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Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly Montreal hotel in Saint-Laurent with full-service spa
Popular property highlights
This family-friendly Montreal hotel is located on the Strip, within 3 mi (5 km) of CAE and Bombardier Aerospace. Saint Joseph's Oratory and University of Montreal are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This smoke-free hotel features a full-service spa, free water park access, and a restaurant. Free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Other amenities include an indoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a bar/lounge.
Room Amenities
All 258 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, plus room service and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Coffee makers, pillow menus, and free newspapers are among the other amenities available to guests.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Holiday Inn Montreal Airport
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to a full-service spa, Holiday Inn Montreal Airport features a complimentary water park and an indoor pool. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 13000 square feet (1208 square meters) include a conference center. This family-friendly hotel also offers a 24-hour fitness center, a sauna, and spa services. An area shuttle within 10.00 km and a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) are complimentary for guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Holiday Inn Montreal Airport is a smoke-free property.
- Restaurant
- Pool sun loungers
- Long-term parking (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 1208
- Number of meeting rooms - 13
- 24-hour business center
- Conference space size (feet) - 13000
- Full-service spa
- Billiards or pool table
- Free WiFi
- Fireplace in lobby
- Television in common areas
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Free airport transportation
- Arcade/game room
- ATM/banking
- Total number of rooms - 258
- Number of floors - 2
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Elevator/lift
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Express check-out
- Conference space
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free wired Internet
- Water park
- Free water park access
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting rooms 13
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1960
- Free area shuttle
- Free self parking
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
- Indoor pool
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Water park access (complimentary)
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Long-term parking (surcharge), Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free dial-up Internet access
- Pillow menu
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free toiletries
- Premium TV channels
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Satellite TV service
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free newspaper
- Desk
- Hair dryer
- Daily housekeeping
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Pay movies
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10:30 AM.
Le Tropik Restaurant-Bar - This poolside restaurant specializes in local cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Activities
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a water park, an indoor pool, a sauna, and a 24-hour fitness center.
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa, Kylin Spa. Services include massages, facials, body treatments, and manicures and pedicures.
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
- Manicures and pedicures
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 18 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for CAD 20.0 per day.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of CAD 50 per accommodation, per stay
- Dogs and cats only
- 1 per room (up to 40 lb)
- Specific rooms only
- Pet-friendly rooms can be requested by contacting the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: CAD 13.95 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: CAD 50 per accommodation, per stay
- Rollaway bed fee: CAD 20.0 per day
Hotel Name
- Holiday Inn Hotel Montreal Airport
- Holiday Inn Montreal Airport
- Montreal Airport Holiday Inn
- Holiday Inn Express Hotel And Suites Montreal Airport
- Holiday Inn Express Montreal
- Holiday Inn Montreal
- Holiday Inn Montreal Airport Hotel
- Holiday Inn Montreal Airport Hotel Montreal
- Montreal Holiday Inn
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Up to 2 children 18 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. This property allows pets in specific rooms only (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section). Guests can request one of these rooms by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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St. Louis plays host to the San Jose Sharks Thursday night at 5:30pm PDT. This is their fourth and final meeting, so let's take a look at the tale of the tape.
Head to head: slight advantage Sharks
Every game so far has been tight. Two of the three games so far went to a shootout, with the home team winning each. The other game in San Jose went to the Sharks, 5-4, in regulation. St. Louis has had the superior work ethic, while San Jose has shown the better talent.
San Jose has won 14 of the last 17 meetings between the teams, but for most of that time, St. Louis has been a bad team. They are now a better team than when the two last met December 27.
Recent play: big advantage, Blues
Like former coach Ron Wilson used to have posted in the locker room, "Hard work beats talent when the talent doesn't work hard." Too bad they still have not applied that lesson.
The Sharks have lost five of seven. In the first four games, they surrendered the early lead, including three goals to Montreal in the first period. In the last three, they surrendered a three goal lead twice and gave up the first two goals of the game in the other.
Why is this happening? A lack of intensity. In their past eight games, the Sharks have been out-shot in six. Mark Purdy of the San Jose Mercury News pegged it with this quote:
"(They) go ahead by two or three goals and seemingly say to themselves, 'Well, that obviously proves we are the better team by far, so our opponent surely realizes it and will skate away submissivley into defeat as we cruise to the finish."
The problems don't just go back seven games. It goes back to previous seasons. This is why I have been raising the alarm about regular season troubles even though it is the post-season that matters. Some things carry over, and work ethic is one of them.
In fact, San Jose is 7-6-5 in their last 18 games, so even just looking at this year, we can no longer call this a stumble—it is a full-on slide.
Meanwhile, St. Louis is headed in the opposite direction. In their last 24 games, they have only failed to get a point five times (14-5-5). They went 6-1-1 to close out February before splitting their last four games. That has gotten them back in the playoff hunt, as they now are just a game and a half out of the eighth spot.
Scheduling: even
St. Louis played last on Tuesday night just like San Jose, but they were at home and San Jose is completing a three-game road trip. On the other hand, St. Louis will be playing their fourth game in six days, and it is only the Sharks fourth in eight games. Nevertheless, being at home will compensate for the disadvantage in concentration of games.
Injury Report: even
Sure, the Sharks are without several players, but only goalie Evgeni Nabokov and defenceman Rob Blake are the only key ones gone, and Brian Boucher is not much of a drop-off from Nabby. Torrey Mitchell has been out all season and Jeremey Roenick will now have missed as many as he has played in. RW Mike Grier is a significant role-player, but Claude Lemieux has been a non-factor. San Jose could use centre Marcel Goc, who is day-to-day with a lower body injury, to return because they are thin in the middle, but indicators are he will not.
Meanwhile, St. Louis is without only four players, but they are far more key. Arguably their two best defencemen are out in Erik Johnson (out all season) and Eric Brewer, along with one of if not their best scorers, LW Paul Kariya. They are also missing LW D.J. King.
By the numbers…
- The Sharks have the NHL's best record with a .738 point percentage, while St. Louis is 21st at .515. The Blues are five games above .500 at home, only 19th, while the Sharks are eight over .500 on the road, fourth in the league…big advantage, Sharks.
- The Sharks have the league's third-best defence (2.45 GAA) and are tied for the third-best offence (3.26 GSA); that means their goal differential is +0.81, second best in the league. St. Louis is 20th in offence (2.73 GSA) and 17th in defence (2.89 GAA), making their differential -0.16; only 12 teams are worse…big advantage, Sharks.
- Both teams are strong on special teams. San Jose has the second-best power play (24.4 percent) and sixth-best penalty kill (83.4). St. Louis has the eighth best power play (21.1) and 12th-ranked penalty kill (82). The sum success ranking of 107.8 for San Jose is second best in the NHL, while St. Louis' 103.1 is ranked eighth…slight advantage, Sharks.
Intangibles: even
This is a game that both teams need. San Jose has seen its lead over Detroit for the top seed drop to one game and desperately needs a bounce back. St. Louis needs every point they can get because they not only need to make up a game and a half, but leapfrog three teams.
The Verdict: Blues 4, Sharks 3, SO
The Sharks have more advnatages in this match-up, but recent play is probably the most important indicator of a team's chances. Plus, I could see the Sharks, who lack the killer-instinct normally associated with their name-sake, being satisfied with a point in this one.

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A Dallas police officer terminated in October for shooting a mentally ill man who put up no resistance potentially put fellow officers' lives in danger four years ago when he fired his gun during a standoff, a former trainer said.
Cardan Spencer, along with three other officers, created a possible friendly fire situation when they shot their weapons at a gunman from a position far behind the other officers, according to internal affairs records obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
No officers were wounded, and the suspect was killed. But the squad car closest to the shooting, where some officers had taken cover, was hit by several bullets, though it is not clear who fired those shots.
Spencer and the others said they had clear lines of sight to the suspect, and were counseled rather than disciplined or given additional training for their actions. But the Dec. 27, 2009, incident has been cited during department training sessions as an example of what not to do.
"Why would you shoot from the back?" said retired Dallas police Sgt. Keith Wenzel, who once headed the department's reality-based training program. "I can tell you from my knowledge and experience, I wouldn't even have my gun out back there. I would be just watching."
Spencer made national headlines last year after a neighbor's surveillance video captured him shooting Bobby Gerald Bennett, who had a knife, as Bennett stood still with his arms at his sides. Chief David Brown quickly fired Spencer in the ensuing fallout.
Brown also has since ordered changes to the department's use-of-force training.
But Wenzel, who has said that Spencer had bad tactics in the Bennett case, indicated that shooting might not have occurred if Spencer had undergone additional training after the 2009 incident.
"No discipline. No training. No nothing," Wenzel said. "From a training standpoint, it makes no sense."
Standoff, shots
The 2009 incident started when Mesquite police officers began chasing three suspects after the robbery of a pizza restaurant. One suspect had fired his gun during the robbery.
Officers quickly arrested one man after a chase in Pleasant Grove. A second suspect was arrested after he was shot and wounded by a Mesquite police officer. A third suspect, Dontell Terrell, bailed out of the car and ran onto the porch of a home in the 10000 block of Mesita Drive.
A standoff that lasted more than 10 minutes ensued. Spencer and three other officers took cover behind a Toyota car parked across the street, 74 feet from the porch, police said. Other officers took cover behind squad cars positioned in the home's front yard about 30 feet from the gunman — and in front of Spencer's group of officers.
Terrell paced back and forth on the porch with a gun to his head as he talked to his mother on a cellphone. A sergeant repeatedly ordered Terrell to drop the weapon, police said. He didn't comply, and told his mother he wasn't going back to jail. Terrell was arrested in 2008 on suspicion of aggravated robbery, records show.
Thirteen Dallas officers and two Mesquite officers opened fire when Terrell swung the gun around and pointed it at several of the ones positioned behind the closest squad car. Several other officers at the scene told investigators they chose not to shoot because they didn't have clear shots.
Spencer and two others — Antoine Hughes and Daniel Jamieson — fired once from behind the Toyota. A fourth officer, Senior Cpl. Brian Lashley, fired his weapon several times.
Terrell was shot 11 times. None of the officers behind the Toyota hit him, investigators concluded.
Wenzel said some officers who were in front of Spencer and the others "were angry" at their colleagues for having fired from that position.
All of the officers in the back later told investigators that they had a clear line of sight. Investigators agreed but said that if any of the officers in the front moved from their original spots, they could have been struck by friendly fire.
Chris Livingston, an attorney for Spencer, said he agrees "with the investigation that the shooting was justified and the officers had a clear line of sight."
"This is an investigation that took months, whereas Chief Brown's decision to fire Cardan Spencer took days," he said.
Classic near-miss
Wenzel maintains that Spencer and the officers around him shouldn't have shot from so far away when Terrell was already surrounded by law enforcement.
"They're saying, 'I had a clear line of sight.' Yeah, but you're 75 feet from the suspect, and you don't even have a clear vision of what's going on 75 feet away," he said. "You're not even in the ballgame. You should be on the sideline watching the pass, not in the end zone catching it."
Wenzel, who was still working as an academy supervisor at the time, said the incident caused dissention. He said he explains the scenario during officer safety classes as a classic near-miss.
Some of the fallout hit Lashley, who had been "one of the department's leading defensive tactics and self-defense instructors," a supervisor said in a memo. After the shooting, Wenzel said an unofficial decision was made to stop using Lashley as an instructor because his judgment might be questioned.
Lashley said he probably should've chosen a better cover position, but was comfortable with his decision at the time.
"If the department felt I was such a risk and I did such a bad thing, we should've had some training on it then," he said. "I should've been brought in and, heck, if nothing else, they could've used me as a learning tool and let me talk about it and tell them I could've done better and this is what we need to do."
But unlike Wenzel, other trainers were more reluctant to criticize the officers.
Jim Glennon, who owns Illinois-based law enforcement training company Calibre Press, said the officers in the back were right to have their guns out, but didn't necessarily need to shoot.
"Optimally, it would be best for the guys in front to fire and the guys in the back to be in reserve," he said. "But I don't know what view they really had."
After some recent police shootings, including Bennett's, officials announced plans to increase the frequency of reality-based training to once every few months rather than once every two years. The trainers will also be replaced with sergeants.
Deputy Chief Albert Martinez said he hopes the changes will help the department decide whether an officer needs remedial training. Some scenarios could include how to manage situations with large numbers of officers at the scene, he said.
Ken Murray, a reality-based training expert in Florida, said proper training is essential for officers. People's minds flip through a Rolodex of experiences when they are in stressful situations, he said. They need the experience before they can deal with such incidents the right way, he said.
"You can't think your way into a new way of behaving," said Murray, who once trained Wenzel. "You have to behave your way into a new way of thinking."


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Asset Demands and Asset Prices in the U.K.: Is There a Risk Premium
This paper argues that conventional methods for estimating portfolio demand functions and asset pricing equations are often incorrect. The method used here is to invert theoretically plausible asset demands to obtain asset price expectation formation equations that can be estimated by ordinary least squares and which can be used to test the capital asset pricing model. Using this method, U.K. private sector data from the 1970s are able to accept an impressive array of economically meaningful restrictions. However, a central puzzle is that the coefficient of relative risk aversion is found to be significant but negative. Copyright 1990 by Blackwell Publishers Ltd and The Victoria University of Manchester
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Better than WhyNot in some places, but also missing quite a bit of what's said.
Should you choose the XviD version, no honorifics will be present. Somewhat liberal, but not as bad as the Daiz-haters are claiming.
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just right translation :)) and speedy release
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UTW-Underwater and dark stories is the only UTW I can endorse, the rest of what they do it utter shitt.
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Daiz is the hero fansubbing deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
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Rob Douglas returns to Jannus Live: 'It's nice to feel useful'
When Jannus Live reopened in March after a five-month hiatus, many local music fans wondered whether new owners could keep the old Jannus spirit alive.
For some, their doubts boiled down to one question: Will Rob Douglas be involved?
Douglas, who had booked concerts at Jannus Landing for more than 25 years, resigned from the troubled venue in August. Revered by musicians and music fans alike for his nose for putting on a great show, his departure symbolized the downfall of a beloved music venue. For some, no Rob Douglas meant no Jannus, period.
But with new owner Jeff Knight taking the reins this spring, Douglas — who had been booking concerts independently — decided to rejoin Jannus Live as the venue's production manager, serving as a liaison between artists and the venue. His presence has already been felt with shows by Rusted Root and John Hiatt— two artists who also played Jannus Landing back in Douglas' day.
"What I want to do is get the place as user-friendly as it used to be," Douglas said recently. "The opportunity exists now to create another generation's worth of memories down there. It's a very special place for a lot of folks, and I think it's going to continue to be."
With the John Hiatt show at Jannus on Friday, we chatted with Douglas about rebuilding and rebranding the Jannus name.
Some of the recent and upcoming shows at Jannus Landing are artists who have been at Jannus Landing before. Is that a strategy, to try to win over people who may have been skeptical about the venue?
I don't know that it's necessarily part of a strategy. It just so happens that these things were available to us. Because we had had experience with them before, we had a sense of how people would respond. I think if people come out to see acts that they've seen there before, it's going to be a great opportunity to see the positive changes that have been made to the venue. It's a happy coincidence.
So far, what has your experience been like working with this new crew?
I had always dreamed of seeing Jannus Landing with some better creature comforts, not only for the fans, but also for the artists. Even in its heyday, it was always a matter of scrimping and struggling and having to watch every penny — which I'm still inclined to do. But to walk in there now and see what is essentially state-of-the-art equipment, and what is a state-of-the-art facility, is very gratifying. That's obviously the biggest thing — a willingness on the new ownership's part to spend some money for a greater experience for all involved. That's just huge.
With these free shows, like Rusted Root, it's just a matter of getting people in the door, right?
Of course. We've been off the radar for about nine months. And with the Rusted Root show, I believe Jeff genuinely wanted to do something nice for folks, and this opportunity presented itself, and he went for it. As a result, a lot of folks are going to be able to enjoy some great music for free, and get a handle on what the place looks like now, and what it feels like. I see it as being a very positive thing.
For some music-heads and musicians around town, your involvement was critical for the credibility of the venue. What reaction have you gotten from people about coming back in an official role?
Well, this conversation is probably the closest thing I will have participated in that's remotely like an announcement. I tend to just slide in quietly and do what I do. (laughs) I'm not real interested in being out there shouting from the rooftops. But let's put it this way: People have been very supportive of me. People have been very kind to me. People have been very encouraging to me. If all of that contributed to my being invited back, I'm grateful for all of it. It's nice to feel useful.
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Date: Coming Soon!Time: 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.Location: Seton Hall University, Main CampusTuition: $129
There are numerous articles and books written about family functioning and parenting techniques. However, little has been written specifically about theories of how to parent. During this workshop, sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education and Professional Studies in partnership with the College of Education and Human Services, a theory of parenting, based on the concepts of the family emotional system and intense emotion often seen in human behavior, will be presented. The theory and concepts are rooted in the ideas and works of systemic therapists, Murray Bowen, M.D., and David Schnarch, Ph.D. The presenter will describe core concepts of his theory, including the goal of raising well-differentiated children, the emotional challenge that children present to parents, the necessity of consistent responses by parents, and the relevance of these issues for parents and clinicians. Participants will learn how to utilize the theory to inform their clinical work with families with children. Techniques for parents to lower reactivity will be discussed, with a focus on the ways that the techniques embody the theory and how the concept of differentiation can provide direction and support to parents. Participants will acquire knowledge of how to convey this information to parents as well as guide parents in developing appropriate responses to their children's challenging behavior.
Upon completion of this workshop you will earn five CEUs, approved for continuing education for marriage and family therapists, alcohol and drug counselors, social workers, and professional counselors!
After becoming an ordained Presbyterian minister, serving as a Campus Minister at Iowa State University, working as an alcoholism counselor in a rehab, James Verser, M.Div., M.S., Ed.S., LMFT, moved to NJ to become a family therapist. He started his private practice in Hunterdon County in 1980 and, after getting his Ed.S. from Seton Hall University, became a licensed MFT in 1984. He served NJAMFT in several capacities including, Vice-President of Central Chapter, President of Central Chapter, President-Elect, and President. He also served 14 years as a member of the New Jersey Board of Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners, serving as Chair for eight of those years before resigning in 2011. For 12 years, he was a board delegate to the Association of Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards (AMFTRB), which owns, writes, and manages the marriage and family therapy licensing exam, and served as Treasurer of AMFTRB for five years. In addition to these professional activities, Jim's passion has been helping his clients become healthier, higher functioning, and more satisfied with their lives. His theory of parenting developed over the course of more than 30 years of being afraid that he would "fail" his clients. He is excited to be able to share these ideas today.


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House hunting. It can be so much fun and so overwhelming at the same time. If you are out looking for your next castle, it is wise to create a wish list of what you personally desire for your home, including the interiors. While viewing different houses, take a camera and a notepad to document how each compares to your list. In today's real estate market, the features below are definitely on many home buyers' wish lists. — Michelle Jennings Wiebe, special to the Times.
as well as center islands.
Modern Kitchens The kitchen truly is the heart of every home and therefore has become the most important space for home buyers. Increasingly, buyers want a modern open kitchen with an informal eat-in area, for both meals and homework. Center islands are desired, for their added counter space and storage. Large sinks under a window always are a hit.
Appliances are one of the most expensive items in a home, so make sure to look at the condition, age (including energy efficiency), and overall appearance. If your budget permits, a lot of buyers are inclined to show status by having high-end appliances such as Wolf and Sub-Zero. As for countertops, natural stone such as granite is still popular, but quartz counters such as Silestone and Caesarstone are becoming more in demand. What's Out: Long narrow galley kitchens and separate dining rooms
Open floor plans, Numerous windows and High ceilings In newer homes, buyers desire open spaces, such as the kitchen and family room having open access to each another. Superior natural lighting is on most home buyers' wish lists, so large and abundant windows achieve this. High ceilings also create spaciousness and give good lighting and decorating options. What's Out: Low ceilings covered in popcorn or knockdown textures
Family gathering spaces with open floor plans and high ceilings are popular with house hunters.
Durable Hardwood Flooring and Tile More and more, buyers are opting for homes with hardwood flooring and/or tile due to the resilience and maintenance. These floors also can give style and beauty to any room. In older homes, original hardwood flooring may be hidden under old carpet. It's important to see what is underneath, and see if the hardwood can be refinished. Broadloom carpet may still be considered for bedrooms. What's Out: Different flooring in every room, dirty carpet
Lavish Bathrooms Buyers typically want at least two full bathrooms, preferably with windows for natural lighting and ventilation. They also desire walk-in showers instead of shower/tub combinations. However, at least one bathtub should be in the home. In the master bathroom, most buyers wish for two sinks, a freestanding tub, a shower with a myriad of water features, and a separate water closet for the toilet. What's Out: Whirlpool tubs with expensive tub decks
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Jump into the new year with a fresh start, and a fresh coat (of paint, that is!) It's time to get bold, embrace color in 2013. Check out our list of Studio M-approved colors for this year.
NYE Drink DIY: "Sparkling Blue Star"
The Studio M go-to for any function, especially New Years Eve
1. Rim 2 champagne glasses with blue sanding sugar.
2. Pour 1 ounce orange infused vodka into each of the prepared champagne glasses.
3. Pour 1 ounce blue curaçao into each into each of the prepared champagne glasses.
4. Top each glass with champagne.
5. Enjoy!
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Glacier Park
6 miles round trip
Hidden Lake Nature Trail
The Trailhead begins behind Logan Pass Visitor Center. Arrive early for parking availability.
Since this is the most popular hike in Glacier Park, we encounter hikers from many countries as we travel the trail to the Hidden Lake Overlook. From the overlook we view the lake situated in a bowl surrounded by mountains. Hidden Lake is popular for Yellowstone Cutthroat fishing, so some of the hikers are fishermen. Most visitors turn back at the overlook, but the adventurous keep going. A bit further down the trail the views of Hidden Lake are spectacular and we stop to photograph the area. Along the trail we pass over streams surrounded by wildflowers. There are such a variety of wildflowers we cannot hope to photograph them all.
Wildlife is plentiful here and there are ground squirrels, hoary marmots and mountain goats at close range.
Hiking down to the lake and then along the lakeshore is an adventure in paradise, with serene and beautiful alpine scenery at every step.
This part of Hidden Lake nature trail, written by Janet Rapelje.
Hidden Lake
Several years ago, my Daughter and family were at Logan Pass. This was a very special trip for them and they had never seen beautiful Glacier National Park. They were hikers and found the trailhead to Hidden Lake, just in back of the Visitor Center.
The first quarter of a mile is paved and then becomes a boardwalk for awhile. From then on it is a well maintained path. They climbed upward to find the best view of Hidden Lake. What they saw from the overlook and from a spot a few hundred feet farther, was so beautiful that my JoAnn will never forget it. Her comment at the time was ---- Heaven must look like this, It's so beautiful.
As you walk this trail you will go through Alpine meadows and sub alpine evergreen trees. You will see Reynolds Mountain, Mount Oberlin, and Clements Mountain. Which are all so high that they will be snow capped peaks. You will find waterfalls from Mt. Oberlin coming over the cliffs in front of you. The many wildflowers that you will find in July and August are very hardy and have a very short growing season. But are not short on beauty.
You will probably see lots of small animals, as they hurry to store fat and store food for the long winter ahead. Ground Squirrels are a constant in this area. They don't seem afraid either at the visitor center or out in the forest. They have a job to do and see hikers so often that they seem to have no fear. Sometimes they go into hibernation in late summer and stay there for nearly seven months.
You will notice the red color of the rocks along the trail. These are called red Argillite. Many many years ago they were a mixture of iron and mud, and were under water.
About a mile and a half out on the trail you will come to a wooden platform where you can look down on Hidden Lake. Here you will certainly use your camera for memories. The Lake is so beautiful.
Going on you will soon see another view of the lake as well as the end of Lake Mc Donald. Hidden Lake was named Bear Hat Lake by the Indians who first lived in these mountains. If you should decide to go on down to the lake, it is close to eight hundred feet of downhill descent.
I hope you will enjoy your hike as much as my family did and come back again.
This part about Hidden Lake was written by Verna Parks.


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Freedom Fest returns June 29
By ALLISON CRYER
Daily News Staff Writer
LAKE ARTHUR – The third annual Freedom Fest is returning Saturday, June 29, to celebrate America's independence with an entire day filled with activities that are sure to provide fun for the whole family.
"We invite everyone to come out to Lake Arthur and celebrate with us," said Team LA Chairman Troy Trahan. "We have a great day planned with fun activities for the kids, live music for the adults and an exciting fireworks display to cap off the festivities."For the complete story and more local news, please subscribe to Jennings Daily News by clicking subscribe or by calling 337-824-3011.
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ESPN: Vince Wilfork Out for the Season with Torn Achilles
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(NEW YORK) — The defense of the New England Patriots has taken a big hit as ESPN and The Boston Globe are reporting that defensive tackle Vince Wilfork will miss the rest of the season with a torn Achilles.
During the team's 30-23 win over the Atlanta Falcons last night, Wilfork suffered the injury in the first quarter. He had to limp off the field during the Falcon's first drive of the game.
The 31-year-old Wilfork had 48 tackles last season, two forced fumbles, and four fumble recoveries.
Wilfork is one of the team's best players, and not just on the defensive side of the ball. He's been with the team since 2004, and has been a major presence ever since. He's been a perennial Pro Bowler during his time in the NFL, and has often been the anchor of the team's defense.
New England has the 18th ranked defense in the NFL, so it remains to be be seen how big of an impact his absence will have going forward.
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Burning Question: Why Do Recipes Call For Stale Bread?
Many recipes — from French toast to bread pudding — call for leftover bread. But why would anyone want to cook with old bread that's hard and dry?
Eaten out of hand, day-old bread may taste inferior to its fresh counterpart. But stale bread actually has virtuous characteristics that can make it preferable to cook with. According to food science authority Harold McGee, when freshly baked bread cools, its starches reorganize to form bonds that are even firmer and stronger than they were before. This means that if the bread is soaked in a wet substance — such as eggs for French toast or milk for bread pudding — it will still retain its sponge-like structure rather than falling apart. Bread crumbs are an ideal binding agent in cooking for the same reason: even when wet, they will maintain structure.
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NDZ Performance offers custom billet accessories for Glocks, including magazine floorplates and rear slide plates. These items will fit all models including the newest Gen 4. They also offer accessories for Kimber, SA XD, SIG and AR variants.
For further information contact: NDZ Performance, Dept. SGN, 278 Sandbank Rd., Cheshire, CT 06410 or www.ndzperformance.com


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Charlie Sheen: 'I've infected no one'
Charlie Sheen has insisted that he hasn't infected anybody with HIV, despite allegations that he knowingly had unprotected sex after his 2011 diagnosis.
Charlie Sheen insists he hasn't infected anybody with HIV.
The 50-year-old actor was diagnosed with the disease in 2011, but only went public with it last year (15). Since his revelation, several women have made the decision to sue him, claiming that he knowingly had unprotected sex without disclosing his illness.
But in a new interview with television show Good Morning Britain on Monday (20Jun16), Charlie stressed that he has never passed on the condition to anyone else, and claims that he has are entirely incorrect.
"What people need to focus on and need to understand, because it's the absolute truth, is that I've infected no one," Charlie said. "There's no one coming at me... it has just not happened."
Asked if he feels guilty about the women claiming otherwise, Charlie added: "Yes and no. The ones that were there for their own gain, for their own folly, they are not a part of my journey anymore. "
Charlie was diagnosed with HIV when he was rushed to hospital with what he thought was cancer. After doctors broke the news to him, the actor admits he took a "quiet moment" to absorb the information before thinking about how he was going to move on with his life.
"The first thing you think about is, 'How did it happen? Where did it happen?' You start going back through your mind like, 'Who was involved, what was the thing?' And most people that are positive can't pinpoint that exact moment, they can't do it, and I'm one of them. I thought I was dying when I went to the hospital but then after the spinal tap and everything and then it was revealed. And then it was like there was a quiet moment - I had to just sit with it for a second. I looked over at mom and she was like, 'You've gotten through harder times, so...' And I was like, 'Are you sure?'"
Charlie also recalled the moment he first told his father, actor Martin Sheen, about the diagnosis. The 75-year-old star was "respectful and supportive" when he heard the news.
"We got into a debate one night and he was talking about AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) and this sort of stuff and he kept talking about the disease of alcoholism. I hadn't told him yet... and I said, 'Hey pop, you wanna hear about a real fricking disease?' And that's when i told him. And he's never brought up AA again," he smiled.
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Asom Divas
Chaolung Sukaphaa (reign 1228–1268), also Siu-Ka-Pha, the first Ahom king in medieval Assam, was the founder of the Ahom kingdom. A Tai prince originally from Mong Mao, the kingdom he established in 1228 existed for nearly six hundred years and in the process unified the various tribal and non-tribal peoples of the region that left a deep impact on the region. In reverence to his position in Assam's history the honorific Chaolung is generally associated with his name (Chao: lord; Lung: great).
Since 1996 December 2 has been celebrated in Assam as the Sukaphaa Divas, or Asom Divas (Assam Day), to commemorate the advent of the first king of the Ahom kingdom in Assam after his journey over the Patkai Hills.


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Events Officer
- Recruiter
- POPAI UK & Ireland Ltd
- Location
- Hinckley, Leicestershire
- Salary
- £18,000
- Posted
- 19 Jun 2017
- Expires
- 06 Jul 2017
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
About us:
POPAI is a progressive industry association, promoting best practice, dedicated to enhancing the total shopper experience.
We publish research, organise conferences, industry awards, training seminars and best practice programmes to benefit our members who include retailers, brands, agencies and manufacturers of retail display.
An opportunity has arisen to join our small, friendly but highly professional and tight-knit team in the role of events officer, based in Hinckley.
About the role:
The role of events officer is central to the business and the successful candidate will be responsible for 3 main pillars of activity:
- All aspects of our annual awards competition, which culminates in a black-tie gala dinner for 450+ guests hosted by a celebrity at a central London venue.
- Planning and smooth running of our varied conference & seminar programme throughout the year.
- Managing POPAI's presence at the annual industry exhibition and any other exhibitions that we take part in from time to time.
About you:
This is a varied role which requires a broad range of skills. We expect the successful candidate to demonstrate strong evidence of:
- Being a self-starter and working independently, but fitting in with a small team.
- Proficiency in planning and managing your own workload within both short and long term projects.
- Creating and reporting on project plans.
- Quick learning and hitting the ground running.
- The ability to talk to professionals from lots of different levels of seniority.
- Managing 3rd party suppliers.
- Running professional events.
About the process:
- We are inviting written applications accompanied by a CV
- Applications received without a covering letter will not be considered
- Closing date for applications is 5pm on July 6th
- Interviews will take place on Friday 14th July
- At interview, candidates will be expected to provide evidence of experience in the form of project plans, summary reports etc.
- The successful candidate will be invited to start ASAP after August 14th


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lazar (Lazy-Structure-Activity Relationships) is a tool for the prediction of toxic activities of chemical structures. lazar derives predictions from databases with experimental toxicity data. It searches in these databases for compounds with similar structures and calculates the prediction from their measured activities.
libGenome is a development library designed to make common operations on DNA and protein sequences easy. libGenome provides functionality to read and write sequence and annotation data in several file formats. It provides a common manipulation interface for sequence and annotation data in any supported file format. Some of the basic manipulation functionality offered by libGenome is concatenation, truncation, reverse complementation, and translation of sequences. It was intended to be used on genome size sequences and is optimized accordingly. This is a cross platform library written in ANSI C++ and is currently supported on any platform with gcc. Metrowerks CodeWarrior on Windows and Mac OS are also supported.
The Full-text Index Data structure library, libfid for short, is a portable software library for accessing indexed data through a simple C interface. It implements, among others, functions for reading indexed data from files, and for performing common operations such as fast string matching. Easy alphabet handling for mapping between printable and binary alphabets is integrated from the ground up. Currently, the enhanced suffix array is the only full-text index data structure supported. A very simplistic program for constructing enhanced suffix arrays is included.
The libmba package is a collection of mostly independent C modules potentially useful to any project. There are the usual ADTs including a linkedlist, hashmap, pool, stack, and varray, a flexible memory allocator, CSV parser, path canonicalization routine, I18N text abstraction, configuration file module, portable semaphores, condition variables, and more. The code is designed so that individual modules can be integrated into existing codebases rather than requiring the user to commit to the entire library. The code has no typedefs, few comments, and extensive man pages and HTML documentation.
The massXpert software package is a mass spectrometry environment for linear (bio-)polymers. It inherits all the innovations of GNU polyxmass. It allows the detailed definition of new polymer chemistries in the XpertDef module. These chemistry definitions are then used in the desktop calculator-like mass calculator (XpertCalc) and in the sophisticated polymer sequence editor and (bio-)chemical/mass spectrometric simulations module (XpertEdit). Available simulations include polymer and monomer chemical modifications, polymer sequence cleavage, gas-phase fragmentation, m/z ratio calculations, and more.
MCL-edge is an integrated command-line driven workbench for large scale network analysis. It includes programs for the computation of shortest paths, diameter, clustering coefficient, betweenness centrality, and network shuffles. A module for loading and analyzing gene expression data as a network is provided. The MCL algorithm is a fast and highly scalable cluster algorithm for networks based on stochastic flow. The flow process employed by the algorithm is mathematically sound and intrinsically tied to cluster structure, which is revealed as the imprint left by the process. The threaded implementation has handled networks with millions of nodes within hours and is widely used in the fields of bioinformatics, graph clustering, and network analysis.
mkESA is a program for constructing enhanced suffix arrays (ESAs) from biological sequence data. The program is based on an implementation of Manzini's lightweight Deep-Shallow algorithm, which can also utilize multiple CPUs/cores for extra performance. The generated output is compatible with the output of mkvtree from the Vmatch package.
octopus is a program aimed at the ab initio virtual experimentation on a hopefully ever increasing range of systems types. Electrons are describe quantum-mechanically within the Density-Functional Theory (DFT), in its time-dependent form (TDDFT) when doing simulations in time. Nuclei are described classically as point particles. Electron-nucleus interaction is described within the Pseudopotential approximation.
A camera app for Android.
A command-line network analysis workbench.


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I was always heavy in my youth and lost 40 pounds. The skin on my inner thighs was always in the way! Walking would cause irritation between the thighs and I would literally have to move the skin to wipe myself each time I used the bathroom.
It's so nice to walk and have no rubbing!! I would highly recommend it and often do.


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Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:54 PM
you are
you predicted that one day a star will arise
and here u stand, ever so humble and wise
always had that drive, never wanting to stop
didnt trade in your hunger, see how u came out on top?
my liddle superstar
carrying so much criticism, yet handling it so well
one of the very few with a positive story to tell
being the voice for so many in almost every way
a mere song or quote holds the power to save someone everyday.
my liddle superwoman
going above and beyond your duties, even behind the scenes
giving endless M4L's in and out of the team
we're beyond spoiled,often reminded that we have to share
ALWAYS showing tons of love& that u genuinely care
my liddle pumpkin...
greatness is where u are, unforgettable you shall be
leaving an imprint on this earth that people will forever see
we're by your side, no matter what u do
Thank you, Onika Tanya Maraj for being amazingly YOU!
My hero...


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3332 Delta Waters Road
Medford, Oregon, 97504
Commute to Downtown Medford
Almost all errands require a car.
It is possible to get on a bus.
About your score
3332 Delta Waters Road has a Walk Score of 4 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
This location is in Medford.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 3332 Delta Waters Road.
3332 Delta Waters Road has minimal transit which means it is possible to get on a bus.
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This location is in the city of Medford, OR. Medford has an average Walk Score of 37 and has 74,907 residents.Learn More About Medford


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Divorced: 4 times
Christie Brinkley's career as a model was marked by record-breaking success. She was the first person ever to appear three times in a row on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and according to her official website, her contract with cosmetics giant CoverGirl was the longest in history. She then turned her success as a model into wise real estate investments, which Newsday estimated to be worth $80 million.
Brinkley was first married to French artist Jean-François Allaux, whom she divorced after eight years. Her second and most famous husband was musician Billy Joel, whom she married in 1985 and with whom she had a daughter, Alexa. That marriage ended in 1994, the same year in which she married real estate developer Richard Taubman. The couple had a baby, Jack, in June 1995, but the marriage ended the same year. Her last marriage was to architect Peter Cook, whom she wed in 1996 and whose divorce two years later was a regular feature in the tabloids. Brinkley has not remarried since.
Pictured: Model Christie Brinkley and musician Billy Joel attend the Make-A-Wish Foundation's Eighth Annual Dinner Dance Benefit to Honor Christie Brinkley on April 26, 1991 Aboard The Princess Yacht in New York City.


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Need to avoid drunk tweeting or Facebooking after your company holiday party? There's obviously an app for that. Webroot has just released The Holiday Party Sobriety App for Facebook and Android, and it will make damn sure you're sober before giving you the "all clear" to use social media.
The free app puts you through three exercises to determine your sobriety, which are chosen at random whenever you open the app.
When I tested it out, stone-cold sober, in my office, it made me do a motor skills test (which I failed), a color coherency test (which I, completely inexplicably, also failed) and a balance test (passed with flying colors). I think this means that I'm sober, but dumb? Either way, the app did not declare me suited for social media updates of any type.
Perhaps I should take the rest of the day off, to "sober up"?
But seriously folks, please tweet safely over the holidays. If you are anything less than sober or at the top of your game, avoid blasting your incoherent thoughts to every ex, current, and potential date. Let's start the new year on a more salubrious note, yes?
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Border Patrol Episodes
An Argentinean with last minute plans is questioned by Customs officers; a drug dog in Queenstown is right on the money; and a suspicious shipment shows all the signs of containing narcotics.
A man with a fake passport tries to get the better of Customs officers; a first time traveller to New Zealand could be heading straight back home; and an exotic shipment causes problems.
Hector comes to NZ to meet more Latin people; A forgotten orange costs a traveler $400; and Titan sniffs out packages like a champ.
A man with a mountain of cigarettes is caught out by customs; there's an exotic arrival at the ports; and drug smugglers use an inventive way to try and get drugs into the country.
A passenger with a stolen ID feels the long arm of the law; a colourful character lands at Queenstown Airport; and LED lights raise suspicion in Auckland.
A Romanian couple are tripped up on the finer details of their plans.
Two passengers planning a one-day stay have suitcases filled with souvenirs; a tricky passenger gives Customs officers a hard time; and dead coral is found in a passenger's bag.
Two suspected fraudsters land into the country; a backpacker's worst nightmares come true; and MPI deal with a rogue cockroach and a crocodile at Auckland International Airport.
Season Final: Customs go rural to bust an illegal operation wide open. A passenger makes a glaring mistake when questioned at the airport and a returning Border Patrol favourite is back on the scene.


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"Rounding out your basics with Kaitennage, Koshinage, Tenchinage, Jujinage, and more!"
Takemusu Aikido: Basics Concluded is the third volume of this comprehensive series presenting the aikido of Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei. Volume 3 covers the following series of techniques: koshinage, tenchinage, kaitennage, jujinage, morotedori kokyuho and suwariwaza kokyuho. This work is profusely illustrated with more than 500 photos and includes detailed, step-by-step explanations of each technique. Bilingual, Japanese and English.
Morihiro Saito, 9th dan, is one of aikido's most highly acclaimed teachers and was active for 56 years in the art. He was one of the founder Ueshiba's closest students and operated Ueshiba's country dojo in Iwama, Ibaragi Prefecture while serving as caretaker of the Aiki Shrine. Saito is well-known internationally due to his numerous technical works and frequent instructional that which took him to more than twenty countries.
From Morihiro Saito's Introduction:
It has been twenty-seven years since the passing of the founder and today many different styles of aikido exist. The result has been that teachers have taught freely based on their individual ways of thinking.
Of course, it is a fine thing for instructors to teach based on their own ideas. However, I am compelled to feel somewhat uncomfortable that such a situation will result in confusion over the nature of the aikido that the founder laboriously formulated over a lifetime. The reason is that today in aikido there are those who do not recognize the validity of weapons techniques employing the aiki ken and aiki jo. Moreover, there are some whose aikido techniques are very different from those of the founder. There remains little trace of his genius in this kind of aikido.
As a direct student of the founder and the person in charge of his personal dojo, I constantly remind myself of my responsibility to faithfully transmit his teachings as I instruct my students. For this reason, the Takemusu Aikido technical series being published by Aiki News is very important to me. I sincerely hope that Volume 3 will be of some help to those who cannot participate in my seminars or those who are unable to come here to Iwama to learn.
Morihiro Saito
Ibaragi Dojo, March 1996
- Preface
- Basic techniques
- Shomenuchi kaitennage
- Yokomenuchi kaitennage
- Yokomenuchi kaitennage ki no nagare
- Katatedori kaitennage (uchi)
- Katatedori kaitennage (soto)
- Ryotedori kaitennage oyowaza (uchi)
- Tsuki kaitennage
- Shomenuchi koshinage (1)
- Shomenuchi koshinage (2): shihonage form
- Yokomenuchi koshinage (1) ki no nagare: shihonage form
- Yokomenuchi koshinage (2): sankyo form
- Yokomenuchi koshinage (3) ki no nagare
- Yokomenuchi koshinage (4): shihonage form
- Katatedori koshinage (1)
- Katatedori koshinage (2)
- Katatedori koshinage (3): shihonage form
- Katatedori koshinage (4): shihonage form
- Ryotedori koshinage (1)
- Ryotedori koshinage (2)
- Ryotedori koshinage (3)
- Ryotedori koshinage (4): shihonage form
- Morotedori koshinage (1) shita kara ue
- Morotedori koshinage (2) shita kara ue
- Morotedori koshinage (3) ue kara shita
- Morotedori koshinage (4)
- Morotedori koshinage (5): shihonage form
- Morotedori koshinage (6): shihonage form
- Munadori katate koshinage
- Munadori shomenuchi koshinage
- Katadori koshinage (1)
- Katadori koshinage (2)
- Katadori koshinage (3): shihonage form
- Ryokatadori koshinage ki no nagare
- Kosadori koshinage (1)
- Kosadori koshinage (2)
- Kosadori koshinage (3)
- Kubishime koshinage
- Tsuki koshinage (1)
- Tsuki koshinage (2)
- Tsuki koshinage (3)
- Ryotedori tenchinage kihon
- Ryotedori tenchinage ki no nagare
- Katatedori tenchinage
- Munadori jujinage
- Ushiro ryotedori jujinage
- Ushiro katate munadori jujinage
- Ushiro katate munadori jujinage henka
Suwariwaza kokyuho
- Suwariwaza kokyuho (1)
- Suwariwaza kokyuho (2)
- Suwariwaza kokyuho (3)
- Suwariwaza kokyuho (4)
- Suwariwaza kokyuho (5)
Morotedori kokyuho
- Morotedori kokyuho (1)
- Morotedori kokyuho (2)
- Morotedori kokyuho (3)
- Morotedori kokyuho (4)
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A 39-year old man has been convicted at the Central Criminal Court in Cork of murdering his best friend, after the man told his partner he loved her.
Ciprian Grozavu of Bridge House, Bandon, Co Cork, is already serving a life sentence for murdering another man whom he had told about the killing.
The bodies of John Forrester and Jonathan Duke were dumped in the Bandon River in west Cork in November 2011.
Mr Forrester, 42, was a separated father-of-four from Blackpool in England, who moved to Cork after his relationship with his partner there broke down.
He settled in west Cork where he began a relationship with Catherine O'Connor.
The couple spent several months living together in a flat at Bank House in Bandon.
A few weeks before he was killed, Mr Forrester's relationship with O'Connor broke up and she moved into a flat upstairs in the same building with Grozavu.
On 12 November 2011, all three returned to Mr Forrester's flat at Bank House after spending the day drinking together.
A row broke out when Mr Forrester told O'Connor he still loved her.
Gardaí believe Grozavu strangled Mr Forrester with an item of clothing, while O'Connor stabbed him in the face and neck with a broken Manchester United mug and other crockery.
Mr Forrester's body was trussed up with black cable and a belt from a cardigan before it was rolled up in carpet and dumped in the Bandon River.
It was found three days later, 1.5km downstream.
After deliberating for over four hours, a jury this afternoon found Grozavu guilty of murdering Mr Forrester.
O'Connor has already pleaded guilty to the murder.
Grozavu had claimed she acted alone.
Both are already serving life sentences for the murder of father-of-one, Mr Duke, 27, who was killed because Grozavu and O'Connor had told him the day after the murder that they had killed Mr Forrester.
Gardaí say he was murdered because he knew too much.
Mr Justice Paul Carney sentenced Grozavu to life in prison.


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Virginia Tech opens two new public health programs within veterinary college
BLACKSBURG, VA. — Two new initiatives in public health have been launched at Virginia Tech with the formation of the Center for Public Health Practice and Research and a new department within the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine to support the center.
Formerly the Institute for Community Health, the new Center for Public Health Practice and Research was created in response to the increase in health-related research across campus and the new Master's of Public Health program, also under the wing of the veterinary college. The mission of the center is to foster interdisciplinary, collaborative public-health practice and research activities at Virginia Tech and among external public-health agencies, organizations, practitioners and researchers, according to the university.
The Center for Public Health Practice and Research will be housed in the new Department of Population Health Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and supported by the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment.The new department will organize and administer the public-health program and engage in research and outreach initiatives related to human and animal health.
The new department will also facilitate the process toward accreditation by the Council on Education for Public Health, provide accountability and budget oversight for the public health program, and partner with the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in offering the Master of Public Health degree, according to the veterinary school.
"We are very pleased with the board of visitor's decision as it confirms our approach to working across disciplines to provide new solutions to problems facing animal and public health," says Dr. Gerhardt Schurig, dean of the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine and a member of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Board of Directors. "The new department will continue to fuse efforts of veterinarians, physicians and other health professionals in addressing state, national and global public-health challenges consistent with the 'one health' approach endorsed by the (American Medical Association) and the (American Veterinary Medical Association)."
Virginia Tech launched the new Master's of Public Health program last fall with 36 students in response to a shortage of trained public health professionals. The 42-credit professional degree program offers concentrations in public health education and infectious disease and was developed in conjunction with the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
The curriculum includes biostatistics, epidemiology, environmental health, public health administration and health behavior, as well as specific courses in the areas of public-health education and infectious disease.


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How to deal with cussing kids
Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:29:41 GMT —
Before the four letter words fly, remember most young children have no idea what those choice words mean.
Experts say if you ignore the word, it may not be used again. Normally what makes children use those words is the response or reaction they're getting from those around them, especially at the age they are testing the limits.
Kids pick up swear words quickly, so they are learning them from parents, television or people around them. So watch what you say and remind those around you to watch themselves.
Chances are one will slip out of your child's mouth at some point. Experts say how you handle those potty words can either help tone down the language or backfire on you.
When it happens the first time, ignore it. Your kid will be less likely to say it again if he sees you don't find it amusing.
The next time, stay calm and say, "That's not a nice word, and we don't use it in our house."
If foul language continues to be a problem, make sure you -- and the other adults around your child -- are being good role models. Also monitor what's being shown on television.
If you slip up with a curse word, don't sweat it. But acknowledge your slip by saying I should not have used that word and then carry on as if nothing happened.


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I have overcrowded teeth (both top and bottom) and overbite. Will lingual braces (invisible braces) fix the overbite? Will there be teeth needed to be removed? Also do lingual braces work by pushing the teeth outwards or inwards like normal braces?
Invisible Braces for Correcting my Overbite and Crowded Teeth?
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Yes, this can be corrected with lingual braces
Yes, lingual braces can correct the overbite. I do not have any records to give you a proper diagnosis and treatment plan, but overbites are usually a result of underlying skeletal issues. Normally, the lower jaw is setback in relation to the upper jaw. This problem in a non-growing patient usually requires orthodontics and surgically advancing the lower jaw. There have been great advances in this procedure today and is normally performed in conjunction with your orthodontic treatment by an oral surgeon.
As far as teeth needing to be removed really depends on the amount of crowding. If not to severe, expansion with orthodontics alone can usually eliminate this problem. And for you last question, linguals work exactly the same way as traditional braces. In order to eliminate crowding you expand teeth outwards regardless of whether braces are on the inside or outside.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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News Archive
Your helmet is the most iconic piece of your firefighter gear. It identifies you more than any of your other gear. TheCairns® helmet, known for its durability and performance, maintains the historical, fundamental design everyone has come to know. Not only does it protect your skull, but it prevents scolding water and embers from falling down your coat. Would you wear a helmet that didn't have this brim? Would you wear a bad helmet? Is your helmet a good helmet or a bad one?
Jordan Ponder's Firefighter Dynamic Performance Training (FD-PT) provides you with workshops to train health and improve safety by teaching you how to replicate the tasks of fire scenes using versatile, affordable equipment. Within these workshops, you'll learn how to "CHECK YOUR GEAR," the cue to establish proper positioning and prevent injury in movement. One of the elements that you learn is to check your HELMET. Checking your helmet means checking the position of your head. Proper head position is indicative of your spinal alignment. Your head needs to line your ears over your shoulders for healthy positioning. In order to do this, your head needs to be pulled back much like your helmet brim. Failure to have this can lead to…
- Neck strains and sprains
- Rounded shoulders
- Tight chest muscles
- Improper breathing patterns
- Low back pain
- Weak neck extensors and more!
A forward head position is incredibly common. You live in an amazing and incredible technological age where you are always pushing your head forward to text, drive, eat, watch TV, sit at a computer screen, and more. This habitual position results in muscle imbalances that can get you "stuck" in this position. In short, there is a high chance you are operating with a bad helmet.
Something has to be done! In addition to a great reference blog "Firefighter Gear - Great Helmet Here!," you can use a pike pole to help reprogram a healthy head position. Here are three ways you can use a pike pole to exchange a bad helmet for a good one.
1. Drawing in Maneuver - Stand upright holding your pike pole behind you with one hand behind your head and the other behind your lower back. Pull your head back into your hand. Now, pull your pelvis up/in while pressing your stomach inwards towards the pike pole to push your lower back into your hands. In this position, keep your elbows even with the pike pole rather than allowing your elbows to collapse inward. Focus tension into your hands through your head and lower back. Be sure to maintain quality diaphragmatic breathing while still drawing your stomach in towards your spine. Hold this position for 30 seconds taking a 30-second rest in between and switching your hand position each time for a total of four times repeated. Practicing this regularly will…
- Train your spine to align properly
- Increase intra-abdominal pressure
- Stretch your lower back while strengthening the muscle around it
- Improve internal and external rotation of the shoulders
2. Hip Hinge - Assume the same position as above. Place your feet shoulder width apart with soft knees. Drive your hips backwards so that you are folding at your hips and looking to the ground. Continue pressing into your hands using the pike pole to cue spinal alignment with your head back. Feel a stretch in your hamstrings, hold it there for a few seconds then squeeze your glutes, so that you come back to standing fully upright. Do this 12 times, improving the depth as you go and maintaining soft knees. Take a short break, then switch hands again and do this again for a total of two times repeated. In addition to the benefits listed above, this will…
- Improve lifting mechanics
- Train you how to mobilize your lower body while stabilizing your upper body
- Build hip flexion and strengthen hip extension
3. Lunge - CLICK HERE! to see a video on how you can perform this!
Your helmet is the most recognizable piece of firefighter gear you wear. It remains relatively unchanged over many years, with its familiar brim designed to protect you. But is it protecting you? Your helmet also serves as the perfect cue for your head position. Is your head position protecting you? You can train a healthy head position by using a pike pole to practice the drawing in maneuver, hip hinging, and lunging. Exchange your bad helmet for a GREAT ONE!
Home fires
Half of home fire deaths result from fires reported between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. when most people are asleep. Only one in five home fires were reported during these hours.
- One quarter of home fire deaths were caused by fires that started in the bedroom. Another quarter resulted from fires in the living room, family room or den.
- Three out of five home fire deaths happen from fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
- In 2013, U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated 369,500 home structure fires. These fires caused 2,755 deaths, 12,200 civilian injuries, and $7.0 billion in direct damage
- Home fires killed an average of eight people every day in 2013.
- Cooking equipment is the leading cause of home fire injuries, followed by heating equipment.
- Smoking materials are the leading cause of home fire deaths.
- Most fatal fires kill only one or two people. In 2013, 12 home fires killed five or more people resulting in a total of 67 deaths.
- During 2007-2011, roughly one of every 320 households had a reported home fire per year.
Smoke Alarms
Three out of five home fire deaths in 2007-2011 were caused by fires in homes with no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms.
- Working smoke alarms cut the risk of dying in reported home fires in half.
- In fires considered large enough to activate the smoke alarm, hardwired alarms operated 93% of the time, while battery powered alarms operated only 79% of the time.
- When smoke alarms fail to operate, it is usually because batteries are missing, disconnected, or dead.
- An ionization smoke alarm is generally more responsive to flaming fires and a photoelectric smoke alarm is generally more responsive to smoldering fires. For the best protection, or where extra time is needed, to awaken or assist others, both types of alarms, or combination ionization and photoelectric alarms are recommended.
Escape Planning
According to an NFPA survey, only one-third of Americans have both developed and practiced a home fire escape plan.
- Almost three-quarters of Americans do have an escape plan; however, more than half never practiced it.
- One-third (32%) of survey respondents who made an estimate thought they would have at least 6 minutes before a fire in their home would become life threatening. The time available is often less. Only 8% said their first thought on hearing a smoke alarm would be to get out!
U.S. Fire Departments responded to an estimated annual average of 156,600 cooking-related fires between 2007-2011, resulting in 400 civilian deaths, 5,080 civilian injuries and $853 million in direct damage.
- Two of every five home fires started in the kitchen.
- Unattended cooking was a factor in one-third of reported home cooking fires.
- Two-thirds of home cooking fires started with ignition of food or other cooking materials.
- Ranges accounted for almost three of every five (57%) of home cooking fire incidents. Ovens accounted for 16%.
- Children under five face a higher risk of non-fire burns associated with cooking and hot food and drinks than of being hurt in a cooking fire.
- Microwave ovens are one of the leading home products associated with scald burns. According to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, two out of five of the microwave oven injuries seen at emergency rooms in 2012 were scald burns.
- Clothing was the item first ignited in less than 1% of home cooking fires, but these incidents accounted for 15% of the cooking fire deaths.
- Fifty-five percent of people injured in home fires involving cooking equipment were hurt while attempting to fight the fire themselves.
- Failure to clean was a factor contributing to ignition in 17% of reported home fires involving ovens or rotisseries.
The leading factor contributing to heating equipment fires was failure to clean. This usually involved creosote build-up in chimneys.
- Portable or fixed space heaters, including wood stoves, were involved in one-third (33%) of home heating fires and four out of five (81%) home heating deaths.
- Just over half of home heating fire deaths resulted from fires caused by heating equipment too close to things that can burn, such as upholstered furniture, clothing, mattresses or bedding.
- In most years, heating equipment is the second leading cause of home fires, fire deaths, and fire injuries.
Smoking Materials
Smoking materials started an average of 17,900 smoking-material home structure fires per year during 2007-2011. These fires caused an average of 580 deaths, 1,280 injuries and $509 million in direct property damage per year.
- Most deaths in home smoking-material fires were caused by fires that started in bedrooms (40%) or living rooms, family rooms or dens (35%).
- Sleep was a factor in roughly one-third of the home smoking material fire deaths.
- Possible alcohol impairment was a factor in one in five (19%) of home smoking fire deaths.
- One out of four fatal victims of smoking-material fires is not the smoker whose cigarettes started the fire.
About half (48%) of home electrical fires involved electrical distribution or lighting equipment. Other leading types of equipment were washer or dryer, fan, portable or stationary space heater, air conditioning equipment water heater and range.
- Electrical failure or malfunctions caused an average of 47,800 home fires per year in 2007-2011, resulting in an average of 450 deaths and $1.5 billion in direct property damage.
During 2007-2011 candles caused 3% of home fires, 4% of home fire deaths, 7% of home fire injuries, and 6% of direct property damage from home fires.
- On average, there are 29 home candle fires reported per day.
- More than one-third of these fires (36%) started in the bedroom; however, the candle industry found that only 13% of candle users burn candles in the bedroom most often.
- Nearly three in five candle fires start when things that can burn are too close to the candle.
- Falling asleep was a factor in 11% of the home candle fires and 37% of the associated deaths.


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Should The UK Reinstate The Death Penalty?
Today in Manchester, two young female police officers, were shot dead by a man wanted for murder.
It is the worst murder of members of the police since 1966. At that time, when Harry Roberts and two others, shot dead three policemen, I was serving in a pub in North London.
The mood in the pub that evening was sombre and one of horror. Few suggested that the recent abolishment of capital punishment the year before was to blame. Although a couple did get shouted down, for proposing thoughts about dead policemen.
Remember too, that it was soon after the Hanratty case, which did a lot to discredit the death penalty in the UK, as many believed Hanratty to be innocent.
I suspect that like in 1966, there will be a lot of discussion tonight and generally despite the sex and age of the victims, I suspect there will not be a large groundswell of support for the return of the death penalty.
There does appear to be one big difference between the murders today and that of those in 1966. Harry Roberts went and hid from the police, whereas Dale Cregan today, just walked into a police station and gave himself up. Perhaps he understood the horror, of what he had done, whereas Roberts didn't! If Cregan did, we've moved on in the forty plus years.
A Death Sentence for Dancing
This video is on the BBC's web site. It tells the story of four women and two men, who may have been sentenced to death at a wedding for dancing. The Pakistan Supreme Court is investigating.
The United States Censors The Thick of It.
According to this report, the American version of The Thick of It has been censored for bad language.
What does it say for a country, where you can't say "Fuck" on television, but you keep the death penalty?
The EU's Effect On Executions in the United States
This is a piece I found on the Internet. It shows how the EU's stand against the death penalty and their reluctance to sell needed drugs to states like Oklahoma and California is stopping executions.
Oklahoma, which executes more prisoners per capita than any other state, said on Wednesday it has only 1 remaining dose of pentobarbital, a key drug used to kill condemned prisoners.
One reason the state is running out is because of a ban on the sale of drugs for such purposes by the European Union, which opposes the death penalty.
Oklahoma has a single vial of pentobarbital left after the execution on Tuesday night of 57-year-old Michael B. Selsor, prison spokesman Jerry Massie said.
Oklahoma is the 1st state to publicly admit it has nearly exhausted supplies of the drug but other states may follow because of the EU clamp down, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C.
Pentobarbital is a sedative that is the first of a 3-drug cocktail administered by Oklahoma. It is followed by vecuronium bromide, which stops breathing, and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
Oklahoma was the 1st state in the country to use pentobarbital in 2010 after a shortage of another anesthetic, sodium thiopental, caused penal officials in death penalty states to look for an alternative.
11 other states also use it. Arizona and Ohio use a single injection of pentobarbital for executions while nine states use the multi-drug protocol, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Lundbeck Inc, the only manufacturer of pentobarbital, is located in Denmark and forbids its U.S.-based wholesalers from selling the drug for lethal injections, while the European Union forbids its member countries from exporting drugs for executions.
Oklahoma could resort to another anesthetic never used before in executions, Massie said, or it could try to tap existing supplies of pentobarbital.
A 3rd option, he said, would entail going back to sodium thiopental. "It's available but you run into the same kind of problem. Companies don't want to use it for executions," Massie said.
The only manufacturer of sodium thiopental in the United States, Hospira Inc, halted production last year.
Dieter said even if states have stockpiled a large supply of pentobarbital, expiration dates eventually will require new orders, he said.
Any change in death penalty procedures typically are met with legal challenges and sometimes lengthy administrative reviews, Dieter added, noting that California has not had an execution since 2006 because of exhaustive review procedures. A measure has qualified for the ballot in November in California calling for repeal of the death penalty.
Oklahoma has executed 3 men so far this year but has no more executions scheduled. There are 60 people on death row in the state, Massie said.
The state has the highest number of executions per capita since the death penalty was restored in the United States in 1976. Texas has executed more people but has a far larger population.
If the Americans are serious about executing people, they could surely manufacture the drugs they need themselves. Of course they should always use the Iranian method and hang people in public from a crane. I'm certain that the American public would like that. It might even be good for the tourist trade!
Iranian Faces Death Penalty For Watching Satellite TV
This may seem rather extreme, but it's true.
An Iranian political prisoner, following 2 years of detention in various solitary prisons, has received a death sentence from a criminal court in Tehran for having watched and contacted an Iranian dissident television program, Simay-e Azadi, says HRDIA.net which is a Persian language website with a focus on human rights situation in Iran.
Simay-e Azadi is a program in Farsi language that is broadcast from abroad presenting the views of the Iranian opposition, the Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK.
Mullahs consider the MEK to be their arch foe enemy.
Gholamreza Khosravi, 47, is said to support the MEK. He was previously jailed for his political activities during the 80s.
He had earlier received a much lighter sentence in his hometown but when his case was transferred to a court in Tehran, he received the death sentence. A review court later turned down the sentence but another court immediately reinstated it.
Khosravi told reporters that he will not ask for a pardon and that his death sentence is illegal and he did not commit any crime to deserve such punishment.
The Iranian people are, more than ever, using externally produced satellite television programs as their main source of information, news and entertainment. But the mullahs' regime, on the other hand, considers the free flow of information to be a growing threat to its authoritarian rule. Along with internet and the new mobile phone technology, satellite TV leaves no room for control of information and censorship the way a dictatorial regime prefers to have.
Iranian police attacks houses and neighborhoods at nights, collecting satellite dishes from atop buildings and apartments. Those arrested receive harsh punishments. But this may be the first instance of a death sentence being handed down for charges related to satellite TV.
Has there ever been a regime as cruel and bonkers as Iran.
Jimmy Carter on the Death Penalty
This article appeared in the Macon Telegraph.
For many reasons, it is time for Georgia and other states to abolish the death penalty. A recent poll showed 61 % of Americans would choose a punishment other than the death penalty for murder.
Also, just 1 % of police chiefs think that expanding the death penalty would reduce violent crime. This change in public opinion is steadily restricting capital punishment, both in state legislatures and in the federal courts.
As Georgia's chief executive, I competed with other governors to reduce our prison populations. We classified all new inmates to prepare them for a productive time in prison, followed by carefully monitored early-release and work-release programs. We recruited volunteers from service clubs who acted as probation officers and "adopted" one prospective parolee for whom they found a job when parole was granted. At that time, in the 1970s, only 1 in 1,000 Americans was in prison.
Our nation's focus is now on punishment, not rehabilitation. Although violent crimes have not increased, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with more than 7.43 per 1,000 adults imprisoned at the end of 2010. Our country is almost alone in our fascination with the death penalty. 90 % of all executions are carried out in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States.
One argument for the death penalty is that it is a strong deterrent to murder and other violent crimes. In fact, evidence shows just the opposite. The homicide rate is at least 5 times greater in the United States than in any Western European country, all without the death penalty.
Southern states carry out more than 80 % of the executions but have a higher murder rate than any other region. Texas has by far the most executions, but its homicide rate is twice that of Wisconsin, the first state to abolish the death penalty. Look at similar adjacent states: There are more capital crimes in South Dakota, Connecticut and Virginia (with death sentences) than neighboring North Dakota, Massachusetts and West Virginia (without death penalties). Furthermore, there has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent. DNA testing and other factors have caused 138 death sentences to be reversed since I left the governor's office.
The cost for prosecuting executed criminals is astronomical. Since 1973, California has spent about $4 billion in capital cases leading to only 13 executions, amounting to about $307 million each.
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting holy scriptures and numerous examples of mercy. We remember God's forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who had Bathsheba's husband killed. Jesus forgave an adulterous woman sentenced to be stoned to death and explained away the "eye for an eye" scripture.
There is a stark difference between Protestant and Catholic believers. Many Protestant leaders are in the forefront of demanding ultimate punishment.
Official Catholic policy condemns the death penalty. Perhaps the strongest argument against the death penalty is extreme bias against the poor, minorities or those with diminished mental capacity. Although homicide victims are 6 times more likely to be black rather than white, 77 % of death penalty cases involve white victims.
Also, it is hard to imagine a rich white person going to the death chamber after being defended by expensive lawyers. This demonstrates a higher value placed on the lives of white Americans.
It is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty.
Jimmy makes some interesting points and I think he's right.
One thing I find interesting is that Protestants are more in favour of the death penalty than Catholics. I doubt many European Protestant are in favour, so why the difference?
Connecticut Abolishes the Death Penalty
About time too, but it's here on the BBC
Santorum Gives Up
I think this is good for the world, as he would have made one of the worst US Presidents ever.
With all the religiously-driven troubles around the world, the one thing we don't need is an extreme right-wing Catholic, totally out of kilter on womens' issues and humanity in the White House.
He should crawl back with the dinosaurs and reeducate himself about the real world, where contraception and abortion are commonplace and legal, women work and guns and the death penalty are something you read about in history books.
Abu Hamza Can Be Extradited
I'm not going to comment on the legal reasons, as it does seem to me, that the verdict of the European Court to allow the extradition of Abu Hamza may create more problems than it solves.
After all, it's unlikely he'll get a slap on the wrists in a United States court, so what will be the reaction of his apologists here in the UK, when they realise he's not going to come back? I think it might be better for everyone here if he was kept in a nice warm cell and released when his time is up.
But then I don't have to get elected in a few years time.
The EU could put a whole cap on it, by passing a law that says that no-one could be extradited to a country with the death penalty on the statute book.
Japan Joins the Evil Empire
Yesterday, Japan hanged three men.
The death penalty is barbaric, but in Japan, they just take you in the morning and hang you, after you might have been in jail for twenty or thirty years. Your relatives aren' even told.
That though is truly barbaric. Even when we had the death penalty, it was carried out as humanely as possible, according to the standards of the time.
So Japan now joins the Evil Empire of Iran, China and the United States.


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Thyroxine, also known as tetraiodothyronine or "T4" for short is an endogenous prohormone released from the follicular cells of the thyroid gland. T4 is converted into the more potent T3 (triiodothyronine) by enzymes called deiodinases. T4 is active on its own but is about 1/3 as potent as T3. Thyroid hormones affect nearly every area of function in the body from a cellular level, from heart rate and metabolism and body temperature to regulation of growth. T3 and T4 release is stimulated by thyroid-stimulating hormone or TSH, which is released from the pituitary. The amount of circulating T3 and T4 is self-limiting through a simple feedback system, whereby increases in thyroid hormones result in decreases of TSH from the pituitary. T4 is primarily transported in a protein-bound fashion, bound mainly to thyroxine-binding globulin and also to serum albumin. T4 was first synthesized in 1927.
As Gromakova writes, "[in the rat] hyper- and hypothyroidism exerted opposite effects on protein synthesis in rats: stimulation and inhibition, respectively."[1] However, thyroid hormone increases also increase protein breakdown, so net protein synthesis does not increase from hyperthyroidism – in fact, depending on dietary conditions, quite the opposite can occur.
Wiersinga's analysis of the available data is that T4 is safer and has enough advantages over T3 that T4 should be preferentially used in thyroid hormone replacement therapy (HRT):
Liothyronine (T(3)) has the same drawback and requires twice-daily administration in view of its short half-life. Synthetic levothyroxine (L-T(4)) has many advantages: in view of its long half-life, once-daily administration suffices, the occasional missing of a tablet causes no harm, and the extrathyroidal conversion of T(4) into T(3) (normally providing 80% of the daily T(3) production rate) remains fully operative, which may have some protective value during illness. Consequently, L-T(4) is nowadays preferred, and its long-term use is not associated with excess mortality. The mean T(4) dose required to normalize serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is 1.6 microg/kg per day, giving rise to serum free T(4) (fT(4)) concentrations that are slightly elevated or in the upper half of the normal reference range.[2]
Clyde writes that while, T4 is an effective treatment for primary hypothyroidism, T4 combined with T3 does not offer any advantages over T3 therapy alone:
Compared with levothyroxine alone, treatment of primary hypothyroidism with combination levothyroxine plus liothyronine demonstrated no beneficial changes in body weight, serum lipid levels, hypothyroid symptoms as measured by a HRQL questionnaire, and standard measures of cognitive performance.[3]
Ma et al found minor advantages in combined T3 and T4 vs T4-exclusive treatment, but still stand behind the typical T4-exclusive recommendation for the general population of thyroid HRT patients:
Standard therapy for patients with hypothyroidism is replacement with synthetic thyroxine (T4). However, thyroxine plus triiodothyronine (T3) replacement therapy resulted in marked improvements in several items of the Profile of Mood States and in a few indices of psychometric function and quality of life…. . In conclusion, on the basis of data from recent studies, we conclude that combined T4 and T3 treatment does not improve well-being, cognitive function, or quality of life compared with T4 alone. T4 alone may be beneficial in improving psychological or physical well-being. According to the current evidence, T4 alone replacement may remain the drug of choice for hypothyroid patients.[4]