Category: Swimming Pools
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Epic 6 pass trick shot in a swimming pool
They are a youth group called The Living Room, and they obviously know that they are good! Even plan to build wells in Mozambique with www.hungerstrike.org, if this YouTube video of theirs earns any money.
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“Backyard Oasis”, the Palm Springs Art Museum swimming pool exhibition
This Saturday January 21st, 2012, Palm Springs Art Museum will open a new exhibition called “Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982“, celebrating the iconic backyard swimming pool, forever associated with the Southern California good life. “The photographs project a happier, supposedly better way of life,†says Daniell Cornell, the museum’s deputy…
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Top 10 hotel swim-up bars
Sigh, number one is Dreams Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Well at least my dreams are for free ! :-) See full list here on boston.com
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9 awesome hotel pools, including a shark tank water slide
Nice list here on TravelSupermarket, via Neatorama. Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is there, of course, with its pool stretching across the skyscrapers, and Bláa Lónið (the Blue Lagoon) in Iceland. But the one taking the price is Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, with its water slide going through a shark tank.
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Can indoor swimming in chlorinated pools cause hormone problems in boys ?
According to a recent study at the Catholic University of Louvain, indoor swimming in a chlorinated pool for as little as 30 minutes every two weeks may result in altered hormone levels in boys. The effects are most pronounced before the age of 7, and boys are particularly sensitive because the skin of the scrotum…
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Building of the Duel in the Pool 2011 Arena
Now that is a lot of effort put into what ultimately ended as a 181.5 – 80.5 trashing of the Europeans (hey, I’m European, I’m allowed! :-)
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Workers face charges for allowing dirty pool to stay open with a body at bottom
Two former state workers will face criminal charges after they allowed a dirty swimming pool to stay open while the body of a woman lay at the bottom. We’ve heard about the story before, the water in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Pool in Fall River, Massachusetts, was so murky, that Marie Joseph’s body lay there…
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Ohio landlord defends “White Only” sign at pool
A landlord in Ohio is claiming that not only is her “White Only” pool sign not racist, but that the state’s civil rights commission was wrong in declaring it discriminatory. An African-American girl visited the pool and was told that she made the pool ‘cloudy’ because she used chemicals in her hair, and then this…
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FLUID Nuit Blanche Paris
A TSAI Chia-Wen light and sound installation for Nuit Blanche Paris 2011, in the most ancient swimming pool “Château-Landon” of Paris City. FLUID Nuit Blanche Paris from Chia-Wen TSAI on Vimeo.