The X-stream Youth Ministry launched their new hiking program as part of their winter activity schedule. The program will be made up of six hikes that will take place on consecutive Sundays starting December 2.  The hikes will be held in the afternoon and are open to all young people. 

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The American Cancer Society is getting a boost in donations thanks to Rob Shaver.  Shaver is an employee of Lewis and Clarke Outfitters in Arkansas. More importantly, he is a bone cancer survivor who has decided to hike the mountainous Ouachita National Forest to raise money for the important organization. Shaver and his friend Blaine Pipps will hike the forest area for an expected 10 days. For each mile he hikes, he will receive a dollar amount from sponsors that are encouraging him in his endeavor. The entire endeavor is both a fund raiser toward helping others but also a powerful gesture of overcoming the odds – surviving the rare cancer that nearly took his life.

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Construction began this month on a New Portage Railroad trail along the Cambria-Blair county line that will open up five new miles of biking and hiking trails for outdoor enthusiasts.  The trail is intended to eventually link to the Path of the Flood Trail outside of Johnstown.  The trail, estimated to cost $1.2 million to complete, will give visitors a real understanding of how goods and people moved over the mountains before modern highways were around.  The new trail will offer some great mountainous hiking trails and a great scenic view of Pennsylvania’s outdoors.  The trail will open in autumn 2008.

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LED light applications are becoming more and more diverse.  The future of LED technology is wide open and manufacturers and service providers all over the world are figuring out how they can take a great, cost-effective, energy-saving product like LEDs and incorporate them into their business model and/or future project roadmaps.

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This week, Luminus Devices and Global Lighting Technologies are showcasing a 37” LCD TV backlighting unit that uses just 21 LEDs. The demonstration can be seen at the Flat Panel Display International 2007 Conference in Yokohama, Japan.  Currently, backlighting for large LCD televisions that use standard LEDs require hundreds of individual LED light sources (read more about LEDs in LCD TV technology here). This new backlighting unit uses only seven (Luminus) PhlatLight modules made up of a single red, green and blue chip, to illuminate the large LCD screen.  To accomplish this reduction in light sources, this demo couples the light of each module into a MicroLens light guide that spreads the light across the screen.

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