| Adobe and Microsoft Release Competiting Rich Media Products
Over the weekend, both Microsoft and Adobe came out with competing media player products - Microsoft launched Silverlight, a direct competitor to Adobe's Flash, while Adobe released Adobe Media Player, an alternative to Microsoft's Windows Media Player. Microsoft calls Silverlight, "a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web." It'll run on both Mac and Windows, within Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Silverlight will scale media from mobile-quality to full-screen high-definition, and is fully integrated with Windows Media technologies. The Adobe Media Player, meanwhile, "will let users subscribe to and play video podcasts published with RSS (Really Simple Syndication).
Fourth AK weekend meeting attracts foreign competitors
Titus Kiboi won the mens 10,000m race during the fourth Athletics Kenya weekend meeting at Kakamegas Bukhungu Stadium. Kiboi, an individual entrant from Mt Elgon but training at Iten, out-sprinted Prisons Lukas Kibet and Kimbias Julius Kiptoo to finish in a time of 29:05.6. Kiptoo returned 29:07.4 and Kibet 29:13.4. Titus Mbishe and Samson Chebii finished fourth and fifth timed 29:23.4 and 29:25.6. Linet Masai, from Western, beat more than 40 athletes to win the 5,000m race in a slow time of 16:07.9. She was followed by Kiptendens Mercy Cherono who clocked 16:17.3. Masai, the winner of the junior womens six-kilometre race in Mombasa last month, trains with Pace Management under Noah Ngeny, the Sydney Olympic 1,500m gold medallist.
If you go to India
GETTING THERE: Take the overnight train, the Ranikhet Express, from New Delhi to Ramnagar, the nearest town to the park. From Ramnagar, hire a Jeep for $15 to Dhikala forest lodge for the 30-mile journey. The Jeep and its driver will stay with you during your stay in Dhikala and take you on two safaris every day for another $15. (New Delhi to Ramnagar is about 155 miles by road, but the taxi journey on the national highway, which is dug up in long stretches for widening, is difficult and takes about eight hours.) LODGINGS: If you are unable to find accommodation at Dhikala or other forest lodges, there are resorts outside Corbett National Park. If you feel like splurging, stay at the Corbett Hideaway or Corbett River View Retreat, www.leisurehotels.co.in. They offer day trips into the park.
Monaco Coach Corporation Invites You to Join Its First Quarter ...
COBURG, Ore., April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In conjunction with its first quarter earnings release, Monaco Coach Corp. (NYSE: MNC) invites you to listen to its conference call broadcast live over the Internet at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, April 26, 2007. Dedicated to quality and service, Monaco Coach Corporation is one of the nation's leading manufacturers of motorized and towable recreational vehicles. Headquartered in Coburg, Oregon, with substantial manufacturing facilities in Indiana, Monaco Coach employs approximately 5,300 people. The Company offers entry-level priced towable RVs up to custom made luxury recreational vehicle models under the Monaco, Holiday Rambler, Safari, Beaver, McKenzie, R-Vision and Dodge brand names. Monaco Coach maintains RV service centers in Harrisburg, Ore., Elkhart, Ind., and Wildwood, Fla.
Consumers Digest names Holiday World top value park
One of the nation's leading consumer magazines names Holiday World & Splashin' Safari the country's "Top Value Park" in its current issue. Consumers Digest's March/April edition features an article titled "America's Top Amusement Parks." The six-page report names the Top Value Parks in North America, with Holiday World in the #1 spot. The article praises the park's "enchanting holidays theme, an attraction-packed water park and some of the country's best wooden coasters," plus the park's ground-breaking free soft drinks program, free sunscreen, free parking, and no extra charge for Splashin' Safari admission. "This designation validates all these crazy programs we've launched over the year," says Holiday World & Splashin' Safari's president, Will Koch. "Other parks told us we were insane to give away soft drinks, but we've felt all along it was the right thing to do for our Guests." The Consumers Digest report also includes a prediction that The Voyage, Holiday World's record-breaking wooden coaster that opened in 2006, is "destined to become a classic." The Voyage was named one of the Top Five "Can't Miss Attractions" in North America.
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