| North Palm Beach County events calendar: January 31
The American Boychoir, comprising boys ages 3 to 7, from 24 states in the country, as well as Colombia, South America, and Korea, will perform at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 3395 Burns Road, Palm Beach Gardens, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 3. Tickets are $25 per person. Call the church office at (561) 622-0956. .
With its split personality, Barbados offers best of 2 worlds
PAYNE'S BAY, Barbados -- They say that here in Barbados, life is so easy even the moon is lying down, a reference to the silver slipper of half moon -- not standing upright as we see it in the States, but lazily floating on its back. The horizontal moon is only one of the island's oddities. If you look at a map of the Caribbean, Barbados appears an afterthought -- as though a painter decided to add one last, lush dab of green to complete his canvas. It's the most easterly island in the Caribbean -- so far east that it really isn't in the Caribbean at all, being surrounded by the Atlantic. Still, it does have a "Caribbean side" and an Atlantic side, giving it something of a split personality. The Caribbean side has the requisite white sand beaches, turquoise waters and gentle trade winds; on the Atlantic side, rocky cliffs replace the beaches, the water turns gray-green and churns with swirls of white foam, and gentle breezes frequently become whipping winds.
Your portfolio is an animal that needs discipline
WHEN it comes to building a sound investment portfolio, it is often easier to say how not to go about it. Many portfolios that cross my desk seem to look like a ragbag history of investors' (or advisers') best ideas at the time. You can often see the chronological history of the portfolio like the cross-section of a geological rock formation. From privatisations and demutualisations, through to technology and telecoms stocks, along with ageing fashion fads of the sector or emerging markets of the day. These are not portfolios but embarrassments. .
Antiques expert is seeking real deals
ANTIQUES expert David Dickinson was a big hit with the public when he brought his latest television series to Ellesmere Port on Saturday. Scores of people, some of whom had queued outside to be the first on to the set, made their way to the Civic Hall hoping to cash in on some old family heirlooms, or take a gamble at auction. The flamboyant bargain hunter enjoyed great success with the first series of Dickinson's Real Deal, which attracted more than a million viewers every day, and was busy casting a helpful eye on some of the potential deals throughout the day. While racing across the set in between filming, the antiques guru did quickly confirm to the Pioneer that he was enjoying his visit to the town. One woman from Ellesmere Port had brought in two hand-painted plates which she'd had for 18 years hoping she might strike it lucky.
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