Archive for December, 2008

The Alligator Farm - Home to Beautiful Winged Creatures

Your first thought when you read “Alligator Farm” might be “tourist trap,” but that could not be more inaccurate. And while the alligators are wonderful and plentiful at the place fondly referred to as the “Gator Farm,” it is the birds that attract the world’s best photographers.
The birds come each spring to the Gator Farm […]

Strange Facts About Babies And Parenting

Did You Know:
Men are officially the best at changing baby! Research shows that the average time taken by a woman to change baby is 2 minutes and 5 seconds, whereas the average man takes 1 minute and 36 seconds! Expert in male and female behaviour Corinne Sweet says ‘Changing baby is essentially a mechanical process, […]

Recovering from Scandal

For years the most prominent public role for Peter Sutherland as chairman of BP PLC was hosting the company’s annual meeting. But after a string of oil spills, dangerous accidents and an energy-trading scandal at BP, the 60-year-old former rugby player has charged head first into the scrum.
Last year, the Irish politician and prominent […]

Offshore Sports Gaming Keeps Gambling Afficionados in the House

There are agencies who supervise the behavior of live sports gambling and which should hopefully work to mitigate most of the fears held by detractors.

South San Francisco Bay Charter’s Handbook - Bay Conditions

San Francisco Bay Conditions
The sailing conditions on San Francisco vary by time of year,
time of day and even by exact location. The windy season
begins by mid spring and lasts until September. In the fall
the sailing gets mellower and mellower until, by winter-time,
there are many days when there’s hardly enough wind to
[…]

Luxury Caribbean Cruises

In these stressful days, a vacation or a cruise lets you leave all your cares and worries behind and enjoy a few days of peace and calm. This is luxury enough for the careworn person, but for the finicky traveler, luxury amounts to being pampered. Aboard a luxury liner, you pay to be waited on […]

Elephants in the Sky (a short story (and Four Poems))

Elephants in the Sky
[1980s, Lee Evens in Mali, Timbuktu/Africa]
Advance: Lee was discharged from the Army in 1980, whereupon, he traveled the world, one of those locations was in Mali, by the legendary city of Timbuktu; whereupon he found himself in the middle of a plague, a plague of locust.
[Diary-review]
There were swarms of locust […]

I Want to Start a Boat Cleaning Business

Do you love boats? Do you wish you could spend more time at the marina? Are you a nautical person? That if so have you ever considered starting a boat detailing and cleaning business? You can make a lot more money detailing boats than you can detailing cars and there is also a […]

Skiing Holidays for the Eco Aware Snowboarder

Many avid skiers will soon be searching for their skiing gear and scooting off trying to find the greatest snow.

And without doubt the affect of our carbon footprint will be roughly as far down the list of holiday musts as a Christmas cracker after xmas.

Only last year, a slow snowfall made the the newspaper headlines […]

Eight Simple Tips for Potty Training Your Toddler

Getting your toddler to perform toileting independently is a welcome milestone for any parent. Few of us want to be changing diapers much past the child’s second birthday. However, children vary greatly in their adoption of the potty routine which is influenced by a child’s innate ability, aptitude and maturity. However, there several tips and […]