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BACK in June, Serge Reijnders, a Belgian BenRiach enthusiast, hosted a unique tasting to sample nineteen BenRiach 1976 Single Cask expressions in one afternoon…and he sold out all forty places in just two days!
Collectors normally collect simply to collect - but Serge had different ideas. Such is his passion for BenRiach, he wanted to share as many of his beloved 1976 expressions as he could with his invited guests.
As 1976 is his favourite BenRiach year, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's also the year he was born. It's not – he was born in 1978 but justifies his choice by pointing out there weren't that many outstanding Benriachs from that year!
So where did his obsession for 1976 BenRiachs come from?
Known in the Low Countries as "that guy with all the BenRiachs", he explained: "Bert Dexters got me started. His enthusiasm was contagious - his explanations about whisky and his insistence on writing down all the tasting notes. I was immediately sold so I joined "Cask Six", Bert's whisky club, and my first tasting was a few weeks later at a whisky festival where, as instructed, I noted everything we tasted."
Serge prefers mainly fruity and sherry-matured whisky. "It took me some time to appreciate peated whisky – although I have always enjoyed whisky with only a hint of peat where the fruit or sherry comes through."
As with many people, his love of BenRiach was started by the company's Chief Executive and Master Blender Billy Walker and Serge tasted his first BenRiach at a Lindores tasting.
Serge takes up the story. "Then Bert Bruyneel arranged a tasting and we tasted 11 different BenRiachs including my first 1976 which was specially bottled for the Craigellachie Hotel, the first-ever 1976 bottling. I just adored it – that evening I lost my heart to BenRiach!"
Soon Serge started searching for all the 1976s that had been bottled…and once he had got them all, he found he couldn't stop.
"I just had to get every new 1976 that was released, wherever that might be. Through Magnus Fagerstrom, currently the biggest BenRiach collector worldwide, I was introduced to his Japanese contact which helped a lot because soon afterwards the first 1976s for Japan were released.
"Magnus also put me in touch with his contact in Taiwan which allowed me to buy two bottles of cask 3033. I took one of them to last year's Lindores Whiskyfest where everyone had to take and introduce one bottle. Someone else had cask 3557 which was specially bottled for La Maison du Whisky and another had the 1976 for Aston Morris with him. We tasted them and everyone liked the La Maison du Whisky bottling the most."
It was that day which gave Serge the idea of doing his 1976 mega-tasting.
"Originally I thought I'd keep them for my fortieth birthday in 2018 but every time I told people about my tasting plans, they'd invite themselves over to my house! That's when I thought: if people are so interested in attending, why not put all the whiskies in a huge tasting, and that's what happened."
The tasting was presented by Jurgen Vromas and cost €200 per person. The 19 whiskies were tasted in 4 groups, 3 consisting of 5 whiskies and at the end a blind tasting of 4 whiskies. The whiskies were grouped according to reputation which meant that the tasting would only get better as the day progressed.
Group 1 involved three peated whiskies and two sister casks bottled by Signatory. Journalist Johan van Samang from Whiskypassion magazine also attended the tasting and noted: "They were enjoyable but not exceptional whiskies - although we could taste the amazing character of BenRiach coming through.
"In Group 2, we tasted cask 2013 which hasn't been bottled yet, but we could compare it with the 2014. Cask 2014 won, and also won this group."
In Group 3, they tasted three 1976s bottled for Asia and two for Europe. In this category, the Shinanoya bottling stood out for everyone.
And finally, group 4 was the best of the best, blind tasted:
Johan said: "Cask 3557 from La Maison du Whisky was expected to win, but amazingly it didn't even make it into the top three. Gold was won by cask 3033 for Taiwan, silver for 3029 for Shinanoya and bronze for 3032 for Japan, so Asia won convincingly from Europe.
"But what 3557 and 3033 have in common is that they are really complex, more so than the others. They go deeper, they have more layers and above all they have what makes BenRiach 1976 so special - that fantastic taste of tropical fruit."
He concluded: "This was probably one of the hardest tastings I have ever done, but it's also one of the most interesting and definitely the most enjoyable.
"This kind of tasting won't be repeated very often so our thanks go to Serge for his incredible drive and passion. It's clear the passion of the few has benefited the many BenRiach enthusiasts in the Low Countries!"
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Don grew up in Conconully, Wash., graduating from Riverside High School in 1940 where he was student body president and captain of the basketball team.
He was an avid hunter into his 80s. Don married the love of his life, Iva E. Freel, in 1941. They were happily married for 70 years. Iva preceded him in death on Aug. 8, 2011.
Don was a foreman for Wagner Lumber Company in Twisp and at Pateros, Wash. He later worked as a journeyman carpenter on Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph Dams, and many other large construction sites across Washington until he retired. Always a hard worker, he continued to maintain and operate rental houses throughout his retirement.
Being civic minded, Don was an officer in community organizations such as Kiwanis, Chamber of Commerce, school board and Scouts. He was a volunteer firefighter for many years. He served as an assistant fire chief and received a pension. Up to the challenge, he drove the Alaska Highway with his family during the early 1950s when it was little more than a primitive dirt road.
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Immediately following the graveside services at Okanogan Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery, a reception will be held at the Best Western Peppertree Inn, 820 Koala Drive, Omak, Washington 98841.
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Problems started with a good dumping of snow last Tuesday; from a couple of feet in the upper valley to several inches down to the floor of the Gorge.
In itself, that's no big deal. This is Hood River, after all, where dealing with snow is no strange business.
Then the snow switched to fairly heavy rain for a brief period which, again, isn't anything unusual. But things turned ugly in a hurry.
Wednesday night, cold air from the east crept in and sank across the county. With warm, wet air above, the combination led to severe freezing rain, which led to several inches of solid ice on everything exposed to the sky.
"It's cliché, but it really was a perfect storm," said John Gerstenberger, Hood River Electric Co-op General Manager. "The snow soaked up all the rain, and then the ice sealed it in and cemented it to whatever it was on."
Tens of thousands of trees across the valley snapped like matchsticks. Branches snapped and shattered as the hit the ground; trees split directly in half or uprooted entirely under the weight of the snow and ice.
"In my 25 years of experience, this is the worst I've seen in terms of damage done," Gerstenberger said.
Despite what turned into to about three days of mayhem, treacherous roads and extensive damage to property, only one storm-related death in the county was reported: 54-year-old Robert Nichols died of cardiac arrest while shoveling snow (see page A6 for his death notice).
Crews continue to work overtime to clean up what the storm has left behind. The most extensive damage came to the county's power infrastructure, where hundreds of calls came in for broken power lines and poles. Initially, thousands of homes and businesses were without power. Despite the worst damage in decades, HREC and Pacific Power, with the help from a variety of crews called in from across the region, were able to restore power to almost everyone in the county within a week.
More than half of Pacific Power's customers in Hood River and Mosier - 4,600 out of 7,000 - lost power in the storm. The outage was down to 167 homes, mostly along the Dee Highway, and they were due to be back on-line by Monday night, according to Pacific Power spokesman Tom Gauntt.
"We can't even count the number of trees that are down," he said.
Much of Dee Highway remains closed to traffic except for people who live in the affected area: Odell Highway to Iowa Drive. There are literally thousands of trees down, most of them blocking the southbound lane, log after log. One stretch of road north of Iowa Drive has a row of a dozen oaks bent over, level to the ground.
Crews are felling broken trees in the area, making travel unsafe. Sheriff's deputies reported numerous drivers on Dee Highway who are not residents of the area. Anyone else who wants to get to Dee Flats needs to go to Parkdale and north on Dee Highway to Lost lake Road.
Many customers in Hood River and Mosier were without power for four days as crews labored to restore hundreds of separate outages.
Gauntt said that on Friday and Saturday in Hood River County and Mosier there were a total of 130 people working on repairs, with crews from all over the Northwest, including two helicopters doing patrols to locate downed trees and helping ground crews find access to them.
In Mosier, Pacific Power moved in a portable generator and connected it to the town's substation to get the community connected quicker.
"It was kind of like putting the water supply closer to something and fixing the pipe later," Gauntt said.
The two-megawatt generator is stored in Albany and transported on a flatbed. (The former Powerdale power facility on the Hood River generated about six megawatts when it was operational.)
Frozen rain kept falling once crews got started repairing downed trees and lines.
Gerstenberger said most of HREC's customers should have power, but there are some outlying areas that still need to be repaired.
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We hindus celebrate Nagpanchami to pay respect to Nagas/Snakes. We offer milk and other offerings to Nagdevatas/Snake gods. We either worship the statue of Snake or offer milk to snake pits. One such offering which is made by most of us in Karnataka is Chigali Undi /Unde. It is a laddu made of black sesame seeds and jaggery. A simply simple preparation which is tasty. When laddu is made for offering, sesame seeds are not roasted. We make a separate batch of laddu's for casual eating where sesame is roasted. Here is how we make chigali undi/unde.
You need the following :
Black Sesame seeds : 1 cup (sesame seeds are cleaned and made free from dust)
Jaggery : 1/2 cup (grated)
Sprinkle little water over black sesame seeds and pan roast them. Sprinkling water avoids jumping (yes you read it right) up of sesame seeds from pan; Mix sesame seeds and jaggery and pulse it in a blender till sesame seeds are powdered and gets blended with jaggery. Remove from blender and make them into laddus. No ghee/oil needed to make these laddus. Enjoy them!
Edited to Add: If you feel that making laddus is not possible with the powder, just sprinkle little milk and then make laddus.
Edited to Add: If you feel that making laddus is not possible with the powder, just sprinkle little milk and then make laddus.
Sending this undi/unde to SWC-Karnataka hosted by Sheetal of My Kitchen , to EC who is hosting Color in Food event , and to Sweet series -Chikki and Laddu by Paajaka
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Brian Oliver's post (http://brianoliver.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/terracotta-chooses-oracle-technology-for-high-availability-and-performance – now removed for some reason) about Terracota has reminded that I meant to blog about this product last week.
It's a long established behaviour that we database specialists do not have the fondest of spots for ORM tools such as Hibernate, the inefficient way in which they deal with the database and the horrendous SQL that they sometimes generate. (Some of my previous can be found here)
Last week I came across this article, encouragingly 😉 titled "Hibernate without Database Bottlenecks".
The fact that products such as Terracotta exist and are becoming more popular is finally sort of proof of what we've always said – that the row-by-row processing of Hibernate doesn't work very well in the database (where it's important to be thinking in sets).
'Nuff said.
P.S. If that article requires registration, then to summarise:
One of the most prevalent application architectures today is that of a stateless application that maps object data into the database to be stored in relational format, and Hibernate is the most popular way to perform this object-relational mapping. Applications are designed this way for two reasons. First, scalability at the database server is a known and tunable quantity. Second, availability of the database is much closer to "five nines" than that of the application server. Despite these reasons, the burden that shared Java state places on the database and on the application developer is very high. While Hibernate lessens the developer's workload in having to interface to a database, Terracotta lessens Hibernate's need to depend on the database for availability and scalability in the first place. The marriage of Terracotta and Hibernate simplifies application development and greatly improves application performance.
To cut a long story short, there's an in-memory database for Hibernate to hammer instead. Can people seriously think that that is the solution?


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WinD has released their version of episode 1. You can find it here: http://windfs.com/index.php
Due to limited hard drive space and the current time (read it as "well past my bedtime" and you'll do fine), I have yet to download this version. Consequently, I'm unable to comment on quality of the sub as of yet.
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I was in love with teenage Rena. I'm super-duper totally enthralled doki-doki in love with thirtysomething Rena!!
Women are at the peak of their beauty and elegance in their thirties, after all.
As for why Rena survived the Great Hinamizawa Disaster - if it indeed occured the day after she went berserk and tried to blow up her school, thus calling out about half the cops in the prefecture, I would assume that she was sitting in a jail cell (or lying in a hospital bed, under guard) in Okinomiya when it happened. Remember that Hinamizawa itself has no police, no jailhouse, and no hospital other than Dr. Irie's small clinic. It would only make sense that once Ooishi arrested her, she'd end up in Okinomiya either in jail or in the psych ward of the local hospital.
I had assumed that Rena was about 13-14 during the events of Higurashi, making her about 35-36 during this episode. She sure turned out elegant.
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Guys and Gals, I finally catched up to Higurashi Kai. But I can't decide on which sub I should choose. I first downloaded Shinsen sub's version and to my suprise the quality was horrible(not something to expect from shinsen subs) Anyways I checked the animesuki bittorent section and seems like Hauu~ is the only group which has finished the series. But I have read in this topic that the quality of the episode seems to be so-so. But I don't get it [Hauu~].Higurashi.no.Naku.Koro.ni.Kai.01v2.(H264.Vorbis)[FFA224FE]: As seen here they released a H264 version. Isn't that a very good quality?( I can't comment on it because I'm leeching the whole Hauu version of Higurashi kai)
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Get Hauu~'s version. Both the translation quality and the image quality is fine; besides, they're the only game in town. If you want really high quality, there are also versions of the episodes released so far on DVD with Hauu~'s subs available as well. You can go and hunt those down though, though only the first 6 episodes are currently available in this format.
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I personally didn't liked Hauu~'s subs too much (I remember ep 13 :x .... the subtitles timing wasn't good and it caused a little confusing... ) but I love WinD the most! they're "only" at epi 13 or so at the moment (one of the translators had an accident, i heard) but every single episode I saw of them was made with love. ;D
Hauu~ isn't bad, but there are some mistakes here and there. uhm ... yeah, at WinD, everyone got it's own Fontcolor!!! " and yeah ... very well done, made with love, great translations ^^
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I agree with everyone that said 2007 Rena looks good, though I don't know why so many people act like it's something special to look good during your late thirties or early forties. Since when the hell has that been old?
I have to give some credit to Oishi, though. I always had him pegged for around sixty years old during June 1983, so he's doing pretty damn good for being in his mid-80s.
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Wow, good to see this season is a bit more active then the first one. For now, not into the new opening and ending song, but it might grow on me eventually. I have to agree, Rena was looking good for being 40 something. Though the stressor causing all of this, I think is either the meeting with Takano, or Ooishi, or maybe even both. The ending scene of season one could lead someone to think it was Ooishi, but that could be a red herring.
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Justin Timberlake: Jessica Biel's Naked Men Encounter Before Wedding!
Justin Timberlake bundles up while holding a portfolio on Monday (November 19) in New York City.
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"We're in the spa, in the sauna, and in walked two husky Austrian men. OK, I thought, this is a little unusual but we're in Europe…I didn't really know what the protocol was…They drop their towels�"they are butt naked," Jessica said. "Older, husky men. They were naked and I'm in the middle of them! I look over and I realize, yes it is confirmed, there are balls on wood! Not just naked, but balls on wood, Dave!"
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Go Gardu! Steve is a really good cook too. I build bikes as if I still lived in flagstaff, stuff has to be bomber there, prestige rules.ReplyDelete
I second on the cooking thing. Steve makes a killer breakfast!ReplyDelete
One day back during the Mimbres Man years, Steve showed up at my door in Silver City. He had ridden down from Flagstaff. He stayed and rode for about a week. Everyday, of our mutant-wanna-bes took him out on a Gila thrashing. He always came out ahead.
As his money supply dwindled, so did quality of beer. Soon we we were down to Schlitz. He said he needed to go to the ATM. I told him where one was, and he said, "no, my bank´s closest branch is in Tucson" so off he went.
On the way to Lordsburg, his jacket got caught in his rear wheel and locked it up while blasting down the backside of the continental divide. He went skidding down hwy 90, nearly getting clipped by an 18-wheeler.
Now his tire was ruined, a hole burned through it, he thumbed a ride into Lordsburg with a rancher who gave him $10.00 to buy a new tire at the Western Auto store. He continued on to Tucson where he retrieved some money from the ATM and on up to Flagstaff.
Steve is the best bicyclist there ever was.
If you were talking about anyone else I would say that story is bullshit....knowing Steve this story has to be true !ReplyDelete
dang, thanks Paul! quite the honor.......yep, MM's story is true except that i had ridden to his house from Moab, not Flag.....it spawned the saying "when you're out of schlitz, you're out of beer!" he DID leave out the part about going to the James Brown party in clothes from the local St. Vinnies & nobody would talk to me because i was wearing pink polyester old lady pants.....after i got back to flag i did 2 weeks of roofing & then did the border to tip offroad ride of Baja for Bicycling magazine! great times, i think that was 95'? Steve.ReplyDelete
I also left out you going to the VFW and begging for Thanksgiving food while I was cleaning up. You brought back some turkey leftovers and chile rellenos. We had done Tadpole Ridge on that Thanksgiving day.ReplyDelete
Yep 1995 sounds about right.
I forgot about the James Brown party.
You also said the Gila kicked your ass...I don't believe it but we threw everything we had at you and you were still standing. A lesser person would have caved.
can you believe I still have that eam mutant shirt ? I just can't let it go.....good times, even if I was not in Flag more than a couple of times back then.ReplyDelete


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Sometime in ancient history, when snakes freely roamed the earth without fear that their oil would be disparaged, John Johnson asked me if I wanted to review the complete line of Ultralink/XLO Argentum audio cables. Since I thrive on comparisons, be they of cabling, amplifiers, or sopranos, I welcomed the assignment. (The Argentum power cable is not necessarily just for audio, but we include it as such here.)
My history with cable comparisons goes back at least 15 years, to the time when I began to upgrade a fledgling high-end system by purchasing a $550 Rotel CD player. As I was about to cart it home, the dealer declared that I would have to spend at least $78 on an AudioQuest Ruby interconnect in order to get the most out of the player.
I was incensed that he would even dare suggest that I had to spend an extra $84 (with tax) in order to get good sound. I already knew that speaker cables made a difference, because I had once gone from lamp cord to 12-gauge silver wire on my old Advent loudspeakers, and immediately heard an extra octave (or so it seemed) of bass, and far more substance in the midrange. In fact, way before I had heard of "high-end audio," I used to thank people who would put me up for a few nights by buying them $25 worth of better speaker cable, and watching their mouths drop as their sound improved. But $84 for one lousy pair of interconnects? Wasn't the stuff from the Shack good enough?
Fit to be tied rather than cabled, I reluctantly marched out of the store with a loaner pair of Rubys. Ever the inquisitive one, I also made a near-fatal error, and asked to try the next level up ($110 plus tax), whose casing was blue.
Then I trotted over to a competitor's establishment, borrowed a $55 pair of MIT interconnects, and took all three pairs home for a listen. In short order, it became so obvious that the $110 interconnects transmitted far more full-range sound than the rest. With my head hanging low, I first returned the MITs, then visited my dealer to plop down $118 or so dollars for a meter pair of AQ interconnects.
Since then, other cables from AudioQuest, Harmonic Technologies, WireWorld, Nordost, Acoustic Zen, Kimber, Bybee, HighWire, PS Audio, Echole, and Elrod have passed in and out of my system. I've tried entry level, middle of the pack, and top of the line cables from many of those companies, and also heard a host of other brands at shows. (It's harder for me to comment on cables I've heard at shows, given that the reference system was different). I've wired an entire system with one brand, and a;sp experimented with mix and match.
For several years, my reference cables were Nordost Valhalla. Most recently, since the 2009 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, I've had the loan of a complete line of Nordost Odin cabling. Valhalla is especially brilliant, open, and transparent in the high frequency range; Odin, to these ears, has all of Valhalla's strengths, but is smoother on top, more tonally neutral throughout the range, and far richer in lower midrange and bass information. While I have hardly auditioned all the top-end cables in my system, the general consensus among those who have is that Nordost Odin is among the best.
I'm especially blown away by the Odin power cables, which are pretty amazing. I've introduced Odin power cables to several people's system, including the home system of VTL's Luke Manley and Bea Lam. Each time, I have observed people's reactions when they've heard what a difference switching the power cable on the first piece of equipment in their chain (e.g. power conditioner or, if there is none, CD player or transport) to Odin has vastly improved the sound of the entire system. One of the most startling reactions was from Tim Marutani, a dealer and audio consultant who was beta testing TAD's excellent new CD player. Once Tim heard the player powered by an Odin cable, he called Andrew Jones of TAD to declare that it sounded like a totally different player.
Which brings us back to Argentum. The price difference between the Argentum and Nordost Odin line is huge. How, I wondered, would an Argentum Proteus-12 power cable that costs $1050 for 2.74 meters compare with a Nordost Odin power cable that costs $16,000 for 2.5 meters? More to the point, assuming that the price difference was reflected in quality, how could I even think of comparing the two?
- Design: Proprietary, Symmetrically Balanced Windings
- Conductor: Multi-conductor, Cryogenically Treated, Laboratory Grade UP-OCC Copper
- Insulation: Ultra-low Capacitance Teflon and Teflon-variant Fluoropolymer
- Shielding: Full Copper Foil with Full Coverage Copper Braid
- Termination: Precision Machined Connectors with 24K Mil-spec Direct Gold-plated Contacts
- Proteus-12 AC Power Cord has Proprietary Counter-spiral, Multi-core, Multi-gauge Geometry; Low Capacitance Dielectric Insulation; Proprietary Double Shielded, Double Grounded Design and Proprietary Metal Shells with Premium Furutech Alpha Pure Copper AC Plug and IEC Connectors
- Mythos Analog Audio Interconnect: 1 Meter Pair = $400/RCA, $500/XLR
- Argento Coaxial Digital Cable: 1 Meter = $350
- Millenia AES/EBU Digital Cable: 1 Meter = $400
- Aureus-2 Speaker Cable: 6 Foot Pair = $900/ Bi-wired 6 Foot Pair = $1,000
- Proteus-12 AC Power Cord: 6 Feet = $900
- Argentum Acoustics
All Argentum interconnects, speaker cables, and power cables are made from cryogenically treated 99.99997% (four 9) Ultra Pure – Ohno Continuous Cast (UP-OCC) copper. The company maintains that silver has a higher total impedance than copper, and is thus less suited for most audio applications.The exception is silver's use in Argentum's high frequency digital datalinks. Silver is chosen because silver oxide, which forms on the outside of cabling when exposed to air, is more conductive to the megahertz-range digital signals that pass through or along the very outside of the conductor than the copper oxide that forms on the outside of copper cabling when it is exposed to air. (Obviously, Argentum is acknowledging that it cannot prevent oxidation in its cabling). This is all explained in a Technical White Paper downloadable from the Argentum website.
"Every bit of insulation, every cable forming member, every outer jacket and dielectric of Argentum cables and proprietary connectors is made from materials like Teflon and Teflon-variant fluoropolymers," the company writes. "These are chosen for their low dielectric constants.
"In order to achieve optimal inductance and capacitance, Argentum speaker cables use multiple primary conductors of varying diameters formed into arrays of secondary conductors arranged in an alternating pattern over a single large diameter core. According to the white paper, "this multiple-shielded 'best of both worlds' solution reduces both self- and mutual inductance, allowing very low effective resistance, and providing perfect time alignment for signal information."
All cables are hand-terminated. Audio interconnects come in RCA, XLR, and BNC terminations; video interconnects are either RCA or BNC. Connectors are non-magnetic and of minimal conducting mass, and include direct 24K gold plated contacts. Speaker cables are terminated with interchangeable 8.0mm billet-cut spade lugs made from CDA alloy 101 (99.994% pure) copper, and are direct gold plated. Deltron-style banana plugs are also available.
The Argentum Proteus-12 power cord is a 12-gauge (AWG) counter-spiral wound, multi-gauge, multi-core design with 6N UP-OCC copper and UL approved low-dielectric constant insulation and jacketing. It is double shielded and double grounded for noise-free operation, and terminated with Furutech™ Alpha Pure Copper™ AC plugs and IEC connectors featuring Argentum's own proprietary precision-machined metal shells.
This is not the place to get into a discussion of why 1, 2, or 4 meters of power cabling can make a major difference in sound quality. I have my experience, and you have yours. For Argentum's explanation, please download their white paper from their website.
Most important is the specific use for which Argentum cabling was designed. This is not just another cable designed to a specific price point.
(Argentum Cabling's Design Philosophy)
My first listen to Argentum cabling was to the Millenia AES/EBU Digital cable. At the time, my reference digital cable was Nordost Valhalla AES/EBU.
I was not enthralled by what I heard. The system sounded darker, more covered and opaque, and less detailed.
I wondered what was up. The explanation came at CES 2009, where Argentum cabling was officially unveiled. There, Nate Mansfield, Sales Manager for Ultralink/XLO, gave me the low-down on the difference between the design philosophy of the two cable lines in the Ultralink family, XLO and Argentum.
XLO's presentation is absolutely honest, Nate said in more words or less, and quite linear. Calling it "the high-end choice," he noted that it is totally hand built, and its geometry is clearly visible.
Argentum, on the other hand, was designed to overlook flaws in components. Its presentation is intentionally more forgiving, and tends to soften highs. It is priced in the middle of the XLO line, is only partially hand-assembled, and its geometry is not visible. It may have certain design similarities to XLO cables, but its ideal applications are different.
That explained a lot. It also left me wondering if I had the best reference system for evaluating Argentum cabling.
Back in the 20th century, when I owned used Kenwood and Pioneer solid-state receivers – I forget which replaced which when one of them blew up – my fledgling system tended to be bright, unforgiving, and monochromatic, with little midrange warmth. Since then, I have done my best to assemble a far more musical system. Instead of a mass-market receiver, I now use VTL prototype MB-450 Series II Signature tube monoblocks. I also have a number of devices to fine-tune the sound in my large, irregular living room. My system is anything but monochromatic, hard, bright, overly detailed, or etched.
At this stage of the game, the only component I own that needs forgiving – lots of forgiving – is a decade-old, entry-level Pioneer DVD player that resides in the upstairs, second system. Because this antiquated mass-market DVD player sounds so monochromatically bright, I've surgically removed its wired-on, stock power cable and replaced it with an IEC connector and Elrod EPS-2 Signature power cable. I've chosen the Elrod because it softens the unit's glare while bringing out far more midrange and bass than any stock power cable I've heard. Were I to instead use a Nordost Valhalla power cable, which is far more neutral, the player's brightness would be dismaying, if not downright irritating.
I'm well aware of the adage that cables are not tone controls. Nonetheless, adages are adages, and cables are cables. Cables may not be tone controls per se, but since different cables have different sonic signatures, they affect tonal balance. Once you get a handle on the sound of different cables, you can judiciously choose cables that best balance out sonic flaws in components.
The ideal situation, of course, is to own a synergistic match of tonally neutral, maximally transparent components, and to mate them with neutral, full-range cables that best transmit sonic truth. Some of us own such components. Most of us do not.
For those whose components are sonically compromised and far from neutral, a judicious choice of cabling can help maximize system strengths while balancing out flaws. Argentum cabling, which was conceived with the goal of transforming a bright, overly etched system into one far more neutral and pleasing, might be just what the doctor ordered.
In Use
I auditioned Argentum by systematically replacing the Nordost Odin in my system. Since I had enough Argentum Proteus-12 power cables to replace all my power cables except the two on my amps, which use special 20 amp connectors, I started there.
With Argentum Proteus-12 powering my Nordost QB8, PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport, and Theta Gen. VIII Series 2 DAC/preamp, the presentation was quite engaging. While I still heard much of the air around instruments that I was accustomed to hearing, the piano and winds near the start of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances lacked some of the resonance I usually hear.
Then I changed the 1.5meter XLR interconnect between the Theta Gen. VIII Series 2 DAC/preamp and the VTL monoblocks from Nordost Odin to Argentum Mythos. I immediately noted a loss of richness and color. Timpani strokes were a bit blurred, because the bass response was not as fast and crisp. The sound was somewhat more pedestrian and ordinary, lacking some of the illumination that makes me love my system as much as I do.
I took copious notes on what happened with each subsequent cable change. I even changed one speaker cable at a time, switching between left and right channels on a recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto that features the violin front and center, in order to get a handle on the sound of Argentum Aureus speaker cable. I also played a large range of music, including some world, new age, and rock.
But why belabor the point? Anyone who has read this far knows where I'm going. Argentum's line was designed with very different goals in mind than Nordost Odin. Argentum does exactly what it's designed to do. For some systems, it will prove ideal.
We may not like to admit it, but a lot of us own source components, amplifiers, processors, and/or speakers that emphasize treble detail at the expense of midrange warmth and bass richness. In fact, some components are so bright and monochromatic that they'd fool you into thinking that low sampling rate mp3s actually transmit the sound of music. Argentum cabling was designed with such bright, overly detailed systems in mind. Its ability to transform a system into one far more neutral and pleasing is immense.
Argentum also has an equal effect on overly bright, compromised recordings. If you listen to lots of pop and rock, and lament that the wholesale application of compression that plagues today's recording industry has not only limited dynamics but also replaced timbral variation with monochromatic noise and glare, Argentum might be just the cabling you need to make lousy recordings of music by artists you love more listenable. If much of your collection consists of low sampling rate mp3s that you've downloaded from the web or peer networks, you will likely find Argentum just what the doctor ordered.
Main Living Room Reference System:
Digital Front End
PS Audio PerfectWave CD/DVD transport
PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC
Theta Gen VIII Series 2 DAC/Preamp
Apple Intel Dual Core Macbook Pro
Wavelength's asynchronous Wavelink
VTL 450W tube monoblock prototypes with KT-88 tubes
Talon Khorus X speakers MK. IV with Bybee Quantum Noise Purifiers
Four Bybee Golden Goddess Super Effect Speaker Bullets, two on each speaker
Nordost Odin 1.5m single-ended and balanced interconnects
Nordost Odin 1.25 or 1.5m AES/EBU digital interconnect
Nordost Odin 1.25 or 1.5 m BNC digital interconnect (for use with computer hook-up)
Nordost Odin 3m. bi-wired speaker cable
Nordost Odin power cables (six total, two 1m. two 2m, two 2m w. 20 amp connectors for my amps)
Nordost Valhalla 1.5m power cables for my Classe 6 phono preamp and Nordost Quantum Qx4
Kimber AG Silver USB Cable
PS Audio HDMI based solid silver I2S12 cable
WireWorld Gold Starlight 6 BNC digital cable
Kimber D60 BNC cable
Nordost QB8 and Quantum Qx4
IsoClean or HiFi Tuning audiophile grade fuses in most components
Dedicated line for system
Clearaudio Emotion turntable with Satisfy arm
Soundsmith "The Voice" phono cartridge
Benz MC-Gold phono cartridge
Classe 6 phono preamp with better umbilical cord
Symposium Platform under turntable
Finite Elemente Cerapuc supports
Marigo Mystery Feet
Ganymede ball bearing supports
IsoClean and HiFi Tuning audiophile grade fuses in all equipment.
Synergistic ART Room Tuning system
Acoustic Resonators
Michael Green Deluxe Ultrarack, Basic Racks and Corner Tunes
Shakti stones on transport, DAC, amps, etc.
Four Shakti Hallographs
Echo Buster and Corner Busters
Bedini Dual Beam Ultraclarifier
Marigo Signature 3-D Mat v2;
Ayre demagnetizing CD
Various CD sprays
Michael Green brass Audiopoints
Main System Room Dimensions
The living/listening room is 24.5′ deep, 21.4′ wide. It's big enough to accommodate 16 members of the Bay Area Audiophile Society, positioned in three or four rows facing the speakers. Ceilings are 9′ high with heavy wooden crossbeams, each 17″ in height.
The system itself is not in the center of the room. At the far end of the room, not far from the right speaker, is a large, 8.33′ wide wooden-framed archway that leads into a large dining room. (This is where first-order reflections head). The distance from the front door to the end of the dining room is 37′.
There is a lot of space to the left of the left speaker. First-order reflections aim toward a small alcove that leads to the front door. While a heavy curtain covers the windows behind the system, the wall behind the speakers is not flat due to record shelves and room supports. There are other openings on the right wall, close to the listening position, that lead to the stairway and kitchen. In the rear, behind the sweet spot, is a large granite fireplace that also catches and messes with the sound.
Floors are hardwood and carpet in front of the system, and hardwood elsewhere. Walls in the living room are a combination of plaster and wood, with a large granite fireplace in the rear. The dining room is all plaster.
Room treatment includes RoomTune and Echo buster triangles in upper corners; either an Echo Buster or heavy tapestry at key places on side walls, a complete Synergistic Acoustic ART resonance treatment system, and a few of Frank Cheng's resonators. For photos, see http://forum.stereophile.com/photopost/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/1260
Upstairs Second System:
Genesis I-60 Integrated amp
Von Schweikert VR-4jr. speakers bi-wired with Nordost Valhalla
Proton 26″ non-HD anything but flat decidedly undigital TV
Basic Pioneer DVD player
ExactPower EP15A equipped with outlets from Sound Applications and other mods
Nordost Valhalla bi-wired speaker cable
Assortment of WireWorld Gold Eclipse 5, Harmonic Tech Magic One, and Nordost Valhalla interconnects
Nordost Valhalla, Elrod EPS-2 Signature, and AudioPrism SuperNatural S2 power cables
Ganymede ball bearing supports
Desktop Computer System
Apple iMac G5 with Intel Core 2 Duo
Benchmark DAC-1 USB
Audio Engine 5 self-powered speakers
Dynaudio Focus 110A self-powered speakers
PS Audio Power Plant Premier
Nordost Valhalla power cabling
Harmonic Tech Magic One, Nordost Valhalla, or Nordost Odin interconnects
WireWorld Gold Eclipse speaker cable
WireWorld USB cable
Kimber AG Silver USB cable
Ganymede Ball Bearing supports


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Evidently fed up with accusations that their "repeal and replace" plan for Obamacare has consisted of a whole lot of "repeal" and not even a tiny bit of "replace," Senate Republicans last week unveiled an actual, detailed healthcare reform proposal.
The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment Act ("CARE") bears the names of Sens. Richard Burr (N.C.), Tom Coburn (Okla.) and Orrin Hatch (Utah). It preserves some of the things people like about the Affordable Care Act--insurance for those with pre-existing conditions, for example--but does so in a way that's guaranteed to fail most of those affected. Among other things, it eliminates minimum coverage standards written into the ACA, including items like maternity coverage, which will inevitably make insurance more expensive for women relative to men.
The proposal incorporates some provisions that are bound to doom it even among Republicans, as well as others that are already known to be ineffective. Some healthcare experts have been kind to the measure, perhaps out of desperation to find something nice to say about Republican healthcare policy. ("A real set of initiatives, rather than a flimsy set of slogans"--Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic.) But health economist Austin Frakt is probably on the money when he observes, "It's clearly designed to serve the objectives of the campaign(s)—2014 and then, perhaps, 2016—not as an effort to engage in good faith negotiation with Democrats on health policy."
The measure isn't yet a full-fledged bill, but more of a white paper for discussion; it hasn't been "scored," or costed out, by the Congressional Budget Office. But since the senators put so much effort into the CARE Act, let's give it a closer look.
The sponsors claim that it encompasses "common-sense, patient-centered reforms that reduce health care costs and increase access to affordable, high-quality care." Whether it will reduce costs is debatable; but if it does, it will do so by making "affordable, high-quality care" less accessible.
According to an analysis by the nonprofit Center for Health and Economy endorsed by the bill's sponsors, much of the premium reduction claimed for the measure comes from steering Americans into narrow provider networks--limiting their choices of doctors and hospitals. It also expands the range in which insurers can adjust premiums for age from the ACA's 1-to-3 (they can't charge their oldest enrollees more than three times their youngest) to 1-to-5.
Those two provisions perpetuate two issues with the Affordable Care Act most often cited by its critics: people discovering they can't see their previous doctors or go to their choice of hospitals; and older enrollees being confronted with sticker shock at the premiums on exchange-issued individual plans. The CARE Act acknowledges that narrow provider networks are a fact of life in the healthcare market, and allows higher premiums for older consumers than the ACA.
The CARE act also saves a heap of money for the U.S. Treasury by capping tax deductions for employer-sponsored insurance. That's supposed to yield more than $1 trillion over 10 years through what, according to GOP orthodoxy, would be the equivalent of a tax increase. Further savings of nearly $200 billion would come from "Medicaid reform." That amounts essentially to block-granting states with federal funds and allowing them to design their Medicaid programs themselves.
Since we already know that states with a high proportion of uninsured citizens and substandard public healthcare programs have been averse to expanding Medicaid to serve their residents, this is a formula for more (or less) of the same.
The sponsors assert that the ACA's Medicaid provision, through which the federal government covers more than 90% of the cost of expanding the program to cover more low-income uninsured individuals, places federal taxpayers "on the hook for 90 cents on the dollar of care provided to working adults above poverty." They say "this is unfair to the low-income mother with children, or the elderly blind person."
Whatever could they mean? Those people are among those who benefit most from Medicaid; since the federal assistance is covered by income tax, it's financed largely by upper-income taxpayers, not by low-income mothers with children.
The GOP plan cuts off premium subsidies at 300% of the poverty line, compared to 400% for the ACA. That means millions of Americans would be left without financial assistance provided by Obamacare. The Republicans would bar financial assistance to all non-citizens, even those here legally; since nearly 20% of the uninsured are non-citizens, that's another huge exclusion.
What about the most important consumer protection in the ACA--the outlawing of exclusions for pre-existing conditions? The GOP version of this linchpin of affordable care is a provision guaranteeing renewable insurance for everyone who can maintain their coverage for at least 18 months--let it lapse within that time frame, and you can be stranded without any reasonably priced coverage at all.
This is certainly the most cynical provision in the CARE Act. The most important reason that people go uninsured is because they can't afford coverage. Those who lose it, often because of a job loss, could be doomed to fall further behind the reach of coverage under the GOP plan because they would have to pay for their own medical expenses in the interim--and those can be ruinous. In 2012, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, three-quarters of the uninsured were without coverage for more than a year. The sponsors will argue that the dire consequences of lapsed coverage will encourage people to keep their insurance come hell or high water, but those who simply can't afford insurance in the GOP world will be badly stuck.
There's more, but most of it is equally dismal. Don Taylor of Duke University has pertinent questions and a good rundown here and here.
In sum, the CARE Act is a bill of rights for health insurers and an unaffordable invoice for millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans. The analysis by the Center for Health and Economy says that by 2023 it would cover 244 million people; but the Congressional Budget office says the ACA will cover 256 million.
From the GOP standpoint, the bill's virtue lies in those words "choice," "responsibility" and "empowerment," which are Republican shibboleths. But it undermines the affordability and accessibility of health insurance in countless ways, and it should be shunned like a bad disease.


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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team completed day one of the Sonny Werblin Invitational hosted by Rutgers University on Friday. The highest placing swimmer for the Blue Devils was freshman Christine Rasile, who touched the wall eighth in the 50 yard freestyle with her time of 25.15. NEC Diver of the Week Jessica Goldman notched a third-place performance from the 3-meter board as she tallied 247.25 points.
The 50 free proved to be a strong event for Central as three Blue Devils finished in the top 20 in the field of 55 competitors. Senior Erin Massey touched the wall less than a second behind Rasile, posting a time of 25.87, good for 14th. Senior Kellen Power placed 18th with her time of 26.05.
Central placed fifth in the 400 medley relay with a time of 4:11.02. The team consisted of Rasile and classmate Stephanie Czulewicz as well as sophomore Alaina Papiro and senior Kellen Power.
CCSU posted three in the top 20 in the 200 IM as well. Out of 57 competitors, Central freshman Lisa Ward clocked a time of 2:17.08, good for 14th, followed by classmate Sabree Thomas in 17th, who touched in 2:17.96. Senior Kristina Gulia finished just behind the pair in 18th with her time of 2:18.46.
In the 500 free, senior Kathryn Keily placed 23rd with her time of 5:22.80 while classmate Kasey Chilton and junior Karen Novak followed tied for 26th with a time of 5:23.75.
Goldman was followed in the 3-meter competition by junior Kaitlyn Dwyer who placed eighth with a score of 214.60.
The Blue Devils will resume competiton tomorrow, beginning at 9 a.m. with the 200 medley relay. The diving competition is set to continue with the 1-meter competition tomorrow at 10 a.m. Fans can follow the action via live stats.


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River Currents
Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Commission
Volume 10 Issue 2 July 2013
Dr. Riley Needham
Gerald Hilsher
John Larson
OSRC Staff
Ed Fite
Cheryl Allen
Administrative Manager
Cassandra Carter
Education Outreach
James Hickman
Maintenance Supervisor
Josh Baird
Maintenance Department
Charlie Thurber
Maintenance Department
Bill James
Ranger Supervisor
Jeff Bashaw
Monte Bradford
Larry Clark
Randy Corp
Michael Fuhr
Archie "Trey" Peyton, III
Steve Randall
Rick Stubblefield
David Spears
The Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Act and Recreation
At this week's regular business meeting, I showed a PowerPoint presentation
containing an array of some 150 photos suggesting that recreation is absolutely the biggest
demand of the agency's time and budget, particularly in the areas of law enforcement, trash
abatement and providing the public with access to these special waters. Yet, at its conclusion,
I couldn't help but get on my soapbox once again about the irony we are dealing with stemming
from the Oklahoma Scenic Rivers Act of 1970 and the sections added in 1977 which created
the present day Commission.
In the '77 additions, the legislature specifically tasked the agency to deal with several
functions of and issues affecting scenic rivers. Recreation, however, isn't mentioned.
"The Legislature finds that the protection and development of the state's scenic river
areas and adjacent and contiguous lands and quality of outstanding resource waters included
within each Commission's operating area should be provided for by properly planned and executed
rules promulgated by that Commission respecting public services, land use, occupancy, structures,
lot and plot sizes, density of population and other activities as required for the proper protection
of the aesthetic, scenic, historic, archeologic and scientific features of the said affected areas,
or deemed necessary for the protection of the ecosystem and the environment from pollution,
despoliation and destruction or waste of natural resources and all other factors adversely affecting
the public health, safety and the general welfare so long as the rules comply with the exempt
provisions of the Scenic Rivers Act pertaining to farming, ranching, forestry, silviculture and
other agricultural uses."
Here are the annual statistics about recreation on the Illinois River:
• 500,000 individuals visit the Illinois River, Flint Creek or Barren Fork Creek;
• 200,000 individuals boat on the Illinois River, Flint Creek or Barren Fork Creek;
Commercial Floating of the Illinois River contributes $15 million to the overall economy of
Cherokee County;
• Anglers, hunters and wildlife viewers spend $1.3 billion in our state which creates
$696 million in salaries and supporting 28,142 jobs;
• Fish and wildlife related recreation is estimated to
have an overall economic impact of $2.3 billion; and,
• Annual tax revenue by recreation in our state
contributes in excess $950 million in federal, state and local
While the word recreation is barely mentioned in
the Scenic Rivers Act that was passed 43 years ago, I was
encouraged when Commissioners resolved at this week's
meeting to explore its importance and impact on our state's
future efforts to protect scenic rivers. Governor Mary Fallin's
recent appointment of Deby Snodgrass as Cabinet Secretary
for Oklahoma's new Tourism Cabinet is also promising
news. Perhaps Deby may help the OSRC take the next step?
Saturday, July 13th Illinois River between Eagle
Bluff and Peyton's Place.
River Currents Vol 10 Issue 2
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OSRC Board and Agency News
Children's Creek Program
Summer school is now in session. As the OSRC's Education Out-reach
Coordinator, I have had the opportunity to hold creek programs for
a few local elementary summer schools. The goal of creek programs is to
teach students about the diversity of biological life in Oklahoma's scenic
streams and emphasize the importance of clean water.
During these programs, I teach students about different aquatic
insects that can be found in creeks and explain how these water bugs can
be used to study water quality. After showing the students examples of
the insects they could find, I take small groups to the creek and help them
collect their own aquatic insect samples.
The students are then able to observe their samples under small
microscopes. Some insects found at recent programs include caddisflies,
stoneflies, and water pennies. Several students also caught
crawdads. Crawdads are a pollutant resist-ent
species and can be found in water of
varying qualities, but they were exciting
animals for students to catch and served as
excellent reminders of why preserving habi-tats
is important.
The creek program is a fun
educational exercise for young students and
can be held at the Murrell Home or the creek
behind the Armory Municipal Center in
Tahlequah. If you would like to schedule a
program or check out the materials to hold
your own, contact the OSRC at 918-456-
Employee Spotlight
James Hickman, Maintenance Supervisor
Upcoming Events
Illinois River Clean-up
Join the OSRC, Illinois River commercial
float operations, and your fellow river
friends on Friday, September 6th. Sign up
by calling 918-456-3251. See you there!
OSRC Silent Auction
The OSRC is currently coordinating with
Save the Illinois River to hold a silent
auction to fund portable bathrooms on the
Illinois River. If you are interested in
donating an item, give us a call or e-mail
email@example.com. More
information will be avaliable soon!
James Hickman has been
a dedicated member of the
OSRC staff for the past 25
years. His genuine love of the
Illinois River and the agency as
well as his diligent work ethic
have made him an irreplace-able
member of the scenic riv-ers
James was born in 1940.
He lived in Tahlequah all his
life, growing up along the
banks of the Illinois River and
Barren Fork Creek. After
graduating high school, he served two years in the US Army.
James joined the OSRC the summer of 1988. He was
cleaning up cans underneath Combs Bridge when he met
Administrator Ed Fite, who thanked him for picking up the river and
encouraged him to apply for a seasonal position. The next day, James
picked up his application.
He began working on the float crew, floating an 8 mile stretch
of river each day and removing debris from the river. In 1990, he
joined the maintenance crew. A year later, he was promoted to a
full time maintenance position.
James was named Maintenance Supervisor in 2008. His
duties include overseeing maintenance of public access areas and
managing permanent and seasonal maintenance staff members.
At 73, James is still an energetic and active individual. He
can still be seen driving the mower around the agency and working
hard along gravel bars.
Cassandra Carter, Education Outreach Coordinator
Peggs students collecting aquatic insect
samples at Murrell Home Creek.
River Currents Vol 10 Issue 2
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Spotlights in the River Basin
Illinois River Hiking Trails
A view from Sparrow Hawk Mountain, taken by
adventure author Gary D. Courtney.
Hiking is a fun activity that can strengthen the body and
lighten the heart. Oklahoma's scenic rivers provide breath-taking
backdrops for hikers to enjoy. There are two hiking
areas near the Illinois River for visitors to explore.
The J.T. Nickel Preserve is a 17,000 acre nature
and wildlife conservancy with 3 hiking trails.
There are 2 hiking trails 1.5 miles long
located at the preserve headquarters. Hikers can
walk the trails individually or walk both of them
for a 3 mile hike. Another half-mile trail is
located around the wetlands area.
Visitors may see elk or other wildlife on
their hike. The trails are open 7 days a week
during daylight hours.
Directions to the preserve can be found
here. For questions, contact the preserve at 918-
Sparrow Hawk Primitive Area Trail
The primitive trail is a one mile trail winding up Sparrow
Hawk Mountain. This trek is a great opportuniy for visitors
who enjoy hiking for exercise.
The trail is surrounded by flourishing woods. At
the top of the trail is a clearing with a gorgeous view of the
Illinois River. It is a great place for picnicking, birdwatching,
taking photographs, or simply enjoying the scenic beauty
of the Illinois.
This area is Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Con-servation
land. The ODWC has a policy that visi-tors
on their land must purchase a hunting or fish-ing
license or a wildlife passport. For more infor-mation
on this policy, contact a game warden.
J.T. Nickel Nature Conservancy Trail
Advocacy Group Cleans Up
Save the Illinois River (STIR) is a volunteer organization to raise aware-ness
of and support for the Illinois River. The group held a clean-up of the
Sequoyah City Park creek in Tahlequah in celebration of Earth Day. Several
volunteers participated to remove hundreds of pounds of trash from the creek,
including an armoire found under the Keetoowah bridge.
STIR plans to hold more creek and stream clean-ups throughout the
summer. The next event is tentatively scheduled to take place after the July
4th holiday.
Anyone interested in participated in any of their upcoming clean-ups
or in joining STIR can visit the organization's webpage, www.illinoisriver.org.
Photo of one of the J.T. Nickel Preserve trails. Photo courtesy
Tim Roberts.
River Currents Vol 10 Issue 2
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Photo of leopard darter, courtesy U.S. Fish
and Wildlife.
A longnose darter swimming in a creek. Photo
courtesy Konrad Schmidt.
on the W ild Side....
The leopard darter is federally listed as a
threatened species. These darters can be found in the
scenic Mountain Fork River.
Populations of leopard darters
only occur in two other waters:
the Little River above Pine Creek
Reservoir and in the Glover
River. The Oklahoma Depart-ment
of Wildlife Conservation
reports that historically these
populations were larger.
The primary threat to
the leopard darter is loss of
habitat due to construction.
Flows, depths and temper
atures have been altered by
construction and no longer pro-vide
a sustainable habitat.
The U.S. Fish and Wild-life
Service has stated that the
best plan for species recovery
"primarily involves managing
and protecting [Leopard Darter]
habitat and individual popula-tions
from known threats."
A threatened specieis,
the leopard darter is likey to be-come
extinct in the future but is
not considered currently "on the
brink" of extinction.
Leopard darters are
named for the dark blotches,
reminiscent of a leopard's spots,
on each side of their body.
These fish even resemble the
coloring of a leopard, as the rest
of their bodies are a light
yellow/olive tone.
Longnose darters are
Oklahoma's only state listed endangered fish species.
According to the ODWC, it is also one of the state's rarest
species. These darters can be found in Big Lee Creek and
Little Lee Creek in areas of Adair and Sequoyah counties.
Populations do not occur in any other part of the state,
making the protection of Lee and Little Lee Creek habitat
incredibly important.
Darters are small fish that make their homes in healthy creeks and streams. There are many different types of
darters living in Oklahoma's scenic waters, including two rare species: leopard and longnose darters.
Darter Species Unique to Scenic Rivers
Like leopard darters, longnose darters are
mainlyaffected by construction in their habitat.
Construction of impoundments in
particular is disruptive to longnose
darter habitat as impoundments can
alter water flow and restrict darters
Longnose darters are colorful fish
with yellow bodies and an orange
band. They have small bodies
approximately 2.5 inches in length.
Their heads and snouts are slightly
Leopard and longnose darters
share many similarities with each
other and other species of darters.
Both darters' diets consist of
aquatic invertebrates. They find their
food living among the rocks at the
bottom of clear, healthy creeks.
Spawning season for both
darters occurs in early spring.
Leopard darters move to riffle
areas for spawning in March and
April, though some may spawn as
early as February. Clutches average
about 65 eggs, which are laid,
fertilized, and buried in gravel. Young
hatch in early May.
Longnose darters follow a
similar biological process. Their
spawning months are April and May.
There are several other darter
species swimming through healthy
Oklahoma creeks and streams which
are also listed as threatened or
endangered. The black-sided darter,
which makes its home in Lee Creek
and Mountain Fork River in Adair
county, is a state listed threatened species. Cherokee and
Delaware county creeks support populations of the Arkan-sas
darter, which is currently being considered for fed-eral
endangered status.
The protection of these types of unique species is
one of the reasons it is so important to preserve the natu-ral
state and quality of Oklahoma's scenic rivers.
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|[ABCNEWS.GO] Two men with explosives were arrested trying to enter the city of Gao on Saturday, the Malian military said, a day after a suicide bomber blew himself up in an attack that has fueled fears of a militant insurgency in northern Mali.
I do hope nobody thought AQIM was just going to run away? Now comes the sneaky war of attrition, until they run out of cannon fodder or the funding's cut off.
Funding comes from Qatar and the UAE. Good luck with that one...
The two suspected jihadists were in Malian military custody after being arrested at 7 a.m. on a road that leads into northern Mali's largest city, said military spokesman Modibo Traore. "The men were stopped at a checkpoint on the road from Bourem," Traore said of a village that is northwest of Gao.
That's alright. There are more when they came from. Literally.
While Friday's attack killed only the bomber, it has raised concerns about the future strategy of the militants, who initially appeared to put up little resistance to the French and Malian military advance.
That's because they can't stand up to a real army. They're fond of waving guns and looking ferocious, but they seldom fire at actual soldiers, and when they do they usually come out second in the contest.
Malian defense minister Yamoussa Camara told The Associated Press Saturday that the military was continuing to hunt extremists from their hiding places. "We call on the population of Gao to not give in to panic and above all to cooperate with defense and security forces to drive out the terrorists who are trying to inflitrate among civilians," said Camara when reached by phone in Bamako.
The disadvantage the turbans have here is the number of foreigners among them, to include the Tuaregs, who'll be suspicious characters even though they live in the area. Appearance and accent will give the turbans away, and (at the moment) they don't enjoy a lot of support from the locals.
The young man who blew himself up on Friday had been living at a house in Gao that was known jihadist hideout. A guard at the home said that it had been visited three months ago by the one-eyed terror leader Moktar Belmoktar, who claimed responsibility for the attack in Algeria on the BP-operated natural gas plant in which more than 37 people died.
Presumably the dear departed had been living there until the Frenchies showed up, at which point he beat curly-toed slippers along with his Islamic masters.
Other jihadist leaders from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa -- known as MUJAO -- also had stayed in the luxurious two-story home with a verdant courtyard, which the militants took over when they captured Gao last year, the guard said.
Any differences between MUJAO and AQIM have to do with labeling, not with flavor.
Fears of suicide bombing attacks have been high since the discovery of industrial-strength explosives in Gao earlier this week.
Count on it.
Mali's military has shown growing signs of strain.
Best to dissolve them and start over from scratch. They're not worth much, evidently.
The only ones who were any good were the ones trained by U.S. advisors, and they switched sides...
On Friday, soldiers from a unit allied with the leader of last year's military coup stormed the camp of the presidential guard. Two people were killed and 13 others were wounded, according to a statement from the Malian government.
That's because they had nothing better to do. It's not like they'd been invaded or something...
Malian President Dioncounda Traore called the violence a major disappointment to the Malian people "at a time when the main concern of each and every Malian should be the operations we are in the middle of carrying out in the north."
Oh. Well. The country was invaded, but not the Presidential Guard. Apparently "the Guard lives but never engages," to misquote some Frenchie.
The red beret-wearing former presidential guard, based at the Djicoroni camp in Bamako, was disarmed months ago by the green beret-wearing officers loyal to Capt. Amadou Haya Sanogo, the leader of the coup in March last year. Their camp has been attacked on several occasions by the green berets, who seized the presidential guards' weapons.
The guys with the red hats, y'see, marched ever so much better than the green hats in parades. And they got all the good hookers.
When the green berets arrived at the military camp Friday they were confronted by women and children, and fired tear gas and volleys into the air, according to Batoma Dicko, a woman who lives in the camp. The camp includes housing for military families. The attackers succeeded in entering the camp, carried out a search and set fire to the infirmaries, she said.
That sort of thing is ever so much easier when the wimmin and kiddies are unarmed.
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