Tag: guinness

  • Turkey : Istanbul creates world’s largest sweater

    Turkey : Istanbul creates world’s largest sweater

    A gigantic sweater, approximately 151 feet long and 52.5 feet wide, has grabbed the title of world’s largest sweater in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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    The world record setting garment was recently unveiled at Istanbul’s Bayrampasa Municipality by the Turkish Minister for the EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis and Istanbul Mayor Bayrampasa Atilla Aydiner.

     

    Knitted for the purpose of drawing public’s attention towards the issue of energy wastage by modern communities, the massive white and black striped pullover was produced by 90 people within 30 days time using over 500 kilograms of wool yarn.

     

    Inspired by the National Sweater Day celebrated by Canadians on February 9th every year, the huge sweater emphasizes on the environmental need of energy conservation by turning down heaters and adopting more conventional forms of heating like wearing warmer clothes.

     

    Fibre2fashion News Desk – India

    via Turkey : Istanbul creates world’s largest sweater – Apparel News Turkey.

  • Barilla Sets Guinness World Record

    Barilla Sets Guinness World Record

    World’s Number One Pasta Brand Now Also Has the World’s Biggest Pasta Box, Lends Support to UNICEF Education Programs

    RenderImage1PARMA, Italy, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Barilla, the world’s number one pasta brand, has captured the Guinness World Record for the biggest pasta box. Unveiled in Istanbul, the boxes weigh a half metric ton and benefit the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to help enroll underprivileged children in preschool education programs.

    “The Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest ways to feed a family, and pasta is one of the major elements of this type of diet. Rich and balanced nutrients with a low glycemic index make pasta a healthy, delicious and affordable choice,” Gunes Karababa, Barilla’s Market Director for Turkey, Middle East and Africa, said. “All revenues from the giant pasta boxes will be donated to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for the education of our children.”

    The box is the first in a series created in partnership with Turkish retail chain Migros Turk. They will be sold for Turkish Lira 999 (Euro 450 or $565) and displayed in 10 metropolitan and suburban Migros stores in Istanbul, along with two other venues in nearby Edirne and holiday favorite Bodrum.

    About the Barilla Group

    Barilla, originally established in 1877 as a bread and pasta shop in Parma, Italy, ranks as one of today’s top Italian food groups. Barilla leads in the global pasta business, the pasta sauces business in continental Europe, the bakery products business in Italy and the crispbread business in Scandinavia.

    Barilla owns 43 production sites (13 in Italy and 30 outside Italy) and exports to more than 100 countries. Every year, about 2,500,000 tons of food products under the brands of Barilla, Mulino Bianco, Voiello, Pavesi, Academia Barilla, Wasa, Harrys (France and Russia), Lieken Urkorn and Golden Toast (Germany), Misko (Greece), Filiz (Turkey), Yemina and Vesta (Mexico), are featured on dining tables all over the world.

    Barilla has become one of the world’s most esteemed food companies and is recognized worldwide as a symbol of Italian know-how by respecting its longstanding traditional principles and values, considering employees a fundamental asset and developing leading-edge production systems.

    For more information, please visit: www.barillagroup.com

    For further information:

    Barilla Group Media Relations Office Luca Di Leo / Marina Morsellino T. +39 0521 262217 luca.dileo@barilla.com marina.morsellino@barilla.com

    SOURCE Barilla

    via Barilla Sets Guinness World Record – MarketWatch.

  • To no longer grow is a ‘blessing’ for world’s tallest man

    To no longer grow is a ‘blessing’ for world’s tallest man

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    Photo dated September 25, 2009 shows Sultan Kosen of Turkey named the tallest man in the world by the 2010 Guinness Book of Records, in Istanbul. Kosen, 29, at eight foot three (2.51 meters). PHOTO/ AFP

    Turkey’s Sultan Kosen, at eight foot three (2.51 meters) the world’s tallest living man, says it’s “a blessing” he is no longer growing thanks to radiosurgery in the United States.

    “I am honored and grateful for this life-saving surgery,” said Kosen, 29, via an email to AFP on Thursday from Guinness World Records in London, whose offices he visited the day before.

    “Without my record-breaking status, I would never have had the opportunity to tell people about my condition,” he added. “It is a blessing.”

    Nearly two years after gamma ray radiosurgery in the eastern state of Virgina, doctors confirmed this week that Kosen has overcome acromegaly, a rare hormonal disorder that caused him to keep growing well into adulthood.

    “He’s stopped growing, which is good,” neurosurgeon Jason Sheehan, who performed the non-invasive procedure that zapped the troublesome pituitary tumor within Kosen’s brain with extreme precision, told AFP.

    “He will still have some medical therapy to deal with the excessive height he has achieved,” added Sheehan by telephone from the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.

    “However, it is hopeful that he will not have any additional challenges because of continued growth.”

    Born into a farming family in southeastern Turkey, Kosen gained global renown in September 2009 when Guinness World Records declared him the tallest man in the world. He was then eight feet one inch (2.47 meters) tall.

    Acromegaly typically results from a benign tumor in the pea-sized pituitary gland at the base of the brain. Such a tumor can result in the production of too much growth hormone, leading in turn to gigantism, or excessive growth.

    Sheehan and his team treated Kosen’s tumor in August 2010 with a precisely targeted shot of extremely high frequency gamma rays, using a non-invasive radiosurgical device known as a Gamma Knife.

    “While Mr Kosen is the tallest person, he is not unique,” Sheehan said. “In terms of pituitary disorders, acromegaly is one of the more common disorders you can have. Obviously, Sultan had an extreme case of it.”

    Craig Glenday, editor in chief of Guinness World Records, said being a record holder had its benefits, “but none so important than the gift of essential medical treatment that would otherwise be beyond one’s means.”

    “Guinness World Records is indebted to the University of Virginia for their kind and generous offers of help,” he added.

    via HaveeruOnline – To no longer grow is a ‘blessing’ for world’s tallest man.

  • Dünyanın En Büyük Karikatürü / World’s Biggest Charicature

    Dünyanın En Büyük Karikatürü / World’s Biggest Charicature

    Burak, Tolga ve Çağlar’ın neden durmadan Kırklareli’nden check-in olduğu anlaşıldı! Cheil Worldwide Istanbul imzalı, Erdil Yaşaroğlu ve Samsung Galaxy Note işbirliğiyle 28 Aralık 2011′de çizilen dünyanın en büyük karikatürü, Guinness Dünya Rekoru kırdı!

    Caricaturist Erdil Yaşaroğlu drew world’s the biggest charicature collobaration with Samsung Galaxy Note and breaking Guinness world record! The result is fantastic. Congrats guys from Cheil Worldwide Istanbul.

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