| N.L. woman admits stealing money from sympathy cards
A woman from a southern Newfoundland community admitted Tuesday she stole money from sympathy cards brought to a church funeral service last January. Geraldine Skinner, 46, pleaded guilty to theft under $5,000 in provincial court in Harbour Breton, a small community of several hundred people on the south shore of Newfoundland. Police said the woman was volunteering at the town's Anglican church when sympathy cards containing money from a funeral service held at the church went missing. Skinner will be sentenced on May 29. .
Silicon Valley's cult ride
On any given Saturday morning, throngs of bikers in brightly colored jerseys cluster in front of Roberts Market in Woodside, Calif., preparing to hit the back roads of Portola Valley. Among this unlikely crew are some of technology's titans. But while they spend their days chasing the next, newest, lightest, fastest thing, the most coveted bike in these circles doesn't have titanium forks or computers to record each pedal stroke. It's a handmade, hand-measured steel frame bike by a little-known guy named Brent Steelman. At 6-foot-1, with white just starting to show through his red beard, Steelman is somewhat of a cult hero to clients like Kohlberg Kravitz Roberts co-founder George Roberts, Trinity Ventures partner Noel Fenton, and Accel Partners VC and Facebook board member Jim Breyer, who raves that the bikes are "perfectly proportioned." A former racer who started building bikes in his teens, Steelman doesn't mess with fancy new materials.
YOUR MONEY
Thanks to the upsurge in investment clubs and institutions offering high monthly returns, Jamaicans have developed a seemingly unquenchable appetite for 'alternative' investments. Many investors, no longer satisfied with the regular returns paid by established financial entities, are on a constant search for high-yielding options. Trading in the foreign exchange market (forex) provided the first opportunity for many ordinary investors to participate in the global investment markets. This investing phenomenon, formerly unknown to Jamaicans, was termed an 'alternative' investment. However, with forex being the largest financial market in the world with over US$3 trillion traded 24 hours per day, Sunday to Friday, it hardly seems to deserve to be described as an alternative market. However, looking at the definition of alternative, it might very well be acceptable to give it this description.
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