Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 6, January 16, 2009
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University of Central Florida STARS Central Florida Future University Archives 1-16-2009 Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 6, January 16, 2009 Part of the Mass Communication Commons, Organizational Communication Commons, Publishing Commons, and the Social Influence and oliticalP Communication Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Central Florida Future by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation "Central Florida Future, Vol. 41 No. 6, January 16, 2009" (2009). Central Florida Future. 2188. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/centralfloridafuture/2188 .J FREE • Published Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays www.CentralFloridaFuture.com • Fridax, Jan. 16, 2009 Pearl-feet plan Professor works to _J rebuild broken oyster habitats- SEE NEWS,A2 > CRIME MAN POSING AS Laserbeam J A FEMALE VET CAUGH _) Police say a Daniel C. Tyce, 26, posed team shines as a female animal doctor, ran an illegal veterinary practice and set up a phony rescue agency that may CREOL tweaks laser tech ) · have duped pet lovers out of thousands of dollars. SHAWN GAGE Vineland police arrested Tyce and Staff Writer DEFINITIONS } charged him with practicing medicine Lions and tigers and What do the Global OPTICS without a Positioning System, tattoo Ascienc~ that deals with the license.He alligators?? Oh my! removal and the big bang genesis and propagation of is being have in common? light, the changes that it held on Read more about Lasers - the kinds of undergoes and produces, and $10,000 which researchers at other phenomena closely bail. "Jungle Todd~' and UCF's College of Optics associated with it. and Photonics (CREOL) his swampy are studying and enhanc PHOTONICS adventures ing. Abranch of physics that deals MARRIAGE CREOL professor Peter with the properties and Delfyett's research team applications of photons -SHOOTIN'THE, specializes in lasers that especially as a medium for are used in both practical transmitting information. WELL .. ; applications and to study the universe. For several years, material, the atoms want to YA KNOW they've been developing vibrate, which emits heat. Police say a man's gun fell out of its lasers powerful enough to By turning the laser holster while he pulled up his pants cut through wood or dia light on and off more rap after using the bathroom at a Carl's mond without heat. idly - each pulse lasts one Jr. restaurantTuesday. The gun fired when it hit the floor and shattered When a laser's bright, trillionth of a second - the the commode.A few shards of pulsing, light hits a materi material's atoms don't porcelain cut the man's arm,and a al's atoms, the light's pho even get a chance to woman in an adjacent restroom tons absorb the atoms' vibrate before the process who was frightened by the noise electrons, leaving only is complete. That way, reported she was having chest pain. positively-charged nuclei. Delfyett said, the lasers can The nuclei repel each be used in everyday prac other like magnets and tices, from teeth-whitening cause the material to split, to tattoo removal. Delfyett said. Typically, when the laser hits the PLEASE SEE PROFESSORS ON A6 I Breaking 1, news on myour cell Plus: Get UCF news sent to your cell 1-:·- ' phone. Just text the keyword Heavy and light night Brett Dennen UCFNEWS to 44636. Self-help organization,To getssodal Write Love on her Arms, Folk-rock singer Brett AROUND CAMPUS,A2 spells out a night of music, SEEKING VOLUNTEERS caring and passion atthe Dennen performs live tonight at The Social. Read TOHELPWITH House of Blues. GREG TERRITO/ CENTRAL FLORIDA FUTURE the Q & Awith the artist Some of UCF's prestigious patent-holding faculty pose for a photo with their OTRONICON TODAY who calls John Mayer and patents in the UCF Welcome Center on Tuesday. The event is taking place at the Orlando Science Center and will Mandy Moore friends. showcase innovations of the digital revolution. If you're interested, show up at the Visual Arts parking lot at 12 p.m. The secret life LOCAL & STATE, A2 COURTS ARE Abolitionist urges action of empty cans_ AWAITING MONEY KAYLA SMITH Where recycling ALUMINUM CAN HISTORY MANAGER'S RELEASE Staff Writer The can has been around for goes after the bin more than 200 years. A man An Indiana financial manager By forgoing two Star KATIE KUSTURA named Peter Durand innovated suspected of staging his death in a bucks drinks a week and Contributing Writer the notion of bottle storage to plane crash and leading sending that money to an include using metals, such as authorities on a chaotic three-day, anti-slavery cause, stu Staying up late, cram tin. Durand noticed that the tin multistate manhunt was dents can make a real ming for that exam in the recovering from a suicide attempt impact in the fight to end library, chugging Red Bull didn't break as easily as glass, at a hospital Thursday. global slavery and human to stay awake. Sounds like and replaced the often times trafficking, according to a typical college student's unreliable cork. In 1813 the first leading abolitionist Kevin life. But at the end of the canning facility was established. NATION & WORLD,A4 Bales. night, when the books Although only a trial issues, Bales, author of the close and the drinks are canned goods were shipped to FORMER POLICEMAN investigative research empty, where do those soldiers and sailors all over the CHARGED WITH book Disposable People, cans go? British Empire. gave a presentation GEL Recycling Inc. In 1965,theworld saw the first MURDER IN CALIF. I Thursday afternoon titled takes most of UCF's recy aluminum can.The aluminum An unarmed and allegedly "Ending Slavery: How We clables and disperses can made packaging even easier restrained black man was fatally Free Today's Slaves" in them at their plants, locat because it was of simpler design shot.The shooting has become a the Cape Florida Ball ed in Orange City and - a side, top, and bottom.To racially charged case outraging room encouraging stu Daytona Beach. The far marketers and businesses, it was residents and community leaders dents to make their voic thest the materials have a real innovation. and setting off violent protests. es heard in the invisible gone from there is Alaba fight ?gainst global ma. Once the products are • enslavement. recycled, the resulting brewer Anheuser-Busch. INDEX TODAY'S "Slavery has been materials are then bought Plastic bottles become • Around 2 WEATHER pushed up to the edge, the by various companies. an array of products, from Campus 2 precipice of its own Laura Raftery, an office containers to packaging to extinction, and we can RAMI ROTLEWIU / CEITTRAl FLORIDA Fl/TURE manager for GEL Recy Weather 2 Abolitionist Kevin Bales speaks to more than 200 people in the Student Union retail bags. The recycled Local & State 4 push it over that edge," he on Thursday. Bales is the author of several books about human trafficking. cling Inc., explained how white paper is often said. certain types of recy Nation & World 4 turned into tissue paper , Worldwide, the con ever been in any point in clables could be reused. Sports 7 PARTLY people enslaved? Bales or toilet paper. servative estimate of the human history, according cited three reasons: Popu UCF's recycled alu One material UCF has Variety 9 CLOUDY number of people to the Web site of the not lation explosion; extreme minum cans are used to yet to recycle is glass. Oassifieds 11 make more aluminum Sudoku 59° 37° enslaved today comes to a for-profit organization poverty and vulnerability; Brian Wormwood, the 11 staggering 27 million - Free the Slaves. cans, some of which are Crossword 11 HIGH LOW more than there have How were 27 million PLEASE SEE MAN ON A5 purchased by Budweiser PLEASE SEE FILL ON A6 A2 www.CentralFloridaFuture.com January 16, 2009 • Ultnf :Jlorib :futm ~ I I AROUND ' I CAMPUS (!Central , ' News and rwticesfor the UCF comnumity ;flori~a • Help VUCF with Otronicon Volunteers are being sought to help out with Otronicon today. Otroni ;Jutun '9 con is ta1dng place at the 11N Student ll~at IKFsin« 1968 ·Orlando Science Center Students work to restore oyster habitats and will showcase innova January 16, 2009 tions of the digital revolu Vol 41, lsmJe 6 • 12 Pages tion. ~ <:tniml Flotfda futurp Is the Independent, student- If you're interested in writ1l!n newspaper at the llMffllty of <:entral Ronda. volunteering, show up at Oplnlons In the Furore are those of the indlvldual columnist and not ~1ythose ofthe edi1Drial staff • the VISUal Arts parking lot or the UJWfflity administration. All wntent Is property at 12 p.m for a 12:20 p.m. of lhe Ci!ntm/Rotido Fututt and may not~!!printed In departure. The event will part orln wholewithootpe,mission from the publisher, take place from 1 p.m. to 5 NEWSROOM p.m. For more informa 407-447-4558 tion, contact Ann-Marie Appiah at 407-823-6471.. 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