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Trivia for Tori Nation and a Belated May Day Celebration for all the Pagans on the planet and Happy Early Cinco De Mayo: 365 Days of Amazing Trivia — 2015 Page-A-Day Calendar Saturday, May 2, 2015In surfing slang, what's the green room? Answer:The hollow space or tube inside the barrel of a breaking wave. It's green because of the light reflected into the barrel.

Happy St. Valentine's Day Weekend to Tori, Danny, Ryan Mahina, and Tori Nation ! I hope these Valentine's Day re-posts or refreshes from Tori's BZ pages on 25 JAN 2007 don't break any BZ rules. Nearly a decade ago . . . Thanks to her Aloha attitude, healthy lifestyle, and the love of hers and Danny's life, Ryan Mahina, Tori doesn't look a day older. Tori Nation's fearless leader shares her latest cookie creations for Valentine's Day on Instagram. Tori has always been gracious enough to give her fans more than a few glimpses or hers, Danny's, and Ryan Mahina's daily lives.

Happy Ramadan, Diwali. Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year ​ to Tori , Danny , Ryan :wub2: , and Tori Nation ! This tree actually has roots and can be re-planted and will keep growing. As the card says, it's a Norfolk Island Pine. Inside the card, I was surprised to read that the Norfolk Island Pine started with seeds in Praver-Fuller's . . . Hawaii . . . and needs a lot of sunlight. Pine or "evergreen" trees don't lose needles in winter unless they are cut down and used as Christmas trees, not exactly eco-friendly. The use of evergreen trees pre-dates Christianity, and evergreen trees were used by Pagans at the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, at least, to symbolize re-birth and the return to warmer days. :dance: Ancient Egyptians didn't have evergreens and used a palm tree to celebrate the re-birth of the earth after the shortest day of the year. Here in Massachusetts, before Massachusetts became a state, Puritans condemned the Christmas tree and most "fun" traditions associated with Christmas as being Pagan or "heathen." The first Christmas trees were used by German-Americans whose Pagan ancestors had brought only branches in the home to preserve the tree. The first Christmas tree in a church may have been in Ohio in 1851, and the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on the White House lawn started with President Coolidge in 1923. Some Christian denominations still don't allow Christmas trees because they feel it is a Pagan or heathen tradition. Many religions, now, though, see the Christmas tree as secular and simply a symbol of coming together with lots of lights at the darkest day of the year and hope for re-birth in January. Well, all the holidays listed above have lights associated with them during the shortest days of the year. I was surprised that the card said this little tree originated in Hawaii but thrives in the North Pole where there is little light at this time of year. Whatever the case, I hope Tori, Danny, and Ryan and all of Tori Nation have had safe and restful holidays and will have a great New Year and lots of hope and light as the days have already been getting longer if not warmer for 10 days. Hopefully, people will keep their New Year's resolutions as long as possible. As important, I hope Tori Nation citizens in the Southern Hemisphere have enjoyed their summer and have had plenty of hope and light and keep enjoying it as long as it lasts.

Happy Halloween to Tori Nation, its fearless leader, Tori, Danny, and Ryan :mignonne: !

Ok. So it didn't! Babylola and 2324lebron and sweetandlow and anyone in Tori Nation needs to post a birthday-greeting any time this week or this month!

I hope that Tori, Danny, and baby Ryan have a great birthday week for the fearless leader of Tori Nation! 2324lebron, thanks for keeping Tori's BZ pages going and to Lebron James who may keep Miami Heat going all the way! Babylola, thanks for keeping such a great FB fansite going for Tori as well! And, thanks to BZ for keeping its pages looking new and updated, even more than some banks, corporations, government and maybe even safer from hackers of any age or the NSA when eBay, Target, and no government can keep information completely safe. When a Apple was more hacker-proof than any Microsoft-based PC of any brand has been compromised, just hope that no one has anything to hide or you are not important enough to be hacked. Hopefully, Tori will share her birthday and pics of her new family with her fans as she has always been doing through Instagram/Pintrest and in great shoots in international magazines before, during her "wedding" photo shoot and after. She is definitely a great role model for supermodels and the rest of us to stay in good health in moderation when she is in the public spotlight. Tori could be a great "pitch person" for many products as many supermodels, athletes, actors/actresses are still selling many items, alcohol, or cars during the height of their careers and well into their middle years and senior years. Selling jewelry, clothing, and perfume fall into a pretty safe category that most folks can't abuse, unless they spend more than they can afford on them. On the other hand, such health and beauty products from perpetually youthful skin to physical-therapy aids or health maintenance aids from "copper" bracelets and compressor sleeves with copper threaded through them are usually too good to be true. Many of the before-and-after pics in print, TV, or GIFs of weight-loss programs, skin products have been shown to be manipulated or placed into older movies that came out before the product was even introduced or re-invented and re-introduced. Advertisers have to know their audience and their audience has to choose to buy the products so it's tough to blame either party. One of Progressive's "Flo" ads show names of boats as Flo passes each boat's name that play with the her "ad" name (like Cash-Flo). Adding those names so they look "real" is not maybe as easy manipulating before-and-after pics in ads for any item. Just as Allstate's "Mayhem" goes through impossible scenes that are also fun, both pitch insurance that, like alcohol companies, have huge advertising budgets and make the best ads. "Flo" and "Mayhem" maybe "stuck" in the characters in those ads and both have had fans and "haters." "Flo" and "Mayhem" are just trying to earn a salary and have to read all the praise and negative comments if the choose to. But usually, for the average citizen or even celebrity or politician, insurance pays out little compared to what they take in. From San Francisco to Boston, insurance companies have some of the tallest buildings. Alcohol companies also have huge ad budgets and hire the best companies to make amazing, engaging, and convincing ads, but folks can abuse alcohol if they choose to or are pre-disposed to with family history or genes or even if their religion prohibits and even if they are "self-proclaimed" "strict" followers of that religion. Pharmaceutical companies use celebrities and have huge advertising budgets, too, but they influence maybe even more consumers and their pitch-people may have personal salary interests or personal testimonies that a drug worked for them or a family member. Some pharmaceuticals use simple animated ads and not with the latest animation technology. They may be the most "honest" of them all as people trust their personal celebrities as half-gods and goddesses as they do their personal gods and goddesses in all religions. Trust in religion is personal as is trust in politicians and religion and politics are very personal. It is easy to play the blame game against or judge corporations/pitch-people, or consumers because all three have "to dance" together to sell the product. Tori seems to know this inter-dependent and inter-dependent relationship and that one cannot exist without the other, really as night can't be known without day as a comparison. Tori has followed her passion for her designer dreams to start own swimsuit company and given back to various charities and started to used eco-friendly materials. Whether she chooses to be a pitch person as she has for Arby's, that isn't exactly healthy eating. . . if eaten all the time. If you can afford to eat expensive foods that are supposed to be good for you, at, say, "Whole Paycheck" of Whole Foods as one customer joked about the popular chain of health food stores and about health-food marketing and the alleged merits of organic and natural foods. Tori, now knows that she is "much" older than in the Arby's ad that everything from health to food to prescriptions should ideally be taken in moderation regardless of what advertisers, nutrition "experts, celebrities, or even doctors advise sometimes when some doctors have more of an interest in the drug companies than their patients health. And, doctors with their patients, like teachers with their students, and religious leaders with their followers, and all three, at any level, hold valuable trust or break it. Whether that trust was assumed or earned, it is difficult to regain once broken. I am glad Tori has followed her passion to be a swimsuit designer and created suits that work, well, for almost anyone from kids to women who can feel comfortable wearing them and afford them and start a family and enjoy a public life in and out of the spotlight as she and Danny have chosen to do so as they raise Ryan. Happy Birthday, Tori, on June 4th in Hawaii whenever it comes first in any time zone. Hopefully, you, Danny, and Ryan and yours and Danny's friends and families can celebrate it at one spot at the same time in person, not using any technology, like Skype , to bring you together at the same time. Your fans in Tori Nation that includes anyone who has visited your BZ pages, Babylola's FB fansite, or you or Danny on the Internet can celebrate it any time you and Danny choose to share the pics! Maybe this extended birthday-greeting post will move Tori's BZ pages to 146, finally.

2324lebron, Thanks for posting Kelly Emberg's pic, a blast from the past for sure! They do look similar! Well, my last babble with a few pics didn't move Tori's BZ pages to 146. I'm sure Tori Nation appreciates anything new after that one! I haven't seen Danny Fuller on auto-Oakley emails, either. Maybe they are staying lower key than usual to spend more time with Ryan. Hopefully, Babylola will find some recent pics and intel. But "refreshes" of pics of Tori past are always amazing as Tori looked so healthy and glowing before being pregnant with Ryan, during, and afterward. Tori has always been great about sharing pics on Instagram, though. Tori could probably have graced the covers of international magazines as Demi Moore, Eva Herzigova, with whom she shared the Cannes' spotlight for Chopard awhile ago, Jessica Simpson, Kim Kardashian, or as many celebs have! It;s not easy to inspire every-day folks to stay healthy and active without making them jealous, either. Since she first started, she has been so down to earth and probably wants to keep it that way!

Tori Nation so quiet after all that babble or because of it? Checking in after a "Blood Moon" and Lunar Eclipse and a week before Earth Day. Happy Holy week to some folks and Happy Tori Day because every day is Tori Day for Tori Nation!

Victoria_Justice, Love your and avi, too! Jeez o' Pete as they some Michiganders may say! Talk about beauty and athleticism in your avi! I think I would knee pads if I could even slide one my knees like that! Thanks for visiting Tori's BZ pages! I'm sorry the admin folks called you on the link. I haven't been on Tori's BZ pages for a while. And thankfully for BZ and her fan's I haven't babbled in a long time but have made up for that below when BZ's babble police will call me on it for too much babble or too large a pic of Tori or pics of other folks on Tori's BZ pages! I'm not testing them, and if they call me on any of it, I will agree even as I will get called on by Tori Nation Citizens for the babble and aren't interested in the trivia or the opinions. When replying to 2324 Lebron, I had no idea how to insert a pic with the new-for-me tool bar. Bellazon as with any website, non-profit, for-profit, babble blogs, worth its salt always tries to improve itself, and boy has BZ done so . I had to see about "refreshing" my mental images of Tori back in Yamamay days and Guess Old Hollywood, etc., by Googling her name. I used to do it every once in a while by starting on her first BZ page started by "Lea" back in 2006 and clicking and scrolling through a page or three a day, but Googling came her name came up with her 1.2+ million links and more images in .25 seconds and in random order. Whoa! Sensory overload! Tori Nation should be thankful to Lea, even though someone else would have started Tori's pages. And of course, thanks to Tori Nation, hopefully an inclusive tribe, that grants automatic citizenship even for taking a nano second peek at Tori's BZ pages or Babylola's fab FB fansite! And, of course, Tori, the eponymous leader who manages to balance career and family and still share so much of her personal life. Tori would probably share those personal glimpses not because celebs would not be celebs with out fans and vice versa, as I have said, like day/night, inextricably linked as Hegel would say, but simply because she has her feet on the ground. Celeb moms always get critiqued about getting back into shape after having a baby. Trying to be as objective as possible, it is amazing that Tori looked so athletically gorgeous before and after giving birth to her cutie. I know some womenfolk feel the pressure to look the best they can after carrying a baby for nine months or some who are concerned about "thigh gap." Some men are as self-critical about body image and more so now with Internet access to high-level workouts and nutrition tips. I have also said some menfolk try to stay fit as a fiddle when they don't have to carry a baby while the mom does and have all the hormonal and appetite changes that women have to go through. So, I would say we menfolk have it easier all around. Danny Fuller started as a lean, surfing model machine and Tori did, too. But I would have to say, again, in all fairness, that Tori had to do a lot more to get back into her svelte shape (when Danny just kept on keepin' on being fightin' trim, but when Tori posed with in profile to show her baby belly, as many celebs have (eg Demi Moore back way back, posing for some cover), I think Tori has always looked as Bruce Weber said, way back when Tori landed the GUESS? contract, that she exuded the long, lean, but not too lean Brooke Shields look: a picture of health that inspires both men and women. Whatever Tori eats, does for strengthen and conditioning and stretching and, of course her Aloha spirit combined with good genes have kept her hair and skin so healthy, it's crazy. I know celebs have access to the best diets, best skin and hair care and all the rest, but, lawdy, Tori does a body good, just as the Milk ads used to say, I think. And she probably does everything in moderation and not obsessively, especially with her "physique." I forgot that the sig that Donbot kindly created for me states that Tori's business pursuits and exercise regimen and a relaxed attitude have allowed her to have a healthy mind in a health body. ASICS is an acronym for anima sana in corpore sano. I have seen that engraved in some high school and university fitness centers and athletic facilities across the country. Without the ASICs part, of course. Lisa Birnbach's The Preppy Handbook mentions that motto as being the prep-school raison d'etre. Ms. Birnbach's keen social-science skills and observation in what really is a social satire influenced many kids, adults, and such designers as Ralph Lauren who got his start as a Brooks Brothers ties salesman before turning preppy chic into a marketing marvel that even changed the name of the first short-sleeved tennis shirt, designed by one of the tennis legends and one of the French Four Musketeers, Rene Lacoste (for freedom of movement and inner climate control!) to the Polo shirt with the ubiquitous horse and rider logo. The original tennis shirt was long sleeved and a plain-point collar and not a button-down collar. That was a functional design to keep polo players' collars from flapping up and smacking them in the face as they played their gentile sport. Brooks Brothers introduced the first Polo-collared shirt with button down collar after it used the tennis collar with out buttons. Many fashion elements, like cuffs on men's and women's trousers started off with a function. Cuffs were used initially to tip cigar and cigarette ash into. Just the other day, I saw a modelina with 6" cuffs on her trousers. She could have put a whole humidor of cigars or a carton of cigarettes in them thar cuffs! Hopefully, she doesn't smoke to curb appetite or any reason. The placket of a men's shirt used to button right over left, until a dueler's sword handle caught in the placket as he drew his sword with his right hand, as all folks had to be right handed for a long time, and got killed or injured because of that delay. From then on, women's and men's shirts button and even zip on different sides, except for some international zippers that have a left zip for both men and women. Left-handedness used to be associated with the devil: sinistra in Latin means "left." There are plenty of kids who were told to be righty and plenty of athletic greats like Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly who was the first male or female to win two tennis Grand Slams, back to back. She was a natural lefty, and her parents said no tennis player of note was lefty and may have believed the "sinister" part of being lefty. Lefty's use the right side of the brain, good, they say for sports and art. She had an aircraft carrier named after her, but met an untimely death when she was horseback riding and a cement mixer's chute swung open and knocked her off of her horse and she died instanty: "Out, Out, brief candle . . ." Macbeth says of his wife's untimely death and short life and Frost chose "Out, Out. . ." as the title for one his poem's about a boy who cuts his hand off when he looks up from cutting wood for a second at the end of the work day and dies. There are many "buzz-saw moments when one doesn't focus but hopefully, it won't end in tragedy! If you watch Stephen Colbert, he wears Brooks Brothers suits and ties with a plain point collar because, just as some folks say, you are not supposed to wear white bucs (used to be buckskin, now suede) and Madras (from a city in India now called Chennai to avoid using the British city names even though the British did some good there, like roads and trains, etc.; the hot climate necessitates the creation of those cool fabrics, like calico, etc.) shirts before Memorial day and not after Labor Day, plain-point collars are supposed to worn with suits. "Supposed" is the operative word as Stephen Colbert chooses Brooks Brothers for a reason: to channel the preppy, Republican (or preppy Democrats wear the Brooks Brothers "uniform," even when he channels Ronald Reagan. President Reagan, who was not even close by Ms. Birnbach's standards to being as preppy from birthright Vice President, GHW Bush who went to Philips Academy, Andover, and Yale (and whose family switched to the preppiest and most powerful denomination in the US, Episcopalian (Colbert is Catholic, and according to Birnbach's social analytics "true" preppies are White, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant (WASPy) and is a member of the secret society "Skull and Bones," the most secret of the secret societies perhaps in any school. Members of Skull and Bones started the pre-cursor to the CIA, called the OSS. Julia Child was in the OSS, and she went to one of the all-women's schools called the "Seven Sisters" that were supposed to be equal to the all-male Ivy Leagues at the time. But, I digress as I haven't in a long time on Tori's BZ pages! GHW Bush was CIA Director before he became Reagan's VP and then, of course, President himself. It is a bit scary that the only Catholic President was Kennedy. It is even scarier that in a country in which women have so much education and supposed power since the '70s. In the early 70s many all-male schools as colleges and universities went co-ed even if only to expand and . . . get more tuition and numbers (only Hamden-Sydney (VA), Morehouse (GA), and Wabash (IN) are still all male and Emma Willard of Emma Willard school (the all girl's prep school near Albany, NY and wher Jane Fonda learned to throw up her food to stay slip and the setting for Scent of a Woman) saw to it that colleges of "high standing" should have all-women counterparts back when only Oberlin (OH), Lawrence (WI), Antioch (OH) and Bates (ME) were originally co-ed and are even CEOs of large companies, we still haven't elected a woman President, Republican or Democrat, when such stereotypically patriarchal nations as England, India, Pakistan, Israel, Germany, have had had women in the top spot, albeit with only Israel, England, and Germany really electing Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, and Angela Merkel, respectively, and not part of ruling families in democracies as Benazir Bhutto and Indira Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) were in Pakistan and India. Tori, with her business and people skills, could be the next woman president; she is tall and maybe, WASPy as all but one has been. But, they say smart folks don't run for political office especially the US Presidency. And Tori is too smart and too low key to do so! I try to stay out of politics and religion, both super-personal and often touchy subjects. I love Tori because she seems to be so inclusive when most, I say "carefully," religions, political parties, etc. are so exclusive as are any tribe that we humans create from sports teams to national spirit (or chauvinism) in the original French meaning of the word: loyalty to one's country. I was crestfallen when both USA Women's Hockey lost in the Olympic Gold-Medal Final Game and USA Men's Hockey fell to the Canadians in the semi-finals, but I will hope that the tribe of hockey becomes more diverse and one day, women will play with the men as Shannon, Szabados (5'9"), the Canadian goalie will and as Manon Rheaume (5'7") did a long time ago for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Rheaume and Szabados may have been or be the best of the best, unlike Jackie Robinson, who was not the best of the best in the Negro Leagues but had the temperament to be the first African-American person to play baseball, as Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson were the first African-Americans to with the US Open and Wimbledon, may have been the best of the best, but they could not shout and yell like McEnroe or Jimmy Connors as those who followed do in men's and women's tennis. Not that it matters, but Manon Rheaume could have been a modelina (just as SI Men and Women athletes are noted for their faces and physiques now) as Shannon Szabados could now appear in SI that features "attractive" male and female athletes, ruff, tuff, and almost in the buff, but, of course, we are supposed to look at women and men for their athleticism and hopefully intelligence, not appearance, but marketing knows no rules, really: Does a person's appearance matter when he or she is the last stop before the goal? Yes, for marketing, and no for stopping 100mph shots, as the owner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Phil Esposito, a Stanley Cup winner and NHL-Hall-of-Famer himself, knew well, when he hired Ms. Rheume to attract more folks in the Lightning's first season in the NHL and because she could do the job. She was the first and only woman to play in the NHL. She and the Candadian Olympic Women's Hockey Team lost the gold medal to the US Women's team in the 1998 Olympics. 1992-2014 and no woman goalie or player in the NHL, not even Shannon who is in the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets' system now?! Progress is too slow for me! For women and folks of all "ilks" to eat, play, and hang together even semi-peacefully and unthreateningly to each other! Such inclusivity and human team work has only one obstacle: we humans ourselves. Oh, well. Patience is virtue, I guess. Shannon and her secure guy teammates, secure at least for the pic ! The tribes have been around in many forms and will continue to exist as long as humans are on the planet. Marketing, of course, creates more tribes with Facebook friending and liking and Google circles and of course every retail business asking you to like it on FB and then complete an online, auto-generated survey, all the while hooking consumers to be part of their tribes by having you register online and receive perceived or actual benefits. Of course, whether you a part of a clique at school, a sorority/fraternity, or religion, or shop at Sports Authority, we are motivated by marketers who take our pulse at every point and try to read our minds. In fact, Target used data-mining tactics to predict when a teenager was pregnant before her Dad did, and Walmart could have predicted the date of Ryan's birth as Walmart predicted when a woman was going to have a baby by monitoring her purchases from in-shelf cameras. It takes to two tango with tribes of any kind, marketing-driven or simply for the simple human need, for some humans, feeling part of any group, like the Tori Nation tribe or Bellazon tribe. Tori, Danny, and baby Ryan seem to be a lot more low key as I have said than many celebrities of the model tribe (for both) and pro-surfer for Danny and a natural-born surfer of a high level for Tori. Phew! A pic is worth a 1000 words of my babble, as I have said many times before on Tori's BZ pages. Thanks to BZ, Babylola's amazing FB Fanpages, and Tori Nation, a wonderful tribe, biased of course, there are a lot more images of Tori, Danny, and Ryan and more to which Tori Nation can look forward. I don't think they will push Ryan to be a model or a surfer, just allow her to have the Aloha spirit naturally by breathing Hawaiian air. And, you, 2324lebron, have been helping Babylola carry the Tori Nation torch as fans come and go! Thank You! Here is the 2005 Outdoor Magazine pic even before some folks said Tori would be not be more than a stereotypical all-American, blonde, swimsuit model when she has shown myriad looks since she "arrived." Of course, every stereotype has at least one exception or more. In my book, there are no dumb blondes or jocks, etc. Each of the folks in those tribes have to try a bit or a lot harder simply to get past the stereotypes.

2324lebron!!!!!!! I meant the current sig. Love it. The link to the other one is great, too! Thanks for carrying the Tori Nation Torch with Babylola! I am sure all of Tori Nation appreciates it. I can't believe it's been about seven years to this month that I "discovered" Tori and Bellazon!

2324lebron, Love your latest sig by FashionDream, quotation, modelinas, movement and quotation! Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day to Tori Nation!

And, you, Babylola, thanks for continuing to Tori Nation alive with up-to-the-minute images of Tori, Danny, and cutie Ryan! They are a cute, cute trio. The British GQ set shows this modelina mama still has always had plenty of va-va voom will continue to have it!

2324lebron, your set by FashionDream is hypnotic! Thanks for making Tori even larger than life when she has always been larger than life! Just in time for not-so-little-Ms. Sunshine to usher in Daylight Savings Time in some parts of the world with her radiance. . . I hope everyone in Tori Nation and Tori and her circle of family and friends enjoyed the extra hour of day light last evening. Only a couple of weeks to go before the Vernal Equinox arrives on 20 March, and our eponymous, fearless leader and her perpetually summer and beautiful sunflower self help the flora burst into bloom, especially after this crazy, long winter in many parts of the U.S. and maybe even some of her purveyor of peace vibes will calm the planet of its climate woes and even serve as a balm-shell to calm the tribalism still seems to have more sway than an Aloha Spirit!

I have always said that re-posts are "refreshes" just like reading a book again or seeing a movie/painting again and seeing new things or remembering old and amazing aspects of it. With Tori's refreshes, better quality or not, I am always reminded of her beauty and character but also her amazing life, from moving through her brother Ryan's death to becoming a chameleonista model and realizing her dreams of having her own business and having a great family and raising a baby. Tori has always been down to earth and shares so much with her fans and keeps good relations with business ties (eg SI) and family and friends and manages to give to various charities on top of it all. Refreshing Tori Nation's collective memories and anticipating new Tori intel and pics is always fun! Thanks, 2324lebron, and to Babylola for being Tori's FB archivist extraordinaire. Both of you do so much for Tori and Tori Nation!

bigmax! Tori is not just Tori Nation but is definitely Buffalo David Bitton as the tagline reads. As usual, the chameleon cutie has changed her look from cute, cute to striking modelina and back with 1/1000 second click of each shutter! She looks sophisticated, with super-defined facial features and svelte, athletic limbs, glowing skin from fore head to toes. . . just a healthful, tall drink of water as always with toes always on the ground, sand, or grass. And, of course, she has had a baby , and continues to run her business, and she and Danny keep themselves seem so accessible and the average humans to us average humans, not too many celebs, especially double-model couples and athletes can pull of that feat despite their soundbites and charitable giving or selling their souls to ads for big Pharma, and as the super-bowl ads showed, car companies, etc. with only a few good ones, with some personal interest, either financial or a cancer survivor interest thrown in the mix! Well, I guess, as I have said before, it's not clothes that maketh the person as Shakespeare says, but the other way around, especially in Tori's case. Buffalo David Bitton's do not make Tori. They make each other of course just as you cannot have light without day or black without white for comparison or celebrity without fan and vice versa. In German philosophy, it is called inextricably linked opposites after Hegel. Hegelian opposites. But in this case, it is more Tori as objectively as I can be, even with her co-star. Black and white is always a nice change from color, simply because of the contrast and it looks more "artsy." Thanks, bigmax and congrats to Tori for being part of SI's 50th Anniversary celebration. My selfish thoughts would have her on the cover, but between politics, marketing, and most important, Tori's low-key approach, she is more now a business woman and perhaps the best mama bear to her bear cub. And her she followed her aspirations to her swimsuit designers with a nice stay at SI, too short for Tori Nation, perhaps, but just right for Tori and, in turn, her family. That she can keep up a great relationship with SI whether being included in the celebration and SI's wanting to use her creations is testimony to diplomacy and sincere relationship building that the Secretary of the UN could use when trying to keep this crazy world as peaceful as possible. Tori Praver, Secretary General of the UN, but they should probably update secretary title in every position from Secretary of the Treasury not to be PC but to reflect the connotations images of secretary in, say, Mad Men, as sex objects and who may be smarter than her boss and kept him on track but received little if any credit :lullaby: . Tori Praver, Diplomat General of the UN would be a possible start or World Inter-mediator for the UN, etc. A secretary or an admin now, PC or not do a lot more than just take notes and run the office, they are still in this day and age the "woman" behind the successful man that runs through business, politicians to this day. Remember the US, the land of the free, a classless society, is not free for some or classless at all. It is also one the only nation in the world that touts its strong women CEOs at Yahoo!, HP, etc. but has never elected a woman president as have the following more "traditional" countries/cultures who have had women leaders who, sometimes, unfortunately, have to prove they are tougher than stereotypical male leaders to be taken seriously. Of course, I don't want to touch no dumb-blonde stereotypes when some attractive men and women have to get folks to get past their good looks to have themselves taken seriously, even wearing glasses without prescription lenses to make them look smarter. I have known a number of regular folks who do that! Tori could bridge a lot of gaps between men and women in this country besides salary where women still make less per dollar than men for he same positions. She could shore up the insecurity that leads ultimately to most discrimination: racial, ethnic, religious, sexual orientations or . . . creed, whatever that is, but appears on many college application marketing materials, yes marketing materials to show their perfectly diverse pics because education now is as corporate as a corporation that uses marketing as its primary driver. I have thought should a tall, Blonde model first signed by Ford, historically an agency who signed Teutonic, Scadinavian models for decades with similar Tori features be such a world wide ambassador when she represents the "majority" in the US and the beauty ideal for all cultures for so long? I would say yes, simply because of her accepting of all people. I am sure there are models of color who could play the same role, but this is Tori Nation, after all, and ideally, we shouldn't be looking at appearance but inner character. Okay, enough, babble diatribe after some time. And, of course, it is my arm-chair quarterbacking from a distance and theorizing just as some folks do on a variety of subjects. That's my disclaimer when using Tori's example to make some statements perhaps not meant for Bellazon because they do not stick to the model. But if the model touches these subjects, especially as sincerely as Tori and Danny do, the babble may be rationalized as appropriate for this post. Keep on Truckin'!, Tori as the 70s bumper stickers proclaimed; Tori Nation will follow in your long strides for kind character and heart combo alone

2324lebron! Thank you for reminding Tori Nation that it's eponymous, magnificent mama modelina leader looks just as healthy, down to earth, and beautiful as she did when when she first appeared in SI. . . back in 2007! Lawdy! That's nearly a decade ago! In fact, as I scrolled down quickly, I thought it was a re-post or a "re-fresh" of her past images! I received a random Gorsuch catalogue in the mail after a long time, and I didn't even see her pics in the sale section. I was glad for the new Gorsuch girls, but sad that Tori had disappeared without a trace--without a gone-but-not-forgotten section as some yearbooks have in the US. Thankfully, SI and Tori Nation have not forgotten Tori's grace. With a model hubby, whom I just saw in an RVCA poster, a beautiful babelet and a company of which she is the CEO, Tori is an inspiration to all folks to build "foundations under your castles in the air" as Thoreau advised readers not just to dream but to follow them and make them reality if possible. And Tori takes Thoreau's advice one long-legged stride further by being an altruistic angel before her rise to fashionista fame and during her stay there by giving back to a number of charities with her money . . . and time. . .

Ditto, Babylola! Tori looks so relaxed and bee you teeeeee full! Happy New Year to Tori, her family, friends and Tori Nation all 'round our Big Blue Marble, Northern and Southern Hemispheres!

Thanks, Babylola, for a Winter-Solstice treat from a natural-born beauty! Yesterday was the shortest day in the year with more daylight coming incrementally until Tori-- if not warmth in some parts of the world. Tori, the June baby, celebrates her b-day on 04 JUNE and the Summer Solstice, the longest day, arrives on 21 June or so, not that long as Tori Nation's starlet was born. Hopefully, those Southern folks, Southern Hemisphere (like Donbot), that is, can bask in Tori's glow at this time of year thanks to your post and incredible FB fansite as their daylight disappears little by little for until June! Happy Holidays and New Year to Tori and her family, her friends and to Tori Nation! I hope everyone is healthy and happy and can find time for family, friends, food, fun, and . . . rest from all of the above as needed !

Wowee, Laura___, 2324lebron, and Baybola, helped move Tori's BZ pages to number one-forty-three! I hope their wedding weekend and Tori Nation's will be long, sweet and slow.

Wowee! Your new signature says, well, that a pic is worth a 1,000 words, especially of my babble words, as I have said before! Those girls are so striking, expressive and mischievous, they combine to make your sig so wonderfully minimalist; it makes an quite an impact to my eyeballs in one split second. Your avi girl has such smoldering cheek bones covered with such flawless skin and with as striking light eyes against dark hair as the mischievous modelina in your sig. Her gaze, however, is as riveting, as I think I said in my last post, and as I realize now, upon "refreshment," that they could follow you rivetingly across a room as the Mona Lisa's eyes appear to follow the viewer in a pic or moving back and forth in front of the real painting! I hope you and the rest of Tori Nation have a re-energizing and fun weekend! Hopefully, Tori herself and her family will, hopefully, have a similar one, too, as their wedding approaches perhaps with some planning details to which they have to attend as their big day comes closer and quicker. As a CEO with exemplary organizational skills and some help, Tori's and Danny's wedding will go as picture perfectly as their practice-run showed in an a beautiful set of their "informal wedding" in a great shoot several months ago.

Hey, again, 2324 lebron! That is a refresher for sure, of a "tall drink" of water as they say. What visual refreshment fer sher! I remember that cover on the grocery-store's checkout counter rack! :wub2: Usually, it's fun or painful to see the celebs pics chosen to match the headlines or vice versa of the tabloid covers! But Tori's Cosmopolitan cover was or is (as the pic and Tori live each time we refresh our mind's eye or actual eyeballs when looking at the pic again) refreshing visually for sure and a better distraction while waiting in line! She looks so cute and sassy, a perfect Cosmo Cutie. I also remembered by beginning her journey as a newbie modelina, she certainly became a "cosmopolitan" woman by definition ("a person who has lived in and knows about many different parts of the world," Merriam-Webster Dictionary) thanks to the world travel that her budding career afforded her. And, fortunately, for Tori Nation, Tori shares so many of her public and personal experiences all over this planet with us! And, now, she is a Renaissance Woman who would have been exalted in the same way as Renaissance Italians valued the qualities of a Renaissance Man: a person who has wide interests and is an expert in several areas (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)! Maybe we can push page 142 to 143 by week's end as "they" used to call the weekend with babble about Tori, "re-freshed" Tori Pics, new ones, or simply fave ones.

Thanks for breathing life into Tori Nation during a lull but the images of Tori are always up for "refreshing," just like re-reading a novel, seeing a painting or film again and seeing new details or! Looking at or re-looking at Tori's pics are always worth more than a 1,000 words! It feels great especially to read thoughts of veteran and newer Tori Nation citizens because we all adore and admire Tori and her life's journey and how she has been such a role model, supermodel, super-mama bear among other things as I have said and as 2324 lebron has echoed above. It is an all-inclusive Nation, and Tori would not have it any other way, especially with humans being so exclusive and marketers tapping into some humans' need to surround themselves with like-minded individuals from the same "ilk" simply for comfort that is only natural for humans and other animals who are social creatures but also exclude for the same reason and fear of difference and those who are "unknown." :wub2: But getting to know folks outside of your group as Tori has shown by accepting everyone regardless of educational background, social station, or trappings that go along with having wealth. If I saw these last pages for the first time, hers and Danny's family looks like the family next door, just a bit more handsome and just a bit more athletic, too. They seem as though they are simply regular folks. As we have all said, she keeps her feet on the ground, despite her celebrity status and accepts everyone for simply being as human as she is. I hope I am not putting words in the collective mouth of Tori Nation's collective citizenry! Thanks, Babylola, for your consistent and creative fansite that complements so nicely these here BZ pages with your individual taste that are admired by all of Tori Nation and any one who takes a look at your work and, of course, your layout and design skills extraordinaire are the envy of all your Tori Fansite visitors! And then, SnL, one of the earliest of all fans to join Tori Nation, has insights on Tori's career and has been magnificently consistent in her appreciation of all that Tori offers to her worlds and her fans.

Goooood Mawning, Vietnam (Robins Williams film) and Tori Nation at 9:21 CDT time ! Anyone out there? Happy Belated Autumnal Equinox on 22 SEPT 13, one of the two days of the year when the earth's axis is about as 0 degrees at the North and south Poles as the earth can get! Happy belated UN Peace Day while I am at it! Maybe that's why the UN celebrates International Peace Day on 21 SEPT because both Northern and Southern Hemisphere are bathed equally or basking in sunshine that is about as evenly distributed for the Whole Earth as it gets, too! I am sure Tori Nation and its eponymous, fearless, now Mother-Bear-with cute-cublet leader would love human beings to put aside religious, racial, ethnic, creed (what the hell is creed, any way?! and treat each other as human beings and not cluster in the safety to each of the "tribes" we belong (eg race, colleges, Target card holders, Whole Foods shoppers , religion, etc. There is safety in numbers, cliques (pronounced "cleek" in French), and mobs, of course, but if you don't go out of them, one may miss a whole lot of wonderful in this world we have inherited. "Creed" always appears on college and university website diversity statements: "We do not discriminate against application of any race, ethnic group, religion, creed, etc."! Hmmm. Do they? Do we? Of course, we do; we are humans and some humans discriminate more than others less, because we are humans. Tori, a high-ranking human in terms of brains and beauty, would say we are just simply Human Beans! And she is just one, long lean, but never mean naturally beautiful Jumping Bean with gams and insights to prove it! Here's to having the earth symbolically balanced twice a year (vernal equinox comes around 20 March 14) when we humans do our best to keep it imbalanced for most of the year worldwide with some sort of ridiculous strife! :knives: :persuazn: :jimmy: :lullaby: Stop the insanity we humans create! A deity who is a good coach would probably say, "Same Team! Human Team!" Jeez. And I'm no peacenik liberal, neither. Nor a conservative, just an apolitical, a political a fence sitter watching a tennis match of politics and tribalism that is endlessly repetitive and often destructive. Just look to Tori and her cute, cute cublet and fam to get away from human kind's gooberishness and goodness that she embodies with gorgeous, well, body, and everything else, including personality and face. Truth in Beauty, Tori Beauty! There have been a lot of YouTube clips almost daily from Tori's swimwear line, one was 43 seconds. It will probably be worth every second! Peace, Y'all down South, in Donbot's hemisphere, that is, and those in the Northern one and to the polar bear and penguins on either pole and bi-polar folks as well. They probably need the most peace. . . in their minds!

Thanks soooooo much, 2324lebron! The Tori Nation's :grouphug:Miracle-Working Modelina is back for sure after having a baby and continuing as a CEO! What an inspiration to every one! Maybe we'll see the Tori's BZ page move to page 143 before Labor Day and transition us into September!

Thanks, wtf, for your vid clip of Tori above; they are coming in daily almost now on YouTube! I can't keep up! But I will try to make up for lost Tori Time. Thanks, babylola, for your latest and greatest in the link of your amazing Tori Fansite above. Thanks, lack-of-Internet-access since 31 July 13, for keeping Lancelot's babble from Tori's BZ pages and Tori Nation (eg 31 13 is a palindrome, same forward and backward, like mom/dad)! I hope the Praver-Fuller clan, Tori Nation and Tori fans and her friends are having Some Kind of Wonderful . . . Vacay as summer transitions to fall, school, and/or work!