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On May 30, the Funny Stop in Cuyahoga Falls will host WWE's Hardcore Legend, Mick Foley.
His multi-faceted career has seen Foley turn from 3-time WWE champion to 2-time New York Times #1 best-selling author to his present incarnation as sole-proprietor of his one-man stage show "Hardcore Legend: An Evening With Mick Foley." Showcasing his trademark blend of wildness and warmth, and combining the humor fans loved from his books and in-ring "promos," with the intensity of his most famous matches, "Hardcore Legend: An Evening With Mick Foley" is by turns uproariously funny, simply surreal, and surprisingly sensitive - a full-course meal for the senses, including Q&A and meet and greet -- all done with the use of a just one, solitary F-bomb.
One of the cornerstones of WWE's meteoric rise in the late 90's, Mick Foley earned the nickname "The Hardcore Legend" for his ability to absorb seemingly inhuman punishment in some of the most dramatic matches in sports-entertainment history. Already a respected veteran for his 11 physically punishing years wrestling under the name Cactus Jack, Foley's career soared to new heights in WWE as "Mankind," a character Foley claimed was inspired by a combination of reading Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and listening to the music of Tori Amos.
As Cactus Jack, Foley won the 1995 "King of the Deathmatch" tournament in Yokohama, Japan, and continued wrestling, despite the amputation of his right ear, in a match against Vader in Munich, Germany in 1994. As Mankind, Foley was a 3-time WWE Champion, but is best known for his epic and brutal battle with The Undertaker in 1998's "Hell in a Cell" match, during which he was knocked unconscious after falls both off of and through the 16 foot Cell structure. Despite the injury, Foley finished the match -- with one of his front teeth lodged in his nose.
With his in-ring retirement looming, Foley penned his own memoir (by hand, on 700 pages of notebook paper) and shocked the literary world when the book, "Have a Nice Day" hit number one on the New York Times best-seller list in October 1999. The book remained on the Times list for twenty six weeks. A follow-up, 2001's "Foley is Good" hit number one on The New York Times list as well. Foley has published a total of ten books; four memoirs, four children's books, and two novels.
For details on Foley, visit www.realmickfoley.com/
Shows are at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $25. Call 330-923-4700 for details or tickets.
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Mt. Lebanon, Seneca Valley passing attacks take center stage
Mt. Lebanon's Mike Melnyk and Seneca Valley's Don Holl aren't from Pittsburgh, which might explain the coaches' affinity for wide-open, pass-oriented offenses.
"We have different styles," Melnyk said, "but we're not the traditional WPIAL line up and smashmouth right at you, type of thing. I think if you grow up in Pittsburgh, that's the kind of football you've grown up with."
Yet, with their alternate approaches, both offenses remain squarely in contention for a WPIAL title. The teams meet in a playoff quarterfinal Friday night at North Allegheny that could become a high-scoring affair.
No. 4 Mt. Lebanon (8-2) has Class AAAA's leading passer and receiver. No. 5 Seneca Valley (9-1) has reached the 50-point mark in consecutive weeks.
But here in November, these pass-first teams are showing they're more than one-dimensional; seven of their combined 11 touchdowns last week were scored rushing.
"Ultimately, that's the sign of a good quality team," Melnyk said, "being able to run when the weather gets cold. We'll see what kind of success we can have through the cold weather."
Melnyk and Holl were successful coaches in other PIAA districts with offenses that they since have brought to the WPIAL. Melnyk was at District 3's Manheim Township when Mt. Lebanon hired him in March. Holl coached at District 10's Erie Cathedral Prep before joining Seneca Valley in 2009.
However, the two teams' playbooks have influences from beyond Pennsylvania's borders.
Seneca Valley's spread, which helped senior Jordan Brown become a 5,000-yard career passer last week, has traits of the Clemson-inspired offense Holl once coordinated at Gannon University.
But each of the past three springs, Holl spent a few days in Oregon with Ducks coach Chip Kelly, who Holl became acquainted with when Kelly was at New Hampshire.
"There are some differences," Holl said, "but scheme-wise we're probably the most like them."
Seneca Valley can score like the Ducks, having averaged 40.3 points, second in Class AAAA behind only Gateway (40.8). The Raiders had a lopsided 50-20 victory over Hempfield in the first round.
Brown has 1,492 passing yards and 17 touchdowns this season, and senior halfback Forrest Barnes leads Class AAAA with 1,500 rushing yards and 29 touchdowns. Against Hempfield, Barnes had two touchdown runs and two scoring catches.
While both offenses are dual-threat, their passing games appear among the league's more complex.
"I think everybody's goal is to make it complex to defend while you keep it simple for your own kids," Holl said. "We're able to do that, and I think they're the same way. I don't think there are a ton of difference concepts, but then you layer them with a different formation or motion or personnel group. You do the same thing a lot of different ways."
Mt. Lebanon's Tyler Roth and Troy Apke have broken a number of team records for passing and receiving. Roth, a senior, has thrown for 2,373 yards and 27 touchdowns. Apke, a junior, has 50 catches, 1,015 yards and 13 touchdowns.
Roth threw two touchdowns in last week's 31-7 victory over Butler, but Mt. Lebanon also rushed for two scores.
"When you get into the playoffs, you've got to be able to run the football," Melnyk said. "A lot of people think of us as a throwing team because we do get a lot of yards through the air, but we try to be balanced."
Mt. Lebanon's offense borrows ideas from Auburn offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler, who was previously a Michigan assistant. And some of his plays were borrowed from Sean Payton's playbook.
"I always say that the best coaches are thieves," Melnyk said with a laugh. "You pick and choose, steal good ideas from people, and fit them into your own system."
Chris Harlan is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Brierley, John A., Cowton, Christopher J. and Drury, Colin (2008) The application of product costs in pricing in British manufacturing industry. Sasin Journal of Management, 14 (1). pp. 4-14.
Cowton, Christopher J., Drury, Colin and Brierley, John A. (2007) Product costing practices in different manufacturing industries: a British survey. International Journal of Management, 24 (4). pp. 667-675. ISSN 0813-0183
Wu, Junjie, Drury, Colin and Boateng, A. (2007) An analysis of the adoption, perceived benefits, and expected future emphasis of western management accounting practices in Chinese SOEs and JVs. The International Journal of Accounting, 42 (2). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0020-7063
Wu, Junjie and Drury, Colin (2007) An exploratory study on the environmental factors influencing the adoption of MAPs in Chinese SOEs and JVs. Journal of Technology Management in China, 2 (1). pp. 54-70. ISSN 1746-8779
Drury, Colin and Tayles, M. (2006) Profitability analysis in UK organizations: an exploratory study. British accounting review, 38 (4). pp. 405-425. ISSN 0890-8389
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He tried to burn the hair of a Jewish student in a racially motivated attack that happened inside their high school. Now lingering concerns about the mental health of a Winnipeg teen have forced a delay in his sentencing hearing.
The 17-year-old -- who can't be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act – appeared in court Thursday expecting to learn his punishment. But provincial court Judge Tim Preston instead ordered a forensic psychiatric report, saying details contained in a different pre-sentence report had raised some red flags to him.
The assessment is expected to take at least two months, meaning the sentencing likely won't occur until the fall.
The youth recently pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with a weapon (a lighter) for the November 2011 incident at Oak Park High School that made headlines across the country.
The boy also uttered anti-Semitic slurs toward the 15-year-old and previously had Nazi and skinhead links, according to sources.
There is a rarely used section of the Criminal Code that pertains to hate crimes, where a person could be charged with public incitement of hatred for "communicating statements in any public place" that lead to inciting "hatred against any identifiable group where such incitement is likely to lead to a breach of the peace."
Senior Manitoba justice officials had considered laying such a charge but ultimately decided against it.
The girl suffered no serious physical injury after the ends of her hair were singed by the lighter. School officials only became aware of the attack when she told a school counsellor three days later. The accused was immediately suspended and eventually withdrew from the Charleswood-area school.
Following the crime, the accused took to his public Facebook page and posted a photo of himself wearing a shirt with a slogan relating he loves "haters." One of the boy's friends, a young woman, posted her support for him on his Facebook page.
The teen's Facebook page was also filled with other vulgarities, including repeated use of a derogatory term for homosexuals.
"I have been doing policing for upwards of a couple of decades and don't think I've ever seen an incident like this," police Const. Rob Carver told the Free Press at the time.
The accused has been free on bail since his arrest.
A recent B'nai Brith study showed incidents of anti-Semitism increased 3.7 per cent across Canada in 2012, and 30 per cent internationally. In Manitoba, the number of reported cases of anti-Semitism dropped to 56 cases in 2012 compared with 78 cases in 2011.


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A YORK grandfather has been recognised as having one of the nicest gardens in the city.
John Roberts, of Lichfield Court, said MiracleGrow, watering twice a day and help from his grandchildren was the secret to him winning the award of Best Garden in the annual York Housing Association In Bloom Competition.
He said: "Creating this garden has been a real team effort, with my neighbour Jean helping with the watering, my sister planting up the hanging baskets and my children and grandchildren helping with everything from laying the slate mulch to weeding and planting.
"It is a great way for the grandchildren to earn some pocket money. "I normally only enter my hanging baskets into the competition, but this year I thought I'd give the 'best garden' category a try, and I've won."
As well as the beautiful planting, features like a 100- year-old barrow – purchased from a second-hand shop and then carefully repaired and painted to make an unusual planter – drew the eyes of the judges to help Mr Roberts secure the award, while the container that sits on the barrow earned him a runner-up prize for best container display.
York Housing Association tenants had been set the challenge of incorporating gold into their gardens to mark the associations 50th anniversary year.


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Charleston Waterkeeper Celebrates Connection to Our Local Waters at Popular Fundraiser—Water Ball, May 17, 2013
CHARLESTON, SC – April 17, 2013—Water is undeniably one of Charleston greatest natural resources and supplies most everything locals and visitors come to appreciate—food, entertainment, beauty, relaxation, etc. Charleston Waterkeeper, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that focuses 100 percent of its resources on water quality issues in the area, is dedicated to protecting this important Lowcountry treasure.
On Friday, May 17, 2013, the organization will once again host its popular Water Ball at the South Carolina Aquarium to raise funds for their important initiatives. A dozen of the area's most sustainably focused chefs will come together to showcase the important connection between the local water quality and local seafood. Ben Bridwell and Creighton Barrett of the popular rock band Band of Horses, a supporter of Charleston Waterkeeper, will be giving a special performance at the event. The aquatic space will also feature an oyster bar by Clammer Dave Belanger, chef and beverage stations, interactive photo booths and more.
Featured chefs will each partner with an area purveyor and together will showcase locally caught seafood items available in the area waters. Chefs include: Mike Lata, The Ordinary and FIG, Jason Stanhope, FIG, Graham Dailey, Peninsula Grill, Drew Hedlund, Fleet Landing
Jeremiah Bacon, Indigo Road Group, Nico Romo, FISH/Patrick Properties, Stuart Tracy, Butcher & Bee, Aaron Siegel and Taylor Garrigan of Home Team BBQ/Home Team Kitchen, Brian Parkhurst of Ted's Butcherblock and Kevin Johnson, The Grocery. Sweeteeth will be debuting a new specially made chocolate for the cause and beverages will be mixed by ICEBOX.
Tickets are on sale now for $75 at thewaterball.org or at the door for $90.
All of the funds raised from the evening will directly support Charleston Waterkeeper's efforts to identify and address water pollution issues throughout Charleston's waterways. Established in 2008, Charleston Waterkeeper is a data-driven, citizen based nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the public's right to swimmable, drinkable, fishable water. To learn more visit http://charlestonwaterkeeper.


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12 Monkeys
I'm not talking about feet.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
The King of Beasts
good grief.
"As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles." ~ Jimmy Buffett
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.""
Acorns suck.
Or something.
Acorns are good !
How would you know?
How would you know?
thats where oak trees come from.
oak trees are good, they add shade to the roads of Monkeyville for all those nice cool TN summer afternoons.
You are not going to contribute much to evolution, are you.
You are not going to contribute much to evolution, are you.
me ? No, I got nothing.
yall seem to be having fun though.
Options,Account, Forums
Speaking of evolving backward, you're not going to put that idiotic marathon on again are you?
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
I am sure he will. and people will show up.
Running is stupid.
Runners are supidderider.
Acorns rock.
Runners are supidderider.
Speaking of that stupid marathon, Thunder Road has been repaired.
50,000 Miles Later
Tornado Road.
Speaking of that stupid marathon, Thunder Road has been repaired.
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A9 TV; October 11th, 2011
Greece and Turkey will surely unite; but by means of the system of the Mahdi. Otherwise, the anarchists of Greece would not embrace this unity. First love has to come about. Love, compassion, mercy have to come about. The love of Allah, love for human beings, animals and plants. One has to have love for everything that Allah creates. Now a guy with a shallow mindset may come up and say, "Let's unite with Turkey." Why? For economic interests. He wants to attain relief, to find good food, to find entertainment. Unity can not be based on these factors. No way. A union is established for Allah's good pleasure. If it stems from the love of Allah, the unity brings abundance. With such a (false) union (based on selfish interests), Allah forbid, they may ruin Turkey. A union is made with pure, sincere intentions; for Allah's good pleasure, to remember Allah, to love Allah's servants and because we love Allah's manifestations ,and it is a provision of the Qur'an. Otherwise you may unite but nothing good comes from that union. It is the system of the Mahdi that will ensure this union. It will inspire that divine love, that love of Allah into hearts Insha'Allah.
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It will be much more better than it was before. That is because the King Messiah imparted in the Torah is in the world at the moment. I mean the Mahdi (pbuh) is in the world now. Consequently we are in a time that the Children of Israel will live the most beautiful life. We are at a time that the Muslims will live the most beautiful life. The people in Turkey, the Turkish people approach the Israeli people with love and compassion. Such transient, political crises happen, but this is not the norm. Look let me give you a very sharp indication. Turkey is hosting a big radar system in Malatya specifically to protect Israel. It is done within the structure of NATO. The characteristic of this system is that it aims to strike down rockets in the airspace of Turkey or Iran, or even in the airspace of Syria if there happens to be a nuclear attack towards Israel. That is something that requires a great sacrifice. That is because when a rocket is struck from the air, the parts of the rocket would pour upon that region. And consequently Israel is being protected in the perfect sense. Even this alone is a very explicit proof of an extra-ordinary compassion, an extraordinary protection and sacrifice.
Yes, what is practiced is important. In practice there is no tension in between peoples; in between the Turkish people and the Israeli people. But there might be some political discussions, political tensions in between governments. This is not something binding upon the peoples, it is not something that fundamentally effects them. There is nothing that changed, on the contrary the Israeli people and the Turkish people have drawn even closer to each other, and are in an emotional state that coalesces with each other even further. That is because, this is the specialty of the time of King Messiah. That will happen anyway. I mean, Allah does this even if people do not want to. I mean that is a very wondrous time. The time [we are living in] is an extra-ordinary time. Allah influences the hearts of people with His name al-Jabbar. Knowingly or unknowingly, people will all enter into this affection, this unity.The people of Israel, as you know, have been waiting for the Messiah for 3,000 years. It is now the time of the King Messiah, the Shiloh. Both according to the Torah and according to the hadiths, there is no time other than this. We are at the End of Times, we are at the threshold of the Last Day. Apart from this century there is no other time for the appearance of the King Messiah. There is no other time for the arrival of the Mahdi. The foundation of the state of Israel is itself a portent of the arrival of the Mahdi, the Moschiah. All the portents defined in the Torah have been realized. All the portents defined in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) have been realized. The weapons will be removed, the arms race will stop from then on. The money spent on weapons will be directed toward natural needs, like food and clothing the poor and the needy. From that point on the dissension and anarchy would decrease gradually and disappear.
But no one can enable this other than King Messiah, the Mahdi (pbuh). You can be sure of that. I mean forming communities, gatherings, making speeches, various institutions and organizations stepping in; these would never give any results. Allah had commissioned the King Messiah, the Mahdi (pbuh) about this matter. This attachment, this affection can only be formed with the electricity Mahdi would provide, with the strength he will supply by the leave of Allah. Other than that, it would only remain as wishful thinking. There is no other way. For that reason, we as Muslims and you as Israeli Jews should intensely pray for the appearance of the King Messiah, Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) and we all should fulfill this religious duty. When these conditions are met, when we keep the words of our Prophet (saas), when we abide by the Mahdi, we would be abiding by one single mind, and thus the whole would be under the guidance of a conscientious, merciful, honest and reasonable person. Then peace, love, happiness, goodness and justice would be realized in the fullest expectations of the word. Allah had described this at length in the Torah. The Qur'an makes a reference to the Torah as well; to the Torah and the Psalms. I mean, Allah states that the world dominion is mentioned in the Torah and the Psalms. Our Prophet (saas) has also made a reference to the Torah and the Psalms in his hadiths in regard to the Mahdi , that is the King Messiah. Consequently. a sincere Jew would believe that this happiness, this beauty could only be attained by the way of the King Messiah, the Mahdi. That is the same with the Muslims. I mean this is how it is in the four ahl-al sunnah schools and also in the Shia sect and the Jaferite sect as well. The opposite is unimaginable.
Actually the proponents of the dajjal (anti-messiah) had a very evil intention. They really wanted to cause a war between Israel and Turkey, and they had prepared the infrastructure for that. But we have spoiled their plots. They have been crumpled up. And we have brought them to a state that they can never get into such a plot again. We have almost tied them down. Consequently they are now watching things from a distance. They were trying to get Turkey in such trouble. They were attempting to drag Israel into such trouble. But the branch of the Moschiah, the Mahdi had destroyed that plot. This happened in front of the eyes of everyone, of the whole world. You see that as well. And as the students of the Mahdi, the Mosciah we are assisting this as well.


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"Violently happy!" warbled Björk whose songs played as Miuccia Prada's dandy army stomped down her lacquered beige Miu Miu runway in thick-heeled ankle boots.
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Animal welfare workers say the Isaac and Isabella were found together wondering the streets of San Bernardino County Monday.
Isaac is a blind Husky -- and Isabella, his small Terrier mix friend who also serves as his seeing eye dog.
"It's just really remarkable how she's always trying to be aware of where Isaac's at and you know if he's not right behind her, she'll stop and wait for him to catch up with her."
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) inland fisheries biologists conducting fish population surveys at Lakes Pat Cleburne and Mexia report particularly high numbers of quality channel catfish.
Lake Pat Cleburne is a 1,568-acre reservoir located approximately four miles southwest of the town of Cleburne. The sportfish assemblage at Pat Cleburne consists of largemouth bass, white bass, white crappie and three species of catfishes (channels, blues and flatheads).
Lake Mexia is a 1,009-acre reservoir located approximately six miles west of the town of Mexia. Mexia contains largemouth bass, white bass, white crappie and channel, blue and flathead catfish.
Like many larger reservoirs in the area, both these smaller reservoirs have been plagued with drought conditions for several years, and much of the reservoirs' natural fish habitat, such as shoreline structure, aquatic vegetation, coves and points, has been dry for some time. This can frustrate some anglers as their "go-to" sites are unrecognizable or worse, no longer wet!
Monitoring fish populations over time can be similarly frustrating for TPWD, as some standardized gears and techniques are also less efficient than they would be during periods of normal water levels.
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Largemouth bass anglers should also be happy to learn the fall 2011 survey of Pat Cleburne observed the second highest catch rate of this species in nearly 20 years. Although the catch was dominated by 10-inch fish at the time, these fish are a harvestable size now and should offer black-bass anglers some good sport for the foreseeable future. The current water body record for largemouth bass in Pat Cleburne is 11 pounds.
Survey results for Lake Mexia were even more promising. The 2012 channel catfish catch rate was the highest on record for the reservoir. Large numbers of fish in excellent body condition were collected. Most of the channel catfish observed during this survey were in the two- to four-pound range. The current water body record for channel catfish in Lake Mexia is 7.4 pounds. Blues and flatheads can also be found in the reservoir, but in much lower densities. The water body record for blue catfish is over 25 pounds, while no record exists for flathead catfish.
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State Sen. Brandt Hershman (R-Buck Creek) made the following statement today in response to Gov. Mike Pence's State of the State Address:
STATEHOUSE (Jan. 22, 2013) — "Budget-writing sessions are always time intensive, as lawmakers from both parties and across Indiana must work together to develop a financial plan — not only to fund essential services but also maintain our leadership in fiscal responsibility and economic development.
"We've accomplished a great deal in terms of making Indiana more competitive for job growth in recent years. We need to continue those efforts and do so in a fiscally responsible way. We've got to encourage job creation by creating policies that are not only beneficial to local employers and small businesses — encouraging them to expand — but are also inviting to businesses nationwide and worldwide. We want Indiana to be the destination of choice for every new job that's created in the United States.
"At the same time, we should avoid burdens to taxpayers. We have to be cautious with any spending increases. Hoosiers need their elected officials to commit to guiding Indiana in a manner that will benefit our state for generations to come. I think Governor Pence has laid out a good start for this year's budget. I'm looking forward to working with him and legislators from both parties to try and do what is in the best interest for Hoosier families in the state of Indiana."


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Les Misérables is an adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption. Starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway.
His follow-up, Les Miserables, ought to be another sure thing. The musical has been running in the West End for decades, and the premise of Victor Hugo's original novel - reformed thief pursued by Asperger-y cop during the Paris Uprising - has provided a basis for countless screen adaptations.
But unless you're a diehard fan of Claude-Michel Schoenberg's simple tunes and Herbert Kretzmer's doggerel lyrics, there is not much to enjoy in this long, empty film.
Determined to show off his ''cinematic'' abilities, Hooper goes overboard with distorting lenses and oblique camera angles.
The performances are mostly what you would expect. Russell Crowe endows the obsessive Inspector Javert with a stolid manner and pub-rock voice, while Hugh Jackman plays the tormented Jean Valjean with the air of a trouper helping out his less-gifted friends.
Amanda Seyfried as Valjean's adopted daughter is pretty and camp enough for The Importance of Being Earnest. As comic villains, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter score not a single laugh between them, a remarkable testimony to Hooper's anti-talent as a director. And, oh dear, there's Anne Hathaway going the full Joan of Arc as doomed streetwalker Fantine, starved to the bone and warbling I Dreamed a Dream in mega-close-up as if pained by every last, tremulous syllable. Rarely have the movies seen such an embarrassingly naked plea for applause. There's nothing left to do but give her an Oscar and send her off to work with Lars von Trier. JW
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ONE ring to rule them all, but three movies to tell the story of The Hobbit. You really can have too much of a good thing. It's the same with the special effects, the use of 3D, the decision to divide a relatively short book into three movies. And if you are one of the spectators who sees The Hobbit at a cinema with the ability to show the film at 48 frames a second, rather than the customary 24 - about 50 such cinemas are in Australia - there is every chance you might feel the same. Sometimes, more is really less.
The Hobbit, of course, was there to be filmed, after all Peter Jackson had achieved with The Lord of the Rings. It's the story of events that took place before the trilogy: the tale of how Bilbo Baggins, homebody hobbit, went on the adventure of his life, joining a band of dwarfs in their quest to regain their lost kingdom of Mount Erebor.
Martin Freeman (The Office, Sherlock) makes a thoroughly engaging Bilbo, a figure of diffidence and quiet resolve. Ian McKellen is the charismatic wizard we would all want to be travelling with, and there are cameos from Lord of the Rings favourites: one of the saving moments of the film is Bilbo's meeting with Gollum (once again brought to unsettling life by Andy Serkis). There is a palpable tension here, a welcome feeling of desperation and danger.
But much else in the movie feels stunning in the wrong way. The film is a remarkable technical achievement, yet the look is an odd combination of breathtaking detail and glistening cheesiness, in the service of a narrative that's one roller-coaster ride after another, a succession of orc, goblin and troll smack-downs. ''Oh dear, more orcs,'' I found myself thinking, not out of fear, but of weariness.
It's just as well Jackson didn't decide to go the long route when he made The Lord of the Rings. We might still be waiting for ''The Return of The King Part XII''. PH
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HALF of Wreck-It Ralph takes place within an ultra-cutesy, pseudo-Japanese arcade game where players race cars across landscapes made of candy. Brilliantly, this game is called Sugar Rush - a phrase that also describes the sensation brought on by this fizzy, colourful movie.
A Disney release, Wreck-It Ralph feels like a logical extension of Pixar's Toy Story series, which is not surprising, since Pixar chief John Lasseter now runs Disney as well. Just as significantly, director Rich Moore worked on many episodes of The Simpsons. Ralph is a loveable oaf in the Homer Simpson tradition. He is voiced by an ideally cast John C. Reilly, who, as usual, sounds like a friendly ogre who's just woken up. A hulking fellow in a red flannel shirt, Ralph is the villain of a vintage video game that resembles Donkey Kong, in which his role is to break things as fast as the perky Fix-It Felix (Jack McBrayer) can fix them. Though he performs an essential service, Ralph is shunned by the other characters until he embarks on a quest to prove that bad guys can be nice guys, too.
The premise supplies a clever alibi for the use of 3D: the ''real'' Ralph literally has more depth than his pixellated game avatar. Wreck-It Ralph does for video games what Who Framed Roger Rabbit? did for the golden age of animation. But it hardly matters if you miss the in-jokes because there's so much else to enjoy. The great Jane Lynch hilariously voices a Lara Croft figure battling alien bugs in a Starship Troopers future, and Sarah Silverman's hoarse, gurgling tones are perfect for the ''glitching'' problem child Vanellope von Schweetz, an endearing force for mess and chaos in the squeaky-clean Sugar Rush world. JW
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AT FIRST, this looks as if it is going to be a culture-clash family comedy - a face-off between helicopter parenting, 21st-century style, and Model T, back-to-basics discipline. You might assume, to begin with, writers Lisa Addario and Joe Syracuse and director Andy Fickman (She's the Man, Race to Witch Mountain) have set things up for old-school values to triumph, for cake and competitiveness to trump tofu dogs and peewee baseball games that always end in a draw. But it's a little more ecumenical than it first appears.
Billy Crystal and Bette Midler play a couple who are called upon to care for their three grandchildren for a few days. He's a grouch who has just been made redundant from his job as a baseball caller; she's his perky yet feisty foil. They have grown apart from their daughter, Alice (Marisa Tomei), whose parenting style is a combination of benign reinforcement and constant surveillance, backed up with a sugar-free diet.
Their home is designed by Alice's husband, Phil (Tom Everett Scott), and it's an intelligent dwelling that anticipates their every need. This high-tech haven is not really a plot point, however; in fact, it takes on an odd kind of normality in the context of the movie.
The grandchildren have various anxieties with which their grandparents are at first reluctant to engage, particularly Artie. This is, ultimately, Crystal's movie and the ups and downs of his dealings with his grandsons are its chief focus. Yet, although it's designed for family entertainment, there's not a lot to entertain a young audience, apart from a few bits of strained physical comedy. PH
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AN UNSETTLING amalgam of hitman thriller, council-flat realism and occult horror, 2011's Kill List marked British director Ben Wheatley as a talent to watch. This follow-up is a more straightforward black comedy, suggesting a muted episode of The League of Gentlemen.
Chris (Steve Oram) and Tina (Alice Lowe) are a geeky suburban couple who have been dating for a few months when they embark on a caravan tour of Britain, marred by a string of grisly accidents that might not be so accidental after all. The absurdist British humour springs from a sense that psychosis is virtually the same thing as everyday complacency. No amount of ultra-violence can stop this unlovely pair coming out with Mike Leigh lines such as ''He's ruined the tram museum for me now'' or ''You can have anything you like as long as it's under 10 quid''.
While these laughs come fairly cheaply, the satire is less snobbish than misanthropic: characters of all social classes are regarded with equal disgust, and scatological obsessions are rarely far away.
Wheatley may have approached Sightseers as a hired hand - Oram and Lowe are the credited screenwriters - but he hasn't lost his ability to catch the audience off guard. The performances never lapse into obvious caricature, and even in the most horrific scenes the camera maintains a disturbingly casual, almost indifferent, point of view.
Wheatley may well see himself as the successor to Michael Reeves, whose perversely lyrical Witchfinder General (1968) found comparable forms of nastiness lurking in the shadows of England's green and pleasant land. Yet the film also works as an almost touching metaphor for any kind of relationship in which two people must take off their masks and reveal their more-or-less demented true selves. JW
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SAMSARA is an epic piece of cross-continental collage, made by the filmmakers who gave us a similar work, Baraka, 20 years ago. Director Ron Fricke (who shot Koyaanisqatsi) and his co-writer and producer, Mark Magidson, spent five years filming in 25 countries, and there is something of the magical mystery tour about the footage they have assembled, without word of explanation, into a slow-moving, meditative whole.
The title is taken from the Sanskrit word for the concept of birth, death and impermanence. There are ancient buildings and contemporary cityscapes, the flow of an active volcano and the sight of abandoned buildings half-filled with sand. There is human activity, sometimes quotidian, sometimes creative, and rituals of all kinds: a French performance artist transforms himself with clay; Filipino prisoners in orange jumpsuits engage in an exhilarating mass dance. There are bursts of frantic shopping, and the painstaking construction of a sand mandala that will be deliberately swept into oblivion as soon as it is complete.
Almost everything takes on, for better and for worse, an aura of grandeur. Opposites are cultivated in the way this material has been filmed and juxtaposed. There is beauty in disaster, and a certain ugliness in modernity.
Some of the most unsettling images are about consumption and its price. A recurring motif is the wheel and the circle - sometimes it has a spiritual connotation, but when it comes to the cows being mechanically milked in the stalls of a huge, slowly turning device, it is more like a wheel in Hades.
The movie moves from one image or topic to another quite quickly and, at times, Samsara's juxtapositions can seem too pointed and obvious. At other moments, it is utterly breathtaking. PH
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YOU may feel you've seen Quartet before; in a way, you have. This is yet another film in which a group of senior citizens - played by legends of stage and screen - are thrown together under trying circumstances, enabling them to flirt, bicker, swear and carry on as disgracefully as men and women half their age.
Quartet is based on a play by Ronald Harwood, whose many screenwriting credits include Roman Polanski's The Pianist and Oliver Twist. The director is Dustin Hoffman, who, at the age of 75, has never directed a film before and probably never will again. If you don't know what to do with this information, me neither.
The setting is a retirement home for classical musicians - which might more accurately be called a retirement castle, since the entire film was shot on location at Hedsor House, a one-time royal residence dating to 1166. A planned benefit concert provides the excuse for a series of acting turns, some more amusing than others: Maggie Smith as an acid-tongued sourpuss is a guaranteed pleasure, but I can't say the same for Billy Connolly as a loveably lecherous stroke victim.
One difficulty is that Smith, Connolly and their co-stars are obviously not opera singers - and so there's no possibility of actually hearing them sing. To make up for this, Hoffman casts real musicians in most of the minor roles, weaving their supposed rehearsals into the narrative throughout.
Easily the most powerful part of the film is the closing credits sequence, featuring photographs of all the performers in their younger days. This is moving in a simple, undeniable way - not least because famous faces and unknowns are placed on roughly the same level. Old age spares nobody: it might be a truism, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. JW


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Bogut sorry he returnedJoe Barton
Published: November 10 2012 - 3:00AM
DISAPPOINTED Australian NBA star Andrew Bogut says he felt like a liability on court for Golden State and admits he rushed back too soon from a broken ankle.
Bogut, who fractured his left ankle while playing for Milwaukee in January, would sit out for seven to 10 days, Golden State said.
Bogut missed the Warriors' pre-season schedule while recovering but was a surprise starter for the team's season-opening clash with Phoenix on October31.
He has played in four of the Warriors' five games to start the season, averaging just 18 minutes a game on a severely reduced workload.
The 27-year-old admitted it was an error to rush back into the line-up for opening night.
''It was probably a little too soon, but that was what I wanted to do,'' Bogut said. ''It wasn't the Warriors pushing me or anybody pushing me. It was me wanting to be out there and see how it [the injury] responds.''The response was clear – he still isn't ready.
Bogut, averaging just six points, 3.8 rebounds and two assists a game, said: ''I feel like I'm a liability out there, because I can't rebound, I can't move the way I'd like to move.
''I can do a lot more. I'm real disappointed with the way I'm playing ... I don't feel I'm helping the team.
''We need to get [the ankle] a lot stronger, so that I'm confident that I can push off my ankle and go for a loose ball, a rebound or a blocked shot. Until that happens, we have to play it very, very smartly.''
The latest setback has naturally left the 2.13-metre centre extremely frustrated as he attempts to make an impact for the Warriors, to whom he was traded in March.
''It's very, very tough at the moment,'' he said. ''It's a tough time in my life of sport and even off of the floor. This weighs on my mind a lot. I know a lot of people are expecting me to be what I'm supposed to be and it hasn't come to that yet.''
The Boomers big man has been ruled out of games against Los Angeles Lakers (Saturday, Sydney time), Denver (Sunday) and Atlanta (Thursday). It could also force him out of the three-game road trip to Minnesota, Oklahoma City and Dallas the following weekend.
But such is the complex nature of Bogut's recovery, he isn't sure whether 10 days will even be enough. ''It's just a number that we pulled up out of the blue. There's no formula for this,'' he said. ''It could be seven to 10 days. I could be ready in five days. I might not be ready for two weeks. We just don't know.''
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Gillian Tett of this parish is wondering why more bankers are not in jail. She thinks it's partly because all this finance stuff is too complicated for the poor little lawyers to understand. But there may be other reasons, like judges who think they should take the working environment of wrongdoers into account. Like the fantasy judge imagined by the Jets in Westside Story, who lets off a hoodlum because he pleads a tough childhood, this New Jersey judge seems to think working in a "pernicious and pervasive … culture of corruption" is a mitigation of accuseds' offence.
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Movie critics Liam Lacey and Rick Groen list the movies they're most excited about at this year's festival
HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON: It's this year's The King's Speech, and thus a classic example of TIFF as a launching pad for an Oscar-ready picture. Stuttering King Bertie and Queen Liz are back again, this time paying a royal visit to F.D.R. and earnest Eleanor at his Hyde Park mansion. All the ingredients are here – history (1939 on the cusp of war); humour (that mansion opens up into a veritable drawing-room comedy); sex (even in his wheelchair, Franklin gets around); star power (Bill Murray with a signature twist on the Prez); and politics (just a smidge, but enough to pretend to a certain seriousness). My, Hollywood's little golden boy just eats this stuff up. (R.G.)
TO THE WONDER: Once, a Terrence Malick film seemed as rare as a cosmic event. Now, with his second outing in as many years, the guy's threatening to become a chatterbox. Still, he's mandatory viewing, no less because his recent work is taking us where mainstream releases so seldom go – away from conventional narrative toward the abstract realm of pure image. Malick is, after all, a schooled philosopher, and he's clearly returning to his roots, but using the vocabulary of cinema as his primary search engine. I expect to be daunted, yet excited too. (R.G.)
WHAT MAISIE KNEW: Henry James helped to usher in the modern psychological novel, which may explain why the movies have always had a strained relationship with his books – reducing them to costume dramas, or travelogues, or acting exercises, but not knowing what to do with the interior subtleties of his crystalline prose. What Maisie Knew is perhaps his most technical novel – a tale of divorce observed, and told, exclusively from the limited perspective of the warring duo's young child. How in hell do you adapt that? I'm intrigued by the film's first choice, to update the setting to modern-day New York. The second, casting Steve Coogan as the male half of the narcissistic couple, well, we'll see. (R.G.)
9.79*: The fest has broken out seminal docs before, like Ira Wohl's Best Boy or Michael Moore's Roger and Me, but this one, from British filmmaker Daniel Gordon, comes with some intriguing Canadian content: Ben Johnson's so-called "disgrace" at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. A revisitation of the event is long overdue, in light not only of the other drug-implicated sprinters in that particular race but of all the other dopers in all the other sports. In the intervening years, Johnson has remained a convenient villain even as it grew clear that he was also an obvious victim – of a pervasive and enduring hypocrisy. Let's hope this documentary remedies that injustice. (R.G.)
CAPITAL: Way back when filmdom was surfing its many New Waves, a younger Costa-Gavras proved himself a master of the smart political thriller, investigating the dictatorial dark side in Z (1969) and The Confession ('70) and State of Siege ('72). All these years later, he joins the contingent of aged auteurs at this edition of TIFF, and brings a drama that looks into the contemporary equivalent of the malevolent despot – corrupt financial institutions. Bank robbers were long a staple of the movies; robber banks may well be the new gangsters. (R.G.)
AT ANY PRICE: With just three features under his belt (Man Push Cart, Chop Shop and the superb, Goodbye Solo), Iranian-American director Ramin Bahrani has developed a strong reputation as a storyteller. He has been the subject of several retrospectives and was dubbed "director of the decade" by Roger Ebert. His fourth film, At Any Price, represents a distinct upgrade in profile, starring Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Heather Graham among others, in a heartland tale of an unscrupulous farmer and his son who wants a new life. Early Venice reviews suggest a film that is, in the best sense, old-fashioned. (L.L.)
FOXFIRE: CONFESSIONS OF A GIRL GANG: Laurent Cantet's Palme d'Or-winning film, The Class, used young, inexperienced actors to explore the challenges of a teacher in a contemporary French high school. This time he's using a similar approach shooting a period movie, based on Joyce Carol Oates's 1994 feminist myth-making novel Foxfire. The previous version, starring Angelina Jolie as the sexy bad girl heroine, left fans of the novel disappointed. Cantet's much more faithful version features a mostly unknown and very good young Canadian cast and is both more understated and politically potent. (L.L.)
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK: Bradley Cooper stars in David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, adapted from Matthew Quick's 2010 novel, about a bipolar former teacher who, upon release from a psychiatric hospital, moves back home and gets involved with a troubled young widow (Jennifer Lawrence). Russell's previous sardonic comedies, Three Kings and Flirting with Disaster were very sharp movies (I Heart Huckabees, not so much), but what grabbed my attention was a sneak preview at Cannes last May, where the off-rhythm exchanges between Cooper and Lawrence struck a chord, evoking some of the serio-comic tone of Anne Beattie's novel (and 1979 movie) Chilly Scenes of Winter. (L.L.)
SOMETHING IN THE AIR: French director Olivier Assayas has been on a roll lately, with the Chekhovian family drama Summer Hours and the volatile terrorist drama, Carlos. His latest film, Something in the Air is the story of a French teenager in the politically volatile early seventies (the French title translates as After May, following the student protests of 1968). Best of all, this is a return to the time and place of Assayas's excellent 1994 semi-autobiographical feature, Cold Water, offering what promises to be a portrait of the artist as a young radical. (L.L.)
THE MASTER: Over his five film career, Paul Thomas Anderson has created a body of work marked by a particularly American style of grandiose eccentricity. Five years after his Oscar-winning There Will Be Blood comes another historic tale of a self-made egomaniac and cult leader, bearing parallels to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He's played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, with Amy Adams as his wife and Joaquin Phoenix as a drifter who becomes his acolyte. Like every other Anderson movie I've seen (except for Punch Drunk Love, which I liked immediately), I expect to be initially puzzled but fascinated, and appreciate it's originality more with passing time. Also, it's shot in the epic format of 70mm, which hasn't been used since Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet a decade and a half ago. (L.L.)


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At last, the big blue head arrives.
One of the most exciting movie events of the decade is entering its endgame this month. The last chapter of the Millenium trilogy, "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest," hits limited theatrical release this week and will hopefully spread out over the coming weeks.
Sitting through "Jackass 3D" was the worst 90 minutes I've spent in a movie theater. Hands down, no contest, ever. I can't imagine a more disgusting, stupid, pointless movie ever making it to mainstream theaters.
It's fashionable these days to say that 40 is the new 30, 50 is the new 40, and so on. In "Red," however, 50 is still 50, 60 is still 60, and that's the whole point.
One of my greatest pet peeves is American remakes of great foreign films. I know there are people, probably plenty of you reading this, who simply don't enjoy reading subtitles. But I will never understand why it's better to watch an inferior remake just to avoid having to glance down to briefly read some dialogue.
Because it doesn't already consume enough of our lives, Facebook will now take over movie theaters beginning this Friday. If the very idea of a Facebook movie makes you groan, believe me, I understand. That was my initial reaction, too.
At first glance, Oliver Stone's "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" seems to be hitting the market at exactly the right moment. But the timing might not be perfect after all.
I don't think I've ever been so glad to have grown up male. If surviving high school is really as difficult for girls as "Easy A" makes it seem, young women should receive medals along with their diplomas.
A man in plain clothes walks alone through the dim, narrow cobblestone streets of a small Italian town. His name might be Jack or it might be Edward. He is handsome but otherwise unremarkable, able to blend into crowds easily.
In most ways, "The Last Exorcism" is not a typical horror movie. Whether that's a good thing will be up to you.
I can't remember when I've been so happy for a summer movie season to end. It may have been the hottest summer on record outside the theater, but it was ice cold inside. As in, usually the air conditioning was the best part of the movie.
Despite what Summer would have us think, not all movies need to be long, loud or monumental. Sometimes a nice little movie is exactly what's needed.
"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" defines its audience from the moment the studio logo appears. The earth spins into view rendered in blocky Atari graphics, then "Universal" wraps around it in lettering reminiscent of the original Donkey Kong or Pac-Man games.
"Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" defines its audience from the moment the studio logo appears. The earth spins into view rendered in blocky Atari graphics, then "Universal" wraps around it in lettering reminiscent of the original Donkey Kong or Pac-Man games.
A movie titled "Dinner for Schmucks" pretty much requires me to use some food metaphors, and rather than try to sneak them in as if it's far more clever than it really is, let's just embrace the cliché, shall we? Here's a review of the movie as if it were a seven-course meal.
Transitioning from teen idol to serious adult actor is tricky business, and "Charlie St. Cloud" is obviously part of Zac Efron's attempt to make that move. He recently starred in a Richard Linklater movie called "Me and Orson Welles" which earned strong reviews and zero box office. He then catered to his demographic with "17 Again." And now, he gets to lead a serious, heart-rending rather than heart-throbbing drama.
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Go Here: Gros Morne National Park In Winter17 Jan 2014
Gros Morne National Park really comes alive in the dead of winter. If you're looking for some inspiration for cold-weather adventure in Newfoundland & Labrador's signature wilderness, check out these trip ideas.
Western Newfoundland's winter wonders26 Dec 2013
My first time on a backcountry snowmobile trek went the way most firsts do: More than a little awkward, a lot of thrills and a lasting sensation that made me wonder "what've I been missing all this time."
Fly-fishing on the Pinware River11 Dec 2013
If Pinware described its campsites as having hot and cold running water with food nearby, they really couldn't be accused of lying. Measuring just 68 hectares and bordered by the Pinware River on one side and the Strait of Belle Isle on the other, it's one of Labrador's hidden gems, renowned for its trout and salmon fishing (running water, food nearby: get it?).
Skiing Gros Morne National Park23 Oct 2013
Hitting the backcountry slopes in Newfoundland
For Lawrence Hill, a frequent guest at Writers at Woody Point, it's partly about the whales that parade by in Bonne Bay. For Michael Winter, it's about swimming in his birthday suit in the sea or under a waterfall, once at dawn with a musician with whom he had been singing and dancing all night. For Michael Ondaatje, it's a "wild and swirling event" that breaks down the barriers between performers and the audience.
Labrador in a Day26 Jul 2013
If Labrador is on your bucket list, local company Tour Labrador now offering tours of well known attractions in the Labrador Straits.
'Steer by the inn," says Captain Ane Emberley, at my shoulder as I take a brief turn at the wheel of his tour boat, the Ketanja. I line up the prow with the Fogo Island Inn. It's easy to navigate by; its intersecting white rectangles rear from a jut of granite on the treeless shore.
The sixteenth-century Basque whaling complex at Red Bay in southeastern Labrador is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It joins the geological wonders of Gros Morne National Park and the 11th-century Viking village at L'Anse aux Meadows in being awarded this prestigious designation.
You've never seen true summer excitement unless you've been to St. John's, NL. Flip-flops are brought out as soon as the Canada Goose jackets are in storage, barbecues are fired up even before the last icy lump of snow has disappeared, and cafés set out their sidewalk tables according to the sunshine, not the official start of the season.
"Listen," my sister said, leaning close to my ear munching a crispy chunk of fried cod at the Anchor Café in Port au Choix, Newfoundland, "that's what fish and chips should sound like." For someone who's worked for 36 years at an iconic West Vancouver fish and chippery, that's a mighty big stamp of approval.
St. John's of Newfoundland22 May 2013
The most impressive aspect of this charming city is its architecture. St. John's has a distinct style from that of the rest of Canada, and its major buildings are remnants of its history as one of the first British colonial capitals. Starting as a fishing outpost for European fishermen, it consisted mostly of the homes of fishermen, sheds, storage shacks, and wharves constructed out of wood.
Welcome to the mindbending Rock, where otherworldly geology is the backdrop for a heady mix of words + music during the Writers at Woody Point.
Happily stranded in Rigolet8 May 2013
It's shortly after 6 p.m. early in September. I'm walking on a 4.4 km (2.6 mi.) boardwalk along the coast in Rigolet, the oldest Inuit community in Labrador. This region is part of Nunatsiavut—"our beautiful land"—and is only accessible by ship or plane (dog sled and skidoos in the winter.)
The surge and surface current slosh me around like laundry in a spin cycle. I'm scuba diving on Gadd's Wall, a precipitous dive site in Bonne Bay, in Western Newfoundland's Gros Morne National Park, that just may be one of the top dives on the Rock.
National Geographic and Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society's Newfoundland and Labrador Chapter Introduce Eastern Newfoundland24 Apr 2013
Travelers seeking unspoiled places and culturally authentic experiences now have a valuable new resource in a comprehensive "Geotourism MapGuide" and website for Canada's Eastern Newfoundland region. The landmark project has taken two years to plan and execute and is a historically significant asset for everyone who visits or lives in the region.
From fabulous food to trendy hotels and jaw-dropping scenery, Travel Editor Jim Byers' offers up great things to do in St. John's, Newfoundland.
What to feed a hungry angler... Fish, perhaps?15 Apr 2013
Trevor Pilgrim of Mayflower Adventures in Roddickton, NL, believes in giving his guests a hearty breakfast before he takes them out salmon fishing. One of his favourite haunts is Beaver Brook and its world-famous limestone cave, known as the Underground Salmon Pool.
The perfect place to stay for this western Newfoundland golf adventure is the Humber Valley Resort, and perhaps the best golf to be played on this side of the island is the River Course at the resort. The resort offers both an inn and chalets with seasonal rates. The chalets offer options to house large or small groups with all the comforts of a world-class golf destination.
Forget the Rockies. Winter blahs melt away as you hit the gas on a snowmobile and blast along ancient mountain ridges or wander through pristine woodlands in Newfoundland and Labrador.
A vast network of trails sprawls across more than 5,000 kilometres of natural beauty. It spans the former Canadian National Railway route, follows the foothills of the Long Range Mountains to a glacier-cut fjord in Gros Morne National Park, and crisscrosses Labrador's rolling tundra.
Aviation Preservation28 Feb 2013
In the 1950s, Canada's Department of Transport commissioned a modernist makeover for a tiny international air hub in Newfoundland, a design that has proven as timeless as it was trendsetting.


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QUEENSLAND's weather is roughly as volatile as its politics. Storms and floods can ruin lives and livelihoods as viciously and unexpectedly as events can swamp political careers. With Queensland once more awash this week and Prime Minister Julia Gillard announcing a firm but distant date for the federal election, it was not only Queenslanders studying the brooding northern skies for signs. The state's restless moods have become intensely interesting to those doing battle for control of the Australian Parliament.
Gillard's Labor strategists, faced with a looming electoral disaster in corruption-prone New South Wales, are hoping desperately that Queensland might deliver a little ray of sunshine when the September election is held. They are pinning their hopes on Queenslanders maintaining their fury at the style of Liberal National Party Premier Campbell Newman, who only a year ago was on his way to becoming the most ascendant political leader in the nation.
The Gillard troops are working to link federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott to Newman's job-slashing attitudes, and have for months been spreading the message that if Abbott were to become Prime Minister, he'd rip apart health services and destroy public jobs. Just like Campbell Newman.
But the weather has intervened. Indeed, while Campbell Newman was receiving newfound public plaudits this week for his reassuring presence during the floods that carved through northern Queensland and the unfortunate Lockyer Valley, Gillard, touring ravaged areas in the north, was being criticised on regional talkback radio for daring to announce an election date while communities were suffering and people were dying.
''There are so many mixed messages right now it is very hard to get a handle on what is really going on,'' says prominent Queensland political commentator and senior lecturer at Griffith University's School of Humanities, Paul Williams.
Late last year, Williams told Fairfax that Newman's fall from grace in the second half of 2012 had been the swiftest in Australian history, and he predicted federal Labor would be the beneficiary. The Gillard government, he said at the time, could hold most of its Queensland seats and win a further handful - up to six. All by equating the spectre of Tony Abbott with ''Can-Do Campbell''.
Now, he's not so sure. Though he cautiously predicts a ''net gain'' for federal Labor in Queensland, Williams suspects Newman received counselling from federal Liberal chiefs over Christmas, starting the new year in a much more positive style. He has placed a cap on further redundancies in the public service and promised to listen harder to Queenslanders and outline a vision for the state.
Newman could hardly have failed to reflect on the grim events of just two years ago when his predecessor, Labor premier Anna Bligh, worked to console her flood-struck people. Bligh, commentators at the time declared, had become the ''mother of Queensland'', urging calm and explaining rescue efforts, weeping with survivors and offering state assistance.
But none of it saved her from the wrath of Queensland's mercurial voters. Within a year, Bligh was out of government and the vast majority of her Labor colleagues were thrown out of the Queensland Parliament by voters unwilling to forgive broken promises.
It was, of course, a state election, but Queensland's voters have long played a powerful role in the federal sphere.
In 2007, local boy Kevin Rudd's journey to the prime ministership was guaranteed when Labor won 16 of Queensland's 29 electorates.
In 2010, any hope of Julia Gillard gaining majority government at her first election disappeared when eight of those seats fell in a wave of northern anger generated largely by Gillard and her allies ousting Rudd. The smouldering Rudd continues to be a spectre over Gillard's campaign - yesterday he returned to morning television, resuming his old spot on the Seven Network's Sunrise program sparring with opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey. A huge photo of Rudd wielding a chainsaw appeared on the front page of Brisbane's Courier Mail on Thursday to illustrate the story of Gillard announcing the election date.
The north raining on prime ministers' parades is an old story. As long ago as 1987, Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen's bizarre ''Joh for Canberra'' campaign ended John Howard's ambition of wresting federal power from Bob Hawke. Nine years later, when Howard trounced Paul Keating, Queenslanders helped mightily, returning only two Labor MPs.
Little wonder, then, that the Gillard government is searching for signs in this capricious state. It was only half a year ago, however, that the ALP's senior strategists were gloomily conceding that the Gillard government's dreams of holding federal seats in Queensland, let alone winning any new spots, were all but destroyed. Rudd's electorate of Griffith looked about the only safe harbour.
The ALP was shattered by the state's March 24 election; a disaster for Labor, whose 52-seat majority was savaged by voters, leaving a parliamentary party hardly worthy of the name. Just seven ALP MPs were left after Newman led his LNP forces to an astounding 78-seat victory.
Anything smelling of the word Labor seemed doomed. Anna Bligh, crushed, resigned.
Yet only five months into his term, Newman managed to outrage vast numbers of Queenslanders by announcing he was axing 14,000 public servant jobs, almost a quarter of them from the state's health services.
In a single month between July and August, the Newman government's polling figures collapsed by 12.3 points, with respondents to a ReachTel poll giving the Liberal National Party only 44.2 per cent. Labor enjoyed a 7-point leap from the basement to 31.6 per cent. While it still left the government with a solid lead over Labor, the result shocked many within the Newman government.
Nothing went right for the remainder of last year. In November, Newman lost his second minister when Dr Bruce Flegg resigned from the housing portfolio because his office had allowed lobbying contact with his lobbyist son. Earlier in the year, police minister David Gibson had resigned after being caught driving while his licence was suspended.
At the end of November, with the colourful mining magnate Clive Palmer cheering from the sidelines, three disgruntled LNP MPs quit the party. One of them, former frontbencher Ray Hopper, defected to Katter's Australian Party, becoming leader.
Newman reacted with fury, particularly towards Hopper. His government pushed through legislation on the last sitting night of the year to deny Katter's Australian Party any status, and Hopper was given an office hardly larger than a broom closet in a dark stairwell.
The Newman government's public standing refused to recover. ReachTel's latest monthly figures showed support for the government was stalled on 42.5 per cent, with Labor inching up to 34.9 per cent. Katter's Australian Party, with only three sitting MPs, sat at 10.5 per cent, 2 points ahead of the Greens.
These figures, of course, are relatively academic on the national canvas, referring to a state with another three years before its politicians have to face their voters. As far as the Gillard government was concerned, however, the figures portrayed a significant and sorely needed break in the weather.
Even the infuriated and emergent Katter party offered Labor some potential sustenance. It plans to field candidates in every federal seat this year, and its supporters are thought unlikely to send their preferences to the Liberal National Party it has come to hate.
By late last year, Gillard was making frequent visits to Queensland, ramping up her analogies between Newman and Abbott, and her advisers and senior ministers were privately predicting that the government could hold most or all of its seats in the state while grabbing several extras.
But it remains difficult to imagine where such gains might be made. Lilley, the electorate of Queensland's most senior federal Labor MP, Treasurer Wayne Swan, is the state's only marginal seat specifically polled in recent times. The January 16 poll of 511 residents - a very large sample in a single seat - found Swan likely to lose, with 45.2 per cent of the primary vote going to the LNP and only 38 per cent casting Swan's way.
The political climate up north, in short, remains erratic.