Longest Breath Holding Under water by an Individual

Now that might seem like a yogic penance of  a sort.Breath has always been the difference between life and death.And to control such a vital element which proves our existence can just be out of our limits of understanding and imagination.
Yes German diver Thomas Sietas aged  35 years  has challenged human convictions with a lung capacity of  more than 20 percent   of an average individual.This extra attribute in him has never deterred him to  harness  this potential out.

Sietas was  competing in Changsha, China alongside former underwater breath-holding world record holder Ricardo Bahaia of Brazil, and defeated Bahaia's record of 20:21  by over 2 minutes.It may look as if this guy would  have had  the assistance of  oxygen  cylinders .But seriously  not  this was all his effort.

The pair of  Sietas and Bahaia were dropped into clear side-by-side tanks containing water cooled to 41 degrees Fahrenheit to help them relax and calm their bodies. The temperature was slowly raised and by the time they were done, it had hit 95 degrees.Sietas has set the record for static apnea ( a term for holding breath for long)  not once but several times.He used to swim distances holding his breath and that took the notice of his scuba instructor to note his unusual ability to hold breath.

And ever since then from 2000 he has been setting new benchmarks on his remarkable ability to hold breath underwater.He makes his preparation by avoiding food atleast five hours before the stunt to slow down the body metabolism and then goes out to fill his lungs with  pure oxygen which can add more than 10  minutes to his time.

He held his breath for a  long 22 minutes,22 seconds which might leave us all bewildered if we had directly watched the feat.Sietas made news on June 4,2012 at Germany.

Greatest Weight lifted by a human tongue

It is true that humans can go to any extent when it comes to setting records or beating them.Let it be outrageous,weird,scary,adventurous,crazy  you can add any number of adjectives but humans can just resist them all the way.
The reason for mentioning this  was that  we were pretty surprised by the grit and courage of this man Thomas Blackthorne who  has mastered the art of lifting heavy objects hooked through his tongue.Sounds really scary  but must really hats off to this man for showing the world what majority of us would find it hard and may be even nervous to do.
This incredible record  of lifting 12.5 Kg weight at the El Show Olímpico, in Mexico City, Mexico,  was held on 1 August 2008.The entire experience would have been like a   spike of pain – something like when one's dentist drills at high speed into a nerve by mistake – jolted up on the  head and across the  tongue in particular for this guy.This sends shrills to our backbone too.
Mind it one has to be mentally prepared,seek a lot of training, and exercise to ensure that the tongue is fit and strong to even try doing a similar feat.At the thought of such records itself we do tend to doubt the sanity of the individual attempting such records .But  Blackthorne  is a perfect example of mind power and the perseverence to undertake the challenge.
Thomas Blackthorne from United Kingdom  has earned the accolades hard enough much to the shock of the world .He  truly deserves good honour.

Tallest Wave ever Surfed

American pro surfer Garrett McNamara has done something no other man alive has done:.He has surfed a 78-foot  tall wave and lives to tell us about  it.Last November the 44 year old pro surfer captured the world's attention when he came face-to-face with a monstrous wave just off the coast of Nazare, Portugal.The feat was attempted on November , 2011.

 McNamara narrowly edges out the previous record, set by Mike Parsons back in 2008, by a foot. He actually ended  beating Parsons's  record by a narrow margin .He took the aid of  a jet ski to tow in  as waves of this giant size are almost impossible to paddle manually.Apart from surfing the huge wave he was also equally concerned to avoid clashing the huge rocks near the coast.As falling off would reduce the chance of survival itself let alone making or beating records.But this man mustered all the guts and tided over the gigantic wave to tell the world of his feat which no man till date on this planet had ever tried before.

Being a professional skier since the age of 17 years helped him  to get enough expertise to master the craft well.

Mc Namara reminisces the entire episode as a magical  as everything fell in to the right place.

While on the jet ski he passed the first swell without much deliberation only to see the second record setting behemoth shaping ominously behind him.He rode the monsterous wave and stayed very much in control of his board as the colossal wall of water drove him towards the rocks.

That has been the pinnacle of passion for this adventurous guy who is a living example of the quote'Live your dreams and see it to make it happen'

Now that was so inspiring for us and this outrageous attempt  made news on May 15,2012.

Oldest Performing clown

At the age of 95 years and still clowning around is what the Montana man has proved to the world.Yes we are talking about Floyd Creekmore affectionately called 'creeky' by his friends. At a time when peers of his age would love to stretch their legs and relax this man  does not mind to shake his legs and feet  like a clown who is probably  70 years younger than him. Well Floyd Creekmore is supposedly the oldest Performing clown  the world is  having today.He’s been entertaining people at fairs and rodeos since the age of 10, and he insists he has no plans to sign  off   his red rubber nose any time soon.
Floyd finds it extremely gratifying  to perform the job of a clown.Creekmore has been a clown with the Al Bedoo Shrine Circus in Billings, Montana  since 1981. The circus raises money to help disabled and burned kids receive free treatment at Shriners Hospitals for Children.

The eternally young clown owns about a dozen clown costumes, some of which were sewn by his wife and his niece.   He says his favorite get-up is a yellow and orange costume with matching orange hair and a yellow bowler hat.
Creekmore enjoys being a clown and loves the idea to bring a smile and laughter on the children's face.In his attempt to make children laugh he also has a philantrophic purpose attached to being a clown on the circus stage.The proceeds of the circus go to raise money for hospitals and providing free treatment for children suffering from injuries.That was a classy act of the man so magnanimous at heart to see the world from a broader angle.
That proves the fact that this desire to restore cheer on the  children's face helps to be still rocking high on life  even at old age.
Floyd Creekmore or 'Creeky' got noticed as the oldest performing clown on July 7,2012.

Most Likes on Facebook

Facebook the most  popular and preferred social networking site has something to boast of about its founder.All credit goes to Mark Zuckerberg  the founder of Facebook to have created this effective social networking tool which can bridge gaps of distance,time and yet keep you on track in this fast paced life.The site helps you to stay in touch with your friends,colleagues,school mates with whom probably  would have been ages after your  last direct interaction. The site  keeps you  posted about the events happening in your friends,colleagues lives and just by the click of a button you can keep in touch with all the people in your life you have met before at relatively no cost.
Such a powerful medium developed by Mark Zuckerberg saw him stepping the stellar of success in no time.Facebook proved out to be a big boon for  millions of people in this world who are busy yet would love to stay in touch with their pals .It has also proved to be a powerful business product promotion mechanism  as we have many logged in  and  separate community  pages dedicated.So advertising in Facebook can drive the attention of the right section of the audience and hit the target customers of the product in no time driving no hole at all in your pocket.
Zuckerberg got his rightful due   for gifting Facebook to the world.The news of his wedding to long time girlfiend Priscilla Chan  at California got the maximum likes on facebook.Many people voted  their favour for the event.And that is how Zuckerberg got his best wedding  gift from the world for having invented such a brillant piece of work in the   histroy of Internet.The event happened on May 21,2012  and we were amazed by this record and decided to honour it.

Smallest Car

We have heard of smallest houses and tiny photographs used to make big portraits. But we  have not thought about a car so small barely a scooter's size.The Peel P50 is a three-wheeled microcar manufactured in 1962 and 1965 by Peel Engineering on the Isle of Man.The Peel P50  the single seater car has been resurrected  and has staged a comeback.The P50  originally weighed less than 59 kilograms and was just 134cm long and 99 cm wide.

According to the first version of the stock the car had  enough space for just one adult and one shopping bag to be placed,A single door on the left hand side,one windscreen wiper and one head light .But the latest incarnation  of  the car is believed to have electric motors putting up 1 Kilowatt of power.The car can attain a speed of 12 Km/hour.

The car has two  front wheels and one on the back  and the latest is almost on the lines of the original  with only major mechanical differences in suspension,steering and drive train.

The car came to be recently touted as the smallest car on June 23,2012at Isle of Man,Britain.

Largest LipStick Portrait

What better way to please a woman like  gifting her a  cosmetic stuff like lip sticks.She would easily fall prey to such gifting ideas and feel on the top of the world.This was what artist Amer Shomali also had in his mind.He gave a fitting tribute to Palestinian  revolutionary Leila Khaled by making a portrait of her  using 3500 lipsticks of 14 colours.

Art has no boundaries.The concept  was to pay tribute to her who rather had  became a poster girl after she had hijacked an   air plane on August 29, 1969.

The famous photo of Leila Khaled holding an AK-47 and wearing a kaffiyeh, taken by Eddie Addams as a reference was taken. Amer Shomali created a sort of canvas out of lipstick holders and then arranged 3,500 lipsticks of 14 different colors to best recreate the Palestinian icon’s visage. Called “Icon”, Shomali’s artwork was featured in  an art exhibition organized at Birzeit  University.Presented at Framed-Unframed exhibition, the project was aligned to the overall theme of the event, which was “a critical exploration of visual artists’ changing representations of Palestinian women”.

The image of the revolutionary was unveiled at the Birzeit Art Exhibition in Palestine on July 9,2012 .A different dimension to art made us to include and honour  this one .