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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Radiation, rusty metal seen in tsunami-hit reactor
[unable to retrieve full-text content]TOKYO (AP) ? Radiation-blurred images taken inside one of Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear reactors Thursday showed steam, unidentified parts and rusty metal surfaces scarred by 10 months' exposure to heat and humidity.
NYC killer admits final crime: subway slashing
NEW YORK (AP) ? A man who had already acknowledged killing four people in a rampage of stabbings, carjackings and other crimes has admitted slashing a subway passenger at the end of his violent spree across New York City.
Maksim Gelman pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted murder in Manhattan. He is expected to get 25 years in prison, to be served after his sentence for the killings and other crimes. He is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn for those; he faces 100 years in prison.
With Tuesday's plea, Gelman, 24, resolved a lingering legal remnant of what Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. called a "horrific crime spree."
Yelling "You're going to die!" Gelman abruptly attacked subway rider Joseph Lozito on a train on Feb. 12, at the end of his 28-hour rampage across the city, according to a court complaint. Lozito suffered head and arm wounds that required dozens of staples and stitches, but the martial arts buff told reporters he helped knock Gelman down with a leg swipe.
"I wasn't going to go down without a fight," Lozito told the New York Post from his hospital bed.
Police were already close on Gelman's trail, as passengers on the subway had recognized him from newspaper photographs and had alerted authorities. Officers tackled him shortly after his attack on Lozito.
The capture ended a rampage that started a day earlier with a family argument over the use of Gelman's mother's car, police said.
After killing his stepfather in the family's Brooklyn apartment, Gelman went to the Brooklyn home of a female acquaintance whose friends have said he was obsessed with her. Gelman killed the woman's mother, then waited hours for the 20-year-old daughter to return and stabbed her 11 times.
Gelman drove away, rear-ended another car and stabbed its driver when he confronted Gelman, police said. The driver survived.
Stealing the wounded man's car, Gelman drove off and plowed into a pedestrian who died from his injuries, police said. After abandoning the car, Gelman later hailed a livery cab and attacked its driver, then approached another car, attacked a man inside and hijacked the car, police said. Both men survived.
After his arrest, Gelman told police he had cancer, lamented his family life, said he wished police had shot him and warned an officer to "stay away from angel dust," a street term for the powerful hallucinogen PCP, prosecutors said in an account of Gelman's remarks filed in court last year.
In short, "I've had a doozy of a day," Gelman told officers, the document said.
All the attacks except the subway stabbing were in Brooklyn, where Gelman unexpectedly pleaded guilty in December to murder and other charges.
The subway stabbing was a separate case because it happened in Manhattan.
Gelman's lawyer, Laura H. Stasior, declined to comment.
Gelman answered the judge's basic questions but said nothing else.
He remains jailed without bail while awaiting sentencing.
Gelman was born in the Ukraine but became a naturalized U.S. citizen about six years ago, police said.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Astronomers Are Hunting for Exomoons with Kepler's Help (Time.com)
The universe seems almost infinitely reductive: our galaxy rotates around a central hub, planets orbit their planet stars, moons orbit their parent planets, and the odd moonlet may even orbit a moon.
Almost from the moment astronomers began finding planets around distant stars, they thus began talking about the moons that might orbit those alien worlds. It wasn't that they had any hope of discovering something as tiny as a moon: the smallest things they could find at the time were giant planets like Jupiter. But if a Jupiter happened to orbit in its star's Goldilocks Zone, where temperatures were relatively balmy, and if that Jupiter happened to have a moon about the size of Earth -- not impossible, surely -- then that hypothetical moon might have a chance of harboring life. That's a lot of ifs, which made talk of so-called exomoons seem like more of a marketing gimmick designed to gin up public interest in exoplanet science than a serious area of research. (See 2011's best photos from space.)
Not any more, though. Thanks to the exquisite precision of the orbiting Kepler space telescope, the prospect of finding exomoons has finally come within reach and the search is now officially on. Speaking at this week's American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Harvard astrophysicist David Kipping announced a new project called the Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler, or HEK. "We actually have no idea how common moons are in other planetary systems," says Kipping -- but we could be on the verge of finding out.
Kipping had started thinking about exomoons even before Kepler was launched in 2009. "It was my entire Ph.D., more or less, at University College, London," he says. He was originally thinking about transits -- the passage of a planet in front of its star, which is just what Kepler was designed to look for as a sign that the planet exists at all. In particular, Kipping was wondering about what might make a transit last longer or shorter than you might expect. "It dawned on me," he recalls, "that if a planet had a moon, that could cause a speedup or a slowdown." (See photos of the universe, to scale.)
The reason: if a moon happens to be leading the planet as it passes by, it will pull the planet across the face of the star a little faster than average. If it happens to be following, it will hold the planet back. Not only that; whether the moon is leading or trailing, the silhouette of the planet and moon will be wider than that of a planet alone -- the planet-moon system will block more of the star's light. If the moon is directly in between the planet and the gaze of Kepler, on the other hand, or if it's between the planet and the star, more starlight will reach Kepler's sensors -- and the moon itself will not be visible.
For these reasons, astronomers need to see the planet pass around the star several times so that the changes in speed caused by a moon can be compared with an average speed, and so that moons that are completely hidden on one pass can have a chance to show themselves on the next. That takes time, which is why Kepler scientists need patience, but it's worth the wait. (See photos of a new planetary nebula that dazzles astronomers.)
"By combining all this," says Kipping, "you can infer a lot. You can directly measure the mass of the star, planet and moon." That's crucial, because while Kepler can gauge the size of a planet (or a planet-size moon) by how much light it blocks, the space telescope can't judge the object's mass -- which, in turn, makes it possible to calculate its density. Without that information, you can't figure out what it's made of -- and that's critical. Planets or moons made mostly of gas will not have the same likelihood of supporting life as those made mostly of water or rock or a mix of all three. The gravitational pull or drag of a moon on its parent planet adds a critical clue to gravity -- which in turn adds further clues to mass and composition.
While the HEK project has just been formally announced, it's actually been going on for some time. "We've already got some two dozen candidate signals," says Kipping. These were all culled from from Kepler's public database -- many of them by amateur sleuths who frequent a website called planethunters.org. "These guys have incredible patience, incredible skill," says Kipping. "They've become experts at finding signals amidst the noise -- some of the best in the world."
One of the very best, says Kipping, is Allan Schmitt, a retired software engineer formally credited as a co-author on the scientific paper announcing HEK, and listed as "Citizen Science/Planet Hunter." Of the four most promising signals the team is looking into says Kipping, Schmidt found three. "He's a fantastic contributor." (Read "Space Discovery: 36 Light-Years Away, the Most Earthlike World Yet?")
Kipping had been hoping to present an actual discovery at this week's astronomy conference, but, he says, "we've hit a wall. We can't really confirm any discoveries, but there are some we can't rule out." As it happens, though, the Kepler mission released a flood of new observations just as the conference was getting under way. Armed with that extra data, the HEK team should be able to say something definitive, maybe within months.
"It's a really fun time for me," says Kipping, "because I've been working on the theory of moon detection for such a long time. The last few months have been the most exhilarating time of my career." The next few should be even better.
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Rock Hall of Fame opens archives to public (AP)
CLEVELAND ? The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such "artifacts" as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour.
The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos, and is housed in the new four-story, $12 million building.
Thousands more books and recordings and hundreds of videos will be added as previously stored items and new donations are catalogued, said Andy Leach, director of the library and archives.
"We hope to serve music scholars, teachers, students and the general public," Leach said. "We hope to see all of them here."
Tuesday's opening of the building on the Cuyahoga Community College campus in Cleveland, not far from the Rock Hall, occurred without a lot of fanfare. The low-key opening allows the public to enjoy the library before a grand opening April 9. The college funded the building, which the library and archives share with the college's Center for Creative Arts. The Rock Hall financed construction and furnishings of the interior of its section of the building.
The library also offers photos, albums and covers, oral histories and scrap books.
Leach said the Rock Hall has done a great job of telling the story of rock `n' roll. He said he sees the library as bringing the museum more recognition and showing "it to be a serious place of research."
The library collection also includes movie posters, photos and memorabilia related to Alan Freed, the DJ credited with coining the phrase rock `n' roll; a handwritten list by Elvis Presley of songs included in one of his concerts; and personal letters from artists including Mick Jagger.
Visitors will not be allowed to check out items, but anyone can use the library reading room to browse through books, listen to audio recordings and watch videos. A smaller archives reading room allows supervised access to certain items.
Steve Waksman, an associate professor of music and American studies at Smith College in Massachusetts, did research at the library prior to its opening for his book on the history of American live music.
"It was very useful, with material that I haven't found anywhere else," Waksman said Tuesday. "They had a lot of material regarding the stage sets of music performers from the `60s and the `70s, such as David Bowie and the Rolling Stones."
Elizabeth Papp Taylor, 53, of Shaker Heights, was at the library opening day.
"I'm looking forward to coming back for a look at the archives, but my first visit was exciting," she said in a phone interview. "It's very impressive."
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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Father of Calif. killings suspect is also homeless (AP)
YORBA LINDA, Calif. ? Just days before being arrested, a Marine veteran suspected in the deaths of four homeless men in Southern California visited his father, who is himself homeless, warning of the danger of being on the streets and showing him a picture of one of the victims.
"He was very worried about me," Refugio Ocampo, 49, told The Associated Press on Sunday. "I told him, `Don't worry. I'm a survivor. Nothing will happen to me.'"
The father also said his son came back a changed man after serving in Iraq, expressing disillusionment and becoming ever darker as his family life frayed and he struggled to find his way as a civilian.
The father said he lost his job and home, and ended up living under a bridge before finding shelter in the cab of a broken-down big-rig he is helping repair.
His 23-year-old son, Itzcoatl Ocampo, is awaiting charges in connection with the serial killings of four homeless men since late December.
He was arrested Jan. 13 after a locally known homeless man, John Berry, 64, was stabbed to death outside a Carl's Jr. restaurant in Anaheim. Bystanders gave chase, and police made the arrest.
Refugio Ocampo said that on Jan. 11 his son came to him with a picture of the first victim, 53-year-old James Patrick McGillivray, who was killed on Dec. 20.
"'This is what's happening,'" the father quoted his son as saying.
Itzcoatl Ocampo had been living with his mother, uncle, and younger brother and sister in a rented house on a horse ranch surrounded by the sprawling suburbs of Yorba Linda. At the humble home, his mother, who speaks little English, tearfully brought her son's Marine Corps dress uniform out of a closet and showed unit photos, citations and medals from his military service.
The son followed a friend into the Marine Corps right out of high school in 2006 instead of going to college as his father had hoped. Itzcoatl Ocampo was discharged in 2010 and returned home to find his family in disarray, the father said.
That same month, Itzcoatl Ocampo's friend, Cpl. Claudio Patino IV, 22, of Yorba Linda, was killed in combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.
"Once he received the news he was never the same," said the suspect's younger brother, 17-year-old Mixcoatl Ocampo. He said his brother visited Patino's grave twice a week.
Refugio and Mixcoatl both described a physical condition Itzcoatl suffered in which his hands shook and he suffered headaches. Medical treatments helped until he started drinking heavily, both said.
"He started drinking like crazy, too much, way too much," the father said.
A neighbor who is a Vietnam veteran and the father both tried to push Itzcoatl to get treatment at a Veterans hospital, but he refused. Refugio Ocampo said he wanted his son to get psychological treatment as well.
"He started talking about stuff that didn't make any sense, that the end of the world was going to happen," he said.
While Refugio Ocampo lives away from his family, they remain close. He saw his children every day, and his wife brings food to the parking lot where the truck is located in the city of Fullerton. He and his two sons went to get haircuts together just a day before the arrest, the father said.
Refugio Ocampo, who said he was educated as a lawyer in Mexico, immigrated with his wife and Itzcoatl in 1988 and became a U.S. citizen. He described building a successful life in which he became a warehouse manager and bought a home in Yorba Linda. In the past few years he lost his job, ran out of savings, lost his house and separated from his wife.
Standing near the truck where he sleeps, the father fought back tears as he described the changes he saw in his son in the year since returning home.
"Before, he had the initiative to do things, the desire. But after the military, he didn't have any of that," he said.
That was far from the son who in high school was a polite and motivated student, he said.
A school friend, Brian Doyle, portrayed Itzcoatl Ocampo as a fun-loving teen who liked to hit on girls when he joined the military. After he was discharged and returned home he became isolated and trusted no one, Doyle, 23, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
Doyle had difficulty describing the change he saw in his friend from high school.
"He went from being a tall, geeky kid, really fun-loving...," he said, trailing off.
Doyle said he once offered his friend a self-help book based on Eastern philosophy that he had found useful but Itzcoatl Ocampo rejected it.
Doyle said he tried to find out what was going on with his friend but didn't press it, never imagining something like the serial killings.
"Everyone's got their issues, you know," he said.
Refugio Ocampo said investigators came to him on Friday night and showed him surveillance photos from a crime scene, but he did not recognize his son as the person in the images.
"If he did it, it wasn't right, obviously. But there's something wrong with him," he said.
In addition to Berry and McGillivray, Lloyd Middaugh, 42, was killed near a riverbed trail in Anaheim on Dec. 28; and Paulus Smit, 57, was found dead outside a Yorba Linda library on Dec. 30.
Anaheim Police Chief John Welter has said investigators are confident they have the man responsible for the string of murders that struck fear into Orange County's homeless since Dec. 20. Prosecutors have yet to file charges.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Penn State president assures alumni he's listening
Penn State President Rodney Erickson speaks to an alumni group in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. This was the third town hall style event he held in three days. He previously made stops in Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia, answering questions from the audience in sometimes heated exchanges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Penn State President Rodney Erickson speaks to an alumni group in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. This was the third town hall style event he held in three days. He previously made stops in Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia, answering questions from the audience in sometimes heated exchanges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Penn State President Rodney Erickson speaks to an alumni group in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. This was the third town hall style event he held in three days. He previously made stops in Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia, answering questions from the audience in sometimes heated exchanges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Matt Kalafat of Scotch Plains, N.J. , a Penn State graduate from 1991, listens to Penn State University President Rodney Erickson as he speaks to an alumni group in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. This was the third town hall style event he held by Erickson in three days. He previously made stops in Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia, answering questions from the audience in sometimes heated exchanges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Matt Kalafat of Scotch Plains, N.J., a Penn State graduate from 1991, speaks about his concerns that people are portraying fired football coach Joe Paterno as a victim as he speaks to an alumni group meeting attended by Penn State President Rodney Erickson in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. This was the third town hall style event he held by Erickson in three days. He previously made stops in Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia, answering questions from the audience in sometimes heated exchanges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Attorney Virginia Alvarez of Levittown, N.Y., a 1997 Penn State graduate, becomes emotional as she directs a question to university President Rodney Erickson, asking if fired Penn State football coach Joe Paterno received due process as the university president spoke to an alumni group in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2012. This was the third town hall style event he held in three days. He previously made stops in Pittsburgh and suburban Philadelphia, answering questions from the audience in sometimes heated exchanges. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
NEW YORK (AP) ? Penn State President Rodney Erickson assured frustrated alumni that he was a good listener.
Erickson heard the same themes over and over in three cities in three days of often tense meetings with the university's graduates.
Why hasn't the Board of Trustees been more accountable? Why wasn't the school's public relations response better prepared when officials knew a former football assistant coach was being investigated?
And, of course: Why was Joe Paterno fired?
Erickson faced about 300 alums in a packed hotel ballroom in lower Manhattan on Friday night, the last stop on a road trip intended to calm anger about how the university has dealt with a child sex abuse scandal involving longtime defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.
Instead, the sessions have triggered more anguish and another round of introspection for the people who love the school and its football program.
The questions Friday were similar to the previous two nights in Pittsburgh and outside Philadelphia. A teary-eyed woman asked: "How do you explain the lack of due process for Joe Paterno?" That drew sustained if not unanimous applause.
"I can assure you that as I go back to the Penn State campus, I will think deeply about the messages you have provided me," Erickson said in his closing remarks. "I have listened well. I listen and I learn. I hope you all keep that faith that we will move forward."
He ended things by saying: "We're going to be OK." That drew a big ovation.
The school has yet to start making plans on how to honor Paterno, Erickson said earlier, though he promised again that a tribute was coming. As in previous meetings, the president spent several minutes listing the university's many accomplishments in academics and athletics.
But that was little solace to alumni distressed by the way the scandal has overshadowed all that.
The perceived lack of communication by trustees in the two months since Paterno's firing Nov. 9 has roiled many graduates.
"Honestly, I feel like I was given the company line," Virginia Alvarez, a lawyer from the Class of 1997 who asked the question about due process, said afterward. "I don't feel like we have the answers. I think the people who need to call into question are the Board of Trustees. Show us the minutes of those meetings."
Erickson emphasized that the trustees are his bosses, and not the other way around. He explained how the university's land-grant history resulted in the composition of the board, which includes nine of 32 trustees elected by alumni. The charter would have to be altered to change that, he said.
Appointed president after the scandal also cost Graham Spanier his job, Erickson plans to retire in 2014.
He reiterated that he supported the trustees' decision to fire Paterno.
"There comes a time to look at more than legal issues and look at the ability to lead, and I think at that point ability to lead was compromised," he said. "That in no way should reflect my feelings about the wonderful things Joe has contributed over the years."
Erickson offered his best wishes to Paterno, saying he was "very sad" to hear the Hall of Famer was readmitted to the hospital Friday with complications from his treatment for lung cancer.
Matt Kalafat, Class of 1991, made a long statement saying that although he long loved Penn State's coach and probably still did, "Joe Paterno is not a victim." That drew little applause.
Erickson heard several questions asking why the university's PR response wasn't better prepared since trustees were aware Sandusky was being investigated.
"I think most people didn't really see the direct relationship to the university; there was no sense that I'm aware of that anyone at Penn State was targeted as part of that," he said. "Time passed. I suppose the assumption was there wasn't anything there."
The 67-year-old Sandusky is charged with sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period. He maintains his innocence and remains out on $250,000 bail while awaiting trial. A charity he founded called The Second Mile, through which he met many of his alleged victims, said Friday it was selling a 60-acre property where it had been building an educational center.
Two Penn State administrators are facing charges they lied to a grand jury investigating Sandusky and failed to properly report suspected child abuse. Gary Schultz, a former vice president, and Tim Curley, the athletic director, have denied the allegations and await trial.
Paterno in early 2002 passed along a report of alleged sex abuse by Sandusky to his bosses but did not notify police. Paterno is not a target of the criminal investigation, but his lack of further action spurred the calls for his firing.
In terms of public relations, Penn State has continuously been playing catch-up, said Jeremy Robinson-Leon, a principal for the New York-based crisis management firm, Group Gordon.
The school, he said, has two constituencies: the public at large, which is critical to maintaining Penn State's national brand, and the community of students, alumni and other supporters, who are important from a community-building and fundraising perspective.
"In order to get past the problem, you have to figure out who you're talking to, who your constituencies are, and so I don't think the board has figured it out," Robinson-Leon said.
Erickson said he had been in contact with Larry Foster, an alumnus who directed Johnson & Johnson's public relations response to the Tylenol crises in 1982 and 1986.
The top two leaders of the trustees released a statement Thursday evening responding to alumni questions. Paterno, they said, was removed in November instead of being allowed to retire after the season because of "extraordinary circumstances."
"The details of his retirement are being worked out and will be made public when they are finalized," said the statement from Chairman Steve Garban and Vice Chairman John Surma. "Generally speaking, the University intends to honor the terms of his employment contract and is treating him financially as if he had retired at the end of the 2011 football season."
Robinson-Leon said it appears to be important from the Penn State community's perspective that the trustees take full responsibility for their decisions.
"They were trying to move toward owning that decision, but you can't do it halfway," he said. "At some point, the leadership of the board has to get out there and face the critics."
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AP Writer Genaro C. Armas in State College, Pa., contributed to this report.
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