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Children from an isolated “cliff village” on a mountain top in southwest China have to climb down a 800-meter ladder to get to school. The Atule’er village is home to 72 families whose only route to the outside world are 17 vine ladders attached to the side of a 2,625-foot sheer cliff face.  China Daily reports: Fifteen children regularly use a rattan ladder to scale an 800-meter cliff on their way to and from boarding school every two weeks in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province. The children, aged 6 to 15, belong to 72 families in Atuler village in Zhaojue county.

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Send S&P up to Green for May...

Now what?

When it comes to financial assets, Apollo's legendary founder Leon Black has been gloomy for years, and said in a recent Milken Conference that his firm has been "selling everything that is not nailed down." The billionaire (who at last check was worth around $4.7 billion) however appears to have a soft spot for Hollywood A-lister real estate. Because we were surprised to learn that the buyer of Tom Cruise's $40 million 10,000 square foot Beverly Hills home is none other than Leon Black.

Trannies up 2% - best day in a month - because, well why not...

Because what better reason to BTFD than "well it went red on the year"...