get and get: 2011

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

World record set for making a king-size bed

A hotel housekeeper has won a place in the record books after becoming the fastest person in the world to make a king-sized bed.

Putting most people to shame, it took Louise Waller took just 95 seconds to transform the bed from unmade to a professionally smart finish, during a recent event in London.

In that time she had to deal with two pillows with pillow cases, a mattress cover, a king size bed sheet, a king size duvet and duvet cover and a bed runner.

While 30-year-old Waller is understandably happy about the record, she also realises it also means she will have a hard time convincing her partner to to it at home.

Speaking of the record, Waller - who works for Premier Inn Sheffield City Centre - said: "I am so happy to have set a brand new World Record for the fastest bed-maker! As a housekeeper I have to make beds perfectly everyday, so I knew with a bit of practice I’d be a World Record holder!"

Steve Conway Head of Marketing for Premier Inn added, “We pride ourselves on having the most efficient team around so it’s only right that one of our esteemed housekeepers has been recognised as a World Record holder.”

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Monday, February 21, 2011

The Frozen Tsunami

This spectacular series of images circulates via email and has also been posted on various websites, blogs and online forums. A description commonly included with the images claims that they depict a large tidal wave or tsunami wave instantly frozen as it breaks. However, the ice formation shown in the images is not an instantly frozen wave. The photographs were taken by scientist Tony Travouillon in Antarctica.Many of the images can be seen in a gallery on Travouillon's website. The pictures do not show a giant wave somehow snap-frozen in the very act of breaking. The formation contains blue ice, and this is compelling evidence that it was not created instantly from a wave of water.

The Giant Humbug

One of them looks like a giant mint humbug, with its clear blue, green and brown stripes. The other looks as if it has been shot through with a streak of spearmint. These stunning banded icebergs - formed over hundreds, if not thousands, of years - were pictured floating in the waters of the Antarctic. They were photographed by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen, on board a research ship around 1,700miles south of Cape Town and 660miles north of the Antarctic. "It reminds me of striped candy I bought as a child," said 62-year-old Mr Tangen.

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Working at Landfill

Unfortunately, in this world there are many places like this one, but this place is just horrible. I assume that these poor people live on this garbage lot, because they are eating and playing there or maybe they just work there. Even if they just work there it’s still awful. Imagine how much that place smell. When you see something like this, you realize how happy you are because you don’t have to dig trough the trash in stead of hating your job. Still it’s interesting to see how some people live in Cambodia.

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New species in the future

Genetic technology has made a lot of break-through in the past and will progress tremendously in the future. New species would emerge as a result. The combination of mammals and insects seems to be impossible, but in the mind of artists, everything is possible, they have a very active and creative imagination, let’s have a look at these pictures of future species created by them. Use your imagination you can also create the new species by photo editing programs.

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Riding horses through the fire

Every year in San Bartolome de Pinares, west of Madrid, during the celebration of the patron saint of animals of St. Anthony Abeda, professional Spanish riders jump through flaming fires, defying death itself.
Before the sparks horse blessed the priest and the ritual has been going on for 500 years. St. Anthony Abed Egyptian origin was recognized as the patron saint of animals from the Middle Ages.

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Cars At The Cost Of $ 10 Million

Last year in Panama, was arrested a Mr. Mouen, the property has been seized. But as it turned out, among the houses and luxury goods, have the detainee was a garage in which there were 200 vehicles (cars, motorcycles, golf cart, etc.). And 90% of them – are unique! Why “were”? Because attempts Mouena save their cars failed.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Best Blogger Templates of 2010

Its Time to sit back and check out our design and Blogger Community and appreciate the work and developments done on the blogspot platform. Since we are a huge fans of Blogger Platform we are showcasing you the "Best Blogger Templates of 2010" Part I. followed by couple of more series by the end of this year. Blogger Team has been working behind the curtains to raise the quality of Blogger Powered Blogs: We had a new post editor, Pages support on blogger, Blogger Template Designer. You can check out some of fantastic Blogspot Themes handpicked for our readers. And More Blogger templates.