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We are a referral unit for many hospitals in the state as we provide complex neurological care not available elsewhere. Together with the neurosurgeon, neurologist, and other consultants the NSICU attending physician and team members work with patient's and their families while in the NSICU.
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HARRISONBURG -- With white out conditions and dangerous roads, plow trucks were hard at work cleaning up the mounds of snow.
Jose Munoz is the owner of J&D Landscape. He said all day on Wednesday was a struggle.
"Once it gets to this magnitude, it's hard to keep control of the storm. I mean it's basically the storm dictates what happens, not us," said Munoz.
His company plows more than 100 business properties in the area, including the parking lot at Regal Cinemas. On Wednesday, you could barely see the lot, even after all the plowing.
"We already plowed this property twice. We did it last night around 11 o'clock, and then we plowed again this morning around 5 o'clock, and of course we're back now again and we didn't realize we have about seven inches on the ground."
He says the amount of snow is what makes it so challenging.
"Some years back we had a snow storm like this, but this one is so hard because it's coming down so fast, and so it's hard for us to keep up with it."
He said because the snow was wet and heavy, it made it even more difficult to plow.
Although it's not easy to clean, Munoz said it was a great day for his business. Munoz said his workers worked hard so businesses could start to open Wednesday night.
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Profile: Apollo Global Management LLC (APO)
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Apollo Global Management, LLC (Apollo) is a global alternative asset manager. The Company's primary business is to raise and invest private equity, capital markets and real estate funds as well as managed accounts, on behalf of pension and endowment funds, as well as other institutional and high net worth individual investors. For these investment and management services, Apollo receives management fees generally related to the amount of assets managed, transaction and advisory fees for the investments made and carried interest income related to the performance of the funds managed. Apollo has three primary business segments: Private equity, Capital markets and Real estate. It also manages AP Alternative Assets, L.P. (AAA), a permanent capital vehicle, which invests substantially all of its capital in or alongside Apollo-sponsored entities, funds, and other investments, and several strategic investment accounts established to facilitate investments by third-party investors directly in Apollo-sponsored funds and other transactions. The Company is managed and operated by its manager, AGM Management, LLC. On October 24, 2011, the Company acquired Gulf Stream Asset Management (Gulf Stream), which managed 10 collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) with approximately $3 billion in assets under management. In February 2012, Accor SA sold its interest in Novotel New York Times Square Hotel to Apollo Global Management, LLC and Chartres Lodging Group, LLC's Joint Venture. In February 2012, the Company acquired Taminco Group Holdings. In April 2012, the Company acquired Stone Tower Capital LLC. In May 2012, Apollo acquired EP Energy from El Paso Corp. In June 2012, the Company's Apollo Global Real Estate and Glebe Asset Management Limited has taken ownership of a building in Great Sutton Street, London EC1. In March 2013, The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc completed the sale of its McGraw-Hill Education business to investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC, and the Company acquired AURUM Holdings Ltd. In October 2013, Pitney Bowes Inc sold Pitney Bowes Management Services with Apollo. In November 2013, the Company announced that Midcap Financial, LLC has been acquired by an entity managed by the Company. Effective December 1, 2013, Apollo Global Management LLC acquired Madrid-based EVO Banco of NCG Banco SA. Effective January 3, 2014, Apollo Global Management LLC acquired Altamira Santander Real Estate SA. In February 2014, Apollo Global Management, LLC completed the acquisition of CEC Entertainment Inc. Effective February 28, 2014, the Company acquired EVO Banco of NCG Banco SA (NCG), a unit of Fondo de Reestructuracion Ordenada Bancaria. In May 2014, Apollo European Principal Finance Fund II, a fund affiliated with the Company, announced the completion of the acquisition of a portfolio of 18 European hotels from Ivanhoe Cambridge. Effective May 23, 2014, the Company acquired Event Rentals Inc, an Inglewood-based provider of party supplies rental services.
Private equity primarily invests in control equity and related debt instruments, convertible securities and distressed debt investments. Capital markets primarily invests in non-control debt and non-control equity investments, including distressed instruments. Real estate invests in legacy commercial mortgage-backed securities, commercial first mortgage loans, mezzanine investments and other commercial real estate-related debt investments. Additionally, the Company sponsors real estate funds that focus on opportunistic investments in distressed debt and equity recapitalization transactions.
As of December 31, 2011, the Company owned, through three intermediate holding companies APO Corp. (APO Corp), APO Asset Co., LLC (APO Asset), and APO (FC), LLC (APO (FC)), (collectively, the Intermediate Holding Companies), 34.1% of the economic interests of, and operates and controls all of the businesses and affairs of, the Apollo Operating Group. AP Professional Holdings, L.P., (Holdings), is the entity, through which the Managing Partners and other contributing partners (the Contributing Partners) hold Apollo Operating Group Units (AOG Units) representing 65.9% of the economic interests in the Apollo Operating Group as of December 31, 2010.
The Company distressed and hedge funds with total AUM of $1.9 billion as of December 31, 2011, that primarily invest in North America, Europe and Asia. As of December 31, 2011, Apollo managed the United States and European-based mezzanine funds and related investment vehicles with total AUM of $3.9 billion. AIC is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. AIC's primary focus is to generate both current income and capital appreciation primarily through investments in subordinated debt, as well as by making investments in certain senior secured loans and/or equity in private middle market companies. The Company manages seven senior credit funds with total AUM of $15.4 billion as of December 31, 2011. The senior credit funds together with its private equity funds and certain other capital markets funds, as of December 31, 2011, have deployed approximately $34 billion, including leverage, in senior credit investments. As of December 31, 2011, the fund has portfolio investments throughout Europe with concentration in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Portugal.
Apollo European Principal Finance Fund L.P. (EPF) is an investment fund, which invests primarily in European commercial and residential mortgage performing and non-performing loans (NPLs) and unsecured consumer loans. NPLs are loans held by financial institutions that are in default of principal or interest payments for 90 days or more. Athene Asset Management LLC is an investment manager that provides asset management services to Athene Holding Ltd. In addition, certain Apollo affiliates manage assets for Athene Asset Management. As of December 31, 2011, Athene represented approximately $8.5 billion of Apollo's total AUM, $2.1 billion of which was managed by other Apollo funds and investment vehicles. During the year ended December 31, 2011, it launched Apollo Residential Mortgage, Inc., a residential real estate finance company that is focused primarily on investing in, financing, and managing residential mortgage-backed securities, residential mortgage loans, and other residential mortgage assets in the United States.
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Apollo Global Management LLC
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Labtekwon Has a Message For Local WannabesGet Serious, Cause the Future of BMore Hip-Hop Is At Stake
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Two weeks after an initial conversation, Labtekwon kept calling. The living connection to Baltimores 1980s hip-hop era wanted to add a few caveats to his initial responses. During that talk he was fired up. He had had enough. Enough of the surge and wane of yet another local MC becoming a pumped-up promise to put Baltimore on the hip-hop map. Enough of yet another plan to save Baltimore hip-hop. Enough of local mix-show DJs who decide who does and doesnt make it onto local airwaves. Enough of radio station MC battles where listeners dont know that the challenger is taped the day before. Enough of people equating local buzz with artistic success. And he let it all out.
And then, apparently, he wanted it all back. I just thought about it, and as much as I feel some of these people are assholes that definitely hold back the overall movement, at the same time I dont want to create tension that makes it seem like Im frustrated with my career so Im just mad at everybody, Lab says over the phone from Washington, D.C., where he spends most of his week since the birth of his son last summer. In a moments time, the emotions and the zeal of really conveying a lot of the ideas I wanted to convey, things got said. But on closer inspection I want to be sure that Im not guilty of the problem of everyone else that I have claimed is guilty of.
Lab isnt just being contrite. The MC born Omar Akbar Young, the round-the-way kid who grew up in Whitelock City (the Whitelock Street and Madison Avenue intersection of Upton), isnt just trying to spin his own interview. Hes enacting what separates him from the average musician and man. The best of Labtekwon is a combination of these two impulses, passion and reflection. Labs fevered talk about Baltimore hip-hop doesnt just include his peers and friends over the yearsBooman, Ogun, Steve the Colossal, One Speaker Supremebut his elders, forgotten names and times such as WEBB (1360 AM) disc jockey Chuck Maxx, Z3 MC, We Rock Crew, Rock-Mel, and graffiti crews/artists Zek, Chaz, and the Phun House Crew. Hes not trying to carve out his piece of the pie. Whats at stake in Labs vision and critique of Baltimore hip-hop is not his place in it but its very essence.
Besides, branding Lab a frustrated artist is a hard sell. A frustrated artist doesnt have a 19-deep discography that reaches back over a decade. A frustrated artist doesnt get a self-produced music video on BET on his own, as Lab has currently with his Uhnnn Huhnnn, in rotation on Uncut. A frustrated artist doesnt release four albums in one year, as Lab has planned for 2005: The first, The Ghetto Dai Lai Llama: African Rhythm American Blues, came out in February on his own Ankh Ba Records. A frustrated artist doesnt do anything but complain.
Lab is just interested in seeing Baltimore hip-hop survivenot that it needs saving. I stick to the context that quality is really whats most important, Lab says. And a lot of local stuff is good, but I dont want to say something to give people the false impression that I approve of everything that goes on locally in Baltimore hip-hop.
He most certainly doesnt leave that impression at that first meeting. Lab arranges to meet in the library lobby of his alma mater, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. With his intern in tow, Lab rolls in, talking on his cell phone. He hangs up, introduces himself with a firm handshake, and keeps right on walking into the library. He cuts a path through computer rows, past a few reference stacks, to a set of elevators. He pushes the floor button and says something about how he hasnt been back here since he graduated in December with a bachelors degree in Africana studies. He marches to a table in the back where nobodys around. He pulls a chair out, plops himself into it, and puts his ringing phone away. He establishes eye contact and says, Before we start, Ive got to get something out of the way. And for the next 100 minutes he does exactly that.
Theres not going to be no savior for hip-hop in Baltimore, Lab says. The 33-year-old comports himself with a rigid grace, as if hes aware of the tension in his compact frame and the fluid movements of body are the result of a deliberate will. He speaks with a stolid voice worthy of a lecture hall, and would need no amplification to reach the slackers in the back. You cant save something that isnt lost. Its here. It isnt gone. Theres graf, theres DJs, theres MCs, theres B-boys. Its all here. Its underground, for real.
These local guys on the radio, its not hip-hop, he continues. Theyre opportunists who grew up with hip-hop. They just want to get paid. And I cant be mad at that, but I can be mad at that. My human side, I hope you can survive, I hope you can eat, I hope your family eats. My hip-hop side, man, youre like a thief in the temple. Youre desecrating sacred standards that dont need to be defiled by greed and lust. And thats what it is right now. And thats why theyre mediocre.
Before you start thinking Lab is just miffed that hes not in current local radio rotation, take note that he has never really enjoyed local radio airplay. Hes toured across the country and Canada. Hes released an album on internationally renowned underground rap label Mush. And hes developed a body of work thats as formidable as a 1960s jazz musician: intellectual, idiosyncratic, and undeniably of a singular, evolving vision. You just cant hear it spinning on the local dial.
Thats OK by him. Ive resigned myself of the need for validation through my peers, because I know theyre whack, Lab says. What Im worried about is the quality of the art on a bigger, broader scale. We have moved away from what shaped Baltimore hip-hop. Now we got a few DJs pushing their boys, and thats what people and young MCs think Baltimore hip-hop is all about.
What irks Lab especially is the never-ceasing search for what could be branded a Baltimore sound, some marketing term like Dirty South, West Coast, etc., that really only means something to suburban white consumers. Every new local MC gets a shot at defining that sound, but one hit single does not a career make. What shapes a citys sound is the interaction of hip-hoppers working in collaborative competition.
If you can have the opportunity to compete with me, win or lose, youre going to get better, Lab says. If youre that good, Im going to get better, because Im going to have to adjust and adapt to you, which means that were going to have a circle where we can all elevate. And that is where you get the true essence of a regional sound and a style, where people be like, Yo, those Baltimore cats arent playing. People will say, They got something over there.
Right now, we dont got our own thing, he continues. We have a dream to be rich. Were a blue-collar town, theres a lot of poor folks. A lot of people want to escape. Hip-hop is seemingly the ticket out of the hood, and even some cats dont even live in the hood. Some people just wanna be wealthy so they can have stuff. But, sad to say, youre not first to think of the plan to get rich off of hip-hop. So youre competing with about a million other people who are doing the same damn thing. What makes you any different?
Lab believes the only thing thats going to make people pay attention is the originality of the lyrics, music, beats, and ideas produced by Baltimore hip-hopnot the ability of the city to sell out a run of locally produced CDs. Recognition doesnt follow the money.
Cats need to go down to the harbor in the summer, take your rhymes down there, Lab says. If youre good, the audience from all over the world walks by. And if youre whack, youre gonna get laughed at and teased, and youll know that you cannot convince the world that youre dope because your boys say youre dopeeven if your boys DJ on 92Q.
Ultimately, my thing is always going to give back to your community, Lab says by way of explaining his Bmore hip-hop public-service announcement. This is the place that produced him. I got caught for doing dumb shit as a kid. I got arrested and people mentored me and I was able to take steps toward elevation. I went to Douglass [High School]. I rode the subway with Murphy Homes and Lexington Terrace kids every day. Im from around the way. I got a GED and eventually graduated from college. A lot of people dont believe it can be done. It can, but Baltimore is also unique. Youre gonna find a dude like me riding a skateboard. Thats Baltimore. Thats part of the equation.
Its an equation that yields more variables than solutions in Labtekwon. Pouring through one of his albumsmuch less his discographyis a journey through a swath of stylistic shifts and experiments. Lab delves into a stripped-down beat chemistry for his street-eye view of the world with The Ghetto Dai Lai Llama. Gunfire and a womans scream fade into an obtuse string instrument sketching an odd meter in the background of In Due Time, an internal monologue in which Lab thinks about how niggas talk with Glocks/ snap crackle pop, wonders where your heart at when the shootout starts? before concluding in the defiant, I dont feel the need to scream or cry cause false bling and false rhyme is all in the mind.
Wobbly keyboard lines reverberate like a hangover under a bravura Lab freestyle that he runs through at a near sprint. Uhnnn Huhnnn, the song whose video is on BETs Uncut, sounds like screwed and chopped bootybass beneath Labs version of crunk: Big-ego braggadocio (Im not like the rest yall, Lab announces, before showing what he means with, My ambiance, a certain nonchalance/ the black mans god, I dont care who floss), intercut with big-dick wordplay (I train broads to strain their jaws) that wiggles itself into the hilarious refrain, just because a nigga got dreads and a conscience dont mean he wont pop that nine.
The key to appreciating the wide berth of ideas percolating through Labs music and mind is to understand how he puts himself into the local music spectrum. Lab doesnt just feel indebted to the 1980s hip-hop and Baltimore hip-hop that shaped him as a teen. Its a connection he believes stretches back decades. His father, Harry Young, is better known by people who frequented Pennsylvania Avenues clubs in the 1960s as vocalist Doc Soul Stirrer, Doc Soul for short. Labs trepidation about the state of local hip-hop stems from his belief that hes connected to the greater fabric that is local black music history. And he feels he owes that legacy something.
Ive been doing music for love that goes beyond just my individual drive for success, he says. I dont make music for everybody in the world. I make music for people who can relate to what I feel. And that, in itself, will eliminate the real effect of trying to be a superstar. . . . Im trying to come off as thoughtful, not resentful. I just feel bad. I go to other cities and I see how it is. When I went to L.A., that hurt my feelings.
In 1999, Lab traveled to Los Angeles to perform at Leimert Park on the invitation of Project Blowed, the hip-hop seminar founded by Aceyalone and Abstract Rude. When Lab arrived he found 50 MCs hanging out, rhyming in ciphers, just living and breathing the art. It was a beehive of hip-hop, Lab says. And when it was time for the performance, some of them stood there and analyzed. You could tell they were scoping you out. And some cats were just feeling it. And people started break dancing in the audience. They heard the beats and they heard the words.
Baltimore has lost that, he laments. You dont get that anymore. Now you get guys doing appearances. Yeah, come to the club, well play my CD. This is my hot single. Man, come on.
And like a true believer, in the battle pitting commerce against art, Lab will always side with art, even though he knows that the market and time often winnows wheat from chaff on its own.
Business-wise, anyone can be successful, Lab says. Artistically, that requires a lot more commitment and discipline. I know everybody, nowadays, theyre just like, Save all that art stuff. Its all about getting paid. I just want to emphasize that the world is watching you every time you create something. Thats a reflection of who you are. You have a greater responsibilityregardless of whether you want to be the next Usher or 50 Centthere still needs to be a substance to it, because life has a way of bringing things back to earth even for the hottest, most popular artist. Theres still a reality were all bound to.


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text: On January 6, 2001, at 1130 central standard time, a Cessna 172 airplane, N8984B, was substantially damaged during a forced landing following a loss of engine power near Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The airplane was registered to and operated by a private individual. The private pilot and passenger were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a flight plan was not filed for the 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The local flight originated from the Grider Field Airport, near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, at 1110.The pilot reported to an FAA inspector that they were flying at 1,200 feet agl, observing the ice damage caused by a recent storm. As they were crossing plowed fields, which were surrounded by trees, the engine rpm "dropped to around 1100." He "pushed the fuel mixture all the way to rich, pulled the carburetor heat control, pushed off the cabin heat and pushed the throttle all the way forward," with no increase in engine performance. A forced landing was initiated to a gravel road to the west. During the landing roll, the airplane drifted off the left side of the road into a muddy ditch. The airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted.Examination of the airplane by the FAA inspector revealed that the vertical stabilizer and rudder were damaged. The empennage aft of the cabin was buckled, and the left wing was structurally damaged.The pilot reported in the Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report, NTSB Form 6120.1/2, under the Mechanical Malfunction Failure section, that there was no mechanical failure and that the problem was icing of the carburetor.


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Naxalite or Naxalism is an informal name given to communist groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the communist movement in India. Ideologically they belong to various trends of Maoism.
Initially the movement had its centre in West Bengal. In recent years, they have spread into less developed areas of rural central and eastern India, such as Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh through the activities of underground groups like the Communist Party of India (Maoist). They are conducting an insurgency, typically called the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency.
Naxals hold sway in about 180 districts across ten states of India accounting for about 40 percent of India's geographical area,They are are especially concentrated in an area known as the "Red corridor", where they control 92,000 square kilometers.According to India's intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, 20,000 Naxalites were in April 2006 in operation,and their growing influence prompted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to declare them as the most serious threat to India's national security.
The CPI (Maoist) and some other Naxal factions are now considered terrorists by the Government of India.In February 2009, Central government announced its plans for simultaneous, co-ordinated counter-operations in all Left-wing extremism-hit states
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Amendment 64 to the Colorado Constitution legalizes the recreational use of marijuana. It was signed into law on December 10, 2012.
There are essentially three parts to Amendment 64:
The legalization of limited amounts of marijuana for personal use
The legalization of accessories used for the consumption of marijuana
The legalization of the manufacture and sale of recreation marijuana
Our Greeley Police Department wanted to share information with you to help clarify what's legal and what's not. On that note, these are some of the major points everyone needs to know about this new law.
Personal Use
Amendment 64 authorizes the personal use of marijuana by individuals over the age of 21. Personal Use includes the following activities:
Possessing, using, displaying, purchasing or transporting up to 1 ounce of marijuana
Possessing, growing, processing, or transporting no more than 6 marijuana plants, with 3 or fewer being mature, flowering plants
Possession of all the marijuana produced by your plants on the premises where the plants were grown, provided that the growing takes place in an enclosed, locked space and is not conducted openly and publicly and is not available for sale
Transfer of up to 1 ounce of marijuana to another adult age 21 or over without remuneration
Consumption of marijuana provided that consumption is not conducted openly and publicly or in a manner that endangers others
Assisting any other adult age 21 or greater to do all of the above activities.
Marijuana Accessories
Amendment 64 removes marijuana accessories from the definition of drug paraphernalia if the marijuana accessories are used or possessed by a person age 21 or over.
Marijuana Accessories means any equipment, product, or materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, composting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, vaporizing, or containing marijuana, or for ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana into the human body.
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text: On March 10, 1994, at 2045 mountain standard time, a Rockwell S- 2R, N4977X, collided with a berm while landing at a dirt agricultural airstrip near Tacna, Arizona. The aircraft was operated by Schmit Aviation, Inc., of Yuma, Arizona, and was engaged in aerial application operations under 14 CFR 137. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the nighttime flight and no flight plan was filed. The aircraft incurred substantial damage. The certificated commercial pilot, the sole occupant, sustained minor injuries. The flight originated from a private airstrip near Tacna, Arizona, at 2015 hours on the day of the mishap for a local area spraying mission.According to the operator, the pilot had finished the aerial application mission and was returning to the airstrip. The engine began to lose oil pressure and power and the pilot diverted to a dirt airstrip on a mesa, which is not equipped with runway lights. As the aircraft neared the dirt airstrip, the engine seized. The pilot touched down adjacent to the dirt runway and a wing collided with a berm.The operator reported that the engine sustained a catastrophic internal failure. No apparent cause was reported for the failure.


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The last two of the four elementary schools in Farmingdale recently celebrated the expansion of their buildings to accommodate full day kindergarten which will begin in the district in September.
An overview of the budget for the Farmingdale School District for the 2001-2002 school year was presented for the first time at a special budget meeting of the board of education on Wednesday, March 14. This was the first of several upcoming meetings and hearings regarding the proposed budget.
The third grade Cavaliers of the Farmingdale PAL Basketball League completed their regular season in first place in the Eastern Division. The Cavaliers compiled a 9-1 record, which has earned them a number one seed in the upcoming playoffs. Four very talented boys; Andrew Erker, Brian Gallagher, Joe Kennedy and Billy Warren led the team in all facets of the game. On any given day one of these ballplayers provided the spark to lead the team to victory. Nick Casio, Danny Kane, Nicholas Backman, Johnny Kellerman and Stephanie Rice were also key components in the teams' success. The coaches Gene Gallagher and Bruce Warren would like to thank the parents for their support during the regular season.
The Farmingdale Midget Football Association is having its annual registration at Howitt Middle School's cafeteria on Friday, March 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, March 24 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Football will be signing up ages 5 to 14 and cheerleading will be signing up ages 6 to 14. These will be the only official registration dates this year so those interested are urged to sign up now and avoid a late registration fee.
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Skoda Citigo review
by Tom Stewart (21 February 2012)
If prospective buyers of new four-seat city cars weren't already spoilt for choice, they soon will be. Already at the party are cars like the Fiat 500, Chrysler Ypsilon, Ford Ka, Renault Twingo, Peugeot 106, Citroen C1, Toyota Aygo, Chevrolet Spark, Suzuki Alto, Kia Picanto and Hyundai i10, but arriving fashionably late are the VW group's three new offerings, namely the VW up!, the SEAT Mii and, the subject of this review, the Skoda Citigo.
It's no secret that, as with many of the above and despite their subtle styling differences, the latter three are all fundamentally the same car with the same diminutive exterior dimensions, and, as three-door models, they've been widely applauded for their generous interior space, appealing looks and bubbly driving demeanour. Their five-star Euro NCAP safety ratings aren't to be sniffed at either.
However, the recent Citigo press launch provided the first opportunity to sample access to the rear seats via rear doors. And so, without further ado, I can announce that, despite having the same wheelbase and exterior dimensions as the three-door, the five-door Citigo can also easily accommodate two fully-grown (or even slightly overgrown) adults in the rear, but without rear passenger ingress and egress inconveniencing front seat occupants.
Furthermore, close inspection of the Citigo's tech specs reveals that the five-dr has an extra eight litres of bootspace with the rear seats folded (959), although at 1369mm the five-door doesn't have quite the elbow width in the front as the three-door's 1417mm (let's ignore the three-door's 1mm shortfall in the rear).
Built in Bratislava, both versions of the Citigo are due to on sale in the UK on June 1, initially with a three-cyl 999cc petrol engine producing either 59bhp with 96g/km or 105g/km of CO2, or 74bhp with 98g/km of CO2. With the standard six-speed manual gearbox, combined fuel consumption is quoted at 62.8. 68.9 and 67.3 mpg respectively (subtract at least 10 mpgin the real world), and an automated sequential gearbox will be available in due course.
UK prices are to be confirmed in early March, but starting at around £7500 (add £350 for the five-door), spec for spec the Citigo is likely to undercut the Mii by a little and the up! by a little more.
Quite why we in the UK need three sets of power/emissions/consumption figures from essentially the same engine is unclear, unless it's a subtle ploy to charge a premium for the two lower-emission versions, but that aside I drove the more powerful 74bhp version which, with its road tax and London congestion charge evading sub-100g/km figure, seems like the most logical choice, at least until prices are announced.
At this point I can justifiably copy/paste from my October 2011 review of the Volkswagen up!: "Although it's no racer - 0-62mph in 13.2secs, 106mph max, the smooth triple-pot motor sounds satisfyingly crisp and raspy. Assuming you put the throttle and gearbox to good use, there's enough oomph for zooming about town, and it can hold its own on faster main roads. The 59bhp engine makes the same 70lb/ft of torque as the 74bhp version but it can only muster 0-62 in 14.4secs with a 99mph top speed."
Conveniently, I can also paste-in these words too, but with additional comments at the end: "Having driven on ancient cobbled streets (this press launch was held in and around Rome [or in this case, Lisbon]) and over some deeply rutted tarmac, this little front-wheel drive gem feels exceptionally taut. This chassis rigidity combined with well-tuned suspension results in reassuring handling and a decently comfy ride, even on poor surfaces.
"The electro-mechanical power steering is very light and easy at parking speeds, but there's assistance only when it's needed so it firms up nicely at higher speeds, and saves fuel in the process."
That said, at the end of my Citigo drive I was left with the impression that Skoda engineers may have tweaked their car's suspension settings and/or anti-roll bars to give an even comfier ride over shoddy surfaces, possibly with a tad more body roll in corners. If this is the case then it's certainly not a criticism as too many cars both small and large have had their suspension tuned to appeal more to tyre-squealing journos than to owners – in this case, and in Skoda's words, young drivers, families and "best agers".
The Citigo will be available in three grades: S, SE and Elegance, and amongst a generous smattering of standard and optional equipment – the latter including the City Safe Drive automatic emergency braking system – the Elegance will come as standard with the Move&Fun satnav/multimedia unit.
Made by Navigon, it's the same as VW's Maps & More system and with many different functions from one small portable unit it's a terrific idea in theory, but its maps, navigation guidance and system stability are far short of TomTom and Garmin standards. I naively gave the NavGone the benefit of the doubt in my VW up! review (I was at least able to pair my iPhone via Bluetooth in the up! but not in the Citigo), but this time I'm left with no choice but to say it and say it clear: it's crap and in urgent need of further development.
As mentioned, the Citigo is essentially the same as the up! and Mii. I've not experienced a Mii yet, but I personally prefer the up!'s exterior styling and interior finishes.
To counter that, the Citigo will be even more affordable and, if senior Skoda personnel are to be believed, the Czech car will beat its German and Spanish rivals on residual values. Clever marketing and branding aside, you won't go wrong with any of them and so dealer proximity is likely to be the decider, at least until you have to choose between the forthcoming all-electric zero emissions up! and the natural gas-powered 97mpg, 79g/km Citigo.


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Within the span of three weeks, two of the top-selling conventional cereal brands-Cheerios and Grape-Nuts-made the announcement that effective almost immediately, their flagship cereals are GMO-free.
These are victories. Of course. But aren't they also just slightly confusing?
What's really behind Cheerios and Grape-Nuts move to go GMO-free?
Both Cheerios and Grape-Nuts are members of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which has come out against GMO labeling in two recent campaigns: Prop 37 in California (2012) and I-522 in Washington (2013).
The GMO labeling campaigns, which had rallied a lot of press, voter support and funding, were narrowly defeated in both states. The losses were heartbreaking to the pro-labeling community. Because they weren't bans or restrictions, and because consumer polls have found overwhelming support for GMO labeling, hopes were high. With more than 60 countries around the world already banning or requiring labels on GMOs, the pro-labeling communities in progressive states (CA & WA) felt a victory was inevitable.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association, and its members, along with the biotech industry, poured tens of millions of dollars into defeating the GMO labeling bills by citing research (that they funded) as proof that label bills would create economic disasters. The anti-labeling pitch never even directly mentioned GMOs, environmental or human health risks. The campaign rested on a myth that updating food labels would send the states into a food crisis. Farmers would be out of work and taxes would be outrageous.
But, apparently, cereal is a different story.
After Prop 37′s very narrow defeat, Green America launched the GMO Inside campaign, which took off running with its first campaign, against Cheerios. A year later, General Mills announced the original Cheerios would now be GMO-free. It seems like a straight-up victory.
While many cereals are hotbeds of GMO ingredients like corn and soy, Cheerios is oat-based. There are currently no GMO oats in production in the U.S. So, a few tweaks are all that were required to turn that formula into a GMO-free option. Similarly with Grape-Nuts, which is a wheat-based cereal. Both brands have not announced tweaks to the other flavors in the respective product lines, because they include too many GMO ingredients to replace.
Is the GMA having a change of heart over GMOs?
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Intel births Meltdown-friendly mobile quad core
Intel has birthed a recession-friendly quad core mobile processor. And you can find one at the heart of a new Acer laptop. Maybe. According to the Intel's latest processor price list (PDF warning), the chip giant is offering five new mobile CPUs as of December 28: one ultra-low-cost quad core and four high-end dual cores. The …
The saddest part?
Link to price list
Why link to files.shareholders.com for the price list ? It is on Intel's own website: http://www.intc.com/priceList.cfm
They used to put it somewhere under intel.com. I always used to google for "site:intel.com price list" to find it because it was just impossible to find it in their menus. But I found a couple months ago about this investor-oriented intc.com site...
Seriously Acer? WTF? Who cares about a shit company. I would rather have a Dell then an Acer seeing as 99% of what they put out is trash. Not to mention the blatent lies in the spec they released.
Seriously Acer? WTF? Who cares about a shit company. I would rather have a Dell then an Acer seeing as 99% of what they put out is trash. Not to mention the blatent lies in the spec they released.
er, why?
great, looks good on paper..
..but what will the four cores be used for?
what apps can multi-thread?
is this laptop meant for movie directors on the go?
imo, POINTLESS. what even uses a dual core properly?
laptops need to use less power, not more processing power. they should be concentrating on the reduction in the consumption of electricity and extending battery lives.
silly 'top trumps' product development leads nowhere. "i've got better specs than you! :P'
for sure, maybe with W7 or even a W7M, or something beyond that the OS will multi-thread, but looking at M$'s record in producing good clean small OS's that work a treat, what's the chances of that happening?
must be bored..
p.s. stuff and nonsense: http://www.eupeople.net/forum
ACER sucks BIG-TIME! I see by the posts that I'm not the only one whom feels the same way about this either. Anyone think that MAYBE AMD will buy out Acer?
Use the Cores!
Most programs do not use the varying cores but what would be better is that if the several threads that make up each program were dedicated to different cores. Then the interference between differing programs would not occur; ie spam/virus/worm/spyware trackers could use a dedicated core, browser, email & messenger programs on another, multimedia on another, many of the OS stuff that isn't required for program interaction could be on the other.
This way streaming data wouldn't be interfered with, programs would run the way they are supposed to run, in an unbroken form & the utility programs that protect & operate the system would run efficiently.
This doesn't happen now & breaking programs into slices of cpu makes for a disintegrating OS. Stuff gets lost along the way. Just run a defrag & there's things not working properly afterwards. Slicing can be done but every now & then the slicing backs up too overflow & then things happen that you don't want to happen. Increase the cores, assign specific progs to set cores & these overflow problems should stop.
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Q: do you think spoken Hindi is improved thoughout the country because of the .
Good Magazines
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any other reason.
Asked by Om Shrivastava, 16 Nov '12 10:17 pm
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Spoken Hindi has mostly improved because of TV. My mother did not know a work of HIndi. After watching Hindi serials in the TV, now she can understand almost everything and even say something in Hindi.Answered by Francisco, 16 Nov '12 10:29 pm
Yes, only films , TV are enoughAnswered by Ramesh Joshi, 17 Nov '12 10:18 am
Yes. Hindi has spread in all directions, mainly due to Hindi films. Also because of movement of people all over. Then came TV and it did the rest. Today more people speak Hindi and even like it than was the case fifty years ago. In another fifty years, lets hope it pushes English out from its perch as the link language.Answered by QueSera Sera, 16 Nov '12 10:58 pm
Once I met an Afgan national in another country. He was quite fluent in Hindi. On my asking he told me the reason that he had lived in Pakistan for quite some time and used to see a lot of Bollywood movies there.Answered by Vikram, 16 Nov '12 10:28 pm
English nahi Sir ! Hinglish ..... and that through TV mostly......Answered by Pradipta pati, 16 Nov '12 10:23 pm
Yes definitely, and not only in our country, but in our non-hindi neighbour countries also!!Answered by ashutosh pandurang mahajan, 16 Nov '12 10:21 pm
Hindi has become stagnant language. unless something is done, it will lose more people to englishAnswered by Dr Death, 16 Nov '12 10:20 pm
it has confined to movies tv only
it has confined to movies tv only
Improved.??????Answered by sharad sharad, 16 Nov '12 10:19 pm
what are you talking respected sir...
its bad to WORST by films and TV.
what are you talking respected sir...
its bad to WORST by films and TV.
Yes certainly they hv great impact on language learners and any language could be learnt to a great extent if learnt through watching that langauge programmes on tv......:-)Answered by Bhuvana, 16 Nov '12 10:19 pm
I think english must have improved if you want to improve your english than watch hindi news channelAnswered by Admn, 16 Nov '12 10:18 pm


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Episode 45: Krampus
Monday, 13 December 2010 23:26
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12.14.2010 - 00:44 | FloweramonIt's great to see the Krampus myth get more exposure. Thanks for helping shed some light on this interesting character (and for bringing up the awesome CarnEvil ^_^)
12.14.2010 - 01:02 | kiwifruit
12.14.2010 - 00:57 | The_Awesometeer
12.14.2010 - 01:01 | DorknessFalls
12.14.2010 - 01:03 | King Piccolo Daimao
12.14.2010 - 01:04 | Mad_Man_MoonyNice little history lesson CR. Lots of facts even I didn't know (and I have more useless knowledge than a Trivial Pursuit cheat sheet). Oddly enough St. Nick was based on a philanthropist that was a huge supporter of the Spanish Inquisition and publicly beat "heathens" at the stake.
And concerning that DeviantArt comment: Don't YOU have a DeviantArt Account good sir?
12.14.2010 - 17:37 | TragicGuineaPig
12.14.2010 - 23:16 | Mad_Man_Moony
03.20.2011 - 15:00 | Lucia32Well to be fair, how that went down is up for debate. In fact, one of Arius's own supporters, Theognis recounted that it was Arius who started the confrontation by seizing Nicholas.
12.14.2010 - 01:05 | Saxton HaleYou're right about Deviantart being a horrible place.
12.14.2010 - 01:19 | DuosAngel
12.14.2010 - 01:21 | angel85You're totally right, I be a Krampus movie would be a much better holiday release than Jack Black in Gulliver's Travels. You know, it's actually pretty interesting that for a brief time, the Christian religion was actually open to accepting new ideas and traditions, and acted as a force of unification for a whole empire, which is admirable. Too bad that time period's equivalent of the conservative religious right took control and caused the whole "Dark ages" thing that set back western civilization 1600 years.
03.20.2011 - 13:17 | Lucia32"The Christian religion was actually open to accepting new ideas and traditions, and acted as a force of unification for a whole empire, which is admirable. Too bad that time period's equivalent of the conservative religious right took control and caused the whole "Dark ages" thing that set back western civilization 1600 years."
Wrong on multiple levels.
The whole "Christianity caused the Dark Ages" is a myth and in fact, the exact opposite is true: The church saved western civilization by preserving and even advancing knowledge that would have been lost otherwise.
Give this link a view:
http:// armariummagnus.blogspot.c om/2009/10/gods- philosophers-how- medieval-world.html
...and I suggest you give the book it reviews, "God's Philosophers" (by James Hannam) a look, as it proves how wrong you are.
I would also recommend, "Galileo goes to Jail" (by Ronald Numbers), as it more than proves my point as well.
Sorry, but you are wrong, angel.
12.14.2010 - 01:22 | Bladebrent - Video games Scary ChristmasYou forgot to mention Horror Video games that take place during christmas, although this might be because there probably isnt many, but you'd think you'd know about Parasite Eve considering how your the "things no one knows about" Expert. btw, I think people are paying too much to what you said about DeviantArt, forgetting not only do you have your own account, but you supply your own artwork for your vids and link to your account is right under the video.
12.14.2010 - 01:32 | JenxWhile this was good and informative, it isn't really that shocking of a thing. The only christian thing about Christmas was that someone decided "hey let's celebrate Jesus's birthday then!" Also, forget Saint Nickolas - some historians seem to think that one of the images that influenced Santa Clause even before that (and got integrated into St. Nick's image) was that of Odin. Yeah, the same Odin - Gallow's God, God of War, Death and Magic....so yeah, some horny (no pun intended) sprite who runs around flogging kids? Come on, that's nothing!
03.20.2011 - 14:00 | Lucia321. Actually Christmas was about Jesus's birthday from the start. The rest of the crap came later just because they wanted to make the feast day a bigger event and attract more people.
2. "Some Historians"? Yeah, probably not reputable ones. The Odin/Santa Clause (or rather Sinterklaas, since Santa Claus is a North American idea) parallel is on shakey ground at best, and only relies on vague generalizations of their abilities and vague descriptions of appearance. Also, it has been proven that there no such traditions (gift giving or preparation) connected with Norse beliefs about Odin. So no, Sinterklaas is not based on Odin. He was most likely based on Nikolaos of Myra.
Read Bennet's "The True St. Nicholas" and Forbes's "Christmas: A Candid History".
12.14.2010 - 01:35 | Emp Gonzo - Best appearance by The Krampus
12.14.2010 - 02:23 | sailor_muffinI'm german and I remember in kindergarden we were visited by St Nick and his Krampus.
Yeah, this was normal.
No wonder I'm so messed up
(btw, the bedtime story about the thumbs? Yeah, I got it read to when I was about 5. What the hell?)
In my area, the Krampus is only called that when he's teamed up with St Nick.
When there is a whole bunch of them running around and hitting people (no joke, they really do that) they are called the 'perchten'.
The 'perchtenlauf' is a big event in the time before christmas. Most of the time, people in the costumes are drunk as hell and hit everyone in reach, kids too.
Needless to say, a lot of fights break loose during a perchtenlauf, sometimes ending in hospital.
Tradition, ladies and gentleman and those who have still to decide!
I always hid in the school bathrooms when they were at my school.
The costumes are kind of awesome, but I'm not a fan of being hit without a safeword...
(sorry if my english sucks...)
12.14.2010 - 02:38 | ParasiteOh yeah, Krampus & Perchtenlauf...my shins still hurt ^_^
12.14.2010 - 02:37 | ArtticWitchicaLol I just watched the Christmas Dr. Venture Episode tonight XD
I went "Hey isn't that who CR supposed to review tonight right?"
I know of Krampus though. You were wrong about him last being seen on Venture Brothers though. He made his appearance during the Supernatural Christmas special :3
So due your homework fully next time XD
Awesome history lesson though, I like your point about how The Krampus Day seems like true peace on earth.
12.14.2010 - 02:41 | Tom SmithMan, so much of Christmas is from so many other cultures. The fact that Christmas happens on the 25 (not when Jesus was born) because that was when a pagan holiday for the sun god occurs.
The bible says that Christmas trees are bad, http:// www.biblegateway.com/ passage/?search=Jeremiah% 2010:1-12&version=NIV
And reindeers come from people getting high off of reindeer urine. http://www.cracked.com/ article_17032_7-species- that-get-high-more-than- we-do.html
12.14.2010 - 17:42 | TragicGuineaPig
03.20.2011 - 13:59 | Lucia32"The fact that Christmas happens on the 25 (not when Jesus was born) because that was when a pagan holiday for the sun god occurs."
Wrong. There were no holidays on the 25th, before Christmas came about in the Western World. The holiday you are thinking of, The Sol Invictus came about in the 2nd Century AD. The Feast of the Nativity (aka Christmas) was first celebrated (at least the first recorded celebration by the Early Christians) in the 1st Century AD. So Christmas actually predates the Sol Invictus. Also, the Sol Invictus's days of celebration varied between the 25th, the 21st and the 23rd (depending on source and province in the Roman Empire).
The date on the 25th originally came about because of an early estimation about when Christ was born and when he died by the early Christians in the 1st Century.
"Christmas: A candid history" demonstrates this.
Also, your line about Idolatry and trees does not apply because a tree is not a graven image nor is it worshiped.
12.14.2010 - 02:45 | foxbomber5
12.14.2010 - 03:34 | Wolfdude - You said it was celebrated in northren europe...
12.14.2010 - 04:04 | Shinigami
12.14.2010 - 04:07 | jalford
12.14.2010 - 04:17 | BasilI'm glad to know this now. Now I understand more of Team 4 Stars christmas special...though admittedly not much more.
12.14.2010 - 04:25 | FunkyM
12.14.2010 - 04:54 | PaspartourI guess i shouldn't be spoiling. But the Finnish movie Rare Exports has the Scandinavian version of the Krampus, the Joulu Pukki witch translates to Christmas Goat. BTW excellent movie.
Heres a Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=9RQlikX4vvw
EDIT: I should have probably also mentioned that even our Santa has been Americanized and ruined if you look up Joulu Pukki you wont find anything else but that witch Coca Cola created.
12.14.2010 - 05:01 | Rutina
12.14.2010 - 05:20 | Redrallylol yeah
I grew up in the German migrant community of London and that story with the thumbs cut off was one I read regularly. I never liked the pictures...
12.14.2010 - 05:27 | Coolclaytonywhat a coincidence! You may or may not have herd that im trying to get a comic called Kannon the Koala off the ground. Santa claus is going to be an important character to the plot and the Krumpus will be locked up in his dungeon at the north pole because he grew to detest his former partner's crule methods of punishing naughty children.
12.14.2010 - 05:33 | CoolclaytonyHe's preparing his spit, he's getting the spice, he's gonna roast you up real nice. The Krumpus man is coming to town.
12.14.2010 - 05:50 | Folio - Devils? Saint Nicholas with DEVILS?!
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12.14.2010 - 06:00 | malhex
12.14.2010 - 06:02 | mute - AwesomeThanks. Since I'm from Austria, i loved your little excurse into our mythology.
When i was young we used to make them mad by throwing firecrackers near them and running away.
It's hard to describe the feeling you get, when the streets in your small town are literally "flooded" with those monsters and you attract the attention of a pack, so they all come after you and you're looking for a safe place to hide.
But since they are "krampusse" and no Zombies they can be quite fast and you and your friends can get quite a beating cuz you asked for it.
(and yeah it's kind of a test of courage thing, and yeah in our country you're allowed to drink beer at the age of 16, which helps your courage quite a lot, and yeah it's kinda stupid, but hey, i would do it again...)
And as far as i know christians are aware of
christmas in it's pagan form as "sol invictus", otherwise they would'nt celebrate the birth of jesus on this day, while referring to him as the "light" of the world.
But i don't know how your loony Christian free churches in the states handle this...
03.20.2011 - 13:46 | Lucia32The Sol Invictus came about in the 2nd Century AD. The Feast of the Nativity (aka Christmas) was first celebrated (at least the first recorded celebration by the Early Christians) in the 1st Century AD. So Christmas actually predates the Sol Invictus. Also, the Sol Invictus's actually days of celebration varied between the 25th, the 21st and the 23rd.
Also, Christ was referred to as "The Light of World" because of his words in John 8:12,
"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
12.14.2010 - 06:21 | EnakX1. Yes, the thumb cutting story is true. It's called "Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher" from the book "Struwwelpeter".
2. I'm Austrian, so I know a lot about Krampus. First of all, there are no Krampii, just as there are no octopii. Say Krampusses. Second, the most accurate way to pronounce it is "Crumb-poos". Krampus Day is on December the 5th, while "Nikolaustag" (St. Nicholas' Day) is on the 6th. St. Nicholas and the Krampus traditionally don't come on Christmas to bring presents, and neither does Santa, but the Christkind (i.e. "Baby Jesus", "Christ the Child"). The interesting thing is that while Catholics came up with Saint Nicholas who became popular in Protestant America and Great Britain, Martin Luther came up with the Christkind which became popular primarily in Catholic Austria and Germany.
3. Damn there is a lot of love for Austria on TGWTG. Awesome ^^
12.14.2010 - 07:47 | dipper.fGET YOUR PRONUNCIATION STRAIGHT! even colbert can say Krampus. And they still celebrate it here in austria.


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It's that time again, for our annual look back at our top crop of 2011 Bar/Bat Mitzvah photos for your favorite Los Angeles based photographers, Graham & Graham.
In no particular order, we begin with Dorian, who emulated a pose first established by brother Dimitri a few years back. We tweaked the lighting and had him read from the book for not necessarily a better shot, but one we love just as much. The picture was taken by Sam Graham at Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles.
The vivacious Chloe, confetti and a big wave during the hora–does it get any better than that? At Fantasea Yacht Club in Marina del Rey.
Ali at Temple Akiba in Culver City, where we added just a little adjustment to the background for a little more color.
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Father and son reading the torah, at Redondo Beach's Temple Menorah. Something just says "classic" to us about this image of Max and his dad.
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