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(Edition dated January 1,2012)

Changes Since December 5, 2011.

For this 179th monthly update of the Web site since May, 1996, we've added seven new listings; they are in:

CANADA:

Ontario Milton
Quebec Rimouski

MAURITIUS: Mare D'Albert, Riviere du Rempart

UNITED KINGDOM:

England Huyton

UNITED STATES:

New York Lindenhurst, Ossining

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Database News

Geocoding and Mapping Progress Report

This month we were able to geocode another 268 listings, bringing us up to about 19.4% of the total.

We've been through Australia, New Zealand, and Canada and have been through the cities and towns whose names begin with the letters "A" through "H" in England.

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November Contribution to the Human Rights Campaign

In keeping with our pledge to donate advertising revenue earned on “Hate State” listing pages, we're pleased to announce that the Human Rights Campaign will receive a donation of $172.10 for earnings during the month of December. That brings the total to nearly $8,900 since we began the program, in April, 2006.

What's a Hate State? There are 30 of them now: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin; the states that have homophobic so-called "Defense of Marriage" amendments to their state constitutions, passed by popular vote. For more information, see the HRC's Marriage and Relationship Recognition Web page.

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Summary Statistics:

The database now contains 18,793 listings with a total of 20,107 year-round, full-size pools in 10,775 communities and 168 countries.

Although we started with U.S. pools only, we now have 13,034 listings in 167 other countries, 69% of the total.

Among the listings, there are 1,623 hotels with on-site pools and another 486 listings are clubs, YMCAs, and other types of facility with discounted access available to guests registered at one or more nearby hotels.

If we're missing a good, year-round pool that you know about anywhere, please send us the info from the Add-A-Pool section of this site.

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Send your comments and suggestions to Bill Haverland or Tom Saunders at BHaverland@nc.rr.com.