The record for the most number of people in a soap bubble has been claimed by a team of 59 children in Wales.
The previous record of 50 children was smashed when the youngsters crammed into the bubble at the Venue Cymru theater in Llandudno.
Bangor University scientist Dr Robyn Wheldon-Williams led the team, which used a mixture of warm water, washing up liquid, glycerol and a secret ingredient.
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
How to Make Homemade Bomb Pops
Icy cold popsicles can be a welcome addition to hot gatherings, even more so if you make them yourself in festive colors and interesting flavors to suit the occasion. While popsicle-making is a simple endeavor, the range of equipment options for making them is extensive.Friday, July 4, 2008
Even Kids Have Their Doubts
YEAH RIGHTYou tell us kids not to lie, cheat or steal but it's alright for you to do it.
There's a Birthday Today
Americans Celebrate Nation's 232nd Birthday
O beautiful for spacious skies,…..
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
Come on and sing along, you know the words…If Not They Are Below
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America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
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Happy Birthday America !!
Happy Birthday America !!
Surfing is not just for humans
This dog participates at the 3rd Annual Loews Coronado Bay Resort surf dog competition at Imperial Beach, California.
In the News
There’s Gold In Them Hills
Vast reserves of gold discovered in Irish hills
Not many people have heard of the village of Clontibret, tucked away amid the rolling hills of Ireland's County Monaghan.
But for the village population of just over 300, that is all about to change.
Yesterday a mining company announced that Clontibret is to become Ireland's Klondyke after a major gold find in the area that could be the largest anywhere in the British Isles.
Conroy Diamonds and Gold issued a formal announcement to the London Stock Exchange that an area just outside the village has more than 1million ounces of gold.
With precious metal prices soaring in these times of global economic instability, the exploration company estimated that the gold deposits could be worth up to £450m.
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Thou Shall Not Swear
A clamping company has introduced a £100 "swear charge" on victims who vent their fury at attendants.
Bulldog Services, which patrols the car park of retailer Comet in Bath, Somerset is levying the "abusive behavior" fee on top of its £125 release cost.
The RAC Foundation said the firm was taking advantage of the "difficult and tense" situation to make a profit - but added there was nothing in law to stop the practice.
One couple said, they were ordered to pay the fine when the husband swore once at discovering the wheel clamp.
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Is This Your Boy?
A boy of two sparked a huge police search after waking up at 3am and deciding to take the dog for a walk. Thomas Winspear crept out of the house with Conan the Jack Russell. They were spotted 15 minutes later 600 yards away by a neighbor, who dialed police and stayed with him until the police arrived. But Thomas could not tell them his name or the address of the aunt he was staying with after a family barbecue.
So after taking him for hospital checks they photographed him and issued copies to officers - who spent six hours knocking on doors, some staying hours beyond their shifts, looking for anyone who recognized him. The police helicopter joined in amid fears an adult with Thomas had collapsed and was lying injured. They eventually arrived at his aunt Gemma Keenan's home. Gemma, 25, said: "They asked if I was missing a little boy and I said he was upstairs in bed. But when I went up he wasn't there. I was hysterical." Thomas was later reunited with mom Laura Keenan, 23, in Hartlepool, Co Durham.
Vast reserves of gold discovered in Irish hills
Not many people have heard of the village of Clontibret, tucked away amid the rolling hills of Ireland's County Monaghan.
But for the village population of just over 300, that is all about to change.
Yesterday a mining company announced that Clontibret is to become Ireland's Klondyke after a major gold find in the area that could be the largest anywhere in the British Isles.
Conroy Diamonds and Gold issued a formal announcement to the London Stock Exchange that an area just outside the village has more than 1million ounces of gold.
With precious metal prices soaring in these times of global economic instability, the exploration company estimated that the gold deposits could be worth up to £450m.
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Thou Shall Not Swear
A clamping company has introduced a £100 "swear charge" on victims who vent their fury at attendants.
Bulldog Services, which patrols the car park of retailer Comet in Bath, Somerset is levying the "abusive behavior" fee on top of its £125 release cost.
The RAC Foundation said the firm was taking advantage of the "difficult and tense" situation to make a profit - but added there was nothing in law to stop the practice.
One couple said, they were ordered to pay the fine when the husband swore once at discovering the wheel clamp.
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Is This Your Boy?
A boy of two sparked a huge police search after waking up at 3am and deciding to take the dog for a walk. Thomas Winspear crept out of the house with Conan the Jack Russell. They were spotted 15 minutes later 600 yards away by a neighbor, who dialed police and stayed with him until the police arrived. But Thomas could not tell them his name or the address of the aunt he was staying with after a family barbecue.
So after taking him for hospital checks they photographed him and issued copies to officers - who spent six hours knocking on doors, some staying hours beyond their shifts, looking for anyone who recognized him. The police helicopter joined in amid fears an adult with Thomas had collapsed and was lying injured. They eventually arrived at his aunt Gemma Keenan's home. Gemma, 25, said: "They asked if I was missing a little boy and I said he was upstairs in bed. But when I went up he wasn't there. I was hysterical." Thomas was later reunited with mom Laura Keenan, 23, in Hartlepool, Co Durham.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Zimbabwe, where baked beans cost $30 billion
Zimbabwe's dollar, ravaged by hyperinflation, does not even come in the form of a proper bank note.Instead most bills are 'bearer cheques', marked with an expiry date, but will become worthless long before it is reached.
More recently the reserve bank, which is issuing bills in ever-larger denominations, moved on to 'special agro-cheques', leading to comments about how much 'aggro' people have to deal with.
All three agro-cheques – they come in a brown Z$50 billion denomination, the green Z$25 billion, and the pink Z$5 billion - have a picture of a grain silo on one side. The sad irony is that the national treasury is as empty as the country's grain silos.
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On the rare occasions when products are available, the prices are astronomic.
At the TM supermarket in Borrowdale, in Harare's western suburbs, many shelves were bare yesterday. But a kilo of mince cost Z$490 billion, a kilo of sausage Z$170 billion, and a tin of baked beans Z$30 billion.
Despite Zimbabwe's desperate shortage of food, heavy import duties have been slapped onto edible products, and a litre of imported orange juice cost an eye-watering Z$303 billion.
Some prices have trebled from a week ago, when lavatory paper worked out at just under Z$22 million for a single sheet of two-ply. There was none in the supermarket yesterday, but by now there is probably an alternative use for the Z$50 million dollar note.
At one Harare restaurant dinner was Z$875 billion per person, and the house wine a little short of half a trillion dollars a bottle.
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