Fancy living in future world today? Head down to Dubai in few years time. Dubai, the new booming emerging country already seeing ambitious real-estate construction activities which built Burj Al Arab, world’s tallest freestanding hotel in the world, and going to see world’s tallest building and the world’s tallest freestanding structure on land in Burj Dubai and Al Burj, are preparing itself to build more innovative skysc****rs which has futuristic and ahead-of-times building designs and architecture.
  Dubbed ‘Rotating Tower in Motion’ building based on ‘Dynamic Architecture‘ concept by Florentine architect David Fisher is first of its kind and trend-setting. Not only be the pioneer, the Dynamic Architecture building which will constantly in motion changing its shape with each floor capable of spin, move and rotate 360 degress independent of one another, will also be able to generate electric energy enough for itself as well as for other surrounding buildings from at least 48 wind turbines that fitted between each rotating floors as well as the solar panels positioned on the roof of the building that will produce pollution-free energy from wind and the sunlight. Any acoustics issues are solved by modern design of the building and the carbon fiber special shape of the wings. And the floor only rotates at the slow speed of about 6 meters a minutes, so that guests inside probably won’t feel it.
The Rotating Tower is actually a tower with a central concrete core surrounded by 59 independently rotating levels. It will also be the first skysc****r built with industrial systems process, where 90% of the building materials will be produced and constructed as modules in an industrial factory set up in Jebel Ali. These pre-fabricated units will then be shipped to the construction site and then assembled on the central core, the only part that will be built on-site using traditional techniques to house important static amenities like elevators, staircases, plumbing and other utilities. Each floor of the tower will consist of 48 of these factory-made modules that will arrive at the job site completely finished and self-contained with electrical, plumbing as well as air-conditioning systems ready for use. The modules will then be mechanically assembled at the rate of one floor every three days.  When completed, the rotating tower skysc****r will have 68 floors and will be 313 meters (1,027 feet) high. There will be a 6-star hotel, offices and apartments of various sizes besides five villas on the top floor. Each of the villas will have designated parking on the same floor with vehicles brought up and down in special elevators. The roof of the “Penthouse” villa will also have a swimming pool, a garden and an Arabian majlis. The tower also have a retractable heliport, a platform that will extend from the shell of the building at the 64th floor at the moment of landing, thus maintaining the dynamic aesthetic architecture of the tower.
If you can’t visualize how the tower can have endless shapes by dynamically rotating floors to adapts to its surroundings but also to the tenant’s needs and the tenant’s caprices, the following video may help you. The Dynamic Architecture concept-based buildings are going to be built all over the world in cities such as New York, Milan, Moscow and Tokyo, after the project expected to complete in 2009 in Dubai, if it ever takes off. Here is a different conceptual design of Dynamic Architecture based on UFO theme. 
 In fact, this is not going to be the only rotating skysc****r in Dubai. The Times Residences by Glenn Howells Architects is also a rotating tower with 200 condominium apartments that located in City of Arabia, and its rotation mechanism driven by solar energy. However, it’s not rotating individually by each floor, instead whole building rotate altogether to offer all residents equal view. Rotating speed is much slower at 1cm per min, making all 200 units able to view 360 degree of its surrounding once every 7days. This tower expected to finish in 2009.
 Rotating Residences is a tower project of High Rise Properties with four rotating penthouses and a rotating villa with its own car lift and 3 car pack space on top. There are total of 72 residential units. Five of the tower’s 15 storeys will rotate through 360 degrees at speeds which can be selected by the resident once in either 3, 6, 12 or 24 hours.
Not futuristic and advanced enough? How about “Rotating City” urban concept, which will be built anytime soon on an island in Abu Dhabi. The Rotating City, also by High Rise RE, is a city project where every building rotates and faces different environments according to the owner’s wishes. At 10 million square feet, this city definitely has the closer look to Spaceport in Star Wars. The city will consists of 20 rotating building 300 revolving, floating and flying villas on the water, also able to rotate at wish. Inside the city there are also 5-star hotel tower with 300 rooms, 4-star hotel tower with 350 rooms and Attraction Park with an animation box, magic carpet, river adventure, conference room and wedding room.
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Movember (the month formerly known as November) is an annual charity event held during November.
At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants, known as Mo Bros, have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo, raising money along the way to benefit men's health - specifically prostate cancer and male depression.
Movember culminates at the end of the month at official Gala Partés, Mo-Office and Mo-Town parties where Tom Selleck and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to be the Man of Movember.
While growing a Mo is left to the guys, Mo Sistas (ladies who support their guys or just love Mo's!) form an important part of Movember by recruiting Mo Bros, helping to raise funds and attending the highly anticipated Gala Partés.
But it' s not all fun and games, so why the extreme behavior?
Which ever way we look at it, men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is five years less than for women.
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Salvia divinorum is uncontrolled in the United States by federal law, but is controlled in some states (see state law). This means all parts of the plant and its extracts are legal to cultivate, buy, possess, and distribute (sell, trade or give) without a license or prescription. If sold as a supplement, ****s must conform to U.S. supplement laws. If sold for consumption as a food or drug, ****s are regulated by the FDA.
The federal analog act generally requires that, in order to qualify as an analog, a substance must be chemically similar to a substance which is federally scheduled. Salvia Divinorum is chemically quite different from other scheduled substances and as a plant is quite unlikely to be targeted by this act.
Selling Salvia divinorum for human consumption as a "drug" is probably illegal in the US under the Food, Drug & Cosmetics Act and its **** as a drug would be regulated by the FDA. Selling an unapproved drug in the US can be prosecuted under the FD&C's "misbranding" clause. (FD&C Section 502) The more it is packaged and marketed as a drug (for example a 10x extract hyped as 'the new ecstasy') the more likely it is to be treated as an "illegal drug" by law enforcement agents.
The US Air Force is considering whether to include Salvia divinorum in the list of banned drugs.
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New York #
State Bill 610, introduced Jan 3, 2007, would prohibit **** of Salvia divinorum. The bill was re-designated S00695 and passed the State Senate on Feb 28, 2007. It has been awaiting vote in the State Assembly for some time. The bill does not specify control of salvinorin A. Track bill history here. (last updated May 2, 2007) (thanks, scruff!)
A similar law failed to pass in 2005. Reference: State Targets Tripped Out Herb - Long Island Press, Jun 16 2005. (Thanks Embroglio) (Last updated May 1, 2007)
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Smoking
Dry leaves can be smoked in a pipe, but most users prefer the use of a water pipe to cool the smoke. The temperature required to release salvinorin from the plant material is quite high (about 240°C). A regular flame will work, but the direct application of something more intense, such as the flame produced from a butane torch lighter, is often preferred.
Many people find that untreated dried Salvia leaf produces unnoticeable or only light effects. More concentrated preparations or extracts, which may be smoked instead of natural strength leaves, have become widely available. The enhanced leaf is often described by a number followed by an x (such as "5x," "10x," etc). The multiplication factors are generally indicative of the relative amounts of leaf used in preparation. The numbers therefore may also be roughly indicative of the relative concentration of the active principle salvinorin A, but the measure should not be taken as absolute. Potency will depend on the naturally varying strength of the untreated leaf used in preparing the extract, as well as the efficiency of the extraction process itself. Extracts reduce the overall amount of smoke that needs to be inhaled, thus facilitating more powerful experiences.
Duration of effect
If Salvia is smoked the main effects are experienced quickly. The most intense 'peak' is reached within a minute or so and lasts for about 1-5 minutes, followed by a gradual tapering back. At 5-10 minutes, less intense yet still appreciable effects typically persist, but giving way to a returning sense of the everyday and familiar until back to recognizable baseline after about 15 to 20 minutes.
Chewing the leaf makes the effects come on more slowly, over a period of 10 to 20 minutes, the experience then lasting from another 30 minutes up to one and a half hours.
In the United States, Salvia is not regulated under the Controlled Substances Act but some states, including Delaware, Louisiana, Missouri and others, have passed their own laws. Several other states have proposed legislation against Salvia, including Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Iowa, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Many of these proposals have not made it into law, with motions having failed, stalled or otherwise died, for example at committee review stages. Source(s):
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Computer hackers are all around us and have been for years so i would like to tell you a little bit about hackers becuase all hackers have motives good and bad. Most people regard hackers as teenage whizz kids but not all are.It is fair to say that if we did not have such people then we would never know about computer system vunerabilities,but also you could argue well if we did not have hackers we would not have viruses all over the internet,Thats why im gonna explain different types of hackers not all are bad. Types of hackers are explained below 1: White hat hackers Also known as freindly hackers are always using their knowledge for good reasons, they usually end up working as high-paid network admin, programmers, and security consultants. When a software bug is found, the white-hat will work hard to solve the problem and supply various high profile companys with there information. 2: Grey-hat hackers Are borderline white/black hats. They sometimes prank unsuspecting users and cause general mayhem. While they think this kind of activity is harmless, they may face long periods of jail time if they ever get found out. 3: Black-hat hackers Also known as crackers these are the ones to watch out for, they send and make viruses, destroy data, and deface websites along with other illegal activity and break into peoples machines. This type of hacker has a bad reputation, and usually end up in jail for a long period of time and massive fines if ever caught.
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Can you hear me screaming
trying to break down ladened walls.
My voice doesn't seem to be strong enough
and my reasoning is failing me.
Lost and trapped in paranoia
the source where endless possibilities flow.
I said that I wouldn't let it affect me
said that I wouldn't let it get this bad.
Stomach hurts and I have a lack of sleep
sucessfully managing to hide this from all.
Aut every new dream brews a new reality
one that I want to believe isn't true.
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"Virgin Goddess"… an interesting page to go through. Its not just myth or past story, virgin goddess is Nepali tradition practiced since 17th century during Malla rullers in valley. We have heard and read about "Virgin Goddess Kumari", the mysterious and unique feature of Nepali tradition. Rigorous process to admit her as goddess Taleju's incarnation and her tenure to Kumari Bahal and finally her retirement. All these phases have connection to the King.
Since, King's ***e lead him out of the power, Goddess Kumari who supposed to protect the King and his monarchy, does still hold such divinity to bless King and his family? In fact, a girl from Shakya caste of Newar community is selected after ensuring her horoscope complementary to King's. All the selection procedure and the belief drag Goddess to King, in this sense the Goddess is meant for King's favor and his Kingdom. But, by now New Nepal is decisive enough to get rid of King. Moreover Maoist party seems to be halting this ritual or possibly would modify the ritual which keeps King in the center.
 Every year in the festival Indra Jatra, King used to receive blessings form Virgin Goddess whether they were Malla Kings or Shah Kings who got victory over Mallas. This tradition failed to protect ruler Kings then and now as well. This time Prime Minister as a head of the state went to receive blessings form Goddess Kumari. While King also stepped there after PM. This clarifies that relation between King and Virgin Goddess has not understood as it used to be. And still there are controversies on this historical tradition. Either form perspectives of human rights violation or child rights violation. We are aware of cases filed in judiciary, one to reform and the other to preserve the Kumari tradition, have set the stage for a classic battle between tradition and modern rights notions.
It is not the debate to prove the presence of God neither Virgin Kumari holding such divine power. It is the debate about continuation of such centuries long tradition. This issue has come in political caught as state owned Trust Corporation is seeking for new Kumari by this Dashin festival replacing Preeti Shakya, who is right now serving nation. She is near about to get retirement because she has crossed her 11th birthday. Quest seems much rigorous this time because political change has flipped Kings ***e and Goddess Kumari linked most to King and his monarchy.
Whatever the polemic are, Kumari, tradition of worshipping virgin girl is Nepal's long run and served heritage. Now serious concern from government is regarded to make right decision over national identity that can even serve in national economy as key force to motivate tourists too. written by Binju its a good article guys
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Canon has announced the EOS 1000D, a new entry-level DSLR that slots into the model lineup beneath the 450D. The 10 megapixel digital camera, known as the Digital Rebel XS in the US, takes many of the new features of its big brother and presents them in a lighter, less expensive format that Canon hopes will re-shape the market in the same way as the first Rebel (300D) did. No word yet from Canon US about their intentions.
“The EOS 1000D is a small camera with a big idea: the supreme adaptability and image quality of the EOS system, in an accessible, affordable package,” said Mogens Jensen, Head of Canon Consumer Imaging Europe. “For anyone ready to take the next step in creative photography, it offers the perfect entry point to the world of D-SLR.” Features at a glance: - 10.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor
- EOS Integrated Cleaning System
- 7-point wide-area AF system with f/5.6 cross-type centre point
- Up to 3 frames per second
- 2.5” LCD with Live View shooting
- DIGIC III image processor
- Compatible with SD and SDHC memory cards
- Compact and lightweight body
- Digital Photo Professional RAW processing software
- Fully compatible with all Canon EF and EF-S lenses and EX-series Speedlites
Designed to deliver moreAs with all EOS models, key components for the EOS 1000D are designed and manufactured in-house to work with each other for the ultimate image quality. A 10.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor – with larger pixels for smooth, low-noise images – offers sufficient resolution to produce prints in sizes up to A4, even when cropping your image. To protect images against the effects of sensor dust, the EOS 1000D includes the EOS Integrated Cleaning System, which combats dust in three separate ways: reducing, removing and repelling.
The EOS 1000D also features a DIGIC III image processor, as used in Canon’s professional D-SLR models. This allows continuous shooting until the SD or SDHC memory card is full, at speeds of up to 3fps – with the number of shots limited only by the size of the card. DIGIC III also delivers superior image rendering, rapid operation and virtually instant start-up times.
Intelligent focus and flash
For shots where fast focusing is needed, the EOS 1000D features a 7-point wide area Auto Focus system, capable of locking onto a subject in a fraction of a second. A cross-type central focus point continues to operate effectively even when used in lower-light and lower-contrast settings. Also included is E-TTL II, Canon’s distance-linked flash exposure system found in professional EOS models.
Effortless easeWeighing just 450g, the EOS 1000D is Canon’s lightest D-SLR to date, with a compact, ergonomic body designed for comfortable handling. A bright 2.5” LCD screen lets users instantly review images for composition, sharpness and focus – or, thanks to a wide viewing angle, instantly share shots with friends. The LCD also provides access to a fast, easy-to-read menu system, which uses tabs to avoid unnecessary scrolling. Inherited from the latest EOS models, the menu system includes direct control over external devices such as Speedlite flash units.
Photo quality in every situation is aided by 12 custom functions, including Auto Lighting Optimizer - which corrects brightness and contrast during image processing, while improving skin tones in portraits by ensuring correct exposure for faces. Photographers can also enable additional noise reduction for shots captured at high ISO speeds. Live viewFor shooting situations where using the viewfinder is impractical – or where a tripod is used – users can switch to Live View mode, which displays the scene as a smooth, 30fps video feed on the LCD. An optional grid line and histogram display can be selected to help with shot composition and exposure. Two AF modes are available for use with Live View: Quick AF, which momentarily flips the camera’s mirror to engage the AF sensor, and Live AF, which uses contrast information for compact camera-style focusing.
SoftwareThe EOS 1000D is supplied with a comprehensive software suite that provides all the necessary tools for managing and processing images. This includes Digital Photo Professional (DPP), a powerful RAW converter that provides complete RAW image processing control. DPP also integrates with camera features such as Dust Delete Data and Picture Styles. The supplied Picture Style Editor software can be used to create custom Picture Styles for fine control over colour display. The camera also comes with EOS Utility, Image/Zoom Browser and Photostitch.
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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND CIS 8011: Emerging information Technologies Assignment 1 Journal 3 Prepared By : Shahi Khadgi Student ID : 0050066951 Submitted on : 22/08/2008 1 Introduction Plagiarism is thought to be a growing problem in higher education, and is certainly an issue that academics are becoming increasingly worried about. Universities view any case of plagiarism extremely seriously. There are few global plagiarism detection services available, namely EVE2 Plagiarism Detection for Teachers, Glatt Plagiarism Program, MyDropBox and TurnItIn plagiarism detection. TurnItIn and MyDropBox provide the world’s leading plagiarism prevention technology to over 300 academic institutions in over 20 countries (Sciworth 2005). This software allows students or the lecturer to submit assignments to check for correct citation and paraphrasing. After submission to the TurnItIn.com or MyDropBox.com website, It searches the internet and other databases for matching text. It then returns a report to the same webpage where the assignment was submitted. This report highlights in color any text in the assignment which has been matched to other source material, and gives the site where they found the matching text (TurnItIn, MyDropBox 2008). 2 Classification of products 1. Check against Internet based material only • DOC Cop • Docoloc • EVE2 • Plagiarism Checker • Scriptum / CatchItFirst 2. Check for similarity within a batch of documents • DOC Cop • WCopyfind 3. Educational suite of products offering complete student submission solutions • Ephorus Suite • MyDropBox • Turnitin • Urkund 4. Other • Glatt (Scaife Bryan 2007) 2.1 TurnItIn Evaluation This is one of the two fully functional online systems providing the following functionality: • Plagiarism detection Comparing submitted papers against internet, other submitted papers and Journals; • Peer review Allowing students to review classmates work online. • GradeMark Online paper grading; • GradeBook The reports generated are well structured and colour coded to facilitate the linking of text back to Internet sources. Functionality Uploaded documents can be viewed formatted or unformatted. Some font changes in formatted documents but otherwise readable. Language support Foreign language interfaces are not available but internalization for Spanish, German and French is scheduled for mid 2007. Search engine agreement As Turnitin use their own copy of the Internet and their own Turnitinbot there is no use of third party search engines and consequently no need for any licenses. (Scaife Bryan 2007) 2.2 MyDropBox Evaluation MyDropBox is an impressive suite of services providing online assignment management systems supporting administrators, lecturers and students. The reports generated are well structured and colour coded to facilitate the linking of text back to Internet sources. The system provides functionality for Lecturers to create: • Courses • Assignments with start and due dates • Provide course material • Allow students to upload course work when ready • Checked against the Internet, other coursework and publications for plagiarism • Marked and graded • Subject to peer reviews Functionality This is a comprehensive suite of services providing an Assignment Management System: • Safe Assignment Production of originality reports by comparison with internet sources. • Comprehensive index of the Internet It is database of previously submitted documents, publications, articles, journals, report. Language support Most European languages are supported with full Unicode support (including Chinese) coming in early 2007. MyDropBox is capable of processing multi-byte characters and provides full Unicode support. The system cannot guarantee to work correctly with languages that use hieroglyphs and right-to-left writing, but full support for the rest is available. Search engine agreement At the moment MyDropBox are unable to provide a copy of the search engine contract as they cannot disclose the financial terms as part of a non disclosure clause in the contract. However they are trying to obtain a confirmation letter from Microsoft that prove the existence of the contract but does not disclose the protected information. (Scaife Bryan 2007) 3 University Nationwide Use Anti-plagiarism Software According to a report by USA Today, University nationwide has introduced anti-plagiarism software to help combat the growing trend of digital plagiarism. The developers of programs TurnItIn.com have contracted with universities to require students check their work against a database of previously submitted work and websites before turning it in. In 2006, an estimated 10.4 million students were enrolled in program. Schools accrue licensing fees for their students, ranging from 40 to 80 cents per student (The Writer's News 2008). CNN reported that nationwide, the software is used by about 2,500 high schools and universities. For an annual fee of $500, plus 60 cents per full-time student, a university can have access to the program. Businesses pay $1,000 a year for the service and an additional cost of $10 for every page of material submitted to be checked (Jahdi Neema 2004). 4 Plagiarism Statistics According to a 2000 Education Week report, 54% of high school students admitted to plagiarizing using the Internet, 80% of students admitted that at least once during the past school year they had engaged in "serious" cheating and 47% believed that teachers choose to ignore plagiarism even when they know it is happening. 90% of students believe that students that cheat are never caught or have not been appropriately disciplined (US News and World Report) 
Figure 1 Plagiarism Statistics (Tammy Guehne 2006) 5 How Can Students Avoid Plagiarism? To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use - another person’s idea, opinion, or theory
- any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge
- quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words
- paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words
(Wells Herman 2006) 6 Conclusion With this journal I have tried to mention that plagiarism detection is still an emerging technology, so there are likely to be many more developments and improvements in future years. Clough (2003) suggests other new areas of research for plagiarism detection, including multi-lingual detection; building up an online text library to enable better independent comparison across different services, and the use of natural language processing. 7 Recommendation The following points should be considered in the development of a next generation of plagiarism detection software. 1. Identify ethical, legal, and practical issues at the first stages of the development process, and make sure that these issues are considered at each stage of the development process. 2. Consider the algorithms and programming language. Most of the existing systems have been developed in C, C++, Java, or similar languages. Development in an Artificial Intelligence oriented language such as LISP or using Artificial Intelligence tools such as AIXML should be considered. 3. The user interface should be easy to use. Many of the existing systems suffer from significant use interface problems and poor programming techniques that make the programs frustrating to use. The existing systems also tend to be very slow; it may take a day or more to complete an analysis of even a modest sized class. Efficient algorithms and efficient coding techniques should be a priority. (Noynaert Evan 2005) 8 References 1 Bryan Scaife 2007, IT Consultancy, JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service, http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/documents/resources/PDReview-Reportv1_5.pdf, viewed on 21st August 2008. 2 Clough, P. 2000, Plagiarism in natural and programming languages: an overview of current tools, http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/%7Ecloughie/papers/Plagiarism.pdf, viewed on 20th August 2008. 3 Clyde William and Delohery Andrew, 2005, Using Technology in Teaching, University Press, ISBN 0300103948, 9780300103946, 231 pages. 4 Hricko Mary and Howell Scott, 2006, Foundations and Challenges, Online Assessments and Measurement, Idea Group Inc (IGI), ISBN 1591404975, 9781591404972, 372 pages. 5 Lowe Charlie , 2006, Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Software , http://cyberdash.com/plagiarism-detection-software-issues-gvsu, viewed on 20th August 2008. 6 MyDropBox for ANU Students 2008, http://academichonesty.anu.edu.au/mydropbox/faq.html, viewed on 19th August 2008. 7 Noynaert J. Evan, http://www.micsymposium.org/mics_2005/papers/paper97.pdf, viewed on 21st August 2008.
Closed off from love
I didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you know it you're frozen
Ooooh...
But something happened
For the very first time with you
My heart melted into the ground
Found something true
And everyone's looking 'round
Thinking I'm going crazy
But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open
Oooh, oooh...
Trying hard not to hear
But they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears
Try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that their goal
Is to keep me from falling
Hey, yeah!
But nothing's greater
Than the rush that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness
I see your face
Yet everyone around me
Thinks that I'm going crazy
Maybe, maybe
But I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open
And it's draining all of me
Oh they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see
I don't care what they say
I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
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Introduction. The Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is rapidly emerging identification and logging technology. Whether we have come across RFID systems in our work or not but we have probably encountered RFID in our daily life, perhaps without even being aware of it. RFID industry is growing rapidly. Since World War II, RFID has been used for automatic data collection but growth of RFID has been relatively slow through the 1990’s. Recent technological development has opened the door to many new applicants of RFID technology. Current and emerging uses for RFID technology include variety of applications such as: toll road and parking area access, inter modal freight container identification, pallet tracking, railroad and truck (rolling stock) tracking, animal identification, work-in-progress tracking, and matching passengers with bags at airports (Tuttle, J.R. 2004). 
Figure 1 (Source : http://www.aeanet.org/GovernmentAffairs/gais_HowRFID_Works.asp) Typical uses for RFID. Medical RFID. There are different ways to use RFID in hospitals. It can be used in traking inventory, patients, devices, appliances, etc. According to Christe’s study, “The use of RFID systems to manage inventory, track items and ease patient billing data collection can be used in general patient care rooms without concern of adverse device performance.” (Wireless Healthcare Newsletter 2008). Organizers of the Netherlands' Four Day Marches are using RFID-enabled sensor pills to monitor the risk of heat sickness, with help from a firm that is developing an application for analyzing athletes' temperature and location in real time (Mary Catherine O'Connor 2008). This technology helps medical staff insights into participant’s conditions so they could take preventive measures to ensure the volunteers health throughout the event rather than waiting until individual reached a checkpoint or reacting once they were already ailing. Farmer explores RFID benefit. Six sites in the state of Victoria are working with the Department of Primary Industries to demonstrate the economic benefits of using RFID tags to identify individual animals (Dave Friedlos 2008). Australian farmers have been facing problem in managing individual sheep manually, which is too costly and time consuming. Farmers can take benefit with RFID technology by managing individual sheep easily and also they can store information on sheep such as weight gain and loss in RFID tags to determine the healthiest animal. ePassport. The new ePassport have a radio frequency identification (RFID) transceiver and memory chip bonded into their cover. This allows encrypted data stored on the passport to be read by a passport scanner. The combination of new features of the ePassport with the strong encryption of machine-readable data is supposed to make it virtually impossible for forgers to create fake new passports (Terry Relph-Knight 2008) According to Times reports 45 countries are issuing ePassports. Only 10 of them have signed up to the Public Key Directory (PKD) system, and only five are using it. ePassport can be taken as biometric because digital copies of the information about the person and metrics can be stored on passport and theoretically can be compared, either with stored files associated with the legal passport holder, or with data captured directly from the person in possession of the passport Advantages of RFID vs. barcode technology: - No line of sight requirement.
- The tag can stand a harsh environment.
- Long read range.
- Portable database
- Multiple tag read/write.
- Tracking people, items, and equipment in real-time.
| Technology Capability | Bar Code | RFID | RFID Benefit Example | | Line of sight requirement | Required | Not required | No need to orientated scanned items | | No of items that can be scanned | One | Multiple | Very fast inventory scan | | Automation and Accuracy | Manual read errors and prone to mis-scanning | Fully automated and highly accurate | Error free inventory count | | Identification | Only series or type | Unique item level | Targeted Recall | | Data storage | Limited codes | Up to several kB data | Real time data access in any location. | (Michele Brown, Jesse Koennecke, Jim LeBlanc and Lois Purcell 2005) Technical problems with RFID · Problems with RFID Standards · RFID systems can be easily disrupted · RFID Reader Collision · RFID Tag Collision (Proceedings of 20th computer science seminal, pp. 1-6.) Standard is the main problem in RFID because tags are being modified and improved at a rapid rate. Standards are improving and changing so fast that some of the today's implementations will have to be completely changed in a year's time. Another problem is with collision between tags and readers. Readers become confused when too many signals are received at the same time. This causes two different problems: 1. Signal interference
The RF fields of two or more readers may overlap and interfere 2.&nbs | | | |
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