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Moon Shining At Sunset: Marina Bay Sands Resort in Singapore

"This sunset shot at the Marina Bay Sands was one in a million. The sky lit up just right as the moon was rising behind the resort. Many people don’t know but the resort is an actual complex complete with a shopping mall, casino, and a Venice Gondola ride. One of the cool things about the Marina Bay Sands Resort besides the amazing infinity rooftop pool is the fact that you can use your hotel Wi-Fi throughout the entire shopping complex. The picture was taken from the famous Merlion statue just across the water from the resort. This also happens to be where the cars zip by in the only night time Formula 1 race." Continue reading →

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102-year-old woman parachutes from Idaho bridge

"Dorothy Custer celebrated turning 102 on Sunday by parachuting from a bridge in Idaho. For her 101st birthday last year, Custer zip-lined over the Snake River Canyon. This year, however, she told KMTV that she had planned to have a 'very calm birthday.' But those plans changed when her family gave her a tandem jump with professional BASE jumper, Sean Chuman, for her birthday. In BASE jumping — which stands for Buildings, Antennas, Spans, and Earth — participants jump off of platforms and then parachute to the ground. 'That was a thrill,' Custer says just after landing. 'But it was so quick! It was over with before I knew it.' 'There’s nothing much left to do but just live now,' she explains." Continue reading →

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The search for the world’s biggest BASE jump!

"Patrick Kerber opened a new exit point, by wingsuit BASE jumping off the Wengen-Jungfrau peak in Switzerland. Exit Point: Wengen-Jungfrau Peak, 4060m; Rockdrop: 138m; Landing: Lauterbrunnen; Flyable Altitude: 3240m; Time in Freefall: 2min 03s" Continue reading →

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Just, You Know, Mexico: A Sort Of Photo Essay

"People seeming to have an interest in Mexico and the desperate, blood-soaked lives we live here, Average beach, Micnoacàn, at sundown. Fred, dissolute as a matter of principle, supervises waves with a cold Tecate. To get here, you drive north from Ajijic to Guadalajara, turn left until you hit the Pacific coast at Manzanillo, turn left again, and find hundreds, perhaps thousands or millions, of miles of deserted beaches. We stay in a little town with one hotel of four rooms, one of them a suite, of about two stars, with chickens cackling in the yard and no gringos, cackling or otherwise." Continue reading →

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‘How to Make Money Selling Drugs’

"'How to Make Money' is full of useful insights from people who know the drug trade well, including reformed dealers, ex-international smugglers, former cops, pundits, lawyers and government insiders. Interviewees include one-time dealer Freeway Ricky Ross, retired Baltimore cop-turned-activist Neill Franklin and rapper 50 Cent, who sold drugs as a 12-year-old orphan. The film’s emerging portrait of the drug war is of a relentless, historical cycle involving poverty, racism, addiction, corruption, political opportunism, local cops dependent on federal dollars, and a $50 billion, commercial prison industry profiting mightily by incarcerating lots of Americans." Continue reading →

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