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Instructional Groovy Goddess Bellydance Workshop (Toronto, ON ...

Description:

DivaGirl Licensee, Chemagne Martin creator of?The Groovy Goddess Method?- will be teaching this new Instructional Workshop!

Become a Groovy Goddess Instructor and learn to teach the sexy art of Belly Dance in a safe and effective way, while unleashing and discovering your inner Groovy Goddess!

The Groovy Goddess method offers a fun, modern, and healthy approach to traditional Belly Dance instruction that is inspired by the foundations of yoga, Pilates, and Belly Dance technique.

This certification workshop is designed to teach dancers, fitness experts, dance and movement professionals on how to instruct Belly Dance within their own dance, health and fitness communities and institutions.

Want to know more about the workshop? Click?HERE?to find out more.

Details:
Date:?Sunday, January 20th, 2013
Time:?2-5PM
Location:?Chemagne Dance Studio ? 899 Bloor Street West, Toronto ON
Cost:?$99

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Google Updates Its iPhone Search App - Business Insider

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Google just released a new version of its search app for iPhones and iPads today.

Why offer an app when Google is baked into Apple's Safari Web browser? Because search on mobile devices isn't just about the Web?and it's definitely not about typing out long search queries.

Apple recognized that when it bought Siri and integrated into the iPhone?and now Google wants to make sure it's not left out.

Google's refreshed app looks a lot like its built-in voice search app on Android phones, Google Now.

Users of the new Google search app are encourage to find what they're looking for by speaking their query out loud. Overall, the voice recognition works well and provided accurate results, but most important of all, it's quick.

Many iPhone users complain that Siri is slow.

Besides being able to answer basic questions like "What's the weather," Google users can also ask the app more advanced questions: Is my flight on time? Can you play a trailer of a new movie?

Of course, the answers are full of links to Google services like YouTube, and also look at users' stored documents and calendar events.

The whole point is to keep users from wandering away from Google's online universe.

The Google Search app is free and available for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Here's a video of the app in action:

Don't Miss:?Google Unveils A New Way To Compose In Gmail >

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-updates-its-iphone-search-app-2012-10

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Guard evacuating people, taking in food to NJ city

A firehouse is surrounded by floodwaters in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

A firehouse is surrounded by floodwaters in the wake of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, in Hoboken, N.J. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

A parking lot full of yellow cabs is flooded as a result of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

A resident walks through flood water and past a stalled ambulance in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in Hoboken, NJ. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

A resident is carried through floodwaters in Hoboken, N.J. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 after superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey Monday evening. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) ? New Jersey National Guard trucks are delivering ready-to-eat meals and evacuating the city of Hoboken.

About half the city remains flooded two days after superstorm Sandy struck. Thousands are still holed up in their brownstones, condos, and other housing.

The mile-square city is across the Hudson River from New York.

The mayor's spokesman, Juan Melli, said Wednesday many people are now asking to be evacuated.

Payloaders have been used to get people out for medical emergencies but Melli says the streets are so narrow they can get stuck.

Melli says the city is asking people with generators and boats to bring them to city hall, which is on dry ground and powered by a backup generator.

Mayor Dawn Zimmer on Sunday ordered an evacuation of basement and street-level units.

Associated Press

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Superstorm Sandy?s wrath caught on video

Want a glimpse of the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy? Check out the early video reports that have made their way to the Internet.

In one video, a user filming a darkened New York City skyline captures an apparent electrical transformer exploding on video. What makes the video even more compelling is her panicked reaction to the explosion.

"What's going on? I don't know what's going on," she says. "What the hell is this?"

Meantime, this raw footage shows raging water pouring into the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in New York City.

And then in this video, as TV news reporter Matt Belanger tells of the coming storm, a waves pour over homes in Ocean City, N.J., and flood a city street.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/superstorm-sandy-wrath-caught-video-123034167.html

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Study: More women getting unnecessary breast cancer treatments ...

Most women know that at a certain age they need to start getting mammograms. But a new report says more women are getting unnecessary treatment than are being saved.

Tiffany Reed loves spending time with her young granddaughter. But just eight years ago she wasn?t sure she?d live to see the day.

?I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer which was very, very aggressive,? Reed said.

Reed was only 36-years-old when her doctor recommended a mammogram.

?I actually wasn?t going to go because I thought I was too young to get breast cancer,? she said.

After additional tests, she got the call no one wants to get.

?They said, ?We have good news, and we have bad news. We?ll give you the bad news first; the bad news is that you have breast cancer. The good news is this mammogram saved your life?.?

But a new review out of Britain says for every woman like Reed who is saved, about three other women are over-diagnosed, being treated for breast cancers which may never kill them.

?The problem that we face with a study like this is determining which patients have cancers that could potentially take their lives, and which don?t,? said Dr. Colleen Murphy, a breast surgical oncologist at Porter Adventist Hospital. ?And we don?t have a way to determine that information as of yet.?

So every cancer is treated as if it could take the patient?s life. Murphy believes over-treating is better than not treating at all, and mammograms are key.

?Screening mammography actually does save lives,? she said. ?There?s a 20 percent risk reduction in dying from breast cancer if you?re undergoing screening mammography than if you?re not.?

That?s something Tiffany Reed knows firsthand.

?Early detection saves lives. I know that for sure,? she said.

The American Cancer Society recommends women start getting yearly mammograms at age 40, or earlier if they have a history of breast cancer.

Source: http://kdvr.com/2012/10/30/study-more-women-getting-unnecessary-breast-cancer-treatments/

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Orphan Sunday is Nov. 4 | TFI Family Services, Inc.

TFI Family Services joins Phyllis Gilmore, secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families, in the promotion of adoption through Orphan Sunday.

A message from Secretary Gilmore:

Right now there are about 389 Kansas children awaiting a forever family. In social-work speak we say they?re without an ?adoptive resource,? meaning there?s no foster care parent or relative to adopt them. They are kids who need loving, attentive parents.

Regardless of how you characterize them, we at the Department for Children and Families think 389 children without a permanent home is 389 too many. We?d rather that number be zero. That is why we place such strong emphasis on National Adoption Month in November.

During National Adoption Month, Kansas families that already are committed to adoption across the state will take the last step in the process together, finalizing their adoptions alongside friends and relatives. Undoubtedly, there will be many joyous smiles and happy tears.

Adoption Month is also a chance for us to shine a spotlight on the beauty of adoption and ask others to step forward and grow their families. We want Kansans to examine their lives and their hearts and ask themselves if there?s room to provide a permanent, loving home for a child or children who have none.

That?s where you come in. We would like you to help us promote the adoption of children in Kansas. On Sunday, November 4, many churches across the state are having Orphan Sunday, dedicated to finding families for children in need of loving, permanent homes. What we?re asking is pretty simple. We?d like churches to devote a portion of their service to showing a one-minute video, and to talking about the importance of adoption.

Could you help us spread the word to the churches in your network about Orphan Sunday?

During the service, here are a few facts about adoption the churches can mention:

  • Adoption through the state is affordable. Instead of $30,000 as is often the case in private adoption, public adoption costs little or nothing. In addition, many children and sibling groups are eligible for adoption subsidies.
  • It is legally secure to adopt through the state.
  • Many older children can get free tuition at any state college or university.
  • There is a community of support for adoptive families in Kansas. Families who take the step towards adoption will not be alone.

We?d like churches to put the database of children who are eligible for adoption (www.adoptkskids.org) in their Sunday bulletin and on their website screens so parents who are interested in adoption can find out more and take the first step.

You can also show the video to the volunteers and workers in your organization, and help direct them to the adoptKSkids.org website.

We appreciate your help taking care of the orphans in our state. These children are so precious, and they deserve a warm, loving home. Let?s help them find one.

With sincerest gratitude,

Phyllis Gilmore

Source: http://www.tfifamilyservices.org/?p=3095&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=orphan-sunday-is-nov-4

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Import of proteins into chloroplasts is differentially regulated by age

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2012) ? New research has found that the transport of proteins into chloroplasts in plants is differentially regulated by the age of the chloroplast; upturning the previously accepted notion that this process is age-independent or only globally up- or down- regulated for all proteins.

The research, led by Dr. Hsou-min Li, a Research Fellow from the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica of Taiwan, is published October 30 in the open access journal PLOS Biology.

It's long been known that gene expression changes with age, for example, some genes are expressed in young organisms, others in aged organisms. However, up until now, it has been generally believed that the protein-transport processes that take place inside a cell occur independently of the cell's age.

Dr. Li and colleagues investigated pea leaves of different ages and discovered that proteins imported into chloroplasts -- the organelles in plant cells where photosynthesis occurs -- can be divided into three groups: one group prefers to be imported into very young chloroplasts, the second group has no special preference, and the third group prefer to be imported into older chloroplasts.

"Age-dependent regulation at the protein transport level had not been thoroughly investigated due to technical difficulties," Dr Li explained. "Pea seedlings offer an excellent model for such studies because each plant has leaves of different ages on a single stem and they are cheap to grow. Other scientists have taken advantage of this but at that time, they only had a very limited number of proteins to test. Now with data from genomic and proteomic analyses, we can test a lot more proteins and can show not only that the regulation exists, but also that every protein can be regulated differently."

After finding this novel regulation, Dr Li's group then attempted to find the signal that controls age selectivity. They found that, for each protein, the age-selective signal is located within the signal peptide that controls organelle import. They also identified a signal-peptide motif that is necessary for targeting proteins to older chloroplasts.

"We knew that signal peptides specify the organelle a protein is supposed to be targeted to, acting like address labels," said Dr Li. "When we found that they also contain the information for the age selectivity we observed, we decided to try to identify the "code" that instructs a protein to go to older chloroplasts first. The existence of such a code means that chloroplast signal peptides are not just address labels -- they also contain information about "when" a protein should be delivered."

These findings may have implications for selectively targeting proteins into organelles of aging tissues, said Dr Li. "We believe similar kinds of regulation mechanisms may also exist for other organelles in other organisms, like humans. For example, there may be signal peptide motifs that will allow us to specifically target therapeutic proteins into mitochondria in aging cardiac tissues."

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Who owns house where five people died in Ibex Hill? | Zambian ...

There is what appears to be an attempt to protect and hide the owner of the house in which five people died while working on a sewer pipe in Ibex Hill in Lusaka.

Police have so far questioned the owner of the private company that was working on the sewer line at the junction of Kabulonga and Mosi road where five people were buried alive on Sunday.

But the police and everyone else involved are not telling the country whose property was being worked on.

The truth about the person who hired the private company is being hidden.

One resident in the area believes that the bloc of flats which the deceased were trying to connect a sewer pipe belong to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mutembo Nchito.

The private companies have been named as SBCC construction which had been sub-contracted by Ferryman Plant and Hire but the one who hired SBCC is not even mentioned.

Yet, it is reported that another worker was killed at the same place a few months ago and the family of the youth was not even compensated.

Said one resident: ?the Project has been undergoing for months now and this is actually the second time I have heard of a death the previous persons family that was killed there was not even compensated from what I am led to understand.

That Project is meant to benefit one person?s selfish gain (as it?s a sewer system for one person?s flats, another case of the rich exploiting the poor) has been a hazard to residents in the area for a long time, no warning signs are in place and the works seem to not be yielding any results were any geological surveys taken and were they approved??

The resident further said ?It is widely known that the road has high traffic flows of people chief amongst them children, its highly likely that even young children are being swallowed up by that 10 meter deep intrusion into our personal lives because of some big bosses who can afford to pay for things even when they are not approved and interfere in the lives of others much poorer than them.

The resident advised that, ??I beg that you don?t let this issue rest, follow it up and ensure that the truth on procedures for Health and Safety (where was environmental/ engineering or council official to oversee and approve the steps being taken) is the ground fit for those works as they keep digging deeper threatening others? lives.

?Was any plan submitted for deviation of road as other road users are made to drive in one lane passages without any prior warning?

People?s yards have been dug up and chiefly lives are being lost. In my understanding An Project Brief with a community meeting should have taken place prior to this project ever occurring.?

Source: http://www.zambianwatchdog.com/2012/10/31/who-owns-house-where-five-people-died-in-ibex-hill/

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