Pizza pleaze...

Fast food? Not likely! Hundreds of hungry hard up students queue up to get a free pizza at Domino's

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:18 AM on 1st October 2010

 We all know that students are short of dough, but this surely takes the biscuit (or crispy thin crust pizza)!

Shoppers in Manchester got a shock yesterday when they were confronted by hundreds of peckish students queuing up patiently outside the town's branch of Domino's Pizza.

The Manchester Metropolitan University students were there to take advantage of freshers' week vouchers for a free pizza.

Orderly queue: Let's hope these students from Manchester University weren't too hungry - they were probably in for a bit of a wait as hundreds of them queued up to take advantage of a special offer at Domino's Pizza

But if they were hoping for fast food fix, they were disappointed. The offer proved so popular that students were left waiting in line for at least half an hour.

When one student was asked if there was a special offer at the shop, he replied: 'No, this is just the normal lunchtime queue.'

The Domino effect: Short of dough, hundreds of hard-up students gathered to take advantage of the freshers' week vouchers offering a free pizza

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1316734/Hundreds-students-queue-free-Dominos-pizza.html#ixzz1173KbUAQ

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Man wins lottery millions again within 3 months.

After US$1 mil. lottery win, US man wins US$2 mil. more

ST. LOUIS--The odds against winning US$1 million in the Lottery: Astronomical. How about doing it twice?

It happened to a man from Missouri, Lottery officials said Tuesday. Ernest Pullen, 57, won US$1 million with a “100 Million Dollar Blockbuster” Scratchers ticket in June. And this month, he won US$2 million with a “Mega MONOPOLY” Scratchers ticket.
Pullen, a retired military man who was working at the helpdesk for a telecommunications company before retiring after the first lottery win, said he considers himself to be a “lucky guy.”
You think?
John Wells of the Missouri Lottery said the chances of winning US$1 million in the “US$100 Million Dollar Blockbuster” game are 1 in 2.28 million. The odds of winning US$2 million in “Mega MONOPOLY” are about the same.
The chances of winning both?
Because they're independent games, it is impossible to calculate the odds, Wells said.

Danes bring up the rear.... in a good way!

Danes’ girth growing

THURSDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 11:57 RC NEWS

Rate of weight gain slower in Denmark than in most other OECD nations

The newest figures on Denmark’s obesity rate may look good compared with many other countries, but the news certainly isn’t anything to cheer about, reports MetroXpress newspaper.

According to the OECD’s latest ‘Obesity and the Economics of Prevention: Fit not fat’ report, Denmark is just below the average of the overweight populations in 33 developed countries, with 41 percent of its men overweight and 26 percent of its women in that category.

The report makes it clear that people are getting fatter across the globe, with Mexico and the US leading the way with more than two-thirds of their populations carrying excess baggage. Also, obesity rates increased in 11 of the study’s countries over the past year, and in Denmark 11 percent of men and 12 percent of women were found to be obese.

But Danes are gaining weight at a considerably slower rate than most other countries in the study. Scientists have found no hard facts to determine why this is so, but one Oxford University researcher, professor Stanley Ulijaszek, believes the social welfare system may have something to do with it.

‘His theory is that it is due to the differences in society’s various social safety nets – that is, security in the economy, job market, the health system and in housing and family matters,’ said Thorkild Sørensen, one of the country’s leading obesity experts.

The study listed the usual suspects as the reason for the growing epidemic: eating too much food, eating the wrong kinds of food and too little exercise.

Ice boats sinks at sea.

Ice boat sinks at sea

An attempt by television presenters to test a Second World War plan to create ships from ice came to an abrupt end when their ship melted and sank.

 

By Andy Bloxham
Published: 2:11PM BST 30 Sep 2010

The boat took three weeks to freeze in one of the UK's largest ice warehouses, in Tilbury, Essex, before it was ready for launch in Gosport, Hants Photo: SOLENT

The project, for the BBC science show Bang Goes The Theory, was meant to test a concept that warsjipsships could be made from water frozen in moulds.

In the event of steel stocks running out in the 1940s, Geoffrey Pyke, an inventor, suggested that it was possible to make an unsinkable aircraft carrier using a material called pykrete, made of ice and wood pulp.

 

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The mixture could be moulded into any shape and, with a slow melting rate, it was thought perfect for seafaring vessels, he claimed.

The BBC decided to put Pyke's theory to the test by mixing 5,000 litres of water with the hefty material hemp and freezing it in a 20 feet-long boat-shaped mould.

It took three weeks to freeze it in one of the UK's largest ice warehouses, in Tilbury, Essex, before it was ready for launch in Gosport, Hants.

The plan was to sail the boat, complete with outboard, to Cowes in the Isle of Wight with the show's presenters, Jem Stansfield, Liz Bonnin, Dallas Campbell and Dr Yan Wong, on board.

The team made it in to Portsmouth Harbour where they were saluted by members of the Royal Navy stationed on destroyer HMS Diamond.

But shortly after that, after just over an hour in the water, it began to take on water and capsized.

All four presenters had to be rescued from the water and the boat, which seemed to quickly melt beyond recognition in no time at all, had to be towed to shore.

Love it, Hate it... It's Marmite.

The sweet with a savoury sting in the tail... Marmite chocolate

By LOUISE ECCLES
Last updated at 8:31 AM on 30th September 2010

New chocolate: The ‘Very Peculiar’ bars cost £3 and will be available from Monday

They are not flavours you would normally connect.

But Marmite is challenging perceptions of taste by combining its yeast spread with chocolate.

The ‘Very Peculiar’ milk chocolate bars cost £3 and will be available from Monday in stores, including BHS and Debenhams, and online.

Like the brand’s advertising slogan, the new line is likely to prompt ‘love it’ or ‘hate it’ reviews.

The strong-smelling 100g bar is made with 98 per cent milk chocolate and two per cent Marmite flavouring. This includes yeast extract, onion powder and garlic powder.

Chef Rowley Leigh, owner of Le Café Anglais in West London, agreed to try the new product for the Daily Mail. He was not impressed.

‘The thing is, they have so little faith in the product that there is hardly any Marmite in it. Although you can smell it quite strongly, the taste only comes at the finish,’ he said. 

‘They have tried to make it as mild and sweet and innocuous as they can. It starts out as slightly bland chocolate but, in the background, it is deeply nauseating.

‘If you like Marmite, why would you not just eat Marmite?’

Unilever, the company behind Marmite, has described the 100g bars as ‘a devious treat for the in-laws’ at Christmas or ideal for those struggling to find a present for a loved one. 

The chocolate initially forms part of Marmite’s limited edition Christmas range.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1316390/Marmite-Very-Peculiar-chocolate-Sweet-savoury-sting-tail.html#ixzz111CVVJt6

Society attic sale, a big one.

A Duke's £2.5m car boot sale, including the racy dinner party table decorations you wouldn't expect to find in an aristocrat's attic

By DAVID WILKES
Last updated at 8:17 AM on 30th September 2010

For generations, his family has been at the centre of British political, social and artistic life.

Today, the Duke of Devonshire gave a fascinating insight into the privileged, exotic and sometimes eyebrow-raising lifestyle of his ancestors as he put thousands of family heirlooms up for sale.

In what is the largest ever house sale staged by auctioneers Sotheby's in the UK, he is selling off more than 20,000 objects, offered in 1,422 lots, which have been unearthed from storage at the family's country pile, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire.

Double dollies: A couple of odd-looking dinner party centrepieces worth between £100-£150 which will make up part of the Chatworth House sale

Everything must go: The Duke of Devonshire poses alongside some packing trunks, a rocking horse and a stuffed bird - all of which are due to go under the hammer

It is billed as an 'attic sale' - but the treasures found under the Duke's rafters are expected to fetch around £2.5million in total and are so numerous they fill a marquee half the size of a football pitch.

The family has included several avid collectors, and many of the items had lain undisturbed for years after being brought to Chatsworth from Devonshire House in Piccadilly. 

Known as the centre of London society in the 18th century, that was where the family lived until it was demolished in 1920s. It has since been dubbed a 'lost palace of London'.

Treasures up for grabs range from rediscovered interior furnishings by some of Europe's greatest architects and deigners, to candelabras and bedposts, and other curios (including some slightly risque table decorations). Prices range from £10 to £300,000.

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