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Calling all San Francisco Bay Area composers- GGWQ announces its first Annual Wind Quintet Composition Competition and Master Class. The Golden Gate Wind quintet is proud to announce its first Annual Wind Quintet Composition Competition. The GGWQ wants to encourage the creation of new music for the wind quintet. This is the perfect opportunity for composers who make the San Francisco Bay Area their home to practice their compositional and orchestration skills utilizing the 5 wind instruments of the wind quintet. Top prize is $100 cash and a performance of the winning composition in the GGWQ’s 2003-2004 concert season. - 2003-08-06

GROUNDBREAKING BOOK PROVIDES A VIEW OF MENOPAUSE FROM AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE Despite the explosion of women’s health awareness, resources, and the ever-present dialogue available through local and media outlets in recent years, no published work has ever presented the topic of menopause from an African American perspective. Nor has any African American perspective on health issues ever linked the traditionally conservative pastime of playing tennis as a means of alleviating and coping with menopausal symptoms. In MENOPAUSE, SISTERHOOD AND TENNIS (Basic Health Publications, $14.95), Oakland, California author Alice Wilson-Fried provides a poignant and insightful look into her journey through menopause through the prism of her Southern and racially segregated upbringing. - 2003-08-06

For six days in July The Internet was a hackers paradise At 1.15pm on Friday 25 July the avecho anti virus engine stopped an unknown virus. GlassWall does not rely upon virus definitions, and so did not know what the virus was, it just sent the intended recipient a message to inform them that a malicious email had been blocked. For the next six days GlassWall continued to stop hundreds of unknown viruses all similar, but many were variations on a theme. Anyone protected by traditional detection techniques were at the mercy of the virus as they had no knowledge of it. - 2003-08-06