Pizza – it might be the ultimate relaxation food. It kinda makes you want to sit back with a few slices, sip on a pop (or some other cold beverage) and chill.
It's not just pizza that seems like such an informal meal – maybe it's the setting inside the restaurant, but spaghetti and other pasta-based dishes just cry out for you to take it easy and enjoy yourself.
Boston Pizza, inside the Americana resort on Lundy's Lane in Niagara Falls, has that all figured out.
Take a look at their calendar for February, for example. There's a little something extra special going on pretty much every night of the month.
Feb. 11? National Make a Friend Day.
Valentine's Day, Feb. 14? That's Heart-Shaped Pizza Day, of course.
What could possibly be going on there on Friday, Feb. 22, you ask? How about National Margarita Day.
Feb. 24? National Tortilla Chip Day – who would have thought?
Then there are all the other nights, where the numerous big screen TVs will be showing either a Toronto Maple Leafs or Toronto Raptors game, along with the usual kitchen and bar specials.
Friday nights also feature live entertainment from performers like Anthony Abbruscato, Brad Battle and Midnight Sons.
The setting inside Boston Pizza is designed to put you at ease. Kick back, enjoy good conversation along with a great meal, and settle in for the entertainment.
That motif is all in keeping with the Americana resort itself, which also boasts a spa and exercise room, plus other dining options like Lulu's Cafe, Fields Bistro and Gathering Place, and the Oasis Pizza and Snack Bar.
And then there is the giant indoor waterpark that makes up a good part of the resort. It's available for parties or just for travellers and families to take advantage of, with its giant water drops, waves and slides.
It's one of the big stops on the Niagara Falls map – which is saying a lot because this is probably the busiest tourist city in Canada.
The best way to start it is with a stop at Boston Pizza, though, because there's always something going on there.


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This page has become so large that I have begun tags that will take you to the particular sections in it.
Eventually I will have to decide if and how I should split this page.
Has your landlord paid you interest on your last month's rent deposit?
If you have paid a last month's rent deposit on the apartment you rent, your landlord legally owes you interest under the Residential Tenanciesa Act. For more information visit Last Months' Rent Deposits.
Tenants condemn Ontario rent increase guideline, August 30, 2003, press release from this web site and the North Toronto Tenants' Network (tenants association) on the 2004 Ontario Rent Increase Guideline announced that day, explaining why there should be no annual rent increase guideline, and how it has compounded over the years.
Ontario and housing under the Dalton McGuinty Liberal government Shelter after 10 years of storms, by Carol Goar, Toronto Star, November 19, 2003. What will Ontario's new Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, John Gerretsen, do for Ontario's four-million tenants and to start creating affordable housing again?
Minto tenants say rent hike 'not justified' Ottawa Citizen, January 30, 2002. Some Ottawa tenants living in Minto buildings are receiving rent increases of up to 13.49% under the government's Tenant "Protection" Act. And Minto donated $5000 to Ernie Eve's campaign to become leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.
Another older story, same as the long list of similar one about unaffordable rent increases Rent Hike Threatens Poorest Tenants Hamilton Spectator, August 30, 2001.
While the Residential Tenancies Act did fix the unfairness that rents could increase due to increase in utility costs over the previous years but did not consider longer periods of times and did not permit decreases in rent to match decreases in utility costs, it refused to fix the many years over which landlords repeatedly got rent increases when natural gas prices rose, but fell in the years inbetween. The McGuinty government did nothing to reverse this unfair enrichment of landlords.
And the Residential Tenancies Act has introduced a new item: smart meters. I will be writing in the future about why "smart meters" are dumb to force on renters.
Like I have been saying on this web site for several years, the 2000 spike in natural gas costs have led to unconscionable profits for landlords. So much for Social Justice! Some people are negotiating with the Dalton McGuinty government to try to get a few changes improve the Tenant Protection Act. A few changes are not enough; The law needs to be repealed. It is too flawed in so many respects to be improved.
For more information on this topic, read below about the Rent Increase Guideline, as well as on the Your Utility Costs page. You can also look at the my top recommendations on the My Ontario Housing Policy changes.
As this web site has been warning tenants since 2001 landlords all over Ontario received Above Guideline Rent Increases(AGI) for the Winter of 2000/2001's huge temporary increase in natural gas prices. While there may appear to be nothing wrong with someone passing on their costs, the cost of natural gas then came back down, but the increase landlords recieved continue to this day even though prices later came back down. Under the Ontario Tenant "Protection" Act, landlords can get above guideline rent increases (with no cap on them) when utility costs go up, but tenants can not apply for a decrease when the utilities or any other costs come back down! And if the landlord puts in energy or water saving measures, you pay for the renovations, but they get to pocket the savings you paid for! Also, now that Natural Gas prices have gone back up, see the Natural Gas price chart landlords can and will apply for another uncapped above guideline rent increase for the increase over the previous years costs; This even though the increases they received over the past two years (depending on when they applied,) were already getting the increase from 2000's prices. That means that each increase is piled upon the previous increase, permanently, if in intervening years the prices fall back down.. Is that fair? NO! Is that social justice? NO!Why should landlords get another rent increase for natural gas going back up to the levels for which we got the last AGI rent increases?
What is needed is a study to see what the eviction and turnover rates are in apartments owed by these investment trusts, in comparison to the averages for all other rental apartments.
Apartment demand exceeds supply, Globe and Mail, March 16, 2004. People wouldn't be so desperate to buy apartment buildings if they were not producing such lucrative profits.
Toronto firm buys 22 city buildings London Free Press, July 7, 2002. Believe me they wouldn't be buying up these London apartment buildings if they didn't think it was immensely profitable.
As I wrote in my April 1998 report, the Tenant Protection Act, an Attack on Tenants, Real Estate Investment Trusts, change housing from homes into a mere commodity, where the owners want to maximize profits for the next quarter, no matter what the costs are to families or society.
Have you heard of any legal business with returns of 27% profit annually?
And landlords say things are improving for tenants due to their claims of rising vacancy rates. Vacancy rate doubles as interest rates remain low, National Post, June 13, 2002. From what tenants are telling me, vacancy rates are rising, but only in the apartments over $1,000 a month, with tenants being forced to either scale down the size of the apartments or doubling up, both of which is leading to severe overcrowding in some situations. The only people the situation is improving for is the landlords!
Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal is an "Eviction Machine"
Under the Residential Tenancies Act, Landlords may not ask a tenant for more than just first month's plus last month's rent up front. Of course the best way to prove a landlord is in breach of the law is with receipts such as cancelled cheques for more than just the two months' rent down-payment. And of course if you complain to the prospective landlord what they are doing is illegal, they will just rent the apartment to someone else. Where is the social justice?
For those who can afford it, talk the landlord down to as few months as possible, pay the illegal down-payment so you get the housing, and once you are in the apartment, file a complaint with the Landlord and Tenant Board, including copies of either the receipt(s) of payment from the landlord, the cancelled cheques, or money order receipt in your application to the Tribunal, to get your overpayment back. Then file a complaint with the Investigation and Enforcement Unit, (IEU,) of the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing at 416-585-7214, or outside of the 416 calling area, toll free at 1-888-772-9277.
And for those who, as most, cannot afford more than first and last month's rent deposits, you can either forget about getting a place in that building, or go with a witness and a hidden taperecorder and then immediately take that tape of the demand by the landlord for more than just the first and last months' rent deposit to the media in the hopes it will force the landlord to take you on as a tenant without the extra illegal deposit.
Illegal Rent Requests - Immigrants can pay a year's rent Hamilton Spectator, Monday, July 30, 2001.
Poor? Coloured? Then it's no vacancy, Housing discrimination rampant, says poverty report, despite fact that visible minorities are poised to become city's majority, Globe and Mail, July 18, 2000. And here is the report, Accommodation on the Basis of Age and Race: 1996 Census Results, this article is talking about.
Will that be residence, or a free PC?, Toronto Star, July 16, 2003. and Universities give gifts for students' rooms, Globe and Mail, July 16, 2003. Another year, another round of college and university student housing shortages. Of course this year it is blamed on the "double-cohort".
A lesson in supply & demand from the Ottawa Sun, September 1, 2002, is a story on the severe shortage of campus housing at Carleton University as well as elsewhere.
Because of the many requests I get that I just don't have the time to respond to and that I couldn't help anyways on trying to find housing, I did start the APARTMENT HUNTING page which I hope is of some help.
CAP REIT Announces Solid Improvement in Occupancy, CCN Oct, 3, 2005. Canada's largest landlord has only 2% vacancy rate, down from 3.5% putting government vacancy statistics into doubt.
The same day as the above report, this web site in conjunction with the North Toronto Tenants' Network, (a local tenants association,/a>,) released our own analysis of these figures because we disagreed with the government's conclusions as to the causes of these changes. Click here to see our analysis of the 2003 rents figures.
Toronto's housing crisis up close and personal The (University of Toronto) Varsity, Monday, December 10, 2001.
Good luck finding an apartment in Hamilton, Hamilton Spectator, Tuesday, November 27, 2001 by Mark McNeil.
It is unusual to say there is some "criminal intent" in writing a law, but what else could one say about Section 141 of the Tenant Protection Act?
This section says that if a landlord has gotten away with an illegal rent, illegal rent increase, or other illegal charge, and you have not caught it and filed an application against it within one year of the date of the illegal charge, it becomes . . . legal !


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Transgender Man Wins 'Big Brother' U.K.
by Jason St. Amand
National News Editor
A transgender man has been crowned the winner of "Big Brother U.K. 2012", thanks to a public vote, Gay Star News reported.
Luke Anderson, 31, a chef from Wales, was recently named the 13th winner of the popular reality TV show. Soon after Anderson left the "Big Brother" house on Monday, he told the show's host Brain Dowling that winning hasn't hit him.
"I don't think it's sunk in yet. A big part of it was about acceptance. All my life I've been an outsider," Anderson said. "Thank you so much."
Anderson, who spent 70 days in the house, underwent gender reassignment surgery four years ago. He revealed his past to his housemates on the second day of the game, when he told them that he was born a woman named Laura.
"I was born female and have had gender reassignment," he said. "I'm a biological woman. I have had chest surgery but not the other one yet. I left it as long as possible because I didn't want to upset my parents. But in my brain I am a man."
Anderson isn't the only transgender winner of "Big Brother": In 2004, Nadia Almada placed first after charming the British TV watchers on the hugely popular show (much more popular across the pond than in the States).
The U.S. version of the reality show has been the subject of controversy since its debut in 2000. In "Big Brother 14," the series' current season, a houseguest was accused of using a homophobic slur and the "N-word," the Examiner reported.
The show's live feeds, which air on Showtime as "Big Brother After Dark," show Willie Hantz (brother of "Survivor"'s notorious villain Russell Hantz) went into a fit of rage over a rumor that he made anti-gay remarks about openly gay houseguest, Wil.
Hantz tried to defend himself and insisted he wasn't homophobic but he ended up using the "N-word," saying, "I'll knock a n---a out."
Since the incident, Hantz has been removed from the game for getting physical with another contestant.
Hantz isn't the only "Big Brother" contestant to make national headlines. A few years ago, Steven Daigle, a former "Big Brother 10" houseguest, created a buzz for starting a career in gay porn.
Daigle, who was an openly gay cowboy on the CBS series, has appeared in several adult films and is a regular in the gay porn industry EDGE reported.
'Big Brother' still isn't happy about 'The Glass House'
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I will never forget the fall day I witnessed one of the largest BWO hatches I've ever seen on the infamous South Platte. There was a large pod of browns holding at the head of a long run where the riffled water poured into a deep plunge pool. The fish were being extremely selective as they lifted gently to sip in the mayflies sailboating on the surface.
After I'd changed my client's flies for what felt like the millionth time, a light bulb went off. "We have to change this up," I decided. "Let's try something completely different to see if one of these fish will pounce on it." The first presentation was magic, and my client's jaw dropped as the largest fish, previously an occasional sipper, hunted down and smashed a swimming #10 Morrish Mouse.
I first gained confidence throwing big stand-out meals on the surface the year before when I was guiding on the Naknek River and the surrounding fisheries in Katmai National Park. While preparing my fly boxes for the season that largely consisted of painted beads, Flesh Flies, and big nymphs, fellow guide Matt Bynum told me, "The topwater scene up here can be incredible. Don't be afraid to throw a mouse to stand out to these fish."
I put this method to the test on my first guide trip. After jetting up and drifting down one of the side channels, I noticed some nice 'bows prowling the soft seam at the point of the island. We landed some of the smaller fish using beads to imitate salmon eggs, but I wanted to see if a mouse might attract the attention of one of the giants. Sure enough, one of those tanks poked its nose just out of the water, flared its gills, and delicately "sipped" the mouse from the surface. Ten minutes later my client slid the submarine into the net, and I had my introduction to alternative food sources. It is easy to get stuck in the mindset that downsizing will fool more trout because we know this is the safest way to have your imitation live up to the definition of "imitate," however, sometimes it is better to be a contrarian.
Large trout can be lazy by nature and resist spending excess energy to feed. This is why some targets can be reluctant to take small bugs on the surface, but lose their minds when they have the opportunity to hunt and destroy one big monumental meal that catches their eye.
I've found that crane flies, damselflies, and mice all stand out in a crowd because these meals supply the fish with the maximum amount of nutrition for the smallest amount of effort, and trout everywhere are familiar with them. One thing these three value meals have in common is that they disrupt a lot of water on the surface when they ride, leaving a V wake that demands investigation.
Crane Flies
On one hot summer morning, I heard occasional explosions on the surface that led me to believe something was not just eaten, it was being destroyed. As the day pushed into early afternoon, I was standing on the edge of a long riffle delivering small flies to subtle eaters near the opposite bank. The afternoon was calm and quiet, with only the occasional sound of a trout sucking in spent Tricos.
I heard a buzzing sound and watched as a large adult crane fly skipped across the surface of the water tumbleweed-style. A big trout gave chase, missed the crane fly, swung around, and came up from underneath it like Jaws for the second and final attack.
Also known as mosquito hawks, these long-leg insects are found in freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Including the extremely gangly legs, the adults can reach the size of silver dollars. Many fly fishers use subsurface imitations of crane fly larvae, but very few of us take advantage of the adults, which can be clumsy fliers.
The key to imitating what looks like an oversized mosquito is the legs. Imitations like the Daddy Long Legs Crane Fly (#8-10) match the body profile with a generous amount of hackle and leg materials to lift the fly high on the surface so it can roll, matching the movements of the naturals.
These "paired-winged" flyers are in the same family as dragonflies, and are predators that become prey as they hunt for other adult insects on the river edges or stillwater shorelines. Male damselflies exhibit a vivid blue body compared to the pale olive markings of females. They hunt smaller insects near the surface of the water on warm summer days, and trout in most circumstances do not miss the opportunity when one of these meal tickets crashes onto the water.
Sometimes trout don't even wait for contact, and leap from the water to consume damselflies in midair. If you want to see beautiful and dramatic slow-motion video of this, I suggest you watch the short film Damsels in Distress at flyfisherman.com/damsels. A glimpse at this video makes it joyfully obvious how much trout enjoy feasting on damselflies.
I have always admired the beauty of these insects as they prowl the water, and at the first sight of any damselfly activity I quickly switch to a size 6 or 8 Parachute Damsel Adult.
It matches the long slender body of an adult, uses foam for buoyancy, and has paired Krystal Flash wings sticking straight out to the sides preventing the fly from rolling over. When complete, it looks like a small version of a Mountain Banshee from the movie Avatar.
One of my favorite times to throw the electric blue, black, and blue imitation is in between major mayfly hatches. For example, as the morning Trico hatch dies down and before the afternoon stonefly or mayfly hatch begins, trout are still eager to pounce on the next topwater meal. Concentrate on edges and shorelines, or the very spots where you might have struggled with selective trout during the hatch—there is a good chance those fish will react to your damselfly imitation.
Mice & Voles
As the name indicates, "fly" fishers have been historically focused on matching hatches of aquatic insects, but I have found many large fish that prefer to hunt and destroy furry mammals.
Meadow mice (also called field mice or voles in Europe) love fertile river valleys with lots of grass or tundra, as the vegetation provides protection from predators, and ample food. Mice are excellent burrowers, and frequently nocturnal, so you don't often see them. Like most things in nature, local mouse populations are cyclical, and the trout really get turned onto mice during periods of local abundance. In New Zealand, there are "mouse years" in certain forested areas that are related to the abundance of seeds from southern beech trees.
In 2012 there was an explosion in the population of montane voles along Silver Creek, Idaho that was known only to a few observant big-trout hunters who noticed unusual numbers of hawks, owls, coyotes, and rattlesnakes patrolling the riverbanks. These boom-and-bust cycles and periodic rodent migrations happen all the time on most North American rivers, yet fly fishers rarely recognize them. It's a well-known fact that hopper fishing can be excellent when adjacent hayfields are swathed, but not many of us realize how the local rodent population also reacts when a hayfield is cut.
The key to a mouse fly is the body design, extending legs, and a supple tail that S-curves like a snake when the imitation moves. In Alaska I learned to love imitations like a size 6 or 8 Mr. Hanky or a Morrish Mouse.
You can present these flies dead or alive. A live mouse dog-paddles across the current, kicking its legs and causing a wake in an attempt to reach dry land. Swing your fly on a tight line to match this movement, and add occasional extra twitches. If the extra movement does not attract attention, try a simple dead drift to mimic a mouse that has given up swimming and is along for the ride. Once you find the right delivery, hold on. You could be in for one hell of a fight.
When to Throw Down
Clear water provides the fish a better visual of the prey and commotion it is causing on the surface. These are surface flies with surface presentations, and you want as many fish as possible to see your flies.
Keep in mind that trout are wary creatures, they don't like to be seen by their prey or by larger predators, so low light provides the best bite. The challenge in low light—an hour after sunrise, two hours before sunset, or any dark and overcast day—is glare. The reflection of the sky, clouds, and changing color can make it impossible to see below the surface. On the other hand it can silhouette your surface fly, allowing you to track a dark, drifting object, or follow the disturbed water as it skates. I also believe low-angle light helps the trout see and track your fly better. No one likes staring into bright sun, and trout don't have eyelids or pupils that can contract.
When rigging these large flies, I tie on a single fly using 3X tippet to prevent potential tangles, and encourage a proper presentation. Attach the fly using a no-slip mono loop knot, and the fly will move more naturally on the surface.
Large drys create wind resistance, and are easier to cast on heavier weight-forward lines such as Scientific Anglers MPX. Finally, fly maintenance can help produce the long drifts you need in some cases to produce fish. If the fly begins to sink, I first pinch-dry the fly using a shammy, amadou patch, or Wonder Cloth. Then I use a desiccant like Shimazaki Dry-Shake. It is not uncommon for me to go through a whole container of Shimazaki every two or three days.
Crane flies, damselflies, and mice disrupt a lot of water at the surface because of their mass and movement, and the best way to fish them is to make them move across the surface of the water. I cast across and slightly upstream, starting the drift with my rod tip just above the surface.
As the fly begins to drift and swim downstream, elevate your arm with smooth acceleration toward 12 o'clock using your hand and wrist to add twitching movements to the fly as it drags across the surface on a tight line. At the end of the drift, your arm should be raised well above your head, which is why I call this technique the Statue of Liberty.
This technique helps keep the fly at the surface instead of dragging it under, and keeps you in constant contact with the fly. If a fish strikes at the end of the cast when your arm is vertical, sweep the rod to the side to set the hook. This helps position the fly in the corner or roof of the fish's mouth, and works well with all three of the fly patterns described here.
Use angles to your advantage with this skating method. If you cast upstream at a 45-degree angle you can add a short dead-drift at the start of your cast before the swinging and skating begins. If you cast more downstream, it keeps you out of view, and tension quickly swings the fly to the target's position below you. Incidentally, the Statue of Liberty was the technique my wife Michelle used to land her personal best trout, shown on the cover of this issue of Fly Fisherman.
"The rise of a trout is far from being the only thing that matters about fly fishing, but it is for many of us the most exciting thing." This is one of my favorite quotes from Paul Schullery in his book The Rise. The thrill of fooling a nosing fish is hard to beat, but when that doesn't work, you can still catch fish on the surface by standing out in a crowd with these underused, and thrilling big-fly alternatives.
Landon Mayer is a Colorado-based guide and author of several books including 101 Trout Tips: A Guide's Secrets, Tactics, and Techniques (Stackpole Books, Headwater Books, 2015).
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Migrants Will Cost Germany €20 Billion In 2016
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Germany will spend more than €20 billion on 'refugees' in 2016, one of the world's top trade research centres has reported.
The mass influx of migrants has already cost the government around €9.2 billion in the first half of this year, the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) has calculated.
The projected migrant bill could be even higher than €20 billion, however, as the study does not account for a scenario where the number of migrants arriving sharply increases.
The huge expenditure includes "additional staff" at the Federal Police and at the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), as well as spending on "the initial supply in lodging or local health services, and inputs such as housing rental", the report explains.
"This is a substantial sum, but given that it makes up around 1.4 per cent of the total national budget, it will be manageable," Dr. Jens Boysen-Hogrefe of the IfW claimed in a statement.
However, the migrant bill is significantly more than the federal government spends on education – the departmental budget for the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in 2016 was just €16.4 billion.
On Monday, new data from the Federal Statistics Office showed that the number of migrants claiming German welfare benefits soared by 169 per cent last year, with nearly a million cashing in at the end of 2015.
The increase in police numbers may be necessary as migrants in Germany either have committed or planned to carry out nearly 70,000 crimes in the first three months of 2016 alone, a police report revealed in June.
Furthermore, a report by the Interior Ministry released in May revealed that migrants were disproportionately represented in crime statistics and were responsible for an increase in crime in Germany overall.
Many of these figures are expected to continue to rise.
Nearly half a million people (441,899) applied for asylum for the first time in Germany last year, which was an increase of 135 per cent on 2014, according to BAMF.
Already in the first half of this year, that number has been surpassed, reaching 468,762 asylum applications.
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The supreme governing structure of PATU is National Congress, National Congress is held every five (5) years, and the main objectives of any given Congress is to report on the previous five years' work, make new resolutions for policy direction, and elect new National Executive Council. The notice of convocation shall be communicatd by the General Secretary to the REC Chairpersons in the various regions at least two months before its held.
The Special National Congress is an emergency governing structure of PATU, According to the Constitution a Special National Congress shall be convened by the President whenever the National Executive Council gathered and request one, should reason of urgency be given to the notice, the President may authorize the calling of Special National Congress at short notice, being no less than five (5) days this according to the constitution.
The National Executive Council is responsible for the overall running of the Union and for implementing the policies adopted at the Union's National Congress - which meet every five years. The National Executive Council is composed of fourteen National Executive Council's members - the President, the Vice President, the General Secretary, the vice-general secretary, the National Treasurer- and approximately 9 Additional NEC members.
The additional NEC members are nominated by Sectors within each region on the basis of one member for every certain financial amount members in the region. Elections to the positions take place at the Biennial Delegate Conference of each region. Those going forward for the election to the NEC must meet certain criteria concerning length of Union membership as laid out in PATU's Constitution.
The day-to-day direction of the Union is in the hands of the Office Bearers , National Executive Officers - the President, the Vice President, The National Treasurer and All the Admin-secretaries in the different offices and representations of the Union - who supervise the work of the Union's full-time staff in accordance with the decisions taken by the National Executive Council.
The Union officials are responsible for collective bargaining follow-up and negotiations on pay. monitoring the good functionment of the trade Union and conditions of employment of members and for building trade union density and union strength. the Union Officials it's constitued of The General Secretary and The Vice-General secretary, this according to the Constitution.


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Our modern diet has caused many of us to become deficient in certain minerals and our dental health can become adversely affected. Cavities in children and people of all ages are being linked to nutritional deficiencies.
Most of us take for granted that we are getting enough of the needed minerals in our diet. That assumes that everyone knows the importance of minerals for our health and wellbeing.
Phytic acid is a substance commonly found in most grains, nuts and beans. It has the ability to bind to minerals in your body, just like a magnet. This process removes the minerals before they get a chance to be absorbed and deposited where we need them most.
If your family's diet consists largely of grains (crackers, cereals, breads, pastas, rice, bagels, cookies, cakes) or bean salad or raw nuts and nut butters, chances are you are getting copious amounts of phytic acid in your diet and not enough minerals for your teeth and bones to grow and remain strong.
In addition to reducing intake of these food types, there are food preparation methods, such as soaking your beans and nuts overnight that can help remove some of the phytic acid before it is consumed.
Keeping the immune system strong with antimicrobials can help fight off decay and prevent infection or abscesses from setting in. Popular antimicrobials include licorice, myrrh, goldenseal and echinacea. Including garlic in your diet wherever possible is beneficial for boosting your immune system and preventing infections.
Our dental enamel is approximately 90 percent calcium phosphate.
Shepard's Purse, Clivers, Coltsfoot, Horsetail, Toadflax, Mistletoe, Dandelion, Plantain, Pimpernel and Chamomile. Include these in your diet via teas, capsules, tablets or powders.
Rickets, unexplained nervousness, muscle spasms and cramps, joint pains, osteomalacia, cataracts, insomnia and tremors.
Getting enough calcium is important, but the issue of effective uptake of calcium may have more to do with the lack of Magnesium, Vitamin D and K2. This can be obtained from the foods we eat or by supplementation to ensure that the calcium we are digesting is actually getting absorbed correctly. If any of these are lacking the body will pass much of the available calcium from the body before it can be used.
If not enough of these vitamins are being absorbed by the body, the teeth will break down and loosen.
Naturally found in the fermented Japanese dish of Natto Beans, this supplement has gained much attention recently. It is reported that anyone who is taking Vitamin D or Calcium supplementation should also be taking K2.
It is naturally found in egg yolks and some hard cheeses; however, the amount claimed to be needed in our diet is basically unattainable unless you are frequently consuming the fermented Natto Bean mixture.
K2 helps to deposit minerals such as calcium into the correct places in our bodies, such as the bones and the teeth and remove excess calcium from where we don't want it deposited, such as between the joints, where it can cause painful inflammation.
Ever important for bone, teeth, skin and hair care, you can add this mineral to your diet with horsetail tea.


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Police now investigating fatal Oshawa fire as potential arson | CBC News Loaded
Police now investigating fatal Oshawa fire as potential arson
Police are now investigating a fatal fire from earlier this week in Oshawa that killed four people as a possible case of arson.
Bodies of 2 children and 2 men found in husk of burned-out home
CBC News · Posted: Mar 24, 2021 10:50 AM ET | Last Updated: March 24, 2021
A firefighter reacts as he sits outside the ruins of a house in Oshawa, Ont. The bodies of two children and two men have been recovered from the house. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
Acting Sgt. George Tudos, spokesperson for the Durham Regional Police Service, told reporters Wednesday morning that police found evidence at the scene that could potentially point to a criminal act. He did not specify what that evidence was.
"However, we have to do a thorough investigation, preserve the scene, and … come to a conclusion after collecting all of the evidence to determine if there is any criminality involved in this investigation," Tudos said.
Police are now waiting on a warrant to examine the scene further, he added.
Officials said Tuesday that crews had found the bodies of two children at the scene of the row house fire, bringing the number of dead to four.
The bodies of two men were recovered on Monday evening.
2 children found dead in Oshawa row house fire, number of dead in blaze now 4
Tudos said Tuesday that the two children were from the same family, and the adults are not related to the kids.
He did not provide any more information about the deceased.
Five people escaped from the house after the fire broke out around 1 a.m. on Monday, officials say. The house, believed to be about 100 years old, is located on Olive Avenue, near Ritson Road South and Highway 401.
The fire was so intense that the second and third floors of the house collapsed, and so Oshawa Fire Services had to request the help of a specialized team from Toronto Fire Services to sift through the wreckage.
The cause of the fire has not yet been identified.
With files from Adam Carter
2 dead, 2 still missing after Oshawa row house fire


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Q: Having multiple controls in one WPF grid cell New to WPF and learing through tutorials online and have a couple of questions:
(1) I am trying to have multiple buttons of different widths appear side by side in one WPF grid cell. However, they seem to always stack up on each other. What am I missing out on?
(2) Is it possible to control the absolute starting left position for each button within the grid cell?
Thanks.
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Based on the answer from Salvador, this works:
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Thanks!

A: You may want to use one of the Container Controls (like a Canvas, DockPanel, StackPanel) in the grid position (Row # + Column #) and then place your controls into that.
This makes it much easier to layout more than one control in a single grid position.

A: You are not setting the VerticalAlignment or the HorizontalAlignment property, so by default they are centered.
You need to set those properties and use them in combination with the Margin property of wpf elements.
Take a look at this Introduction to WPF Layout

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President Sharon McNair
Sharon McNair began serving as the 89th President of the Las Vegas Rotary Club on July 1, 2011, but was given several opportunities to "fill in" for absentee Tom Axtell during his term. Tom decided to skip his last meeting on June 23, 2011, and allow Sharon to "practice" for her term- after all, Practice Makes Perfect! As appropriate, Sharon appeared at the podium wearing a mask of Tom Axtell just in case the members wanted to see him one last time!
THE 2011-12 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THEIR AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:
President-Elect Randy Donald- Fund Raising:
President Sharon wanted to "do something different this year" for both the Las Vegas Rotary Foundation and the Ronald McDonald House of Las Vegas. Under the chairmanship of Deb Granda, with the assistance of 32 of the club members, the FIRST Annual Valentine's Day Gala was held at the Renaissance Hotel on Feb. 11, 2012, netting approximately $20,000 which was donated to the Las Vegas Rotary Foundation (including $5,000 to the Ronald McDonald House of Las Vegas}. The honoree of the evening for her outstanding and pioneering spirit was Thalia Dondero, the first woman member of the Las Vegas Rotary Club and the first woman on the Clark County Commission. After more than a year of planning, the event was a huge success with over 230 people in attendance, a fabulous silent and live auction and a lineup of celebrity entertainment, all performing at no cost to the club.
On May 18, 2012, the 10th Annual Charity Golf Tournament was held at the Badlands Golf Club in Memory of long-time member J.A. Tiberti and honoring Past President Tom Krob for his outstanding service to our Club and Rotary. The Chair of this event was David Young who along with his committee devised an evening with "something for everyone whether golfer or not". The funds raised (approximately $12,000) were for the local Las Vegas Rotary Foundation to continue the charitable work done in the local community.
Other Fund-Raising activities included the Holiday Auction chaired by Carolyn Sparks, the Super Bowl Board supervised by the 25 Club members, and two Cigar Fellowships chaired by Past President Jim Hunt. One of the Cigar Fellowships was hosted by the Family of Rotary (chaired by Past President Karen Whisenhunt} on St. Patty's Day at the home of Tom and Jayne Krob, and featured every possible type of Irish food imaginable. Proceeds from the events went to the Las Vegas Rotary Foundation to be spent for local charitable endeavors.
James Bradshaw- Fellowship:
The first fellowship of the year was the Alpine Picnic held at Bob & Deanna Werner's home at Mt. Charleston in July 2011, and just because they love us so much, were hosts at the second picnic at theirhome on June 9, 2012. Everyone enjoyed the fellowship, and as usual, left with full tummies!
Next, James arranged with UNLV to obtain a group of football tickets and set up a UNLV tailgate party before the game on October 29,2011. Members and guests enjoyed the hot dogs and hamburgers and then all dispersed to the football game to cheer on UNLV!
One of the most fun activities of the year was the Holiday Party which was held on December 8, 2012, at the M Hotel/Casino. Chair of this event was Melanie Muldowney who arranged a spectacular event with scrumptious food, a visit from Jolly St. Nick (Bob Patten) and some of his helpers (Kari Ayers, Pat lanuzzi, Janice Lencke, Aaron Campillo, and Major Bob Lloyd). To insure everyone got in the Holiday spirit, Bob Fisher lead the attendees in Christmas songs.
Last, but not least of the Fellowships for the year, was the year-end Debunking Party of President Sharon held on June 28, 2012, at St. John's Greek Orthodox Church chaired by Past President Tom Axtell. This party proved to be a smashing success and Sharon was properly " debunked" from office with several buckets of water! The highlight of the skit was the ballerinas (Jerry Engel, James Mullikin and Bob ("A-Cup" ) Werner) who entertained us with a dance (or it attempted to be a dance)!
As one of the last duties of her Presidency, Sharon announced that the "Rotarian of the Year" was Mary Ann Avnet for her "Service Above Self' for the year 2011-12.
Then outgoing President Sharon received her "Past President's" pin and President-Elect Randy was transformed into " King Randy" and received an appropriate "large" gavel from outgoing President Sharon. Incoming President Randy then presented Ginger Anderson with her President Elect pin.
Glenn Meier- Membership:
During the year, Glenn set up several membership orientation meetings as needed, hosted by members of the Club. At the meetings, the focus was on presenting as much information as possible to acquaint the new members with the inner workings of the Club, including the 25 Club. The Orientation Manual was handed out and discussion was had regarding the Committees and their functions, the cost of the Club and the Foundation, and any questions posed by the new members was answered.
Craig Miller- Public Relations:
All the public relations for the Club were under Craig's guidance, including but not limited to: website development and updates (chaired by Richard Reed and Jeff Berg); social media (chaired by Deb Harris); members directory and history (chaired by Jim Tucker); Wheel Coordinator (chaired by Gloria Gorlin); Wheel Editor (chaired by Jim Tucker); Programs- Guest Speakers (chaired by Erika Pike Turner and Cindy Breck); Club Photographer- (chaired by Jim Jones); Meeting arrangements- 25 Club; Public Relations- (Kari Ayers, Patty lanuzzi, Mark Russell, & Deb Harris).
Ginger Anderson- Service Projects, Local Community:
This year the Santa Clothes project, which started in 1996, was continued (chaired by Tom Krob, Jim Hunt and Randy Donald). A total of 310 underprivileged children were taken to three J.C. Penney stores in Las Vegas on December 8, 2011, and, with the assistance of Rotarians and lnteractors, were allowed to spend $200 each on clothing and shoes. After shopping, the children were taken to UNLV to interact with university athletes followed by an inspirational talk, pizza lunch and cookies. At the end of the event, each child was given a basketball or football to end the already amazing day.
Taking into account the discounts given by Penney's, the Club actually purchased approximately $65,000 in clothing for the 310 children. Contributions included $18,000 donated by members of the Club, $15,500 from the Engelstad Family Foundation, $12,000 from other Rotary Clubs, $2,340 from other outside sources and various in-kind donations. The total number of volunteers made up of Club members, Interact Club members, family and friends was 189, but when you consider all the UNLV and J.C. Penney volunteers, the total is closer to 450 volunteers.
Again, on November 23, 2011, for the 57th year, the Club met with the Kiwanis Clubs to culminate the competition of the canned food drive which was staged to benefit Salvation Army and the homeless that they serve. This year as has been the case for several years, the Rotary Club donated more cans than Kiwanis (201,000 to 52,000), but the winners are really the families that receive the food. The Chairs for this event were Richard Reed and Melanie Muldowney.
In addition, the Community Grants Committee chaired by President-Elect Randy Donald had a wonderful time distributing grants to deserving local organizations totaling $18,000. Organizations included Women's Development Center, UNLV Vets, Vegas PBS, Goodies Two Shoes Foundation, Eagle Quest, Girl Scouts of SN, Foundation for Independent Living, Spread the Word Nevada, Las Vegas Rescue Mission and the Hyde Park Robotics Team.
Over eight years ago, the Wetzel Awards began after the demise of member Scotty Wetzel, a retired Air Force pilot. The awards were given to deserving Nellis Airmen to acknowledge their outstanding service. This year the number of awards was increased from 3 to five each quarter. So, this year, a total of 20 awards were presented to these dedicated servicemen. The chair of this committee was Bruce Quinn.
For numerous years, the Club has supported Bracken Elementary School, an "at risk" school, both financially and physically and was continued for this year also. However, a second elementary school was added this year, namely, Beckley Elementary, another "at risk" school. This year, in partnership with UNLV library, 100 boxes of books (over a thousand books) were donated to Beckley Elementary School and for Bracken, twenty-five books were purchased specific to the school's emergent readers program. Chair for these projects was Dr. Kathy Mahon.
Mary Ann Avnet and Matt Nelson- Youth and Vocational Service:
This year the Club sent 12 eighth grade student leaders to Teen Leadership Camp (TLC) in November 2011 (Chaired by Gwen Hall) and 16 high school juniors to Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) in March 2012 (Chaired by Cindy Breck). The Club also participated in the Four Way Speech Contest (chaired by Cindy Breck) and the Dan Stover Music Awards program (chaired by Gary Miller) and hosted Group Study Exchange teams {both incoming and outgoing) to/from northern Chile. The chair of the incoming was Past President Caty Crockett and the outgoing team leader was Mary Ann Avnet.
Under the district and club chairmanship of Karen Whisenhunt, the Club took the lead for two Open World, Rule of Law Programs with one delegation from the Ukraine in September 2011 and one from Russia in April2012. Due to the budget constraints of the State Department, only four Rotary Clubs in the U.S. were funded for this year and Las Vegas was one of them. The staff of Open World in DC stated that Las Vegas is THE best Open World Program in the U.S. We definitely agree with that!
On April 26, 2012, the Club once again honored the 50 Valedictorians from the local Southern Nevada area high schools (Chaired by Kathy Mahon) who enjoyed lunch and were presented a Fisher space pen as a remembrance of Southern Nevada. Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Dwight Jones, was the speaker.
Interact Clubs at both Advanced Technologies Academy (Chaired by Pat lanuzzi) and Del Sol High School (Chaired by Mark Russell) continued for this year. The membership at Advanced Technologies Academy broke all school records as their membership totaled 88 this year. A-Tech as they fondly call themselves, were very active during the year under the leadership of 19 year Advisor, Kim McNair-Styles, assisted by Maureen Doyle. The Club on a monthly basis cooked food for Ronald McDonald House, made sandwiches for the homeless, shopped with the underprivileged at Santa Clothes and assisted the Club on projects including the Valentine's Day Gala in February 2012.
In addition, Kideract at Bracken Elementary School {Chaired by Kathy Mahon), Mideract at Bridger Middle School {Chaired by Gwen Hall), and Rotaract (Chaired by Mary Ann Avnet) have all functioned during this year.
Mary Jane Wirges- International:
This year the International Committee under the Chairmanship of Steve Parikh participated in three international service projects, two through the matchinggrant.org site utilizing DDF and TRF and one District sponsored project.
Project 1 – The Club contributed $4,800 towards an Artesian Well Project in Saltinho, SP, Brazil. The project consisted of building an artesian well to provide water to the poor community of Saltinho. This $34,700 project will benefit the people who live in that area and have a lot of difficulties to obtain water for their needs.
Project 2 – The Club contributed $3,600 towards the Water Filtration Systems Project for eight schools in Beirut, Saida, Baalbek, and Mount-Lebanon, Lebanon. This is a $20,000 project which benefited 4800 school children.
Project 3 – The Club contributed $3,600 towards the District sponsored International project to provide wheelchairs in Mexico.
Michael Gordon- Foundation:
International Scholarships- Chaired by Karen Whisenhunt. The Club has one Ambassadorial scholar in Ghana completing her Ambassadorial Scholarship and one World Peace Scholar who left in February 2012 for study in Australia.
Race to End Polio- Contributions to the Club were $7,493 for Polio Plus and since December 1, 2007, the Club has contributed $39,203 towards PolioPlus and is the leader in the district for contributions.
Rl Foundation Annual Programs, Permanent Fund, Paul Harris and Polio Plus- chair Michael Gordon. The all time giving to the Rotary Foundation as of the end of May 2012 was $1,307,652. This year, our club contributed $39,698 as of the end of May 2012 and awarded 25 Paul Harris Fellows for the year.
Richard Jose- Special Projects:
The main project under this category was the development and submission of the awards request to District 5300 – Chair- Karen Whisenhunt.
The District awarded the Club "Outstanding" awards (the highest level) in all categories: Administration, Public Relations, Membership, Youth and Community Service, Vocational Service, International, Foundation, Website, Newsletter, Literacy
In addition, the Club received the Changemaker Award from Rotary International for making a change in the community and the world.
Another highlight of the year was the 89th Anniversary celebration in April 2012. President Sharon wanted to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of the 88 past presidents as well as the members of the Club. So, on April12th Past District Governor Tom Novotny and President-Elect Randy Donald assisted her in presenting Certificates of Appreciation to all the Past Presidents of the Las Vegas Rotary Club. The speaker for the day was none other than Federal Judge Lloyd George who talked about the history of Las Vegas.
It was obvious to President Sharon that to choose only one member as Rotarian of the Year was an impossible task since so many people work so hard for the Club. President Sharon decided to institute the "True Colors Award" which was given quarterly during the year to 4 deserving Rotarians. The 4 chosen during the year were Gloria Gorlin, Cindy Breck, Deb Granda and Jim Tucker for all their "over the top" dedication to Service Above Self. They each received a two-night stay at a local hotel, Lawry Bucks, a True Colors shirt and a framed True Colors certificate.
Last, but not least of the Fellowships for the year, was the year-end Debunking Party of President Sharon held on June 28, 2012, at St. John's Greek Orthodox Church chaired by Past President Tom Axtell. This party proved to be a smashing success and Sharon was properly "debunked" from office with several buckets of water and lots of confetti! The highlight of the skit was the ballerinas (Jerry Engel, James Mullikin and Bob ("A-Cup") Werner) who entertained us with a dance (or it was supposed to be a dance)!
As one of the last duties of her Presidency, Sharon announced that the " Rotarian of the Year" was Mary Ann Avnet for her "Service Above Self' for the year 2011-12.
Then outgoing President Sharon received her "Past President's" pin and President-Elect Randy was transformed into "King Randy" and received an appropriate "large" gavel from outgoing President Sharon. Incoming President Randy then presented Ginger Anderson with her President Elect pin.
And so, the extremely busy and rewarding 2011-12 year ended with the debunking party of the 89th President, Sharon McNair, on June 28, 2012.


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Celebrating the Day of Independence at Parliament House in Sydney
Ambassador of the State of Palestine H.E. Izzat Abdulhadi celebrated Independence Day with the Palestinian People in Sydney on the 11th of November 2015, in an event organized by the Council of Australian Palestinians (CAP) which, commemorated the late martyred President Yasser Arafat.
The event was attended by a large number of representatives from the Arab and International diplomatic corps in Canberra as well as members of Parliament and representatives of civil society including members of the Palestinian and Arab community in Australia.
During the event the Ambassador of the state of Palestine H.E Mr. Izzat Abdulhadi delivered an important speech in which he highlighted the significant achievements for the liberation of Palestine, the wise vision of the Palestinian leadership and its international strategy for the realization of a Two-State solution.
He also referred to the dire current situation and Israel's direct responsibility for the current wave of violence as a result of the long occupation and continuing violations of Palestinian religious rights and freedoms. The Palestinian Ambassador also praised the achievements of the late martyr Yasser Arafat in entrenching the Palestinian sense of identity and the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.
Labor Opposition leader Luke Foley MP delivered an important speech in which he praised the Palestinian people's struggle and everlasting sacrifice for freedom and independence. He also stressed once again the historic decision taken at the Labor Party conference on the possible recognition of a Palestinian State in the event of succeeding in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Also speaking at the ceremony, Former Australian Foreign Minister and Premier of NSW Sen. Bob Carr denounced Israel's continuous settlement policies and considered them the main obstacle to a two-State solution, acknowledging they are illegal under international law. He also noted that continued Israeli settlement would lead to a bi-national State.
Mr. Albert Jubbian, Chairman of the Council of Australian Palestinians, also gave a speech in which he highlighted Israel's continued violations of human rights, its blockade of the Gaza strip, illegal settlement expansion and ignoring the issue of return for Palestinian refugees.


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The Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival (formerly the Oakwood Real Ale and Music Festival) is an annual real ale festival that takes place in Rotherham, South Yorkshire.

The event takes place annually at the Magna Centre, Rotherham a former Steel works, it is the largest indoor beer festival taking place outside London and unlike many other festivals serves all cask ales using traditional gravity-based hand pumps.

Proceeds from the festival are used to support the work of local charities and good causes. Since the festival relocated to Magna in 2011 it has raised in excess of £150,000 for local good causes. Charities which have benefitted from the festival have included: The Rotherham Hospice, Weston Park Cancer Hospital, Bluebell Wood Children's Hospice and Safe@Last as well as a number of smaller Rotherham-based good causes.

Unlike many other beer festivals, the Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival is not organised by CAMRA, although the festival does enjoy close links with the Rotherham branch of the organisation.

Inside the festival, the Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival regularly features a selection of over 250 different varieties of Real Ale as well as 80 different types of Cider, Wine, Perry (Pear Cider) and Lager.

In 2011, the first festival hosted at the Magna Centre, was attended by 10,000 visitors, raised £35,000 for local good causes.  85,000 glasses of beer were sold at the festival in 2011, which were sold in half pint measures making the Rotherham festival one of the largest festivals in the UK based upon the volume of beer consumed.

In 2013 the festival was opened by local World Superbike Champion James Toseland. Toseland featured in the following year's festival, making a surprise guest when he performed with his band Toseland.

The festival is typically opened by local dignitaries which have included Rt Hon John Healey MP former minister for pubs as well as the mayor of Rotherham.

History
The Oakwood Real Ale and Music Festival began in 1992, initially as a one off fundraiser to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the opening of Oakwood High School. Such was the success of the festival, that the event was repeated every year, helping to raise money for the school.

The early days of the festival saw just 20 different real ales feature at the event, with many teachers and parents working behind the bars to help make the event a success. The last event to take place at Oakwood School took place in 2010 featured 220 different real ales, ciders, perries, lagers and wines.

The festival is well known for its quirky themes, which has been used to introduce different types of Real Ales into the festival. Year-on-year the selection of Real Ales has grown from the original 20, to over 250 in 2013.

Move to Magna
In 2011, largely due to growing visitor numbers and popularity of the event, the festival relocated from Oakwood School to the Magna Centre, as well as providing space for the event to continue to grow in size. Between 1992 and 2010 all proceeds for the event were donated to supporting the work of the school. Since 2010, proceeds from the event are used to support charitable causes.

Following the move to Magna, the festival has continued this charitable ethos, supporting a selection of charities within Rotherham and South Yorkshire, with attendances growing from 10,000 to over 12,000 between 2011-14.

Baa'sil the Sheep
Baa'sil the Sheep, who is featured in the festival logo is the official festival mascot. He first appeared at the festival in 2004, which chose Real Ales from "Sheep Counties" around the UK.

Baa'sil provides tasting notes about the different types of Real Ales that feature in the festival and has appeared every subsequent festival. In addition to providing tasting notes, jokes and trivia attributed to Baa'sil appear in around the festival.

Champion beers
Real Ales from Yorkshire that feature in the festival are eligible to enter the festival's Champion Beer competition, which is open to beers brewed for at least six months of the year by breweries based in Yorkshire. Organised by the Rotherham Branch of CAMRA The prize is highly sought after by brewers in the region. The contest is carried out entirely through blind tasting of eligible beers.

Theme of the festival
Each year, the festival selects a theme which ensures that visitors to the event are able to enjoy a selection of Real Ales from around the UK. Previous themes for the festival are:

 2023 - Baa t'at (Yorkshire themed festival)
 2022 - Festival for heroes
 2020 - Lambusters
 2019 - Baas, Bands and Beers
 2017 - Mines a Pint!
 2015 - Baa-Watch
 2014 - Ale to the Festival
 2013 - Baa'sil Goes West
 2012 - Baa's of Steel
 2011 - The White Rose Festival
 2010 - Great Northern Festival
 2009 - A Day at the Races
 2008 - The Legendary Festival
 2007 - The Yorkshire Championship
 2006 - The Festival of Heroes
 2005 - Back to the Baa
 2004 - The Great Baa
 2003 - London to Yorkshire
 2002 - The Yorkshire Championship
 2001 - Barr of Soaps
 2000 - Yorkshire Greater Ales
 1999 - The Magnificent Seventh
 1998 - Sporty Sixth
 1997 - Fabulous Fifth
 1996 - Fantastic Fourth
 1995 - Third Smashing Year! (First year the festival is referred to as the Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival)
 1994 - The 2nd Real Ale Festival
 1993 - Unthemed
 1992 - 40th Anniversary of Oakwood School

References

 http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Brands-News/Bumble-Beer-comes-out-top-at-Oakwood-Beer-Festival
 http://hophead.co.uk/article5.html
 http://www.yorkshire.com/whats-on/Rotherham-Real-Ale--Music-Festival-2012/1230089
 http://www.dinningtontoday.co.uk/lifestyle/columnists/rotherham-real-ale-festival-1-4303668
 http://www.southyorkshiretimes.co.uk/news/local/festival-a-real-hit-with-beer-fans-1-4330407
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/sheffield/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9411000/9411950.stm
 http://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/86726/oakwood-beer-festival-on-the-move.aspx

External links
Official Festival Website:
 http://www.magnarealale.uk
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6rn2nWxy0

Music festivals in South Yorkshire
Beer festivals in the United Kingdom
Rotherham


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Japan Travel: Odaiba
|In News, Japan Travel
|By Sara
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Odaiba, the artificial island of shopping and entertainment
The first time I saw Odaiba was thanks to the Natsuko Takahashi animated series, "Tokyo Magnitude 8.0" (東京マグニチード). In the anime, the protagonists go to a robot exhibition on the island, beautifully detailed in its reproduction. At that moment I had the idea to insert in our editorial calendar an article about this place so technological and colorful!
Odaiba (お台場) was born under the Tokugawa shogunate at the end of the Edo period in the form of 6 small artificial fortified islands. The purpose of these islands was to protect and contrast possible attacks against Tokyo by the ships of the Commodore Perry fleet.
More than 100 years later, in the early 1980s, the small islands were joined together to create a huge residential and financial district. The project suffered a major slowdown due to the outbreak of the "bubble economy" in 1991, leaving Odaiba almost completely abandoned. It wasn't until the second half of the 1990s that the large unified artificial island became one of Tokyo's most famous tourist attractions, with populated hotels, shopping malls, restaurants, shops, and the Yurikamome elevated railway line.
photo credits: wikipedia.org
Two sides of the same island: West Odaiba, East Odaiba
West Odaiba is home to large parks and shopping centers. Among the most scenic, we find the Odaiba Seaside Park which extends on the north coast and where a replica of the Statue of Liberty stands right on its beach. The first of the island's largest shopping centers are located here. It's the Decks Tokyo Beach in which you can visit Madame Tussaud's wax museum. The second shopping center is Acqua City with its two floors dedicated to catering, various shops, a multiplex cinema, a wedding chapel and the Sony Explora Science Technology Museum: a science museum that explores "light", "sound" and " entertainment. "
(For all information on the museum, you can visit the official website, in English: https://www.sonyexplorascience.jp/english/)
photo credits: anaintercontinental-tokyo.jp
Not far from Acqua City is the Fuji TV Building, one of the most bizarre buildings in Japan. From the ultra-futuristic style. This 25-story building was designed by the architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1997. Headquarters of the Fuji Television Network, making it particularly attractive is the titanium silver sphere on top of it. Thirty-two meters in diameter, inside this element there is a viewing platform open to the public that offers a complete view of Tokyo and Mount Fuji.
photo credits: gaijinpot.com
Further south lies the Diver City Tokyo Plaza, Odaiba's third-largest shopping mall designed to be the "theatrical space of the city". It is an almost mandatory destination for foreign visitors in Tokyo because it offers a wide selection of Japanese themed souvenirs in many of its shops and as many authentic Japanese restaurants.
If you think shopping malls are enough, you're wrong. And with Palette Town that Odaiba wins everything. Much more than a simple aggregation of shops, it is a real mini city. Its towering Ferris wheel, known as Daikanransha (大観覧車) can be seen all over the island thanks to its 115m of height as an undisputed sign of fun and joy. Palette Town offers numerous attractions whose focus is Venus Fort, the realm of shopping. Venus Fort was opened in 1999 and was designed to take on the features of 17th century Europe, complete with an artificial sky painted on the roof that follows the alternation of day and night as if you were really in the open air.
Just below Venus Fort is the Sun Walk, which offers a collection of shops for pet lovers. Here you can not only eat at the Dog Cafe but even rent a dog for an hour to take it for a walk. Palette Town also includes the technological showcase of Toyota Mega Web, the entertaining lounge for leisure time and one of the most popular entertainment venues for live events: the Zepp Tokyo (ゼップ東京).
photo credits: scottshaw.org, shutoko.jp
Odaiba Est is entirely dedicated to exhibitions and sports.
Of great importance is the Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo International Exhibition Center), one of the main arenas and convention centers of the nation. It is here where the fencing, wrestling and taekwondo events will be hosted during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Opened in 1996, the Tokyo International Exhibition Center stands out thanks to its iconic Conference Tower made up of four inverted pyramids. The entire Tokyo Big Sight complex has numerous restaurants, cafes, a grocery store and a sales corner dedicated to Big Sight goods.
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Next to it there's the Panasonic Center, a showroom for new products and new Panasonic technologies. On the first floor is the Atrium Exhibition where sponsorships of events and all the advertising campaigns of the electronics giant take place all over the world. Also on the same level is the Wonder Life-Box where visitors are presented with the new technologies of the future and the company's latest products. The second-floor houses RiSuPia, an interactive museum focused on hidden mathematics in nature and science. Extremely beloved is the Nintendo Game Front where all the latest Nintendo games are present with the chance to try them! Here is also the Cafe E-Feel for a gourmet break thanks to its wide range of coffees, desserts and light meals.
photo credits: expology.com
In this part of the neighborhood, there is also the Tennis – no – Mori Park, a huge center dedicated to the game of tennis with 48 courts. Also present was the Ariake Coliseum stadium, an indoor sports arena in the Ariake Tennis Forest Park which can hold up to 10,000 people.
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Reaching Odaiba
Reaching Odaiba from Tokyo is easy! You can opt for the boat thanks to the Tokyo Water Bus or the Tokyo Cruise. Alternatively, you can take a taxi or just hop on the Yurikamome train, the TWR Rinkai Line or the Japan Railways. However, if you love walking, then don't think twice: the Rainbow Bridge is for you! An 800-meter long bridge that is not opened at night and in case of bad weather or festive events.
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Do you think this will be enough to visit Odaiba? There are really many inputs. Like all the rest of Japan, every corner takes on an enormous charm that increases from time to time discovering the complex details that have made it.
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Follow the road through the wooded narrows, unlock the hidden door, unlock yet another to a secluded oasis. The rose gardens, manicured lawn, chandeliered ramada, and grand portal usher you to this exquisite home. Bedrooms line the barrel-ceiling hall with Santa Fe architectural detail at every angle. The enchanting ambiance is set by shuttered windows, cozy fireplaces, country kitchen and charming breakfast nook opening to a walled garden. Irresistible privacy just 20 steps from Canyon Road.
COMPLIMENTARY: Aqui Santa Fe welcomes you with a New Mexico breakfast basket, Aqui-water, and the "Silent Concierge" your Aqui-guide to Santa Fe.
LIVING AREA: Air Conditioned. Live the gracious flow of rooms from front to back with comfortable living areas extended by patios. Three bedrooms and baths extend the hallway from the entrance back to the living room, dining area, kitchen, breakfast with access to the enclosed patio. Apx. 2450 Sq. Ft.
LUXURY BEDROOMS: One king bedrooms with office enclave, twin bedroom, full-size murphy bedroom. Have a soothing night's sleep with custom Pratesi Italian linens, lofty duvets, robes, feather-weight pillows, and premium mattresses.
LUXURY BATHS: Two ensuite baths with shower/bathtub, one with shower/bathtub. powder room, tub, Eco Touch towels, Etro designer toiletries, hair dryers, and magnifying mirrors.
KITCHEN: A new well-equipped kitchen offers a gas range, Subzero refrigerator with ice maker, Keurig and Mr. Coffee makers, microwave, blender, All-Clad cookware and utensils, pantry items, creamer, and sweeteners. Service for 8: dishware, glassware, and flatware. Washer/dryer, ironing board, and iron.
ENTERTAINMENT: TVs in all bedrooms plus living and breakfast rooms.
EXTERIOR: The most unusual and beautiful oasis in town with rose garden, chandeliered ramada, entrance portal with gas and pizza grills, gas fire pit. A more sheltered patio off the living room offers seating for 4 and another gas fire pit.
LOCATION: being on Canyon Road, it is an easy, the Compound, Geronimo, El Farol, and The Tea House are just up the street. About a half mile to the Plaza for restaurants-shopping-galleries.


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LEGO Life of George combines creative LEGO building with app games for your smart phone. This unique combination of physical building and digital games is part of an emerging new toy category called App Toys.
Life of George is a visionary example of LEGO's mission to inspire the builders of tomorrow through inventing the future of play. The bricks included in the set are the good old LEGO bricks, which have not changed for the past 50 years but continue to remain relevant to kids in this new combination with the latest smartphone technology
The launch of LEGO Life of George have had impact at three levels: Internally at LEGO, in the toy industry and most importantly to the kids.
FastCompany called Life of George: A Brilliant Mix Of Physical And Digital Play . This cleverly designed iPhone app will trickle LEGO Fans from Eight to 80.
For LEGO this Life of George has now paved the way into the App Toy category. The significance of this emerging category is still to be defined but regardless if App Toys are just a hype or actually a new toy category Life of George has shown that the 50 year old plastic bricks can continue to inspire kids when combining it with new technology.
The smart phone integration has proven to be a strong attractor for the older kids that typically would have left LEGO play already. However, we have seen that the play promise appeals broadly across age and gender.
Central in the development process of Life of George has been the creative building process. With just 144 basic LEGO bricks available to build from it was necessary to develop a completely new building style. With inspiration in pixel art and 80's video game graphics the design team created a new style and expression that is able to hold a seemingly endless amount of a models. In addition to the 250+ models supplied by the LEGO designers the fan community continues to build on a much larger pool of user created models that everyone can play with. This platform for users to create and share their own models continues to push the development of the game in new directions.


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Masset responds to rising rate of break-ins
By Alex Rinfret-Dozens of Masset residents have volunteered to form a "citizens on patrol" group following a public meeting Thursday to talk about the skyrocketing rate of break and enters.
More than 100 people packed the community hall for the meeting, and many spoke about how their lives have been affected by the surge of break-ins and attempted break-ins.
Masset is no longer a community where people can leave their homes unlocked while they're out getting groceries, or park their car and leave the keys in the ignition, Sgt. Jim Vardy said.
Since the beginning of the year, there have been 53 break-ins and attempted break-ins, Sgt. Vardy said – including two that very afternoon. That compares to a total of 63 reported break-ins and attempts during all of last year.
Of this year's break-ins, 31 have been to homes in Masset, 8 to businesses in Masset, 7 to homes in Old Massett, 4 to other structures (including a fishing lodge in Haden Harbour) and 1 in Port Clements.
Mayor Barry Pages had invited provincial court judge Agnes Krantz to the meeting, but she wasn't able to attend due to short notice. However, a representative from the crown counsel's office in Prince Rupert, Claire Ducluzeau did fly over to Masset to be there for the meeting.
Residents raised several concerns, including the way suspects are routinely released while awaiting their trial and often end up committing more break-ins, the length of sentences, and the use of drugs and alcohol in the community.
Sgt. Vardy suggested that residents form a "citizens on patrol" group which could go out on foot or in vehicles and be an extra set of eyes and ears for police in the community. The police did put on extra patrols themselves and worked with volunteers from the Masset fire department the first two weekends in March. There were no break-ins during that time.
Many residents put their names forward at the end of the meeting. Other solutions discussed by the community include
• posting the names and/or photos of people who have been charged and released with conditions on MHTV, along with a list of their conditions.
• making sure no one in the community buys stolen goods
• keeping homes and vehicles locked up, with valuables out of sight
• having ordinary citizens, especially elders, attend court regularly to see what goes on there
• to speak out against drug dealing
• to seek support programs for community members who have fetal alcohol syndrome or drug addictions.
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Let me be clear about something right off the bat; I hate the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
No, I don't hate it simply because I hate remakes or because I'm so loyal to the original films. True, I do have a deep love for the Elm Street movies, but I'm not one of these fans who blindly hates all remakes. Some are good and some are bad; the same as original horror movies.
Unfortunately, Elm Street 2010 is one of those bad remakes. Though Platinum Dunes had previously hit home runs with their Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th reboots, they dropped the ball in a big way when it came time to give Freddy Krueger a modern day makeover, to the point that it's hard to use any word other than 'disastrous' to describe their Elm Street effort.
So why then am I making a post about things I like about a movie I hate? Well, I recently found myself reading one of those self help blog articles that one of my friends linked to on Facebook, and it mentioned finding the good in all aspects of life – even the things you absolutely hate, or that make you completely miserable.
The first thing that came to mind was the Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
So in an effort to get myself on a better path in life, and overcome some of my hatred and negativity, here are five things that I actually didn't totally hate about the film!
For such a piss poor effort, the Elm Street remake admittedly opens up on a pretty solid note. After a suitably creepy opening credits sequence, which evokes the feeling of the original movies, we're treated to a 10 minute scene that effectively introduces all the characters, deals out a surprising death scene and even takes place in a setting that's familiar to fans of the franchise; the Springwood diner.
In 2009 Platinum Dunes kicked off their Friday the 13th remake in a similar fashion, with a pre-title scene that managed to kinda sorta be better than anything else that came after it. Unfortunately, though Friday the 13th was still a good movie for the rest of its run-time, Elm Street totally peaks in those opening moments.
Jackie Earle Haley is a terrific actor, and I was so excited when I heard he had been cast in the role of Freddy Krueger. Just a few years prior, he was nominated for an Oscar for playing a creepy child molester in Little Children, a role that he totally nailed. If anyone could give Robert Englund a run for his money it'd be Haley, I figured.
While Haley was perfectly cast in the role of a pre-burn Fred Krueger, it unfortunately turned out that he wasn't exactly the right choice for a post-burn Freddy Krueger. Again, Haley is a great actor, and I don't blame the failure of the movie on him, in any way, but he just wasn't the right guy for the job. I almost wish that he had only played Fred Krueger, and they brought in another actor for the Freddy portions of the film. It takes a special kind of person to pull off both, the way that Englund was impressively able to do.
Don't even get me started on the terrible makeup, which was again not Haley's fault.
Though I wish they had delved way more into the backstory of Freddy, and really given Haley a chance to shine, I thought the flashback scene of the Springwood parents getting their revenge on Freddy was incredibly well done. In fact, I'd have to say that it's the most visually pleasing depiction of his revenge-fueled murder that we've yet seen.
That shot where Freddy, surrounded by flames, peels off his coat to reveal the iconic red and green striped sweater was absolutely awesome, and was perhaps the only moment in the movie where I smiled ear to ear and got fanboy goosebumps.
The most creative thing the movie did was cast a shadow of doubt over Freddy's past, suggesting that perhaps he never molested the Springwood children, and had been wrongly murdered for crimes he didn't commit. This idea is just about the only thing original and different that was brought to the table for the movie, which is otherwise full of lifeless recreations of moments from the original film.
Unfortunately, the ball was even dropped in this department. The question of whether or not Freddy is innocent lasts only about 15 minutes, before the idea is totally shot down, and it's confirmed that he did indeed molest the kids. Would've really brought some new layers of mythos to the table if we found out he was actually innocent, and I for one would've loved to have seen them take the story in a new direction like that.
At the very least, they should've kept us, as an audience, pondering those questions for longer than a mere 15 minutes.
The other mildly interesting thing they brought to the table was the idea of 'micro-naps,' which is a real phenomenon (thanks, Wikipedia). In the movie, they explain that if you stay awake for long periods of time, you will experience these involuntary flashes of naps, which allows for the characters to slip in and out of Freddy's dream world, at the drop of a fedora.
It's a cool idea, but they only really play with it in one scene (in the pharmacy), and it's a pretty effective one. I only wish that they had more fun with the idea, rather than confining it to one scene.
Ultimately, despite these five things, it was a total lack of creativity and a string of bad choices that resulted in the failure of the movie. They really had the chance to expand the Elm Street universe, and bring something fresh, exciting and new to the table, but they instead opted for a dull and quite frankly boring rehashing of things we had already seen in the past.
It has its moments, which are all too brief, but the movie just plain blows chunks, no matter how you slice it.
I can only hope that someone comes along and tries to reboot the franchise again, because Freddy damn sure deserves another chance.


We were delighted to be filmed by BBC News: East of England last week. The BBC team was making a feature about this summer's dry conditions and exploring the effects it's been having in the region. We are very pleased to confirm that despite the hot spells, we are extremely happy with our crop this year and will have plenty of pumpkins ready for our opening in October.
It's always an exciting part of the pumpkin growing process when the pumpkin plants and vines start to bloom with flowers.
New for 2017: choose from pumpkin picking direct from the vine or from the pre-picked sea of pumpkins. This October will offer the biggest patch of pumpkins ever seen at Undley Pumpkin Patch.


Sales of new homes hit their highest rate since 2008 in April, according to the Commerce Department's U.S. Census Bureau.
April sales increased 16.6 percent over March figures, which correlates to a seasonally adjusted rate of 619,000 home sales projected for the year.
The median price of those new homes was $321,000, the highest median price ever recorded. That's up 9.7 percent from sales one year ago. The median price reflects the number at which half of the homes sold at a higher price and half were lower.
While the sales point to improving employment rates and continued low interest mortgages, the 619,000 homes expected to sell this year lags behind the decade from 1990 to 2000, when Americans bought an average of 716,000 homes per year. New home sales peaked in 2005, with 1.3 million sales. The market began crashing in 2006 and by 2011 was selling just 300,000 homes per month. In 2015, Americans bought 503,000 new homes.
New home builders were surprised at the figures released this week but are buoyed that the spring sales are a harbinger of the industry's best year in a decade.
Tuesday's report showed that low housing inventories are holding back the overall market and have contributed to prices rising faster than wages for most would-be home owners. Analysts say it would take 4.7 months to sell the 243,000 new homes now on the market if the current pace holds up. In March, new home inventories were expected to sell in 5.5 months.
Inventory numbers in new homes are joined by low inventory numbers of existing homes, putting even more of a squeeze on first-time home buyers, and driving up prices.
New home sales are important to the overall economy because they create construction jobs as well as demand for building materials, such as lumber, bricks, cabinetry, bathroom fixtures and appliances. Construction expenses and commissions are used to calculate the country's gross domestic product.
The news boosted the stocks of several publicly traded builders. Toll Brothers saw its stock jump 8.71 percent, KB Homes was up 7.46 percent, and Beazer saw a 9.17 percent increase.
Economists quietly worried that the April surge may be limited because of the inventory shortage and reluctance by builders to ramp up to pre-recession building levels. Such market pressure could result in even higher prices that would cause the number of sales to drop.
Regionally, new single-family homes sales increased 15.8 percent in the South to the highest level since December 2007. Sales soared 52.8 percent in the Northeast to their highest level since October 2007. Sales in the volatile West climbed 18.8 percent after dropping 15.2 percent in March. The only part of the country to see a decrease in new single-family homes sales was the Midwest, which fell 4.8 percent.


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Rosie Perez was 'pissed off' at Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes after Oscars appearance
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Rosie Perez had a grievance she wanted to get off her chest during "The Daily Show With Trevor Noah," Thursday night.
Rosie Perez had a grievance she wanted to get off her chest Thursday during The Daily Show With Trevor Noah. Apparently her White Men Can't Jumpreunion with co-stars Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson at the Oscars didn't go as she had hoped.
"You were one of my favorite moments of the Oscars, that scene of the reunion of the cast of White Men Can't Jump, that was cool to see on stage." host Trevor Noah said.
"I was pissed off at them," Perez replied. " Because I just said to them, 'I have a train, just pick it up … fluff it, let it go and let me walk out.' They said, 'OK.' And then I see on the playback they were holding it the whole time."
Rosie Perez arrives on the red carpet outside the Dolby Theater for the 94th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. (Photo: P. Lehman/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Wesley Snipes, Rosie Perez and Woody Harrelson onstage at the 94th Oscars. (Photo: ABC via Getty Images)
While Perez's train looked stunning on the red carpet, she argued it looked less stunning being carried behind her to the podium, as well as when she walked back offstage. As for why they did it, Perez has a few ideas.
"They were high off their asses." Perez explained.
"I thought that was a joke, no?" asked Noah.
"No!" she insisted.
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