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As for the design of the Dell Streak 7, it unequivocally mirrors the style of its distant sibling – the Dell Streak 5. Surprisingly, there's a fair amount of hefty weight with this all plastic tablet, but it still nonetheless feels quite sturdy all around. Meanwhile, it's running Dell's customized Stage UI which presents a boatload of useful widgets that take up the entire space of a homescreen.
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This home is located in a quiet, gated community just 3 miles from the beach and is fully furnished with a heated pool in an enclosed lanai. Nicely decorated with an eat in kitchen, dining room, living room. Separate master and guest master suite plus two additional bedrooms. Many extras including stereo, large screen TV, wireless internet, gas grill, laundry and as comfortable as your own home. This is a family friendly non-smoking home. Whether you're traveling for business or pleasure you will find this clean home very relaxing. Enjoy quiet nights in the lanai or discover many of the peaceful beaches nearby. Bonita beach and barefoot beach are easily reached by a 3-5 mile ride on our bikes or just a short ride by car. Barefoot beach may be one of the most unspoiled, beautiful beaches in southwest Florida! The pool is on the sunny south side of the house and has a tv for outdoor use.
Boating and fishing: if you enjoy boating and fishing you will find boat rentals and fishing charters just a couple of miles away. Some of our favorite activities include fishing in the back water or renting a boat for the day and exploring the beaches or taking a cruise to one of seven restaurants accessible by boat.
Very comfortable, clean and well maintained home. Kids stayed in pool and spa all day long. We had a little problem with spa but the owners took care of it. Hope to go back there next year!
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I have been meaning to write a review about this beautiful home in Bonita Spring for a while now. We stayed here for the month of April 2014 with our family. We spend at least one month every year in Bonita Springs and this was by far our best experience. The owners are kind, honest and extremely accommodating. The layout of this home works well for either a young family or an extended family traveling together. Three of the four bedrooms (including one of the master suites) are clustered together. If one adult couple is after some privacy the fourth bedroom (and second master suite) is across the home. The pool is larger in person that it appears in the pictures and the views are lovely. It is furnished nicely and we found the location extremely convenient. We spent most of our time enjoying the warm weather outdoors. We very much appreciated how clean and well taken care of this home was. We would have rented from this lovely couple again the following year but they were already booked for the month we were playing our trip. I would highly recommend booking this home if you are looking for a relaxed trip.
This was my family's first trip to SW Florida and we loved it! David and Christine's house was very clean. The four bedrooms accommodated my wife and I, our 3 kids, her parents and a close couple of ours. The layout of the house was awesome as you could see the kids swimming in the pool from most every room of the house. The lanai was our favorite spot to spend the evenings relaxing along with late evening swimming. Their home is located central to most all attractions SW Florida has to offer. During our stay, we visited Ft. Myers Beach, Barefoot Beach and Sanibel Island and they were all a very short distance from the home. I recommend parasailing and renting a wave runner while at Ft. Myers Beach. They were both a blast. Myself and the other 2 men chartered a fishing boat and enjoyed catching several species of fish including a 200+ lb. Goliath Grouper! We made the drive north to Clearwater and visited the Clearwater Marine Aquarium which houses the dolphin stars Winter and Hope from the movie Dolphin Tale. The canal behind the house is very neat. I enjoyed using their kayaks to view the homes lining the Imperial River. It was a very quiet neighborhood and all neighbors we met were very kind. It was convenient being able to call or text Christine with any questions we had with the house. I can't explain just how much this trip allowed my family to RELAX and spending our evenings at this home made that possible. We were extremely happy with our stay and have already started planning our trip next spring/summer. We plan on staying at this home again. Enjoy!
Christine and David have a beautiful home. We've been to Bonita Bay before, staying with my sister, but we were travelling with my in-laws this trip, so wanted to find a home where they could be comfortable. We all had a blast -- kayaking (rentals) in the canal, swimming, cycling, running, ballroom dancing, shopping, beach, etc. The house was fantastic. We often ate in, enjoying the pool, lanai, and hot tub. The main master was secluded so a nice way to escape for a bit. We'd stay her again in a second.
We had a wonderful stay at this lovely home in Bonita Springs. The property is located in a beautiful, quiet area. The home is beautifully decorated, with high-quality, comfortable furniture. We all enjoyed the layout of the house it gave a lot of privacy to everybody, but the pool area takes the prize. We enjoyed our days in the pool area. We were very impressed with the home, and will definitely recommend it to our family and friends when they visit the area.
During our vacation we took an Everglades airboat trip, which was great, and visited the Naples and
Ft. Meyers areas, which have a lot to offer.
We are thrilled to have found this beautiful home and hope to rent it again in the future. The owners Christine and Davis are easy to reach and deal with, and we want to thank them again for the wonderful vacation that we spent in their home.
This is the 2nd time we have rented a holiday vacation home from Christine and David. Once again we were not disappointed. The house is located on The Imperial River and has a private boat dock at the end of the garden. It is the perfect spot to sit with a G&T in the evenings watching the jumping fish! The house is beautiful and the furnishings of a high standard. The pool and spa are solar heated and a perfect temperature. This is where we spent the majority of our time when we weren't out an about. Location wise, this property was perfectly located for us in Bonita Springs. Our favourite restaurants: Roys, Bonefish and The Fish House are so close. For the shoppers, Coconut Point shopping mall is about 5 mins away and Miromar Outlet is only 10 minutes. The beaches are a very short drive, or there are bikes in the garage which I understand you can use to cycle there. (We were too lazy!). Overall we cannot fault the house. Perfect for us on all accounts. Thank you again Christine and David.
Our Family mostly enjoys spending time at one of the many beaches or just relaxing by the pool. You will have everything you will need to dine in or you can visit a variety of great restaurants just minutes away. Some of the many activities you can enjoy include: Trolley Tours, everglades Excursions, Shopping, Fishing Charters, Key West Express, Kayak & Canoe Rentals, Golf and Mini Golf, Casino Cruise, Boat and Wave runner Rentals, Parasailing, Eco Boat Tours, Themed Cruises and Zoo.
For the Business Traveler looking for the Hotel Alternative you will find this location very comfortable with easy access to the airport and all major routes. Computer and Wireless Internet Access is included for your convenience.
For a little more action we drive 10 minutes to Fort Myers Beach, Estero Island. The liveliest section is Times Square, with restaurants, shops and hotels. However, it does have its more tranquil side, at the south end, where there are pristine, soft white beaches.
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Starring: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci, Colm Meaney, Philip Glenister, Holliday Grainger, Natalia Tena, James Lance, Anthony Higgins.
Director: Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod
Rating: R (for some strong sexuality, nudity and brief language.)
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Release Date: June 8, 2012
Home Video Release Date: August 7, 2012
North American Box Office: $120 Thousand
Red Wave, XIX Film, Protagonist Pictures, Rai Cinema, and Magnolia Pictures.
Written by: Rachel Bennette, based on the novel "Bel Ami" by Guy de Maupassant.
★★ (out of 5 stars)
Bel Ami is yet another one of these turn-of-the-20th-century style erotically-tinged dramas which also attempts to make a political statement on classism, politics, and institutional misogyny along its journey. The source material, an 1885 novel from Guy de Maupassant, has been adapted several times before, ranging from a 1939 feature film to a 1976 pornographic film to a 2011 London musical. After seeing this latest re-fashioning of the story, it has rather hard for me to understand why people continue to return to this material again and again. This Bel Ami is a rather pointless endeavor.
Robert Pattinson stars as Georges Duroy, a former soldier who is completely broke. In a state of sheer desperation, Duroy, by pure luck, stumbles upon a former acquaintance from his military days, Charles Forestier (Philip Glenister). Now a newspaper editor, Forestier takes pity upon Duroy and gives him a job assisting his wife, Madeleine (Uma Thurman), in writing articles for a political newspaper he is now the editor of. Duroy, it seems, has lots of love to give and is remarkably irresistible to virtually all the women he encounters. Not only does Duroy eventually marry Madeleine, but he also makes a wealthy and tightly wound woman buckle at the knees (Kristin Scott Thomas), and wins the heart of the beautifully demure Clotilde (Christina Ricci). As Duroy moves from one woman to the next and back again, he also plays his cards right financially, manipulating and conniving his way to riches beyond anything he has ever imagined.
Not having ever read the de Maupassant novel, Bel Ami feels false and unnecessary in this day and age. When Pattinson's Duroy becomes furious at getting played emotionally by Thurman's Madeleine, he is crude and cruel to her; exhibiting traits of misogyny that immediately distance any connection you feel for his character. In fact, most, if not all of these characters are deplorable, selfish at times. Trying to watch miserable people treat each other miserably in 1890s Paris, with wooden dialogue, a pained and overreaching performance by Pattinson, and a directorial approach that seems unoriginal and lifted point-by-point from a British-period-piece movie guide, wears on you rather quickly.
With a cast featuring Uma Thurman, Pattinson, and Kristin Scott Thomas, I will say that it is a nice surprise that Christina Ricci stands out here. Ricci is the only character I truly cared about, as she falls genuinely in love with Georges and yet recognizes her role as the mistress he will always fancy for a shag, and likewise return back to when things get tough for him. Thurman is fine as a politically driven and uncompromising female character who Duroy ends up with. However, Kristin Scott Thomas underwhelms as a ravenous, bottled up wife who pushes Duroy to a place of vile nastiness and condemnation.
Bel Ami looks beautiful and some of the scenes work well with Pattinson and Ricci and Pattinson and Thurman, but the drab and predictable screenplay by Rachel Bennette leaves there next to nothing at all to take away from the production.
I would be remiss if I did not mention that Bel Ami does rather gleefully remind us of a few supposed absolutes from this era. Misogyny and hypocrisy ruled the day, people were morally challenged, and the women were essentially there to conceive children, pleasure men, and properly represent the aristocratic bourgeoisie lifestyle. If they even tried to have a voice or emulate actions of the men in and around their lives, they were shunned, demeaned, and made subservient.
Great. Good to know. And I ask why has this thing been revisited so many times over and over again? Maybe the answer is far too obvious and I would just as soon not consider that the social morays present here still exist in the entertainment industry. But I digress…
- Those familiar with the source material might be intrigued.
- Yes Twi-hards and Team Edward members, Robert Pattinson has a nude love scene. There. You're welcome.
- Fans of films depicting this time period and era might be drawn to take a look.
- I am still waiting for Robert Pattinson to show me he can lead a movie. He is overreaching with his mannerisms, expressions, and one scene with his anger, a shoe, and a cockroach is laugh-out-loud bad. Bel Ami feels too much for him.
- Despite a beautiful presentation, there is nothing new and exciting about this. Acknowledging the period and social morays of the time period, Bel Ami feels out of touch and unnecessary in this day and age. I am kind of baffled as to why this was greenlighted in the first place.


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An instructor at Dutchess Community College for ten years, Robert Benney is nationally renowned as a painter and illustrator of American combat. Born in Romania, he was brought to New York as a toddler and became a steadfast New Yorker. He studied at the Art Students League, and also taught at the Pratt Institute. He began showing his work in 1933 with an exhibition of theater drawings at the Museum of the City of New York.
When the United States entered World War II, combat artists added another dimension to what the public at home gleaned from grainy newsreels and still photos. Benney became one of the accredited civilian correspondents who went into battle to paint and draw the reality as well as the raw emotions in what they witnessed. He moved with the troops to cover land, sea, and amphibious operations at Saipan and the Marianas. The combat art collections of all four armed services in Washington contain examples of Benney's work.
His portraits of war and peace have found permanent homes at the Corcoran Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Dallas Museum of Fine Art, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, and the Society of Illustrators in Manhattan. His stark oils and watercolors were among the works of combat art featured on public television in the documentary, "They Drew Fire."


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Wayne Community College has honored 326 students for outstanding academic achievement in the fall 2014 semester.
The college recognizes the students listed below as having earned a place on its President's or Dean's lists.
President's List
To be named to the President's List, students must be enrolled for at least 12 semester hours and earn a grade point average of 4.0 for the semester.
Tiffany Buck, Medical Office Administration
Alexander Zayden, Aviation Systems
Taylor Sermersheim, Applied Animal Science
Lyndsay, Carter, Dental Assisting
Phillip Kirkland, Business Administration/Operations Management
Michael Poole, Aviation Systems
Tex Medlin, Collision Repair and Refinishing; and
Howard Parker, Aviation Systems
William Dixon, Business Administration/Operations Management;
Cristina Huerta-Torres, Associate in Arts;
Curtis Lewis, Networking;
Morgan Olmsted, Associate in General Education; and
Leah Vincent, Associate in Arts
William Shearod, Business Administration/Operations Management
Lauren Alexander, Associate in Arts;
John Baptista, Associate in Arts;
Alex Benton, Electronics Engineering;
Kelsee Bratley, Associate in Arts;
Leah Breindel, Associate in Science;
Aleyah Brown, Associate in Arts;
Ashley Bundrick, Associate in Arts;
David Burke, Associate in Arts;
Diego Carreno, Associate in Science;
Yan Chau, Associate in Arts;
Shakoria Clark, Criminal Justice/Latent Evidence;
Terrill Coley, Criminal Justice;
Dustin Cook, Associate in Science;
Kenneth Creech, Aviation Systems;
Brandi Doubt, Associate in Arts;
Shawn Dussault, Networking;
Michael Duszik, Aviation Systems;
Christopher Easom, Associate in Arts;
Timothy Fagan, Networking;
Kendra Flowers, Business Administration/Operations Management;
Christine Gowan, Associate in General Education;
Charles Gray, Turfgrass Management;
Lauren Hales, Business Administration;
Tammy Hill, Human Services;
Joshua Hollowell, Associate in Arts;
Tramus Hunter, Welding;
Wyatt Janning, Associate in Arts;
Nathan Jensen, Automotive System/ATEP;
Cheryl Jones, Early Childhood Education;
Whitney Joyner, Simulation and Game Development;
Alease Kennedy, Simulation and Game Development;
Jennifer Kline, Associate in General Education;
Jennifer Korzan, Associate in Arts;
Lisa Lamm, Office Administration;
Candice Lancaster, Associate in Arts;
Christian Lanning, Simulation and Game Development;
Mary Lavanway, Associate in General Education;
Joshua Leggett, Criminal Justice;
Brittaney Martinez, Associate in Arts;
Kimberly Massey, Associate in Arts;
Dayani Mirihana, Medical Assisting;
Joseph Morris, Mechanical Engineering;
Tammy Moses, Early Childhood Associate Teacher's Certificate;
Brian Murgas, Accounting;
Michele Page, Associate in General Education;
Morgan Powell, Associate in Science;
Kevin Randolph, Special Credit;
Willis Rathbone, Associate in Arts;
Sierra Reid, Simulation and Game Development;
Douglas Retcher, Associate in General Education;
Molly Roebuck, Associate in Arts;
Jared Rozzi, Mechanical Engineering;
Sarah Savery, Associate in General Education;
Alexa Schmidt, Associate in General Education;
Heather Schuch, Networking;
Justin Self, Associate in Arts;
Beth Sheets, Associate in Arts;
Tony Shute, Welding;
Katherine Smith, Associate in Arts;
Timothy Stark, Turfgrass Management;
Lindsay Stutts, Medical Assisting;
Cory Styles, Welding;
Deborah Thompson, Cosmetology;
Dewitt Thompson, Industrial Systems;
Allison Thrower, Early Childhood Education;
Romario Torres Rivera, Collision Repair and Refinishing;
Melanie Townsend, Associate in Arts;
Nathan Trent, Criminal Justice/Latent Evidence;
Andrea Verde, Early Childhood Education;
Phyllis Walters, Associate in Arts;
Sopphira Washington, Early Childhood Education;
Sabrina Weisner, Associate in Arts;
Kasey West, Early Childhood Education;
Jazmin Woodard, Associate in Arts; and
Jessica Zimmer, Medical Office Administration
Sean Gough, Forest Management; and
Jason Green, Turfgrass Management
Heather Jarman, Applied Animal Science;
Paige Morning, Associate in General Education; and
Jaime Perry, Dental Assisting
La Grange
Cheri Croft, Associate in General Education;
Natalie Simon, Medical Office Administration;
Benjamin Sizemore, Mechanical Engineering;
Donald Sutton, Associate in Arts;
Mary Thornton, Associate in Arts; and
Nathan Phillips, Aviation Systems
Nathan Smith, Accounting
Sara Stone, Forest Management
Mount Olive
Kara Alphin, Applied Animal Science;
Donald Deaver, Welding;
Douglas Kornegay, Computer-Integrated Machining;
Kenton Lane, Industrial Systems;
Amanda Vickery, Business Administration/Operations Management; and
Stacey Capps, Associate in General Education
Aracele Alanis Arias, Associate in Arts;
Bailee Daniels, Computer-Integrated Machining;
Adeline Delorme, Accounting;
Sherrie Erb, Associate in Arts;
Tiffany Godwin, Associate in Arts;
Samantha Grzybek, Associate in Arts;
Marcy Henn, Pharmacy Technology;
Amanda Jagodzinski, Associate in Arts;
Robert Jennette, Associate in Science;
Denise Kearney, Medical Assisting;
Tyler Lacerda, Associate in Arts;
Jonathan Lecrone, Associate in Science;
Kemyatta Logan, Business Administration;
Benjamin Massey, Associate in Arts;
Derrick McGill, Aviation Systems;
Tony Murphy, Forest Management;
Curtis Nelson, Collision Repair and Refinishing;
Jonathan Nichols, Associate in Arts;
Brittany Parrish, Associate in Arts;
Brittani Purdie, Dental Assisting;
Daniel Radford, Applied Animal Science;
Ashton Rochelle, Aviation Systems;
Jessica Skidmore, Associate in Science;
Dylan Smith, Associate in Arts;
Jessica Smith, Associate in Arts;
Danielle Stephenson, Associate in Arts;
Taylor Stewart, Associate in Arts; and
Scott Van Lue, Business Administration/Operations Management
Pink Hill
Jeovany Bautista, Business Administration/Operations Management; and
Sherry Short, Dental Assisting
Anthony Barnes, Business Administration/Operations Management;
Stephanie Daughtry, Business Administration;
William Howard, Industrial Systems;
Sherry Marshall, Human Services;
Lucas Murray, Aviation Systems;
Nathan Tubb, Associate in Arts;
Nolan Tubb, Associate in Arts; and
Dallas Turner, Associate in Science
Kenneth Pearsall, Aviation Systems;
John Schmittle, Aviation Systems; and
Jessica Winkelman, Aviation Systems
Mary Hyslop, Medical Office Administration
Seven Springs
Janelle Barbour, Business Administration;
Myrka Flores-Sanchez, Associate in Arts;
Autumn Kahl, Basic Law Enforcement;
Erick Ordonez, Associate in Arts;
Paola Ponce, Associate in Arts; and
Ethan Potter, Agribusiness
Charlie Gutierrez, Networking;
Amanda Hendrix, Associate in Arts; and
Brittany Moorhead, Associate in Science
Snow Hill
Charles Chase, ;Associate in Arts;
Yesenia Flores, Associate in Arts; and
Daniel Gurganious, Associate in Arts
Michelle Novotny, Business Administration/Operations Management
Lillie Gardner, Associate in Arts; and
Charles Smith, Computer-Integrated Machining
William Taylor, Forest Management
Dean's List
To garner a spot on the Dean's List, students must have carried 12 semester hours of classes and earned a grade point average of at least 3.60, with no grade below a "C".
Spencer Heath, Associate in Arts
Robert Moye, Applied Animal Science
Abbie Dunn, Dental Assisting
Michael Odom, Associate in Science
Monica Beushausen, Associate in Arts; and
Patricia Mitchell, Associate in General Education
Christopher Herring, Automotive Systems/ASEP; and
Jessica Joyner, Dental Hygiene
Kristen Bova, Medical Office Administration;
Brandon Cochrane, Networking;
Carlos Garcia Osorio, Computer-Integrated Machining;
Alexander Guerrero-Abreu, Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration;
Mykayla Hines, Associate in Arts;
Nathan Jackson, Associate in Arts;
Fernando Olague, Associate in Arts;
Kendrick Thompson, Electronics Engineering; and
Jeremiah Wright, Associate in Arts
James Morrisey, Electronics Engineering
Four Oaks
Anna Hollin, Accounting
Azlynn Aycock, Agribusiness;
Brittany Denton, Dental Assisting;
Austin Gay, Industrial Systems; and
Courtney Speight, Dental Hygiene
Rizk Alghorazi, Associate in Arts;
Jamesha Armstrong, Medical Office Administration;
Elizabeth Audelo, Criminal Justice/Latent Evidence;
Ralph Best, Electronics Engineering;
Jason Biedekapp, Computer-Integrated Machining;
Shameka Broadhurst, Medical Office Administration;
Davina Carnley, Associate in Arts;
Matthew Carroll, Electronics Engineering;
Philip Crain, Collision Repair and Refinishing;
Daniel Domingo, Mechanical Engineering;
Alexandra Farfour, Applied Animal Science;
Jahmiel Ford, Industrial Systems;
Derik Foster, Associate in General Education;
Joshua Gipson, Associate in Arts;
Sadie Goulet, Associate in Arts;
Charles Hagans, Industrial Systems;
Shenika Hailey, Medical Office Administration;
Julie Ham, Associate in Arts;
Davis Harrison, Associate in Arts;
Whitney Hartley, Applied Animal Science;
Timothy Haun, Industrial Systems;
Anna Hawley, Associate in General Education;
Savannah Herrell, Associate in Arts;
Brandon Hill, Industrial Systems;
Amy Hobbins, Human Services;
Rahnik Holloman, Collision Repair and Refinishing;
Ru Huang, Associate in Arts;
Romel Jackson, Welding;
Katherine Johnston, Accounting;
Melissa Leblanc, Medical Office Administration/Medical Coding;
Erika Lee, Associate in Arts;
James Lee, Associate in Arts;
Kevin Lee, Associate in Arts;
Symone Lundy, Associate in Science;
Kevin McCamy, Turfgrass Management;
Pamela McIlvaine, Medical Assisting;
Natosha McLeod, Medical Assisting;
Lesley McWhorter, Accounting;
Meriam Miller, Medical Office Administration;
Tyler Muehlenthaler, Associate in Arts;
Ana Pantoja, Associate in Arts;
Herman Parrales, Associate in Science;
Bryan Pike, Industrial Systems;
Brentlee Plybon, Industrial Systems;
Anthony Poppe, Business Administration;
Roy Richardson, Automotive Systems/ATEP;
Jessica Rivenbark, Medical Assisting;
Jaclyn Robinson, Associate in Arts;
Theresa Russell, Human Services;
Frank Russo, Computer-Integrated Machining;
Lucas Smith, Mechanical Engineering;
Hunter Spangler, Simulation and Game Development;
Jessie Taft Jr., Automotive Systems/ATEP;
Travis Thaxton, Associate in Arts;
Sy Truong, Associate in Science;
Charlene Vaughn, School-Age Education;
Jaquan Walker, Simulation and Game Development;
Nicole Warren, Forest Management;
Charles Williams, Turfgrass Management; and
Brandon Yelverton, Associate in Arts
Christopher Wooten, Networking
Luis Barraza, Automotive Systems/ATEP
Brittanie Atkins, Dental Assisting;
Katherine Cummings, Associate in General Education;
Matthew Stancil, Forest Management; and
Jacenta Thompson, Business Administration
Adam Byrd, Associate in Arts;
Leslie Grady, Associate in Arts;
Evan Jarman, Turfgrass Management;
Lisa Jones, Associate in General Education;
Samuel Kornegay, Emergency Management;
Lindsay Richardson, Associate in Arts; and;
Derick White, Agribusiness
La Grange
Jentry Carlyle, Associate in Science;
Michaela Deguzman, Associate in Arts;
Brandon Gambrel, Electronics Engineering;
Glenda Gray, Associate in Arts;
Taylor Hardy, Dental Assisting;
Kenneth Jarman, Automotive Systems/ATEP;
Chassidy Lee, Associate in Science;
Melody Vasquez, Medical Office Administration;
Icela Vazquez, Dental Assisting;
Lacarlo Frederick, Computer Information;
Brittney Parks, Associate in General Education; and
Marcus Shackleford, Networking
Maria Robles, Associate in General Education
Cameron Ellis, Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration; and
Jessica Young, Medical Office Administration
Daniel Ferguson, Simulation and Game Development
Mount Olive
Sara Davis, Accounting;
Jonathan Hartley, Automotive Systems/ATEP
Julie Hatcher, Medical Office Administration;
Sarah Larouche, Medical Office Administration;
Teresa Moon, Office Administration;
Tina Smith, Business Administration/Operations Management; and
William Grady, Forest Management
Newton Grove
Alexandra Painter, Associate in Arts; and
Hannah Sutton, Associate in Arts
Heather Aycock, Associate in Arts;
Miranda Aycock, Dental Assisting;
Devin Best, Automotive Systems/ATEP;
Danielle Gutierrez, Associate in Arts;
Ashley Horne, Associate in Arts;
Wesley Johnson, Associate in Arts;
Crystal Lefkowitz, Associate in General Education;
Michelle Matthews, Medical Office Administration;
Joshua Mooring, Networking;
Megan Peele, Associate in Arts;
Josh Sauls, Industrial Systems;
Jeffrey Smith, Networking;
Ruth Thompson, Medical Office Administration;
Madeline Vera, Associate in Arts;
Shaine Weeks, Forest Management; and
Kaitlyn Wright, Business Administration
Pink Hill
Yesenia Garnica, Dental Assisting
William Lipscomb, Industrial Systems;
Cameron Newcomb, Computer-Integrated Machining;
Glenn Shaw, Business Administration/Operations Management; and
Jessica Willoughby, Human Services
Heather Brannon, Associate in General Education; and
Cory Burns, Business Administration/Operations Management
Seven Springs
Ashley Hildebrand, Medical Office Administration;
Vanessa Holder, Medical Office Administration;
Benjamin Mozingo, Automotive Systems/ATEP;
Lisa Mozingo, Human Services; and
Amanda Rouse, Associate in Arts
Michael Clarke, Associate in Arts;
Logan Jones, Associate in General Education;
Angela Reed, Computer Information; and
Kelly Tyner, Business Administration
Snow Hill
Courtney Barrow, Computer Information; and
Choua Vue, Aviation Systems
Victoria Wiggins, Dental Hygiene
Randy Gardner, Automotive Systems/ATEP
Taryn Sutton, Applied Animal Science
Milton Allen, Criminal Justice/Latent Evidence
Springfield, VA
Allison Ragan, Associate in Art
Wayne Community College is a public, two-year college with an open-door admission policy located in Goldsboro, N.C. As it works to develop a highly skilled and competitive workforce, it serves 15,000 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community organizations with high quality, affordable, accessible learning opportunities, including more than 100 college credit programs.


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Marene Vanholk
Height: 1.72m
Colour of eyes: Green
Colour of hair: Blonde
Singing voice: Soprano
Parts played at Guildhall School
Leonora in The Astonished Heart (dir: Wyn Jones)
Stepdaughter in Six Characters Looking For An Author (dir: Joseph Blatchley)
Diana in Tipping The Velvet (dir: Katharine Rogers)
Hamlet and Ophelia in Hamlet (dir: Ed Dick)
Belle in Little Me (dir: Martin Connor)
Clytemnestra in Agamemnon (dir: Patsy Rodenburg)
Amanda in The Relapse (dir: Martin Connor)
Joan in Far Away (dir: Richard Twyman)
Irena in Three Sisters (dir: Wyn Jones)
Professional experience
Eva Braun in Summit Conference at Royal Theatre, Netherlands (dir: Ellis van Maarseveen).
Other experience
Workshop on Sondheim's Company with Augusti Humet at Prima del Teatro, Italy, film and TV workshops with Andrew Higgs and Peter Cregeen, Foundation Course at LAMDA.
Show and period dance, scooter driving licence, Stage Combat Proficiency Certificate, horse riding, hockey, tennis, skiing, snowboarding, sailing, fluent in Dutch and French.
Native accent
RP, Surrey.
American (general and New York), Cockney, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Lancashire, London, Yorkshire.


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Get a clue, Gary. It is not "stigmatizing immigrants". It is identifying illegal aliens. And they ought not to be getting drivers licenses. They ought to be send back where they came from bbefore they illegally entered or remained in our country. What part of "illegal" do you not understand?
First of all, it's Drivers' Licenses, not License Plates. Secondly, I don't see what the problem is with having an alternate drivers' license. I agree that they should have one, subject to the same limits everybody else has (after all, if they're going to be here, may as well allow them to be productive members of society). But, this idea that having a somewhat different drivers' license is stigmatizing, well, that's just absurd.
HISTORY America is tracking the trend line to End Of Empire laid byRome-Spain-Holland-EnglandOver extension worldwide on Debt. Small group own most of the wealth 10% own 70% net wealth 80% own 15%10% own 70% financial wealth 80% own 7%10% take 50% individual Income 50% take 13% 70/15 70/7 50/13 = 190/35
Simplistic– clear picture—can you see it? Congress cannot! White House cannot!
Each of 10% own $7 of net wealth and each of 80% own $0.18Each of 10% own $7 of financial wealth and each of 80% own $0.09Each of 10% take $5 of individual income and each of 50% take $0.16 $7 to 18 cents ratio: 700:18$7 to 7 cents 700:7$5 to 16 cents 500:16
Is that not a picture of Third World Country?Is that not a picture of England in End of Empire?Is that not a picture of a Dictatorship I cannot paint a clearer picture but sadly our president is too busy preaching to his choirsThe members of congress are too busy counting $$$$$$$$$$$$$ from Wall Street.Ministers of America $$$$$$$$$ Got Your Tongues? Where are our leaders? Counting $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$??????
Comical, Gary. I had to stop reading half way through your presentation to compose myself.
I would like to say right off the bat here that we can't just fund anything and everything that would be "nice" for everyone and anyone. Now, I know that's what Gary's progressive followers think can happen in our state, but, alas, that's just not fiscally feasible. In other words, we just can't afford that, y'all.
Let's think about where the funding will come from to give health insurance to what Gary conveniently calls "immigrants". Um, Gary, let's make sure everyone knows that these are ILLEGAL immigrants, okay? You know…folks that shouldn't be here in the first place and shouldn't be taking American taxpayer dollars away from actual citizens that need that money. And, that same thing goes for we taxpaying citizens paying for ILLEGAL immigrants' schooling that we must understand includes taxpayer-paid breakfast and lunches, of course…in addition to tutoring and teaching English to these people and having to provide bi-lingual signs and so forth for these people and their families. Wouldn't it be nice if we had that taxpayer money to help our citizens that suffer because of a lack of taxpayer funds when they're in need?
Yeah, I know Gary…this strategy of pulling on the heartstrings of our very giving and caring populace in order to help those that will vote democratic is what it's all about. It's wonderful strategy and it is working wonderfully. But, it's wrong. It's VERY wrong.
McCrory isn't mean or evil or uncaring. Yeah, that's how you and your compadres want to present him and that's how you hope a majority in our state will see him when he tries to get our ridiculous spending under control in our state. But, it's all smoke and mirrors and it's disengenuous and it's wrong that we have an element the likes of you and your party that does this for purely political purposes.
I'm hoping your skewed message is ignored and/or seen for what it is by our state's voting public. If not, we're in for a very, very tough ride down the road.


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East River by Sholem Asch (1946)
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Written in 1946 and translated from Yiddish by A.H. Gross. Situated on E. 48th St. on the last block between the river and 1st Ave. Many Jews and a few gentiles make up the myriad characters of this charming but none too subtle novel. A Catholic girl, Mary, marries Irving Davidowsky, causing his father to sit shiva for him. Irving is making his fortune running a garment business. Includes much of the author philosophizing about religion, labor, socialism. Asch remains essentially Jewish, while having an open mind and a certain curiosity about Christianity.
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F--k It has taken the world by storm, helping countless people to let go, stop struggling, and finally do what they want; to ignore what everyone else is telling them and go their own way. This now classic book has been updated with inspirational new material from John C. Parkin. For the first time in audio, John shares his irreverent but important wisdom with the world.
In this inspiring and humorous book, John suggests that saying F--k It is the perfect Western expression of the Eastern spiritual ideas of letting go, giving up, and finding real freedom by realising that things don't matter so much (if at all). It's a spiritual way that doesn't require chanting, meditating, wearing sandals or eating pulses. And it's the very power of this modern-day profanity that makes it perfect for shaking us Westerners out of the stress and anxiety that dominate our meaning-full lives. So, find out how to say F--k It It to all your problems and concerns. Say F--k It to all the 'shoulds' in your life and finally do what you want to do, no matter what other people think.
©2014 Hay House UK Ltd (P)2014 Hay House UK Ltd
"Interesting book!"
I enjoyed listening to this book & will take away a few good tips to try
"Love love love!"
I loved this audiobook! The author/narrator ate super easy to listen to. It sounds more like a conversation than a reading.
"Mantra of letting go"
Brilliant just brilliant!!
Get relief from all of life's stresses by reading or listening to this book and declaring "F**k It"!
"Helpful and Entertaining"
There is s great deal of practical ideas well-presented here in an engaging and often funny way.
"Many brilliant, plus some useless spiritual ideas"
I really enjoyed big parts of this book: the importance of "zooming out" to put things in perspective, not sweating the small stuff, not sweating the medium stuff either, and contemplating whether what you think is big stuff in your life is really that important. These parts made me rediscover the wisdom that you can't please all the people all the time.
What seriously turned me off in this book is the risk of turning into someone that finds nothing whatsoever important in life when you say fuck it to EVERYTHING, and becomes a lethargic, passionless, apathetic person.
In short: the "stepping away from what does not matter" part is good, but for ideas on how to build your life around the few things that are truly important you are better off turning to Covey's 7 habits, or Tony Robbins....
"Brilliant !"
Love this Audio book it really cheers me up to think things don't really matter , its a great listen x
"Unnecessary padding"
Far too much waffle from Parkin, in an attempt to humour and 'lighten' the tone of the book.
Basic concept of "F--k It" attitude is good, but it was so annoying and distracting when he goes off on a tangent, in trying (too hard) to be funny, yet maintains a very monotonous tone in his voice.
Disappointing to sat the least.
"wow life changing"
one of the best books IV ever read a must book to change your life it works for me
"Entertaining and profound."
You can learn from Andy's experiences and he has some wisdom to share. Worth a listen.
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Howell Lee
Longtime Lake Oswego resident Howell Eugene Lee died Oct. 24, 2011. He was 81.
Mr. Lee was born Sept. 5, 1930, in Plainview, Texas, to Arthur Edgar and Abby Dolly Jane Lee. When he was 13, the family moved to Portland where Mr. Lee attended Jefferson High School. At Jefferson, Mr. Lee played football and was selected to play in the 1949 Shrine Game. He graduated in 1949.
Mr. Lee married his high school sweetheart, Leta Estelle Hall, on Dec. 31, 1949.
He enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1951 and was discharged in 1959.
The Lees moved to Lake Oswego in 1956, raising their children Tammy, Timothy and William there.
Following a longstanding career as a delivery truck driver for Franz Bread and Wonder Bread, Mr. Lee founded Tri-Lee Homes Inc., in 1978 with his sons. He also worked as a real estate agent during his early retirement years.
Mr. Lee enjoyed fishing, golfing, watching football and spending time with his family and friends. He had a sense of adventure that led him and his wife around the world.
Survivors include his wife, Leta; daughter and son-in-law, Tammy and George Lefever, Tigard; son and daughter-in-law, William 'Bill' and Kimberley Lee, Lake Oswego; grandchildren, Jamie Lefever Ruzicka, William Lefever, Alexandra Lee Wipf, Emma Lee Sietz, Jessica Lee, Christine Lee and William Lee; and great-granddaughter, Jorgia Ruzicka.
His son, Timothy H. Lee, preceded him in death.
A celebration of Mr. Lee's life has been held.
Remembrances may be made to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation by calling 1-888-733-6741.
M. Elizabeth Fairchild
M. Elizabeth Fairchild died Oct. 25, 2011. She was 93.
Mrs. Fairchild was born Jan. 11, 1918, in Madison, N.J., to Ralph Coleman and May Minerva Irwin Shay.
She was raised in Madison.
She married Harry Russell Fairchild, who preceded her in death.
Mrs. Fairchild was a member of Lake Grove Presbyterian Church. She had volunteered with the chaplain's office at Legacy Meridian Park Hospital for 20 years.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, John and Lauraine Fairchild, Chambersburg, Pa.; daughter and son-in-law, Martha and Michael Gold of Sherwood; and daughter, Beth Crosby, Jensen Beach, Fla.; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
A memorial service will be held Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. at Lake Grove Presbyterian Church, 4040 Sunset Drive, Lake Oswego.
Remembrances may be sent to Lake Grove Presbyterian Church.
Holland Cottle
Holland Kay Cottle died of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death Syndrome (SUIDS) on Oct. 22, 2011. She was two months old.
She was born Aug. 23, 2011, in Portland to Nick and Lexie Ainge Cottle, formerly of Lake Oswego and now residents of Beaverton.
She loved the voices of her mom, dad and sister and was just beginning to 'talk' and 'sing' regularly. She was a healthy baby with a comforting and strong spirit.
Survivors include her parents and sister, Brizban, all of Beaverton; grandparents, David and Stacy Ainge, Lake Oswego, and Mike and Julie Cottle, South Jordan, Utah; aunts and uncles, Ronell and Briawna Hugh, Rogers, Ark., Paul and McKenna Michels, San Diego, Calif., Landon Ainge, Lake Oswego, Sierra Ainge, Lake Oswego, Seth and Whitney Cottle, Murray, Utah, Brittany Cottle, South Jordan, Utah, and Jaclyn Cottle, Las Vegas, Nev.
Services have been held.
Mae Rouse
Former Lake Oswego resident Germaine 'Mae' (DeRoest) Rouse died Oct. 21, 2011. She was 96.
Mrs. Rouse was born May 7, 1915, in Baker to Bruno and Sybilla DeRoest. She was the second of nine children, and was raised in Baker and educated at St. Francis Academy.
She married Daniel P. Rouse in 1933. He preceded her in death in 1995, as did her son, Michael, in 1996 and grandson, Jeffery, in 1990.
In her younger years Mrs. Rouse painted a number of homes in Baker City and later became a floral designer for Ethan Allen Furniture in Lake Oswego. She was an excellent card player and loved to entertain and could still provide a good meal at 96 years of age.
Survivors include her sons, Robert Rouse, Terrebonne, and Ronald Rouse, Baker City; brothers, Joseph DeRoest, Provo, Utah, and Donald DeRoest, Baker City; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held Nov. 3 at 11 a.m. at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Redmond.
Remembrances may be made to St. Francis de Sales Cathedral or the American Heart Association through Grey's West and Company Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave., Baker City, OR 97814.


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Blackfoot Lodge Tales
Over 100 years ago author George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream, founder of the Audubon Society and an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt, was a famed explorer, naturalist and pioneer conservationist. Keenly interested in the lifestyles and welfare of Native Americans, particularly the Blackfoot, Cheyenne and Pawnee, he journeyed westward during summers to hunt and explore with the Indians, and to study their rapidly vanishing culture. Blackfoot religion, philosophy, literature and ethics were all combined in the stories they told, and the Blackfoot storytellers relied on memory to convey the tales from one generation to the next. In Blackfoot Lodge Tales, Grinnell documents these stories as told to him by the Blackfoot, illustrating them with authentic Blackfoot drawings.
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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
The Hong Kong Design Institute in Hong Kong, China by Coldefy & Associes Architectes
April 10th, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
The Hong Kong Institute of Design project was won at the end of 2006 by Coldefy & Associés, Architectes Urbanistes / CAAU, winners of the two stage international competition in which 162 teams from 23 countries took part. The CAAU studio was entrusted with the task of designing the project with architectural project management of the site directed by its Hong Kong partner, P&T Group. Intended to welcome 4, 000 students of artistic and multimedia disciplines in around 42, 000 m², the HKDI is commissioned by the Vocational Training Council Hong Kong. The HKDI is the first major facility built in Hong Kong by a French architect
Programme: 4 departments for the four major disciplines taught :
2006, the competition
Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute, equipped with solid international experience, decided at the beginning of 2006 to take part in the international competition for the building of the Hong Kong Institute of Design. One hundred and sixty two teams submitted entries to the competition, the two architects were selected in August 2006 from five teams invited to take part in the second phase. They then went to Hong Kong, to collaborate with local partners architect, engineers, and a quantity surveyor partner according to the rules of the competition. They are named as winners in November 2006 by the international jury which included in particular, the American architect, Richard Meier.
Thomas Coldefy and Isabel Van Haute move to Hong Kong for five months at the beginning of 2007 to develop the project on site, to set up the team and to speak with the partners and clients and to immerse themselves in the spirit of the location.
Presented to the Hong Kong community and to future users, the project seduces them with its answer which is welltuned to educational needs, solicitous of the environment and local context, but also bold, ambitious and very open to the outside. In autumn 2008, work starts on the site after 18 months of project development led on site by the CAAU practice. And eighteen months later the HKDI – 42, 000 m² – is delivered. The first students take the giant, mechanical escalator at the beginning of the academic year in September 2010. This creation merited Thomas Coldefy and Isabel van Haute the "40 under 40" prize, organised by the European Centre for Architecture, Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum.
The urban context
The building is located in the Tiu Keng Leng area, to the north east of Hong Kong Island, in the Sai Kung district, adjacent to the Tseung Kwan O area and Junk Bay. The area is served by the metro, on the Tseung Kwan O line, 20 minutes from HK Central, and also has a bus station. Although activity there is mainly residential and commercial, nature is also very much present for the site is surrounded by green hills and the view over Junk Bay is everywhere. The building, located in the heart of the area, may provide the community with a meeting place by making its sports areas and auditoriums available; at the same time, it will bring an energy to the social life of the area by the presence of 4, 000 students within the campus, the numerous exhibitions and activities organised around the urban space it has created.
The project offers spatial reinterpretation of its built-up city context, where social interactions are teeming in the various bases of the buildings whereas they disappear vertically; the extra height provided by one part of the programme allows one to envisage interactions on different levels and creates new connections with the ground.
The architectural project
Metaphor for creativity about to burst forth, the "Blank Sheet" expresses the project's intentions :
Each functional element, first decomposed, amalgamates and interpenetrates or cuts itself off, by offering the project an immediate clarity from the outside which is very resonant in the city. The flexible and evolutionary plan allows one to envisage future liaisons with the neighbouring campus, LWL.
The base of the building, the giant " urban lounge " favours meetings and exchanges, whilst taking advantage of internal and external green spaces and views of the countryside, thus fulfilling the liaison with the city.
The podium, whose gentle slope stands 7m below the King Ling Road, designed as a landscaped extrusion of the ground, directly linked to the urban environment on two levels – a common space and at the same time an external gallery – is characteristic of Hong Kong infrastructures. Open, sheltered by the platform above, it can host multiple events. The podium is made up of four auditoriums, a café, a space for exchanges with the design industry, a sports hall and an exhibition hall. For the roof, an urban park and sports grounds are available to the students and visitors from nearby. The large auditorium, with capacity for 700 seats, is intended to host conferences, seminars or classical music concerts, but also more recreational activities, fashion shows, pop music concerts, contemporary dance spectacles.
Covered in glass which is screenprinted white, the immaculate and minimal volume of the platform, "like "an aerial city", floats above the towers. It groups together the library, school administration offices as well as various related spaces. Its landscaped roof is accessible during exceptional events. The towers are at once the soul of the Institute, its structure and its vertical distribution. They express the diversity and the specific nature of the disciplines represented in the Design Institute. Their appearance accentuates the platform's immateriality, a poetic sensation and reflection of a creative environment.
This overall composition, emerging from the interpenetration of interlinked elements, defines the Institute as a timeless building and unveils its ambition of synergy, of a cutting edge school, of publicity and interactivity, destined to become a bright beacon in the city.
The materials
Concrete, glass and steel, three classic materials are implemented for a radical architectural process, a building of a different age reduced to its fundamental functions. The steel, processed into a white trellis, is used as a structural skin for both the inside of the platform and the outside of the towers. The glass of the platform gives it great permeability which strengthens the sensation of tension between the architectural elements. The structural cement of the podium is combined with glazed facades to exceed mere functionality and create a strong visual and spatial impact.
The construction system
The overall stability of the towers is ensured by a vertical steel trellis structure called "diagrid", equipped with a conventional beam-slab floor system in reinforced concrete. This "diagrid" system in steel offers excellent lateral rigidity supporting both the floating platform and the framework of the escalator which spans a length of 60m. HKDI is a pioneering project in Hong Kong, due to the choice of a peripheral steel trellis structural system.
An innovative structure in composite reinforced concrete /steel trellis – with upper frameworks which are pre-stressed and post-stressed, diagonal beams in steel and lower frameworks in reinforced concrete – has been introduced and developed in order to support the floating platform which spans an area of 100 m x 100 m. The composite trellises are either simply supported, or placed overhanging from the towers in steel trelliswork. Uniformly distributed on the floating platform in two orthogonal directions, they are used to support the beam-slab floor system in reinforced concrete.
This composite structure not only provides the floating platform with rigidity and sufficient resistance, it also meant construction costs could be optimised, in so far as the budget set by the client was not exceeded. The implementation of the project also required that the architects design a 60 m long escalator structure – the longest escalator in Hong Kong – supported by a three-dimensional steel structure without any immediate support. Over and above the general design of the infrastructure work, the dynamic analysis carried out meant there could be a guarantee that the vibrations caused by the escalator engines do not cause discomfort to users. Independently of the design, the ability to construct the floating platform has been, from the initial creative stage, one of the major concerns. Sufficient tests were carried out in order to ensure that the proposed structure would be built without any risk and within a reasonable timeframe. Several construction methods have been researched, including preassembly of the main frame of the floating platform on the ground and then having it elevated into final position using heavy lifting appliances. After assessing risks, difficulty and costs linked to construction in this way, the in situ manufacturing method with complex on site assembly procedures was adopted. Finally, to reduce on site preassembly work to a minimum, the majority of secondary structural elements of the floating platform were built after
Created in 1984 by the architect and urban designer Bertrand Coldefy in Cambrai, the firm earned a reputation for its experience in construction. In 2006, it took on a new partner, Thomas Coldefy, and acquired the skills of Isabel Van Haute, both architects. This effective team, supported by staff from many disciplines and backgrounds, combines know-how, dynamism and creativity. A spirit of open-mindedness and innovation required in highly reputed international fi rms, especially in the USA, good architectural and urban grounding, experience of large-scale projects handled within prestigious collaborative ventures, have all given the fi rm access to public and private commissions both in France and abroad. The firm's areas of operation cover very disparate fi elds: public amenities (education, culture, sports, law and health), private developments (housing, service complexes, industrial buildings, shopping centres), etc. Urban and environmental design are the fi rm's outstanding fi elds. This preference is refl ected in extreme attention to the quality of public space, a sensitive pursuit of perfection in the match between context, landscape and construction, attention to the programme, economical use of resources, rejection of anecdote, and overall an ability to create simple, user-friendly and human urban events. This quest for the "right tone" combined with ecological responsibility is founded in deep convictions that the three protagonists, using their talent for persuasion, work hard put across – always with a focus on dialogue – to their clients, to their own teams and to the experts who support them in their drive to provide the best.
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Hotrod a 90s Towncar??? What'll fit???
I wanted to hotrod my Lincoln Towncar before I got rid of it, but now I am thinking even bigger!
Something that will approach and mabe break 12s in the 1/4... and then from there who knows...
This would be quasi street legal, in that there are no emissions law in my state (or any other state I care to take it), and would be able to cruise every now and again.... Not an everyday driver of course, but something I could cruise around in every now and again, and to the strip, etc... Maybe some of those levers to swap the collectors from mufflers to straight exhasut.
I am curious what manner of huge Ford engines will fit in a towncar, and which one can I get some big HP with? It would have to be Ford powered, just personal preference....
I am curious what might fit in there, and if there may be any issues with fitting??? Would the steering rack be a problem? How difficult to stiffen the front end? I guess it would need a C6, or is there another Ford tranny possibly with OD that woud stand up to some HP??? How much bigger is a C6 (or an alternative) to an AOD? I wonder if the tranny tunnel would have to be altered? How hard to fab some engine mounts, or may there already be some mounts for another older Ford that would fit?
How difficult to loose the air bag suspension? I wonder how big a tires I can get back there without tubbing it out????
I know a 460 will fit in a fox mustang pretty easily, but one of the other big fords with a CJ or police interceptor designations may make more power... I'm also not sure about the demensions of the big Ford engines... It would be a long term project, so I would have plenty of time to pick, chose and ebay for the parts.
I'd guess I'd need some relatively low compression for nitrous and pump gas compatability.
I like something different, but how peasable would this be? I know with budget anything is possible, but I'd be looking for like 10K in the car and mods... initially anyways. I could probbably find a town car in decent shape for about $3K if I wait out the best deal, then $7K for a donor vehicle with a engine and tranny plus building and other parts. I know I can find some old Ford passenger car or station wagon from the 70s for a 460 and C6.... Then I can ebay and summit the rest.
Is low 12s pheasable for such a big car???
BTW, when does the dragstrip generally draw the line and require a rollcage???
Is there anyone here running some of those older heavy fords with mild engine mods running in this ballpark???
My real goal is to make sure none of these mildly moded Mustangs and Camaros that can outrun me. And of course those anoying rice burners if they ever show themselves at my local dragstrip.
Any ideas guys???
i'd say a 500+ ci stroked 460. o r one of them new fangled 4.6 l mod dohc motors they're getting 700 horses out of with the stock bottom end..... it would fit way better, keep the weight down a bit (like it would matter) and just be cool to have a 700 horse motor smaller than 302 ci.
i wonder if it would be cheaper to run a modded 4.6???
I would have imagined that things would be more expensive and complicated making that much power with a 4.6...
My Towncar had a 4.6 in it.... Maybe I should consider that too, but I kinda like the idea of more cubes... but this is still a little idea right now...
Is there a 4.6 forum???
why yes, there is. check it out.
and i bet your right, the 4.6 is gonna cost more $$$......
Personally, I would stick to the 4.6. Be it the SOHC or the DOHC. I think you will spend far less money with the modular motor. I would also keep the air ride suspension. It will get you out of the whole much better than conventional coil springs. You should have no problem dipping into the 12s with the SOHC and even lower ETs with the 4 cammer. Here is a list of places that I frequent when I am searching for answers on the mod motor.
You should most definately call Geno at Lincoln Motor Sport. He is extremely knowledgable on these cars and he is a heck of a guy. He has been in Muscle Mustangs and Fast Ford magazine on more than one occasion. He also owns the title for the fastest N/A Mark VIII in the world. Trust me when I tell you that he knows his stuff when it comes to high performance lincolns.
www.modularfords.com another mod motor forum
What about a Lightning engine?
A Lightning engine would work awesome.
However you will be dealing with hood clearance issues as well as programming and compatibility issues.
The easiest way to do this car up is stick with the 4.6 2 cammer and do that up or swap out to the Mark VIII engine which we did at our Vegas shop a few years ago and it worked well.
Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and supply me with a day number so we can discuss this in further detail.
Take care, Geno.
Unless you're in love with having 4 doors, why not just buy a Mark VIII? The interior puts a Town Car to shame, the handling is spectacular, the performance is better than a TC, with almost 300 hp in stock form. The are numerous bolt on performance parts available for 4.6 Mustangs. If I had to trade my Mark VIII for a Town Car, I think I'd cry.
If you're really stuck on a land yacht, then go with a Mark III, IV, or V. If you must have 4 doors (I shudder at the thought), then stick with the '77-79 Town cars. They were the ultimate in Town Car styling and quality, and parts are plentiful. A 460 will drop in any of these old boats without any mods (most of them came with 460s anyway) and 700 hp would be a realistic goal for the 385 series engines.
Last edited by kitkar; 10-16-2003 at 05:56 PM.
Yeah kit kar is right about the Lincoln thing, well from my personal opinion anyways. I would just go get something with a big block ford, rather than try to modify a newer car like yours. My 72 Mark IV has the 460 in it, I am rebuilding it right now and the factory stats are 212HP and 345lbs of torque. I dropped about 700 dollars on the engine, and I figure to more than double the HP. By the way kit kar and Cyclone, I like your avatars! Where'd you get them?
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Before he gets to the turbulent region next week, however, Romney will visit a Britain caught up in the excitement – and security concerns – of London 2012. His presence at the opening ceremony on Friday will serve as a reminder, his campaign hopes, of his role in rescuing an initially troubled winter Olympics in Salt Lake City a decade ago.
Apart from the Olympics and two fundraisers on Thursday, the more substantive portion of his itinerary includes meetings with the leaders of the three major political parties – Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats, and opposition Labor leader Ed Miliband – as well as former Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Britain invariably tops lists of U.S. allies, although the traditional Conservative-Republican, Labor-Democrat political ties have frayed somewhat – a shift seen most clearly in Blair's firm support for, and vocal Tory opposition to, President Bush's war in Iraq. (In 2004, then-Conservative leader Michael Howard was publicly disinvited from a visit to the White House after he criticized Blair's support for the war.)
The strains outlived Bush and Blair. Some senior British Conservatives openly supported the Democratic presidential candidate in 2008, and Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron's tribute to President Obama during a White House state dinner last March – when he said Obama had "pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world" – raised eyebrows and prompted some derision on both sides of the Atlantic.
Romney will trod this territory carefully, focusing on historical links and shared interests that outweigh political policy differences.
Briefing reporters on the trip, Romney campaign foreign policy chief Alex Wong cited global economic difficulties, Mideast instability and the Iranian nuclear issue, and said the candidate's London visit will highlight the understanding that the U.S.-British relationship remains "as important as ever."
From the U.K., Romney is due to visit Israel where, according to his campaign, he will "build on relationships" he already has with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, as well as with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad – but not, apparently, with P.A. Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Although campaign staffers stressed that Romney would use the trip to "listen and learn" rather than deliver policy pronouncements, his visit to Jerusalem will inevitably drawn attention to the at-times frosty relationship between Obama and Netanyahu.
Like other candidates in the Republican campaign at the time, Romney chastised Obama in May 2011 for endorsing future Israeli and Palestinian states with borders based on the "1967 lines" as a starting point, accusing the president of throwing Israel "under the bus."Romney repeated the criticism last January, saying during a CNN presidential debate the president had "time and time again shown distance from Israel and that has created in my view a greater sense of aggression on the part of the Palestinians."
On television talk shows Sunday, Netanyahu declined interviewers' attempts to draw him into U.S. politics.
"I will say that I will receive Mitt Romney with the same openness that I received another presidential candidate, then Senator Barack Obama, when he came almost four years ago, almost the same time in the campaign, to Israel," he said on Fox News Sunday.
On CBS's Face the Nation, Netanyahu said he would tell Romney what he told candidate Obama: "I'll tell him about Israel's desire for peace and also about Israel's concern with the arming of Iran with nuclear weapons – unfortunately it's still with us four years later."
Romney has visited Israel three times before, according to the campaign – early last year, in January 2007 – shortly before he formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination – and on a family visit in the late 1990s.
Apart from the ongoing Iranian nuclear standoff, this trip comes at a time of great uncertainty about the regional implications of the escalating conflict in Syria and developments in post-Mubarak Egypt.
In his foreign policy platform, released last October, Romney pledged in his first 100 days to place all diplomatic and assistance efforts in the greater Middle East under a single regional director – "[o]ne official with responsibility and accountability will set regional priorities and train our soft power on ensuring the Arab Spring realizes its promise."
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His platform called Syrian President Bashar Assad "a vicious dictator, a killer, and a proxy for Iran" and said the U.S. should isolate and pressurize his regime "to increase likelihood of a peaceful transition to a legitimate government."
Last Thursday, after Russia and China exercised their third joint veto to kill a Western-led U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria, Romney reprised earlier accusations that Obama had "abdicated leadership and subcontracted U.S. policy" to the United Nations and its Syria envoy, Kofi Annan.
The Romney platform's declared support for Israel "as a Jewish state," commitment to helping it maintain its strategic military edge, and rejection of any attempt by the P.A. to settle issues unilaterally are similar to Obama's stance.
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While Obama defunded the U.N.'s cultural agency for granting admission to "Palestine" last fall – as he was mandated to do by U.S. law – he has not tied the P.A.'s attempts to join U.N. bodies to ongoing U.S. funding.
From Israel, Romney travels to Poland where he will meet in Gdansk with former president and anti-communist Solidarity trade union leader, Lech Walesa, and with current Polish leaders.
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Ahead of Romney's trip he is due to deliver a speech Tuesday to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, an opportunity to expand on foreign policy positions laid out earlier in the campaign. Obama will also address the convention, in Reno, Nevada, on Monday.


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