Swimming pool and domestic heating and heat pumps

We are very proud to announce that the Calyenty.com swimming pool heat pump and swimming pool equipment manufacture and supplier website is in the top 12% most visited sites on the internet. That’s the whole of the internet, i.e. for all of the sites covering everything that there is, not just in our rather narrow niche swimming pool heated pools and swimming pool furniture market.

Google announced on 7/25/2008 that it had indexed over 1 trillion unique URL’s. That is 1,000,000,000,000. So we are in the top 120 000 000 000, which doesn’t look so good, but when you consider that there are now 880 000 000 000 websites less used, it makes the warm feeling return.

We used the independent analyzer offered by Hubspot which is a great tool to see how your website stacks up, but also identifies areas where you can improve the structure and content of your site to get you up the search engine rankings and onto page one where you really need to be.

It can also be used to check out how well or badly your competitors are doing in the online arena. Please see our website to see for yourselves how we got such a great grade, you may even like to email us with your comments, good or bad!

To celebrate the fact that our website is doing rather well we are going to make the following unbeatable announcements, so if you have a swimming pool, and you live in either Spain, Portugal, France, any of the Costas or even the UK keep reading.

Swimming Pool Heat pumps: For heated pools in Spain, Portugal, France and the UK. Costa del Sol, Costa Brava, Murcia, Malaga, Marbella, Costa Brava, Costa De Luz, Majorca, Moraira, Costa Blanca, Canary islands etc.

Swimming pool heat pumps are inexpensive.
Swimming pool heat pumps are quiet.
Swimming pool heat pumps are small and unobtrusive.
Swimming pool heat pumps are inexpensive to run.
Swimming pool heat pumps are inexpensive to install.
Swimming pool heat pumps are environmentally acceptable.
Swimming pool heat pumps deliver lots of heat into your swimming pool.
Swimming pool heat pumps are flexible in how and when you use them, we even have sms control so you can control them from wherever you are
Swimming pool heat pumps are durable and will last for a long time if you buy the correct model and look after it. (Calyenty offer a full and comprehensive maintenance package with our excellent range of swimming pool heat pumps.

We also offer a massive range of swimming pool equipment. Contact us for: Fully automatic retractable laminated pool cover for both inside and above the swimming pool. Come in White, sand, blue and solar enhancing laminas.

Summer and winter covers with or without rollers.

LED lights, our LEDS are the most powerful, using a fraction of the energy you would use in a traditional halogen swimming pool PAR 56 bulb. Both flat mounted and niche replacement options are available from Calyenty. The colour changing functionality is fantastic and can be operated by remote controller if there are just a few bulbs in your pool, or synchronized controller if you have a very large or commercial pool. We can supply these LED PAR 56 swimming pool bulbs at an unbeatable price and we will beat any comparable price you may have.

Also: swimming pool filter pumps and filters, salt water systems, solar showers, pool robots, astralpool products, stainless steel ladders and much much more.

As part of our celebration we will beat any price given with a pool in Spain, Portugal, France or the UK with any swimming pool product, swimming pool heat pump heaters, and automatic covers.

Please contact us today for this unbeatable price offer, we carry massive levels of stock and can offer immediate delivery.

Call us on 0034972660467 email us info@calyenty.com or visit the website

One of the challenges for Cayenty to supply their range of swimming pool heat pumps over a large geographical area, i.e. the whole of Europe has been the installations. We have gradually developed a network of dealers in many areas but the reality is that if we have a dealer for example in Malaga and our customer wants his heat pump installing in Granada the distance for our dealer to travel to install the heat pump is either too great, even though this roughly the same area of Spain or the cost for the client for the dealer to travel and install is to much.

It is also challenging for us to find decent dealers who have the right balance of commercial resource to sell the units and the right technical standard and indeed qualifications to offer a full installation service at the right level.

The answer for us has ben to develop the Easy Install Power Box and the Quick Fit By-Pass.

The power box is almost a plug and play, where the client needs to supply the same cable as the tails supplied with the box, to the length required and connect to the terminals on the heat pump and circulation pump and the other end to his power supply.

We also supply a lovely little made up compact water by-pass to simplify the water connections.

Consequently , self install of our heat pumps is now within the capability of anyone with a hacksaw and a screwdriver.

Below are some extracts from our marketing literature:

For the connection of Any heat pump up to a power consumption rating of 2.6kW – If your heat pump is of a greater rating than this please contact our technical department to verify the components are of the correct rating.

Calyenty have developed the easy install power box to enable owners of heat pumps to connect their new heater to the electricity supply quickly and simply, and minimizing on the need to employ the services of expensive qualified electrical engineers. This box is tough and waterproof.

The Calyenty Easy Install Power contains a differential for total peace of mind and safety when operating an electrical Heat Pump, for example in a swimming pool environment. This device detects any tiny change in current which may indicate danger and will cut the power immediately

The box also contains all the other automatic breaker components and devices necessary for the safe and reliable installation of a swimming pool heat pump or any other heat pump or air conditioning unit.

Preferably mount inside.This power box is configured to comply by European safety standards.

Also Ask about our Easy Install water By-Pass

Well we tried to pursuade him to do it otherwise, but being a stubborn Brisbanite he insisted, and hey, the client is always right, right?

A swimming pool heat pump is a bit like a fridge or an air conditioning unit, only in reverse, well when you want to heat the water they are anyway. This technology has been around for years, I had a comment left on one of my first blogs from an American who had had a heat pump for over 50 years! The great thing is that this technology has improved significantly recently which has made them perfect for pool heating, and indeed house and domestic hot water, although that’s a blog subject for another day.

The challenge is this: an 8m x 5m pool, which is about as small as they get in these parts, contains on average about 50 tonnes of water. Most people like to swim at temperatures of between 27 and 30 degrees C, and at this time of year at night it often drops to freezing and below.

Achieving this with gas, oil, or standard direct induction electrical heating is expensive, well if your budget dictates that over 300 euros a week is expensive it is anyway. So roll out the heat pump.

Calyenty heat pumps can reach efficiencies of up to 1:7. This means that for every unit of electricity that the unit consumes it can produce seven times the equivalent in joules of heat. We recommend for most regions of Spain and Portugal, where we have most of our customers that if you heat your pool between April and the middle of November you will keep a comfortable swimming temperature for roughly the equivalent running costs as one week using traditional fuel types!

How does it do that?

Well the energy consumption goes into running a fan and a compressor. The compressor compresses refrigerant gas that runs through a series of tubes that are built into the sides of the heat pump, this part of the unit is called the condenser. The fan draws ambient air across these tubes and the energy that is present in the air passes into the gas where it becomes very hot. This heat passes into the swimming pool water where the two meet in a chamber called a heat exchanger.

Simple. Well it works fine as long as there is plenty of ambient air to pass through the vanes of the unit, which is why we normally insist that they are positioned outside. But Australians being Australians like to give us poms a challenge now and again and we recently had just that when our valued customer insisted that his shiny new heat pump must be positioned inside a small machine room near the pool.

Well we’ve done it. As you can see from the pictures there is a large barred entry point for the air to enter the room and a big galvanised duct to exhaust the air out, so hopefully the heat pump isn’t going to recycle already cooled air - it goes live very soon, so we’ll soon find out.

Please customers, take our advise, Calyenty pool heaters are extremely quiet and very beautiful so really don’t need to be hidden away, put them somewhere where they can be admired, coveted even, and where they will work to the maximum of their potential efficiency!!

29 01 2009

By Oliver Reavey

Oliver Reavey is the Commercial Director of Calyenty SC. Calyenty is Europe’s premier pool heating supplier, Calyenty installed over 300 heat pumps across Europe in 2008

Wesley G. Hughes, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/04/2009

redlandsdailyfacts.com

Here’s a word of warning for the new year.

If you get a hankering for one of those fancy new iPhones, pause and think twice, maybe three times.

The question to think about is not whether to buy but where.

The Apple phones are nifty but there is built in peril, especially if you are a little on the clumsy side and drop it in the backyard swimming pool as I did.

If you bought it from Apple, the builder, or AT&T, the service provider, you’ve just waved bye-bye to about $250 - more if you opted for the 16 gigabyte model.

I learned the hard way but you don’t have to.

I’ve had insurance on every cell phone I ever owned. It was almost automatic. It’s even paid off a couple of times. But too late I learned that AT&T - we used to call her Ma Bell in the bad old days - doesn’t offer insurance on the iPhone. Someone at the store suggested I take my new paperweight to the Apple Store and not mention how it happened to stop working.

My boss suggested it would make a good artificial reef in my aquarium.

I called the Apple Store and asked a hypothetical question of the young woman who answered: “What if this old guy was cleaning the leaves out of his pool filter and his new iPhone fell out of his pocket into the water.” The answer in her perky feminine voice was quick and definite, “That would void the warranty.” No, bring it in and we’ll look at it, no happy solution at all.

And I had just finished putting all my phone numbers into what had become a pretty black brick.

I tried checking on the Internet to see if anyone else offered a solution but no luck.

So as I said earlier, if you have a yen for one of those sleek iPhones - they are really neat and can do almost anything but swim - don’t buy it from Apple or AT&T.

Do as my colleague Al Cuizon did. He went to Best Buy and that store offered a special insurance package that covers such hazards as getting run over by a car or bouncing down a flight of stairs or fortuitously stopping a bullet from a hit man.

I should have talked to Al first.

When I think about it, I can take my iPhone incident as an optimistic sign. It happened on Dec. 31 bringing a fitting end to what has gone down in the annals as a pretty lousy year.

I’m expecting 2009 to be a lot better.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008
All About Swimming Pool Heaters

To extend the swimming season after summer has come and gone, many people are turning to swimming pool heaters. A heater is great to have, especially with colder days. If you’ve thought about buying a heater for your swimming pool, there are probably a lot of things that you’ve found yourself wondering.

When using a pool heater, you can adjust the temperature of your pool water to virtually any level that you are comfortable with. The recommended temperature for a pool is 78 degrees, although most people prefer to have their water just a bit warmer, around 80 degrees. The choice is up to you, as you can’t really go wrong with either of the two.

During the year, the sun can only get your pool water so hot for a somewhat brief period of time. When summer ends and things start to cool off, your heater can help you make swimming last longer. If you live in the north of Spain, such as the Costa Brava, Portugal, France or even the UK you can actually treble your swimming season. Those living in warmer climates, such as the Costa del Sol or the Costa Blanca Canaries or Balearic islands and other European Mediterranean countries such as Cyprus, Malta, Turkey and Italy can actually target the whole year swimming by using a heater with their pool, without it costing a fortune.

Even though you may be using a swimming pool heater, you should still invest in a swimming pool cover as well. A cover can help to protect against loss of heat from the pool, holding the heat of water inside the pool instead of letting it out. The fact is, a good cover that has plenty of insulation can actually reduce the amount of heat loss you experience with your water.

There are a few different types of heaters available, including propane or mains gas, direct induction electicity and oil. Direct induction electric heaters such as this are easily the least expensive to buy, but by far the most expensive to run over time. Oil is another way to heat your pool, and it is common in areas that you are unable to buy gas fired heaters, oil is also extremely expensive in Europe. Other pools choose to run off electricity. Electricity is a great way to heat your pool, although it can easily be the most expensive to run and take the most amount of time to properly maintain, unless you use an electrically powered heat pump which can convert each unit of electricity it consumes to over six times the calorific energy output utilised to heat the pool water.

Last but not least, there’s the solar pool heater. Solar heaters may sound like the ideal way to heat a pool for some, simply because it uses the sun to heat, helping to save money. Even though it may sound like the ideal way to heat a pool, it actually has quite a few disadvantages when you compare it to other types of heaters. You’ll discover one flaw when you go to purchase one - you’ll see that they cost nearly half the amount of your swimming pool!

Even though solar powered heaters sound the best, they truly aren’t. To get the most out of a solar powered heater you’ll need to have large electric pump, which can cost you quite a bit of money. The pump delivers the water from your pool to the solar panels, which will in turn heat up the water. Once you have finished setting up a solar powered heater, you’ll have invested thousands in it - which makes it something you should really try to avoid. They are also ineffective when the temperature starts to drop, can be hard to install, high costs to maintain and difficult to position in an effective place, and even if a suitable place can be found, often a roof, they are ugly and can ruin the appearance of your property.

In the world of swimming pool heaters, heat pumps remain the best and most cost efficient ways to heat a swimming pool. They won’t cost you a lot of money to purchase, and they are very user friendly and if used sensibly are inexpensive to run.

By Lorna Reid

Tuesday December 30 2008

PLANS for a heated indoor swimming pool and squash court at Aras an Uachtarain were hatched early in the presidency of Erskine Childers.

Two months after his inauguration in June 1973, the president inquired about getting the sports facilities installed.

And, a month later, he asked Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave about having the use of a IR£16,000 Daimler with a retractable roof as his official car.

But it was his inquiry about a heated swimming pool which sent various departmental officials into a spin in the summer of 1973.

An estimate from the Office of Public Works, which was responsible for the Aras, quoted IR£100,000 for a large swimming pool, with running costs of IR£5,000 a year. The cost of a squash court was put at IR£8,000, but an internal memo from the Office of Public Works (OPW) to the Taoiseach’s department noted both the swimming pool and the squash court were outside the normal range of improvements for Aras an Uachtarain.

The OPW said the finance minister would have to sanction such amounts which had not been budgeted for in the OPW estimates for 1974 or 1975.

Although President Childers had the use of a Mercedes as a state car, he had noticed a review of a IR£16,000 Daimler in Autocar magazine and didn’t think it would be “a super expensive vehicle” for use as a presidential car.

He suggested to the Taoiseach that a car with a retractable roof, like the Daimler, would be suitable for him as he would have more visual contact with the people who came out to greet him on the streets.

But Mr Cosgrave told him a car with a retractable roof would cost IR£20,000, an expense which could not be justified, so he had to settle for a Mercedes.

- Lorna Reid

Swimming pool ban stays for child porn man

Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 07:20 - thisisnottingham.co.uk

A JUDGE has refused to lift a ban on visiting swimming pools for a man who downloaded child pornography.

Ian Hancock, 42, was given a sexual offences prevention order for seven years after admitting making indecent images of children.

But he asked Judge Dudley Bennett, sitting at Nottingham Crown Court, not to include a clause banning him from swimming pools – as it was his “own leisure activity”.

But the judge refused, telling Hancock’s barrister: “I’ve tried cases before where paedophiles go to swimming pools.”

Judge Bennett told Hancock that he must accept the order, but could come back and ask again in the future if he can prove he has become less of a risk to children.

Hancock was arrested after police traced several nicknames being used in an internet chatroom to him. Police then found ten indecent images of children on his computer.

Pornographic images of children are rated in severity from level one to level five, and Hancock had images from all levels, the court was told.

“Analysis showed he was sophisticated in his use of software,” said prosecutor Jonathan Dee. “He had set up a programme to search for certain terms.”

When interviewed by police, Hancock admitted possessing the images and said he had a sexual interest in young girls aged from ten to 14.

Hancock, of Fylingdale Way, Wollaton, was given a three-year community order with supervision by the probation service, as well as the sexual offences prevention order.

The order bans him from having unsupervised contact with children or working with them, loitering near schools, going to playgrounds, leisure centres and swimming pools, and using the internet for anything other than work or study. DVT

It also bans him from owning a mobile phone with access to the internet. “If you breach this order you will undoubtedly get an immediate term of imprisonment,” added the judge.

kate.skelton@nottinghameveningpost.co.uk
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He was looking at (”making”) ten images of children. There is no actual proof that he is likely to hurt a child, but rather that he has feelings that he is controlling by viewing images that may or may not involve illegal activity *a jury said that they were “indecent”.
Jim Burton, Bournemouth

commented on 01-Jan-2009 19:29

These types should have their nuts cut off. I can’t feel awful enough for the poor kids in those pictures and what they must have endured. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Elaine, Beeston

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For me these types should have the key thrown away, why should parents and kids have to worry about what lurks behind every corner.
Mark, Mapperley

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how can he avoid prison ? surely at least 2 years ?
Peter, Red Deer AB

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No doubt a long line of do-gooding lawyers will be lining up to help this pervert get compensation for having his human rights breached.

He’ll probably win too !
andy, lace market

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The judge did the right thing to ban this monster from swimming baths , it should be for life. dirty b*$@rd.
kevin, nottingham

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I’d let him use the swimming baths. On condition that he wears concrete swimming gear.
Mike, Nottm

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Another sick **** that should be nulified.
Mark, Mapperley

commented on 30-Dec-2008 11:43

The Australian - December 15, 2008 -

A SUSPICIOUS fire has destroyed a 52-year-old swimming pool on the NSW north coast, forcing its closure.

Emergency services were called to the complex on Oliver Street, Grafton, about 11.30pm (AEDT) on Saturday.

It took firefighters several hours to extinguish the blaze and dampen hot-spots, police said.

The complex destroyed in the blaze housed administration offices, change rooms, toilets, a canteen and swimming club.

The cost of the damage has not yet been determined.

The blaze is being treated as suspicious.

Anyone with information about the fire should phone Grafton Police Station on (02) 6642 0222 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Safer to have a gun in your home than a pool
Melanie Peters
December 14 2008 at 01:18PM

This festive season thousands of people will flock to South Africa’s beaches and others will make the most of their swimming pools - but they better keep safety in mind.

Safety authorities have already issued warnings to the public to take the necessary precautions to prevent the festivities turning into yet another drowning tragedy.

A Consumer Product Safety Commission report has shown that most children drown in residential swimming pools, and adults in natural waters.

The report said children between the ages of one and four were most at risk of drowning and adult supervision often isn’t enough to prevent it. While drowning rates have slowly declined, drowning remains the second-leading cause of injury-related death for children.

The report said there are a vast number of products and devices that aim to keep a pool safe.

There are fences designed with self-closing, self-locking gates, and rigid covers that slide over the pool like horizontal garage doors. There are several electronic alarms of various designs. One is worn on a child’s wrist like a watch and sounds upon contact with water, others sound an alarm when movement in pool water is detected.

“Nothing is foolproof when it comes to protecting children from drowning in a pool,” said Mark Ross, a spokesman for the commission.

“That’s why we recommend that pool owners provide layers of protection.”

But the majority of child drownings occur when children get into the pool on their own.

The commission found that “most young children who had drowned in pools were last seen in the home, had been out of sight less than five minutes, and were in the care of one or both parents at home at the time”.

In their book, Freakonomics, American authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt claim it is actually safer to have a gun in your home than it is to have a swimming pool because pools cause more deaths in homes than guns do.

According to the Medical Research Council of South Africa, over the past five years, 3 000 deaths by drowning were recorded in the country.

Childsafe, the country’s largest advocacy group for child accident prevention that is running a safety campaign, warned that 60% of all drownings occur among children aged between one and four, 70% of all pool drownings occur in fully fenced pools, and 90% of drownings occur while a child is under supervision. Most drowning events are totally silent.

A Childsafe spokesperson said it was relatively easy and inexpensive to make your pool safer, but this was only achieved by adding multiple layers of safety to make it almost impossible for children to reach or enter a pool, jacuzzi or spa without an adult knowing.

“You should never rely on only one barrier to safeguard your child.”

Craig Lambinon, National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) spokesman said the organisation was urging the public to take their safety seriously in and around water, on the coast and inland. They urged people living along the coast and holidaymakers visiting the coast to find out and store the numbers of the nearest NSRI in their phones.

The institute advised beach-goers to:

# Swim at beaches only when and where lifeguards are on duty.

# Obey the lifeguards’ instructions and swim within the demarcated safe swimming zones.

# Not swim too deep.

# Ensure children have responsible adult supervision at all times.

The NSRI said rip-currents are the highest cause of drownings in South Africa. Don’t swim against the current, it will only cause exhaustion. And don’t panic. Tread water by moving your arms and legs in circular movements to stay afloat. Scream for help so people on the shore can alert the lifeguards or call the NSRI.

At your first opportunity swim across the beach-line (parallel to the beach) until you are free of the rip-current and then use the incoming waves to swim to shore.

The organisation also warned against swimming while intoxicated. Don’t drink alcohol and swim - many drownings appear to be as a result of alcohol consumption and bathing. Hydrate regularly, wear a hat, and use sunscreen.

NSRI sea rescue emergency phone numbers can be obtained during office hours on 021 434 4011.

Other national all emergency numbers are 112 Emergency (from a cellphone) and 10177 (from your cell-phone and from a landline).

o This article was originally published on page 20 of Cape Argus on December 14, 2008

Teen’s touch is golden

BY LIZ ALLEN
liz.allen@timesnews.com Published: December 14. 2008 12:01AM

When she was a youngster, Christine Pettit slid, unnoticed, into a swimming pool, in a mishap that alarmed her mom.

A decade later, all eyes were on Christine at the Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged.

This time, the cheers of her parents, Peggy and Bob Pettit, were echoed by everyone within range of the pool at SUNY Brockport, as 15-year-old Christine kept adding to her medal count and testing her endurance.

The Empire Games have been held for 22 years, and Christine is “the first to compete in nine swimming events in under two hours,” says her coach, Bernie O’Connor, a recreation therapist at the Achievement Center in Erie.

Altogether, Christine, a ninth-grader at McDowell Intermediate High School, captured nine gold medals on Oct. 18, as she competed in the 25-, 50- and 100-meter freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke events.

Christine was born with Turner’s Syndrome, a genetic disorder that left her small in stature and created serious health problems. At six weeks, Christine underwent heart surgery in Pittsburgh.

“She’s a tough cookie. Life has dealt her some unfortunate cards, but if you ask her, she’ll tell you, ‘I have a happy life,’” says Peggy Pettit. She has faith in her daughter’s determination to succeed at any challenge, but swimming made her nervous. Christine had tried swimming classes at a local pool when she was young. Parents were kept out of sight, but Pettit was “lurking in the corner” to keep an eye on her child when suddenly Christine disappeared and had to be rescued from the bottom of the pool.

Christine excelled at other adaptive sports with the encouragement of the Achievement Center staff, but would she attempt swimming again? “At the end of the first month, (Bernie) had her swimming laps,” says Pettit.

“In terms of using recreation as therapy to have kids reach their maximum potential, you really find things that they love or things that they didn’t think they could do and show them ways that they can,” says O’Connor.

Christine embraces every challenge. “What do you think about competing in a track and field or a swimming event?” he asks her. “And she gets this little pixie look, she puts both arms up in the air, ready to do a cheer, and says, “Bring it on, Bern.’” She’s also a volunteer in Achievement Center programs for younger children. “Her courage and capacity to give are just endless.”

Christine’s stamina the day she won nine gold medals amazes him. “It was kind of like Christmas morning for me. By the time they got to the ninth event … the entire aquadrome was chanting her name, it came up so many times on the docket. I had never heard that before.”

The Empire State Games are competitive, with some athletes aiming to compete in the Paralympics in England in four years.

Christine isn’t looking that far ahead. She was content with the surprise her parents presented after the game — a drive to a Carrie Underwood concert in Syracuse.

LIZ ALLEN writes about ordinary people every week. You can reach her at 870-1735 or at liz.allen@timesnews.com”>liz.allen@timesnews.com.

ALL-LONG ISLAND SWIMMING: Kelly’s routine has its reward

BY MARC JIMENEZ | marc.jimenez@newsday.com
December 14, 2008

At 6 a.m. on most days, many Long Islanders are either still sleeping or just waking up. Emily Kelly is not one of them.

Before she attends classes at Sacred Heart, Kelly can be found in the swimming pool, working tirelessly. Five days a week, the 16-year-old junior practices from 6-7:30 a.m. After school, she’s back in the pool from 4-7 p.m. And if that’s not enough, Kelly hits the gym for one-hour training sessions twice a week.

It seems like a lot of training, but for Kelly - Newsday’s Swimmer of the Year - it has become part of her routine.

“When I first started,” she said about her training regimen, “I would get tired. But it’s normal now. I am used to it.”

And who’s to say the work has not paid off? Kelly won her third straight Federation title in the 500-yard freestyle (4 minutes, 48.81 seconds) at last month’s State Swimming and Diving Championships. She also placed second in the 200 freestyle (1:49.50), after winning the event the past two years. As a freshman, Kelly set the state record (1:47.9) in the 200 free. As a sophomore, she set the Long Island CHSAA mark in the 500 free (4:53) and earlier this year, she set the record in the 100 free (51.3).

Kelly hopes her hard work and accomplishments have further reward.

“I’m just trying to swim well and get into a good college,” she said.

Kelly competed with the junior national team in Melbourne, Australia, last January and placed second in the mile, which earned her an invitation to the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., last summer.

“That was really exciting,” she said. “I wanted to go in and do my time. I was so nervous, but it was cool at the same time. Really cool.”

Warming up with Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps could make any swimmer feel that way. And if Kelly reaches her ultimate goal, she will see Phelps again in four years.

High school swimming: Prep pool picture looks very different

By Dan Rasmussen

Deseret News
Published: Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008 12:00 a.m. MST

Like any other sport, things change from season to season in prep swimming.

But things don’t usually change this much.

Just 10 months removed from last year’s state championships, the picture midway through this swim season looks starkly different.

Only two defending champions are ranked No. 1 in the initial Deseret News team rankings — Skyline girls in 5A and Park City girls in 3A. Ad while there are certainly a few favorites in the six team races, nobody in the state is untouchable.

Translation: We should have another set of thrilling state swim meets once they roll around in a month and a half.

As things currently stand, here’s a peek at each how each classification looks:

CLASS 5A GIRLS: The struggles of Skyline’s swim program have been discussed ad nauseam in swim circles over the last year, as a number of the school’s swimmers opted to leave the team and form their own club program. Just how much those departures affect Skyline in the pool this winter, however, remains to be seen.

Though Skyline lost some considerable talent on the girls side, the Eagles nonetheless bring back a number of other outstanding swimmers and should be considered the favorite in 5A, even though the Eagles are no longer untouchable.
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Skyline stars like Nikki Hansen, Angela Bennion and Sydni Johanson and a good supporting cast will attempt to lead the Eagles to their eighth consecutive girls title.

Skyline’s biggest competition will likely be young and highly talented Brighton, which could prove to be strong if the Bengals continue to develop between now and the state meet.

Lone Peak, with stars Kimberly Welch and Taryn Toolson, and Kearns are currently lurking just behind the top two and are also capable of making big pushes.

CLASS 5A BOYS: As things currently stand, three teams — No. 1 Brighton, No. 2 Bingham and No. 3 American Fork — tower above the rest of the classification. And of those three, many feel that Brighton will be the top team at the end of the year.

It’s hard to argue with that.

Brighton boasts two distance stars — Cody Reed and Robby Miner — and lots of depth in every event except the 50 free and 100 free. If Brighton’s youngsters drop times at state, the Bengals could be unbeatable.

That’s not to say, however, that Bingham or American Fork don’t have what it takes to win the 5A title themselves. Bingham has the second most depth of anybody in the classification, and with guys like Geremy Koyle and David King leading the way, the Miners have the tools to contend — if they set themselves up to peak at state and not at region.

Pool owners will wear cost of new laws: LGAQ

Posted Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:00pm AEDT
Updated Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:01am AEDT

Eight children have drowned in Queensland swimming pools in the last three weeks.

The Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says swimming pool owners will have to wear the cost of new safety laws set to start next year.

From next year, all backyard swimming pools in Queensland will need to be registered and undergo regular, compulsory safety inspections.

Premier Anna Bligh has announced the biggest shake up of pool safety laws in almost 20 years.

But LGAQ spokesman Greg Hallam says pool owners will have to foot the bill for the new regulations.

“The total cost of administering the scheme and doing the annual inspections properly will be in the order of $200 or $300 that will be imposed directly on pool owners, every pool in Queensland,” he said.

“The Government has made that decision and it’s an issue they’ll [pool owners] have to take up with the Government.

“We understand how serious the problem is but it comes at a cost and that cost will be born by pool owners.”

Mr Hallam says local government has not been consulted.

“We will strongly be recommending we use private certifiers,” he said.

“Councils no longer employ building inspectors because the Government introduced private certifiers into the building trade some 10 years ago.”

A pool safety advisory committee will be established to look at the safety issues.

Meanwhile, swim coach Laurie Lawrence has welcomed the Queensland Government’s initiative, but says more could be done.

“It’s more than pool fencing - supervision and learn to swim,” he said.

“Pool fencing is one because those three-year-olds will skim over that fence like a rat up a drain pipe.”

Eight children have drowned in Queensland pools in the last three weeks.

St. Barnabas to open new conservatory
Sunday, December 14, 2008
By Shari L. Berg

While some people may be bundling up for the winter weather, residents of St. Barnabas Retirement Community will be getting into their swimsuits.

A new conservatory, featuring an indoor, heated swimming pool, is set to open on St. Barnabas’ Richland campus in January.

The pool will be located in four connected structures that are being built on land St. Barnabas already owns. The building will be able to hold as many as 300 people at a time.

“This is a very unique building,” said Kathleen Brenneman, a spokeswoman for St. Barnabas. “There aren’t many like it in Pennsylvania.”

The four buildings are connected and are being constructed of glass. Blue Diamond Conservancies of Fombell is building the complex.

The four buildings include:

• A two-story tower that will be used for meetings and various functions for the St. Barnabas community.

• A main conservatory, measuring 36 feet wide and 69 feet long, that will include the covered swimming pool.

• A cabana that will include showers, changing areas and therapy rooms.

• An engineering building that will house the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning units and other mechanical operations for the building.

The swimming pool was already on the property, which St. Barnabas purchased several years ago, said Ms. Brenneman.

“We wanted to preserve the pool, and the design does that perfectly,” she said.

The water in the pool will be kept warmer than is customary for swimming pools, Ms. Brenneman said.

“We’ve found that the warmer water is better for joints and arthritis and various other problems that many of our residents have,” she said.

Water aerobics will be offered among the many classes at the new conservatory that will be open to residents and staff.

“We’ve hired an instructor who is certified in water aerobics and various types of therapy,” Ms. Brenneman said. “Studies have shown that these activities are very beneficial for senior citizens.”

The $4.2 million complex is being partially funded with a nearly $2 million donation that was made to St. Barnabas Charities. Ms. Brenneman said the remaining $2.2 million is being raised through the Crystal Conservatories Capital Campaign.

“We’ve got pledges extended over five years,” she said. “We’ve been blessed with support, especially from longtime donors.”

The building originally was expected to open this month, but was delayed due to some features that are being added.

“The humidity control is pretty complicated and is one of the things that has delayed completion,” Ms. Brenneman said.

While the facility will officially be open to residents and staff in January, campus officials want to give it a few months to make sure everything is operating as planned before holding a grand opening for the public, probably in the spring.

“I think it’s going to be known as a landmark on the campus,” said Ms. Brenneman. “It’s going to be very unique.”
Freelance writer Shari L. Berg can be reached in care of suburbanliving@post-gazette.com.
First published on December 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

Passion for sports

ANUJ KUMAR - The Hindu -

He ruled the ramp for a decade and the fashion fraternity is yet to discover his replacement but few know that before taking the designer world by storm, Milind Soman lived in a pool.

“Well almost! I used to spend five to six hours every day swimming. There was a swimming pool next to my house in Mumbai’s Shivaji Park. As my parents had spent considerable time abroad they were keen on their son imbibing a sports culture,” Milind reminisces.
National champ

Within a year, he had represented Maharashtra in the National Swimming Championship. “I represented the State for 13 years on the trot and was the national champion for five consecutive years (1984-1988) in the breast stroke category.” Didn’t he aspire to represent the country in the international arena? “I did and my timings met the qualification mark but unfortunately the national federation opted not to send anybody in my category. Otherwise, I could have represented the country in the 1986 Asian Games.”

As the years went by, Milind says, he became unsuitable for sprints. “At 23, you are not supposed to compete in sprints and I didn’t want to go for long distance swimming. Meanwhile, modelling offers started coming in and swimming needs regular practice and you can’t take a pool everywhere.”

He still retains his passion for the sport but has moved on to long distance running. “I am participating in half marathons for quite some time. Now I am preparing for participating in full marathon next year.” He says running 42 km is not a problem, it is just the timing that he has to improve on.

In an effort to promote sports culture in the country, Milind is starting a health club, Breathe, in Delhi. “Boys generally join a health club for body building, which should not be the criterion. It should be fitness, both mental and physical. I want to inculcate this in young minds. India has yet to change in terms of sporting culture. It is just that more parents are now open to send their kids for cricket because it ensures a decent job.”
Promoting natural

Having spent so many years in the company of fashion designers, Milind is now using his knowledge for the growth of endangered and little known crafts and textiles of the country. “I have launched a company, M, along with designer Madhu Jain. We are trying to work out a sustainable model for little known textiles and crafts. Every year we select one, try to make it economically viable and then move to the next.” He has already successfully worked on bamboo and jute. “The outfits made of bamboo are as fashionable and functional as any other fabric. The advantage is bamboo can be grown anywhere and suits our climate.”

How a Swimming Pool Salt Chlorinator Works

Today’s swimming pools can be sanitized using a system that converts standard table salt into sodium hypo chloride. Salt chlorinators are systems that accomplish this and provide for a crystal blue sparkling pool.

Pure sanitizer being added to the pool

Sanitizer is being added on a regular basis (daily)

pH neutral chlorine is being produced, helps keep the pool and spa pH in balance

Softer silky water to swim in

No need to store dangerous chemicals

So how do theses units work? The Salt chlorinator is installed close to the filter and pump location. There is an inline “cell” which is installed in the piping and power box which is installed on the wall of the home. When the pool or spa pump is running, pool water is sent through an inline cell and the salt in the pool water is converted into sodium hypo chloride. (chlorine or sanitizer) The sanitizer flows back to the body of the pool and the process continues over and over again. The power box or power supply is electrically connected to the inline cell and controls the amount of time and output of the pool sanitizer.

How much salt will need to be added to the pool? The amount of salt that will be added to the pool will depend on the total gallons of the pool and or spa. Each unit will come with an instruction booklet to advise the amount of salt to add based the amount of gallons of water in the pool. Most units will require 3000 parts per million of salt in the pool

(reference point - ocean water = approximately 35,000 parts per million of salt)

How often will salt need to be added to the pool? The salt in the pool water does not get used up but during normal evaporation and pool water splash out a certain amount of salt will be lost. The amount of salt which will need to be replenished will depend on both of these factors.

Is this a special type of salt?
No, This is regular table salt which can be purchased in a variety of locations.

What other chemicals will need to be added to the pool?
All the other chemicals which are normally added to a pool and or spa will continue to be added, chemicals which control pH, alkalinity, hardness and stabilizer.

What type of different features do these units have?
There are many different brands and models of salt chlorinators on the market today. Each manufacture has several models with a variety of different features. Features which can be found are:

Automatic salt sensors - displays the amount of salt in the pool

Pool water temperature readout

Automatic shut off of unit if the salt level in the pool becomes to low

Built in time clocks for pump control

Digital readouts vs., manual dials

Boost modes - allows for adding additional sanitizer to the pool

So, is a salt chlorinator necessary for today’s swimming pool and spa environments? These units produce the sanitizer needed to keep your pool and spa crystal clear and a health place to enjoy. By installing a salt chlorinator the correct amount of sanitizer can be added to the pool each day. Keeping the correct amount of sanitizer in your pool and spa at all times will make for a much happier swimming pool owner.

December 14, 2008
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December 14, 2008 12:00am Sunday Mail Australia

A statewide fencing standard for all pools, irrespective of a pool’s age and location, and the requirement of a pool safety certificate as part of a property sale where applicable, also will be investigated under proposed new legislation to be outlined by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh today.

It will be the biggest overhaul of the state’s pool safety laws in 20 years.

The move, which will affect all above-ground and inground pool owners across the state, comes as alarming statistics show existing laws have failed to significantly reduce the number of child drownings in Queensland pools.

Katherine and Andrew Plint, whose daughter Hannah drowned in their family pool last year, welcomed the new rules.

”This change will stop people losing loved ones to drownings,” Mr Plint said.

Today’s potentially life-saving announcement comes four days after what would have been the toddler’s fourth birthday.

The Plints launched Hannah’s Foundation in their daughter’s memory and have been campaigning for the changes since losing their two-year-old on October 4 last year.

”(But) this is just the tip of the iceberg,” Mrs Plint said.

”We would also like to see compulsory CPR.”

Mr Plint said he wanted insurance companies to look at giving discounts to homeowners who have their pools checked regularly.

Twenty-three children have drowned in domestic pools across the state in the past three years – two in the past seven days.

On Friday, Liam Allen, 3, drowned in a friend’s pool at Ipswich, while last Sunday, Townsville toddler Holly Roberts, also 3, used a plastic table to climb over the family’s pool fence and toppled into the water to her death.

Ms Bligh will today announce the formation of a pool safety taskforce of key stakeholders, including child safety and local government representatives, who will formulate revised pool safety policies to be put before State Parliament when it returns in the New Year.

Organisations including the Royal Life Saving Society of Australia, Kidsafe Australia, the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors and the Swimming Pool and Spa Association of Queensland, also will be invited to take part.

“We will be asking the committee a series of hard questions and their answers will lead to improved pool safety laws and new pool fencing standards that will be the best in the world,” Ms Bligh said.

Royal Lifesaving Society Queensland executive director Michael Darben praised the review as “a step forward.”

Keith Tognola, of Townsville, whose son Philip drowned in 2003, said he was glad the State Government had finally taken notice of the recommendation of the coroner investigating his son’s death.

“It’s a relief. It’s good to see they are doing something,” Mr Tognola said.

“There are just too many kids dying in pools.

”This (the review) has been a long time coming.”

The Premier’s announcement to toughen pool safety laws and clamp down on those who wilfully and accidentally violate them follows The Sunday Mail’s Safe Summer campaign over the past three months, calling for improved pool safety standards and increased awareness of the need for constant vigilance when children are near water.

Our Safe Summer investigations and reports put the spotlight on alarming levels of non-compliance of existing safety standards among pool owners around Queensland.

The campaign found as many as 40 per cent of the state’s 300,000 backyard swimming pools would likely fail a routine safety inspection, including thousands that have no working safety enclosure at all.

Ms Bligh said the pool safety advisory committee would be given a wide brief to examine all issues relating to pool safety, including the many confusing and conflicting laws across various councils.

Currently, there are more than 11 different standards in place for backyard pools in Queensland.

“The review will also address concerns that pool laws are not being adequately policed by local councils,” she said.

The committee’s report will be released for public comment before legislation is drafted, Ms Bligh said.

Swimming pool plea (Somerset County Gazette - By Lloyd Vaughan )

WEST Somerset lacks suitable facilities for local schoolchildren to learn how to swim, it was claimed this week.

Liz Stewart, who runs Otters Swim School out of Knights Templar First School, Watchet, said the area urgently needed a 25-metre pool with the required depth so youngsters could learn how to swim safely.

Provision for young swimmers has worsened in recent weeks following the shock announcement that Quantock Lodge swimming pool at Over Stowey was also set to close.

Mrs Stewart said she already had nearly 250 children in her ‘learn to swim’ programme but the latest casualty meant the number of children on her books looked set to rise further.

She said parents had already called her expressing an interest in her swimming group and was making arrangements to accommodate them.

Just last week the County Gazette printed pictures of the on-going demolition of Minehead’s Aquasplash swimming pool.

The Seaward Way facility closed in October 2007 after it sprang a leak and failed to reopen because the cash-strapped council could not afford running costs.

Mrs Stewart said pools at St Audries Bay Holiday Club and Knights Templar School where she teaches were ‘fabulous’ but lacked the size and depth needed to provide children with the highest level of tuition.

She added: “In West Somerset we are surrounded by water with numerous children and adults who don’t know how to swim safely.

“Knights Templar’s pool is fabulous but it needs a lot of work and funding, and then there’s St Audries pool which is only 12 ½m x 7m.

“We should spend all our energy and time trying to secure a 25-metre swimming pool here in West Somerset.”

Rebecca Adlington (We love her cos she’s a Derby fan!!!) says ‘I want to win’

Rebecca Adlington rips open a packet of cheese puffs and, with a blissful sigh, crunches her way towards a much darker and more interesting place. She talks quickly as she eats, paying homage to Strictly Come Dancing and her Jimmy Choo shoes before admitting how she would love to win tomorrow evening’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.

Adlington is funny and charming but, down in the cheese puff dregs, as words like “sacrifice” and “pain” start to crowd out the chitchat, it becomes possible to understand how a seemingly ordinary 19 year-old transformed herself into a sporting superstar by winning two gold medals at the Beijing Olympics.

Her anecdotes, drifting from the “lovely Gordon and Sarah [Brown]” to “beating my mum and Aldo Zilli on Ready Steady Cook”, are told with riotous good humour. But Adlington is far more interesting when she moves on to her real life, her swimming life.

“That’s why I would really, really love to win [tomorrow],” she says, “because I’m a swimmer. We all talk about the shoes and TV shows but it’s actually got nothing to do with that. It’s all about me and the pool. I think most people don’t understand what you have to do to swim at Olympic level. You can’t expect people to really ‘get’ it because they don’t see me in pieces just minutes before the biggest race of my life. They don’t see me when I drag myself up six mornings a week at 5am so that I can train so hard that I can’t even lift myself out of the pool.”

Adlington laughs, but her eyes glaze with concentration. “I’m a bit of a masochist,” she says. “I love the pain. As an athlete I feel guilty if I don’t push myself in the pool. That’s why I get such satisfaction after a fantastically hard training set. There’s such purity in swimming. None of us are doing this for the money, and before Beijing I was trying to live off £12,000 a year and pay for all my training expenses. You can’t do that so you go,” she puts on a girly voice, “‘Daddy - can you help me!’”

She now shares a flat in Nottingham with her boyfriend, the Scottish swimmer Andrew Mayor, but she and her father still argue over money. “We had another little thing last Saturday,” she says. “I went back to my parents to watch Strictly and I love Austin Healey. He’s brilliant. My sister phoned in a couple of votes for him and I said, ‘Go on, give me four votes for Austin.’ My mobile won’t let me call that number so my sister phoned in four more votes on dad’s phone. He got really stroppy. He said, ‘You’re costing me money, making all these silly calls!’ I took out £2 and said, ‘OK, dad, here you are! Get over it!’ I really went mad then. I voted 12 times for Austin - but he still got voted off.”

Adlington looks genuinely pained. “I love them to bits, these shows, but they’re all the same,” she says. “The favourite never wins. Everyone keeps telling me that I’m the favourite [in the BBC awards tomorrow] but I don’t think it’s going to happen. I’m not saying that to get the sympathy vote, but the favourite never wins; and can you actually imagine a swimmer getting it?”

In sporting terms it’s absurd to try and decide whether Adlington deserves tomorrow’s award more than the astonishingly gifted Lewis Hamilton, or than Chris Hoy, who won three Olympic golds as a sprint cyclist. But the BBC gong is ultimately a popularity contest, which is why the odds have narrowed in her favour at the expense of Hamilton, who lives as a tax exile in Switzerland with his pop-star girlfriend.

Adlington, by contrast, lives in Nottinghamshire. “We should get Lewis to come up to Mansfield,” Adlington says, grinning, “I’ll show him the sights.”

Of course, Hamilton dragged himself from a similarly unglamorous backdrop in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, to become formula one’s newest world champion. Hoy also laboured in obscurity for years before Beijing.

“I love Chris,” Adlington says, “and look at Ben Ainslie - who just won’t allow himself to be beaten in an Olympic boat. I sat next to him on the plane back and he was lovely. I kept thinking to myself, ‘Hmmm, Ben, you’re all man!

“I really think an Olympic athlete should win it this year, but when I first said that all the papers wrote that I hate Lewis Hamilton. I was, like, ‘What?’ I totally respect Lewis and he has had an amazing year. But the Olympics only come round once every four years and there’s no way Chris or me will be on next year’s shortlist. And you can bet that Lewis is going to win another world championship next year or the year after that.”

The bookies believe Adlington has inched ahead of Hamilton and Hoy - who will compete against each other tomorrow afternoon at Wembley in a gimmicky event titled the Race of Champions before being flown up to Liverpool by helicopter. Adlington is full of mock indignation when hearing that, in the event, Hoy will be on his bike and Hamilton in a speeding car as they “race” each other. “Why didn’t they build a swimming pool for me to bomb up and down while they’re on their bike and in the car? Hang on! What if they put me in a sidecar with Lewis? I’ll give that gorgeous girlfriend of his from the Pussycat Dolls a wave as we flash past.”

For all her easy humour, Adlington will face some of her own insecurities tomorrow evening. Even in the beautiful red dress she and her mum brought in Spain, and the gold Jimmy Choos the mayor of Mansfield gave her, “it will feel daunting. I’ll look a bit ‘minging’ next to Lewis’s Pussycat Doll. But I do love their new single.”

That very human vulnerability is different to the sickening doubts which engulfed her in Beijing. After Adlington had stunned everyone by winning gold in the 400m freestyle she endured a four-day wait before the 800m final - for which she had long harboured serious ambitions. Bill Furness, her gruff coach from Nottingham, told Adlington after the 800m heats that she would smash the longest-standing world record in swimming, which Janet Evans had set almost 19 years earlier.

Adlington shudders. “I told Bill not to say that. With 10 minutes left before the final I wanted to burst into tears. Then I thought I was going to be sick, or faint. I lay down, and Bill knows I never lie down. He says, ‘You all right, chick?’ He always calls me ‘chick’ and pats me on the head. ‘Bill,’ I say, ‘I’m gonna be sick.’ He says, ‘No, chick, it’s just your body getting ready to race.’”

Then, she says, with a little smile, “Something extraordinary happened. We were told to get to the call room, me and the other finalists, and up on the TV screen we watched Michael Phelps race that incredible 100m fly - where he won by the tip of his nail to get all eight golds. I forgot everything else as I watched him. I walked out afterwards and this calm came over me.”

As soon as she dived into the water, her nervousness turned to confidence. “I said to myself, ‘Let’s go for it - even if I end up dying in the pool.’ All the time, during racing, I’m thinking constantly, remembering what Bill shouts at me at 5.30 every morning: ‘Bring your right elbow up, keep kicking, focus on the turns!’ In the final I actually could see Bill. He had come down to the edge of the pool. Normally he’s churning his arms to encourage me and screaming, but this time, in the most important race of my life, he’s standing dead still. I’m thinking, ‘Oh my God! What does that mean?”

Furness was simply transfixed, watching a performance from his protege that he would later compare to some of the epic Olympic swims by Phelps or Mark Spitz. “Oh God,” Adlington says, blushing, when I mention their names, “I don’t know about that. But I’ve never swum as well as I did that day. After 400m Bill threw away the split times he had been writing on a scrap of paper. He said, ‘She’s got it!’”

That “it” was her second Olympic gold and a staggering new world record, two seconds faster than Evans’s time. So even if Hamilton or Hoy beat her tomorrow she will survive the fleeting heartache because this has been a year like no other for Adlington. Five months ago few of us had even heard of her and yet now, on every trip to the shops, she is besieged by people who think that they actually know her. “We went to buy our Christmas tree at B&Q this week and you would’ve thought I was bumping into my best friends. I don’t know a soul but they’re shouting, ‘Hiya, Becky, how’s the training?’ Weird.”

It’s easy to warm to Adlington and her stream of anecdotes, in which she relates how she button-holed the beleaguered Brown at No 10 and grilled him on the best method of insuring her gold medals, and how it was suggested that the soon-to-be renamed Becky Adlington Swimming Centre in Mansfield might be called “Becky Baths” instead. “I turned down ‘Becky Baths’,” she says. “It’s not got quite the right ring, has it?”

She is at her most effusive when describing how, on a dreamy day a couple of months ago, on October 7, she and Mayor moved into a flat in Nottingham together. “I live with a boy!” she yelps. Adlington and Mayor sound lost in both the first flush of love and the brutal realities of Olympic training. Getting up together every morning at 5am, to be flogged by the decidedly unromantic Furness, might sound an unusual way of cementing a 10-month-old relationship. But having missed out on Olympic qualification in Beijing by a second, Mayor has moved down from Newcastle upon Tyne to live with Adlington and train with Furness.

“Andy might be 22 but he complains that he looks like he’s 12,” she says. “He doesn’t. He’s lovely and he’s working incredibly hard, just like me. We both can’t wait for the London Olympics. We’re swimmers after all.”

Adlington might be a celebrity now but, above all else, she remains a supreme athlete. For that reason alone, Healey owes his greatest fan at least 12 votes tomorrow night.
Life and times of an Olympian

• Born in Mansfield on February 17 1989, Rebecca Adlington is the youngest of three daughters of Kay and Steve

• At four she shocks her parents by jumping into a pool on holiday and, despite never having swum before, paddling safely to the side.

• Adlington and her sisters, Chloe and Laura, swim together at the Sherwood Colliery Pool in Mansfield

• The three girls are good enough to swim at national level but they all badly affected by glandular fever - with Laura ending up on in intensive care. Adlington’s sisters never swim competitively again, she recovers but fails to qualify for the 2006 Commonwealth games

• Further disappointment occurs when she suffers “a psychological meltdown” at the 2007 world championships

• In Beijing Adlington becomes the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908

• The Yates Bar in Mansfield briefly renames itself as The Adlington Arms. In September 2009, the Sherwood Pool will be reopened as the Becky Adlington Swimming Centre.

Boy drowns in swimming pool - New Straights Times - Adib Povera - 2008/12/13

LANGKAWI: What was supposed to have been a family vacation turned into a tragedy when a five-year-old boy drowned in a swimming pool at a rented apartment at Kelibang here on Thursday.
In the 6.30pm incident, the body of Ahmad A’fif Iskandar Zulkarnine from Taman Seaview, Port Dickson in Negri Sembilan, was found floating in the pool.

The victim’s grandfather, 74-year-old Norehzan Maah, said his grandson and 10 other family members had earlier gone swimming in the pool.

“I was standing far from the pool when I saw my grandson floating. I immediately alerted my family members.

“A few workers of the apartment performed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation on my grandson, but it was to no avail,” Norehzan said.
He said his grandson was pronounced dead about 30 minutes after arriving at the Langkawi Hospital here.

Making Use Of Robotlike Swimming Pool Cleaners - December 13th, 2008 by Ada Denis

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All About Swimming Pool Design Ideas - Pool Paradise - Sawan - Saturday, December 13, 2008

When it comes to deciding to bring a pool into your yard, there is no bigger decision to make then the design of it. The design of the pool not only affects the beauty of the entire pool but also how well it will work within the yard space that you have available. The first thing you want to do is to think about how much of your yard you want covered by a pool and then you can work from there. It is also a good idea to think about the swimming pool maintenance that will be involved with the pool you pick out.

The bigger the pool, the more work that you are going to have to put into it. This is another reason why it is so important to think over several swimming pool design ideas.

design ideas that you think of should be thought about carefully so that you do not make any snap decisions and then later on end up regretting your decision. Also make sure that you talk over any and all of your swimming pool design ideas with your family to get their input. Not only could they have personal opinions to share with you but also they may think of something about the design that you did not.

Where To Find New Ideas For Your Pool

If you at a complete loss for any swimming pool design ideas, it is important that you start to look around for a little help. If you have any neighbors or friends that have had to come up with their own swimming pool design ideas on their own before, you could always ask them for a little help. If they are not able to help you or your simply do not like their ideas, there are still other ways to come up with some excellent swimming pool design ideas.

There are a lot of books, magazine articles, and Internet web sites that could give you plenty of swimming pool design ideas that you could think over. Take a little bit of what you learn from those places and you could then create your very own swimming pool design ideas. You do not have to sue exactly what you see everywhere else but by taking a look at someone else’s swimming pool design ideas you could come up with some excellent ones of your own that you could put in your own backyard.

Swimming Pool Heating - Posted by admin On December - 13 - 2008 - Hi-Temp NZ blog.

The Hi Temp Solar Pool Heater works as follows: pool water is pumped from your existing pool pump to the solar panels. The sun’s rays heat the water in the panels, then the heated water is returned to your pool. Seems kind of simple, right?

And it is. Check out their website for more information or read further

When considering a heat source for your pool, you only have to look up to realize the primary benefit of solar heat - it’s free heat from the sun! With uncertainty and rising costs in the power markets, the price for solar will not change. It will be free for life. Using your existing pump and filter, our easy-to-install solar pool heater ensures warmer pool temperatures, no monthly heating bills, and is proven to be the most cost effective way to heat your pool. Get the most out of your pool by extending the swimming season and have more fun–courtesy of the sun!

Our solar pool heater is so versatile, it can be put anywhere the sun shines. The ‘do-it-yourself’ kit is easily installed on the roof of your home or pool change room, off the deck, beside the pool or on the ground. The most durable and longest lasting solar panels on the market, our Santoprene® rubber is completely resistant to pool chemicals, harsh U.V. rays, cold Free State winters and the hottest Northern Cape summers.

Pool water is pumped using your existing pool pump to the Hi Temp Solar Pool Heater panels. The sun’s rays heat the water in the panels, then the heated water is returned to your pool.

Hi Temp Solar Products Inc.’s exclusive ‘12 Year Extended Warranty’ against defects in the solar collector panels, assures you many years of worry-free, low maintenance pool heating. When compared to heat pump warranties, our solar warranty provides long term coverage and ultimately, peace of mind.

Is Your Dog Likely to Jump into Your New Swimming Pool? - Free Pet Care Advice, Tips and Information - 13 Dec, 2008 -

All breeds of dogs can swim, but that doesn’t address the dangers of pools. When the pool isn’t filled with people, the dog will very likely join them, muddy feet and all. When no one is in the yard, the dog may decide to go for a swim, and won’t be able to get out of the pool unless there are steps provided that it can handle. Empty pools are especially hacardous to dogs that may not realize the depth of the hole into which they might jump. If your pool doesn’t have a dog-proof security fence, make sure the pup is confined in its run or in the house when not on a least.

A shark managed to jump out of its aquarium on to a water slide at a hotel swimming pool used by guests.

The female reef shark, one of various exotic creatures in the popular Mayan Temple aquarium at the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, tumbled down the slide – known as the Leap of Faith – after vaulting the one foot high and 18 in wide barrier around its pool.

Although the creature survived the journey its body could not cope with the chlorinated water in the swimming pool at the bottom of the slide. Rescuers managed to return the 12-year-old shark to its own pool but it died shortly after wards.

Staff at the Atlantis resort said that guests were never at risk as the water park had yet to open for the morning. The shark posed no threat to humans and regularly swam with guests in its aquarium

“the shark was startled by an unusual circumstance that we have no way of defining completely. In the over ten years guests have experienced the Leap of Faith, the reef shark itself, harmless to humans as it is fed regularly by our staff, had shown no previous incidences of leaping out of the water in the marine habitat,” the resort said in a statement to the TMZ website.

“Once the shark fell onto the slide and into the chlorinated water, it was in significant distress.

“The Marine Aquarium Operations team responded immediately and was able to retrieve the animal at the bottom of the slide and return the animal to the main marine habitat in an attempt to resuscitate her. Despite the team’s best efforts to recover the animal, it died shortly after the occurrence.

“The entire team at Atlantis is truly saddened by the loss of this animal who had resided in the Atlantis marine habitat for over ten years.”

The Atlantis resort describes itself as a “unique, ocean-themed destination”, with 20 million gallons of pools and lagoons, waterfalls, and a marine habitat filled with water filtered from the Atlantic Ocean.

Calyenty is a premium supplier of swimming pool heating systems based on heat pump technology. We manufacturer powerful whisper quiet, titanium heart, stainless steel cabinet heaters for distribution across Spain, and its islands (including Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Tenerife, Lanzerote, Palma etyc.) Portugal, France, UK and the rest of Europe.

PRESSURE SIDE CLEANERS - These types of cleaners operate much like the suction side cleaner except that these types of cleaners require a separate high pressure pump to operate. This pump would be installed next to the pool pump and filter and requires a separate plumbing line installed back to the pool. Cleaners of this type typically have a bag which collects the dirt and debris from the pool. Once the bags are full the cleaner is removed from the pool, the bag removed and emptied.

SUCTION SIDE CLEANERS - These types of cleaners operate off the suction side of your filter pump. No additional pump is needed. These cleaner typically connect into the plumbing of the pool either through a separate line on the side of the pool or through the piping of the skimmer. The amount of suction to the cleaner is controlled by a valve in the pool equipment area or through the valves and accessories which are supplied with the cleaner. There are many different types of units available, some ride around on plastic feet, small pads and some cruise around in the pool on brushes. The dirt and debris which is picked up is deposited in the pump basket and in the pool filter for removal.
Also available for pools which collect a large amount of leaves, separate leaf canisters which collect the debris before the pump and filter (Installed inline in the hose which floats in the pool).

ELECTRIC CLEANERS - The third type of cleaner operates independently of the existing pool system. These units have a long power cord attached to a low voltage transformer which plugs into a 110 volt outlet. These units move around the pool collecting dirt and debris and depositing it in a bag or cartridge with is attached to the vacuum cleaner unit. Typically these units are used on an as need basis and removed from the pool when not in use.

All three types of cleaners function well and remove the dirt and debris from your swimming pool. Research all the styles, models and brands available and make your choice. Automatic cleaners can make your swimming pool much more enjoyable and easier to care for. Why spend time cleaning and vacuuming your pool, purchase an automatic pool cleaner and have more fun in your pool.

Calyenty is a premium supplier of swimming pool heating systems based on heat pump technology. We manufacturer powerful whisper quiet, titanium heart, stainless steel cabinet heaters for distribution across Spain, and its islands (including Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Tenerife, Lanzerote, Palma etyc.) Portugal, France, UK and the rest of Europe.