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Amy Smith's entire life is like one of her inventions, portable and off the grid
Smith's entire life is like one of her inventions, portable and off the grid. At 41, she has no kids, no car, no retirement plan and no desire for a Ph.D. Her official title: instructor. ''I'm doing exactly what I want to be doing. Why would I spend six years to get a Ph.D. to be in the position I'm in now, but with a title after my name? M.I.T. loves that I'm doing this work. The support is there. So I don't worry.'' It was a good thing that she won the Collegiate Inventors award in 1999, she says, because back then she was stretching a three-month graduate-student stipend to last for a year and didn't know how she'd pay her rent. The $7,500 prize came just in time. Likewise, the inventors who most inspire her will never strike it rich. ''There are geniuses in Africa, but they're not getting the press,'' she says. She gushes about Mohammed Bah Abba, a Nigerian teacher who came up with the pot-within-a-pot system. With nothing more than a big terra-cotta bowl, a little pot, some sand and water, Abba created a refrigerator -- the rig uses evaporation rather than electricity to keep vegetables cool. Innovations that target the poorest of the poor don't have to be complicated to make a big difference. The best solution is sometimes the most obvious. Smith, of course, aims to design such hidden-in-plain-sight tools and deliver them to the needy. But she also wants to change people's understanding of what it means to be an inventor. To this end, she is a co-founder of the Ideas (Innovation Development Enterprise Action) competition at M.I.T.; students work with a community partner to solve a problem for the disenfranchised. Last year's winners, for instance, included a team that developed a kit for removing land mines so that farmers in places like Zimbabwe no longer have to improvise with hoes and rakes. Success in the Ideas competition, as well as in the kind of design that Smith pursues, requires humility, because your masterpiece may end up looking like a bunch of rocks or a pile of sand. And since you'll be required to do extensive fieldwork to understand the problem you're solving, it also demands the skills of a crack Peace Corps volunteer, someone who remains cheerful even when the truck breaks down, the food runs out and you're the one who has to sleep next to the goat. Inventor Amy Smith teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana.
Amy Smith's entire life is like one of her inventions, portable and off the grid
Necessity Is the Mother Of Invention
By PAGAN KENNEDY
November 30, 2003
Striding down a hallway at M.I.T., Amy Smith has a bucket in one hand and a length of string in the other. The brain behind such creations as the phase-change incubator, she is on her way to the Charles River to retrieve some dirty water for her next class. As she lopes along, Smith describes the ordeals of testing water in remote villages. Her words spurt out. She's a woman on fast-forward, and she does not so much talk as download information.
We reach the massive front doors of M.I.T.'s main building, and she pushes out into the crisp air and roar of traffic. Without interrupting her disquisition on water-testing, she perches sidesaddle on a banister. Elegantly poised, she slides down the handrail, still talking.
She lands on the sidewalk with a practiced leap. ''You slide faster in the winter,'' she says, ''when you've got a wool coat on.''
If you're an inventor and you ride the banister below the pillared entrance of a university, there's a good chance of coming off as way too cute, like Robin Williams playing an inventor in a Disney movie. But Smith can get away with this kind of flourish. She is, after all, one of the brightest minds in a movement that sets out to prove that the best technology can be cheap and simple. The banister is a perfect example: it requires less energy than the stairs, and it's free.
In a culture that hails mobile phones and plasma-screen televisions as the great innovations of our time, Smith is gloriously out of step. She designs medical devices and labor-saving machines for people who live at the far end of dirt roads in Africa. Her inventions cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to a few pennies. ''You can't understand how important a grain mill is,'' she says, ''until you've spent three hours pounding grain and gotten a cup and a half of flour.'' It is this kind of understanding -- of tedium, of tired muscles, of hunger pangs -- that Smith brings to her work.
An hour later, in Smith's ''D-lab'' class, students gather around a huge, black-topped slab of a table. It's the first semester of design lab, and these undergrads are learning about the politics of delivering technology to poor nations, how to speak a little Creole and the nitty-gritty of mechanical engineering; during the midsemester break, they will travel to Haiti, Brazil or India. There, they will act as consultants in remote villages, helping locals solve technical problems. Oh, yes, and the students will also test village drinking water for dangerous bacteria.
Today, Smith is training them to do that. Using a small pump, the students draw the Charles River water through a filter. Smith points to a piece of the testing rig -- what looks like a silver barbell. ''This test stand costs $600,'' she says. ''Personally, I find that offensive.'' When the students work in the field, she says, they will be using a far cheaper setup -- one that she patched together herself for about $20, using a Playtex baby bottle. ''You can do a lot more testing for the same amount of money.''
Now the students have made cultures of Charles River water in petri dishes. The next step is to incubate the petri dishes for an entire day at a steady temperature. But how do you pull that off in a lean-to in Haiti, with no electricity for miles around? Again, Smith has a solution. She passes around a mesh bag of what appears to be white marbles. The ''marbles'' contain a chemical that, when heated and kept in an insulated environment, will stay at a steady 37 degrees Celsius for 24 hours. The balls are the crucial ingredient in one of Smith's inventions -- a phase-change incubator that requires no electricity. The design won her a 1999 Collegiate Inventors award. She says she hopes that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will soon endorse her incubator. ''From there it's not a big step to go to the Red Cross,'' she says. One day it could be a key piece of equipment at rural health clinics, where doctors depend on intermittent electricity or none at all. Smith has founded a company to handle the exigencies of getting her incubators up and running and out into the field. ''I have 6,000 of these balls on their way here from China as we speak,'' she says.
Now, Smith wants to demo a bacteria test in the dark. She asks a student to cut the lights. He flips a switch. For a moment, nothing happens, and then the room vibrates with a mechanical hum and panels close over a bank of skylights in the ceiling. All crane their necks to watch. The panels move in menacing slo-mo, like something out of a James Bond movie. A few people giggle, as if they have suddenly become aware of the contradictions thrumming in this room -- they've come to one of the best-financed technical institutes in the world to learn how to work with Playtex baby bottles.
A few weeks from now, Smith will give them one of their toughest lessons in the gaps between first world and third. The students will spend a week surviving on $2 a day in Cambridge -- the equivalent of what the average Haitian earns. Last year, Jamy Drouillard, who was a teacher's assistant for Smith's class, performed the assignment along with his students. Drouillard grew up in Haiti, but that didn't give him any special edge. He laughs, remembering his chief mistake. ''I bought a bunch of Ramen noodles, a packet of hotdogs, a bunch of spaghetti and some ketchup,'' he says. ''It got sickening after Day 3. Actually, before Day 3. I should have mixed and matched instead of buying five boxes of spaghetti. In Haiti, people come up with creative ways of varying their food intake.'' He said the assignment drove home Smith's point quickly: living at subsistence level requires enormous creativity. The African farmwoman who finds a way to make a scrap of land yield enough cassava root for her family is as much an inventor as any M.I.T.-trained engineer.
Last year, at an academic dinner with a plentiful buffet, Smith pulled out crackers from her pocket and nibbled while colleagues feasted around her; she was sticking to the $2-a-day assignment in fellowship with her students.
In the late 1980's, as a Peace Corps volunteer, Smith was stationed in Ghanzi, then a backwater of Botswana, down a dirt road that could take as long as three days to travel. ''Nobody wanted to live there,'' she says. ''You got sent there for punishment if you did badly in a job.''
Smith grew up in a comfortable, academic family. Her father taught electrical engineering at M.I.T.; her mother taught junior-high math. At the dinner table, the family would chitchat about ways to prove the Pythagorean theorem. In her first couple of years in the Peace Corps, she missed the kind of people she had known growing up in the orbit of M.I.T. -- people willing to engage, for instance, in passionate discussion about the innards of a motor. ''I'd run into development workers who had no clue about engineering. They wouldn't understand that there was a way you could solve a problem.''
In 1987, Smith returned home to Lexington, Mass., for her mother's funeral. Wandering through a supermarket after the service, she marveled at the lunacy of her own country: an entire aisle just for soup? It seemed impossible to bridge the gap between America and Botswana.
About a year later, Smith was gazing out the window of her room, studying the expanse of the Kalahari Desert pocked by thorn bushes. Suddenly, she says, she understood the arc of her life: she would learn how to be an engineer and bring her skills to a place like this. So she applied to graduate programs and ended up back at M.I.T. in 1990.
Sometime after she got there, a professor suggested that she try to solve a problem that bedevils people who live in rural Africa. It involves the hammer mill, a no-frills, motorized grain mill that women use to grind sorghum or millet into flour. The hammer mill can do a job in just a few minutes that might otherwise take hours, which makes it a hotly coveted item in developing nations. But there's a built-in flaw: the mill uses a wire-mesh screen. When that screen breaks, it cannot easily be replaced, because parts like that are scarce in Africa and not easy to fabricate. So for lack of a wire screen, grain mills often end up in the corner of a room, gathering dust.
What was needed was something that could not only match the efficiency of the hammer mill but also use materials available to a blacksmith in Senegal. A group of M.I.T. students had come up with some ideas, but Smith, who had ground sorghum by hand in Botswana, knew they weren't fast enough. So she devised a system based on an elegantly simple element: air. She redesigned the machine to use the air passing through the mill to separate particles. The smaller ones -- aka flour -- get carried out while the larger ones stay behind. The resulting machine would cost a quarter of what its predecessors had and use far less energy.
For her work as an inventor, including the screenless hammer mill, Smith became the first woman ever to win a Lemelson-M.I.T. Student Prize. Past recipients of the high-profile award for inventing include David Levy, who patented not only the smallest keypad in the world but also a surgical technique that speeds the splicing of severed blood vessels.
Smith's entire life is like one of her inventions, portable and off the grid. At 41, she has no kids, no car, no retirement plan and no desire for a Ph.D. Her official title: instructor. ''I'm doing exactly what I want to be doing. Why would I spend six years to get a Ph.D. to be in the position I'm in now, but with a title after my name? M.I.T. loves that I'm doing this work. The support is there. So I don't worry.'' It was a good thing that she won the Collegiate Inventors award in 1999, she says, because back then she was stretching a three-month graduate-student stipend to last for a year and didn't know how she'd pay her rent. The $7,500 prize came just in time.
Likewise, the inventors who most inspire her will never strike it rich. ''There are geniuses in Africa, but they're not getting the press,'' she says. She gushes about Mohammed Bah Abba, a Nigerian teacher who came up with the pot-within-a-pot system. With nothing more than a big terra-cotta bowl, a little pot, some sand and water, Abba created a refrigerator -- the rig uses evaporation rather than electricity to keep vegetables cool. Innovations that target the poorest of the poor don't have to be complicated to make a big difference. The best solution is sometimes the most obvious.
Smith, of course, aims to design such hidden-in-plain-sight tools and deliver them to the needy. But she also wants to change people's understanding of what it means to be an inventor. To this end, she is a co-founder of the Ideas (Innovation Development Enterprise Action) competition at M.I.T.; students work with a community partner to solve a problem for the disenfranchised. Last year's winners, for instance, included a team that developed a kit for removing land mines so that farmers in places like Zimbabwe no longer have to improvise with hoes and rakes.
Success in the Ideas competition, as well as in the kind of design that Smith pursues, requires humility, because your masterpiece may end up looking like a bunch of rocks or a pile of sand. And since you'll be required to do extensive fieldwork to understand the problem you're solving, it also demands the skills of a crack Peace Corps volunteer, someone who remains cheerful even when the truck breaks down, the food runs out and you're the one who has to sleep next to the goat.
Women have the advantage here, unlike other branches of engineering. ''I know how to be self-deprecating,'' Smith says. ''The traditional male engineer is not taught that way.'' That engineer, were he trying to figure out an agricultural problem in Botswana, might consult with men, but that wouldn't get him very far. ''In Africa, the women are the farmers. Women invented domesticated crops. If you're talking to the right people, they should be a group of elderly women with their hair up in bandannas.''
As improbable as it may sound, Smith's brand of invention is moving into the mainstream. That is because her clients -- the disenfranchised in Africa, Haiti, Brazil, India -- are increasingly able to secure loans. The concept of microfinance, which first took off in the 1970's in Bangladesh, has gathered force throughout the developing world, giving impoverished people the capital they need to start small businesses and buy materials. According to Elizabeth Littlefield of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, a microfinance group within the World Bank, the integration of tiny loan-making operations into mainstream banking could bring billions of new consumers into the global marketplace over the next few decades. There have already been some surprising strides made. In India, for example, banks have set up solar-powered kiosks in out-of-the-way villages, giving clients access to financial services in places where there is not even electricity. But what will they invest in? The rural poor will need machines designed for their needs. And that will, in turn, create demand for new kinds of technologies.
In a barbecue pit near the M.I.T. student center, pale blue smoke streams out of a trash can and twists in the direction of the tennis courts. It smells of caramel. Shawn Frayne, a gangly guy with a shock of black hair, sticks a lighter down into the can. He's trying to get a fire going. He holds up one of his finished products -- a piece of charcoal that looks like a jet-black hamburger patty. It's made out of the parts of the sugarcane that aren't edible -- that is, trash. These humble wads could help to solve a number of problems in Haiti: poor people would be able to make their own charcoal rather than having to pay for the prefab variety, forests would no longer have to be cut down to make wood charcoal and local entrepreneurs could use the recipe to set up small businesses.
Frayne graduated from M.I.T. last year. He didn't like school much, except for Smith's design class, to which he is so devoted that he volunteered to put finishing touches on several inventions the class started last year. ''I learned in an economics class that if someone has a good idea and they can implement it in a third-world country, they can dramatically change the economy of the country,'' Frayne says. ''I was surprised by how much technology can affect the well-being of a people.''
Smith herself stands by, trying to keep the wind from whipping her blond hair into her face. ''We're working on a portfolio of designs like this charcoal that we can show to the Peace Corps or to N.G.O.'s, groups that are trying to help people start up small businesses,'' she says.
Frayne ducks down, pointing to the base of the trash can. ''If we were in Haiti, we'd use dirt to seal up the bottom of the can,'' he says. ''But I couldn't find any dirt around here, so I used duct tape.''
Smith nods approvingly. ''In Cambridge, duct tape is the equivalent of dirt,'' she says. She loves duct tape and all it stands for. She knows how to make a hammock and a kaleidoscope out of duct tape. It's a very useful material, no doubt, but if she were on her $2-a-day budget, she'd probably have to buy it on layaway.
Pagan Kennedy is a frequent contributor to the magazine and last wrote about biodiesel fuel.
* Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company
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Doctor Who (1963)
3 corrected entries in Genesis of the Daleks
Starring: Colin Baker, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, Tom Baker, William Hartnell
Genesis of the Daleks - S12-E4
Corrected entry: When the Doctor, Harry and Sarah are viewing the meeting on the monitor, a scientist suddenly appears to Gharman's left when Davros starts to speak. (00:13:35)Daz
Correction: Some seconds pass between the two images. Moreover, the problem shot is over the shoulder of the scientist in question and it is difficult to tell from that angle, how close he is to Gharman.
Genesis of the Daleks - S12-E4
Corrected entry: When Davros moves around in his chair, look closely at his stomach and you can see his body rotating. This is the actor pushing the chair with his feet, but Davros is supposed to be paralysed below the waist.Daz
Correction: While this is an accurate description of what is seen on screen, the extent of Davros' injuries are never clarified. It is never stated that he is paralyzed. It's not impossible that he retains some function in his legs and uses them to drive the chair. After all, he never operates the chair with his arm.
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Corrected entry: Davros is supposed to be a brilliant scientist, solely responsible for the creation of the Daleks and their programming. Programming the Daleks to accept him as their leader would be the absolute first thing he would do, and it's clear that the Davros death scene was only done for dramatic effect. (00:21:35)Daz
Correction: Davros didn't program the behaviour of the Daleks into them (remember that they're not robots) - rather, he altered the genetic structure of the Dalek creatures to make them emotionally underdeveloped. Besides, much of the story is based around Davros's arrogant and delusional nature (he probably assumed that the Daleks would blindly obey him anyway), so it's not really a plot hole that he failed to realise that the Daleks would become treacherous.
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10 Romantic Gift Ideas for Any Occasion
by SJ Johnson
The best gifts I've ever received were inexpensive - a love letter, a framed picture, vintage jewelry. Creative gifts are always in fashion. They are personalized, thoughtful, and unique. Here are 10 inexpensive gift ideas for your boyfriend, girlfriend, wife, or husband.
Spell It Out
Make a list on decorative paper of everything you love about your partner. If you have great penmanship, handwrite the list. You can also type the list using a special font (try French Script MT, Vivaldi, or Lucida Handwriting). Frame the list with a picture of the two of you.
Some suggestions to start the process:
"When I first met you, I knew..."
"What I love about you is..."
"You mean________ to me because..."
"Scent-sational" Gift
Go to an herbal store and buy essential oils, such as lavender, rose, citrus, or bergamot. Combine the oils to form a signature fragrance. You may want to ask a store worker to help you find the best combinations, before you experiment.
Gift Variation:
If you really want to go all out, put your personalized fragrance in a perfume or cologne bottle. You can find inexpensive perfume bottles on EBay, in thrift stores, or flea markets.
Find an inexpensive decorative box. This will become your memento box. Place anything that is a memento from your relationship into the box-a napkin, a concert or movie stub, a picture, a handwritten love letter. Your sweetheart will never know you have this box of mementos waiting for just the right occasion.
Gift Variation:
Make a scrapbook. Write notes to your significant other: memories of events, promises, wishes, and thoughts.
Love Potion
Experiment with different combinations of beverages (alcoholic or non-alcoholic) to come up with your own signature drink to serve at dinner parties and special occasions.
Gift Variation:
Create a special recipe using his/her favorite ingredients.
Channel Warhol
Make your own art. Take a photo of the two of you and print it in black & white onto stock paper. Use colorful paint to fill in the background of your picture. Be creative. The contrast between the colored paint and the black & white photo will make the picture pop!
Gift Variation:
Make personalized computer desktop wallpaper. If you are computer savvy, you can turn a picture of the two of you into computer art.
My Hero
Get an autograph from you sweetheart's hero. Go on EBay, write the person, or go to a book signing to get the autograph.
Statement Jewelry
Look for vintage jewelry online, in flea markets, or in thrift stores. You can usually find bargains if the pieces are tarnished. Don't let that scare you. A polishing cloth will make silver look like new.
Gift Variation:
Go to a store that sells beads and jewelry making kits. For women, you can make a custom bracelet out of semi-precious stones or jade. Braid leather cords to create an expensive-looking men's bracelet.
Research Paper
Research all the significant events that occurred on his or her birthday, starting with his/her birth, of course!
Extra! Extra! Read All About It!
Create a newspaper front page with a picture of you and sweetheart and a story about your relationship. Most software programs offer newsletter templates. If you do not have one, you can find a template online, or you can cut and paste your hometown newspaper to create the same look. Frame it...Your relationship is now front-page news.
Everything Is Coming Up Roses
Create an expensive-looking floral arrangement by going to the Dollar Store, flea market, or thrift store to buy an inexpensive vase. Then, head over to your local supermarket (or your home garden). You can fill the vase with supermarket red roses for an expensive look at an inexpensive price; however, any flowers will do.


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MLB players say: Hear less about Harper, pay more for Trout
A jury of his peers has ruled — and they say, "Enough with Bryce Harper already!"
In an anonymous survey of 143 major league players by ESPN The Magazine — a survey covering everything from A-Rod and PEDs to marijuana use and gay players — the Washington Nationals' 21-year-old All-Star outfielder came out on top as the most overrated player in the majors. He garnered 24 percent of the responses, though he didn't beat out the Los Angeles Dodgers' Yasiel Puig by much; Puig got 21 percent.
One player identified as an American League All-Star told the magazine: "I like Bryce Harper. I think he's going to be really good. But the attention for him — and for Puig, to a certain extent — is overkill. It's just been hype so far."
Third in the most overrated list was Alex Rodriguez (14 percent), though that may just be a reflection of how many MLB players just don't like him — because who is overrating the suspended New York Yankees third baseman these days? A majority of respondents, 51 percent, said they would like to kick A-Rod out of the players association. That's the same players association that Rodriguez was trying to sue.
And speaking of performance-enhancing drugs, the major leaguers don't believe very many players are still using PEDs. The surveyed put the percentage at just over 9 percent.
In a quite decisive result, the Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout was picked as baseball's best player with 56 percent, more than doubling the Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera. The ballplayers say Trout deserves to get paid: Asked how much he would merit in free agency, the average of the answers was $27.8 million a year. That's more than the $27.5 million average value of A-Rod's contract — which, of course, he won't be getting this year because he's suspended.
Among results @espn found, Mike Trout is seen as best player in baseball according to other #MLB players. #Angels pic.twitter.com/lri7aXi5Zx
— Joey Ryan (@JoeyRyanOnline) March 24, 2014
"What (Trout is) doing is sick," a National League outfielder said. "I'd pay Trout $1 more than Cabrera, whatever that would be. The numbers Trout has put up the past two years are about as good as you'll ever see, and Cabrera is right there with him."
Trout, the 2012 Rookie of the Year and a two-time All-Star, is 22 and not yet eligible for arbitration, much less free agency. He will make $1 million this season.
But if he keeps going the way he has started out, Trout will be able to afford his own survey in a few years.
Other notable results of the survey:
• More than 80 percent of respondents agreed that MLB is ready for an openly gay player.
• Not surprisingly, the most overhyped team in baseball is the Yankees (44 percent), with the Dodgers edging the Angels (13 percent to 12) for the runner-up spot.
• Who will win the World Series? In a tight battle, the Cardinals were the most popular pick at 19 percent, just ahead of the Tigers at 18 percent, the Dodgers at 15 percent and the defending champion Red Sox at 11 percent.
• The closest call came on the issue of whether a player would consider using marijuana for pain relief if allowed. No beat yes, 51 percent to 49.


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XP Defender virus removal
XP Defender, as you know, is a fake antispyware application that acts very aggressively. Its primary aim is to make people waste their funds. The hoax enters systems that are poorly protected or not protected at all with security applications. It additionally tunes up your system in order to be started automatically together with every system startup. The malware then runs the fake scan of your system and reports the multitude of infections that are also fake. Please do not ever purchase XP Defender, since this program will not assist you in virus removal. It can only remove "fake" infections that are invented by it. In order to get rid of XP Defender fake anti-spyware please follow the guidelines below.
XP Defender removal sequence of steps:
- Download the installer of GridinSoft Trojan Killer from the direct link https://trojan-killer.net/download.php from some different clean (uninfected computer), for example, available at your work or with your friends or relatives
- Copy the installer of GridinSoft Trojan Killer onto your USB/Flash drive
- Transfer the USB/Flash drive to the PC infected with Win7 Defender
- Copy the installer of GridinSoft Trojan Killer to the desktop of the infected PC
- Right-click the installer of GridinSoft Trojan Killer with your mouse and click "Run as…". Uncheck the box "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity" and click OK.
- Install GridinSoft Trojan Killer, make sure to uncheck the box "Start Trojan Killer" at the end of installation process
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Glacial Movement in the Khumbu Icefall
Jack Starmer
SINCE 1921 WHEN GEORGE MALLORY FIRST SAW IT from the brink of the Lho La, Everest's Khumbu Icefall has been viewed with great respect—and, indeed, with considerable awe. It plunges for slightly over 2000 feet in only a mile from the lower end of Everest's Western Cwm to the nearly level Base Camp area of the Khumbu Glacier at the foot of magnificent Pumori. In particular, the upper third of this icefall is a spectacular cascade of giant crevasses, tottering séracs and shattered blocks of ice—the sort of features that are always related to fast-moving glaciers. All sorts of "guesstimates" have been made over the years as to how fast this ice-Niagara is moving. Yet we are unaware of any scientific record of this rate.
So, in the spring of 1994, a small trek was fielded by the Central Department of Geology of Kathmandu's Tribhuvan University and Boston's Museum of Science to make a series of preliminary measurements to determine whether a longer and more detailed study of the icefall's movement would be worthwhile.
The members of this party were Dr. Prakash C. Adhirkary of Tribhuvan's Geology Department, Adams Carter and myself, with able support from Sirdar Tshering Lhakpa Sherpa and five other porters. We were also helped by Tribhuvan's Dr. B.N. Upreti and by surveyor Buddhi Shrestha. Before reaching Base Camp, we received assistence with our electrical equipment from Gian Pietro Verza of the Italian High Altitude Research Project Pyramid at Lobuche.
The technical equipment used was a Wild T-3 theodolite and a light-weight Keuffel & Esser Uniranger, an infra-red electronic distance-measuring instrument, which yields motion readings in both millimeters and feet up to a distance of eight kilometers (five miles). The positioning of this equipment in the field was based on the National Geographic/Boston Museum of Science large-scale map of the area, as well as large-scale prints of the vertical aerial photographs from which this map was made.
We flew from Kathmandu to Lukla on April 23 and proceeded on foot along the well-worn trail to the Everest Base Camp area via Namche, Thyangboche and Pheriche. We arrived at Base Camp on May 3. A brief reconnaissance located an excellent level observing site atop a very high abandoned lateral moraine of the Khumbu Icefall at the foot of the steep slope which rises to the snow collar of the Lho La. This spot was reached by a short, very steep climb up a treadmill of morainic gravel, a few hundred meters north of the Base Camp area. The climb up was always made at dawn while the boulders and rocks were still held fast frozen to the slope. Descent in the late afternoon was made with one's fingers crossed. The vertical angles observed from here to the fast-moving upper part of the icefall were only slightly more than 12°—thus resulting in negligible correction of the observed distances.
We were helped enormously by members of two expeditions which, at this time, were in the midst of ascents of Mount Everest: Alpine Ascents International and the Everest Environmental Expedition. The prisms required to determine the rate of motion were set at three different locations beside the climbing route through the icefall. Frequent readjustments were made by the climbing personnel to maintain proper positioning for the measurements. Special thanks are due to Pete Athans, who set the prisms in the icefall and saw to it that they were not disturbed during the actual hours of observation on May 4, 5 and 6.
The lowest and highest points observed, 1245 and 2185 meters (4250 and 7200 feet) from the observing station, showed the lowest average motion: each at exactly 3.66 cm (.12 feet or 1.44 inches) per hour and 2.88 feet (87.78 cm) per day. At the middle station 1737 meters (5700 feet) from the instruments, the speed was recorded at 5.49 cm (. 18 feet or 2.16 inches) per hour and 131.67 cm (4.32 feet) per day.
In reporting these data, it must be pointed out that they simply have yielded a preliminary feel for the speed of the movement of the Khumbu Icefall. It is now clear that this movement is significantly slower than was expected, but fast enough so that a carefully-planned series of observations, day and night, at 3-hour intervals, would be of real interest. However, if this is done, the party that undertakes the work must field two separate teams of competent people: one 2-person pair to make the distance measurements from the excellent location which we used this year—and another team of at least two to tend the prisms in the icefall. Reliable radio communication is, of course, required between the teams. All personnel of climbing expeditions in the icefall at that time must thoroughly understand what is being done and the prisms well-marked and signed so that they will not be disturbed. For ease of access, we feel that they should be set near the climbing trail in the icefall, but not on it.


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C'Mon.....we were all waiting for the ol' 8-ball in the cooter trick.
I remember when I was about 7-8 yrs old ....one of my dad's friends taught me a trick shot. He racked the balls up in the triangle rack like we were going to play a standard game of 8ball. Except he placed a quarter a few inches in front of the 1st ball in the front. He told me that by doing this he would be able to hit all of the balls, at least one into each pocket, from the break.
He told me to stand at the opposite end of the table and to closely watch how he aimed the break shot. So stupidly I did this thinking nothing was going to happen but watch all of the balls go in on the first try.
Then he shot it, ball skipped up when it hit the quarter, it went over the rack and end of the table where I was standing and hit me in the nuts. Man my dad's friends were great. Hitting me in the nuts w/ billiard balls, shooting zingers over in my direction on purpose when we're pheasant hunting....
Did they ask you to put one hand on each corner pocket for it to work
I've seen this trick shot
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Foreign Minister Urmas Paet condemned the use of violence against demonstrators in the breakup of protest camps in Egypt and called on refraining from future violence. "It is important to avoid the further spread of violence, which could bring about a civil war," remarked Paet. "Conflicting sides in Egypt must make efforts to solve their political differences peacefully. For this, it is important to begin talks between political forces as quickly as possible," added the Estonian foreign minister.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggests avoiding travel to Egypt if possible, especially to certain regions. More specific information about travel to Egypt can be found on the foreign ministry's homepage: http://www.vm.ee/?q=node/5783


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Originally posted by tom502
I believe the pure carnivore diet is the optimal diet for humans. The world problems are not because people eat meat, it's because of industrialization, overpopulation, and overt capitalism. Meat contains 100% what humans need to live and be of optimal health.
Originally posted by tom502
My health issues are diabetes, obesity, and hypertension, and high cholesterol.
Originally posted by tom502
I am currently on my all beef diet, on day 2.
Welcome to America.
Instead of a reactive solution to your problem you choose to agitate it and flirt with death. Nice.
Originally posted by rusethorcain
Originally posted by Ciphor
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I have posted previously many alternative and even opposite viewpoints also from experts.
Liar. I looked and no you did not. Why resort to lying? I looked at all the links, every, last, one. And NONE where from creditable authors, Dr's, ANYONE with a degree.
Maybe I missed it.
so Again
and probably 10 more times after this
(of course we know you cannot and will not, but to the rest of us watching you lie and make up excuses is mildly entertaining)
Let's see if you can find these...www.whale.to...
If the link doesn't work promise not to freak out.
Here is a quote..
"To say that humans have the anatomical structure of an omnivore is an egregiously inaccurate statement. The great taxonomist Carolus Linnaeus, (1707-1778), a Swedish naturalist and botanist who established the modern scientific method of classifying plants and animals, classified humans not as carnivores, not as omnivores, nor even as herbivores, but as frugivores. Linnaeus writes: "Man's structure, internal and external compared with that of the other animals, shows that fruit and succulent vegetables are his natural food."
You are appearing, in my opinion...not only irrational but delusional as well.
["liar" "windbag" "shut-up"???]
I feel very sorry for you really. Such an ill mannered, ugly temperment, Do you credit your diet?
You should walk around with a blood pressure cuff on just to make sure you do not over heat!
I am not the one who said I will no longer continue the debate and yet here you are wasting your breath again. Not exactly truthful. How can we take your word on anything?edit on 30-1-2011 by rusethorcain because: (no reason given)
Pigs furnish a well-known example of an omnivore.[2] Crows are another example of an omnivore that many people see every day.[3] Humans are regarded as omnivores. [4][5] Most bear species are considered omnivores, but individual diets can range from almost exclusively herbivorous to almost exclusively carnivorous, depending on what food sources are available locally and seasonally. Polar bears are classified as carnivores while pandas are classified as herbivores, although giant pandas will eat some meat (e.g., insects) from time to time, and polar bears will sometimes eat plants (such as kelp) but of neither is the exception a significant part of their diet.
Omnivores (from Latin: omni all, everything; vorare to devour) are species that eat both plants and animals as their primary food source. They are opportunistic, general feeders not specifically adapted to eat and digest either meat or plant material primarily.
Although the term omnivore literally means eater of everything, omnivores cannot really eat "everything" that other animals eat; they can only eat things that are at least moderately easy to get and still at least moderately nutritious. For example, most of them cannot live by grazing (easy to get, but not nutritious enough), nor can they eat some hard-shelled animals or successfully hunt large or fast prey (nutritious, but too hard to get).
Originally posted by rusethorcain
You ok babe? The quote was from your link. Don't you read this stuff before you thow it out there?
Originally posted by Vandalour
Originally posted by [davinci]
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My biology degree is more than sufficient, thanks.
Even if it wasn't, most of the women in my family are nurses (the older ones) or nutrionalists (the younger ones).
Then I advise you to eat your biology diploma
Originally posted by nightrun
People are addicted to meat, they don't know any better. Only when they actually try new diets that they open up to these concepts. Vegetarianism is abit of a joke because it still partakes in eating fish flesh and eggs.
Originally posted by rcanem
I'm sorry, but my ancesters didn't claw thier way to the top of the food chain just so I could be a vegitarian. We are omnivores plain and simple. For example, our canine teeth are designed to rip and tear flesh, same as any carnivore, our molars are designed to grind, same as any herbavore, our incisors are designed to cut, which is common with herbavores as well as carnivores. Hence we are omnivores. Being a vegitarian is a lifestyle choice, not an evolutionary trait. Without meat our Ice Age brethren would have died out very quickly. It has been historically a main staple in human diets for as long as we can percieve, all the way back to the cave man paintings.


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I got the following error this morning on email sent from Google servers to xtra. Is there a problem with the xtra/yahoo mail system?
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Masterfully crafted by Dr. Eric Williams, 'Edric the Hatchling Gryphon' uses its edge-of-the-seat narrative to instill positive traits into its young readers. While of course wanting to help shape tomorrow's societal leaders, Williams also wrote the book as a legacy for his own eight wonderful children…
New Baden, IL -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/02/2014 -- While children's books are a timeless staple of any upbringing, most achieve nothing more than giving readers a quick literary thrill. In an admirable attempt to leave a life-long impression on his young readers, author Dr. Eric Williams melds his new book's adventurous narrative with a series of important life lessons.
'Edric the Hatchling Gryphon' satisfies each child's thirst for discovery; allowing them to join two friends as they discover an egg that will thrust them into a world that nobody could have imagined.
Aerek, a woodsman and former soldier, comes across a beautiful yet strange looking stone while hiking deep in his mountain woods.He shares his discovery with his friend Beecie, and together they find the surprise of their lives.
This is not a stone at all! It is the egg of a mysterious creature called a Gryphon. This is the story of their adventures with a hatchling Gryphon named Edric.
You are invited to share their adventures and meet trolls, wolves and Arimaspian Cyclops. Come join the adventure!
"I wrote this book for all children in the world, but especially my eight kids," explains Williams. "It's a legacy that I hope will help shape them into courteous, successful and ultimately happy people. The narrative embodies the traits of my siblings while positively portraying the character attributes I wish to instill in my own children. Their personalities shine through Edric and I hope others can use the story to their own benefit."
Continuing, "The series will have at least three volumes, and the next will focus on each person's individual character traits and development. In my opinion, there should be a copy of this book in every home and school; it offers so much more than just a story."
Early reviews have been extremely positive. For example, Dr. Shirley Crenshaw comments, "Having read Edric the Hatching Gryphon, I find it to be a delightful tale full of adventure with fascinating characters and an engrossing plot that highlights caring relationships, loyal camaraderie, and courageous actions to overcome threatening challenges. Although it is designed for young readers, I think it is it is appropriate for readers of all ages. I believe that they will look forward to the continuing story in future sequels."
With the book's demand increasing, interested readers are urged to purchase their copies as soon as possible.
'Edric the Hatchling Gryphon', published by FriesenPress, is available now: http://amzn.to/1vsam8J.
About Dr. Eric Williams
Dr. Eric Williams is a Minister, College Professor, and Daddy to eight wonderful children. He lives with his wife, Dr. Carol Williams in a small town in Southern Illinois. Dr. Williams earned his Doctorate of Ministry through Andersonville Theological Seminary. He currently teaches Ethics and Philosophy at Kaskaskia College in Centralia, Illinois.The story of Edric is inspired by the antics of his children and the relationships within his family. You will find his siblings represented in the characters that accompany his heroes, and his children reflected in the spontaneous antics of the Hero Edric.


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This is the squad tasked with restoring Aston Villa to the Premier League.
Now that the transfer window has closed, Villa were able to assemble the coaching and playing staff for their customary team photograph.
All nine of Roberto Di Matteo's new signings were present for the photocall along with the manager and his backroom colleagues.
Now you see them, now you don't
The Aston Villa squad 2016-17
(Back row): Gary Gardner, Libor Kozak, Ritchie De Laet, Mile Jedinak, Jed Steer, Pierluigi Gollini, Mark Bunn, Tommy Elphick, Rudy Gestede, Nathan Baker, Jonathan Kodjia.
(Middle row): Massimiliano Marchesi (fitness coach), Jordan Ayew, Albert Adomah, Aaron Tshibola, Andre Green, Jack Grealish, Alan Hutton, James Chester, Aly Cissokho, Massimo Battara (goalkeeping coach.
(Front row): Jordan Lyden, Gabby Agbonlahor, Jordan Amavi, Leandro Bacuna, Steve Clark (assistant manager), Roberto Di Matteo (manager), Kevin Bond (first team coach), Ross McCormack, Micah Richards, Ashley Westwood, Rushian Hepburn-Murphy.


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Bar Refaeli
Refaeli in 2011
|4 June 1985
Hod HaSharon, Israel
Arik Weinstein[1]
(m. 2003; div. 2005)
Adi Ezra (m. 2015)
|Modelling information
|1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
|Hair colour
|Eye colour
Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי; born 4 June 1985) is an Israeli supermodel, television host, actress, and businesswoman.
Refaeli is considered among the most internationally successful models to come from Israel, alongside models such as Nina Brosh[11] and Michaela Bercu.
As a result of her modelling and investment career, her net worth was estimated at US $20 million in 2015.[12] According to Forbes Israel, she was the highest-paid model in Israel in 2013, ahead of the combined modeling income of other Israeli models such as Esti Ginzburg, Gal Gadot, and Shlomit Malka.[13]
She was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and was voted No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012. Since 2013, Refaeli has been the host of The X Factor Israel.[14]
Refaeli was born and raised in Hod HaSharon, Israel, to a secular Jewish family.[15] Her parents were both born in Israel, and her grandparents were immigrants from Europe and of Italian-Jewish, Lithuanian-Jewish, and Polish-Jewish descent.[15] In Hebrew, her first name means "wild" (as in nature), and her surname literally means "God, please heal" and is a derivative of the biblical angel Raphael. Her mother was a successful model in the 1970s under her maiden name, Tzipora "Tzipi" Levine.[16]
Refaeli began modeling at the age of eight months, when she first appeared in commercials. Orthodonture at 12 interrupted her modeling until she was 15,[17] when an Israeli fashion awards ceremony awarded Refaeli "Model of the Year" (2000).[18] She played prominently in campaigns for the fashion brands Castro and Pilpel, and she starred in a Milky pudding commercial.
She has appeared in editorials for French, American, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Ukrainian Elle, Spanish Vogue, British, Russian, Australian, and Vietnamese Harper's Bazaar, V, French and Dutch L'Officiel, American, British, Italian, German, Spanish, and Indian GQ, i-D, and Allure. She has appeared on the covers of French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Belgian, Danish, Swedish, Australian, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Slovenian, Croatian, and Turkish Elle, French, Spanish, and Russian Marie Claire, British, Italian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Mexican GQ, American, British, Australian, and Serbian Maxim, and Esquire.
Refaeli has appeared in advertising campaigns for Chanel, Escada, Ralph Lauren, Desigual, Andrew Marc, Victoria's Secret, Marks and Spencer, Gap, Moët & Chandon, Hurley, Rampage, True Religion, Lucky Brand, Accessorize, Passionata, Fox, Reebok, Sears, Arrow, Besni, Marco Bicego, and Agua Bendita. She also has appeared in advertising campaigns for non-fashion brands such as Garnier Fructis, Samsung, and Subaru.
Refaeli became the second Israeli model to appear in Sports Illustrated magazine (after Michaela Bercu), in her 2007 debut in its Swimsuit Issue, where she posed with the rock band Aerosmith.[19][20] Refaeli was the cover model for the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[21] Southwest Airlines painted a bikini-clad Refaeli from that shoot on the side of its Boeing 737,[22][23] which led some passengers to criticize the airline for what they regarded as prurient, and hence "offensive to families."[24]
Refaeli has modeled for Subaru, Accessorize,[25] Brazilian clothing line Besni, Italian jewelry line Marco Bicego, and Rampage. In 2009, she modeled for Garnier International.[26]
On 5 March 2009, Refaeli received the World Style Award presented by the Women's World Awards for her "natural elegance, sense of style and compassion."[27] In October of the same year, Refaeli co-hosted Fashionable Istanbul's press conference, announced its October 2009 fashion event, and appeared in its advèrtisements.[28] FHM voted Refaeli No. 42 in 2008, No. 57 in 2010, and No. 97 in 2011, in its lists of the "100 Sexiest Women."[29]
Maxim placed Refaeli at the very top of its Hot 100 list in 2012.[30] In April 2012, Shalom Life ranked her fourth on its list of the "50 most talented, intelligent, funny, and gorgeous Jewish women in the world."[31] Refaeli has been referred to as a supermodel by Maxim Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, the Daily Mail, The Algemeiner, The Jerusalem Post, The Independent, and others.
According to Forbes Israel, in 2013 she was the highest paid model in Israel, ahead of the combined modelling income of such other Israeli models as Esti Ginzburg, Gal Gadot, and Shlomit Malka.[13]
As of March 2017, Refaeli was the second most influential person on Israeli Instagram, according to the Israeli Internet Association, behind Anna Zak, but ahead of Neta Alchimister.[32]
Refaeli co-starred in the Israeli TV drama series Pick Up in 2005. In October 2008, she co-hosted the Bravo special program Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America,[33] based on the book Ironic Iconic America written by George Lois. She returned as a program host in 2009, this time for MTV's brief revival of House of Style.[34]
In 2011, Refaeli starred in the American-Israeli film Session, directed by Haim Bouzaglo. The film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a manipulative psychiatrist who becomes obsessed with a new young patient.[35] She also served as a guest judge on cycle four of Germany's Next Topmodel hosted by Heidi Klum. In November 2012 she started her own model casting show Million Dollar Shootingstar on German TV Channel Sat.1.[36]
In January 2013, Refaeli appeared in Go Daddy's Super Bowl XLVII commercial, acting with Jesse Heiman (with whom she intimately kisses) and NASCAR driver and perennial Go Daddy pitchwoman Danica Patrick.[37][38] In 2013, Refaeli also hosted the first season of The X Factor Israel, which became the most popular music show in Israel,[39] leading to them bringing her back in 2015 for season two. In 2018 Refaeli appeared in a music video of X Factor judge, Ivri Lider.[40] In 2013, Refaeli played a starring role in the French-Israeli crime-caper film Kidon, a comedy in which she stars as a Mossad assassin involved in liquidating a terrorist.[41]
Refaeli invests in a variety of business ventures in Israel, and has also launched her own.
Refaeli has an ownership stake in a number of fashion companies, such as in the designer glasses manufacturer Carolina Lemke.[42] In September 2018 it was announced that Kim Kardashian will be the face of the brand alongside Refaeli and the two will appear in a promotional campaign together.[43]
On the sale of a 5% stake to fashion brand Castro in 2016, Refaeli made a NIS 2-4 million profit.[44]
In 2011, Refaeli and Dudi Balsar, an attorney and former male model, set up an E-commerce company called Under.me,[45] to sell designer underwear. As well as being its investor, Refaeli runs business development for the venture.[46] By November 2011, the company had raised $1 million in venture capital funds.[47]
In 2013, her startup 'Mika Look', which is an iPad app that allows users to purchase the items that models are wearing, raised $1.2 million in its first financing round.[48]
Refaeli is one of the main investors behind MyCheck, which processes payments behind smart phones, and which raised $1.7 million in its first financing round.[49] In its second financing round, it raised $4.2 million.[50]
In 2016, Refaeli lodged a police complaint for identity theft with the Israel Police after a news item in Calcalist[51] linked her to suspicious money transfers involving Amir Bramly, based on leaked banking correspondence.[52] Bramly sued the Calcalist reporter in relation to the media coverage.[53]
In late 2015, Refaeli was accused of concealing millions of shekels of annual income, with Bar Refaeli having an estimated net worth of US $20 million in 2015.[12] It was revealed she had recently bought a NIS 15 million apartment in Tel Aviv, as well as a NIS 2.5 million apartment for her younger brother. On 16 December 2015, Israeli tax authorities in Tel Aviv detained Refaeli and her mother overnight for questioning related to potential tax evasion; she was accused of failing to pay income tax on two vehicles that she received as compensation for posing in pictures with the vehicles, and for evading taxes by disguising her Israeli residency by renting a luxury apartment in Tel Aviv through relatives.[54]
She led a free campaign under the slogan "One Bag Less" to reduce the use of plastic bags in Israel.[55] In 2009, she led an unpaid campaign on behalf of the Israel Water Authority, to educate the public about water use and conservation.[56]
On 7 June 2013, Refaeli hosted a beach party in Tel Aviv for participants of Tel Aviv Pride, the city's gay pride parade.[57] In November 2013, Refaeli spoke out in support of legislation for civil marriages in Israel, as part of a campaign for the proposed Knesset bill.[58]
Refaeli hosted the closing ceremony for the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Latrun on 18 July 2017.[59][60]
Refaeli once dated Baywatch actor David Charvet. In November 2005, she began a relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio after meeting him at a party in Las Vegas thrown for members of U2.[61] In the course of their trip to Israel in March 2007, the couple met with Israeli president Shimon Peres and visited Refaeli's hometown of Hod HaSharon.[62] The relationship ended in June 2009.[63] In 2010, numerous reports indicated that their romance had been rekindled,[64][65][66] but in May 2011, it was reported that the couple had ended their romantic relationship, though they would remain friends.[67]
Refaeli became engaged to Israeli businessman Adi Ezra in March 2015. She has said she plans to raise "a big Jewish family" with him. The couple were married in Israel on 24 September 2015.[68][69] She and Ezra have two daughters: Liv Ezra, (born 11 August 2016)[70][71][72] and Elle Ezra (born 20 October 2017).[73]
As early as 2004 Refaeli received criticism in Israel for avoiding mandatory service in the army. At the time model Agam Rudberg said: "The way Bar Refaeli [sic] evaded army service wasn't right. It's worth trying to serve in the army, and only if you don't feel good there to try and do something."[74]
In 2007, it was reported that Refaeli had evaded the draft by marrying family acquaintance Arik Weinstein in 2003,[68] and divorcing him soon afterwards, to avoid military service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF),[75] which is mandatory in Israel for unmarried secular Jewish women over the age of 18.[76]
The Israeli Forum for the Promotion of Equal Share in the Burden threatened to boycott the fashion chain Fox if they hired Refaeli. The two sides reached a compromise in which Refaeli agreed to visit injured IDF soldiers whenever she is in Israel, and actively encourage enlistment in the army.[77] Refaeli later said, "I don't regret not enlisting, because it paid off big time. That's just the way it is: celebrities have other needs. I hope my case has influenced the army."[78] She also said: "Israel or Uganda, what difference does it make? It makes no difference to me. Why is it good to die for our country? What, isn't it better to live in New York? Why should 18-year-old kids have to die? It's dumb that people have to die so that I can live in Israel."[75]
In 2009, while speaking in support of enlisting, fellow Israeli model Esti Ginzburg criticized Refaeli for evading military service.[79][80] In 2011, Refaeli was featured on the cover of Italian GQ's war-themed May 2011 issue.[78] Refaeli's avoidance of military service was again raised in 2013, this time by IDF Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai, who criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for casting Refaeli in a 2013 advertisement. Mordechai maintained that the use of Refaeli as an "official representative of Israel" sent a "negative message" to Israeli society.[81]
In 2014, during Operation Protective Edge, Refaeli frequently expressed solidarity and appreciation of Israeli citizens serving in the Israeli Army with postings on her social network accounts, and by posting selfies of her together with smiling Israeli soldiers.[82][83]
Last year they called a halt to their relationship, apparently, it seemed, for good. But, if these new photographs are anything to go by, Leonardo DiCaprio and Bar Refaeli appear to be back on track.
The couple, who had been dating on and off for the past three years, was spotted canoodling together over New Year's weekend in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which topped off a week-long getaway.
Leo and Bar also enjoyed a 'secret' romantic getaway in the Bahamas in late November, according to multiple reports, sparking rumors they'd decided to work it out.
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When I think of my 5 "must have" clothing items for Spring. The very first one that comes to mind is a perfect pair of denim cut off shorts! I've tried over 50 pairs of denim shorts (crazy, I know) and chose my 3 favorites to share with you!
My favorite high waisted denim cut off's are the Lovers & Friends "Jack" Shorts. Your struggle to find the perfect pair of high waisted denim shorts ends here! Personally, these shorts are great because I love to wear crop tops, but also don't like to expose too much midriff. These rise to right below belly button but still manage to be extremely figure flattering. I literally wear these almost everyday in the spring and summer. (I had to buy three pairs.) I wore them a ton on The Bachelor and Lauren B and Jojo both borrowed them on their first one on one dates with Ben, as well. These shorts go with everything and are worth the splurge of $138. You'll definitely get use of them!
Another great pair of denim shorts, are the popular One Teaspoon bandits! These shorts are very low rise and pair perfectly with graphic tees or an off the shoulder blouse! They run big so I recommend sizing down. You can purchase these from many retailers (Revolve, Planet Blue) but I'll let you in on a little secret. You can get these at one of my favorite boutiques, Meraki Moon. If you check her Instagram, @shopmerakimoon, she usually is always running some sort of promo code for a discount…you're welcome!
I was recently connected with the sweetest girl, Chloe Carter. She started her own business, "Downright Denim", where she makes custom Vintage denim cut off's and they are AMAZING! (I am a sucker for anything vintage and high waisted) Not only are they adorable, but also very affordable! And everyone who knows me knows I love to support handmade small shops. Anyone else going to Stagecoach this year?! This is your place for denim shorts! I know what I'm wearing??
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Okay. It's official. I need an Australian friend. Preferably one who is engaged so I can attend their wedding. Seriously, I can not even deal with the amazingness of all the Aussie weddings here at SMP. They are all insanely gorgeous! So starting today, I'll gladly accept any invites of the down-under kind. Okay, now that that's out in the open, let's move on. I'm not sure where to start with this one because it's all super-duper adorable! I love the couple. Clearly, they are head over heels in love. Then there's the dress, the hanging flowers, the balloons, I'm loving every last lovely detail! Captured by none other than SugarLove Weddings, this super happy wedding is sure to have you skipping and whistling your way to the gallery.
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From Leigh, at SugarLove Weddings: After being close friends throughout school it took Karen and Paul over 2 years after graduation to declare their love to the world. Paul proposed on Boxing Day on a whard overlooking a bay in Sydney with his late Grandmother's engagement ring.
The couple were married at The Tea Room, Gunners Barracks in Sydney in December 2010. The wedding had a bright yellow colour theme with the ceremony courtyard decorated with rustic flowers hanging in recycled jars and hand-made vintage fabric bunting floated overhead. A dear friend of the couple sang a love song as the bride walked down the aisle with her father. As a surprise for the guests Karen & Paul arranged for their father to officiate the ceremony. The bride's bouquet was filled with peonies, billy buttons, daisies, freesias and Queen Anne's Lace. The evening reception had an intimate dinner party vibe with the tables set up banquet style. The couple used small round blackboards with lemons for place settings and locally sourced hessian as table runners.
Overall it was an evening filled with laugher and heartfelt times with family & friends, great food & wine and lots of great Jazz tunes.
Wedding Photography: SugarLove Weddings / Floral Design: Jodie McGregor Flowers / Wedding Ceremony & Reception Location: The Tea Room, Gunners Barracks / Ceremony Music: Friend of the Bride & Groom / Wedding Dress: Custom by Jenet Zaiter Couture / Bride's Shoes: PeepToe / Bridesmaid Skirts: Cue / Bridesmaid Tops: Custom by Jenet Zaiter Couture / Groom's Suit: Conte Tailoring / Wedding Stationery: DIY, The Bride / Wedding Cinematography: White Designs


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It's all about the seaside sailor style with the stripes and red and blue colours or the decorative and sassy hippie look! Personally I would pick the 'Sailor Girl' trend as I love the accessories for it with the anchor logo, the rubber ring and texture of the boat rope. All can be easily accessorized with the pale pastel coloured dress, tops and trousers.
Even though I'm not going on holiday, I can't wait to wear stylish and comfortable beach wear to the nearest beach!


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We all follow a path. Old, young, rich, poor, black, white, whole or damaged.
Whichever path we take is the right path for us, there is no other.
Sometimes we walk in brightness and light and all goes well. Sometimes we walk in shadow, and things seem hard.
In the dark times remember the light, it's still there - we need light to cause shadows. Walk onward to find the light ahead, draw strength from the light you left behind.
Whe your path runs in the light, store some up for the dark times you hit, then you'll never run out.
This path is your path, make it a good one :)
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Review of the remote controlled star wars republic gunship toy
The star wars republic gunship toy is the latest addition to the Hasbro star wars remote control toy series that comprises many other star wars rc toys like the millennium falcon and the hailfire droid rc. This star wars clone wars republic gunship toy is one of many republican gunship toys being sold which includes Lego gunship sets and some build your own star war gunship models. But with the popularity of rc toys, they have made a remote controlled star wars republic gunship toy.
The republic gunship toy includes one controller that is capable of controlling and charging your rc toy controller. Because this is an electronic toy, you would also need to buy some AA batteries to power your toy.
Good features of the star wars the clone wars republic gunship toy
The star wars indoor flying rc republic gunship is not that great in terms of how detailed it is but it can still be appreciated because it is close to the real ship. The shape and the painted color of the foam body of this rc gunship makes it appear that it has a painted plastic body. This kind of detailing on a foam body is better when you consider how they have painted the millennium falcon rc which is another remote control toy. You will not have any problems flying your radio controlled star wars republic gunship hasbro toy even if it uses an outdated rc helicopter techonology. The outdated rc helicopter technology used in this toy is the single propeller system that would make it hard to control but it is still stable enough while flying in the air.
Bad features of the star wars indoor flying rc republic gunship toy
The star wars republic gunship toy was made into a rc toy helicopter instead of a plane which the real ship really is because this toy was intended to be used by kids. And because it is a star wars toy for kids, they have added some safety features on this toy that have a negative impact on how maneuverable your republic gunship remote control toy. The plastic casing added to protect the propeller has made the star wars rc a bit top-heavy which would make it harder to maneuver. And that casing also interferes with the air flow of the propeller which compounded that problem. While even with this problem, the star wars republic gunship toy is still controllable enough to be enjoyed but not to the extent that you can do stunts or do maneuvers with your rc helicopter.
Conclusions on the remote control toy star wars vehicle
While the star wars republic gunship toy is a little bit outdated than other recently released rc helicopters because of the single propeller system used, having the label "star wars" is enough for people to buy this toy and that reason alone is enough for toy shops to have the republic gunship for sale on their shelves. And because star wars remote control toys are few in number, collectors would find it easy to complete their collection than other star war toys like Legos. Casual rc toy fans might consider those reasons to be enough to buy their own remote controlled star wars republic gunship toy.