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AquaCity Poprad: A Water Park and Resort That is Environmentally Friendly

July 26, 2011 By 2 Comments

Cryotherapy is an advanced medicinal practice where people wearing special moisture-free clothing enter two separate chambers, the first at 60 degrees (C) and the second at -120 degrees (C). After spending two to three minutes, max, in the Cryo chamber they return to the first chamber and then exit after their body has readjusted to the temperature changes. This is followed by an intense 20-30 minutes of exercise to get the blood flowing. This procedure is shown to relieve inflammation and other symptoms, plus increases the body’s endorphin and hormone levels.

One of AquaCity's bars

The fun and bar category includes the multiple restaurants, cafes, disco and evening parties, the entertainment program and the outdoor funfair. The outdoor funfair has amusement park rides and carnival-like attractions and games.

AquaCity is a resort for year-round activities but people may only enjoy the outdoor pool areas in the summer months.

While visiting, guests can stay in one of two resort located hotels, either the Hotel Seasons or the Mountain View Hotel. Some families prefer apartment style living while vacationing, and for such people they can stay in comfort at the Apartments Victoria.

You may be questioning how a resort such as AquaCity is environmentally friendly.

They have photocells built into the glass walls which generate enough power to operate their geothermal swimming pool complex. The resort also generates 80 percent of their electrical requirements and gets their water from a geothermal spring located 1600 meters below AquaCity. This energy is fossil fuel free which reduces the whole resort and water park’s carbon footprint.

AquaCity's thermal pool

In 2007, after first opening, AquaCity was voted by World Travel Awards as the World’s Greenest Resort.

This is one destination that you can feel just as good about visiting as they make you feel during your visit. A relaxing, beautiful getaway that is good for you and the environment.

Resources: Vamos Travel, Best of European Union, Aqua City, and Luxist

New mantle cell lymphoma study findings have been reported from University of Schleswig-Holstein. in our site mantle cell lymphoma

Health & Medicine Week May 26, 2008 According to a study from Kiel, Germany, ” The increasing application of multi-color flow cytometry assays for staging and follow-up in mantle cell lymphoma necessitates that the specificity and sensitivity of this technique are evaluated. Data from prospective clinical trials comparing the clinical applicability of flow cytometry to routine diagnostic methods and to polymerase chain reaction are currently lacking.” “Design and Methods We applied a standardized four-color flow cytometry assay to 281 prospectively collected peripheral blood and bone marrow samples from 98 patients with mantle cell lymphoma participating in a multi-center clinical trial and compared the results to those obtained with conventional clinical staging and consensus primer IGH-polymerase chain reaction. The maximum sensitivity of flow cytometry using light chain restriction in CD19(+)CD5(+) subpopulations was 8.0×10(-4) while flow cytometry that relied on immunophenotypic aberrations was less sensitive (2.4×10(-3)). Mantle cell lymphoma cells were detected in 87.3% of 110 pre-treatment samples from 84 patients by flow cytometry and in 94.5% by polymerase chain reaction. Eight out of 84 patients (9.5%) diagnosed clinically as having stage II or III disease showed peripheral blood or bone marrow involvement according to flow cytometry, thus documenting more advanced disease. At follow-up residual lymphoma cells were detected by flow cytometry and concordantly by polymerase chain reaction in 10/171 samples (5.8%); however, 31 follow-up samples (18.1%) were positive for minimal residual disease according only to polymerase chain reaction analysis. The sensitivity of four-color flow cytometry is comparable to that of IGH-polymerase chain reaction at initial staging but is less sensitive at follow-up after immuno-chemotherapy,” wrote S. Bottcher and colleagues, University of Schleswig-Holstein (see also Mantle Cell Lymphoma). go to website mantle cell lymphoma

The researchers concluded: “Both techniques are highly valuable methods for accurate initial staging.” Bottcher and colleagues published the results of their research in Haematologica – the Hematology Journal (Minimal residual disease detection in mantle cell lymphoma: methods and significance of four-color flow cytometry compared to consensus IGH-polymerase chain reaction at initial staging and for follow-up examinations. Haematologica – the Hematology Journal, 2008;93(4):551-559).

For additional information, contact S. Bottcher, University of Schleswig Holstein, Dept. of Med 2, Campus Keil, Chemnitzstr 33, D-24116 Kiel, Germany.

The publisher of the Haematologica – the Hematology Journal can be contacted at: Ferrata Storti Foundation, Via Giuseppe Belli 4, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

 

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About Jennifer Shockley

Jennifer is originally from Colorado but currently resides in Michigan where she is finishing up her Master’s degree in Architecture. She is currently focusing on historical preservation and sustainable design and hopes to gain employment at a design firm specializing in these areas. Jennifer also has writing experience serving as an editor for her school newspaper and college magazine. Jennifer has two cats named Prada and Dior-aptly named after her shoe obsession. You can follow Jennifer on twitter @jenshock81.

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  1. Anonymous says:
    July 27, 2011 at 8:41 am

    Whoa, Marika & I have been to Poprad! This aquapark was a huge attraction there, but we were there for a different reason and only a short time, so didn’t go there. But if I had know it was green..

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  2. Apetrocco says:
    July 27, 2011 at 11:30 pm

    Today,
    the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR program marked the
    midpoint of its 2011 National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings.
    In the first six months of the competition alone, the competitors together
    have saved more than $3.7 million on utility bills and prevented 18,500 metric
    tons of CO2
    emissions – that’s equal to the electricity used by
    2,300 homes annually.

     

    Teams
    from 245 buildings around the country are going head-to-head in this year’s
    ENERGY STAR National Building Competition to see who can reduce their energy
    use the most. The building with the largest percentage reduction in energy use,
    adjusted for weather and the size of the building, will be recognized as the
    winner in November.

     

    Today
    EPA announced the Top Contenders for each of twelve building categories,
    including Boston’s Colonnade Hotel, the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis,
    Office Depot in Plano, Texas, and a parking garage at the University of Central
    Florida.

     

    There’s a lot
    we can all do in our own workplaces, as well. Actor John Corbett, the 2011
    ENERGY STAR National Building Competition spokesperson, offers some tips in a
    new video posted today on the ENERGY STAR site http://www.energystar.gov/battleofthebuildings.

     

    ENERGY
    STAR was started by EPA in 1992 as a market-based partnership to reduce
    greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. Today, the ENERGY STAR
    label can be found on commercial and industrial buildings as well as new homes
    and more than 60 different kinds of products that meet strict energy-efficiency
    specifications set by EPA. Last year alone, Americans, with the help of ENERGY
    STAR, saved about $18 billion on their energy bills while preventing greenhouse
    gas emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of 33 million vehicles.

     

    For
    a list of National
    Building Competition Top Contenders and complete midpoint results for all
    competitors: http://www.energystar.gov/BattleOfTheBuildings

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