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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Gang member arrested in Colo. corrections killing

This combo made from photos released by the El Paso County, Colo., Sheriff's office shows Thomas James Guolee, 31, left, and James Franklin Lohr, 47, who are wanted for questioning in the Tom Clements homicide investigation. Lohr is described as 6 feet tall, 160 pounds, with blond hair, brown eyes and several tattoos. Guolee is a 31 year old male described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, 160 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes and several tattoos. (AP Photo/El Paso Sheriff)

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows paroled inmate Evan Spencer Ebel. A clerical error allowed Ebel, suspected of killing Colorado?s prisons chief, to be released from custody about four years early, officials said Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections, File)

This undated photo provided by the Colorado Department of Corrections shows Thomas Guolee. El Paso County sheriff's Lt. Jeff Kramer said Wednesday, April 3, 2013 that deputies are seeking Guolee, 31, and 47-year-old James Lohr, members of a white supremacist prison gang, in connection with the death of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements. He says their names surfaced during the investigation and the men could be headed to Nevada or Texas. (AP Photo/Colorado Department of Corrections)

Tim Hand, director of the Colorado Department of Correction's parole division, answers questions about Evan Spencer Ebel's parole Tuesday April 2, 2013, in Denver,Colo. Ebel slipped his ankle bracelet and fled custody five days after the system first flagged him as being delinquent. Ebel is a suspect in the slaying of DOC corrections director Tom Clements. Parole officers issued an arrest warrant for parole violation for Ebel the day after Clements was shot to death at his front door. Ebel died in a shootout with Texas authorities on March 21. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda)

DENVER (AP) ? A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested but another was still being sought for questioning Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the gang had any ties to the killing.

James Lohr was taken into custody early Friday, El Paso County sheriff's spokesman Jeff Kramer said. Lohr was wanted for questioning in the slaying of Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements.

Authorities believe Lohr was in contact with gang associate Evan Ebel days before the killings of Clements and pizza delivery man Nate Leon. Police said they believe Ebel killed Leon and Clements in the days before he died in a shootout in Texas. The motive in the killings isn't clear.

Clements was shot to death March 19 in Monument, just north of Colorado Springs. Leon was killed two days earlier. His body was found in the Denver suburb of Golden.

KRDO-TV reported (http://tinyurl.com/d8bj8vt ) Colorado Springs police arrested Lohr after a short foot chase that started when police tried to stop a car.

Authorities issued an alert Wednesday asking other law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for Lohr and Thomas Guolee, both of Colorado Springs, who were identified as 211 Crew members. Ebel was a member of the same gang.

Lohr, 47, and Guolee, 31, are not being called suspects in Clements' death, but their names surfaced during the investigation, Kramer said. Both were wanted on warrants unrelated to the Clements investigation.

Kramer said earlier that it was possible one or both of them could be headed to Nevada or Texas.

Guolee's mother, Deborah Eck, told The Denver Post that Guolee called her husband a week and a half ago to ask for a ride to the police station so he could turn himself in for what she believed was a parole violation. But she said they never heard back from him.

Police came to her house Wednesday looking for Guolee.

"One cop said if he would have turned himself in for violation of probation, he probably wouldn't be in the situation he was now," she told the newspaper.

Lohr has been wanted in Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado. He was arrested for violating a protection order in Trinidad on Dec. 1, 2012, after police found that he'd been drinking with friends at a tattoo shop. According to court documents, drinking was a violation of a protective order against him, and he was arrested. Lohr then failed to appear in court in that case Feb. 20, and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Lohr has a criminal record going back to 1992. In 1996, after he pleaded guilty to burglarizing a home, court records show he was ordered to have no contact with his estranged wife after she told police he repeatedly broke into her home and stole items to pawn.

In 2006, Lohr was charged with burglary with a weapon and assault causing serious bodily injury. Court records show those charged were dismissed because of a lack of evidence.

Court records show Guolee was arrested in 2001 after a member of the Crips gang told Colorado Springs police he was jumped by Guolee and another gang member because they believed he was a member of a rival gang. The witness told police Guolee and the other gang member punched and kicked him in the face and left him bleeding.

In 2007, Guolee was charged with assault and intimidating a witness while in the El Paso County jail after an inmate said he was assaulted by three men, including Guolee, because they thought he was going to testify against a suspect in another case. El Paso County authorities said the man was beaten so badly he could have been permanently disfigured.

The complete court records were not immediately available, so the outcome of some of those cases is not clear. Authorities have also not released the subject of the warrant out for Guolee.

On Thursday, Gov. John Hickenlooper announced a sweeping review of Colorado's prison and parole operations, as more evidence piled up showing how Ebel slipped through the cracks in the criminal justice system to become a suspect in Clements' death.

Ebel was released from prison four years early due to a clerical error and violated his parole terms five days before the prisons chief was killed.

Officials said the state will now audit inmates' legal cases to ensure they are serving the correct amount of time. They'll ask the National Institute of Corrections to review the state's parole system, which is struggling under large caseloads.

Colorado lawmakers also are considering spending nearly $500,000 to hire more parole officers because of what happened with Ebel.

Ebel was killed in a shootout with Texas authorities after the Colorado deaths. Investigators have said the gun he used in the shootout also was used to kill Clements when the prisons chief answered the front door of his home.

Ebel has been the only suspect named in Clements' death. Investigators have said they're looking into his connection to the gang he joined while in prison, and whether that was linked to the attack.

"Investigators are looking at a lot of different possibilities," Kramer has said. "We are not stepping out and saying it's a hit or it's not a hit. We're looking at all possible motives."

Associated Press

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Saturday, April 6, 2013

Daughter of imprisoned Chinese activist inspires ‘Nine Days’ by Fred Hiatt, a book about their plight

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Comedy on Mexico income gap a big screen hit

This undated promotional image released by Warner Bros. Studios shows actors, from left, Luis Gerardo Mendez, Karla Souza, Juan Pablo Gil and Gonzalo Vega in the movie "Nosotros los Nobles," or ?We are the Nobles.? The Mexican riches-to-rags movie has opened to packed theaters in a country with one of the world's widest income gaps, and a love for laughing at misfortune. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Studios)

This undated promotional image released by Warner Bros. Studios shows actors, from left, Luis Gerardo Mendez, Juan Pablo Gil, Gonzalo Vega and Karla Souza in the movie "Nosotros los Nobles," or ?We are the Nobles.? The Mexican riches-to-rags movie has opened to packed theaters in a country with one of the world's widest income gaps, and a love for laughing at misfortune. In Mexico, 10 percent of the people held nearly 40 percent of the wealth in 2010, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America. The world's richest man, Carlos Slim, holds more than 6 percent himself. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Studios)

This undated promotional image released by Warner Bros. Studios shows actor Luis Gerardo Mendez, left, Juan Pablo Gil, center, and Karla Souza in the movie "Nosotros los Nobles." The Mexican riches-to-rags movie, ?We are the Nobles? has opened to packed theaters in a country with one of the world's widest income gaps, and a love for laughing at misfortune. More than 1 million people showed up in the first week to see the story of an impresario who fakes a government raid on his riches to teach his children the value of work. (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Studios)

MEXICO CITY (AP) ? A construction magnate's preppy son is forced to drive one of Mexico City's battered green buses, while his spoiled sister waits tables at a cantina in a miniskirt and non-designer shoes. Their credit cards have been canceled, their BMWs and mansion seized.

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The Mexican riches-to-rags movie, "We are the Nobles" has opened to packed theaters in a country with one of the world's widest income gaps ? and a love for laughing at misfortune. More than 1 million people showed up in the first week to see the story of an impresario who fakes a government raid on his riches to teach his children the value of work.

Only a Hollywood blockbuster featuring Bruce Willis and DreamWorks' latest 3D animation beat it at the box office last weekend, the second-biggest opening for a domestic film here in more than 10 years.

"Latin America is a region where middle class is very small," said writer and director Gary "Gaz"Alazraki. "So I thought if you want to capture the mood of the public with cinema, that's the first place to look, the contrast between rich and poor."

In the movie, patriarch German Noble's eldest son spends his days at daddy's company dreaming up big ideas, such as mixing the world's largest rum and Coke in Mexico City's storied Aztec Stadium. His daughter is engaged to a failed businessman and aspires to open a restaurant on her father's dime. The youngest is a hipster who preaches against capitalism, even as dad pays his private college tuition ? until he is expelled for sleeping with a professor.

After surviving a heart attack and getting a second chance at life, Noble decides to stage a raid on his Beverly Hills-like home.

"Can someone please explain why they are confiscating all our stuff, as if we were in Venezuela?" the agitated daughter, Barbie, demands to know in the Mexican equivalent of Valley speak.

"They discovered fraud," German Noble tells her.

"Jesus Christ," she answers in English.

People like the fictitious Nobles can be seen on any ritzy corner of the city, where Mexico's carefully coiffed, wearing the highest fashions, can be seen stepping from the running boards of their enormous SUVs, their bodyguards lurking outside as they go for a workout or pedicure. They have been to the best schools in the world and the finest malls in Texas, but never to one of the city's ubiquitous, crowded marketplaces or a street-food stand.

"I haven't seen the archetypes of urban Mexico portrayed on the big screen so well in a long time," said Oscar de los Reyes, an expert on cinema and society at the Technological Institute of Monterrey.

It's not surprising that the social contrast is playing big in the cinema. In Mexico, 10 percent of the people held nearly 40 percent of the wealth in 2010, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America. The world's richest man, Carlos Slim, holds more than 6 percent himself. While Americans look up to the rich, believing they too could be among them one day, the dream is mostly unattainable in Mexico, where upward mobility is smaller and slower.

Videos and tweets displaying the arrogance of Mexico's privileged class periodically go viral.

One video, recorded by a passer-by, shows two rich girls, dubbed "the Ladies of Polanco" after one of Mexico City's most exclusive neighborhoods, shoving, slapping and insulting a traffic cop who pulled them over suspecting they were drunk. In another clip drawn from surveillance cameras a man in an affluent suburb beats up the valet of his luxurious apartment building for not providing a jack to replace a flat tire on his Porsche.

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's daughter reacted to people who laughed at one of her father's campaign gaffes by tweeting that they were "a bunch of idiots who form part of the proletariat and only criticize those they envy," causing a national uproar. The tweet disappeared and Pena Nieto apologized.

Alazraki said he was trying to capture the behavior behind Paulina Pena's tweet in his film, whose hashtag is (hash)WelcomeToTheProle.

He acknowledges he comes from the very society he is lampooning. His father, Carlos Alazraki, is an influential advertising businessman behind several presidential campaigns and publicity for Slim's restaurants and phone company. When he was younger, Alazraki has said in interviews, all he cared about was having the prettiest girlfriend and going to the hottest club. After attending film school at the University of Southern California, he now pities people who stay inside the bubble of Mexico's rich.

"It's very interesting to see our characters transform," said Luis Gerardo Mendez, who plays Javi. "You get to see on one side how this group of people spends so much money, and on the other end, the everyday jobs people have to do to survive. People who think there is no racism here, there is. It is called classism."

The script was inspired by the 1949 film "The Great Madcap" by surrealist Luis Bunuel, in which a rich man wasting his money and life is fooled into thinking he lost his fortune. It leads his family members to take low-paying jobs as seamstresses, shoe shiners and carpenters.

The three Noble offspring end up working as a bus driver, a waitress and a bank teller.

"What is your biggest problem?" eldest son Javi Noble asks a fellow bus driver.

"There is this chick from my town who says that her child is mine and she wants me to send her money. But she can't prove it. So, until I send her money, she will send her cousins with sticks and machetes..."

"For that, you need bodyguards," Javi tells him.

Barbie, meanwhile, ends up falling for her nanny's nephew, a youth she once teased for being poor.

When he tells her that he used money her father loaned him to open a stand selling pirated CDs, she scolds him: "Did you know that drug traffickers run those informal CD shops ... Seriously, you are only fostering crime in this country."

He becomes enraged.

"The criminals are your little friends," he says. "Don't tell me you don't know about the two friends who were at your most recent party. The politician's sons. Haven't you seen the videos? Everyone did. If you are really worried about your country, don't feed them, don't invite them to your parties, don't get on their yachts."

Moviegoers said they find a lot of reality in the humor. Arturo Lopez, who works in construction, said he has friends like the Nobles.

"Here, your social status depends completely on what you have," he said at an exclusive movie theater in high-end Polanco. "It's really ugly, but there are many people like that."

Maria Larios, a nurse, paid a third of the luxury theater's ticket price to see the same film in the middle-class neighborhood of Santa Maria La Ribera.

"This is real," Larios said. "There are people who are very picky and stuck-up. When the roles are reversed, it changes them, brings them down to earth."

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Adriana Gomez Licon is on Twitter http://twitter.com/agomezlicon

Associated Press

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Iran, 6 powers meet for nuclear talks

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) ? Six world powers have sat down at the negotiating table with Iran for talks they hope will make progress in curbing Tehran's nuclear progress.

Friday's talks follow a previous round in February in the Kazakh city of Almaty that ended with both sides speaking of some movement in bridging significant differences.

The United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany hope the talks will result in at least some movement in a decade of efforts to reduce Iran's bomb-making capacities by curbing its uranium enrichment program.

Iran wants an end to punishing sanctions imposed to force it to end uranium enrichment, a process that can generate both nuclear energy and the core of nuclear weapons. It denies any interest in atomic arms.

Another round is scheduled for Saturday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-6-powers-meet-nuclear-talks-143641336.html

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Friday, April 5, 2013

3-D printer can build synthetic tissues

Apr. 4, 2013 ? A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with several of the properties of living tissues, Oxford University scientists have demonstrated.

The new type of material consists of thousands of connected water droplets, encapsulated within lipid films, which can perform some of the functions of the cells inside our bodies.

These printed 'droplet networks' could be the building blocks of a new kind of technology for delivering drugs to places where they are needed and potentially one day replacing or interfacing with damaged human tissues. Because droplet networks are entirely synthetic, have no genome and do not replicate, they avoid some of the problems associated with other approaches to creating artificial tissues -- such as those that use stem cells.

The team report their findings in this week's Science.

'We aren't trying to make materials that faithfully resemble tissues but rather structures that can carry out the functions of tissues,' said Professor Hagan Bayley of Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, who led the research. 'We've shown that it is possible to create networks of tens of thousands connected droplets. The droplets can be printed with protein pores to form pathways through the network that mimic nerves and are able to transmit electrical signals from one side of a network to the other.'

Each droplet is an aqueous compartment about 50 microns in diameter. Although this is around five times larger than living cells the researchers believe there is no reason why they could not be made smaller. The networks remain stable for weeks.

'Conventional 3D printers aren't up to the job of creating these droplet networks, so we custom built one in our Oxford lab to do it,' said Professor Bayley. 'At the moment we've created networks of up to 35,000 droplets but the size of network we can make is really only limited by time and money. For our experiments we used two different types of droplet, but there's no reason why you couldn't use 50 or more different kinds.'

The unique 3D printer was built by Gabriel Villar, a DPhil student in Professor Bayley's group and the lead author of the paper.

The droplet networks can be designed to fold themselves into different shapes after printing -- so, for example, a flat shape that resembles the petals of a flower is 'programmed' to fold itself into a hollow ball, which cannot be obtained by direct printing. The folding, which resembles muscle movement, is powered by osmolarity differences that generate water transfer between droplets.

Gabriel Villar of Oxford University's Department of Chemistry said: 'We have created a scalable way of producing a new type of soft material. The printed structures could in principle employ much of the biological machinery that enables the sophisticated behaviour of living cells and tissues.'

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Gabriel Villar, Alexander D. Graham, Hagan Bayley. A Tissue-Like Printed Material. Science, 5 April 2013: Vol. 340 no. 6128 pp. 48-52 DOI: 10.1126/science.1229495

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With $550,000 track renovation project complete, Gulf Shores looks ...

GULF SHORES, Alabama -- With the completion of the $550,000 track project at the sportsplex, the city is ready to host the state high school championships in early May and is beginning to court future college and amateur track-and-field events.

Grant Brown, director of recreation and cultural affairs for Gulf Shores, said the city, with help from the Gulf Shores and Orange Beach Sports Commission, is in the bidding to host the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Championships in 2014 and 2015. The association has nearly 300 member schools with more than 60,000 student-athletes.

Brown said the city is able to host collegiate and AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) events after the extensive, city-funded track resurfacing project that included the addition of a steeplechase and other track-and-field event improvements.

?They are coming down to do a site inspection during our state track meet,? Brown said of a scheduled NAIA visit. ?And they delayed the date that we?re allowed to submit (bids). It was due in December and we were able to wait till February to submit and now they?re sending people down in May to see it. I?ve got to believe they really want to come. We?ve already hosted NAIA softball and soccer successfully so the NAIA knows the quality of an event that we can put on.?

According to statistics from the sports commission, the beach cities with help from Foley hosted 88 events last year, generating 64,076 room rights and $22.4 million last year.

Brown said while the track is finished it will not be open to the public until Monday, April 8. It?s also the home track for Gulf Shores High School and other schools hold meets there.

?We?re going to keep it closed for a week so that we can get the infield redone and get the sod laid and all the cleanup stuff done,? Brown said. ?Then we?ll open it up and people can go out there. Obviously we have to be very careful. No strollers, nothing with wheels on it, only athletic shoes. We?ll have some new rules and regulations posted.?

Precision Sports Surfaces Inc. was awarded the contract to improve the track at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in the sportsplex. The old track was 15 years old and the city would have lost the state meet if upgrades were not made. The city has a contract to host the Alabama High School Athletic Association?s track championships for 4A, 5A and 6A schools through 2014, and the event draws more than 2,000 athletes and their families to the area. The next state meet is set for May 2-4.

??We had 2 more years in the contract with the state, so we stepped back and said, ?OK. Look, if we?re going to do this we need to do this right.? So we completely resurfaced it with asphalt to get the tolerances, not just appropriate for high school but also appropriate for all NCAA collegiate events. We can go as high as we can, which is a .08 tolerance. The track has to be almost perfectly flat, within a .08 degree. We did that and then put this polyurethane on it -- the state-of-the-art, best running surface that you can get.?

In addition to the new surface the city added the steeplechase obstacles, curbing around the track, expanded the pole vault runway area and purchased new pits, which are basically large landing pads, for the vault and high jump events.

?We also added power and Internet at the start and finish lines to be able to broadcast the results on the Internet through timing companies,? Brown said.

With the new pit areas for the pole vault and high jump area, Brown has asked the City Council to designate the old ones, which have little resale value, as surplus and donate them to schools that have shown interest in using them.

??We?ve had requests from Baldwin County schools -- Robertsdale and Spanish Fort -- for our old equipment,? Brown told the council during its work session Monday night.

After Mayor Robert Craft was assured by Brown that it wasn?t worth the city?s time to sell the old equipment or for Gulf Shores High to use it since it utilizes the sportsplex track, Councilman Jason Dyken had another idea.

?Even if Gulf Shores wouldn?t use our new equipment is there any thought or any utility in donating it to Gulf Shores (High) and letting Gulf Shores trade out maybe for other equipment they perhaps could use? Or could Spanish Fort give us a football victory next year?? Dyken quipped.

Grant replied, ?Maybe that?s the better trade, but my hope is that we will just let it go.?

Brown said the equipment is in poor condition, it?s not something the city would want to hold onto and the school does not have the proper place to put them.?

The council will vote on the issue at Monday's meeting.?

Source: http://blog.al.com/live/2013/04/with_550000_track_renovation_p.html

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Ruby the Heart Stealer denies sleeping with Berlusconi, admits lying to him

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Exotic dancer Karima El Mahroug, nicknamed Ruby the Heart Stealer, speaks to journalists at Milan's courthouse on Thursday during a protest against the trial of former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi.

By Manuela D'Alessandro, Reuters

MILAN -- The nightclub dancer at the center of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial staged a dramatic protest outside the court on Thursday, alleging that she had been unfairly pressured as part of a campaign against him.

Karima El Mahroug's emotional statement in defense of Berlusconi followed a protest by parliamentarians from his party outside the court last month as the media magnate tries to have the trial moved away from Milan.

The charges against Berlusconi, which he denies, include paying for sex with El Mahroug -- better known by her stage name "Ruby the Heart Stealer" -- when she was a minor.

She has always denied being a prostitute or having sex with the 76-year-old billionaire during the now-notorious "bunga bunga" parties at his villa outside Milan, where numerous witnesses have said she was a regular guest.

Carrying a large sign reading "The Ruby case: Are you not interested in the truth any more?" she said she had been used as part of a deliberate campaign against Berlusconi by magistrates and sections of the press.

"Today I realize that there is a war under way against him that I do not feel part of, but which has dragged me in and injures me," she said, reading a prepared statement. "I do not want to be a victim of this situation."

El Mahroug demanded to be allowed to testify in open court but declined to explain to reporters why she had not appeared at previous hearings. As recently as December, she failed to appear in court, later turning up in Mexico, where she said she was on holiday.

The trial has been suspended while judges consider Berlusconi's request to transfer it away from Milan, where he says magistrates are waging a vendetta against him. The next hearing is due on April 22.

Berlusconi is also appealing against a four-year sentence for tax fraud, and his legal problems further complicate the political standoff that arose when elections in February left no party able to form a government.

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El Mahroug, her voice breaking at times, said she had been publicly humiliated by the implication that she was a prostitute and said that investigators had exploited her vulnerability to attack Berlusconi, leader of Italy's main center-right party.

Karima el Marough, better known as "Ruby the Heart Stealer," was called to testify over allegations that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paid to have sex with her when she was still a minor. NBC's Claudio Lavanga reports.

She said she faced "real and genuine psychological torture" from magistrates once they realized that she would not provide evidence against Berlusconi.

"I felt used by sections of the press and judges which had a common objective, to hurt people who had helped me," she said.

"My suffering is also the fault of those judges ... who described me as a prostitute even though I always denied having sexual relations for money and above all having them with Silvio Berlusconi."

As well as the charge of paying for sex with a person under the age of 18 years, Berlusconi is also accused of abusing the powers of his office by getting El Mahroug released from custody in 2010 when she was held on an unrelated theft charge.

Prosecutors say Berlusconi asked police to release her because he thought she was a niece of former Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak.

However, El Mahroug admitted to having made this up, saying she had created a "parallel life" as she tried to imagine a different life from the poverty-stricken world in which she grew up.

"I'm sorry to have told these lies to Silvio Berlusconi as well, who I am sure today would be ready to help me even if I had told the truth," she said.?

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