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Many times we leave our gadgets Mobile phones, PDAs, MP3 players, Cameras, Laptops etc with charger plugged in overnight. Lets check if this is a major waste of energy..
What happens if you leave the mobile phone plugged in all night?
According to measurements from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the average cell phone draws 3.68 watts of power from the outlet while it’s charging and 2.24 watts when charged. Let’s take the worst-case scenario and assume that you’re over-juicing a charged battery for the entire night. Leave the average phone plugged in for eight unnecessary hours, and it’ll use about 0.018 kilowatt-hours of electricity. Do that every night for a week, and the figure rises to 0.13 kWh; every night for a year, and you’re looking at a grand total of 6.5 kWh of electricity.
What if you leave your phone charger plugged in all the time, even when the phone itself isn’t attached—how much vampire power would that suck up? Again using the Berkeley Lab figures, if the average charger is plugged in for the entire 8,760 hours of the year, it’ll use about 2.3 kWh of electricity.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced that it has developed a micro-fuel cell and hydrogen generator that runs on H2O.
“When the handset is turned on, metal and water in the phone react to produce hydrogen gas,” explained Oh Yong-soo, vice president of Samsung Electro-Mechanics’ research center. “The gas is then supplied to the fuel cell where it reacts with oxygen in the air to generate power.” Other fuel cells need methanol to produce hydrogen, while Samsung’s needs only water.
Since the micro-fuel cell can generate up to three watts of electricity, it could be used in mobile devices, the company said. The new fuel cell could power a handset for 10 hours, twice as long as rechargeable batteries.
“If the user uses the phone for four hours a day on average, they would have to change the hydrogen cartridge about every five days,” Oh said. “Later handsets will be developed that don’t need the hydrogen cartridges to be changed, and would only need to be filled with water.”
The water-powered cell phones are expected to enter the market by 2010. Samsung Electro-Mechanics unveiled the new technology at the 2007 Korea Electronics Show at the Korea International Exhibition Center in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province.

Further research has been published suggesting there is no link between mobile phones and brain cancer.
The risk mobiles present has been much debated over the past 20 years as use of the phones has soared.
The latest study led by the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Denmark looked at more than 350,000 people with mobile phones over an 18-year period.
Researchers concluded users were at no greater risk than anyone else of developing brain cancer.
The findings, published on the British Medical Journal website, come after a series of studies have come to similar conclusions.
Now, we can never think that we know everything. We should also rely on the mass media especially the internet because we can get almost all from the net.

Visible Light Communication uses light emitting diodes (LEDs), for the dual role of illumination and data transmission. Using the visible light spectrum, which is free and less crowded than other frequencies, wireless services can be piggy-backed over existing lighting installations. With this leading edge technology, data including video and audio, internet traffic, etc, can be transmitted at high speeds using LED light.
Prof Harald Haas leads the EPSRC-funded D-LIGHT project at the School of Electronics and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.
VLC technology has the potential to deliver data transfer rates in excess of hundreds of megabits per second. Light radiation neither constitutes nor suffers from electromagnetic interference (EMI) making VLC a very attractive technology in places/environments where electromagnetic interference (EMI) is an issue, such as in hospitals and in aircraft. In addition, where security of local communication is important eg defence and fanance applications, D-Light technology offers a secure medium for communication in an office/building environment.
The two year D-Light project is midway through its funding. The main commercial goal is the formation of a University of Edinburgh spinout company, hopefully starting in 2012.

The computer sciences professionals are required to be familiar with and stay abreast of current technology trends. Contemporary technology trends are always changing and new developments are constantly improving in data management, data quality, web service applications and software. One of the premier technology trends of 2007 is ensuring high-quality database management. Information on the latest technology trends can be found in this section as a series of tutorials and online training articles geared toward the Information Technology professional.
Spotting new technologies and obtaining immediate experience and knowledge of newly developed technologies can mean the difference between success and failure of a career in computer sciences. When a developer or programmer uses a new technology and becomes familiar with the most recent technology trends, he will have advantage over his colleagues. Technological innovation is at the forefront of career development in computer sciences.

Software as a service (SAAS) is at the forefront of technological trends in 2007. It refers to a mode of software delivery where maintenance, daily operation and software support is provided by the software company through Internet delivery of applications.
SAAS delivery is defined by some fundamental characteristics. SAAS software must be able to access and manage commercial applications through a network-based connection.
Software activity is managed at a central, remote location and allows customers access to applications through the Web. Application delivery is based on a one-to-many model that exponentially increases delivery capacity.
One of this year’s most anticipated SAAS software products, SalesForce.com’s AppSpace, embodies this year’s major trend in SAAS. AppSpace allows documents to be accessed through Web services.
The trend exemplified by AppSpace is the tendency for SAASs to veer away from data-based technology toward process-centric services in 2007. Microsoft is developing SAAS products that address another 2007 trend by targeting SAAS products to small-to-medium-businesses (SMBs).

Java is an object-oriented programming language (OOP) for Web browsers. It is organized around data rather than actions and supports polymorphism (which allows the same code to be written generically so it can function with different datatypes), inheritance (which allows one class to behave like another class, or category of objects, and to expand it operations to perform specific functions), and encapsulation (or the process of combining objects to create new entities).
Java was released in 1995 by Sun MicroSystems. However, it began development in 1991. It began at Sun in 1991 with the secret “Green Project” that tried to integrate small electronic devices with cyberspace using a standard language centered on Internet connectivity. Java is very similar to the popular C++ programming language. They both are object-oriented programming, using similar syntax and general forms for commands. However, C++ is less secure since it supports pointers, which hold the address of other variables. Java emerged with more self-contained variables.

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Letter from the President December 29, 2007

I’m writing this letter to inform you that SWIMBA has recently gone through a strategic planning exercise. Because of this, at our regular Board meeting in November, we decided to change the structure of the organization in order to increase the likelihood of meeting the objectives developed during this exercise and to increase opportunities for involvement of SWIMBA members not on the Board.

The Board agreed in the meeting to form a number of committees that align directly with our strategic objectives. The majority of the work performed in support of a given objective will be done at the committee level and the committee chairperson will report to the board on a monthly basis to give an update. It is the intent that topics submitted for consideration on the Board’s monthly agenda will be accompanied by a statement of explanation in order for the individual Board members to familiarize themselves with the topic prior to the meeting. With the majority of work being done at the committee level and the monthly agenda topics being accompanied by a written explanation, it is the expectation of the Board that the monthly Board meetings will be less cumbersome and take less time.

Furthermore, this revised structure should free up time for individual Board members to pursue the SWIMBA work they are most passionate about, be it trail building, fund raising, etc. It is the board’s hope that this organizational change will also motivate the general membership to get involved with a committee that aligns with their personal interests.

The committees and chairs determined at the November meeting of the Board are as follows:

Membership: No chairman has yet been identified for this committee. Please contact David Thomas ( david.thomas.arch@gmail.com if you are interested in participating or chairing this committee. This committee’s main function will be to develop membership benefits. It is expected that this committee will work very closely and coordinate with the Marketing / Awareness committee.

Marketing / Awareness: Chairman – Jill Giese; email jill_giese@yahoo.com, phone: 208-761-5031. Objective: to increase awareness of SWIMBA. Our top strategies are to improve marketing-communication activities, improve the SWIMBA website, further capitalize on SWIMBA events such as Tour de Fat and Trailpalooza, develop and/or improve our partnerships with bike shops and bike clubs, and increase SWIMBA’s involvement and presence at races.

Education / Advocacy: Chairman – Tom Gattiker; email Tomgattiker@cableone.net, phone:208-331-3444. The Education and Advocacy committee has several objectives. Over the past few years, the popularity of our foothills trails has increased tremendously. This is good news, but it increases the potential for accidents and conflict among users. Furthermore, many of our trails are facing overuse with single track disappearing and short cuts popping up all over our trail system. Thus one of our objectives is educating users on trail etiquette and responsible trail use.

Residential development and increasing pressure on our public lands create some threats to mountain-biking, but they also bring about some opportunities. Therefore another objective of our committee will be to monitor planning, land use, and development issues so that SWIMBA may engage in these issues when necessary. Our committee will meet once a month or less, and meetings will not exceed 90 minutes. Please consider making an investment in mountain biking by joining our committee.

Trails: Co-Chairman – Dan Meeker & Al Casile; Contact info: Al Casile, email visicypher@hotmail.com, or phone: 208-830-1981. Dan Meeker, email dmeeker@unitedpipe.com or Office: (208) 947-8300, Cell (208) 841-2660 This committee will coordinate volunteers for construction of trails, apply for grants necessary to complete trail construction and participate in other activities directly related to trails construction and maintenance.

Fundraising: Chairman – Kristi Regotti email regotti@gmail.com, phone: 208-761-5872. The Objective of the fundraising committee is to generate money to support SWIMBA’s mission statement through grants and outreach events, such at Tour de Fat.

(This committee may be divided into sub-committees that work together to achieve this goal.)

With all this said, I’m hopeful that you will seize this opportunity to contribute to the well being of the trail system that we all use and consider one of the greatest amenities of the Treasure Valley. SWIMBA has achieved much in the last decade. The work that SWIMBA has facilitated or taken on directly has benefited a large portion of the community. This work has been done through the efforts of numerous trail volunteers and dedicated board members. While there is always trail work to be done, I’d like this email to advertise to members that there are volunteer opportunities for members beyond trail construction and maintenance. Please consider volunteering some time with one of the committees listed above that interests you.

Thanks for your support.

Sincerely,
David Thomas-President SWIMBA