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Thursday, October 2, 2003
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
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Hampton vs. McGuinty vs. Eves -- or maybe it's just action in the Laurier-Waterloo football game the other day. Laurier won 50-14. The Warriors, who then fell 65-21 to Windsor, play at Queen's this Saturday. |
While most eligible voters should have cards indicating that they're safely on the voters' list, it's also possible to vote by showing up at the polling place with proper identification. Voters must be 18 or older, Canadian citizens and Ontario residents, and are supposed to vote in the riding that represents their "permanent residence".
The human resources department sends a reminder that, by Ontario law, employees are entitled to "three consecutive hours" off work so they can vote. Since polls are open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., that could mean that someone whose working hours start in the morning and extend past 5 p.m. might need extra time off. "The employee may request that his or her employer allow such additional time for voting as may be necessary," says the law, "and the employer shall grant the request."
Three polling places are right on campus. Students who live in UW Place will vote at the community centre in Beck Hall; residents of Village I, Mackenzie King, Ron Eydt Village the Columbia Lake Townhouses vote at the Village I great hall; and residents of the church colleges vote at Conrad Grebel University College.
For off-campus students, the Federation of Students will run shuttle buses "regularly" from the Student Life Centre to polling places. Information about poll locations is available at the Federation office in the SLC.
FibreTech Telecommunications, a telecom firm owned by the public utility companies in Waterloo Region, says Waterloo Region will "once again lead the nation" after Monday's launch, scheduled for 11 a.m. outside McGinnis Front Row restaurant.
"Wi-Fi or wireless fidelity, is a service that allows owners of Wi-Fi enabled laptops, PDAs and personal computers the freedom to access the Internet anywhere untethered by cables or wires," a news release reminds the low-tech folks among us. "The service will use standard 802.11b protocol that can move data at an amazing 11 Mbps.
"Wi-Fi is being launched with a free pilot site of over 4 sq. km., which encompasses an area going east of the University of Waterloo and north of University Avenue and includes the cafes and restaurants at 140-170 University Avenue and surrounding area."
It's "an exciting new technology that will appeal to students," says Ron Kurtz, manager of sales and marketing for FibreTech. "With Wi-FI, you can take a break in a coffee shop or park and still access the Internet for everything from email, artists music sites, or doing research for term papers."
The company says it plans to build on this first site "to blanket the entire Region of Waterloo . . . at an affordable price while offering wireless portability."
UW's own technology departments already provide wireless hot spots in some areas of campus, but on a much smaller scale -- in the Davis Centre, parts of the engineering buildings and Math and Computer, the Dana Porter Library, and St. Jerome's University. There have been tests of a wireless antenna on Dana Porter that would cover the entire campus and some off-campus areas.
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The Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games, on the main floor of Matthews Hall, is displaying "TV Games and Game Shows" this fall. The exhibition opened two weeks ago and will continue until January.
Says an announcement from the graduate students in the recreation and leisure studies department who operate the museum: "This exhibit takes the visitor on a walk down memory lane, where games like Dukes of Hazards, Happy Days, and Scooby Doo are on display and ready for you to play.
"In the museum's display cases, you will find board games of your old favourite superheroes, such as Batman, He-man, and Wonder Woman. There is a section in the museum dedicated to TV game shows, such as Family Feud, Wheel of Fortune, and the Price is Right, and there is also a segment on children's and family TV shows, such as Leave it to Beaver, and Rainbow Bright. Come and play a game of NHL Stanley Cup hockey, or look over the intricate details of the Star Trek game. This fun filled exhibit features an opportunity for visitors to play and enjoy many of these games."
Admission is free, though "cash donations for Museum collection acquisition are welcome." The museum is open Monday to Friday 1 to 5 p.m. Groups are welcome (call ext. 4424 for an appointment).
As the news release notes, the games museum was originally founded in 1971 and was renamed the "Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games" in 2000. "The year 2003 marks the 32nd year of operation for this unique Canadian institution."
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The collection includes more than 5,000 objects, many of which have
been exhibited in the museum's gallery at one time or another over the
past 32 years, though the bulk of the collection is in storage at
any given time.
"Games in the collection come from many parts of the world and from
generous public and corporate donations through the years. Donations are
always welcome. A few hundred of these are documented
on the museum web
site."
The web site features photographs, tours, and documentary text about many individual items in the collection. Presented in the form of a "virtual exhibit", each documentary page includes one or more illustrations of collection objects -- many of which were photographed by Gerry Hagey, UW's founding president, who devoted himself to photography after his retirement. "Continuing with its primary research mandate," the news release goes on, "the Museum answers e-mail inquiries from web viewers on an individual basis. The museum website is regularly being updated by its founder, Elliott Avedon (left), from his home base in Florida, enhancing the virtual museum presence that continues to evolve on the world-wide web."
The museum is administered by the faculty of applied health sciences as part of the Waterloo Heritage Collections, with funding support from the Ontario ministry of tourism, culture and recreation.
On Friday, October 3, we are bringing two of our external service partners, Miller Thomson and Osborne Group, to lead two on-campus seminars. These seminars will be of interest to UW faculty and graduate students who are considering their options to commercialize, patent, or license their Intellectual Property. Interested faculty and grad students, as well as enterprising UW alumni and undergraduates, can attend one or both sessions, which will be held in the Tatham Centre. Sessions are open to the public; pre-registration is required.
Session A, at 9 a.m., is titled "Protecting Your IP". Topics: What is IP? How do you know you own it? What Is UW's IP policy? The business case for or against Patents, Trade Marks, Trade Secrets etc.
Session B, at 1 p.m., is "Your IP as Your Engine for Success". Topics: How to commercially assess and get real value from your IP. The steps from IP Concept to customer and to profits. The "window of opportunity" limit for your IP. A discussion of some options: Licensing, Strategic Partnering, venture start-up.
The price will be $75 per seminar or $140 for both seminars. To register, contact UW Innovate Inc., ext. 6065, e-mail info@innovate.uwaterloo.ca.
A pair of workshops this afternoon are sponsored by the social work program (based at Renison College) and K-W Counselling Services. One deals with human services work in the Old Order Mennonite community; the other is about "family acculturation and parent-youth relationships" in diverse cultural groups. Last-minute information is available from Marion Reid at Renison, 884-4404 ext. 626.
Architecture professor Dereck Revington will give this year's Faculty of Environmental Studies Lecture tonight at 7:30 in the Theatre of the Arts. He'll talk about his design for the "luminous veil" barrier on Toronto's Don Viaduct.
The weekly Native studies lecture series continues with a talk by Edna Manitowabi of Manitoulin Island -- a chief, actor and storyteller -- who will speak on "Healing Through the Arts", tonight at 8:00 in MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's United College.
Tomorrow morning, the tourism lecture series continues with a talk by Brian Wheeller of NHTV in the Netherlands: "Sustainable Egotourism", and yes, that's a G in "ego". The talk starts at 9:30 in Environmental Studies I room 132.
And . . . a reminder that tomorrow is announced as a "Dress Down" (or dress up) day in support of the United Way campaign, which is about to get rolling on campus.
CAR