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The Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Institute of Wine & Food has elected its 2007 board officers and committee chairmen. All of the positions are for two-year periods with the exception of the chairman and vice chairman, which will be filled for one year. .
Comprehensive 13-Episode, 3-Disc Set Captures All The On And Off ...
San Francisco, CA March 29, 2007 – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced the highly anticipated release on April 24 of THE PRINCE OF TENNIS DVD box set. The comprehensive 3-disc set will offer all 13 episodes of the first season, be rated “A" for All Ages, and will retail for $39.98. THE PRINCE OF TENNIS is based on the smash hit manga series by Takeshi Konomi, which has sold more than 30 million copies to-date in Japan and is published exclusively in North America by VIZ Media. Domestic fans have fervently embraced the manga series, which is now up to volume 18, and have fueled the anticipation for the release of the anime series after its successful launch on Cartoon Network's Toonami block of programming and the Toonami Jetstream download site.
We are the web
The video's main message is simple: we are the web. Just as the languages created by the deaf Nicaraguan children, or the children of slaves in the West Indies, or indeed ourselves, exist only as functions of the communities that use them, so the web only exists as a function of the people who populate it. Moreover, the way we use the vast bodies of information amassed on the web both defines and generates its structure. Every time we link to a web page on our blog, or tag a photo on Flickr, we are teaching the machine what connects to what. Right now, we do this millions of times every day. We will do it more only as the generation of "digital natives" now populating sites like MySpace begins to reach adulthood. This new, bottom-up, collaborative landscape has the power to abruptly, and radically, change the balance of power in many spheres.
Berkeley This Week
Impeachment Banner Fridays at 6:45 to 8 a.m. on the Berkeley Pedestrian bridge between Seabreeze Market and the Berkeley Aquatic Park, ongoing on Fridays until impeachment is realized. www. Impeachbush-cheney.com City Commons Club Noon Luncheon with Dr. Fred Nachtwey on “Sleep" Luncheon at 11:45 a.m. for $14, speech at 12:30 p.m., at the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant St. For information and reservations call 526-2925. “Tales of Western Ornithologists" with Harry Fuller at 7 p.m. at the Live Oak Recreation Center. Sponsored by Golden Gate Auddubon Society. Cost is $10-$15. 843-2222. Oceans Awareness to bring awareness of the problem of plastic in our oceans at 5 p.m. at Lower Sproul Plaza, UC Campus. Sponsored by CALPIRG. Alcohol Free Weekend Can You Do It? Take the sober weekend challenge sponsored by UC Berkeley Health Serives.
Sign-ups begin for summer camps in Jurupa Valley
Registration is now being taken for the Riverside County Regional Parks and Open Space District summer camps in the Jurupa Valley. Three camps offer educational summer adventure in June and July for children 3 to 12. All the camps cost $75 per child per week, but if parents volunteer as camp aides at the Louis Robidoux Nature Center or at Hidden Valley Nature Center, one of their children may attend camp for free. All camps are limited to 80 children and fill up quickly. .
Daily Planner: Wednesday
23RD ANNUAL CHICO SCIENCE FAIR: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Chico State University Farm on Hegan Lane. This year's theme is "dream, explore, discover." Free admission. Through Thursday. LIBRARY WEEK EVENTS: 1-3 p.m. Chinese Temple tour and tea, Oroville; 3 p.m. presentation of bookmark competition awards , Chico Library; 4 p.m. movie "Stranger Than Fiction," Paradise Library; 6-7 p.m. medieval knight combat on front lawn, Oroville Library; 7 p.m.; William Martin on "The Practice of Conscious, Compassionate Parenting," Paradise Library; 7 p.m. guest educator and pet store owner at story time, Chico Library. FRIENDS OF CHICO COMMUNITY BALLET FUNDRAISER: 5-9 p.m. Round Table Pizza, 964 Mangrove Ave.; 20 percent of purchases go to the ballet for production costs. Bake sale and raffle also. 893-9028.
Activision's 'Guitar Hero' Rocking Hard
However, Activision was the star of the show, with year-over-year sales rising a whopping 149% on the back of the Guitar Hero 2 juggernaut. NPD's March sales period ended April 7, so the first four days of sales of the new Guitar Hero 2 Xbox 360 version were included in the March numbers. It was a hell of a four-day run. The game sold 291,000 units, making it the third-best-selling game of the month in terms of units, despite being supply constrained, likely due to a shortage of the accompanying toy guitar. Gamers were not scared away by its average selling price of $87.77, which resulted in the game's second-place rank in terms of dollar sales, trailing only God of War 2 for the PS2. A Major Hit For those who aren't familiar, Guitar Hero is a rhythm/music game in which the user hits buttons on a toy guitar to "play" along with rock songs.
Tiemann-Belzer Duo creates a jazz club vibe (HEARD THE MUSIC)
The stage was set. The lights dimmed while any last minute stragglers found their seats and the recital hall was transformed into an underground jazz club. Well, not exactly, but on Sunday, April 15, the Tiemann-Belzer Duo was able to create the ambiance of a close-knit group of music lovers sitting in some dive bar and encouraging the performers during an energetic jam-session, despite the half empty venue of the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The Tiemann-Belzer Duo is comprised of drummer Scott Tiemann and saxophonist Matt Belzer, although students may be more used to seeing Professor Belzer teaching various jazz and music classes at UMBC. But with saxophone in hand, the duos debut CD Crypto was named one of the top 20 local Baltimore releases of 2004. Some of the songs from this CD were performed on Sunday, a show that featured five original compositions, as well as odes to their jazz roots in the form of Gymnopedie No.1 (Erik Satie), Criss Cross (Thelonious Monk), Nows The Time (Charlie Parker), Freedom Jazz Dance (Eddie Harris), and Narayama (Japanese Folk Song).
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