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Do you ever need to be able to limit users to a single application reliably and securely? Or you have a display computer which you want to limit to a single application (eg an information booth PC)? One of the features of Windows 8 that will be useful for education customers is Kiosk, or Assigned Access, mode.
In education, two typical examples would be to lock a computer to a single application:
To setup a Windows 8 computer in Assigned Access mode, what you do is setup a dedicated user profile, login and install the app, change the user settings to 'Assigned Access', and then choose the app they can run. Then, whenever the machine is logged in with that user, it will go straight into the app – with no option to run anything else. If you're running an information kiosk, it's the same idea, with the machine always logged in.
Let's say I want to run the SolveIT app (see the screenshot on the right), which tests students' 21st Century skills, such as their ability to problem solve using communication and collaboration with other users.
The SolveIT app provides a mechanism for students to communicate and chat within the test, and is able to use the logs from the conversation to assess the students' collaboration level. So we don't want to allow students to have a separate IM conversation in Lync, because the app won't assess it. So we'll want to lock them to only running SolveIT. (For more on SolveIT, see Janison's blog post)
My colleagues in Canada have documented the twelve step process to setup Assigned Access mode, and they are fairly straightforward. For the full instructions, take a look at their blog post below
Read the instructions to setup Assigned Access mode
Demografix is a Queensland-based education software developer producing great apps for schools and students – and they have just produced a Windows 8.1 version of their best-selling School Writing app. And working with them has been fascinating, as they have found extra capabilities in Windows 8 that allowed them to add features on top of the iPad version. And I've also learnt that they have to create 28 different plain and cursive school fonts because different countries (and, in Australian, different states!) teach their children to handwrite differently*.
The Windows 8 version has been designed to work with either touch screens, or with devices with a stylus (yep, that radical idea of teaching students to write letters by holding a pen rather than just tracing on screen with their finger).
And in even better news, Australian education institutions can get the Windows 8.1 version for free through using a special code in the software. The trial version allows you to test the app using a few letters (abc), numbers (123), one Words and one Whiteboard lesson. If you are School, TAFE or Uni and you want the app for free, then download the Trial version and enter your education email into the app for a free redeem code to be emailed to you. Saving $7.99 a student/user…
So at a great price of 'free', with full pen support, it's certainly got to be a nominee for the best Windows 8 education app so far…
A learn to write app, containing the approved handwriting fonts that are taught in your school.
School Writing includes 28 individual plain and cursive letters for use in each Australian state - NSW, QLD, SA, VIC & TAS - New Zealand, South Africa, UK. The app also features Zaner-Bloser and D'Nealian styles used for learning handwriting in American schools.
Using this app, students are able to intuitively trace pre-handwriting shapes, uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, words or whiteboard images. School Writing enables hearing and seeing the letters, words and numbers along with customisable associated images and sounds. School Writing allows a student to easily and quickly respond to the lessons by means of written and/or audio recordings.
With the option of tracing accuracy turned on, students are being rewarded with a star depending on their level of accuracy. They are given three attempts before proceeding with learning of next letter or number.
The teacher tracing feature enables audio recording for the letter sounds, changing the letter images and recording tracing instructions or individual letter phonetics.
The 'Whiteboard' section allows a teacher to draw or import images along with unique audio instructions for the purposes of tracing or interaction. Students can trace and record the audio answers.
The app enables creation, saving and sharing your own word lessons, profiles and customisations to suit your curriculum, while providing complete control over the lessons' management, the app and the student profiles.
There are three versions of School Writing in the Windows Store (each with the correct fonts for the country):
* Yep, that's right. Although there's a national education system, it seems that it's necessary to teach children in each state to handwrite differently. So go to Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and New South Wales, and you'll be taught to write your beginners, and then your cursive, fonts differently. No wonder it's so stressful bringing in an Australian National Curriculum…
* Yep, that's right. Although there's a national education system, it seems that it's necessary to teach children in each state to handwrite differently. So go to Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and New South Wales, and you'll be taught to write your beginners, and then your cursive, fonts differently. No wonder it's so stressful bringing in an Australian National Curriculum…
Office 365 Education is based on exactly the same platform as the full-blown enterprise-grade Office 365 system used by companies globally. One of the benefits of this is that you get the same Service Level Agreements for the cloud service that one of Australia's ASX50 companies would get. And another significant benefit is that as a user, you get access to the same training programmes we provide for these big companies – like the Ignite training…
On 29 April, we're running free*, three day technical training workshops in Sydney for all of the different components of Office 365, including the core Office 365 platform, Exchange, SharePoint, Visio, Project, as well as Yammer. And there is also a specific stream for developers who want to develop for the Office 2013 and SharePoint 2013 App model.
The Ignite training in Sydney is part of the global Ignite training programme. It's open to Microsoft customers and partners, and is delivered at a deep-dive technical level by our key product experts who are coming over from the US.
For general IT professionals, the runs for a single day, on Tuesday 29 April, and finishes with a networking reception at the Hilton on Tuesday evening.
For developers, architects and IT implementation teams, there's a much deeper agenda running Tuesday-Thursday, so you're going to need to be pretty technical to get the most out of the event. If you're working in the IT team or app development team within an education institution or Microsoft Partner in Australia, then this is the event for you.
The Ignite training in Sydney runs from Tuesday 29 April, 9AM to Thursday 1 May, 5PM. There are a mix of one-day workshops, or three-day workshops (click on any link below for the detailed agenda for each session)
One day workshops It kicks off on Tuesday morning with a keynote for everybody together, and then breaks after lunch into dedicated sessions: Office 365 – an overview of Office 365 capabilities Visio – an introduction session to Visio that demonstrates the scenarios it enables Yammer – an overview of Yammer and how to drive and manage enterprise social network use Three day workshops These all start with the Tuesday morning keynote, and then from Tuesday afternoon through until the end of Thursday, there's a series of different deep-dive streams for you to choose from, which include both presentations and hands-on labs:
It kicks off on Tuesday morning with a keynote for everybody together, and then breaks after lunch into dedicated sessions:
These all start with the Tuesday morning keynote, and then from Tuesday afternoon through until the end of Thursday, there's a series of different deep-dive streams for you to choose from, which include both presentations and hands-on labs:
Developer – including a session on developing mobile apps for SharePoint This session will be particularly useful for education customers who want to use Office 365 and SharePoint as a tool for automating some of the paperwork processes that currently slow down the Exchange – including architecture, high availability, eDiscovery, security and hybrid models Project – including key scenarios with Project Online, and the business intelligence reporting available SharePoint – including architecture, search, customisation and upgrading to SharePoint 2013 Lync – including Lync and Skype integration, and deep dives on voice, mobility and security.
There's full details of each of the streams on the Ignite Summit website
If you're from a customer organisation, then register here
If you're from a Microsoft Partner organisation, then register here
* Yes, the training is free to attend, but we're taking the exceptional step of charging $600 for people who book a place and don't turn up (waived if you let us know by 19th April). If you've ever turned up late at an event, and seen tens/hundreds of unclaimed delegate badges, you'll know why…
* Yes, the training is free to attend, but we're taking the exceptional step of charging $600 for people who book a place and don't turn up (waived if you let us know by 19th April). If you've ever turned up late at an event, and seen tens/hundreds of unclaimed delegate badges, you'll know why…
What's your diary like for April? How about investing one of your spare days in training for you and/or colleagues on Office 365, with a focus on strengthening your customer conversations about the transformation from traditional desktop software to cloud-delivered software services?
On 28th April 2014, we're hosting a Drumbeat Sales Readiness day for our partners' sales & pre-sales teams at the Sydney Hilton. Selling Office 365 requires a new way of selling, so in addition to sharing Microsoft best practices, programs, and selling tools, we will also present insights into the cloud services market and the opportunity for partners who invest in growing an Office 365 practice.
There continues to be a fast adoption rate of Office 365 Education, with schools, TAFEs and universities opting to use Office 365 as the platform for many new services to their staff and students. The result is that opportunities are growing for Microsoft Education partners to deliver services to implement Office 365, and to add business value after implementation through integration, process simplification, and collaboration services.
It's a free, full day event, that includes many different scenarios for Office 365, and will guide partners through the pre-sales conversations surrounding Office 365, that will help you to deliver the Microsoft solution with your implementation and ongoing services to help customers get the best value from their Office 365 deployment:
Microsoft partners register here for Drumbeat Training in Sydney on 28 April 2014
The Drumbeat training is for Microsoft Partners only. But we are also be running a customer & partner technical readiness event for IT Pros looking to deploy Office 365. This Ignite Technical Summit event runs from April 29-May 1 at the same venue and details for this are here.
The most memorable moment of the Microsoft Innovative Education Forum that I attended in the UK in 2010 was hearing Professor Sugata Mitra talking about his Hole in the Wall, and Granny Cloud projects. Like many inspiring people, I first heard about his work through TED, in his 2008 Ted Talk "Kids can teach themselves". Shortly before speaking at our Innovative Education Forum, he inspired again at TED, talking about "child-driven education", and earlier this year he spoke about his wish to "Build a school in the cloud".
As fascinating as the journey, and stories, have been, the thing that really stands out about Sugata's vision is his passionate pursuit of making things happen. And I've just finished reading about the next step in that journey, as he's just opened the doors of the world's first School in the Cloud, in England, funded through his TED Prize seed money.
The classroom above matches many other 21st century learning environments that are being built around the world. But what makes it stand out is the way the space is managed and used. I'll let the TED Blog pick up the story:
Learn more about Self-Organised Learning Environments (SOLE)
What if there was an app that your students could use to take a photo of anything you write on a whiteboard, store it, convert it to text, and make it easy for them to search back to find a specific word you'd written on the whiteboard last term? And thus mean that you could deliver lessons/lectures using a mix of whiteboard and PowerPoint, without putting students at a disadvantage when they need to find the brilliant example you drew up on the whiteboard? Well, yep, there's some help!
Here's an example from a meeting earlier today – the image on the left was the original that I took with the camera – and on the right is the version that I took with OneNote from exactly the same position – it automatically cropped it, straightened it, and worked out which bit of the image was the whiteboard!
So here's more of the detail:
Last month we announced a series of enhancements to the OneNote app for Windows 8, including making it much easier to share information with OneNote from other Windows 8 apps (using the Windows Share Charm). But the feature that I think might be most helpful for teachers, lecturers and students, is the ability to take shots of whiteboards and documents, and import them into OneNote automatically cropped, straightened and sharpened.
The Camera Scan features allows you to capture documents, magazines and whiteboards easily into OneNote. It will automatically crop, rotate, straighten, remove shadows and sharpen the image so it looks like a scanned document. This makes it easy to capture, read, and re-use sets of notes from other sources – for example, to quickly capture a set of lecturer's notes from a whiteboard. To use Camera Scan, you simply select the camera in the OneNote radial menu and snap away.
You can see it working in the video below.
Once you've got the image in, OneNote also scans all of the text in the image and converts it via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to full text. That means you can then search on text in the image and even copy text from the image, for use in another document!
The video below shows how this works in practice, with a scan of a shop receipt:
Learn more about the recent updates to the Windows 8 OneNote app
Or, download the free Windows 8 OneNote app and try it out yourself
Yesterday we have the Microsoft Research Centre for Social Natural User Interfaces. This is a joint research centre between the University of Melbourne and Microsoft Research, in partnership with the state government of Victoria and Microsoft Australia. The centre will explore applications of Natural User Interfaces—better known as NUI—in social situations. It is the world's first joint research centre dedicated to studying and perfecting the social applications of NUI.
There's some amazing work going on with new ways of interacting with technology across the world, and especially in the world of gaming, where things like Kinect have enable interaction through gestures, voice and whole-body movement. There's some great examples of non-gaming uses on the Kinect for Windows gallery, like the example below of turning any surface into an interactive whiteboard.
You can read more about the Research Centre announcement on the Microsoft Research Connections blog
We've just launched the sign-up page for the customer newsletter from the Microsoft Australia Education team. It's designed for teaching and learning staff in schools and colleges across Australia, and will be sent out monthly in 2014. This is in addition to any of the other newsletters you may receive. Paul Randazzo is the editorial lead for it, and here's the invite he's created for you to sign up:
Each generation fosters the belief that successive generations will be better equipped to face the challenges of the future. And it's almost universally accepted that the best way to achieve that is through the transformative power of education. Which is why we're so passionate about learning. We see education as the force behind social and economic progress, with technology as the driver to enhance student experience, promote young entrepreneurship and provide lifelong, workforce-ready skills. So it makes complete sense for us to launch Accelerate – a new, monthly newsletter written for educators and institutions and packed with tips and tricks, thought leadership, best practice and industry insights. This email offers a small taste of what you can expect. But If you'd like to receive this moving forward, join our mailing list today. And doing that couldn't be easier. Simply:
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There's a new version of the Australian Windows 8 app for education, Drawboard PDF, which is great for teachers to use for marking feedback onto homework, or for students to make notes directly onto PDF documents. It allows the teacher to draw or write – using pen or stylus – on the student's homework (saved as a PDF), and then save the resulting marked-up document.
It's ideal for replacing the pen and paper, and to avoid printing documents. Either upload or create a new PDF, annotate using the wide choice of tools (pen, highlighter, comment boxes, graphics), then save it back as a compatible PDF.
For the next few weeks, it's free on the Windows Store, so I'd recommend grabbing it now, ready for next school year.
Learn more, and download, Drawboard PDF
Lots of education customers in Australia took advantage of the special Surface RT Education offer, but when it finished at the end of September, there were plenty of people who asked if it would be extended as they'd just missed the deadline. Although at the time the answer was a sad 'no', I just saw this retail promotion from JB Hi-Fi that's almost identical – a 32GB Microsoft Surface RT for $223 – and open to anybody, not just education customers.
This is great news, because individual students and staff can buy at this price, whereas the special education offer was limited to institutions only. And you can order online, or just go into your local JB Hi-Fi and pick it up today.
BUT don't hang around – the promotion ends this Sunday 1st December.
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Sonic Impact offers i-Fusion portable speakers
Sonic Impact has announced the release of the i-Fusion, a portable iPod speaker system mounted inside a zip-up hard carrying case. The product features a built-in iPod cradle and a rechargeable lithium ion battery that lasts approximately 15 hours. The device has aluminum cone speakers with neodymium drivers and "Maxxbass psycho-acoustic technology" with a ported cabinet to improve bass. The i-Fusion works with all iPods with Dock Connectors, measures 9 x 7 x 2.5 inches and weighs under 2.25 lbs. It will be available in August for $149.
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looks sweet! also the rechargeable battary sounds very interesting…
Posted by m@nu on July 1, 2005 at 12:03 PM (CDT)
is that battery going to be user replaceable? HAHAHA
Posted by mretzak on July 1, 2005 at 4:18 PM (CDT)
Looks good but pricey!
For $30 (US), I'm happy with my Logitech mm22 speakers.
They come with a hard case, fit all iPod models; AC/DC use;
can be hooked up to a laptop and sound great for the size!
If you work in a den of theives like I do or going to class to class on campus, you might want something cheaper in price.
Posted by The Captain on July 2, 2005 at 3:04 AM (CDT)
Is it possible to store the iPod inside it when it's closed?
Posted by Magic Rabbits in Aberdeen, Scotland on July 2, 2005 at 7:16 AM (CDT)
I have seen and tested the i-Fusion. The i-Fusion battery is replaceable and very user friendly. There is a swing out compartment between the speakers that securely houses the iPod for travel. There is also a storage compartment that houses the battery and has a well for your earbuds. The i-Fusion comes with an AC adapter and when plugged in it will charge the battery and the iPod. A 30 pin connector port in the side of the unit allows you to download directly through the unit.
Posted by R Cotton on July 8, 2005 at 6:05 PM (CDT)
product looks GREAT can't wait to get one and play with it !
Posted by R B on July 12, 2005 at 12:35 PM (CDT)
how many watts per channel? anyone know the sound quality of this company?
Posted by xt on July 26, 2005 at 2:42 AM (CDT)
4 watts per channel the company also make a product called the t-amp FANTASTIC
Posted by r b on July 27, 2005 at 4:06 PM (CDT)
system is fantastic for the ipod. Speaker sound will take over an average size room (12 x 12. Convenient and compact. Would have preferred a black case. The "seamoss" color shows marks and handprints. Two of my relatives have purchased the ifusion after seeing mine. Very pleased.
Posted by GM on January 19, 2006 at 1:50 PM (CST)
I have a sonic impact portable speaker for my ipod. I cannot find the power cord and no one seems to be able to fit a after market (even radio shack) what can I do short of buying another speaker system? HELP
Posted by nadine marshall on November 7, 2006 at 12:13 AM (CST)
I have the i fusion IPOD portable speaker system. I need to find the plastic holders for my IPOD and cannot locate where to purchase one. The IPOD holders hold the IPOD in the docking station.
Posted by Kim Newton on November 25, 2007 at 1:58 PM (CST)
where can I find a power cord for the I fusion 1 or 2?
Posted by Alan Hara on March 7, 2008 at 8:26 PM (CST)
Why wont my ipod play when the ac adapter is plugged in? It only plays when i unplug the adapter. I want to use ac so not to use up the battery.
Posted by cheryl on June 4, 2010 at 6:04 PM (CDT)
I am looking for a replacement battery for my model 5085 I-Fusion…Battery Model GB/T 18287-2000….Where can I find one?
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After considering 40 books, the committee selected the 2011 debut novel of Austin native Ernest Cline. The science fiction novel is packed with adventure, gaming and pop-culture references. Those elements generally appeal to incoming UHV freshmen, who will receive a free copy of the book as part of the First Year Academic Experience.
"Video games have become such an important part of popular culture that it gives us a pathway that many students are already familiar with to introduce them to concepts like government, social control, economics and crime," said J. Keith Akins, director of the First Year Academic Experience. "What I like about the book is it shows the interconnectedness of society with economics, religious beliefs and technology."
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"Ready Player One" is set in Oklahoma in the year 2044. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets people be anything they want to be, a place where they can live, play and fall in love on any of 10,000 planets.
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Friday was a big day for Maria Kanellis. She is now a married woman. For those of you that do not know, her husband is ROH star Mike Bennett, whom she has been dating for approximately three years now. There were talks of WWE bringing him into their developmental program a while back, but nothing has surfaced since then, so the belief is that the ship has sailed on that.
October 11, 2014
Reports have surfaced about a rather interesting real life relationship backstage in WWE. Rosa Mendes was said to have been dating Michael Hayes for a period of time. Former wrestlers have alluded to the seemingly inappropriate relationship in the past, but the names were withheld. Word going around is that Hayes was quite the advocate in getting Rosa on Total Divas. The two are said to be broken up now.
October 9, 2014
After their segment on Monday Night Raw this week, there is a lot of speculation going around about Dolph Ziggler and Summer Rae. There has been no confirmation that they are dating in real life. The belief is that this is a move by WWE to make both of them slightly more relevant and to have a foil for Fandango and Layla El. This on screen relationship between Ziggler and Summer could be a short term thing.
July 1, 2014
During a recent radio interview, Bully Ray shocked a lot of wrestling fans when he revealed that he was dating Velvet Sky. Many were under the impression that the TNA Knockout was still dating Chris Sabin, who recently left the company as a free agent. There might be some validity to the claims made by Bully Ray as Sabin has been spotted with another woman, possibly his new girlfriend, as of late.
June 18, 2014
Wrestling fans have long been intrigued whenever the performers are dating one another in real life. It looks like the latest real life couple in WWE might be Dean Ambrose and Renee Young. The two of them have been spotted together in public quite a bit recently. A magazine in England called Power Slam even made note that the two WWE stars appeared to be rather intimate when they're in public together.
June 11, 2014
Since their characters are constantly kissing one another on Monday Night Raw and Smackdown, fans have naturally been wondering if Fandango and Layla El are really dating in real life. That is not the case. The two WWE performers are simply getting into their characters. Layla currently has a boyfriend outside of professional wrestling that she has been seeing for much of the past year.
May 27, 2014
There are a lot of rumors floating around that Summer Rae is dating Fandango right now. Nothing has been confirmed, so it is merely speculations right now. The WWE diva did have a boyfriend not too long ago, but it is uncertain if she is still involved in a relationship with that guy any more. WWE may reveal her status on an upcoming episode of Total Divas.
March 22, 2014
A picture of Shelly Martinez and her boyfriend. The former WWE star has been dating an independent wrestler named JT Dunn.
March 6, 2014
In a rather interesting move, Tajiri turned heel during a Wrestle-1 event this week. The decision is noteworthy because he is still scheduled to team up with the Great Muta as a baby face team during Bound For Glory 2014 in a match against James Storm and Seiya Sanada. No word yet on how TNA will handle the situation, but it could just be avoided since most American fans are not regular viewers of Japanese wrestling.
October 9, 2014
While the entire card is far from being finalized, TNA has revealed two matches that will definitely be taking place at the pay per view. In the first match, Samoa Joe, Low Ki and former WCW star Kaz Hayashi will be battling in a triple threat match for the X Division Championship. Seiya Sanada will be teaming with his new on screen mentor James Storm to take on his real life mentor Great Muta and Tajiri.
September 27, 2014
A video of James Storm, where the former TNA World Heavyweight Champion has repackaged Seiya Sanada. Storm promises a revolution, which means that he is bringing a new stable to Impact Wrestling.
August 16, 2014
In a sign that the financial situation in TNA is not as bad as many make it out to be, the company has signed new deals with three of their performers. Sam Shaw and Brooke Tessmacher are signed to new multiple year contracts, while international star Seiya Sanada has agreed to a one year deal. There were a lot of concerns about the company when they released several performers, so much of that should be alleviated now that they are signing new deals with their workers.
July 23, 2014
For those that missed Impact Wrestling this week, Austin Aries defeated Seiya Sanada to capture the TNA X Division Championship. Since the match was taped before Sanada had a chance to sign a new contract with TNA, the belief is that his potential departure was one of the reasons behind the title switch. Aries also announced that he would be cashing in the belt to get a shot at the world heavyweight champion at Destination X.
July 11, 2014
You can expect to see more of Seiya Sanada on Impact Wrestling over the next few months. The former TNA X Division Champion has decided to sign another contract with Dixie Carter that will ensure that he remains in the United States until at least the end of the year. Sanada also has a deal with the Great Muta, so he will be venturing back overseas for tours with Wrestle-1 as well. The rumored deal has been finalized.
July 7, 2014
When Seiya Sanada first joined TNA, the belief was that he was only temporarily here in the United States to boost his credibility with fans in Japan. However, since the relationship has worked out well for all sides, there are talks now of Sanada sticking around for a bit. A joint contract between the former X division champion, Great Muta and Dixie Carter is being discussed that will keep Sanada in the US a bit longer.
July 4, 2014
When the Great Muta and Dixie Carter reached an agreement on talent exchange, the two sides decided that Seiya Sanada would be utilized in TNA for a couple of months. The X Division Champion is still scheduled to leave the promotion and the country before the year ends. He is expected to receive a huge push in Wrestle-1 by winter time.
May 10, 2014
A status update on Twitter, where Seiya Sanada, the current TNA X Division Champion, playfully mocks Robbie E for looking like "Uncle Jesse", who was famously portrayed by John Stamos.
May 7, 2014
When he was initially brought into TNA, many were under the impression that Seiya Sanada was only going to work episodes of Impact Wrestling and pay per view events. However, it now appears that Sanada is full on with TNA. The X Division Champion is working live events for the company. He worked with Zema Ion at a show in Wisconsin last night.
May 3, 2014
In the finale of their best of three series for the X Division Championship, Seiya Sanada walked away from TNA Sacrifice 2014 as the retaining champion by beating Tigre Uno. The match was filled with several high spots and was given a decent amount of time. Sanada and Uno shook hands with one another afterwards.
April 27, 2014
A video of Seiya Sanada and Tigre Uno fighting in the second match of their Best of Three series for the TNA X Division Championship on Impact Wrestling.
April 21, 2014
Earlier this week, Seiya Sanada successfully defended the TNA X Division Championship against Christopher Daniels at a Wrestle-1 live event in Japan. TNA loves the idea of their championship being defended overseas, as it does give it more credibility with certain fans. Expect a couple of more performers to be sent to Japan to work matches.
April 19, 2014
While rumors have persisted for months now that he was going to be leaving the company once his contract expires, there are talks that Christopher Daniels could be sticking around with TNA. Some are under the belief that a new contract has been reached, as he is going to be challenging for the X Division Championship against Seiya Sanada in Japan later on this week.
April 14, 2014
When word came out that Christopher Daniels was on the verge of leaving TNA after his contract expired, the belief was that he would head to Japan to work. Apparently, that is true, as the former X Division Champion will be challenging Seiya Sanada, the current champion, at a Wrestle-1 show on April 17 in Tokyo.
April 6, 2014
In an attempt to give the championship a little more prestige, Seiya Sanada defended the TNA X Division Championship in Japan this week. He scored a victory over Seiki Yoshioka at a Wrestle-1 live event. Sanada is expected to return to the United States to work a couple of more episodes of Impact Wrestling soon.
March 23, 2014
A picture of Bayley, a WWE developmental diva, with Seiya Sanada, the current TNA X Division Champion, has surfaced on Twitter.
March 18, 2014
While he recently made his debut on Impact Wrestling, Seiya Sanada will be heading back to Japan for a bit. The Great Muta needs him to work a show for Wrestle-1 next week, where he will be defending the TNA X Division Championship. His opponent will be determined this weekend by a battle royal that is taking place at the next show.
March 14, 2014
Even though he already has a hold of the X Division Championship, Seiya Sanada has his eyes on another belt in TNA, as the Japanese star will be teaming up with another newcomer, Tigre Uno, in a triple threat tag team match for the tag titles. Davey Richards and Eddie Edwards will be the defending champions, while Robbie E and Jessie Godderz will attempt to reclaim the belts they once held.
March 14, 2014
A video interview of Great Muta, Seiya Sanada and Yasufumi Nakanoue discussing their big victory over Chris Sabin, Frankie Kazarian and Christopher Daniels at TNA Lockdown 2014.
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Aug. 12
Mr. Roper strikes again
8 p.m. — 2200 block of Cork Oak Drive. Suspicious Incident. A senior citizen believes her landlord may be giving her problems. She told the Sheriff's Office that he might be shutting off the water to the laundry room in her rental home. The deputy who responded couldn't tell if the issue was landlord-related or just a routine maintenance issue. Nonetheless, he wrote in his report that there were problems with the landlord, but he didn't elaborate.
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Crooked contractor
1:47 p.m. — 2800 block of Sterling Lane. Grand Theft. A woman had hired a man to do some work on a home she owned. One day, she began reviewing the invoices he was giving her and noticed something fishy. She was billed for the installation and purchase of 20 doors. Her home only has nine of them. She was also charged for two hot-water heaters and was billed twice for the installation of the same kitchen sink. When she fired him, he took some building materials the woman had purchased. Deputies were not able to immediately locate the man.
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Aug. 14
Relationship problems
2 p.m. — 6200 block of State Road 64 E. Theft. The victim reported her boyfriend stole the radio from her car and pawned it. She stated she allowed him to borrow her car after he dropped her off at work. That's when he removed the radio from the car and pawned it to get money to buy drugs. The victim stated her boyfriend admitted he pawned the radio, and she also found the pawnshop receipt in her car.
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Aug. 16
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7:21 p.m. — 400 block of GMD. Property Found. Police found a blanket, pillow and rolled-up mat lying on the ground that appeared to have fallen off of someone's vehicle. The items were taken to the police station for safekeeping.
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Raiding the water bank: we need policy changes to protect our most prized resource.
The world faces a great number of problems today and many of them relate to water. When the United Nations established its Millennium Development Goals, improving the global water supply was an important priority. At present there are a billion people on Earth who do not have reliable access to fresh water. There are more than two billion who do not have adequate sanitation. In response to growing problems associated with water supply and quality worldwide, the UN declared 2003 the International Year of Fresh Water. In 2005 the United Nations declared the UN Decade for Action, Water for Life, as a means of responding to what has now been identified as a full-blown global water crisis. Some 85 countries are engaged in this initiative.
The purpose of the UN Water for Life partnership in Canada is to put Canadian water issues in a global context. The goal of this initiative, which includes dozens of government and private sector partners, is to learn from others so that issues of water availability and quality do not limit our social and economic development in Canada in the future. While this will be surprising to many, preventing water quality and scarcity from limiting our future may not be as easy as it sounds, particularly in parts of the Canadian West. In Eau Canada: The Future of Canada's Water, University of British Columbia water policy scholar Karen Bakker and her colleagues tell us why.
There are few works that come out of academia that are as immediately direct, forceful and timely as this book. Karen Bakker is unabashed in her analysis of what has been described as the "shocking" way we manage water at a national level in Canada. She believes we need to re-examine the very principles upon which our governance of water is founded in Canada. She is in good company. In 18 papers presented by many of this country's most respected water scholars, Bakker brings together a formative argument for what we must do to reform water policy in Canada.
Eau Canada is a book that aims to dispel myths about water quality and availability in Canada. Bakker does not waste any time on pleasantries. She believes it is high time we overcame stalemates and filled policy vacuums in Canada. In her considered opinion, we need to renew federal water policy and clarify federal-provincial roles in water management with particular reference to transboundary water issues. We need a nationwide consensus on drinking water management and to strengthen weak and poorly enforced environmental regulations relating to water quality. Bakker also wants accountable and transparent governance mechanisms that ensure that indigenous people's water rights are recognized and integrated into a more enlightened national water strategy. She is concerned that Canadians spend far too much time worrying about water exports and not nearly enough time thinking about the damage caused by how we divert and manage water in our own country.
Most Canadians will be bewildered by these demands. "We have a quarter of the world's fresh water," they will declare. "How can we possibly have a problem with water?" John Sprague responds to this myth in his essay "Great Wet North? Canada's Myth of Water Abundance." It is true that in comparison to the rest of the world, Canada has adequate water, and so does the United States. But it is not limitless as we so often want to believe. We have about 2,850 cubic kilometres, or roughly 6.5 percent of the world's total renewable fresh water resource. By renewable Sprague means water that is replaced in any given year through rain and snowfall. The rest of our water is stored in lakes or in ice or permanent snow. It is fossil water, so to speak, in that it is left over from an earlier, wetter geological age. This is water in the bank. Once we spend this water, it is gone. Only a small increase in temperature could cause the loss of this stored water. With higher temperatures projected to occur as a result of climate change, glaciers will disappear and standing fossil water in northern lakes will evaporate. As this happens--as it is bound to--the hydrology of the entire country will change.
What this suggests is that, in southern Canada, we do not have as much water as we may have thought. In fact, if we examine how much water we have where most of us live we discover that we have about one tenth of the volume widely thought to exist in the public imagination. If the Americans want our water, they will have to go to the same place we will have to go if we want more, the Canadian North. And that will be very costly, as diverting water from northern rivers will, besides causing potentially disastrous environmental impacts, require pumping the water uphill.
John Sprague and the other authors of Eau Canada argue that the first thing we need to do in developing national water policy is dispel the myth of limitless abundance of water in this country. If we don't, we will make policy decisions based on false assumptions of abundance that could have huge ecological, economic and political consequences.
Although the book covers the broadest range of water policy issues in Canada, among the most topical today are the chapters relating to our relationship with our American neighbours. A great deal has been written about the history and function of the International Joint Commission. The relationship between Canada and the U.S. has been defined for almost a century by the Boundary Waters Treaty, which was signed between the two countries in 1909. This treaty addresses a broad range of transboundary water issues including definitions of boundary and transboundary surface waters and the joint study of these waters with reference to their potential use. The treaty establishes mechanisms for the approval of certain uses and permission for obstruction or diversion of transboundary waters that may affect flow volumes in either country. The treaty is widely considered to be an exemplary model of an international transboundary agreement. In the chapter entitled "Thirsty Neighbours: A Century of Canada-U.S. Transboundary Water Governance," water policy scholar Ralph Pentland and former IJC commissioner Adele Hurley contend that there are many Canadian water policy experts who doubt that Canada could negotiate as favourable an agreement as the Boundary Waters Treaty in today's political climate.
Beyond establishing rules for transboundary water management, the treaty also created a means for resolving disputes in the form of the IJC. The IJC performs two essential functions. It approves remedial or protective works, obstructions or dams on transboundary waters and sets terms and conditions for the operation of such works. It also investigates and makes recommendations on questions relating to operating rules or disputes that are referred to it by either or both governments. The key point here is that the IJC has to be invited by one or both federal governments to investigate disputes and to collaborate with conflicting parties in the interest of creating durable solutions to transboundary water issues.
While the IJC has enjoyed legendary success in the resolution of such issues, concerns have been growing over its current effectiveness. There is no one reason for this. The biggest reason for the decline in effectiveness of the IJC, however, may reside in the fact that neither the Canadian nor the American government supports it--and utilizes it--to the extent they once did. Put simply, important transboundary water issues are not referred to the IJC to be resolved. Instead of relying upon historically successful institutional approaches to dispute resolution, the federal governments in both Canada and the U.S. are choosing to address these issues in the political domain. Pentland and Hurley state it simply: the IJC can only be as successful as American and Canadian governments want it to be. When one or both federal governments are disinclined to cooperate on transboundary water issues then the IJC is sidelined. The cases in which the IJC has not been invited to be involved are highly instructive for they demonstrate just how quickly the goodwill created through generations of cooperation can be lost. Eau Canada discusses two important examples, the matter of Devil's Lake and a dispute over water-borne contamination in the Columbia River.
Devil's Lake is located some 160 kilometres south of North Dakota's northern border with Manitoba. The lake's name is associated with the fact that this body of water has no natural outlet. Consequently, the lake has become increasingly contaminated as a result of human activities in the basin over the last century. The rising waters led to a proposal to create a diversion that would allow the lake to be drained into the nearby Sheyenne River, which flows northward into the Red River, which, in turn, flows into Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba. In 2002, the U.S. government requested that the matter of the diversion be referred to the IJC. The Canadian government, however, refused to allow the referral. Pentland and Hurley note that the justification the Canadian government offered was that environmental studies were not adequate at the time and that a "wait and see" approach to the problem would be more appropriate given the circumstances. The situation, however, worsened. The waters of Devil's Lake continued to rise, flooding some 30,000 hectares of farmland. Faced with what it perceived as an emergency, North Dakota unilaterally decided in 2004 to build the proposed diversion. The construction of the Devil's Lake diversion was completed in September of 2005. Opponents of the diversion cite article IV of the 1909 Boundary Water Treaty, which states that transboundary water flows "shall not be polluted on either side to the injury of health or property on the other." It has also been argued that if the issue had been referred to the IJC in the first place, the ultimate outcome would have been far more satisfactory to both countries.
Another watershed in contention is the Columbia River Basin where an issue of cross-border water pollution remains to be fully resolved. This dispute centres on the introduction of heavy metals into the Columbia River some 16 kilometres before the river crosses the international boundary into the state of Washington. The source of the heavy metals is an estimated 10 million tons of mining slag that was dumped into the river as a byproduct of decades of metal smelting that took place at a mining operation at Trail, British Columbia. The matter has not been referred to the IJC and the Canadian government has been unsuccessful in its attempt to resolve this issue through diplomatic channels.
In an essay entitled "Whose Water? Canadian Water Management and the Challenges of Jurisdictional Fragmentation," J. Owen Saunders and Michael Wenig argue that the case demonstrates that even with the Boundary Waters Treaty in place and the fine record of the IJC, there are obvious limits to the amount of cooperation between Canada and the U.S. on transboundary water issues. When referrals to the IJC are not forthcoming, the considerable resources--procedural and other--of this important institution are not brought to bear on transboundary issues, which can result in inferior solutions to these problems--and diminished neighbourly relations. In conclusion, Saunders and Wenig argue that, if we are not going to use the tools at hand, we need additional avenues of resolution if we are to meet emerging new circumstances in our relationship with our southern neighbours. That may well be true, but only if such avenues really are an improvement over the successful processes already defined by the Boundary Waters Treaty and established by the IJC.
Beyond the many lessons we can learn about transboundary water issues from Eau Canada, the book has much to teach us about where we stand relative to the rest of the world in terms of water management. Karen Bakker is right. Canada is not as advanced as we might like to believe in terms of public policy relating to water supply and quality assurance. There are issues of equity related to First Nations, inefficiencies associated with jurisdictional fragmentation of responsibility and accountability, an absence of reliable and commonly useful data, and widespread examples of inadequate foresight and management of water in the context of other forms of resource development. The country needs to move past its own myths of limitless water abundance to create a new national water ethic based on conservation and different formulae for valuing water as a resource in its own right. The most important lesson, however, may be that the longer our federal and provincial policy makers wait to change our water management frameworks, the more investment there will be in current systems and the more difficult it will become to make needed changes.
Is there a water crisis in Canada? Compared to other places in the world the answer is no. But in parts of Canada, especially in the water-scarce West, we have all the elements to create one. The authors of Eau Canada argue, quite rightly I think, that without more enlightened federal, provincial and municipal policy, that is exactly where we may be heading.
R.W. Sandford is the chair of the United Nations Water for Life partnership in Canada and the director of the University of Lethbridge's Western Watersheds Climate Research Collaborative. He is the author of Water, Weather and the Mountain West, published by Rocky Mountain Books in the fall of 2007. He lives in Canmore.
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