Mexican Police Chief requests asylum in New Mexico
DEMING, N.M. (AP) - The police chief of a Mexican border town
has requested asylum in the United States, where he told authorities
his two officers have fled and he does not know their whereabouts.
The Luna County Sheriff?s Department and the U.S. Border Patrol
say Emilio Perez of Palomas came to the port of entry at Columbus
late Tuesday night, requesting political asylum.
The agent-in-charge of the Border Patrol station in Deming, Rick
Moody, says Perez is in the protection of U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agents.
Authorities have reported an increase in drug-related violence in
Palomas, where at least four people have been fatally shot in
recent weeks.
Siggy's take:
NICE. Mexican Lawlessness - Coming to a U.S. town near YOU.
Thank GOD for the Second Amendment.
I'll be packin' when the Caballeros come knockin' down MY door.
"Yeah, c'mon in".... **chambers another 12-gauge round**
Virginia Police Arrest One in Interstate 64 Shootings After
Search Warrant Served
Friday, March 28, 2008
AP
At least one person has been arrested in connection with a
shooting spree along Interstate 64, a police source told the
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The news came shortly after a search warrant was served at a
house in Crozet, Va., Friday in the case.
The warrant was executed at a rural residence called Yonder
Hill Farm in Albemarle County and was related to the six-vehicle
I-64 shootings early Thursday morning, said Virginia State Police
Lt. Tim Hopwood. He was tight-lipped on further details. A press
conference was tentatively scheduled for 11 a.m. EDT on Friday.
State and local police have also been investigating whether shots
fired at a bank building and in a residential Virginia neighborhood
could be tied to the I-64 shootings.
Police said shots were fired at a Dupont Community Credit Union
in Waynesboro, Va., between midnight and 2 a.m. Thursday ?
the same time police were getting reports of someone shooting
at vehicles on I-64 between Waynesboro and Charlottesville.
Bullets struck a window and part of the bank building, as well as
a van parked in the lot. No one was injured.
Surveillance video showed a light-colored 1970s AMC Gremlin with
a dark horizontal stripe.
Police also got a call at 12:30 a.m. about shots fired in a Waynesboro
neighborhood, and later discovered a bullet hole in a house along
with a shell casing. A witness mentioned seeing a car that looked
similar to the Gremlin.
Police confiscated the car late Thursday. They found it unoccupied
at the Greene and Albemarle county line.
The spree had motorists and police on edge in a region where
memories of the deadly Beltway snipers still haven't faded.
Virginia State Police continued to hunt down a pair of gunmen
suspected of the shootings and more troopers patrolled the
highway Thursday night.
Officers don't have a motive for the shootings, and believe that
the culprits are still in the area.
The highway remained open for most of the day Thursday after
police closed down a 20-mile stretch between Charlottesville
and Waynesboro overnight while they pursued two snipers who
shot cars at three known locations.
No one was seriously hurt in the gunfire. Two people were
treated and released at the hospital for very minor injuries,
according to state police Col. Steve Flaherty. It wasn't
immediately clear whether they were wounded by bullets or
shattered glass.
After reviewing ATM surveillance video, Waynesboro Police
identified the Gremlin associated with activity that took place
in the parking lot between 12:30 a.m. and 1:00 a.m. Thursday
morning.
Police recovered an abandoned Gremlin late Thursday
evening in Albemarle County, Va., Waynesboro Police
Sgt. Kelly Walker said. Authorities have determined the
vehicle owner's identity and the investigation is ongoing,
Walker said.
The Gremlin might be a promising lead because running models
of the car are extremely rare.
Police are investigating the possibility that the car was involved
in the interstate shootings, but caution they are awaiting further
forensic analysis of the Gremlin and ballistics results before
asserting a connection between the incidents.
There were no signs of an increased police presence during
the daylight hours and state police spokeswoman Corinne
Geller said motorists would not notice beefed-up patrols after
dark.
"You may not see the troopers, but they're there," she said.
At least six vehicles ? four of them known to be occupied ?
were pelted by bullets along an 11-mile stretch of the freeway
Wednesday night, beginning shortly before the first call came
in about 12:10 a.m.
Flaherty said two cars, a van and a tractor-trailer traveling
westbound were struck by bullets. An unoccupied parked
Virginia Department of Transportation truck also was found
riddled with bullet holes near an exit for I-64 along Route 250,
and police were following up Thursday afternoon on the reports
that gunmen had fired at a sixth vehicle.
(I-64/250 is in close proximity to UVA.)
"I really don't have a good feel for how long this went on,"
said Flaherty at a Thursday morning press conference. "We
have evidence that it was more than one suspect."
He downplayed the characterization of the shooters as "snipers,"
saying they could just be pranksters and calling the spree a
"random firing."
He said it appears that it was the same type of gun used in all
the shootings, several reports of which came in over about a
half-hour period. Ballistics tests were being conducted, but
officers weren't ready to make a determination as to the kind
of weapon used, according to Flaherty.
Shots were fired at three different known locations ? from an
overpass near the 106-mile marker, at a westbound off-ramp n
ear the 114-mile marker and at a Virginia Department of
Transportation outpost.
I-64 was shut down between 12:10 a.m. and 6 a.m. Thursday
from mile marker 96 in Augusta County to mile marker 118 in
Albemarle County while police conducted their preliminary
investigation.
State Police Sgt. David Cooper said investigators were closely
checking several interstate ramps as well as wooded areas in
the vicinity of the shootings.
Albemarle County Schools were closed Thursday, according to
the district's Web site.
No benefit in drinking eight glasses of water a day, scientists say
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Last Updated: 2:02am BST 03/04/2008
The idea that drinking eight glasses of water a day is good for your health has been dismissed as a myth.
Thats kind of funny, if you don't replace water your body expels, how do you get more? the use of water is what 2 litres a day minimum for the average person? were they experimenting with different glass sizes to see which 8 were best and all were the same?
Scientists say there is no evidence drinking large amounts of water is beneficial for the average healthy person, and do not even know how this widely held belief came about.
Specialists in kidney conditions in America reviewed research on claims eight 8oz glasses of water help flush toxins from the body, preventing weight gain and improving skin tone.
Dr Dan Negoianu and Dr Stanley Goldfarb, of the Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division at the University of Pennsylvania, said no single study indicated average healthy people needed to drink this amount of water - a total of 3.3 pints - each day.
"Indeed, it is unclear where this recommendation came from," they say in a review in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
The researchers did find some evidence that individuals in hot, dry climates, as well as athletes, need to increase the amount of water they drink. Studies have also shown that drinking lots of water helps the body to clear salt and urea.
But no studies have found any benefit to the organs of increased water intake.
Drs Negoianu and Goldfarb also investigated the theory that drinking more water makes you feel full and curbs appetite.
Proponents say this may help maintain a healthy weight and fight obesity, but the evidence for this claim remains inconclusive, states the review.
No carefully designed clinical trials have measured the effects of water intake on weight maintenance.
Headaches also are often attributed to water deprivation, but there is little data to back this up, claim the scientists.
Only one small trial has addressed this question, and while trial participants who increased their water intake experienced fewer headaches than those who did not, the results were not statistically significant.
In addition, water has been touted as an elixir for improved skin tone.
The authors said that while dehydration can decrease skin stiffness, no studies have shown any clinical benefit to skin tone as a result of increased water intake.
The literature review by Drs Negoianu and Goldfarb reveals there is no clear evidence of benefit from increasing water intake. On the other hand, no clear evidence exists of a lack of benefit. "There is simply a lack of evidence in general," they explain.
On average, the body uses between 1.7 and 2.6 pints (one-1.5 litres) of water daily and more in high temperatures or when exercising.
This is replaced through drinks but a large amount is also contained in food, so it is not necessary to drink an equivalent amount to replace water levels.
Too much water can affect the balance of salts in the body causing "water intoxication", which can be fatal.
Too young? I had a urologist when I was in primary school and elementary school. Of course, I had kidney failure and was on dialysis when I was about five, so I had good reason! LOL
**chambers another 12-gauge round**
