(CNN) -- A Michigan man and woman convicted of trying to extort $680,000 from "Glee" actor John Stamos by threatening to sell compromising photos were each sentenced to four years in prison Friday. 

U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar in Marquette said the photos never existed, according to a federal prosecutor. 

Scott Edward Sippola, 31, and Allison Lenore Coss, 24, could have faced up to nine years in prison for convictions of conspiracy and interstate communications to extort money. 

Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Lochner said a statement from Stamos was read in court. In it, Stamos said he had been slandered and his reputation impugned. Lochner said the judge ascertained that the conspiracy wasn't just a "foolish lark." 

In a presentence filing, Sippola admitted his conduct "was awful." 

"I sought to exploit my knowledge of the personal weaknesses of a perfect stranger for my own undeserved financial gain," Sippola wrote. 

"The case was made by the fact that these defendants made threats to damage his [Stamos'] reputation in order to have him pay them," Assistant U.S. Attorney Maarten Vermaat said after the July verdict in Marquette, Michigan. 

According to CNN affiliate WLUC, prosecutors said that Coss and Sippola told Stamos that if he didn't give them the money, they would sell embarrassing pictures of him allegedly using drugs to tabloid publications. 

Vermaat said the defendants sent about 40 e-mails to Stamos threatening to sell the photos. FBI agents got involved and started monitoring Stamos' e-mail account and "eventually communicated by cellular telephone with the defendants pretending to be Mr. Stamos' business manager." Sippola and Coss were arrested in December 2009 at an airport, a pre-arranged dropoff spot for the money.  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who was extorted?
2. Is he an actor?
3. What shows has he been in?
4. How many people were in the plot?
5. What did they have?
6. What was in the pictures?
7. How many messages did they send to the star?
8. When were they arrested?
9. Did the star face them at trial?
10. What state was the trial held?
11. What agency investigated the crime?
12. Where were the extorters captured?
13. What were they going to do with the pictures?
14. How were they caught?
15. Was the star's image damaged?
16. How many years in jail will they serve?
Answer: 1. John Stamos
2. yes
3. Glee
4. Two
5. compromising photos
6. him allegedly using drugs
7. about 40
8. December 2009
9. no
10. Michigan
11. FBI
12. airport
13. sell
14. FBI agents got involved and started monitoring Stamos' e-mail account and "eventually communicated by cellular telephone with the defendants pretending to be Mr. Stamos' business manager."
15. yes
16. four

Three kids have been learning chemistry for only a few months. But they have already begun to challenge a world famous scientist! Li Weichi, Huang Runling, and Xiao Yan are from Zhongshan Huaqiao Middle School in Guangdong. They have just found a red cabbage that could be a new kind of acid-base indicator . They want it to take the place of litmus paper. "We've learnt to think of and ask questions about life by ourselves," said Li, "We work well with each other." British scientist Robert Boyle discovered the use of litmus paper over 300 years ago. Now it is used widely in experiments all over the world. But when the kids did some experiments in class last winter, they saw that the litmus paper didn't turn very blue with base matter. It's hard to get a clear result. Will there be a better indicator than litmus paper? The three kids decided to try and find out! How? They went to collect over 40 plants in parks, gardens and markets. Then they ground leaves, flowers and stems to get the pigments from them. The kids mixed pigments with acid and base. They spent months watching carefully to see which paper showed the best colour change. They decided it was the litmus paper! "It's our first scientific journey, Huang said, "But it makes me want to try harder." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What subject do the kids study?
2. How many kids are there?
3. What are their names?
4. Are they in school?
5. Which one do they attend?
6. Where is that at?
7. What chemist are they challenging?
8. What did he discover?
9. How long ago was that?
10. What might replace the litmus paper?
Answer: 1. chemistry
2. Three
3. Li Weichi, Huang Runling, and Xiao Yan
4. Yes
5. Zhongshan Huaqiao Middle School
6. Guangdong
7. Robert Boyle
8. the use of litmus paper
9. over 300 years ago
10. mixed pigments with acid and base

Chapter 32 The Disposal of a Bonanza 

'SUCH was Ritter's narrative,' said I to my two friends. There was a profound and impressive silence, which lasted a considerable time; then both men broke into a fusillade of exciting and admiring ejaculations over the strange incidents of the tale; and this, along with a rattling fire of questions, was kept up until all hands were about out of breath. Then my friends began to cool down, and draw off, under shelter of occasional volleys, into silence and abysmal reverie. For ten minutes now, there was stillness. Then Rogers said dreamily-- 

'Ten thousand dollars.' 

Adding, after a considerable pause-- 

'Ten thousand. It is a heap of money.' 

Presently the poet inquired-- 

'Are you going to send it to him right away?' 

'Yes,' I said. 'It is a queer question.' 

No reply. After a little, Rogers asked, hesitatingly: 

'ALL of it?--That is--I mean--' 

'Certainly, all of it.' 

I was going to say more, but stopped--was stopped by a train of thought which started up in me. Thompson spoke, but my mind was absent, and I did not catch what he said. But I heard Rogers answer-- 

'Yes, it seems so to me. It ought to be quite sufficient; for I don't see that he has done anything.' 

Presently the poet said-- 

'When you come to look at it, it is more than sufficient. Just look at it--five thousand dollars! Why, he couldn't spend it in a lifetime! And it would injure him, too; perhaps ruin him--you want to look at that. In a little while he would throw his last away, shut up his shop, maybe take to drinking, maltreat his motherless children, drift into other evil courses, go steadily from bad to worse--'  What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who had told a narration?
2. Who was informed of this?
3. What was their immediate response?
4. Was it brief?
5. What did they do afterwards?
6. Did they eventually become quiet again?
7. Who broke the quiet?
8. How much money was involved?
9. Was it to be sent immediately?
10. Who had asked about that?
11. Did the narrator find this question to be unusual?
12. Did the narrator intend to send the entire sum?
13. Did he pause to reflect?
Answer:
1. Ritter
2. two friends.
3. a profound and impressive silence
4. No
5. both men broke into a fusillade of exciting and admiring ejaculations
6. Yes
7. Rogers
8. Ten thousand dollars
9. Yes
10. the poet
11. Yes
12. Yes
13. Yes