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CARLSBAD: Swim school jumps into void left by shrinking city budgets
Waterworks Aquatics, a privately held swim school with beachheads already established in posh Beverly Hills and Irvine, is expanding to North San Diego County as part of a strategy of filling a void in swimming facilities caused by government cutbacks.

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At Penguicon 4 in 2006, Nifty Guest Howard Tayler of www.SchlockMercenary.com took this video of Penguicon co-founder Rob Landley throwing a bowl of liquid nitrogen in the swimming pool, and the resulting billow of fog.

We have a new President! We have a new administration, and all our hope for the future is that we will prosper and grow…..soon! Yet we are no doubt facing very tough times! We hear it every moment of every day, and even if our own lives are just about holding onto a degree of normalcy, the overriding fear is that this may not last. We even feel guilty, as we all know at least one person who is not so lucky. Where do we cut back? On the major things of course! We eat at home more; we vacation at home instead of traveling; we go out for dessert instead of dinner. We actually look at the prices of the things we buy in much more detail, and try to buy only when they are at rock bottom price. We even cut out those coupons that we never would have looked at before! There are many ways to cut corners and save money, but SWIMMING lessons for our children is definitely not one of them. Lessons are an absolute must!!

Every year children die or are devastatingly injured in water accidents. We know of the deaths, they make the headlines, but we are rarely aware of those children who are terribly, irrevocably injured. In Miami/Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, more children lose their lives to drowning than any other form of accident. The fear is that this year the number will rise dramatically. As parents, we truly believe that we are good caring and constantly vigilant, but it is not only the unloved and uncared for children that have accidents, Accidents happen across the board without regard to race or financial status. They happen to parents who are at home and to parents who work. They happen to parents of multiple children and to an only child, to the rich, poor and all in-between. No one is immune.

Survival/Swimming classes will never be a total substitute for parental vigilance, nor should it be, but they are a vital additional layer of protection if all else fails. Without doubt there must always be vigilance, locked gates, alarms and fences, but if any or all of those things fail, and sadly they do, there must also be the ability for a child to roll onto its back and to be heard in the water! Back floating is a must, as it buys time. Time for the child to breathe, to make noise, to just be alive! With great teaching, this skill is very achievable, as young as a year old.

Swimming lessons must not be cut back! The best may not be the least expensive, but the most value. They must be judged on how well they teach their skills. The very best year round swim instruction will never never be an extravagance! They will provide more than just fun. They will provide more than good health and fitness. They will do more than guard against obesity. They just may provide LIFE!

Cut back by all means, but please, never never on something as important as swimming lessons. It could be far too costly!

With the arrival of warmer weather comes the anticipation of your spring pool opening. With the swimming season stretching before you, you want to make the very most of your pool and enjoy it as much as you can before autumn arrives. One of the best ways to get more hours of use out of your pool each season is to make it as functional and fun at night as it is during the day. With a wide variety of different swimming pool lights available for pool owners to choose from, it’s easy to do just that. From underwater lights to floating lanterns, there is a multitude of styles and designs of pool lights in a rainbow of colors that will allow you to turn your pool into a night time paradise.

To prepare your swimming pool for night time use, it’s always a good idea to start by lighting up your pool deck. This will make it easier to navigate your way to and from your swimming pool and will also make your pool area safer for everyone. Fortunately, adding stylish and decorative lights to your pool deck doesn’t have to be expensive and doesn’t have to consume a lot of power. Many retailers of pool equipment and supplies offer solar deck lights that will brighten up your pool area without requiring any electricity. If your pool is fenced, you may want to consider pool lights designed to attach to deck posts or pool fencing. That way, your lights will be integrated into the overall pool setting.

Once you have arranged for your pool deck to be well lit, it’s time to consider the options for the pool itself. Having swimming pool lights directly in the pool will make night swimming easier and safer, and can also transform your pool into an eye-catching wonder. Even if you have an above ground pool, there are a variety of different lights available that you can use to bring your pool to life at night. For example, there are standard above ground pool lights that simply attach to the edge of your swimming pool and will brightly illuminate your pool. Above ground pool lights can also provide mood lighting, especially if you use lights that come with color lenses. Some above ground pool lights also come with a fountain attachment to create an even more impressive effect.

While there are swimming pool lights available that are designed specifically for above ground pools, there are also many different lighting styles and options that can be used for both above ground and in-ground swimming pools. Floating swimming pool lights are a particularly popular and economical form of lighting that can be used for any type of pool. Usually powered by batteries or solar power, floating pool lights can provide your pool with an intriguing ambience as well as light. Floating lights are available in round disc designs as well as in stylish lantern designs. With an entire spectrum of colors to choose from, you can easily use floating pool lights to transform your pool into a night time spectacle.

Underwater pool lights also provide a great way to make every night time swimming experience memorable. Particularly great for parties, underwater pool lights will create dramatic, dancing patterns of colorful light on the bottom and walls of your pool so that your entire swimming pool will be awash in light and color. Some underwater pool lights also come with a floating fountain, providing color changing cascades of water as well as a colorful underwater kaleidoscope effect. Often these lights will come with several different modes and settings so you can adjust the display to suit a particular mood or atmosphere.

When looking for swimming pool lights that will transform your pool into a night time paradise it’s always important to consider quality and performance so that you will get the best overall results for the best value. In order to feel confident with your purchase, it’s often a good idea to go with highly respected and trusted brand names that have established a solid reputation in the marketplace. Hayward, for example, is one of the best-known and most respected manufacturers in the pool supply industry. Hayward pool lights are available in a number of different models and designs and are known for their top-notch quality. Hayward pool lights that are readily available from many pool equipment retailers include above ground pool lights, niche lights and floating LED lights.

Whether you decide to go with Hayward pool lights or lights from another trusted manufacturer, you can create some truly impressive lighting effects for your swimming pool. While bright lighting for your deck and pool will make your pool area safer and will make night swimming easier, you can also use the available lighting options to do much more. With the help of swimming pool lights that provide different colors and dramatic effects, you can easily take your pool out of the dark and transform it into a dazzling night time paradise that will be the talk of the neighborhood.

LINE-X® Protective Coatings Expands Into New Markets With Launch Of LINE-X ASPART-X™ U/V Protective Coatings
LINE-X® Protective Coatings, the nation’s leading developer and provider of high performance protective coatings, is proud to introduce ASPART-XT U/V Protective Coatings

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I’ve been swimming for as long as I remember. I used to compete when I was a lot younger, and I’d like to get back into it. But it’s been a LONG time! I’m not sure I know what I’m getting myself into I’m 13, and I’m sorta concerned that I might be a little behind everyone else. Any tips for competiting? Thanks!

Swimming is a very attractive form of exercise. While all forms of exercise have strengths and weaknesses, swimming is a good aerobic, low impact exercise. Swimming generally has longer sessions than other forms of exercise, and requires constant muscle action. This makes swimming an excellent way to improve wind capacity and endurance. Swimming involves the entire body, and thus uses a great deal of muscle as a percentage of the body’s total supply. This also increases the efficiency of the exercise both as a means to burn calories and as an additional reason for the wind to benefit from this form of exercise.

The water helps support the body, as most people float naturally. This reduces the stress on hips and knees, and makes swimming especially attractive for elderly people, some who need rehabilitation after injuries, and in warm water, those with arthritis. Swimming is also a very good place to start for overweight people who desire to improve their physical conditioning. Another group often told to use swimming based exercise is pregnant women.

Swimming does not provide assistance for those elderly people trying to combat osteoporosis. Swimming provides less aid in reducing weight by burning more calories than the length of exercise would suggest, and swimming provides more of a workout for the upper body than the legs. It is possible to provide a limited anaerobic workout in sprint work, though this mainly works the arms. In fact, excessive leg muscles are considered a disadvantage in competitive swimming as they consume oxygen the rest of the body could otherwise use.

In addition to actually swimming, there are a wide variety of possible water based exercises. This include resistance swimming in which a person is held in place while swimming, a variety of exercises to perform while floating or treading water or even the same sorts of exercises one can perform on land in shallow water.

Swimming is a pleasant form of exercise, making it more likely that a person will actually stick to the exercise program. Swimming, being aerobic, isn’t an effective means of producing muscle bulk, but is a wonderful way to tone a body and combat stress.

The VA Maryland Health Care System Offers Tips for Senior Citizens and Older Adults to Spring into Shape
Spring is in the air, and it’s time to shake off winter doldrums, lace up the running shoes and get moving. While many older people tend to slow down in winter, experts at the VA Maryland Health Care System’s Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC) say that keeping active all year is the key to good health, particulary for senior citizens. (PRWeb Mar 10, 2010) Read the full …

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