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BILL O'REILLY: Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly reporting tonight from Washington, D.C. thanks for watching us. No "Talking Points" memo this evening because I want to get right to our lead story an interview with former Congressman Barney Frank.
As you may know, the day after three were killed and more than 200 injured in that awful Boston terror attack last week, Mr. Frank became a center of controversy. While speaking on the phone to CNN, he put forth a political point of view.
FRANK: In this terrible situation, let's be very grateful that we had a well-funded functioning government. It is very fashionable in America to face interest on trying to criticize government, belittle public employees; talk about their pensions to talk about what people think is their excessive healthcare. Here we saw government in two ways perform very well.
I never was as a member of Congress a one of the cheerleader for nice government, lower taxes. No tax cut would have helped us deal with this or will help us recover. This is very expensive.
O'REILLY: Now after Mr. Frank said that, some journalists, including this one, thought his comments were too close to the death and destruction. Even the liberal MSNBC challenged Frank.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, you keep talking about revenue and the infrastructure and the fact that we have the capabilities necessary to respond to something as atrocious as this. Do you feel like you're capitalizing and making political hay of this event that happened?
FRANK: I'm not sure what that I'm capitalizing?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, that you are making a political argument about revenue right now.
FRANK: Yes. Exactly.
O'REILLY: Joining us now from Boston is Barney Frank. So in hindsight do you think you should have waited a few days before making those points?
FRANK: No, for two reasons. First, that's a partial quote of what I said. When I was called on that day, in every case there were three or four interviews, I began by talking about how terrible it was that some people were there with people they loved and all of a sudden they were dead.
In every one of those interviews I began when they asked me my reaction by talking about the sadness we all had to feel. Several of the interviewers then pressed me for further reaction. And I don't think a discussion of public policy is either inappropriate or premature.
By the way, I do know that many others were talking about immigration. You and Dennis Miller were discussing my remarks a day or two later and Mr. Miller was complaining, as I recall it, that President Obama hadn't called it terrorism on the first day. He waited until the second day. Well that was an appropriate criticism given his viewpoint of the President.
The notion that you suspend discussion of important issues in the face of a tragedy I will accept. Now I did as I said begin all the interviews with my feeling of sadness and my condolences for the people.
O'REILLY: All right. But here's why -- here is why it might be inappropriate. Because when you say that look, no tax cut would help this situation, you're basically polarizing Americans who want lower taxes, smaller government.
But in a time like this, in Boston and you are from Boston, I wanted to see -- I called for on the air all Americans to come together. All right? Not only to support the grieving families but also to show the world that we're a united front. And you're not going to come in here to our house and intimidate us.
FRANK: I agree.
O'REILLY: By your rhetoric -- by your rhetoric, you're dividing people 24 hours after when I think we should have all, all of us in the public eye, been trying to unite people --
FRANK: I would have to ask when that was. Because I remember two days after you and Mr. Miller being critical of a range of things, including Mr. Miller with you cheering him on attacking President Obama for his response. No I think it is dividing people --
O'REILLY: No we didn't attack President Obama for his response. We ask why --
FRANK: May I -- excuse me Mr. Miller did --
O'REILLY: -- we asked why the term Islamic jihad was --
FRANK: Yes and Mr. Miller was very critical of the President for not having said terrorism on the first day and he said it on the second day --
O'REILLY: Yes that's -- all that is holding people account --
FRANK: Excuse me Bill, Bill wait a minute can I -- because I know the ground rules, can I know the ground rules? Do I get to talk?
O'REILLY: Talk yes.
FRANK: Ok Mr. Miller was being critical of the President. That was his right. And as far as dividing the country, the country is divided as it should be in a democracy. Referring to existing divisions is not polarizing. I didn't know you were opposed to polarizing. I couldn't tell that from watching your show much of the time. But I think that's legitimate.
As I said yes it was appropriate to talk about these -- the sympathy we felt and the horror but when I was asked for further reaction that was the reaction. And I do think that is a legitimate debate in America.
O'REILLY: Ok.
FRANK: And the other thing I would ask you, is what you said not the day after two days after or three days after? When did it become appropriate? Because I heard many people from all parts of the spectrum being appropriately -- not political in the sense you're trying to win elections but saying what they thought public policy ought to be much of that week.
O'REILLY: All right, look. We have two positions, my position and what I called for on the night of the bombing was all Americans come together. And your position 24 hours after that you divided America on a policy basis and people can decide what's worthy and what isn't.
FRANK: I reject that. No Bill I didn't divide America. I didn't divide America.
O'REILLY: Sure you did.
FRANK: America is appropriately divided.
O'REILLY: You cast aspersions on those people who want smaller government and lower taxes.
FRANK: Not on that people -- not on that people.
O'REILLY: In a time where we all should have been united.
FRANK: Oh I did not cast aspersion on them.
O'REILLY: Of course you did.
FRANK: May I finish? Again let's -- can I have, I listen to you.
O'REILLY: Come on you've had twice as much time as I've had so far? Go make your point.
FRANK: May I speak. Mr. Miller was in fact being critical of the President. I didn't mention the individuals. I wasn't casting aspersion on people. I was expressing differences with their viewpoint. And I do not think that it is appropriate to say gee, bad people who hate democracy did things. Let's not have a discussion of issues. It was not casting aspersions, it was not dividing people. It was referring to an existing debate in this country. And I have to ask you when was it appropriate to talk politics? Wednesday, not Tuesday?
O'REILLY: I think maybe aired it out by the end of the week. And then we had of course the crackdown --
FRANK: Well, Mr. Miller, doing it on Wednesday. Mr. Miller was being critical on Wednesday.
O'REILLY: All right, it's not even close to the same ballpark.
FRANK: Mr. Miller --
O'REILLY: It's not even close.
FRANK: Mr. Miller has been very is critical of the President.
O'REILLY: All right.
FRANK: No, it's right at home plate. Mr. Miller was attacking the President for not saying terrorism on Wednesday.
O'REILLY: What do you think about that by the way? What do you think about that?
FRANK: Oh I think it was clearly terrorism. It was clearly terrorism.
O'REILLY: Ok what do you think about the Commander-in-Chief not saying that it was the Islamic jihad that was motivating force behind the terror attack? He won't say it. What do you think about that?
FRANK: Well I'd say two things. First of all, I think you were trying to, you know, refer to a division of the country that's a good thing to do. That's legitimate. On the Monday, when Mr. Miller was -- was being critical of his comments on the Wednesday, nobody knew that it was Islamic terrorists. We knew it was terrorism. But nobody knew on the Monday, we didn't know what did it. So I don't say --
O'REILLY: But he has -- and still the President still hasn't defined it as jihadist action. Still.
FRANK: Well I don't know about jihad, I would say yes these were Islamist, these were people inspired by Islamic terrorism. I think people yes ought to be very clear about that. And I think that's a legitimate public policy debate --
O'REILLY: Why do you think the President is -- why do you think the President is not clear about it.
FRANK: I don't know. Bill I'm not in charge of -- I'm not in charge of explaining the President.
O'REILLY: Well you're a thinker, you know him very well, he is the leader of your party. You must have an opinion on him. You have an opinion on everything else.
FRANK: No, no, A, I don't have an opinion on everything else. I only have an opinion on things I know and the fact on the Monday I said, I had no idea when people asked me to speculate, one of the things I thought was unfortunate where a lot of people who used to be in the line of work I used to be in speculating about things they didn't know anything. I thought we should just defer to law enforcement.
O'REILLY: We didn't like that at all. Speculation is never good. So you just don't know why Barack Obama won't say this was generated by Islamist jihad?
FRANK: No I haven't --
O'REILLY: You're like me because I don't know. I mean and I'm asking you that you might have more of an insight.
FRANK: Well then you and I are together. All right, no you and I -- neither one of us know as I have not been in Washington, I've been out of Congress for some months and I've not been talking to his people about that.
I do think it's legitimate for people to debate that one way or the other. I don't think it's dividing the country to (inaudible). And I do think by the way that Boston has got serious problems now. The level of funding we put into the police forces, the effect of a sequester which we're seeing elsewhere. Those are very legitimate topic of a debate.
O'REILLY: They are legitimate debate topics.
FRANK: I don't think you are casting aspersions on people or dividing the country when you allude to existing legitimate public policy discussion after expressing sympathy. That's what I did.
O'REILLY: All right, Congressman, I think that we both got our points across tonight, which is what we do on this program. And we're glad you participated. Thanks very much.
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Italy's world was turned upside down in 90 minutes and staring at them from the top … Costa Rica.
It was but a few days ago that Italy defeated England, 2-1, and for the next few days they heard about how they were a threat for a World Cup title.
At the same time, Costa Rica had just defeated Uruguay, 3-1. What did they hear over the next days? They heard about how the win was nothing but a fluke and that would be the last sign of success they'd see.
Now the question is, what game was the fluke?
Costa Rica stunned a soccer power for the second game in a row when they shocked Italy, 1-0, on Friday. It was the first time Italy lost to a CONCACAF team in its World Cup history.
The win did a lot of things.
It guaranteed Costa Rica a trip to the second round. It eliminated England from any chance of advancing, and it put Italy under the gun against Uruguay. All Italy needs to advance is a tie.
But that's no guarantee.
For now we say arrivederci. After Uruguay, it might be addio.
Italians would say their side stunk like a week-old fish. Italy's performance was as tough to swallow as poorly prepared tripe.
They played as if they were looking forward to getting off the field and enjoying a nice plate of pasta and Sangiovese. Perhaps desert should be humble pie.
The win against England might have gone to their heads because they showed no energy.
This team was unrecognizable when compared to the team that played England.
"We deserved to lose," said Italian coach Cesare Prandelli to the Italian media. "They were more aggressive than we were. We have to rebuild out energy. We won't panic."
As for Uruguay: "We don't fear Uruguay."
Perhaps he may want to reconsider those remarks after two words . . . Luis Suarez. If the Uruguay striker is set loose against the Italian defence, especially Giorgio Chiellini, he'll play them like a bag of toys.
The referee missed a clear penalty call on Chiellini when he bundled over Ticos' Joel Campbell. Then Chiellini was late getting to an open Bryan Ruiz who headed home the game's only goal in the 44th minute.
While Italy was dreadful, full marks go to Costa Rica. The Ticos were never over-awed by Italy. They pressured Italy, threw a blanket over them defensively and were full value for the win.
Mind you, that was easy considering Italy were running like they wearing concrete shoes.
Italy rarely does anything easily at these tournaments. Usually, it's a slow start. This time around, it was a sudden disappearance in a game that could have made things easy for them.
After England's loss to Uruguay, the discussion focused on what needed to happen for England to survive or be eliminated and what would be needed by Italy to qualify.
Too much mathematics, perhaps, and not enough worry about actually winning their game.
"What have you done for me lately" is never more evident than in soccer. A poll in an Italian newspaper that carried the headline "This time Italy is a disaster" wanted to know who was to blame for the loss.
Everything finished a distant second to casting blame on Prandelli's lineup choices.
In an effort to spark his team, he finished the game with four strikers, including Antonio Cassano and Lorenzo Insigne. Unfortunately, there is only one ball on the pitch at any one time and some of these players were never taught to share.
They were all mesmerizingly bad.
The loss stoked the angst of a nation that must now wait four days to find out whether it will laugh or cry.
"Another Italian flop," said La Gazzetta dello Sport, even with the game versus Uruguay still to be played.
Whatever you do, do not mention England 1966 and North Korea to an Italian in the same sentence.
The angst will translate in full-blown wailing.
It will be four days of heart palpitations and reliving previous horrors for Italian fans as they wait for Italy's final group game against Uruguay on Tuesday.
That game will determine whether Italy will move on in Brazil, or go home. Italy can do no worse than a tie to survive.
Suffering through past failures is like a cilice tied around a leg to remind one of their sins. Italian soccer fans have lived through spectacular successes, but nothing hurts quite like the spectacular failures.
Thursday, Italy added another spike to the cilice — this one a 1-0 loss to Costa Rica. The unexpected defeat has put the Italians in a perilous situation at this World Cup.
After an opening game win over England, most Italians expected at least one point against Costa Rica, if not an outright win and virtual qualification for the second round.
Flash back four years ago to South Africa where the defending World Cup champions were in what could only be considered a lightweight group made up of Paraguay, New Zealand and Slovakia.
Italy was already making plans for the second round.
They didn't panic much after a 1-1 tie with Paraguay because New Zealand was up next. A smidgen of worry began to build when Italy only managed to tie the Kiwis, 1-1.
Slovakia was another lightweight, but it went up 2-0 against Italy and hung on for a 3-2 win.
Not only had Italy not qualified for the second round, it finished a humiliating last in a group that was considered the easiest of the World Cup.
Before this year's tournament began, Italian goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu said the team remembered 2010.
"It is our goal to wipe out those memories," he said.
Now they may be reliving them. Not that Costa Rica, Uruguay and England is an easy group but Italy had a chance to be in a dominant position by beating a team it should have beaten.
If Italy manages to somehow get eliminated this time around, they may find the same kind of reaction Italy's 1966 national team received when it bombed out of the England World Cup.
Italy needed only a draw against North Korea to move beyond the group stage.
North Korea did not have a lot of international experience and the average size of their players was 5-foot-5. The Koreans scored late in the first half (much like Costa Rica did Friday) and made it stand up the rest of the way (much like Costa Rica did), sending Italy home.
It was a soccer embarrassment of heinous proportions and the Italians knew what the reaction would be at home.
In order to avoid enraged fans, the team changed their flight so it would arrive home in the middle of the night.
No such luck. The fans were waiting for them and with them were bushels of rotten tomatoes.
Oh, by the way, Italy and North Korea were in Group 4 for that tournament, the equivalent of Group D, the same group Italy and Costa Rica are in this time around.


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia jury won't hear from an abortion provider before they weigh charges that he killed a woman and four viable babies.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell decided Wednesday not to testify or call witnesses at his capital murder trial. The jury is set to hear closing arguments on Monday.
Gosnell, 72, is charged with killing babies after they were born alive at his West Philadelphia clinic, which allegedly catered to poor, desperate women and teens with late-term pregnancies.
The trial judge this week dismissed charges involving three other babies, apparently finding the prosecution did not present sufficient evidence they were viable, born alive and then killed.
Gosnell also is charged in the 2009 overdose death of a 41-year-old abortion patient.
A string of former employees have testified that Gosnell relied on untrained staff to sedate and monitor women as they waited for abortions.
Three workers have pleaded guilty to third-degree murder charges, admitting they helped medicate the adult victim or "snipped" babies' necks after they were born alive to make sure they died.
They told jurors that Gosnell had taught them the technique, and said they trusted that it was legal. At least one, though, admits she grew so concerned about conditions at the clinic that she took pictures of the outdated equipment, messy rooms and stacked specimen jars containing the severed feet of aborted babies.
Gosnell told staff he sometimes kept the samples for DNA purposes in case the pregnancy led to assault charges. Prosecution experts said there were less invasive ways to preserve DNA.
"Once fetuses leave the mother, they are then due the respect that would be given any human being," Assistant District Attorney Ed Cameron argued Tuesday, in support of abuse of corpse charges filed over the severed feet.
Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart, though, agreed with a defense motion to drop those charges.
Minehart on Tuesday also threw out three of the original seven murder charges involving aborted babies.
"There is not one piece — not one — of objective, scientific evidence that anyone was born alive," defense lawyer Jack McMahon argued Tuesday, in what was likely a preview of his closing arguments.
McMahon did most of his work by grilling prosecution witnesses, including former clinic workers. Although several said they had seen babies born alive, McMahon suggested the brief movements or breaths they saw were actually involuntary spasms during the death process. He argued that each of the babies had purportedly moved, breathed or whined just once.
"These are not the movements of a live child," McMahon said Tuesday.
One employee, though, has pleaded guilty to killing a baby that was alive for about 20 minutes.
Expert witness testimony has been another key portion of the case. Prosecutors called neonatologists who estimated that some of the babies were nearly 30 weeks gestation, far past the state's 24-week limit for abortions.
McMahon argued that such dating is imprecise, and that the margin of error is at least two weeks on either side.
The only employee to go on trial with Gosnell, medical school graduate Eileen O'Neill, is charged with theft for allegedly practicing medicine without a license.
Her attorney called a string of witnesses this week, most of whom testified about her character. O'Neill, 56, of Phoenixville, didn't take the stand.


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Seitz: Charlie Sheen Has Car Companies Advertising for Him Now
If you look at the arc of his life and work with a coldly scientific, showbiz-historical eye, it's amazing, maybe unprecedented.
Charlie Sheen has been getting away with it for so long that getting away with it was starting to bore him. And so he kicked things up a notch and started rubbing our noses in it. If you doubt this, take a look at the new Fiat ad. I'm tempted to call it the new Charlie Sheen ad, because that's what it's really selling. The title of the Fiat ad is "House Arrest." It portrays Sheen as the freest man alive.
A party in a McMansion is rattled by the roar of an engine. A car zips through the house, tires squealing. The guests stare after it, slack-jawed: This is the most amazing thing they've ever seen. The car screeches to a halt. Close-up of the driver's left leg stepping onto the floor: There's a monitoring bracelet clamped around the ankle. Cut to reveal: Charlie Sheen.
"I love bein' under house arrest!" he says into the camera. He hugs a model, checks her out, and purrs, "What do I get for good behavior?" Then he looks into the camera again with as much of a twinkle as his dead eyes can muster. "Not all bad boys are created equal," the title cards assure us.
Charlie Sheen is no longer an actor. He's a brand. He's such a big star now that car companies are advertising him.
Can you imagine Ryan O'Neal or Mel Gibson appearing in an ad like this? Or Rush Limbaugh? Of course not. Only Sheen could be this brazen. If you look at the arc of his life and work with a coldly scientific, showbiz-historical eye, it's amazing, maybe unprecedented. Sheen is sleaze personified and lavishly compensated: a moral disaster playing himself; William Shatner from hell.
He broke through in 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off, playing a spaced-out stoner who picks up the hero's goody-two-shoes sister in a police station, and with occasional exceptions, such as his work for Oliver Stone, he's continued in that vein ever since. In the late nineties, Sheen got hired to replace Michael J. Fox on Spin City in part because he came with his own pre-established, tabloid-enhanced persona, the hell-raiser who was just barely worth the trouble. Sheen rolled this over into Two and a Half Men playing the Mephistopheles of Malibu, an evangelist for sin. On both sitcoms, his characters were named Charlie. Men kept employing Sheen even after he was accused of violence against his wife* Brooke Mueller, but kicked him to the curb after he insulted his boss in an interview. He walked away with millions and sued for millions more. He tweeted caustic bebop word salad, sold tickets to a non-apology tour, went through rehab yet again, and reemerged on a Comedy Central Friar's Club Roast, making his entrance in an animated credits sequence scored to "Highway to Hell." His forthcoming FX sitcom is Anger Management, the title of which turns his history of drunken rampages and domestic violence allegations into a cutesy marketing ploy. (Which hates women more, the GOP or Hollywood?)
And now Fiat is attaching itself to Sheen, hopping his vampire pixie dust will rub off on their cars. There's Voldemort magic in his career arc. At the rate he's going, he'll be president by 2024, if he doesn't die in a brothel first.
* Corrected to show Mueller was not Sheen's girlfriend, but his wife at the time.


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No one injured as state fireworks safety demo comes to quick end after explosive mishapBy Doug Alden
New Hampshire Union Leader
July 02. 2013 4:16PM
CONCORD - State fire officials demonstrating the dangers of fireworks legal in the state of New Hampshire had an unexpected surprise Tuesday when rain caused one of the explosives to malfunction.
The incident happened when State Fire Marshal William Degnan was showing members of the media the power of reloadable shells, which are designed to shoot a canister into the air that explodes into a shower of light.
Watermelons about the size of a volleyball were placed on top of fireworks about 75 feet away from where reporters stood with Degnan and other fire officials who were part of the safety news conference. The first demonstration went as expected, blowing the watermelon to bits, but the second went awry.
The propulsive blast of the shell destroyed the second watermelon as expected, but the decorative burst took an unexpected turn when several fireballs shot toward the onlookers. One glowing pink ember went almost straight to where Degnan stood behind a table covered with unused fireworks, many of them banned because they are considered too dangerous for the public to use.
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November 14. 2012 10:52PM
The '1 percent': Manchester's tax hike
Amid loud calls for more spending, Manchester's property tax rate rose just 1 percent this year. Nashua's rose by 2.5 percent. The spending caps are working, and taxpayers should be thankful.
This year has been a tough one for Manchester schools as a tight budget and a refusal by the teachers union to consider paying more for health and pension benefits led to layoffs. Those layoffs led to an increase in city class sizes, which led to a protest in which parents called for the city to spend more money to hire more teachers. (It's curious that parents, who on average pay a larger share of their health and retirement costs than teachers do, never protest to demand that teachers pay the same percentages as in the private sector.)
The spending cap, though, prompted aldermen to refrain from simply raising taxes to hire more teachers. They could have voted to override the cap, and they considered it, but they decided it would be too politically risky. Without more revenue, the school board faced reality and made some long overdue changes, such as giving the superintendent more control over curriculum and staffing decisions and voting to allow advertising in schools (see companion editorial).
The spending cap, then, must be the enemy of adequately funding public schools, right? Not at all. In Nashua, which has had a spending cap since 1993, the school district regularly runs a surplus. This year the schools returned $684,468 to the city.
Nashua has learned to budget within its cap most of the time (aldermen sometimes override it). The city budget is not devastated; the schools are not falling apart. Manchester, too, can adequately fund its schools and live within its means. It's up to the aldermen, mayor and school board to make that happen.


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The first bell has just rung at Boston's English High, a school that has been an epic failure for so long that the state has threatened to take it over. A dozen students are gathered in a fluorescent-lit room, and they are loud. So loud that you can hear them all the way down the corridor and through the cafeteria doors. So loud that they drive every thought from your head but one: Dance.
English High has a drumline. Reggie, Miasia, Australia, and the other kids stand behind tenor, bass, and snare drums. Guided through a complicated series of cadences by music teacher Eytan Wurman's whistle, the players weave their beats into a groove that rises up and goes through you. Boom-ba-boom-ba-boom, rat-tat-tat-tat-tat, boom-ba boom-ba-boom, rat-tat-tat.
"It feels good now," Wurman says when they're done and grinning. "Whoo!"
We are halfway through this make-or-break school year. We don't yet know whether Ligia Noriega-Murphy will manage what so many headmasters before her could not – making English High more than the school kids are stuck with when they can't get in anywhere else.
But there are some promising signs. The kids in the drumline, all but one of whom had never played before September, show up — to class, to parades, and to football games, where they pump up bigger crowds than English High has seen in years. At last year's annual Thanksgiving Day game against Boston Latin there was music on both sides of Harvard Stadium for the first time in decades.
It's not skyrocketing test scores or perfect attendance or stellar behavior, all of which English High is still working on. But one thing that seemed impossible just a year ago has happened here. And that one thing has the power to influence others.
"There is the potential for us to gain serious pride in what happens under this roof," says Wurman, who began in September. Kids are more likely to care about a school they feel pride in. And they're more likely to feel confident in other classes if Wurman can teach them to be good at music, a subject in which knowing limited English or repeating ninth grade has no relevance.
In his two years at Boston Latin Academy, Wurman took the school from no choirs to three, plus a chamber singers ensemble. He expanded the band offerings to include three skill levels. At English High, he plans similar growth. He wants to turn the drumline into a full band next year, and eventually introduce an orchestra.
You might be skeptical that he can pull off such feats here. Especially if you sit in on one of the three huge choir classes he teaches every day.
Wurman, a Palo Alto native in his mid-20s, has his students sing songs they know — "Payphone" and "Hall of Fame" — sneaking in music theory along the way: "Can anybody tell me if there is vibrato in this song?" Then he pushes them, into techno, country, or opera.
"O sole mio . . . , " he sings, performing the whole song beautifully. "I got paid five hundred bucks to do that once," he said when the applause died down.
It's working with some of them: Kids who lope into his classroom oozing attitude whoop their way through vocal exercises some might find embarrassing. And at the school's first-ever Winter Gala in December (worth a look at Englishhs.org), a couple dozen teenage boys performed Frank Ocean's "Thinking About You," complete with falsetto chorus.
Then there are the other kids, the boys who keep talking, even after Wurman appeals to them in his very respectful way. And the bored-looking girls who refuse to stand up, let alone sing. At any point, about 20 kids refuse to participate. If Wurman gets these kids to invest, it will be a miracle.
Still, 50 kids seem into it, some of them singing their hearts out.
At English High, some miracles have already happened.Yvonne Abraham is a Globe columnist. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that Wesley Joe Winkle, 34, of Spiro, was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $613,135.37 in restitution for Bank Fraud.
The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The defendant pled guilty in January 2014.
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The Phillies have never been a team that cared much for arbitration hearings.
Their actions leading into today's 1 p.m. deadline to trade numbers with their eligible players seem to support that position.
The Phillies have agreed to a 1-year, $15 million contract with Cole Hamels and also have agreed to a 1-year, $950,000 deal with infielder Wilson Valdez.
CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman was the first to report the Hamels agreement.
According to Heyman, Hamels' deal includes a number of incentive clauses: $100,000 grand for MVP, $250,000 for Cy Young, $100,000 for World Series MVP, $50,000 for LCS MVP, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger or All-Star appearance. Valdez' contract also includes award bonuses.
"I have got no indication that Cole wants to go anywhere and I think Cole knows we want to keep him," general manager Ruben Amaro said on the day the team signed Jimmy Rollins. "I think if you read the quotes I made about Jimmy, they're going to be the same."
Hamels is definitively receptive to a long-term deal to remain with the Phillies. It is likely the two sides will talk again during spring training.
"It's a competitive town and Cole Hamels is a real competitor," said John Boggs, Hamels' San Diego-based agent. "That's what Philly is all about. They like competitors. At the end of the day, that's the biggest attraction for him. That's why he loves it there."
Hamels finished a 3-year, $20.5 million deal this past season in which he made $9.5 million. He went 14-9 with a 2.79 ERA, the lowest of his big-league career as part of the Phillies' vaunted pitching rotation.
His 14 wins gave him at least 10 wins in five straight seasons making him the first Phillies pitcher to do so since Hall of Famer Steve Carlton's 13-year streak from 1972-84.
He remains scheduled to become a free agent after the 2012 season. Indications were that the sides were interested in a long-term deal, and one could still happen.
Valdez, 33, made $560,000 last season and is in his first year of being arbitration-eligible. He hit .249 -- and .330 with runners in scoring position -- in 99 games, but his versatility was a significant boost to the Phillies as they dealt with injuries to Placido Polanco, Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley. Valdez made 33 starts at second base, 21 at third base and 20 at shortstop.
The only other player eligible for arbitration is outfielder Hunter Pence. The sides can agree to a contract up to the start of the hearing, scheduled for the first two weeks in February. Pence filed at $11.8 million; the Phillies at $9 million. The arbitration panel must select either number.
"It's something you really don't focus on," Pence told the Daily News during his baseball camp last month in Texas. "My agents at Beverly Hills Sports Council take care of that. I trust them. I just focus on getting myself ready to play baseball."
Last winter, Pence became the first Astro since Rick Wilkins in 1996 to win an arbitration hearing. He made $6.9 million in 2011. Pence and the Astros went to a hearing last year.


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Has the internet ruined honest debate?
Has the internet ruined honest debate?
The internet connects everyone across the world, making it possible to hold discussions and debate issues more easily than ever. So hypothetically, humanity should be arriving at universally accepted ideas about morals, politics, and religions due to collaboration and analytical dissection on a massive scale. Hypothetically.
But instead what we have is a bunch of willfully ignorant morons shouting their unresearched rhetoric while refusing to consider any ideas but their own. The internet grants us anonymity, which carries with it the delightful trait of having no responsibility. You aren't Joe Smithers of Ohio, ranting about how "fags should leave America." You are xJS2001x, and he can be as bigoted as he wants because there are no repercussions in the digital world.
An actual debate involves considering the other person's point of view and politely expressing why you disagree. Internet debates involve hastily googling something that vaguely supports your idea (found on a geocities domain name) then berating the other person mercilessly for being so ridiculously misguided. And not only is your opponent incorrect, he's also mentally retarded and a homosexual living in his mom's basement. Everyone is a google scholar. You don't have the pressure of answering in a matter of seconds anymore, forcing you to admit that you don't know the answer. Rather, you now have hours under the guise of "I actually HAVE a life. Forgive me for having things to do." And in those few hours, you can piece together enough of everyone else's ideas to present the pretense that these are your ideas.
Everyone is so concerned with "being right" and "winning" the argument that no one cares about discovering the truth of the issue. It's one big dick waving competition where even shrill voiced teens can pretend to be knowledgeable in between shrieking at their mothers for more chocolate milk.
Everyone takes opinions to the extreme now. If you support gay marriage, then you support polygamy and bestiality. If you are pro-choice, then you are pro-murder. Obamacare is extreme socialism. And socialism is the tool for terrorists. And terrorists hate America for our freedom. You can just say the most extreme one-sided sh*t because you aren't held accountable for your opinions. Glenn Beck tried internet debating in real life and ended up crying, crazy, and fired.
"Ain't got no last words to say, yellow streak right up my spine. The gun in my mouth was real and the taste blew my mind."
"We see you cry. We turn your head. Then we slap your face. We see you try. We see you fail. Some things never change."
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RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
Gotta say that that is a profoundly stupid opinion, sir!
You are so very wrong! Are you mentally challenged or just gay? Maybe you can't see the truth if there are no windows in your mum's cellar?
Sorry that I didn't get back to you immediately but ... I have a life!
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RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
I wouldn't say it's ruined it. However, it makes it easier for dishonest people to be dishonest much faster and cherry pick and look for any bits and bites of data that agree with them, even if they don't look into it.
For those looking for honest debate, the internet has also made it easier as you can easily find a reputable source of data (university, lab, science, etc) that is peer reviewed and available (if we consider something like science as the subject for said debate).
For instance: If I wanted to be a dishonest debater in regards to evolution, I could easily go out and find one of the many thousands of sites full of pseudo science. If I wanted to be an honest debater I could easily say: "Let me figure out more about that and get back to you." go out, look on something like Yale or Berkley on their various university research articles, or go find one of the major foundations that studies it. You could easily spend days, weeks, months etc looking into it so that you could honestly study the source of info.
Prior to the age of technology we would be limited to writing a letter, waiting for correspondence, or waiting for a book to arrive. Perhaps the information wasn't what we wanted, we would then have to re-initiate correspondence to look for more data. There is of course the library too, however, in comparison to the internet, they are limited to what a local community can provide.
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RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
It's easy to find an echo chamber (like this one!) that feeds you information you want to hear. Still, there are open forums where anyone is free to comment and competing views can be presented. We're also still suffering from the September that Never Ended[1]. Perhaps when a generation grows up that has been taught enough netiquette in school things will settle down. We might have to wait 30 to a hundred years for the Internet to calm down. Unfortunately there is also a feedback loop with extremism in broader society that isn't helping things.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
Give me your argument in the form of a published paper, and then we can start to talk.
RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
I think the only universally acknowledge issue presented by the internet is the one mentioned in the OP. The ability to immediately chuck partial sources out there from the quick google search. It's defeat-able but it makes a serious debate more challenging since you're not actually debating the person and their acquired knowledge but the speed to which they can out google you. Forcing you to read through shit tons of incorrect linked data.
Other than that I think we all group together like in life, finding people who socialize with one another the same way we would in real life. Like here for instance. There are certain groups that socialize and some that take part in multiple groups and others who only stay within their comfort zones. Every once in a while people cross into territory where they don't mesh well and that usually results in internet frustrations. Or youtube is another great example. Just go to an atheist video (not a christian one or muslim because they both more often then not disable ratings and comments...) look at the debates. Some are genuinely decent and you can tell two people or more have actually found a comfort zone of debate, most suck ass because one of the debate partners or both are debate douche trolls. Youtube is such a broad place to be, there is no one topic that draws people there so the personalities are so vast and diverse people rarely have genuine debate, it's usually everything mentioned in the OP. People have a harder time finding their spots at that place because it's so vast and the sense of community is sparse. It's like a big city versus a small town.
"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments." -Jim Morrison
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RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
Be a little sociable and you'll see that throughout the world it has always been like the internet. The difference is that the assholes are heard better with lasting statements rather than whispers behind breath, or quiet discussions among friends. These voices have always been around, it's just that the internet allows the small opinion much more priority. It is the curse and blessing that the internet age has brought that allows those who would rarely be heard to be noticed. Sadly most who we normally wouldn't pay attention to truly don't deserve any attention.
Serious debates stil happen within the internet ,and there are plenty of users who will defend their position with actual evidence. Not only do there exist people who are truly capable on the internet available to discuss things with those who would run in fear in person, but also the internet in general allows any passive observer to learn much more than they previously could. By going and seeking out the sources and finding out all the words they weren't aware of. I'd say the age of the internet has made serious debate more worthwhile for the masses.
I'm not a non believer, I believe in the possibility of anything. I just don't let the actuality of something be determined by a 3rd party.
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RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
Great thread, BC.
I think your point about anonymity is right on the money. Take a look at the comments section for any YouTube video dealing with politics, sexuality, religion, social issues--more often than not it's a cesspool of bigotry and ugliness. With the complete removal of responsibility that anonymity provides, the constraints of civilized society disappear as well. People seem to delight in the chance to act like assholes, saying things they'd never say if their name were attached. Call it the titillation of the forbidden.
(A related situation comes to mind: Twenty years ago, following the infamous Rodney King verdict, we had some of the worst riots in this country here in Los Angeles. Driving home from work that night on the freeway, I felt genuine fear--the only time in 40+ years in this city I've experienced that. I could see the flames of burning neighborhoods in the distance, but that wasn't what scared me; it was the way people were driving. It was as if someone had suddenly rescinded all the rules: cars were driving on the shoulders, lanes no longer existed. No cops were around. It was a free-for-all. I had the frightening feeling society was breaking down around me.)
Something else that figures into the sorry state of discussion these days is the idea that everyone is supposed to have an opinion about everything, and that everyone's opinion is worth listening to. You may be a professional ditch-digger (not that there's anything wrong with that), but sooner or later some survey taker is going to ask you your opinion on man-made global warming, or some TV reporter is going to stick a microphone in your face and ask if you think the MMR vaccine causes autism. And in such situations, apparently the one unacceptable answer is "I don't know." Yes, it's a free country and everyone is entitled to an opinion--in the sense that you can believe what you like and express your beliefs without fear of being thrown into jail. But that doesn't mean that all your opinions have value. Some things are appropriately left to experts and professionals. That's not elitism--it's reality.
But more than anything, I think the problem lies in the word "debate" itself. And it's considerably older than the Internet.
"Debate" is exactly the wrong model for discussion, at least for the kind of discussion where the parties involved are genuinely seeking the truth. Because a debate is a competition. A game. A sport. It's all about scoring points. And in the end, there's a winner and a loser. High-school and college debates may be fun and may even teach valuable life lessons (like how to get people to come around to your way of thinking, clearly a useful skill in a competition-driven society), but they have nothing to do with truth-seeking. They're team sports, and like other sports they have coaches, venues, spectators, cheering squads.
The problem occurs when this becomes the model for all discussion. In other words, you stake out a position, the stronger the better, and stick to it. You bring in whatever evidence supports your position and ignore or try to hide whatever supports the other guy's. Watch the typical "talking head" discussion on any news channel. They invite the most extreme representatives of the two sides of an issue and have them go at each other like gladiators in the Coliseum. Can anyone even imagine one of these pundits listening to the other and saying, "Hmm. Interesting. I hadn't thought of that before. I see your point." It's inconceivable. And if anyone ever did say that on the radio or TV, what do you think the chances would be of their ever getting another such gig?
One of the reasons I like TTA is that people here sometimes do engage in real discussion rather than in debate--and that's pretty rare these days.
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RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
Hence why I am skilled in the ways of trolling. When I encounter such a person who is unable to provide a proper arguement and resorts too "I have a life" I simply troll them into oblivion making them rage quit.
Twice the anger, Half the space!
RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
It seems like it is easy to blame something like the internet for why debate has degraded into petty slams and name-calling.
No..the internet has not ruined anything just as records and cd's did not ruin music.
I don't even blame anonymity for poor debate either, if anything I blame the attitudes of people who will post deliberately hurtful and/or inflammatory remarks just so they can see their words on the screen for all too see.
There are those who feel that just because they experienced something, they then think that something is true or real. On the other end of the spectrum there are those who feel that if you don't have a gegree in a particular field then you are just supposed to sit down and shut up because after all, if you haven't been to school to study said topic then you are obviously just an uneducated twat.
Peoples attitudes are to blame, not technology.
Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return.
To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.
That is Alchemy's first law of Equivalent Exchange.
RE: Has the internet ruined honest debate?
I think the internet actually has improved the debate, yes, there's 4chan and the youtube comment section, but I see people wanting to debate and willing to participate in a conversation, even if they have trolling intentions.
I think the general low quality debate is not a consequence of the internet but a previous condition of society, back then when regular people didn't have a chance to talk except with their closest social circle, debate took place in some secluded halls in some hard to access places by some highly educated people, now everyone talks, and therefore, the general debate skills show up, and they're not what we expected to be. As a society, we are not as educated or as intelligent or as homogeneous as we thought, we're rude and extremist, but eventually, I hope, this will change, because now everyone talks, and someday that global conversation will bring some good stuff... and the eventual destruction of the human race by the alien zombiebots invasion of course, but that's a different topic
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March 10. 2014 9:27PM
Manchester man who defrauded banks in mortgage foreclosure scheme gets 6 years
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
MANCHESTER — A Manchester man who duped banks out of millions in a scheme that targeted people facing foreclosure was sentenced to six years in federal prison on Monday.
At times tearful, Michael Prieto told a federal judge that his wife had divorced him and moved away with their two children, his mother has mortgaged the family home to pay his legal bills, and he has nothing.
"I did not intend for this business to be part of any crime," Prieto said at U.S. District Court in Concord. "I stand before you sorrowful, humiliated, defeated."
Last year, a jury convicted Prieto of mail fraud. His companies convinced homeowners facing foreclosure to sign over their deeds with the expectation they could stay in their house for reduced rent, get their finances in order and buy back the house.
In actuality, he flipped the house to straw buyers, who received $5,000 to apply for second mortgages on the properties. Prieto took the cash from the mortgages, stripping the homes of any equity. When he stopped paying the mortgages and the banks foreclosed, the original owners had no idea what had taken place.
His lawyer, defense attorney Michael Iacopino, has argued the business model would have worked had real estate values kept climbing at 10 to 15 percent a year.
"The market was very hot. Most of the lending institutions pretty much threw caution to the wind," Iacopino said about the 2000s, when the scheme was at its height.
In court papers, prosecutors said Prieto's effort involved 54 properties; banks and mortgage companies lost $5.6 million.
But Iacopino said the figure was much less. Using another calculation, Iacopino put the losses at $2.37 million. District Court Judge Steven McAuliffe based restitution on that number, and left it open for further revision.
McAuliffe chastised Prieto for saying he did not intend to commit a crime. He called Prieto's actions calculated, organized and persistent.
"You knew what you were doing," McAuliffe said. He said others were injured who won't benefit from restitution. The straw buyers ended up with ruined credit. And homeowners lost an opportunity to reclaim their homes.
Prosecutors have said the banks ended up with heavily mortgaged properties with little equity. They included RBS, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank, Chase and SunTrust.
Prieto, who plans to appeal the verdict, will have to pay restitution at the rate of $200 a month once he is freed from prison. He was ordered to report to federal prison on April 5, but he could be granted his freedom while the case is on appeal.
Many of his extended family members — he grew up in a Nashua in a family of 10 brothers and sisters — attended Monday's hearing. Many relatives wrote letters vouching for Prieto. They include his brother Joseph, a Manchester lawyer, and his uncle, the Rev. Vincent Tobin, a Catholic priest who presided at Prieto's wedding at St. Peter's Basilica in 2001.


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HP CEO Meg Whitman stunned both investors and partners last week when she announced that HP was taking an $8.8 billion charge after discovering what she called "serious accounting improprieties" by Autonomy, the cloud computing enterprise software company HP acquired last year for $11.1 billion. The news sent HP shares down 12 percent to $11.71, the lowest level in more than a decade.
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Stratum: More with less
Stratum is a design solution to what most cripples geometric sans serifs: the lowercase. So commonplace are the blocked and clogged companions to the capitals that one could be forgiven if they were taken for a feature and not a bug of the genre at this point. From a type designers standpoint, their continued presence is perplexing but understandable: forego the geometry and you're left with a lowercase unlike the capitals. But what to do? Forget the geometric shapes and just make it work? Or maybe Morris Fuller Benton was onto something when he didn't include a lowercase with Bank Gothic...
These are the ideas and frustrations that led to the development of Stratum. As with most projects initiated to solve long-standing problems, the road to a final solution was not direct. And so it was somewhere between scrapping the project altogether and omitting the baseline stem terminations of the b,d,p,q characters that it became clear the geometry itself should be ignored – at least for some of the characters. The solution is simple but effective: merge the oval corners of the lowercase to the stems without breaking the curve while using the geometry as a guide and not a solution. The result is a hybrid of sorts that honors the clean curves of the ovals while delivering a legible lowercase in all six weights.
But what about the caps? You'll notice in our specimens that they're featured prominently and for good reason: geometric capitals are ideal for headlines. If you suspect a bias for capitals on our part you're right. We love that capitals remain crisp in all weights so it should come as no surprise that much of our efforts with the lowercase came from a desire to have a set of powerful geometric capitals in our library.
Astute viewers will notice we've made a distinction within the family by offering Stratum 1 and Stratum 2. The differences between the two are simple: Stratum 1 features sharp terminations on the lowercase ascenders, descenders and on key terminations between the uppercase and lowercase. Stratum 2 on the other hand does not. All terminations are flat throughout for a uniform feel. When purchased as a group, the second is included at an 80% discount.
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- Released: 2004
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Stratum 1 and Stratum 2 differ only in stroke terminations. Stratum 1 has sharp terminations while Stratum 2 has flat terminations.


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This joyous performance will do more for fashion's health than Femen stunts - The Newport International Group - Blog - DESIGN 21: Social Design Network
Rick Owens's designs for a team of athletes achieved far more during Paris fashion week than Femen's topless protest
Fashion week is one of those things that completely dominate your life for eight weeks of every year. (That's four cities, twice around, in spring and autumn.) Or else it catches your eye from the middle shelf of your supermarket's print section every once in a while.
If you're a fashion journalist or designer, chances are you've been living on instant ramen and Alka-Seltzer for the past month, observing "momentous" shifts. If you're anybody else, absolutely nothing has changed. There's a disconnect between real time and fashion time that makes it difficult for things that might seem fantastically controversial during fashion week to cross over into the mainstream.
To the fashion press, Marc Jacobs dressing Cara Delavigne and Georgia Jagger in flat shoes with thick, straw-coloured bobbed wigs was a pivotal moment in New York this season. To the rest of the world, it was a couple of people with scarecrow hair.
I'm sure you get the point. It's hard for fashion to hold people's attention for longer than the 15 seconds it takes to describe what Victoria Beckham wore to dinner with Karl Lagerfeld last night. Of course, we've learned to acknowledge the economic importance of fashion. Because, while the manic month of shows is about as familiar to most of us as the idea of buying a Saint Laurent tube dress for £1,500, the fashion industry is a behemoth of employment.
We're also learning about the importance of the representation of women in the industry. There is still a distinct lack of diversity – from the high street right up to the shows. White models outnumber all other ethnicities combined. And the line that fashion is for thin people might be the most tired of clichés, but that doesn't stop it from being 100% accurate.
Fashion is certainly a wonderful expression of art and culture and anyone who brushes it off as entirely shallow or frivolous is missing the point – but inclusive and accessible it is not.
Which is why those with a keen interest in the industry become especially alert when fashion stories go mainstream? And those moments are, more often than not, to do with issues of female representation. Heroin chic is an obvious example, which directed the public's gaze to the protruding ribs of its fashion icons. John Galliano's anti-Semitic rant was another. In fact, anorexia, drugs and racism are the three main reasons my dad might call me up to inquire nervously whether I really think it's a good idea to aspire to being a fashion editor.
Sure, it can be a pretty cruel world. Which is probably why nobody was particularly surprised to see Femen, the feminist protest group, storming the catwalk at Nina Ricci in Paris on Friday, chests daubed with the messages: "Model don't go to brothel" and "Fashion Dictaterror".
It's not hard to see how Femen would come to the conclusion that the fashion industry is a hostile, intolerant place; and, in the past few years, there has been some pretty depressing coverage of just how bad it can be. The recent documentary, Girl Model, featuring 13-year-old girls scouted in Siberia and sent to Japan where they're swindled into running up huge debts by agencies, isn't a particularly reassuring snapshot of the modeling world. The fact that so many of these young girls are forced into the sex trade because they're left to fend for themselves, broke in a country where they can't even read the road signs, is certainly good reason to highlight unhealthy attitudes towards women.


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NAM 18: Pluto has carbon monoxide in its atmosphere
A British-based team of astronomers has discovered carbon monoxide gas in the atmosphere of Pluto, after a worldwide search lasting for nearly two decades. Team leader Dr Jane Greaves of the University of St Andrews will present the new discovery in her talk on Wednesday 20 April at the National Astronomy Meeting in Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Wales.
Pluto was discovered in 1930 and then considered as the Sun's smallest and most distant planet. Since 2006 it has been regarded by astronomers as a 'dwarf planet', one of a handful of such bodies with sizes of hundreds of kilometres that orbit in the distant reaches of the Solar System, out beyond Neptune. Pluto is the only dwarf planet known to have an atmosphere, found in 1988 when it dimmed the light of a distant star before Pluto passed in front of it.
The new results, obtained at the 15-metre James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, show a strong signal of carbon monoxide gas. Previously the atmosphere was known to be over a hundred kilometres thick, but the new data raise this height to more than 3000 kilometres - a quarter of the way out to Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The gas is extremely cold, about -220 degrees Centigrade. A big surprise for the team was that the signal is more than twice as strong as an upper limit obtained by another group, who used the IRAM 30-metre telescope in Spain in 2000.
"It was thrilling to see the signal gradually emerge as we added in many nights of data", said Dr Jane Greaves, the team leader from the University of St Andrews, "The change in brightness over the last decade is startling. We think the atmosphere may have grown in size, or the carbon monoxide abundance may have been boosted." Such changes have been seen before but only in the lower atmosphere, where methane - the only other gas ever positively identified - has also been seen to vary.
In 1989 Pluto made its closest approach to the Sun, a comparatively recent event given that it takes 248 years to complete each orbit. The gases probably result from solar heating of surface ice, which evaporates as a consequence of the slightly higher temperatures during this period. The resulting atmosphere is probably the most fragile in the Solar System, with the top layers blowing away into space.
"The height to which we see the carbon monoxide agrees well with models of how the solar wind strips Pluto's atmosphere" commented team member Dr Christiane Helling, also of the University of St Andrews.
Unlike the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide acts as a coolant, while methane absorbs sunlight and so produces heating. The balance between the two gases, which are just trace elements in what is thought to be a nitrogen-dominated atmosphere, is critical for its fate during the many-decades long seasons. The newly discovered carbon monoxide may hold the key to slowing loss of the atmosphere - but if the chilling effect is too great, it could result in nitrogen snowfalls and all the gases freezing out onto the ground. "Seeing such an example of extra-terrestrial climate-change is fascinating", says Dr Greaves. "This cold simple atmosphere that is strongly driven by the heat from the Sun could give us important clues to how some of the basic physics works, and act as a contrasting test-bed to help us better understand the Earth's atmosphere."
The data were obtained with the JCMT's 'receiver A', an instrument that has been in regular operation since the 1990s. Dr Per Friberg, who designed new observing modes and data analysis procedures for the team, commented "This shows how we can make the best use of telescopes and keep making unexpected discoveries." The JCMT is operated jointly by the UK, Canada and the Netherlands and is approaching its twenty-fifth anniversary. The team have another Pluto observing run scheduled at the JCMT for the end of April, and in the long-term, they hope to continue tracking the changes in the atmosphere at least up to the fly-by of NASA's New Horizons space probe in 2015.
Science contacts
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Dr Christiane Helling
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Press contacts
NAM 2011 Press Office (0900 – 1730 BST, 18-21 April only)
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An artist's impression of Pluto and its atmosphere and a graph of the discovery data are available from http://www-star.st-and.ac.uk/~jsg5/Pluto.html
Further information
The results will appear in "Discovery of carbon monoxide in the upper atmosphere of Pluto", Greaves J. S., Helling Ch., Friberg P. A, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in press.
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Bringing together around 500 astronomers and space scientists, the RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2011 (NAM 2011: http://www.ras.org.uk/nam-2011) will take place from 17-21 April in Venue Cymru (http://www.venuecymru.co.uk), Llandudno, Wales. The conference is held in conjunction with the UK Solar Physics (UKSP: http://www.uksolphys.org) and Magnetosphere Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial Physics (MIST: http://www.mist.ac.uk) meetings. NAM 2011 is principally sponsored by the RAS and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC: http://www.stfc.ac.uk).
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The work of a noted wildlife photographer and Nebraska native is being featured in an exhibit at the Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The exhibition, "Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild," by Michael Forsberg opens Friday. It will run through March 30, and the artist will be present for a First Friday reception on March 1.
Forsberg's works feature wild creatures and landscapes of the Great Plains region. The exhibit hold 60 large color photographs from Forsberg's collection.
Forsberg is a Nebraska native and graduate of UNL with a degree in geography and an emphasis in environmental studies.