| At Salishan, it’s all about pride
School's out, and a parade of kids swarms across the T-Street Gulch bridge and bursts into Salishan, swinging books, chatting and laughing.Video: A look back at the Salishan that once was It's a healthy, happy-looking bunch, diverse as a Coke commercial. They cross a grassy park and fan out onto the East Side Tacoma neighborhood's quiet streets, heading toward picturesque Craftsman-style homes, each with a big front porch and a manicured lawn. The scene is enough to sway even the most skeptical: Might it really be possible that the revamped Salishan, notorious for poverty and violence in the 1980s, actually will turn out to be the Utopian model its developers say it will be? "This is better, 'cause the old one had rodents running around," said Margarita Crown, a 45-year-old single mother who lived in the old Salishan and now has a corner duplex in the new one.
Chicago as a 'Grey' area?
Veronica Mars" got its best-ever ratings in its season premiere Wednesday, when it was up against "Lost." By the way, thanks to reader Dave Juhl of Naperville, who points out that WPWR-Ch. 50 rebroadcasts each episode of "Veronica Mars" at 9 p.m. Sunday. I don't know about you, but when that full-scale riot broke out on "Prison Break" on Monday (and how cool was that episode, by the way?), I was most concerned about the older prisoner's pet cat, which ran off during the melee. I was sad to hear that Kathy Griffin and her husband Matt Moline are divorcing. Based on what I saw on her reality show, he seemed like an incredibly nice guy and very supportive of his wife's career in an extremely cutthroat industry. What a shame. I'm obsessed with how "The Amazing Race" is filmed. When I saw a bit of the sixth edition of the show being shot here in Chicago, each team had its own sound person and camera person, and from watching the show, I've always assumed that, when the team is driving, the camera person rides up front and the sound guy sits in the back.
Hominy & Hash
SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. -- There's no question our language changed with the advent of the computer. Where our parents had an address and telephone number, we now have an address, telephone number, cell phone number, web address (or, in the vernacular, a dotcom) an e-mail address and a "nick," which is how you're identified for instant messaging. Thirty years ago, citizen band two-way radios were the rage and along with our CB radio we had to register our "handle." My handle was "Rag Mop," and if that gives you a visual, well, you're probably right. All of those identifiers are something you set for yourself according to how you see yourself or how you want to present yourself. We recently went all wireless at home and the final selling point was that we could keep our own phone number.
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Are You Smarter Than a... 17th Grader?
In addition, the top team in the Taxi/Limo Round and the recipient of the Best Technology Plan will receive cash prizes. The Cincom Spirit of Enterprise Grand Prize The $10,000 Cincom Spirit of Enterprise Champion prize, the first-place recipient, will be awarded an automatic bid to the 2008 MOOT Corp. Competition, held at the University of Texas, Austin. Learn from Real-World Entrepreneurial Success Stories "Cincom Systems' World Headquarters is a great venue in which to compete. It gives students a chance to learn about global business from one of the all-time great entrepreneurial success stories in the software industry, CEO Tom Nies," said Dr. Charles Matthews, Director of the University of Cincinnati Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research.
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