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Since I first saw Tori photographed in a bikini in late 2006, I thought she had such amazing core and leg muscles. You get a peek below at Tori's babelicious belly and a first glimpse at warmer weather and longer days in the Getaway 2011 catalogue from Gorsuch.

I know this is another re-post from Gorsuch, but the "cowl" neck shawl/poncho complete with fringe is another cozy 'n' cute garment that I just had to post it. Besides Tori's face looks so relaxed and perfect however one defines beauty that I had another reason to post it. Tori's jaw bone, her skin, her chin, her cheek bones, her eyes. . . I keep saying Tori goes from ice princess to cute, cute within this one catalogue. This expression is sort of in the middle of that range. Anyway, I also thought the re-fresh was in order so we can get to page 100 in time for the shortest day of the year (longest for her Aussie and other fans down under), 21 DEC 10, or the end of the calendar year. Images like these will keep us northern hemisphere dwellers warm 'n' cuddly in these cold winter months. Hang in there as the days do get longer if not warmer on 22 DEC!

1 Tori Praver 2 Eva Herzigova 3 Veronika Varekova 4 Daniela Pestova 5 Mona Johannesson 6 Alina Vacariu 7 Kim Cloutier 8 Marloes Horst

Doesn't Tori look so cute 'n' cozy 'n' cuddly?

Happy Thanksgiving to Tori and all her friends and fans! Good Luck if you are shopping on Black Friday!

I know el Jefe posted an HQ version of this a few months ago from the Gorsuch catalogue, but Tori's ability to go from Patrician Princess to cute 'n' cuddly within a few pages is a testament to her versatility and is worth refreshing/revisiting especially since we weren't thinking long underwear a few months ago when the catalogue came out! X-Bionic is the perfect name for this material as Tori could easily be Lindsay Wagner's heir apparent if they chose to do a movie remake of the Bionic Woman as they did other 70s TV shows like the A-Team, the Incredible Hulk, etc. Tori and her athletic build as evinced by her muscles here are perfect for such roles. And even all covered up, Tori makes us cold Northeasterners feel oh so cozy!

SNL: You may be gone but you are not forgotten! Hopefully you will visit Tori's pages if you have more time during Thanksgiving Break. I hope school is going smoothly as the semester winds down.

Oohhh! Thanks yet again, misspraver, for posting the latest and greatest of our fave fashionista, Tori! I love seeing her in these functions just to see what she will wear in a more casual setting. That hat is too cute. Thanks again for your up-to-date research!

Thank you, Thank YOOOOOOO, Misspraver! I have always loved Tori's bones from her cheek bones to jawbone. But I have also loved her skin. This pic shows her amazing facial bone structure and her amazingly healthy, flawless, glowing skin. Okay, her mirror-like eyes in this pic have also been a fave for their shape, their "tilt" and color. Thanks so much for your post!

Nice to see all this activity upon my return! And to see you loitering, SnL! Missed Ya! Tough to leave Tori, isn't it?

Thanks! Keep posting. To me a refresh is repost; it serves to remind us of Tori's gloriousness!

Thanks, misspraver! It's great to see a pic of Tori looking oh so sweet while relaxing on the beach. She has always been a mermaid, and the ocean background makes her look at home!

Thank YOOOOO, audrinaxoxo, for posting Tori's pics from her night on the town with such silverscreen luminaries. As I've said often befoere, Tori could be a Hollywood starlet herself if she chose to do so. And you brought Tori's pages closer to the big ONE ZERO ZERO!

From movies.broadwayworld.com: Model Tori Praver attends The Cinema Society & OC Concept screening of 'RED' at The Museum of Modern Art on October 3, 2010 in New York City. Tori hanging out with the likes of Kelly Rutherford, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and other A-Listers. Go, Tori! Check out the website for Tori in grey or post them if you can before I can!

Thanksalotsa, Audrinaxoxo, for these amazing GP pix of Tori. I know it's not polite to objectify a woman by discussing her "body parts," but I must say each of Tori's body parts from her eyes to her curvy calves looks so incredibly alluring even when fully clothed! In Hamlet, Polonius says, "Clothes oft proclaim the man" or "Clothes maketh the man." The Greeks said it before and Mark Twain commented on it after. But, I must update it now to reflect Tori's career as an unforgettable fashionista: "Tori ALWAYS maketh the clothes!" Tori looks so chic, cool, elegant, fit as a fiddle, sexy, mysterious, etc. When I look at these GP shots, Audirinaxoxo, and flip back to her bathing suit shoots or Halston or Gorsuch pics and any of Tori's pics really, and I can only think of one word: VERSATILE! Gawd what a treat on a cold, rainy fall evening! Thanks again and have a great weekend!

Tori and the Two Tow-Headed Tots! Soooooooo cute! Thank You, Misspraver! I think Lord and Taylor has used or still uses the tagline "Signature American Style." Tori epitomizes that tagline if she is in a bathing suit or corporate suit because she exudes health and strength is simply beautiful. Tori IS signature American Style! SnL, I know Praver pics are rare and precious as a result, like a diamond. To paraphrase Shakespeare's Prince Hal in HENRY IV, PART I, when Hal comes out from behind a cloud as the sun does, his brilliance will be all the more noted. Similarly, we wait with baited breath for Tori's pictures and when they do come, mostly from prolific posters as you, they are adored even more! You are the bestest and have done so much to promote Tori, SnL! Thank you!

Thanks, Vanessaaa! It's always fun to see Tori in candids or out and about! And next your average Jane, Tori and Hilary seem so extra-statuesque! If you have someone or some people whom you have to remember on 9.11, I hope you do so just the way you would like to whether it be cathartic or simply a way to remember the persons. I will be remember my former colleague who was flying from Boston to LA on essentially his first day of his new position in professional athletics after being in the college ranks for a number of years. I will also speak with his twin brother who has always been working in college athletics and never boarded that fateful flight. I can't imagine losing a sibling, let alone a twin. Most important, I hope fringe elements on both sides of the Muslim-Christians think of others before hatching any destructive plans. It seems the fundamentalists of any religion wreak a great deal of havoc and the moderates get the labels of fanatics. Peace to Tori and her fans this weekend of rememberance and service.

Boy, SnL, you are always so current! Tori, in a light color with her flawless, golden skin, and of course trademark goldielocks, looks as beautiful as ever. I was a bit worried about peeking at Tori's pages after last night's fiasco. Would the post be removed with a dire warning, etc.? Or would that be it for me at BZ? Would Tori have me banished if she saw it? Only time will tell! Well, I decided to face my fears and look and see about my fate. Just before, I did, I listened to an interview on NPR about a comedian, diagnosed with cancer and a prognosis of only a few months to live. Terry Gross, the interviewer, asked him if he prayed to a particular god or higher power. Eerily, given my religion babble only the night before, he said he prayed daily to every god, goddess, or deity he could think of to better his chances of living. He said, in his dire situation, you can't just pick one god to look for help. By implication, he was saying all deities were there for everybody. The cancer went into remission. Interestingly, he credited the use of "crystals" with healing him. Using all-encompassing prayer, crystals, and experimental medicines certainly increased his chances. In the end, he beat cancer and Howard Stern's macabre "death bet" against him but died in a car accident! Anyhoo. . . While you keep us grounded in Tori's present, I have searched her amazing past. Tori has been ahead of the latest revival of the fedora and always looks fetching in one or in any hat for that matter! Only some of Tori's Toppers: Tori does look amazing in any hat!

Thanks for being so polite, SnL! I know Tori's fans would prefer your Tori pics, each worth a gazillion words vs my babble! I might get kicked for this post. I must say, however, I was horrified to hear about that Gainesville, FL minister who is holding a Qu'ran burning on 9.11 (Fahrenheit 451 or Nazi Germany redux?), despite General Petraeus's begging him not to. Thanks to lightspeed internet communication, it apparently got around the world and has already angered many Muslims just what the General doesn't need to protect his troops. The minister didn't seem like a narcissistic televangelist trying to garner attention for himself. Rather, he said he simply was trying to make up for the Bible burning by Muslims among other things. The last I checked, the Old Testament, the Torah and the Qu'ran are all associated with the "Eye for an Eye. .." phrase. The real intention of the phrase is not literally taking exact retribution but taking equal value for the loss and giving forgiveness. Can you say Lost in Translation . . . or Interpretation? A familiar, secular example would be Frost's "A Road not Taken" that most people interpret as someone taking the path less traveled. But the end of the poem shows that Frost looks AS FAR AS he can down each path but CANNOT "discern" any difference. He knows that, as in life, he cannot go back in time but must make a decision, ANY decision from which there is also no going back an so upon navigating the paths of life and the choices it presents one with careful thought or simply tossing a coin. Similarly Eye for an Eye by itself or Turn the Other Cheek is as catchy and easy as saying in a senior yearbook quotation: "Thanks Mr/s. Smith for all you have done. Fave Poem: "Thanks to 'Road not Taken,' I have always taken the road less traveled. I'm outta here!" Frost says there is no road less traveled, but tell that to most readers of the poem and ask them to change their initial interpretation of it. Luckily, it is an influential poem but not worth shedding blood over. It is not one of the huge, varied religious tomes to which gazillions of people commit their entire lives and defend by the sword or convert by the sword as in the past. Every major religion has always actively tried to prosletyze save for Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shinto. Everything comes down to interpretation and sometimes civil disagreement or violent conflicts come out of those disagreements or interpretations about a religious or secular text or a model's hairstyle. Every religious text has a gazillion interpretations. Instead of burning a Qu'ran for burning the Bible, the minister, whose congregation probably follows the New Testament, should encourage "turning the other cheek" or "doing unto others. . ." or "loving thine enemy" (also catchy but incomplete phrases) and not burn anything but take the higher road! Does the Gainesville FD give them a book-burning permit because of religious freedom when it hurts others? Freedom of speech? Common courtesy in all religions. Of course, there are plenty of contradictions in all religions and their principal texts and interpretations, the beauty of religion and perhaps its shortcoming when people cannot co-exist because they do not accept another religion or even a variation of its own (eg Catholic v. Protestant both Christian or Muslim Iraq v. Muslim Iran). Even Judaism, Christianity, and Islam "share" the same god or "root" but are famous for discriminating against each other. We need an inter-faith deity Trustee meeting in the heavenly conference room to decide our collective gooberish fate! Phew! Most important, I just hope people in the US do not copycat the Gainesville minister. I called a former Marine and model (fashion connection for BZ police) friend who grew up in Gainesville, and she said the city is conservative and essentially part of The Bible Belt, and it's not just 9.11 but the 1300-hundred-years old battle between Christianity and Islam, an interesting observation and probably forgotten. Also forgotten perhaps is that Islam has been more of the "aggressor" recently (in really superficial terms ) while Christianity has had its own aggressive eras from crusades, inquisitions, wars, and some would say missionary efforts, etc. Because the heavenly board meeting cannot be predicted, we can learn from the past in Aristophanes' LYSISTRATA, ancient Greek play in which Lysistrata convinces all the women to refuse sexual congress from their soldier husbands to bring the especially bloody Peloponnesian war to a screeching halt. Boys will boys and religion and war, often fought with the same god invoked by the different sides, have historically and unfortunately been controlled by us rather than a nice mix. But this is not a current events forum! Back to the Tormeistress. I absolutely love the pony tail that goes straight up or in a different direction than usual. It's sooo cute! It must remind me of field hockey and lacrosse players in . . . boarding school . . . college, and grad school, some of whom wore them that way. I have also always liked hair pulled back all the way because it seems all facial features are put on display for better or worse. Of course, with Tori's strong features, it doesn't matter, but as you said it is, SnL, wonderfully different and fun. I wondered if she would ever cutting some her trademark locks or coloring it black. I hate it when people compare people, but as an example only and sort of IMG Univ. classmate, Hilary Rhoda had either blonde hair or a blonde wig in one editorial a while ago. She was quite the chameleon, as a good model should be. Tori's Trademark Tresses: Tori's Chameleon Character: Hilary Rhoda, a Brunette, with Tori-like Tresses for Reference Only not Comparison: Can you believe one of the most feminine, strong, athletic, glam and sexy BZ models can look androgynous as well?! She has been so versatile for so long! As always, Tori BZ fans, appreciative of your patience with the verbosity but this issue is so current! And for my sake, if I wake up in the middle of the night, I will never babble on and wrassle ignorantly with the BZ site at this hour again!

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Oh boy! The BZ police and babble monitors will do me in for sure for these empty posts I can't delete!

Hope Tori and her fans found some R and R this weekend or out did themselves so they are dragging at work tomorrow! Play hard. Work. . . Play Hard. Rest at work. Just remember it's a short week. :p I know el jefe was more than thorough about posting Tori's latest Gorsuch pics in HQ. I still genuflect to him for that. Still, Gorsuch keeps emailing them daily and helps keep Tori in the front of my head. After SnL's ginormous pics of Tori in Peter Hahn's Catalogues, of course it's tough to match a larger-than-life Tori. But these to pics came in from Gorsuch with a 60F temp last night in Boston. All the colleges and universities have swelled the city and students are sporting the latest fall gear from cotton hoodies to wool suits for internships. Soon the leaves will be a changin' and the apple pickers will be a pluckin'. . . and our Tori will be ready for fall with the coziest of cozy clothes. One of my fall faves because it embodies Tori's simple grace, style, strength, and beauty in a relaxed but strong movement: That's why it has been my avi for a while. Not that you asked! This one shows Tori so cute and Kashmiri Kozy, it is irresistable: Hell, the Kashmir turtle or cowl neck looks so heavenly on her, I'd venture near the heavens to the Kashmir mountains, find those hardy Kashmir goats, shear their underbellies and hand-knit some warm sweaters and shawls and blankets to keep our fave Hawaiian warm for another year of cold Northeast weather! SOME SEPTEMBER CALENDAR EVENTS AND THOUGHTS: There are some high holidays beginning and have started, including Ramadan and Rosh Hashanah. I hope we show tolerance regardless of which deities or god or goddess you worship. Given what college students have reported around the US after returning to campus, there is already tension about 9.11 remembrance day and the proposed mosque near the World Trade Center site. There could be a rough patch at 9.11.10 remembrance day. I have found it safest to look at the individual rather than the group to avoid generalizing/stereotyping. Easy for me to say. Gladly, the International Day of Peace follows quickly afterward on 21 September. Perhaps as the planet's reminder (no, I'm no tree hugger!) to keep our heads together, the autumnal equinox falls on 23 September, and the earth is about as balanced on its axis as it gets till spring. 12 hours of even Steven sunlight from North to South Pole. Let's hope we remain this balanced when judging friends, colleagues, religions, etc. I realize some tv shows and news shows do not help at all. I should apologize for preaching and straying from Tori Talk, and I do, but in my travels around the world, I have seen pop culture common to most countries and that includes fashion, music, movies, sports, etc. All the young kids and older kids can order anything from anywhere. When you see Levi's in so many countries, you could say this is another multi-national taking over the world. But I see it as a connecting point just as music and art connect people over the internet or in person. Fashion, then, just as it does promoting connections here on BZ, and its pop culture counterparts could be peacemakers worldwide if they help make connections and see each other as individual humans. Simplistic. Yup. But ya gotta start somewhere.

Now that was a great head's up, SnL! I always think how Tori's especially "wide" shoulders and strong core and narrow waist help give tops and dresses such a great silhouette and help clothes drape beautifully on her These huge, Peter Hahn pics, however, remind me of the obvious: how looooooooooooooong Tori's legs are and how amazing she looks in any type of pants. Thanks for a great Labor Day present!

Gawd, Tori looks so powerful in that first pic! Thanks for the candids, SnL! I just saved the thumbnail of the first pic below on my desktop to post here as my latest fave Tori pic. I had to live chat first, however, with a Norton Virus customer rep (of course, based in India ). He ended up having to go into my laptop. I forgot Tori's pic was on the desktop, and he said, "The girl holding the hangers looks cute." I couldn't disagree. :p I thought it that it was interesting that when Tori was showing her fun side, he still saw her sweet side. He had to be totally unbiased because he had no idea who Tori was and didn't ask. That made it an even more sincere, objective observation and not flattery. Some day, Tori will be known recognized worldwide if she wants to be! I thought I would add another fun fave pic to show Tori has been fun and sweet with abs of titanium for at least as long as she has had pix on these pages. Tori as the. . . Consummate Professional Swimsuit Designer: and Tori as the. . . Consummate Professional Swimsuit Model: . . . but always the Consummate Cutie! Good luck to all transitioning from summer to fall, from home to school, or apt to apt, etc. (Boston is clogged with moving trucks!)