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Angela Stokes

Submitted by Meg Wilson on September 26, 2008 - 10:15.

Angela Stokes has lost 160 pounds and has kept the weight off for over four years. Her raw food weight loss story is featured on CNN today.

Stokes weighed 300 pounds on her 30th birthday. Soon after she decided to go on a raw food diet as a new way of life. She's become a huge fan of the raw food diet and has written several books about it. She knows most people couldn't adhere to it but she recommends that people aim to eat at least 50% of their food this way.

Stokes has made two great YouTube videos about her weight loss and her raw food diet. Check them out.


( categories: Weight Loss )

What the Eye Can't See

Submitted by Adriana Rae on September 26, 2008 - 11:53.

Here's an incredible photo of an insect covered with morning dew.

It's a Red Veined Darter and an example of macro photography -
the art of taking close-up pictures that reveal details which can’t be seen with the naked eye. Check out 24 more gorgeous examples of macro photography.


( categories: Odd Beauty Stories )

Warren Buffet's Love Life

Submitted by Meg Wilson on September 26, 2008 - 13:52.

The NY Daily News alerts us to a juicy story about Warren Buffett's love life. They review a new book about him, due out next week. Here he spills the beans about his love life and his marriage to Susan Buffett (pictured here).

The world's richest man is finally opening up about his complicated love life.

Warren Buffett, whose shrewd investing has swelled his Berkshire Hathaway assets to nearly $278 billion, reveals in a new biography that "the biggest mistake I ever made" was letting his late wife, Susie, walk out the door of their Omaha home.

Buffett, 78, who spent thousands of hours talking with author Alice Schroeder for her engrossing book The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life admits he gave Susie plenty of reasons to leave.

One was Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek. Graham, a 59-year-old widow, was smitten with the investment genius, then 46. When not trotting around the country "on business," they holed up at her Martha's Vineyard mansion. Rather than hide her flirtation, Graham would toss her house key to Buffett at parties.

Schroeder writes that Susie "made it plain to several friends that she was furious and humiliated," but sent Graham a letter granting her permission to date her husband. "Kay showed the letter to people as though it let her off the hook," writes Schroeder.

When Buffett was at home, he spent most of his time in his study. Telling one of her friends he was an "iceberg," Susie began a romance with her tennis coach, John McCabe. Then, in 1977, after falling in love with the arts scene in San Francisco, she informed Warren that she was buying a small apartment there. McCabe followed.

Meanwhile, Susie, expecting that Warren would fall apart without a woman to look after him, arranged for attractive blond Astrid Menks to cook and clean for him. She eventually moved into his house. Susie and Warren never divorced. After her death in 2004, he married Menks.

Buffett tells Schroeder that Susie's departure "was preventable. It was definitely 95% my fault. ... I just wasn't attuned enough to her, and she'd always been perfectly attuned to me. She kept me together for a lot of years. ... It shouldn't have happened."


( categories: Odd Beauty Stories )

Sarah Palin in Swimsuit Beauty Contest

Submitted by Meg Wilson on September 26, 2008 - 14:38.

Here's a video clip of the beautiful (though collectively scary) Sarah Palin participating in the swimsuit category of a beauty pageant in 1984. She was 20 years old back then.

Her hair looks even better now, 24 years later. See how to do an updo like Sarah Palin here.


( categories: Odd Beauty Stories )

It's Coach, Not Couch Handbags

Submitted by Meg Wilson on September 26, 2008 - 21:45.

It's always of real interest to know who your readers are. About this, our eyes were opened recently.

To find one seriously statistical perspective on who our readers are, we checked out Quantcast, the online audience rating system.

To us, it's mysterious how they came up with this, but they summed up our audience by saying "the typical visitor shops at Coach, and reads Huffington Post."

Well, we're quite happy to hear this. The Huffington Post provides some of the best current affairs info available online today as far as we can tell. And only people who give a hoot about what is going on in the sphere outside of themselves and their own life traumas, will be regular readers of that site. And the Coach tie-in is also nice. Coach does specialize in the classiest handbags (but it's not really an exclusive, really expensive and snobby type woman's retailer) so that's a nice establishment to be associated with.

Though Quantcast also say our audience is 'youthful female' whereas we are actually hoping to be more of interest to the middle age female audience (ages 35 to 65) when we write most of our posts.

But anyway, this reference to Coach handbags got us interested. We've walked by a few Coach retail outlets but neither of us have ever actually entered the premises. Though honestly we can tell that if we were really into handbags that this would obviously be a fun place to shop.

In our completely shockingly unfashionable ignorance, we first searched for it by the keyword "Couch handbags" and found some fascinating info. There are some smart people making a mint on selling Coach handbags by preying on the many people who type 'Couch handbags'.

What neat Wild West online goldmine things you can learn every day.

The Coach handbag above is available at Amazon for $518.00


( categories: Odd Beauty Stories )