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Elections for 2012 Board of Directors

Would you like to contribute to CACC as a leader on our Board of Directors? If so, we’d love to hear from you. All four Board positions are up for election. We are now accepting nominations for the roles of President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary. Serving as an officer takes just a few hours each month - time to attend club activities, manage the e-mails for your position, and think creatively about ways to grow the club. If you are interested in nominating yourself or another member in good standing for a position, please e-mail your nomination to us.

January Technology Learning Day

We had a busy learning day at the Community Center in January. Thanks to everybody who braved the wet and chilly weather. There were so many great questions and some interesting challenges too - but it was a good day. We talked to some new Mac users about making the switch, spent time troubleshooting an incomplete iTunes library that included lots of “dead” tracks, spent some time talking about iPhones, and heard about banana equivalents doses. Check back in February to see what we’re up to next!

January 2012 Meeting: Holiday Roundtable

Thanks to everybody who joined us for our January 10 meeting, the holiday roundtable. We had a great conversation about printers, pen drives, using SSDs in vintage computers, 3D displays, and lots of great iPad apps. We hope to see you in February!

Disc and Hard Drive Recycling Service for Members

Committed to improving your environmental footprint and looking for a responsible way to dispose of your old CDs, DVDs, and hard drives? CACC provides dues-paying members a complimentary disc and disk recycling service. Simply bring your old CDs, DVDs, and hard drives to any CACC event and give them to us. We’ll take care of recycling them for you.

Please note that if you’re bringing a hard disk containing sensitive information, you should format the drive or otherwise destroy the data. If you’re bringing a CD or DVD that contains sensitive information, consider scratching the disc surface.

Why not just throw discs and disks in the trash? Consider these facts:
CD/DVD Recycling Facts
  • A cd/dvd is considered a class 7 recyclable plastic
  • To manufacture a pound of plastic (30 CDs per pound), it requires 300 cubic feet of natural gas, 2 cups of crude oil and 24 gallons of water
  • It is estimated that AOL alone has distributed more than 2 billion CDs. That is the natural gas equivalent of heating 200,000 homes for 1 year
  • It is estimated that it will take over 1 million years for a CD to completely decompose in a landfill

Hard Drive Recycling Facts
  • Each hard drive contains over one pound of recyclable aluminum
  • Recycling one hard drive saves enough energy to:
    • light a 100 watt bulb for 134 hours, or
    • run your television for 102 hours or
    • the energy equivalent of 1.5 gallons of gasoline
  • Recycling aluminum is 95% more energy efficient than producing aluminum from ore
  • Recycling aluminum results in 95% less air pollution and 97% less water pollution than producing aluminum from ore

Technology Learning Day

We regularly are asked how Learning Day works, and if there is a structured program on Learning Day Saturdays. CACC hosts a monthly Learning Day on the third Saturday of the month. Learning Day is an informal and unstructured session where you can drop-in and we'll help with any specific questions you have or specific topics you'd like assistance learning.  

If you have questions or need help, Technology Learning Day is the place to be for one-on-one assistance! Support is available on a number of topics, so stop by a Learning Day one Saturday if you have questions, need help, or just want to shoot the breeze about Mac stuff.

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