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Tom Noonan – In Memoriam

By Chris Gilbey

I just found out this morning that my old friend, Tommy Noonan, passed away two weeks ago. Tom was one of the real gentlemen of the music business. Back when it was about people and not just about profits. I brought Tom out to Australia in the early 1990's to speak at a conference along [...]

World Swim for Malaria

By Richard McKinnon

World Swim for Malaria  takes place on Saturday, 3 December. It's a striking idea for a worthy cause. Get a million people to swim that day and raise money to fight malaria, still a scourge of the tropics. It's one guys' idea. An Australian in the UK, Rob Mather; who did 'something'  in 2003 for  a young [...]

Swimmers Unite. How oldstyle Internet powers on.

By Richard McKinnon

Swimmers are fanatical. They need that great fix daily. Wherever they are.Swimmers know that Swimmers Guide  is the indispensable bible of every swimming pool  worth swimming in globally. There's nothing like it in any other sport. The Swimmers database contains 14,978 listings or 15,946 year-round, full-size pools in 8,830 communities and 155 countries. Once only U.S. pools, it now  has 10,816 listings in 154 [...]