| Microsoft Introduces Silverlight Plug-In at NAB
On Monday, Microsoft introduced video professionals attending the NAB conference Silverlight, a Mac and PC-compatible web browser plug-in similar to Adobe's Flash paired with what the company considered video streaming superior to Apple's QuickTime. The program, which is currently available as a public beta (or "technology preview"), is available for download with a general release planned later this month according to Macworld News. Previously known as WPF/E, Silverlight is designed around vector-based graphics, text, animation, media and overlays while using existing back-end web and infrastructure tools such as Apache, PHP, JavaScript and XHTML. On the Mac end, Microsoft has stated that the plug-in works with both Firefox and Safari while on the Windows end the plug-in is designed around Internet Explorer 7.
Take walks on the wild side
RANGER Rambles, badger watches and wildlife walks are among the public events planned for later this year by West Lothian Council's Countryside Ranger Service. The latest programme of nature-related events for the rest of the year also includes pond-dips, mini-beast safaris, and bat walks. Events include a Ranger Ramble around Easter Inch nature reserve near Seafield on Saturday, as part of the Scottish Outdoor Access Festival. Almondell and Calderwood Country Park hosts a Watery Wildlife session on Sunday, May 13, from 2pm. This article: http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=624032007 Last updated: 23-Apr-07 11:59 BST .
Game tags net state $190000
Conservation groups auctioned off 2007 Montana big-game licenses for a total of $211,000 at their annual gatherings over the winter. The Foundation of North American Wild Sheep, or FNAWS, auctioned the 2007 bighorn-sheep license for $140,000 and the moose license for $20,000. .
Wealth of new species added to the tree of life yearly
Carolyn Ehardt's eyes brimmed with tears of excitement as she trained her binoculars on the steep, wooded slopes of Tanzania's Ndundulu Forest. High in the leafy canopy on the far side of the valley was the sight she had longed to see — having cut short her convalescence from cancer surgery to travel back to her research site halfway around the world, lured by a blurry photo e-mailed by one of her field assistants. "There were three or four of them sitting there in the brilliant African sun," Ehardt recalled. "I was absolutely stunned. They were the most bizarre-looking monkeys I had ever seen." She was gazing at the first new monkey species discovered in Africa in 20 years — a black-faced creature, now thought to be an entirely new genus of monkey, with pale brown fur and an upright crest of hair that gave it the air of a pint-sized punk rocker.
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