| Apple’s latest Mac OS X Leopard build shows unified interface, buh ...
"The latest development build of Mac OS X Leopard [build 9A410] finally tackles issues with consistent style that many say have plagued the Apple software for years," Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider. Malley reports, "While most of the test versions of the future operating system have so far handled only the many bugs still left in its code, this week's edition allegedly contains the first signs of obvious visual differences between itself and 2005's Mac OS X Tiger." "The brushed-metal look that first appeared in earnest with Panther has almost completely faded away, according to reports. Well-known holdouts for the style, including Finder, Photo Booth, and Safari, have purportedly abandoned the metallic sheen in favor of the simpler, gradiated style that first appeared in Apple Mail 2.0 and later transferred to Leopard's version of iChat and the more widely available iTunes 7," Malley reports.
Caribbean Observes Slave Trade End
KINGSTON, Jamaica People across the Caribbean bowed their heads for a moment of silence Sunday to mark the 200th anniversary of the end of Britain's trans-Atlantic slave trade, which claimed millions of lives and shaped the region's history. In Jamaica, islanders held symbolic funeral rites in Kingston Harbour for African slaves who died during the perilous ocean crossing. In Dominica, there was an evening ceremony at the Baracoon building, where slaves were held for auction. In Guyana, the tribute was held in the compound of parliament buildings where slaves were beaten and sometimes hanged. "We unite as a region and as a people, in a collective moment of reflection, as we remember one of the greatest tragedies in the history of humanity, which denied over 25 million Africans, for over 400 years, the basic human right of freedom, the right to self-actualization and for so many, denial of even their basic right to life," said Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St.
Mequitta Ahuja, Encounters
Mequitta Ahuja's work is charged with issues of personal and ethnic identity. Both African American and East Indian, her formally hybrid works embody her multiple cultural positions. As Mequitta says, she views "the position of the margin as a creative opportunity, which is my response to my own social lack of fit." The figures in her works operate from the same position. Mequitta's emblematic images of the individual, often the artist herself, laboring, roaming, imagining, and presenting herself in her own terms, depict identity as a real, mythic, and metaphoric concern. Expressed through imagery of the human in relation to and merging with animals and the land, the artist explores the notion of the hybrid or non-autonomous being. Her works are images of culturally complex female power and authority in tension with an alienating social position.
County’s best spellers head to bee
Twenty-seven fifth- through eighth-graders have qualified to compete in the 30th annual Douglas County Spelling Bee at Wildlife Safari.
Three students are making return trips to the bee.
Chelsea Spencer is making her fourth and final appearance. The eighth-grader has represented Oakland schools at the bee since 2004.
Daniel Standley, an eighth-grader at Winston Middle School, and Riley Lavin, a sixth-grader at McGovern Elementary School in Winston, are both back for a second year.
The spelling bee brings students from 22 public schools, two private schools and one home school together for a chance at the top prize.
Students will compete for a new computer, trophies and other prizes. Each will receive a district winner trophy for making it to the county event.
Deep sea is our last frontier: Scientist shares thrill of his many ...
Robert Ballard is known for discovering the Titanic shipwreck, but that's just skimming the surface of his career in undersea exploration. Ballard has tracked down the ruins of several ships, including ancient wooden ones, and even found new life forms - 10-foot-long tube worms - deep below the ocean's surface. However, Ballard considers his greatest achievement to be the educational programs he has developed to get young people excited about his work, the ocean and science in general, he told an audience Wednesday night at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis. Ballard's talk, which included a slide show of underwater photos and graphics detailing his work, was the final installment of this year's Distinguished Speakers series. On Sept.
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