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• Tampa to Host Longest Cigar Re

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    For more information, contact 
    Chantal Hevia  or
    Ybor City Museum Society
    (813) 247-1434
    chevia@ybormuseum.com
    www.cigarheritagefestival.com

    Guinness World Records® Attempt  for "Longest Cigar" To Take Place in Ybor City
     
    Tampa, FL (November 10, 2009) – On Saturday, November 21, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Ybor City Museum Society will host the Verizon Cigar Heritage Festival during which Wallace and Margarita Reyes will attempt to break the current Guinness World Records record by building a cigar that spans nearly a city block. The Reyes and their team of 48 volunteers will construct a 180+ foot, 64 ring gauge cigar within a 10-hour period.

    The Verizon Cigar Heritage Festival is a family-friendly event that features traditional foods, cultural entertainment, kid zone, game zone with NCAA football, a beer and wine garden, some of the world's finest cigars, and live broadcasts by Cigar Dave, Jack Harris, Ted Webb and Jeff Fisher. Attendees will may also take Ybor City Museum State Park tours, shop at the Ybor City Saturday Market and Centennial Park 19th Street Shops or enjoy many other aspects of the festival.

    The Reyes have been constructing the world's longest cigar in eighteen 10-foot sections at the Museum Store Cigar Gallery, 1820 N. 9th Avenue, Tampa, FL 33605. Final assembly of the sections to break the current Guinness World Records record will take place at the Verizon Cigar Heritage Festival. This is the first longest cigar record attempt worldwide during which a Guinness World Records Adjudicator will be present to immediately certify the record, expected to be attained at sometime between 3:00 and 3:45 p.m.  An announcement to the local, national and international press will be made shortly thereafter by Guinness World Records.

    Wallace and Margarita Reyes, co-owners of Gonzalez Habano Cigar Co., broke their first world record for the longest cigar on November 18, 2006 during that year's Cigar Heritage Festival. The 101-foot, 64 ring gauge cigar was finished in front of hundreds of people.

    The record has since been broken. The current holder of the record is Jose Castelar in Havana, Cuba who constructed a cigar of 148 feet and 11 inches on May 7, 2008. There is friendly competition between the Tampa and Cuba cigar makers, and this most recent world record attempt will be a lively and unique event.

    The Ybor City Museum Society is a Citizen Support Organization (CSO) whose mission is preserving, promoting and celebrating the unique cultural heritage of Ybor City and supporting the Ybor City Museum State Park. All proceeds from Cigar Heritage Festival benefit the Society.                                   

    
    18 November 2009

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• GWR Day: Most Weight Squat Lif

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    On the 12 November 2009 also known as Guinness World Records™ day, Shaun Jones was attempting to break his second world record in 8 days, during the build up to his attempt to break the record for Most Weight Squat Lifted in One Hour Shaun broke the record for the Fasted Hot Water Bottle Burst on the set of Blue Peter, smashing the previous record of 51.98 seconds set in the USA 2006, Shaun achieved an incredible time of 18.81 seconds.

    The day had come after 5 long years of hard training and preparation for this amazing record attempt, Shaun who lives in Wroxham but runs a business based in Norwich, beat weightlifters from all over the world when he won his squat lifting class in the World Drug Free Powerlifting Federation this year, and also won at the British Powerlifting Championships. Shaun said this was the event he’d been training for as it was a life goal to become a Guinness World Records™ record holder.

    

    Shaun and his team had done a lot of advertising for the huge event to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.

    As the crowds came in to support their local hero he was warming up out the back with some light squats and a easy bike ride to raise his heart rate to get the vital leg muscles ready for this gruelling record attempt.

    The stage was set, the crowds were in, Shaun was ready to start, on my signal Dominic (Shaun’s motivational coach and event MC) started the count down which got both the crowd and Shaun pumped up, Shaun started with a very impressive 240.4kg squat lift before moving onto 100.4kg for the majority of the record attempt.

    

    As the record was underway the crowds of people were cheering along to help keep Shaun motivated and focused on his target of becoming a Guinness World Records™ success.

    I could see the drive and determination in Shaun’s eyes as he continuously squatted the heavy 100.4kg bar. As time went on it was clear this record attempt was taking its toll as Shaun was starting to look drained and tired as the clock was counting down, as the end of the hour approached Shaun was putting every ounce of effort he had into the last and final few reps, these could be the ones to either make or brake his life dream.

    

    The clock had finished and Shaun was unable to stand, proving he could of done no more, now it was a case of was his best good enough to beat the current record, this was set at 41,600kg, achieved last year in Russia by Sergey Rachinskey.

    After confirming with the weight lifting judges how many reps were successful to the national powerlifting standards, I totalled up the lifts an it was my pleasure to announce Shaun’s final total weight, in the one hour period he had managed to lift a massive 46,798.8kg setting a new Guinness World Records™ achievement.

    

    Shaun Jones demonstrated both physical and mental strength throughout the whole record attempt, allowing him to set this incredible bench mark for powerlifters from all over the world to now try and beat.

    Adjudicated by Carl Saville

    12 November 2009

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• The Most People To Write a Sto

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    Elderly Australian couple, Richard Tendys and Wendy Stenberg-Tendys, CEO’s of YouMe Support Foundation, a registered charity in Vanuatu, are hosting a Guinness World Record on November 19th in Vanuatu, a tropical island in the South Pacific.

    
    The aim is to raise awareness of the vital need of literacy and education in Vanuatu.

    On November 19th, 2009, 820 Ni-Vanuatu children will attempt to beat the world record for ‘The Most Number Of People To Write a Story In 24 Hours’. The current record is held by 797 participants, organized by Novum Verlag GmbH in Neckenmarkt, Austria, on 15th July, 2007.

    Vanuatu has around 156 different languages, in a tropical island archipelago that stretches across nearly 1000 kms. For the majority of the Ni-Vanuatu children English is their third or fourth language, following their home island language and Bishlama, the local common language used by the Ni-Vanuatu people. The students will have to add a sentence to the story, every 30 seconds, in English, if the challenge is to succeed.

    
    In 2006 Vanuatu was voted the Happiest Country on Earth, based on its environmental footprint. Yet it is a tropical island country that has no free or compulsory education. Only 56% of children can afford to go to school and of those only 25% go to high school, with less than 2 % able to afford tertiary education. Plus there are many children who never set foot inside a school classroom.

    
    The Guinness World Record Challenge story will be based around two children and a magic giant tortoise, (Vanuatu was once the home of giant tortoises). The characters fly over 1000 kms, across all 83 Vanuatu islands, in their race to gather pieces of a map, which reveals the hiding place of a long lost treasure chest.
    The children’s travels will highlight the truly great features of Vanuatu, as they fly from the giant kauri forests and the biggest banyan tree in the world, as well as a live volcano in the deep south, to fire walking and water music in the north. They will visit a bank where pig tusks are the only currency and uncover all sorts of exciting challenges in their travels.

    
    The story will be visualized by a talented Ni-Vanuatu cartoonist, Guy Deroin. The story will be published as an ebook on the Internet, as well as being printed into a hard copy. All sponsors to this exciting project will be published in the book.

    
    These kids have dreams like all other kids. They just want the opportunity to be allowed to let their dreams come true. As the United Nations Charter says, every child has the right to an education. If the Tendys get to fulfill their dream (they are raffling their property on the Internet, to raise funds for the Foundation), many more students will be attending high school in the very near future.

     

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• Largest Computer Class In the

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    Largest computer class - multiple location
    The largest computer class in multiple locations involved 1,934 participants from 16 different venues worldwide and was organized by Dr. Subramonian from DR.R.V. Arts and Science College in Coimbatore, India, for Guinness World Records Day on 9 November 2006.

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• Guinness World Records Celebra

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    TRICK OR FEAT -- GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® ANNOUNCES TOP HALLOWEEN RECORDS

    From Largest Gathering of Skeletons To Fastest Time To Carve One Pumpkin, Record-Breaking Authority Names Fright-Filled List of Amazing Accomplishments

    NEW YORK - October 26, 2009 –Thousands of people across the globe are shattering records in celebration of the spookiest of holidays this year and Guinness World Records is highlighting some of the best Halloween records past and present.  From pumpkins and zombies to skeletons and horror houses, this Halloween is one for the record books. To learn more spine-tingling records, check out the Guinness World Records 2010 edition, which is available in stores now.

    “Halloween inspires some of the most creative record-attempts we see at Guinness World Records,” said Stuart Claxton, US Spokesperson for Guinness World Records. “People love the idea of doing something outside the norm, and Halloween gives everyone the perfect opportunity to submit some of most extreme, creative and unique record applications we receive all year.” 

    Some of the top Halloween records include:

    • Largest Virtual Halloween Party – Over 600 participants attempted the record for the Largest Virtual Halloween Party in Sony's Free Realms game on October 21, 2009. Each player dressed in Halloween costumes and danced to "virtual boomboxes".

    • Longest Walk Through Horror House  - On September 12, 2009, the Cutting Edge Haunted House in Fort Worth Texas set the record for the longest walk through horror house at 689.17 m (2261.08 ft) long.

    • Largest Gathering of Zombies - The largest gathering of zombies was set by 4,026 participants at 'The Big Chill Festival’ in Ledbury, Herefordshire, UK, on August 6, 2009.

    • Largest Gathering of Skeletons - 197 audience members on the set of The Paul O'Grady Show set the records for the largest gathering of skeletons in London, UK, on September 24, 2009.

    • Largest Halloween Gathering - The largest Halloween gathering was achieved by 362 participants, in an event organized by I Run For The Party's Halloween 5K in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, on October 18, 2008.

    • Most People Carving Pumpkins Simultaneously - The record for the most pumpkins carved simultaneously is 965 and was achieved by 965 students at the Malvern Town Centre in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada on October 31, 2005.

    • Fastest Time To Carve One Pumpkin - The fastest time to carve a face into a pumpkin is 24.03 seconds, by Stephen Clarke (USA), who broke his previous record on July 23, 2006 at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida, USA as part of Food Network Challenge: Guinness World Records Week.

    • Furthest Distance to Fire a Pumpkin  - A pumpkin was 'shot' by air cannon a distance of 1,368 m (4,491 ft) on September 19, 1998 by the Aludium Q-36 Pumpkin Modulator, built and manned by Matt Parker, Chuck Heerde, Rod Litwiller, Steve Young and James Knepp at the Morton Pumpkin Festival in Illinois.

    • Most Pumpkins Carved in One Hour - Stephen Clarke carved 50 pumpkins in Times Square, New York City, in a promotion for Scholastic  "Goosebumps" book series on October 31, 2008.

    • Fastest Time for Carving a Ton of Pumpkins - Stephen Clarke carved one ton of pumpkins in 3 hours 33 minutes 49 seconds at Harrah's Casino Resort, Atlantic City, NJ on October 29, 2008.

    This world renowned and celebrated annual, Guinness World Records 2010, contains the most comprehensive collection of the greatest and most amazing accomplishments from around the world and beyond.  A “must-have” for both knowledge-seekers and aspiring record-breakers of all ages, Guinness World Records 2010 is available for the suggested retail price of $28.95.  For more information about Guinness World Records 2010 visit the Guinness World Records website at: www.guinnessworldrecords.com

    About Guinness World Records
    Guinness World Records is the universally recognized authority on record-breaking achievement. First published in 1955, the annual Guinness World Records book is published in more than 100 countries and 25 languages and is the highest-selling books under copyright of all time with more than 3 million copies sold annually across the globe. Guinness World Records celebrated its 50th anniversary edition in 2004, a year after the sale of its 100 millionth copy. Guinness World Records also annually publishes the Gamer’s Edition; a records book devoted solely to the world of computer gaming and high score record achievements. The Guinness World Records website (www.guinnessworldrecords.com) receives more than 11 million visitors a year. Guinness World Records is part of the Jim Pattison Group, one of Canada’s largest privately owned companies which is a conglomerate of interests, including advertising, broadcasting, grocery stores and automotive retailing.

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    26 October 2009

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    MOST CAREER TOUCHDOWNS BY NFL QUARTERBACK AT ONE STADIUM  Brett Favre (USA), playing for the Green Bay Packers from 1992 to 2005, has thrown for a career total of 189 touchdowns at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the most touchdown passes ever by a quarterback at one stadium.
     
    MOST CONSECUTIVE NFL PLAYOFF GAMES THROWING A TOUCHDOWN PASS  The record for most consecutive postseason games throwing at least one touchdown pass is 18 by Brett Favre (USA) playing for the Green Bay Packers from 1992 to 2007.
     
    MOST MATCHES STARTED IN CONSECUTIVE REGULAR SEASONS IN NFL CAREER BY A QUARTERBACK  The most matches started in consecutive regular seasons in an NFL career by a quarterback were achieved by Brett Favre (USA) who set the record by starting in his 275th consecutive regular season game through 2008. This figure includes play-offs; excluding these, the figure is 225.
     
    MOST PASS ATTEMPTS IN NFL CAREER The most pass attempts in an NFL career were achieved by Brett Favre (USA) who set the record at 9,280 between 1991 and 2008
     
    MOST PASS COMPLETIONS IN NFL CAREER BY A QUARTERBACK The most pass completions in an NFL career by a quarterback were set by Brett Favre (USA) for the Green Bay Packers and New York Jets with 5,720 pass completions between 1992 and 2009.
     
    MOST PASSING YARDS IN NFL CAREER The most passing yards in an NFL career were 61,655 set by Brett Favre (USA) between 1992 and his retirement in 2008.
     
    MOST SEASONS CONSECUTIVELY PASSING 3,000 YARDS IN NFL CAREER BY A QUARTERBACK Brett Favre (USA) of the Green Bay Packers set the NFL quaterbacking record in 2006 by throwing for at least 3,000 yards in a season for the 15th consecutive year.
     
    MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES IN NFL CAREER Brett Favre (USA) has thrown for a total of 464 touchdown passes playing for the Atlanta Falcons (USA), Green Bay Packers (USA) and New York Jets (USA) from 1992 to 2008.
     
    MOST WINS IN NFL CAREER AS A STARTING QUARTERBACK The most wins in an NFL career as a starting quarterback were achieved by Brett Favre (USA) who has 160 victories between 1992 and 2008.

    OLDEST PAIR OF STARTING QUARTERBACKS IN NFL HISTORY The oldest starting quarterback match-up in NFL history was formed by 44 year-old Vinny Testaverde of the Carolina Panthers and 38 year-old Brett Favre ( both USA) of the Green Bay Packers, on 18 November 2007.

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