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Different ways to make nHOBBY: The gardening class at the Arboretum taught different ways to make potpourri By Cindy Armijo
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In overpopulated areas like downtown Long Beach, residents are crammed into tiny box-like apartments and houses while nearby facto‑ ries tower overhead. Despite the cramped spaces, the housing shortage in urban areas continues to grow.
Crowding may diminish resourcnSOCIETY: By the year 2050, the United States will reach 394 million By James Moya
Daily Titan Staff Writer Crowded schools, traffic, limited resources, diseases, starvation, high taxes and stress. The common denominator to these problems is overpopulation. Insurance rates, pollution, crime,
noise and a lack of respect for life in general are other facets that come to mind. “I feel this issue escalating at school because I could never find parking,” said finance major Charlene Landry. A Web site called www.overpopulation.com showed some staggering figures in relation to overpopulation. Nearly 2,000 years ago the world’s population was 300 million. In the year 1830 it reached 1 billion. By 1900, the population increased to 1.7 billion and it doubled to 3.7 billion by 1970. This
year, the population will reach six billion according to the Web site. The Web site states that people in their forties, they see the population double and if they are people in their mid to late teens, we they will see another two billion. “It’s bad for certain countries that have limited food,” said athletics major Jacque Gill. By 2005, the population will rise to 8.3 billion, and continue climbing to 9.8 billion by 2050, and final reach 11.2 billion by 2100. By the year 2050 the United States will reach 394 million or the
equivalent of 30 new cities the size of Los Angeles. More air, land and water would have to surface to support the rise. Resources cannot be imported. As the population rises, people want more homes, cars, food and other things. The need for consumption of these resources could effect the environment. Also, according to the site, forests and other land capacities are always being cleared to build homes, to make paper and wood
Daily Titan Staff Writer The smell of dried rose petals and orange slices filled the room. A light scent of cinnamon reminded spectators that Christmas is near. Sherrie Priebe brought more than samples of fresh homemade potpourri to Saturday’s gardening class at the Arboretum. She introduced clever ways to create holiday gifts from natural materials found in a garden. “This is really nice,” said Priebe, smelling a concoction of eucalyptus bark, dried lemons and oranges and vanilla. Priebe passed around the large Ziploc bag and nearly 50 noses embraced the sweet-smelling aroma. “I wish I had this smell filling my house all year round,” said a female participant sifting through the bag. As the potpourri made its way to the last set of hands, Priebe showed examples of decorated candles. “This candle took me about five minutes to make,” Priebe said, holding up a red candle. Priebe, an herb enthusiast, used sweet peas to create a textured look on the red wax. Dried pansies, which are Priebe’s favorite material to decorate with, lined the sides of the candle.
Priebe added that the candles make perfect holiday gifts, but shouldn’t be wrapped. “If you go to someone’s house about a year after you gave them the candle, it’ll probably still be wrapped,” Priebe said, smiling. “So I don’t wrap my gift candles anymore.” But when Priebe decides to wrap her gifts, the decorative paper could be considered a gift in itself. “I wrap almost all of my packages with dried things,” said Priebe, showing her audience a small package decorated with dried apples and oranges. The enthusiast used a dried leaf as a stencil to create a gold spraypainted pattern on the paint-masking paper. “I’m just crazy about botanical stuff,” Priebe said. “Nothing escapes me.” Gift ideas continued to fill the hour-long class. From homemade cranberry liquor to beautifully decorated bottles of vinegar, the audience remained brighteyed throughout the presentation. The potpourri wasn’t the only scent lingering in the air. Priebe brought a dish of her homemade pesto cheese spread and a platter of pumpkin dessert squares. Audience members applauded the herb enthusiast before sinking their teeth into the tasty treats. “I hope you all have some great ideas to work with now,” Priebe said. One audience member took home
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CSUF researcher cashes in on spider nBIOLOGY: Merri Lynn Casem earned a $630,000 award from the National Science Foundation By Hailley Xu
Special to the Titan Merri Lynn Casem in the Biology Department, is one of 25 people in the world doing research on spider silk proteins. The main purpose of the research is to find out how to artificially mass-produce spider silk. Casem won the $630,000
Collaborative Undergraduate Research Award from the National Science Foundation for her research paper, “An Integrated Study of Spider Silk Proteins and Prey Capture,” in 1997. She has been doing research on spider silk for five years. Upon entering Casem’s office, the visitor sees a big plastic spider on her table. Casem began her research on spider silk after reading a student’s paper on the strength of spider silk when she was at Claremont College five years ago. “It started from a serendipity,” Casem said. “I never lost my interests in spider silk since then.” In spite of its fragile look, spider silk is made up of proteins similar to fingernails and feathers. Casem said the differ-
ence is the structure of these proteins. According to Mark Colgin, postal doctor at the University of Wyoming, spider silk has many attractive properties, including strength and elasticity. Because of this feature, spider silk is been used to make protective clothing. The main components in bulletproof vests are from spider silk. All the spiders are poisonous, according to Casem. That’s how they get their food in order to survive. The most detrimental to the human body is the black widow spider. Three weeks ago, Chris Halama, a student on campus, called Casem and said he saw a black widow spider. Casem went there to observe it, but she did not do anything because she thought it was a safe place and nobody
would be hurt. “It’s not usual to find black spiders in this area, but it’s not a threat because nobody will disturb it,” Casem said. She did go back to check on the spider and found it had disappeared. “Maybe the weather is too cold, the spider was frozen to death,” she said. Casem said she is interested in spider webs. How does she treat spider webs in her own house? “I will remove the spider outside of the house,” she said. “I believe inside is my territory and outside is their territory.” The regular insect killers won’t help in killing spiders, Casem said. The easiest way to keep away a spider is to wipe the web away every time one is seen.
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Sherrie Priebe fills a homemade apple bowl for a door prize.
CD-RWs burn up the music nTECHNOLOGY: CDRWs offer high-capacity recording By Matt Capuano
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This TDK CD-RW is sold at most home entertainment stores.
With Napster paving the way for more digital music availability on computers, one can marvel at how fast the technology has moved. One problem many people have after downloading songs off of the Internet, is to getting the songs off the computer. Consumers can get an MP3 player with prices ranging from $99 to $499 or they can go the cost-effective route via a CD-RW (Compact DiscRewritable). CD-RW drives entice with the promise of easy, high-capacity recording.
“Before I got a CD-RW, I would have to listen to the music I downloaded on my computer,” said Amber Bartlett, an employee at Gateway. “Now I can copy my songs to a CD and listen to them in my car.” In the last few years, prices for CD recorders have dropped considerably. They have almost lost their meaning as status symbols as well. Home users make millions of compact discs containing music or computer data every day all over the world. The only aspect that differs between each CD recorder is their write speed, which determines how fast a CD can be made. Eight-speed writing has become standard for CD recording today. Many companies are shipping 12speed drives now in order to reduce write time from 10 to around seven minutes. The average eight-speed writer costs around $200, with the average 12 to 16-speed costing between $299
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to $399, depending on the company. Some of the most popular manufacturers include Creative Labs, HewlettPackard, Iomega, Plextor and Sony. “I’m an impatient person, so if there is a faster way of doing something, I want it,” said Brandon Flores, a computer science major. “So if I can burn a CD in five minutes instead of 10, that comes in handy.” For professional users, developers, small businesses, presenters, multimedia designers and home recording artists, the recordable CD formats offer a range of powerful storage applications. Their advantage over alternative removable-storage technologies such as zip drives, is that the CD-RW drive can read nearly any CD on the market. Another advantage is the low cost of the product, with CD-RWs being cheap and CD-Rs even cheaper. Prices for a disk are around $1.
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