Breaking Bad - Highest-Rated TV Show Enters Guinness World Records 2013

Breaking Bad - Highest-Rated TV Show Enters Guinness World Records 2013

The critically acclaimed series Breaking Bad from AMC network is breaking records and not only as it comes to viewers turning on their TV to watch every week. It has broken the Guinness World Record for Highest-Rated TV Show.

Bryan Cranston stars in the hit drama, which has entered the 2014 record book. But highest-rated is not related to number of viewers, rather it is a measurement, given out by MetaCritic.com which ranked the show with a 99 out of 100. As a measure of comparison with other successful TV shows, Breaking Bad had 5.9 million total viewers, which was a record for the series, but a number that wasn’t even close to the numbers of viewers Duck Dynasty had at 11.8 million total viewers.

The series is entering its last stretch in anticipation of the series finale and has fans on the edge trying to figure out how the story will end up playing out. Breaking Bad has been around since 2008, and tells the story of Walter White (Cranston) who, after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, teams up with a former student to cook up the purest crystal meth to sell, in order provide for his family. The enormously successful series is at its half way point in the final season and according to some, running out of time with the flash-forwards. These suggest that Walter doesn’t end up untouched by all the things he’s done so far, as he walks by what used to be his house. However, there is no hint as to why his drug empire falls apart yet. So things need to happen.

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Green Coconut breaking with elbow break World Records by Odisha’s Keshab Swain

Green Coconut breaking with elbow break World Records by Odisha’s Keshab Swain

Odisha’s first and the only Guinness World Records holder Keshab Swain, famous for creating several national and international records in Green Coconut breaking with elbow, head and knee, today spread his presence on the web with the launch of his dedicated official website www.keshabswain.com . A Martial Art and fitness trainer by professions, Keshab Swain also went live on social media arena with presence on popular social media sites facebook, twitter and youtube. 

The website www.keshabswain.com was today formally launched by Shri Subrat Tarai, Hon’ble Minister Department of Commerce and Transport in the presence of international sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik and other eminent personalities from all walks of life at a grand ceremony at Bhubaneswar.

With the launch of the website and presence in social media, Keshab Swain hopes to inspire the youth of today to take up adventure sports as well as Martial Art and fitness training. A black belt in Karate and Kickboxing, Keshab Swain also hopes to increase his reach to the people especially youth mass and helping them with fitness tips, counseling, natural treatments for general diseases and many other solutions regarding physical and mental peace through his website and social media presence. Keshab Swain also expressed gratitude to NALCO, IDCO, OPGC, Tata Steel and L&T for extending support to him for launch of www.keshabswain.com .

It may be noted here that Keshab Swain hailing from a remote village Baharpur in Dharakote block of Ganjam district of Odisha, is the first Odia who created a history in Guinness World Records by smashing 85 green coconuts with his elbow in just one minute in the year 2012. He is also the first and unique Guinness World Records holder to have created a world record in breaking green coconuts by elbow.

A Martial Art Expert, Keshab Swain first made it to the Limca Book of Records in 2007 by breaking 135 green coconuts with elbow, fist, knee and head in a time span of 7 minutes and 26 seconds. In 2013, he broke 250 green coconuts with elbow, knee, fist and head in just 8 minutes, 56 seconds flat. With this score, he broke his own earlier record in the Limca Book of Records of breaking 184 green coconuts in six minutes and six seconds in 2010. He has set records in Limca Book of National Records for 5 times. Keshab Swain also set a new record in the history of Asia Book of Records and India Book of Records by breaking 18 tender coconuts with his head in just 1 minute in 2012.

He won the Biju Patnaik State Bravery Award for 2008-2009 for rescuing and saving lives of several pilgrims of Madhya Pradesh from a burning bus at Bhubaneswar in 2008. On January 21, 2008, at around 8.45am, as the bus accidentally caught fire at Kalpana square in Bhubaneswar when most of the passengers were sleeping, Keshab Swain risked his life by breaking into the bus and rescued several tourists to safety though he himself sustained injuries in the process. In 2013, Keshab Swain was felicitated by the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha with a citation and cash award of Rs 75,000 for meritorious achievements and for bringing glory to the State as the first Odia to become Guinness World Records holder.

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Ahmad Amin Bodla - Martial artist sets world records in Saudi Arabia

Ahmad Amin Bodla - Tae Kwan Do black belt Martial artist sets world records in Saudi Arabia

Tae Kwan Do black belt Ahmad Amin Bodla, 21, broke two Guinness World Records on Wednesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The first record was for “number of kicks in three minutes,” breaking Indian master Sidhu Kshetri’s world record of 620 kicks with 783 kicks with one leg.

The second record was in the number of punches in one minute in the Wing Chun style of martial arts, breaking Australian master Mick Faber’s 301 punches with 313.

“I feel quite proud and happy that all this hard work has paid off,” said Bodla after breaking both records. There was a lot of pressure and a lot of hype, but despite all that, Alhamdulillah (thank God), I’ve broken the records,” he said.

Bodla, who hails from Pakistan, has studied in Riyadh’s King Saud University (KSU) and will be on his way to Pakistan next week.

The decision to break the records, Ahmad said, was an ode to the time he spent here among students and professors at KSU.

“It was my mission to create that memory here in Riyadh, because I’ve spent a good time here and when I look back, I want to look back at this moment,” he said.

Bodla currently holds 18 Guinness World Records in various martial arts categories, including most full-contact Wing Chun-style punching strikes in two minutes, with 1,204 strikes, and fastest time to strike 100 martial arts punches, coming in at 7.66 seconds.

The results of Wednesday’s attempts were reviewed by a panel of judges present at the event, held at a Fitness First, who confirmed Bodla’s record, while the video footage will be sent to the Guinness World Records to officially tally the results and publish them within the next two months.

Ahmad’s father, Zia Ullah Anjum Bodla, was present at the event, cheering his son on along with friends and family members.

“I’m humbled and I bow my head before Allah Almighty because without his blessing and kindness, no achievement can ever be made,” he said.

Bodla first became interested in martial arts when he was 17, as his father recalls: “I was deployed operationally in a far-flung area near Lahore, and Ahmad met an army soldier who was an expert black belt in martial arts. From him, he was inspired to follow this path.”

Bodla’s journey through martial arts was challenged by a childhood struggle with asthma, his father said: “Incidentally, Ahmad was very slim and weak and I never thought he would become so strong, but because of his personal dedication and zest, Masha’a Allah, he has been able to achieve this standard.”

On entering the demonstrative and performance side of martial arts, Bodla said: “Five years ago, I started training as a beginner, when I was 17 years old.

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Assam drummers play khol hoping to enter Guinness World Records

Assam drummers play khol hoping to enter Guinness World Records

Assam earned an entry in the India Book of Records on Sunday for holding the largest ensemble of drummers with 14,833 drummers playing khol (a traditional drum of Assam) in unison in Titabor in Jorhat district.

The organiser of the ensemble Srimanta Sankaradeva Sangha will now be sending the video recording of the event to the authorities of Guinness World Records with the hope to earn an entry. Clad in white attire and headgear the drummers from across the State and also from Arunachal Pradesh played in unison for 15 minutes at a paddy field in Mezengapathar of Titabor.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi played a khol to mark symbolic start of the ensemble in his home constituency.

Addressing the gathering Mr. Gogoi hoped that the largest khol ensemble would help in propagating the creative genius of Srimanta Sankaradeva, the propagator of ‘eksarana naamdharma’ or Mahapurshiya dharma (a Vaishnava faith), playwright, poet, composer, litterateur, painter, communicator. Sankaradeva adopted the technique of propagating his faith through music, art and literature to usher in a socio-cultural renaissance in Assam in 15th-16th centuries.

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Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai - World's tallest Hotel by Guinness World Records

Marriott Marquis Hotel Dubai - World's tallest Hotel by Guinness World Records

The 5-star luxury hotel stands 355 metres from ground level to the top of its mast, only 26 metres short of the height of the Empire State Building in New York.

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Spread across two iconic 77-floor twin towers, each with 804 rooms and an array of 14 restaurants, bars and lounges, the hotel is set to be one of the region's most desirable destinations.

The hotel opened its first tower to guests last month, with 6 of its final nine restaurants now open. All nine, along with five bars and lounges and a spa and health club, are scheduled to be operating by the time of the hotel's Grand Opening in February, 2013.

The second tower is expected to open in the second half of the following year.

General Manager, Rupprecht Queitsch, said on receiving the certificate from Guinness World Records: "We are excited and delighted to be officially recognised as the world's tallest hotel. Dubai is a city of superlatives and the JW Marriott Marquis is an outstanding addition its iconic skyline.

“This Guinness World Record will help us to put Dubai on the global business destination map."

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Dina Manfredini - World's oldest living woman - World's oldest person ever

Dina Manfredini - World's oldest living woman - World's oldest person ever

According to Guinness World Records, Iowa woman Dina Manfredini, 115, is now the world's oldest living person after the death of a Georgia woman at 116 on Tuesday.

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Born before Amelia Earhart, Iowa woman Dina Manfredini has lived in three different centuries on her way to achieving a milestone for longevity.

According to Guinness World Records, Manfredini, of Des Moines, is now the oldest living person in the world at 115 years and 245 days. She assumed that status after the death of Georgia woman Besse Cooper Tuesday at the age of 116.

Manfredini is also the only verified Italian person to reach 115 years old in documented history, according to Robert Young, the senior consultant of gerontology for Guinness World Records. She is just 15 days older than the second-oldest person in the world, Japanese record holder Jiroemon Kimura. She also is about a week away from being named the world’s oldest immigrant, a record set by Danish-born American Christian Mortensen, according to Guinness. (Mortensen died in 1998 at the age of 115 years, 252 days.)

Manfredini was born on April 4, 1897, and grew up in Pievepelago, Italy, before moving to Iowa in 1920 with her late husband, Riccardo. After her husband was injured at work, she helped support the family by working at a food processing factory and at a Des Moines ordnance plant that produced ammunition in World War II. She also cleaned houses on the side, which she continued to do until she was 90 years old, after raising her four children.

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Guinness World Records 2013: Latest Guinness World Records book released

Guinness World Records 2013: latest Guinness World Records book released

From a tiny bull and giant biceps to a slam-dunking parrot and 340-piece drum kit, the latest Guinness World Records book is full of surprises.

This year’s Guinness Book of Records was released today.

The new entries are an intriguing bunch, and include Mostafa ‘Mo’ Ismail, whose biceps, at 31 inches, are as bigger than some waistlines.

Archie, the world’s shortest bull, is just 30 inches high, but “he still thinks that he’s the biggest cow in the herd.” He made a lucky escape, however. If it weren’t for his miniature stature, he’d have been sent to slaughter for beef.

Other record holders are Zac, a parrot who has completed the highest number of slam-dunks in a minute, and Dr Mark Temperaton, owner of the world’s largest drum kit.

Jyoti Amge, 18, from Nagpur, India, takes the title of world’s smallest woman. She stands at just 24.7 inches, and weighs less than a stone.


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World's largest pineapple - Biggest pineapple in the world

World's largest pineapple - Biggest pineapple in the world

Christine McCallum and her 8.28kg monster pineapple are in the 2013 Guinness World Records.

The gardener, of Bakewell, Palmerston, said: "I'm over the moon. I just couldn't believe it."

But Ms McCallum, 61, said there was one person who was even more excited than she was about the monumental feat - her 10-year-old grandson Isaac Hammond.

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A Northern Territory gardener has been officially listed as producing the world's largest pineapple. Christine McCallum, 61, made headlines last November after growing an 8.28kg pineapple that had a girth of 66cm and a length of 32cm.

Ms McCallum, who lives in the Darwin satellite city of Palmerston, told the NT News that she had been named in the 2013 Guinness World Records, an accomplishment that impressed her grandson. "He was jumping up and down and hugging me saying `you're so cool, you're famous'," the paper reported.

Prior to Ms McCallum's efforts, the world's largest pineapple was an 8.06kg fruit grown in Papua New Guinea.

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Guinness World Records 2013 goes 3D with augmented reality iOS app

Guinness World Records 2013 goes 3D with augmented reality iOS app.

When I was a kid, comic books cost a quarter, Atari made videogame consoles and personal computers — not just software — and the Guinness Book of World Records was a thick paperback book with a bunch of black and white photos of people with gross, three-foot-long fingernails. A copy of the 2013 edition showed up earlier this week, proving that it’s not just technology that’s changed over those years. Even a large, hardcover book can be updated to make trivia more interesting and incorporate your iOS or Android device to make those paper pages seem a little less static. Don’t worry, not everything has changed — the fingernails are still there (pages 74-75).

Once you pick up a copy of the book itself ($28.95 list price, currently selling on Amazon for $19.11), the next step is to download the free Guinness World Records 2013 Augmented Reality app (also available for Android). There’s also a second, free app, Guinness World Records 2013 The Bonus Chapter, which is an e-book full of supplemental material that’s not included in the dead tree version. The former lets you point a camera-equipped smartphone or tablet at designated pages to see an animation something like this:

 would be enough to spike some interest in kids who are increasingly expectant of such things, but it’s limited to only a half dozen instances through the nearly 300 pages, so I wouldn’t be looking at this as adding an immersive new element to the experience. That being said, my 10-year-olds were on this book pretty quickly, sitting together on the couch and flipping through the glossy pages.

Among the Guinness world records that might be of interest to GeekDad readers (spoiler alert, although if you’re a regular GeekDad reader, the odds are pretty good you already know these):

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Largest concentration of observatories: Mauna Kea in Hawaii with 13, including the world’s largest infrared and submillimeter telescopes.
    Furthest distance from Earth traveled by humans: 248,655 miles by the Apollo 13 crew back in 1970.
    Largest collection of Superman memorabilia goes to Herbert Chavez of the Philippines with 1,253 Superman-related items (to go along with his extensive Superman-inspired plastic surgeries).
    The Library of Congress in Washington DC (Serials and Government Publications Division) holds the record for having the largest collection comics in a museum, with over 100,000 issues covering over 5,000 different titles.
    The most successful merchandise franchise in movies? Yeah, it’s Star Wars.

The augmented reality Guinness World Records 2013 is intended as a bridge between old-school paper books and modern content consumption.

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Medusa - World’s Largest Snake

Medusa - World’s Largest Snake

Shortly after the release of the 2013 Guinness World Records book, a new record has already slithered its way into the books, with the world’s largest snake in captivity.

The new record-breaking snake is a 25 feet and two inch long Reticulated Python named Medusa, who lives at The Edge of Hell attraction in Kansas City, Missouri, reports The Examiner.

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The Edge of Hell attraction is run by Full Moon Productions and uses Medusa to entertain visitors at the attraction, particularly those afraid of snakes.

She is a 350-pound reticulated python who usually sits in a small nook of the attraction coiled up, seemingly enjoying her posh lifestyle. The Daily Mail notes that Medusa’s handler and Edge of Hell general manager, Larry Edgar states that:

    “We try to keep Medusa well-fed and slightly out of reach as there have been instances with Reticulated Pythons where they’ve had to cut people out of them! We never underestimate that she does always have the upper-hand.”

Despite the fact that Reticulated Pythons are known for wrapping themselves around humans, Medusa has been known to nudge her handler, Edgar, for his assistance in shedding her skin, especially when it gets tough.

She often gets a large crowd when she makes rare visits to local parks around Kansas City as well. Amber Arnett-Bequeaith,Vice President of Full Moon Productions and Medusa’s Spokesperson, states that:


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