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CHICAGO (Reuters) ? Using cervical fluid collected from routine Pap smears, U.S. researchers were able to spot genetic changes caused by both ovarian and endometrial cancers, offering promise for a new kind of screening test for these deadly cancers.

Experts say that although the test has tremendous potential, it is still years from widespread use. But if proven effective with more testing, it would fill a significant void.

Currently, there are no tests that can reliably detect either ovarian or endometrial cancer, which affects the uterine lining. Research teams have been trying for several years to find a screening test that could identify these cancers early, when there is a better chance of a cure.

?Pap smears have had a tremendous impact in reducing the rate of cervical cancer in the United States,? said Dr. Andrea Myers of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a co-author of the commentary on the study published in Science Translational Medicine.

?The lack of an equally effective screening test for women at high risk for endometrial or ovarian cancer has created a great deal of interest in developing tests that could identify these cancers by their genetic ?signature? ? the collection of specific mutations within them,? she said.

?This new study is an important step in that direction.?

The new approach, developed by a team at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore, piggybacks on routine Papanicolaou or Pap testing, which is already done routinely to detect cervical cancer.

The idea is to take fluid collected from the cervix for Pap tests and use gene sequencing technology to look for genetic changes that would only be found in endometrial and ovarian tumors.

Since Pap tests occasionally contain cells shed from the ovaries or the lining of the uterus, cancer cells from these organs could be present in the fluid as well.

The team tested for mutations in 24 endometrial and 22 ovarian cancers.

?EXCITING FIRST STEP?

?We could detect 100 percent of endometrial cancers and 40 percent of ovarian cancers, even at the earliest stages of their disease, and we can do it without any false positives,? said Dr. Luis Diaz, associate professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins, who worked on the study published on Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine.

Diaz called the study ?an exciting first step.?

?We?re seeing high sensitivity in endometrial cancer. We?re seeing moderate sensitivity in ovarian cancer, and we?re seeing no false positives,? he said.

That offered enough rationale to start tests on 100 ovarian cancers of different stages and 100 endometrial cancers, as well as a large number of samples from healthy women.

The team hopes to complete that testing by the end of the year.

Dr. Shannon Westin, an expert in gynecologic cancers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, said the need for a screening test for these two cancers is great.

In the United States, the two cancers combined are diagnosed in 70,000 women each year, and about 23,500 women will die from these cancers.

Westin, who co-wrote a commentary on the study, said the paper is ?very compelling and very interesting? that you could find evidence of these cancers in a screening test using fluid from Pap tests.

But the test must still be validated and shown to be effective in a large populations of women, a process that could take 10 to 15 years.

?It?s a great first step. It is a proof of principle that this can be done. Patients are used to getting the Pap smear. They understand it,? she said. That might mean women would ultimately be comfortable getting this type of test.

Dr. David Chelmow, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, who was not involved with the research, said it would be ?fantastic? to have a test that would reliably detect cancers.

?It?s an innovative idea. It?s neat. But the question is really going to be what happens when this gets more thoroughly tested,? he said.

Diaz said currently there are no tests to screen for these cancers early. The experimental test would cost about $100, b ut with the falling cost of sequencing technology, he estimates it will be half or even a tenth of that cost within the next year.

(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen; Editing by Jilian Mincer and Eric Walsh)

Source: http://www.firstpost.com/world/fluid-from-pap-test-used-to-detect-ovarian-endometrial-cancers-583033.html

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Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:13:19 -0800 New marker of drug response may speed pace of lung cancer prevention trials http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/new-marker-of-drug-response-may-speed-pace-of http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/new-marker-of-drug-response-may-speed-pace-of

Jan. 8, 2013 ? Testing medicines to prevent lung cancer requires treating many thousands of high-risk individuals and then waiting 5, 10 or 15 years to discover which of them develop cancer and which, if any, experience survival benefit from the treatment. A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research proposes a possible waypoint on the way to benefit, which if validated, could dramatically reduce the number of patients needed and time required to test drugs for lung cancer prevention.

"Chemoprevention is an important approach that has been way behind in terms of scientific advances for lung cancer," says Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and professor of medical oncology and pathology at the CU School of Medicine. "If we could find a surrogate endpoint for lung cancer mortality -- an intermediate endpoint -- it would make it much easier to conduct smaller trials in much shorter time."

The original intent of the study was to discover certain microRNAs whose level of expression might predict patients likely to respond to the possible chemopreventive drug, Iloprost. If an especially high or low microRNA expression predicted response, it would allow researchers to test the drug only in the population most likely to benefit. Unfortunately, while levels of seven miRNAs were found to be correlated with the appearance of lung cancer, none predicted response to the drug.

It might have been a dead-end study if it weren't for microRNA-34c.

To a striking degree, changes in the expression of this molecule six months after treatment correlated with benefit from the drug seen much later. In those who later showed benefit, microRNA-34c expression was down six months after treatment; in patients who showed no benefit, microRNA-34c expression remained unchanged.

"Instead of waiting for an endpoint 15 years in the future, we could potentially discover the effectiveness of chemopreventive agents only six months after treatment. It would speed up the pace of discovery and eventually bring new chemopreventive agents much faster to the market," Hirsch says.

Hirsch cautions that his discovery, with CU Cancer Center colleagues including Celine Mascaux, MD, PhD, of this potential intermediate endpoint is just that: potential. Further work is needed to validate the predictive power of miRNA-34c in showing chemopreventive response. But Hirsch and colleagues are hopeful not only that miRNA-34c could be this predictive waypoint, but that the cutting edge technique of looking beneath genes, beneath even RNA and mRNA into the molecular world of microRNA will help them discover the roots of the disease.

"The approach is new and it needs to be further explored," Hirsch says.

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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:53:30 -0800 Your medical chart could include exercise minutes http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/your-medical-chart-could-include-exercise-min http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/your-medical-chart-could-include-exercise-min

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Zendi Solano, center, trains with running club members Rian Barrett, second from right, and Richard Chen in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Robert Sallis says some patients may not be aware that research shows physical inactivity is riskier than high blood pressure, obesity and other health risks people know they should avoid. As recently as November 2012, a government-led study concluded that people who routinely exercise live longer than others, even if they're overweight. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Zendi Solano, center, trains with running club members Rian Barrett, second from right, and Richard Chen in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Robert Sallis says some patients may not be aware that research shows physical inactivity is riskier than high blood pressure, obesity and other health risks people know they should avoid. As recently as November 2012, a government-led study concluded that people who routinely exercise live longer than others, even if they're overweight. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Zendi Solano, third from left, trains with her running club in Pasadena, Calif. Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest nonprofit health insurance plans, made a big push a few years ago to get its southern California doctors to ask patients about exercise. Since then, Kaiser has expanded the program across California and to several other states. Now almost 9 million patients are asked at every visit, and some other medical systems are doing it, too. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Zendi Solano, left, stretches with her running club in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Robert Sallis says doctors with Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest nonprofit health insurance plans, generally prescribe exercise first, instead of medication, and for many patients who follow through, that's often all it takes. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Zendi Solano, right, exercises with her running club in Pasadena, Calif. Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest nonprofit health insurance plans, made a big push a few years ago to get its southern California doctors to ask patients about exercise. Since then, Kaiser has expanded the program across California and to several other states. Now almost 9 million patients are asked at every visit, and some other medical systems are doing it, too. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

In this Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012 photo, Zendi Solano, second from left, trains with her running club in Pasadena, Calif. Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest nonprofit health insurance plans, made a big push a few years ago to get its southern California doctors to ask patients about exercise. Since then, Kaiser has expanded the program across California and to several other states. Now almost 9 million patients are asked at every visit, and some other medical systems are doing it, too. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

(AP) ? Roll up a sleeve for the blood pressure cuff. Stick out a wrist for the pulse-taking. Lift your tongue for the thermometer. Report how many minutes you are active or getting exercise.

Wait, what?

If the last item isn't part of the usual drill at your doctor's office, a movement is afoot to change that. One recent national survey indicated only a third of Americans said their doctors asked about or prescribed physical activity.

Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation's largest nonprofit health insurance plans, made a big push a few years ago to get its southern California doctors to ask patients about exercise. Since then, Kaiser has expanded the program across California and to several other states. Now almost 9 million patients are asked at every visit, and some other medical systems are doing it, too.

Here's how it works: During any routine check of vital signs, a nurse or medical assistant asks how many days a week the patient exercises and for how long. The number of minutes per week is posted along with other vitals at the top the medical chart. So it's among the first things the doctor sees.

"All we ask our physicians to do is to make a comment on it, like, 'Hey, good job,' or 'I noticed today that your blood pressure is too high and you're not doing any exercise. There's a connection there. We really need to start you walking 30 minutes a day,'" said Dr. Robert Sallis, a Kaiser family doctor. He hatched the vital sign idea as part of a larger initiative by doctors groups.

He said Kaiser doctors generally prescribe exercise first, instead of medication, and for many patients who follow through that's often all it takes.

It's a challenge to make progress. A study looking at the first year of Kaiser's effort showed more than a third of patients said they never exercise.

Sallis said some patients may not be aware that research shows physical inactivity is riskier than high blood pressure, obesity and other health risks people know they should avoid. As recently as November a government-led study concluded that people who routinely exercise live longer than others, even if they're overweight.

Zendi Solano, who works for Kaiser as a research assistant in Pasadena, Calif., says she always knew exercise was a good thing. But until about a year ago, when her Kaiser doctor started routinely measuring it, she "really didn't take it seriously."

She was obese, and in a family of diabetics, had elevated blood sugar. She sometimes did push-ups and other strength training but not anything very sustained or strenuous.

Solano, 34, decided to take up running and after a couple of months she was doing three miles. Then she began training for a half marathon ? and ran that 13-mile race in May in less than three hours. She formed a running club with co-workers and now runs several miles a week. She also started eating smaller portions and buying more fruits and vegetables.

She is still overweight but has lost 30 pounds and her blood sugar is normal.

Her doctor praised the improvement at her last physical in June and Solano says the routine exercise checks are "a great reminder."

Kaiser began the program about three years ago after 2008 government guidelines recommended at least 2 1/2 hours of moderately vigorous exercise each week. That includes brisk walking, cycling, lawn-mowing ? anything that gets you breathing a little harder than normal for at least 10 minutes at a time.

A recently published study of nearly 2 million people in Kaiser's southern California network found that less than a third met physical activity guidelines during the program's first year ending in March 2011. That's worse than results from national studies. But promoters of the vital signs effort think Kaiser's numbers are more realistic because people are more likely to tell their own doctors the truth.

Dr. Elizabeth Joy of Salt Lake City has created a nearly identical program and she expects 300 physicians in her Intermountain Healthcare network to be involved early this year.

"There are some real opportunities there to kind of shift patients' expectations about the value of physical activity on health," Joy said.

NorthShore University HealthSystem in Chicago's northern suburbs plans to start an exercise vital sign program this month, eventually involving about 200 primary care doctors.

Dr. Carrie Jaworski, a NorthShore family and sports medicine specialist, already asks patients about exercise. She said some of her diabetic patients have been able to cut back on their medicines after getting active.

Dr. William Dietz, an obesity expert who retired last year from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said measuring a patient's exercise regardless of method is essential, but that "naming it as a vital sign kind of elevates it."

Figuring out how to get people to be more active is the important next step, he said, and could have a big effect in reducing medical costs.

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:38:56 -0800 Penguins' private lives recorded in Antarctica http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/penguins-private-lives-recorded-in-antarctica http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/penguins-private-lives-recorded-in-antarctica

Suppose someone monitors your whole life, from the moment you were born through childhood, puberty, adolescence and your midlife crisis, all the way to your ultimate death ? recording what you eat, where you go, who you make love to, when you raise children and how your body ages. Pretty scary, right?

But that's exactly what biologist David Ainley is doing. Not with humans, but with Ad?lie penguins in Antarctica. If he could put TV cameras in the birds' master bedrooms, he wouldn't hesitate.

No detail too private
For 17 years now, Ainley has studied three penguin colonies in and around McMurdo Sound, located at the southern extent of the Ross Sea. "It's rare in science to collect data throughout the whole age structure of a population," Ainley told LiveScience, noting Ad?lie penguins live, on average, about 20 years. Some of the sedate, elderly colony members were just "screaming" newborn chicks when he first arrived here in 1996.

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Back then, the three colonies were growing rapidly, at a rate of about 10 percent per year. "My original goal was to find out what caused this increase, and why the smaller colonies grew even faster than the larger ones," said Ainley, who is a biologist at H.T. Harvey & Associates, an ecological consultancy in San Jose, Calif.

Surprisingly, the baby boom turned out to be a side effect of the Antarctic ozone hole (an opening in the protective atmospheric layer), which reached huge dimensions in the 1990s. "A larger ozone hole means a cooler stratosphere, a more powerful polar vortex and, as a result of stronger winds, more open water in the immediate neighborhood of the colonies," he said. The penguins need the open water for finding their favorite foods ? krill and fish.

With funding from the U.S. Antarctic Program, through the National Science Foundation, Ainley has discovered a lack of competition for scarce food resources is what drives the smaller colonies to grow faster than larger ones. Also, predator leopard seals, which aren't very efficient hunters, are more interested in the bigger colonies, where they have a better chance to catch their nourishing penguin snack.

Along the way, penguin privacy has gone out the window: To keep track of a representative selection of individual penguins, Ainley has banded them on one of their flippers, making it easy to identify each from afar through binoculars. [ Image Gallery: Private Sex Lives of Penguins ]

Moreover, at the exit of the colonies, Ainley has mounted electronic weigh bridges, over which the penguins have to pass when they go foraging in the open sea, and again when they return to feed their newborn chicks from their own stomachs. Radio-frequency chips identify the penguins, and the automatic measurements provide a detailed record of their foraging and feeding behaviors during the austral summer season.

An icy obstacle
All was going well with Ainley's research. But in March 2000, catastrophe struck. A huge part of the Ross Ice Shelf broke loose. The iceberg, nearly the size of the state of Connecticut, blocked access to the open waters of the Ross Sea, effectively cutting off the penguins' preferred route to their winter habitat, farther away from the pole. To reach these slightly warmer and less gloomy regions with their fish and krill in tow, the poor birds now had to take a 50-mile detour. Eventually, the iceberg would remain stuck for a period of five years, and the penguin colonies diminished markedly. [ Album: Stunning Photos of Antarctic Ice ]

"At first, I was very disappointed," said Ainley, as it looked as if the iceberg had wrecked his research program. "But then it turned out that there was a lot of new information to gain from the whole episode." In particular, Ainley discovered many penguins from the small colony at Cape Royds did not return home at all in the summer season, but started a new life at one of the other two Ad?lie colonies at Ross Island ? at Cape Crozier and Cape Bird.

This was completely unexpected, said Ainley. "The scientific gospel was that penguins live in the same colony for their entire life, and that they never migrate elsewhere. But the gospel was written by people who had never witnessed an iceberg event like this one."

Contemplating the universe
By now, everything is pretty much back to normal again. Together with his colleague Jean Pennycook, Ainley started his 17th field expedition in early December. Every other day at Cape Royds, he walks through the penguin colony, armed with a pair of binoculars, keeping track of what the birds are doing. "There's not very much to do, really,? he said. ?Actually, I spend most of my time at my laptop." Research results, as well as daily pictures from breeding nests, are published at a special website, www.penguinscience.com, partly for educational reasons.

The small colony at Cape Royds has a population of about 2,000 penguin pairs, as opposed to Cape Bird, with some 50,000 pairs, and Cape Crozier, the biggest colony in the world, with a staggering 280,000 pairs. "At the other colonies, there's more than enough work to keep two people busy for seven days a week," he said.

But despite the cold, Ainley doesn't seem to mind the relative lack of work. Pointing at the male penguins that are solemnly breeding two fresh-laid eggs each, he notes: "They're just sitting there, contemplating the universe."

To many researchers in Antarctica, the combination of utter remoteness and overwhelming natural beauty is the main atttraction of the frozen continent. In fact, Ainley admits he choose penguin research for his doctoral work just to get a chance to go to Antarctica. "I just had to go there," he said. "I could've chosen geology instead, since I also majored in that discipline."

Then again, monitoring the full life cycle of a mountain or a glacier, from birth to death, is a bit beyond human scope. In the case of the Ad?lie penguins, Ainley almost accomplished this feat. "I'll return two more times on my current grant," he said. "If I'm creative enough to come up with a new research project, I may receive another five-year grant."

The penguins aren't likely to mind. Who knows, they might start to miss their human friend if he weren't to show up anymore.

Dutch freelance science writer Govert Schilling visited McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in early December as a selected member of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic media visit program.

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 22:43:51 -0800 "Hawaii Five-0" to run choose-your-own-ending episode http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/hawaii-five-0-to-run-choose-your-own-ending-e http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/hawaii-five-0-to-run-choose-your-own-ending-e

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Tired of those elitist television writers crafting episode endings that don't go the way you want them to? (We're looking at you, "Sopranos" finale!) "Hawaii Five-0" feels your pain.

In a television first, the hit CBS drama will bring democracy to the airwaves with its January 14 episode and allow viewers to vote for the ending of their choice in real time.

The episode, which will center on the death of an O'ahu State University professor, will prompt viewers to log onto CBS.com or Twitter to cast their votes for three different suspects when each suspect's motive is revealed. The most popular ending is the one that will air at the end of the episode. (Separate votes will be held for the East/Central and Pacific time zone broadcasts.)

"I've always felt the most fun aspect of watching a mystery is trying to figure out ?whodunit,'" executive producer Peter Lenkov said of the groundbreaking endeavor. "Now the 'Hawaii Five-0' viewers will actually get the chance to tell us who they think committed the crime and we will listen. I love that our dedicated and attentive fans will actually play a part in resolving our story."

All three endings will be aired after broadcast on CBS.com, so you can see if you made the right decision.

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Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:12:28 -0800 Double-Duty Pools | Northstar Publishing http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/double-duty-pools-northstar-publishing http://maudiekrezelbyq.posterous.com/double-duty-pools-northstar-publishing

A recreational professional at a pool can prevent a drowning by teaching a young child to swim, provide the gift of mobility to a grandmother, introduce a toddler to water, build the self-esteem of a teenager on the swim team, and motivate a 12-year-old child to simply play.

It?s important to consider programming before designing a competition swimming pool. Photos Courtesy of Water Technology Inc.

So what if that professional?well-educated in the benefits of swimming?is challenged by operating only one pool that provides all of the above benefits?

Ideally, a multi-generational aquatic center would include multiple pools with multiple temperatures in separate environments; indoor and outdoor.

Alas, in this example, our seasoned professional does not have the luxury of multiple pools, but that does not obscure the importance of his or her role in the initial programming. Early involvement in the design programming will arm the resourceful recreation professional with the necessary input for a successful outcome.

Challenges

First, consider the three specific challenges that one body of water presents:

? Size of the pool
? Water temperature
? Water depth.

A competition pool designed to accommodate swim teams and meet the requirements of sanctioning bodies defies all of the ?design rules? for leisure or wellness pools. These ?rules? include shallower, warmer water, with entertainment features like water slides and spraying water, wellness lap lanes, lazy rivers, and vortex channels that can offer both passive and active areas.

A competition pool is oftentimes larger in size than a recreation pool, and the percentage of population use is smaller than with a leisure pool. If the competition pool is to also host swim meets, the size of the natatorium must also be increased for spectator seating.

Aquatic programming must respond to the size of the pool to realize a return on its investment. Movable bulkheads should be considered to help make the pool function at its best capacity, and make it multi-faceted to allow competing programs to occur simultaneously. Maximum utilization of the pool is the ultimate goal.

Ideally, different programs require varied water temperatures. A cooler temperature is preferred for competitive lap swimming or aquatic aerobic exercise. A warmer temperature is more appealing in instances where a patron is using the pool for therapeutic or recreation programming. The pool program should determine what pool temperatures are required. In the instance of one body of water, concessions will have to be made to accommodate these different programs.

A competition pool can have many uses.

A movable floor is an option to overcome the water-depth challenge. Different activities require different levels of water depth, and this solution can help provide the appropriate depths for competition swimming during one hour and small child swimming instruction in the next.

Historically, competition-pool facilities achieve approximately 50- to 60-percent cost recovery per year. A seasoned recreation professional needs to find a way to increase that cost recovery. This begins during the initial programming of the new pool.

Program For Success

Programming should always precede design and should be a collaborative process. Pool managers should be as intimately involved as possible. The more stakeholders involved from the community, the better sharing of information, accountability, and ownership the project will gain. Otherwise, the pool might not meet the goals and expectations of the operator.

When leading a design charette, Doug Whiteaker, President of Water Technology Inc., likes to apply a ?lens theory? so that the team looks at the project through different lenses. First, begin looking at the design through a competitive-swimming lens, and then change lenses and look at the pool through a programmatic lens, and a myriad of options will appear. Lastly, look at the pool through a recreation?or ?water-tainment??lens and ask how to bring recreation fun into this pool.

Start With Spreadsheets

Programming should start at the spreadsheet level. Document all of the swimming functions, including competitive swimming and training, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo, etc. to gain an understanding of the number, length, and depth of lanes that you will need. Each sport has a set of critical requirements, and an estimated number of users will help determine the number of lanes and depth of water.

? How many swimmers will be using the pool at any one time?

? At what percentages of operational hours will each of these groups occupy the pool?

? How many swimmers are on the competition teams?

? How many lanes will be required?

? What are the length and width of lanes required?

? Will the pool be available for general recreation or fitness use when the competitive team has training scheduled?

? What provisions will be made for warm-up lanes?

Using a programmatic lens, discuss what other programs?learn-to-swim, water aerobics, snorkeling, etc. (see sidebar)?you would like to offer. Poll the residents to discover what programs they may participate in as well as what they perceive to be the immediate and future needs of the community.

There are many ways to adjust a competition pool for recreational uses.

Be creative and open to suggestions from both a collective programming team and peers operating similar pools. These discussions will reveal successful and not-so-successful program offerings.

Lastly, look at the pool through the recreation lens. Could the addition of removable, floatable play-features be a way to add recreation value when meets are not being held? Explore the new innovations in movable aqua-climbing walls, and determine how they fit into the recreation program. Is the addition of a water dropslide a viable option?

Overlay the sports swimming, programmatic, and recreation spreadsheets to help visualize how they all work together. This will help to determine the number of lanes needed and what depths are necessary.

The last challenge is marketing the new facility. Competition pools do not have the instant ?just add water-tainment? attraction like their counterparts. Make sure to communicate to community residents the benefits of swimming and the programs you have successfully compiled. Saturate each marketplace, reaching out to the multi-generations of swimmers that will ultimately keep the new pool afloat.

Participation in the initial programming of the pool is essential to a pool operator?s success. When presented with a challenge, recreation professionals know their actions will ultimately impact budgets and bottom lines, and most importantly, the residents. Embrace the idea that there is a pool to program, and dive into the programming phase of the project with recreation resourcefulness!

Appropriate and inclusive aquatic-program development of the new community asset will not only be a source of drowning prevention and learn-to-swim-faster sports programs, but also the catalyst for teaching the ?youth? of all ages and abilities in the community the lifelong benefits of aquatic wellness.

Melinda Kempfer is the business-development coordinator at Water Technology, Inc., in Beaver Dam, Wis. Reach her at (920) 887-7375, or mkempfer@wtiworld.com.

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Looking for alternate recreation programming to host in competition pools? Try these out:
? Learn-to-swim lessons
? Aqua-aerobics and fitness programs (deep water and shallow water)
? Water-rescue and safety classes
? Snorkeling/scuba classes
? Dive-in movies
? Frisbee golf
? Kayak classes and training
? Stand-up paddle boarding
? Underwater hockey
? Innertube polo

Note the recreational equipment that works well in competition pools:

? Basketball
? Volleyball
? Climbing walls
? Rope swings
?Floatables
? Inflatable water-play structure
? Slides (drop)
? Portable underwater fitness equipment

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  1. Developing Standards For Public Pools
  2. Fast Pools and LZR Suits
  3. Examining Outdoor Pools
  4. Finding Purpose
  5. Winning Over Residents

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WASHINGTON (AP) ? A last-ditch tax deal in the Senate might let the U.S. economy escape the worst of the so-called fiscal cliff and avoid going back into recession. But even if the House goes along, the tax increases likely coming in 2013 will dent economic growth anyway.

In the early hours of the new year, the Senate voted to end a long stalemate and raise taxes on upper-income households, extend long-term unemployment benefits and postpone decisions over government spending cuts, officials said. But any deal needs approval from the House.

About $536 billion in 2013 tax increases were scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, along with $109 billion in cuts from military and domestic-spending programs, if Democrats and Republicans could not reach agreement.

Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wells Fargo, said he expects budget policy, including the higher taxes in the Senate plan, to shave 0.8 percentage points off economic growth in 2013. The economy doesn't have much growth to give. Vitner predicts it will grow just 1.5 percent in 2013, down from 2.2 percent in 2012.

The biggest hit to the economy is expected to come from the end of a two-year Social Security tax cut. The so-called payroll tax is scheduled to bounce back up to 6.2 percent from 4.2 percent in 2011 and 2012, amounting to a $1,000 tax increase for someone earning $50,000 a year.

"Even with this deal, fiscal policy will still be a net drag on economic growth," Vitner said. "The expiration of the payroll tax holiday will reduce after-tax income for all workers and hit lower to middle income families the hardest."

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, calculates that the higher payroll tax will reduce economic growth by 0.6 percentage points in 2013. The other possible tax increases ? including higher taxes on household incomes above $450,000 a year ? will slice just 0.15 percentage points off annual growth, Zandi said.

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A dog walks past a mural of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. Chavez is confronting "new complications" due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after undergoing cancer surgery, his Vice President Nicolas Maduro said Sunday evening in Cuba as he visited the ailing leader for the first time since his operation. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

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In this frame grab taken from the government owned Venezolana de Television, Venezuela?s Vice-President Nicolas Maduro, second right, speaks next to Minister of Technology Jorge Arreaza, second left, Venezuela?s president Hugo Chavez?s daughter Rosa Virginia, left, and Attorney General Cilia Flores, right, in a televised address from Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Maduro said President Hugo Chavez has suffered "new complications" following his cancer surgery. (AP Photo/VTV)

(AP) ? President Hugo Chavez's new complications after cancer surgery prompted his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting growing speculation about whether the ailing leader has much longer to live.

Vice President Nicolas Maduro looked weary and spoke with a solemn expression as he announced in a televised address from Havana on Sunday that Chavez now confronts "new complications" due to a respiratory infection nearly three weeks after his operation. He described Chavez's condition as delicate.

The streets of Caracas were abuzz on Monday with talk of Chavez's increasingly tough fight, while the news topped the front pages of the country's newspapers.

"He's history now," said Cesar Amaro, a street vendor selling newspapers and snacks at a kiosk in downtown Caracas. He motioned to a daily on the rack showing side-by-side photos of Maduro and National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, and said politics will now turn to them.

Amaro said he expects a new election soon to replace Chavez. "For an illness like the one the president has, his days are numbered now," he said matter-of-factly.

A government-organized New Year's Eve concert had been planned in a downtown Caracas plaza featuring popular Venezuelan bands, but was canceled due to Chavez's condition.

About 300 people filled a Caracas church for a Mass in the afternoon to pray for Chavez.

"This country would be terrible without Chavez. He's the president of the poor," said Josefa Carvajal, a 75-year-old former maid who sat in the pews. "They say the president is very sick. I believe he's going to get better."

The president's aides also sang and prayed at a Mass at the presidential palace, while government officials urged Venezuelans to keep their president in their prayers.

Political analyst Ricardo Sucre said the outlook for Chavez appears grim, saying Maduro's body language during his televised appearance spoke volumes.

"Everything suggests Chavez's health situation hasn't evolved as hoped," Sucre said. He said Maduro likely remained in Havana to keep close watch on how Chavez's condition develops.

"These hours should be key to having a more definitive prognosis of Chavez's health, and as a consequence make the corresponding political decisions according to the constitution," Sucre said.

Sucre and other Venezuelans said it seems increasingly unlikely that Chavez would be able to be sworn in as scheduled on Jan. 10.

The Venezuelan leader has not been seen or heard from since undergoing his fourth cancer-related surgery Dec. 11, and government officials have said he might not return in time for his inauguration for a new six-year term.

If Chavez dies or is unable to continue in office, the Venezuelan Constitution says that a new election should be held within 30 days.

Before his operation, Chavez acknowledged he faced risks and designated Maduro as his successor, telling supporters they should vote for the vice president if a new presidential election were necessary.

Chavez said at the time that his cancer had come back despite previous surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. He has been fighting an undisclosed type of pelvic cancer since June 2011.

Maduro said on Sunday that he had met with Chavez. "We greeted each other and he himself referred to these complications," Maduro said, reading from a prepared statement.

"The president gave us precise instructions so that, after finishing the visit, we would tell the (Venezuelan) people about his current health condition," Maduro said. "President Chavez's state of health continues to be delicate, with complications that are being attended to, in a process not without risks."

Maduro was seated alongside Chavez's eldest daughter, Rosa, and son-in-law Jorge Arreaza, as well as Attorney General Cilia Flores. He held up a copy of a newspaper confirming that his message was recorded on Sunday.

"Thanks to his physical and spiritual strength, Comandante Chavez is facing this difficult situation," Maduro said.

Maduro said he had met various times with Chavez's medical team and relatives. He said he would remain in Havana "for the coming hours" but didn't specify how long.

Maduro, who arrived in Havana on Saturday for the sudden and unexpected trip, is the highest-ranking Venezuelan official to see Chavez since the surgery in Cuba, where the president's mentor Fidel Castro has reportedly made regular visits to check on him.

Before flying to Cuba, Maduro said that Energy Minister Hector Navarro would be in charge of government affairs in the meantime.

"The situation does not look good. The fact that Maduro himself would go to Cuba, leaving Hector Navarro in charge only seems understandable if Chavez's health is precarious," said David Smilde, a University of Georgia sociologist and analyst for the Washington Office on Latin America think tank.

Smilde said that Maduro probably made the trip "to be able to talk to Chavez himself and perhaps to talk to the Castros and other Cuban advisers about how to navigate the possibility of Chavez not being able to be sworn in on Jan. 10."

"Mentioning twice in his nationally televised speech that Chavez has suffered new complications only reinforces the appearance that the situation is serious," Smilde said.

Medical experts say that it's common for patients who have undergone major surgeries to suffer respiratory infections and that how a patient fares can vary widely from a quick recovery in a couple of days to a fight for life on a respirator.

Maduro's latest update differed markedly from a week ago, when he had said he received a phone call from the president and that Chavez was up and walking.

The vice president spoke on Sunday below a picture of 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar, the inspiration of Chavez's leftist Bolivarian Revolution movement.

Maduro said that Chavez had sent year-end greetings to his homeland and a "warm hug to the boys and girls of Venezuela."

The vice president expressed faith that Chavez would "successfully fight this new battle." He concluded his message saying: "Long live Chavez."

On the streets of Caracas, images of Chavez smiling and saluting are emblazoned on campaign signs and murals. One newly painted mural reads: "Be strong, Chavez."

State television played video of Chavez campaigning for re-election, including a speech when he shouted: "I am a nation!"

A new government sign atop a high-rise apartment complex reads: "YOU ALSO ARE CHAVEZ."

Chavez has been in office since 1999 and was re-elected in October, three months after he had announced that his latest tests showed he was cancer-free.

Opposition politicians have criticized a lack of detailed information about Chavez's condition, and last week repeated their demands for a full medical report.

Information Minister Ernesto Villegas defended the government's handling of the situation, saying during a televised panel discussion on Sunday night that Chavez "has told the truth in his worst moments" throughout his presidency.

He also referred to a new surge of rumors about Chavez's condition and called for respect for the president and his family.

Chavez's daughter Maria, who has been with the president since his surgery, said in a message on her Twitter account: "Thank you people of Venezuela. Thank you people of the world. You and your love have always been our greatest strength! God is with us! We love you!"

Allies of the president also responded on Twitter, repeating the phrase: "Chavez lives and will triumph."

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Associated Press writer Christopher Toothaker contributed to this report.

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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, and detectives are investigating whether the violence is connected to a landlord-tenant dispute, state police said Sunday.

James Pak was arrested at about 10 p.m. Saturday following a standoff at his suburban neighborhood home in Biddeford, about 15 miles south of Portland, police said. He is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Derrick Thompson, 19, and Thompson's girlfriend, 18-year-old Alivia Welch.

Thompson's mother, Susan Johnson, 44, had called police to Pak's home about three hours earlier. She and her 6-year-old son also live in the apartment, which is attached to the main house where Pak lived.

Biddeford police rescued Johnson and her young son, and Pak retreated to his part of the house. He surrendered hours later after talking to police negotiators, said state police spokesman Steve McCausland. A gun was found in the house.

Johnson was being treated for a gunshot wound at a Portland hospital, officials said. Her younger son, Brayden, was not hurt.

Detectives are investigating whether the violence stemmed from a landlord-tenant dispute, McCausland said. Johnson and her family moved into the apartment in October.

Pak is being held at the York County Jail in Alfred and is expected to make his initial court appearance either Monday or Wednesday, depending on the availability of a judge.

The victim's bodies were transported Sunday to the medical examiner's office in Augusta, where autopsies will be performed.

Thompson was an auto detailer at a local car dealership and had attended Biddeford High School, and Welch worked at a local coffee shop and graduated from Thornton Academy in Saco, according to their Facebook profiles and a list of Thornton Academy graduates. Two people who answered a phone call at the coffee shop would not comment.

Welch and Thompson married in July, according to both their Facebook profiles, but McCausland said police weren't aware whether they were married.

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Brooklyn Nets principal owner Mikhail Prokhorov speaks to the media concerning the firing of head coach Avery Johnson. Prokhorov spoke at half time of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday, Dec., 28, 2012 at Barclays Center in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

Brooklyn Nets principal owner Mikhail Prokhorov speaks to the media concerning the firing of head coach Avery Johnson. Prokhorov spoke at half time of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday, Dec., 28, 2012 at Barclays Center in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

FILE- In this Dec. 17, 2011, file photo, New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson, right, talks with assistant coach P.J. Carlesimo during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game against the New York Knicks in Newark, N.J. The Nets fired Johnson on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, and Carlesimo will coach the team on an interim basis, starting Friday night with a home game against Charlotte. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Brooklyn Nets principal owner Mikhail Prokhorov smiles as he speaks to the media concerning the firing of head coach Avery Johnson. Prokhorov spoke at half time of an NBA basketball game against the Charlotte Bobcats on Friday, Dec., 28, 2012 at Barclays Center in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)

(AP) ? Skiing in Canada is postponed. Mikhail Prokhorov's new agenda calls for lunch with his basketball coach.

Prokhorov can always reschedule his vacation. Fixing his team couldn't wait.

So the Brooklyn Nets owner fired Avery Johnson, made P.J. Carlesimo the team's interim coach, and put aside pleasure for business.

Prokhorov flew to New York and watched the Nets hand the Charlotte Bobcats their 17th straight loss, 97-81 on Friday. He and Carlesimo will meet Saturday for lunch, where the Russian billionaire will likely remind Carlesimo of his high ? perhaps unrealistic ? goals for the Nets.

Carlesimo, uncomfortable with how he got the job, isn't worried about what it will take to keep it.

"Honestly, am I anxious to hear what he's got to say? Of course I do. But we've just got to go out and do the best job we can and see whatever happens," Carlesimo said. "I certainly don't want to lobby for it or anything like that."

He won't need to if the Nets keep performing like they did Friday.

The Nets played as they did last month, when they were 11-4 and Johnson was Eastern Conference coach of the month. They are just 4-10 in December, a slump that cost Johnson his job, but got back over .500 against the hapless Bobcats.

Brook Lopez had 26 points and 11 rebounds, Deron Williams added 17 of his 19 points in the first half, and Joe Johnson had 16 for the Nets, who led by 29 points and won for just the second time in seven games.

"I felt we're a good team all year and we just hit a rough patch," said Williams, who struggled under Johnson. "We've got to fight our way out of it, so we made a step in the right direction tonight and we just keep going."

Prokhorov cut short heli-skiing in British Columbia to travel to New York. He said he decided to fire Johnson last week but will be patient with Carlesimo. Even with big names such as Phil Jackson potentially available and Prokhorov vowing to spend whatever it takes to build a championship team, he said repeatedly that Carlesimo was the head coach.

Prokhorov did say that if the Nets do look for a new coach, he would be personally involved. He wouldn't discuss anyone by name, even joking he had never heard of Jackson, the 11-time champion coach whom ESPN.com reported was the Nets' top target.

"Now P.J. is the head coach and if it becomes necessary, you know who the usual suspects are," Prokhorov told reporters at halftime.

The Nets had been blown out of their previous two games and Prokhorov said the Nets were lacking team spirit.

Still, deciding Johnson would be fired last week means Prokhorov had made up his mind even before the lackluster Christmas performance at home against Boston that preceded a rout Wednesday in Milwaukee.

"I think we have very talented players, but they are capable of much more than what we have seen in the recent weeks," Prokhorov said. "I respect Avery and really I wish him well, but sometimes chemistry just isn't right. It happens.

"I think the main question is why we were unable to bounce back and to play like champions," he added.

Prokhorov added around $300 million in payroll this summer and has set the expectations high, saying he believes the Nets can reach the Eastern Conference finals. Though it's believed he wouldn't back away from paying top dollar for a coach, he left open the possibility that he may already have the guy he wants.

"P.J. is the head coach and just I think we have a lot of trust in him and really I want him to lead the team," Prokhorov said.

The Nets played with energy under Carlesimo after forward Gerald Wallace had criticized the team following Wednesday's 108-93 loss in Milwaukee in Johnson's last game.

"To me, it's kind of frustrating and sad because that's the first time in my career that a coach's been let go in the middle of the season like that," Wallace said. "But I understand the business part of it. We move on and obviously regardless of who's sitting at the head of the chair, we know what we got to do as players."

Carlesimo, who had stints coaching Portland and Golden State, is perhaps best known for his infamous run-in with Latrell Sprewell when he was leading the Trail Blazers. A terse exchange at a December 1997 practice resulted in Sprewell choking Carlesimo. It took several players and team officials to break up the attack, which an angry Sprewell renewed 15 minutes later.

Carlesimo last coached his own team when he was fired by the Oklahoma City Thunder after a 1-12 start to the 2008-09 season and said before the game he was a little more apprehensive than normal for his return to running his own club.

"Your head's spinning a little bit, you're trying to think of all the things that were second nature," Carlesimo said. "Hopefully, I haven't forgotten. I'm old, but hopefully I haven't forgotten."

It was quickly obvious he had nothing to worry about.

The Bobcats missed 13 of their first 16 shots, making it easy for the Nets. Brooklyn scored nine straight in the middle of the first quarter to open a 12-point lead, extended it to 18 later in the period, and were ahead 33-15 headed to the second.

"It's tough. We can't put ourselves in that kind of position," Bobcats guard Kemba Walker said. "We don't have a lot of depth on our team to come back against great teams, but we do every once in a while, but we can't do that all the time. We dig ourselves in holes we can't get out of."

Williams, who missed Wednesday's game with a bruised right wrist and came into the game shooting under 40 percent for the season, was 7 of 14 from the field. Williams, who said recently that he preferred his old offense in Utah to Johnson's, acknowledged his confidence was down as he struggled to play the style that best suited the Nets.

"We came out with a lot more energy," Williams said. "I think we had to. I think our backs are against the wall right now."

Lopez, the starting center whose seven-game absence with a foot injury started the Nets' downward spiral, was 9 of 12 and made all eight free throws. He said it's easy for the Nets to offer Carlesimo the support Prokhorov wants.

"He helped us focus tonight," Lopez said. "He was there for us and you know we support him and he supports us."

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AP freelance writer Adriano Torres in East Rutherford, N.J., contributed to this report.

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Action needed on embarrassing record of energy efficiency in government buildingsScottish Liberal Democrat energy spokesperson Liam McArthur MSP has criticised the SNP government for its embarrassing record on energy efficiency throughout the Scottish Government estate.

Parliamentary answers from Energy Minister Fergus Ewing have revealed only 4.8 percent of Scottish Government buildings have microgeneration technologies installed, a 0.3 percent improvement since last year.

The figures also show that no progress has been made to improve the Energy Performance Certificates of Scottish Government buildings. Six of the buildings have the two worst possible ratings, whilst none have achieved the top ?A? energy performance certificates.

The certificate provides 'A' to 'G' ratings for the building, with 'A' being the most energy efficient and 'G' being the least.

Commenting, Mr McArthur said:

?The SNP government?s efforts to get its own house in order on energy efficiency have practically ground to a halt. Meanwhile, the story is little better in terms of the number of government buildings with microgeneration technologies installed.

?Time is not on our side here. If we want to tackle climate change and be taken seriously as an advocate of renewable energy and energy efficiency then the Scottish Government must lead by example.

?After all, an energy efficient government estate is also a cost effective one. Better insulation, efficient central heating and installing microgeneration technologies such as solar panels all save money in the long term. SNP Ministers, however, seem curiously unwilling to match their words with action on energy efficiency and microgeneration.

?Not a single government building has a top rating for energy performance, and two have the worst rating possible. This hardly provides inspirational leadership for businesses and households across Scotland.

?Scottish Liberal Democrats have been happy to support the SNP government in sending out a positive message on energy efficiency and microgeneration, but Ministers must start upping their game on this vital issue.

?It says much about the lack of progress over the last twelve months that the Minister has been able to simply refer me to the same answers he gave this time last year. That alone should stir the Minister from any complacency and persuade him of the need for proper action over the course of the next twelve months.?

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