Sunday, December 4, 2011

FAMU president postpones work of hazing task force (AP)

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ? Florida A&M University's president says a university task force he appointed last month after the death of a marching band member won't start its work until other agencies conduct their own investigations.

James H. Ammons said in a news release sent early Friday that the work of the task force was being postponed so the school could fully cooperate with investigations by the Florida Board of Governors, Orange County Sheriff's Office and Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The task force had been scheduled to meet Monday.

Robert Champion was found unresponsive on Nov. 19 on a bus parked outside an Orlando hotel after a school football game. His death has sparked a criminal investigation as well as a probe into whether FAMU has ignored past warnings about hazing.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20111202/ap_on_re_us/us_famu_death_task_force

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Saturday, December 3, 2011

NASA plans first space washing machine (Yahoo! News)

Space washing machine will allow astronauts to change underwear more than once a week

Have you ever wondered how astronauts in the International Space Station deal with their laundry when they stay there for months at a time? With no easy way to wash clothes or get them delivered, astronauts spend up to a week wearing the same underwear, and even longer than that for other articles of clothing. In order to make their lives a bit more hygienic, NASA has commissioned a washing machine design that can work in zero gravity.

NASA contracted Oregon-based UMPQUA Research Company to create a prototype of a low-power washing machine that uses a very small amount of water. To be more precise, part of the contract reads: "Flight Hardware for long duration human missions beyond low Earth orbit...The system is suitable for use in any long term space mission where resupply logistics preclude routine delivery of fresh crew clothing and removal of disposable clothing articles. While the proposed laundry system is microgravity compatible, the system will be completely functional in reduced gravity environments."

UMPQUA proposed a machine that uses not only jets of air and vapor but also microwave rays to clean clothes. The company claims its system achieves "greatly enhanced softness" compared to other low-water laundry tech. Once the machine is deemed viable for use, astronauts can stop the current practice of?sending their?laundry on unmanned capsules to burn on the Earth's atmosphere, and using their soiled underwear to grow plants in. The futuristic washing machine may be designed for outer space, but the company believes it could also be used on ships, military outposts, and Earth-bound research stations.

[Image credit: Wikimedia]

[via PopSci, The Register]

This article was written by Mariella Moon and originally appeared on Tecca

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Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/techblog/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_technews/20111201/tc_yblog_technews/nasa-plans-first-space-washing-machine

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Friday, December 2, 2011

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Thursday, December 1, 2011

iPhone self-combusts on plane

Regional Express

By Rosa Golijan

Updated at 12:31 p.m. ET

There are plenty of "no smoking" signs plastered throughout airplane cabins, but that didn't stop one iPhone from self-combusting on a flight heading from?Lismore to Sydney recently. No one was hurt, but quite a few folks are likely to be glancing at their mobile devices with some fear now.

According to Regional Express, one of Australia's largest independent regional airlines, the incident occurred on Nov. 25. Regional Express flight ZL319 was en route to Sydney when a passenger's iPhone "started emitting a significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow."

A flight attendant reportedly followed "standard safety procedures" right away and the red glow was extinguished. The incident was reported to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the device was handed over to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau for analysis.

There is no further information available at this time, but we have reached out to both Apple and Regional Express to see if they have any statements to add. We will update this story if (or when) we hear back.

In the meantime, we are left wondering what could've caused an iPhone 4?? a GSM-version of the device, based on the image provided by Regional Express?? to take up smoking.

Peer pressure could certainly be the culprit as there have been reports of iPod devices ? the iPhone's not-so-distant relatives???combusting in the past. (It is also worth noting that Apple recently issued a recall of the first generation iPod Nano?because its battery "may overheat and pose a safety risk" in rare instances.)

Until there's further information or a detailed analysis of the flight ZL319 incident though, we're not going to worry about the whole thing too much though ? after all, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) certainly wouldn't let us carry iPhones onto flights if they posed a bigger risk than nail-clippers, right?

Update:?Natalie Harrison, director of global iPhone and iPad public relations at Apple, gave us a call to say that the company?looks forward "to working with the officials investigating to this incident."

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Source: http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/29/9093108-iphone-self-combusts-on-plane

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2 Mass. women punished for stealing from weddings

(AP) ? Two Massachusetts women who crashed wedding receptions and stole gifts and money intended for the newlyweds have been ordered to pay more than $4,100 in restitution.

Grafton resident Summer Igoe and Westboro resident Jenna Desaro pleaded guilty to larceny and conspiracy charges. They were placed on probation for three years.

The Telegram & Gazette newspaper (http://bit.ly/vVpWm6 ) reports the women on Monday were ordered to not use drugs or alcohol, to receive any treatment ordered by the court and to have no contact with their victims.

Prosecutors say the women stole gifts and money from a May 21 wedding reception at Wachusett Country Club in West Boylston and from a May 31 reception at the Beechwood Hotel in Worcester (WUS'-tur).

The women attended the receptions uninvited and appeared on surveillance videotape both times.

Associated Press

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