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Monday, September 29, 2008
The Fabled City Review
Review by Thom Jurek
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello returns to the singer/songwriter alter ego he calls the Nightwatchman for 2008's The Fabled City. It needs to be said from the jump that this album stands in radical contrast to the skeletal One Man Revolution issued in 2007. Morello and producer Brendan O'Brien (who has been working with Bruce Springsteen since The Rising) decided on something more ornate than just guitar and voice, because these songs warrant it. Morello is much more a storyteller here: he offers tales of ordinary people trying to make it through another day in America. No heady platitudes, no sloganeering in the refrains, just small narratives that break outside the bounds of song and enter the world. As such Morello has succeeded in growing as a multi-dimensional songwriter and as a singer. These songs, though directly narrated, are as political as on his preceding album, but in a different way: these stories are the narratives of people we know, and often, have been. His America is the one that exists on city streets and in quiet suburbs, in malls and on country roads. The relationship between Morello and O'Brien is mutually empathic, nearly symbiotic. O'Brien resists his grander schemes in favor of organic approaches: some songs have small drum kits, others have a cello or B-3, and some have pedal steel guitars. The tempos and characters shift and change, as do O'Brien's textures. The title track with its big acoustic guitars, drum kit, and bassline ushers the album in with urgency: "Me and Javi /Shouted slogans in Spanish/Like it was our world to win/Then they moved the plant down to Ojeda/Time to bite your tongue again." Later, "an angel sad and old" who lives in an alley behind a market sings for a dollar. Morello's acoustic and the bass get fuzzed up for "Whatever It Takes," along with an urgent rhythmic pulse offering a first person narrative about a soldier who struggles as a proxy and an ally against despair, defeat, and disappearance. On "Lazarus on Down" a nylon-string guitar and a cello usher in the story of the raised biblical character abandoned and alone in Bethany; it features backing vocals by Serj Tankian. "Saint Isabelle" makes an appearance on the song named for her. Fueled by a harmonica, massive acoustic guitars, and a fast tempo, it feels more the like the Pogues doing a reel -- especially with the shouting chorus. She is a fragile and weary saint the narrator intercedes for; he prays for her as she does for his characters. "The Iron Wheel" finds Shooter Jennings lending his vocal to Morello's in a warning not to allow yourself to be crushed by life's challenges or submit blindly to authorities who are slaves to the same process. This is the first political album of 2008 where the people have a voice because the Nightwatchman keeps no critical or journalistic distance. Instead, with infectious melodies and inviting narratives, he invites us to join in, to acknowledge we are not separate from him, his characters, or their stories. With The Fabled City, Morello's growth as a topical songwriter is enormous; he's brought the singer/songwriter into a cultural discussion, a dialogue, where we can dialogue not only about characters (who are treated with dignity as speaking subjects, not merely as objects to hang a tune on) and their struggles, but also with popular music again, as a ready tool for awareness of the world around us.
16 comments:
- Anny said...
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- October 6, 2008 at 9:15 AM
- Sam Keola said...
I have always loved the inspirational songs of freedom. Especially since my own people in Hawaii have been fighting for their freedom since 1893. A slow genocide still continues.
- October 26, 2008 at 12:32 AM
- Thomas Paine said...
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- October 30, 2008 at 9:02 AM
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- November 13, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Angel Cardenas said...
Hello, I am from Chile but I write in English. Tom Morello is the best guitarist of the world, it wanted to touch very much like but the fingers break me when I try to do the alone one of guitar of the song " Killing in the name of " good-bye and never separate...
- December 18, 2008 at 6:33 PM
- belly wijaya said...
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- December 19, 2008 at 1:08 AM
- Unknown said...
you guys should talk about what's happening in Gaza right now.
- December 29, 2008 at 7:21 PM
- Thomas Paine said...
do they really have to? you dont know what they would say about it?
- December 29, 2008 at 7:24 PM
- Republik Maluku Selatan said...
i support rage against the machine..Not only for the great music but also for the statements of the band...
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- January 10, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- Michelle Wood said...
To the kid from Libertyville with the Captain America pillowcase: One day several years ago, my brother said, "Michelle, you have to listen to this." He then played me Audioslave. I liked it. Of course, I had heard some RATM and some Soundgarden, but I didn't know enough about either band to know the members' names. I picked up the CD on my next road trip, and when I read the sticker, I freaked. "No way". I ripped it open, and there he was: an age-progressed version of my old Renaissance Festival friend. (I was the wierdo with the short bus painted in a bad attempt at tiger stripes. I visited you at Harvard.)My brother then proceeded to educate me about the 20 years of your public history that I'd missed since we fell out of touch. Just wanted to say hey, and thanks for what you are doing, and that all this couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.---mw (Facebook wildflower)
- February 3, 2009 at 7:32 AM
- Riotgrrrlcynic said...
The Fabled City CD is FINALLY available all the way over here in the UK, and I just wanted to say it was worth waiting for! When's the tour??
- February 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM
- Claudio Trindade said...
I found this interesting version of "killing in the name" with violin on youtube:
- March 1, 2009 at 6:55 AM
- Unknown said...
You're the machine...
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Why don't choose a hotel less expensive?
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- November 11, 2009 at 4:14 PM
- Friz said...
SENDERO LUMINOSO KILLED IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM, they killed children, raped woman in front of their husbands and sons, tortured pregnant women, they stealed the food and very little resources of poor people, they killed with bombs in the middle of the city people who was sleeping in Tarata Miraflores, tarata`s people were citizens with no political connections .. they fucked down Peru, with a INCONSISTEN MESSAGE, killing unprotected and innocent people WHY???, they KILLED IN THE NAME OF !!!! these cowards assasins tried to extend their bloody party asking for foreing help, LYING UNINFORMED PERSONS WHO NEVER CAME TO PERU, Tom i love you because you are the best guitar player ever, but i hate you too, i'd like to see my fav video bootlegs without feel anger and sadness watching "sendero luminoso" in your guitar meanwhile you play killing in the name .... PLEASE COME TO PERU!!! ask street people about sendero luminoso, ask reporters, ask specialist, come to see and hear "the childrens of terrorism" they are teenagers now, mutilated, dark, sad teenagers .. come to peru TOM and see them, hear them. Stop supporting the assasins, they cheated you, now you can spread the real thruth.
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Hmm… Since The 112 Opened In 1980, This Can Be A Rare Result.
According to a great retrospective by NWA Alive with the 112 owners (you can find the video on Facebook), the 112 opened in 1980.
I'm Afraid That The 112 I Believe Didn't Open Until The 1970s. It Didn't Appear In Either The 1961, 1968, Or 1971 Newspaper Listings…
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Boy, all those restrictions sound like right here in Olympia, Washington. We must have gotten our city council from you guys.
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The plans called for a twin. But it was never finished. I almost had the owners ready to finish it, but unfortunately, the city of Fayetteville added so many restrictions to getting a permit. That the cost became way too much.
The ramps were already built. We only needed projection equipment and a screen. The Roads were there as well, but the City of Fayetteville wanted us to Build a lake to retain water, to dig out the culverts under 112, that they just had the car lot replace with a double culvert and for us to install 1 very large culvert. We were to put a sidewalk from Nelms to the Glass company, to put in an irrigation system and water line and plant trees all across the HWY 112 frontage, So that kind of killed it as ever being possible.
I emailed them….hopefully we will have an answer. I don't have history on the drive-in, maybe it opened has a twin?
Yeh what's the deal with the field layout? Looks like a twin to me.
In looking at an aerial it used to a twin at one time.
I used to work at the 112 back when I live in Fayetteville….worked a couple of summers back in the early 90's. Worked the box, the concession stand and quite a bit of security…..was a good parttime job to supplement income and all the free passes to the local theatres i could want.
There was also a 71 Drive-In operating in the 1960s in Fayetteville. I assume would have been off Highway 71?


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Friday, November 30, 2012
Upcoming Appearance: Matt Kemp
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January 12, 2013
Time: TBA
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SoCal Baseball and Sports Collectors Expo
Anaheim Marriott Hotel
700 Convention Way
Anaheim, CA
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hi there !! i need to ask, how dose this even work? if i buy a ticket to the event dose that allow me to get my stuff sighned by the boys ? or do i have to pay per aoutograph ? plz help me out !
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How will Weigh-Ins Work?
There will be no weigh-ins the night before the event.
You can weigh in at any time, the day of the event, up until 30 minutes before your first division starts. We will not weigh-in anyone for a division after it has been called back to the warmup/staging area.
You are only required to weigh in once (which will be used for the remainder of the day and the rest of your divisions). This is done to help protect the fighter and the integrity of the rest of the tournament.
ADULTS: If you are over the max weight for your weight class you will NOT be able to compete in your weight division and you will not be moved to another weight division. However, adults will be able to compete in a "blubber" bracket with others who didn't make weight. These brackets will be made up of people from any gender, skill level, or weight class. Please keep in mind that there are no guarantees with these brackets and they will not count toward team scoring.
KIDS: Kids will have to make the weight of the heaviest kid in the division, which will be posted online the week of the tournament. As we really don't want kids trying to cut weight, there will be some leniency for kids who are very close. We remind parents and coaches to put your child on a scale before registration closes and update their listed weight if necessary.
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Dumanis action on newsletter blasted
In response to: Former prosecutor in dispute with DA
I found the District Attorney's response to accusations of "vindictive retaliation" both amusing and disturbing at the same time. Having unilaterally withdrawn research support for the legal newsletter I publish ("The Legal Update") and banning its distribution throughout her own office, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis now claims that the "Update" is no longer needed in that it "get(s) similar information from other sources." What remains unexplained is why, after having received the Update for free for some 18 years, "other sources," which are most often very expensive, were determined to be preferable only after, and immediately upon, my public endorsement of the D.A.'s opponents (Bob Brewer and Terri Wyatt) in the up-coming June primaries. What also wasn't explained is why in a business where staying current on the often-changing appellate court case law is so obviously important, the intra-office distribution of the Update, when it was automatically and conveniently sent straight to the prosecutors and investigators' desk-top computers, was suddenly taken away from them without explanation, without warning, and without asking D.A. employees for their opinion. I, as the author of the Legal Update, am neither personally offended nor surprised by the District Attorney's actions. The law enforcement community throughout the rest of the state continues to receive and, according to the feedback I get, appreciate the benefits of my efforts. But while Ms. Dumanis' thinly veiled retaliation against me can perhaps be written off as merely "amusing," it is also "disturbing" in that her actions here are in fact disturbingly indicative of what is happening throughout the District Attorney's Office today. This (and other reasons) is exactly why I chose to endorse two much better qualified candidates for the office of District Attorney in the first place. So while the District Attorney may wish to write my complaints off as "bogus," the public needs to be aware that there is indeed a cause for concern here. It's time to restore the previously proud traditions of the San Diego District Attorney's Office.
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How do you assign homework to a kid without a home?
Tough economic times means increasing numbers of homeless children and students.
Photo by Charles Votaw
You can't practice the violin in a homeless shelter. Not really, not if you don't want to wake the babies—and you don't want to wake the babies. That's something 14-year-old Chauncey learned last year during the months she and her family spent at a family shelter in Northern Virginia.
Another thing you can't always do: Sleep.
Chauncey's big sister Chassity, a young poet, strictly prefers to sleep at night and dream during creative writing, but one morning last year, after weeks of shelter noises and nightmares, she could barely keep her head off the desk during 11th-grade English. Finally, her teacher took her aside to ask, "Is there something going on with you?"
In fact, there's something going on with a lot of kids in America. In 2007, nearly 800,000 homeless children were enrolled in public schools—up 17 percent from the year before, according to the U.S. Department of Education. This year, as unemployment and foreclosures continue to rise, the rate of homelessness is expected to follow the same grim climb.
"There are homeless children everywhere," says Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY).
|Video: Homeless in South Dakota
A young mother finds hope in South Dakota's public schools as she struggles to make a new home for her three young children.
These days, the average homeless person in America isn't that whiskered alcoholic on the street, begging you for change while you sip your Starbucks venti. In small towns and cities across the country, the new face of homelessness is a single, often working mother with children like Chassity, Chauncey, and their young brothers, Chaddwick, and Chancellor.
Their mom, Juanell, was working paycheck to paycheck as an overnight stocker in a big-box store, when—at age 39—she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Classified part-time, even though she worked more than 40 hours a week, she didn't have health insurance. (Hear that, Congress?) And then, after missing her shifts to undergo surgery, she didn't have a job, either. With that, still recovering from the surgeon's knife, she lost their home, too.
Her family's story is a sad one, but it's not unusual. Hundreds of thousands of American families have been pushed to the edge by the economic recession. Any one blow—a serious illness, a lost job, maybe an incident of domestic violence—can push them over the cliff.
Their children will still land in your schools. They're there already, sitting in the back row with too-long hair and too-small shoes. But as their numbers grow, you should know how to identify homeless students, get them the services that they need and are entitled to, and also understand just how hard it is to build a bridge out of toothpicks when you live underneath one.
Homework in the shelter? Not so easy, either.
First, "open your eyes and ears," urges Wendy Giebink, homeless liaison for 17 years in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where the number of homeless students that she serves has grown from 200 to 1,000-plus.
Homeless liaison Wendy Giebink keeps a stash of warm coats, donated by parents and community groups.
Photo by Charles Votaw
"Those kids who never eat lunch and say, 'Oh, I'm just not hungry!' Well, there may be another reason they're not eating lunch," and it's because their mother's purse is empty. Consider the kid who never makes it to school on time or the one wearing that same ketchup-stained shirt again. Where do you wash clothes when you live in your car?
School secretaries and registrars are first-line detectives. No fixed address? That's an easy tip-off. But anybody might see the signs—the school bus driver who notices mom's car whizzing to the neighborhood stop or the cafeteria worker who catches the same kid pocketing snack bars again.
Then, ask the hard questions. In Rutherford, Tennessee, where the number of homeless children increased from 95 in 2003 to 794 last year, middle school counselor Paige Swanson approaches her students like this: "I don't want you to get mad at me, but I want you to hear me out. Is there something going on? Are you moving around a lot?" She tells them, "This is an adult situation and you're not an adult. I'm an adult and I can help you with it."
Sometimes it's just a matter of listening. Eight-year-old Chancellor had no shame in telling everybody he met where he was sleeping. "Is it true you're living in a shelter?" his little friend asked Juanell at a school event last year.
"We have a rule in our house: We don't lie," Juanell recalls. "But I had to ask his teacher, 'Will this be an issue? Because there might be parents who wouldn't want their children near him anymore.'"
"Nobody wants to say they're homeless. I have a big issue with pride. Believe me," Juanell sighs. "But I look at my little people here and say, 'Okay, if it means they're going to get what they need....'"
Once identified, federal law entitles homeless students to specific services. Need a bus to detour by the homeless shelter? It may require complicated and costly re-routing, but the law says you should have it. Wondering what to do with the new guy who says he's couch-surfing with pals, but doesn't have a single piece of paper to prove he is who he says he is?
Answer: Enroll him, immediately. (With free lunch, too!)
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act provides for the seamless education of homeless students—and it broadly defines homeless to include families who are "doubling up" (as in, "We're just staying with my auntie until my mom gets back on her feet.") as well as families living in hotels, parks, bus and rail stations, abandoned buildings, and campgrounds and cars, not to mention emergency and transitional shelters.
Probably its most important provision guarantees students the right to attend their school of origin, even when temporary shelter lands them beyond the boundaries of their regular school. Costly? Sometimes. But the effects of switching schools cost more: Up to six months of learning per switch.
After working for the law's passage in 1986 and reauthorization in 2002, advocates like NAEHCY's Duffield are looking for key improvements this year. With NEA's support, they're calling for early education programs to prioritize homeless children for enrollment, and homeless liaisons to be provided adequate professional development.
But at the top of their list is money. The Act has never been fully funded, and NAEHCY is urging Congress to raise the authorized level of funding to $210 million from $70 million. Even with the best of intentions—and the law at their back—some school districts just can't afford to bus their homeless kids.
For Juanell's family, the school stability provisions were critical, as was the fast, supportive response of Fairfax County district staff. Here's Chassity, a high school junior, applying for a free summer leadership program in Japan. What would be lost if she left the teachers who could write the most informed recommendations for her?
Or here's Chaddwick, the 10-year-old with autism, whose sunny smiles very much rely on the regularity of his day. Snapping a handful of plastic hangers nervously against his thigh, he asks a visitor to his house, "Who are you? Is it time for you to go?"
The law also requires every school district to have a homeless liaison—although districts have responded with varying degrees of sincerity. ("Hey, could you just do this? On top of everything else you do?")
They're the ones hiring certified teachers to tutor at shelters; checking on test scores and grades; delivering bags of bread and apples to the local motels; and training school employees to recognize the signs of homelessness—"Do you know what rotten teeth smell like?" Giebink asks.
These days, as winter rolls across the Great Plains, Giebink is hunting for winter coats and warm shoes. "We do very basic things—help kids get underwear, toothpaste, laundry soap, and shoes. Some of our kids are coming to school in January in flip-flops," Giebink says.
People need to know how bad homelessness is, Giebink continues. A second-grader in a motel isn't on a vacation. That motel has a fist-sized hole in the wall where rats creep to steal the bread brought home from the food bank. "I've been in homes where kids are eating roadkill," Giebink says bluntly.
The first priority has to be shelter, food, and clothes. In Rutherford County, the district works with numerous community partners to send food home with nearly 200 kids each week. Swanson keeps her desk drawer full of snacks and the school's washer and dryer available.
Later, after they're fed and warm, you can turn your attention to academic needs. Being homeless isn't exactly a recipe for the honor roll, but it shouldn't make it impossible. Teachers do need to be more thoughtful about their assignments, liaisons say.
Homework is an obvious hot spot. When Juanell and her kids were in the shelter, they were lucky. It offered daily homework hours with certified teachers in its common room and computer lab. With her tutor's help, Chauncey put together a computerized slideshow of images from the 1990s. "I got an A-plus!" she says proudly.
But you can imagine that iMovie may be out of reach for a child living under a bridge, as are far less complicated assignments. When Giebink delivered groceries to one family in a local motel, she recounts, "this little boy's face just lit up...and it was because the teacher had told him to bring an apple to school. They were going to graph seeds and do all these great activities, and this little boy was afraid he was going to be the only kid without an apple."
Don't assume they can go to the library after school. "They might have to go home and take care of their younger siblings. They might be at the emergency room because their mom was beaten up," Giebink says. Plus, without an address, you often can't get a library card.
"Do they really need to take their textbooks home?" Swanson asks. "Because they typically don't have a place to keep them, and, if they lose a book, that's $60 to $100 that they can't pay." Instead, provide them a place to do their work at school during homeroom or study hall.
Consider the same kind of accommodations that you might make for a child whose parent suddenly died. "Homelessness is like a death and they are grieving," said Jody Tompros, director of transitional housing at Reston Interfaith, the nonprofit community agency helping Juanell's family. "I really consider them children with special needs."
AP Government homework? Still a challlenge, but a lot easier to get done in a new apartment subsidized by Reston Interfaith in Virginia.
Photo by Charles Votaw
Do encourage them. "I might have had a bad day just because I didn't have a place to relax," Chassity recalls. "You may not think you're helping, but you may be making a difference to me."
Structure is important, because their lives outside of school often lack it, Tompros points out. Giving them a classroom job can help them feel less invisible and more important to people around them. Assigning them a mentor or a class buddy also can help.
And do believe in them. In Howard County, Maryland, liaison Cathy Henry has the test results to prove that her homeless third-graders, provided support by tutors and homework clubs, actually do better in reading and math than other kids on free and reduced lunch. Last year, 77 percent of Howard's homeless kids scored at or above proficient levels on state tests.
"We do believe it's the extra TLC," Henry says.
"Homeless children are like everybody else," says Kim Snell, Swanson's supervisor in Tennessee. "We have gifted homeless children, very talented homeless children. We have homeless children with great dreams and expectations for their lives, and they will achieve them. We don't need to feel sorry for them. We just need to assist them in the ways that we can. We don't need to have the same expectations for everybody, but have expectations based on the very best that each child can achieve."
In Rutherford, Swanson points to the teenager who just asked her for a college recommendation. A few years ago, that child and her brother were sneaking into abandoned buildings with their meth-addicted parents, sleeping on filthy floors without even a blanket. "They're now with a guardian and they're excelling. They are straight-A algebra, honor-roll students."
She thinks of another girl, who went from the biggest house in her Alabama town to homelessness after her father abandoned the family. Thanks to a guidance counselor who took unbelievable interest, that girl is now...Paige Swanson.
"I was homeless," she says. "And that counselor was just somebody who, I don't know, I guess she just backed up her words. Homeless children have been disappointed so many times they won't take stock in anybody's words. You've got to let them trust again."
In Juanell's family, things also are looking up. With assistance from Reston Interfaith, they've found a three-bedroom apartment that they can call home while Juanell takes pre-med classes and works at a local bakery. Meanwhile, Chauncey is headed for honor roll and practicing violin again.


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The saga of Pokemon Rusty continues this week, as our hapless hero fights his first gym battle—about 30 levels too early.
I'm not sure which line I am going to steal from this one. "Logic is the rarest candy of them all!" is pretty good, but I'm leaning towards "God Digglett!"
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Super Bowl blackout traced to preventive equipment
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FILE - Fans and members of the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers wait for power to return in the Superdome in a Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, file photo, during an outage in the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, in New Orleans. Officials of Entergy New Orleans say the cause of the Super Bowl blackout was a faulty device called a relay that had been installed to prevent a failure of electric cables leading to the Superdome. They said the device has been removed and replacement equipment will be installed. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)


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The INFINITI FX is an SUV for people who like to drive. Both the V6-powered FX35 and the V8-powered FX45 give the enthusiast SUVs from Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Porsche a run for the money, particularly your money, as the INFINITI models cost less than the German competition. Yet in terms of acceleration and handling, they give up nothing to the Europeans. The FX drives more like a big sport coupe than a truck-based SUV because it is more like a big sport coupe.
Both INFINITI models are exciting driver's cars, smooth, powerful, very stable. They can be driven much harder than traditional sport utilities, thanks to their big, powerful brakes and firm, fully independent suspensions. On the highway, they feel planted and much more confident than traditional SUVs. The V6 engine that powers the FX35 is the same engine used in the Nissan 350Z sports car. It's powerful, giving the FX35 responsive performance. While driving the FX35, we never found ourselves wishing for the more powerful FX45.
In fact, both FX models are based on the same rear-drive mechanical platform as the Nissan 350Z and INFINITI G35 coupe. They are not based on any Nissan truck, nor, as some folks seem to assume, on the similarly sized Nissan Murano SUV. (The Murano shares its front-wheel-drive architecture with the Nissan Maxima and Altima.)
Deriving an SUV from a sports car, however, does lead to some compromises. While the BMW X5, Mercedes-Benz M-Class and Porsche Cayenne each deliver varying levels of off-road capability, all are better suited for the rough stuff than the FX. INFINITI designed the FX primarily for on-road performance, with an available all-wheel drive system intended primarily for improved handling and performance in the snow. Although beefed up a bit for SUV duty, its chassis is still not as heavy as that of a true off-road truck, and that of course reduces the weight its powerful engines have to move.
INFINITI also equipped the FX with enormous (optional) 20-inch wheels and tires; race car-sized brakes; and a tight, handling-tuned suspension. The goal was to make the FX as fun to drive as a sports car; INFINITI achieved that, with compromises in ride comfort, space and rock-climbing ability. The end result is a car-based crossover SUV that's full of character and exciting to drive on sports-car roads, but also one that has a stiff ride, a tighter cockpit than some of its competitors and flamboyant styling. But that may be just the thing for committed sports-car enthusiasts who need to lug their winter toys through the snow belt.
FX was launched for the 2003 model year. 2004 brought some upgrades. Safety is enhanced for 2005 with roof-mounted supplemental side-curtain airbags as standard equipment, which provide rollover protection for both front- and rear-seat occupants. Also new for 2005: optional intelligent cruise control, and a Lane Departure Warning system, the first of its kind on a U.S. passenger vehicle.
The FX45 ($45,250) adopts the 315-horsepower 4.5-liter V8 from the INFINITI Q45 luxury sedan. It comes only with all-wheel drive.
All come with a five-speed automatic transmission, dual-zone climate control with microfiltration, power front seats, split folding and reclining rear seats, tilt/telescope steering wheel, high-intensity discharge (HID) headlights, and a long list of electronic and safety features, including electronic stability control.
The FX45 gets a firmer suspension; 20-inch wheels as opposed to 18-inchers; leather heated seats and trim; a power tilt/telescope steering wheel; and memory for the driver's seat, mirrors and steering wheel. The Premium Package ($2,500) adds a power sliding glass sunroof, 300-watt 11-speaker stereo with steering-wheel controls and a six-disc CD changer, automatic headlights and a HomeLink built-in garage door transmitter.
The FX35 can be loaded with the FX45's luxury features with the Touring Package ($2,900), which includes leather-appointed seating surfaces, heated front seats, the 11-speaker Bose system and a long list of other features. The FX35 Sport Package ($1,950) adds the 20-inch wheels, the stiffer suspension and aluminum pedals. To answer your question: With the Sport and Touring packages, an all-wheel-drive FX35 is equipped identically to a Premium Package FX45, without the V8, for $6,650 less.
Both FX models offer a Technology Package ($4,200) that includes a GPS navigation system, a security system that allows the owner to unlock and start the vehicle without the key, traffic-sensing cruise control, and a rear-facing camera to assist backing up. A rear-seat DVD viewer is now bundled ($1,750) with the Lane Departure Warning system. A satellite radio receiver (XM or Sirius, $400), tow hitch ($600), roof rail crossbars ($240-$340) and 20-inch chrome wheels ($1,600) are also offered separately.
Safety features that come standard include: dual-stage front airbags, front side-impact airbags, full-cabin curtain-style airbags, front seatbelt pretensioners and load limiters, active front head restraints, a sophisticated anti-lock brake system with electronic brake proportioning, and electronic stability control (VDC).
The INFINITI FX presents wild styling with monster wheels. BMW's hottest X5 also comes with 20-inch wheels, but on the curvy FX they look disproportionately larger. The FX35 comes standard with 18-inch wheels, which are larger than what you'll find on most SUVs. Once you get used to the monster wheels, INFINITI's bionic cheetah styling begins to sink in.
The INFINITI design team wanted to blend a substantial SUV lower body with a sleek, elegant upper body more reminiscent of a classic sports car or GT. In other words, the FX is supposed to look like a sports car from the beltline up. It does, sort of.
Its proportions are certainly striking, starting with a wide stance and long hood under the tucked-tight roof. The overhangs are short, exaggerating the distance between its front and rear wheels. An oversized grille greets oncoming traffic, and the bulging hood looks high. A peek underneath the hood suggests it doesn't need to be, as the engine is tucked well below.
For 2005, a darker chrome grille, and darker accents around the headlights and taillights help visually distinguish the FX45 and Sport Package FX35 from the standard FX35.
The engine in the FX sits behind the front axle, giving the base V6 rear-wheel-drive model a near-optimal weight balance of 52 percent front, 48 percent rear; which in turn improves overall handling balance and reinforces the FX's road-burning feel. Even the protruding, stylized taillights have function beyond their looks. The lip of the lights that extends past the rear hatch adds aerodynamic downforce on the rear end, like a spoiler. Order the polished chrome wheels and you will, undoubtedly, have one of the most attention-grabbing SUVs on your block.
When you climb into the driver's seat, you're coddled by the console and instrument panel. It's more sporting and more intimate than you might expect, but it also feels like a tighter fit than you'll find in most other SUVs. The overall impression is of a great luxury sport wagon.
The front seats are comfortably firm, like those in a good European sedan, but the adjustments may require quite a bit of fiddling before you're set (that's why they invented seat memory). The driver's seat allows three inches of vertical travel, so you can perch up high to keep tabs on the rest of the tall SUV commuters around you, or drop down toward the floor for serious driving on challenging roads.
The view over the FX hood reminds us of that in a Jaguar, with the metal sloped and contoured over the headlights and grille. It's the opposite of the squared-off hood of a BMW X5 or Range Rover, as if the FX is trying to tell you you're in a car rather than a truck. The view in the mirrors is not hindered by the fat, sloping rear pillars.
The optional rear-view camera displays an image of what's behind the vehicle on the seven-inch dashboard monitor, with two virtual lines that correspond to the width of the FX. It's a great aid for checking behind the vehicle before backing out of a driveway or shopping center parking space, helping to ensure no people or objects are back there.
INFINITI's designers wanted three separate interior zones intended to meet the needs of various FX occupants, the driver zone, the comfort zone and the play zone. The driver zone is designed to be like a cockpit. The steering wheel and instruments remind us of those in Nissan's 350Z sports car, with a thick wheel rim and big gauges that move with the tilting steering column to optimize viewing angle.
Climate controls and stereo and navigation controls are densely arrayed in the center stack. They look cool, but you have to look at them to operate them. Adjusting a switch requires more attention than we prefer.
The comfort zone is reserved for the front passenger, who gets the same range of seat adjustments as the driver, a separate adjustable center armrest and individual climate controls.
The play zone, the back seat, has personal reading lamps, a center armrest with tray and storage, seatback pockets for storing DVDs and magazines, reclining seatbacks and chest-level air-conditioning vents. The optional DVD player ($1,750) has a seven-inch screen, a remote and two sets of wireless headphones. The play zone is surprisingly comfortable. Three adults fit comfortably in the split rear seats, and the recline feature makes it much more accommodating for taller folk than the rear-sloping roof might suggest.
The FX has plenty of clever storage spots, including a lockable storage box in the center console with enough room for larger items like a purse. The door pockets flip out, and there are three hidden bins under the rear cargo floor. The rear seats fold flat easily with simple levers that are accessible from the side doors and the rear. The sculpted rear hatch pops with an electro-magnetic release.
Total cargo capacity (64.5 cubic feet with the rear seat folded) is less than many square-shaped SUVs, but larger than in some others, including the BMW X5. INFINITI says it placed a higher priority on floor space than sheer volume, and the FX has a larger load floor than the X5 or Lexus RX330. Of course, that means its floor-to-ceiling measurement is shorter, as is the size of the opening under the sculpted hatch. At 30.6 inches, the load height is high.
The optional 300-watt, 11-speaker Bose stereo was tuned for the middle-aged mid-life crisis male, and it seems to sound best blaring classic rock at high decibels. INFINITI says it worked with Bose specifically to emphasize bass and treble for rock and roll.
To make life easier for those aging rockers, the FX can be operated without the key. With
The INFINITI FX must be driven to be appreciated. It shares much of its chassis architecture with the rear-drive Nissan 350Z sports car and INFINITI G35 coupe. Rather than an SUV, we'd call it a fine luxury sport wagon with a higher seating position. It's more exciting to drive than a Volvo Cross Country, and bigger than an Audi allroad.
Plant the V8-powered FX45's accelerator to the floor and you'll be rewarded with a healthy hot-rod roar. As revs rise, the sound becomes a higher-pitched hum. Brisk acceleration makes the big FX feel athletic and nimble. You get the feeling you can pass anything in front of you. And INFINITI's design objectives come more clearly into focus.
The INFINITI FX45 offers comparable acceleration performance to the Porsche Cayenne S, according to each manufacturer's statistics. INFINITI says the FX45 can zip from 0 to 60 mph in slightly more than 6 seconds, while Porsche says the Cayenne S takes nearly 0.2 second longer. How can that be? Though Porsche's V8 engine is more powerful, the INFINITI FX is considerable lighter, so each of its 315 horses must haul fewer pounds.
The V6-powered FX35 is no slouch, either. It launches impressively from a stop, largely because it has substantially more horsepower and torque than most other six-cylinder SUVs. There's as much oomph here as most owners will ever need. We found its acceleration performance entirely satisfactory.
Granted, the step up to the V8 is noticeable, particularly when you stab the gas at, say, 60 mph. The FX45 will rocket to 80 at a much greater rate than the FX35. Yet the V8 also chugs fuel at a much greater rate, reducing range anywhere from 25 to 75 miles per tank, according to the EPA's numbers. Both FX models are electronically limited to a top speed of 130.
All this power is managed with sophisticated electronics with names that sound like alphabet soup. The ATTESA E-TS (Advanced Total Traction Engineering System for All Electronic Torque Split) provides outstanding cornering capability due to its optimum 50/50 front/rear torque distribution, which can shift rearward up to 0/100 when conditions require. The system provides good starting traction and stable acceleration in snow-covered or off-road situations, since it always starts off with the torque split 50/50.
The VDC electronic stability control system reduces engine output and/or lightly applies braking force to individual wheels when entering a corner too fast. It engages so gradually that we couldn't detect when it was working.
The FX suspension reflects INFINITI's decision not to make this SUV an off-road vehicle. Off-road ability is enhanced by long travel and compliant suspension tuning, but those same characteristics compromises handling on smooth, winding roads. The FX is tuned for those winding roads. Despite its 7.6 inches of ground clearance, it has no skid plates or underside armor, and the up-down range of movement at its wheels is limited compared to most SUVs.
In tight and sweeping corners alike, the body stays incredibly level, which is the plus side of its stiff suspension. We drove it hard, like we would a sports sedan. Understeer, or the sliding of the front tires that is the default skid condition in most vehicles, begins very gradually when you aim the FX into a corner, and the front wheels continue to push only slightly until you get near its very high cornering limits. When driven hard, the VDC allows a slight amount of power oversteer while cornering (a satisfying fish-tail effect in the rear), although we were never able to break the mammoth rear tires completely loose. As in the 350Z, the FX's steering is quick. It doesn't feel as telepathic as a Porsche's, but it doesn't feel light and loose like that in many SUVs, either.
The brakes are good. The FX45 remains confident and stable under heavy braking, and that allowed us to drive it very quickly, without any scary momen
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On the main menu now will be the Mystery Gift feature. Mystery Gift has several options for you to utilise; "Get From A Friend", "Get Via Wireless" & "Get Via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection"
Get From Friend
In some circumstances, you will obtain a Mystery Gift from an event that you will be able to share with a friend through the Wonder Card which you will have stored on your game providing you haven't picked up the gift from the PokťMart
Get Via Wireless
This function is likely to be the more common function that you will use. When at a Nintendo Event, such as the upcoming Darkrai Event in Japan, if you use the Get from Wireless Function, you will be sent a Wonder Card that contains the Darkrai, or in the case of the other events that are likely to happen over time
Get Via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
Possibly the most intriguing option is the ability to get a Mystery Gift from the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. It is currently unknown if Nintendo will fully utilise this feature for the distribution of rare Pokťmon and items later on in the game's life. Currently, however, there is nothing there. You need to wait for Nintendo to host an online-event stating when to connect and for what for it to reap any benefits
Hopefully this article has alleviated much confusion about the Mystery Gift and how to utilise it, essentially there being no way to do it until Nintendo holds an event, you cannot just do it between friends as was possible with Gold, Silver & Crystal.
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In addition to its many topical references to social life, religion, and politics in classical Athens, the Lysistrata is one of our best sources for the life of women in antiquity: unlike epic, tragedy, and oratory, Attic comedy draws its characters and plots from everyday life and provides a unique glimpse into the situation of everyday Athenians. Henderson's standard edition of Aristophanes' play provides much new evidence for those working on anthropological and sociological aspects of Athens, as well as those working in traditional philological fields. The text is brought fully up to date with the advances made in Aristophanic scholarship over the past sixty years. In particular, it is the first to report all the manuscripts, papyri, and testimonial sources of the text, offering a new account of its history and a detailed review of the transmission of the Aristophanic corpus as a whole. Henderson's text and apparatus criticus is supplemented by a full Introduction giving details of the background to the play, its content, staging, philological interest, the textual transmission, and by a detailed Commentary.Henderson, Jeffrey is the author of 'Lysistrata ', published 1990 under ISBN 9780198144960 and ISBN 0198144962.[read more]
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|DEISA Training Courses in Jülich
3rd VI-HPS Tuning Workshop
JSC at SC08 in Austin
First PRACE Scientific Conference
PROSPECT e.V. founded
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Winter School on Multiscale Simulation Methods
Hermes Project
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Young Stargazers Present Their Results
New MATSE and Bachelor Course Started
End of Year Colloquium 2008
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New Master's Course in Technomathematics
More Software Packages Available on JUMP and JUGENE
First PRACE Industry Seminar
UNICORE Course at GridKa 2008
A-WARE Project Successfully Completed
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PRACE Prepares for Petaflop/s Systems
Successful UNICORE Summit 2008
First Bachelors of Scientific Programming
PI-casso Workplace for JARA
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Usage Model of the Jülich Storage Server
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Charlotte most definitely has her Daddy figured out. She loves crawling up into his lap, but does not understand the sensitive nature of the lap area. Tonight, Charlotte had crawled up in his lap several times, only to stay for a few seconds each time and was very squirmy while up there. Jared's patience was running a little low with that game by the hundredth time of climbing up and squirming around, so he just put her down on the floor and told her that was enough. Charlotte, knowing her Daddy quite well, crawled back up into his lap, put her finger to her mouth and said "Hmmm..." She was playing a favorite game of hers and Jared's where he would say, "Hmmm... where could I tickle you..." then pick a spot, count to three and tickle her there. It didn't take long for her to pick up on it and mimic him, which always makes us laugh hysterically. So when she sensed that Daddy was aggravated, she whipped out the big guns of cuteness and quickly got herself back into his good graces.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Daddy's Girl
Charlotte most definitely has her Daddy figured out. She loves crawling up into his lap, but does not understand the sensitive nature of the lap area. Tonight, Charlotte had crawled up in his lap several times, only to stay for a few seconds each time and was very squirmy while up there. Jared's patience was running a little low with that game by the hundredth time of climbing up and squirming around, so he just put her down on the floor and told her that was enough. Charlotte, knowing her Daddy quite well, crawled back up into his lap, put her finger to her mouth and said "Hmmm..." She was playing a favorite game of hers and Jared's where he would say, "Hmmm... where could I tickle you..." then pick a spot, count to three and tickle her there. It didn't take long for her to pick up on it and mimic him, which always makes us laugh hysterically. So when she sensed that Daddy was aggravated, she whipped out the big guns of cuteness and quickly got herself back into his good graces.
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Our New House
After much prayer and consideration, we have decided that we are going to be moving. We're really excited about it. What's even more exciting is that we're going to build the next house we move into! The home we're in now just won't be big enough for the 5 kids we want to have and things are going to be getting tight.
The first step is to get the house plans ready. Check! Over the past couple months (or years, really), we've been talking about what we'd change about this house or what we'd like to have in our new house. So we made a list. And we searched through some plans. Southern Living has a great tool for searching house plans. We found one that we loved the layout of. After about a thousand modifications (add some bay windows; extend the countertops; pocket doors on the closets in the master suite; moving the closets in two of the bedrooms to the other sides of the rooms so that we can have a hallway in that space to lead into an added on bonus room, extra bedroom and bathroom), we are ready to send the plans to an architect to get blueprinted (is that a real word? I know my friend, Stephanie, with her fancy architect degree will be laughing at me for that one).
We're really happy and excited about the new house. Now all that's left to do is wait. For about another eight to ten years. Because that's when this "new house" will come into fruition. We love the house we're in now, but do realize that it will get tight with a big family. And we have so many specifications for our next house that we've decided building would be easier than searching high and low for the house that has all of the criteria we would like: his and her closets; sink separate from the rest of the master room (right now our sink area is open to the rest of the room, like it is in some hotels); grassy lot, with trees for privacy, but not so many that it causes a mosquito problem like we have here; detached garage with a covered walkway to the house; inside laundry room; front porch (one that's actually usable- ours now is too narrow to do anything with); open floor plan; fireplace; and ideally on lot with a long driveway, with plenty of room for parking, and not on a main road. We have just a few specifications :) We're a realtor's and contractor's worst night mare!
So, we just wanted to go ahead and let everyone know that in another eight to ten years, we will be moving. Go ahead and put it on your calendars, 'cause you're all going to be invited to the housewarming party!
Home Sweet Home (in 10 years)
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Jared and Charlotte both love her bedtime routine. Jared reads her a story, Charlotte listens and cuddles, they pray, he lays her down and she drifts off into Dreamland. Tonight, Charlotte wanted to get to Dreamland a little quicker than what Jared realized. He was reading a story to her- not a particularly long one- and halfway through, she started waving to him and telling him "Naght-Naght" (she's so Southern:). He kept reading, but she kept waving, telling him "Naght-Naght" and eventually just tried to close the book, insisting that she was, in fact, ready for bed. :)
**I have been trying for a couple days to get a video to load and it is just not cooperating. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I'll keep trying over the weekend. If anyone has any trouble-shooting tips they'd like to share, I'd appreciate it!**
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Friday, July 17, 2009
James (and Chad and Amber:) came for an afternoon visit last weekend, and he and Charlotte had a great time playing together. After James showed off how he has mastered the skill of walking, he and Charlotte went out to play in the pool (while the moms watched the babies and the dads fished).
Before James and crew arrived, Charlotte got herself comfortable between two footstools and fell asleep.
For once, we weren't actually wanting her to sleep though, because we were expecting them to arrive any minute. Thus began the process of waking her up...
And a couple of Charlotte from this week...
I gave her some pigtails for the first time- she was not so much a fan of them, nor was she a fan of sitting still so I could get a picture
Last night while watching Jeopardy, she plopped herself down on the floor, kicked her leg up and got herself comfortable
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Eet Free Chikin!
Chick-Fil-A had their annual "Dress Like A Cow - Get Free Food" day. I don't know if that's exactly what it's called, but that's how this fantastic day works. Jared said he would not partake of such festivities, but Charlotte and I are not above making fools of ourselves.
Does it get any cuter than this? I propose that it cannot.
(I dressed up as well, but I do not make as cute of a cow as Charlotte, so you will just have to your imagination as to how goofy I looked.)
And here are a couple pictures from yesterday...
"I'm safe here, Mom."
Get it? Safe! 'Cause she's on a safe! :) hahaha
She was not so amused when I took the time to get the camera and take a picture when she got stuck on the piano bench.
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How To Charm A Lady
This article is on the last page of this month's Southern Living, and it just made me swoon. It's for reasons like this, especially #2 and #3, that I just love living in the South. (Click on the image to enlarge.)
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Charlotte's New Pool
I bought a little pool for Charlotte from Wal-Mart, and she has had a blast with it so far. It took a while to get it blown up though. Apparently, there are two plugs... and if one of them is not closed while you're pumping air into the other one, the air will go right out. Luckily, Jared is super smart and has a Master's degree so he figured it out for me :)
Having fun in the pool before it even had water in it
After the initial excitement and spinning around in circles in the water, she spent most of the time
hopping falling from one side to the other.
She approves of her new toy. Not a bad deal for $20!
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Sunday, July 5, 2009
Independence Day!
We have really enjoyed our long 4th of July weekend! Jared got off from work early on Thursday and had Friday off so we had lots of time to spend together. We went into Keystone on Saturday for the parade and crafts fair, and afterwards went out to Lake Swan Camp to have lunch and play soccer (Jared did the playing of the soccer-- I went across the street where Shannon was partying it up with some Tisdales and hung with them for a while). We then went to visit with our friend, Mel, who is recovering from major neck surgery and ate dinner with her and some of the Rollins family who were around. We didn't stay in Keystone to see the fireworks because we were tired and ready to get back home. But on the drive back to Jax, we ended up seeing several different fireworks displays. It was especially neat driving across the Buchman Bridge- there were cars parked along the bridge for over a mile, all the way up to the top of it, with their hazards on. There was a huge display going on to the right (South) and three different ones going on towards downtown (North). Right along the Buchman Bridge may be the best spot for watching fireworks in town!
Charlotte's first parade! She was not at all wild about the sirens from the fire trucks, as you can see, but she tolerated them (with a look of scorn on her face).
"Daddy! They give you candy just for being cute! This place is amazing!"
Her first lollipop!
Jared's cousin, James, was down visiting from TN. It was his first time meeting Charlotte, but they were great friends from the start :)
When Charlotte saw James sit on the curb, she decided she'd go have a seat right beside him. And, in the cutest fashion, wave to the people in the parade who were waving to her.
"Oooh!" after hearing a canon go off
After the parade, we ran into Jeff & Tessa and Jason & Leslie with their little ones. Their girls, Hannah and Isablla, are best friends and were so sweet to Charlotte. They seemed to realize that she was smaller and younger than they were and held her hand as they walked around. Hannah saw Charlotte's birthmark and was very concerned about her boo-boo. I'm sure Jeff's mack-daddy camera got better shots than our tiny one did, but when your subjects are as cute as these girls, there's no such thing as a bad picture. It was just the pefect Kodak (or Sony or Canon) moment with the three of them holding hands in their patriotic outfits!
I think most people who read our blog also stalk me on facebook so they already know, but just in case you've missed the announcement, we are having another baby GIRL! I had a sonogram on Thursday and we got to see our healthy little princess squirming around and shaking with the hiccups. She has a strong heartbeat and looks perfectly healthy. We are so excited! Jared is especially happy that all of the clothes in the attic will be able to be used again. Charlotte's due date was only a few days before Baby Girl Rollins's, so the seasonal clothes will be pefect! Much to Jared's disappointment, however, this does not mean that no new clothes will be bought :) The sonogram video is pretty long, but I will try to get that uploaded in the next day or two. For now, here are some belly pictures...
(17 weeks)
And just a sweet one of Charlotte kissing on her Daddy this afternoon. (Yes, she wore the same dress two days in a row. No one who saw her yesterday was going to see her today, and it's one that is seasonal and only appropriate for a couple weekends out of the year. Plus I made it and wanted to show it off because it looks so dadgum adorable on her. This morning, when we were so exhausted but were dragging ourselves to church, Jared asked me, "Let's be honest: If you didn't have that dress to show off, would we be going this morning?")
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