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Compare USA Swimming LSCs across the country USA Swimming has over 300,000 registered swimmers, and Local Swimming Committees (LSCs) are responsible for organizing competitive swimming meets across the country. While the USA Swimming LSC map will be familiar to many, the 59 LSCs across the country vary greatly in geographic size and number of swimmers. Here are some interesting facts about LSC. Let’s start with geography. The data shows that small (small in area) can be powerful. The smallest LSC geographically is Potomac Valley Swimming (PVS), which includes Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and Southern Maryland. According to…
In early 2021, Rep. Byron Donald, R-Fla., and his wife, Erica, spoke at an event hosted by the Truth and Freedom Coalition, a group that promotes the inclusion of Christianity in public schools and other institutions and whose leaders say homosexuality is the work of the devil.The couple were warmly welcomed into the movement, and Donald gained particular attention for opening charter schools in Florida. As a state legislator, he created a school voucher program that, in the words of one speaker, “gave children an education in a biblical worldview.”Donald spoke to the audience with characteristic humility: He was “a…
Bill Walton, the all-time high school, college and NBA champion and Basketball Hall of Famer, died Monday after a long battle with cancer, the NBA announced.He was 71 years old.”Bill Walton was truly one of a kind,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. “A valued member of the NBA family for 50 years, he will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him.”American-born Walton led an extraordinary life on and off the court, excelling in basketball and dabbling in the counterculture scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and he remained associated with both throughout…
Mammootty’s latest film Turbo has been doing well at the box office but has received mixed reviews from the audience. Also Read – “The OG was going to be remade too.” Recently, a YouTuber used Turbo’s original poster without permission and posted a highly negative review of the film, which resulted in Mammootty Company issuing a copyright infringement notice and the video being taken down. The Mammootty Company is also considering further steps as negative reviews could adversely affect a film’s business. They have even suggested postponing the release of negative reviews for a week after release to protect the…
An Arizona mother counted herself lucky Monday after her teenage son escaped a black bear that had broken into the family’s cabin, leaving him with only severe scratches on his face and arms. “It truly could have been a lot worse,” Carol Eddington Hawkins told NBC News. “We still can’t believe it happened, but we feel very lucky.”Hawkins said her 15-year-old son, Brigham, was “just relaxing” Thursday evening in one of two cabins her parents own on their Alpine property when the bear “came in through the front door and snatched my son’s head.””The front door was open to let…
As the Lok Sabha seats in India’s largest farming belt — Haryana and Uttar Pradesh — go to the polls, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has once again promised to waive off farmer debts if the Congress-led coalition is voted to power. The last pan-India farm loan waiver was done by the UPA government in 2008 in the form of a ₹60,000 crore economic package. Incidentally, the waiver came a year ahead of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, in which the UPA was re-elected with a bigger majority.Addressing an election rally in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri on May 22, Mr. Gandhi promised…
As the Lok Sabha seats in India’s largest farming belt — Haryana and Uttar Pradesh — go to the polls, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has once again promised to waive off farmer debts if the Congress-led coalition is voted to power. The last pan-India farm loan waiver was done by the UPA government in 2008 in the form of a ₹60,000 crore economic package. Incidentally, the waiver came a year ahead of the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, in which the UPA was re-elected with a bigger majority.Addressing an election rally in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri on May 22, Mr. Gandhi promised…
KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Narendra Modi should be referred to as the party’s leader and not the prime minister during the Bharatiya Janata Party’s election campaigns as he is a “caretaker prime minister”.”Modi has the right to campaign. He has the right to come here and participate in election campaigns. But I am surprised to see him being called the prime minister in the party’s election advertisements,” Banerjee said at an election rally of party candidate Sudip Bandyopadhyay in Burrabazar area of Kolkata-Uttar constituency. “How can he do this? There is no state assembly…
When the NCAA lifted its longstanding ban on college athletes earning sponsorship money in 2021, there was no cohort.Sponsorship-funded organizations are now ubiquitous, and the common way players make money as compensation for their name, image and likeness has quickly evolved, much to the chagrin of many in college sports, into a substitute for a salary.The future of sports associations remains uncertain, even as they will play an even more important role with revenue sharing with college athletes looming as part of a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement agreed to Thursday by the NCAA and the nation’s major conferences.”One of the…
With the busiest recruiting month of the year fast approaching, it’s time to begin TLP’s annual tradition of taking a position-by-position look at the recruiting landscape for the Virginia Tech football program. As always, we start with the quarterback position. The Hokies already have one QB in the 2025 class but are looking to add a second. Meanwhile, QB recruiting for 2026 appears to still be in the early stages. However, things could change quickly in the 2025 cycle as things moved quickly to the point where they secured a commitment from Kelden Ryan last summer. Let’s take a look…