Look up -bar, Bar, or bar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Bar may refer to:

Food and drink[link]

• Bar (establishment), a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages
• Bar (counter), the counter at which drinks are served by a bartender
• Dessert bar, a type of cookie

Law[link]

• Bar (law), in a legal context has three possible meanings: the division of a courtroom between its working and public areas; the process of qualifying to practice law; and the legal profession
• Bar examination, an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
• Bar association, a professional body of lawyers. Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their jurisdiction; others are professional organizations dedicated to serving their members; in many cases, they are both

Science and computing[link]

• Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable
• Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of dark cloud near the horizon
• Bar (unit), a unit of pressure defined as 100 kilopascals
• BAR domain, a protein domain
• Base Address Register, a concept in computer hardware design
• Another term for the landform known as a shoal
• Bar (landform)
• Bar (river morphology), in a river is an elevated region of sand or gravel that has been deposited by the flow

Media and entertainment[link]

• Bar (dance), a form of dance that originated in Western Armenia and continue to be found in modern Turkey. The word "Bar" (պար) means dance in the Armenian language
• Bar (music), a segment of time in musical notation
• The Bar (painting), by John Brack
• The Bar (book) (1906), a book by Margery Williams
• Bay Area Reporter, a newspaper
• Biblical Archaeology Review, a journal
• The Bar (TV series), a Swedish reality television program
• The Bar (radio network), a 24-hour music network produced by Waitt Radio Networks

Places[link]

• Bar (river), France
• Bar, Corrèze, France
• Bar, Meuse, France, former seat of the Counts and Dukes of Bar
• Bar, Montenegro, a coastal town in Montenegro. It has a population of 13,719 (2003 census). Bar is the centre of Bar Municipality and a major seaport of Montenegro
• Bar, Tibet
• Bar, Ukraine
• Bár, Hungary
• Bar, a historic duchy of both the Holy Roman Empire and the crown of France; see Counts and Dukes of Bar

People[link]

• Bar Refaeli (born 1985), Israeli model
• Ellen Bar, New York City Ballet soloist
• Moshe Bar (investor) (born 1971), Israeli technologist, author, investor and entrepreneur
• Moshe Bar (neuroscientist), neuroscientist, associate professor in psychiatry and radiology, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory at Harvard Medical School
• Shirley Temple Bar, drag queen from Dublin, Ireland
• Haim Bar (born 1954), former Israeli footballer
• Amos Bar (1931–2011), Israeli author, teacher, and editor
• Israel Bar (1912–1966), convicted of espionage by Israel in 1961
• Walter Bar (born 1938), Swiss fencer
• Shlomo Bar (born 1943), Israeli musician, composer, and social activist
• Alon Bar (born 1966), Israeli/American filmmaker
• Sergiu Bar (born 1980), Romanian footballer
• Zvi Bar (born 1935)
• Noma Bar (born 1973), Graphic Designer
• Bar, a patronymic prefix in Aramaic and Hebrew

Punctuation[link]

• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter or other grapheme
• Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol

BAR[link]

• Austro-Bavarian language, ISO 639-3 code BAR
• Transport & automotive
  • Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, reporting mark BAR
  • British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
  • The California Bureau of Automotive Repair
  • Harvey House Railroad Depot, station code BAR
  • IATA code for Baker Army Air Field (abandoned), Baker Island, United States Minor Outlying Islands
• Weapons
  • Browning BAR, a semi-automatic rifle produced in Belgium and Japan
  • M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, an American family of automatic rifles and light machine guns

Other[link]

• A dowel, pole, or beam used as a support structure
• Bar (heraldry), an ordinary consisting of a horizontal band across the shield
• Medal bar, a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal
• Bar Confederation, an 18th-century Polish association
• A type of gatehouse in city walls of the Middle Ages
• Bar mitzvah
• Bar (form), a cell phone form factor

See also[link]

• Barr (disambiguation)
• Barre (disambiguation)
• Bars (disambiguation)
• Bär
• Barr (placename element), a pre-Indo-European linguistic root meaning 'wooded hill', 'natural barrier'

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Bar Refaeli
Refaeli at the 2008 Cannes film festival
Born	(1985-06-04) 4 June 1985 (age 27) Hod HaSharon, Israel
Occupation	Model, actress
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8.5 in)[1]
Eye color	Blue[1]
Measurements	89-60-89 (EU) (35C-24-35)[1]
Dress size	6 (US); 36 (EU)[2]
Shoe size	40 (EU);[1] 9 (US)
Manager	Storm Model Management (London) ONE Management (New York City) IMG Models (Paris)
Website
www.barrefaeli.co.il

Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי‎; born 4 June 1985) is an Israeli model and occasional actress. She was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and was voted #1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list of 2012.

Early life[link]

Bar Refaeli was born into an Israeli Jewish family in Hod HaSharon, Israel. Her parents, Rafael and Tzipi, own a horse ranch. Her mother was a successful Israeli model in the 1970s under her maiden name, Tzipi Levine.^[3][4] Refaeli has three brothers. She began a modeling career at the age of eight months, appearing in commercials.^[5] Refaeli had to wear braces in her early years, interrupting her modeling until age 15, when she returned to modeling with the representation of Irene Marie Models.

Career[link]

Modeling career[link]

Refaeli at 18 years old

Refaeli began her modeling career before the age of 8 months for a baby commercial.^[6] By age 15, she was featured in campaigns for the fashion brands Castro and Pilpel, also starring in a commercial for Milky. Refaeli won the title "Model of The Year" in an Israeli beauty contest in 2000.^[7]

Refaeli has appeared in ELLE (France), Maxim, and GQ (Italy). She debuted in the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, becoming the first Israeli model to appear in the magazine, posing with rock band Aerosmith.^[8][9] In 2009, Refaeli was the covermodel for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.^[10] A photo from the shoot, featuring a bikini-clad Refaeli, was painted on the side of a Boeing 737 in a promotional deal with Southwest Airlines,^[11][12] leading to criticism of Southwest from passengers for using an image they regarded as inappropriately sexual and "offensive to families".^[13] In October of the same year, Refaeli was again embroiled in controversy, when Haredi groups criticised a Tel Aviv billboard campaign in which she appeared semi-nude, alleging that it could "poison" the public.^[14][15] The billboards were subsequently removed.

She has modeled for Subaru, Accessorize,^[16] Brazilian clothing line Besni, Italian jewelry line Marco Bicego, and Rampage. In 2009, she modeled for Garnier International.^[17]

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."^[18] In October of the same year, Refaeli co-hosted Fashionable Istanbul's press conference announcing their October 2009 fashion event, also appearing in its advertising.^[19] Refaeli was voted #42 in 2008, #57 in 2010, and #97 in 2011 in the FHM "100 Sexiest Women" list^[20] and came in first on Maxim's Hot 100 list of 2012.^[21]

Film and television career[link]

Refaeli co-starred in the Israeli TV series Pick Up in 2005. In October 2008, she co-hosted the Bravo special program Tommy Hilfiger Presents Ironic Iconic America,^[22] 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.^[23]

On 18 January 2011, Refaeli attended the premiere of the English-language movie Session in Israel^[24] in which she starred. Directed by Israeli Haim Bouzaglo, the film is a psychological thriller that tells the story of a manipulative psychologist who becomes obsessed with a new young patient.

She served as a guest judge on cycle four of Germany's Next Topmodel hosted by Heidi Klum.

Business venture[link]

In 2011, Refaeli and Dudi Balsar, an attorney and former model, set up an E-commerce company called Undeez that will sell designer underwear. The company is slated to go online in November 2011.^[25] By November 2011, the company had raised $1 million in venture capital funds.^[26]

Personal life[link]

Previously linked to Baywatch actor David Charvet and Uri El-Natan, Refaeli began a relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio in November 2005 after meeting him at a Las Vegas party thrown for members of U2.^[27] 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.^[28] The relationship ended in June 2009.^[29] Numerous reports, however, indicate that, as of early 2010, the romance may have been rekindled.^[30][31][32] In May 2011, it was reported that the couple had ended their romantic relationship, although still remaining friends.^[33]

Her relationship with DiCaprio caused one nationalist Israeli organization to send her a letter, later leaked to the press,^[34] in which she was asked, for the sake of "future generations of Jews", not to marry a "non-Jew", a request similar to the one made, a few years previously, to Israeli Miss World winner Linor Abargil.^[35]

Refaeli confided to L'Isha magazine that she prefers to keep a lower profile – though she is out with DiCaprio much of the time. "I am there for him and I am at all the events," she says. "I just don't walk in hand-in-hand with him. I don't see any reason. I don't need to strike poses with him in front of the cameras. No one needs to know how we kiss."^[36]

Philanthropy/personal causes[link]

Refaeli volunteers for Project Sunshine,^[37] a non-profit organization providing free services and programs for children facing life-threatening illnesses. She has also volunteered for organization Ahava, which has been caring for pets abandoned in Northern Israel during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.^[38]

Refaeli and film director Shahar Segal have agreed to do a free campaign under the slogan "One Bag Less" to reduce the use of plastic bags.^[39]

In August 2010, she decided to write a special report with the collaboration of Better Place^[40] on why she believes that people should drive electric cars.^[41]

Military enlistment[link]

In 2007, it was reported that Refaeli had married a family acquaintance and divorced him soon after to avoid military service in the Israel Defense Forces,^[42] which is generally mandatory for both men and women over the age of 18.^[43] The Israeli Forum for the Promotion of Equal Share in the Burden threatened to boycott the fashion chain Fox if they hired Refaeli, but the two sides reached a compromise in which Refaeli agreed to visit injured IDF soldiers on visits to Israel and encourage enlistment in the army.^[44] Refaeli later stated, "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."^[45] In 2009, fellow Israeli model Esti Ginzburg, while speaking in support of enlisting, criticized Refaeli for her avoidance of military service.^[46][47] In 2011, Refaeli was featured on the cover of Italian GQ's war-themed May 2011 issue.^[45]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bar Refaeli

• Bar Refaeli at the Fashion Model Directory
• Bar Refaeli at the Internet Movie Database
• Bar Refaeli at AllRovi
• Bar Refaeli Photo Gallery 2009

Ryan Nyquist (born March 6, 1979 in Los Gatos, California) is a professional BMX rider who has won numerous gold medals in the X Games Dirt Jumping & Bike Park events. He currently rides for Haro Bikes, Osiris Shoes, Rockstar Energy Drink, and The Jiffy Market of Los Gatos.

Ryan returned to San Jose, California where he has a home with his wife and sons. He previously lived in Greenville, North Carolina for a period of time.

He is known as one of the best contest riders in the history of BMX. He has been a regular top finisher for over fifteen years. He's also known for doing groundbreaking barspin variations.

Awards[link]

2002[link]

XGames-Park Champion^[1]

2003[link]

Triple Crown of BMX-Park Champion^[1]
Triple Crown of BMX-Dirt Champion^[1]

2004[link]

ESPY-Best Action Sports^[2]

2007[link]

AST Dew Tour BMX Dirt Dew Cup Champion.

2009[link]

AST Dew Tour BMX Dirt Dew Cup Champion.

Other[link]

He was featured on MTV Cribs and made a guest appearance as himself on the cartoon Kim Possible. Nyquist first competed in the X Games in 1996 and has been professional since 1995.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Biography at expn.com
• Photographs of Los Gatos event at which Nyquist performed

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