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Thursday, September 28, 2006
Meeting an Online Friend
Sometimes, I get the feeling that I know some of you so well that I can actually have a pretty good handle on what you are like in real life.
Well, the other day I got to test that theory of mine. I met a long time bloggy friend. It made so much sense, we both live in TO, we both like writing, we both seemed like reasonable sensible people, we both like the occasional drink ...
I can't lie. I had the normal fears and hesitations before the meeting took place. Will she turn out to be a total kook? Will she think I'm one? You know, all the regular stuff.
We met for 5 o'clock drinks. I love 5 o'clock drinks. And I'm glad to say I had the best time! It was so much fun. We got to know each other, even basic stuff such marital status and what not and we talked 'writing' and it was a blast.
I think that other than me staring at her amazing eyes occasionally and making her feel uncomfortable perhaps, it went well. To my defense, anyone would get lost in those eyes.
But hey, I had my first real blind "online friend" date and I think I came pretty close to what I thought she would be like.
Naturally, there were many surprises, and they were good. Besides, it would have been quite boring if there weren't any. I mean, who wants to know everything about another person within five minutes of meeting them, right? It will be fun to get to know her.
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27 comments:
- rdl said...
Wow! I'm jealous. sounded like alot of fun. maybe we'll all meet someday - big ole blog convention. :D
- 28 September, 2006 22:28
- Jennifer said...
I always wonder. Always think it would be fascinating to meet.
I met two GREAT friends online. The three of us were all obsessed with a TV show. We met on a TV chat board, and now we're great friends despite the distance seperating up. We're all meeting up together this summer. (We're taking a vacation together). I CAN'T WAIT :D
- 29 September, 2006 07:43
- charlotte said...
Great that your blog friend date went well! I haven't met any of mine yet (I live on a different continent than most) but I would be fascinated to do so. I have a picture of each in my head and it would be interesting to see if it matched the reality.
- 29 September, 2006 08:21
- Flood said...
I've always wanted to do this. Great for you guys!
- 29 September, 2006 08:22
- JLB said...
What a cool experience! I have a couple good friends who became good friends and fell in love online about ten years ago, so I certainly know that good friendships can begin online. :)
- 29 September, 2006 09:33
- Nienke said...
I did the same thing! And, the blog friend I met also had these incredible eyes I got lost in. Perhaps we met the same friend? :)
- 29 September, 2006 09:54
- Trée said...
Haven't meet anyone yet. I would have the same fears. What if a face to face meeting ruins a perfectly good blog relationship? Still, I would take the chance. Life is too short not to enrich a potential relationship. So glad your experience was a good one Melly.
- 29 September, 2006 13:56
- redchurch said...
I've met many friends from online, and have even ended up working with some of them. In the late 1990s there was a very dedicated community to game design surrounding titles like DOOM and Quake. The community was not unlike our writerly one we've got going here.
Over the years people got hired professionally at game companies, and as I've made my tour through the industry I've gotten to meet and even work with many of them, which has been a blast.
In that sense, our virtual communities are no different than 'real' ones. They involve real people getting to know each other, and help each other out, encourage and critique. It could just as easily be in person, although it doesn't need to be.
Why is it strange?
- 29 September, 2006 14:04
- redchurch said...
I thought I'd add, National Novel Writing Month often forms groups based on geography... and participants who live near each other often organize get-togethers at restaurants, bars, or coffee shops in their area.
If you're interested in that sort of thing, it's one more reason to join NaNoWriMo this November. Considering it's only a month away you might want to start jamming on an outline! :)
Anyway, community is the best part of that. I think I first got to know Melly when I started up my blog and joined NaNo last year.
Embrace community, rather than hide from it! :)
- 29 September, 2006 14:09
- Melly said...
rdl, that would fabulous! We just need an in-between area. I wish you were closer :)
Jennifer, wow. That's fantastic. If I'm ever in Chicago I'd be sure to tell you!
Charlotte, a different continent would indeed pose a problem. I know exactly what you mean by having an image of online friends. I do too.
Flood, are you around TO or Ottawa? I have great blog friends in both areas. Go for it!
Jlb, now that is definitely cool, althogh not the only couple I know to have met online.
Nienke, no! Really??? Well... then maybe we met the same friend ;)
Trée, I know. I was afraid too it might ruin a "perfectly good blog relationship." But, as you said, life's too short!
Eric, that's awesome. Would you say gamers might be more open about it perhaps?
Yes, I do know about the NaNo stuff (indeed I think that's when we met), but almost each time the TO chapter met, I was away. Go figure!
- 29 September, 2006 16:28
- Jean said...
Now, how did I have an inkling of who you were talking about?
Back in the early 90s, I belonged to an adult bulletin board system (but I was clear to people I met there that I wasn't there for THOSE adult activities --because that was an option), and I met at least two people from there. Both were fine folks. One I corresponded with for a couple years afterwards; the other I lost track of soon after I left the Baltimore area.
I would say that, with appropriate care, meeting on-line friends can be a very positive experience.
- 29 September, 2006 20:21
- redchurch said...
Mel said,
"Eric, that's awesome. Would you say gamers might be more open about it perhaps?"
I'm sure to some degree they are for often being early adopters of technology trends.
But honestly, the communities are not all that different. You have a group of people with much in common, and often the same goal of getting their masterpiece published. :)
Likewise in the game editing community many of us were applying for the same jobs, hoping our work would get noticed. But it didn't dampen the community spirit.
We all critiqued each other, gave advice, shared knowledge, and enjoyed talking to people with similar aspirations.
Those who got jobs in turn helped others to get jobs. I have stayed in touch with many of those people, and as I said even ended up working with some of them at the same companies. I guess that makes it a little less strange because I didn't have to go out of my way to meet them. But if you live in the same area there is even less excuse to not make new friends who share similar interests and aspirations.
In a few cases it has not worked out so well, but I don't see how that is any different from having met someone 'offline' that you didn't necessarily get along with. I wouldn't blame that on the web... I'd blame that on people just not getting along.
But if there is the chance for people to make friends, help each other, and provide an enriching community, then I think everybody wins.
- 29 September, 2006 23:09
- ME Strauss said...
Still have a drink waiting for you at the top of the Hancock, Melly.
I've now met 3 online friends in person -- went to conferences with two and only had the best fun.
I think the kinds of things that we talk about online make it easier to meet up face to face.
- 29 September, 2006 23:34
- Edie said...
Sounds like an adventure...
- 30 September, 2006 01:23
- Julia Buckley said...
I've met a few online friends in person, haven't been disappointed yet. Obviously you have to be careful and all that, but I'd definitely recommend it.
Glad you a nice time.
- 30 September, 2006 09:56
- fred charles said...
I would like to meet all of my blogger friends at a big party! That would be a lot of fun. It would be like a huge blogger summit with lots of drinks, lol.
- 01 October, 2006 08:51
- Deborah said...
I've never met any of my online friends, but my husband has made some great friends from his Corvette forum.
- 01 October, 2006 15:30
- Susan Flemming said...
I've met several people in person that I first met on-line. It was always an interesting experience. Only once have I been deeply disappointed but that was because the image I had formed in my mind was so completely different than real life.
- 01 October, 2006 17:49
- Mrs Lifecruiser said...
I've only met 2 online friends in my life. The first one become my best friend. The second one become my husband :-)
No wonder I love internet! *lol*
- 02 October, 2006 10:16
- Melly said...
Jean, I wonder if you do know...
What an interesting story, though. Wow!
Eric, it sounds almost like you're describing our "support group" around the web. You're so lucky to have found the gamers and the writers. I wonder if most groups are like that. I say, probably yes, because most people are like that.
Liz, I was thinking of you on my way to my meeting bcause we often said we'd meet. What can I say? Geography!
You're probably right, it does probably make it easier for us to meet.
Edie, not such an adventure, but I like to always spice up my life you know ;)
Julia, I'm glad too. Thanks :)
Fred, drinks are a must! :)
Wouldn't that be wonderful if we could arrange that?
Deborah, so did mine with his audio forum :)
Susan, did that affect your online relationship then?
Mrs Lifecruiser, no wonder indeed :)
- 02 October, 2006 11:14
- Leo said...
Great, glad your meeting went well.
I have met several online friends I would love to meet.
Who Knows, someday...
- 02 October, 2006 14:25
- Paul Darcy said...
I've met a great friend online. Alyson Hannigan's dad - I kid you not!
We've been great friends now for about three years and met up in person twice (once at his house, once at mine) but we talk every week.
And yeah, we met because of his daughter.
- 03 October, 2006 07:19
Sounds like a wonderful experience! It's definitely something I'd like to do someday.
- 03 October, 2006 09:23
- Melly said...
Leo, someday... :)
OMG, Paul, you know Willow's dad?
Does he ever tell you anything about her??
Jason, most reccommended!
- 05 October, 2006 23:20
- Sharon J said...
I've met lots of my online friends. In fact, a group of us used to meet up regularly. I even met my partner online (through a writers' site).
Glad your meet went well :-)
- 06 October, 2006 19:01
- Melly said...
Sharon, that's so cool. Now you're the third person I know who has met their partner online. Really cool!
- 11 October, 2006 21:46
- Sillyhead said...
This is exactly what I'm doing! I'm meeting a friend of mine, from a chatsite, not from a blog. I am really very nervous and so is she. I'm not sure what will happen and if we will actually have time to talk properly. She's coming to where I'm from with a tour group and she hopes she'll have some time to wander round my town. So we will see each other, hug for the first time! I'm so very nervous. I've known her 2 years, so I'm not worried about her being a weirdo or anything. But yea, I dunno :|
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ZeroG Flight
Creativity is important in a research lab: At Willow Garage, we push the envelope, test the limits, and in this case find a workaround to the law of gravity.
On Saturday, as a culmination of our our summer interns program about 30 folks from Willow Garage took a ride on G-Force One, the 727 that has been modified to provide a weightless experience for its passengers. Each zero gravity parabola provides about 30 seconds of weightlessness, followed by 20 seconds of 1.8 G's as the plane pulls out of its dive and climbs for the next cycle.
The short weightless sessions were frenzied and fun (see more pictures).We did the standard stuff: flying like superman, flipping, eating M&M's out of the air, watching water float (and then drop when gravity comes back). We also tried some new stuff. Scott brought along 400 ping pong balls and released them all at once (see the video). When my kids were little I could "bench press" them, and on this trip I pressed (tossed may be a better word) my oldest son Jonathan, who now weighs about the same as me, in moon gravity.

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For the Strength of Youth: Education
After you have begun working on your plans in "Spiritual Strength" and "Priesthood Duties," create a project based on the standards in the "Education" section of For the Strength of Youth. Use the steps on the following pages as a guide. Your project should be challenging and should include a significant time commitment. It should also be based on your own needs and interests. It should help you establish a pattern of lifelong learning.


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6-18-11 Progressive Field
Amy and I checked out of the hotel around 11:30, and met up with Nick, who had gone out for breakfast. We had five hours to kill before the gates of Progressive Field would open at 4:30, so we walked around Cleveland.
I originally wanted to find a park so I could sit down and read the paper and get out of the sun for a bit. So, we began walking toward Settler's Landing Park, which I saw on a map on my Iphone. It looked like it was on a little river, which turned out to be a canal. I thought there would be some trees, picnic tables and benches.
I was wrong. We were greeted by a hulking, rusting bridge that looked like it had been swept up by a tornado and driven into the ground vertically. It was such an eyesore.
I guess decades ago it was a drawbridge from a rail line which obviously no longer exists.
We walked around the park, and found nothing but homeless people, and giant sized mushrooms.
After a couple photos of the underside of Cleveland,
we headed toward lake Erie, and walked around the Cleveland Browns Football stadium.
Nick then headed to get lunch and to the ballpark, while Amy and I explored the perimeter of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
and visited the Cleveland Science Center, where we grabbed a bite to eat at a Pizza Hut express, and brushed up on our periodic table of elements. Can you name all of them in the photo?
When it came time to enter the stadium, things got off to a tough start. I only got one ball from the Indians. Chris Perez threw a ball toward a couple of fans in the front row, but they interfered with each other and both missed it. You'll see me standing there, several rows back.
The ball bounced on the concrete and ended up maybe ten rows back, where I grabbed it to get on the board:
The Indians finished hitting at 5:05. When the Pirates came out, the bad luck continued, and I still only had one baseball when 5:30 rolled around and I headed to left field:
Over in left field, my luck changed as Dusty Brown tossed me ball #2 of the day.
I was hoping that my Pirates gear would make me stand out over the other fans.
I headed back over to center field for the Pirates second group, which featured several lefties.
While there, I caught a Lyle Overbay home run on the fly. It was a full extension leaping catch in this area.
The next batter, Garrett Jones, hit a home run that I caught the next section over, also on the fly for ball #4.
I headed back over to left field for the final group, where Jose Tabata tossed me my fifth ball of the day. He's on the right, talking with Jose Veras:
I finished batting practice in left field, and ended up with five baseballs on the day.
After batting practice Amy and I spun the Prize Wheel. She won a Duncan Donuts buy one get one free iced coffee coupon, and I won a free drink from Circle K stores. Both garbage prizes. Blah.
After that, we got ice cream cones as we made our way to our seats in the upper deck.
It was a losing battle against the ice cream, which melted faster than we could eat it. Amy's hands were a mess.
After running to the bathroom to get wet paper towels for us to clean up, it was time for the first pitch.
Our seats were in Section 556, Row X, which was the very last row in the upper deck, and they were great. There was a strong breeze the entire time we were there, and it really kept us cool.
I wish we could've stayed for the entire game, but we had to leave around 7:40 to walk back to the bus stop to catch our bus headed back to Pittsburgh.
Before leaving, we took a picture:
Today's baseballs:
Sweet spots:
Game: 5 balls (2 hit, 3 thrown)
Season: 232 balls (89 hit, 52 thrown, 56 device, 226 found)
Games: 38 games
Average: 6.11 balls per game
Career: 1,354 balls
Attendance: 31,865


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Sahil Lavingia is 19 years old. He was one of Pinterest's first employees and now he has his own startup backed by $1.1 million in venture funding, Gumroad.
Lavingia has been making money by creating things for a long time.
By age 15 he was financially independent — he had more than $100,000 in his savings account. It was all self-made; it didn't come from his parents.
Lavingia tells us how he did it.
Business Insider:What's your story? Why aren't you in school right now?
Sahil Lavingia: I started as a designer when my middle school gave all of the students a Photoshop license for free. I started messing around with it because I realized I had access to thousands of dollars of software and I might as well give it a shot.
I googled Photoshop tutorials and made really weird things for fun and kind of got hooked. I started designing websites because that's where the money was.
When I was 14 and I was like, "I'm tired of this, I want to build my own products."
I had all these random ideas for little things I wanted to build so I would design them every weekend. I would get home from school on Friday, pick one of my gazillion ideas to design and contract out all of the back-end work. I'd launch the app by emailing every tech blog I knew. Inevitably one of the five would write about it and then I would sell it on some marketplace.
What ideas did you create and sell?
I built a to-do list app. I built this thing that let you create Facebook walls but for Twitter before Twitter had any kind of conversation aspect. I built this tool that let users send automatic, customized direct messages on Twitter.
How many apps did you build and sell?
I built about 20. I think I sold all of them.
Whom did you sell them to and for how much?
There was this marketplace -- it's called Flippa now. I couldn't sell them for much — maybe $1,000+.How much did you pay to contract them out? Because you were just the idea guy, you didn't code them yourself.
Yah that was frustrating because I do not like paying people money. You know, maybe that's why my investors like me. But I probably payed $50 per app.
People would make an app for $50? Where did you find them?
Yeah, I mean for two hours of work for a guy who is also in high school but lives somewhere else in the world. I found them by Googling developer forums. I never went to an e-Lance or anything like that. I just went to forums and tried to get someone reputable to them. I built relationships and would go to the same people every time.
I was also frustrated that I was paying people to build what I couldn't. So I started learning HTML, CSS, PHP, then the iPhone came out and I learned iOS development. One of the iPhone apps I made was on the home page of Apple.
It's not easy to learn to code. How did you teach yourself?
PHP was a failure. It took me two months of trying to build my own little app and I just hated it. I gave up and figured back-end development was not for me.
But then the iPhone came out and I learned that stuff really fast. I learned iPhone development in 2 weeks. I downloaded Stanford videos and those became my whole life. So I learned iOS development when I was 16.
I was financially independent when I was 15. I never really tell anyone that because it doesn't feel relevant, but looking back I think, Oh, starting a company might have actually made sense. I have been doing okay for a while. My bank account when I was 15 or 16 was over $100,000.
To read the full interview with Sahil Lavingia, check out The Most Interesting Teenager In Silicon Valley >
Meet Sahil at Business Insider's Startup 2012 conference on May 3, 2012 in NYC!


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From LSU Sports
BATON ROUGE – The LSU women's basketball team looks to punch its ticket to the program's second consecutive Sweet 16 berth, but the Lady Tigers face one of their stiffest challenges of the season against seventh-ranked and No. 2 seed West Virginia at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday inside the Maravich Center.
The NCAA Round of 32 tilt will be televised by ESPN2, www.WatchESPN.com and is available on the Watch ESPN App. The LSU Sports Radio Network will carry the game on Talk 107.3 FM in Baton Rouge and inside the Geaux Zone at www.LSUsports.net/live. In-game updates also can be found courtesy of www.Twitter.com/LSUwbkb.
Tickets are on-sale at www.LSUtix.net and can be purchased at the Maravich Center Box Office located on the upper ramp which opens at 7:30 p.m. on gameday. Tickets can be purchased at $16 for adults and $11 for youth. Groups of 10 or more can buy tickets for only $5 apiece, while LSU students will be admitted free with a valid LSU ID.
The winner of the LSU-West Virginia contest will move onto Saturday's regional semifinal round held in Louisville, Ky., versus the winner of No. 6 seed Iowa and No. 3 seed Louisville.
"This team has evolved in such a way where they've found their way," head coach Nikki Caldwell said. "As a head coach, the only thing that you can do is you can provide a shell of our offense and a shell of our defense, but it's really up to the components to make it work. It's not what we run, it's how we run it. It's not what defensive scheme we're running, it's how hard you're going to play it. We're choosing to play every possession like it's our last. When you have your team with that type of sense of urgency, they've just got to maintain it. If we can maintain it for the 40 minutes on Tuesday night, then we have a better shot of winning."
The Lady Tigers (20-12) are coming off a 98-78 victory over Georgia Tech and collected its 20th win for the third straight season under Caldwell and for the 12th time in the last 14 seasons. The 98 points were a program NCAA Tournament single-game mark previously set by the 1983-84 squad during a 92-82 win over Missouri.
LSU turned in its most complete effort the season where five players registered double figures. It marked the first time the Lady Tigers accomplished that feat since the Louisiana Tech game on Dec. 16, 2012.
Danielle Ballard and Theresa Plaisance led the way with double-doubles versus the Yellow Jackets. Ballard came away with 24 points and a career-high 17 rebounds whereas Plaisance notched 21 points and 11 rebounds.
For the season, Ballard has registered 9.8 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game. She has pumped in double figures during three straight games and upped her scoring average to 19.0 points per game on 19-for-38 shooting.
Plaisance has exploded for double figures in 22 consecutive games en route to 15.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. All three marks enable her to be the only SEC player ranked among the league's Top 10 in all three categories. The New Orleans has notched a quintet of 20-point performances and compiled four double-doubles over her last seven outings.
Jeanne Kenney has ripped off 11.6 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game. The senior guard has reached double figures in seven of her last eight outings and drained a team-leading 71 triples on the season which are tied for sixth-most on LSU's single season list.
DaShawn Harden ignited the Lady Tigers with 17 of the team's 22 points from the bench against Georgia Tech. She was 5-of-8 from the floor and buried all three of her trey attempts. Harden also has averaged 9.9 points per game over her eight starts with three of her six double figure efforts.
Shanece McKinney has chipped in 7.5 points, 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game. She racked up 14 points and a career-high six blocks during the Georgia Tech game. The Lady Tigers have won all 10 games this season when McKinney has reached 10-plus points.
Raigyne Moncrief has garnered 10.1 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game. She left the Georgia Tech game early in the second half and is listed as questionable/game-time decision for tomorrow's action. Moncrief's 1.8 steals per game are tied for eighth on the SEC leaderboard.
The Mountaineers (30-4) captured a share of the Big 12 regular season championship and reached the 30-win plateau for the first time in program history during their 76-61 triumph over Albany during Sunday's NCAA First Round.
West Virginia's guard play is sparked by Bria Holmes' 15.3 points and Christal Caldwell's 12.6 points per game, respectively. The duo amassed 46 points on a combined 16-of-35 shooting during the Albany game. On the interior, Asya Bussie has picked up 12.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. All three players have collected All-Big 12 First-Team honors during their careers.
"West Virginia has shown through their body of work this year that, one, they are worthy of a No. 2 seed, and that they've shown that they can not only play with the best teams in the country but beat them," Caldwell said. "You have potential all‑American type players on your roster. That gives you an advantage there when you can go to multiple players. Their team is playing extremely hard on the defensive end. They believe in their defensive scheme and their defensive system, so you see how they can disrupt you and turn you over and execute on the offensive end."
For all of the latest news and information on Lady Tiger basketball, visit www.lsusports.net/womensbasketball. Fans can also follow the program on its social media outlets at www.Facebook.com/lsuwbkb along with @lsuwbkb and @NikkiCaldwell on Twitter.


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What are the 'greatest' books for kids? A February 2012 release by Scholastic Parent & Child magazine listed the top 100 books for kids. Who is the authority here? What was it based on? Well, several things were noted, including literary merit, popularity, a variety of genres, and cultural representation. Literacy experts and 'mom bloggers' nominated over 500 books. Here are a few, and one in particular that has a new home at The San Francisco Music Box Company:
"Charlotte's Web" tops the list at #1. Who can not like this classic tale about a spider and farm girl who save a naïve runt of a pig? It's a little longer tale to read, but a sure winner!
"Goodnight Moon" came in a close #2.
I still recall the pictures in this classic book from the many times I read it to my children. Still one of their favorites!
"Where the Wild Things Are" from Maurice Sendak listed at #5. This wonderful story became a major motion picture in 2009 and is now on our SFMB list of targets for consideration.
Can you picture some fun musical items in your child's room of the characters from this great story? It is especially relevant today with the fun monster craze inhabiting the lives of our 5-10 year olds.
"Green Eggs and Ham," the classic tale from Dr. Seuss, ranked # 7. We read this story so many times that I still recall the words "I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam-I-Am." There are only 50 different words in this story!
Dr. Seuss had an incredible knack for bringing fun into our story time with rhyming dialogue and crazy characters!
"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle is our favorite at #12. This book has sold millions of copies worldwide and is still a top-seller today. The story of the caterpillar who ate through everything, eventually becoming a beautiful butterfly, is magical.
Here at SFMB, we created some timeless musical items from this popular story, added a little more magic with some very classic tunes, and are excited to bring them to you in June, 2012! Here are two of them for you to share with your friends.


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PERFECT CUTE TEEN LADY...... Lovely tiny, transparent bikini. Wish I was there on that pool to gave her a complete body massage. For sure 10+ on this one.
Of course,one muse assume that Belgum is going to collapse the way Spain did aftr Luca Helios enticed all the girls that were good models like lorena B. Since he has now enticed Amelie Belain over the border, I expect we will be hearing aboutn the collapse of Belgum in short order.
Remember Dom DeLuise's line in Murder by Death... "I am not a Frenchie! I am a Belgie!"?
She's amazing! Love her landing strip.... Wish there were more shots of her behind...
If you were to look up the definition of "french Curves" in the dictionary you would see pictures of Amelie Belain. Like I said in your previous set, "Amelie Belain, I love your very sexy body and your smile". Excellent set. Love the full standing shots. Excellent photography. 10+++. More full standing backside shots please.
sweet babe. pics 100 & 101 gave me an instant boner, i guess i better take care of that lol
Amelie is just so cute and appealing. That awesome body coupled with that perfect face and confidence drives me wild. Really love gazing at her amazing beauty.
Amelie is already one of my favorites, but starting off in a teeny little light blue bikini? Mind. Blown. Nice to see that she looks just as gorgeous outdoors as indoors.
And man, oh man, I love that peekaboosh bikini bottom.
This is where I must disagree with Fer,I agree that as soon as the lady has blown our minds, the best place for linagerie, bikinis, etc, is the flooror at least,underfoot. I'm sure that Rose will agree that girls plot and plan such magical events
That Luca and Amalie get their 10 to infinity goes w/o saying
Being old and doddering I confused this ravishing figure with Amelie B for one short instant. She totally blew what little age has left of my mind. That,of course is girl magic.
Right in the same boat as you bro... both of course, are fine additions to the MA-verse. This Amelie though seems to have some sort of winsome look about her.
Absolutely gorgeous woman and absolutely beautiful photo set!
Gorgeous baby...
Amelie ROCKS that micro-kini. Only problem is, as usual, it comes off way too early in the set. I really really would like to have seen a full range of explicit-type poses like she does later, but with the 'kini still on, especially the bottom.
Amelie, you are stunning. Amazing. Drool inducing... I wanted to be that poor beach ball later on in the set. (;
Amelie fills out that tiny bikini so perfectly, I wouldn't have minded more pictures of her slowly taking off the top and bottom parts.
Not that the underlying package is not appreciated.
Lovely face.
Gorgeous body.
Her breasts are to feast on.
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Bring your favourite scary stories, vampire thrillers, werewolf chillers or witchy fiction.
Whether you love Point Horrors, are enthralled by the weird creepy world or Stephen King, or love your True Blood, all book tastes will be catered for as ever. I'll be filling up the Travelling Suitcase Library with as many scary stories as I can lay my hands on.
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"Infinite Jest"
By David Foster Wallace
Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany
Published early in 1996, David Foster Wallace's remarkable novel
Infinite Jest
quickly acquired a tremendous level of notoriety for its then 33-year-old author. It's an astonishing work, dense and darkly brilliant. This page collects a number of reviews and articles pertaining to the book, the author, and his oeuvre.
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Sven Birkerts's review
from the February 1996 issue of the
Atlantic Monthly
was one of the earliest appraisals of
Infinite Jest
and it created quite a bit of excitement for the novel. Birkerts slings around alot of faux postmodern academic lingo, and the review has an overheated and breathless quality about it, but it is essential reading.
Rather ecstatic
(2.12.96 ) by David Gates. Includes a brief interview with Wallace. (Gates is himself an accomplished novelist.
(1991), a dark comic take on male mid-life dissolution, is well worth a look.)
(2.12.96) by Dan Cryer.
Very astute review from
the online
, written by Erich Strom (2.96).
Michiko Kakutani's review
from the
New York Times
(2.13.96). Reserved in its praise, but also more than a little awe-struck. The attempt at a plot-summary is hilarious in its own right. (See the
interview below for Wallace's remarks regarding the "very charming Japanese lady from the
New York Times
So-so review by
magazine's R.Z. Sheppard
(2.19.96), who finds Wallace's jokes tiresome. Actually, the sidebar story about Wallace proofreading his galleys is more interesting than the review itself.
Chicago Tribune
author profile
(2.23.96) by Mark Caro. Discusses buzz surrounding the novel, and includes quotes from Wallace, as well as from faculty & associates at ISU.
Poorly written
review by has-been Jay McInerney
in the
New York Times Book Review
(3.6.96). McInerney apparently feels the need to piss all over Wallace, probably in a misguided attempt to defuse the hype-sters who are labelling Wallace as the "next McInerney." Sadly, Mr. Bright Lights doesn't seem to "get" Wallace's novel.
Enthusiastic review in
The Boston Phoenix
(Mar. 21-28 issue) by Anne Marie Donahue. Contains yet another tongue-tied attempt at a plot summary.
Boston Phoeni
x interview
with Wallace, also by Anne Marie Donahue, and from the same Mar 21-28 issue as her review of
Infinite Jest
. Wallace is eloquent on the topics of mainstream vs. avant-garde fiction, and reader expectations vis-à-vis narrative "resolution." Helps point up the literary intolerance of reviewers like Jacob Levich. (See two bullets down.)
Entertainment Weekly
"critic" Lisa Schwarzbaum was so intimidated by the book's sheer heft that she refused to even read it! Her "review" is essentially an attack on the hype and the marketing.
Odd little
review by Jacob Levich
, who was so unhappy with what he perceived as the novel's lack of a satisfying resolution that he brands it a case of "literary coitus interruptus." The review is from the online TV Guide Entertainment Network. 'Nuf said.
New York Times Magazine
(3.24.96) "kultur" piece on Wallace and how he's handling sudden success. Journalist Frank Bruni's tone is off-putting and smug, but the article does its job in unnearthing wonderfully odd biographical details about Wallace. (The weirdest aside is Bruni's discovery of the teeth-whitener toothpaste and the acne medicine in Wallace's bathroom medicine cabinet.)
Interesting and irreverent piece from
Hungrey Mind Review
by Michael Tortorello (early 96). Distinctive for Tortorello's noting specific similarities between Wallace's work and the novels of Don DiLillo.
Outstanding interview
with Wallace conducted by Laura Miller for
online journal in March, 1996. Wallace talks about the novel's editing. He also is generous in discussing literary influences and his contemporaries.
Review by Kathleen Scheiner from the University of Iowa's student newspaper
The Daily Iowan
(3.27.96). Positive in tone, with a better-than-average attempt at a plot summary. Favorite overwrought and impenetrable sentence: "Wallace eviscerates the most despicable, and at times hilarious, parts of our current culture and drapes a future world with vaguely recognizable glimmers of its decoration."
Review by Rob Fellman from the
College Hill Independent
(4.11.96) published by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. This is another smart and breezy appraisal from a smart and breezy college student, who seems equally at home with Umberto Eco or Stephen King. Favorite passage from the review: "Wallace waxes Romantic (that's Romantic with a capital 'R') about AA at times, which can be a bit disturbing since it made me vaguely want to become an alcoholic just so I could come back from the brink. Maybe I'm just impressionable; I wanted to become a drunk after seeing Nicolas Cage in
Leaving Las Vegas
Pretty good interview
with Wallace conducted by Valerie Stivers for
online journal, which was apparently posted in May, 96. Of particular interest are Wallace's refutations concerning aspects of Sven Birkerts's
Atlantic Monthly
's online site has three
RealAudio recordings of Wallace
reading from
Infinite Jest
at a New York bookstore, totaling about 35 minutes.
Funny and charming
online chat with Wallace
sponsored by
e-zine on May 17, 1996. Showcases a playful and relaxed DFW, no doubt due to his feeling more at ease with a computer keyboard than a face-to-face interview. The questions and online exchanges between the participants are equally entertaining.
Awed review by a fellow fiction writer, David McLean, in the
Boston Book Review
QPB talks to David Foster Wallace
(September, 1996). True miscellany, this is a brief, nearly inane "interview" with Wallace to hype the Quality Paperback Bookclub's edition of the novel, which they are trumpeting as "coolest book of the year."
Review by Daley Haggar from the Fall '96 issue of the
Harvard Advocate
. Haggar is a fearless name-dropper -- Eco, Jameson, Lacan -- but somehow the lingo never seems gratuitous. Really one of the more intelligent assessments of the novel.
In November of '96, Wallace was
awarded $50,000
from the Lannan Foundation, primarily for his work on "Infinite Jest," which the foundation noted had been "praised for its brilliance, humor, ambition and imaginative daring."
Michiko Kakutani's review (2.4.97) of DFW's
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
, a marvelous and idiosyncratic collection of previously published essays and magazine articles. Many of the pieces were expanded for the book edition, in what Wallace has described as a "director's cut." Kakutani's review reflects the now accepted mainstream critical approach to DFW, praising his literary gifts, and then scolding: "...like
Infinite Jest
, the book is sorely in need of some editing..."
DFW began a second tour in February, 1997, to promote his book of essays. (Published simultaneously with a trade paperback edition of
Infinite Jest
.) He read at Canterbury Booksellers in Madison, Wisconsin on Feb. 13. The week before the reading, music/literary critic Tom Laskin interviewed Wallace by telephone for Madison's
, a city weekly.
The Wisconsin State Journal
dispatched their religion writer & spy-novel reviewer William R. Wineke to Madison's Sheraton Inn to interview DFW. Wineke mentions Wallace as the author of
Infinite Jest
and "other novels" [sic]. A ridiculous article, which is nothing out of the ordinary for the State Journal. Also makes for the third time I've heard Wallace tell his anecdote beginning, "I told my publisher I wouldn't do a paperback tour....."
There are many reasons to boycott the crass and commercial website Little, Brown & Company has concocted around their
Infinite Jest
juggernaut [http://www.infinitejest.com/], not the least of which is its tacky design and content. For me, personally, it's the "download an
Infinite Jest
screensaver" come-on that completely ignores Macintosh users in favor of Win-Doze plodders. That said, the website does contain the very funny mini-essay, "
David Foster Wallace talks about writing
Infinite Jest
David Wiley's interview with DFW
(2.27.97) during the St. Paul, MN leg of the
Supposedly Fun Thing
tour. Simply one of the best Wallace interviews in print. He takes a couple of pot-shots at Pynchon, directed in particular at
article by David Wiley
that accompanies the above interview in the
Minnesota Daily
Zachary Chouteau's interview with Wallace for the
American Booksellers Association
(3.97). Lots of interesting small talk here, including DFW's favorite bookstore in the U.S. (Elliott Bay in Seattle), the Pynchon business ("The Pynchon thing really annoys me...I get tired of it, pissed off by it."), and this great childhood memory: "...my parents really like to read, and a lot of my memories of growing up are lying around with opera on the stereo and reading."
Novelist Richard Stern's very positive and
strong review of
Supposedly Fun Thing
for the
Chicago Tribune
(3.9.97). Stern finds common ground between Wallace's Illinois State Fair piece and a Saul Bellow essay from 1957, which is a beautiful cross-generational literary compliment. Also, Stern praises DFW's essay on tennis player Michael Joyce as "the best essay I've read on professional tennis."
Laura Miller's review of
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
from the
New York Times Book Review
(3.16.97). As her above
interview with Wallace demonstrates, Laura Miller can be a perceptive critic. Here, however, she suggests that the essays in
Supposedly Fun Thing
succeed more effectively than
Infinite Jest
in presenting DFW's "ardent and sincere side." I'm not convinced that's true, but even if it were, so what? More troubling is
's questionable affiliation with Little, Brown & Company's DFW website. The website's only link to an outside page is to
's DFW interview conducted by....Laura Miller.
Wallace's appearance on PBS television's
Charlie Rose Show
(3.27.97) is not without interest. DFW is clearly uncomfortable with the medium, however, and you can sense him trying to edit and rewrite his remarks while he's talking. Charlie Rose is a pretty good, if scatter-shot interviewer. I thought there was far too much talk about David Lynch. Also, Wallace here makes a couple of sexist remarks that one hopes are mere momentary lapses of reason, to wit: [in regards to Clint Eastwood's
] "I don't know a single female who likes the film....[F]emales think, 'Western? It stinks'"; and this totally out-of-nowhere zinger: "Feminists are always saying this. Feminists are saying white males say, 'Okay, I'm going to sit down and write this enormous book and impose my phallus on the consciousness of the world.'"
Michael Feldman's comedy-quiz radio program
Whad'ya Know?
(4.5.97) would seem at first a most unlikely venue for a David Foster Wallace interview. But, in fact, Feldman's witty smartypants patter brings out the jokester and the one-upsmanship in Wallace. DFW is very sly and funny here. Biggest revelation: Wallace has finally seen Lynch's
Lost Highway
, which he dismisses as "kind of a dink."
Interview and profile from Toronto newspaper
The Globe and Mail
(4.29.97), by journalist Doug Saunders. This piece is very well crafted, with a priceless and hilarious description of Wallace chewing tobacco during the interview and hawking into a teacup at the Founder's Club in Toronto's SkyDome stadium. (Thanks to Saunders for posting a copy of the article online at firstname.lastname@example.com.)
Michael Silverblatt interviewed
Wallace on KCRW-FM
in Santa Monica (5.15.97) for the radio program
. This is an outstanding interview. Silverblatt's questions are sharp and Wallace seems more relaxed and at ease than in most of these forums. Also contains some interesting conversation pertaining to David Markson's near-classic novel
Wittgenstein's Mistress
, which is much admired by both Wallace and Silverblatt.
A brief and none-too-illuminating profile of Wallace was broadcast on
Weekend Sunday
program (5.18.97). Perhaps its most distinguishing aspect is the opportunity to witness DFW growing ever more ill-tempered over the Pynchon comparisons: "The P- guy comes into mind -- I won't even say his name -- whom I was very interested in in college, but am just not that interested in anymore." (Thanks to K. J. Turner for obtaining the transcript and sharing it with the email@example.com discussion group, where I snagged a copy.)
Wallace was awarded a prestigious $230,000 "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation on June 16, 1997. He was one of 23 recipients, with individual grants ranging from $190,000 to $375,000, on which basis Wallace would classify as only a "low mid-range" genius.
Wallace's scorched-earth
attack on John Updike's latest
Toward the End of Time
, in the October 13, 1997 edition of the
New York Observer
is pure agitprop, signaling Wallace's arrival as a Maileresque pugilist in the dumbed-down lit-crit mainstream. Of Updike's protagonist, Wallace remarks: "But it never once occurs to him that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole." This isn't critical thinking; it's merely dyspeptic blurbism. The
gleefully sought to keep the bitches brew a' boiling, however, with a similar article by
DFW lapdog Sven Birkerts
-- who bludgeons Updike's contemporaries Bellow, Mailer, and Roth. Finally,
Anne Roiphe is brought in
to cool things down as a sort of deus ex maternal scold: "What we really have here is the primitive competitiveness of males who want to urinate on the books placed on the front tables of Barnes & Noble in order to signify territorial ownership."
My own review of
Infinite Jest
from the
Cambridge Book Review
, winter '97 - '98.
Back on another book tour, this time for the paperback release of
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
, Wallace was interviewed by Tom Scocca of the
Boston Phoenix
(February 19 - 26, 1998 issue). DFW is more seasoned and relaxed than during his previous
interview two years ago for
Infinite Jest
. In fact, he's a regular schmoozer these days, and there are some wonderful anecdotes here, including this great pre-
Infinite Jest
tale: "I remember giving a reading at a bookstore in Harvard Square. It was December '91, and
had this whole idea that they were going to put on these readings. The
PR person came to Boston, and I came and I gave a reading, and nobody showed up. There was a snowstorm, but the basic point is, nobody showed up. So me and the PR guy went out and ate, like, three pieces of cake each and apologized to each other for three hours."
Continuing his paperback tour for
A Supposedly Fun Thing
... Wallace is interviewed by Chris O'Connor and Rob Elder in the March '98 issue of the
Oregon Voice
, a publication of the University of Oregon. Particularly interesting for Wallace's remarks on the uneasy alliance between authors & publishers, and authors & media.
Melpomene Whitehead's remarkable essay of
eroticized hagiography
explains why David Foster Wallace is "the only author who can strum my magic twanger." Part hilarious homage to Wallace's footnoted writing style, the essay also offers up funny/scary autobiographical shards from Whitehead's life. Appears in
Check out the David Foster Wallace website created by
Nick Maniatis
in Australia. The site is beautifully designed and the information is frequently updated. Nick offers a considerable amount of substantive and original material concerning Wallace and his work. I also owe Nick a big thanks for the numerous links he provides to my own DFW page.
A very useful IJ textual tool is offered by
Steve Russillo
on his
Infinite Jest
page -- an Endnote Tag Finder. Anyone who has spent time with the novel's endnotes at the back of the book has quickly discovered that there's no easy way of using the index to refer back to the text: you can't discover from the endnote itself where in the novel the endnote reference is. Russillo solves this problem for all of us by referencing the index. Extremely helpful.
At long last a
wiki for
Infinite Jest
, courtesy of Tim Ware.
The DFW Archive
Michiko Kakutani's review of
The Broom of the System
(12.27.86) from the
New York Times
. Yes, here she is ten years ago predictably sprinkling Wallace with equal parts praise and damnation. But in the end: "The problem is that pretension often substitutes for real intelligence, wordiness for eloquence."
Caryn James's review of
The Broom of the System
(3.1.87) from the
New York Times Book Review
. More insightful than Kakutani, James points up the Wittgenstein connection and seems to "get" the jokes. Also includes a brief excerpt from the novel showcasing the "Hi, Bob!" drinking game.
Novelist Jenifer Levin's review of
Girl With Curious Hair
(11.5.89) from the
New York Times Book Review
. Levin's enthusiasm for Wallace shows why fellow fictioneers find him so captivating to read.
Photo Gallery
This photo of Wallace appears on the dust-jacket of the 1989 Norton hardback edition of his short-story collection,
Girl With Curious Hair
Infinite Jest
makeover -- minus ubiquitous bandanna -- circa March, 1996, from the
New York Times Magazine
Photo appearing as of February, 1998 in ads and on the back cover of the paperback edition of
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Photo appearing above the author bio in the July 1998
magazine, which features Wallace's short story "Adult World."
Life Imitates Jest
Blood Sister: One Tough Nun
, James Incandenza's exploitation flick given a loving plot synopsis in the latter pages of
Infinite Jest
, has perhaps met its real-life match in a series of comic books chronicling the adventures of Sister Shannon Masters, the Warrior Nun. An article in
USA Today
has all the goofy details.
Copyrights are due the authors,
journals, magazines, & newspapers
from whose pages I've copied stuff.
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Earlier this year, I ran headfirst into a wall. With all of the busyness of life, I nearly locked myself in a closet and tried to disappear. I felt overwhelmed and driven into the ground. I was an old pickup truck with a busted engine and four flat tires. I was stuck.
Truthfully, I had taken my eyes off of God and put them on myself.
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Trevin Wax:
Twitter is a place for conversation, but once we go into battle mode, I think the legitimate conversation is already over. Twitter battles are like putting on a spectacle for the perverse pleasure (or dismay) of the Twitter audience. Has anyone watching one of these debacles ever said, "You know what? You convinced me! I'm wrong and you're right." No one. Ever.
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In Which Calvin Defends Lip-Gloss
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A number of these young women have grown up in difficult and abusive homes. Some don't have mothers. Others had never had a stitch of makeup on in their lives and wouldn't know where to start. And so, my wife, expert that she is, taught them how to wash their faces, massaged them, and then helped them understand how to use makeup in a way that amplifies and accentuates their natural features–eyes, cheeks, lashes, and lips–instead of drowning them out in a wash of paint.
I see this as a service and not simply a misguided encouragement to vanity, and to make my case, I'd like to call to the stand a witness: Genevan Reformer John Calvin's theology of the body.


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British hostage Peter Moore will soon be returning to the UK from Iraq, after spending the last six months of his two-and-a-half year period of captivity with only satellite television, a laptop, and a PlayStation to keep him occupied.
Peter Moore and his four bodyguards were kidnapped in May of 2007 by what is understood to be an obscure militia known as the Islamic Shia Resistance. Over the course of the following months three of his bodyguards were killed, with the fourth presumed dead. After two years of rough treatment, his captors changed their tune in June of 2009. According to BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, from then on, Moore was given access to some more luxurious amenities.
Frank Gardner said that since June, Mr Moore had been given markedly better treatment by his captors, effectively placed under house arrest, with en suite facilities, access to satellite TV, a laptop - though not online - and a PlayStation.
What a surreal experience that must have been for the man. Two years of hopeless bleak despair, his bodyguards killed, and then all of the sudden he might as well be hanging out at my apartment for six months. Part of me wonders about the psychological effects the rapid shift in treatment would have on a man, and is glad to see that Mr. Moore will be returning home after such a long, terrible ordeal.
The other part of me wonders what games he played.
A third part of me would like to point out that he received access to a PlayStation, and not an Xbox 360 or Wii. I wouldn't call the Islamic Shia Resistance Sony fanboys, mainly because my name is on this post. Those of you hiding behind screen names in the comments section are free to savor the sweet release of anonymity.
Not to make light of a serious situation. I'm just trying to wrap my head around an extremist organisation that supplies a video game system to a hostage. The world is a very strange place indeed.


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2020 Ford Expedition With Dvd Player - The forthcoming 2020 Ford Expedition is one of the finest full-size SUVs available in the market right now. 2020 Ford Expedition MAX. 2020 Ford Expedition MAX welcome to your web fordtrend.com here we provide various information about the most recent ford cars such as for instance: Review, Redesign , Specification, Rumor, Concept, Interior , Exterior , Price , Release Date and Pictures. The Expedition includes the attractive exterior design and very comfy and roomy interior. Beneath the hood, the customers can opt involving the gasoline and diesel engines. Moreover, a hybrid drivetrain can be acquired as well.
Despite motor tune, the Expedition utilizes Ford's new 10-speed programmed transmission. Grown as well as amongst Ford and General Motors, the gearbox initially appeared in the 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor and the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 – both nervous execution machines. Presently this same equipment is advancing into different vehicles, such as the F-150 and Expedition. Clearly, the Expedition could have programming customized toward individuals pulling and direct towing instead of running the Baja 1000 or lapping Laguna Seca. Because capacity, the Expedition will pull around eight individuals and can tow a greatest of 9,300 pounds.
2020 Ford Expedition Interior
The driver is welcomed with a well-known gage bunch, which incorporates two principle simple gages for speed and tach, alongside a substantial TFT show for vehicle data sorted out in several pages. In-dash tech incorporates Ford's present Sync 3 infotainment framework that's perfect with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Remote telephone charging is located in the canister just underneath the HVAC controls. Two USB ports are likewise conveniently set inside a similar compartment. A 110-volt family unit plug lives on the traveler side of the dash, very similar as in the F-150.
The Expedition likewise offers Ford's Pro Trailer Backup Assist highlight, which enables normal drivers back a trailer to like, well, an expert. A column of catches within the infotainment screen holds imperative stuff like slope tolerable controls, footing control , peril lights, path takeoff, the programmed begin/stop framework for the EcoBoost motor, and the 360-degree camera framework.
As anyone might expect, Ford utilized its F-150 dashboard inside the Expedition. Passage invested a ton of energy and cash idealizing this dash, so it really bodes well. Its materials were decided for his or her hostile to glare properties, while ergonomics were organized over feel. Not too the within looks less than impressive, by any methods, obviously. The leading travelers will pay attention to some real contrasts involving the F-150 and Expedition. The center reassure is definitely an alternate plan and houses another rotating gearshift handle and other drivetrain controls. Genuine wood and metal finishings are accessible, just like a cowhide wrapped dash with differentiate sewing and punctured calfskin seats with warming and ventilation. Obviously, double zone atmosphere controls are available.
2020 Ford Expedition Exterior
Portage didn't disregard the utility part with this Sport Utility Vehicle. Tow snares project from leading guard, while a two-inch beneficiary hitch is discovered back behind a close out board. A kick-movement control liftgate makes stacking staple goods a snap, while Ford's notorious driver entryway keypad eases the likelihood of incidentally bolting keys inside. For those needing it, the Expedition accompanies 4WD with all the current fitting equipment. Another FX4 Off-Road choice bundle accessible on the XLT trim expedites extra capacity unpaved surfaces. FX4 identifications on leading bumper and liftgate indicate the choice bundle, while chrome running sheets and dim, 18-inch wheel with off-road Michelin tires finish the look. The FX4 likewise has a shorter front air dam for an enhanced approach point.
While numerous in the commercial, including us, nevertheless the Expedition would obtain a comparative face because the F-150, Ford picked a more hybrid like nose that takes after the Explorer. We're happy however, because the 2020 Expedition is strongly attractive and throughout refined. It looks into scale and effectively thought out. That is particularly valid for the range-topping Platinum trim , that includes a cheddar grater-style grille with a constant chrome trim piece that focuses the Blue Oval while plunging in to the headlights at either end. The Platinum additionally brags full LED headlights, mist lights, and daytime running lights.
A great character line runs just beneath the side windows, giving the Expedition an etched belt line fundamentally the same as that seen on the Lincoln Navigator idea. Indeed, from the A-column rearward is by all accounts straightforwardly enlivened from Lincoln's'up and coming model. Throughout characterized and adjusted wheel curves provide the generally squarish SUV a changed style, while keeping that SUV vibe alive. Chrome trim round the windows coordinates pleasantly with the chrome reflect tops and rooftop rails. Power-collapsing running sheets with body-shaded paint and chrome trim further send the Expedition toward the extravagance end of the standard SUV.
2020 Ford Expedition Engine
Portage is driving the 2020 Expedition using its new, second-era 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6. This is actually the same EcoBoost V-6 that's found in the F-150. In the 2 applications, the twin-turbocharged, all-aluminum motor makes an incredibly respectable 375 strength at 5,000 rpm and 470 pound-feet of torque at 3,500 rpm. That puts it well over Chevy's 5.3-liter V-8's 355 pull and 383 pound-feet of torque.
The range-topping Platinum trim gets a considerably greater punch. Passage tuned exactly the same 3.5-liter EcoBoost to 400 strength at 5,000 rpm and 480 pound-feet of torque at 3,250 rpm. The fantastic power requires premium, 93-octane fuel, yet better positions the Expedition Platinum against General Motors'6.2-liter V-8. That Corvette-determined motor still leads the class with 420 torque and 460 pound-feet.
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For Max versions, anticipate adding around $3,700 to the bottom price of a 2020 XL and around $2,700 to the bottom price of the others. For all, deduct $3,000 or so if you want rear-wheel drive. Among returning key options, for the XLT, expect Equipment Group 202A to again cost around $5,500 and add such features because the safety-minded Driver Assistance Package, blind-spot and rear cross-traffic detection, hands-free unlocking and tailgate, an electric tilt/telescope tyre, power-adjustable pedals, heated and ventilated front seats, Wi-Fi modem, and wireless phone charging.
For the 2020 Expedition Limited , expect the most popular Equipment Groupe 302A to come back at around $6,500 and include all the safety and driver-assist items, including pedestrian detection; a panoramic moonroof; 22-inch wheels; imbedded navigation; hands-free parking; and Continuously Controlled Damping. At around $7,500, try to find Equipment Group 303A to again include all that, in addition to the black-out Stealth Edition trim , LED headlamps, and a 360-degree exterior-view camera system with lens washers. The Platinum should return with all the current above-mentioned features with just two main factory options: the heavy-duty tow package (about $1,600) and the duel-headrest rear-entertainment system ($1,995). Add those, and you'll be looking at a ticket of around $86,000 for a 2020 AWD Platinum Max.
Passage has not discharged valuing for the 2020 Expedition , but alternatively we anticipate that which will come nearer to its four-quarter 2020 on special date. Passage can keep the Expedition focused available in the market against its long-term rivals at GM. By and by, valuing will doubtlessly ascend to replace with the additional innovation. At present the 2020 Expedition conveys a beginning cost of $46,225. Decked out, a present Expedition can cost up to $70,000 – coordinating that of GMC's range-topping Yukon XL Denali.
In its class, the'20 Expedition will remain competitively priced. EX and XLT models should again come from the low-to-mid-$50,000 range, like their Chevy rivals. Base charges for Limited and Platinum will remain from the mid-$60,000s to low $80,000s, pitting them contrary to the GMC Yukon Denali, the relatively upscale Nissan Armada, and the near-premium-class Toyota Land Cruiser. Estimated base prices here include Ford's destination fee, that was $1,295 for the 2019 Expedition. Most buyers order AWD; with that feature, figure starting prices of regular-length AWD 2020 Expeditions of around $53,600 for the XL, $57,300 for the XLT, $68,300 for the Limited , and $78,700 for the Platinum.


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Pizza Sticks
When I saw the recipe for these pepperoni-filled snacks, I knew my three young daughters would like making them. They're quick and fun to assemble—especially when they work together.—Darlene Sutton, Boise, Idaho
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes1 dozen
- 1 tube (11 ounces) refrigerated breadsticks
- 36 slices pepperoni
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce, warmed
- Unroll breadstick dough and separate into 12 pieces. Place three pepperoni slices on the bottom half of each breadstick, leaving about 3/4 in. of dough at the end. Fold top of dough over pepperoni and pinch end to seal; twist breadsticks.
- Place on ungreased baking sheets. Combine Parmesan cheese, Italian seasoning and garlic powder; sprinkle over breadsticks. Bake at 350° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with pizza sauce.
Editor's NoteThis recipe was tested with Pillsbury refrigerated breadsticks.
Originally published as Pizza Sticks in Taste of Home April/May 1999


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When Holly Springs resident Robert P. Kennel tells people he was born in a stable, he isn�t being Messianic. He really was.
When Holly Springs resident Robert P. Kennel tells people he was born in a stable, he isn�t being Messianic. He really was.
The stable they speak of hadn�t seen a horse inside its walls in nearly 140 years.
Kennel is one of possibly only two people alive who were born in the Tryon Palace stables back in a day when George Street ran right outside and the Palace itself was only a dream.
The other surviving person who claims a birthright to the building is Frances Henderson of Change Street, New Bern.
When Tryon Palace burned down in on Feb. 27, 1798, the buildings to its west and east � the kitchens and the stables � survived. The kitchen was torn down, probably for its bricks, but the stable remained, serving various purposes over the years. In the 1830s, for instance, it was a carriage shop for the devout and beloved Robert Hay.
The building was remodeled in the early part of the twentieth century and turned into an apartment building. Kennel believes it was four apartments when he was born there on March 1, 1936. iI was a leap year, he jokes, and if he�d been born one day earlier he�d only be 20 years old today.
Frances was born there, a few years earlier on October 27, 1921.
Rent, at least in Kennel�s day, was nine dollars. His parents, Phil and Nora, moved out when he was only two years old because rent went up fifty cents and they didn�t want to pay the difference. The Kennels lived on the second floor on the right as one faces the building.
Kennel has only one memory of that place: he recalls standing at the top of a long staircase, looking down.
�Or maybe that was the apartment across the road,� he admits. �I was really young.�
Kennel�s father, a postman, had to borrow money to cover his son�s birth.
�Daddy said he borrowed 50 dollars from Morris Plan Bank,� he said. �Back in those days they took the interest out up front. So he was only given 43 dollars. So he paid 39 dollars to Dr. Charlie Ashford and Nurse Leuter to deliver me, and then the last four dollars to have me circumcised.�
Henderson, meanwhile, did relate some memories of the palace in an interview she gave in September, 2011.
�It was just loads of fun,� she said. �There were four apartments on each side and a stairway went up the middle in the hall ... We lived downstairs. My grandmother had one up above us. I would go up to see her and then I could slide all the way down the banister, sometimes from the attic.
�Then I�d get off, like riding a horse.�
Henderson remembers that �the woodwork and mantels were lovely. The flooring was very pretty.�
The apartments, she recalled, had no central heat but were kept somewhat warm with coal stoves and fireplaces.
Henderson also remembers Edgar B. Elliott, her uncle and also a young fireman who lived in the apartment with his Henderson�s grandmother. Elliott would drown while fighting a warehouse fire on the riverfront on June 10, 1931, making him the only New Bern fireman to die while fighting a fire.
�He was just a loving person,� she said. �Even when I was a little girl I could remember, when he would come in, he�d see me and hold out his arms, and I�d just run to him and he�d pick me up and flip me over my shoulders and away we would go.�
She remembers the day he died and her grandmother�s sadness. Elliott is buried beneath a large monument at the Cedar Grove Extension Cemetery.
Henderson came into the world five years later and, by the time he was three, was living in a house at the corner of Johnson and Metcalf streets.
�It was known as Color town,� he said. �We lived in the last white house, but we paid rent to a colored family. It was twelve dollars a month.�
Henderson would go on to make a name for himself in sports, graduating from New Bern Highschool in 1954 as valedictorian and all conference in baseball, basketball and football.
By then his birthplace was undergoing restoration to its original, 1770 condition.
His mother, Nora Kennel, would serve on several mental health boards under Gov. Jim Hunt, who served from 1977-1985 and 1993 to 2001. Kennel, who knows Hunt and declares himself one of his biggest fans, worked for some years to convince Hunt to put up a plaque honoring his mother in the Palace stables.
�I had a discussion in 1982 with him over lunch and told him I was born in the horse stable wing of Tryon Palace,� Kennel said. �He told me he was going to get a small brass plaque put on the second floor door to honor my mother.�
It didn�t happen in that term and Kennel said he spoke to the governor again in 1992.
�I said, Governor Jim, you are now a lawyer and a liar.You didn�t get that plaque put up at Tryon Palace.� He said the former governor tried to get released from the promise but, when Kennel refused, Hunt told him he would run for governor again.
Hunt went on to win another two terms as North Carolina governor, making him the longest-serving governor in North Carolina�s post-revolutionary history.
�I have always taken full credit for Governor Hunt�s decision to run again,� Kennel laughed.


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{What's in my Elaine Turner Handbag?}
Houston-based Elaine Turner founded her line of stylish, feminine handbags in April of 2000. Over the years that followed, Turner added shoes and accessories to her chic collection. At one point, Turner's line was only available at certain boutiques around the country, but she has recently expanded her empire to include several signature Elaine Turner boutiques which are decorated in Turner's classic, glamorous style.
In honor of the grand opening of the newest Elaine Turner boutique in The Woodlands, TX, Elaine invited me to participate in the "What's in my Elaine Turner Bag?" series and was gracious enough to send me the lovely Phoebe Handbag in Cheetah Haircalf pictured above. I used to be terrible about carrying a TON of stuff in my huge handbags, so I've been making a real effort to pare things down recently. This bag is such a great size and I love the ladylike shape. The leopard print gives it a bit of an edge and acts as a perfect neutral! I am currently carrying my keys, my new iPhone 5 with a fabulous custom case by Iomoi, my handy little Panasonic camera with Leica lens—I have to be a prepared blogger; my peacock blue Abas card holder in which I carry my business cards, a pink GiGi New York wallet from A Bientot (it's the perfect size), and my Tory Burch sunglasses. I also carry a leather wrapped Graphic Image pen, Olivina hand cream in the Fig scent (my favorite), as well as two items which are dead giveaways of my neuroses—antibacterial gel and a Tide To Go pen! What do you carry in your bag? Do you travel light or are you a bit of a maximalist?
{If you are in the Houston area, be sure to stop by The Pink Party in honor of the Grand Opening of the Elaine Turner boutique in The Woodlands this Wednesday, December 12th!If you can't make it, check out the Elaine Turner website for some fabulous pieces to include in your letter to Santa this year.}


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How do you join the University of Georgia School of Law Alumni Association (LSA)?Graduates of the University of Georgia School of Law are automatically enrolled as regular members in the alumni association. Membership is also available to any person who successfully completed one academic session in residence at the University of Georgia School of Law and to any alumni of UGA who have law degrees from other institutions or who have been admitted to the practice of law. Contact Kate Lindsey O'Reilly, coordinator of alumni relations, at 706-542-5190 or firstname.lastname@example.com to get involved with the Law School Alumni Association. Honorary members may be elected by the executive committee of the alumni association.
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What are the annual dues for the University of Georgia School of Law Alumni Association?There are no annual membership dues to belong to the law school's alumni association, and no dues are required to receive the alumni magazine, the Advocate.
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In the ChemVLab+ project, we extend the utility of the virtual lab by creating embedded assessment modules that provide students with opportunities to apply chemistry knowledge to meaningful contexts and to receive immediate, individualized tutoring.
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Sen. Robert Menendez, who has maintained all along that he never paid prostitutes for sex, said he is looking forward to whatever evidence emerges from courts in the Dominican Republic to vindicate him.
A Dominican lawyer on Monday released an affidavit from a 23-year-old woman saying she fabricated a story about Menendez paying her for sex.
"I've always said that these are false, they're smears," Menendez, D-N.J., told reporters at the Capitol, referring to published reports that he paid prostitutes for sex in the Dominican Republic. "And, so, I look forward to seeing whatever the Dominican courts have that prove what I've said all along."
Vincio Castillo Seman, a Dominican lawyer, told reporters at a news conference Monday in the Dominican Republic that a woman identified as Nexis de los Santos now claims both that she "never went to bed with" Menendez and never actually met him.
Castillo, the son of a Dominican presidential adviser and the brother of a member of the country's Congress, has been entwined in the scandal himself, accused of hosting outings on his yacht in which Menendez used the services of prostitutes.
Like Menendez, he has strongly denied the allegations. Castillo said he would seek a criminal probe into the source of the reports. On Monday, Castillo distributed copies of the woman's sworn statement to reporters. The woman did not attend.
Castillo said de los Santos claims she and a friend were approached by another Dominican lawyer, Melanio Figueroa. The two women recited the accusations on a video that was recorded without their consent, he said.
In an interview with The Miami Herald, Figueroa denied orchestrating the accusations against Menendez. "It was a case that I handled for these women and faithfully represented them for what they said," he said.
Just before Menendez's successful re-election in November, The Daily Caller, a conservative website, published a story that included a video interview with two women who claimed to be prostitutes. The women — whose faces were blurred in the video — said Menendez paid them $100 for sex after agreeing to a fee of $500.
On its website early Tuesday, The Daily Caller said neither of the women in the video identified herself as Nexis de los Santos. The website also said both women consented to the presence of a video webcam.
In the video released last year, the two women also claimed they had sex with Castillo and Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida eye doctor of Dominican descent who is a prominent Democratic campaign contributor and a major supporter of Menendez. De los Santos claims those allegations are also fabricated.
Melgen said in a statement that he is pleased Dominican authorities are investigating the prostitution claims, which he says are false.
Menendez's ties to Melgen have come under close scrutiny after an FBI raid last month at the doctor's West Palm Beach, Fla., offices. Menendez has acknowledged flying on Melgen's private jet to the Dominican Republic twice and was compelled to reimburse $58,000 for the two flights that he had previously failed to report.
A watchdog group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has said it had received emails starting in April 2012 alleging that Menendez used the services of prostitutes in the Dominican Republic. The emails came from someone identified as "Peter Williams," though that may be a pseudonym.
Associated Press writers Ezequiel Abiu Lopez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Erica Werner in Washington contributed to this report.


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In the epic novels penned by the the late Zane Grey, a 44-caliber Colt revolver with its 8-inch-long barrel was often referred to as "The Equalizer."
It was all I could do to keep quiet.
This young fella sitting beside me started snickering and pointing at an older gentleman who was walking by.
The lips of the old man (who by the way, was about my age) were moving, but he wasn't saying anything.
I didn't see anything strange about his behavior at all. It looked perfectly normal to me.
Bless Pete, I used to do it all the time when I was growing up.
Evidently, this young upstart is not attune to the wonderful world of invisible friends.
According to Momma (and the Esso Oil Co. calendar hanging on the back of our kitchen door), it was finally spring.
Goodbye, cold frosty mornings. A hearty hello to yellow bell (forsythia) bushes and jonquils, which were waking up in just about every yard along Chesterfield Avenue.
Trouble was, I had a real doozy of a cold, sniffles, coughing and a fever.
I felt terrible (except for the fact I was spending this Monday at home).
It's never smart to utter the phrase, "Boy, I've learned my lesson. I'm never gonna do that again."
It's often been said that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions.
I might not intend to make the same lapse in judgment, but chances are likely that I will, and have.
I wasn't always a choirboy.
A couple of years ago I shared my rather shady adventures passing out picture show programs.
Hey, at the time it seemed like a good idea, especially when the pay involved free movie passes.
Old sayings often end up being right on the mark.
One of them which I know to be true is, "Two's company and three's a crowd."
When two friends get together, they can sort out whether to attempt some undertaking or decide on a different approach.
Three people get into a bind because, two agree and the third one just follows along until a falling out occurs.
When I reached the age of a responsible teenager, one of my jobs was seeing to a herd of Black Angus cattle on our farm just below Bell Town.
These days, common ground is hard to come by.
So when you find a patch of it, you like the feel of it under your bare feet.
A while back, one morning in Sunday School, I found some common ground.
A gentleman I once worked for told me although he grew up in Atlanta, the antics of young boys here and there in the 1940s were pretty similar.
Bless Pete, I reckon he had a fondness for old cardboard refrigerator boxes, too.
It made me smile.
Bless Pete, Saturday was finally here. After a tough week, I was ready for a trip to the picture show.
These weekend adventures had become a big deal for me. I had finally reached the "age of trust."
That meant I was now old enough to walk uptown by myself and go to the Saturday morning show without an adult chaperon.
However, Mama's general definition of trust was somewhat different.
"That means you're old enough to have good sense about some things," she said.
I can identify with the folks on this new cable television show who have an inability to part with belongings they should've thrown out long ago.
At one time, I conceived a plan to sort our accumulated junk and haul it off to the green boxes by the racetrack on a regular basis.
However, since retirement, that's kind of got shoved to the back of the drawer, so to speak.
Of course, I can't blame anybody else. I have fallen down on my job.
But in my defense, stuff just looks different now.
I've been in southern Maryland for several weeks now.
After what happened here on Wednesday, I may be snowed-bound for a spell.
Christmas was white from an earlier snowfall, but folks were able to navigate.
Sand and salt trucks and snow plows were busy. The roads cleared, even in neighborhoods, schoolchildren didn't miss a day of reading, writing or arithmetic. But all that has changed. An additional 2 foot of snow has everything here almost at a standstill.
It sort of reminds me of Lancaster.
Plasma televisions, Charlie Duke walking on the moon, computers, Bluetooth cell phones and iPods are proof that the world is a more technical place now than it was when I was a boy.
Yes sir, folks are smarter.
But at the same time, we're a lot dumber, too.
By today's standards, it appears that we might not have enough sense to come in out of the rain.
But I'll bet anybody a marble sack full of Indian head brownies that our early life – even with its shortcomings – was better than modern folks give us credit.
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