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The roads will be packed in the coming weeks.
"About 2.7 million Virginians are traveling, 90 percent of them are going to be driving and we're only about 900 shy from the decade high mark of the year end travelers we saw back in 2010, so we're going to have a lot of company out there," Wendy VanCuren of AAA Mid Atlantic.
The hustle and bustle of the year end travel season means there will be more drivers tired on the road - and we've all been there before.
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By GRAEME STONE, TRAVELUJAH
07/01/2012 13:42
One of the most significant features of the site is an ancient well, known as Abraham's Well.
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Just outside the perimeter of the modern city of Beersheba, stands the ancient site of Tel Sheba, the remains of a biblical administration center/fortress dating back to the early Israelite period.
It is strategically situated, overlooking the confluence of the Beersheba and Hebron Stream. The site was excavated in the 1970's, and it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005. The site contains the remains of ancient walls, with parts of the gateway and an ancient well at the entrance. Inside the fortifications, one sees the foundations of the original residences, warehouses and a general layout of the former town. Extremely interesting, and impressive, is the ancient subterranean water system which was connected to the Hebron Stream and delivered water inside the fortress via tunnels and cisterns, erstwhile concealed on the outside to invading forces.
Adjacent to the tamarisk trees, beside the entry into the site, stands the replica of an altar with the four horns, the original having been discovered on the site. The ancient Tel Sheba is a site rich with biblical references, especially associated with the wanderings of the Patriarchs - the digging of the well by Abraham and his servants, the sworn agreement with Avimelech, and confirmed by the planting of the tamarisk tree - Genesis 21:22-33; the covenant with Isaac, renewing the blessing God had made with Abraham, and sanctified by Isaac who built an altar there - Genesis 46: 1-3; and the covenant with Jacob, and the promise that God will accompany Jacob and his family down to Egypt and redeem them as a great nation Genesis 46:1-3.
One of the most significant features of the site is an ancient well that lies just outside the city gates, known as Abraham's Well, which is where, according to tradition, Abraham made the oath with Abimeleh.
Today Beersheba, the gateway and the modern capital of the Negev, boasts a population of 250,000 citizens, of whom a large majority are students studying at the various faculties of the Ben Gurion University. The university has revived a city that belies an important historical event that took place almost a hundred years ago on October 31, 1917. Only in recent years has the story come to light, and yet it had the most profound effect of changing the direction and redefining the boundaries of the modern Middle East.
The drama can be retold from the commanding location of Tel Sheba, and with a compass and maps in hand, it is possible to determine the various positions of the opposing forces. One can visualize the charge of the Australian Light-Horse Brigade, valiantly racing across the plains of Beersheba, as the late afternoon sun is wavering, and their desperate mission to capture the wells of Beersheba before dark, or otherwise face the grim prospect of retreat, returning through two days of blistering, waterless desert to their nearest supply source.
The failing theater of war in Western Europe during World War I, and being trapped in a bloody carnage of trench warfare, encouraged the British Command to initiate an alternative Front, by attacking the German-Turkish Alliance through the Middle East. History books memorialize the tragic and unsuccessful Battle for Gallipoli (1915-16). Its disastrous consequences for the British, Australian and New Zealand forces led to a change of strategy, resulting in the re-deployment of forces in Egypt with the intention of advancing through Palestine. However, two disastrous battles fought by the British Palestine Expeditionary Force along the Gaza coastline, thwarted their attempt to breach the German-Turkish forces.
Subsequently a change of command, with the promotion of General Allenby, created a different quality of leadership. He employed a ruse - using propaganda, whereby the enemy was misled to incorrectly anticipate and reinforce their troops - leaving Beersheba exposed and vulnerable. In the background to this smoldering situation, Lawrence of Arabia was creating a groundswell of rebellion among the Arab tribes on the eastern side of the Jordan River. There was a spy story, and a tragic love-triangle that assisted the Expeditionary Forces to find their way across the desert to Beersheba. While in London, the British Parliament was promulgating the Balfour Declaration, for the establishment of a Jewish homeland, and yet simultaneously, the same British Parliament was deceptively promising part of the same territory to Emir Hussein, offering an Arab Kingdom that extended across the Arabian Peninsula to the Mediterranean Sea. Against this scenario of conniving politics, calculated duplicity and empty promises, the British and the French had conspired between themselves to divide the Middle-East and formulate their own borders - in essence, the creation of the modern Middle-East.
If we return to the events unfolding in the Battle of Beersheba, one recalls the capture of the strategic mound of Tel Sheba - by the New Zealand forces - which had militarily dominated the surrounding landscape and overlooked the plain below. This success was followed by the dramatic 6 kilometer charge of the Australian Light - Horse Brigade, across the plains towards the town of Beersheba, the last great horse-cavalry charge in history. The Australian force comprised of volunteer farmers from rural Australia - chosen because they were all good horsemen - and later, their virtues were immortalized in a poem by Banjo Paterson. The horsemen were desperate to succeed before darkness, and capture Beersheba or face forced retreat and defeat. With their bayonets waving - as they were not a regular cavalry they did not carry sabers - and with that will to decide the fate of the battle, they overran the German-Turkish positions and trenches, among volleys of enemy artillery and rifle-fire.
They secured the wells of Beersheba and victory was theirs. As a result of this breakthrough, the way to Jerusalem was opened. Six weeks later, General Allenby entered Jerusalem and received the surrender of the city - which heralded the change into the modern Middle East.
Driving through the modern city of Beersheba today, we pass the Commonwealth Cemetery, where the graves of 1200 brave men recall that period of history, and whose heroism brought about the fall of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire (1530 - 1917), and led to the more favorable change of administration under the British Mandate Period (1917- 48). It seems providential that Beersheba, the site chosen by God to renew the covenant with the patriarchs of Israel, would be the place in modern history which was chosen again, and most influenced a causal chain of events resulting in the eventual creation of a State.
Touring Tel Sheba
There are no regularly scheduled bus tours that currently include Beersheba and Tel Sheba so options for touring these sites are limited to doing them on your own by either public transportation or car rental, or by hiring the services of a private guide for a day. Beersheba is approximately a 70 minute car ride from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and both cities offer regularly scheduled bus service to Beersheba, as follows:
From Tel Aviv: Take line 380 from Arlozorov Terminal, or line 370 from Tel Aviv Central Bus Station. The trip takes about 1.5 hours.
From Jerusalem: From central bus station - line 470; line 446, approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.
Train services runs hourly from Tel Aviv to Beersheba.
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Bianchi's father filed the lawsuit Monday on his son's behalf, claiming the law that allowed the Attorney General's Office "supersession" on Friday is unconstitutional because it conflicts with another state law that says a governor can only remove a county prosecutor after showing cause and holding a public hearing, the report says.
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Vacaville, California -- Brenda Marrero came upon her son Efrain surfing the Internet one day last October. When Efrain hid what was on the screen, she asked what he had been looking at. He turned and said he wanted to tell her something: He was using steroids.
She called her husband, Frank, and they told Efrain he needed to stop, because steroids are dangerous.
"But Barry Bonds does it," his parents remember Efrain saying.
"That doesn't make it right," his father responded.
To please his parents, Efrain retrieved a dozen pink pills, a vial of liquid and two syringes. His mother flushed the pills and kept the vial. Efrain, who played football, promised to stop using steroids. It was a promise that no one doubts he kept.
Three and a half weeks later, Mrs. Marrero found Efrain in a bedroom at home, a bullet in his head, a .22-caliber pistol in his hand. He left no explanation for his suicide. He had no history of depression or mental illness. He was 19.
"We didn't see it coming," Mrs. Marrero said, crying. "We were absolutely devastated."
Not until weeks later did the Marreros learn that their son had been surrounded by steroids; his sister's boyfriend, co-workers at the mall and other weight lifters at his gym used steroids. And when Efrain went off to the College of the Siskiyous, he joined a football team in which a number of players were using steroids, three former teammates said.
And not until they learned what steroid withdrawal can do to a teenager's hormones did the Marreros find a plausible explanation for Efrain's suicide: the family, their doctor and their friends think that Efrain fell into an abyss from having suddenly stopped using steroids.
Two previous suicides had been attributed by parents to steroid use by young athletes: Rob Garibaldi, 24, of Petaluma, Calif., in 2002, and Taylor Hooton, 17, of Plano, Tex., in 2003. The athletes, both baseball players, died shortly after they stopped using steroids.
At a time of increasing concern about the use of steroids by young athletes and the long-term health risks associated with the drugs, the three suicides, while extreme, have underscored for many medical experts the short-term risks linked to withdrawal from steroids.
Donald Hooton Sr., Taylor's father, is scheduled to be among the witnesses discussing steroid use by teenagers at a hearing today of Congressional health and consumer protection subcommittees. Mr. Hooton and Mr. Garibaldi's parents have also been invited to testify on baseball's steroids policy before the House Committee on Government Reform on March 17, and the Marreros said they planned to attend.
Many medical experts suspect that other teenage suicides have been connected to the cessation of steroid use, because adolescents are especially vulnerable to hormonal swings. But the link has not been proved. For ethical reasons, researchers cannot design a medical study that would try to induce depression in someone using a steroid by taking him off the drug.
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"Efrain stopped, just like we asked him to," Mrs. Marrero said. "And I believe he spiraled into a severe depression. We didn't know this at the time, but we're finding out the thing to do is not go off them cold turkey like that. And I believe that is what happened: steroids killed my son."
Mr. Marrero's suicide occurred in a region where the steroids scandal involving the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative has dominated news coverage for more than a year. In San Francisco, about 50 miles southwest of Vacaville, federal prosecutors are preparing to go to trial in the Balco case, in which four men, including Barry Bonds's personal trainer, have been charged with conspiracy to distribute steroids.
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And in Sacramento, 35 miles east of Vacaville, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted that he used steroids during his long career as a bodybuilder. Mr. Schwarzengger says young people should never take steroids, but he has been fighting with the Legislature over whether high schools should be encouraged to ban the use of legal substances like creatine that are suspected of having performance-enhancing effects.
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The Marreros moved to this clean, friendly town when Efrain was 10 years old. Frank Marrero is a pilot for United Airlines based in San Francisco and a colonel in the Air Force Reserve. The family picked Vacaville for the quality of life and the schools. "Everything we ever did," he said, "we did for our kids."
Efrain Marrero lived with his father, mother, a younger sister and baby brother in a four-bedroom house with vaulted ceilings. Together, they ate meals, played in the backyard near the pool, attended church and took vacations.
He turned 14 the year Mark McGwire hit 70 home runs, and pretty soon he asked his parents if he could use creatine, an amino acid that helps build muscle mass. Creatine, he observed, was sold in health food stores. And a lot of teenagers used it. But his parents said no.
Mr. Marrero, who was always one of the biggest boys in his class, grew to be 6 feet 1 inch and 270 pounds. He played offensive line for four years at Vacaville High School.
Daniel Shirar, a friend and fellow lineman on the high school team, said he thought Mr. Marrero had tried creatine. "But he wasn't on it constantly, like I was," Mr. Shirar said.
Mr. Marrero also talked to his friends about androstenedione, a steroid precursor used by McGwire. "He said it's a legal steroid you can buy, and you rub it on and it makes your fat go away," said Rob Cullinan, Mr. Marrero's best friend. "He was always big and fast, but he always wanted an edge."
Mr. Marrero also talked about steroids with Erik Svendsen, the boyfriend of his sister, Erika. Mr. Svendsen said in an interview that he had injected himself with steroids to bulk up for football his senior year at Vacaville High School.
Mr. Svendsen said that he had sold some veterinary steroids from Mexico to Mr. Marrero about two years ago, but that he thought Mr. Marrero had sold them to someone else.
Mr. Svendsen talked about this, he said, to help the grieving Marrero family understand what had happened. "I could say I didn't, but anything I can do to help them, I will," he said. "They are a wonderful, wonderful family. Big-hearted people."
Shown a picture of the vial of liquid that Mr. Marrero had given to his parents, Mr. Svendsen said it contained about 8 milliliters, or about two weeks of usage. The Olympic Analytical Laboratory at U.C.L.A. tested the contents of the vial for The New York Times; it contained methandienone, a powerful steroid that is also known as dianabol.
"That stuff is everywhere here," Mr. Svendsen said. "It's pretty easy to get if you know the right people at the gym and stuff. You can pretty much look at people and know who to talk to."
Dan Garcia, a bodybuilder, sold steroids for about two years to a network of people at Gold's Gym, Solano Community College and other places in the Vacaville area. He was arrested in 2001 for selling drugs, pleaded guilty and served about six months in jail. Mr. Garcia said in interviews that he had not known Mr. Marrero, but that Mr. Marrero would have had no trouble finding steroids in Vacaville.
Mr. Svendsen said that despite having sold steroids to Mr. Marrero, he had not known that Mr. Marrero was using the drugs until Mr. Marrero died. And he said he had never seen an unlabeled vial like the one Mr. Marrero gave to his parents.
"They're all labeled," Mr. Svendsen said. "Anyone who would buy a bottle like that wouldn't know what they were getting."
After Mr. Marrero's death, his sister, who is captain of the cheerleading squad at Vacaville High, broke up with Mr. Svendsen, her boyfriend of two years.
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"I couldn't forgive him, because I thought he had some contribution to it," Erika Marrero said. Four months after her brother's suicide, she wipes tears from her eyes. "It's hard. You start to realize he's really gone."
Plenty of Company
"I don't think we have a problem here," said Ed Santopadre, the football coach at Vacaville High, "but you know, I'd be the last to know. They'd try to keep it from me."
Mr. Santopadre said he was perplexed by Mr. Marrero's use of steroids, describing him as a nice young man and a talented player.
"He was quick, big, strong and hit like a truck," Mr. Santopadre said. "Why? That's what I don't understand. Why? He didn't need them."
Mr. Marrero was recruited to play football in 2002 at the College of the Siskiyous, a two-year college in a small town 250 miles north of Vacaville. He joined a family friend, Casey Lee, who was a receiver and co-captain of the Siskiyous Eagles. Casey is the son of Mike Lee, who had coached Mr. Marrero in Pop Warner football, and Cathy Lee, who is Brenda Marrero's best friend.
The Siskiyous football program was awash in steroids, former players said.
"I don't want to badmouth my school, but there were at least a dozen people I know of who were on steroids," Casey Lee said.
Mr. Marrero hurt his knee and did not play his freshman year, but he stayed on the roster and attended practices.
Mr. Lee said at least 10 players had been injecting steroids and were open about it. "To the point where they were driving all the way from Northern California to Mexico to get it and then sell it," he said. "It was in-your-face. It was easy to get. It was not looked on as a big deal. Coaches didn't see it. I don't know if they wanted to or not."
Matt Ledbetter, another co-captain, said: "I personally knew of seven or eight people that were doing it. At a drop of the hat, you could get it from any of them."
The players said athletes at junior colleges, like those in high schools, are well aware that they will not be tested for steroids. Henry Ochs, a lineman at Siskiyous, said some players had taken steroids during the summer to bulk up. "I wouldn't say a lot," Mr. Ochs said. "I'd probably say 8 or 9 people in a 70-person team used them."
Dennis Roberts, the athletic director at Siskiyous who was the head football coach when Mr. Marrero was there, said he was "really, really surprised" to hear what former players had to say about steroids.
"It seems like somehow the coaching staff would have known about it," he said. Mr. Roberts said the college tests athletes for recreational drugs, but not for steroids, because of the additional cost. "If we suspected something, we would not let it go," he said, adding that Mr. Lee and Mr. Ledbetter, the former co-captains, were extremely credible. "They wouldn't make up anything that didn't really happen," he said.
Clues Begin to Emerge
Mr. Marrero left the college after one year, telling friends it was too remote. He lived with his family, worked at several local stores and enrolled at Solano Community College, near home.
He could not play football because of poor grades, but he hit the gym and planned to play the following year. He talked about his competition being bigger than ever. By then, his friends were certain he was taking steroids.
"He showed me what he was taking, and it was a lot more than anybody else," Kenny Groen, a friend from Vacaville, said.
When he confessed to his parents, Mr. Marrero said he had been taking steroids for six months, but his parents and friends think it was longer than that, perhaps years. They had seen a change in his physique - less fat, more muscle - and he had started wearing tighter clothes. His parents noticed mood swings, too, but they chalked it up to adolescence.
At one point, Mrs. Marrero confronted her son. "I said, 'Are you on steroids?' " she said. "He said, 'No, Mom.' Then he looked at me and said, 'Mom, why would you even ask me that?' I said, 'You're getting so big.' He said, 'That's what happens when you go to the gym every day. You get big when you work out.' "
Early last fall, Mr. Marrero told his mother he was feeling a little paranoid; he thought people were staring at him, laughing at him.
"I told him he was just looking really good," Mrs. Marrero said. "But like I told Frank, now I think I was just feeding the addiction to steroids."
Help Proves Elusive
me: so this is the "pump" you speak of
me: I could never figure out what people were talking about
Relentless: like an all over body hardon, yeah
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Experienced users sometimes take fertility drugs at the end of their cycles of steroids to jumpstart their natural production of testosterone and avoid the psychological crash that can accompany the cessation of steroid use.
"You're left with very low testosterone levels, which can affect the chemicals in the brain, which control mood, and these people can very often become very depressed and suicidal," said Dr. Edward L. Klaiber of Worcester, Mass., a leading researcher and endocrinologist. "I've had a number of steroid-using adolescents who have expressed suicidal thoughts."
Dr. Kurt J. Brower, a steroids expert with the Department of Psychiatry and the Addiction Research Center at the University of Michigan, said, "The time of highest risk is 3 to 12 weeks after withdrawal."
Rick Collins of Carle Place, N.Y., a lawyer who defends people accused of selling or using steroids, said he had known hundreds of users and that none had committed suicide. "It's certainly not the typical result of steroid use, and to present it as such is disingenuous," he said.
Frank Marrero had consulted the family's longtime physician, Dr. Robert A. Varady, about Efrain. Dr. Varady assured him that the steroids would gradually leave Efrain's system, and he recommended counseling.
"So I thought, O.K., we talked to the doctor," Mrs. Marrero said. "We tried to do everything right."
Dr. Varady said in an interview that he had not known what dose Mr. Marrero had been taking. He said he knew that stopping a high dose of steroids could result in deep depression. "But I'm definitely not on the cutting edge of bodybuilding abuse of steroids," Dr. Varady added.
Mrs. Marrero responded, "If you don't know, say you don't know and you will find out, because you're a doctor."
Mr. Marrero had set up a counseling session at his parents' urging. He never made it. He shot himself the day before.
"It's really such a shocker," Cathy Lee, Mrs. Marrero's friend, said. "Knowing Efrain, he was so caring, that's why I know something in his mind was altered. He just wouldn't have done that to his family, caused that kind of pain."
me: so this is the "pump" you speak of
me: I could never figure out what people were talking about
Relentless: like an all over body hardon, yeah
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I love the creatine reference.
So, what I'm taking from this is Efrain's only mistake was to stop using steroids.
If he'd only kept using, he'd still be alive today!
We tend to think of Sisyphus as a tragic hero, condemned by the gods to shoulder his rock sweatily up the mountain, and again up the mountain, forever. The truth is that Sisyphus is in love with the rock. He cherishes every roughness and every ounce of it. He talks to it, sings to it. It has become the mysterious Other. He even dreams of it as he sleepwalks upward. Life is unimaginable without it, looming always above him like a huge gray moon. He doesnt realize that at any moment he is permitted to step aside, let the rock hurtle to the bottom, and go home.
Parables and Portraits, Stephen Mitchell
Here's what I got from the article
Steriod usage, and related deaths from such usage, has reached epidemic proportions in the United States.
"It is often said, mainly by the "no-contests", that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is there evidence against his existence. So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thought it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?"
Richard Dawkins
"Out of all of the sects in the world, we notice an uncanny coincidence: the overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one that their parents belong to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained glass, the best music: when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing, compared to the matter of heredity. This is an unmistakable fact; nobody could seriously deny it. Yet people with full knowledge of the arbitrary nature of this heredity, somehow manage to go on believing in their religion, often with such fanaticism that they are prepared to murder people who follow a different one."
Richard Dawkins
"Bah. You know I hate poor people."
Paul Stagg
Here's what I got from the article:
"Except Belial. He knows everything. This isn't a sarcastic attack, either. He really knows everything." -----Organichu
"Alex is all knowing and perfect"-----Jane (loosely paraphrased)
-515/745/700 bench/deadlift/squat
Current mile time: 4:23
Marathons: 3
Century races: 3
Ironmans: 1
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Which is to be expected, natch.
I just thought it was interesting that they devoted such an extensive article to repeating old hat.
me: so this is the "pump" you speak of
me: I could never figure out what people were talking about
Relentless: like an all over body hardon, yeah
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Stash, didn't you see all my suicide attempts in Columbus and belligerent behavior?
"As far as drugs were concerned, all my bodybuilding heroes were on everything but roller skates."
In Memphis, it is illegal for a woman to drive by herself, unless a man is walking or running infront of the vehicle, waving a red flag in order to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists.
I was too busy staring at your awesomeness the entire time.Originally Posted by BCC
me: so this is the "pump" you speak of
me: I could never figure out what people were talking about
Relentless: like an all over body hardon, yeah
Food log
The Focused Chronicles
hhaha yea chase...all those times you were tossing molotovs off out the window and waving that knife around...fun times...
HT: 6'3 / WT: 265lbs 16%BF
"Somewhere along the line, we seem to have confused comfort with happiness."
MMA Guru
- I like girls -
Not to mention my suicide attempt at the mini-van, sorry I wasn't thinking right and was going to take you and Josh with me. I forgot you don't do gear, and probably didn't want to participate in the group suicide.Originally Posted by crazedwombat
"As far as drugs were concerned, all my bodybuilding heroes were on everything but roller skates."
In Memphis, it is illegal for a woman to drive by herself, unless a man is walking or running infront of the vehicle, waving a red flag in order to warn approaching pedestrians and motorists.
Stop! You're feeding his addiction!I was too busy staring at your awesomeness the entire time.
I'm actually quite surprised that they actially consulted Rick Collins; somebody actually who knows something about steroids.
Note that they use him as a "throw away" token account from the other side.
"See? We were fair and balanced!"
"Except Belial. He knows everything. This isn't a sarcastic attack, either. He really knows everything." -----Organichu
"Alex is all knowing and perfect"-----Jane (loosely paraphrased)
-515/745/700 bench/deadlift/squat
Current mile time: 4:23
Marathons: 3
Century races: 3
Ironmans: 1
Ultramarathons: 1
Current supps: http://www.atlargenutrition.com/prod...covery/results


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Cocktails at Jewel
Mid-afternoon Sunday finds us in relax mode by the pool at The Jewel Dunn's River. We are trying our utmost best to restrain our laughter as we pore through the pages of our weekend read — Tucker Max's politically incorrect, riotously funny I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell. Unsurprisingly, the frequent chuckles send quizzical stares our way from guests in the pool. We decide an order of cocktails would pair well with the lounge chair literature. Enter the diminutive, gregarious bartender Cornell Taylor. He's worked at The Jewel for two years, and with Sandals Dunn's River, the previous occupants of the resort property. "I love everything about being a bartender," the 12-year veteran shares.
"I love the drinks and the colours," Taylor notes. "I can tell the taste of a drink just by making it without even tasting it." A bit of a showboat, Taylor is gifted at flairing — the bartending ability to flip bottles in extravagant fashion. "I love the excitement of doing it and also being able to meet people from all over the world," he adds.
Taylor, who credits his younger brother for introducing him to the bartending profession, says there is no downside to his job. "What's most important is knowing how to deal with your guests and just how much alcohol to serve — we don't want them getting too drunk and exhibiting bad behaviour."
Thursday Food shares refreshing cocktail recipes from The Jewel Dunn's River drink menu. (Photos: Karl McLarty)
Emerald Green
1 1/2 oz white rum
1/4 oz Blue Curacao
3 oz pineapple juice
1/4 oz lime juice
Jamaican Gem
1 1/2 oz white rum
1/4 oz Blue Curacao
30 oz cranberry juice
1/2 oz sweet and sour (lime juice and simple syrup)
Red Ruby
1 1/2 oz Gold Rum
1 1/2 oz orange juice
1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
Splash of grenadine
Splash of ginger


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Women's Satellite event 2005
THAILAND, Bangkok
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Chinese Net Bangkok Gold; Linjun Ji youngest gold medalist
Bangkok, Thailand, February 27, 2005 - Linjun Ji of China became the youngest player ever to win a FIVB-sanctioned Beach Volleyball event as she teamed with Olympian Whenhui You to post a pair of wins here Sunday over teams from host Thailand to capture the US$10,000 Mazda Satellite stop, the first international competition of the 2005 season.
Seeded first in the 12-team field with Whenhui You, Linjun Ji win Sunday came six days before her 19th birthday. The Nystrom twins (Erika and Emilia) captured their first international Beach Volleyball 19 days before their 20th birthday in 2003 when they captured a FIVB satellite stop on August 24, 2003 at Lavandou, France. Born March 5, 1986, Linjun Ji competed in her first FIVB event at Maoming, China, when she was 15 with Lu Wang, Whenhui You's Olympic partner at the Athens 2004 Games.
With four-straight wins this weekend, Linjun Ji and Whenhui You split the $2,000 first-place prize. The Chinese pair posted a 21-14 ad 21-11 semi-final win over sixth-seeded Kasinee Godtalang and Arawan Tongkamkak before scoring a 21-17 ad 21-11 win in 31 minutes over 10th-seeded Kamoltip Kulna and Usa Tenpaksee for the gold medal.
Three of Linjun Ji and Whenhui You's wins in the Mazda event were over teams from Thailand. The Chinese pair did not lose a set this weekend while out-scoring their opponents 21.0-13.5 per set. Whenhui You competed in the Athens 2004 Olympic Beach Volleyball competition where she finished 19th with Lu Wang. Prior to Sunday's title, Whenhui You's best finish was a fourth last season in an ""open"" FIVB event in Shanghi with Lu Wang. Linjun Ji's best previous finish was a fifth in a 2003 ""open"" event in Rhodes, Greece.
"We are very happy to win the first FIVB tournament of the year,"" said Whenhui You after the match. ""Our past experiences played a big part in our success this week. We hope that the 2005 beach volleyball season will bring more successes for us."
China, which hosts the 2008 Olympic Beach Volleyball competition in Beijing, has now won four international Beach Volleyball Gold Medals, including two ""open"" titles in 2003 at back-to-beach events in Indonesia and Italy by 2004 Olympians Jia Tian and Fei Wang and one ""challenger crown in 2001 at a Greece stop by Rong Chi and Zi Xiong.
Kulna and Tenpaksee advanced to the gold medal match after second-seeded Diletta Lunardi and Annamaria Solazzi forfeited their semi-final match to the Thailand tandem. The Italians were trailing in the match to Kulna and Tenpaksee 21-16 and 10-6 when Solazzi became exhausted from the heat on the centre court that was set up at the Robinson's Department Store. Solazzi was unable to play i the the next match and forfeited to Godtalang and Tongkamkak as Thailand captured both the silver and bronze medals. Kulna and Tenpaksee's silver medal finish was the Thailand's best-ever international Beach Volleyball placement.
Rattanaporn Arlaisuk and Manatsanan Pangka captured the bronze medal in the 2001 Thailand Challenger event where they defeated Kulna and Jarunee Sannok in the third-place match in Pattaya, Thailand. Sannok finished seventh this week with Yupa Puklongploy as the ninth-seeded tandem in the 12-team field.
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Chinese Net Bangkok Gold; Linjun Ji youngest gold medalist
Thailand Teams Compete Against Chinese & Italian Tandems for Bangkok Beach Volleyball Gold
China, Indonesia, Italy & Thailand Teams Pace Bangkok Beach Volleyball Event
Kasinee and Orawan spring a surprise, face a showdown with Italy
FIVB's first Beach Volleyball international event this season The heart of Thailand beating to the rhythm of Beach Volleyball


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A new line of nurses are ready to pursue their passion for caring for others. Pitt Community College honored their new nursing graduates with a formal pinning ceremony Tuesday night.
If you ask them they'll tell you it's what they're called to do.
The group stood as one, passed candles, and received a pin for their accomplishments.
96 graduates participated in the age old tradition, but it was extra special for one nurse who got her pin from a very thankful friend.
Her name is Chelsea Gibbons.
"I was just hanging out in the water, floating around when I heard an accident," recalled Gibbons.
It was Fourth of July weekend, and Duke University football player, Blair Holliday was in a bad Jet Ski accident.
"I could tell by the commotion that something had happened so I was like well maybe I can help," she said.
She was just a nursing student at the time and happened to be at the same lake, when she saw Blair.
"His whole body was just limp," she explained.
She says immediately, adrenaline kicked in. It was time to put what she had learned to the test.
"As I was swimming, I was trying to tell them: just lay them down keep him flat don't move his head," she said.
Gibbons gave Holliday CPR which kept his heart pumping.
Blair was in a coma, but after a long road of recovery, he pulled through.
"Honestly I don't remember anything," he said. "She was there at the right moment. It's just a gift from God honestly that she was there, and knew what to do."
And who better to give Gibbons her pin, than the man whose life she saved.
"It was pretty much the happiest ending you can think of because he's doing great so it was like the best outcome you could have wanted," said Gibbons.
The two still keep a very close relationship.
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At the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, area officers and deputies debuted the Region 6 Fusion Center.
"We're like a one stop shop," says the center's director, Tom Storrar.
It's supposed to link agencies from 10 area counties together, ultimately helping them solve cases and catch crooks faster.
"They can call us and we'll do a lot of the leg work for them while they continue on their investigation process," says Storrar.
The analysts will track trends from other counties and then turn over that information to local law enforcement.
"If they're having the same type of crime pattern- we'll gather that data, put it in a report and send it out to our partners so they can become more proactive than reactive," says Storrar.
The Fusion Center has been in the works for the past 3 years. Now, it's fully functional.
Analysts have already helped to nab an armed robber.
"This will move us light years ahead," says Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk.
The analysts will also work to identify any threat posed by terrorists, to pass that info along too.
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"Hines Ward Helping Hands Foundation"
athea taylor fundraising for Pittsburgh Foundation
It's the season of giving and a dollar can go a long way! Lets all donate and help make a difference
For every dollar donated Hines Ward will match that to help mixed-race children who face discrimination in Korea and to inner city and underprivileged youth in the Pittsburgh and Atlanta areas through literacy programs and services that better equip children for achieving success in life. It's a great cause and is very aprreciated. No child should ever feel without so with our little bit of help we can give these kids hope.


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WESTON, WV (AP) — Lewis County prosecutor Mike Smith says
drug cases in the county have surged from 15 in all of 2012 to 95
through mid-2013.
Smith tells The Exponent Telegram that he has moved one of his two part-time assistants to full time to help with the increased workload.
He says most of the cases involve felony drug charges.
Sheriff Adam Gissy attributes the increase to a team effort by all police agencies and the courts in the county.
County Commission President Pat Boyle says the commission set aside
twice the amount of money it normally does for regional jail costs to
keep drug offenders off the streets.
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By MARLA PISCIOTTAFor The State Journal
MOOREFIELD — An attorney representing a group of Hardy County residents filed a petition in Circuit Court Nov. 4 to oust J. Michael Teets, president of the Hardy County Commission and Commissioner William E. Keplinger Jr.
In an interview Nov. 1, attorney David Judy said the 30-page petition had a 200-page attachment.
Two of the issues addressed in the petition include the passing of a special emergency ambulance service fee ordinance of $120 a year, and the purchase of a $1.13 million building to house the ambulance/rescue squads.
The originators of the petition have said the commissioners acted without public input or approval.
"We have 700 signatures on the petition," Judy said. "We're going to get them off the commission and make the ordinance go away.
"I was hired to get the two commissioners removed from office. That is my job and that is what I intend to do."
Judy acknowledged that it's a hard process to remove public officials from office. However, he said, he believes evidence is on his side.
"I think the evidence will show they certainly never had a public meeting," he said. "There is nowhere in the minutes where a public meeting was ever considered."
But Commissioner A.J. Wade said two meetings took place some time in July.
"Over 100 people attended the first public meeting," Wade said. "Based on the comments the people were very much opposed to the ordinance."
Wade said about 90 people attended the second meeting and they too were very much opposed to the two issues.
Judy said the seven-page ordinance passed, but it was never brought up for a vote in a public meeting.
The petition to remove both commissioners claims the two engaged in official misconduct, malfeasance and neglect of duty in the processes used to pass the Special Emergency Ambulance Service Fee Ordinance. The petition also claims there was a waste of public funds, the public trust was violated, ethical violations of office occurred as well as a disregard for the will of the public.
Teets said in an interview Nov. 1 the ordeal "has been a real mess."
Teets said the problems started two or three years ago when the existing rescue squad was found to have been billing Medicare incorrectly.
"As a result they were fined $1 million, which caused them to go bankrupt," Teets said.
There has been no mention as to why the billing was done incorrectly or who was to blame for the errors.
Teets said regardless of prior problems, the county needs ambulance service.
"They are trying to make this situation worse than it is," Teets said about the petition to remove the commissioners. "There are more voters in favor of the $120 a year fee than against."
Wade isn't part of the legal action, nor is he in favor of the ordinance or purchase of the building.
"I refused to sign the special ordinance," Wade said. "I'm very much opposed to the manner in which it was (implemented)."
"I also voted against the purchase of the building."
Wade said the commission met July 16, and a motion was made to not purchase the building nor to impose the ordinance.
"Then on Aug. 2, a motion was made to buy the building and impose the fee," Wade said. "It passed. I voted against it.
"That was a 180-degree turn around in a two-week period."
Wade said he didn't understand the sudden change.
"That is what has caused this whole controversy," he said.
The $1.13 million building, Wade said, was designed as a fire or ambulance station. It currently is being repaired and remodeled.
Wade said the ordinance fee applies to households, but does not apply to businesses such as Pilgrim's Pride.
"I think that is wrong," he said. "I also think if we're going to have a means of collecting or raising money for an ambulance service the proper thing would be a levy rather than a fee."
Teets said Wade is against everything that has to do with the building and the ambulance service.
The number of names needed to remove the two commissioners from office is unclear.
"The law says to initiate a proceeding of removal, a petition has to have at least one percent of the voters," Wade said. "We have 4,500 voters. One percent would be 450 signatures."
Teets said the figures are calculated on the voters who voted in the more recent election.


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FBI: Killer planned far aheadThe Associated Press | December 08,2012AP Photo / FBI
This undated handout photo shows a bucket containing gun parts, ammunition and other items discovered at a Parishville, N.Y., reservoir after a man jailed in Alaska admitted to a series of killings. Among his victims were Bill and Lorraine Currier in Vermont.ESSEX — The Alaska man who killed an Essex couple had buried a murder kit in the woods on the banks of the Winooski River in spring 2009, then dug up the cache two years later and used the weapons in the murders, police say.
Israel Keyes buried a five-gallon orange bucket filled with weapons parts, ammunition, fasteners, wires and a flashlight in a remote corner of the Woodside Natural Area off Vermont 15.
Keyes had admitted abducting and killing Bill and Lorraine Currier from their nearby home, police say.
The FBI later found the weapons at an upstate New York reservoir.
The 34-year-old Keyes was found dead in an Alaska jail Sunday in what authorities said was a suicide. He had admitted killing at least six other people across the country.
Keyes told authorities he planned to strike again if he had gotten away with the murder of an 18-year-old Anchorage barista, the FBI said Thursday.
"He wasn't going to stop," FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said.
Keyes prepared a body disposal cache in Alaska in the summer of 2011 for a future target, Gonzalez said.
Authorities recovered the cache containing a shovel and two large bottles of Drano from Eagle River north of Anchorage. Gonzalez said the drain de-clogger would speed up decomposition of a body.
Keyes told authorities he killed barista Samantha Koenig and at least seven others over the past decade.
He said he sexually assaulted Koenig after abducting her in February from the coffee stand where she worked. He told authorities he then strangled her and later put her remains in a frozen lake north of Anchorage after drilling a hole in the ice with a chain saw.
Keyes was arrested in Lufkin, Texas, in March after using Koenig's stolen debit card at ATMs there and in Alaska, Arizona and New Mexico. He was facing a March 2013 trial in Koenig's death.
Her remains were found in April after Keyes told authorities where to look. The Curriers' bodies have not been found.
Keyes didn't identify any other victims or say where the remains were, other than to say four were killed in Washington state and one was killed on the East Coast, with the body disposed of in New York.
The FBI released new details about the discovery of weapons and other items connected to Keyes at an upstate New York reservoir.
FBI spokesman Paul Holstein said an April 18 search in the Adirondacks town of Parishville turned up a bucket containing a silencer, .22-caliber Ruger frame, ammunition and a flashlight, all linked to Keyes. Divers on April 24 found the bolt and barrel of a gun used during the killings of the Curriers. Divers found a gun owned by the Curriers on June 5.
Keyes owned property in the Adirondacks.
Shortly before his arrest, Keyes attended a sister's wedding in Texas, where he ranted in mid-ceremony about how he didn't believe in God, Keyes' mother's pastor told the Anchorage Daily News in an interview.
Jacob Gardner said Thursday that he was driving north with Keyes' mother and other relatives from their home in Wells, Texas, to Deer Park in northeast Washington state, where Keyes' funeral is planned for Sunday. Gardner said it was a convenient spot for family and friends. The pastor said he was preparing a sermon.
Gardner said some of the preaching at the Texas wedding was directed at Keyes.
"We were greatly desirous to see him saved, and greatly desirous to see him denounce his atheism, which he was steadfastly holding to and defending," Gardner told the newspaper. The wedding "ended essentially with Israel, you know, raging against the Gospel, against God and just breaking down into tears, weeping.
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Keyes traveled extensively in the U.S., landing at one location and targeting victims randomly hundreds of miles away. Keyes told authorities he robbed several banks and used money he made as a general contractor to pay for his travels.
Koenig was an exception to the distance rule. Keyes had never seen her before but chose the coffee stand because of its location and because it stayed open later than other stands.
Anchorage police said Keyes also targeted others in Alaska before killing Koenig but always backed off before acting.
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Oshiomogho Atogwe - #43 - S
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Eagles cuts include CB Hanson, DT Dixon
The Eagles released veteran CB Joselio Hanson, DT Antonio Dixon and P Mat McBriar on Friday.
Atogwe gives Eagles depth, experience
Eagles GM Howie Roseman slow played making a move at safety, and we believe he did so as a way of not sending the wrong message to their young players.
Reports: Eagles add S Atogwe
The Eagles have agreed to terms with S O.J. Atogwe, according to multiple media reports.
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The Redskins placed S LaRon Landry on I.R. with a painful Achilles tendon. The question now is whether his career with the team is over.
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The Redskins signed former Rams S O.J. Atogwe to a five-year deal on Thursday, adding a quality player to their secondary.
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It appears the options are numerous for the Rams at free safety in the wake of O.J. Atogwe's release after the team opted not to pay him an $8 million roster bonus.
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Atogwe is active for Sunday's game against the Bills.||||||| Atogwe was hurt last week against Philadelphia. Reed Doughty will start in a secondary that will also be without cornerback Byron Westbrook, who was ruled out after hurting a hamstring in practice Wednesday.
Atogwe has signed a five-year, $26 million contract with the Washington Redskins, upgrading a vital position on a defense that ranked 31st last season.||||||| The signing reunites Atogwe with Redskins defensive coordinator Jim Haslett. Atogwe spent three of his seasons in St. Louis playing for Haslett, who was the Rams' defensive coordinator and later interim head coach. Atogwe has 22 career interceptions, including three last season.
Atogwe has paid a visit to the Washington Redskins as he seeks a new team following his release by the St. Louis Rams.||||||| Atogwe arrived Tuesday to meet with Redskins coaches, who are looking to upgrade the free safety position. Atogwe was cut Friday after six seasons with the Rams. He has 22 career interceptions, along with 16 forced fumbles and five sacks.
The availability of Atogwe against Seattle will be a game-day decision.||||||| Atogwe bruised his thigh in last week's win over Washington. He did not practice either Wednesday or Thursday.
The St. Louis Rams have signed Atogwe to a multi-year contract.||||||| Atogwe has been with the Rams for five seasons and started 60 consecutive games since the beginning of the 2006 season. He missed four games last year after injuring his shoulder, but still finished second on the team with 82 tackles.


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A milestone was quietly reached on Monday, Feb. 6, when the Educational Policy Committee unanimously approved the final phase of the new School of Medicine curriculum, symbolizing the culmination of years of careful work by more than 500 members of the UMass Medical School community.
When the process of redesigning the curriculum began in 2004, the goal was beyond ambitious: to completely re-imagine medical education from top to bottom with involvement from as many stakeholders as possible, from first-year students to senior staff. The resulting Learner-centered Integrated Curriculum, or LInC, incorporates innovations in teaching and learning as well as the latest national standards for medical education, and is designed to address the six competencies required of all School of Medicine graduates: physician as professional, scientist, communicator, clinical problem solver, patient and community advocate, and person.
"The completion of LInC illuminates the collaborative environment of UMass Medical School," said Terence R. Flotte, MD, the Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor of Medicine and dean of the School of Medicine, who joined UMMS in 2007 and quickly became an essential leader of the curriculum redesign process. "More than 400 faculty from across the UMass Medical School community collaborated to create the new curriculum, which is designed to meet the changing needs of health care.
"The LInC curriculum supports patient-centered care by educating and training our future physicians to be scientists, clinical problem solvers and professionals, as well as communicators, people and their patients' advocates. I am proud to have been a part of creating the foundation for preparing physicians of the future," added Dr. Flotte, who is also executive deputy chancellor, provost and professor of pediatrics.
The newly approved fourth-year curriculum, called Advanced Studies, begins in May 2014. In addition to the 24 electives, Sub-Internship and the Transition to Internship program requirements in the fourth year, three new courses have been created: Emergency Clinical Problem Solver, Advanced Biomedical and Translational Sciences, and the Capstone course.
The Emergency Clinical Problem Solver course provides an opportunity for medical students to integrate knowledge and skills they've acquired over their first three years. Students will be called upon to evaluate patients, generate differential diagnoses and perform patient management in undifferentiated urgent situations and adapt them as needed across different clinical, small group and high-fidelity simulation settings. The course reinforces multidisciplinary teamwork, professional behavior and integration of basic science knowledge.
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The Capstone course is one of the most anticipated features of the new curriculum because it allows students to concentrate on scholarly projects that meet their own area of passion and in the area of any of the school's six competencies. Working with a faculty advisor, each student will apply the knowledge and skills they have acquired throughout their three years of study to address an issue in areas ranging from clinical, basic science, public health or social problems to medical humanities. These projects will help to deepen students' application of lifelong learning skills as well as his or her understanding of an issue related to medicine that is personally important or meaningful.
"It has been such a great privilege to work with our students, faculty and residents to bring their vision for the future of medical education and medical practice to life," said Melissa Fischer, MD, MEd, associate professor of medicine and associate dean for undergraduate medical education. "This new curriculum recognizes the values of student responsibility and choice in learning, engages our world-class faculty in new ways to push the frontiers of research and clinical practice, supports students through enhanced mentorship and professional development and connects the science and practice that make up the art of medicine."
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EYEWITNESS LOCAL NEWSMan Faces Murder Charges After Two Men Shot In Barboursville Area
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Reported: Jan. 25, 2014 2:58 PM EST
Updated: Jan. 25, 2014 11:35 PM EST
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (Dan Matics) -- Two men are dead, and the man accused of shooting them was taken into police custody on Saturday.
Police were called to a house in Barboursville just after 2:30 p.m., where they said they found the bodies of two men near a shed on Rodney Bruce Black's property.
Police said it appears the homeowner was nowhere near the shed when the two men were shot.
And police said the pair were shot at point blank range with a scoped riffle.
Police arrested Black and charged him with two counts of first degree murder.
Neighbor Clyde Bess described the area as normally "calm, quiet and friendly," but it was clearly not the case Saturday afternoon.
Bess said he had never seen so many police cars in the neighborhood.
Sheriff's deputies rushed to the home on Old Crow Drive in Barboursville after they said Rodney Bruce Black, 60, called 911 and said he shot and killed two men because they were breaking into his shed.
Cabell County Sheriff Tom McComas said the two men had every legal right to be at the shed.
He said the shed did not belong to Black, and that the two victims were not trespassing.
Detectives said Black shot and killed them without any warning from at least 50 yards away at this home.
They said Black even had to use a scope on his high powered rifle.
Black is facing two counts of first degree murder.
Some neighbors who didn't want to be interviewed said Black is known to cause trouble.
Bess said he barely knows him, and is shocked by what happened.
"Well, this is a pretty nice neighborhood," he said. "I don't know what to say! I'm just bumfuzzled!"
The two victims' names were not released Saturday.
BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (Dan Matics) --Two men are dead, following a shooting in the Barboursville area of Cabell County.
Deputies were in the process of removing two bodies from the snow outside a shed where they were shot and killed on Saturday. Rodney Bruce Black, the home owner, is facing murder charges.
The shed is about 50 yards away from Black's home, where he called 911 just after 2:30 p.m., saying that he thought two people were breaking into his shed. Police said Black shot them and killed the men.
Cabell County Sheriff Tom McComas said Black has been charged with two counts of first degree murder. He said it did not look as if Black walked over to the shed to see what was going on. He said the victims had every legal right to enter shed.
McComas said it appeared Black shot them point-blank, using a scoped riffle.
Police have not releasing the names of the two victims.
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