I'm sure you've been in similar situations to this one.

need women to go to Christopher house to mentor young mothers, no set date yet, contact Sandy if you are interested, new mothers are especially welcome. All attendees of the 8/12 alumni meeting are eligible to receive free alumni comptia certification Thomas will be on Power 92 discussing i.c.stars|* innovation stations will be at eye-opener, confessionals will be on sight "booths where you can come in, talk to an alumni and ask, what they cant do related to technology" Booth Volunteers: Nureni Brandies three slots are filled for cycle 18, cycle 17 is almost finished, all we need now is college grad new slots for info sessions, any alums can now sign up to co-host/host an info session and share your story Thomas says he would like 5 people to sign up for his event committee, he will be taking alums with him on his visits to community-based organizations and non-profits, sign up with Thomas at tchatman@icstars.org

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama was spotted at 730 N Franklin. This guy is a rock star, people waited for 2+ hours just to catch a glimpse. We managed to get a video of the action, but the quality is not that great.
Check out the video, its insane!

This is short notice, but 37 Signals is doing a Live Q & A Session today, Tuesday Aug 5th at 3pm. In short, 37 Signals is a dev co. from Chicago that builds web-based software. There most famous product is the Project Management tool "Basecamp." According to their blog they will be answering questions re: "entrepreneurship, business models, hiring, collaboration, design decisions, tech-related stuff, questions about our products, etc." Pretty nerdy neat. For those that can't listen, but would like to hear the show, I will try to record and post. In the meantime here are some links providing more info. Support your local technologist. RJ http://37signals.com/ http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1178-37signals-live-debuting-tomorrow-tues-at-3pm-cdt http://www.basecamphq.com/?source=37s+home

ATTENTION ALL ALUMS!!!

2nd Annual PEACE FEST

Saturday July 26,2008

3 on 3 Basketball

We are looking for 3 Alums to play in a 3 on 3 Basketball tournaments this
Saturday. Our goal is to sale/promote i.c.stars and hopefully we can get some leads both on and out the
court at this event.

Where: 115th and Halsted

When: Saturday July 26,2008

Time: 10 am

Winning team will receive a TROPHY and hopefully in will be team i.c.stars

To sign up please call or email Thomas Chatman at 773 330-9730,
tchat...@icstar.org

Thanks for your participation, you guys KICK ASS

Hint this is not a computer generated animation

The url for the i.c.stars wiki was changed this weekend from http://pmo.icstars.org/wiki to http://wiki.icstars.org

To appease Sherita Whitaker, I recently downloaded Mozilla Firefox 3 onto my machine, replacing over a month of putting up with Internet Explorer on my vista OS.

I have been amazed first off by the speed of the browser, but the "Awesome bar" is so great, I figured it needed some attention on the vault.

Mozilla has created an address bar that not only connects you to a web address, but also queries popular search engines for matches to what you type.

Mozilla has also combined this with a history search engine that matches those words against sites you frequently visit.

For instance, if you were to install the browser, import your Internet Explorer history and begin typing the keyword in your site, say, howcanicstars, Firefox:

>looks for the web address in your history,