text:
From Bob McLeod's Facebook page:
1984 New Mutants Annual #1 page 34. Inking by Tom Palmer. Written by Chris Claremont, pencils and lettering by Bob McLeod
"I got behind on the deadline and had to ask Tom Palmer to ink five pages out of 40. It would have taken me an extra 5 days at the most to ink them myself, and this was an annual. Why weren't annuals given more time to be done? Palmer did his usual excellent job, but I should have been allowed time to ink the entire issue myself."
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
1984 - New Mutants Annual #1
Posted by Jason Shayer at 2:09 PM
Labels: 1984, New Mutants, New Mutants Annual #10
2 comments:
That's really interesting, because you're used to seeing McLeod enhance others with his inks (or his own art) rather than the other way around. Palmer's style is so distinctive, but at least didn't take away from Palmer's own.ReplyDelete
Back then, it seems the same tight deadlines for monthly books fell to annuals too. Probably explains why later annuals had worse art and throwaway stories instead of being "special," high quality books worthy of their annual standing.
Some good news from Marvel, coming in June:ReplyDelete
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Editor's Note: Sally Zelikovsky of San Rafael, a leader in the local Tea Party movement and a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Fla., is reporting her observations for the Independent Journal this week.
Even though Tampa Bay dodged the Hurricane Isaac bullet and it was a sunny day Tuesday, it was also hot and humid — wreaking all sorts of havoc on, of all things, our hair. One gal remarked that her hair went from perfect to looking like a Cher hairdo on acid. The price we pay for our politics.
The California delegation began the day with a breakfast emcee'd by California attorney and beloved radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt. Other speakers included Dennis Prager, Rep. John Boehner and Rep. Darrel Issa of Fast and Furious fame. Delegates found it ironic that Rep. Nancy Pelosi orchestrated an entire campaign on the empty slogan of "a culture of corruption," yet all we've heard from her about the Fast and Furious investigation — where real corruption resulted in a death — is crickets.
The highlight of the day was the roll call. Delegates were pumped — especially the Minnesotans who had a large Ron Paul contingent. As each state announced its delegates — almost all of whom were for Mitt Romney — one of the officials on stage would repeat it and say something like "29 delegates for Romney," but never mentioned the handful that went to others such as Ron Paul or Rick Santorum. This didn't sit well with the vociferous Ron Paul Minnesotans behind us, so after each announcement they'd all shout out how many delegates also were for Ron Paul.
All was in good fun, and spirits remained high.
After the recess, Utah congressional candidate Mia Love wowed the crowd and had this message for President Obama: "The American people know better. We are not buying what you are trying to sell in 2012." The crowd went wild.
All in all, the mood here is that this election isn't going to be a cakewalk for Obama. The people aren't going to be sold a bill of goods for a second time and Republicans will emerge from this convention with one thing in mind — victory — and will do all they can to achieve it.
On the lighter side: Republicans from all over are all decked out in their patriotic best. The Texans are donning Texas state glag shirts and cowboy hats. The Californians are dressed professionally but, not wanting to be outdone by the second-largest delegation, we are thinking of wearing our red and blue beach shirts. After all, it's hot here and we are surrounded by beautiful beaches.


text:
BJPW - Dainichi Daisen 2010 DVD-R
DVD-R Version
Please verify you have a compatible player before purchasing our DVD-R titles. We are not responsible for the compatibility of your player to our DVD-R titles.
Click here to check: (DVD-R Compatibility Chart)
Combat Zone Wrestling brings you Big Japan Pro Wrestling's "Dainichi Daisen 2010" held 7-30-10.
- Benkei Daikokubo & Mototsugu Shimizu & Kazuji Hashimoto vs. Shinobu & Ryuichi Kawakami & Takumi Tsukamoto
- Men's Teioh & Onryo & Atsushi Ohashi vs. Hercules Senga & Masaki Okimoto & Daisuke Masaoka
- Shadow WX & Yuichi Taniguchi & Ryuji Yamakawa vs. Abdullah Kobayahsi & Shu Brahman & Kei Brahman
- Jun Kasai & Kokutenshi Jaki Numazawa & Isami Kodaka vs. Takashi Sasaki & Yuko Miyamoto & Kankuro Hoshino
- Daisuke Sekimoto & Yoshihito Sasaki vs. Shiju Ishikawa & Yuji Okabayashi
- BJW Death Match Hwt. Championship Bout
Glass & Fluorescent Light Tubes & Plus Alpha Death Match
Ryuji Ito vs. Masashi Takeda
Average Customer Review: Not yet rated
Write an online review and share your thoughts with others.


text:
Should an illegal immigrant be student body president at Fresno State?
November 17, 2010 | 12:32 pm
Pedro Ramirez, Fresno State's student body president, is an undocumented immigrant serving in the position without pay.
Some people on Twitter have been discussing the story. A student at Northeastern is happy his university has never elected an illegal immigrant to student body office, while @LatinoDemocrats supports Ramirez's position.
Read more: Fresno State student body president acknowledges he is an illegal immigrant, refuses to step down
Share your thoughts in the comments below.


text:
Our Online Sports and Casino Bonuses
Welcome Bonus
Get yourself a treat! We offer you up to €500 bonus on your first two deposits! Try our hundreds of games powered by our leading partners Microgaming, NextGen, iSoftBet, BetSoft, NYX, Play'n GO, Kiron Interactive, Evolution Gaming, XProGaming, Betgames, Ezugi, EGT and 1x2gaming. You're a click away from winning big!


text:
Two Raiders fans from the tri-state -- including one who is a firefighter -- were charged with assault after authorities said they critically injured a man at a Baltimore Ravens game over the weekend.
Susan Bauer told WBAL in Baltimore that her 55-year-old brother Joseph Bauer was attending the game with his wife Sunday when he got into an argument with a group of Raiders fans at M&T Bank Stadium.
Authorities said that the two attackers, 28-year-old Scott Smith and 31-year-old Andrew Nappi, got angry when the siblings let a woman go in front of them at a concssion stand.
U.S. & World
News from around the country and around the globe
""They started arguing with him and someone hit my brother in the head from behind," Bauer told WBAL. "He was immediately unconscious and hit the pavement."
She said her brother is on life support and cannot breathe on his own. But he was able to give doctors a thumbs up and could recover from his wounds.
Smith, a Mount Vernon firefighter, and Nappi, of Eastchester, were both charged with assault. Smith was suspended from the fire department indefinitely after the attack.
It is unclear whether either man has an attorney, and attempts to contact Smith or Nappi at their homes were unsuccessful.
The Ravens said in a statement that their sympathies go out to Joseph Bauer and his family.


text:
Irving, Washington
Irving, Washington, 1783–1859, American author and diplomat, b. New York City. Irving was one of the first Americans to be recognized abroad as a man of letters, and he was a literary idol at home.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- Early Life and Work
- Later Life and Mature Work
- Bibliography
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
See more Encyclopedia articles on: American Literature: Biographies


text:
Discuss collectibles and literature including repair manuals for vintage motorcycles.
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.
Forum Rules


text:
• Its 2BHK with 3 Balconies and 2 Bathrooms Mother Agnes & Anarita Residency located near savior of the World church and few minutes away from the primary section.
• on the main road connecting Mapusa, Porvorim, Betim, Pomburpa, Salvador-D-Mundo. 3Kms away from Porvorim and 4kms from the capital city of panjim.
• close to major learning institutes, schools and colleges, ATMs, banks, childrens parks, ground, churches, temples etc.
• With good urban facilities like telephone, connections, good mobile network, internet, broadband, good community centers etc
Read More


text:
The new age of publishing can be quite challenging to navigate. Join Ocean Reeve from Inhouse Publishing, who has helped thousands of writers to bring their books to life.
Inspired to Publish
Free. Bookings essential.
Beerwah Library Wednesday 12 October, 1.00 pm
Caloundra Library Tuesday 8 November, 10.00 am
Coolum Library Thursday 6 October, 2.00 pm
Kawana Library Monday 17 October, 10.00 am
Maleny Library Friday 7 October, 10.00 am
Maroochydore Library Thursday 3 November, 5.00 pm
Nambour Library Wednesday 5 October, 10.00 am
Beerwah Library, Beerwah
All Sunshine Coast events, gigs, functions etc... onsite are correct as per information provided at time of uploading, please always verify times or dates directly with the venues to avoid disappointment.
This property has been added to your save list now.
Don't have registration yet ? "Create Account"
If you have lost / forgotten your password click: "Lost Password"
NOTE: This login is to manage your real estate alerts/preferences and not to register your business details for the directory. To submit Sunshine Coast Business data please visit here.


text:
In February, when the new management team at Advanced Micro Devices presented revised roadmaps for PC and server processors that were a bit more conservative than what the old AMD might have drawn up, the company's top techies hinted that they were interested in integrating other intellectual property into Fusion and Opteron processors. And now we find out that one of those things is an ARM core.
Lisa Su, a semiconductor researcher at IBM and former CTO at Freescale Semiconductor who was hired back in December as senior vice president and general manager of AMD's new Global Business Units, wants to be crystal clear that AMD is not getting into the ARM chip business. What AMD is doing, she says, is etching a single Cortex-A5 chip onto future Fusion and Opteron chips – not to compute, but to run the TrustZone security created by ARM.
First delivered in 2004, TrustZone is a combination of hardware features in the ARM processor, bus fabric, and peripheral buses and software that runs beside the operating system to create a secure boot environment and to isolate the security software from outside attack. It is, in effect, an ARMed rent-a-cop for x86 chips.
"Adopting the security infrastructure that ARM is providing gives us the opportunity to unify a security model," Su tells El Reg. She says that the die size of the single-core Cortex-A5 is small and won't affect the overall complexity of the chip. "One should not overread into what we are doing. We have talked about being more flexible and leveraging third party IP, and that is what this is."
The first AMD chip to get the ARM core and TrustZone support is the future "Kabini" kicker to the "Brazos 2.0" Fusion APU, which is slated to come out in 2013. Subsequent Fusion APUs will also get the TrustZone core throughout 2014, and it will eventually be woven into the Opteron server chips as well, says Su. Although she did not elaborate on the schedule for when it will be added to the server variants of the AMD processors.
With Intel being an ARM licensee, this could start a whole new trend. But Intel has its own ideas about Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) and weaving its McAfee security software into the Core and Xeon processors.
In a somewhat related item, AMD has hooked up with ARM, Texas Instruments, MediaTek, and Imagination Technologies to create an industry consortium called the HSA Foundation. HSA is short for heterogeneous system architecture, and it will try to promote standard in hybrid computing, mixing CPUs with other kinds of processors such as GPUs that are increasingly embedded in processors used in PCs, smartphones, and other mobile devices and electronics. IT vendors, academics, software developers, and anyone else interested in parallel computing are being encouraged to join up.
If you have been in the IT industry for a while, you probably can't recall all of the industry consortia that have come and gone and it is hard not to be cynical.
What is also clear is that chip makers have to act to help move the parallel and hybrid computing effort along, and AMD is at least doing something. "This is the most efficient way to do computing," says Su. "We just need to get our heads around the idea that this is doable." Su says that the HSA Foundation can help, but concedes that the industry will have to do more than this to tackle the hybrid programming issue.
That will probably mean getting Intel, AMD and friends, and Nvidia into a room and working together on some standards – something that they may all talk about, but probably don't really want to do just yet. ®


text:
You must be friends with Frank kwabena to view this page.
Join King Cameran Foundation
Welcome toKing Cameran Foundation
Sign In
Or sign in with:
© 2020 Created by William Jones.
Powered by
Badges |
Report an Issue |
Terms of Service
Please check your browser settings or contact your system administrator.


text:
Personally I cuss all the time, really can't help it. Just want peoples thoughts on it, does it make you sound stupid? Some times is it actually a good enhancing word to your statement or question? It is considered a sin to many religious people, but here, where we are clear headed thinkers, does it seem like a morally wrong thing to do?
P.S. it's my first post, stupid thing to ask? If so please say so, over time I'll judge whether or not i should shut up or not on this site.
Views: 702
No, the question is not stupid, and people here occasionally raise the issue of atheists who say "goddamn" or something like that, accusing them of inconsistency.
Well cussing falls into multiple categories; words having to do with sex (e.g., fuck) or body parts (dick), scatology (shit), and of course "taking the lord's name in vain" (a phrase that always sounded odd to me, no meaning of the word "vain" I am familiar with makes sense there). I grew up in a secular household; the worst word one could pop out with was "fuck" (or some variant thereof); but most people seem to thing "goddamn" is far worse.
Cussing can relieve stress at a bad moment, and used judiciously can make for either comedic effect or emphasis. If every second word that comes out of your mouth is "fuck" even when you are not absolutely furious, then it loses its punch and yes, you do come across as a moron, or worse, someone engaging in the verbal equivalent of a chimpanzee flinging turds. More effective I think is to shy away from those words while writing except to really nail a sentence home; after several paragraphs of "fuck"-free prose laying out your case, calling someone a "lying fucking sack of shit hypocrite" might actually give your audience pause.
Thanks a lot, I'm paranoid of saying "God Damn it" or "jesus christ" out of frustration in fear of a prick having to correct me because it's an atheist site. Thanks.
IMHO, if clear and reasonably concise language is possible, then resorting to swearing could be a failure of creativity or intelligence.
When it appears that intelligence has been made base by a constant resort to absurdity, improper or poorly formed argument, corrupted data or sources, and a seemingly unreasonable reliance on opinion or authority, it might be that anything else than a well placed insult, a tactical and scalding retort, would be the only thing left.
If someone is clearly a 'FOOL', stateing the obvious is only clearing the air. If someone is a 'MORON', checking thier IQ, might be a prerequist, before mentioning the assertion. The 'ASS' label, while tempting, should demand from the thinker a genetic test, or inspection of quadripedic status! The term 'MOUTH BREATHER', while mean, is hardly worth the gas expenditure.
Since I, above most everything else, appreciate creativity and witt, in other people and myself, and dislike the trite sameness of most theist prose attempts, have at them, but just remember that electrons might have other things to do!
In my opinion, it all depends on the context. If every other word you say on a regular basis is one that has been deemed a 'curse word', then you will probably come off as ill-cultured. But if you hurt yourself and shout an exclamation, or are talking about something that makes you angry and use a word to display your true emotions on the topic, then I feel that such utterances are perfectly fine, and understandable.
I am against the vilifying of words no matter what. Words are simply a collection of sounds that we have given meanings to. There is nothing inherently 'bad' or 'good' about a word until we give it meaning. And like I said, intent and context are paramount. If you are asked what you had for lunch, and your reply is "I had a fucking sandwich, you fucking cunt.", than such usage would typically be considered obscene and unnecessary. However, if someone punches you in the face and you yell "Fuck that hurt! Fuck you, you cunt!", such a reaction would seem warranted. Same words used, yet context makes all the difference.
As for saying religious swear words, Ive said it before and I'll say it again. Don't worry yourself about it. Some will say it's inconsistent, but I don't see the issue. There is no rule that a non-believer can no longer utter the word god or Jesus if they don't believe. If that was so, parents could never tell their kids about the tooth fairy, Easter Bunny, or Santa. What about Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn? No one couldn't read that book unless we accepted that they were real people first. Also, the believers who will seize on it as a claim that we can't say that are guilty of the same 'crime' they accuse us of. They all still say Thursday, even though it is named after Thor. In fact, most of the days of the week and months are named after gods or festivals that they don't believe in either.
Also, no worries. It wasn't a stupid question, and welcome to T|A!
Thanks a lot! This site is great. People here think, and then explain. It's nuts, not many others do this. I'm not really suprised by the results of peoples opinons. Thanks, I'll post again sometime.
Teens especially like to say that curse words are "just sounds", but ironically they then use and re-use such words for their verbal impact.
I think back in our cave and tribal days, it used to be more important in social situations to convey emotion before we had many words to use. Mere "sounds" had to convey all of the most significant meanings to each other at an easily understood group level, especially during (say) life and death challenges during a hunt. Laughter also served this purpose, whenever people could communicate empathy with each other (as in "Yeah, I know what you mean!" or "Haha, I know what you're thinking!"). A curse word or sound had more of a "Hey, listen up, I've got something important to express!" kind of a meaning.
I mentioned teens, because that's when bonding and social identity are forming and peaking, and that's when humans really start to learn about shared emotions and thoughts. That's also when musical tastes are explored and solidify, which I think is no coincidence when you consider the need to discover and embrace new social and emotional memes.
When people get older and more set in their ways, language meanings become so set and assumed standard that they're not even questioned any more, and novel language (eg from teens and media) tends to be rejected as invalid, with prejudice. (I'll bet some oldsters will disagree with me on this.) But that's why the word "fuck" from strangers has an emotional impact on me in a grocery line, and sometimes I just want to say "Hey, I don't want to insult you, Cunt, but..." blah blah, you know, times change and I don't like change any more.
Shit, does that make sense?
Makes a lot of sense! Haha and funny too. Thanks.
does it seem like a morally wrong thing to do?
No. People just need to grow a thicker skin. If you're offended, feel uncomfortable, or feel like your conversational partner is immoral because he said "shit" you need to grow up and get out of that preschool stage where your mommy used to tell you not to cuss or she'll wash your mouth out with soap.
How do people grow thick skin, who have had naturally thin skin from birth? Was your skin always thick, or did you nurture it?
It's easy, first one has to apply ice to the behind. That will help the butthurt one feels from someone else cussing. Second, if one still feels offended by a curse word, one should take a long cold shower with Johnson's No More Tears Baby Shampoo until one stops whining. Third, if one is still upset about hearing a curse word, one should do a shot of bleach.
Haha, cool, so one becomes ecstatically happy after the end of such training, and/or a great blues singer.
Language is first and foremost a means to communicate with one another, please by all means curse and offend to your heart's contend! What is language if we can't enjoy in a little bit of swearing once in a while?
Cursing is not a sign of a lack of intelligence, creativity or vocabulary, in fact use your creativity and intelligence to come up with new and interesting swear words!


text:
Anthony Tuell (Tony)
Supervisor of Mechanical and Electrical Services
Office: Facilities Services [ campus map ]
Box 5000
Phone: 207-859-5030
Fax: 207-859-5005
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mailing Address:
5000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8850
5000 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8850
Office Hours:
M-F 7 am to 4pm
M-F 7 am to 4pm
BS Marine Engineering MMA '85
Areas of Expertise
- Electrical / Mechanical Maintenance
- Power Distribution
Hockey (Youth & Men's league), Scuba Diving, Fishing
The directory information is for individual use only, it may not be retransmitted or published for any reason. It is not to be used for mass solicitations by email, mail, phone, or other means. Sale or other distribution of this document is prohibited by College policy.


text:
Are you in the United States?
Visit our U.S.A. & International site for relevant pricing, distribution and product availability information.Go to StarTech.com
Dual-Port USB Wall Charger - International Travel - 17W/3.4A - White
Charge your tablet and your phone simultaneously, almost anywhere around the world
Product ID: USB2PACWH
- 1x 2.4A USB 2.0 port
- 1x 1A USB 2.0 port
- Universal Power Adapter (NA/UK/EU/AUS) included
- Compact design
Planning an international business trip or vacation? Now you can keep your mobile devices charged while you're away, without having to worry about whether or not the adapter you use at home will work overseas. The versatile travel charger ships with interchangeable power plugs that let you plug in and charge your devices nearly anywhere you go around the world.
Plus, you can charge two of your devices at the same time. This dual-port USB wall charger lets you charge two mobile devices at once, using a single USB wall charger, so you won't have to wait until one of your devices is fully charged before charging another.
International travel – universal power adapter
The wall charger includes a universal power adapter, which lets you plug in to any electrical socket almost anywhere in the world. So, no matter where you are travelling to, you can rest assured that you'll be able to keep your mobile devices charged and ready to use.
Simultaneous charging – dual USB charge ports
With one 1A port for charging your smartphone or iPhone, and a 2.4A port for charging your iPad or other tablet, you'll always have the necessary charging power for your mobile devices. Whether you're charging two phones at the same time or charging a phone and a tablet, you can ensure all of your mobile devices are ready when you need them.
Compact and lightweight – portable design
The portable USB wall charger features a folding North American plug that tucks away nicely to fit inside your laptop bag, purse, backpack or other carrying case, making it the perfect mobile accessory for any carry-on. Plus, you can easily throw in the correct international plug for your destination and you're all set to go.
Once you land you can swap out the plugs and be ready to charge in the airport, in your hotel room or just about anywhere you can find a wall outlet.
The USB2PACWH is backed by our 2-year warranty to ensure dependable performance.
Note: Some mobile devices such as certain Samsung and BlackBerry devices use proprietary power connections which are not compatible with aftermarket chargers. Please consult the manufacturer's documentation to ensure compatibility with the USB2PACWH.
- Charge your iPad or other tablet using the 2.4A USB 2.0 port
- Charge your smartphone or iPhone using the 1A USB 2.0 port
- Charge two phones simultaneously
The StarTech.com Advantage
- Plug in and charge your devices almost anywhere in the world
- Ensure all your mobile devices are charged and ready when you need them
- Compact design fits nicely into any carrying case
Product Numbers
Ingram Finland
UPC Code
Technical Specifications
|Warranty Information
|2 Years
|Connector A
|1 - NEMA 1-15 Power (North America) Plug
|1 - BS 1363 Power (UK) Plug
|1 - CEE 7/16 Power (Europlug) Plug
|1 - AS/NZS 3112 Power (Australia) Plug
|Connector B
|2 - USB Type-A (4 pin) USB 2.0 Female
|Input Current
|0.5A Max
|Input Voltage
|Output Current
|Port 1 - 1A Port 2 - 2.4A
|Output Voltage
|Physical Characteristics
|Product Height
|Product Length
|Product Width
|Weight of Product
|120 g [4.2 oz]
|Packaging Information
|Package Height
|51 mm [2 in]
|Package Length
|21.1 cm [8.3 in]
|Package Quantity
|Package Width
|82 mm [3.2 in]
|Shipping (Package) Weight
|161 g [5.7 oz]
|What's in the Box
|Included in Package
|1 - 2 Port USB Wall Charger
|1 - Universal Power Adapter (NA/UK/EU/AUS)
Related Products
3 m (10 ft.) USB to Lightning Cable - Long iPhone / iPad / iPod Charger Cable - Lightning to USB Cable - Apple MFi Certified - Black
Charge and Sync your Apple® Lightning-equipped devices over longer distances
3 m (10 ft.) USB to Lightning Cable - Long iPhone / iPad / iPod Charger Cable - Lightning to USB Cable - Apple MFi Certified - White
Charge and Sync your Apple® Lightning-equipped devices over longer distances
Micro-USB Cable - M/M - 2m
Charge and Sync your Micro USB-equipped Smartphone or Tablet over longer distances
Dual-Port USB Wall Charger - International Travel - 17W/3.4A - Black
Charge your tablet and your phone simultaneously
Product Support
Data Sheets
Compliance and Safety
Compliance Letters
Safety Measures
- If product has an exposed circuit board, do not touch the product under power.
- If Class 1 Laser Product. Laser radiation is present when the system is open.
- Wiring terminations should not be made with the product and/or electric lines under power.
- Product installation and/or mounting should be completed by a certified professional as per the local safety and building code guidelines.
- Cables (including power and charging cables) should be placed and routed to avoid creating electric, tripping or safety hazards.
* Product appearance and specifications are subject to change without notice.


text:
Honda Civic Hatchback | 1.0 VTEC Turbo 126 EX 5dr CVT
Honda Civic Hatchback Overview
I would like all maintenance and service costs included
Initial Rental (Personal)
£2,055.67 inc VAT
Initial Rental (Business)
£1,713.06 ex VAT
Contract Length
48 Months
Processing fee
£199.99 ex VAT
Standard Options
- Automatic rain sensing wipers
- Electric front/rear windows/one touch operation
- Privacy glass
- Rear wiper
- ABS EBD Brake assist
- Collision mitigation braking system
- Electronic parking brake with auto hold
- Emergency stop signalling system
- Hill start assist
- Adaptive damping system
- Vehicle stability assist
- Apple car play/Android Auto
- Bluetooth hands free telephone connection
- Adaptive cruise control
- Adaptive motion for electric power steering
- Electric power steering with variable gear ratio steering
- Forward collision warning
- Front and rear parking sensors
- Idle stop
- Intelligent speed limiter
- Lane departure warning system
- Lane keep assist
- Low speed following
- Rear parking camera
- Road departure mitigation
- Traffic sign recognition
- Easy fuel capless refuelling system
- 7" touch screen
- BLIS (Blind Spot Information System) with Cross Traffic Alert
- Blue dashboard illumination
- Economy mode
- Honda CONNECT with GARMN Navigation 7" touchscreen, AM/FM, internet radio, aha app integration and internet browsing
- Multi-information display
- Smartphone wireless charging plate
- Auto dimming rear view mirror
- Body colour door mirrors
- Electric adjustable heated door mirrors
- Electrically folding door mirrors
- Power foldback door mirrors
- Black instrument panel
- 'Shark fin' mobile antenna
- 11 speakers
- 2x USB and HDMI
- 465w Power audio system
- Auxiliary socket for external MP3 player
- Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) Tuner
- Premium audio system
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Subwoofer
- Black grille
- Body colour door handles
- Body coloured bumpers
- Chrome window surround
- Fuel filler cap
- Panorama glass roof
- Rear spoiler
- Single exhaust tailpipe
- Solid paint
- Automatic coming/leaving home lighting function
- Automatic headlights with dusk sensor
- Headlight washers
- High beam assist
- LED daytime running lights
- LED front fog lights
- LED Headlights
- LED rear lights
- Dual climate control air conditioning system
- Rear air vents
- 4 Cargo net hook
- Alloy pedals
- Centre console storage and sliding armrest
- Front accessory power socket
- Gear shift indicator
- Leather steering wheel
- Leather upholstery
- Luggage floor box
- Paddle shift controls
- Rear armrest with cupholder
- Tilt/telescopic adjust steering wheel
- Tonneau cover
- Ambient light in roof
- Blue meter illumination
- Front map lights
- Front/rear courtesy lights
- Glovebox light
- Trunk light
- Airbags - driver and front passenger
- Anti-whiplash front headrests
- Deflation detection system
- Driver SRS airbag (single stage inflation)
- Front and rear curtain airbags
- Front and rear seat belt with emergency locking retractor
- Front and rear seat belts with emergency locking retractor (ELR)
- Front seatbelt pretensioners
- Front side airbags
- Low speed safety system
- Passenger airbag deactivate switch
- Tyre pressure warning
- 60/40 split folding rear seat
- Driver and front passenger seat electric lumbar adjustment
- Driver seat back pocket
- Driver's seat height adjustment
- Driver/passenger front seatback pockets
- Heated front seats
- Isofix points
- Isofix system on outer rear seats
- Three height adjustable rear head restraints
- Immobiliser
- Mirrors and windows key fob
- Security alarm
- Selectable door unlock
- Smart entry Smart start
- Sunvisors with illuminated vanity mirrors
- 17" grey alloy wheels
- Tyre repair kit
Technical Options
- HC+NOx: N
- Noise Level dB(A): 64.5
- NOx: 0.027
- Particles: 0.0004
- Standard Euro Emissions: EURO 6
- Bore: 73
- Catalytic Convertor: True
- Compression Ratio: 10.0:1
- Cylinder Layout: IN-LINE
- Cylinders: 3
- Engine Layout: FRONT TRANSVERSE
- Fuel Type: TURBO DIRECT INJECTION
- Gears: 1 SPEED
- Number of Valves: 12
- Stroke: 78.7
- Valve gear: DOHC
- EC: True
- EC Combined: 60.1
- EC Extra Urban: 65.7
- EC Urban: 52.3
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - Max: 7.9
- WLTP - FC (l/100km) - Medium - Min: 6.5
- WLTP - MPG - Comb: 5.9
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - Max: 7.1
- WLTP - MPG - Comb - Min: 6.7
- Any aspect of the vehicles safety cause concern?: Data Not Available
- Based On ID: N
- Coin Description: VTEC Turbo 126
- Coin Series: EX
- Man Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years: 12
- Manufacturers Paintwork Guarantee - Years: 3
- NCAP Adult Occupant Protection %: 88
- NCAP Child Occupant Protection %: 5
- NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09: 126
- NCAP Pedestrian Protection %: 1.0
- NCAP Safety Assist %: M1
- Service Interval Frequency - Months: 92
- Special Edition: Data Not Available
- Special Order: Data Not Available
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Mileage: 90000
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Years: 3
- Timing Belt Interval Frequency - Months: 75
- Timing Belt Interval Mileage: 75
- 0 to 60: Data Not Available
- 0 to 62: 10.9
- Engine Power KW: 93
- Engine Power RPM: 5500
- Engine Torque LBS.FT: 133
- Engine Torque MKG: 18.4
- Engine Torque NM: 180
- Engine Torque RPM: 1700
- PS: True
- Top Speed: 124
- Alloys?: True
- Space Saver?: Data Not Available
- Tyre Size Front: 235/45 R17
- Tyre Size Rear: 235/45 R17
- Tyre Size Spare: TYRE REPAIR KIT
- Wheel Style: N
- Wheel Type: 17" ALLOY
- Height: 1434
- Height (including roof rails): N
- Length: 4518
- Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb: 11
- Wheelbase: 2697
- Width (excluding mirrors): 1799
- Width (including mirrors): 2076
- Boot Capacity Saloons: 550
- Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres): 46.9
- Gross Vehicle Weight: 1775
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Up): 1245
- Max. Roof Load: 75
- Max. Towing Weight - Braked: 800
- Max. Towing Weight - Unbraked: 500
- Minimum Kerbweight: 1289
- No. of Seats: 5
- Payload: 486
Honda Civic Hatchback CIVIC'S MORE WITH IT (75/100)
Honda's tenth generation Civic is a much more competitive proposition. Jonathan Crouch takes a look at what's on offer.
Ten Second Review
The Honda Civic has always been a more interesting choice for buyers in the Focus-sized family hatchback segment. This completely new version is the tenth generation model and has forty years of heritage to build upon. There's a more spacious, dynamic-looking body, stronger standards of safety and media connectivity and, perhaps most importantly, two completely fresh petrol engines. It all sounds quite promising.
Cars like the Honda Civic were always closest to the heart of company founder Soichiro Honda. Back in the Sixties when the best the motor industry could offer a small family was something like a lumbering Morris Oxford, it was he who pioneered the idea of a compact fuel and space-efficient family car with a hi-tech air-cooled flat-four 1300cc engine. It was thinking that led to the launch of the original Civic in 1972, a model series that over the next forty years would go on to sell over 20 million cars around the world, over 650,000 of them in the UK. Throughout those decades, there have been so many reasons why people like us have wanted to like this car: its unique styling, its wonderfully slick gearbox, its sporty engines, its clever 'magic seating' practicality and its unique driver-centric dash. But then came the 'if onlys'. If only the ride, refinement, cabin quality and running costs had been better. If only the lifeless power steering hadn't disguised the responsive handling. If only the pricing had been a bit more competitive. You can't afford 'if onlys' the way the Focus-class segment is at present and Honda knew it had to do better. Apparently it has done with this much improved MK10 model.
Driving Experience
Top of Honda's 'to do' list in developing this tenth generation Civic was to sort out the petrol side of the engine range. The 1.4 and 1.8-litre i-VTEC units offered with the previous ninth generation model were an embarrassing distance away from the class standard in terms of efficiency but that's all changed now. Instead, with this MK10 model, there's an entry-level three cylinder 1.0-litre VTEC TURBO unit with 129PS and a larger four cylinder 1.5-litre VTEC TURBO powerplant with 182PS. Both have more power and torque than the old engines could offer and come with the choice of either 6-speed manual or CVT automatic transmission. Despite all this effort, the majority of Civic customers will continue to want a diesel. Unfortunately, it seems there wasn't any time or development budget left to do anything in this regard, so this latest generation model continues on with the previous version's 120PS 1.6 i-DTEC unit which fortunately, continues to be a strong contender in this segment. As for handling, this is claimed to be 'the most agile and dynamically proficient Civic ever'. Support for that claim comes in the form of all-new suspension, a lower centre of gravity and a boost in body rigidity. Ride comfort has been improved too.
Design and Build
There's a sleek and swept-back shape this time around, with larger, wider wheels emphasising a lower-set, sportier stance. Buyers get a choice of either the usual five-door hatch or, this time round, a four-door saloon. Either way, the sharp lines are complemented by the most comprehensive aerodynamic packing in the segment, including complete under-body panelling. More importantly, this MK10 model Civic is bigger than before, in hatchback form 30mm wider and 130mm longer than its predecessor. All of this sits on a more advanced unibody platform that Honda says is 16kg lighter and 52% stiffer than before. Inside, the previously rather confusing cabin has been completely redesigned with higher quality materials and a simpler, more sophisticated design theme that includes a new digital instrument binnacle. At the top of the centre console, there's a 7-inch Honda Connect 2 colour touchscreen display. The driving position is lower and buyers should certainly notice the extra cabin space facilitated by the larger body. Passengers on the rear seat get 95mm more legroom as well as 45mm more knee clearance. Out back, luggage space remains class-lading, with 478-litres on offer in the hatch version. Plus there's a hidden underfloor compartment on most models that offers a further secure storage area.
Market and Model
There's a choice of five-door hatch and four-door saloon body styles and buyers are being offered a choice of two petrol engines, the 1.0-litre 129PS VTEC TURBO and the 1.5-litre 182PS VTEC TURBO. Pricing for the 1.0-litre model starts at around £19,000 for the entry-level 'S' variant and beyond that, there's a choice of 'SE', 'SR', 'Sport Line', 'EX', 'Sport', 'Sport+' and 'Prestige' trim levels. There's also the £1,400 option of CVT auto transmission. For the 182PS variant, you're looking at around £23,500 as a starting point for the base 'Sport' variant and beyond that, the 1.5-litre line-up progresses through 'Sport Plus' and 'Prestige' derivatves. All models include the usual equipment features in this class - and Honda is particularly proud of this model's upgraded infotainment capabilities. The latest 'Honda Connect 2' connectivity system allows full smartphone integration via both AppleCarPlay and Android Auto so you can duplicate the functionality of your handset on the centre-dash 7-inch touchsceen display. Safety upgrades have also been introduced via Honda's suite of 'SENSING' technologies. These include a 'Collision Mitigating Braking System' that brakes the car to avoid an accident. Plus a 'Forward Collision' set-up that warns you of oncoming hazards. And 'Lane Departure Warning', 'Road Departure Warning' and 'Lane Keeping Assist' features that'll keep you from veering away from where you should be on the road. There's 'Traffic Sign Recognition' that reads speeds signs as you pass and displays them on the dash, this set-up then working with an 'Intelligent Speed Assistance' system that can automatically set your speed to match the prevailing limit. Other options include 'Adaptive Cruise Control', 'Blind Spot Information' and a 'Cross Traffic Monitor' that alerts you to oncoming traffic when reversing out of a space.
Cost of Ownership
For the first time, Honda is able to offer Civic buyers two class-competitive petrol engines when it comes to running costs. The brand claims that this MK10 model's freshly developed 1.0 and 1.5-litre VTEC TURBO units can match the best of the competition when it comes to fuel and CO2 returns. The 1.0-litre unit manages up to 60.1mpg on the combined cycle and up to 107g/km of CO2. For the 1.5 VTEC, it's up to 50.4mpg and up to 128g/km. And the carried-over 1.6 i-DTEC diesel unit continues to offer a competitive package in this regard too, with a combined cycle economy showing of 80.7mpg and CO2 returns of 93g/km. On to the warranty, a three year/90,000 mile deal, which is a bit better than most rivals who tend to offer guarantees limited to 60,000 miles. There's also a fixed-price comprehensive aftercare package called 'Five' which includes five years' servicing, five years' warranty and five years' roadside assist. Residual values of the old ninth generation Civic held up pretty well, so there's no reason to think that those of this improved variant will be any different.
'Kaizen', the Japanese approach to 'continuous improvement', characterises every aspect of this tenth generation Civic. The sharpened handling is welcome and the extra space useful. More important though, is the news that Honda has finally got its house in order when it comes to petrol power, the 1.0 and 1.5-lite VTEC TURBO units looking good enough to go up against the class best. A lot of boxes have been ticked then, yet it's clear that Honda has also worked hard to maintain this car's more characterful approach in this segment. Add in British build quality, a great driving position and strong standards of safety and media connectivity and you've got a potentially very appealing package. Dynamic functionality was Honda's goal in creating this car. They may well have achieved it.
Why use All Car Leasing?
Browse alternate Honda Civic Hatchback models
See other trim levels:


text:
An official website of the United States government
Technical information: (202) 691-6567 USDL 02-650 http://www.bls.gov/cew/ For release: 10:00 A.M. EST Media contact: 691-5902 Thursday, November 21, 2002 EMPLOYMENT AND AVERAGE ANNUAL PAY FOR LARGE COUNTIES, 2001 Of the 248 largest counties in the United States, 128 had employment growth in 2001, 111 experienced declines in employment, and 9 had no changes, according to preliminary data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. Average annual pay was higher than the national average of $36,214 in 101 of the largest 248 U.S. counties in 2001. Employment and annual pay data by county are compiled from reports sub- mitted by employers subject to state and federal unemployment insurance (UI) laws, covering 129.7 million full- and part-time workers. Average annual pay is computed by dividing total annual payrolls of employees covered by UI programs by the average monthly number of these employees. The attached tables and charts contain data for the nation and for the 248 U.S. counties with employment of 100,000 or more. Previous issues of this release included counties with employment of 75,000 or more. (Some areas defined as counties in this release are not officially designated as counties. In addition, data for San Juan, Puerto Rico, are provided, but not used in calculating U.S. averages. See Technical Note. The 2000 data used to calculate the 2000-01 changes presented in this release were adjusted for changes in county classification to make them comparable with data for 2001. As a result, the adjusted 2000 data differ to some extent from the data available on the BLS Web site and in last year's release.) Employment The 248 U.S. counties with 100,000 or more employees accounted for 66.2 percent of total U.S. covered employment, 73.0 percent of total wages, and 7.9 percent of the 3,140 U.S. counties. (San Juan, P.R., is not in- cluded in this grouping of U.S. counties.) The largest absolute gains in employment in 2001 were recorded in the counties of Harris, Texas (+30,999), San Diego, Calif. (+24,326), Los Angeles, Calif. (+22,633), Clark, Nev. (+22,362), and Orange, Calif. (+20,580). (See table A.) Placer, Calif., had the largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment (6.0 percent), followed by the counties of Collier, Fla. (5.9 percent), Collin, Texas (5.7 percent), Manatee, Fla. (5.1 percent), and Lee, Fla. (4.7 percent). (See table 1.) Employment declined in 111 counties from 2000 to 2001. The largest per- centage decline in employment was in Elkhart County, Ind. (-6.8 percent), followed by the counties of Lorain and Mahoning in Ohio (-3.5 percent each) and San Francisco, Calif., and Macomb, Mich. (-3.4 percent each). The lar- gest absolute declines in employment occurred in Cook County, Ill. (-37,351), New York County, N.Y. (-32,910), Wayne County, Mich. (-27,974), Santa Clara County, Calif. (-22,112), and San Francisco County, Calif. (-20,423). - 2 - Table A. Top 10 counties ranked by 2001 employment level, 2000-01 employment growth, and 2000-01 percentage growth in employment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Employment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | 2001 Employment level | 2000-01 Employment growth| 2000-01 Percentage | |growth in employment | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Los Angeles, Calif. 4,102,386|Harris, Texas 30,999|Placer, Calif. 6.0 Cook, Ill. 2,634,150|San Diego, Calif. 24,326|Collier, Fla. 5.9 New York, N.Y. 2,345,709|Los Angeles, Calif. 22,633|Collin, Texas 5.7 Harris, Texas 1,864,179|Clark, Nev. 22,362|Manatee, Fla. 5.1 Maricopa, Ariz. 1,562,034|Orange, Calif. 20,580|Lee, Fla. 4.7 Dallas, Texas 1,551,255|Riverside, Calif. 19,491|Sarasota, Fla. 4.5 Orange, Calif. 1,410,583|Palm Beach, Fla. 18,625|Lafayette, La. 4.5 San Diego, Calif. 1,219,159|Maricopa, Ariz. 18,587|Riverside, Calif. 4.1 King, Wash. 1,147,290|Sacramento, Calif. 16,815|Palm Beach, Fla. 3.9 Santa Clara, Calif. 1,003,811|Miami-Dade, Fla. 15,481|Ocean, N.J. 3.8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Average Annual Pay Average annual pay in 2001 was higher than the national average of $36,214 in 101 of the largest 248 U.S. counties. New York County, N.Y., comprised entirely of the borough of Manhattan, regained the top position among the highest paid large counties after losing it for the first time in 2000. This county led the nation with average annual pay of $74,641. Santa Clara County, Calif., moved back into second place with average annual pay of $65,926. Fairfield, Conn., was third with average annual pay of $63,123. San Mateo, Calif., was fourth with $62,509, followed by San Francisco, Calif., at $61,122. (See table B.) There were 147 counties with average annual pay below the national average. The lowest level of average annual pay (excluding San Juan, Puerto Rico) was reported in Cameron County, Texas ($22,146), followed by the counties of Hidalgo, Texas ($22,317), Tulare, Calif. ($24,706), El Paso, Texas ($25,836), and Volusia, Fla. ($26,093). (See table 2.) Lafayette County, La., led the nation in growth in average annual pay with an increase of 8.2 percent from 2000 to 2001. Dutchess County, N.Y., was second with 7.4 percent growth, followed by the counties of Escambia, Fla. (7.1 percent), Fresno, Calif. (6.6 percent), San Francisco, Calif., Will, Ill., and Baltimore, Md. (6.2 percent each). Fifteen large counties showed declines in average annual pay from 2000 to 2001. Santa Clara County, Calif., had the largest decrease, registering a 13.5 percent decline. Morris County, N.J., was second with a 10.9 percent decline, followed by the counties of San Mateo, Calif. (-6.8 percent), Wash- ington, Ore. (-5.2 percent), and Ada, Idaho (-4.0 percent). These sharp declines in pay growth followed extraordinary growth in 2000. From 1999 to 2000, pay growth increased by 24.5 percent in Santa Clara County, 19.0 percent in Morris County, 30.2 percent in San Mateo County, 13.2 percent in Washington County, and 10.0 percent in Ada County. - 3 - Table B. Top 10 counties ranked by 2001 pay level, 2000-01 growth in pay, and 2000-01 percentage growth in pay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average annual pay -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | 2000-01 Percentage 2001 Pay level | 2000-01 Growth in pay | growth in pay | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York, N.Y. $74,641|San Francisco, Calif.$3,561|Lafayette, La. 8.2 Santa Clara, Calif. 65,926|Washington, D.C. 3,059|Dutchess, N.Y. 7.4 Fairfield, Conn. 63,123|Dutchess, N.Y. 2,679|Escambia, Fla. 7.1 San Mateo, Calif. 62,509|Arlington, Va. 2,463|Fresno, Calif. 6.6 San Francisco, Calif.61,122|Lafayette, La. 2,448|San Francisco, Calif.6.2 Suffolk, Mass. 58,905|Contra Costa, Calif. 2,445|Will, Ill. 6.2 Washington, D.C. 56,024|New Castle, Del. 2,372|Baltimore, Md. 6.2 Somerset, N.J. 55,598|Howard, Md. 2,287|Peoria, Ill. 6.0 Arlington, Va. 55,310|Suffolk, Mass. 2,245|Howard, Md. 6.0 Morris, N.J. 53,871|St. Louis City, Mo. 2,224|Monterey, Calif. 5.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. 36,214|U.S. 894|U.S. 2.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Change in Industry Classification Systems Beginning with the release of data for 2001, publications presenting data from the Covered Employment and Wages program use the 2002 version of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) as the basis for the assignment and tabulation of economic data by industry. NAICS is the product of a cooperative effort on the part of the statistical agencies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Due to differences in NAICS and SIC structures, industry data for 2001 are not comparable to the SIC-based data for earlier years. NAICS uses a production-oriented approach to categorize economic units. Units with similar production processes are classified in the same industry. NAICS focuses on how products and services are created, as opposed to the SIC focus on what is produced. This approach yields significantly different indus- try groupings than those produced by the SIC approach. Data users will be able to work with new NAICS industrial groupings that better reflect the workings of the U.S. economy. For example, a new industry sector called Information brings together units which turn infor- mation into a commodity with units which distribute that commodity. Infor- mation's major components are publishing, broadcasting, telecommunications, information services, and data processing. Under the SIC system, these units were spread across the manufacturing, communications, business services, and amusement services groups. Another new sector of interest is Professional and technical services. This sector is comprised of establishments engaged in activities where human capital is the major input. Users interested in more information about NAICS can access the Bureau of Labor Statistics Web page at http://www.bls.gov/bls/naics.htm and the Bureau of Census Web page at http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html. The NAICS 2002 manual is available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Web page at http://www.ntis.gov/. ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Average annual pay for 2001 and other data from the Covered | | Employment and Wages (CEW) program is available on the BLS Web | | site at http://www.bls.gov/cew/. | ----------------------------------------------------------------


text:
NEW YORK: Jim Kim, Todd Stern, Tony Blair, Richard Branson, farmers, conservatives, corporate chiefs say it is time to move on from the endless science debate, as business and political leaders open Climate Week NYC, call for URGENT action on climate change.
With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report due this week expected to show virtually unanimous scientific consensus around man-made climate change, leaders from around the world and across the political spectrum - including President of the World Bank Jim Kim, US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair - came together today at the Opening Ceremony of Climate Week NYC to call for governments and businesses to move from debating the science to delivering low carbon economic growth.
They were joined by a number of CEOs and executives from top companies, including Phil Ryan, Swiss Re, Meg Whitman, Hewlett-Packard, Harry Verhaar, Philips, Steve Howard, IKEA, Nancy Pfund, SolarCity as well as entrepreneurs Sir Richard Branson and Tom Steyer, International Rescue Committee Chairman and CEO, David Miliband, faith leader and Professor of Biology at Gordon College Dorothy Boorse, former Republican US Representative Bob Inglis, Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, USMC (Ret.), and the President of the Corn Board of the National Corn Growers Association, Pamela Johnson. US Secretary for the Navy, Ray Mabus, who was due to speak at the event had to cancel his appearance in order to ensure that members of the Navy family get the support and services they need after last week's tragic events in Washington.
International leadership non-profit The Climate Group, organizers of Climate Week NYC, said that America was in danger of missing out on US$3 trillion of GDP gains if it failed to invest in cleantech. It released a briefing note showing that if US businesses cut 1 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions they could save US$190 billion, and called for energy R&D to be increased to $16 billion a year from its current level of US$4.3 billion to ensure American companies are able to win a leading share of the growing global cleantech market.
"Decades of progress are now in danger of being rolled back, because of climate change," said Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group. "This is a 'make-or-break' decade for action on global warming. The time to address the interlinked challenges of climate change and ending extreme poverty is now."
US Special Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern said: "Here in the United States, the President is taking strong action on the strength of both existing congressional authority and executive authority. At the same time, climate change is a quintessential global problem. So the international dimension is pivotal. Countries will not be willing to take strong action unless they are confident that their partners and competitors are doing the same. It is in this regard that a new agreement in Paris in 2015 is so important. And it will only work if it leaves ideology at the door; combines ambition with a practical understanding of each country's capabilities and constraints; and devises a structure that promotes action by all."
"The evidence on this is clear - it is time that we get over the science debate and start taking serious, coordinated action to tackle the effects of climate change," said former UK Prime Minister, and Chair of The Climate Group International Leadership Council, Tony Blair.
The Climate Group CEO, Mark Kenber announced that the organisation was preparing to launch a major corporate coalition initiative which will bring together 100 of the world's leading businesses committing to 100% renewable energy for their operations. He commented: "We're working with businesses and governments to drive innovation in cleantech to speed up the transition to a strong, low carbon economy. Our corporate members now have a combined revenue of over $1 trillion, while our regional government partners represent almost half a billion people. Our biggest successes are when we bring both groups together to collaborate on technology and future-proofing infrastructure. We are shortly launching another major initiative – to bring together 100 leading companies to go 100% renewable by 2020. This is what climate science is really telling us –that we need bold action to deliver low carbon economic growth. "
Climate Week NYC Lead Sponsor Hewlett-Packard announced its commitment to a 20% decrease in manufacturing and transportation-related GHG emissions intensity in their supply chain by 2020, compared to 2010. HP CEO Meg Whitman commented: "HP is taking some bold steps to respond to this challenge, not only by reducing our own footprint, but to fundamentally change the carbon footprint of IT."
"We need to cultivate leadership that is ready and willing to drive innovation and lead progress towards the Clean Revolution. We need leaders ready to accept that the fruits of their work may not be seen during their tenure but will be valued by those whose survival depends on this work: their children's children," said entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson.
Climate Week NYC 2013, celebrating its 5th anniversary this year, focuses on the themes of Leadership, Opportunity, and Security. The week's events aim to align the political agenda with the business opportunities in building a strong, low carbon economy; deepen understanding of climate science and its implications for governments and businesses; and explore how communities can be resilient to impacts of climate change including extreme weather events.
Swiss Re Americas Chairman Philip Ryan commented: "Eleven months after Hurricane Sandy devastated the US Atlantic Coast, causing approximately $70 billion in economic losses, we are still rebuilding. The majority of losses not covered by insurance are paid for by the taxpayer. By addressing the crisis of climate change—through prevention, preparedness and financial protection—we can make our communities more resilient."
"For us at The Weather Company, climate change is not a political issue; it is a scientific issue – and the science tells us we have to act. We are committed to telling the climate story and increase climate change awareness by informing our viewers and users on the science behind this important issue", said David Kenny, The Weather Company Chairman & CEO. The Weather Company is the Climate Week NYC 2013 Media Partner
"Climate change is adding new dimensions of risk and misery to humanitarian crises across the world – and it especially affects those communities that are least able to withstand its most damaging effects. Acting on climate now, adaptation and mitigation, is beyond an ecological imperative; it's a vital necessity in containing poverty and conflict," said International Rescue Committee President and former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
"US farmers know first-hand the impacts of adverse weather. Last year, we experienced the worst drought in 50 years. Despite that, our farmers continue to develop adaptive management techniques and look for promising advances in biotechnology to mitigate the impacts of future weather events so we can provide the food, feed, fuel, and fibre the world requires," said the President of the Corn Board of the National Corn Growers Association, Pamela Johnson.
The briefing note released by The Climate Group also highlights the fact that ideological and political divisions have prevented the US from adopting much-needed climate policies that would lower greenhouse gasses emissions and spur low carbon growth.
"Climate is a real problem that demands action. This debate is an opportunity for conservatives to step forward with a bold alternative. Rather than capping, regulating and growing government, we should be talking about a 'true cost' comparison between competing fuels–-eliminating all subsidies for all fuels, attaching all costs to all fuels through an upstream application of a carbon tax, pairing that tax with a dollar-for-dollar cut in other taxes, and making it border adjustable so it's removed on exports and imposed on imports", said former Republican US Representative Bob Inglis.
"The business of America is doing business. It's time for us to recognize that the threat of climate change is a massive opportunity to innovate and create a clean energy, low carbon economy. We have most of the technologies we need to dramatically reduce emissions today, and we can solve the remaining technical challenges. The issue isn't human inventiveness – it's political intransigence," said entrepreneur Tom Steyer.
"Climate Change threatens security because it is a "threat multiplier" and an "accelerant of instability." It is already driving internal and cross-border migration and harming food and water security; leading to conflict. The importance that military and defence planners place on climate change shows that the world is demanding action to address this issue. Those who disagree with the clear global military consensus on climate change are ignoring risk and putting the world's security in danger," said the American Security Project CEO, Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney, USMC (Ret.).
Leading evangelical and scientist Dorothy Boorse said: "Science tells us that we are endangering critical ecosystems. Our faith tells us that we are the guardians of this planet – it's not ours to destroy. We have to heed the unmistakable call of science, be true to the values of our faith and act on climate change – which harms the most vulnerable among us and threatens our future and that of our children."
"The amount of solar energy falling on the US in one hour of noontime summer sun is about equal to our national annual electricity demand. Millions of Americans are realizing that the best affordable, abundant energy solution for lowering their electricity bills is solar. Our solar industry is a true American success story – and has to be a key part of America's drive to build a more sustainable, energy efficient economy," said SolarCity Board of Directors member Nancy Pfund.
The Climate Group corporate partners IKEA and Philips stressed the value of corporate investment in innovation and the low carbon economy:
Head of Global Public & Government Affairs at Philips Lighting, Harry Verhaar said: "According to a Philips-Ecofys report, brought together for Climate Week NYC 2013, energy efficiency could reduce fuel energy bills in the US by $550 billion and create one million jobs by 2030. LED lighting has a leading part to play in this energy efficiency push; full deployment of LEDs in the US could reduce electricity demand by the equivalent of 100 medium-sized power plants, while at the same time making our buildings and cities more attractive places to live, work and play."
"Business innovation and investment is already beginning to drive the clean revolution. Today we can power our stores with energy from wind and sun; and light customers´ homes with LEDs, which are the next best thing compared to day light. But the clock is ticking and we need the next wave of smart government policies and incentives - we have to turbo charge this clean revolution. Business is ready," said IKEA Chief Sustainability Officer, Steve Howard.
Climate Week NYC is an annual global summit that brings together eminent business, government and thought leaders during a week-long agenda packed with diverse public-facing events and high-level meetings. The Weather Channel is Climate Week NYC 2013 media partner. Swiss Re is the founding sponsor of Climate Week NYC; HP and Solar City, the Lead Sponsors. Supporters of Climate Week NYC are NYC.gov, NASDAQ, the United Nations Foundation, and the United Nations Environment Programme. The Climate Group's strategic partners are Philips, IKEA, Suzlon, the Dutch Postcode Lottery, Prince Albert 2nd of Monaco Foundation, Tellus Mater, the government of Quebec, and Zennström Philanthropies. The Climate Group campaign supporters are the World Bank, the United Nations Global Compact, and the Carbon Disclosure Project.
Details of all the events that are part of Climate Week NYC are online http://www.climateweeknyc.org/.
Related news:
One year on from Sandy, building resiliency to extreme weather across the US is still a matter of urgency
New briefing and infographics explore how America can meet its long term emission goals
Investments in energy efficiency can create 1.5 million jobs in America by 2030
HP announces goal of reducing supply chain GHG emissions 20% by 2020, at Climate Week NYC


text:
We Buy Houses Anywhere In Greensboro -Starmount Forest or any other neighborhood that might need our help. Check Out How Our Process Works. We're Ready To Give You A Fair Offer For Your Home.
If you have been typing "I need to sell my house fast Greensboro, in every search engine trying to find a reputable company in Greensboro NC, then search no more! We are local home buyers in Greensboro NC and are here to help!
Don't let your burdensome home frustrate you any further. Do you need help in avoiding foreclosure? Going through divorce? Moving out of state? Upside down in your mortgage? Tax Liens? No matter whether you actually live in it, holding it in your portfolio as a rental property, it's vacant, or now the house is condemned, we offer comprehensive solutions to help sellers-understanding that every homeowners situation is unique and requires a plan tailored to where they are in life at this time. We understand LIFE HAPPENS and take pride in trying create a win/win for everyone involved. So if you have inherited an unwanted property, are going through the probate process, own a vacant house that has been sitting for years, are behind on payments, or your home has structural damage that is way more than you can afford, we are here to help!
Basically, if you have a property and need to sell it… we'd like to make you a fair cash offer and close on it when you're ready to sell!
HELP! I NEED TO SELL MY HOUSE FAST IN Greensboro NC
Even if a real estate agent can't sell your house, we can help. (Sometimes selling a house through a real estate agent is not for everyone.)
And as a bonus in keeping your sanity…
- you don't need to clean up nor make any repairs to the property
- you can skip searching for a producing agent you can trust with the hopes of selling your house quickly
- you won't need to sign a contract that binds you to an agent for 6 month period
- or deal with the ridiculous hoops a buyers lender might require you to jump through
We will know very quickly if your home is the right fit for our home buying criteria and unlike selling through an agent, you don't have to wait to see if the buyer can get financing, we're ready to buy right now!
Sometimes the hassle of listing your house can add more stress to an already sensitive time in your life, add months to the selling process and at the end of the day when you add up commission and all the other expenses incurred while waiting for your house to sell quickly, you might not even be ahead of the game.
Our business model @ We Buy Houses NC Today is a little different. When you contact us and submit the short property information form (below), we'll give you a fair all-cash offer on your house within 24 hours and the best part is: we can close whenever YOU choose to close-It's entirely up to you! No matter the condition the house or if you have unruly tenants who won't leave the property, don't worry about it. We'll take care of it for you. We don't need bank financing as we buy houses with cash and we can make it happen quickly! (Go here to learn about our process →)
In short…
No matter what condition your house is in; no matter what situation or time frame you are up against
Our goal is to help make your life easier and get you out from under the property that's stressing you out, all while still paying a fast, fair, and honest price for your house.
Every homeowner that needs to sell quickly varies and we have the resources and experience to help. We are more than a just one of those companies that buy houses in Charlotte NC. We are problem solvers navigating people through the throes of divorce, foreclosure, the unfortunate death of a loved one or out of that rental property they wish they had never bought. We buy houses in Greensboro and surrounding areas and pay a fair cash price,and can close on your home quickly! Time is of the essence and there are times in ones life where things are too hectic and too busy to do all the things necessary to prepare a house to sell on the market. If this rings true to you, give us some more details about the property you would like to be rid of and sell your house quickly for cash.
Should you not want to deal with the hassle of owning that home any longer, and if you don't want to put up with the hectic and time-consuming expense of selling your property the traditional way, let us know about the property you'd like to be rid of and sell your house fast for cash. Talk to someone in our office before submitting your property information by calling us today at +1 (336) 814-8566
We buy houses in Winston Salem, North Carolina 27106 and all surrounding neighborhoods. Should you need to sell your house fast in Greensboro NC then reach out to our local office. We'd love to make you a fair no-obligation no-hassle offer. Take it, leave it or sit on it a while! You've got nothing to lose and at the very least, we might be able to bring some clarity to what is the next best step for you.


text:
our services
shot peening
Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies ("CWST") is an industry leader in shot peening, a cold working process in which small spherical media called shot bombard the surface of a part. Let us connect you with the best local facility for all of your onsite or in house shot peening needs. Read More | Find a facility
laser Peening
Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies operates laser peening facilities in the United States and the United Kingdom. For large stationary parts, our Mobile Laser Peening Facility enables application of the laser peening technology at the customer's site. Read More | Find a facility
Coating services
We can help you select the right coatings to meet your design challenges, lower the cost of ownership or enhance the performance of your products. Selection of the proper coating can enable the use of less expensive metals, improve part wear life and reduce maintenance costs. Read More | Find a facility
Analytical services
Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies currently offers independent laboratory testing services through our IMR Test Labs subsidiary. Materials Testing aids in the raw material selection and validation processes during the design phase for a component. Read More | Find a facility
Throughout the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies' first priority is to protect the health and safety of our employees, customers and visitors.


text:
May 14, 2012
As we gathered for the next session, I referred students to the board, where they saw a list of works from the postmodern period—post-World War II—that we had already read and discussed:
- Lahiri's "Sexy" 1999
- Miller's Death of a Salesman 1949
- Gaines's A Lesson before Dying 1993
- Plath's "Daddy" 1965
- Dove's "Adolescence" 1980
- Lee's "The Gift" 1986
- Gluck's "Appearances" 1990
- Komunyakaa's "My Father's Love Letters" 1992
- Faulkner's Nobel Prize Address, 1950
- King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" 1963
- Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain 1969
In reviewing the list, I suggested that we could begin thinking about postmodernism as a continuation of modernism, particularly the interrelated themes of remembering as a basis for moving on, for making decisions about how to use our time, themes addressed in all the works listed here and in many of the works we would take up in these last four weeks. But the horror of World War II, especially its atomic ending, had such a traumatic effect on the entire culture, I said—as we saw in Faulkner's question, "When will I be blown up"—that literary voices began to explore with new urgency the flux of our existence and its apparent absurdity. "Some of these voices," I continued, "sound post modern in their rejection of T.S. Eliot's allusive, academic 'high modernism,' as we will hear today in 'The Fish'; others, as we will see in Vonnegut, sound postmodern in their unflinching explorations of the violent absurdities of our culture."
I also spoke of postmodern "chaos theory," the idea that human beings can collaborate in creating order, however tentative, from the randomness of experience, as we saw in Lahiri's "Sexy." "Miranda and Dev," I reminded the students, "met by accident; then Miranda babysat for Rohin, an encounter she never planned; but she and Rohin collaborated in shaping a tentative order from the chaos the father's adultery had caused, an order that disallows 'loving strangers' when such relationships root in deceit and crush the deceived." By the end of that story, I concluded, Miranda had learned to open her eyes, "and her new wakefulness gave her the courage to end the affair." This insistence on open eyes, I told the students, would inform every postmodern work we would read, and I challenged them to reflect on this idea of wakefulness as it might relate to Faulkner's call for literature that gives us "hope," that persuades us we can 'endure and prevail.'
Bishop and Jarrell
Before we turned to Elizabeth Bishop's 1946 poem "The Fish," I asked the class to turn to her letter to her friend and fellow poet, Robert Lowell, whom she takes to task for writing poems about his recently divorced wife, poems that explore suffering but combine fiction and fact. In doing so, she tells Lowell, he has violated a trust with his former wife and with his readers, who can't know "what's true, what isn't" (2498). "Postmodernists may consider "truth" a fluid, ever-changing phenomenon, but what does her remark to Lowell tell you about her sense of duty as a poet?" I asked. Earning a "10" for the day, Besa said the she shares Martin Luther King's commitment to seeing accurately and publishing what one sees.
I thanked Besa for providing us a perfect transition to "The Fish" and asked Arlind to read the poem aloud. After Arlind's reading, I re-read the first and last lines aloud: "I caught a tremendous fish….and I let the fish go." I then asked for a show of hands, fisher-hands. Singling out Gezim among the fishermen and fisherwomen, I asked if he ever lets fish go. "Only if it's too small," he answered. "So why would she release a "tremendous" fish? Does her description, her use of figurative language in between the first and last lines, help us to understand her bizarre decision?" I asked. With no quick response forthcoming, I asked the class to focus on the first two lines, on facts and details about the fish. "What first strikes you as odd, given his size?" I asked. Ragip read line six: "He hadn't fought at all." He then mentioned that the "homely" fish looks warn-out, "battered." "What about 'venerable'? What does this word suggest?" Gezim offered that the fish must be venerated, respected, because he has fought many battles, "and his 'skin hung in strips'" (ll. 8-10). "Don't we normally use words like 'homely' and 'venerable' and 'grunting' to describe people? Why would Bishop want to personify the fish?" I prodded. Edita suggested that the speaker begins to see more than a fish, something to eat; she sees a fellow being who has known struggle and deserves respect.
Commending the students' close-reading interpretations, I asked what figures of speech Bishop uses in these lines to help us to see the fish more clearly. After we noted the skin "like ancient wall-paper" decorated in "rose" patterns and barnacles, "rosettes of lime," I asked what we begin to notice about this 'homely' fish? Edita mentioned the "sea-lice" and "rags of green weed" hanging off its huge body, but she said that the simile and metaphor suggest beauty, not ugliness. Praising her insight, I asked what other images and figures suggest beauty and further personify the fish. We then quickly catalogued the details of Bishop's portrait: the gills "fresh and crisp with blood," the "white flesh/packed in like feathers," the swim-bladder "like a big peony," the eyes "larger than mine," the "sullen face" from which "five old pieces of fish-line" hang down "like medals with their ribbons/frayed and wavering,/a five-haired beard of wisdom/trailing for his aching jaw" (ll.25, 27-28, 33-35, 45-63). "So what does the speaker realize as she stares down at the exhausted but honorable old fighter that fills her boat with 'victory,' surrounded by a 'rainbow' of oily water and rust? (l. 65, 68-75)? Why does she let her 'victory' go?" I prodded further. We then discussed the paradox that Bishop develops, the beautiful becoming one with the grotesque. Such wakefulness, we agreed, allowed her—and her readers—to see the respectability, even honor of fellow non-human creatures, insights, I suggested, that Black Elk would have commended.
As we turned to Bishop's contemporary, Randall Jarrell, I asked the students what this master teacher and military man insists that we see in "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner," beyond the fact stated in the title. With no quick answer coming, I asked Bajram to read the five-line poem aloud:
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
When he finished, I asked for his response to the last line. He said that the speaker uses the past tense, suggesting that he looks back on his own death from the perspective of eternity. "And does he seem at all emotional about the removal of his remains from the plexiglass glass gunner's station of the bomber?" "No," he responded, "he describes the removal of his guts as though he were describing the wiping of mud from a windshield." "Right," I said, "so matter-of-fact, an everyday occurrence, yet such a shocking image of the consequences of aerial warfare. What do we learn about this victim? How old is he?" I asked. We then wrestled with the equally horrible metaphor in the first line, which describes a baby falling from its "mother's sleep," from his mother's womb, into the "belly," the womb of the State, the bomber. "How does the verb "fell" underscore the youth of the airman?" I asked. Fidan responded, stressing the almost instantaneous transformation of the infant into a soldier. Complimenting him on his interpretation, I said we would see the same idea explored in Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, subtitled The Children's Crusade, stressing that 'children' do most of the dying in wars. "Babies of course come wet from the warm uterus. What happens to the wet baby in the bomber?" I asked. Several voices responded, citing the frozen "wet fur" on the flight jacket. I then asked what they made of the fourth and fifth lines, the reference to getting loose from the "dream of life" and waking to the cacophonous "nightmare" of "black flak." Arlind suggested that peace must be a dream, an illusion, that reality must be the hell of war. "Why doesn't Jarrell end of the poem with such a statement," I wondered. "Who needs it?" Arlind responded. "Precisely," I said. If we have seen the image, we don't need a tacked-on moral. It's all about seeing—and having the courage to keep your eyes open."
I then invited readings from journals, those prose or poetic accounts of everyday objects or animals that 'so much depends' on seeing. Remembering Merita's reading from her journal the previous week, when she spoke of her frustrations with poetry, her skepticism that 'so much depends' on poetry, I feared that no one had responded with a poem. To my delight, hands shot up across the room, and nearly everyone had a poem to share. Many of these poems centered on their memories of their mothers. Blerta, for example, read her poem about her mother's "sun-beam" smiles; Xhemile described her mother's "wrinkles" and her "vigorous eyes," images of her "unconditional love" and her abiding guidance; then Merita brought the whole class to tears with "I See You Coming In," her memory of her deceased mother:
I see you coming in, little by little, in small steps,
With an albatross round your neck,
I wonder will it ever go away.
You have the snow in your hair; I didn't notice it's already winter.
The wrinkles on you face tell that it was heavy all the way through.
I lift you in my arms as you are tall as an eleven-year-old girl,
Oh, no, the great soul of yours makes you big as a mountain.
I kiss your tired face, and then you cry.
Inside your eyes I see a mirror of me.
You kiss me back. Don't worry, I am fine, you say.
And I want to hold your hand until I count your ages spots
And start over, all over, again, so you don't ever go for a second time.
As we all mopped our faces and prepared to leave, I thanked those who had read for demonstrating the power and accessibility of poetry. I reminded them, too, that we would sample postmodern fiction next time, as represented by Flannery O'Connor's story "Good Country People." After they finished the story, I asked that they write an interpretive response in their journals to the end of the story, where we see another startling revelation, Joy-Hulga in the barn-loft, legless.


text:
In a remote town in Ireland, eleven-year-old Niamh finds herself the sole survivor of a bloody massacre that killed her parents and younger brother. Suspecting a gang of homicidal vandals, the police ignore Neve's explanation that the house is the culprit. To help ease her trauma, dutiful neighbors Nat and Lucas take her in with the supervision of a social worker. Neve has trouble finding peace with the wholesome and nurturing couple, and horrific danger continues to manifest
Dark Touch
Labels: Foreign Movies, Movies


text:
If you're tired of Miley Cyrus stories that call attention to her hair, her outfits, her birthday parties or any other thing not related to her singing, you're in luck. Here's a story about her singing.
A new video released as part of Miley's "Backyard Sessions" from earlier this year features the singer covering Dolly Parton's "Jolene."
With her previously long brown locks in a bun atop her head, Miley sways in a long black skirt and bare feet as she's joined outdoors by her 5-piece band. "Hannah Montana" has long since transformed into a pop music star, but there's talent in that twang.
Check out Parton performing her hit nearly 40 years ago. We think Miley has done her godmother proud. Tell us if you agree and vote below.


text:
5 Classic London Pubs You Should Visit
For centuries, London's pubs have served as meeting places, social spaces, rooms to relax and unwind, places to talk business, to eat and drink, to find comfort for an evening or solace for an hour. These spots have notorious alumni and endless unknown stories, making stepping inside feel like a trip in a time machine. While many of the oldest pubs have been polished into new venues, some still retain their olde charms, giving visitors the chance to experience what a pub may have been like hundreds of years ago. Here are five of our favorites.
The George Inn
In Shakespeare's Local, writer Pete Brown spins a fascinating biographical tale of London through the prism of the 600-year story of the George Inn. The inn was a place to rest, to eat and drink, and its location in Southwark, near the Thames and London Bridge, made it a popular place to stop before embarking on further travels, either into or out of London. Dickens definitely drank here and he mentions the pub in Little Dorrit; Churchill dined here (and was charged corkage by the feisty landlady for bringing in a fancy bottle of port to drink); Pepys popped in for a pint; and with the Globe Theatre nearby we can guess that Shakespeare had the occasional pot of ale, though there's no actual record of this happening.
Today it's a busy pub by the bustling Borough Market and the beauty is the galleried front of the building. Inside, it lacks some of the imagined warmth and comfort of an old inn, but it still has much to admire in its many different spaces, allowing you to chance to daydream about who may have drunk here before you. It's run by Greene King so try their Abbot Ale for a classic pint of English bitter.
The George Inn: 75-77 Borough High Street, SE1 1NH (map) 0207 407 2056; gkpubs.co.uk
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
What's New On Serious Eats
It's impossible not to be instantly impressed and overawed by the Dickensian darkness of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, which hides down an alley off Fleet Street. Like many pubs in this part of town it was originally destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666 and then rebuilt, but it has history from before the flames and a pub called The Horn was here from 1538—before that, a monastery on this site dates to the 13th century.
Tread over the worn entry step and it's like a museum set: dark wood, sawdust on the floor boards, myriad staircases taking you to snug and warm drinking rooms over different levels, a wood fire crackling in the winter, and barely a recognition of anything modern. Downstairs you sit inside a cellar bar, with the space thought to have been originally used by the monastery. When you visit your name joins illustrious drinkers who have been here before you: Charles Dickens, Dr. Samuel Johnson (who lived nearby and perhaps penned some of his dictionary in here), Mark Twain, Alfred Tennyson. It's now run by Samuel Smith Brewery, so order a pint of their Old Brewery Bitter, which is still drawn from wooden barrels.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese: 145 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BU (map)
Cittie of Yorke
In an ever-modernizing city with gleaming glass skyscrapers growing all around, the Cittie of Yorke reminds us of what London might have been in centuries past. A dark, wooden-interiored pub with a bank of cozy booths, it has the feeling of an old church or school hall with high peaked ceiling and the faint glow of light from outside catching in the dusty air. It offers a whispering kind of intimacy that's a jolt from the fast-moving surroundings of the street outside.
Look for the unusual three-faced fireplace in the middle which sends the smoke down instead of up, or see the giant wine vats over the bar which are from when a wine merchant owned the building in the 1920s. Choose between the bunker-like cellar bar, the living room coziness of the front bar, or the handsome antiquity of the main bar. As with other nearby buildings it's been demolished and rebuilt a few times, though a pub was first recorded here in 1430.
Like the Cheshire Cheese, and a considerable number of other impressively antique London pubs (including The Princess Louise which is a short walk from the Cittie of Yorke), this is owned by Samuel Smith Brewery. Their Pure Brewed Lager is a good beer if you don't fancy their Old Brewery Bitter; in the fridges you'll find their silky Oatmeal Stout. Try it with the fish and chips or shepherd's pie.
Cittie of Yorke: 22 High Holborn, WC1V 6BN (map) 0207 242 7670
The Old Bank of England
This pub is located on Fleet Street, which is named after the River Fleet, a subterranean river through the city. In 1702 London's first daily paper, the Daily Courant, was published on this street and the newspaper men stayed for almost 300 years (making it a notorious neighborhood for boozy lunch breaks) before their offices moved. Two pubs existed side by side on this site in the 16th and 17th centuries—The Cock and The Haunch of Venison. In 1888 the pubs were demolished (The Cock relocated over the road—it's now called Ye Olde Cock Tavern) and the Bank of England rebuilt it for their Law Courts. The space became a pub again in 1994 when Fuller's Brewery took it over. There's one more infamous link: the building is allegedly between what was once Sweeney Todd's barber and Mrs. Lovett's pie shop (or so the story goes), with the cellars beneath the pub being the gory location of Todd's butchery.
The bright and warm space has a cathedral-like grandness, with a central island bar beneath fairy tale chandeliers. There are elaborate murals and a spectacular ceiling, which is all best observed from the gallery level above the bar. The pies on the menu today are thankfully more wholesome than they might have been many years ago, and they are especially good with one of Fuller's ales: London Pride is their flagship brew, while Black Cab is a very good London stout.
The Old Bank of England: 194 Fleet Street, EC4A 2LT (map) 0207 430 2255; oldbankofengland.co.uk
Ye Olde Watling
Built in 1668 after the previous pub burnt down in the Great Fire, Ye Olde Watling is on what was once the main street through Roman London, with the name 'Aethling Street' (meaning Noble or High Street). Old ship timbers were used in its construction and Sir Christopher Wren is said to have built this as a pub and drawing room while he was working on many of the nearby churches, including St. Paul's Cathedral, which is the most prominent sight as you exit the pub.
Today the street outside is quiet and quaint and the pub is part of the Nicholson's pub group. All dark wood, inside and out, with a beamed ceiling, it feels more polished than rugged and old, though don't let that detract from the space: it has history etched into its walls. It's classic pub grub and a good selection of ales, so look out for beers by top British breweries like Thornbridge, Adnams, and St Austell.
Ye Olde Watling: 29 Watling Street, EC4M 9BR (map) 0207 248 8935; nicholsonspubs.co.uk
Here's a handy map for your pub crawl.
About the Author: Mark Dredge is the author of Craft Beer World. You can find him online at Pencil and Spoon.
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


text: (2012) Directed by Scott Derrickson. A struggling true-crime novelist stumbles into a grim supernatural mystery that threatens the lives of his entire family. Ellison (Ethan Hawke) is seeking inspiration for his latest book when he moves his wife and children into a home where an entire family perished under gruesome circumstances. Terror soon hits closer to home when the writer discovers a box of old family movies in the attic of his new house and watches in horror as images of various families being murdered flicker before his eyes. Now the deeper Ellison investigates the disturbing case, the more he begins to fear he has stirred an ancient evil that won't rest until it has claimed his entire family. [Horror]


text:
12 June 2014 - Lucca (Italy) e Stamford, CT (USA)
Tagetik Continues Investment in Global Market Expansion with New Vice President of Global Demand Generation
Proven marketing executive Paul Giardina will focus on growing North American and global markets for Tagetik's corporate performance management solutions
Tagetik, a visionary provider of global performance management solutions, today announced that Paul Giardina has joined the company as vice president of global demand generation. Giardina brings many years of enterprise software experience to Tagetik, which provides a unified platform for performance management, disclosure management, financial governance and business intelligence to customers worldwide.
"Paul is a seasoned marketing executive with deep experience in all aspects of business-to-business marketing, including demand generation and product positioning," said Dave Kasabian, senior vice president of product marketing and strategy at Tagetik. "He has a stellar 25-year track record of growing global enterprise software companies in North America, as well as a deep appreciation for customer needs, challenges and aspirations. He will be a great asset to Tagetik as we continue to reinforce our proven value proposition of providing cost-efficient finance solutions that meet the needs of some of the most complex global organizations, yet are simple enough to be owned-and-operated by finance. We are delighted to add an executive of Paul's stature to our global executive team. I look forward to working with Paul on a daily basis in our Stamford headquarters."
Giardina's most recent experience was as chief marketing officer for Archive Systems, a Fairfield, NJ company selling document management software and services. Prior to Archive Systems, Giardina worked for Protegrity, a data encryption and security company headquartered in Stamford, CT. Giardina held several executive roles during his Protegrity career, from chief marketing officer to interim CEO.
Giardina also has 15 years of enterprise financial software (CPM) experience including several services and marketing management roles at Hyperion Solutions, now a division of Oracle; and at Cartesis, a Paris-based financial software company (now part of SAP), where he was executive vice president of marketing.
"After working with Tagetik as an executive consultant for several months, I am thrilled to be officially joining the talented Tagetik management team," said Giardina. "Tagetik offers to the enterprise market a rare combination -- superior technology and functionality with equally superior customer support and customer satisfaction. The company is recognized as a strong competitor of the mega-vendors with a much lower TCO and much simpler architecture. Tagetik also competes well with the niche SaaS vendors by offering a more comprehensive solution on the cloud. I see only a bright future for thecompany, and I look forward to contributing to its continued success."
Manuel Vellutini, executive vice president, chief operating officer at Tagetik, added "We are fully confident that Paul will be a key contributor to Tagetik's success in North America, where we are investing heavily, as well as in our continued growth on a global scale."
Request a Demo
Our personalized demo allows you to speak directly with a senior solution specialist and discover the key functionalities of CCH Tagetik.
Would you love to know more about CCH Tagetik?
For more information, please complete the form and a member of our team will reach out to you shortly!


text:
Home, preschool and school coordination boosts achievement
Children whose minds are stimulated in several early childhood settings—home, preschool, and school—have higher achievement in elementary school. What matters is not whether children's learning is supported at home, or stimulated in preschool or in elementary school, but that all three of these occur.
That's the conclusion of a new study published in the May/June 2010 issue of Child Development.
"The study has implications for policy as Congress reauthorizes the No Child Left Behind Act," notes Robert Crosnoe, associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, the study's lead author. "Our findings point to the importance of improving coordination among parents, preschool classrooms, and elementary schools to boost children's achievement."
The research is based on a longitudinal analysis of more than 1,300 children living in 10 locations in the United States who were followed from birth in the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. It was carried out under the auspices of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Tufts University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Virginia, and the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network.
The researchers evaluated children's homes and child care/preschool settings when the children were 4-1/2 years old, studied their first grade classrooms, and evaluated reading and math test scores through fifth grade. In doing so, they gauged whether the links between various combinations of cognitive stimulation and children's achievement were simply due to the socioeconomic circumstances of the children's families, or whether children from different socioeconomic backgrounds got more or less, academically, from each combination.
"The ultimate payoff of attempts to improve one context of early childhood depends in part on whether related contexts are improved, too," according to Crosnoe.
Moreover, even though children from advantaged families are more likely to experience this convergence of support for learning across the contexts of their lives, the study found that low-income children may benefit more from it.
"Helping children, especially those from poor families, get off to a good start in elementary school has become a major focus of education policy," Crosnoe adds. "These policy interventions typically target one setting—the home, preschool, or elementary school—but rarely the intersection of all three."
This study suggests that increasing coordination among the three main contexts involved in the transition to formal school is critical. "To do so, policymakers must put renewed focus on the home-preschool partnerships often advocated by early intervention programs and the family-school partnerships advocated by No Child Left Behind, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act," according to Crosnoe.
Explore further


text:
Top flight deals to Nantes (NTE)*
Fly to Nantes with KLM
Together with our global network, we as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines offer flights to Nantes, serving Nantes Atlantique Airport (NTE). If you have a question about your trip and fancy getting some practice in before you arrive, why not contact our service desk agents via social media in French? They are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp and Twitter!
Top Nantes attractions
- Jardin des Plantes: beautifully crafted gardens.
- Les Machines de L'ile: an artistic attraction park with giant mechanical animals.
- Passage Pommeraye: an 1840s shopping mall filled with upscale boutiques.
- Tour Bretagne: a 32-storey skyscraper with panoramic views of the city.
- Cathedrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes: a beautiful Catholic cathedral.
Don't miss any of the highlights in Nantes with our fantastic travel guide. We've done all of the legwork so you can be sure to enjoy everything the city has to offer!
What's the best way to get around Nantes?
It's easy to explore Nantes by public transport. There are three tram lines, many bus routes and BusWay lines (imagine buses that run on tram lines!) that operate from the early hours of the morning to gone midnight. There are also night lines to get you from A to B. If you want to try out your sea legs, take a ride on the NaviBus - a public boat line that offers a scenic transport option.
What's the weather in Nantes?
No matter what time of year you visit Nantes, you'll likely experience some rainfall. Take your umbrella to avoid getting caught in the rain! If you really want to bypass the rain, head to Nantes between June and August and instead enjoy some sunshine!
Weather in Nantes
Powered by: OpenWeatherMap.org
25 °CSaturday15/08/2020
24 °CSunday16/08/2020
23 °CMonday17/08/2020
23 °CTuesday18/08/2020
21 °CWednesday19/08/2020
24 °CThursday20/08/2020
24 °CFriday21/08/2020
*All amounts are in AUD. Taxes and carrier surcharges are included. No booking fee applicable (credit card surcharge may apply).