Brad’s Back From Berlin

#141 I’m Not Obsessed,hey I happen to be a stay at home mother and I DO NOT read tabloids nor have I EVER read them.

150 maria : 07/11/2007 at 4:00 pm
145 Thank You : 07/11/2007 at 3:56 pm

48 Mzslil : 07/11/2007 at 2:14 pm

Thank You, from what Vogue? I think i read the Vogue interview (Angelina’s right?) but I don’t remember that part. Do you have a link?
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Her last Vogue interview. It’s on the first page of the article. I’ll try and find it. Somone else may be faster than me.

151 The real lou : 07/11/2007 at 4:02 pm
#141 I’m Not Obsessed,hey I happen to be a stay at home mother and I DO NOT read tabloids nor have I EVER read them.
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Well the majority of mothers are obsessed. I know many mothers who LOVE to read tabloids. I can’t stand those who believe everything they read as if it’s the Bible.

Why would anyone even respond to anything in Life&Lies? Why? Has anyone even read the trash to know what it says? Why bring Jane Pitt and Doug Pitt into this?

Where is Brad Pitt? In Prague with his family!!! Don’t reality and truth mean anything?

Life&Lies is scrambling to hook its 2 weekly readers.
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MESSAGE TO FREE ANGIE

Angelina is free, free to be with the loves of her life, Brad and their four kids. Angelina freely made her choice as to whom she loves and that man is Brad Pitt. That’s the way it is.

Get this through your teeny tiny brain, their four children mean that Brad and Angelina are now bonded for life in one way or another. Brad is not disappearing from Angelina’s life ever. Like BruceW is still in Demi’s life, forever, no matter what.

152 I’m Not Obsessed : 07/11/2007 at 4:03 pm

Can you guys please give some examples of US Weekly’s LIES on BP and AJ?? Hopefully it will prove to lurkers or newbies that US is not reliable.

Here: http://pics.livejournal.com/pittimpressions/gallery/0002xdeg
Enjoy yourself (see how many times Angelina as left Brad or Brad has left Angelina…) with the trash from 2006. There are also magazines from 2005, and 2007. Every time I go there , i laugh… the Tabs are pathetic.

Good news for the people of Darfur, from an article in Newsweek.
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The Flames of Hope
A Berkeley physicist has found a way to help keep Darfurians alive, by building a better kitchen stove.
By Barrett Sheridan

July 16, 2007 issue - As for so many of us, the genocide in Darfur was merely an abstraction to Ashok Gadgil, a scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. But in September 2004 he got a call from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Could Gadgil design a screw press for Darfurians, the caller asked, so they could turn their garbage into biofuel pellets? “I quickly showed him that there is not enough kitchen waste in home cooking to produce much worthwhile fuel,” the physicist says, and USAID dropped the idea. But the problem continued to nag at him. Eventually Gadgil decided that if he couldn’t redesign the fuel, he would redesign the stove.

The violence in Darfur has not only left at least 200,000 dead but devastated the already arid landscape. More than 2 million people now fill groaning refugee camps; as they hunt farther and wider for firewood, they are denuding whole swaths of the countryside. Gathering firewood can now mean a seven-hour round trip, during which women risk rape and mutilation at the hands of the Janjaweed militias that lurk in wait. (Men can’t make the trip in their stead—they’ll simply be killed.) A fact-finding visit to the region in late 2005 brought home the problem’s urgency to Gadgil. “A huge majority of people were missing at least one meal a week because they did not have fuel to cook with,” he says. In a sick Catch-22, many families were selling some of their food in exchange for the wood to cook it with.

Gadgil, a 56-year-old Mumbai native, had experience developing simple, life-saving technology. One of his patents—a cheap method for disinfecting waterusing ultraviolet light—led to a successful business start-up in 1996. The resulting company, WaterHealth International, now provides affordable clean water for more than 1 million people in the developing world. After returning from Darfur, Gadgil worked with lab colleagues and students at UC Berkeley to modify an existing Indian stove for Darfurians’ needs. “Cook stoves, although they look simple, are very complex creatures,” he says, “which is why you can’t simply sit in Berkeley and say, ‘Well, this is the stove for you’.” While the Indian stove excelled at producing low-intensity heat for cooking rice, for instance, Darfurians needed a high-powered flame for sautéing onions, garlic and okra, ingredients in their staple dish, mulah. And since most families cook outside, the stove also needed to cope with the region’s strong winds.

The result of their efforts is the Berkeley-Darfur stove (darfurstoves.org), a hollow drum that looks like a cross between a lunar landing craft and a stop sign. Designed with a smooth airflow to fuel the fire and an upper rim that fits snugly with different-size pots, the stove requires 75 percent less wood than an open fire, and a wind collar makes for a steady flame. That means fewer risky trips outside the camp. And those who now pay for firewood, Gadgil estimates, could save as much as $200 a year, which could be used instead for luxuries like new clothing and fresh meat.

The next step is mass production. Gadgil and his partners in Berkeley have teamed with two nonprofits, Engineers Without Borders and CHF International, to set up workshops in Sudan. (The project is funded by USAID and individual donors.) They hope ultimately to distribute stoves to nearly all 300,000 refugee families. Brian Tachibana, a volunteer with EWB, ran into resistance when he first visited Khartoum last September to find manufacturers. Presented with a gleaming prototype that had been made in Berkeley, local craftsmen declared firmly, “There’s no way you can build this in Sudan.” Tachibana needed to tweak the production method—substituting hand shears for high-pressure water jets, for example—to arrive at a workable, low-tech solution.

Gadgil and EWB have yet to settle on a distribution plan. They won’t be handing the stoves out as charity—”Giving something away turns the recipients into beggars,” Gadgil says—but at $25 apiece, the devices are out of the reach of most families. Gadgil favors some sort of leasing plan, allowing families to rent the stove for about 50 cents a week. The ultimate goal is for the refugees to take over the program, from manufacturing to distribution, which would mean jobs and income. Gadgil’s team has already donated a range of scientific equipment, including electronic scales and anemometers to measure wind speed, in order to monitor the existing stoves and test the efficiency of alternatives. “We don’t want to claim that this is the final word,” Gadgil says. “If somebody comes along tomorrow or next year and says we’ve got a better stove, all success to them. We’re trying to solve a problem here.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/19649897/site/newsweek/

Are Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie of the teen set? The High School Musical costars made for a decidedly wholesome power couple at Tuesday night’s Hairspray premiere in L.A.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20045668,00.html

160 Thank You : 07/11/2007 at 4:11 pm

Maria -

Here you go…

http://img171.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc586&image=00654_angelina_jolie_vogue_jan07_04_122_586lo.jpg
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Thaks! :)

165 maria : 07/11/2007 at 4:13 pm
Thaks!

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You’re welcome!! :-)

158 Anonymous
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How many wins do he have? That was the other part of my little post that I forget to type, so that would make still a part of this planet hun.

Leo is one of the best actors in HW and only three oscar nods and no wins to show for it and you can’t tell me that him not being nominated titanic wasn’t a snub.

There is that pretty boys can’t act mental that only a few break out of during the high of their career.

161 ntt : 07/11/2007 at 4:11 pm
Good news for the people of Darfur, from an article in Newsweek.
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The Flames of Hope
A Berkeley physicist has found a way to help keep Darfurians alive, by building a better kitchen stove.
By Barrett Sheridan
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I was just reading an article earlier this week about portable solar ovens that some church members from the South or Midwest were distributing to Third World countries. It’s really fascinating because it can cook anything and it also purifies water all by the power of the sun. And it only weighs 10 lbs.

167 Thank You : 07/11/2007 at 4:15 pm

165 maria : 07/11/2007 at 4:13 pm
Thaks!

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You’re welcome!!
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A meant: Thanks!

I read the intrevies but i don’t remember reading this part:

Angelina Jolie loves this place. Something about its broken-down beauty and military history speaks to her dual craving for authenticity and manliness. She calls it, simply, “Daggett.” As in “Brad and I like to fly in to meet our motorcycles at Daggett. One time we took a three-hour bike ride in the desert to a place where we spent the night alone. And then we rode the bikes back to Daggett and flew back to L.A. to our kids before dinner the next evening.” Impossibly romantic, you say? Sit tight. It gets better.

It’s so romantic *le sigh*
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Where is this from?

173 Anonymous : 07/11/2007 at 4:27 pm
Where is this from?
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Vogue Jan. 2007

http://img171.imagevenue.com/view.php?loc=loc586&image=00654_angelina_jolie_vogue_jan07_04_122_586lo.jpg