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THEFACTORY TIMES Red Bull Stratos Felix Baumgartner’s Record Breaking Freefall PUBLICATION DIRECTOR JESSICA HOUSE LEAD DESIGNER BRENT PICKERD CHIEF EDITOR MEGAN LANDSTROM DESIGNER PAMELA COOPER WRITER MITCH EKLUM WRITER COURTNEY COUTURE WRITER MELISSA VARGAS DESIGNER ERIC MARKSON DESIGNER KIRSTEN KNAPP DESIGNER NICK SCIARRETTA WEBMASTER KYLE RAPP WRITER ELLIOT O’REILLY ADVISORS Questions comments or concerns? Ideas for articles? DR. DREW SABOL, ESQ. WRITER PROFESSOR KEVIN VOLO Submissions? KRISTEN MURPHY Interested in joining the Factory Times? CONTRIBUTORS PRINTING Enjoying the new sexy design? KELLI MCARDELL ROBERT JONES E-mail us! & SUNYIT PRINT SHOP [email protected] 2 • factory times factory times • 3 Holiday Cheer Christmas Music Christmas Music (that sucks) (that doesn’t suck) o it’s Halloween night. You’ve spent the past Even though it is a known fact that the ith the overplayed songs that are put month going to haunted houses and hayrides, Holidays are a very special time of year, and the on repeat at retail stores and radio stations, Christmas Music drinking cider, carving pumpkins and excitement of it all is what people look forward Christmas music can get old real fast (especially That Doesn’t Suck: The Playlist decorating your house or apartment to look to all year round, the clash of two completely to those who have been bombarded with it scary. You are eating pounds of candy, attending different holidays puts a bit of a damper on the since Halloween). Though the songs that are on 1. Christmas in Hollis : Run DMC S anticipation of the appropriate time to break out W 2. Oi To The World : No Doubt costume parties or staying home watching scary constantly have gotten repetitive and annoying, 3. Santa Claus is Coming to Town:Frank Sinatra, Cyndi Lauper movies. After falling into a candy induced coma, the red and green. we suggest that you give these songs a listen to 4. Christmas Is : Run DMC you awake the next day to your still-decorated redeem the genre that is Christmas music. 5. I Won’t Be Home For Christmas : blink-182 6. All I Want for Christmas is You : Mariah Carey With the tons of complaints thrown home, your costume tossed in the corner of your 7. Little Saint Nick : The Beach Boys room…and Christmas music. around about having Christmas put in front of us 8. Last Christmas : Wham! the day after Halloween, wouldn’t corporations A few songs from the album 9. Here Comes Santa Claus : Elvis Presley 10. Christmas Wrapping : The Waitresses Yes, amongst the orange and black, you get the message? Although people generally “A Very Special Christmas” 11. The Night Santa Went Crazy : Weird Al hear Nat King Cole’s smooth voice serenading get excited and happy for Christmas time, that by Run DMC deserve a bit of 12. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas : Frank Sinatra 13. We Wish You a Merry Christmas : Weezer you with “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.” doesn’t mean they want the carols to blare out attention, taking a different 14. FUNKY, FUNKY, XMAS : New Kids on the Block of their speakers when they just heard “The approach to the traditional 15. Christmas Day In the Sun : Hot Hot Heat It seems as though the media has become Monster Mash” the night before. idea of Christmas music. 16. Sleigh Ride : Fun. adamant about shoving Christmas cheer down ‘Christmas in Hollis’ and http://tinyurl.com/c8wzx2l our throats earlier and earlier each year. Radio What are your thoughts of having the ‘Christmas Is’ are different stations are already playing holiday music 24 Holidays sneak into our lives so soon? Do you and interesting to listen to. hours a day, and most stores are more than fifty welcome the change of atmosphere, or do you percent stocked with Christmas decorations think it’s too early? If rock is more your taste, (some even pushing Christmas items before No Doubt’s ‘Oi to the Halloween). Christmas commercials are playing World’ may be one to several times in an hour, and huge holiday sales listen to, along with blink- have already taken place. 182’s ‘I won’t be Home for Christmas’. Scan the QR Code to open The The playlist we’ve compiled while thinking about Factory Time’s Christmas Music That Doesn’t Suck Playlist on Christmas songs that we like isn’t limited to just those Spotify! few songs, and you can open it on Spotify by using a QR code reader to open it or by typing the link provided above the QR code into your web browser. 4 • factory times factory times • 5 Sci DiscoverFrom Waste to Energy producing too little waste that is management solution. usable for incineration. s modern consumers, we purchase According to Swedish energy “This is not a long-term solution really, disposable products, and items enclosed company Sysav, To keep the facilities running at because we need to be better to reuse in disposable containers on a daily basis. maximum capacity, Swedish waste to and recycle, but in the short perspective With millions of people contributing energy facilities have looked to the I think it’s quite a good solution,” Ostlund A garbage heaps of other countries. stated. their trash to landfills, is it time to look to “the answer is another solution for our non-recyclable Currently, 800,000 tons of foreign garbage? converting the garbage is set to be shipped in to A total of 248 tons of garbage are Sweden each year. Through this delivered daily to a single Sysav waste garbage into electric transaction, the countries shipping the to energy facility's dumping station. garbage are paying Sweden to take From here a man-operated crane and heat energy.” it off their hands. Most of this waste scoops a load of the garbage and drops comes from Norway. However, The it into the furnace chute. As the garbage The Sysav Waste to Energy facility Swedish Environmental Protection is incinerated by the 1000 degree- located in Malmo, Sweden operates Agency is particularly interested in the Celsius furnace, hot flue gases released 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, garbage of Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and from the combusted garbage rise into year-round to convert residential Lithuania. the boiler chamber. Water running and industrial wastes into usable through pipes in the boiler chamber electricity and heat. In the environmental news program, is heated to 400 degree-celsius and “Living on Earth” Catarina Ostlund, turns to highly pressurized steam. The Although Waste to Energy Senior advisor for the Swedish steam is forced into a turbine powering facilities exist in other parts of the Environmental Protection Agency, a generator which provides electricity world, Sweden eliminates a vast says these countries are of a particular to over 250,000 homes. majority of their viable waste in interest due to landfilling being their these facilities. According to the primary method of waste-elimination. After moving the turbine, some energy Swedish Waste Management, only still exists in the steam in the form four percent of Swedish garbage “I hope that we instead will get the waste of heat. Rather than lose the steam's ends up in a landfill. However, from Italy or from Romania or Bulgaria heat energy, it is again forced into a these Waste to Energy companies or the Baltic countries because they condensing unit. From here the heat are now facing a problem: they landfill a lot in these countries. They is extracted into more pipes with aren't operating at their maximum don’t have any incineration plants or running water and re routed into a capacity because Sweden is recycling plants, so they need to find a district heating system, delivering heat solution for their waste,” says Ostlund. to those 250,000 homes. According to Sysav, it would take 100,000 tons of Although the Waste to Energy facilities oil per year to produce a comparable are an efficient method for eliminating amount of energy. waste, Catarina Ostlund declares that incineration is not the final waste 6 • factory times factory times • 7 TV Whats On Cancelled Shows re you sick of watching guidos and guidettes he sold to AT&T for $30.2 million. 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