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Sunday, 16 September 2018 | Pioneer

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Japanese woman dubbed world’s oldest club DJ

An 83-year-old Japanese woman has been announced by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest professional club DJ. Sumiko Iwamura, 83, aka DJ Sumirock, said she decided to attend a DJ school at the age of 77 and soon discovered she had a talent for it. Iwamura, who owns and works in the kitchen of a Chinese food restaurant, has a regular DJ slot at Decabar Z in Shinjuku, but her talents have led to guest gigs at exotic locations including Paris and New Zealand.

She told Guinness World Records that DJing isn’t all that different from running her restaurant. “You get feedback from your customers quickly in both cases,” she said. “If you’re playing tracks and they don’t like it, they’ll leave the floor and start drinking at the bar. If the tracks are danceable, then they’ll stay on and dance their heart out.” “Restaurant customers are the same — if it tastes good, then they look happy, and they’ll tell me that they like it. For me, it’s easy to work out how people are feeling in both cases,” she said.

(UPI)

Baby in sonogram roots for parents' rival team

A pair of Texas A&M graduates said they were surprised when a sonogram image showed their expected child signaling support for rival University of Texas. Samantha Perkins said she and her husband are both graduates and devoted fans of Texas A&M University, but during their recent sonogram appointment the tech asked if they were University of Texas Longhorn fans. “My husband and I just looked at each other,” Perkins told KTXS-TV. The image showed the foetus flashing a UT “Hook ‘em Horns” sign.

Perkins said she and her husband already have some Texas A&M apparel ready for the baby, who is due in January, and they are planning to attend an upcoming game. “Starting the brainwashing early,” Perkins joked.

(UPI)

Bees besiege Times Square, drawing swarm of tourists

It was a case of hold the honey, double the mustard in Times Square at lunchtime on Tuesday. Police shut part of 43rd Street near Seventh Avenue after a thick swarm of bees gathered atop a blue and yellow umbrella over a hotdog cart in an area of Manhattan already buzzing with swarms of pedestrians, tourists and traffic.

A police officer who keeps bees himself, arrived at the scene in Times Square, known as “The Crossroads of the World,” at 2.30 pm, wearing a mesh-hooded beekeeper suit. He deployed a vacuum cleaner-like device to collect the bees unharmed, said New York Police Detective Sophia Mason. The scene drew crowds of tourists taking photographs. “It took about 45 minutes to suck them up,” Mason said. “They are at an undisclosed location. They will rehive them.” No one was injured in the incident, Mason said. “The bees just wanted some hot dogs,” she added.

(Reuters)

Woman pranks dozens of men into dating contest

A woman has used the Tinder dating app to prank more than 100 men into showing up for a date that turned out to be a Hunger Games-style competition. The New York Times reports that the woman identified as Natasha Aponte invited dozens of Tinder contacts to meet her in Manhattan’s Union Square on Sunday for what they thought was a one-on-one date. Instead, a woman who says she was Natasha told them they had to compete for a date with her. She disqualified the men who were under 5-foot-10 (1.78 meters) and those named Jimmy, a name she dislikes. Then she asked the remaining contestants to perform pushups and footraces. The stunt reportedly was videotaped by Rob Bliss, the man who shot a widely watched catcalling video in 2014.

(AP)

Guinness Records celebrates the oldest trapeze artist

An octogenarian flying trapeze artist, the owner of the world’s fastest jet-propelled go-kart and a dog named Feather with a flair for jumping are among the record-breaking stars to win a place in the latest edition of Guinness World Records. Others to feature in the 2019 edition of the book, which went on sale on Thursday, include the creator of the world’s largest knitting needles and an Irish butcher, Barry John Crowe, who has produced the most sausages — 78 — in one minute.

Betty Goedhart, from California, has been named the world’s oldest trapeze artist at 85 and attributes her success to “doing things I enjoy doing”.

“I’m hoping I encourage people, women, to not think that when they hit the age of 55, they are old. We have got a lot more on our journey,” said Goedhart, who only began trapeze classes at the age of 78 but looks as though she has spent a lifetime swinging through the air upside down.

British art student Elizabeth Bond, 31, decided to draw attention to her exhibitions by creating knitting needles that measure some 4.42 meters in length. Another Briton, Tom Bagnall, 26, racked up a record speed of 181 km per hour for a jet-propelled go-kart.

Animals also feature among the latest world record-breakers. Dog owner Samantha Valle from the US state of Maryland trained Feather, whom she adopted from a rescue center, to jump over ever higher hurdles until she set a new canine record at 191.7 cm.

(Reuters)

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