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5-year-old Gets Racing Legs

Ellie May Challis of Little Clacton, Essex, England battled meningitis as an infant. She recovered, but her arms and legs had to be amputated. She has since used normal prosthetic legs which were were painful and slow. Now five years old, Ellie has new carbon framed legs, the kind amputee sprinters use.
She was fitted with them three weeks ago – making her the youngest person in the world to have the £10,000 a pair special limbs.

Paul Challis, 45, said: “Ellie can walk twice as fast on these new legs. She is so full of determination.”

The company’s managing director Bob Watts said: “We had to make them especially for Ellie as they had never been made this small before. We were worried that she wouldn’t be able to balance properly on them, but she has made amazing progress.

Ellie's legs will be replaced every two years as she grows. Link -via Arbroath

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Some funding by fundraising, some researchfunds from the company itself and that for the rest of her life because she is the Ultimate testbench for those legs.

She'll be the ultimate expert on these things with both her legs and her arms. And no it won't be only every 2 years- She'll have to revisit the labs sometimes every week because there'll be tweaking and adjusting and testing if it all works properly needed and she'll feel things and she'll have remarks and suggestions and more improvements needed and she'll need therapy and help for her stumps and for the effects of the enclosures of the stumpcups and so on. And then some times there will be tch's who want to try out new stuff on her because she is young and she can adjust fast enough and she has lots of experience.

The's one person who already has a job for life.
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My guess is that it is an action figure or Thor and Heimdall with a stand.

Schroedinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
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OORR same think but with Loki...so:

My guess is that it is an action figure or Thor and Loki with a stand.

Schroedinger's Cat: Wanted Dead And/Or Alive
Large! Green (any color green) or brown!
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Yea my first thought was Thor's hammer in nerf obviously! But since I'm slow to respond to these things - my whole life is off-set from the norm - I'll go with a Thor mousepad (likely produced by 3M).

I'm not a schizophrenic, neither am I (L Black)
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Of course a replica of thor's hammer, a comics, an action figure and some pressbook portfolio.

Schroedinger's cat L and in chocolate color.
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It's the sticky, bludgeoned corpse of Jormangand, the world serpent, killed by Thor at Ragnarok. I just can't see the big ol' thunder god walking away from that fight without a trophy for the wall, which he has now donated to promote his new film. Which all goes to show you that, for the gods of Asgard, good PR trumps bragging rights any day!
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I think it is a toy Mjolnir that makes thunder noises and shoots projectile lightning darts. I would love this ROFLCopter Pilot shirt. http://www.neatoshop.com/product/ROFLCOPTER-Pilot
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Gotta be the hammer. please Hammer dont hurt them.
or a big tube of BenGay (tho you are not tho thor anymore)

Terminator Blue:Black Large

too little sleep in too long of time.
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There's gotta be a hammer. And a helmet. Hopefully, a black t-shirt with blue circles on it, too.

If I win, I want the "Behind every great man ...rolling her eyes" t-shirt. Size L, dark blue or navy.

Thanks.
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I think there will be Thor's Hammer, cape, gauntlets , and boot covers for Cosplay. I think there will be 3 comics, a bunch of movie picture postcards. Also 3-5 action figures.
"Protected by Ninja Kitty" L Ash Grey
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Alternatively, it may contain Thor comics, or a copy of the new Thor video game. An art book is also likely :)

Ladies' Grey Roflcopter pilot shirt in as small as it comes! Forgot to mention size in my previous comment.
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Oh heavens, the ads in the corner keep giving me ideas! It may be a Thor water bottle or mug! That would be highly exciting. Ah, forgot to read, it says one item per guess? That's no fun!

Ladies' Grey Roflcopter pilot shirt in as small as it comes!
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