| Red Rover lets student ideas come over
Chicagoan Tom Krieglstein has been an award-winning online pioneer since he was in college seven years ago. His latest concept landed him a $10,000 prize from a new Web2.joe community for small businesses and entrepreneurs called Ideablob.com. Ideablob enables entrepreneurs to share and compare ideas, and gives them a chance each month to win $10,000 to grow their ideas. The online Ideablob community votes on the winner, and Krieglstein won the November balloting with his idea to develop freshmen-orientation software that integrates with online social networks to match freshmen college students to other students, groups and courses. Ideablob enables entrepreneurs to share and compare ideas, and gives them a chance each month to win $10,000 to grow their ideas. The online Ideablob community votes on the winner, and Krieglstein won the November balloting with his idea to develop freshmen-orientation software that integrates with online social networks to match freshmen college students to other students, groups and courses.
June 2006
Not a bad game plan, some are wondering today. Consider this as you lounge on the beach this weekend, fish in Pleasant Bay or cruise to Nantucket: With the spring graduation of thousands of college seniors, many graduates and their parents—braced today with the debilitating cost of a college degree that often has extended the traditional four years to seven so students can work off some of the debt—are asking the question: Is there a better way? Once the bloom is off the rose of graduation, the math is numbing for graduates and their parents. I feel the pain. My 22-year-old son, Brendan (a product of Nauset Regional High School) just graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. I also have a daughter, Colleen, who is a junior at Elon University, a son, Conor, who will be a senior at Nauset next year, and a home equity line that is wheezing.
New tattoo and wedding vows for Bif Naked
The bride was rocker Bif Naked, but there was nothing punk about the wedding ceremony celebrated Saturday in Vancouver. Bif Naked, whose real name is Beth Torbert, married Vancouver Sun sportswriter Ian Walker in a 30-minute ceremony at St. Andrews Wesley United Church that featured readings from the Bible and an exchange of vows. Beth Torbert, left, also known as Bif Naked, married Ian Walker in Vancouver on Saturday. (Richard Lam/Canadian Press) However, in a major departure from tradition, the couple sealed their bond with tattoos. Naked has had Walker's signature tattooed on her arm while Walker has a stylized B emblazoned on his hip. Torbert is already heavily tattooed with Buddhist and Hindu poetry, symbols of the Tao and an Egyptian eye of Horus. During the wedding Torbert, who played with punk bands Gorilla Gorilla and Chrome Dog before going solo, wore a cream-coloured minidress with a detachable skirt, a pink veil and a long train.
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