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)

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)

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) ? One of two members of a white supremacist gang linked to the killing of Colorado's prisons chief has been arrested just miles from where the state official was shot to death answering the door to his home.

James Lohr was taken into custody early Friday, said El Paso County sheriff's spokesman Jeff Kramer. Lohr was wanted for questioning in the killing of Colorado Corrections Director Tom Clements. It's unclear if Lohr has been charged.

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

Clements was shot to death on 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 (http://tinyurl.com/d8bj8vt ) reported that Lohr was arrested by Colorado Springs police 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, who were identified as two known associates of the same gang linked to Ebel.

Lohr, 47, and Guolee, 31, have not been called suspects in Clement's death, but their names surfaced during the investigation, Kramer said. He wouldn't elaborate. Both were wanted on warrants unrelated to the Clements investigation.

Lohr and Guolee are known associates of the 211 Crew, the same gang that has been linked to Ebel, Kramer said.

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

According to court records obtained by The Associated Press, Lohr was arrested in 1992 in Colorado Springs after he failed to report to a community corrections center while serving a sentence for attempted criminal mischief.

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 them.

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.

Lohr was being sought on warrants out of Las Animas County for a bail violation and a violation of a protection order when he was arrested Friday.

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

In 2007, Goulee 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 Goulee, 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 Goulee.

On Thursday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper announced a sweeping review of the state'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 the killing of the state's prisons chief.

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

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

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

Ebel is the only suspect that investigators have named in Clements' death. They have said they're looking into his connection to the gang he joined while in prison, and whether that was connected to the attack.

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

Associated Press

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Kevin Ware Vows Return to Basketball Court

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Witness at ex-dictator's trial links Guatemalan president to war crimes

By Mike McDonald

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A former member of Guatemala's armed forces implicated President Otto Perez in civil war atrocities as he testified on Thursday at the genocide trial of ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt.

Hugo Reyes, who was stationed as an army engineer in a violent region of Guatemala under Rios Montt's 1982-1983 rule, said Perez commanded soldiers who burned down homes and shot and killed civilians during the civil war, which pitted leftist insurgents against a series of right-wing governments.

Perez, a retired army general who was elected president in 2011, was also known as major Tito Arias during the civil war and has previously denied involvement in war crimes.

Taking the stand, Reyes said he witnessed the killing of farmers near the village of Nebaj in northwestern Guatemala by troops under the command of Perez and another officer.

"The soldiers under the orders of Major Tito Arias, known as Otto Perez Molina, Francisco Marin, and the officers they were in charge of, and the commander of the company of engineers, coordinated the burning (of homes) and pulling people out so they could execute them," Reyes told the court.

Before Perez took office in 2012, Reuters asked him about testimony linking him to war crimes during the 1960-1996 war which claimed some 200,000 lives. Perez said the allegations were "completely false."

As president, Perez is protected by amnesty granted to public officials and cannot be subpoenaed.

Rios Montt, who left Congress last year, was ordered to stand trial in January when a judge found sufficient evidence linking him to the killing of more than 1,700 indigenous people in a counterinsurgency plan carried out under his command.

Prosecutors allege Rios Montt turned a blind eye as soldiers used rape, torture and arson against leftist rebels and targeted indigenous people in a "scorched earth" offensive that killed at least 1,771 members of the Mayan Ixil group.

Rios Montt, 86, has yet to take the stand in the trial, the first in which a country has prosecuted a former head of state for genocide and crimes against humanity.

(Editing by Dave Graham and Mohammad Zargham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/witness-ex-dictators-trial-links-guatemalan-president-war-005338947.html

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Facebook Home video shows Chat Heads and Cover Feed in action

Alongside the big Facebook Home announcement today was a short and sweet video which ran through what these new Android apps were all about. Sure, the video is mostly about invoking all the feels for social networking, but we do get to see Chat Heads, Cover Feed and notifications in action. It looks like it's working smoothly enough, anyway.

Expect Facebook Home to be landing April 12, alongside the new HTC First. 

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From Pets To Plates: Why More People Are Eating Guinea Pigs

You may best know the guinea pig as a nervous little pet that lives in a cage and eats alfalfa pellets.

Now, the rodents are increasingly showing up on plates in the United States.

South American restaurants on both coasts seem to be pushing the trend, answering to demand mostly from Andean expats for what is considered a fine and valuable food in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. Middle-class foodies with a taste for exotic delicacies are also ordering, photographing and blogging about guinea pig. The animals ? called cuyes in Spanish ? are usually cooked whole, often grilled, sometimes deep fried. Many diners eat every last morsel, literally from head to toe.

Courtesy of Curtiss Calleo

But there may be more to gain from eating guinea pig than bizarre foods bragging rights. According to activists, eating guinea pig is good for the environment.

Matt Miller, an Idaho-based science writer with The Nature Conservancy, says rodents and other small livestock represent a low-impact meat alternative to carbon-costly beef. Miller, who is writing a book about the ecological benefits of eating unconventional meats, visited Colombia several years ago. At the time, he says, conservation groups were expressing concern about local ranchers clearing forest to provide pasture for their cattle ? activity that was causing erosion and water pollution.

"They were encouraging people to switch from cattle to guinea pigs," Miller says. "Guinea pigs don't require the land that cattle do. They can be kept in backyards, or in your home. They're docile and easy to raise."

The Little Rock-based humanitarian organization Heifer International, which assists communities in enhancing their economies and streamlining local food production, is also promoting guinea pig husbandry in Peru, Ecuador and Guatemala. Jason Woods, the nonprofit's Americas regional program assistant, says guinea pigs ? which he says usually weigh no more than 2 pounds ? are twice as efficient as cows at turning food, like hay and compost scraps, into meat: To render a pound of meat, a cow, he explains, may require 8 pounds of feed. A guinea pig only needs 4.

To help start a home guinea pig farm, Heifer International typically supplies a family with one male and seven females. In just months, such a collection may have doubled in size. Woods says a guinea pig herd consisting of two males and 20 females can sustain itself while providing meat for a family of six.

In the United States, most guinea pigs intended for human consumption come from Peru as whole, frozen, hairless rodents in plastic bags.

The Salt contacted several federal regulatory agencies, including USDA and Fish and Wildlife, but none seemed to track guinea pig imports. However, we spoke with the owners of two Peruvian food importers who said cuy consumption in the United States is certainly rising. Neither would speak on record, but each said they are now importing more guinea pigs than ever before.

At one company, in Connecticut, imports have nearly doubled since 2008 ? from 600 guinea pigs per year then to more than 1,000 today.

Urubamba, a Peruvian restaurant in Queens, wasn't serving guinea pig at all eight years ago. Since then, demand has climbed every year, according to Carlos Atorga, who opened Urubamba in 1976.

Now, Urubamba customers can expect cuy on the menu about one weekend each month. The animals go for $17 a plate, each cuy splayed down the middle like a lobster and served with a front leg and a back, an eye, an ear and a nostril.

In San Francisco, Diego Oka, a native of Peru and the executive chef of La Mar Cebicheria, serves imported Peruvian cuy every summer around Peru's July 28 Independence Day. Oka marinates and deep-fries his guinea pigs for a dish called cuy chactado. He says the nose, ears and fingery little hands are the best bites of all ? but Oka removes the animals' extremities to avoid offending sensitive diners.

In Los Angeles, Helen Springut, co-founder of the adventurous eaters club Gastronauts, says guinea pig is a food worth pursuing only as a cultural experience. She says the meat can be tough and stringy.

I ate a quarter of a grilled guinea pig recently during a cycling trip in Ecuador. The sinewy meat was dry and sparse, and I went away hungry. But others describe what sounds like a different creature.

Miller at The Nature Conservancy says guinea pig is "delicious, very tender and hard to compare to anything else" ? not even chicken. Chef Astorga at Urubamba says cuy ? which he describes as "about the size of a squirrel" ? has "tender flesh and very tender skin." La Mar Cebicheria's Chef Oka says cuy is "very oily, like pork combined with rabbit."

While guinea pig may be attaining star status as a hold-your-nose-and-roll-the-camera bizarre food, whether an animal so favored as a pet in the United States will become a mainstream piece of protein is, perhaps, doubtful.

"There's a clear cultural prejudice against eating guinea pigs, and rodents in general, in the United States," Miller says. "But finding ways to reduce our carbon footprint is a good idea, and so is eating small livestock, like guinea pigs."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174105739/from-pets-to-plates-why-more-people-are-eating-guinea-pigs?ft=1&f=1007

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Stand Out from Other Job Applicants by Bringing More Than Just Your Resume to the Interview

In today's tough job market, anything you can do to stand out from the crowd of applicants can help you land a job. Two ways you can impress the interviewer in a short amount of time are bringing work examples and creating a presentation for the interview.

Rather than just bring the standard cover letter and resume, you can bring along everything from a work portfolio to thank you emails from clients or customers. Recruiter Abby Kohut says on the DailyWorth blog that she's always wowed when people bring their work samples and is also impressed when candidates show a five-minute or less presentation on their experience and why they're perfect for the job.

The ZipRecruiter Blog also echoes these recommendations, saying that maybe one or two out of every ten job candidates will do a presentation?and set themselves apart from 80-90% of the competition with this effort.

Creativity helps too, as one job seeker created a Time Magazine cover with her photo on it for her "resume accompaniment" when applying for a job at the Time Warner Foundation. (People have done crazier things to land a job.)

Q&A: To Get a Job, You MUST Stand Out | ZipRecruiter Blog

How to Ace a Job Interview | DailyWorth

Photo by AIGA Austin

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Huawei Pinnacle 2 (MetroPCS)

The Huawei Pinnacle 2 is a little bit misleading; it's less of a sequel than it is a late-night rerun. It's basically the same phone?as the original Pinnacle, with a slightly different look. Now, the Pinnacle wasn't a great phone a year ago, and the Pinnacle 2 isn't a great phone today. But for just $59, it gets you unlimited access to talk and text on MetroPCS for $40 per month, and the physical QWERTY keyboard makes it a solid choice for texters. So considering the carrier's lack of other feature phones, the Pinnacle 2 may not be great, but it's good enough.

Design and Call Quality
The Pinnacle 2 measures 4.51 by 2.39 by 0.47 inches (HWD) and weighs 3.63 ounces. It's very comfortable to hold and handle, and its slightly larger size means room for a bigger keyboard than the original. The phone is made entirely of glossy black plastic, save for a shiny, plastic silver ring around the front. The cheap materials attract a lot of fingerprints, but the phone itself feels solid.

The 2.4-inch display features 320-by-240 pixel resolution. It's sharp enough, but it would have been nice to see something a little bigger or higher-res than the original. Below the display are some simple function keys, and below that is a four-row, BlackBerry-style QWERTY keyboard. It's a decent keyboard, so I can't complain too much. That said, compared with the original Pinnacle, it's actually a significant step down. The keys, while raised and angled, are all crowded on top of each other, so it's easy to press the wrong letter when you're typing, especially if you have fat fingers like I do. But it's still much easier to type on than a number pad, so you'll get your money's worth if you're buying this phone to text.

The Pinnacle 2 is a tri-band 2G 1xRTT (850/1700/1900 MHz) CDMA device with no Wi-Fi. The phone is 2G only, as MetroPCS lacks a 3G data network. The carrier has 4G LTE, but only some of its smartphones operate on it. Slow data aside, $40 per month gets you unlimited talk, text, and Web data. That makes it a great deal, provided you live in a MetroPCS coverage area and can put up with the slow internet speeds.

Call quality is mediocre. Voices sound low and digitized in the phone's earpiece, but loud and distorted on the other end. The speakerphone is far too low to hear outdoors, or even in the car. Calls sounded fine through a Jawbone Era?Bluetooth headset, but there's no voice dialing. Battery life was average at 6 hours, 27 minutes of talk time.

User Interface, Multimedia, and Conclusions
The Pinnacle 2 has the same simple user interface as other MetroPCS feature phones. The home screen links you to the main menu, apps, and widgets. The main menu has all your standard features, like call logs, contacts, messages, a music player, settings, and tools. Apps pulls up icons of all your Web-based applications on the phone's home screen, and Widgets gives you quick access to a clock, calendar, music player, and weather info, all displayed on top of your home screen.

Email and IM clients are included for most standard accounts, and both worked fine. The Obigo 5.0 Web browser can read WAP sites, but it's frustratingly slow. If you're interested in Web access, you're better off with a smartphone, which will give you much greater access to the Internet for the same monthly price.

The Pinnacle 2 has 30MB of free internal memory. There's also an empty microSD under the battery cover that worked with my 32 and 64GB SanDisk cards. The phone plays MP3, M4A, and WAV music files, but you need to place them in a specific folder it generates on the microSD card. Music sounded okay through a pair of wired 3.5mm headphones, but a bit of fuzz and hiss came through, especially between tracks. Quality was disappointingly tinny over Bluetooth. Video playback is virtually nonexistent. The phone struggled to play QVGA files, and audio didn't work.

The 1.3-megapixel camera doesn't seem to be improved from the phone's first incarnation. There's still no flash or auto-focus, and photos look dark and blurry. You can record video this time around, but it's tiny, choppy, and extremely low resolution. Don't buy this phone for the camera.

The Huawei Pinnacle 2 is an average phone at best, but it's the only texting phone available from MetroPCS right now. If you prefer sending messages to making phone calls it'll do, but there isn't much of a reason to recommend it other than by default. Your other option, the Huawei Verge, is an utterly barebones feature phone that's only good for talking. Considering you don't have to pay for an additional data plan, it might be worth it to look into getting a smartphone. It'll cost the same $40 per month, but will expand your capabilities dramatically. A good place to start is the?LG Motion 4G, which gets you a lot more power, performance, and features for just a little extra money up front.

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