Now all together, a fun little competition – one length of kicking, all out – where each team has a noodle, and no one is allowed to let go of it. In this case hopelessly unfair, the big boys versus the small boys versus the girls. They still give it a go, though, the little ones.
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Fox News anchor Heather Nauert announced on Monday that a YMCA swim class that respected the religious traditions of Muslim girls was proof that “Sharia law is now changing everything.â€
The News Corpse calls it fear mongering.
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Germantown Academy’s revered swimming coach, Dick Shoulberg, is on leave because of “a personnel issue,” a school administrator said Monday.
In an e-mail to parents last month, the school announced that assistant coach Claire Crippen would serve as acting director and acting head coach of the girls’ team in Shoulberg’s absence. Assistant coach Chris Lear will be acting head coach of the boys’ team, athletic director Jim Fenerty said.
Head of School Jim Connor said he could not comment on Shoulberg’s leave but said he hoped it would be resolved “very soon.”
See tvmidtvest.dk, via SwimNews.dk
‘In Herning they are preparing for the European Short Course Championships, which means that Boxen (‘the Box’) is being transformed into a pool’
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“Using complex computer mapping, they counted 43,123 between the Hollywood Hills and San Pedro, from pools shaded by leaf-covered pergolas in Santa Monica to ones surrounded by chain-link fences in Alhambra.
Along the way, they discovered something more than just the real-world versions of the iconic David Hockney pool utopias. Their project also proved that two non-experts were able to take a massive amount of freely available data to peek into other people’s lives. […]
The LA Swimmer — 43123 Pools I Have Not Visited and Never Will from Benedikt Groß on Vimeo.
The duo used eight publicly available databases, including latimes.com’s Mapping L.A., for the project. Other data sets used included the county’s parcel boundaries service, the Los Angeles County sheriff’s crime database, the assessor’s data set and a database that contained those donating money during the Proposition 8 campaign on gay marriage and the Megan’s Law list of registered child molesters.
That’s why the “Big Atlas of L.A. Pools” came to include a map that shows where sex offenders with swimming pools live.
“It seems that very few sex offenders live on property with pools,” the analysis concluded.
The Big Atlas of LA Pools – #0 Process and Overview from Benedikt Groß on Vimeo.
These are the IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT», playing on the frozen Lake Baikal.
A YouTube video published by the Lithuanian National Radio and Television on July 31, 2012, the day after Ruta Meilutyte won the women’s 100 meter breaststroke final at the London 2012 Olympics. Video apparently the emotions in the Lithuanian London 2012 studio. You don’t need to understand Lithuanian, to understand what they are saying :-)
(Thanks, Coach Erik!)
Just you wait until she can climb up on the start block herself
Video text hints that this is a girl named Arabel at the Aura Keskus waterpark in Tartu, Estonia.
http://youtu.be/ie3ZSrggJ9A
Take a look at the video to see Becky’s insight into the SwimStars programme and to see what some of our Syon Park SwimStars think of the programme!
Becky’s SwimStars vision! from Total Swimming on Vimeo.
