http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/25/wahlburger_n_937000.html?icid=maing-grid7|maing8|dl7|sec3_lnk1|89978
Mark Wahlberg made his name in the the eighties as a pants-dropping beefcake. But now’s he’s moved on to an enterprise with even more of an upside: selling beef. He and his brothers Donnie, a former rapper, and Paul, a chef, have acquired rights to use the name “Wahlburger” for their soon-to-open restaurant in Hingham, Massachusetts, reports the Boston Herald.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/the-top-10-colleges-with-_n_928008.html#s330937&title=Macalester_College
Interested in discussing the merits of John Kerry in the dining hall?
Princeton Review recently named the schools with the most liberal students in the country. Minnesota’s Macalester College topped the list and North Carolina’s Warren Wilson College (one of James Franco’s many alma maters) came in second.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/24/conservative-colleges_n_935009.html#s337860&title=Hillsdale_College
Want to go to college with the next Rick Perry? (Or you could actually become the next Rick Perry yourself. It all depends on what you want out of life).
Princeton Review recently named the colleges with the most conservative students. Michigan’s Hillsdale College topped the list with California’s Thomas Aquinas College coming in second. Rick Perry’s alma mater, Texas A&M, came in third.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com////forbes-most-powerful-women_n_934312.html?1314201746&icid=maing-grid7|maing9|dl4|sec1_lnk2|88950
This year it’s all about reach.
Europe is in debt crisis, the Middle East is shaking and there’s market panic at home. It is against this backdrop that we present the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
The women on this list were chosen not just for being on top but for being smack in the middle of Richter-registering events — and more. Their power derives from money and might, yes, but also (thanks to old, new and social media) reach and influence.
http://www.forbes.com/wealth/power-women
http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/08/21/pitch-perfect-a-startups-guide-to-getting-coverage/
Most young startup’s needs 3 things: Money, a good idea and a dogged determination to see that idea through to completion. But what about publicity?
Some may argue that if an idea is good enough, people will discover it one way or another, and there may be some truth in this. But there’s little question that a spot of positive coverage can boost business and accelerate the word-of-mouth process.
What we’re talking about is public relations (PR). This could be in the form of a charismatic CEO who loves nothing more than courting the media, or an appointed PR firm that manages the publicity on a firm’s behalf. But in the case of young startups, they often won’t have the funds at their disposal for an experienced PR firm, whilst the company founder may be far more comfortable getting stuck into some Python programming than penning a press release.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/michelle-obama-affordable_n_915435.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl8|sec1_lnk2|84953
Everyone loves a good deal — even Michelle Obama. We know she’s a fan of J.Crew and regularly wears pieces by Talbots, but what other affordable, mass-produced brands does she like? Well… Target, Gap and H&M, to name a few!
Check out some of FLOTUS’ most affordable looks below and tell us which outfits look, well, cheap and which are chic.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-coons/it-gets-better-is-more-th_b_886800.html
It’s remarkable how much three words can say.
“You’re not alone.”
“I love you.”
“It gets better.”
The right three words can be the difference between hope and despair and, miraculously, “it gets better” has, for many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, meant the difference between life and death.
That’s why I worked with 12 of my Senate colleagues over the last two months to record a video for LGBT youth and the It Gets Better Project.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/06/arabian-peninsula-gay-lesbian-online-community-arab-islam-gulf-religion-transgender-internet.html
While the media kerfuffle continues over the fake Syrian lesbian blogger Amina Arraf Omari, who was actually an American male in Scotland, gays and lesbians in the Middle East are struggling daily to make their voices heard.
Based on the island of Bahrain off the Arabian Peninsula, Ahwaa (which translates as “passion” in English) is one of the projects of Mideast Youth, a regional nonprofit organization that seeks to foster diversity and advocate change in the Middle East and North Africa using digital media.
Other projects undertaken by the group include one that provides a forum for the region’s ethnic Kurds and another that aims to spread awareness about the situation of migrant workers in the Middle East.
So what makes Ahwaa different from other websites and forums tailored to LGBT people living in the Middle East?
*It Gets Better Project mentioned on page four
One Saturday afternoon last winter, I drove north on Route 85 through the rolling rangeland of southeastern Wyoming. I was headed to a small town north of Cheyenne to see an old friend and colleague named Michael Glatze. We worked together 12 years ago at XY, a San Francisco-based national magazine for young gay men, back when we were young gay men ourselves.
Many young gay men looked up to him. He and his boyfriend at the time, Ben, who also worked at the magazine, made a handsome pair — but their appeal went deeper. On weekends we would go to raves together, and I would watch as gay boys gravitated toward the couple. Michael and Ben seemed unburdened (by shame, by self-doubt) and unapologetically pursued what the writer Paul Monette called the uniquely gay experience of “flagrant joy.” But unlike some of our friends who rode the flagrant joy train all the way to rehab, Michael and Ben rarely seemed out of control. There was a balance — a wisdom — to their quest for intense, authentic experience. Together they seemed to have figured out how to be young, gay and happy.
A lot had happened in the decade since we last saw each other: he and Ben started a new gay magazine (Young Gay America, or Y.G.A.); they traveled the country for a documentary about gay teenagers; and Michael was fast becoming the leading voice for gay youth until the day, in July 2007, when he announced that he was no longer gay.
“Homosexuality came easy to me, because I was already weak,” he wrote in the opening line of an article for the far-right Web site, WorldNetDaily.com. He went on to renounce his work at XY and Y.G.A. “Homosexuality, delivered to young minds, is by its very nature pornographic,” he claimed. In a second WorldNetDaily article a week later, he said that he was “repulsed to think about homosexuality” and that he was “going to do what I can to fight it.”