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With more than 800 activities offered by "canaries" (local guides) for "hoppers" (travelers), the site aims to keep travelers from twiddling their thumbs on vacation.
Popular trips include a Harry Potter overnight tour and a terracotta warriors tour.
Travelers can book quirky activities, like learning to build sandcastles, make bows and arrows or become gladiators.
The Titanic tragedy inspired the formation of the International Ice Patrol, an aerial surveillance of icebergs.
Visitors to Canada's east coast can use Iceberg Finder's interactive map to track -- or avoid -- the glacial giants.
Iceberg sightings are usually between April and June.
Accommodations can take up a large chunk of a travel budget, money better spent on shopping, eating, drinking or upgrading your souvenir purchases.
For an annual fee of €70 ($95), travelers get access to unlimited home exchanges.
Swappers can choose stays by location, such as "in the city," "by the sea" or "in the mountains."
Even the nicest hotel room can become stale when you're suffering jet lag.
This website helps you sleep.
Launched last year by Jay Olson of Canada's Simon Fraser University, Jet Lag Rooster helps travelers shift body clocks by adjusting their exposure to light.
The site uses trip details and usual sleep patterns to calculate a battle plan against jet lag.
Canceled travel plans waste money.
Paying for the hotel room you can't use adds to the misery.
Roomer helps you sell off un-used hotel reservations.
You can set your own prices to earn back some of the room rate or cancellation fee.
Deal seekers can often pick up unwanted rooms at a fraction of the listed price.
For many of us, being cramped on a plane is as close as this world gets to Hell.
A little extra leg room and space by a window can make a flight almost tolerable.
SeatGuru points out preferred spots on all models of planes, as well as seats of misery, like those too close to the bathroom, those with limited leg room and recline, those often bumped by aisle walkers and even those that have an uneven alignment of TV and window.
There are also seat tips for first- and business-class fliers.
Volunteers are given food and accommodation in exchange for helping out with day-to-day chores for four to six hours on a farm or vineyard.
Plonk yourself down at these places.
Some hosts have multiple volunteers you can connect with.
This is a cheap idea for wine lovers who might pay thousands of dollars for a high-end vineyard stay.
Depending on the WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms) organization, membership fees vary.
But Snyder and his screenwriters have dumbed down Miller’s smarter, more resonant narrative and turned it into an apology for the apocalyptic finale of Man of Steel, in which Superman (Henry Cavill) and the evil General Zod (Michael Shannon) flattened half of Metropolis during their climactic showdown. Although the bui...
So Snyder walks back that defense at the start of the new picture, opening with billionaire Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) watching the Superman-Zod fight from ground level and seeing one of his buildings — now suddenly full of people — laid low. This radical revisionism, which treats the audience like idiots, is the first ...
In other words, Batman v Superman is a sleek, stylish commercial by a studio desperate to birth a new cash cow post-Harry Potter. Almost every aspect of the film — from the shoehorning of Diana Prince (a beautifully blank Gal Gadot), aka Amazonian warrior Wonder Woman, into the plot to pointless cameos by several other...
Affleck, who gets top billing over Cavill even though this is essentially a sequel to Man of Steel, fares OK as Bruce Wayne, but these characters are too played out, too familiar, for any actor to make much of an impression. Mostly, Affleck looks good in a cowl (his Batman is more physical and sadistic than previous in...
This huge, unwieldy movie is busy and overcrowded: There’s a subplot involving terrorists, Amy Adams’ Lois Lane is in constant need of rescuing and Holly Hunter plays a gullible U.S. Senator. Unlike Man of Steel, which couldn’t avoid the draggy pacing of origin stories, Batman v Superman is loaded with incident and mov...
But after the financial failure of Watchmen, his epic, R-rated adaptation of the Alan Moore graphic novel that failed to rake in the expected cash, Snyder learned his lesson. He’s no longer going to take any big risks. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice does a good job of building up your anticipation for the title bou...
Cast: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Diane Lane, Holly Hunter, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons.
Screenwriters: Chris Terrio, David S. Goyer.
A Warner Bros. release. Running time: 153 minutes. Intense violence, comic-book gore, adult themes. Playing at area theaters.
The worldwide mobile phone market is expected to increase just 1.4 percent this year, the lowest annual growth rate in three years, even with a projected record holiday season for smartphones, according to new data from IDC.
The worldwide mobile phone market is expected to increase just 1.4 percent this year, the lowest annual growth rate in three years, but things could pick up during the holiday season thanks to high-profile smartphones, according to new data from IDC.
Overall, vendors will ship more than 1.7 billion mobile phones this year, IDC said. By 2016, that number is expected to jump to 2.2 billion.
"Sluggish economic conditions worldwide have cast a pall over the mobile phone market this year," Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, said in a statement. "However, the fourth quarter will be relatively bright due in part to sales of high-profile smartphones, such...
Global smartphone volume in the fourth quarter is expected to reach 224.5 million units, representing a 39.5 percent year-over-year increase. For the year, smartphone shipments are expected to increase 41.5 percent to 717.5 million units. The growth in smartphones is largely the result of steep device subsidies from ca...
When looking at the mobile operating system landscape, Android is expected to remain at the front of the pack thanks to the broad selection of devices. Samsung is the leading Android smartphone seller, though Sony and LG are making headway, having cracked the top five smartphone vendors in the third quarter of 2012.
Apple's iOS, meanwhile, will hold its No. 2 spot behind Android at the end of 2012, and throughout 2016, IDC estimates. The popularity of the iPhone will drive replacements and additional carrier partners. But the high price of the device is still holding many users back in emerging markets.
"To maintain current growth rates, Apple will need to examine the possibility of offering less expensive models, similar to its iPod line," IDC suggested. "Until that happens, IDC forecasts iOS to ship lower volumes than Android."
Google's Android platform is also "the biggest target" from which competing operating systems will look to grab market share," Llamas said. Microsoft's Windows Phone platform is expected to be the biggest gainer, battling with BlackBerry for the No. 3 spot in 2013.
"What bears close observation is how BlackBerry's new platform, BlackBerry 10, and multiple versions of Linux will affect the market once the devices running these systems are available," he added.
IDC expects BlackBerry to grow slowly over the coming years, largely maintaining its market share. Some long-time BlackBerry fans will transition to the new mobile operating system, allowing the company to maintain "pockets of strength" in some emerging markets like Indonesia and Latin America.
A proud uncle shares 11 classroom tips.
Dear Jon, I just heard the good news that you were hired as a 9th grade math teacher. Congratulations. As your uncle, I'm proud that you are joining the profession of teaching, one in which I have been happily involved since before your birth. If all goes well, you should be eligible for tenure the same year I will ret...
I've put a little gift in this envelope that you may want to use to buy start-up supplies for your classroom. I also wanted to give you something less tangible but more valuable. I hesitate to call it advice, so I'll simply label it "experiences from the trenches." After 27 years in multiple K-12 and college classrooms...
Think management, not discipline. At the top of every new teacher's list of worries is classroom control, a legitimate concern. When you're young and fresh, you are, in the eyes of some students, vulnerable. Some new teachers believe that if they make their classroom rules as long as a yardstick, and consequences for m...
Kids misbehave in class because what teachers are asking them to do is either too easy, too hard, irrelevant, or boring. I have learned that teachers who know their material and how to present it, who relate the content to students' lives, plan twice as much material as they think they will need for a lesson, and retur...
Students are only as anxious to learn as you are excited to teach. I've yet to meet a student or teacher who wakes up on the first day of school and thinks, "I'm really looking forward to having an awful year." Human nature dictates that we pursue pleasure and avoid pain; this is as true in school as it is in relations...
Get to know at least one teacher that the kids dislike and the staff avoids. Every school has them, and yours will, too: the people who can empty the teachers' lounge simply by walking in. This teacher is sour, bitter, tired ... and in need of a colleague. Engage this person in a conversation about his or her first yea...
Be aware of educational trends and standards ... and then close your door and teach. The pressures of accountability, high-stakes testing, and the latest educational panacea unleashed by university researchers are much greater than in my era. Your job, as a first-year teacher, will be harder by far than mine was. But i...
You became a teacher to have an impact on lives. Avoid rote and tiresome methods—the kind you avoided as a student.
You became a teacher to have an impact on lives, and you can do this best by avoiding worksheets, workbooks, and mindless homework assignments—the kind that you avoided doing as a student. These rote and tiresome methods prepare students for neither the tests they'll take nor the lives they'll lead. Use the hands-on me...
If you don't try too hard to get your students to like you, they probably will. It's an unstated but understandable goal of almost every new teacher: "I want my students to like me." Ironically, the more you try to get them to do this, the less successful you'll be. Since you are the adult in the school closest to them...
Trust your principal. You may fear a classroom visit from your principal for the same reason you don't like going to the dentist: You expect pain. However, the old adage that "the principal is your pal" is more than a cute spelling mnemonic, it's the truth. More than anyone else in your building, your principal is inve...
Use your judgment, yet follow your instincts. When you became a licensed teacher, you also became a "mandated reporter." This means that you have both a legal and an ethical responsibility to report any child abuse or neglect that you observe or even suspect in a student. It's not a job that any of us likes, yet it is ...
Of course, not all students are forthcoming verbally, so if you notice a dramatic change in a student's behavior or attitude, try to determine its cause. Tell the student (privately) about the change you've seen, and ask if there is something bothering her. Speak with the school counselor about your concerns. What you ...
Communicate with parents prior to conferences. As a new and young teacher without kids of your own, you have an uphill battle to achieve parental credibility. You may be the same age (or younger) than some parents' older children, and your insights and recommendations will be perceived differently from how they would b...
If at all possible, make your first home communication a positive one—parents get too few messages that their kids are well-behaved or working hard. When this is not possible, try to uncover a way to make parents understand that it is your job to teach their child, but the child's responsibility to make himself open to...
College graduation was the beginning of your learning, not its end. I know, the last thing you want to hear after four-plus years of college is that you need to continue your education. But as a professional, that's your job. You don't necessarily need another degree right away, but take advantage of any opportunity yo...
The farthest you travel might be to the school next door on an in-service day. Whatever the setting, try to find something useful in what you hear. Too many teachers pooh-pooh staff development as a waste of time, a mind-numbing day of hard chairs and stale doughnuts. Be wise enough not to listen to them and, instead, ...
College graduation was the beginning of your learning, not its end.
Contribute to the school community, but learn how to say no. As the new kid on the block, you may be asked to serve on school committees, coach a sport, advise a club, or participate in some other ways that go beyond the school day time clock. Trust me, these are wonderful opportunities for you to get to know both stud...
Remember that you will never again have a first year of teaching. When you walk into your classroom on the first day of school, you'll be hit with a numbing reality: You have no idea how to set up a seating chart. Or, perhaps you'll be clueless about "how tardy is tardy," or on what to do when a student on your class l...
Forgive me for being long-winded, but I thought 11 tips should get you started. Why 11, instead of 10, like the Commandments? Call it a metaphor of sorts. Eleven is a prime number; it can only be divided by one and itself. In a similar way, the only thing that can divide you from your goal of becoming an outstanding te...
Get ready to learn that not every lesson will go well, that some experiences will frustrate and disappoint. But get ready, too, for your students to leave you on that last day of school with a handshake, a smile, and a few wry comments to the effect that you "didn't do too bad for a new guy."
You have entered a remarkable, timeless profession, the only career that allows you to reinvent yourself every single August. I wish you well.
Jim Delisle is a professor of education at Kent State University and a part-time teacher at R.B. Chamberlin Middle School in Twinsburg, Ohio. His books include Barefoot Irreverence: Critical Issues in Gifted Child Education (Prufrock Press) and When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: Meeting Their Social and Emoti...
The much-buzzed about “Hereditary” comes out today — and based on all the reviews — it appears if you catch the horror flick at your local movie theater it will traumatize you (in an elevated way) for quite some time. Or maybe just until you get home and turn on your TV.
With the resurgence of prestigious films that give you the chills (see Ari Aster’s disturbing family tale above, “Get Out,” “It,” “A Quiet Place” and the upcoming “Suspiria” remake), TheWrap thought we’d check in with Ridley Scott — whose 1979 film “Alien” is one of the most famed horror movies of all time — about wher...
Two such writers Scott knows are Soo Hugh and David Kajganich, the creators and showrunners behind “The Terror.” And while they both have dabbled in film too (with Kajganich being the screenwriter behind the next iteration of “Suspiria”) this particular project — a fictionalized account of a British expedition that bec...
Kajganich added that horror on television can now “rival the visceral experience of horror in a movie theater” because you don’t have to “neuter” the visual elements of the story in the same way you used to.
Of course irony sets in here when Kajganich tells you he sort of wishes “some enterprising movie theater would do a ‘Terror’ weekend” so fans could watch it all together.
So horror on TV, but make it movies?
Maria Garruto (nee Di Fonzo) of Elizabeth, N.J., passed away on Feb. 7, 2019, at Overlook Medical Center, Summit, N.J.
The funeral is from the Galante Funeral Home, 2800 Morris Ave., Union, N.J., on Monday at 8:30 a.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Anthony's Church Elizabeth, on Monday at 10 a.m. Entombment will follow at Hollywood Memorial Park. Visitation is Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. For condolences or directions, please vis...
Maria was born in Vallata, Italy; she came to the United States in 1970, and lived in Elizabeth. Maria was a seamstress for Hilton Manufacturing Linden, N.J., before retiring in 1985. Maria was also a member of the Vallatese Ladies Society of Elizabeth.
She was the beloved wife of the late Francesco Garruto; mother of Gerardo Garruto, Nancy Di Cosmo and her husband, Tony, and Irma Garruto Dinspechin; grandmother of Sabrina, Josephine, Crystal, Justin, Andrew, Gianfranco, Davide, and Elisa, and great-grandmother of Samantha.
"Nonna, we loved you so. You were our idol. We will never..."
"Ma! My Heart hurts & aches without you here. Thanks..."
Daily News editor in chief Jim Rich is exiting the newspaper after a little more than a year in the top masthead slot, and will be replaced by Arthur Browne, a longtime News fixture who finally takes the reins after years effectively serving as the tabloid's perennial no. 2.
Owner Mort Zuckerman announced the shakeup in an abrupt Tuesday-morning memo that stunned employees but said nothing about the reasons behind the change. The memo also announced the appointment of Eric Gertler, one of Zuckerman's nephews, as co-chairman and co-publisher, a sign that Zuckerman, 79, has been transferring...
"People very close to [Rich] at the paper are shocked by the news this morning," one source told POLITICO.
Zuckerman is known to be mercurial and has a record of cycling through top editors at the News, which he rescued from bankruptcy in 1993. But there were no signs that Rich, who'd worked at the paper for more than a decade before succeeding Colin Myler as editor in chief last fall, was on his way out, sources said.
During his brief editorship, Rich pushed the News into the national conversation with strong, crusading front pages on divisive issues like gun control and the presidential campaigns. But the paper continues to struggle with print circulation and revenue declines that have prompted significant downsizings over the past...
Rich did not immediately return a call or text message Tuesday morning.
Browne started at the News as copy boy in 1973 and rose through the ranks over the decades to helm paper's editorial page, which he led to a Pulitzer Prize in 2007. While so many other old-timers at the News have either retired or been forced out, Browne has endured, earning him the nickname "Chucky" — a reference to t...
There's been a lot of speculation in New York media circles about what the future holds for the News. Zuckerman tried to sell the paper last year but couldn't find a buyer willing to pay what he was asking. There have been rumors that it will eventually go web-only, despite the punishing economics of ad-supported digit...
"As we continue to evolve the business for both our online and print audiences, I am very confident that Arthur and Eric with our CEO Bill Holiber will serve as the right team to help the newspaper reach new heights," Zuckerman wrote in his memo.
Industrial theme at this year’s Third World Bazaar targets younger set.
For the past decade Peggy Bakker and her husband have embarked on yearly buying sprees to far-flung places such as India, Peru and Cambodia to search for treasures for their annual Third World Bazaar fall sale.
This year was a little different.
For the 10th anniversary of the sale, which is held Friday to Sunday from October to Nov. 24 in a barn near Manotick, Bakker’s husband wasn’t available. Enter her son, Case. In addition to companionship, Case Bakker brought with him a fresh pair of eyes to tap into the younger market when searching for unique wares.
Case Bakker, who works alongside his mother at the barn, enjoyed speaking to the artisans and being able to relay their stories and the history of the items to customers in Manotick.
“Often I will tell customers where (pieces) come from, tell them something about the producers, because we usually meet whoever is making (the products), and get to know them a little bit and see where it comes from. And we will often post little stories about special items in the barn for customers to read when we are...
On the Asian trip, rather than pillows, rugs and ornaments, he was drawn to artisan pieces that would fall under the industrial category, a current hot trend in home decor. These included furniture and mirrors made from recycled oil drums, buffalo skulls and portable apartment-sized teak bars, plus head-turning stateme...

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