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Glossary of Terms
Land care consulting is providing expert advice on specific landscaping topics, but not necessarily performing or overseeing the actual work to be done.
Similar to landscape architecture. Landscape design focuses more on the artistic merits of design, while landscape architecture encompasses the artistic design as well as structural engineering. Landscape design and landscape architecture both take into account soils, drainage, climate and other issues, because the survival of selected plants depends on those. Landscape architecture requires a license, while landscape design does not.
Creating or planting landscaping features such as a lawn, trees, shrubs or water features. It does not include design, nor maintenance of these features.
Landscape Architecture
Landscape architecture is a synthesis of art, science and technical philosophies and practices that seek to care for the Earth's landscapes in a truly holistic, creative and sustainable manner. The scope of the profession includes masterplanning, site planning, environmental restoration, town or urban planning, urban design, parks and recreation planning, green infrastructure planning and provision, all at varying scales of design, planning and management. Landscape architecture requires a license.
Moving with the seasons to take care of landscaping features such as lawns, trees, shrubs or water features. It does not include design, nor installation of these features.
Landscape planning is a branch of landscape architecture. Urban park systems and greenways of the type planned by Frederick Law Olmsted are key examples of urban landscape planning. Landscape planners can look beyond the 'closely drawn technical limits' and 'narrowly drawn territorial boundaries' which constrain design projects. Landscape planners tend to work on projects which are of broad geographical scope, concern many land uses or many clients, and are implemented over a long period of time.
A person who can give a public presentation on a specified organic land care topic. Search on the topic as a keyword.
All Organic
NOFA Accredited Organic Land Care Professionals who use only organic materials for all clients per the NOFA Organic Land Care Standards.
Work relating to organic maintenance of ponds, lakes, streams and large-scale constructed water features.
Home orchards, nurseries, growers, or agricultural production.
Gardens or Ornamentals
Work related to new or existing specialty gardens, e.g. rose, vegetable, wildlife, water, rock or herb gardens. Mixed plantings of trees, shrubs and flowers are also possible as well as edible landscaping with perennial fruits and berries. Keeping a garden looking its best with practices such as deadheading, staking, edging, and weeding. Mulching and fertilizing. Identifying and managing pests (e.g. insects, slugs, snails, mites, and moles), weeds (e.g. unwanted or noxious plants) or plant diseases (such as caused by pathogens including fungi, bacteria, viruses, virus-like organisms, phytoplasmas, protozoa, nematodes and parasitic plants).
Historic Preservation
Re-creating and preserving landscapes as they existed in the historic past.
Landscape Construction
Features such as trellises, gazebos, decks, patios and fences. Brick, stone, concrete and pavers work related to features such as patios, stone walls, retaining walls, walkways and driveways.
Lawns or Athletic Turf
Work relating to home lawns, parks and athletic fields: site analysis, pest, weed and disease management, soil testing, fertilizing, compost or compost tea applications, liquid biological amendments, liming, aerating, seeding, soding.
Mechanical cutting of grass, edging and trimming.
Naturalized Areas
Work related to areas on a property where native flora and fauna are encouraged and impact from humans is minimized.
Outdoor Lighting
Work related to design, placement and installation of outdoor light fixtures.
Planting or Transplanting
Moving or installing plants into the ground per the designer's plan or instructions, including preparing beds and sites.
Remediation or Restoration
The removal of pollution or contaminants from soil or water or from a brownfield site intended for redevelopment. Also the general improvement of an existing soil based on soil test results, and the reintroduction of native plants and the re-establishment of native ecosystems.
Trees or Shrubs
Work relating to identification and management of trees and shrubs: fertilizing, trimming, pruning, removal, pest and disease management.
Water or Irrigation
Work relating to irrigation, stormwater management, water storage, rain barrels, drainage issues, water management, protection and conservation.
Whole Landscapes
Large scale land management affecting an acre or more of land or an entire property of less than one acre.
Identification and management of animals such as mosquitoes, ticks, birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
Yard Work
Spring and fall clean-up, raking, blowing, removal and/or shredding of leaves, mulching, mulch delivery, mowing, edging, brush cutting, chipping and removal, stump removal.
Art Gardens
Gardens containing sculptures or other artwork as elements.
Athletic Turf
Grass fields used for sports.
Botanical Gardens
Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes.
Boulder Wall Gardens
Gardens with plants that grow on rock walls.
Butterfly Gardens
Gardens with plants that attract butterflies.
Children's Gardens
Gardens that are fun for children to work and play in.
Chipping Brush
Using a gas or electric machine to chip branches and brush into small pieces.
Client Relations
Working to help professionals and clients achieve productive working relationships. A good client relationship is best achieved where both professional and client have realistic expectations regarding the desired outcome of the work and their mutual responsibilities involved in the achieving that outcome.
Climate Change
Climate change is any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather of the Earth as a whole over an appropriately significant period of time.
Compost is the end result of controlled aerobic decomposition of organic matter known as composting. It is used in landscaping, horticulture and agriculture as a soil conditioner and fertilizer to add vital humus or humic acids.
Compost Application
Spreading either solid or liquid compost onto the soil.
Compost tea
Compost tea, a liquid solution or suspension made by steeping compost in water. It is used as both a fertilizer and to prevent plant diseases.
Composting on-site
Setting up composting stations fed with materials from on--site such as grass clippings, leaves, brush, or kitchen wastes.
Container Gardens
Container gardening is the practice of growing plants exclusively in containers or "pots", instead of planting them in the ground.
Deer Browse Protection
Protecting plants from browsing deer by using techniques such as plantings that deer avoid and physical barriers.
Deer Resistant Gardens
Gardens containing plants that deer don't like.
Disease Identification and Control
Identifying plant diseases and their causes, and adjusting the habitat to prevent further outbreaks.
Issues relating to properly managing excess water on a property.
Edible Landscaping
Planting landscapes with food-bearing plants such as blueberries and apple trees.
Educational Gardens
Gardens that can be used to teach students about gardening.
Environmental Art
Art made from naturally occurring materials, and placed outside in nature. See for example the works of Andy Goldsworthy.
Erosion and Sediment Control
Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development and construction. This usually involves the creation of some sort of physical barrier, such as vegetation or rock, to absorb some of the energy of the wind or water that is causing the erosion. Effective erosion controls are important techniques in preventing water pollution and soil loss.
Installing wood, wire, stone, bamboo or other fences.
Fertilizers, Lime, and Soil Amendments
Fertilizers are chemical compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either through the soil, for uptake by plant roots, or by foliar feeding, for uptake through leaves. They typically provide, in varying proportions, the three major plant nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium: N-P-K), the secondary plant nutrients (calcium, sulfur, magnesium) and sometimes trace elements (or micronutrients) with a role in plant or animal nutrition: boron, chlorine, manganese, iron, zinc, copper, molybdenum. Agricultural lime, also called garden lime or liming (soil), is a soil additive made from pulverized limestone or chalk. The primary active component is calcium carbonate. Additional chemicals vary depending on the mineral source and may include calcium oxide, magnesium oxide and magnesium carbonate. Additional soil amendments may include microbial and faunal ecology. These organisms include earthworms, nematodes, protozoa, fungi and bacteria.
Fine Gardening
Keeping a garden looking its best with practices such as deadheading, staking, edging, and weeding.
Planting landscapes with food-bearing plants such as blueberries and apple trees.
Fruit Trees and Shrubs
Edible fruit bearing trees and shrubs.
Golf Courses
A golf course consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a pin and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes.
Green Roofs
A green roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and soil, or a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing membrane. It is used to keep the building cool, filter stormwater and be visually appealing.
Habitat Restoration
Mitigating damage, restoring plantings, irrigation, erosion control, plant establishment and monitoring.
Hardscape, in the practice of landscaping, refers to the paved areas like streets & sidewalks, large business complexes & housing developments, and other industrial areas where the upper-soil-profile is no longer exposed to the actual surface of the Earth.
Healing, Spiritual or Sacred Gardens
A garden designed for peace and tranquility.
Herb Gardens
Herb gardens may be purely functional or can include a blend of functional and ornamental parts. They are usually used to flavour food in cooking. In addition, plants grown within the garden are sometimes also specifically targeted to cure common illnesses or maladies such as colds, headaches, or anxiety.
Horticultural Therapy
Horticultural therapy is the practice of horticulture to improve human well-being. According to the American Horticultural Therapy Association, HT is defined as a process utilizing plants and horticultural activities to improve social, educational, psychological and physical adjustment of persons thus improving their body, mind, and spirit.
Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation.
Hummingbird Gardens
Gardens planted with flowers that attract hummingbirds.
Insect Identification and Control
Identifying plant insect pests and their causes, and adjusting the habitat to prevent further outbreaks
Invasive Plants
Invasive plants are non-indigenous species of plants that adversely affect the habitats they invade economically, environmentally or ecologically.
Installing systems to provide water to plantings.
Irrigation Water Conservation
Providing for proper watering of plantings.
The prayer labyrinth, also known as a meditation labyrinth, is a circular path leading to a center and back out again, made from stones, plants, or other materials. It is one of the oldest contemplative and transformational tools known, having been used for many hundreds of years for prayer, ritual, initiation, and spiritual growth.
Lawn Alternatives
The use of groundcovers, clover, ornamental grasses, and other plants as an alternative to planting and maintaining a lawn.
Lawn Care
Growing a healthy lawn with soil testing, fertilizing, soil amendments, proper mowing and watering.
Lawn Reduction
Reducing the size of a lawn by planting native trees, shrubs, ground cover, prairie or meadow patches, flower beds, and vegetable gardens.
Lawn Renovation
Improving an already existing lawn.
Lawns & Turf Management
Growing a healthy lawns and athletic turf with soil testing, fertilizing, soil amendments, proper mowing and watering.
Leaf/Leaves Blowing
Spring and fall clean up of leaves with a blower.
Leaf/Leaves Removal
Off-site removal of collected leaves.
Leaf/Leaves Shredding
On-site shredding and composting of collected leaves.
Outdoor light fixtures and placement.
Masonry is the building of structures from individual units laid in and bound together by mortar. The common materials of masonry construction are brick, stone such as marble, granite, travertine, limestone; concrete block, glass block, and tile. Masonry is generally a highly durable form of construction.
Meadow Gardens
A mix of perennial, biennial, and annual flowers and plants blended together to create a natural meadow suited to the site location.
A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by grass and other non-woody plants (grassland).
Medicinal Gardens
A garden with plants for healing a variety of medical ailments.
Moon Gardens
A garden planted with white flowers, silvery or blue toned foliage, fragrant blooms and night blooming flowers, for evening enjoyment.
Mosquito Control
Reducing mosquito populations and repelling mosquitoes with plants, botanical materials, and habitat modification such as eliminating standing water.
Moss Gardens
Gardens planted with a variety of mosses.
Mechanical cutting of grass.
Mowing - Electric or Push Reel
Cutting grass using a hand pushed reel mower, or an electric mower.
Mulch Delivery
Delivering mulches such as wood chips, bark chips or compost.
Spreading mulches such as wood chips, bark chips, or compost on plantings.
National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Ha
Criteria for being a Backyard Wildlife Habitat includes providing food, water, cover, and places to raise young through the use of native plants and other features such as nest boxes and water gardens. The Backyard Wildlife Habitat can be certified by the NWF as an official Backyard Wildlife Habitat site if these elements are provided
Native Plantings
Using plants that have been living in an area for hundreds of years.
Native Woodland
Creating the natural attributes of a woodland forest, the tall canopy, the middle story (smaller trees and shrubs), and the ground layer of wild flowers, ferns, and sedges.
Natural Children's Play Spaces
Areas with trees, shrubs, rocks and water features that are safe and enjoyable for children to play in.
Nursery Care
Tending to plants grown in a greenhouse or nursery.
Orchard Care
Tending to trees grown in an orchard.
Ornamental Horticulture
Ornamental horticulture is working to breed, grow, design with, and sell plants used in decorative and recreational applications.
Perennial Gardens
Gardens with perennial plants that bloom year after year.
Permaculture is an approach to designing human settlements and perennial agricultural systems that mimic the relationships found in the natural ecologies. Perennial plants are often used in permaculture design as they do not need to be planted every year they require less maintenance and fertilizers.
Pest Control
Identifying plant pests and their causes, and adjusting the habitat to prevent further outbreaks
Pest Management
Identifying plant pests and their causes, and adjusting the habitat to prevent further outbreaks
Plant Health Care
Keeping plants healthy with proper siting, nutrients, water, soil, and pruning.
Putting plants into the ground.
Poison Ivy Control
Managing poison ivy using organic herbicides, mowing, mulching or hand pulling.
Pond Management
Maintaining a healthy pond ecosystem and high water quality by managing nutrient inputs and controlling invasive aquatic plants.
Proper cutting of limbs from trees and shrubs to ensure healthy plants.
Rain Barrels
Plastic or oak barrels designed to collect rainwater from roofs for use later in watering plants.
Rain Gardens
A rain garden is a planted depression that is designed to allow rainwater runoff the opportunity to be absorbed from impervious urban areas like roofs, driveways, walkways, and compacted lawn areas. This reduces rain runoff by allowing stormwater to soak into the ground (as opposed to flowing into storm drains and surface waters which causes erosion, water pollution, flooding, and diminished groundwater). Rain gardens cut down on the amount of pollution reaching creeks and streams.
Using a manual rake to collect leaves and yard debris.
Riparian Restoration
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a stream. Plant communities along the river margins are called riparian vegetation, characterized by hydrophilic plants.
Rock Gardens
A tasteful design of rocks and plants that grow in between rocks.
Roof Gardens
A garden planted on top of a roof.
Rose Gardens
A garden made up of different types of roses.
School Gardens
A garden on school grounds taken care of by school children. Sometimes the food grown in such gardens is used in the school lunches.
School Grounds Management
Taking care of school grounds, e.g. mowing, fertilizing, liming athletic fields.
Screen Planting
A screen planting is used as a visual and/or noise barrier, usually incorporates more than one type of plant, has a more informal look, and covers more space horizontally than a hedge.
Sculpture Gardens
A garden accented by sculptures.
Seasonal Gardens
Gardens planted with annuals designed to be viewed in specific seasons, for instance a spring garden.
Selling Environmentally Responsible Landscaping
Encouraging people to adopt ecological sound landscaping practices.
Shade Gardens
Gardens that provide shade.
Shrub Care
Fertilizing, irrigation, mulching, pruning of small woody plants.
Site Analysis
A comprehensive examination of existing landscape features, drainage patterns, soil conditions, and usage.
Snow Removal
Snow plowing and removal.
Sod installation
Sod is grass and the part of the soil beneath it held together by the roots, or a piece of this material.
Soil Ecology and Biology
Soil biology is the study of microbial and faunal activity and ecology in soil. These organisms include earthworms, nematodes, protozoa, fungi and bacteria. Soil biology plays a vital role in determining many soil characteristics yet, being a relatively new science, much remains unknown about soil biology and about how the nature of soil is affected.
Soil Health and Soil Foodweb
The soil is home to a large proportion of the world's genetic diversity. The linkages between soil organisms and soil functions are observed to be incredibly complex. The interconnectedness and complexity of this soil food web means any appraisal of soil function must necessarily take into account interactions with the living communities that exist within the soil.
Soil Remediation
The removal of pollution or contaminants from soil for the general protection of human health and the environment or from a brownfield site intended for redevelopment.
Soil Testing and Analysis - Biological
Biological testing assesses the interaction of a large number of possible organism groups and their interactions in soil. The information obtained can be used to finely tune what is going on in soil, and what needs to be done to bring the soil back to a condition of health. Tests include: Active Bacteria/Active Fungi; Total Bacteria/Total Fungi; Morphological Species Diversity; Nematode Numbers and Community Structure; Protozoa; Mycorrhizal fungi;Beneficial Organisms; Microarthropods.
Soil Testing and Analysis -Chemical
The analysis of a soil sample to determine nutrient content, composition and other characteristics, including contaminants. Tests are also performed to measure fertility and indicate deficiencies that need to be remedied.
Storm Water Infiltration
Stormwater is a term used to describe water that originates during precipitation events. Stormwater that does not soak into the ground becomes surface runoff, which either flows into surface waterways or is channeled into storm sewers. Stormwater infiltration is a process to direct stormwater into the ground instead of allowing to enter surface waters.
Storm Water Management
Stormwater is a term used to describe water that originates during precipitation events. Stormwater that does not soak into the ground becomes surface runoff, which either flows into surface waterways or is channeled into storm sewers. Stormwater management is either diverting, storing and/or cleaning stormwater on the site.
Tea Gardens
A tea garden was a place to drink tea and stroll around lawns, ponds and view statues.
Tick Control
Barrier, planting, and organic botanical oils to repel and discourage ticks.
Ticks and Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a common tick-borne disease transmitted to humans by the bite of an infected black-legged tick or deer tick (Ixodes scapularis). The best way to prevent Lyme disease is with daily body "tick checks" if you have been in the woods, brush or tall grass, since the tick does not transmit the infection unless it has been embedded for more than 24 hours.
Moving plants from one place to another.
Tree Care
The cultivation and management of trees within the landscape. This includes the understanding how trees grow and respond to cultural practices and the environment, as well as application of cultural techniques such as selection, planting, care, surgery and removal.
Upland Restoration
Restoring areas that are higher in elevation, not near water, and somewhat dry.
Vegetable Gardens
Gardens planted with edible annuals such as tomatoes, peas, beans and lettuce.
Vernal Pools Certification
Vernal pools are temporary pools of water, usually found during the spring. They dry up at some point in the year so they are usually devoid of fish, and thus allow the safe development of natal amphibian and insect species. In some states (including MA and NJ), the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program "certifies" the occurrence of vernal pools based on documentation of the pool's use by one or more groups of species that rely on vernal pools. Official certification provides a vernal pool, and up to 100 feet beyond its boundary in some cases, certain protection under several state and federal laws.
Water Features
In landscape architecture and garden design, a water feature is any of a full range of fountains, pools, ponds, cascades, waterfalls, and streams.
Water Gardens
Usually referring to a man-made feature, these gardens typically combine a pool with aquatic plants and often ornamental fish. Fixed items such as rocks, fountains, statuary, waterfalls and watercourses can be combined with the pool to add visual interest and integration with the local landscape and environment.
Water Storage
A system for collecting rain water for use in irrigation at a later time.
Weed Control
Identifying unwanted or noxious plants, the cause for them, and adjusting the habitat to prevent further outbreaks.
Unwanted or noxious plants.
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access water in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn via an electric submersible pump or a mechanical pump (eg from a water-pumping windmill.
Wetland Restoration
A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brackish. The restoration of drained or altered wetlands re-establishes and adds important ecological functions to the landscape, including the creation of new wildlife habitat, increased flood storage, and the enhancement of water quality.
A wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, and bogs, among others. The water found in wetlands can be saltwater, freshwater, or brackish
Wildlife Control
Wildlife includes all non-domesticated animals. Control consists of humanely relocating birds, animals, pests and wildlife away from your property, and modifying habits to discourage them from returning (e.g. covering compost areas and isolating bird feeders).
Wildlife Gardens
Gardens designed to be beneficial to wildlife such as native birds, frogs, mammals, butterflies, dragonflies and other beneficial insects. Provides year-round food and habitat resources to attract and benefit wildlife through native plant groupings and organic gardening techniques.
Winter Protection
Getting you yard ready for the winter snows and cold with practices such as pruning, covering and tying of plantings.
Wooden Structures
Such things as trellises, gazebos, fences, and playsets.
Woodland Gardens
A garden designed to copy a peaceful woodland area, with the tall canopy, the middle story (smaller trees and shrubs), and the ground layer of wild flowers, ferns, and sedges.
Woodlands Management
Protecting and maintaining a natural woodland forest, the tall canopy, the middle story (smaller trees and shrubs), and the ground layer of wild flowers, ferns, and sedges.
Xeriscaping refers to landscaping and gardening in ways that reduce or eliminate the need for supplemental irrigation.
Zen Gardens
A Zen garden is an enclosed shallow sandpit containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass and/or other natural elements. The main elements are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water


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How to Boost Your Household Income
When you can't make ends meet with expense cuts, look at income. You, your partner, and any children you have can generate additional income — income that can soften the money woes that come with a dicey economy.
Make the most of moonlighting. Assuming your current agreement with your employer doesn't rule it out as an option, moonlighting (holding a second regular job, in addition to your main job) can help you get the extra cash you need. If you don't have a marketable skill, you can still earn some extra money by taking on a second job at a local restaurant or store. Do it regularly enough, and you have a steady additional flow of income.
Don't plan on the extra money unless you always get the extra work or are very confident that you'll be able to hustle up side jobs. Develop a plan that doesn't take into account the sporadic moonlighting money, but use that money to help you reach your goals earlier than the plan calls for.
Put other family members to work. When your family is facing a financial crisis, everybody of working age can pull together and contribute his or her fair share to get the family back on its feet. Simply explain what's going on, ask them to assist you and be part of the solution, and share your plan with them.


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RBCs (Red blood cells) are originated in the bone marrow (the spongy tissue inside the bone). To make red blood cells, the body regulate enough supply of erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone which is formed by the kidney. It helps to make red blood cells. When have more red blood cells increases the haemoglobin levels. Haemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells which is needed for blood carry oxygen throughout the body.
Anaemia is a disorder which arise when there is not enough haemoglobin in a person's blood. There are different causes of anaemia. For instance, Anemia can be caused by the body's impotence to produce enough EPO to make red blood cells. In case, the person may have to undergo blood transfusion to cure this type of anaemia. If you have anaemia, your physician can determine the cause.
1 ml injection in a vial
Eporise 40000IU injection is indicated for the treatment of following conditions
Anemia due to chronic kidney disease including patients on dialysis or without dialysis to reduce the requirement of RBC transfusion
Anemia due to Zidovudine given ≤ 4200 mg/week in HIV infection patients with levels of erythropoietin endogenous serum of ≤ munits/mL.
Anemia due to effect of concomitant myelosuppressive chemotherapy
Eporise 40000IU is indicated to decrease the uses for allogeneic RBC transfusions among patients with perioperative haemoglobin > 10 to ≤ 13 g/dL who are at serious risk for perioperative blood loss from elective, noncardiac, nonvascular surgery. Eporise 40000IU is not used for patients who are willing to donate autologous blood pre-operatively.
Erythropoietin controls erythropoiesis by stimulating the differentiation and replication of erythroid precursors, stimulating the release of reticulocytes into the circulation, and synthesis of cellular haemoglobin. Recombinant human erythropoietin is available as epoetin alfa and epoetin beta which are required in the management of anaemia's along with CRF, cancer chemotherapy and anti-aids drug zidovudine.
Time to peak plasma concentration of Eporise 40000IU is 20 to 25 hours and bioavailability of SC injectable Eporise 40000IU is much lower than IV injection and is 20-24%.Adult and paediatric with CRF peak plasma level is 5 to 24 hours
Volume of distribution is lasma protein bindingrange of 40-63.80 ml/kg and Eporise 40000IU has no p
bounding of erythropoietin and epoetin alfa to EPO-R causes to cellular internalization, which includes the degradation of the ligand. Erythropoietin and epoetin alfa may also be disgraced by the reticuloendothelial scavenging pathway or lymphatic system
Eporise 40000IU injection are cleared through uptake and degradation via the EPO-R-expressing cells and may also involve other cellular pathways in the interstitium. Only a little amount of unchanged epoetin alfa is found in the urine.
Half-life in adult is 4 hours and for children is approx. 6 hours
Adult and paediatric with CRF the half-life is 4 to 13 hours
Important Dosing Information :
• Administer Evaluation of Iron Stores and Nutritional Factors
• Monitoring of Response to Therapy in Anemia
• Formulation Based Selection In pregnant women, lactating women, neonates, and infants use only single-dose vials (the benzyl alcohol-free formulation)
Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease
For all patients with CKD: When starting or adjusting therapy, monitor haemoglobin levels at least weekly until stable, then monitor at least monthly.
• Avoid rises of the dose more frequently than once every 4 weeks. Reduces in dose can occur more frequently. Avoid frequent dose adjustments.
• If the haemoglobin increases rapidly, decrease the dose of Eporise by 25% or more as required to reduce fast responses.
For adult patients with CKD on dialysis:
• Initial Eporise injection therapy when the haemoglobin level is less than 10 g/dL.
• If the haemoglobin level approaches or exceeds 11 g/dL, decrease the dose of Eporise.
• The usual starting dose for adult patients is 50 to 100 Units/kg 3 times weekly IV or SC. The intravenous route is prescribed for patients on haemodialysis.
For paediatric patients with CKD:
Initial Eporise injection treatment only when the haemoglobin level is less than 10 g/dL. If the haemoglobin level approaches or exceeds 12 g/dL, reduce or interrupt the dose of Eporise injection. The usual starting dose for paediatric patients (ages 1 month or older) is 50 Units/kg 3 times weekly intravenously or subcutaneously.
Zidovudine-treated Patients with HIV-infection
Starting Dose
The prescribed initial dose in adults is 100 Units/kg as an IV or SC injection 3 times per week.
Discontinue Eporise injection if an increase in haemoglobin is not achieved at a dose of 300 Units/kg for 8 weeks.
Patients on Cancer Chemotherapy :
Initial Eporise injection in patients on cancer chemotherapy only if the haemoglobin is less than 10 g/dL, and if there is a minimum of two additional months of planned chemotherapy.
Use the less dose of EPORISE needed to avoid RBC transfusions.
Usually Starting Dose :
For Adults administer the dose of 150 Units/kg subcutaneously 3 times per week until completion of a chemotherapy course or 40,000 Units subcutaneously weekly until completion of a chemotherapy course.
Paediatric Patients (5 to 18 years): 600 Units/kg intravenously weekly until completion of a chemotherapy course. Surgery Patients
The prescribed Eporise injections are:
• 300 Units/kg per day subcutaneously (SC) for 15 days total: given daily for 10 days before surgery, on the day of surgery, and for 4 days after surgery.
• 600 Units/kg subcutaneously (SC) in 4 doses given the patients 21, 14, and 7 days before surgery and on the day of surgery.
Eporise injection overdose can cause by above the desired level of haemoglobin levels, which must be controlled with discontinuation or reduction of Eporise 40000IU dosage with phlebotomy.
The injection Eporise 40000IU has some serious side effects like
• Increase mortality, Myocardial infarction, stroke and thromboembolism
• Increased mortality/ risk of tumor progression or recurrence in patients.
• Hypertension
• Seizures
• Serious allergic reactions
• Severe cutaneous reaction
High incidence of death, myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and thromboembolism: while Using ESAs to aim hemoglobin level of >11 g/dL rises risk of severe adverse cardiovascular reactions
Special caution usage in hypertension, iron deficiency, folate or B12 deficiency, congestive heart failure (CHF), coronary artery disease (CAD), seizure disorder, sickle-cell disease, haemolytic Anemia, porphyria, hematologic disorders
Cancer patients will Increased tumor development rate when dosed to achieve haemoglobin level of >12 mg/ld.
In Chronic renal failure patients at starting of treatment, transferrin saturation should be ≥20% and ferritin ≥100 ng/mL
Patients go through surgery are at high risk for DVT; concomitant DVT prophylaxis is strongly recommended In Zidovudine-treated patients may have response only when zidovudine dosage <4200 mg/wk and endogenous epoetin <500 U/mL
In Dialysis patients having IV administration recommended to decrease red-cell aplasia risk; rises anticoagulation with heparin may be needed to prohibit clotting of extracorporeal circuit during haemodialysis
Avoid increase dose more frequently than once monthly.
Patients Contains albumin; may carry extremely specific risk for transmission or viral diseases or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
In Cases of PRCA and of severe Anemia, with or without other cytopenia's that appears following the growth of neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin resulted in patients treated with epoetin alfa


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Theo the house . . . where did you find it it's magnificent! I mean it's not our blue house but look at that back porch and the view. It has so much potential!
I knew you'd love it Vanessa. That's why I bought it!
You bought it, you mean this is ours? Well I haven't been so happy since we escaped those kidnappers 10 years ago . . .
It turns out, Theo had had a knife in his back pocket and pulling a James bond, had cut his ropes in the distorted mirrors room and found Vanessa and cut her ropes too. They had ran madly from the clown with the knife when they realized the clown wasn't chasing them but the kidnappers. It had been a bloody time when the the clown slashed and stabbed the kidnappers to death. Theo and Vanessa had found there way out of the funhouse and taken their car back to town in shock.
What's that?
That's when Theo saw the clown coming towards them a big grin on his plastic face. The clown waved and went on his way.
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March 17, 2010
It pained Anne Marie May to move her arm barely a month ago, but she'll be reaching this week for something that no UCSB woman has ever grasped:
An NCAA swimming championship.
May, a two-time All-American, will begin her quest on Thursday in the preliminaries of the 50 freestyle at the Boilermaker Aquatic Center at Indiana's Purdue University. She will also compete in Saturday's 100 free.
She's come a long way in the short time since having dislocated a rib during the Big West Conference Championships.
"In terms of pain, I'm at 100 percent - I feel great," May said. "I had so much success with physical therapy. My physical therapist is an amazing guy.
"Once you settle into a taper, our swimming rest, there are ups and downs, and your energy kind of ebbs and flows, but I'm optimistic."
May was ranked No. 1 in the 50 free for two months with her time of 22.34, and she previously set Big West Conference records in both the 50 (22.00) and 100 (49.13). But she's been bypassed this year since getting sidelined by the injury. She is seeded 12th in the 50 free and 26th in the 100 free.
"We feel she has a shot at winning it," UCSB coach Gregg Wilson said. "You're talking about the 50 free, though - if you have an eyebrow out of place, you lose. If you don't cut your fingernails, it could affect the outcome of the race.
"But she was third in the NCAAs during her sophomore year and was the belle of the ball. She shocked everyone from lane one, nailed the start and just moved up from seventh to third. And she has the ability now to go from 12th to first."
May, now a fifth-year senior, popped one of her ribs out of place while trying to help UCSB's medley relay team overcome a big deficit during her anchor leg at the Big West meet.
"When you do a relay start, you kind of swing your arms and get an enormous amount of what Gregg likes to call torque - it's his favorite word," she said. "You just get so much power going trying to propel yourself off the block that I felt it go while I was in the air."
She had an idea of what was happening, having suffered the same injury during warmups to qualify for the World Championships. But she continued on with the Big West race, anyway.
"I hit the water and it hurt for the first few strokes, but adrenalin takes over," May said. "I was pretty close, even with the rib like that. Adrenalin is pretty awesome."
She was clocked in a time of 48.9 for her split of the 100 free, although the Gauchos still lost the race.
"She really tried, bless her heart," Wilson said. "She's a pretty remarkable young lady. If she doesn't score a single point at the NCAAs, I'll still be very proud to be with her on the deck.
"But she'll be very upset if she doesn't make the final. She's a very competitive person."
May struggled to even get out of the water at the Big West meet.
"It was the fourth rib back there, and it felt like a knife just jabbing through," she said. "It really hurt to even breathe.
"It was just incredibly painful, so I went straight to Kelly, our trainer, and she worked on me around the clock for like two days. It was hard to make any headway because the muscles had gone into spasm all around it, so it was just a big, knotted mess."
May had to deal with even more pain during her recovery.
"I iced a lot and got a lot of treatments, but it was incredibly painful," she said. "I mean, I'm not a crier, by any means, and I lost it a couple of times.
"The treatments were so painful, that I was just miserable."
But the support she got was wonderful, she added.
"I feel so lucky and blessed because there are so many helping hands on deck," said May, who receives her individual coaching from assistant Naya Higashijima. "If somebody is hurting or in trouble, there are so many helpful people who will drop everything to get you back to normal, and that's a pretty special thing.
"It seriously is all for one and one for all, especially with our coaching staff and all of our trainers, our weight coaches. Everybody really looks out for you, and that's something that I value so much about our coaches in particular, that they really love us, and they treat us like their own kids and their own family."
The camaraderie is what prompted May to switch from water polo to swimming during her freshman year after watching the Gauchos compete at the Big West Championships.
"She literally came out of the grandstands and told us, 'I want to do that ... You guys are having fun,'" Wilson said. "In high school, swimming was just something she did during summer recreation. But she's an incredible athlete. She has enormous physical gifts.
"And although she's the nicest person in the world, when she gets on that block, she could have her mom next to her and she'd still want to rip off her head and hand it to her during the race - and her mom is her best friend. She's fast and she's nice and she's smart. And she's a Gaucho."
May is smart enough to have won UCSB's Female Scholar-Athlete Award, which was presented to her during last week's Big West Conference Basketball Tournament in Anaheim.
But she's still trying to figure out her future after UCSB, whether that means graduate school or training for the 2012 Olympic Games.
"I'm hoping to figure that out post-NCAAs and during the spring quarter, take my time to figure out what I really want to do," May said. "I still have a lot of passion for this. I'm lucky to be a sort of late bloomer. I don't feel burned out at all."
Even with the pain of the Big West meet seared into her memory.


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Salad franchise moves in downtown
A fast-casual chain of salad restaurants is entering the market.
Saladworks will open this spring in downtown Grand Rapids, at 40 Ionia Ave. SW — becoming the chain's first restaurant in Michigan, according to its website.
Philadelphia-based Saladworks opened its first restaurant in 1986 in Cherry Hill Township, N.J.
Today, the fast-casual franchise — which also specializes in soups and sandwiches — serves more than 100 locations in 11 states.
The restaurant is being brought to the region by franchisee TiJu Ventures.
Heartside renovation
A restoration project at the restaurant's space is expected to cost $610,000, including a signage package of $18,500, according to the Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority.
The DDA approved today $12,000 in grants for the historic storefront renovation.
The Historic Preservation Commission also approved the plans to alter the storefront in the Heartside neighborhood.


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House With Panoramic View Over The River in Brittany, France
Meet this versatile space, a house that is so flexible that can be used as a calm retreat when you are getting enough of that too-fast-moving-forward world called city, as the coolest party spot or as your less regular home, surrounded by an airy and carefree site. Located nearby the river, in the picturesque region of Brittany, France, the D House is a space that connects the human to its natural ambient through open space living rooms, natural materials and last, but not least, through the relaxing ambience that Lode Architecture managed to create.
The location is really impressive, especially during autumn, when the leaves start falling in a playful manner, creating eventually a colourful thick carpet around the house. If you're into sports, you can explore your limits and try a ride with the kayak on the river. The interior is neat and spacious, without being too edgy nor sophisticated. Its striking simplicity is exactly what you need when you arrive in a place such as this. "Life is organised here around the hearth, the stairs and a central cooking island. All around you, panoramic views of the undergrowth and beyond the river are offered by the upstairs floor.Wells of light passing through the upstairs floor invite the sky into this blended landscape. On the ground, the stone disappears, the windowed angles fade. We live inside the wood."


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Many of the sites I use provide RSS activity feeds. Right now, I merge them together using FriendFeed, in order to aggregate all my online activity in a single place, and maintain a permanent record. However, Friendfeed seems to be lagging behind since the acquisition by Facebook, and I'm considering switching.
I don't really care about the whole social aspect, I just want to merge multiple feeds, and access them from a single place. Service-specific logic is not strictly necessary, support for plain RSS would be enough. But there are some other requirements that are not satisfied by most simple RSS aggregators I've tried (eg. Yahoo Pipes).
- It should be very simple to add new sources, and retroactive import would be great.
- Copies of entries should be stored, as most feeds don't preserve the past (this is crucial).
- Everything should be exportable in a reasonable format.
- Output readable both for humans (HTML) and machines (RSS) would be nice.
- Once configured, it should work without any manual intervention.
Do you know a service like that, or do I have to code it myself?


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Questioning Bautista
All the recent talk about Jose Bautista's incredible power surge, and the questions people should be asking, got me thinking: Why don't I post what we asked the Blue Jays slugger following his two-homer outburst in Monday's 3-2 win over the Yankees? So, here is the postgame Q&A with the Majors' leading home run hitter…
Reporter: How many more you got in you?
Bautista: I have no idea. I'm going to keep going out there and do the same thing that I've been doing all year, just look for good pitches and try to hit them hard.
Reporter: Did you know immediately on both of them tonight?
Bautista: Yeah. I got those pretty good.
Reporter: What was going through your head after that pitch that Nova threw?
Bautista: Well, instinctively, I was kind of upset. I was just trying to see what kind of reaction I was going to get from him. I was surprised to see he was pretty defiant. He was walking up towards me and flashing his hands up and started yelling. That's when I felt that the pitch was intentional.
Reporter: Did it surprise you, considering it was his first Major League start?
Bautista: That doesn't matter. I don't think that's a part of the game that you really want to go through. If he would've thrown at my foot, or my leg, or my back or something it'd be a totally different attitude from my side. The pitch was right at my head and got me pretty upset.
Reporter: What was he yelling?
Bautista: I'd rather keep that between the lines. I think that's part of the game that you have to respect.
Reporter: It looked like Molina had his hands wrapped around you. What was he saying to you?
Bautista: He was just trying to calm me down. He knew the at-bat was going to go on and he was trying to get me focused for the next pitch.
Reporter: It looked like you enjoyed that second home run. Was 40 special? Or was it the emotions of the game?
Bautista: I don't think it was because of No. 40. It's a tie game, pretty late. I knew that if we took the lead we needed three outs to win it. Given what transpired earlier, I enjoyed it pretty good.
Reporter: Did you get the ball?
Bautista: Not yet. We'll see if it shows up.
Reporter: I think you're aware of the article that was written over the weekend kind of tying your success to the whole performance-enhancing thing. I was curious what your reaction is to seeing your season get tied into something like that.
Bautista: I could care less. I'm part of the program just like any other ballplayer is. We're subject to testing all the time. I don't know where this guy is coming from with his allegations.
Reporter: What was your reaction when you saw someone write an article like that.
Bautista: I didn't see it until somebody brought it up. I mean, I could care less. The guy is paid to write something and he did. It's unfortunate. I don't know if he's trying to stir something up, but when you talk without base, without any, I'm trying to think of the word…
Reporter: Evidence?
Bautista: Not evidence. He's just got no base to be talking. I don't know why my name was tied up to it and I haven't even read the article. All I know is because you guys mentioned it earlier today.
Reporter: Do you feel more of a leadership role right now than at any time during the season? All three RBIs, plus that incident, plus everything else that goes with what you've been doing…
Bautista: No, I don't think anything changes. I've always been the same guy. Even when I was a rookie I always talked to a lot of my teammates. I'm not saying I was a leader early on, but I haven't changed. I'm not trying to become a leader. I'm just going out there and doing the same thing I've been doing since Day 1.
Reporter: Did you get a chance to talk to Yunel about what his beef was with the home-plate umpire?
Bautista: All I know is the umpire tossed him out of the game.
Reporter: They had words didn't they?
Bautista: I don't know. You've got to ask Yunel.
Reporter: When you ran by the mound after flying out in the sixth, did you think something might happen?
Bautista: No, that's the same route I take every other time. There's no need to change.
Reporter: Two umpires seemed to think differently…
Bautista: They're supposed to keep the game under control. That's what they were trying to do. There was no intention on my behalf to get anything started.
Reporter: As long as you didn't go over the mound…
Bautista: That's true [laughing].
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Damien Cox should stick to hockey or do some research before he puts up a post that questions Bautista or any other Jays player's integrity…
This post at Fangraphs, the 2nd post they've done on our Jedi, JoBau, provides a very good explanation, like they did last time, of why he's hitting far more home runs than he has in the past..http://bit.ly/c1omwK …..In their early post, about a month ago, they pointed out a similar thing, so it's not like this information hasn't been out there for a while and on multiple sites….
Then again, why would Damien Cox even go looking for proof on anything..He only posted this story on Bautista to get noticed and increase hits on his blog….In other words, he only posted this to benefit himself with no regard to any harm it caused others…
To be fair, this year we are seeing much better reporting by the Canadian MSM, in particular writers like John Lott, Bob Elliott and Morgan Campbell visiting minor league cities and writing great articles on some of our minor league teams and prospects-They should be commended for their efforts……However, the hotter the team becomes and the bigger the buzz created, is when lazy slime balls like Cox come out of their summer melted hockey puck and try to capture a piece of the action and make themselves relevant..
Put your metal cup back on those two tiny little things you call balls Cox and either do proper reporting on baseball or put yourself back into your hockey puck and come back out when your season starts. The type of posting you did is not helpful nor is it accurate.
What is wrong with Damien Cox? Is his career in jeopardy… it's clear the regular dailies are under pressure – maybe that's the reason for further diminishing the star to tabloid status.
An 'unnamed source', and 'could be the same … dontcha' think'.. and he calls himself a journalist? If I were a journalist, I'd take real exception with this guy because he just lowered the bar on the profession.
Jose is a very athletic ballplayer and leads not only in HRs, but in defensive categories as well. And, the explanations for his improvement this year can be very clearly explained by highly credible baseball sites, himself for one, Cito, Alex Anthopolous, and batting coach Dwayne Murphy. There are scouts that know Bautista in detail. Maybe pick up the phone Cox, you lazy mope.
My problem with the article written by Damien Cox is that it comes with no proof attached and seems to be the work of a bored hockey writer looking to fill in time before his pointless and unimportant covering of all things Maple Leafs begins next month. There has to be a degree of envy here, Cox covers a team that has no hope of ever accomplishing something…so he ventures into the field of baseball…a sport he has shown to know nothing about…in order to make baseless accusations and innuendo involving Jose Bautista. Seems a little more like sour grapes to me. He's like the typical casual fan who sees something that isn't 'ordinary' and immediatly spouts the standard company line about how, 'If it seems too good to be true, chances are it is'. Instead of giving Bautista credit for the season he is having…let's shoot first, ask questions later and come to conclusions based on nothing but your own imagination. Was comprehensive reseach put into this piece? No. Was Cox privy to inside informaton that could prove his baseless accusations? No. But by suggesting "it has to be asked" he justifies a smear job done for no other reason than to boost his own ego. The Star as a paper has fallen behind others such as the Sun in their coverage of the Jays. This just casts them in a worse lot. I always thought of Cox as a self-righteous pr**k any time I'd listen to him on Bob McCown's show on the FAN590. Guess some things never change.
Who is Damien Cox? He sure is flirting with libel, Jose doesn't care…elephants don't swat flies.


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If you live in King County, you should have received your ballots and voter's guide for the upcoming primary and special election on August 6. Among the city council, mayor, and other public official positions up for your vote, there are a few measures on the ballot. One that deserves some special consideration is King County Proposition No. 1, which we at the NARN board encourage you to vote NO.
Proposition 1 is a levy meant to provide funding for King County-operated parks and recreational facilities. It also provides 7% of the levy collection to be earmarked for the Woodland Park Zoological Society. According to the figures provided by King County, they estimate that $4.2 million per year would support the Woodland Park Zoo. Using the last budget figures provided by the Zoo — a projected operating cost of $32.9 million — the levy would contribute roughly 1/8 of its budget.
Now, anyone familiar with our Friends of the Woodland Park Zoo Elephants campaign, or have seen the critical Seattle Times expose of the Zoo, knows that the zoo has stubbornly refused to release their elephants to a sanctuary when all evidence has pointed to the fact that the Zoo is incapable of providing the basic necessities for elephants.
While any visit to any zoo will feature a vast array of bored, lonely, listless animals cooped up for the entertainment of people, elephants like Bamboo, Chai, and Watoto at the WPZ pose particular problems that zoos aren't able to address. Elephants are very social creatures, forming life-time bonds with parents, offspring, friends, relatives in the wild, but are separated when they are captured in the wild or taken from their families as babies when born in captivity; they require the space that only freedom provides, sometimes walking as many as 50 miles a day, with home ranges in the hundreds of square miles. Zoos are cramped and lonely places for them, with indoor facilities measured in feet, not miles, and an outdoor range of one half to three acres. And owing to the cold and wet climates of much of the US (including here in the Pacific Northwest), compared to the hot and dry climates of their habitat in Asia and Africa, this means that elephants like the ones in Woodland Park spend a majority of their time indoors.
Zoos will do just about anything to avoid having to admit that they may not be able to adequately care for an animal, and Woodland Park Zoo is no exception. Despite the increased public concern that the WPZ is not the right place for elephants, they steadfastly refuse to budge on the issue. They, like any other zoo, do not want to admit that any information that comes out about the conditions can actually force a zoo to release an animal to a sanctuary. That is why they continually whitewash the obvious concerns, and why the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the governing body of the zoo industry, refuses to acknowledge the existence of a natural-habitat refuge like the Elephant Sanctuary of Hohenwald, Tennesee. To do so would be a fatal admission that an animal would be healthier and happier while living elsewhere.
While zoos insist their main focus is education and conservation, animals on display merely serve as profit-making attractions; their "conservation" programs arguably serves to actually diminish the population of animals in the wild, as fertile females are taken from their natural habitat to provide baby animals for zoos which attract more paying visitors. And even their captive breeding programs are largely unsuccessful; Chai of the Woodland Park Zoo, for example, has undergone 112 attempts to forcibly impregnate her, even against recommendations to not do so since she has the elephant herpes virus. She has had numerous miscarriages, and her last birth, a female elephant named Hansa, died at the age of 6 in 2007 of the herpes virus that was passed onto her.
While claims are made by zoos like Woodland Park of the value of their education and conservation programs, a study funded by the AZA "Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter: Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium," reports that there was no statistically significant change in "overall knowledge". Instead, social scientists found that zoo visits actually "reinforced" and "supported" the pre-existing attitude and values of guests. (1) Their claims of "conservation" is meaningless as animals bred in zoos are never released, and will never be released, to replenish the ones lost in the wild, and animals in captivity have up to half the life expectancy of those in their natural habitats.
Zoos like the Woodland Park Zoo are poor investments of public money, so you can show your disapproval by voting NO for King County Proposition 1. Obviously a concern about this levy is its primary funding for the county-operated parks and other outdoor areas, and it is hard to vote against the continued maintenance of our valuable green space–particularly since such levies are now the primary source of funding for the King County parks and recreation division; the King County general fund support for that division was eliminated as of 2011. This levy is meant to continue funding after the expiration of the 2008-2013 voter-approved operations and maintenance levy, of which approximately 70% of the operating budget of the parks was provided.
Parks levies enjoy popular support–each one regarding park operations and maintenance (from both King County and Seattle) brought to the voters have passed. The last levy proposed by King County in 2007, Proposition No. 2 – Open Space, Regional Trails, and Woodland Park Zoo levy, passed 59-41%. With such popular support, this levy stands a very high probability of passing, but through your vote of NO, the margin of support will diminish, and we can then demonstrate the public concern about using our money to fund failed education and conservation programs of the Woodland Park Zoo. In the unlikely event of this levy failing to pass, we can as citizens of King County then provide that as proof of our unwillingness of using public funds for the Zoo, and we can demand instead a levy for the parks that does not provide allocations to the Zoo.
Don't forget to mail in your ballet by August 6, and to vote NO on King County Proposition No. 1. Thank you.
(1) "Why Zoos and Aquariums Matter: Assessing the Impact of a Visit to a Zoo or Aquarium," (Falk, Rienhard, Vernon, Bronnenkant, et al., 2007, p. 10).


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Torrent site Kat.ph has opened its databases to the download specialists at TorrentFreak, sharing with them the 50 most commonly searched terms for torrent downloads in 2011.
While it's not perfect, and doesn't include other major Torrent indexes like Pirate Bay, it's as good as we're going to get, and with Kat.ph one of the five biggest sites in the world for such things, it's still worth a look.
The top 50 is dominated by generic terms for language options and video quality (ie "720p"), as well as Hollywood movies and important pieces of software like Windows 7.
As for video games? Not there. There's not a single individual game on the list. Not even Modern Warfare 3. Indeed the only remotely video game-related search term was "PSP" at number eleven. No DS, no PS3, no 360.
Food for thought.
BitTorrent Zeitgeist: What People Searched For in 2011 [TorrentFreak]


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Includes 22mm Hi-flo Hoses for Combination Boilers.
We now stock the new Monarch Midi that includes FreeFlow Valve Technology.
For families of 4-7 people in hard water areas or 4-5 people in very hard water areas family size is based on allowing 160 litres per person per day (35 gallons).
Combi softeners, for use with mains fed combination boilers, fitted to a 15mm mains supply:
1 x pair 3/4", inlet/outlet, Maxflow, heavy pattern, braided stainless, 600mm long hoses.
2 x straight, 15mm, heavy pattern, inlet/outlet valves, c/w 3/4" MBSP thread.
1 x 15mm heavy pattern bypass valve.
1 x 15mm heavy pattern non return valve.
What are the advantages of the New FreeFlow Monarch Midi Water Softener?
It has a higher flow rate than any other water softener in the UK - up to 78LPM. The lowest pressure drops of any water softeners in the UK. A Meter Control with proportional brining as standard - only regenerates the resin that has been used.
Monarch Midi unique self protect Ppogram that:
1) Detects leaks in your plumbing system.
2) Delays regeneration until 2am.
3) Stores data in the event of a power cut.
4 ) Initiates an additional regeneration if ever required.
5 ) Learns and remembers your water usage patterns to make substantial savings on both salt and water use.
Interchangeable connections to suit even 28mm supplies - unique to Monarch Midi. It is a shorter and more compact model - reduced in height from 630mm down to an incredibly compact 585mm. Up to 57% salt saving over conventional softeners.
The Benefits of Soft Water
The installation of your Monarch Midi will bring immediate benefits to both you and your water system.
As soon as you turn on the tap you will feel the luxury of soft water. Gone will be the days of using twice as much soap as necessary because with soft water the lather comes easily and lasts longer.
Your glasses and dishes dry spotless and there will be no need to put anymore salt in your dishwasher thanks to your Monarch Midi.
The cost of washing powder shampoos soaps etc will be reduced by up to 50% and will truly prove beyond doubt that soft water saves you money.
You will see a difference in the time with a Monarch Midi water softner spent cleaning baths sinks taps and shower screens. Never again will you return to find then covered in scale and scum the moment they are used with soft water baths stay bright taps sparkling.
Probably the most important benefit of soft water with a Monarch Midi will be noticed in your hot water system. As soon as a Monarch Midi water softener is installed it will begin to MDESCale your system and increase its life expectancy. With no scale to heat first you immediately start to save on heating bills by up to 70%.
This pipe fitting was only 2 years old before it became blocked with scale. An average hardwater home builds up one sixteenth of an inch of scale per year (approx). Remember you have to heat the scale before you can heat the water. That's why scale costs you money.
Remember with Monarch Midi soft water flowing through the system your taps and pipes will become scale free and with no hard water in your system fitments like your shower will run as new!
Why choose a Monarch Midi Water Softener?
There is something very special about a Monarch Midi Water Softener the secret lies in the resin. It is the resin used that determines the quality of your soft water. Every model in the Monarch range uses a specially purified Food Grade Resin that guarantees you not only soft water but soft water of the highest quality.
Whilst reliability is important we believe space is also an important consideration and have endeavored to produce a water softener as compact as possible. From the slide-on rear cover to the high capacity resin vessels every Monarch Midi water softener has been built without compromise. Also comes complete with a 2m cable so you can install your softener a fair distance away from a mains point.
All Monarch Midi water softeners that we stock are meter controlled with the added features of a clock and their unique Self Protect Programme (SPP). They measure the water used and regenerate to individual household requirements. The intelligent chip and the clock ensures there is enough soft water available to delay the regeneration until 2am* a time when little if any water is being used.
*Time can be changed to suit individual requirements.
Peace of Mind
European regulations state that a minimum 2 year guarantee should be provided. With Monarch Midi Water Softeners the guarantee is much much more. With the proven reliability of the Monarch Midi they give an additional 5 years guarantee totally free of charge - giving you 7 years of total peace of mind. (Warranty is 7 years parts and NOW 2 year labour free of charge). Additional warranty is available at extra cost.
Monarch has been making water softeners for nearly 40 years and for the majority of them we have used the Autotrol control valve. This valve is arguably the most reliable there is with over 200 000 sold worldwide every year. Proven performance reliability and efficiency supported by our 7 year guarantee ensures that the Monarch Midi Water Softener you choose is the ultimate water softener.
Imagine a water softener that features all of this...
The highest flow rates of any softener available - up to 83 litres per minute.
Slide on rear cover that needs no additional head room to remove it as compared to conventional lift off lids.
Easy push button set up takes a few seconds.
Unique Self Protect Programme that:
Detects leaks in your plumbing system.
Delays regeneration until 2am.
Initiates an additional regeneration if ever required.
Stores data in the event of a power cut.
Learns and remembers your water usage patterns to make substantial savings on both salt and water use.
Safe low voltage electronics via plug-in transformer supplied.
Meter Control with proportional brining as standard - only regenerates the resin that has been used.
Up to 57% salt saving over conventional softeners.
Food Grade Resin.
Suitable for 15 22 and 28mm water supplies!
Your Monarch Midi Water Softener is suitable for all types of plumbing systems. All models are supplied with an installation kit and flexible hoses to suit traditional plumbing systems i.e. storage tanks in roof. However for Combination boilers we recommend the use of Maxflow hoses and Pressurised systems the Pressurised Kit (PSK) is required both of which are available from this website.
In addition to the installation kit and flexible hoses every Monarch Midi water softener includes a complimentary water test kit.
Specifications of the Monarch Midi
Solvent free Resin: 15 litres
Salt use per regeneration: 1.0 - 1.9kg
Water Usage per Regeneration: 54lpr
Standard flow rate: 25/78 litres per minute
Dimensions HxWxD: 575mm x 275mm x 465mm
Approximately 2000 litres of soft water between regeneration based on a hardness of 300ppm
Important Information: Water Authority bylaws require that one tap in the house remains unsoftened. It is also recommended that the garden tap is left with a hard water supply. Here at Buyaparcel we have have a comprehensive range of modern and contemporary drinking water taps.
Monarch knew they could improve the salt fill area making it as large as possible but equally importantly keep the salt fill point as low as possible.
The minimum height needed for this softener is 585mm due to the lid being able to slide off rather than having to be lifted like many other softeners making it one of the most compact water softeners on the market.
Video of Monarch Water Softeners
Tens of thousands of homes and businesses across the UK enjoy the benefit of a Monarch water softener.
Monarch Water Softeners have proven performance, reliability and efficiency supported by a 7-year guarantee* ensuring that the Monarch water softener is the right choice for your home.
Monarch Water Guarantee Details - for any faults with your Monarch Water Softener in its guarantee period call 01986 784759
Monarch Ultimate Series Water Softeners - Monarch Midi, Monarch Master, Monarch Mini Aqua
*7-Year parts and 2 year labour guarantee
Monarch Plumbsoft Solo and Solo Ultra - Non Electric Water Softener
*7-Year parts and 2 year labour guarantee
Monarch Scaleout
3 Year Warranty
Inline / Triflo Taps - 1 year guarantee
If your particular model isn't listed above, your product is covered by a 1 year warranty.
For further information on the warranties on these products see the Monarch Water Softener website
Buyaparcel offer delivery throughout the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, Scottish Highlands and other Islands of the UK. In addition we can now also deliver through Europe.
UK Delivery Prices
£2.95 - Royal Mail Second Class (2-5 Days Approx - selected products only)
£3.95 - Standard UK Delivery (2-3 Days Approx)
£5.95 - Next Day UK Delivery (Orders placed before 3.30pm Monday - Friday)
£8.95 - Saturday Delivery (Orders placed before 3.30pm Friday)
£36.00 - Pallet Delivery (2-3 Days Approx - selected products only)
International Delivery Prices
In addition we now deliver through Europe on a 48 Hour Delivery Service as Standard
Zone 1 – £9.99
Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, Rep Ireland.
Zone 2- £14.99
Austria, Denmark, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary.
Zone 3 – £19.99
Estonia, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Portugal, Latvia.
Zone 4 – £29.99
Bulgaria, Finland, Romania.
Zone 5 – £49.99
Bosnia, Croatia, Switzerland.
Zone 6 – £59.99
Norway, Serbia, Iceland.
Choose a Delivery Date to Suit You
You also now have the facility to choose a day you wish to have your order delivered on if your order is being delivered via courier or pallet. This can be done at the checkout stage where you will be shown a calendar if you select the book in option. You will have the option of booking in your delivery for a day that is convenient for you. Should you require the order the following day please select the next day option.
Is My Item Available for Next Day Delivery?
If your item is stocked in our immediate picking location it will available for you to choose a next day delivery. This will be highlighted by a green tick and a 1 day dispatch time on the item information.
You will have the option to choose this service if you are purchasing your item for delivery to mainland UK.
What courier will my item be delivered with?
If your item is being delivered in the UK or Ireland, it will be delivered by UK Mail or Royal Mail, with the exception of pallet items. The courier type is displayed on each item but will be confirmed at the checkout stage when you have completed your shopping.
If you are an international customer, your goods will initially be sent via UK Mail, and then exported to either Eurodis or DHL. The appropriate tracking can be provided when necessary.
Details of each courier service we offer are detailed in our Delivery Guide.
How do I track my delivery?
To track your order online, go to 'Your Account' and click on 'Purchase History' for an update on your order.
Our team work extremely hard to get your parcels to your door in the shortest possible time but please note that we recommend you do not book a plumber etc until you have received and checked your goods.
Please note:
- Delivery addresses cannot be changed once the order is placed except in the case of an error, which we will do our best to change, but orders are often shipped quickly after being processed.
- The couriers we use do not deliver to PO boxes or building sites.
Returns at Buyaparcel
We've simplified our returns process! We now offer a no-questions-asked, free returns service within the first 30 days (subject to T&Cs).
You can find our returns information in our Terms and Help page.


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Teen heartthrob Justin Bieber has shelled out $32,000 for Tennessee flood Relief.
At his sold-out show in Nashville on Wednesday, the pop star announced that he'd be donating a buck from each ticket sold to Nashville flood recovery efforts. The "Baby" singer presented a check for $32,690 to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee before the show, MTV reported.
"We gave $1.06 per ticket sold 2nite to Flood Relief needed here in Tennessee. thanks 2 all of u 2nite we raised $32,690 for those in need!!!," he tweeted yesterday.
Bieber, 16, said he was enthusiastic to help out in the relief efforts. He teamed up with Nashville radio station, "i106 Hits," and told Tennessean.com the importance that Nashville has to him as an artist.
"Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, and you know Nashville, there's so much music history here," he said.
Last week, Bieber appeared with his mentor, Usher, for his philanthropy event at the New Look Foundation's "World Leadership Awards." The R&B singer discovered Bieber last year after seeing his home videos on YouTube.
Bieber also made headlines this week by coming in a close second behind Taylor Swift on the "International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame," and for having sizzled alongside Kim Kardashian in the Bahamas for a "Graduate"-themed photoshoot for "Elle" magazine.
Selected Reading: Tennessean, MTV, Twitter


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As part of a heart-healthy diet, the American Heart Association recommends that
you eat a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and other high-fiber foods.
Foods that are high in soluble fiber may help you lower cholesterol. Foods high in soluble fiber include
oat bran, oatmeal, beans, peas, rice bran, barley, citrus fruits, strawberries,
and apple pulp.
Insoluble fiber doesn't seem to
affect blood cholesterol. But it promotes healthy bowel movement. Foods that are
high in insoluble fiber include whole wheat breads, wheat cereals, wheat bran,
cabbage, beets, carrots, brussels sprouts, turnips, cauliflower, and apple
skin. Fiber from such foods is better for the bowel than fiber supplements,
such as psyllium seed products.
Psyllium is a common ingredient in
nonprescription fiber supplements and laxatives. It has been used to make some
lipid-lowering drugs work better while reducing the stomach upset
commonly caused by those drugs. But products
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A UN-backed watchdog has ordered a partial recount in last month's Afghanistan presidential election after finding "clear and convincing evidence of fraud."
Current results have President Hamid Karzai was close to the 50% threshold needed for an outright win in his re-election bid. But with reports of phony ballots and polling stations growing, U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry met Karzai on Monday night to discuss his concerns.
The UN-backed Election Complaints Commission said there should be a recount where any single candidate received more than 95% of valid votes, in any polling station where more than 100 votes were cast.
Karzai's nearest rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who has claimed the vote amounted to "state-engineered fraud" - was about 17 percentage points behind.
The fraud controversy comes as Washington considers whether to send thousands more troops to the country, where violence has hit a record high eight years on from the US-led invasion.
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AUBURN HILLS - Greg Monroe had 27 points and 16 rebounds, and the Detroit Pistons made the most of their home finale by beating the Philadelphia 76ers 109-101 on Monday night.
For both teams, the game was overshadowed by uncertainty off the court. Doug Collins is on his way out as Philadelphia's coach, and Pistons owner Tom Gores remained noncommittal before the game on the status of team president Joe Dumars and coach Lawrence Frank.
Detroit outscored the 76ers 33-21 in the third quarter.
A person familiar with the situation has told The Associated Press that Collins and the Sixers are trying to resolve their future relationship after the coach told them he would not return for a fourth season.
It was the 36th double-double of the season for Monroe, equaling the most by a Piston since Grant Hill had 44 in 1995-96. Hill also had 36 the following two seasons.
Detroit has won four straight, equaling its longest run of the season. The Pistons trailed 54-51 at halftime but went on a 14-5 run near the end of the third quarter to open a double-digit lead.
Monroe's spinning three-point play with 10:10 to go in the fourth made it 89-75.
The 76ers trailed by only seven late in the game, but Will Bynum's 3-pointer from the left corner made it 106-96.
Dorell Wright had 22 points, eight rebounds and six assists for the 76ers. Jrue Holiday added 14 points.
Bynum scored 22 points in just over 25 minutes for Detroit. Kyle Singler contributed 16 points and Brandon Knight had 12.
Collins didn't discuss his future with the 76ers before the game. Gores met with reporters briefly and said he was disappointed with Detroit's season, but it's not clear what will happen with Dumars and Frank.
When the game ended, Frank and Collins met near midcourt for a handshake and a few words.
NOTES: Detroit rookie Andre Drummond, a game-time decision after spraining his right ankle Friday, had five points and eight rebounds before fouling out.


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As difficult as it was to leave the cosseted confines of the gorgeous Desert Palm, we only had three days to enjoy our girlie break in Dubai so after sailing across the city, scaling skyscrapers, hitting the shops and sampling the spa, we just had time for one last adventure – and as it was also BF's birthday it had to be something special.
There really has to be a very good reason for setting your alarm clock for 3am whilst on holiday but the prospect of seeing the sun rise over the desert sands from the vantage point of a hot air balloon has got to be one of them – and I think you'd agree it makes a pretty good start to any birthday. So following a measly four hours sleep, we rose, put on some sensible shoes for the first time in two days and headed over to a Dubai car park for our early morning pick-up.
It's wasn't long before an A-Team style van pulled up and a stocky bearded man in a red jumpsuit leapt out and (with far more energy than four in the morning should afford anyone) introduced himself as Captain Attila – "like the Hun", he added cheerfully. Suitably amused, we hopped in and joined the other dozen or so day-trippers who were seizing the opportunity to snooze on the hour long drive to the isolated sands just north of Al Ain.
It was still pitch black when we arrived, the only light cast coming from the two other vehicles that had joined us from Oman and Abu Dhabi. But as the sun started to break over the horizon tingeing the indigo star-filled sky with streaks of pink and peach, we could see in the distance a team of maybe a dozen or so men energetically pushing, pulling, unfolding and positioning the mass of material and large laundry basket that was soon to be our aircraft.
The realisation that we were about to glide across the desert suspended by what was essentially a flimsy layer of fabric and an oversized hamper started to dawn – was a terrifying plummet towards the dusty earth really the gift I wanted to give my pal for her birthday? Surely such a thing could end what had so far been a beautiful friendship? Thankfully though, Captain Attila inspired confidence, rounding up his twenty-two passengers from nine different nations while barking out a safety briefing and deftly overseeing the fiery inflation of our balloon. If the birthday girl was nervous she was hiding it well so I tried to do the same.
Moments later, as the cherry-red sun is started to burst across the distant dunes, the balloon's magnificently rotund form filled our eyes and the basket tipped towards its upright position ready to go. Attila, who had clearly had some kettling training in the past, ordered us to climb aboard (climb being the operative word – a maxi dress is not suitable attire as one of the passengers soon learned) and before we knew it, we were off.
We were a cheerful bunch of passengers, made up of groups of friends, loved-up honeymooners and intrepid solo travellers. Everyone was happy and for the first few minutes the basket was full of excited chatter and the sound of camera shutters. There was no scary swaying or ominous lurches, instead we ascended dreamily, smoothly and surprisingly quickly. We soon passed a thousand feet, and then two thousand when suddenly everyone seemed to realise that our aircraft was made of wicker, and tried to take a step inwards. There was of course no where to go and as we swept upwards past the height of the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, to our hovering altitude of three thousand feet, the friendly chatter that had previously filled the air was replaced by nervous smiles, lame jokes, yoga-like breathing exercises and then ultimately silence.
This was the scariest part of the ride. Everyone may well be smiling in this picture but believe me behind the mask there was nothing but butt-clenching fear. It was incredibly beautiful though, it wasn't just the height that made my heart race, the sandy sea of burnt amber, coral and orange below was truly phenomenal.
My favourite part of the journey though was definitely the descent and landing, which turned out to be as close to a magic carpet ride as you can get. After drifting down to a less wee-inducing level, we swept across the endless undulating dunes passing the occasional Sheikh's palace and Bedouin tribe, startling stray gazelles before one taking one final lunge across a huge herd of wild camels and coming into land with an almighty (and super-exciting) bump.
And as if that wasn't enough excitement for one day, we soon realised that we had a celebrity in our midst, well certainly a future celebrity anyway. In the front left corner of the group balloon photo you can see a young guy called Lyrican. Turns out he lives just up the road from me in Manchester and is one of the UK's up-and-coming rap stars, opening for the likes of Jay-Z , Eminem and 50 Cent on their UK arena tours. He was out in Abu Dhabi to film this music video -
So there we go, a birthday trip with Star Style from start to finish and one that had left us as exhausted as an eight-year-old after a day a Disney. We'd certainly packed in the delights of Dubai and now it was time for our next, and sure-to-be more relaxing stopover in the Maldives.
Arabian Adventures offers Hot Air Balloon Rides in Dubai from AED 995 per person (£175 per person). The operator can also arrange a host of other memorable experiences such as Dubai desert safaris. For further information and reservations visit www.arabian-adventures.com or call +971 4 303 4888 .


text: The second Queens of the Stone Age album, Rated R (as in the movie rating; its title was changed from II at the last minute before release), makes its stoner rock affiliations clear right from the opening track. The lyrics of "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" consist entirely of a one-line list of recreational drugs that Josh Homme rattles off over and over, a gag that gets pretty tiresome by the end of the song (and certainly doesn't need the reprise that follows "In the Fade"). Fortunately, the rest of the material is up to snuff. R is mellower, trippier, and more arranged than its predecessor, making its point through warm fuzz-guitar tones, ethereal harmonies, vibraphones, horns, and even the odd steel drum. That might alienate listeners who have come to expect a crunchier guitar attack, but even though it's not really aggro, R is still far heavier than the garage punk and grunge that inform much of the record. It's still got the vaunted California-desert vibes of Kyuss, but it evokes a more relaxed, spacious, twilight feel, as opposed to a high-noon meltdown. Mark Lanegan and Barrett Martin of the Screaming Trees both appear on multiple tracks, and their band's psychedelic grunge -- in its warmer, less noisy moments -- is actually not a bad point of comparison. Longtime Kyuss fans might be disappointed at the relative lack of heaviness, but R's direction was hinted at on the first QOTSA album, and Homme's experimentation really opens up the band's sound, pointing to exciting new directions for heavy guitar rock in the new millennium. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi


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