| Al Ain zoo to start night safari
Al Ain: Al Ain Zoo will offer night safaris from next month, with visitors being able to enjoy the facility during the hot summer months. The zoo, which is undergoing rapid developments, has turned into a zoological resort with a plethora of new attractions and facilities, said Mark Craig, director of the zoo. "We have finalised the preparations and planning to start night safaris from the middle of next month," said Craig, promising visitors a unique experience. The idea of a night safari park, he said, has been conceived with the harsh summer conditions in mind. He said the safaris have been developed in natural settings and people will be able to see the animals from a close distance while sitting in vehicles provided by the zoo.
NaviSite to Provide Support for Microsoft Silverlight
Andover, MA (April 18, 2007) - NaviSite, Inc., a leading provider of application solutions, hosting and content delivery services, today announced that it will provide support for Microsoft Silverlight, a new cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web, which was announced by Microsoft on Monday. Extending its status as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Certified Media Hosting Provider, NaviSite will collaborate with Microsoft to offer rich interactive user experiences across heterogeneous platforms like Firefox and Safari.
By providing support for Silverlight, NaviSite leverages its investment in tools and skills as Silverlight utilizes similar developer interfaces. In alignment with NaviSites own multi-platform support philosophy, Silverlight enables support for rich user experiences regardless of hardware, OS or browser.
£500000 to find a safe cure for sleeping sickness
Sleeping sickness is a bizarre and tortuous disease that has puzzled Scottish doctors for more than 200 years. Even the common cure can be deadly and contains arsenic. David Livingstone, the Blantyre-born explorer, is thought to have been the first to record using the poison to treat the fatal African illness. Now researchers at Glasgow University have been given almost £500,000 to find a remedy which will claim fewer lives. Professor Peter Kennedy, head of the university's neuroscience division, has published a book tracing the history of sleeping sickness, and the way the quest for a cure has woven through so many lives. He believes renewed efforts to tackle the illness, which kills around 50,000 people a year, could eliminate it within a decade. .
DOG PAWSE: Living in the moment
Generally, dogs are good at keeping themselves entertained. My dog is really gifted at making every moment quite cosmic.When I think about how he spends his free time, I must conclude that he has the blue ribbon of doggy imaginations.Most often, my dog passes the day by playing "wild safari" with his squeaky bunny and his stuffed monkey.Sometimes it's "race car driver" as he speeds laps around the coffee table, and then there's the "fashion show" where he cruises the hallway dragging my dirty socks or other unmentionables. He even pauses momentarily on his imaginary runway to show me what he has before doing a perfectly choreographed turn and going back the other way.Basically, give him a gum wrapper and he's entertained for hours. .
Conservationist to speak in Triad
Richard Leakey prefers not to play the blame game when it comes to climate change, global warming and the cataclysm they threaten.The famed fossil hunter and wildlife preservationist, who speaks at two events in Greensboro this week, takes a more pragmatic approach to the divisive issues that both speeches will tackle."The real issue is, what are we going to do with it in order to survive?" said Leakey, 62, son of legendary paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey. "I'm trying to get beyond the argument of, well, there's nothing we can do about it because it's a natural process."Triad residents can hear Richard Leakey in separate, unrelated events Tuesday at Guilford College and Wednesday at the Greensboro Coliseum.The college is presenting "A Conversation with Richard Leakey," including time for audience questions of the man known both for some of the key fossil finds of the last 100 years and for efforts to protect endangered African wildlife.Leakey also speaks Wednesday at the Greensboro Coliseum in a conference sponsored by the N.C.
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