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National average home price in March$548,517, up 8.2% from same period last year

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OTTAWA - According to statistics released by The Canadian RealEstate Association (Crea), national home sales were up on a month-over-month basis in March 2017. Home sales over Canadian MLS®Systems edged up 1.1% in March 2017, surpassing the previousmonthly record set in April 2016 by one-quar ter of a percent. Actual(not seasonally adjusted) activity in March was up 6.6% year-over-year, with gains in close to 75% of all local markets.Sales in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) posted the biggest increase,which offset a decline in the number of homes changing hands inGreater Vancouver. The number of newly listed homes rose 2.5% inMarch 2017, led by gains in the GTA, Calgary, Edmonton and theLower Mainland of British Columbia. With new listings having climbedby more than sales, the national sales-to-new listings ratio eased to

67.4% in March compared to 68.3% in February. The Aggregate Com-posite MLS® HPI rose by 18.6% y-o-y in March 2017. Price gainsaccelerated for all benchmark housing categories tracked by the in-dex. Prices for two-storey single family homes posted the strongest year-over-year gains (+21%), followed closely by townhouse/row units (+17.9%),one-storey single family homes (16.6%) and apartment units (16.3%). While bench-mark home prices were up from year-ago levels in 11 of 13 housing marketstracked by the MLS® HPI, price trends continued to vary widely by location. Theactual (not seasonally adjusted) national average price for homes sold in March2017 was $548,517, up 8.2% from where it stood one year earlier.The national average price continues to be pulled upward by salesactivity in Greater Vancouver and Greater Toronto, which remain twoof Canada's tightest, most active and expensive housing markets.

NEW YORK - INFINITI has unveiled the QX80 Monograph, a new de-sign study exploring upscale luxury and signaling INFINITI's intentionto fur ther develop its standing in the large SUV segment.The QX80 Monograph combines luxury with a commanding presence,and demonstrates the high levels of space and utility for which theQX80 production car is renowned. It illustrates how the design ofINFINITI's large SUV could evolve in future.Originating at INFINITI's design studio in Atsugi, Japan, and unveiledfor the first time in New York, the QX80 Monograph is the ultimateexpression of futuristic luxury SUV design. The QX80 Monographhints at a forward-looking new design for INFINITI's flagship largeSUV. The concept applies the brand's latest design language in asculptural and ar tistic way, incorporating a mix of geometric andorganic shapes to combine power with elegance, creating a com-manding and sophisticated presence.

RESTRICTING TRANS FATS CUTSHEART ATTACK RISKS: STUDYNEW YORK, (IANS) Hospitalisation for hear t attacks and strokesis less common among people living in areas that restrict transfats in foods compared to residents in areas without restric-tions, new research has found. "Our study highlights the powerof public policy to impact the cardiovascular health of a population," saidlead author Eric Brandt from Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Con-necticut, US. Trans fatty acids, or trans fats, are commonly found in friedfoods, chips, crackers and baked goods. Eating even minimal amounts islinked to a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of deathworldwide. Some communities in the US - most notably New York City -have eliminated the use of trans fats in restaurants and eateries in recentyears. To study the impact of restricting trans fats, researchers comparedoutcomes for people living in New York counties with and without therestrictions. Using data from the state department of health and censusestimates between 2002 and 2013, the researchers focused on hospitaladmissions for heart attack and stroke. They found that three or more yearsafter the restrictions were implemented, people living in areas with the banshad significantly fewer hospitalizations for heart attack and stroke whencompared to similar urban areas where no limits existed.

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TORONTO - Dancing Damsels Inc., a non-profit multi-cultural organization for ar ts promotions and womenempowerment, is organizing a greet and treat par ty to celebrate Mother's Day with dinner and dance onSunday, May 6 at Payal Banquet Hall (3410, Semenyk Cr t, Mississauga). This event will star t at 7pm andscheduled to go up to 10 pm with multi-cultural enter tainments, games, dinner, dance and more.Dancing Damsels is conducting a yearly photo contest as a par t of the Mother's Day celebrations. Thetheme of the photo contest for this year will be "Wow! Mom". The entry deadline will be 25t April 2017. Youcan send a recent photo with your kid (if you are a mom), or a photo with your mom) if you are a son /daughter), or send your wife's photo with your kids (if you are a spouse)….if you feel that people will say"wow!" after seeing that photo.Others contests are:* CREATIVITY CONTEST (FOR KIDS) Kids aged below 12 can create Mother's Day Greeting Cardsfor their Moms and submit for the contest to win prizes!* WRITE TO WIN CONTEST (FOR ALL AGES)All are encouraged to write Essays and Poems - aboutyour Bold & Beautiful Mom and send to us to win prizes!* SUPER MOM CONTEST If you are a mom having more than 4 children you can enter this contest.If you know anyone having more than 4 children, you can nominate them with their consent!* GRAND MOM CONTEST Moms having children above 50 years old can apply for the GRANDMOM 2017. The oldest Mom will be selected for this Award.The kick-off of the DD Dance Festival 2017 will also be held in the presence of esteemed guests, sponsorsand suppor ting organizers. Tickets for the Mother's day celebrations are available online to purchase fromtheir website: www.ddshows.com. Tickets rates are: Adults: $30, Kids (6-12): $20, and children under 5are free. If you take a table of 10, you will get a discounted rate of $25 per person.


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High air pollution may impact women's breast densityNEW YORK, (IANS) Women who live in areas with a high level of airpollution may be at increased risk of developing dense breasts - a well-established risk factor for breast cancer, a study of nearly 280,000 USwomen said. The study, published in the journal Breast Cancer Research,revealed that for every one unit increase in fine particle concentration(PM2.5), a woman's chance of having dense breasts was increased byfour per cent. Women with dense breasts were around 20 per cent morelikely to have been exposed to higher concentrations of PM2.5. Con-versely, women with less dense, or breasts with more fatty tissue, were12 per cent less likely to have been exposed to high concentrations ofPM2.5. "Our findings suggest that previously reported geographic varia-tion in breast density could, in part, be explained by different air pollutionpatterns in urban and rural areas," said Lusine Yaghjyan, led author from

the University of Florida, US. Chemical constituents of PM2.5 air pollutionare known to include pollutants that have endocrine disrupting proper-ties. These pollutants could potentially influence breast density by inter-fering with growth of cells in the breast and increasing the relative amountof fibroglandular tissue, the researchers said. On the other hand, theresearchers found that every one unit increase in ozone concentrationwas associated with a three per cent lower chance of having densebreasts. "We found a positive association between fine particle concen-tration exposure and breast density but an inverse association betweenozone exposure and breast density," Yaghjyan explained. "This is an in-triguing result that warrants further investigation to unpick any possiblebiological mechanism that might cause ozone exposure to reduce awoman's chance of having dense breasts," he said.

Big women at greater risk ofirregular heartbeatLONDON, (IANS) Big women - taller, heavier females with agreater body surface area - have a nearly threefold greaterrisk of atrial fibrillation or irregular hear tbeat than smallwomen, says a 30-year study involving 1.5 million women.Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disorder,with a 20 per cent lifetime risk. It occurs most often in peopleover 60 years of age and increases the risk of stroke andhear t failure."We found that bigger women have a greater risk of atrialfibrillation," said study author Annika Rosengren, Professorat the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Swe-den. "There was a stepwise elevation in risk with increasingbody size. The group with the highest body surface area hadnearly three times the risk as those with the lowest bodysurface area," Rosengren said. Body surface area (BSA) isinfluenced by both height and weight.Women were divided into four groups according to BSA. Com-pared to women with the lowest BSA, those with the highestBSA were 9 cm taller, 28 kg heavier, and had a higher bodymass index (BMI: 21 versus 28 kg/m2). Body surface areawas calculated by a standard formula based on weight andheight. During a maximum follow up of 33.6 years, 7,001 womenwere hospitalised with atrial fibrillation at an average age of 49 years.Compared to women in the lowest BSA quartile, those in the second,third, and fourth (highest) quartiles had a 1.16, 1.55 and 2.61 timesincreased risk of atrial fibrillation, respectively, according tothe study presented at EuroPrevent 2017, annual congress ofthe European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC),being held at Malaga, Spain from April 6-8. "Atrial fibrillationis the result of obesity-related metabolic changes but there isalso a second cause," Rosengren said.



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Your baby's love for superheroes may be innateAyushmann Khurrana and Parineeti Chopra during the song launch of song Ye Jawaani Teri from their upcoming movie, Meri Pyaari Bindu.

TOKYO, (IANS) Ever wondered why babies love and adore superheroes? Itmay be because they are born with a sense of justice - a concept por trayedthrough the heroic acts of the characters, researchers say. The findingsshowed that infants, as young as six months old, who can barely talk, arecapable of recognising the heroic acts of justice and thus find themselvesdrawn to figures who protect the weak.This also explains why kids and adults alike have a never-ending loveaffair with superhero stories in popular culture, the researchers said. "Six-month-old infants are still in an early developmental stage and most willnot yet be able to talk. Never theless they can already understand thepower dynamics between different characters, suggesting that recognisingheroism is perhaps an innate ability," said David Butler from Kyoto Univer-sity in Japan.For the study, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, the teamconducted a series of experiments where infants were shown animationsof one geometric character chasing and bumping into another, as a thirdcharacter watches from a distance. In one version, this third party charac-ter intervenes, and in another, it escapes in another direction.When the infants were then shown real life replicas of these interveningand non-intervening characters, they were more likely to choose the inter-vener, the researchers said. "In human society, selflessly protecting thepowerless is considered an act of heroic justice," added Yasuhiro Kanakogifrom the Kyoto University. However, understanding these may be complexas one has to first grasp the power relationship between the actors, thenunderstand that the hero's actions are favourable for the victim but not forthe villain, and finally, that the hero acted deliberately, Kanakogi said.

Canines can adopt humansperspective to find foodLONDON, (IANS) Dogs - known as the man's best friend - arealso capable of adopting human perspective to correctly in-terpret cues and find food that they cannot see themselves,research has revealed. The findings showed that by adoptingthe position of a human or seeing things from their owner'spoint of view and following their gaze, dogs can identify whethera human has an eye on a food source and, therefore, knowwhere the food has been hidden."The ability to interpret our behaviour and anticipate our in-tentions, which has obviously developed through a combina-tion of domestication and individual experience, seems tohave suppor ted the ability to adopt our perspective," said ledinvestigator Ludwig Huber from the University of VeterinaryMedicine Vienna. Within the first four or five years of lifehuman beings develop the ability to understand and interpretmental states such as emotions, needs and intentions of theirfellow-being and react accordingly, while it is usually deniedin animals. In the study, published in the journal AnimalCognition, researchers developed a new 'Guesser lookingaway' test, which gave clear evidence of dogs being ableto adopt human perspective and take advantage of it. Inthe experiment, a person in the middle hides the food andthe potential informants were kneeing left and right of thishider. "To get the food, the dogs have to understand who knowsthe hiding place (Knower) and who does not and can, there-fore, only guess (Guesser).

New type of cells where HIVcan persist identifiedNEW YORK, (IANS) Researchers have identified a new typeof cells in the body where HIV persists despite treatment,revealing a novel target for developing therapeutic interven-tion. HIV cure research to date has focused on clearing thevirus from T cells, a type of white blood cell that is an essen-tial part of the immune system. The new research, publishedin the journal Nature Medicine, showed that the virus canpersist in HIV-infected macrophages. Macrophages are large whiteblood cells found in tissues throughout the body including the liver, lung,bone marrow and brain. "These results are paradigm changing becausethey demonstrate that cells other than T cells can serve as a reservoir forHIV," said lead author Jenna Honeycutt from University of North CarolinaSchool of Medicine in the US. "The fact that HIV-infected macrophagescan persist means that any possible therapeutic intervention to eradicateHIV might have to target two very different types of cells," Honeycutt said.Macrophages are myeloid lineage cells that have been implicated in HIVpathogenesis and in the trafficking of virus into the brain. For theexperiment, the researchers used a humanised myeloid-only mouse(MoM) model devoid of T cells. "This is the first report demonstrating thattissue macrophages can be infected and that they respond to antiretroviraltherapy," Honeycutt said.


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DRESS LIKE CELEBRITIES BUT FIRSTKNOW YOUR BODY: CELEBRITY STYLISTNEW DELHI, (IANS) Bollywood celebrity stylist Tanya Ghavri, whohas designed for the likes of Sonam Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan,Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kai?f and is currently working on the film"Judwa 2", says that it's flattering to see young girls taking fashioninspiration from film stars but it is also impor tant for them to under-stand their body type and nature of event."Aping a Bollywood celebrity has been going on for years now. This issomething that has gone down the eras for many many years and Ireally think of it as flattering as oppose to anything negative," Tanyatold IANS in an email interview. "It's nice to look at celebrities andwant to dress like them but keep in mind your body type and thenature of your event because a celebrity attends a lot of red carpetswhich people don't in real life so much so just impor tant to keep thatin mind," she added.She credits Sonam Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Khan for pushing herto think outside of the sar torial box, and come up with some of thebest red carpet looks. Tanya also feels that "Kareena in India andFreida Pinto internationally always get some extra attention."My collaboration with these two actors has been really exciting forme and has created some chatter, also I never worry about worstdressed lists everyone today has an opinion the one that matters the

most is mine and my team and the actors , although I have never hadan issue with constructive criticism same with my actors," she said.And now she hopes to do a fashion line someday."I am hoping that I do a fashion line someday when I'm inspired to doone. I'm still finding that space…" she said. She will be in Capital toto launch her exhibition - The Dhoom Dhaam Wedding - Holiday Trunk.This trunk show will features designers from across cities and will becurated keeping the must have Holiday essentials in mind. "The holiday trunk2017 is everything you would need this summer , so for all your essentials and lotsof fun be at The Grand on April 22 and shop away and get some amaz-ing holiday dressing tips from me," she said.

ENJOY BENEFITS OF PUDINANEW DELHI, (IANS) Pudina (mint leaves) aids in diges-tion, improves oral health, treats cold and more, sayexper ts. JLN Sastry, Head of Healthcare Research, DaburResearch and Development, and Parameshwar Arora,Senior Ayurveda Consultant, Sir Gangaram Hospital, Delhihave shared a list of benefits you can get from pudina:* Mint leaves are loaded with anti-oxidants andphytonutrients which provide relief to the stomachmuscles and help in digestion. It soothes the stomachinstantly and works wonders when it comes to treatingtummy troubles. For example, pudina chutney that isserved with samosa is not only just to enhance ourtaste buds but for better digestion of the junk food.* The herb is a naturally soothing substance, so it canalleviate the inflammation and temperature rise that isoften associated with headaches and migraines.* Improving the health of a person's mouth is a well-known benefit of mint. Since it has germicidal qualitiesand quickly freshens breath, it adds to oral health byinhibiting harmful bacterial growth inside the mouthand by cleaning the tongue and teeth.* Pudina can become your go-to ingredient to treatcough and cold.* The anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial proper tieswork wonders for acne-prone skin. Also, when appliedtopically, mint has the effect of calming and cooling theskin affected by insect bites, a rash or other reactions.* Pudina is one of those herbs which not only hasgeneral benefits but also has therapeutic values. Ifpeople have any kind of digestion problem like gasformation, indigestion, vomiting and diarrhoea, pudinacan be used effectively in different formats.* In any person if there's a tendency of bloating,abdomen pains, nausea or vomiting on empty stomachor after food, consuming pudina can be an effectiveremedy. For this purpose, pudina leaves can beconsumed after being soaked in water or can be used inthe form of arq (made by distillation process) or in theform of juice from leaves.



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