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feeling blue

The day I’ve been longing for arrived yesterday. Of course, 1. it was Valentine’s day which just happens to be one of my favourite days; 2. when I left work at 5.36pm the sky was still blue and 3. my gorgeous new bag arrived!

I am completely done with winter. I’m longing for days where the skies are blue and the sun feels warm on your bare legs. Infact I’ve already started buying some summery wardrobe items. Enter summer hangbag number 1….

I found her on eBay of all places. I never used to buy anything from eBay but sellers these days offer great return policies and usually items arrive in a matter of days. This bag reminded me of the Celine Phantom bag that I’m, ok, just a little obsessed with.

“angels start singing”

I’m praying that the weather stays nice in time for my birthday next week.
It never happens that way, but all the signs are there, I even have a blue bag for a little blue sky encouragement. The bag is still available in an array of colours here.

on the run

I finally did it! My collection of Converse’s is growing. Welcome to my wardrobe my lovely white all-stars –

Pinterest is again proving it’s worth and I’ve been browsing some Converse related looks all afternoon.

What do you think of my faves above?

baby its cold outside

Today saw the first glimpse of winter, snowfall. Unfortunately it didn’t touch us here in Bournemouth but many parts of Dorset, Somerset and Devon were blanketed in sheets of snow.

A few things I’m loving at the moment:

1. These gorgeous Regent Hunter wellies and H&M cardigan. I love the combination of colours and textures, making it easy to wrap up warm but still look fall-fashion-ready.

2. 50 shades of fall. Winter isn’t all about black on black. This year brighten up your wardrobe with these stonewash River Island jeans, plum tote from Zara and military style mac from Rare London. And if the sun does come out, always make sure you’ve got some  classic Ray Ban aviators stashed away at the bottom of your bag.

3. Boot and Hats. Hats and Boots. These are my key accessories for fall. Leather ankle boots that can be worn so many ways and a woollen fedora to keep you snug. Perfect.

I hope you’re having a lovely Sunday. I’m babysitting my 18 month old Godson and having a 10 minute break from turning my living room floor into a car racing track!


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Relationships are our strength: We treat others the way we would like to be treated. We are committed to your business, to each other and to having fun together. Our success is built on quality relationships.

Responsibility for actions and results: We walk the talk and are 100% accountable for our actions. We honour our commitments to our clients, employees and each other.

Respect for people: Our company is built on trust, openness, and honesty. We respect and support our clients and each other, in all aspects of our business.

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Our team comes from diverse backgrounds and has many years experience in the spa and wellness industries:

The team is led by Sheila Otieno-Osanya who has 22 years experience in Hotel & Spa Management and Spa Consulting

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Sheila Otieno-Osanya grew up and was educated in Kenya and in the UK where she completed her ‘A’ levels. She obtained a tertiary education in Hotel Management in Switzerland, where she attended the Swiss Hotel Association Hotel Management School, Les Roches.

Once qualified, she returned to Mombasa, Kenya, where she specialized in restaurant management and hotel operations. In 2000 she moved to Zanzibar where she managed a 90 room, 5 star resort for a year. In 2001 Sheila relocated to South Africa to join Recreation Africa Leisure Industries in the capacity of Deputy General Manager at the Misty Hills Country Hotel, Conference Centre & Spa in Johannesburg. Her responsibilities included the development of the Spa in the Country at Misty Hills and this involvement allowed her to discover her passion for the spa industry.

In April 2004 Sheila decided to devote her career exclusively to spa management, and she was appointed Spa Director at Misty Hills. In August 2005, Sheila was offered an opportunity to become Spa Manager at the ArabellaSheraton Grand Hotel (now the Westin Grand Cape Town Arabella Quays). After three successful years at the Westin, Sheila joined the Business for Wellness as a management consultant in August 2008.

In December 2008 Sheila decided to form her own spa consultancy – The Spa People – to provide clients with the benefit of her considerable experience in the industry.

After starting her own consultancy, Sheila completed the internal and lead auditors courses offered by TUV Rheinland, and is now a qualified expert for this international accreditation body. She has conducted several audits and now offers her services in assisting spas to implement management systems which benefit spas in the following ways:

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• Improved customer satisfaction and reduction in number of complaints

In November 2015, an oppportunity arose for Sheila to open up her own spa in a 5 star boutique hotel in Sandton. The Spa at Marion on Nicol opened it’s doors to the public on February 1st 2016. Due to high rental costs, Sheila closed the Spa at Marion on Nicol on 31st August 2017 and is now focusing on her spa consulting business and raising her 5 year old twins.

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Press: Doomed and Stoned (Jan 20, 2015)

From Doomed and Stoned,
Jan 20, 2015

The Sun Giants are a Seattle band that, in the words of their bassist Tanya Paul “aim to always have a good time with good honest people and have a blast with what the universe unfolds for us. Its fucking fantastic.”

Fantastic is the precisely the word that came to mind when Chris Schanz (the photographer who we feature quite a bit on Doomed & Stoned) shared the music video with me last night, which also features founding member Scott Paul on vocals & guitar and Ryan Gill on drums.

Explains Chris: “The Sun Giants rented the Josephine Bonaparte theater in Ballard for the day. Tobias Cron from Power Skeleton directed. I tagged David Knottnerus to be my backup before he went off to the Art Institute (he shoots in Tacoma - C.F.A.). Scott’s brother, Darrell Paul came up with the concept of the mad scientist and constructed ALL the props. He’s a mad genius!”

Tanya concurs: “Really and truly,  that guy is a genius with his art work,” adding: “The group of people that Scott had hand picked couldn’t have worked out better. The chemistry amongst all of us was absolutely fantastic.”

Here are some of the production stills (via Chris Schanz) that will help you to appreciate the genius of all involved (and even more here)!

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By now I am sure everyone has heard of Lindows as they are making huge waves in the computing world. What is your opinion of Lindows? Do you think it will succeed or just be another notch on the belt of MS.....

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I don't think Lindows will make it. They charge for the download of programs which are free/open source. Yes you can install it manually...but a 3CD set of Mandrake would be more appealing. You want to pay for MS compatability, buy Codeweavers Crossover, or Win4Lin. Just my opinion.


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Man charged after woman loses leg in Clementsport car/bike crash

Annapolis RCMP Crime Report looks at the weekly calls for service police answer.
Annapolis District RCMP say a man has been charged after his car struck a motorcyclist head on in Clementsport Sept. 2 - Lawrence Powell

CLEMENTSPORT, NS – A 23-year-old Granville Ferry man is being charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm after his car struck a motorcycle head on Sept. 2 on Highway 1 at Clementsport.

The 44-year-old woman from New Germany, who was thrown from her bike in the crash, was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries. Her leg was amputated below the knee.

RCMP Const. Cheryl Ponee said the car lost control and crossed the centre line and struck the motorcyclist.

“She is receiving treatment at QE2 but unfortunately due to the accident has lost her left leg,” said Const. Ponee in reference to the woman’s injuries.

“There is no question that speed and not taking into consideration the fact that thousands of bikers were on the road with Wharf Rat Rally both played a part in this serious accident,” said Const. Ponee.

The crash occurred just before noon Sunday. The female motorcyclist was with a group of other riders, and as they rounded a curve in the road, she was struck by the car and was thrown from her bike.

Const. Ponee said the 23-year-old male driver of the car was not injured.

Highway 1 in Clementsport was closed for several hours while emergency personnel were on scene, including RCMP, EHS, Annapolis Royal fire and Bear River fire. The crash happened just west of the Clementsport Legion.

Annapolis District RCMP is asking for anyone who witnessed the collision or may have video footage of it, to call them at 902-665-4481. Please quote file # 20181314551.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Shopping File: Boxing Week Deals and Sales

Has anyone hit the stores to check out the boxing week deals? There are many great sales going on so if you had something in your radar pre-Christmas and didn't get it, this is the time to treat yourself! I've only been shopping in the sports department because I really need some winter running gear but while I was doing some research I came across some amazing finds! My absolute favorite tee is down to $10, my go-to pumps are marked down to $65 and Lululemon has some pretty good deals (trust me, worth checking out, I got this for 55% off!).

Here are some sales I have spotted:

Get additional 40% off all sale at Club Monaco (perfect cable knit sweater and everyday booties).
Get extra 40% off all sale at J.Crew.
Get extra 40% off all sale at Anthropologie (two great skirts for NYE: one and two).
Take and additional 30% off all sale at Tory Burch.
25% off select styles at Sorel (love these!)

1. Tory Burch Disque Dress | 2. West Elm Stacked Triangles Pillow Cover | 3. J.Crew Charlie Tassel Loafers | 4. West Elm Box Frame Coffee Table | 5. West Elm Metallic Diamond Kilim | 6. Stuart Weitzman Forest Combat Boots | 7. J.Crew Buffalo Plaid Pajama Pant | 8. Madewell Silk Lowlight Lace-Inset Skirt | 9. West Elm Marble Topped Pedestal Table | 10. Joe Fresh Moto Legging | 11. West Elm Rowan Leather Chair | 12. Madewell Shirttail Skirt in Plaid | 13. Madewell Delancey Blanket Coat | 14. Kendall & Kylie Katherine Satchel | 15. Joe Fresh Rain Boots | 16. Rebecca Minkoff Paris Saddle Bag | 17. Hunter Boots Original Patent Lace Up Boots | 18. Joe Fresh Cable Knit Winter Hat (fits super nice!) | 19. Tory Burch Cove Skirt | 20. J.Crew Waffle Striped Leggings | 21. J.Crew Wide Brim Italian Wool Hat | 22. Madewell Patterson Plaid Scarf | 23. Tory Burch Orsay Calf Hair Bootie | 24. Sorel Out N About Felt Moc | 25. J.Crew Elsie Suede d'Orsay Pumps

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Saturday, July 22, 1995

Bar Humbug

This week: Richard Ashcroft, Norman Blake, David McAlmont and Peter Cunnah

Phew! It's back. Yes it's that time again where we find four pop stars, get them together at the same time on the same day in the same pub, ply them with copious amounts of alcohol and ask them tricky questions about issues of the day, oh yes, and Hugh Grant. Master of Ceremonies: Mark Sutherland. Bar Props: Peter Walsh.

Richard Ashcroft, lead singer and chief ‘eccentric’ with The Verve is, as they say, buzzing. "Fookin’ hell, what a brilliant day!" he booms as he does the Liam Gallagher strut through the pub doors.

And the man they call - and not without good reason - ‘Mad’ Richard does, indeed, have a point. In a perfect world, all Friday afternoons would be something like this. The sun is blazing down in a manner more Ibiza than Islington. We are in the pub with the four most amiable pop stars in Britain, here to discuss the ‘burning’ issues of the day. And the booze is flowing with alarming alacrity. The weekend, in a very real sense, starts here.

As Richard hurls off his jacket and orders the first of many large gin and tonics he is introduced to his fellow panelists  Looking unnervingly healthy opposite him is Peter Cunnah of top popsters D:Ream. He too is in the finest of fettles having chalked up yet another Top Ten hit and recently moved house. His preferred tipple today is Bloody Marys, complete with a rectum endangering quantity of tabasco.

Next to him sits the glamorous figure of David McAlmont, one half of McAlmont and Butler and sole owner of a very horrible pair of plastic sandals. He's taken a break from the studio to attend and is determined to enjoy himself. Largely by downing innumerable pints of Guinness. Respect.

Our good-natured foursome is completed by an unfamiliar face. Who is that clean-shaven fellow with the impish grin mumbling apologies for lateness? Why, it's Norman Blake of Teenage Fan club, newly beard-free, soon to depart for Canada and consequently of an extremely sunny disposition. He too is on the G&T’s. Lots of them.

So the gang's all here. So they're all up for $64,000 questions. So let's get going, stupid...

Your starter for ten. John Major recently re-elected leader of the Conservative Party, which means we're stuck with him as Prime Minister. Has he emerged stronger or weaker from the contest? Is it good or bad new for the Labour Party and the forthcoming General Election?

Peter: "If they can't govern themselves I don't see how they can govern the country. John Major has just proved, yet again, how ineffectual a leader he is."

Norman: "The only thing I like about it is that now Heseltine doesn't have a chance of being leader. I was worried he'd get in and make them electable.’

Richard: "Nah, his hair's too unmanageable."

David: "If Redwood had got in there'd have been riots. Even more riots than there are already."

P: "Tony Blair still looks the stronger leader to me. Major’s the grey face of Britain.

D: "He's still around though. You can't get rid of him."

N: "Yeah, he's a grey man but he's got balls. Grey balls! But I think Labour will win the next election now."

P: "Had a more heavyweight Tory stood, it would have really torn the whole thing apart."

R: "But Private Eye knows so much..."
(the conversation proceeds along wildly libellous lines for some time)

D: "A lot of people would like to shag Michael Portillo though, and that's quite significant. I like the idea of having a good-looking man in charge."

R: (Getting a bit worked up) "We should just get these fuckers out, man! It'll take a riot. But let's do it. They're scum, always have been."

D: "Always will be."

N: "Gary Numan should be here really, to put the other point of view.

Sadly Gary couldn't make it. Neither, strangely, could Hugh Grant. But then he's the proverbial man with everything - good looks, money, movie career, gorgeous girlfriend - who has just, erm, blown it after getting caught by the fuzz while a £ 15 hooker allegedly performed lewd acts in his motor. Whyohwhy and, indeed, ohwhy?

D: "That was fabulous the best news story all year!"

P: "I think there's more to it than meets the eye. I think he's been caught for a reason."
(Various libellous conspiracy theories fill the air.)

N: "I think it might actually be really good for him."

R: "Nah, he's just seen a prostitute and gone for it. There's no conspiracy, he just got the itch."

P: "But conspiracy theories are so much more fun!"

D: "Hugh Grant was trying to revive that classy English gentleman image but the ‘gentlemen’ in this country are true bastards so I'm glad he's been brought down. Especially with a black prostitute. It's just so salacious!"

He claims it was all just a "moment of madness".

P: "Well you do go a bit mad when you're in the limelight. You start doing stuff that's dodgy for yourself and your career, just for an escapist moment."

D: "What have you done Peter?"
(Peter blushes furiously and goes quiet)

R: "Anyone with a brain in LA is going to freak out ‘cos it's the most hypocritical city in the world. He was probably just a bit lonely, but now he's completely messed up."

D: "No, he's well away now! In a twisted way people like that."

R: "By Hollywood standards it's pretty tame anyway. The shit that goes on there is incredible. At least there were no hamsters involved. I’d be more shocked if he made a decent film."

And what should the "lovely" Liz Hurley do now?

P: "Dress up in the same outfit to try and excite him!"

N: (Seriously) "If it was me I’d dump the guy. I’d say fuck you."

D: "If she genuinely loves him, she should dump him. But if it's just a business thing, she's done so well out of it she should carry on."

P: "Exactly. Who was Liz Hurley before?"

D: "If the Conservatives haven't all lost their jobs after all they've got up to, I don't see why Hugh Grant should. It's a very British kind of hypocrisy. In public it's all stiff upper lips, in private it's lips round a stiffy."

Clever wording, cheers. Now, another Brit malaise: our complete-and-utter uselessness at sport. Humbled by Brazil at football, humiliated by the West Indies at cricket, steamrolled by Jonah Lomu at Rugby... we even had to kidnap Canadian Greg Rusedski to make the third round at Wimbledon. Why is this fundamental cornerstone of our society in such rapid decline? And is there anything we can do about it?

N: "Actually, I think Scottish football is rubbish, but I really like the English league. And next session with Bergkamp and Gullit over here, it'll be even better. The national team's not bad - they'll do well in the European championships.

P: "There's a lot more money in the game now. But obviously there's not enough investment or nurturing at youth level."

R: "Yeah, when I was a kid we played matches on a big pitch from age eight. My knees were smashed to pieces by the time I was 16! But in Holland, they're playing on small, five-a-side pitches and learning how to pass."

Is sport important for the nation's spiritual well-being?

N: "Yeah. Brazil’s whole economy grew after they won the World Cup. It's that important."

D: "We like a good whine though - like when England lost the rugby and Will Carling said Jonah Lomu was ‘a freak’ so it wasn't fair. That's the typical English attitude. Money has a lot to do with it, as well."

R: "Exactly. You'll never get a Wimbledon winner from Wigan, ‘cos there aren't any fucking tennis courts there. Nicking that Canadian bloke says it all."

P: "Trouble is though, pick a truly British bloke and you get Eddie the Eagle."

D: "But if a non-French player wins the French Open, they don't get all heat up."

R: "You're right. We've got very big delusions of grandeur in this country."

D: "Yeah, Britain likes to see itself as a world leader and can't deal with the fact that it isn't any more."

R: "We're only taken seriously as a world force ‘cos we store America's nuclear weapons for them. We're a fucking joke really. And I've had enough! There's gonna be pie riots! Meat and potato over everyone's face."

Er, yes. Now, another national obsession: the Lottery. Have you noticed, the only people who ever hit the jackpot seem to hit serious problems afterwards? Could this be conclusive proof of the injustice of human existence?

P: "It's a tax on greed anyway, and if people are stupid enough to play it, they deserve to lose their money."

R: "My mum and nan are mad for it. They're skint and if there's a chance of winning a million, they're in for it. The odds are ridiculous, but they fall for it every time. I've seen my nan put an X on a coupon every week for 20 years and she hasn't spotted the ball yet. If I won £ 18 million, I’d be dead in a week."

P: "Winning takes away the thing that made you get up in the morning. No wonder they all go mad: that's all there is left to do. I won't buy a ticket."

D: "I don't play either. I feel sorry for the winners, especially that bloke who got hounded out of the country. I wouldn't want to win."

N: "I would, I play and if I won, I wouldn't jack in the Fan club, I’d just buy some players for my football team."

R: "I've changed my mind. I think the lottery's fucking great."

(At this point, Richard declares he's off to the phone and slips out of the pub. The debate continues until he reappears - with a Lottery Instants scratch card for everyone. Will Peter’s principled stand crumble at the prospect of winning 50 grand?)

P: "I don't think I should actually."

R: "I've won a quid! Any luck you lot?"

N: "Nah, I've lost."

D: "Me too."

R: "Come on, Pete! I want to see that 50p rubbing away!"

(But Pete will not be moved. Instead he returns the card to Richard)

P: "God, how gutted will I be if he wins now."

N: "Nah, it's a loser. Still, I won. So I must be the biggest wanker here then!"

Ahem. Back in the real world, Greenpeace won a major victory recently when it prevented Shell from dumping the Brent Spar oil rig at sea. Is the tide finally turning in favour of environmental responsibility? And would you lash yourself to a doomed rig in the name of saving the fishies?

P: "I thought it was brilliant. Greenpeace are very good at getting things in the news, but for every abuse they stop, there are three we don't even know about."

R: "There's nothing wrong with going for a swim and coming out covered in oil. I love it! I’d dump more oil! Nuclear waste, everything. I want my kids to have three legs and one eye. Nah, those guys on the rig were mental."

N: "Yeah, you have to admire their dedication. I wouldn't do it."

R: "I would! I got dropped onto a polar ice-cap on a spacehopper to save some seals."

P: (Not realizing Richard is having one of his turns) Really?"

R: "Yeah. I bounced along this ice-cap with a big flag. Did you not see it on the news? But I don't want to talk about it. It was all for charity."

D: "They only backed down because business was threatened. All people care about is surviving these days, the environment is a long way behind."

N: "Yeah, this was easy to get involved in. You just say, ‘Yeah, boycott Shell’ - and get in your car and drive to another petrol station. When really you should be smashing your car up."

R: "Yeah, science has to come up with wind power or something."

P: "But that'd be bad too. It could really affect the weather patterns."

R: "Bloody hell, have you read a lot of encyclopaedias or what? This dream bloke's right on, man."

Anyway, sod the future of the planet, let's talk about the big issue. Has the Stone Roses 11th-tour withdrawal from Glastonbury buried then and their myth once and for all? Do they still matter? Or are they just taking the piss nowadays?

R: "The Stone Roses are very aware that this business is fucked and corrupt so they won't play the game. It was almost commercial suicide to pull the gig but I've got full-on respect for them."

N: "They actually perpetuated their myth by pulling. Everyone's talking about them again - would that be the case if they'd played?"

R: "I genuinely believe they work on chaos: they've had a lot of good luck and now they're having some bad luck. That's life. But their legend is bigger than them now and it's harder to live up to. People expect too much from groups."

Surely expecting one gig every five years isn't "too much"?

R: "Well, yeah, that's fair enough."

P: "Them not turning up wasn't the worst thing about Glastonbury though - that was probably the toilets."

R: "I thought the toilets were great. I'm into shit, that's my bag. Those toilets were the zenith of my needs!"

N: "Er, anyway, Glastonbury wasn't about one band, it's about personal experience, meeting new people and talking utter bullshit for three days."

D: "I didn't go ‘cos of Pride, but it looked like Pulp made great replacements."

R: "Nah, with 60,000 people in a field, most of them in an altered state, you need head music. Pulp were too clean. I think Jarvis is a funny man, but I wanted to hear music by people who'd been in the state of mind the crowd were in and were able to reflect it. In fact fuck The Stone Roses, basically I wanted to see us on stage on Saturday night!"

Maybe next year, eh? Perhaps 30-foot high statues of Mad Richard will be floating down the Thames by then. Because, yes, Michael Jackson is back and he's not getting any saner. Has the King Of Pop lost it completely or is his current campaign a genius of re-invention?

D: "It's an immaculate campaign."

N: "The video is great, I have to give him that. Really groundbreaking."

P: "My friend was telling me her kid saw him on telly and said, ‘Mummy, I thought Michael Jackson was a robot!’ She'd seen the statue and thought that's all he was!"

D: "His songs don't really matter anymore. What matters is that after everything he went through, he can still build a huge statue of himself. It's almost totalitarian: he's asserting he's still the King Of Pop and he can do whatever the hell he likes."

D: "I was slagging off Jacko the other day and someone said, ‘What if he asked you to do a duet?’. As long as we do ‘Ebony and Ivory’ I'm up for it!"

R: "Did you see him on the cover of Hello? He looked terrible!"

D: "Mmm. The only thing in Jacko’s defence is he's been a megastar for so long, money is the answer to everything for him. He doesn't know any different."

N: "I don't think he's as popular since the allegations, but he's not as good either. You realize that if he and Lisa-Marie have a kid, that kid's granddad will be Elvis - and his dad will be Michael Jackson. That's just nuts! The poor kid doesn't have a chance!"

R: "Yeah, he'll be 30 stone with no nose, dancing with a monkey in Las Vegas!"

As long as he's not naked. Because everyone from Richard and Judy to Elastica have recently born witness to the return of streaking. Whatever possesses people to cavort naked in front of large crowds?

R: "Times must be getting a bit conservative again, if streakers are back. I still remember Erica Roe."

D: "Nakedness is very liberating and I admire the courage of people who do it in front of a large crowd. I don't understand the motivation but to have the bottle to do it is quite something."

R: "Yeah, especially with the size of that guy's dick at Glastonbury. I tell you if I had a cock like that I wouldn't be running on stage naked. I actually had a chat with him earlier in the day and he seemed like a nice chap. Then I got home and his cock was on telly!"

N: "I’d have more respect if they streaked in winter. That would be much more radical."

Have any of you taken the plunge?

R: "Yeah, I have. About five minutes ago. I didn't go for a piss, I was streaking! Come on, let's all have a go!"

BY NOW, the panel is a little worse for wear. For a moment, it seems Richard's suggestion might receive serious consideration. Four well-respected pop stars stand on the cusp of a Hugh Grantesque "moment of madness".

Somebody stop them...

Fortunately, the phone rings. It's Richard’s band, wanting to know why he's not at his own sound check. Thoughts of mass celebrity nudity rapidly disperse as everyone remembers they, too, really should be elsewhere.

Peter, still looking disgustingly healthy, proffers robust handshakes and is whisked off to the airport for a flight to exotic Bradford. David rearranges his dreadlocks, murmurs, "I've had far too much to drink" and staggers into the taxi that will speed him back to Bernard.

Norman stops for one last drink and one last chat about football, then strolls unsteadily away in the vague direction of Euston and the Glasgow sleeper.

And Mad Richard? Well, as he himself points out as he struts from the pub, he's won the Lottery, made some new pals, established himself as an elegant spokesman for the Man On the Wigan Omnibus - and saddled NME with his drinks bill. There is a method in his madness after all.


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Strive Masiyiwa Narrates His Business Journey

MY five-year legal battle to get a licence for my mobile telecoms venture in Zimbabwe is well documented. I had been forced to sell the business I’d built with equity support from the International Finance Corporation, as my legal battle to set up a mobile company became toxic. Finally, the court had ruled in my favour. The government had accepted the ruling of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe.

By Strive Masiyiwa

The harassments of the so-called “rogue elements” of the Central Intelligence Organisation had become a way of life. They followed me everywhere, and occasionally pulled me in for questioning.

Fast forward

It was 1998 and now I had my licence, but this new venture’s business plan screamed for equity. I would have to finance it for at least three years before getting a return (equipment was expensive and had to be imported). At that point, local banks thought I was insane anyway, so I did not even bother to talk to them.

Initially, I thought of a “strategic investor,” a large player from the industry in South Africa, but our negotiations collapsed.

So where was I to get so much “equity” financing? International venture funds like the IFC window I had previously used were afraid of my political liability.

Whenever I walked on the streets of Harare, people would walk up to me and say how much they admired the way I had stood my ground. After one of those kind comments, I suddenly thought:

“Why not ask the public to invest?! Why not offer thousands of ordinary people the opportunity to be shareholders with me in the business?!”

But this was a “start-up”…

“Can you list a start-up?” This was the question I asked my legal team, comprising Tawanda Nyambirai and Nic Rudnick (now CEO of Liquid Telecom).

“Technically-speaking, there is nothing to stop us, but there is a tradition they apply which requires three years of experience. The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange Listing Committee would never agree.”

“Let’s give it a try,” I directed.

For a start-up from anywhere (let alone anywhere in Africa) to raise money through an Initial Public Offering (IPO) on a stock exchange, was unheard of, especially led by people considered at that time to be inexperienced managers, with a new product, in a new market — the yet-unproven African cellphone industry!

It led to a legal stand-off, and we prepared to go to court, when they suddenly relented. We raised $10m underwritten by a local bank. It was oversubscribed. Thousands of ordinary Zimbabweans now owned a majority of the company, as my own beneficial interest was 40%.

By this time, I had matured in my understanding of “control”. I already knew that Bill Gates did not own 51% of Microsoft.
It was growth I needed, and as long as I ran the business properly, my investors would allow me to control the destiny of the business.

Within a year I would face a hostile bid to take control of the company, and the loyalty of my investors would be tested.
There would be other tests ahead, including the return of the “rogue elements” forcing me to flee for dear life, and then the highest hyperinflation in history… when it turns out my earlier decision to give up 100% “control” actually saved our company!

NB: This article was first published on Masiyiwa’s blog.

 Strive Masiyiwa is the founder and executive chairman of Econet, a diversified global telecommunications group with operations and investments in over 15 countries. His business interests also include renewable energy, financial services, media and hospitality. Masiyiwa serves on a number of international boards. As a philanthropist, he is a member of the Giving Pledge, and his contributions to education, health and development have been widely recognised. Masiyiwa and his wife finance the Higher Life Foundation, which provides scholarships to over 42 000 African orphans.


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Steal by Rachel Van Dyken
Release Date: July 3rd

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Steal, the follow-up standalone rockstar romance to the #1 NYT Bestseller Keep…
It's easy to lose yourself in someone you love.
Easier to lose yourself in someone you hate…
I didn't think it could get any worse than having to babysit a bunch of spoiled musicians on set — keeping them out of trouble is a cakewalk compared to seeing my ex every day.
Seaside, Oregon isn't big enough for the both of us.
She hates me.
I loathe her.
The plan was simple — stay the hell away and make sure she gets to set on time.
What I didn't expect was to be faced with our past in front of an audience — and be forced to face it again.
It's torture.
The way she looks at me.
The way I try to look through her.
Words left unsaid.
The lingering aftermath still as powerful as ever.
I feed the chasm between us, for fear that she'll make me feel again — and steal the last shred of heart I have left.
We have everything but each other.
It's not enough.
Not when you've lost love.
And replaced it with the only thing left — hate.

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It's easy to lose yourself in someone you love.
Easier still, to lose yourself in someone you hate.

Rachel Van Dyken can have you laughing so hard you are snorting coffee out of your nose, and then a copy of chapters later your eyes are wet and your stomach is flip flopping all over the place. Steal is like this.

Angelica Greene is down to her last chance to redeem herself and revive her career. Linc's sister (the lead character in Capture) has burnt most of her bridges with her wild behavior. Only Will Sutherland is willing to get her casted in a movie.

Granted, our history was just that-history.
And I was her last hope. The only guy willing to work with her.
Her final shot at stardom.

Will is now a successful agent. But he will forever be best known for being part of one of the most famous boy bands. Few bands had the following and sales his band had but a huge division between he and a bad member-Andrew nailed the coffin on the band. Angelica just may have been the hammer.

It's hard to review this book without giving away spoilers, let's just say this is a second chance at love/triangle/love gone wrong/love's redemption kind of book.

"My pride took a hit, every time you took a hit."

The main characters are beautifully flawed, have fallen to the furthest depths of hell and have survived to talk about it. Only they don't really want to talk about the past and secrets are like deep fissures that separate them from each other.

"You made me hate the stars," Will whispered. "They reminded me of your clear, so pretty."
He shuddered beneath me. "So I hated them, because I hated you."

Expect to be confused and frustrated and immersed in this story. While there is witty banter, there is profound sadness. Scars are carved on these characters souls and parts of this story are just heartbreaking. Not every character will be redeemed and not all will get their HEA. I'm hoping that one particular anti-hero will be getting his own book. I am a sucker for an underdog!

"Hate. Such a strong word. A word I think you can only truly understand and use when you've loved like we have...and lost. Hate happens when there's loss."

I blinked up at the white ceiling, willing the tears to dry. Praying they wouldn’t slip free — because once they were loose there was no stopping the onslaught of emotion that would follow, the devastation, the earth-shattering realization that nothing would ever be the same between us. Not if he could help it — and not with me constantly pushing him.

But at least pushing him got me a reaction that proved he wasn’t a complete indifferent sociopath.

I refused to let him get to me.

With a sigh I turned onto my side and stared out the window imagining a different time a different place, where he was by my side — and promised to never leave.

That and the way his hands ran down my skin like he was getting ready to worship me the way he used to.

Only his face hadn’t been filled with wonder — disgust was more like it.

I clung to the anger like a blanket. It was the only way to sleep, the only way I was able to close my eyes and pray the sickness in my chest away.

Anger forced me to focus on doing my job and getting as far away from my past as possible.

Weakness would just make me sad.

It would make me that — weak;

And I knew where that road led.

It led me directly back to all the things that turned me down that road in the first place.

Not being good enough.

Pretty enough.

Funny enough.

Weakness led me to a false sense of strength.

And my number one weakness had always been Will Sutherland.

It was possible — to give so much of your heart and soul to a person that you lost who you were.

I became a different person with him — a person I thought I needed to be in order to compete in our world. A person our world told me I had no choice but to become in order to stay relevant.

I punched my pillow one last time and attempted to sleep.

Two hours later, when sleep still wouldn’t come, I padded my way into the kitchen and made coffee, then laid my head against the couch and thought about the way his lips felt on my ear.

Inches from my neck.

Breaths from my body.

I ached for him in ways I never knew existed.

And I relished in the ache just like I relished in the anger, because at least that meant it had happened, and at least that meant I knew he was a bad choice I wasn’t willing to make again.

A weakness that wouldn’t just hurt me.

But kill me.

Sometime around one in the morning when the clock on the microwave blinked at me with an intensity that started a pulsing headache to form — I stumbled over to the couch and face planted — the last thought in my head was of the Sutherland Sunset — and how it had once been my anchor until it turned into my hell.

What a joke.

What a cruel joke.

“You made coffee.” Will’s smooth voice interrupted what had been a completely dreamless sleep.

I didn’t have the energy to respond with anything other than a grunt.

“Still not a morning person,” he commented. His footsteps might as well be sledgehammers drilling into the wood floor.

“Why?” I croaked.

The walking stopped. Lights flicked on. I shivered and cursed him to Hell as he poked his head over the couch and had the audacity to smile. “Why what?”

My eyes narrowed. “Talking.”

“Why talking?” He took a sip out of the blue mug I’d been drinking out of earlier that morning; he must have reheated the coffee. “Still really eloquent in the morning I see.” Another annoying sip. The terrorist didn’t even offer me any! Just kept loudly sipping while staring at me with a stupid ass grin on his face like it was a joy to be awake at… wait, what time was it?

I jolted to a sitting position, my pounding headache still wasn’t gone, in fact it was worse, probably brought on by Will’s cheerful demeanor and loud walking. “What time is it?”

“You have twenty minutes until you’re expected on set.” His voice was calm behind me, warm. If I closed my eyes I could almost imagine his body was about to wrap around me like a blanket, I’d tuck my feet under my body and rest my head on his shoulder, we’d share a cup of coffee like we used to and watch the news before work.

It took us one date to become inseparable.

Our trailers side by side.

Finishing sentences.

Eating off each other’s plates.

Sharing inside jokes.

Not to mention, Will had been my first.

I shivered as his footsteps moved away from me taking his body right along with them.

That was the past.

It needed to stay there.

With a sigh, I shot up to my feet and started making my way back to my room.

I only made it about one foot before Will started cursing.

Panicked, I froze and then turned around. “What’s wrong?”

His eyes narrowed over the rim of the blue cup, “I’m just trying to decide if you’re doing it on purpose.”

“Doing what?” Okay now I was getting annoyed. And the man wouldn’t stop slurping his coffee as though he didn’t know how to sip like a grown up!

He shrugged one of his shoulders. “Wearing no clothes.”

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    14 Devonshire Cream to use as a topping on fruit or shortcake! Low carb version too!

    Here is my recipe for Devonshire Cream which I shared on Bardou's "Kentucky Butter Cake" thread!

    Devonshire Cream

    (see sugar substitution for low carb version!)

    One 8 pz. package of cream cheese (room temperature)

    1 1/2 cups sour cream

    Juice of one lemon

    2 teaspoons vanilla extract

    2 cups confectioners sugar which is regular powedered sugar (to make this an almost no carb desert topping use Swerve confectioners sugar, Amazon has it https://smile.amazon.com/Swerve-Swee...ectioners&th=1)

    (You can cut this recipe in half as it makes a lot!)

    Set cream cheese out to room temperature, and then in a bowl, combine the cream cheese and sour cream together til it's nice a creamy.

    Add the vanilla and then add the lemon juice, mix really good and then finally add the powdered sugar.

    This is so good that I've had people beg for the recipe.

    It is fantastic over strawberries or blueberries which are the lowest carb of all the fruits.

    With the Kentucky Butter cake as a replacement for shortcake, this would be wonderful combo with the the Devonshire cream and berries! V
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    I just made another Kentucky Butter Cake but I added the zest of 2 lemons and 3 tsp of Lemon extract. I'm going to make the Devonshire Cream to go with it.

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The Pharoah Syndrome

By Rabbi Yaacov Haber

Regarding the case of the Aguna of Vilna I see you are leaning toward stringency. You feel the woman should not remarry.

The reason you are leaning this way is because you are not here. You do not hear the crying of this woman nor do you see her tears. If I would be where you are I too would be stringent, but I am here. I will rule leniently for her. May G-d save me from mistakes. (Rav Chaim of Volozhin in a letter to one of the great poskim of his generation. Quoted in Chut HaMeshulash 8)

This is an extremely important teaching. We know a halachic decision must be determined with one’s mind and ones knowledge. Rav Chaim Volozhin teaches us that a halachic conclusion must also be determined with ones heart.

Hardening of the heart. This was a disease that Pharaoh brought upon himself. Pharaoh hardened his heart to the first major plagues that were brought upon him until his heart became a heart of stone. He became incapable of feeling the pain of the Jews, eventually he stopped feeling the pain of his own people and ultimately he couldn’t even feel his own pain. G-d told Moses to keep talking to Pharaoh. Don’t expect him to be in touch with reality; don’t expect him to be moved by the pain of his own people and by the disintegration of his country. He is frozen. He has a severe case of hardening of the arteries.

Pharaoh was not a comic book character. He was a world leader who went down in history as one of the most important contributors to modern civilization. He was not unintelligent. He was educated and probably very refined. But in order to survive his own immoral decisions he engaged in cognitive dissonance, he taught himself not to feel.

During the Holocaust when reports and pictures of millions of Jews enslaved, tortured and murdered were revealed, the world and its leaders managed to keep their cool. They spoke and acted with their minds, but where were their hearts? How can we look at the pictures and read reports of a Tsunami or famine and sleep at night?

The Shulchan Aruch states (Y.D. 249; 4) that if a poor person stretches out his or her hand it is forbidden to turn the poor person away, rather give him even one shriveled fig. The commentaries explain that unless you are absolutely sure that the beggar is a charlatan it is forbidden to turn him away. The majority of beggars are not charlatans and one may not make any assumptions. If you have no money to give the person what should you do? Show the poor person your good heart, show him that you would have given him but you simply can’t. (Ibid.)

Feeding the hungry and clothing the poor is not only about the person in need. It is about my heart! If we train ourselves to harden our heart we will lose the capacity to feel. Ultimately we will not feel the pain of the people around us at all; this will spread to not feeling the pain of those whom we love. We will have contracted the Pharaoh Syndrome.

Where is the rachamim? Is it possible for one Jew to insult another Jew, even if it’s your spouse or your child and then fall to sleep at night!? Have we hardened our hearts? Do we still feel pain? If we can no longer feel pain it is impossible to keep the Torah! It is impossible to act as a Jew!

The Prophet Yechezkel prophesied that there will come a time that G-d will remove our hearts of stone and replace them with hearts of flesh.
Perhaps in order for the Jews to survive the long night of Galus, and in order for us to be able to witness the misery and retain our sanity, we had to harden our hearts.
We had to anesthetize ourselves. We had to stop feeling in order to survive. Amongst the dreams of Moshiach, Eretz Yisroel, Bais HaMikdosh and Techiyas Hamaisim “ there is one dream that stands out above the others. A time will come when we will get our hearts back. We will begin to thaw. This will be a time of peace and happiness for all.

Dedicated by my friend Elle Arnot in honor her father Tanchum ben Yehuda Leib “who left an indelible positive mark on his two grandsons who consciously emulate his integrity, ingenuity, work of the hands and kibud av v’em. My father emulated his grandfather Chaim, a simple shoemaker in Minsk.The Torah teaches us to be mindful of which grandparent we choose to emulate.”

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Option Trading: Are You Ready? Part 1

"Great traders have passion, confidence, an edge and a game plan. They are prepared, They keep their system simple.” - Gavin McMaster

I have been option trading for several years, and while my results have been up/down - what is important is that I have survived many different market cycles.  That should tell you a great deal, as surviving in this jungle call the 'market' without a life preserver safety net is a difficult but not impossible task.  To me, success is not all about the bottom line results - it is about longevity.  I tell my coaching clients and chat room members that I would like to see them in five years and hopefully they are still in the game, not killing it but making a good living (if full time) and are much smarter and experienced than in the beginning.

We all need to post positive profit/loss figures (p/l).  Our accounts need to grow higher consistently to able to maintain our position.  But trading is a tough game, as we know it is not a game of perfect.  This means we often have to enter the 'sea of the unknown', or something called the future.

It is here where we often become uneasy as results could be really good or perhaps catastrophic.  But to avoid a disastrous outcome and being potentially put to the sidelines, we need a game plan, preparation, strategy, risk management, discipline and to have our mind right.  We'll a couple of these here in part 1 and the others in future articles.

Before you get involved with trading options you must have a good handle on the tools.  Options are not stocks, rather a derivative of the issue that offers a great deal of leverage.  The options we deal with are calls (bullish) and puts (bearish), and we can be buyers or sellers of each.  There are time constraints with options, as opposed to stocks.  Options have an expiration date, and they can be weekly, monthly or quarterly.  This added element is time decay and works against the buyer (but benefits the seller).  An option player MUST be aware of the time constraints and how it may effect a decision.  Timing a purchase is absolutely crucial to success.

When starting out, absorb as much information as possible.  There are many books, publications and articles that discuss different strategies for option players.  I have written scores of blogs on the explosive options website that range from the most basic to advance levels, and over the past five years we have recorded hundreds of webinars that are a great learning resource (and they are free!).  Learn about trading, but most important is getting in the game when you are ready to start.  They say 'experience is the best teacher', and nothing is more true.

Before getting started you have to know your capital limitations.  I tell every level of option trader to expect some losses and hopefully many winners.  But how can you absorb losses along with those wins and actually get ahead in the game?  You need a sound risk management rule in place, only risking a small amount per trade.  Where most traders fail and get wiped out is not being disciplined and setting good rules in place.

I have seen traders with bullet proof systems sink quickly because they lack the discipline, believing they are smarter than the market.  Those people are eliminated from the game, often never to return unless they learn to manage risk more appropriately.  Know how much you are willing to risk on a trade, for most it should be no more than 1-2% of your total capital.  Understanding when to say 'uncle' and take a loss rather than watch it sink to zero.  Accept the fact you will not win all the time, as said earlier trading is not about being perfect.

In our next article we will talk about having a game plan, feedback mechanisms and some other preparation techniques.

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Buffett Wants To Buy Yahoo, Should You?

Yahoo is squarely in our sights this week.  From Seeking Alpha:

‘On Friday, news broke that Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett is backing a consortium that includes Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert in a bid for Yahoo.

A successful bid would be a relatively rare journey into digital media for Buffett. But Rick Edmonds of Poynter Institute says Buffett’s history of betting on struggling companies that wield a large user base could work in Yahoo’s favor. “It’s kind of consistent with Buffett’s pattern of buying things that are out of favor, undervalued and have a big customer base,” he says. “The paradox is Yahoo's huge, it remains huge, and it's got a lot of customers. It's not the case customers are fleeing them right and left, it's just that no one can get a good pattern of growth."

Note that former Yahoo president and CFO Susan Decker is now a director at Berkshire. Last month she said Yahoo’s next owner should "create a distinction in consumers' minds about why they love Yahoo still” and that doing so would be better if Yahoo is "private or part of a much larger corporation." It’s possible that with Decker’s input, Buffett would look to rehire former Yahoo executives such as Ross Levinsohn.”

So there you go.  Buffett and his friends are going to try and buy Yahoo.  How does one play this as an options trader?  The first thing you have to come to terms with is that you have no idea if this deal is going to go through.  Anyone with an internet connection can get the same information and make themselves feel like they know what’s going on in these meeting.

So with the position that we don’t know what’s going to happen, we must take the position that we can only surmise what is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.  I think one of two things happens.  One, the deal does go through and then Yahoo goes up.  Two, the deal falls apart and then market forces that existed before take hold.  Take a look at the chart:

I propose this signal:

Sell (opening) the June YHOO 35 put

Buy (opening) the June YHOO 33 put

For a CREDIT of $0.50 or more

What happens given my two contingencies?  One, the deal goes through, YHOO rallies and we keep our entire credit.  Two, the deal falls apart.  You can see on the above chart that before this deal was proposed there was firm support from the high volume area (orange shaded area) and then just below around the $35.75 - $36.00 from the bottom of the Donchian Channel.  If this area holds we still keep our entire credit.  Of course, there is no guarantee that this level holds so what is our risk?  Our max risk is if we are below $33.00 at expiration.  In this case, we lose $1.00 on the options but we do have our initial credit of $0.50 so our net loss is $0.50 or $50.00 per options contract sold.

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Hike of the Valkyries

The weather forecast was iffy, so another lazy hike was on the agenda for Sunday. Lakes are generally the best destination when you’re not sure you’re going to have any views, so our group of five humans and four furry beasts wandered up to Lake Valhalla in search of the fabled sandy alpine beach.

Sandy it was! In fact, if you ignored the goosebumps, it was almost like being back in Hawai’i! We found a suitably pale Norse god lounging on the beach.

Happy place for dogs It's just like Hawai'i!

Being part of the wrong mythology didn’t keep Zeus and Athena from enjoying Lake Valhalla, and Wellie did his best to attempt to play with the big dogs (poor Jasper was, yet again, involved in an involuntary swimming situation).

I was the only two-legger brave enough* to face the icy waters of Valhalla…then I spent the rest of the lunch break shivering in my puffy jacket. It is with mixed emotions that I must announce that autumn has arrived in Washington.

I iz water dawg too! Hike of the Valkyries

Lake Valhalla | 6.5 miles | 1400 feet elevation gain –

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Don’t Let The Door Hit Ya In The @!#*!!

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Like a herpes sore, certain arguments pop up continually in the transcommunity and never seem to go away. Recently Gwen Smith wrote the editorial “What’s In a Name?” that discussed the term “women born transsexual (WBT)” or “Harry Benjamin Syndrome.”

Suzanne Cooke responded to Gwen’s editorial with “Good-Bye to Transgender and All That.” In it she announcing her “divorce” from the community. She claims that Gwen Smith

“castigates post-sex reassignment women who identify with the term “WBT” or ‘women born transsexual,’ a term coined by my life partner and me in 2001 as a reaction to our sense of disappearing, being erased by the all-enveloping cult of “transgender as umbrella.”

She does? I’ll let you read it for yourself…keep in mind that castigate means “to punish.”

“In this I agree – to a point. Really, there should be no stigma attached to being transsexual, no matter what you choose to call it. Nor should there be a stigma to wherever you happen to fall under the umbrella term called transgender. We simply are what we are, and there should be no shame placed upon us for simply being ourselves.Where I part ways, however, is when we choose terms as a way to divide, and try to gain some legitimacy by saying “I’m OK, you’re a freak.” By trying to legitimize under the banner of Harry Benjamin Syndrome, how many are actually showing their own internalized shame and simply trying to pass their own discomfort onto those they want to exclude?

Ultimately, too, no amount of terminology tweaking will change one important fact: You can call yourself a victim of Harry Benjamin Syndrome all you want, or call yourself transsexual, or Woman Born Transsexual. Call yourself a blue spruce, if you wish. No term matters when those who will have a problem with your gender orientation or expression see you and apply their own crude labels.”

What a smear queen, that Gwen Smith. How dare Gwen make such a statement! Can you believe the audacity of what she said? *smirk*

Suzanne Cooke’s arguments in the editorial are:

1. Self appointed community leaders decided to use the moniker “transgender.”

“Self appointed leaders” are there because they’ve taken it on themselves to change things. Most of us have sacrificed to the point of putting our safety and security on the line to change things. We are “self appointed” because the work is there in front of us and it isn’t being done by anyone else. There is a vacuum, and the need for that vacuum gets filled by whoever steps up.

2. The political entity called the transcommunity is composed of groups of quite
different people.

The reality in politics is that numbers are POWER. Regardless of position in the gender spectrum, the reality is that we either advocate together, or suffer alone. Someone that discriminates against you, or physically harms you isn’t going to make a distinction between a transsexual, a drag queen, or a transgenderist. Hector Arturo Diaz, Willie Houston, Fred C. Martinez, Jr, Chanelle Pickett, and Kent Perry are all dead. Their murderers didn’t stop to ask them if they’d had surgery, or if they had a syndrome. Peter Oiler, Steve Stanton, Jimmie L. Smith, and Diane Schroer were all fired. Their employers didn’t ask them if they had an intersex condition before they were let go.

3. Virginia Prince was a hateful bitch that coined the term transgender. She hated those who had surgery, especially those that are lesbian identified.

The reality is that the world isn’t interested in these battles. They will define us together, whether or not you like it.

I find it very ironic that Cooke choses Harry Benjamin Syndrome to name her “condition.”

“If these attempts to define and classify the transvestite and the transsexual appear vague and unsatisfactory, it is because a sharp and scientific separation of the two syndromes is not possible. We have as yet no objective diagnostic methods at our disposal to differentiate between the two. We – often – have to take the statement of an emotionally disturbed individual, whose attitude may change like a mood or who is inclined to tell the doctor what he believes the doctor wants to hear. Furthermore, nature does not abide by rigid systems. The vicissitudes of life and love cause ebbs and flows in the emotions so that fixed boundaries cannot be drawn.” – The Transsexual Phenomenon – Harry Benjamin, M.D.

4. Leaders in the community are forcing the term transgender on me. Sex reassignment surgery (SRS) made me a female.

I’ve never seen Riki Wilchins, Mara Keisling, Ethan St. Pierre, or Denise Leclair out policing labels. I DO see them working for legislation that protects everyone under the transgender umbrella.

As far as surgery making you “female,” while Michael Kantaras, J’Noel Gardiner, and Kristie Littleton might agree with you, but the courts didn’t agree with them. “Leaders” in the community are simply dealing with the reality of how the society views us.

I am a bit sensitive about this subject. I’m very tired of people taking pot shots at those that are actually in the trenches working for the the equality for all people under the transgender umbrella, even “women born transsexuals.”

You want a divorce? You want to leave? THEN GO. All I can say as you leave is see ya, bye-bye, cheerio, sayonara, so long, adieu, adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, later!

Marti Abernathey is the founder of the Transadvocate and the previous managing editor. Abernathey has worn many different hats, including that of podcaster, activist, and radiologic technologist. She's been a part of various internet radio ventures such as TSR Live!, The T-Party, and The Radical Trannies, TransFM, and Sodium Pentathol Sunday. As an advocate she's previously been involved with the Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance, Rock Indiana Campaign for Equality, and the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition. She's taken vital roles as a grass roots community organizer in The Indianapolis Tax Day Protest (2003), The Indy Pride HRC Protest (2004), Transgender Day of Remembrance (2004), Indiana's Witch Hunt (2005), and the Rally At The Statehouse (the largest ever GLBT protest in Indiana - 3/2005). In 2008 she was a delegate from Indiana to the Democratic National Convention and a member of Barack Obama's LGBT Steering and Policy Committee.

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Kenneth P. Lavertu, SRA: Expert Greeley Real Estate Appraiser

Choosing the right real estate appraiser for your needs is an important decision - one that certainly should not be left to chance. You need both a professional and an expert; that is, someone who has been in the trenches and knows the terrain just as well as they know how to perform precise and complex numerical analysis. After all, there are many factors involved in a proper real estate appraisal, and only a veteran appraiser with decades of experience will be able to balance all of these factors and provide a truly unbiased and objective analysis.

With 22 years of experience as a real estate appraiser, the coveted SRA designation from the Appraisal Institute, and a track record of expert analysis, I have the expertise, professional knowledge, and experience to provide unbiased analysis and unbeatable service for all of my valued clients. For many years, I have been providing Greeley real estate appraisal services and have gained the trust of countless clients. I have worked with a wide variety of different clients in all different kinds of scenarios, including residential and land property types. My experience in providing appraisals for these different domains has given me the ability to provide adaptability and versatility in my service offerings.

My Specialties

I specialize in providing real estate appraisals for a variety of different purposes, including (but not limited to):

  • Seller pre-listing evaluations
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  • FHA Appraisal
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I have provided the aforementioned services for a diverse array of clients and property types, including condos, town houses, multi-families (two to four units), single family properties, and more. Of course, I am not just limited to residential properties. I have decades of experience providing appraisal services for many different land types as well, including residential acreage, waterfront properties, rural land acreage, mountain land, subdivided residential lots, and residential subdivisions.

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I provide appraisal services throughout the following areas of northern Colorado: Greeley, Evans, Windsor, Johnstown, Milliken, Loveland, Fort Collins, Timnath, and Berthoud. My satisfied clients from these areas can attest to my experience and success as an expert real estate appraiser.

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No matter what your real estate appraisal needs may be, I have the expertise and experience to not only meet them, but exceed them. With my decades of professionally acquired experience and know how, I am sure to give you the results you are looking for in a real estate appraisal. After all, my motto is "Unbiased Analysis - Unbeatable Service:" I am here to provide you with the precise and objective analysis you expect and the excellent service you deserve.

If you are in need of real estate appraisal services in Greeley and the surrounding areas, I am here to help. Give me a call at 970-613-0551 or e-mail me at, and let's talk about your appraisal needs. I look forward to hearing from you!


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Involved in a divorce? Tri-County Appraisals has the specific competence you need.

We understand that divorce can be very difficult. There are many choices looming, including what to do with the house. There are generally two alternatives when discussing real estate - it can be put on the market and the proceeds split, or one party can "buy out" the other. In either case, one or both parties would find it in their best interest to get an appraisal of the joint real estate.

A divorce appraisal must have a well-supported, expert value conclusion that is defensible during a trial. Tri-County Appraisals pledges to give you the very best in service with courtesy and well-supported conclusions. Handling the special challenges of a divorce situation is somewhat matter-of-fact for us.

Contact us if you require an appraisal dealing with a divorce or other allocation of assets.

Colorado attorneys and accountants rely on our analysis when determining what real estate is worth for estates, divorces, or other disputes needing a value opinion. We understand their needs and are accustomed to dealing with all parties involved. We create appraisal reports for courts or various agencies that meet or exceed their requirements.

For attorneys handling a divorce, your case's material facts customarily require an appraisal to establish market value for the residential real estate involved. Many times the divorce date differs from the date you ordered the appraisal. We're experienced with the methods and all that it takes to perform a retrospective appraisal with an effective date and Market Value estimate that matches the date of divorce. We perform many divorce appraisals , and we understand that they need to be handled with total professionalism. The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) contains an ethics provision which means the highest amount of confidentiality, ensuring the utmost discretion.

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