during the 2017-18 financial year, marking the first time that has happened in at least nine years.
However, the switch is mostly due to the closure of Victoria's huge Hazelwood coal-fired power station, leaving it more reliant on SA for power.
AEMO warns both states are at risk of forced blackouts this summer due to possible power shortages.
SA's emergency diesel generators could be needed to keep lights on. It says plans to link SA and NSW with a new interconnector "will be critical to help maintain reliability in an efficient manner".
SA Energy and Mining Minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan has seized on the findings as evidence his election pledge to deliver the NSW link should be fast-tracked.
He said a new scheme to add subsidised home batteries to rooftop solar systems would also help better use SA's renewable power. Just under half of SA's power supply is renewable………..https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/victoria-now-relying-on-sa-for-power-as-wind-production-rises-and-coal-plants-close/news-story/bdd06cf1b584e1cf18f0d03994b679c7?fbclid=IwAR238objot3GsYDha-K_aCBO6PKs_7UIDmlbOHTwESKiLsCXF3ezqtV2OCs
December 3, 2018 Posted by Christina Macpherson | South Australia, wind | Leave a comment
Nuclear authorities planning for NUCLEAR PROCESSING at Kimba or Hawker dump site!
10,000 CSIRO barrels are stacked decaying within the Woomera Protected Area; & back in 2016 $29 million was budgeted for re-mediation.
CSIRO has been contacted numerous times by different folk seeking information about how that was progressing – no answer has been the firm reply…..
Well, Senator Rex Patrick recently released some documents he obtained under FOI, & within those we find, from an August 2017 DIIS facilitated meeting with very senior officers from CSIRO, ARPANSA, & Department of Defence :
"CSIRO estimates they have 10,000 drums of radioactive waste stored at Woomera. Initial reports indicate these drums represent 80% LLW and 20% ILW. There is both chemical and radiological waste, often mixed together. They have been directed by ARPANSA to undertake measures to characterise, separate, process as appropriate, and repackage. [my caps] HOWEVER, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO UNDERTAKE SUCH MEASURES WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE CURRENT STORAGE FACILITY AT WOOMERA" p17
……. then on p18
"Preparing any appropriate part of the CSIRO waste at Woomera for transport to the NRWMF once we have clarity on what that facility will deal with (eg. LLW processing, ILW storage)"
So, at August 2017, we have the bosses of Federal agencies flagging the PROCESSING OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE AT THE NRWMF.
The affected communities have not been informed about that – only being told it would be STORAGE ONLY. Also, the 'temporary' 'interim' holding of ILW in a shipping container, potentially 100 years, requires replacement of the canisters after 40 years, so there would also need to be built what is known as a 'hot cell' to undertake that risky venture…
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2ed7ca0ef6oh1p5/AAB6UaL6iCMWFH2dzwv2q4VBa?dl=0&preview=Woomera+Letter+2.pdf
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December 3, 2018 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Federal nuclear waste dump | Leave a comment
Climate change and why nuclear power can't fix it
nuclear emits twice as much carbon as solar PV and six times as much as onshore wind.
Beyond Nuclear, 2 Dec 18 Nuclear power has no constructive role to play in climate change solutions. In fact, it is a hindrance.
Nuclear power does have a carbon footprint When nuclear power is said to have "zero emissions," this refers only to the electricity generation phase and only to greenhouse gas emissions. There are emissions at this stage, especially heat and radioactivity. Certain emissions during reactor operations, such as carbon-14 in CO2 form and methane, are greenhouse gases.
However, there are plenty of carbon emissions involved in making a nuclear power plant a reality. Therefore, when discussing the carbon footprint of nuclear energy compared to other energy forms, the entire uranium fuel chain needs to be taken into account. In doing so, nuclear energy compares poorly to renewable energy and energy efficiency. Lifecycle emissions along the nuclear fuel chain occur through uranium mining and milling, transportation, plant construction, operation, reactor site decommissioning, and nuclear waste management.1
Life-cycle carbon emissions of a nuclear power plant When taking into account planning, permitting, construction, operation, refurbishing and decommissioning, a nuclear power plant emits at least 6-24 times more carbon-dioxide equivalent emissions than wind per unit energy produced over the same 100-year period.2
Life-cycle carbon emissions from the entire nuclear fuel chain How do we calculate this? Evaluating the total carbon output of the nuclear industry involves calculating emissions from every carbon-emitting phase of the uranium fuel chain, then dividing them by the electricity produced over the entire lifetime of the plant.3 Some of the most reliable analysis on this has been done by Dr. Benjamin Sovacool whose data we use here (see footnote 1).
Let's take a look at the mean carbon emissions of each phase: Continue reading →
Total fire ban South Australia – a dangerous place to put a nuclear waste dump?
Total fire bans declared for most of South Australia, The Advertiser, December 1, 2018 Total fire bans have been issued for most of South Australia on the first day of summer.
The Country Fire Service's state operation centre is ready to react to any large fires today as the mercury soars to 30C across the state before a possible storm late in the afternoon.
A severe fire danger rating has declared for the following regions:
West Coast, Eastern Eyre Peninsula, Lower Eyre Peninsula, Flinders, Mid North, Yorke Peninsula, Riverland, Murraylands, Upper South East, Lower South East and Mount Lofty Ranges
The official bushfire season has also begun today for Kangaroo Island and will run until April.
When total fire bans are declared, well prepared and actively defended houses can offer safety during a fire.
But the Country Fire Service warns that if residents do not have a bushfire survival plan, leaving early before a fire start is the safest option.
CFS State Duty Commander Nick Stanley told ABC radio certain activities that could cause a fire risk are banned during the fire danger season…..
December 3, 2018 Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change - global warming, South Australia | Leave a comment
Multiple bushfires on Yorke Peninsula South Australia
Bushfires in SA after lightning hits https://www.sbs.com.au/news/bushfires-in-sa-after-lightning-hits
A band of lightning moving across South Australia is believed to be the cause of multiple bushfires, in particular on the Yorke Peninsula at Minlaton. 2 Dec 18 Multiple fires are burning in South Australia and are believed to have been caused by a band of lightning moving across the state.
The most serious fire is on the Yorke Peninsula at Minlaton, the SA Country Fire Service said.
Just before 3pm, the CFS was telling nearby residents to "leave if the path is clear to a safer place" however the authority now says the rate of spread of the fire has halted.
However the CFS says it's concerned that could change when the wind changes in a few hours.
"The CFS has concern that when the wind change arrives, there may be an increase in fire behaviour," a warning message said.
"People east of the fire ground need to remain alert to this wind change and enact their Bushfire Survival Plan."
There are smaller grass fires near Ettick in the Murraylands district, the Globe Derby Trotting track in the northern Adelaide metro area, Kangaroo Island, Hindmarsh Island, Kanmantoo, Barabba and Long Plains.
There is a total fire ban for most of the state.
UN Climate Conference now meeting, but climate change is probably now irreversible
Portrait of a planet on the verge of climate catastrophe As the UN sits down for its annual climate conference this week, many experts believe we have passed the point of no return, Guardian, by Robin McKie, 2 Dec 18
On Sunday morning hundreds of politicians, government officials and scientists will gather in the grandeur of the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland. It will be a familiar experience for many. For 24 years the annual UN climate conference has served up a reliable diet of rhetoric, backroom talks and dramatic last-minute deals aimed at halting global warming.
But this year's will be a grimmer affair – by far. As recent reports have made clear, the world may no longer be hovering at the edge of destruction but has probably staggered beyond a crucial point of no return. Climate catastrophe is now looking inevitable. We have simply left it too late to hold rising global temperatures to under 1.5C and so prevent a future of drowned coasts, ruined coral reefs, spreading deserts and melted glaciers.
One example was provided last week by a UN report that revealed attempts to ensure fossil fuel emissions peak by 2020 will fail. Indeed the target will not even be reached by 2030. Another, by the World Meteorological Organization, said the past four years had been the warmest on record and warned that global temperatures could easily rise by 3-5C by 2100, well above that sought-after goal of 1.5C. The UK will not be exempt either. The Met Office said summer temperatures could now be 5.4C hotter by 2070.
At the same time, prospects of reaching global deals to halt emissions have been weakened by the spread of rightwing populism. Not much to smile about in Katowice.
Nor will the planet's woes end in 2100. Although most discussions use the year as a convenient cut-off point for describing Earth's likely fate, the changes we have already triggered will last well beyond that date, Continue reading →
The reasons why France must close multiple nuclear reactors
Backstory: Macron To Close Multiple Nuclear Reactors, But Why Now? https://cleantechnica.com/2018/11/30/backstory-macron-to-close-multiple-nuclear-reactors-but-why-now/?fbclid=IwAR0tO9BXT4FaNEuhnwexaC6cf4V6jj6cJLnQeiZPdA91t7SrrmL5n7xtRHg November 30th, 2018 by Michael Barnard
President Emmanuel Macron of France depressed nuclear executives globally in late November 2018, announcing the planned retirement of 14 of 58 reactors by 2035. This was still less than was promised in his election campaign, but represents a major internal political battle, as well as a major change of France's circumstances.
This has been an emerging story for several years.
France did a better job than most of building nuclear plants. They picked a single design and built a bunch of them over a relatively concentrated 20 years from about 1978 onward. It was a massive, state-funded, state-managed energy infrastructure initiative at a scale rarely seen. They dodged a bunch of the mistakes of other geographies somewhat by accident. They aren't subject to earthquakes or tsunamis. They kept the technology highly standard. They developed a skilled workforce for building them and rewarded them well.
But the last nuclear reactor went live almost 20 years ago, the oldest ones are at end-of-life, and the skilled workforce only knows how to maintain and operate existing reactors now, not build new ones. The current President of France, Macron, used to be the Minister of Industry. He's stated publicly that even he couldn't find out how much the build-out actually cost, with the clear assertion that a bunch of actual costs were hidden.
"Nobody knows the total cost for nuclear energy," he said. "I was minister for industry and I could not tell you."
And France had to build nuclear to be load-following due to its over-reliance on a more usually inflexible form of generation. Nuclear is good for baseload up to 30–40%, but when it has to be turned on and off it gets a lot more expensive very quickly. France has the good fortune to have been able to export a lot of electricity to the rest of the EU for several years, but the energy mix on the continent is strongly favoring more flexible forms of generation.
And now, a few things have changed in the decades since France made its huge bet on nuclear generation in the Messmer Plan in 1974.
Renewables are dirt cheap, with Lazard's latest figures bringing them in at 3–6 times cheaper than new nuclear. (Amusingly, Lazard still labels wind and solar as 'alternative energy'.) Europe is a leading geography for wind and solar, so skilled trades and supply chains all exist. Europe's grid has strengthened and expanded over the past 30 years, so the need for a country to go it alone has diminished substantially.
The EU was founded in 1993 and France is an integral part of it, and that has two impacts. The first is that France's energy independence policy that was part of the impetus for a massive nuclear fleet looks archaic in context of modern politics and economics. The second is that EU regulations forbid destabilizingly large governmental subsidies for energy, something which the Hinkley plant in the EU had to fight through. As Macron's experience shows, it's actually impossible for anyone to figure out how much any nuclear plant actually cost due to budget fudging. This last is true globally, by the way.
French attempts to build next-generation reactors are failing in multiple locations in France and elsewhere. The cost and budget overruns and construction failures are staggering.
And Chernobyl and Fukushima both happened since the French nuclear build-out began. Public support diminished substantially after those events, one on the same continent and one a world away.
France receives a greater percentage of its electricity from nuclear than any country in the world, at 72% close to 50% more than its nearest 'competitor', Slovakia. And it will diminish over the coming decades. Its last-built reactor will reach end-of-life in 2040 or so. It's unlikely that it will be replaced. And it's unlikely that more than a fraction of the aging reactors will be refurbished at all.
Wind, solar, a continent-scale grid, and open economic borders all contributed to the death of the French nuclear dream. It's time for France to wake up and join the future, and it has. It voted in Macron, a politician who promised to reduce France's nuclear fleet. He fought the entrenched bureaucracy and EDF, and while the new plans are slower than the promised ones, they are the right plans on a pragmatic timeline.


I absolutely loved the sauce for the tacos. The pork shoulder was delicious but a bit too fatty for me, although I know the fat increases the flavor. Is there another cut of pork that would work?
As I keep saying, this would be good on a roof tile.
Wow, what amazing response time!!! Thank you!!!! I will try that next time. The flavors were so rich and divine, I truly loved the spices, herbs and pepper combination.
My favorite is actually short ribs.
Fior slow cooking, you need to use something that's not too lean, or the meat will dry out. You could use pork loin or tenderloin, but I'd recommend adding the meat towards the end, once the rest of the sauce has been cooking for about 20 minutes.


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Willie White Smith (1907 – August 29, 1989) was an American physiologist specialized in radiobiology. She researched the effects of radiation on bone marrow and the production of white blood cells at the National Institutes of Health.

Education
Smith was born in 1907, in Thomson, Georgia. She had 4 brothers and 3 sisters. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1927. She earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1938. Her dissertation was titled Contracture in the Gastrocnemius of the Frog. Frank H. Pike was Smith's doctoral advisor and electrophysiologist Horatio Burt Williams provided departmental support.

Career and research
Smith began her career at NIH in 1943, in a laboratory that eventually became a part of the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases. Her first research projects concerned the acute toxicity of DDT, soon to be used by American troops in Italy and North Africa, and of methyl chloride—a substitute refrigerant and ingredient in synthetic rubber. Later, Smith guided a young radiologist through some experimental work, after which she began her radiobiology studies of the effects of radiation. The young radiologist— Robert Q. Marston—went on to become the Director of NIH from 1968 to 1973. In those early days of investigating the damaging effects of radiation, Smith studied the influence of environmental factors (altitude, temperature, hypoxia, exercise), endocrine factors and dietary factors on the effects of radiation and recovery from sublethal doses. She went on to study the role of infection in death from radiation, and the effects of antibiotics and the body's own cellular defenses in countering radiation. In the early 1950's she was invited to witness an atomic bomb test in Nevada and examine the blast area. The test was set up to simulate an A-bomb explosion in a residential area. In 1953 Smith and her colleagues were transferred to the laboratory of biophysics (later to become the laboratory of physiology) in the National Cancer Institute (NCI) where she continued her studies of the effects of radiation on bone marrow and the production of white blood cells.

Smith published in numerous journals, reviewed manuscripts for Radiation Research, JNCI, and Science, and served on numerous professional committees. She retired in 1977.

Personal life
In 1941, Smith lived in Wilmington, Delaware. She was an avid gardener. In keeping with this hobby, she was presented with a hybrid rhododendron upon her retirement. In the latter part of her life, White lived in Baltimore and Chevy Chase.   She died of pneumonia on August 29, 1989.

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Glen Shee: Creag Leacach From The South
31st July 2019 Oikofuge 2 Comments
Carn Chomh-Stri (NO 137719, 718m)
Creag Leacach SW Top (NO 149741, 943m)
Creag Leacach (NO 154745, 987m)
Carn Ait (NO 142734, 865m)
Carn an Daimh (NO 135712, 755m)
890m of ascent
Another southerly approach, to a hill on the opposite side of Gleann Beag from my previous venture on Carn a' Gheoidh. Again, there's an inviting ridge walk; again, access is made easy by a vehicle track serving grouse butts high on the hill; and again, the approach avoids the clutter of the ski paraphernalia around the Glenshee Winter Sports Area.
This time I parked in Spittal of Glenshee, beside the ruins of the old Spittal of Glenshee Hotel. This hotel always had a slightly eccentric air to it, and that has now been preserved forever in its final Trip Advisor review—a damning single star, assigned because the place was "Closed Burnt Down".
Spittal of Glenshee also sports one of those non-specific brown road signs that always raise my suspicions, nebulously promising undisclosed "Visitor Attractions". As far as I can see, the sole attraction is the rather elegant eighteenth-century Caulfeild bridge, which used to carry the main road through the Spittal, until it was bypassed into obscurity by the two-lane Clan MacThomas Bridge.
From there, I followed the signs for the Cateran Trail across the A93 and as far as the ruins of an abandoned farm-toun, inauspiciously named Tomb. (Probably from the innocuous Gaelic tom, "hillock".)
The track to the grouse butts runs easily up through the Coire Bad an Loin and then, beyond the termination marked by the Ordnance Survey, turns eastwards towards my first hill of the day, Carn Chomh-Stri ("battle cairn", though no-one knows what battle that might be). As I looked to my right, to the skyline of neighbouring Carn an Daimh ("cairn of the stag"), the hill lived up to its name with a small herd of deer peering anxiously down at me.
They posed for a photograph, and then drifted off southwards, and I put my head down to watch my feet for the last plod to the ridge line. A hundred metres later my gaze snapped upwards again as I rounded a gentle corner and heard a rumbling noise ahead. A bare 20 metres away, the rest of the herd was pouring across the track in front of me—as close as I've been to that many deer in decades. Did I take a photograph? No, I did not. I didn't even think about—some moments are just too special for photographs.
By now I was opening up fine views behind me, across the glen to Ben Gulabin and the track I had previously followed to Carn a' Gheoidh.
Ahead of me was a problem, however—a sturdy boundary fence running along the ridge line. This wasn't marked on my old map (it's on the new edition), but it did have a gate in it (at NO 13707189). But which side of the fence was the summit of the hill going to be on? I took a guess, which turned out to be right, and went through the gate.
The top of Chomh-Stri gave me a view northwards, with the three summits of the ridge ahead prominently displayed.
(From left to right, Carn Ait, the southwest top of Creag Leacach, and Leacach itself.)
The fence, as it turned out, was generously provided with gates. As a service to posterity, I took GPS coordinates at each one I found. These were NO 13707189 (already mentioned, on Chomh-Stri), NO 13877229 (in the col north of Chomh-Stri), NO 14127287 (on the ridge south of Carn Ait) and NO 14367337 (where the fence turns eastwards off the ridge).
Unfortunately, the fence takes a zig-zag at Carn Ait (I'm guessing someone didn't want to try driving fence posts on the rocky ridge itself). This means the southern summit is east of the fence, but the northern (and marginally higher) summit is west of the fence. Since there was no convenient gate at this point, I would normally have hopped over at a convenient post, but I figured I could simply come down the other side of the fence on my return. So the conquest of Carn Ait was kept for later, and I contented myself with a visit to its northern cairn, which sits embedded in one of those mad drystone walls that traverse the high Scottish mountains—this particular wall would be my companion for the rest of the ascent to Creag Leacach, beyond which it continues towards Glas Maol.
A few rocky patches to cross on the way up, and then I was on the southwest top of Creag Leacach, looking across towards the screes below the main summit.
In the little dip between top and summit, I heard a flurry of wings and a characteristic croaking cry, and turned my head just in time to see a ptarmigan settle among the rocks—almost perfectly camouflaged apart from its red eyebrows.
Here's what I heard (the xeno-canto recording below was made just a few kilometres from my own encounter):
I lounged for a while on top of Leacach, admiring the view of the Cairnwell pass and its huge ski car park, almost deserted in the summer.
Then I retraced my steps, taking in the true summit of Carn Ait on the way back.
But instead of dropping back down to the grouse butts, I carried on south to Carn an Daimh, my last hill of the day. It has an odd double summit—the true highest point is marked by a tiny cairn, but there's a much larger cairn (with better views) a couple of hundred metres to the southwest.
The ridge-line fence runs between the two summits, but with another gate more or less just where it's needed to allow access from one to the other, at NO 13467122.
From there, it was just a matter of choosing a line back into the Coire Bad an Loin, to connect to my outward route.
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2 thoughts on "Glen Shee: Creag Leacach From The South"
5th August 2019 at 13:41
It looks like an interesting walk. However the scenery does seem a bit –foreboding — perhaps? Though of course that may be because of the weather. That is a nice shot of the deer on the skyline.
(As follow up from a previous discussion I have now bought a copy of "The Unorthodox Engineers" for my Kindle. I will read it on my forthcoming trip.)
I've been walking that landscape for more than forty years, so it seems quite comfortable and welcoming to me! The weather, too, fell into the category of "ideal" for me–as a fair-skinned Celt I much prefer a light overcast to a day of bright sunshine. I guess it's just a matter of what you're used to.
I do hope you enjoy the Unorthodox Engineers.