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  • A growing number of children in Yorkshire can use an iPad before they have learned to tell the time, a survey has found.

    Nearly two-thirds of youngsters in the region now own or have access to a digital tablet, and in a further shift from tradition, one in three do not have a teddy bear.

    The digital age is threatening not only tree-climbing and playing out until sunset, but also the simple skill of riding a bike, which is becoming a lost art among two to 12-year-olds, the survey found.

    Of the children questioned, 67 per cent said they could confidently manoeuvre around an iPad, 52 per cent could take a video using the sharing app Snapchat and 69 per cent could complete a level on the game Candy Crush, in which players compete to win representations of sweets.

    In contrast, more than one child in three cannot swim, half do not know how to tie their shoe laces and 41 per cent struggle to play a sport.

    And while 41 per cent of children do not own a football, nearly as many admit to playing FIFA “virtual soccer” games on the PlayStation console.

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  • With just half of tickets sold and only four months before kickoff, Brazil’s new minister of sports, Ricardo Leyser, is looking into ways to boost ticket sales.

    He told Brazilian newspaper Folha that the Brazilian government may purchase tickets that will be distributed to public schools. He said public officials must also work to boost worldwide confidence in Rio’s ability to host the games and ensure travelers’ safety.

    They’ll have to work to ease fears over more than one issue.

    The country is in the midst of a political upheaval and massive protests, and lawmakers are currently considering a request to impeach President Dilma Rousseff.

    Leyser was tapped to replace Brazil’s former sports minister, who resigned just days ago.

    See CNN

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  • Obviously this is the Internet, though, and whenever anyone makes a request that involves the use of Photoshop, it can only end one way… creatively.

    See Mashable


  • The newsroom was shocked when ‘Deadliest Catch’ star captain Sig Hansen told our camera guy he’s actually scared of the ocean because he can’t swim!

    https://youtu.be/LkT5rK9gNe4

  • British Success in Channel Swim. Cap Gris Nez, Dover and Folkestone.

  • Canadian Olympic swimmer, Ryan Cochrane, discusses the topic of Healthy Living for the month of April. Ryan highlights four important facets: Proper nutrition, proper sleep, staying active and staying away from harmful substances. It is these four areas that Ryan says students should always be aware of in order to maintain a healthy, happy lifestyle.

    https://youtu.be/Rw5NSbSrLNQ

  • Monica Saili, an eighteen-year-old student from Wellington, New Zealand, competes internationally in swim competitions for the country of Samoa. This is her story and why she never loses faith.

  • Inspirational film Stockholm Swim Open 2016

  • The trove of 11.5 million documents from Panama-based lawfirm Mossack Fonseca was obtained from an anonymous source by Germany’s “Süddeutsche Zeitung” newspaper.

    The documents, dubbed the “Panama Papers,” show how the company helped its clients evade tax and launder money. The files also link current and former leaders, including Egyptian autocrat Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s former leader Moammar Gadhafi, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to illicit financial dealings.

    The daily Süddeutsche shared the unprecedented leak with the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and other news outlets, including the BBC and “The Guardian.” Their findings were published Sunday after a year-long investigation into the documents.

    “2.6 terabytes of data, 11.5 millions documents, and 214,000 shell companies: The Panama Papers are the largest data leak journalists have ever worked with,” Süddeutsche tweeted. […]

    The papers reveal that around 140 politicians from around the world have been using offshore tax havens – among them 12 national leaders. Other individuals mentioned in the files included drug traffickers, celebrities and sports stars.

    Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Iceland’s prime minister, Sigmundur Davíð; Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif; and Alaa Mubarak, the son of Egypt’s former president, are all known to have offshore wealth. Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t mentioned in the documents, but the ICIJ said his associates “secretly shuffled as much as $2 billion (1.7 billion euros) through banks and shadow companies.”

    The files also reveal that the families of at least eight current and former members of China’s supreme ruling body, including President Xi Jinping’s brother-in-law, have been found to have hidden wealth.

    The name of soccer player Lionel Messi also makes an appearance in connection with a shell company he owned with his father in Panama.

    https://youtu.be/LlRyRJUK8vc