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"DRY" Manitoba communities are dying out, with Winkler the latest one to go "wet."
The Manitoba Liquor Control Commission is expected to announce today it's opening a liquor store in Winkler, 102 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg.
"Let's face it: Winkler is a destination for shopping" in the Pembina Valley, with its Walmart and other big-box stores, said Winkler Mayor Martin Harder. "So it all makes sense."
Previously, people in Winkler would drive 10 kilometres down the road to Morden to buy liquor. Winkler already has a hotel that sells beer.
However, some residents complained to the MLCC about not having an outlet in the community. The MLCC forwarded the complaints to Winkler city council and expressed a desire to put a liquor store in the community. "We gave them a letter saying we wouldn't make it into an issue," said Harder.
Winkler does not need a referendum to open a liquor store.
It's another community with a Mennonite history to open its first liquor store in recent years. The first liquor store in Steinbach opened in 2009.
"We have at least six or seven licensed establishments in Winkler," including the Valley Bowling Alley, Harder said.
He said a liquor store is just part of being a growing community. Winkler now has over 11,000 residents and is growing at a rate of five per cent per year.
Harder said the liquor outlet would be in a new strip mall being built across from the Superstore on Highway 32.
Kenton Doerksen, Winkler Chamber of Commerce president, said the store "is a vote of confidence in the community."
"It will definitely keep local traffic from heading down the road. It's not a surprise that a lot of people from Winkler go to Plum Coulee or Morden to buy alcohol," Doerksen said.


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The Telegraph and the Mail have today covered the story that the government will unveil a new universal state pension in an imminent green paper. The £140/week pension (rising to £155 in four years' time) is roughly as anticipated when the story first broke last autumn. It is a less complicated system than the current basis state pension which can be topped up with additional benefits such as the pension credit.
What has barely been noted, however, is that the coalition nearly endured a defeat in the House of Lords on Wednesday night over its long-standing plans to lift Britain's retirement age. Read more

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Volendam on the skids: Volendam Cruise Review by MaryFlorence
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Volendam on the skids
Destination: Asia
Embarkation: Hong Kong
Firstly, the company is let down by poor administration. Questions emailed to HAL in both the US and Australia were sometimes responded to in very vague terms, or were ignored altogether. A requested "Roll Call" meeting was not advertised on the relevant web page until several days before departure, consequently its existence was unknown to most of the 40+ registered users. This was very disappointing.
There was a late change to embarkation dock in Hong Kong, identified on page 1 of the check-in documentation, but on page 3, the previous dock was identified. Whilst acknowledging that the change of embarkation port is beyond the control of HAL, they could have been a little more helpful to their customers on how to find the dock. Many of the passengers reported that their taxi drivers did not know where to find the right port entrance and indeed our own went through three different port gates before More finding the right one. Otherwise, embarkation and disembarkation went smoothly and with little wait. Our cabin was ready by midday.
On entering the cabin, it smelt very stale. It took some days to track down the cause of the odour as the pillows. They really needed washing or replacing and the smell could not be disguised by fresh linen. The WC in our cabin was not functioning properly and a plumber had to be called on the first day, and again several days later as the problem was not fixed properly the first time. The ship underwent some refurbishment recently. Curtains and cushion covers in the cabins have been replaced. Some resealing around the bath had taken place. Otherwise, the ship is showing its age somewhat. As an on-board video explained, it is important to think carefully about the location of your chosen cabin, particularly in relations to its proximity to the laundry (lots of passing traffic), proximity to lifts and stairwells (if walking long distances on board is not what you want). In our case it was a location underneath the galley of the Dining Room. The clanging and banging above our heads, late at night and very early each morning was unwelcome. Like a previous reviewer, we do not understand why HAL does not warn people about this. It is a far more important consideration than knowing whether your sea view is partly blocked - something they do tell you about, and adjust the fare appropriately.
The crew, as usual, are extremely polite and helpful. Meals in the Rotterdam Dining Room and the Lido were generally good, with a wide variety. The standard appears to have dropped slightly from previous cruises. Stewards occasionally got meal orders muddled and there were occasional other issues in the Rotterdam Dining Room, but nothing major. The introduction of a fee for "special" coffees in the Rotterdam Dining Room (such as an espresso) was diappointing. The Pinnacle Grill experience was excellent. Afternoon teas in the Rotterdam Dining Room were very good.
The entertainment was "so-so". Some acts were very good, some downright awful. Movies seemed often to shown at puzzling times so that it was very difficult to complete dinner in time to go, or to get any dinner after the show! Craft activities were infrequent, but Microsoft lectures were held daily. There was a daily "happy hour" in the Crow's Nest, and wine tastings for a modest fee.
Shore excursions were expensive and many passengers had made their own arrangements for excursions, especially in Xingang (for Beijing) at a fraction of the cost. Information on ports of call was limited. Maps were generally not helpful, especially when asking locals for assistance, as maps made no sense to them whatsoever! There was a great encouragement, on the part of HAL, to take shore excursions rather than risk getting lost/not seeing the right sites/not getting back to the ship on time. Tourist authorities in Pusan and Nagasaki met the ship and provided helpful advice, maps etc. Free shuttle buses were provided in some ports. It would be so much more helpful if that information was made available prior to embarkation, since some passengers will always want to do their own exploring. The repeated reminders of the wonderfulness of the crew, the fabulousness of the cruise and the importance of the hotel service charge became irritating. If the crew rely on the distribution of this optional service charge, in order to draw a reasonable wage, then it would be preferable for HAL to pay them a respectable wage, and raise their fares accordingly. Less
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A LAWYER from Nelson who became embroiled in an international energy drinks scam has been banned from practising as a solicitor by his professional watchdog.
Majed Iqbal, 33, was jailed for five years in January 2013 after being convicted of paying off witnesses in a £300,000 fake beverages conspiracy.
His case was referred by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for a full hearing before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) in November.
He was accused, as a result of his Hull Crown Court conviction, of acting contrary of his requirements to uphold the rule of law and the proper administration of justice and/or act with integrity and/or behave in a way that maintains the trust the public placed in him and/or the provision of legal services.
Iqbal, formerly of Elizabeth Street, was working for the Bradford firm Petherbridge Passa, before the conspiracy, over a bogus 'Duracell' drink, came to light.
Following the case, an SDT spokesman said: "The tribunal issued a prohibition order, prohibiting Mr Iqbal from having his named restored to the Roll of Solicitors, except by order of the tribunal."
This punishment applies to solicitors who have had their names removed from the roll, before an SDT hearing, and prevents them from practising again, without the tribunal's permission.
The full judgement in his case is not available for around seven weeks.
Iqbal was representing Bradford nightclub mogul Yasar Hussain, who had approached Procter and Gamble, the trademark holder for Duracell, with the idea of an energy drink based on the brand.
But despite being knocked back by the firm, he embarked on a marketing campaign which included flying out to an international food fair in Dubai to win over customers.
Iqbal was said to have approached witnesses in the case to 'buy their silence', in exchanges which were captured on video clips seized from him at Manchester Airport.


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After revisiting the series in its entirety, I have been able to formulate answers to virtually every question I had previously'---'EXCEPT FOR ONE!
It revolves around Harry's decision to sacrifice himself to eliminate the horcrux of Voldemort that resided within him. Surely, based on the events to follow, not only was this the right decision, but it was absolutely necessary for Harry to defeat Voldemort. Harry returns to Earth from limbo due to Voldemort's fatal mistake of using Harry's protected blood to bring about his own revival (Graveyard, GoF).
However, my question is not about the results, but rather the intention. Professor Trelawney's First Prophecy states: "either must die at the hand of the other." Harry goes into the forest with every intention of DYING and not coming back. A very noble act, but based on what he knew, was he not trapped in a Catch-22? He had to eliminate the horcrux within him, but Voldemort "must die at the hand of [Harry]."
He tells Neville to kill Nagini, assuming he will not return, but does he not understand that based on the prophecy, Voldemort will not be defeated by anyone BUT HIM. It all works out in the end when he returns, but Harry's decision was irrational, right?


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Adobe, like most other employers, encourages its employees to continually upgrade their skills, and offers interesting opportunities for us to learn, innovate, and change. What happens when employees become self-motivated to seek out interesting ways to connect with, learn from and share ideas with each other? They form a book club!
There are several book clubs here at Adobe. One is managed by the Women Unlimited group; others are attached to sites. I belong to the Globalization (North America) book club which started in January 2010 when a few of us attended a Localization Conference, where we heard a number of speakers mention the same books in their talks. We thought about what learnings we might need to do as we moved forward into new ways of doing business with social media, offshoring/nearshoring, and innovation. I'll mention a couple of the books we have been reading and some of the reasons for choosing each book.
The first book we chose was Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future.
As with other industries in the U.S. and Europe, IT is fast moving to automation and offshoring. Author Pink challenges us to reinvent ourselves, rethink the current roles we play, and plan for the world of work. Creativity, design and innovation will be the new jobs. You can find Daniel Pink on twitter, TED, or his own website. Changes I've made as a result: I'm offshoring the majority of my execution-type tasks and am working on strategizing the long-term roadmap for globalization features of the products I support.
Social media and networking are ubiquitous. Everyone is jumping on the band wagon and blogging, tweeting, and facebooking! How do these tools affect our business, and how do we leverage these new media to benefit our branding and our communication with our communities? How do we connect and engage with our customers and help them solve problems? One way is through social media, which was the topic of our second read: 33 Million People in the Room by Juliette Powell. Changes I've made: this blog, contributions to the Adobe Globalization blog, tweeting, and connecting with worldwide developer communities on Facebook(c).
Various quality initiative promoters here at Adobe remind us that customer satisfaction is passé, and the new metric for quality is customer referral. How likely is your customer to stay loyal to your products and brand, and in turn, refer other customers to you? Sales trainer Jeffrey Gitomer engages us with his stories, and provides techniques and checklists for changing the way we measure our success in Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless. As with the other authors, his social media contacts are found on his website. I did not read this book because I was taking a reading-intensive Cultural Anthropology class at the time. I hope to get back to it later.
This brings us to our fourth and current read: Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play by Luke Hohmann. The idea for this book came after several of us in Globalization attended a seminar on Achieving Extraordinary Outcomes: Models for Innovative Thinking, hosted locally by The Institute for Management Studies, featuring UCLA Adjunct Professor, Dr. Iris Firstenberg. In our kickoff discussion, I mentioned I had run across Dr. Stuart Brown's book Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul. As a precursor to our reading, we watched Brown's TED Talk and another Brown, Tim, who espouses a similar theme on TED.
I'll keep you posted on how I implement this last book on play in my work. Let me know if you have other interesting books or articles we might consider for the next read. Happy reading!
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Brace yourselves because the news I have to share is big: Yahoo has redesigned its home page. Yes, it's true, and this one has new CEO Marissa Mayer's fingerprints all over it.
I know you've been holding your breath in feverish anticipation of this ever since Yahoo announced that the darling of Google -- and secret heartthrob of millions of geeks around the globe -- had agreed to take the big chair at Yahoo last July.
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Or perhaps not. In any case, given that nearly all of her predecessors at Yahoo -- the ones who lasted more than a few months at least -- had also redesigned the home page at some point, it was inevitable. I've lost track of how many home page designs Yahoo has been through over the nearly two decades its been in existence. Needless to say, there have been more than a few, and most of them have not been improvements.
Here's how Ms. Mayer introduced the latest tablet- and smartphone-friendly Yahoo on the Anecdotal Yodel blog:
Designed to be more intuitive and personal, the new Yahoo! experience is all about your interests and preferences. Since streams of information have become the paradigm of choice on the web, we're introducing a newsfeed with infinite scroll, letting you experience a virtually endless feed of news articles. Whether you are a sports fanatic or entertainment buff, you can easily customize your newsfeed to your interests. And, to make Yahoo! even more social, you can log in with your Yahoo! or Facebook ID to get articles from thousands of news sources as well as those shared by your friends.
Frankly, the new Mayer Interface doesn't look all that different from the last home page redo, which occurred some time during the Bartz era. The two biggest differences: If you log into Facebook, the home page will personalize itself based on your Likes and adapt over time; if you don't give a hoot about, say, horoscopes or stocks, they will eventually drop off the page.
The other part is that, like virtually every uberhip site these days, Yahoo.com offers "infinite scrolling." You can't get to the bottom of the page because more stories keep filling in the space.
Remember that last time you went to that all-you-can-eat place and kept on filling your plate even though the food tasted like reprocessed cattle offal because, heck, nobody there was going to stop you? Yahoo is now like that.
What's amazing to me is how popular Yahoo remains. By nearly every measure, Yahoo is among the five most popular websites on the planet. According to Statista, Yahoo had nearly 165 million unique visitors last month, up from 147 million the previous January.
Yet nobody I know ever talks about Yahoo the way they talk about Google or Facebook or Twitter or Apple or Microsoft or, er, almost everyone else. Heck, even LinkedIn gets more attention. Yahoo just doesn't come up.


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MEMBERS of a children's theatre school brought some of Elgar's magical music to life.
Sixteen students from Stagecoach Worcester showcased months of hard work when their creative performance retold the story of the classical composer's the Wand of Youth at the Elgar Birthplace Museum, Lower Broadheath, near Worcester, on Sunday, May 11.
The youngsters aged six to 16 used a range of dance, drama and song in the piece devised by their teachers.
Lucy Maycock, graduate trainee and project co-ordinator at the museum, said: "It has been wonderful to work with Stagecoach Worcester. They are an incredibly talented and enthusiastic group who have brought Elgar's music to life with so much energy and creativity.
"Elgar loved working with young performers and their performance did him proud."
The story and music of the Wand of Youth began in 1871 when Elgar was just 14-years-old.
Along with his brothers and sisters, he wrote a play in which they transported their parents to Fairyland, a magical place populated with creatures such as fairies, giants, moths and butterflies.
In Fairyland, the Elgar children's parents are reminded of their youth and return home more understanding of their children.
Elgar remembered this story and the music he composed as a teenager and used it to compose the Wand of Youth Suite in 1907 and a second suite followed a year later.


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How Children Learn
(Pitman 1967, revised edition Delacorte 1983, Perseus, 1995)
These are are some excerpts from the new sections of How Children Learn, chosen by John and run in GWS 32:
...All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words - Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple - or more difficult. Difficult, because to trust children we must trust ourselves - and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.
... It is even possible that some kinds of mental activity may be largely centered in some parts of the brain, and other kinds in others. But it would be simple-minded and silly to say that all the complicated varieties of thought, of mental experience, can be neatly separated into two kinds and that one of these can be exclusively assigned to the left side of the brain, the other to the right. When I say that I am sometimes surprised by what my mind tells me, I am talking about a very common experience. But where in my brain is the "my mind" who does the telling, where the "me" who is surprised? ... What of the fact that often, while thinking of something else, I will find that "my mind" has suddenly presented "me" with a complete sentence, sometimes even two or three, which "I" like so much that I rush to write them down before I forget them? "I" have certainly not produced those sentences in the way I am now producing these sentences on the typewriter, thinking about what words to use or where to put them. On which side of my brain is the producer of these sentences, on which side the observer, critic, editor who judges them to be good?
... It is hardly ever possible to separate what we think about something from how we feel about it ... This notion, now very popular in leading universities, that organisms, including human beings, are nothing but machines, is for me one of the most mistaken, foolish, harmful, and dangerous of all the many bad ideas at large in the world today. If an idea can be evil, this one surely is.
...It is only in the presence of loving, respectful, trusting adults like Millicent Shinn or Glenda Bissex that children will learn all they are capable of learning, or reveal to us what they are learning ... Of two ways of looking at children now growing in fashion - seeing them as monsters of evil who must be beaten into submission, or as little two-legged walking computers whom we can program into geniuses, it is hard to know which is worse, and will do more harm. I write this book to oppose them both.
...How much people can learn at any moment depends on how they feel at that moment about the task and their ability to do the task. When we feel powerful and competent, we leap at difficult tasks. The difficulty does not discourage us; we think, "Sooner or later, I'm going to get this." At other times, we can only think, "I'll never get this, it's too hard for me, I'm never any good at this kind of thing, why do I have to do it," etc. Part of the art of teaching is being able to sense which of these moods learners are in.
... The only good reason for playing games with babies is because we love them, and delight in playing these games with them and in sharing their delight in playing - not because we want someday to get them into college. It is our delight in the baby and the games that make the games fun, and worthwhile and useful for the baby. Take away the delight, and put in it's place some cold-hearted calculation about future I.Q. and SAT scores, and we kill the game, for ourselves and the baby.
... The point is that if it takes a long time to develop a good habit, it will take just as long to develop a bad one. The idea that we must work hundreds of hours to make a good habit, but can make a bad one in a few seconds, is nonsense. And the point of this to us as teachers is that we don't always have to be in such a big hurry to correct children's mistakes. We can afford to give them time to notice and correct them themselves. And the more they do this, the better they will become at doing it, and the less they will need and depend on us to do it for them.
...In this chapter I will say something very simple, that may not often have been said before. Children use fantasy not to get out of, but to get into, the real world.
... It is a serious mistake to say that, in order to learn, children must first be able to "delay gratification," i.e., must be willing to learn useless and meaningless things on the faint chance that later they may be able to make use of some of them. It is their desire and determination to do real things, not in the future but right now, that gives children the curiosity, energy, determination, and patience to learn all they learn.
... I would now add perhaps even more important reasons why testing - at least, unasked for testing done by others - destroys learning.
The first reason has to do with the matter of hunches. When we constantly ask children questions to find out whether or not they know something (or prove to ourselves that they, don't), we almost always cut short the slow process by which, testing their hunches against experience, they turn them into secure knowledge.
... Every unasked-for test is above all else a statement of no confidence in the learner. That I check up at all on what you have learned proves that I fear you have not really learned it. For young children, these repeated votes of no confidence can be devastating.
... It may be true enough that in learning purely physical skills, such as sports ... we generally have to learn easy movements before we learn hard ones. That is how the body works. But it is not how the mind works ... What makes things easy or hard for our minds has very little to do with how little or how much information they may contain, and everything to do with how interesting they are and, to say it once again, how much sense they make, how connected they seem to reality.
... This book did not change, as I hoped it might, the way schools deal with children. I said, trust them to learn. The schools would not trust them, and even if they had wanted to, the great majority of the public would not have let them. Their reasons boil down to these: (1) Children are no good; they won't learn unless we make them. (2) The world is no good; children must be broken to it. (3) I had to put up with it; why shouldn't they? To people who think this way, I don't know what to say. Telling them about the real learning of real children only makes them cling to their theories about the badness and stupidity of children more stubbornly and angrily than ever. Why do they do this? Because it gives them a license to act like tyrants and to feel like saints.
... What is lovely about children is that they can make such a production, such a big deal, out of everything, or nothing ... All that energy and foolishness, all that curiosity, questions, talk, all those fierce passions, inconsolable sorrows, immoderate joys, seem to many a nuisance to be endured, if not a disease to be cured. To me they are a national asset, a treasure beyond price, more necessary to our health and our very survival than any oil or uranium or name what you will ...


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An Ilkley singer whose grandmother had Alzheimer's is promoting a new social-media app designed to simulate some of the symptoms experienced by people with dementia.
Rupert Stroud said the new app was a powerful tool which will make people realise how the disease affects the indiviual.
FaceDementia has been created by Alzheimer's Research UK and harnesses a person's recent Facebook activity to give an insight into what hundreds of thousands of people with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia go through each day.
It was developed with input from volunteers, all of whom have been affected by dementia. It shows users what it would be like to forget where they live, work or go to school or who their loved ones are, using a combination of personal photos, status updates and other information shared on their page.
People can also watch short videos featuring people affected by dementia explaining how the symptoms FaceDementia simulates impacted on them or their relative.
The app does not hold on to any data or scramble a user's real timeline or Facebook information, instead presenting an overlay to show how dementia can affect the brain. Singer-songwriter Rupert features in one of the FaceDementia video clips. The 27-year-old's grandmother, Eileen, died with Alzheimer's in 2009, aged 87.
Rupert said: "My grandmother was a lovely, wonderful person, with one of the sweetest, kindest natures you could find. I think that's probably the most heartbreaking thing – dementia strips the character of the person you love.
"It's so important to try and get the message out there to everyone. Whether or not you've been touched by Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, everyone needs to understand just how tragic it is.
"Alzheimer's Research UK's FaceDementia app is a very powerful tool which I hope will make people realise how dementia affects the individual.
"Watch the app and imagine how frightening this must be. Memories are so important to us as human beings.
"Without our minds and memories we're nothing but a shell. Research into Alzheimer's disease and other dementias is vital and must be funded if we are to have any chance of finding a cure. Please watch and share FaceDementia."
Rebecca Wood, chief executive of Alzheimer's Research UK, the UK's leading dementia research charity, said: "Facebook's appeal is that it can gather your friends and family and keep them close, with memories and contacts all contained within one space.
"It also develops a diary of your life since you joined the site and documents your thoughts and musings during that time.
"We wanted to use these Facebook features to illustrate how those thoughts and memories can be confused, or forgotten altogether, as experienced by some of the hundreds of thousands of people across the UK living with dementia."
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WITH Christmas rapidly approaching the Primrose Choir is busy preparing for their annual Christmas concert.
The concert, raising cash for Primrose Hospice Centre of Care which supports cancer patients and their families, will be at the Rocklands Social Club in Redditch.
A spokesman from the choir said: "The choir, with the help of special guests, has raised a great deal over the years to support the services provided by the hospice."
She added: "We will be singing some favourite Christmas music and the evening always includes some of the best-known carols.
"It is always a popular event and this year we will have the choir from Astwood Bank First School as special and enchanting guests."
The Christmas concert is on Friday, December 14 starting at 7pm.
Tickets cost £9 and are available from 01527 67383 or 01527 546158 or from any member of the choir.
For more information on the Primrose Hospice Centre of Care, visit primrosehospice.org.


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The Canadiens' Brendan Gallagher is listed as 5-foot-9 and 178 pounds.
Boston Bruins veteran defenceman Zdeno Chara is 6-foot-9 and 255 pounds.
But the Canadiens rookie says he won't back down from Chara and the big, bad Bruins when they meet Wednesday night at the Bell Centre (7:30 p.m., TSN, RDS, TSN 690 Radio).
"When I learned that I made the team, I was looking forward to playing the Bruins," Gallagher said after practice Tuesday in Brossard.
"It's gonna be cool," Gallagher added. "He's one of the best D-men in the league. I've played against big boys, but never quite that big. I enjoy playing against bigger guys and I'm going to play my game. I won't be fighting him, but other than that I'm going to be going after him. I'm going to treat him like any other D-man. I'm going to finish my check regardless of how big he is."
Gallagher ranks second on the Canadiens with 19 hits, but hasn't picked up a single penalty.
"I can't remember the last time I went seven games without a penalty," Gallagher said with a grin.
(Photo by Dave Sidaway/The Gazette)
Rookie awaits taste of Bruins rivalry, by Pat Hickey
A chip off the old Bourque for Bruins, by Stu Cowan


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After several years of planning and a year of construction, the Warden Aquarium at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson is now open. This is the first new major exhibit to open in over 10 years.
The aquarium exhibition, "Rivers to the Sea," will highlight the roles of the region's rivers, including the mighty Colorado, and the Gulf of California. The 1,100 sq. ft. aquarium will house two galleries – one highlighting the region's freshwater rivers and aquatic life and the other featuring the Sea of Cortez and representative sea life.
Primary funding for the new exhibition was generously provided by the Bert W. Martin Foundation and will include 14 tanks displaying a variety of fresh- and salt-water wildlife. Some of the Museum's numerous conservation projects impacting many aquatic species will be highlighted in the galleries.
The Sea of Cortez is extremely diverse containing one of the world's smallest and most endangered marine mammals, the vaquita, a rare type of porpoise, over 800 types of fish, five species of sea turtles, and the little-known American crocodile.
The exhibition area will also include a touch tank with marine invertebrates, like sea stars and hermit crabs, for a hands-on encounter for visitors on the behind-the-scenes tours.
Visits to the Warden Aquarium are included in the general admission museum ticket price. Private tours are available daily and reservations can be made at desertmuseum.org.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum – Warden Aquarium
2021 N. Kinney Rd., Tucson, AZ 85743
(520) 883-2702
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Kevin G - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkAt the end of the show, everyone should be filmed attempting to eat the same death curry from last year:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6624/death-curry-rav... Reply
savagemike - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkAt the Intel booth discussing the Tegra K1. Awkward... Reply
Krysto - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAre you saying Anandtech gets paid by Intel to talk only about Intel?
What a preposterous thing to say! Reply
icrf - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI don't mind that you do video shows, but 99% of the content is just audio. Pretty please don't give up on the podcast, even if you just release the video feed's audio as a podcast. I really enjoyed those and have been missing them these last three months. They're much more convenient to listen to while I work. Reply
Y0ssar1an22 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkI second this request - I travel a lot and much prefer offline/low bandwidth/eyes free delivery. I had a poor experience with the last show due to bad wifi in a European hotel. Reply
twizzlebizzle22 - Monday, January 06, 2014 - linkThis.... But either way I'm glad we are getting something! Reply
Wade_Jensen - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAgreed, as temptingly luscious as your face is Brian I'll be in a lucky-to-even-get-3g area for the next 3 days, an audio option would be appreciated guys. Anyway, keep up the awesome work, looking forward to your thoughts on Intel's Edison platform. Reply
dm8w - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAgreed! Reply
purerice - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI generally hate jumping on bandwagons but I agree, audio version is preferable.
Though if you had some slides/graphs to discuss with the interviewees and put those up as visual in your video that would be sweet. Reply
maximumGPU - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkYes, audio please! Reply
Pfffman - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAustralia doesn't have unlimited download and even smaller amounts of mobile data. Being able to keep it on the device is a big deal.
Due to the recent Youtube only ones, I only get to find time to listen/watch the shows about twice. Podcasts usually 4+. Reply
Wade_Jensen - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkApparently ces doesn't have unlimited upload either... :/ Reply
klmx - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkThanks for being so Europe-proof, guys. I love staying up deep in to the night just so I can hear some dudes talk about technology Reply
Drumsticks - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - link...you're complaining about people in Las Vegas doing an interview mid-day in Las Vegas instead of at 3AM in Las Vegas during a trade show? I'm sorry time zones exist, but deal with it. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI think he's complaining that it is video and not audio-only (podcast). Either way... how do you make the rolling eyes smiley? Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAsk Intel if they plan to adopt "FreeSync" support for their IGPs. Reply
Wade_Jensen - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkOk. Mobile questions first, then intel ones.
Merrifield is stated as 1.7x performance and 2x graphics, is this over Medfield, are those figures still accurate and will they be smartphone only SoCs? How does Hermann feel the platform will compare in terms of graphics to chips named after a certain mythical creature, which come to market at the same time. Please, no comparisons to n-2 gen competitor chips. (Please filter this question a little btw)
At the investor meeting last year Hermann said Aicha was able to bring xmm 7260 forward by a few months. Has she been able to pull of any more miracles? When should we expect Merrifield design wins to come to market w and w/o intel modems? Still 1H'2014?
Could Hermann talk about Bay Trail design wins in the android tablet space and are there more coming this quarter?
Is Hermann able to give us an update on SoFIA and whether its on schedule. Could he (I doubt he can reveal it) tell us what 3rd party process it will be made on?
Intel questions.
I would really like to know about this dual os platform and how it is achieved. Is this the same platform Asus' Transformer Book Duet uses? They claim it is done without emulation or virtualization.
Is Hermann able to give us an update on Intel's work with x86 android and its optimisation and are they building android 86 in 64 bit like I think I heard Krzanich say in the keynote. These two Q's might go together.
Maybe not something Hermann can answer but: Will broadwell and be including hardware decode for h.265? Also for anyone reading, is this codec more power efficient than h.264? I know Anand has expressed reservations about the efficiency of haswell video decode.
Wearables. Again not Mobile, but no hurt in asking.
I assume what Krzanich demonstrated last night were reference platforms: the watch, the earpiece and the smart senor blanket. Does this mean intel is constructing a platform in wearables the same way it has with processors and standardised chipsets in the PC market, giving OEMs a much needed framework to take in their own directions and add on their own IP and sensors, allowing them to use Edison for whatever ultramobile or embedded solution they want? That was what I felt was implied in the presentation.
Thats my two cents, thanks Anand, and to intel for putting you guys up Reply
Computer Bottleneck - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkAdding to the two SOFIA questions above, Is Herman able to tell us if a docked SoFIA phone will be fast enough to run x86 desktop apps including Office apps? (Libre Office, Open Office, etc.) Reply
RoninX - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkI hope someone from Anandtech stops by the Razer booth. I'm very curious about what is really going on with Project Christine, and the coverage from other sites has been very superficial and lacking technical detail.
I'd like to know whether Razer is really modularizing the entire motherboard chipset and providing plug-and-play CPU upgrades, and whether this will scale to future CPU generations... Reply
poofyhairguy - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkPlease discuss if you would Intel's plans for smartwatches, as well as general thoughts on smartwatches in 2014. So far there hasn't been a smartwatch I think is worth buying, but I am excited about the category. Do you think we will see better offerings from that form factor this year? Reply
silenceisgolden - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkMobile
1. When will a full solution for baseband radios be available for phones with Intel chips?
2. Customers want to have the latest version of Android asap after it is announced. Is it Intel's priority to update drivers accordingly for new versions of Android for all chips and chipsets? Reply
silenceisgolden - Tuesday, January 07, 2014 - linkOther
1. Does Intel like NFC? Is there an alternative that Intel would rather use? Reply
hrrmph - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkI'll second that one. Put bluntly, when is Intel going to stop crippling their otherwise fine computing products by not taking the expansion and integration of the chipset stuff more seriously?
All USB 3.0 ports?
All SATA 6.0Gbs ports?
When do we get it all integrated onto an SOC? Reply
eiriklf - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkSo when is the youtube version coming? Reply
Mondozai - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkSome major flub went down. Anand's saying bandwidth is limited etc but it smells like lies. There are multiple tech sites who have done several podcasts, and many of them uploaded it to Youtube at 720p quality, and all from CES. Reply
twizzlebizzle22 - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkWhich other techsites do podcasts; looking to widen my horizons. The verge. Reply
klmx - Wednesday, January 08, 2014 - linkYeah not sure what's going on over here. No coverage of the Intel keynote at all, the uploading of this podcast (if they did it through Youtube Live then it should be up automatically? Maybe they did it through whatever Intel used to stream their livestreams) Reply


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Paul Hill, owner of Willowgrove Hill in Ontario, Canada, says it is the first and only time the Canadian government has granted such a claim. In fact, according to the label, it is the "first and only pork in North America with DHA Omega-3."
The claim was granted by the Canadian Feed Inspection Agency.
It helps differentiate Hill's pork, but health will only take you so far, he says.
"Healthy foods have to do more than be healthy," he told those attending the Alltech International Symposium in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday. "They also have to taste good."
Hill says his pork tastes good because of extra marbling. And, it's the marbling where the Omega-3 fatty acids accumulate in the end product eaten by consumers.
Fish oil is added to the pigs' diet to produce this result.
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On Sept. 12, 2001, he lost his two-year-old son to liver cancer and then, two years later, his daughter developed similar symptons ― although, luckily, it didn't turn out to be the same thing. It was that second time in the hospital that Hill got to thinking about children and healthy foods and how to make their foods healthier.


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What remained of the Texan cyclist's reputation lay in tatters after USADA released their 'reasoned decision' behind their decision to strip him of his seven Tour de France titles and hand him a lifetime ban.
Eleven of Armstrong's former team-mates at his US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team testified against him. According to USADA chief executive Travis T Tygart, there was "conclusive and undeniable proof" of a team-run doping conspiracy.
The reasoned decision document said: "USADA has found proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Lance Armstrong engaged in serial cheating through the use, administration and trafficking of performance-enhancing drugs and methods that Armstrong participated in running in the US Postal Service Team as a doping conspiracy.
"Armstrong and his co-conspirators sought to achieve their ambitions through a massive fraud now more fully exposed. So ends one of the most sordid chapters in sports history."
The former US Postal Service team-mates who gave evidence against Armstrong were Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis, Frankie Andreu, Michael Barry, Tom Danielson, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Stephen Swart, Christian Vande Velde, Jonathan Vaughters and David Zabriskie.
USADA claimed Armstrong, 41, supplied banned drugs to other riders on the team, pressured them into participating in the doping programme and threatened to get them removed from the team if they refused.
The decision said: "His goal (of winning the Tour de France multiple times) led him to depend on EPO, testosterone and blood transfusions but also, more ruthlessly, to expect and to require that his team-mates would likewise use drugs to support his goals if not their own."
It added: "It was not enough that his team-mates give maximum effort on the bike, he also required that they adhere to the doping programme outlined for them or be replaced. He was not just a part of the doping culture on his team, he enforced and re-enforced it. Armstrong's use of drugs was extensive, and the doping programme on his team, designed in large part to benefit Armstrong, was massive and pervasive."
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AMD Releases New Radeon Memory SKU: RG2133 Gamer Seriesby Ryan Smith on 5/8/2013 12:01 AM EST
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Azethoth - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - link1) Ramdisk? Wth? Ramdisks are dumb in the age of a modern OS. Sacrifice a bunch of RAM that can then not be used in the regular virtual paging scheme is the epitome of "I just do not have a clue". Unlock the potential to cripple my system? Sign me not up.
2) Why do my expensive Radeon HD 7970's from Diamond and XFX not support Windows 8 secure boot? That seems like it would be a better thing to spend money on than developing RAM that was too slow already a year ago when I got 32GB of 2400 MHz kit for my new Asus board + Ivy Bridge system at the exact same cost / Gb as this inadequate stuff. Slower RAM does not help me. Fast and secure boot would. Reply
Bob Todd - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkTo be fair about the cost/GB, RAM prices have at least doubled in the last few months. I bought several kits of 1600 for $25 and 1866 for $30 around the holidays. Those exact same kits are $66 and $69 dollars right now respectively. Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkDepends on the RAM. Two months ago picked up 128 GB of registered ECC memory for under a $1000. Prices have only increased by $5 per DIMM so it'd be a hair over $1000 now. Reply
Bob Todd - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkVery true. I should have specified consumer stuff. From what I read a while back, the big 4 had all drastically cut commodity DRAM output to focus that capacity on enterprise and mobile. So your experience seems to validate that. Reply
arthur449 - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkNegative. In the days of 32-bit console ports and MMOs with increasingly large data sets trying to maintain compatibility with the ancient XP, a RAM disk is very USFL at manually caching the game assets since the developers are unwilling to maintain two separate codebases. This is particularly a problem with SWTOR where zoning times to some planets is measured in minutes on a fast system with two SSDs in RAID0.
The fact is, most games aren't programmed flawlessly or particularly well. Again, to use SWTOR as an example, it copied all zone data not into memory when loading, but instead into a temporary multi-gigabyte 'arenacache' file on disk. This was particularly unhealthy for SSDs, which are vulnerable to longevity problems when a game writes more than 20gb of data to disk every play session, as it did when I was still playing. For that game, and I'd imagine others, 32gb of cheap memory and learning how to use imdisk made my play experience better and saved my expensive SSDs some unnecessary wear.
Sorry for typos, typed on my phone. Reply
Azethoth - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkWell there you go folks. You can use RAM disks to force bad programs to not kill your SSD! I stand corrected. Yikes. Reply
Zan Lynx - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkThis "arenacache" thing is exactly what happens in large programming environments. The engine team says "This data file format is really slow and inefficient. We want to fix it." And the asset team says, "We can't change it. All our tools write in this format. Get stuffed." And so the engine team, needing to load things quickly from hard drives because gamers don't have 20GB of RAM, have to copy and reformat all the game assets into their own, actually useful format.
You may be able to tell I have a lot of sympathy for the software engineers who actually want things to be fast and efficient. Reply
Flunk - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkRealistically, we all could afford to have 32GB of RAM. It's so cheap these days. We just don't need it because things are still written for 32bit XP junkers. Reply
arthur449 - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkI have sympathy for them as well. The problem is this cowardly attempt to maintain backwards compatibility with a 9-year old (WinXP SP2 = Win2003) 32-bit OS instead of making a stand and using the popularity of SWTOR (which many of my friends built new systems for in anticipation) to drive adoption of 64-bit systems where memory management is less of a headache.
I'm going to be original and just blame EA. Reply
gevorg - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkThere is still great use for RAMDisk, such as a cache folder for your browser (especially Chrome). Not necessarily for speed gains, but to alleviate high I/O from SSD/HD to RAM and prolong its life. Reply
jmke - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkwhat is on SLIDE 14?
where these games tested at 640x480 to see 22% speed increase due to system memory bandwidth upgrade?
Since Athlon 64 and Intel Core 2 Duo memory bandwidth has had <5% impact on gaming performance... as the bottleneck that gets hits in order is GPU>CPU>MEM... Reply
jmke - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkwhere=were Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkThe point of these memory modules is primarily accelerating APU gaming performance, the one thing that is significantly affected by memory speed.
I imagine the benchmark results are from comparing with the 1600MHz kit as the difference between 1866MHz and 2133MHz is far less than 22%. It's quite a big difference in performance but without knowing the benchmark particulars (or, indeed, slide 14 of the presentation), it's not amazingly indicative of anything. Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkThese are APUs, not CPUs like you mentioned. Intergrate graphics can benefit tremendously from higher speed RAM. Reply
Torashin - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkIs it dual or quad channel? Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkHuh? That is entirely up to the CPU memory controller. I don't think AMD has quad channel CPUs in the consumer field (no idea about Opteron). So if you go with a consumer AMD or Intel product, you get dual channel support. If you have workstation stuff (I think SNB-E and higher) you can get quad channel. The memory itself has no impact on that. It's all advertising. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkI wonder if they'll make GDDR5 memory sticks for their APUs which will support it. That would make the AMD memory branding start to make sense. Reply
marc1000 - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkagreed. if AMD is able to launch APU's with GDDR5 support and a memory kit to go with it, it would be a great strike. even if it has the limitation of HAVING to populate all 4 memory slots in this case. Reply
DanNeely - Friday, May 10, 2013 - linkGDDR ram's timing/pathlength constraints are too tight to make it swappable via a dimm type package.
If they do anything on that front I'd expect to see GDDR chips added to the APU package itself. Reply
Termie - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkFor at least the past week, AMD's RAM has been undercutting the name-brand competition by about 15% in price. If that keeps up, everyone will be buying AMD's memory soon. Reply
K_Space - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkAm I missing something? last I checked Trinity's A10-5800K max supported memory was 1866Mhz.....? Reply
HisDivineOrder - Wednesday, May 08, 2013 - linkPerhaps a new CPU is about to hit that will support it? Reply
Penti - Sunday, May 12, 2013 - linkThe Richland SKU of Trinity has some models with 2133 support. I.e. overclocked memory that is easy to handle with a kit with an XMP profile, when firmware is there to handle it which it largely won't unless you manually do it. Reply


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A Tosa resident since 1991, Christine walks the dog, cooks but avoids housework, writes and reads, and enjoys the company of friends and strangers. Her job takes her around the state, learning about people's health. A Quaker (no, they don't wear blue hats or sell oatmeal or motor oil), she has been known to stand on both sides of the political and philosophic fence at the same time, which is very uncomfortable when you think about it. She writes about pretty much whatever stops in to visit her busy mind at the moment. One reader described her as "incredibly opinionated but not judgmental." That sounds like a good thing to strive for!
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Sometimes, you just can't avoid cognitive dissonance.
At the Wisconsin Public Health Association meeting in The Dells, we perused the sports bar menu and laughed at our choices. Should we get the deep fried pickles, the deep fried cheese curds, the cheese-n-fat soaked nachos (not the name on the menu), or the sliders with deep fried onion rings and french fries?
Of course, we could have chosen not to be at a sports bar. But this was a meeting and the host was picking up the tab. So we'd hoped to do our professional duty (and pleasure, because it was a fun meeting too) and at the same time save our employer (ultimately you, the taxpayers) some money. This way, we wouldn't have to put dinner on the expense account.
The next choice was to eat junk or eat nothing. We chose to eat a very little bit of junk. But even that felt heavy. In whatever way you want to look at the word "heavy."
Public health is all about protecting everyone's health and helping people become healthier. A lot of that's education, teaching people what the right choices -- or more realistically, better choices -- are.
The meeting's meals were admirably public-healthy. Fesh fruit and vegetables, light entrees, efficient protein in the form of hard boiled eggs, like that.
It's so much easier to choose right when the right stuff is right in front of you.
At the sports bar, we laughed and discussed how our current reduced means (we've all been cut to 50% time, which translates to less then 50% income as the benefits costs stay the same) have affected our eating.
"I've actually started eating fast food," said one of us, arguably the one with the best health habits. She rides a bike to work, among other things, and is a when-convenient semi-vegetarian. "It's not just the cost: it's some other weird desire to stoke up for comfort."
Indeed. We all shook our heads in recognition. And we all slid our eyes toward our own larger-than-last-year midriffs.
To bring this rambling account to an end, I'll just lay out my own personal take-away. When we are thinking about the choices other people make when it comes to eating, let's factor in a little reality. And compassion. And think about our own.
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MIXING with Hollywood stars is just another day at the office for movie writer Matt Graham.
But he admits he never feels more at home than when he is back in Hatch Beauchamp with his family.
Matt, 33, is taking a break from writing his latest series, The Untold History of the United States, which will be aired on Sky Atlantic in April.
He said: "I love coming back and taking a walk on the Quantocks – it's a wonderful landscape and Somerset is very much in my blood."
Renowned film director Oliver Stone recruited Matt, known as 'The History Man', to liven up the script for the series, which has just finished in the United States.
He said: "Oliver had always wanted to do a history TV series, and he is a bit intimidating, but gets the best out of people – you learn to develop a thick skin."
Matt moved to Hatch Beauchamp from London when he was young and went to Taunton School where he found his love for writing about history and crime.
Soon after finishing school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film writing.
He said: "My theory is you can do whatever in life, so you might as well go for it – so I did."
Matt said he meets so many celebrities he does not gets starstruck anymore.
He said: "When you see the celebs so often, you don't think about it so much.
"But I met Macy Gray at a bar in West Hollywood and spoke to Paris Hilton in a club – but didn't get her number – and was nearly run over by Harrison Ford on a bike on Hollywood Boulevard."
Matt is going back to Los Angeles next week and says his work routine for writing has to involve strong coffee and loud music.
He has just finished a crime novel called The Night Driver and a feature film he co-wrote called Cannon Fodder, which he hopes will be released this year.
He said: "Watch this space."


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HOUSTON - One of Texas' most infamous child killers is scheduled to be released from prison after serving barely a third of her sentence.
Genene Jones was 33-years-old when she was sentenced to 99 years in prison. The parents of Joneses' victims believed that sentence meant the former nurse would die in prison, but Local 2 investigates has learned she is scheduled to be released from prison in February 2018.
"Losing a child is something you never get over, you just learn to cope," said Petti McLellan-Wiese.
In September of 1982 McLellan-Wiese took her children to a pediatric clinic in Kerrville. Her son had the flu, but her 15-month-old daughter, Chelsea, was healthy.
"She didn't have an appointment, she wasn't supposed to be seen that day," said McLellan-Wiese.
McLellan-Wiese said the clinic's doctor told her Chelsea needed immunizations and since she was in the clinic, they could give her shots. McLellan-Wiese said while she held Chelsea in her arms the clinic's nurse, Jones, gave her daughter an injection. McClellan-Wiese said Chelsea almost immediately had trouble breathing.
"I said, 'Something is wrong, something is wrong,'" said McClellan-Wiese. "(Jones) was like, 'No, she's just mad because she got a shot,' and she gave her another shot."
McClellan-Wiese said after the second injection Chelsea stopped breathing. Chelsea was rushed to a hospital in Kerrville where doctors were able to resuscitate her. McClellan-Wiese said doctors at the hospital then decided to send Chelsea by ambulance to a hospital in San Antonio.
McClellan-Wiese said even though doctors ordered Jones not to accompany Chelsea to the hospital she somehow managed to slip into the back of the ambulance and give Chelsea one final injection.
"I remember the paramedics testified that they kept asking (Jones), 'what are you giving her, she's stable," said McClellan-Wiese.
Chelsea's death was originally ruled to have been caused by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
"After it happened, I kept saying, 'They did something, they did something,' but I was just the grieving mother," McLellan-Wiese recalled people telling her. "I wasn't thinking rationally."
However, Wiese's intuition was correct. Investigators later determined Chelsea had been given injections of a powerful muscle relaxant called succinylcholine.
"They determined Chelsea had been given enough of the drug to sedate six men who weighed 150 pounds each," said McClellan-Wiese.
At the time of Chelsea's death McClellan-Wiese did not know that Jones was already under suspicion. Before moving to Kerrville, Jones worked at the now shuttered Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio.
Court testimony revealed doctors at the hospital began noticing an unusually large number of children dying or becoming gravely ill during Joneses' nursing shifts.
However, Jones was allowed to leave the hospital without incident.
During her trial prosecutors argued Jones may have been responsible for the deaths of between 11 and more than 40 children.
Part of the problem in determining how many children were killed is because prosecutors learned the Bexar County hospital shredded thousands of pounds of pharmaceutical records just as grand jury was impaneled to investigate Jones.
"Second to losing Chelsea that is the hardest thing for me," said McClellan-Wiese. "The hospital knew."
In 1984 Jones was convicted of Chelsea's murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison. Several months later Jones was also convicted of injury to a child in a similar case involving a 4 week old boy.
"I'm the one who put that baby in the back of that hearse," said Chelsea's great uncle, James McCllelan. "She was so small in that little casket, I put her in there myself."
At the time of her sentencing, no one in Chelsea's family realized that Jones would be eligible for something called 'mandatory release.'
To help alleviate prison over-crowding state lawmakers allowed offenders to accrue so-called 'good time.' This meant for everyday a prisoner was considered to have good behavior in prison they were allowed to knock a day off the end of the time they were required to stay in prison before being released.
Texas lawmakers banned this practice in the 90s for violent offenders, but the United States Supreme Court ruled the state could not apply the change in the law to cases prior to 1987.
"Texas is going to release a serial killer of children," said McClellan-Wiese.
"Sometimes you think the world's gone crazy," said McClellan.
Victim's rights attorney and former prosecutor Kim Ogg said the state should keep pushing to find another case to bring against Jones before her scheduled release from prison.
"The state needs to set-up a hotline for tips and create a task force to go over all the old cases," said Ogg.
However, Ogg concedes this effort may be difficult at best since so many of the hospital records were destroyed and the difficulty investigators had at the time in tracing the drugs Jones is suspected using on children. McLellan-Wiese said she will never stop fighting for her daughter.
"It's never been over, it has never been over and now it's really not going to be over," said McClellan-Wiese. "Sometimes I think God put Chelsea here to stop Genene Jones."
If you have a news tip or question for KPRC Local 2 Investigates, drop them an e-mail or call their tipline at (713) 223-TIPS (8477). Copyright 2013 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Lake Chelan Sawtooth Wilderness > Gardner Mountain > Climber's Log
Gardner Mountain Climber's Log
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|Josh Lewis
|South Side (standard route)
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2015
|Summited both on day 1 due to weather concerns. Camped and went out by day 2.
|Posted May 24, 2016 2:11 pm
|Matt Lemke
|Both Gardners via the traverse
Date Climbed: Jul 24, 2015
|John, Josh and I hiked up Wolf Creek, set up camp then went straight up the south slopes of Gardner Mountain which was fairly loose in places. The wind was howling since a storm was brewing (the same storm that thwarted us from heading to Mount Waddington). John headed back to the meadow while Josh and I ran the traverse to North Gardner. After quickly nabbing the summit of North, we were being engulfed by clouds and saw it was raining on Silver Star. Luckily it never rained on us but as we hiked back over Point 8,487, it was 50 MPH winds! I was chilly without pants and gloves but we got into the scree basin and it quickly eased up. Reached the tent where John was waiting at 9pm. Hiked out the next day.
|Posted Jul 26, 2015 2:25 pm
|Wolf Creek
Date Climbed: Jun 17, 2015
|Introduction to the Cascades for summer 2015. Came up Wolf Creek, which was okay, and part of the E/ESE ridge, which kind of sucked. Trip report.
|Posted Jun 22, 2015 3:03 pm
|Mike Lewis
|nice spring ascent
Date Climbed: May 21, 2015
|A beautiful spring ascent with Fletcher Jordan and Heather Anderson. We had climbed North Gardner earlier in the morning and had to head down around noon to avoid thunderstorms. The glissade back to camp made it the fastest descent in recent memory.
|Posted May 25, 2015 7:42 pm
|A dandy time
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2013
|I use the term 'dandy' quite loosely, almost as loose as all the scree. But the views are fantastic. The ridge to No. Gardner was calling my name but not the names of anyone else in our party, so I guess I'll save that for another day.
|Posted Jul 29, 2013 12:00 pm
|Infected Mushroom
|Fun, beta-less attempt
|With no info or route beta, we headed up the biggest looking peak in the area. Ended up turning around at a nearby summit which had a summit register with only 2 entries, once in 38 and one in 46, cool! lots of bears in the valley too.
|Posted Sep 18, 2011 9:28 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2011
|Hiked the long approach into Gardner Meadows. First backpack trip of the year. Jump off a log at about 7 miles in and stress fractured the outside of my right foot. Made it into camp. My two buddies were too tired for a summit the next day and we had to leave the next day. I got up real early, and with my fractured foot climbed up Gardner. Lot of pain, but the glissade ride back was great. Made it from summit to camp in under an hour. Got back just in time for breakfast. Don't underestimate this trip if you are not in good shape or if you plan on doing it without spending two nights.
|Posted Jul 5, 2011 6:14 pm
|great traverse
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2010
|made the slog up Wolf Creek and climbed both Gardner and North Gardner (and the knob in between). exhausting day, but well worth it.
|Posted Feb 16, 2011 8:35 pm
|Gorgeous Day
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2011
|Saw a bunch of goats completing the traverse on a beautiful summer a day a few years back. Started the hike at the lake at the head of Wolf Creek.
|Posted Jan 30, 2011 1:39 am
|With N. Gardner
|traversed down and around from North Gardner.
|Posted Dec 8, 2010 10:37 pm
|Shelokum Lake
Date Climbed: Aug 27, 2010
|Glad to see this one on the board, it is a separate peak. I was dreading that fact from the summit of North Gardner. With the sun low in the sky, I was thankful to see the first trail since Cedar Creek connecting the two peaks. Lots of goat hair, but no visual. The new Mazama Store rounded out the trip in style, only 5 miles from the trail head.
|Posted Aug 29, 2010 2:55 pm
|In route to North Gardner
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2005
|Camped high on the mountain, just at tree line with a friend. We had a super campfire up there. Nice area.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 3:49 pm
|Laziness has a penalty
Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2004
|Dennis and I went up to within 100 vertical feet of the summit of this one and we sat down and had a snack. He decided to go on up to Gardner's summit and I was more concerned with getting some pics of him while he was doing it. When he came back down we continued on and did the traverse over to No. Gardner, which was our main objective. I was doing county highpoints in those days and so my laziness in not doing those last 100 feet is now being regretted by myself. Oh well....
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 9:12 am
|Wolf Creek Route
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2010
|You know how you always forget at least one piece of gear? I forgot my sleeping bag. Two nights I slept wearing all my layers. Actually it wasn't that bad. Gardner and North Gardner were pretty good. My climbing partners good attitude and outlandish jokes made it a great trip.
|Posted Jun 27, 2010 10:49 pm
|Two Top 100 Peaks, One Day!
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2010
|Gimpilator and I summited North Gardner Mountain, and then planned to summit Gardner Mountain via the Gardner Traverse. That particular ridge was half-snow, half-scree, and looked more dangerous than it might be later during Summer. We opted to down-climb from the saddle near Point 8487, side-traverse along the southern slopes of Gardner Mountain at ~7400' elevation, and then ascend the middle southern gully of the peak to the eastern summit ridge and easily hike to the summit. The snow in the open areas (gullies/couloirs) really helped the ascent, and avalanche danger had already passed. However, the scree slopes definitely made our descent faster. We were glad to follow mostly snow going up, and mostly scree going down, for possibly the easiest traverse for the mountain. No scrambling was required for this ascent/descent route of Gardner Mountain, and no ice axe was needed either, as the snow was soft from sun exposure.
|Posted Jun 27, 2010 10:32 pm


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Camel spider
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Camel Spiders are more correctly known as Solifugids (from the Latin 'Fugitive from the sun'). They are known variously as wind scorpions, sun spiders, face-eaters and tent devils. The order contains around 100 different species.
edit Anatomy
The Solifugae are a completely different order from the true spiders (Arachnae), the true scorpions (Scorpions) and the soft-rock scorpions (Windofchangae). Much like a spider, the body of a Solifugid has two spagmata, an opisthosoma (abdomen), and a calzone behind the prosoma (that is in effect a combined head and thorax). At the front end the prosoma bears two crushing chelicerae (arthropodal mandibles) that in most species are larger than the prosoma itself. The chelicerae serve as jaws and in many species also are used for stridulation in the same way that crickets use their rear legs. The muscles for the chelicerae are relatively huge, taking up most of the volume of the prosoma and contributing to the camel spider's legendarily powerful bite. Solifugids have two small, beady eyes which they use for looking at things. The eyes are heavily armoured within a shell of crystalline chitin which makes then safe from attack, but relatively useless for long vision. However, since Solifugids hunt by night, and generally attack prey large enough to be seen even with beady little blurry eyes, this is no handicap.
Unlike the scorpions the Solifugae do not possess a stinging tail. Being heavily armoured, and possessing chelicerae that can chew open a can of beans, the Solifugids have few enemies and no need for a poisonous defence. Most Solifugids live in deserts, particularly in the Middle East and Asia. Solifugids can grow to an enormous size compared to other arthropods, some of the more aggressive species reaching a body length of 45cm (18 inches) including the chelicerae. This is possible because of their ability to 'breathe' using muscular contractions to expand their thoracic plates and open their respiratory slits, thus forcing the inflow and outflow of air, in a motion similar to breathing. In this way the Solifugids have overcome the arthropoid world's size limit, imposed by their limited maximum oxygen exchange rate, to become the world's largest insect.
edit Ecology
Solifugids are primarily carnivorous, though some have been known to eat certain high-protein vegetable matter, such as baked beans, though they spurn soy protein.
Having evolved for the desert they usually confine their diet to those species found in deserts. The Solipugid (Sun fighter or Sun fister) species of the Mojave Desert, for example exists almost exclusively upon a diet of donkeys and rattlesnakes (Serpentis crepitatus). In the Middle East the largest of all the Solifugids, Solpugidae Intoleransis, exists on a diet of camels (hence its local nickname of 'Camel Spider'), occasionally supplemented with human meat, though this is usually an accidental by-product of the recent influx of American merchants of death to the Middle East.
edit Hunting
Solifugids actively hunt their prey. In the case of smaller prey, such as snakes, foxes and desert tortoises the solifugid simply waits until the prey approaches and then leaps with its ten powerful legs and bites into the stricken animal, while it gains purchase with its sticky feet. As soon as the solifugid has a good grip it snips through the victims spinal vertebrae, bringing instant death. It then chops the dead prey into small chunks with its chelicerae and eats these small chunks. Although Solifugids generally hunt small prey alone they will share their kill with others of the same species.
When attacking larger prey, such as goats, antelope or camels the solifugids will often hunt in packs (or Scrota as a group of solifugids is known). In this case a scrotum will slowly surround the prey animal and then close in together narrowing the distance both between them and the hapless mammal. Eventually their hissing will disturb the prey which will try to leap over the circle of death. At this point the closest hunters will leap and secure a grip with their phenomenal jaws. Holding on with their ten gripping feet they quickly snip a 'door' into the animal's abdomen and enter. Once inside they quickly search for and cut the major arteries causing the poor beast to bleed to death in a few minutes. The remaining camel spiders that didn't manage to catch a ride follow the trail of blood, sometimes running at 35 mph until the whole swarming mass of spiders descend upon the prey and commence upon cutting into the delicate innards so that they can feast as fast as possible before the sun ruins the meat.
edit Interaction with humans
Throughout the ages Solifugids and man rarely crossed paths. Arabs, although they cross the desert on camels, know the desert and its denizens and give the camel spiders a wide berth. However in the 1960s there was an influx of oil men into the Middle East, and these men were unprepared for what they found. Stories began to filter back to the west of giant voracious ants that would hunt a man down and kill him. These were completely exaggerated. However, during the Early 1990s American and British soldiers came to the Middle East, bringing peace to hundreds of thousands of Arabic desert dwellers and disturbing the delicate balance of nature.
With the peaceful deaths of any Iraqi who could have taught the incoming mass-murderers how to deal with the solifugidae the door was open to a horror undreamed of.
Solifugids are so-called because they are largely nocturnal (from the Latin Sol = sun, and Fugidea = fugitive), and if caught out in the desert sun will immediately head for the nearest shade. During the day they will shelter under rocks or in the temporary shade of a sand ripple. However this means that they often have to change locations during the day as the sun moves. The early interactions between soldiers and Solifugids came when a solifugid would see the shadow of a patrolling sentry and move into the temporary shade. The effort in the middle of the day would heat the camel spider so that it had to increase its 'breathing' rate by opening and closing its thoracic plates causing a faint hissing noise. The soldier would hear the noise and turn to see a giant insect approaching and hissing in what appeared to be anger. The soldier would, obviously move away, moving his shadow, so the solifugid would follow, following the shade to stay out of the sun. The soldier would move faster now that he believed himself to be hunted, and the Solofugid would accelerate similarly. Eventually the soldier would be racing across the desert pursued by a hissing clicking insect that strongly resembles a giant soldier ant. Of course, a fully-laden white boy from Birmingham (Alabama or England) would soon succumb to the daytime temperatures of up to 50C/122F and the camel spider would then burrow into his body, cutting a hole with its chelicerae, in order to both escape the sun and to recover from its exertions with a light snack of soldier liver. In unusual cases some solifugids have been known to mistake the flight of the soldier followed by a hissing camel spider for a hunt, and swiftly join in. In these cases the victim is usually buried in a closed casket, and often his family are told that he was the victim of an IED.
edit Reproduction
Solifugid reproduction is a subject best avoided by those of a weak constitution.
Solifugids mate during the hours of darkness, as do many humans. Mating is generally multilateral and takes place in large clusters, with many males trying to mate with many females in one enormous 'fustercluck', a method also practiced in PE colleges, and by Loughborough University students in particular. The females combine the sperm of many males in their mouths (cf. Loughborough University students) and eventually swallow this genetic stew, whence it makes its way to the egg chambers.
As with most insects of this size, the female broods a clutch of eggs internally, before 'birthing' them and subsequently raising the tiny infants to a size where they are able to sustain themselves.
There are, however, exceptions to this rule. Some of the larger species cannot carry their young internally, due to their size and natural viciousness. These are generally the huge species of the Middle East including Afghanistan. In these cases the solifugids will lay their young in the carcass of a recent capture.
The famous elephantologist Dr. Mike Hunt observed this process at first hand when he was lucky enough to have been close by, but not too close, when a scrotum of solifugids brought down a camel in Iraq.
"Around twenty solifugids ranging in size from 12 to 30 inches (75-90cm) came tanking past in pursuit of a dromedary. The dromedary had already been attacked and its belly opened. It was losing giblets and its intestines hung in tatters. As I watched the hapless herbivore was overwhelmed and dragged to the ground. Within seconds its belly was totally open and the feeding frenzy had begun. In about half an hour all of the soft filling had been eaten and the body cavity cleaned out. Soon the females began to deposit their tiny offspring into the belly of the beast. The minuscule monsters began to eat immediately, tearing at the abdominal walls, safe within their artificial meat cave. After about 2 weeks they began to leave, by moonlight, and I could see that they had grown enormously and were now around 8 inches (32cm) long and already fearsome enough to fend for themselves in that harsh land."


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44 Convertible — By Capt. Patrick Sciacca
— October 2002
The Reel Deal
|This 44 Convertible lets her performance do the talking.
While walking the docks at the 2001 Norwalk International In-Water Boat Show with compadre and PMY boat guru Capt. Ken Kreisler, I noticed a 40-something-foot sportfisherman that had a shapely, sleek profile, rounded tumblehome, and wide flare. I hadn't seen this boat before, so I asked Kreisler, "What's that one?" We both shrugged our "I dunno" shoulders. She had a slight resemblance to some custom Carolina boats, but she was assuredly a production model. A little investigating gave me my answer. "A Luhrs 44? This doesn't look like the Luhrs I'm familiar with," I thought. But it was the Luhrs I would soon test.
I went into that test not sure of what to expect, having heard lots of conflicting scuttlebutt about the quality of Luhrs' boats over the years. My barber Vin, who bought a 32-foot Luhrs new in 1972, swears by his boat and still runs her three days a week. He wouldn't trade her for the world. This kind of brand loyalty explains why the Luhrs name has been so visible for more than 60 years. I also read several surveys of Luhrs' models built during the early 1990's that were good and in which the surveyor noted strong hulls and a good finish. However, I'd also heard some chatter about mid-1980's models that were less than flattering.
So whose word should I take? Well, I figured I'd take mine when Chip Shea, marketing director for Luhrs, invited me to test the 44 and decide for myself. After all, anyone can talk about how a boat is built, but in the end your own eyes tell you best. I met up with Shea at Northside Marine in Stuart, Florida, on a steamy 90-plus-degree late-July day with humidity to match. The weather was intense, but so was this boat.
On entering the engine room, which had kneel-down headroom and walkaround access to the optional 635-hp Cummins QSM-11 powerplants, I liked what I saw. The 44 sports beefy fiberglass-encapsulated foam stringers and transversals, which rest on a hull bottom comprised of one-inch-thick solid fiberglass. In addition, there are two standard crash pumps here, a nice safety feature.
The construction seemed high-quality, too. The 44's hull sides are cored with CoreCell foam to reduce weight. To enhance the structure's strength, the hull-to-deck joint is glassed in where possible and also mechanically fastened. Luhrs uses balsa core in the standard hardtop, once again to keep weight down. Yet even with these measures, at 33,500 pounds (dry) the 44 is no featherweight. I consider that a plus--when I'm in deteriorating conditions, I want weight to punch through the waves.
This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.