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Australia's modern swimmers and ocean baths
The freedom and benefits of swimming are enjoyed by Australians of all ages. In the summer, millions of people flock to the beaches along the country's coast to swim. Others swim in backyard and public swimming pools, or in natural swimming holes, lakes and dams.
Unknown, Wollongong Baths, 1975. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia: A6135, K21/7/75/55.
The freedom to swim in Australia in daylight hours at the beach, in comfortable swimming costumes, by Aborigines in public pools and for women in internationally mixed competition has a long history of community involvement and outspoken champions. Public subscription has supported the construction of ocean baths and swimming pools around Australia.
An innovative approach to swimming by Australia's first modern swimmers led to the development of the freestyle swimming stroke—the Australian Crawl. This development was led by the swimmers training at ocean baths with cork lane ropes at Coogee and Bondi.
Early pioneer, Annette Kellermann is considered Australia's first well-known modern swimmer. Kellermann held competitive world records in 1902 as well as being a successful advocate in court, in 1907, for the physical benefits of swimming and appropriate liberating swimming costumes.
Unknown, Miss Shane Gould in training, 1972. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia: A8746, KN16/3/72/20.
Australia's first Olympic Gold and Silver medallists were women: Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie respectively (Stockholm, 1912), training in McIvers Baths, a traditional women's swimming pool, on the south side of Coogee Beach. A public subscription took the two women to Stockholm after they won the right as women to compete in the Olympics.
The segregation of public swimming pools was not always on the basis of gender. It was also restricted on the basis of race. In 1965, Aboriginal people did not have access to swimming pools. A large public protest outside the public swimming pool in Moree, New South Wales, led by Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins was successful in letting Aborigines into swimming pools.
Many past and present Australian swimmers have become national and international icons. Famous Olympians include Dawn Fraser (4 gold and 4 silver medals), Murray Rose (4 gold), Shane Gould (3 gold) and Ian Thorpe (5 gold).
Ocean baths and 'bogey holes'
Bronte Rock Baths, opened 1887, 2001. Image courtesy of NSW Ocean Baths.
New South Wales has around a hundred ocean baths, or tidal swimming pools where waves break over the sides. Some of the most popular are around Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong. Ocean baths can be a natural pool or a rock platform that's been enhanced by deepening it, adding concrete walls or smoothing its floor.
Some of the NSW ocean baths occupy the sites of earlier Aboriginal fishtraps ... The popular term 'bogey hole' used to refer to a bathing place is said to derive from an Aboriginal language from the Sydney area. But the term 'bogey hole' also resonated with certain British traditions, which use the term 'bogey' to refer to a water sprite.
New South Wales Ocean Baths .
The colonial population of New South Wales followed established Aboriginal practices of segregated bathing at Sydney's Coogee when they designated:
- the northern headland for men's bathing and eventually for formalised men's baths, and
- the southern headland for women's bathing and eventually for formalised women's baths.
McIvers Baths (Coogee Women's Pool, Coogee Women's Baths)
M. L. McDermott or I. L. McConchie, McIvers Baths (Coogee Women's Pool). Image courtesy of the NSW Ocean Baths
This women-only bathing pool has been in continuous use since the 1860s. The pool site may have been a traditional bathing place for Aboriginal women and was used as a women's bathing area after the 1820s and is still reserved solely for use by women and children. It is 20-metre ocean pool set on a rock platform that is well-screened.
Wollongong women's and men's baths (gentlemen's baths, the gentleman's bathing place, Clarkes Hole)
M. L. McDermott or I. L. McConchie, Wollongong Men's Baths (also known as Clarke's Hole). Image courtesy of the NSW Ocean Baths.
In 1856 women and children used a bathing pool 'the Children's Pool' on the south side of Flagstaff Hill. In 1877 this was formalised as the Ladies Baths. Gentlemen's baths for Wollongong, known as Clarke's Hole, were provided by the Harbours and Rivers Branch of the NSW Public Works Department. Improvements were made in 1881, through public subscriptions amounting to over 20 pounds and excavations in 1896 ensured that 'the bathers secure all the enjoyment without the danger of swimming in the open sea'. In 1902 swimming star Annette Kellermann performed at a swimming carnival at the men's baths.
Women's bathing machines on Adelaide beaches
The women folk by payment had the use of bathing machines. These were weird contrivances like a tiny room on wheels, and the woman in charge would hitch a horse to this caravan after the ladies had clambered aboard and tow it out into two feet of water. Those inside the 'kennel' would doff the multitudinous garments then worn, and then don the bathing suit ... like an old-fashioned nightgown (only always a dark colour) covering the body from neck to toes, while the lower part was weighted with shot to keep the skirt from floating and exposing the hidden limbs ... a girl able to swim was as rare as the dodo.
There was a tremendous hubbub when women began to adopt more fitting bathing costumes, and there was nearly a riot at Glenelg when the first woman appeared in tight-fitting shorts and vest.
Sea Bathing Sixty Years Ago , 1928.
Mixed bathing
Mixed bathing, Adelaide beaches, 1922. Image courtesy of the Mortlock Library South Australia: B 46482.
By 1900, the Adelaide press reported on mixed bathing that occurred on beaches in France and Spain where whole families splashed around in the sea, wearing carefully designed bathing costumes. In Edwardian Adelaide, neck to knee bathers were seen as an 'immoral atrocity'.
The move to mixed bathing in Adelaide coincided with a visit by Annette Kellermann in 1904. Kellermann was the first woman swimmer to appear in public at the Adelaide City Baths. In a public display, she 'discarded the conventional pantaloons for what approximated a neck-to-knee costume. Her visit was a great success'. After that, South Australians looked differently at the custom of mixed bathing (Mixed Bathing, Mortlock Library, South Australia).
Swimming in daylight hours
Before 1902 it was illegal to swim in the surf in daylight hours. In 1902 this law was openly defied by a male swimmer who entered the water at Manly Beach at midday. He was arrested but no charges were laid, and subsequently surf bathing' became a popular past time.
With more swimmers in the surf, the dangers of the ocean became apparent, and in February 1906 the first surf lifesaving club in the world was founded at Bondi Beach. With more clubs forming at different beaches, the New South Wales Surf Bathing Association was founded on 18 October 1907 (later Surf Life Saving Australia).
Wylie's Baths – mixed swimming
One of the first mixed gender bathing pools in Australia is Sydney's Wylie's Baths, established in 1907 at Coogee Beach by Henry Alexander Wylie. Wylie constructed the baths after obtaining a special lease below the high water mark. The construction of the Baths coincided with Sydney's emerging interest in seaside pools at the turn of the century. Wylie's Baths has been classified by the National Trust of Australia (NSW Division).
Wylie was a champion long distance and underwater swimmer and his daughter Wilhelmina (Mina Wylie), along with Fanny Durack, were Australia's first two female Olympic swimming champions.
Annette Kellermann – 'Australia's Mermaid' and first modern swimmer
Annette Kellermann. Image courtesy of MermaidFX.
Annette Kellermann (1887–1975) actively promoted the physical benefits of swimming throughout her life, as well as becoming a major vaudeville stage and Hollywood star, known as the 'Diving Venus' and the 'Australian Mermaid'.
Kellermann learnt to swim at the age of 6, to overcome a weakness in her legs which required her to wear steel braces to strengthen them. On the advice of a doctor, her parents enrolled her in swim classes at Cavill's Baths in Sydney. By the age of 13, her legs were practically normal, and by 15, she had mastered all the swimming strokes and won her first race. In Melbourne, Kellermann performed a mermaid act and did two shows a day swimming with fish in a glass tank (Annette Kellermann).
Kellermann's swimming records
In 1902, Kellermann established a New South Wales record time for the 100 yards (91.4 metres) and a world record for the mile (1.6 km). On 24 August 1905, Kellermann became the first woman to attempt to swim the English Channel. After three unsuccessful swims she declared 'I had the endurance but not the brute strength'.
Advocate of the streamlined one piece bathing suit
Annette Kellermann wearing the controversial one piece bathing suit, 1900s. Image courtesy of the George Grantham-Bain collection, Library of Congress.
Kellermann was famous for her advocacy of the right of women to wear a one-piece bathing suit. In the early 1900s, women were expected to wear cumbersome dress and pantaloon combinations when swimming. In 1907, Kellermann was arrested on a Boston beach for indecency as she was wearing one of her fitted one-piece costumes, that was skirtless, clung to her body and which exposed her thighs. The judge accepted her arguments in favour of swimming as a healthy exercise and against cumbersome bathing suits, provided she wore a robe until she entered the water.
Kellermann's arrest generated world-wide publicity. Kellermann designed her own line of one-piece bathing suits which became her trademark in women's swimwear. The 'Annette Kellermanns' as they were known, were the first step to modern swimwear and represented a new freedom for women.
Kellermann's stage and film career
This promotion helped Kellermann launch a new form of entertainment - underwater ballet combined with spectacular high diving. Kellermann was hired as part of a vaudeville entertainment show in 1914, earning her $2,500 per week. Kellermann would make dramatic entrances in a long garment that would have to be discarded before her dive, and then emerge in a wet body-hugging, one-piece swim suit.
... styling herself as an exotic mermaid, she flaunted her Australian identity, uttering the bushman's 'coee-ee' as she leapt from the high board.
Stephen, Goad, Macnamara, Modern Times, p. 58.
Following the decline in popularity of vaudeville, Kellermann set out to work in motion pictures. Kellermann's success in Neptune's Daughter (1914) led to A Daughter of the Gods (1916), followed by Queen of the Sea (1918). Kellermann played characters which represented both the independent modern woman and the mythic mermaid, influenced by her life and family connections with the Pacific Islands, promoted especially in Venus of the South Seas (1924), her final film.
Most reviewers took no issue with the sheer flesh coloured body suits – noting that she strove to attain 'true beauty in her work'. With its scandalous nude scenes, Neptune's Daughter grossed $1 million at the box office.
The surviving footage of her underwater performance reveals her grace, and film lent a magical quality that seduced audiences.
Stephen, Goad, Macnamara, Modern Times, p. 60
A new athleticism for the modern woman
Annette Kellermann, 1907. Image courtesy of the George Grantham-Bain collection, Library of Congress.
In the 1920s, Kellermann passionately advocated exercise regimes, breathing and relaxation techniques through articles, educational films and lectures. As a business woman, she established health spas and opened a health food shop in 1923, as well as designed and marketed bathing suits and comfortable clothing for women (from 1916). Swimming became her metaphor for women's liberation – women could be sexually attractive in a healthy way without being righteous or wicked.
Kellermann retired to the Great Barrier Reef in the 1930s. During the Second World War she financed and produced hundreds of charity shows for the Red Cross. MGM purchased the rights to her unpublished autobiography, which later starred Esther Williams, in the Million Dollar Mermaid (1952).
Annette Kellermann donated her wardrobe of costumes to the Sydney Opera House, located near to where she learnt to swim, and the collection was later passed to the Powerhouse Museum. This contribution to Australian swimwear has greatly influenced an Australian national dress.
Swimming and the evolution of the Australian crawl – freestyle
Unknown, Miss Shane Gould (13 years) training at Ryde Pool, 1970. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia: A1200, L92285.
The gradual development of the Australian crawl from the 1880s to the fastest stroke in the world of competitive swimming owes much to former Australian swimming champions including Fanny Durack, Andrew 'Boy' Charlton and Sir Frank Beaurepaire. The different stroke styles of the swimming pioneers included the single overarm action, the double overarm, the trudgen kick, the trudgen crawl, and the six beat crawl.
Fanny Durack 1889–1956
Exchange Studios, Portrait of Fanny Durack, 1912. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an10716253.
Fanny Durack learned to swim at the Coogee Baths. In 1902, at the age of 11, she swam in the 100 yard breast stroke event at the New South Wales Ladies Championships, a race that was won by Annette Kellermann. Eventually, at the 1912 Olympic Games, she proved she was the fastest competitive swimmer in the world.
Durack had a good friend, Wilhelmina (Mina) Wylie as a training partner. Wylie's father owned the Coogee (Wylie's) Baths, and he encouraged them to be innovators in their swimming. They perfected the stroke that would become known as the 'Australian Crawl' (now commonly known as freestyle).
By definition, competing at the Olympics would mean competing in a sporting activity at a mixed event. In the lead up to the 1912 Games in Stockholm, the committee voted in favour of staging two women's races and a diving event, thus opening the way for Australian, American and European women to compete against each other. However Durack was excluded by the Australian Olympic Committee and the NSWLASA and it became a national scandal. Women's clubs, including suffragettes, organised rallies, petitions and funds, while the press gave the affair plenty of prominence in the editorial and commentary pages.
M. L. McDermott or I. L. McConchie, Coogee - Wylie's Baths. Image courtesy of the NSW Ocean Baths - NSW Heritage.
Fanny Durack went on to become one of two Australian gold medallists by winning the 100 metres freestyle. 'She swam in an unmarked pool, with no lane ropes and water so murky that the bottom of the pool was not visible. Mina Wylie, won the silver medal'. Durack and Wylie arrived back to great fanfare and celebration – paving the way for the host of champion Australian women swimmers to follow.
Durack was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1967. According to her citation, she 'did more than any other swimmer to make the term 'Australian Crawl' a definition which survives until this day'. Today a Fanny Durack Pool is located in Petersham Park, New South Wales.
Andrew 'Boy' Charlton 1907–1975
Unknown, An autographed picture of Australian swimmer Andrew Charlton, popularly known as Boy Charlton, 1954. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia: A1200, L16989.
Andrew Murray Charlton learned to swim in the surf and baths at Manly, on Sydney Harbour. Coached by an ex-soldier, Tom Adrian, he trained by surfing, and became a great medium distance swimmer. Charlton's swimming feats helped to revive public interest in competitive swimming in the 1920s. Dubbed the 'Manly Flying Fish', he became a popular sporting idol.
In 1923 at the State titles held at the Domain baths in Sydney he defeated the great Swedish swimmer Arne Borg over 440 yards freestyle, equalling Borg's world record of 5 minutes 11.8 seconds—the cheering was heard in Martin Place. Next Saturday before a wildly enthusiastic crowd he beat Borg in the 880 yards freestyle event by 15 yards, setting a world mark of 10 minutes 51.8 seconds.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
At the Paris Olympic Games (1924) Charlton won the 1,500 metres title in 20 minutes 6.6 seconds, setting new Olympic and world records. Charlton competed in three Olympics (1924, 1928 and 1932), and earned three silver medals and a bronze to sit with his gold.
Charlton's stroke was a four-beat, trudgen crawl, called by some at the time the single trudgen crawl relying on powerful arm movement and very little leg movement. In 1968 the new Sydney Domain Baths were named after him; the Andrew Boy Charlton Pool is set on the shores of Woolloomooloo Bay near the Royal Botanic Gardens. An Andrew 'Boy' Charlton Manly Swim Centre is also located at Balgowlah Road, Manly.
Negative by D. Parer, In the men's swimming pool aboard U.1. Army. On board ship. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: 000938.
During the First World War, men's state and national swimming competitions were suspended due to depleted ranks, but women's competitive swimming continued as normal, despite some depletion in ranks. Initially the impact of the Second World War on the ocean baths was similar to that of the First World War. Men disappeared from surf and swimming clubs to enlist in the defence forces and were sent overseas. Women also joined up as nurses.
While beach holidays continued for some, the beaches took on a different aspect. Coastal tourism declined due to petrol rationing, restrictions on travel and people's other wartime commitments. Christmas holidays were cancelled in 1942.
Herald Newspaper, Members of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) having swimming lessons in the pool at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) Blue Triangle Club, 1944. Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial: 141649.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941, the fall of Singapore in 1942 and the bombing of Darwin in 1942, all of Australia was placed on a war footing. Barbed wire and tank traps appeared on beaches.
Japanese submarines were reported along the New South Wales coast from Crowdy Head down to Eden, with the submarines harassing coastal shipping, sinking and damaging many ships at both Sydney and Newcastle. The two Japanese midget submarines that entered Sydney Harbour did cause loss of life before they were wrecked.
Post-war ocean pollution
After the war, an increased coastal population led to declining coastal water quality. Chlorinated freshwater pools came to seem more appealing than polluted ocean baths. By 1949, ocean baths were no longer seen as acceptable for elite swimming competitions.
In the 1970s, the growth of surf board riding and scuba diving helped foster interest in conservation of the coastal environment and marine life. Despite growing environmental consciousness and legislation being enacted at Commonwealth and State levels, 'discharges from the ocean outfalls for Sydney's sewerage system continued to pollute the Eastern Suburbs, Northern Beaches and Cronulla beaches'. It was not until the 1980s with a public outcry over access to safe swimming and sound conservation environment that deep water ocean outfalls were constructed. This greatly reduced beach pollution.
Passion for ocean swimming and the 'Australian Crawl'
The passion for ocean swimming continues even in the winter by a small minority, with groups such as the Bondi Icebergs continuing to swim all year around.
Australian Crawl was an Australian rock band founded in 1978 by a group of young men from the Mornington Peninsular, Victoria: James Reyne, lead vocals piano, Brad Robinson rhythm guitar, Paul Williams bass guitar, Simon Binks, lead guitar, and David Reyne drums, replaced by replaced by Bill McDonough. The band was named after the front crawl swimming style also known as the Australian crawl.
The image of Australian Crawl as fun-loving, sun-worshipping, playboy musicians radiating a healthy aura and rebellious charm did much to instil a deep attraction and sense of loyalty into the band's many fans.
Australian Music, The Best of Australian Rock
Robert Drewe's collection of short stories in The Bodysurfers first published in 1983 (Penguin, 2001) has been adapted for film, television, radio and theatre and is considered by many to be a modern classic. The writing is accomplished and honest. The short stories challenge the outback myth of Australian identity. The stories make it clear that many Australians live beside the ocean and this has important consequences. Robert Drewe's other iconic Australian books include The Shark Net and The Rip.
Useful links
Look listen and play
- Charles perkins and freedom rides , 1999, video clip, 1 min. Screen Australia.
- From Sand to Celluloid – Two Bob Mermaid , 1996, film clips. Clips from a short drama, set in the 1950s, about an Aboriginal girl Koorin (Carrie Prosser) who is fair skinned and gains access to the local swimming pool where Aboriginal people are legally denied access. Australian Screen.
- Blood Brothers – Freedom Ride , 1993, film clips. Documentary. Australian Screen.
- Australasian Gazette – Mermaids Swim Well, 1931, newsreel, 1 min. Australian Screen.
- Dimpel, Konrad: Manuka Swimming Pool: home movie , 1961, video clip, 2 min. Australian Screen.
- Prahran 3181: Swimming in the Backyard , 2001, video clips. Documentary. Australian Screen.
National swimming organisations
- Masters Swimming Australia
- Australian Sports Commission
- Surf Lifesaving Australia
- AIS Swimming
- Swimming Australia
- The Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association
- Learning to swim – AUSTSWIM the Australian Council for the Teaching of Swimming and Water Safety
State and territory swimming organisations
- Swimming WA
- Swimming Northern Territory
- Swimming Queensland
- Swimming New South Wales
- Swimming ACT
- Swimming Victoria
- Swimming Tasmania
- Swimming SA
- Annette Kellermann
- Annette Kellermann filmography
- Annette Kellerman Costume Collection – Powerhouse Museum
- Dawn Fraser
- Fanny Durack
- Ian Thorpe
- Mina Wylie
- Murray Rose
- Shane Gould
- NT resort's pool rules upset Aboriginal community – news report transcript
- Ocean baths
- Beaches of New South Wales
- New South Wales Ocean Baths – (archived site)
Major events
Other resources
- Annette Kellermann film selection including Siren of the Sea, Neptune's Daughter, Venus of the South Seas and rare clips and footage, DVD, distributed by MermaidFX
- Swimming Australia: One Hundred Years, book.
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According to Paumgarten, Los Angeles, the country's most sprawling megalopolis, has a dizzying array of horrible commutes, but many of them are the result of a difficult landscape — ocean restricting growth on one side, mountains on another. Chicago, Washington, D.C., and the Bay Area owe a degree of their commuter complications to bodies of water as well.
Atlanta, however, is a highway town — as Greensmile learned on his recent visit, the City is defined by the Perimeter Highway that encircles it. It has a notoriously paltry system of public transportation. The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, or MARTA, operates two rail lines, which form a cross whose ends extend, at most, only a few stops past the Perimeter. Most communities have no access to it, and there are prejudices against it (you don't have to be in Atlanta long before someone relates, ruefully or conspiratorially, an alternative source of the acronym—"Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta"). Decades ago, residents of two counties surrounding the city voted down an extension of the MARTA system.
Ninety-four per cent of Atlantans commute by car, and the city has the highest annual per-capita gasoline costs in the country. According to the last census, the travel time in Atlanta grew faster in the nineties than in any other American city, and it's getting worse. Travelling ten miles can take forty-five minutes.
Road-building doesn't much help. Atlanta is a showcase for a phenomenon called "induced traffic:" the more highway lanes you build, the more traffic you get. People find it agreeable to move farther away, and, as others join them, they find it less agreeable (or affordable), and so they move farther still. The lanes fill up.
The antidote, in vogue in planning circles, if not in state houses, is mixed-use zoning and mixed-income dwelling, so that people don't have to travel so far to go to work or to buy what they need. Smaller triangles, in other words.
Michael Dobbins, a planner and architect at Georgia Tech, whom I've met at several of my frequent Beltline meetings, told Paumgarten that to substantially reduce congestion all you'd need to do is cut the average daily driving miles from thirty-five to thirty-one. He noted that Atlanta was in the midst of a reurbanizing boom, with people moving downtown again and condominium towers sprouting up, amid increasingly vigorous agitations for more public transportation. Still, the centrifugal force of exurban growth is overpowering.
The highways in Atlanta follow what are known as dendritic patterns: as you near the city, the routes converge, and alternatives disappear, so that an accident on a main highway creates bottlenecks all the way up the line.
It's little wonder, then, that I'm so committed to working on the Beltline. Not only is it the first serious mass transportation proposal in Atlanta in 25 years, all aspects of civic planning seem to converge in this one plan - greenspace, density, traffic planning, affordable housing, public art, and so on. I've been attending three to five public hearings, committee meetings, subcommittee meetings, grass roots get togethers, etc. a week for a while now, and the imminent demise of this blog (8 more postings to go!) may be one of the victims of my involvement.
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This dress and bonnet are perfect for a precious baby's christening day. Blanket is crocheted from the center out to the borders and features pretty lace patterning.
Red Heart® Baby TLC™: 5 (6) balls 5011 White. Note: Blanket alone requires 3 balls. Crochet Hooks: 4mm [US G-6] and 5mm [US H-8] for garments, and 5.5mm [US I-9] for blanket.1 yd, ¼" wide white ribbon, four ⅜" buttons (for garments), yarn needle.
Directions are for size Newborn. Changes for size 3 to 6 months are in parentheses.Blanket measures 34" x 34".
GAUGE: 17 sts = 4"; 24 rows = 4" in single crochet with smallest hook; 2 (ch 3, 3 dc, sc) pattern repeats = 3"; 6 rows = 2¼" in lace pattern with middle-sized hook; 14 sts = 4"; 7 rounds = 4" with 2 strands held together and largest hook (for blanket). CHECK YOUR GAUGE. Use any size hooks to obtain the gauge.
Red Heart Soft Yarn: 6 skeins of 4600 White.
Crochet Hook: 5mm [U S H-8].
Yarn needle. 2½ yds of ¼-inch white double-faced satin ribbon.
Blanket measures 37" x 38". Sweater, booties and hat to fit Infant 0-6 months. Finished Chest Measurement: 20".
GAUGE: 3 rows of shells = 2". CHECK YOUR GAUGE. Use any size hook to obtain the gauge.


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Social media platforms or networks provide another venue for your brands or business as an addition to your site/blog.. Google+; one of the more recent platforms/networks added Business Pages in the last quarter of 2011.
Google is the #1 Search Engine on the Internet. People use Google as their main search engine in finding websites. YouTube, is the #2 Search Engine on the Internet, owned by Google. Google+ [often referred to as G+] is also a great Google product. I believe G+ will eventually become the leader in the Google wheelhouse (just my opinion) which is yet another reason to have a Google+ Business Page.
Google+ business pages are one of the must-haves for those looking to propel their brands or products forward. Google+ers (Plussers) have many interests and are very engaging. This is a great boon for those looking to grow their business and brand and meet new potential customers in your niche.
So Google+ business page set up should be your next move, if you don't already have one. This can be a valuable addition to your SEO (optimization) toolkit.
Here are 7 must-have steps for your Google+ Business Page set up that will help you grow your business with Google+.
#1 CREATE Your Business Page
Create your business page, being sure to choose the correct type as there are a few to choose from:
Focus on the Introduction -[second heading from left- below the photo array] this is where you get to go more in depths about your company and its goals, products, services etc., Be sure to add information that is a synopsis of what is on your site, be sure to add some links within the content to allow the visitor to go directly to your site/blog to learn more.
Your new Google+ business page provides you with a ten word tagline. This brief summary about your business will act as an introduction for those who are unfamiliar with your company. Do not skip this step and do not take it lightly. It has been proven that most people only skim websites, so be sure to write a concise but engaging tagline.
In the About section you have 'Recommended links' on the right. this is where you add all the links to your site/blog/products etc.
Use your company logo for the profile picture, as this provides instant recognition for your current customers. Be aware that the size restrictions placed on Google+ make a square profile picture a necessity. Create a square version of your logo no more than 400 x 400.
Upload photos to the array at the top of the about page ( 5 across) that best represent the overall feel of your company or brand.
Posts in your stream should be shared Public as well as with your business circles. Posting updates relating to your business is a must, however, be sure to add other items that could be of use or of interest to your customers . Posting less but consistent is a better way to go.. a single post a day is a fair start as long as you are monitoring your comments and engaging, engaging engaging!
On the right hand side of the page you will see 'Spread the Word'. Share your new page so people can follow you. Google+ business. You may want to repeat this one every few weeks to start to build your following.
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Workshop Electives
As part of your conference registration options, you will be given the choice one of the following Workshop Electives from each of the five time slots.
As you review the options, you will see that each class is marked with a Level. The Levels are a tool to help you determine which classes will be most beneficial FOR YOU. These same Levels are also used to to help you select Continuing Education Sessions. You can find Level Definitions by clicking HERE, or you may also use the link provided in the navigation menu to the right. After reading the Level Definitions, make note the workshops and sessions you most want to attend and have it handy when you complete your registration. Please note, some Level E classes have requirements the presenters have set for attending those classes.
IMPORTANT NOTE for 2013 You are encouraged to study the workshop sessions carefully before registering. Due to severe space limitations, conferees will need to attend only the sessions chosen at registration. ALSO NOTE: In an effort to be as environmentally responsible as possible, handouts for sessions will not be available onsite. You'll receive handouts for your sessions via email the week prior to conference. If you purchase the complete syllabus, that CD of handouts will be included in your registration packet.
Workshop Elective Session: All Day Saturday
Blasting past good to unforgettable fiction.
Presented by: James Scott Bell
Level: C
ALL DAY SESSION. Note - this workshop is during the same time as the Saturday Continuing Education Sessions and Saturday Workshops.
Workshop Outline
In this workshop, you'll move beyond the standard tips and techniques of fiction into the deep tissue of unforgettable storytelling. Using a unique mix of prompts, and the powerful "movie in the mind" exercise, James Scott Bell will take you on a path of discovery, where you will meet your story again for the first time, and fall more deeply in love with it. Using in class interactivity, visuals and exercises, you'll connect with:
• The rivets of structure: what holds unforgettable stories together.
• The 8 aspects of "jump off the page" characters
• How to add "spice" to your pages
• The single greatest secret for unforgettable fiction, and how to put it in every scene
• The most underutilized tool for out-of-the-box fiction, and how you can harness it
• The art of breaking through to an unforgettable voice
• The Fast Eddie secret to an extraordinary writing life
Here is one unforgettable day that will create unforgettable stories . ..and writers.
Workshop Elective Session 1: Saturday- 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Presented by: Jeff Gerke
Level: B
The first 50 pages of your novel are crucial to gain reader engagement, to set the reader up for what is to come, and to structure the novel for success.
Workshop Outline
• What must the first 50 pages accomplish?
• In the final analysis, there are only two things you must do with your
first fifty pages.
Engaging your reader is Job One
• How do you engage your reader?
• Engaging your reader to your hero
• Engaging your reader in other ways
• Establish normal
• Decide on what structure you want to use to begin your novel:
o Prologue
o Hero Action
o In media res
o Frame Device
• Bringing your protagonist onstage the first time:
• The first page
• Your first line is prime real estate—build on it carefully
• What goes on your first page?
Presented by: Chip MacGregor
Level: C
In a world of self-publishing and smaller advances, authors need to understand how the relationship between authors and agents has changed, and what they can do to help maximize the new way of doing business.
Workshop Outline
. What is the new publishing economy?
—In the first few minutes, we'll explore how things have changed
economically for writers, including looking at the actual money authors are
2. Do we need agents any more?
—Several people have said publicly that agents are no longer needed in the
industry, so we will explore how the role of the agent has changed
completely from five or six years ago.
3. What should an agent do for you?
—A practical look at what an agent should do for an author.
4. What should an author know before talking with an agent?
—Balancing that, an exploration of what an author should be doing in the
author/agent relationship.
5. What is an effective strategy for finding the right agent?
—An author needs to know what he or she is looking for in an agent, how to
research that, and how to go about meeting with an agent.
The five things you should do before leaving this conference…
—We'll close with some very practical advice for getting noticed by
Presented by: Natasha Kern, Julie Gwinn, and Julie Lessman
Level: D
Prerequisites: At least 2 contracted novels
How agents and editors work with writers to help them succeed by writing and publishing e-books as an important part of career-building
Workshop Outline
Natasha Kern,Julie Gwinn and Julie Lessman will talk with writers about when it is smart to write an e-book. Is it a good idea to self-publish first? Are prequel ebooks a good idea or interstitial ebooks?
What about sequels? What is the ideal length? What can be done about publicity for ebooks? Is joining Amazon's PRIME program a good idea or offering a book at low cost or even free or some other pricing strategy? What cover designs work best? Is it a good idea to co-publish with other writers? What are the other options and which are the best? There are so many choices and ways to proceed, it can be daunting for a writer to decide what is best for her career and how to have the right timing in place for publishing ebooks. Most important, a writer needs to work with her agent and publisher in determining cooperatively what is best regarding digital rights, sales and publication.
Two experienced publishing professionals and an author will discuss the latest data about digital publishing and explain how writers and publishers can cooperate for mutual success
Presented by: Brandilyn Collins
Level: E
Prerequisites: At least two books published
Words are not always a novelist's friend. The use of too many words weighs down a sentence, paragraph, a chapter. An entire book. It's easy, after writing a few novels, to become lazy about this. Tight writing requires constant vigilance.
Sentence rhythm is a writing technique that is far too often overlooked by novelists. Mastering this one technique can change your writing dramatically.
This is an interactive workshop. Bring ten printed pages of your manuscript for the instructor.
Workshop Outline
Workshop Elective Session 2: Saturday- 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Presented by: Lisa Jordan
Level: A
Building a writing career while working full time can be challenging, but it's not impossible.
Workshop Outline
Despite what episodes of Castle portray, many writers aren't multi-published millionaires sitting in luxurious offices overlooking the beach. In fact, many writers lack the financial stability to write full time. Those who do write full-time have a spouse who contributes to the monthly budget, or they have published enough books to meet their financial obligations. Most of the writers I know work full time—inside or
outside the home—care for families, maintain church responsibilities and try to get enough sleep so they're not zombies the next day. So how are writers able to find the time to write while working full time?
Building a writing career while working full time can be a challenge, but it's not impossible. During this session, Lisa will share five keys to empower writers to build their writing careers while working full
time—Prayer, Passion, Preparation, Practice and Persistence.
Presented by: Deborah Raney
Level: B
A flourishing career as a writer necessitates a business-like approach to your work. Beginning with tips for an "attitude adjustment," Deborah will reveal some basic steps that can help you move from dabbling as a hobby writer to being a successful working writer. Topics for discussion include scheduling writing time, organizing office space, record keeping, perfecting the craft, self-promotion and a Q&A session to answer your specific questions (NOTE: This is not a business accounting or tax law class.)
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The Time—
Carve out a disciplined schedule for writing—"butt glue."
Time management—Put hours on calendar as an official appointment, but be
aware of divine interruptions.
The challenges of working at home.
The Place—
Find "office" space of your own; organize it to meet your needs.
Come up with a filing system and keep close track of your
submissions/rejections, writing progress, etc.
The Dime—
Keep close track of the financial aspects of your business.
Keep track of tax deductions (phone calls, mileage, office supplies, etc.)
Invest in an accountant, even if it's a one-time consultation.
The Pace—
Learn to find balance in the various aspects of being a writer.
Come up with a routine time to write and do writing business.
Don't forget to factor in time to spend with family, keep up friendships,
and spend quiet time with the Lord.
The Climb—
Example of concert pianist or brain surgeon—few prodigies; takes time to
be an expert.
Start small and move gradually to each "next" level.
The writing/speaking connection.
The Race—
The Rat Race: too busy; caught up in a competitive spirit. God has an
individual plan for YOUR writing and it's not the same as the plan for
The Rhyme—
An important part of the business is perfecting your writing craft. Never
stop learning, take classes to develop your craft, study the competition,
The Face—
YOU are your business's greatest asset. (CEO, marketing director,
spokesperson, and janitor!)
The connection we make with authors
Act and speak as though you are a "real" writer.
The challenge of being your own PR person AND a Christian.
The Sublime––
Write the worldview and message of your faith. Even if what you write
isn't "blatantly" Christian, you still are a light in the darkness
because of the principals you champion.
His Grace––
Every business decision should ultimately be the Lord's.
Make a habit of having regular "board meetings" with God.
Develop a daily prayer time specifically for your business.
Be watchful of and grateful for the many ways God rewards your obedience.
Presented by: Natasha Kern
Level: C
One genre, one kind of story above all others will lead to success for each writer and you can learn what that story is for YOU.
Workshop Outline
Discover your CORE story. Every writer has a genre, a niche, a core story that is a particular gift. How can a writer know what that is? These core stories will be the best an author ever writes, the
easiest to write and the most successful. When a writer discovers this, their career zooms forward. This workshop will reveal how every writer can identify the core story that is the right one for them.
Every writer really does have a core story that is a source of excellence. And sometimes it can take time to discover what it is. Famously, Stephen King though he would write thrillers and wrote several that were rejected before he wrote Carrie believing it would not sell. This has happened to many writers.
When you discover your own core story you will feel an immense sense of relief, release and joy as you can forge ahead without doubts. Part of understanding the importance of the core story is understanding the truth of who we are and how God will work through us in the world.
In this workshop attendees will go through a process of recognizing what they are not and will never be. And also who they are and what stories they have to tell. They can then be comfortable with the result without regrets, qualifiers or maybe-somedays, secure in knowing where they are going. They will discover their true gifts and how their core story is the ideal way to share them. Writing will be deeper, more powerful and connect more strongly with readers.
Presented by: Sue Brower and Ami McConnell
Level: E
Prerequisites: At least 2 published books
HarperCollins Christian Publishing Fiction Editors share insight into their substantive edit/ macro edit process.
Workshop Outline
Two in-house fiction editors share the methodology they use when reading, evaluating, and responding to already-contracted manuscripts.
Workshop Elective Session: Sunday Morning
Presented by: Ted Baehr
Level: C
HOW TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD (WITHOUT LOSING YOUR SOUL) teaches the art and business required to write a great inspirational movie in the 21st Century.
Note - this workshop is during the same time as the Sunday Continuing Education Sessions.
Workshop Outline
• How to wisely consider what your intended audience wants in a movie.
• How to create a premise strong enough to sustain a great story.
• How to develop the classic movie structure – acts and turning points.
• How to create characters that resonate with audiences.
• How to pace scenes effectively and sustain necessary tension.
• How to conclude an inspiring movie to create positive word of mouth.
• How to understand Hollywood's relationship to filmmakers.
• How to budget and finance a movie.
• How to enter fair and reasonable contracts with production and distribution companies.
• How to handle pre-production, production, and post production.
• How to promote and market your movie.
Workshop Elective Session 3: Sunday- 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Presented by: Karen Witemeyer
Level: B
Learn how cultivating a fresh, authentic author's voice will make your manuscript stand out from the crowd and take your writing to the next level.
Workshop Outline
What is voice?
- The sound of your words on the page – a unique and authentic reflection of you.
- Your personality revealed through storytelling.
- Your style reflected through word choice and tone.
How Can I Discover My Author Voice?
- Pay attention to the voice of authors you love to read.
- What style comes naturally to you when you write for yourself, not when you are trying to please a contest judge or an agent/editor?
- What personality traits do your friends and family most notice in you? How are those displayed through your storytelling?
How Do I Develop My Author Voice?
- First you must master the craft of fiction writing.
- Be authentic. Don't write to impress agents, editors, or other authors. Write to connect with your reader.
- Emulate but don't imitate.
- Trust your gut.
Dodging the Pitfalls
Pitfall #1 – Author Intrusion
Pitfall # 2 – Pet Phrases
Pitfall #3 – Purple Prose
Pitfall #4 – Insulting the Reader's Intelligence
Presented by: Tosca Lee, Ronie Kendig, Robert Liparulo, James Rubart, Susan May Warren, and Dan Walsh
Level: B
Six bestselling authors dish on their writing journeys, prepared to answer any question about their writing, career challenges and high notes…and the one thing they always come back to.
Workshop Outline
How in the world has Susan written more than 40 books? And just where is Jim's Secret Writing Room? What does Dan have in common with Sampson… and what does Ronie keep on her desk during deadline? Does Robert only write at night… and why won't Tosca wash her hair? Six best-selling, award-winning authors share their journeys, quirks, and challenges, ready to take on any question about writing and their writing lives from the high points to the lows… and all the cricket sounds in between.
* 3-5 min each author briefly shares about their journey
* Author Q&A with additional rapid-fire questions available as needed (hardest book
you've written? Most memorable moment? Weird writing rituals? Best writing
Presented by: Rachelle Gardner
Level: C
Many authors are confused about whether to pursue traditional publishing, self-publishing, or both—here's how to decide.
Workshop Outline
INTRODUCTION: The Brave New World of Publishing
A Word about Terminology
SECTION 1 – Traditional Publishing: The Advantages
Advantage Number One: The Editorial Team
Advantage Number Two: Marketing, Publicity and Distribution Reach
Advantage Number Three: Validation
Author Perspective (story): Why I Signed with an Agent after Publishing
SECTION 2 – Self-Publishing: The Advantages
Advantage Number One: Freedom
Advantage Number Two: A Career Boost
Advantage Number Three: The Intrinsic Reward
Author Perspective: Q&A with James Scott Bell
SECTION 3 – A Wrap-Up and Resources
Decision-Time Check List
Writer Resources
Presented by: Jenny B. Jones
Level: D
Speaking is a great way to promote your book. Drawing on a decade of teaching communication skills, Jenny will share some tips on making your next speaking event one that pleases you and your adoring audience.
Workshop Outline
This session will present tested DOs and DON'Ts for effective communicators. The first half will focus on speaking tips for Grade A results, while the second will highlight new online presentation tools.
Class will begin by each participant listing a speaking fear on a note card to be addressed at end of session.
I. Dos and Don'ts
1. Do establish tone immediately.
2. Various ways to open presentation
a. Story
b. Humor
c. Pose a Question
d. Startling Statement
e. Media clip
3. To share thesis or not?
4. Do maintain eye contact
a. Tips to make it stress-free
5. Do use the significant pause
6. Do use that voice
7. Do use power statements
8. Do know that inflection matters
9. Don't forget that enthusiasm is contagious
10. Do include a possible activity
11. Don't go over time
12. Don't use notes…or do you?
13. Do practice
a. 10x out loud
b. Record self
14. Don't forget your face
II. Visual Presentation
1. Speaking with "slides" in general tips
2. Prezi
3. Slide Rocket
III. Tips to ward off stage fright
Presented by: Amanda Luedeke
Level: D
Participants will learn the steps of creating a do-able, successful marketing plan, while also coming away with ideas that pertain directly to their book and brand.
Workshop Outline
1. Talk about current expectations on authors to market books
2. Talk about the need for a plan
3. Using a popular CBA fiction title as an example, walk through each section of the "Made-Easy Marketing Plan", leaving room for discussion, questions and brainstorming (this will be a group effort.)
4. Demonstrate how to find target readers online using Google. I plan to get online and even do some Google searches for a few participants (depending on time).
5. Help participants take the "Made-Easy Marketing Plan" and apply it to their book.
6. Closing remarks and Q&A
Workshop Elective Session 4: Sunday- 3:45 pm - 4:45pm
Presented by: Beth Vogt
Level: A
Learn how to craft a high concept premise for your novel that immediately attracts an editor's and/or agent's attention.
Workshop Outline
What is "High Concept"?
The term "high concept" can be confusing. Writers often think high concept means a multi-layered, dense, possibly even highfalutin' pitch. A high concept pitch is just the opposite: It's brief, but it immediately
attracts an editor's or an agent's attention.
How High Concept Sells Movies
Movies employ high concept to attract audiences. Consider recent examples, as well as past award winners:
• Does true love conquer all – or will a man's pride or a young woman's prejudice end a romance before it even begins? (Pride and Prejudice 2005)
• A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help her ease her pain and start her new life. (P.S. I Love You 2007)
• After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she is secretly in love with. (27 Dresses 2008)
How High Concept Sells Novels
• Four brides. One dress. (The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck 2012)
• Can the wrong kiss lead to Mr. Right? (Wish You Were Here by Beth K. Vogt 2012)
• The secret she's kept to protect her family could be the very thing that tears them apart. (You Don't Know Me by Susan May Warren (2012)
How To Craft a High Concept Premise:
(The "Formula")
Utilize questions based on your novel's
• Story Question
• Character's Goals
• Character's Obstacles
• Dramatic Irony (the Why and the Why Not)
Allow participants time to work on a high concept premise for their novels
Presented by: Tosca Lee
Level: B
From the woman who made a protagonist out the most reviled man in biblical history, an exercise-rich writing workshop (pens out and working!) on making characters—particularly the less sympathetic ones—more sympathetic, relatable and REAL (even if they're not of this world!)
Workshop Outline
This is an exercise-rich workshop experience chock full of interaction, in-class writing, and discussion. Exercises to include:
unforgettable protagonists, unforgettable antagonists, and the qualities that make us human—and methods for imbuing characters with those same qualities, no matter how unsympathetic on the surface they may appear. The workshop is geared toward writing fiction that is truthful in its human, emotional element and stories that readers will want to read (and editors will want to buy!).
* Unforgettable characters (the good, the bad, and the weird)
* Qualities in ourselves: our hopes, fears, dreams and quirks
* Methods for enriching characters with qualities readers can identify with—strengthening our protagonists, creating complexity even in our antagonists, and making impact and secondary characters richer.
Presented by: Ronie Kendig
Level: C
Discover practical tips and techniques to establish a solid balance in plot and action to create "page-turning" fervor!
Workshop Outline
This workshop will take an in-depth look at what "action" is and how to use it to propel your story and characters to a satisfying conclusion. It will include tips using the BULLET acronym.
(or How to be the Kind of Author Publishers Want)
Presented by: Beth Adams
Level: C
This class will help to demystify some important yet confusing aspects of being published, including the importance of platform, the top reasons manuscripts are rejected, how (and how often) to communicate with your editor once you do get a book contract, and what to expect (and what not to expect) the marketing department to do. This class will equip you to put your best foot forward and impress your publisher when you finally secure that publishing contract or give you the knowledge to attract the attention of an editor today.
Workshop Outline
Before the Contract
Platform: What it means, why it's important, how to cultivate one
Hook: Understand what makes your book different
Know the marketplace/know your competition
Know your audience—understand who you are writing the book for
Be promotable
Polish your writing
After the Contract
Have a can-do attitude
Have realistic expectations
Embrace marketing
Use your agent
Communicate with editor
Understand that you are a valuable person… and a valuable commodity
Presented by: Tamela Hancock Murray and Steve Laube
Level: D
Prerequisites: At least one contracted novel
This workshop will address how to negotiate the nuances of your key relationships as an author: your agent, editor, fellow authors, and fans.
Workshop Outline
This workshop will address how to negotiate the nuances of your key relationships as an author: Your agent, editor, fellow authors, and fans.
Your Agent relationship should be your most frank and open of all your professional relationships. We'll discuss sharing with your agent, and how to let go so that you can trust your agent to be your filter with your publisher.
Your relationship with your Editor can be tricky because while you share the goal of your book's success, may have different ideas about how to dress your baby, aka, your book. How to step around potential landmines such as disagreements on plot, cover art, and other critical issues, while maintaining so much good will that your editor comes back again and again to you with contract offers.
Relationships with Fellow Authors can be landmines of emotion. Author friends are happy for you when you succeed, but they may not help but be a bit envious. What to tell them. What not to tell them. And how to cope if you're the one without a contract while others are flying.
Fans: Why does the tabloid press succeed? Because fans feel as though the celebrities they follow are their friends. Christian authors usually aren't photographed at the grocery store, nor are our fashions commented upon in the press. But we do want our fans to feel as though they are our friends. Tips on how to nurture reader loyalty while maintaining the integrity of your privacy and family life.
You must be 18 years old to attend conference without a parent/guardian present with you at all times.
Participation of an individual presenter, agent, editor, or publisher in the ACFW conference does not constitute endorsement by ACFW. Conference attendees are advised to use due diligence and take personal responsibility when choosing industry professionals with whom to schedule appointments or enter into agreement.


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I went out and looked at the sun like a tool. Of course all I could see was the bright sun in the sky (duh) so this will have to do… I can't be arsed making that whole cardboard thingamabob so I can look at it irl. Enjoy!
Anytime somebody says "mind blown"…
from now on… this is what I will picture.
Real life Derpina
[Above^^ My Animated Damask Wallpaper - Full Resolution]
So far I have only ordered 2 different damask stamp prints, I will need more because I plan to…
Damask ALL THE THINGS!
Rule of thumb: If I own it or can put a damask print on it without possibly destroying it, I plan to.
Everything is going to be in dark damask colors, hello spring- I'm going gothic around here.
The most prominent colors in my interior design revamp will be black and silver, I do intend to "splash" the house with red as well because I like "accenting a room".
Other items:
My Damask Pinterest (where I am currently saving ideas). I've bought the last one of several items lulz if you want to copy me exactly you'll have to beg artists to remake stuff XD
I made this log mostly so I could track stuff for myself but I thought a couple of my followers might find it interesting, I will post pictures of what I actually end up doing, at some point.
I wanted to not do this… I did… I'm sorry. lol
Effective black out was effective. Newbs have all been alerted.
[Lana Del Rey]
I just want to do this now.
I just need this on my blog again :D
I made this for my followers. Group hug!
Sometimes I like to pretend I am a digital artist.


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The 56th annual Optimist All Star Football game rolls in to Golden Eagle Stadium on the campus of Del Oro High school Saturday, December 22, 2012 featuring the best high school football players in the Sacramento area. Co-Sponsored by the Sacramento Bee. Marty Mortensen, Paul Brown, Steve Sitter and Scott Hopper bring you bring you all the action of this high scoring contest. Half time feature an extensive interview with Optimist board member Ross Relles on what the Optimist Club stands for, it's work in the community and how the Football Game was created and how the proceeds are used …
- Police chase ends with stolen car crashed, 2 arrested
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In questo caso certamente non avrai bisogno di sottotitoli, Mormore.
In questo caso certamente non avrai bisogno di sottotitoli, Mormore.
Le tre età della donna
There were three brothers in merry Scotland
In Scotland there lived brothers three
And they did cast lots which of them should go,
For to turn robber all on the salt sea.
2. The lot it fell first upon Henry Martin
The youngest of all the three,
That he should turn robber all on the salt sea
For to maintain his two brothers and he.
3. He had not been sailing but a long winter's night
And part of a short winter's day
When he espied a rich lofty ship,
Come a bibing down him straight away.
4. "Hello, hello!" cried Henry Martin,
"What makes you sail so high?"
I'm a rich merchant ship bound for fair London town.
Won't you please for to let me pass by?
5. "O no, o no!" cried Henry Martin
That thing it never can be
For I have turned robber all on the salt sea,
For to maintain my two brothers and me.
6. So lower your topsail and bail up your mizzen
Bring yourself under my lee,
Or I shall give you a fast flowing ball
And your dear bodies drown in the salt sea.
7. Then broadside and broadside and at it they went
For fully two hours or three
Til Henry Martin gave to her the death shot
Heavily listing to starboard went she.
8. The rich merchant vessel was wounded full sore
Straight to the bottom went she.
And Henry Martin sailed away
... on the salt sea.
9. Sad news, sad news to old England came
Sad news to fair London town
There was a rich vessel and she's cast away
And all of her merry men drowned.
Bob Dylan -
Three angels
Three Angels
Three angels up above the street,
Each one playing a horn,
Dressed in green robes with wings that stick out,
They've been there since Christmas morn.
The wildest cat from Montana passes by in a flash,
Then a lady in a bright orange dress,
One U-Haul trailer, a truck with no wheels,
The Tenth Avenue bus going west.
The dogs and pigeons fly up and they flutter around,
A man with a badge skips by,
Three fellas crawlin' on their way back to work,
Nobody stops to ask why.
The bakery truck stops outside of that fence
Where the angels stand high on their poles,
The driver peeks out, trying to find one face
In this concrete world full of souls.
The angels play on their horns all day,
The whole earth in progression seems to pass by.
But does anyone hear the music they play,
Does anyone even try?
Ho giocato tre numeri al lotto,
venticinque sessanta e trentotto...
anche loro senza un po' di fortuna ..nada :-))
Qualcuno la fortuna di mondi diversi l'ha costruita anche così.
3 colori cinematografici che mi piacciono.


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Mini Goes to Work at the Olympics
KickingTiresA very mini Mini is stealing a tiny bit of the spotlight at this summer's Olympic Games in London. BMW is putting quarter-scale versions of the Mini Cooper to work at the track and field events at Olympic Stadium, retrieving......Tags: Olympic Games, Theft
Some Friday links: Sounders give fans a refund; Cleveland hearts LeBron and more
The Business of Sports | Sun-Sentinel Blogs+Gotta love it when a team takes one for its fans: The Seattle Sounders after suffering an embarrassing 4-0 loss to the LA Galaxy at home announce they are giving season ticket holders a one-game refund ??? good toward season......Tags: LeBron James, Stock Market, Pompano Beach, Iowa, NYSE Euronext, Inc.
No medal, but a silver lining for Neimanas
Greta Neimanas was bummed about coming home from the Paralympics that ended Sunday in London without a medal. It was even more disappointing for the road and track cyclist from Chicago that she came so close – fourth in the road time trial, fifth...Tags: 2012 Summer Paralympics, Awards and Prizes, FIFA World Cup, Trials, Birth Defects
The story of a Paralympian with full sails before the end
The venue for information gathering for today's column was lunch. Your typist was a fly on the wall. Mary Kate Scandone met Dottie Rountree. That's not exactly Kobe Bryant chatting with Matt Kemp. Actually, as it turned out, it was much better. Scandone...Tags: Auto Racing, Sailing, Kobe Bryant, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Human Interest
Weather another challenge for Olympics boss Coe
LONDON – As he left the Main Press Center Thursday morning to check in with his opening ceremonies team, London Olympic Organizing Committee chairman Seb Coe was able to eschew a raincoat and an umbrella. That would have required a devil-may-care...Tags: Weather, Olympic Games, Weather Reports, BBC, Track and Field
Paralympics Have Gained Respect And Support
The Hartford CourantWhen Paul Nitz made his first Paralympic team 20 years ago, he had to pay his own way to Barcelona. "When I made the team, their next statement was like, 'All right, now you've got to cut us a check for $2,000,' " Nitz said. "I was like, 'What if I don't...Tags: Tyson Gay, Greenwich, Newington, Awards and Prizes, Oscar Pistorius
Paralympic athletes overcome the heat to punch their ticket to London.
IUPUI is hosting the US Paralympics track and field trials. 250 athletes are trying to grab a roster spot on the US Paralympic track and field team. The competition isn't the only thing making them sweat. The high temperatures are contributing too....Tags: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
An Olympic legacy etched in a 'benevolent dictatorship'
LAKE BUENA VISTA — Deep in the heart of make-believe magic, Brooks Johnson is delving into the political philosophy of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and the Russian Revolution. You can almost hear Mickey Mouse in his high-pitched voice screaming, "Oh,...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Arts and Culture, The Temptations (music group), Education, ESPN (tv network)
Outperforming the competition keeps her on top
South Bend TribunePenn High School senior Anna Day, 19, was recently named to the U.S. Paralympics track and field high school All-American team for her performance in long jump. This is the second year she has earned this distinction. A sprinter on the Penn track team...Tags: Cerebral Palsy, Track and Field
For 2022 Winter Games, USOC should get a Rocky Mountain high
There is no doubt when and where the next Olympics in the United States should be. Denver. 2022. Denver and its region have everything they need to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. Much more, in fact, than the city and region could...Tags: Sports Organizations, Career and Workplace, Elections, College Basketball, Basketball
Noga Nir-Kistler to be featured on WPHL-17 Tuesday morning
Groller's CornerNoga-Nir Kistler, the Whitehall High graduate and Salisbury Township native who will be representing the U.S.A. in the 2012 London Paralympic Games in London, will be featured on this morning's "Eye Opener" show on WPHL-17. The show runs from 6-8 a.m.... -
Whitehall grad Noga Nir-Kistler to have her bronze-medal effort shown on national TV
Groller's CornerI have known Fred and Noga Nir-Kistler for several years now and could not have been happier to learn on Wednesday that Noga won the bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke while swimming for Team USA in the Paralympic Games in London. Yes, a gold or...
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Following 9/11 Andy Soule decided he wanted to give back to his country and joined the Army. Soon after basic training he was deployed to Afghanistan where an improvised explosive device detonated next to Soule's Humvee, resulting in double leg amputation.
Soule then spent a few years in rehabilitation and soon began looking for options that would keep him active. As an athletic guy with plenty of ambition, he attended a cross country recruitment camp in Sun Valley, Idaho in 2005. Even though he had no previous experience with skiing he caught on quickly and was hooked on the sport.
Soule moved to Sun Valley in 2006 to live and train full-time. He made fast progress, winning a silver medal at the U.S. championships in 2007 and nabbing two consecutive top-10 finishes in his first World Cup races in the same year. Those results earned him a spot on the U.S. national team for 2008 and he finished that season 12th overall in the World Cup standings.
Soule attended Texas A&M University and was a member of the Cadet program while he attended school.
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Spring and autumn, between winter snowstorms and the blazing summer sun, are the best times for motorcycle touring in the Grand Canyon area. Watch out for late-summer thunderstorms, which can spout hail and lightning July-mid-September, mostly during the afternoon. Arizona law requires helmets for riders younger than 18 and eye protection for drivers of motorcycles without windshields.
Be visible: Traffic around Grand Canyon Village [1] is heavy, with lots of distractions, and the long, open, straight stretch on Highway 64 from Williams to Grand Canyon is notorious for inattentive drivers. Stick to walking and shuttle buses in the South Rim's congested village area, and save the bike for Desert View Drive [2]. If you prefer open road, head for the North Rim.
If you like to keep a close watch on your ride, note that Maswik and Yavapai Lodges are most likely to have parking spaces near your room. Mather, Desert View, and the North Rim Campgrounds all allow motorcycles.
Route 66 towns near Grand Canyon, including Williams, Flagstaff, and Kingman, are popular with bikers, and if you need repairs or gear, these are your best bet.
[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/grand-canyon/the-south-rim/sights/historic-grand-canyon-village
[2] http://www.moon.com/destinations/grand-canyon/the-south-rim/exploring-the-south-rim/driving-tours


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7-on-7 Passing Camp
Today and Saturday, Coach Sark and the Husky Football Coaches will be teaching area teams and players the fundamentals of the passing attack from both sides of the ball. In addition to the coaching sessions, the teams will be going head to head on UW practice fields in heated 7-on-7 competition. You can still sign up for the upcoming UW Football Camps this June, which include:
Fundamentals Camp-June 24
Rising Stars Camp-June 28-30


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Welcome to the last unit of this module! In this unit we will cover the content of what would make up many traditional courses on HR Management – namely the key components of HR Management which we introduced at the beginning of Unit 1: recruitment, utilisation and development of staff. Why, you may well ask, only now and only in one unit?
You will have noticed by now that the entire course has a very particular approach and perspective. We do not consider Public Health primarily a technical exercise; instead we have a strong orientation to health systems development. The same is true for our approach to Human Resource Development and Human Resource Management. Very often courses on HR Management are technical in orientation, concentrating primarily on personnel administration. The inherent assumption is that by getting all the technical details right, HR Management will work.
We have been quite open about the fact that we have a different perspective. We have spent a great deal of time discussing the contextual issues of HR Management because we firmly believe that if we do not understand and act upon those issues, our technical knowledge will not help us. We also believe that if we do not understand and act upon the fact that this field is about people and that people, as individuals and in groups, are complex and defy technical solutions, we will not improve HR Management. That is the reason why only one unit deals with recruitment, utilisation and development of staff.
Clearly, given the time and space constraints, we had to be very selective. In choosing the topics, we aimed to introduce you to new concepts or to give you a different perspective on knowledge you may already possess.
The unit consists of four study sessions:
Study Session 1: Staff Recruitment and induction
Study Session 2: Skills Development in the Health Sector
Study Session 3: Staff Supervision and Support
Study Session 4: Performance Management
Intended learning outcomes of Unit 4
By the end of this unit you should be able to: |
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On the flip side, two mid-level accounting workers were convicted of fraud after being told to make the false entries. They knew it was wrong and had actually written resignation letters early in the process. But they never turned in those letters and wound up paying a high price. They were among five WorldCom executives who pleaded guilty to fraud. WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers got 25 years in federal prison.
The ordeal revealed several lessons about the value of building an ethical culture, Cooper said. Ebbers had taken risks with his company stock holdings, which put on the pressure to keep WorldCom's stock trading at a high price. That shows the importance of the tone at the top, she said.
Pay attention to your instincts, too. Nothing was obvious at first when she started looking at the numbers. But things didn't seem quite right. "At WorldCom, a lot of what drove me was my intuition," Cooper said.
Use the Wall Street Journal test, she said. If you're not comfortable having what you're doing splashed on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, maybe you should consider another course of action. Bounce your ideas off of others who share your values. That helps you avoid rationalizing your decisions. And stay true to what you believe, she added. Apply your same set of ethics at home and work, and you won't feel the need to compromise your principles.
Cooper, author of "Extraordinary Circumstances," which details her experiences, now runs her own consulting firm and speaks to corporations and universities around the country about her experience.
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CHICAGO, IL (March 28, 2013) – A WebEx conversation on how churches can connect the Covenant Kids Congo powered by World Vision (CKC) initiative with World Vision's 30-Hour Famine will take place at 2 p.m. CST Tuesday Continue Reading »
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Covenant Kids Congo Focus of Summer Camps Project
CHICAGO, IL (March 25, 2013) – The Association of Covenant Camps and Conference Centers has chosen Covenant Kids Congo as their mission project for the summer. Continue Reading »
Briefs: Rwanda Insights, Relief Assistance Needed, Justice Event
Survivor: Rwandan Christians Were Prepared to Die
LABOLT, SD (February 27, 2013) – The Christians in the Rwandan village where Esther Nyiransabimana Myers once lived had been prepared to die during the genocide that horrified the world in 1994, she told two recent gatherings sponsored by the LaBolt Covenant Church. Continue Reading »
Value of a Chicken? Depends Where You Live
By Stan Friedman
KARAWA, DR CONGO (February 25, 2013) – The widow laughed as she leaned backwards to keep from getting smacked by the flapping wings of the not-so-happy chicken she had hoisted upside down. The several dozen other widows who had gathered together laughed too. Continue Reading »
Churches Asked to Dedicate One Sunday to Serve
By Stan Friedman
SAN DIEGO, CA (February 7, 2013) – President Gary Walter and Ray Johnston, pastor of one of the Evangelical Covenant Church's largest congregations, called upon the denomination's churches to cancel their worship services next year – at least for a day. Continue Reading »
Kernels of Hope Raises $410,000 for Congo Farmers
NORQUAY, SK (January 22, 2013) – The Kernels of Hope agricultural project has raised at least $410,000 to benefit farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The endeavor has raised more than $2 million for farmers in three African nations since it started in 2005. Continue Reading »
Old and New Media Partner for Compelling Congo Story
By Stan Friedman
CHICAGO, IL (January 18, 2013) – The new children's video for Covenant Kids Congo powered by World Vision combines the use of modern technology and a familiar, but older medium – the stalwart Sunday school flannel graph. Continue Reading »
Hindustani Church Supports Sandy Storm Victims
CHICAGO, IL (November 7, 2012) – The Hindustani Covenant Church (HCC) has contributed $3,000 for Covenant World Relief (CWR) to assist survivors of Hurricane Sandy in New York City. Continue Reading »
Candidates Sought to Lead Paul Carlson Partnership
CHICAGO, IL (September 21, 2012) – Candidates are being sought for the position as director of the Paul Carlson Partnership (PCP), replacing current Executive Director Byron Miller who is retiring after four years of service. Continue Reading »
Merge Lists 2013 Student Global Leadership Events
KNOXVILLE, TN (September 19, 2012) – A new leadership initiative through Covenant Merge Ministries will bring together 15 high school students with counterparts in a developing world nation. Continue Reading »


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Less than one week after Dropbox aqui-hired Audiogalaxy to beef up its cloud music ambitions, today comes news of another acquisition, this time focused on another form of media, photos: the cloud-storage giant is buying Snapjoy – like Dropbox, a Y Combinator-alum — which lets users aggregate, archive and view all of their digital photos from their cameras, phones and popular apps like Flickr, Instagram and Picasa, and then view them online or via an iOS app.
We first got wind of this deal via an anonymous tip — and then tracked down what was happening. The news has also been confirmed by Dropbox and Snapjoy themselves.
The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed — or, more precisely, in the words of co-founder Michael Dwan, the price was "A furlong of sunshine or a bucket of rainbows, whichever is less." Dwan says other companies were also knocking on Snapjoy's door — but declined to say who. Other investors in addition to Y Combinator included SV Angel, Quotidian and the Start Fund, along with Jawed Karim, Yael and Noam Shazeer and Garry Tan.
I asked Dwan why he decided to sell. The simple answer is scale. "The user experience we always wanted was limited by our development capacity and the economics of scale," he told me in an email exchange. "Dropbox has some of the best talent in the world and is operating at incredible scale, so a lot of the barriers are removed. The equation in my mind is simple: (Mac + Windows + Android + iOS + Linux + Web clients) * rock solid infrastructure * 100 million users = infinite possibilities."
Dwan declined to give any details on how many users Snapjoy has signed up, or any other usage metrics, or how many people have been subscribing to its paid tier versus only using the free service.
The move is a sign of how Dropbox continues to "move up the value chain," extending its touchpoints and service offerings to customers beyond simple storage facilities. The move opens Dropbox up into being more of a full-service digital photo center, rather than just a place to store your jpegs as backup or when your own hard drive runs out of space.
It's an interesting time in the world of photos — with companies like Instagram under the microscope over what it may or may not decide to do with its users' data; services like Flickr extending its functionality as a place to create pictures as much as it is a place to store and share them; and Twitter also entering the fray. Snapjoy potentially gives Dropbox its own oar to dip into the stream. It will also put it into closer competition with Facebook Photo Sync. Right now the two partner on filesharing in Facebook Groups, but with moves like this into photos, a bread-and-butter area for Facebook, we could see that relationship changing.
Dwan tells me, and Snapjoy also notes in a blog post, that it will continue to serve its existing customers — a possible sign that the service will live on in another form as part of Dropbox — but for now it's closing itself to further sign-ups. It looks like Dwan, who co-founded the company with JP Ren, and others are relocating from Boulder, Colorado, to San Francisco. Whether that will be the full, existing team of six people or only a part is still being worked out.
Just as the Audiogalaxy acquisition played to Dropbox's existing popularity as a place to store music, this, too, could give Dropbox a chance to expand how its users make use of photos stored in Dropbox's cloud — already a popular use of the service. Dropbox, interestingly, had previously extended its photo capabilities on Android; Snapjoy's iOS focus, therefore, is complementary to that.
Snapjoy is an online photo library that imports your photos from anywhere and organizes them into meaningful memories of who, what, when, & where.
Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Frustrated by working from multiple computers, Drew was inspired to create a service that would let people bring all their files anywhere, with no need to email around attachments. Drew created a demo of Dropbox and showed it to fellow MIT student Arash Ferdowsi, who dropped out with only one semester left to help make Dropbox a reality. Guiding their decisions was a relentless focus on crafting a...
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Welcome to Children's Ministry
We are privileged to minister to birth through grade 5 in our Children's Building. Our staff and volunteers are here to nurture your child in faith as they meet Christ, grow, and learn to serve God.
Our computerized sign-in and dismissal program is called "First Check". Families will sign their children into our building by touch-screen kiosks near the entrance of the Children's Building. All children and children's volunteers must register for "First Check" to be included in our security database. Families can register their children at our Children's Welcome desk or through our web site.
Register Now Online for "First Check"!
- Vacation Bible School Registration is now open for children age 4 - completed 5th grade!
- Volunteer HERE for Vacation Bible School 2013, June 17-21, 9:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
- Several employment opportunities are currently available in Children's Ministry. You can download an employment application here (PDF).
- Full Time Wesley staff
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- Weekend Nursery staff
- Midweek Nursery staff
Contact Information:
Children's Ministry Welcome Desk
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Finishing up a couple of things for this Saturday's Weekend America, which is the final show. After like 5 weeks, I am only just now accepting that I got laid off from my awesome freelance gig b/c of the show's cancellation. I kept thinking about everyone else who was being laid off and I sort of forgot about myself. I still have my full-time job. It's not that bad obviously. I just, like, an hour ago, kind of stopped what I was doing and thought, "Wait a minute. This is the last time I will be writing for this show." Gonna miss it.
Earlier today Glenn asked me if I was in one piece and then said that here on DEFCON, I kind of just talk about the times when, as he said, "the world picks you up and spins you around by your ankles". I have been thinking about this. I think I might try to write about...hmmm. About not when the world picks me up and spins me by the ankles.
Waiting for Yertle to make an appearance. Once that happens, I'm purchasing a ticket to Lincoln to meet this certain-to-be exceptional child.
Why do I keep eating Pringles? I always feel like crap after eating them. They don't even taste that good. What's my problem?
Aa is in San Francisco for work this week. This means I have to clean out the little stovetop espresso maker guy for the morning. I love that thing so much. It makes early mornings bearable.
Tropic Thunder is funnier the second time. The shock of watching Robert Downey Jr essentially in blackface has mostly worn off. Also, I just love the end credits/ Tom Cruise dance number. Don't know why. Just do.
Have I mentioned yet that when Zack snores it is the greatest thing in the world? It is. Snore on, little dog.