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Cupertino kids swim in 'World's Largest Swimming Lesson'

Cupertino kids swim in 'World's Largest Swimming Lesson'

On Tuesday, June 18th, 2013, tens of thousands of kids and adults at aquatic facilities around the world united for the fourth year in a row to set a new Guinness World Record for the ‘World's Largest Swimming Lesson’.

 
  • Senate Democratic leaders finish a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, after answering questions about the impending automatic spending cuts that take effect March 1. From right to left are, Senate Majority Whip Sen. Richard Durbin of Ill., Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
  • In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo, farmer Eulogio Montesino, 52, checks tobacco leaves in the western province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Cigar enthusiasts from around the world come to Cuba during the Cigar Festival annual celebration to visit tobacco farms and factories and savor new cigar brands. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
  • Dr. Paul Melchert, left, gets interrupted by his son, Emmett, as he attempts to address the media while his partner James Zimerman, right, holds Emmett's twin brother, Gabriel, during a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, in St. Paul, Minn. Lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota. Arguing that such families deserve the same recognition from the state as more traditional ones, sponsors of the gay marriage bill aim to repeal Minnesota's 1997 law that prohibited marriage between couples of the same sex. The bill exempts churches from being forced to perform same-sex weddings. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
  • New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel bows as he concludes his remarks to service members and civilian employees at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013, after being sworn-in. Hagel took charge of the Defense Department Wednesday after a bruising confirmation fight _ and two days before billions in budget cuts are scheduled to hit the military. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
  • In this Feb. 11, 2013 photo taken at a slow shutter speed, a woman checks her mobile phone at a train station in Mumbai, India. Indian Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal will present the country's rail budget for next fiscal year in the parliament Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Indian railway network is one of the world's largest, with some 14 million passengers daily and some 40,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) of railway track cut through some of the most densely populated cities. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
  • Winner Therese Johaug of Norway celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony after the women's 10 km Free Individual competition of the Nordic Ski World Championships in Val di Fiemme, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
  • Kansas head coach Bill Self, left, pats guard Elijah Johnson (15) on the face after Johnson scored 39 points in their 108-96 overtime win against Iowa State in an NCAA college basketball game, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, in Ames, Iowa. Self earned his 500th career victory with the win. (AP Photo/Justin Hayworth)
  • In this photo taken Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, a man sits with other residents in a drinking den with his toenail painted with the initials of presidential aspirant Uhuru Kenyatta's party The National Alliance, in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya on Monday holds its first presidential election since its 2007 vote devolved into months of tribal violence, and in recent weeks in Nairobi's most dangerous slum Mathare dozens of tin shack homes have been burned to the ground and some families are moving into zones controlled by their own clans. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
  • In this photo released by Mexico's federal court system, the head of Mexico's powerful teachers' union, Elba Esther Gordillo, stands behind bars as she appears for a hearing at a federal prison in Mexico City, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Mexico's most powerful woman was formally charged with a massive embezzlement scheme on Wednesday, standing grim-faced behind bars live on national television in what many called a clear message that the new government is asserting its authority. (AP Photo/Juzgado Sexto de Distrito en Procesos Penales Federales)
  • Japanese travel agent Okumura Hatsuko, center, pays respect to Japanese tourists that died from a hot air balloon accident, in Luxor, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. A hot air balloon carrying tourists over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor caught fire on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 and some passengers trying to escape the flames leaped to their deaths before the craft crashed in a sugar cane field. At least 19 tourists were killed in one of the world's deadliest ballooning accidents. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
  • Iranians enjoy skiing at the Dizin ski resort, north of the capital Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
  • A man exercises moments before swimming in the Mediterranean sea in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
  • A defected Syrian policeman, Adnan al-Hamod, 33, lights a kerosene lamp inside an underground shelter he made using a jackhammer to protect his family from Syrian government forces shelling and airstrikes, at Jirjanaz village, in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Across northern Syria, rebels, soldiers, and civilians are making use of the country's wealth of ancient and medieval antiquities to protect themselves from Syria's two-year-old war. They are built of thick stone that has already withstood centuries, and are often located in strategic locations overlooking towns and roads. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
  • Jill Stancel places her hand on the casket of country music star Mindy McCready during the funeral ceremony at the Crossroads Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. McCready committed suicide Feb. 17 at her home in Arkansas, days after leaving a court-ordered substance abuse program. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
  • Nebraska defensive back Daimion Stafford runs a drill at the NFL football scouting combine in Indianapolis, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and former NBA star Dennis Rodman watch North Korean and U.S. players in an exhibition basketball game at an arena in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. Rodman arrived in Pyongyang on Monday with three members of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team to shoot an episode on North Korea for a new weekly HBO series. (AP Photo/VICE Media, Jason Mojica)
  • Pakistani Kushti wrestlers warm up in the ring before fighting as part of their daily training, at a wrestling club in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Kushti, an Indo-Pakistani form of wrestling, is several thousand years old and is a national sport in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
  • A sedated lion is carried on a stretcher, at the estate of Ion Balint, known to Romanians as Nutzu the Pawnbroker, a notorious gangster, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Authorities along with specialists of the animal welfare charity Vier Pfoten removed four lions and two bears that were illegally kept on the estate of one of Romania's most notorious underworld figures who reportedly used them to threaten his victims. Balint was arrested on Feb. 22, with dozens of others on charges of attempted murder, depriving people of their freedom, blackmail and illegally holding arms. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
  • Cadets from Company A-1 of the United States Military Academy Company sit in the cadet chapel during a service for Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who was a member of the company as a cadet, at the United States Military Academy on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. Schwarzkopf was 78 when he died of complications from pneumonia on Dec. 27 in Tampa. (AP Photo/Philip Kamrass)
  • South Korean rapper PSY performs before President Park Geun-hye's presidential inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. Park became South Korea's first female president Monday, returning to the presidential mansion where she grew up with her dictator father. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
  • Visitors walk past a poster, at the Mobile World Congress, the world's largest mobile phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
  • The sun rises in Seaside Heights, N.J., Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, behind the Jet Star Roller Coaster which has been sitting in the ocean after part of the Funtown Pier was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy. The private owners of the amusement pier that collapsed in Seaside Heightsare working with insurers to devise a plan to dismantle the ride and get it out of the ocean. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
  • In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, photo, Coy Mathis, left, plays with her sister Auri, at their home in Fountain, Colo. Coy has been diagnosed with Gender Identity Disorder. Biologically, Coy, 6, is a boy, but to her family members and the world, Coy is a transgender girl. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
  • Faithful watch a giant screen showing Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican,Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. The 85-year-old German Pope Benedict is stepping down on Thursday evening, the first pope to do so in 600 years, after saying he no longer has the mental or physical strength to vigorously lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
  • Stacy Crain and Al Giannini, both from Rockford, Ill., walk under Anish Kapoor's stainless steel Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago's Millennium Park, as a winter storm of rain and snow begins Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Forecasters expect the storm to leave behind three to six inches of snow in the greater Chicago area. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
 
 

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