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This statement is made in accordance with Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the Act) as it applies to Sophos Limited, a commercial organisation that carries on business in the UK, supplying goods and services and having a total annual turnover of £36 million or more, and all entities in the Sophos Group plc global structure (together Sophos, or the Group). This statement sets out the steps that have been taken during the financial year to 31 March 2018 to ensure that modern slavery is not taking place in the Sophos Supply Chain and in any part of our own business.
The statement has been signed by Nick Bray, a Director of Sophos Limited and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of Sophos Group plc and published on our website, www.sophos.com, with a clear link on the homepage.
During the financial year 2017/18, the Group continued to prioritise the establishment and implementation of effective systems and controls as set out in the Sophos Group Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Policy (the Policy) adopted in 2016, reflective of Sophos commitment to acting ethically, transparently and with integrity in all our business dealings and relationships. The Policy sits alongside the existing Sophos Anti-Corruption and Bribery Policy and the Sophos Whistleblowing Policy and is available at https://investors.sophos.com.
During 2017/18, the Group has continued to focus on training, monitoring and ongoing enforcement of the Group's systems and processes to maintain high standards and to continually improve Sophos' ability to effectively manage the risk of modern slavery in any form.
Sophos is a leading global provider of cloud-enabled enduser and network security solutions, offering organisations end-to-end protection against known and unknown IT threats through products that are easy to install, configure, update and maintain. The Group's products are sold through our relationships with more than 39,000 channel partners who employ more than 300,000 sales representatives and 150,000 sales engineers. Sophos has approximately 3,300 employees and although headquartered in the UK, it has 52 offices and a number of threat assessment labs and product development centres around the world, including in Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America.
Sophos saw significant growth in the number of channel partners and customers during the financial year and our current approach remains effective. As the business continues to grow however, we will continue to monitor our effectiveness, as discussed later in the statement, and adjust our approach to ensure it remains proportionate.
The Group's supply chain in this context consists of approximately 9,000 organisations made up of hardware manufacturers and suppliers, logistic fulfilment centres responsible for the distribution of our products, procurement vendors and recruitment and employment agencies from whom Sophos employees may be sourced (each a Supplier and together the Sophos Supply Chain). Sophos also has close working relationships with works councils in a number of overseas jurisdictions representing the interests and rights of our employees.
We consider that the principal areas in which Sophos faces risks related to slavery include:
The formal process for identifying, evaluating and managing significant risks faced by the Group is overseen by the Risk and Compliance Committee (RCC), in association with the work performed by the Internal Audit and Risk Management function. The RCC provide the business with a framework for risk management, upward reporting of significant risks and policies and procedures.
The potential for non-compliance with the Act is assessed as part of this risk management process. Sophos undertakes this risk assessment with input from external advisers, the assessment criteria applied include business function and geography, together with the principles set out by Transparency International, the Global coalition against corruption. Each Supplier is also assessed against the Human Trafficking Risk Index (HTRI) tool. This provides an automated, repeatable, closed-loop process to proactively monitor the Sophos Supply Chain for potential human trafficking violations using external corporate databases with more than 250 million records incorporating data from the International Labor Affairs Bureau and the U.S. Department of State.
The Group takes a two-pronged approach to risk identification: (i) a bottom-up approach at the business function level; and (ii) a top-down approach at the senior leadership team level. All identified risks are assessed against a pre-defined scoring matrix and prioritised accordingly. Any risks identified in the bottom-up approach deemed to be rated as higher risk are escalated in line with pre-defined escalation procedures for further evaluation.
The Sophos Group plc Board (the Board) has overall responsibility for ensuring the Policy complies with our legal and ethical obligations, and that all those under our control comply with it.
The RCC, a sub-committee of the Board's Audit and Risk Committee provides oversight regarding the implementation of the Policy and monitoring of risks and issues raised.
The RCC is comprised of the heads of Legal, HR, Facilities, Procurement, and Supply Chain and has responsibility for the overall implementation of the policy. The Policy recognises the Group's responsibilities under the Act and applies to the Sophos Supply Chain and to all persons working for us or on our behalf in any capacity, including employees at all levels, directors, officers, agency workers, seconded workers, volunteers, interns, agents, contractors, external consultants, third-party representatives and business partners.
Any breach of the Policy would result in disciplinary action, and potential dismissal for an employee, and the likely termination of our relationship with a Supplier.
All those subject to the Policy are encouraged to raise concerns about any issue or suspicion of modern slavery in any part of our business or supply chains or those of any current or potential Suppliers, at the earliest possible stage. The Sophos Whistleblowing Policy provides a mechanism to enable employees to confidentially report matters of concern. The Board's Audit and Risk Committee receive details of any matters raised.
The Group is committed to ensuring no one suffers any detrimental treatment as a result of reporting in good faith their suspicion.
Suppliers: we take the following actions in respect of each Supplier:
Our business: we take the following actions:
Mandatory training is provided to all existing Group employees and new joiners alike and is re-taken on an annual basis. Training is accompanied by an online resource facility which is available to all Group employees. Refreshment of these materials is ongoing. Feedback is encouraged to facilitate continuous improvement of the Policy and training materials.
Sophos engages an external compliance data provider on an ongoing basis, to audit the Sophos Supply Chain and keep it under review. Together with our external compliance data provider the Group monitor the performance of the Policy, together with the Sophos Anti-Corruption and Bribery and Whistleblowing Policies. The Group maintain a watching brief on the compliance of all Suppliers through live monitoring tools. Any alert raised through this process will be subject to an internal review and where appropriate, a business investigation of the Supplier will be undertaken. During 2017/18, no material alerts have been raised by our external compliance data provider concerning any Supplier, including recruitment agencies.
Indicators used, include:
During 2017/18, no instances of modern slavery were substantiated during this period, although 19 in-direct Supplier records and 71 direct Supplier records were investigated. Following investigation, no further action was required in the Sophos Supply Chain. But it is fully recognised that this task requires constant vigilance.
During this period the total number of indirect Suppliers conducted in this review was 11,654 and direct Suppliers was 789.These have been derived according to the HTRI and segmented into High Risk, Medium Risk and Low Risk.
The HTRI provides Sophos with insights into where potential human trafficking may exist deep within our supply chain. Our third-party provider created this proprietary scoring index by marrying their corporate database – the world's largest, with more than 300 million records – to data from the International Labor Affairs Bureau and the U.S. Department of State.
Forced labor is more likely in certain geographic regions and product sets, so the data creates an analytic index that evaluates the potential for one of Sophos' Suppliers to be involved in human trafficking based on the location of the supplier and the product or commodity type they provide.
The HTRI offers the ability to uncover and correct forced labour that may have entered the supply chain. The HTRI marries International Labor Affairs Bureau and U.S. Department of State data with proprietary analytics from our third-party providers global corporate database – to spotlight suppliers in geographies and industries most likely to be exposed to human trafficking.
The HTRI then combines our third-party providers' own HTRI score with the Sophos Supplier database, meaning that potential areas of forced labour or human trafficking can be quickly identified within the Sophos Supply Chain. Sophos can then take the responsible sourcing decisions, develop plans to avoid brand damage and comply with regulatory demands within the below legislation:
Modern Slavery Act 2015
California Transparency in Supply Chains Act
United States Federal Acquisition Regulations
Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015
All Suppliers conducted in this review were validated down to the family tree level. This indicates the number of entities that are contained in every Supplier's corporate structure. This takes all the HTRI scores for the records within that corporate family tree and provides Sophos with an HTRI Corporate Family Tree Score (an average of all the companies involved within this structure).
There was a total of 354 in-direct supplier records and 231 direct supplier records which have been classified as medium risk according to the HTRI. Any medium risk suppliers identified within the HTRI scoring mechanism, are derived from the 2 factors stated below:
Due to both elements being key drivers in the classification review the 354 in-direct Supplier records and 231 direct Supplier records that have been classified as medium risk. Pending further investigation post review of these Suppliers found no modern slavery issues were present, these will continue to be part of the Sophos monitoring list.
Regarding the above elements, in this classification process, 19 in-direct Supplier records and 71 direct Supplier records that have been classified as high risk. Full investigations were completed including external screening, compliance statements acquired and a commitment from the suppliers that no modern slavery issues are present for each corporation. No such risks were identified, but these will continue to be part of the Sophos monitoring list.
Sophos continues to use key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor how the Group manages and communicates the Policy and the potential impacts as well as specific concerns regarding modern slavery. These indicators are kept under review and updated as appropriate as evidenced below: -
Performance against these indicators is reported to the RCC and the Audit and Risk Committee as part of the Internal Audit and Risk Management reporting cycle.
As a business, we are focused on further expanding our KPIs as part of our continuous improvement process, to ensure effective management control mechanisms.
The Group's position and approach to managing our compliance with the Act continues to evolve. However, the processes in place to ensure this will be kept under regular and effective review, and our performance will be routinely and robustly measured.
This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Act.
Nick Bray
Director, Sophos Limited
Chief Financial Officer
28 September 2018
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A few days before I started high school, in 1996, I attended a freshman orientation. I remember sitting at a table in the cafeteria, watching my new classmates file in. One girl caught my eye—she was tall and thin, with flowing strawberry blonde hair and a guy on each side.
Wow, I thought. She was the picture of what I thought a pretty, popular high school girl would be.
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A few years later, she was dead. Overdosed on heroin.
Last month, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin devoted his entire annual address to the state's heroin crisis. Two million dollars worth of heroin is pumped into Vermont each week, he said, and 80 percent of the state's inmates are in prison for drug crimes. The highways running into Vermont from cities like Boston, New York, Holyoke and Springfield have become heroin pipelines. As Shumlin noted, heroin-related deaths nearly doubled in the last year alone, and the number of people treated for heroin addiction has increased an eye-popping 770 percent since 2000.
The speech seemed to shock the world, sparking national and international headlines. And when the actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman's death in New York earlier this week brought a new wave of attention to the national epidemic, Vermont's heroin problem was again noted almost as a curiosity: Who knew pristine Vermont had such a nasty drug problem?
Who knew? I did. The pretty, popular girl isn't my only former classmate who has overdosed. There was also the cute stoner guy I used to pass in the halls. The boy I knew in middle school. A girl I used to run into at the gas station. And others, whose names I struggle to remember.
When my family moved to Vermont from Long Island in 1992, we weren't exactly met with open arms. It didn't take long for me to understand why: Vermont draws lots of out-of-staters who move there thinking it's some sort of promised land of maple syrup and covered bridges.
Vermont is beautiful—the view from our house was breathtaking, with rolling hills stretching for miles, full of grazing deer in the morning and howling coyotes at night. But the state is also more complicated than its reputation.
"I was expecting more overalls," one family friend remarked during a visit a few years after we arrived. Another asked if my classmates wore clogs and pigtails to school. They dismissed my Vermont friends as hicks, and saw the state as a wholesome joke. "What kinda crime do they have up there? Someone stole a block of Cabot cheese?"
It's not just out-of-staters who see Vermont this way—plenty of locals like to claim the state is immune to "big city problems." But it's not that there's less dysfunction in Vermont. It just takes a different, often less visible, form.
My mother taught GED classes to troubled kids in Queens in the late 1980s. She claimed the problems she witnessed there paled in comparison to what she saw while teaching in rural Vermont. There may have been more crime in Queens, but the problems in Vermont were more disturbing: students coming to her with horrible tales of neglect and sexual abuse at home.
When I was in seventh grade, a friend told me behind a snow bank on the playground that she had been raped by her uncle. Another friend confided that her dad's friend used to molest her at night. When she told her dad, he didn't call the police; he just told his friend never to come over again.
There were a lot of secrets, and a lot of boredom. Kids would get wasted out on the cow pasture, mostly by drinking and smoking weed. But while some of my peers in high school took opiates like OxyContin, heroin was still frowned upon.
It's amazing how fast that changed.
I left Vermont for college but came home during school breaks. Each time I did, it got harder to ignore how the drug was gradually taking root in the state. In 2003, I worked part-time at a drug store. When one of my coworkers, a thin blonde girl in her late teens, got fired, I asked why. She'd been caught shooting up on the job.
By then, my hometown of Barre had turned from a once respectable working class area into a dilapidated strip of empty store fronts, overrun with pregnant teens and heroin. What used to be an under-the-surface problem was now visibly corroding the town.
After graduation, I moved back and spent a few years working at WCAX, the state's biggest news station. It seemed that every night there was another story about some dopehead robbing a Vermont drugstore demanding OxyContin.
The number of heroin addicts seemed to explode after OxyContin was redesigned in 2010, making it more expensive and harder to crush. Since Oxycontin is similar to heroin, heroin became the drug of choice. It's now easier to find than weed in many parts of Vermont.
I went to rehab myself that year, following a cocaine binge in my home state. The facility was in upstate New York, which has similar demographics—and a similar heroin problem—to Vermont's. Most of the people there were being treated for heroin addiction, by court order. They all seemed to have the same story: They didn't start off on heroin. They started on pills.
One man told me he was addicted to OxyContin, but then his dealer claimed he ran out and offered him heroin instead. "You're pretty much doing heroin anyway," he said, "and it's much cheaper than doing Oxys."
It is cheaper. It's also highly addictive.
I can't count how many bodies of classmates and neighbors have been found in parking lots and on living room floors. In addition to the overdoses, there were also suicides—former neighbors and family friends who shot themselves to escape their addiction. And there were those who didn't get physically hurt but nonetheless destroyed their lives, like the girl who grew up down the road from me who went to federal prison before she turned 20 for heroin trafficking and illegal weapons possession.
Heroin seems to have touched everyone I know in Vermont. Everyone has a relative, friend or neighbor who has been affected. And while the growth among people in my age group—25 to 34—has been nearly exponential, even younger people are using too. I recently talked to Vermont police who told me it's becoming more and more common for teens to try heroin as their first drug instead of weed or mushrooms.
I wonder how many of those kids have any idea what they're getting into. I think of my friend who, in her early twenties, tried heroin once "for fun." She spent the night around the toilet and woke up the next day craving more.

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Stroking the flames of fire a bit, Take Two COO Karl Slatoff has said the company is a "very attractive" target for a buyout due to the company's arsenal of IP.
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Trackmania developer Nadia's sold out to Ubi, it's been confirmed today. Did you know Trackmania's played by 700,000 people a month? Well, it is. "The acquisition of Nadeo is an important step in our expansion within the on-line gaming sector", said super Yves Guillemot, Ubisoft's mega-boss. "Through Nadeo, Ubisoft will gain an expert team, one […]
Microsoft: "We have no plans to acquire EA"
Microsoft's issued a flat-out denial that it's in the frame for an EA buy. "We have no plans to acquire EA," a spokesperson told Marketwatch last night. "Unsubstantiated" rumors popped up regarding a sale yesterday, forcing up EA's share price.
Analyst: "Major media company" preparing THQ bid
THQ's shares rose 13 percent yesterday on rumour that a "major media company" is preparing a bid for the publisher. MKM Partners analyst Eric Handler started the chatter, according to this Forbes report. However, Handler said he does not see a sale as likely in the near term. "[The] company still has a very high […]
Zenimax borrowed $105 million to buy id
ZeniMax raised $105 million in convertible debt and promissory notes in order to buy, id Software, VentureBeat reports. The figure comes from an SEC filing – financials figures weren't disclosed when the deal was announced in June. ZeniMax previously raised $300 million in private equity funding in 2007. Full thing through there.
Apple-EA buyout rumour beyond "idiotic," says Pachter
Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter doesn't think Apple's buying EA, as rumoured this morning. "To say that it is idiotic would be an insult to all idiots," the analyst told VG247 today. The Street's David Tong said in this piece that "chatter" said Apple was eyeing EA a takeover target. Maybe not, then.
Report: Apple eyeing EA buyout
A round-up on The Street's claimed that Apple may be looking to buy EA. "Adami noted that there is chatter that Apple (AAPL Quote) is eyeing Electronic Arts(ERTS Quote) as a takeover target," said David Tong, writing in this piece. Stranger things have happened. In fact, this really wouldn't be very shocking at all. Thanks, […]
Fresh Take-Two buyout rumours boost share price
Take-Two shares are way up today, having enjoyed an 11.9 percent rise to $9.40 this morning. They also rose more than 5 percent last Thursday. Why? FlyOnTheWall's claiming there's "renewed buyout chatter" surrounding the firm. $9.40 isn't quite the $25.74-a-share offer EA trotted out last year, is it? Thanks, Barron's.
Report: Square and Eidos agree buyout terms
MCV's reporting that Square and Eidos have agreed buyout terms. Finalization on the deal is expected by May. Square was unavailable for comment at the time of writing. Following this, trading of Eidos shares will be suspended on April 21st and the cancelling of its share listings is due to occur the following day. A […]
Warner backs Square bid on Eidos
Warner Bros has lent its support to a Square Enix bid for Eidos, saying it'll add its 20 percent holding in the firm to a take-over. Over 36 percent of outstanding shares have now been placed on Square's side of the fence. Eidos shares were trading at 32.25 pence when trading opened on Monday. More […]
Eidos shares jump with news of Square Enix bid
News of a Square Enix bid for Eidos has resulted in a major share boost for the Hitman-maker. Eidos's stock leapt over 117 percent today, with over 5 million shares being traded in the UK market's first hour alone. The price is currently at 30.5 pence ($.42). Square Enix is expected to reveal more details […]
Report: Namco moves to buy D3
Namco has reached agreements to acquire 70 percent of D3's shares, according to this Andriasang report. The news apparently comes from a press release. Namco hopes to acquire the full 100 percent of shares, at a price of 62,000 yen. D3 will be turned into a wholly-owned Namco subsidiary. Other detail from the press release […]
Square bids £84.3 million for Eidos
Square Enix has made official an £84.3 million bid for Eidos. The Eidos board has agreed to recommend the offer to shareholders, which is worth 32 pence per share. The price represents a premium of 258 per cent over the price at the time the offer was made, January 14, and a premium of 91 […]
Eidos confirms takeover talks
Eidos revealed today that the company is in fresh talks about a potential takeover. "The board can announce that it has received a preliminary approach which may or may not lead to an offer being made for the company," Eidos said in a statement. "Eidos emphasises that discussions are at a very early stage and […]
Time Warner buys extra 10 million shares in Eidos
According to this Reuters report, Time Warner's extended its share in Eidos to 20 percent. The firm bought 10 million shares in the UK publisher to increase its stake. Time Warner bought the shares on December 11 and now holds about 52.5 million shares in the company.
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MCV's rumouring that both Square and Warner are readying bids for Eidos. The site's quoting as source as saying: "I think Warner will still win, but it's very interesting that Square have expressed this late interest. They are clearly looking for Western talent." Yoichi Wada has apparently already visited Denmark's IO Studio and is set […]
Midway sold for $0.0012 per share
According to this Reuters report, quoting the Wall Street Journal, Sumner Redstone has sold his 87 percent share in Midway to investor Mark Thomas for $100,000, or $0.0012 a share. Thomas will assume $70 million of senior secured and unsecured debt. The sale amounts to a significant loss on Redstone's investment but secures a hefty […]
Rumour: Ubi and EA looking at SCi buy
Edge's reporting a rumour piece that appeared in The Daily Mail this morning, which reckons SCi's being looked at by EA and Ubisoft. Apparently discussions of are at an "early stage" and that SCi has been approached by two separate publishers in a matter of weeks. More through there.
Koei and Tecmo merger agreed for April, worth $207 million
According to this Reuters report, Koei and Tecmo have agreed terms to merge and will combine under a holding company in April next year. The deal is worth $207 million. Each Tecmo share will be exchanged for 0.9 shares in the holding company, while one share in the holding firm, called Tecmo Koei Holdings, will […]
Activision buys Budcat
Activision's bought Guitar Hero developer Budcat, the company's confirmed. The Iowa-based firm has worked on various versions of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero World Tour. Budcat will now move on to "a new game in the Guitar Hero franchise." Press release after the link.
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"The man's the Terry Waite of team management."
Back in 1996, I wanted Tony Rominger to win the Tour de France. Rominger had grit, panache - and wore one of those glorious Mapei jerseys covered in multi coloured cubes. I still have one in the wardrobe. Unfortunately Le Tour was won instead by a dead ringer for Sam the Eagle from The Muppet Show - the angry, air-gulping Dane, Bjarne Riis. It was easy to see that Riis was zipped up tighter than a finish line jersey and he sealed his reputation as a whiner the following summer, by being upstaged by his team mate Jan Ullrich, and tossing his TT bike into the verge in a fit of petulant rage.
From super domestique, to doped tour winner, to penitent, to launching one of the first team anti doping programmes with CSC: Riis's career has been one of compromised survival. Richard Moore describes the book as 'a tale of insatiable personal ambition': but I'm afraid Stages of Light and Dark is a wordy dollop of self-justification laced with criticism of those who fail to meet the goals Riis sets - or show understanding for his sacrifices and instruction.
Riis's early career chugs through a seemingly inexplicable run of stop/start failures and being passed over by selectors. I lost count of the sentences that start with "But.." as Riis is dropped by team after team. The translation from the Danish is very word heavy in a John Major, "I was not inconsiderably perturbed" kind of way - which adds a few comic touches here and there. Riis and his girlfriend are on their way when she passes her chiropodist's exam and they kiss goodbye to boring old Denmark and move to - Belgium! Soon it's the big time. Riis's first Vuelta sees the whole team (many of them Spanish and dodging drug tests) bail out over the first two weeks - leaving Riis dreaming of personal glory as the team's sole finisher. After telling his team manager of his plans Riis suddenly comes down with food poisoning and has to abandon. 'I have no proof whatsoever but I was convinced that the team had poisoned me in order to make me quit so they could go home'.
Riis's performance experiments (alongside daily dosing with EPO) run to Prozac: 'The pills made me feel much more positive, which allowed me to see possibilities rather than limitations' (and no doubt ease the depression of spending up to £13,000 a year on EPO); ingesting dry green tea on the move by tearing the bag open with his teeth; experimenting with a handy roll-out bed of plastic nails; and sleeping in a personal barometric air chamber that is prone to sudden accidental re-pressurisation as a wake up call. Riis is also big on accountancy which in itself is understandable and not often discussed in cycling autobiographies. Bike racing is Riis's living and it's quite interesting to learn what salaries riders commanded at the time. But Riis then goes and ruins it all by being 'pleased as punch' to be wearing the Maillot Jaune -but retiring to his hotel room so he could stare at the most famous jersey in cycling and... 'imagine what it could mean for me financially."
The development of EPO as the PED of choice clearly shows how pro-cycling reached the mess it's currently in. In the early 1990's EPO wasn't a banned substance. You could spot which riders took EPO thanks to the 'toiletry-bag-sized cooler bag they'd be clutching when they arrived at their hotel'. Riis acknowledges his doping past as the 'rock in the rucksack' yet tries to play it both ways; by hiding his doping from fellow riders and blending systematic EPO dosing with weight loss and 'scientific training' to kid himself that the EPO was only supporting his stature as an elite.
Riis wasn't an exceptional rider. In his own autobiography 'We Were Young And Carefree' Fignon describes Riis as 'a good rider but not capable of winning a Tour de France under normal circumstances'. Riis tries a little self deprecation: dropping in provisos to good race results along the lines of 'I'd won - but only I knew the truth..." yet is soon complaining that the Festina team in 1997 were 'riding like animals' and, after Festina's bust in 1998, that the press are lumping ' all the rest [of us] in with them [Festina], and that's not fair." It's a mess of contradictions leaving you with the impression Riis is still, to this day, more angry with Festina for out-doping him and his team than any real remorse for the damage being done to the sport.
It's not just doping that Riis has a poor moral compass for. Stage 16 of the 1995 Tour de France was neutralised following the tragic death of Fabio Carsartelli. Riis acknowledges the tragedy - then recalls telling the press at the end of the stage that it would have been better to race the stage proper - or ride only part of it. For Riis, riding the full stage neutralised was far too big a gesture for the dead rider when he, Bjarne Riis, still had a chance in normal racing conditions to overhaul Alex Zulle for second place.
Leaving racing before he's caught for doping, the doors of management soon open for Riis with CSC. As a Team Director you need to be strong or likeable - preferably both. Riis possesses neither quality in spades. His muddled hypocrisy as director of CSC is breathtaking. A low point is a weeping Ivan Basso being read the rules, then sacked from the 2005 Tour - by someone who was very lucky not to be caught himself throughout his career, was still lying to the press, and turning a blind eye to his riders' predicaments. EPO was a testable banned drug in 2000. Riis waits until December 2006 to create a proper anti doping policy for CSC. He only really decides to come clean when backed into a corner by confessions from his old team mates at Telekom - yet this detail isn't mentioned. The 'irritating' press are finally faced, by a new Bjarne Riis: Riis the Reformer. "Someone who has the courage and willingness to fight for something that everybody wants".
Riis's training ideas and tactics have been a cack-handed mess to date as well. His pitting of Carlos Sastre against the Schleck brothers in the 2008 Tour De France ended up with Sastre using his own intuition to win and acrimoniously jumping ship with Cervelo when they took their bikes away from Riis's CSC to form their own pro team. There's an explanation of course. 'The only problem was that you never really knew where you were with Carlos - at least, that was my experience after the six years he's ridden for me on the team'. Six whole years in the dark? The man's the Terry Waite of team management... Long before being sent home by Riis from the 2010 Vuelta - for getting a skin full and staging a race day lie in - Andy Schleck had been planning his own escape. The Brothers Schleck set up Team Leopard Trek behind Riis' back - taking Riis's best riders and staff (consisting of some of Riis's oldest friends) with them. Left like Eeyore in a lonely field Riis reflects their lack of 'honesty' and 'loyalty' but remains puzzled as to why he was rejected as a director so comprehensively. I can tell him. He's that kid we all knew at school who'd be given his own seat on the bus on school trips - because everyone found him boring and didn't want to sit next to him for the journey.
Of course Riis's procrastination has struck again with his confessions now being blown out of the water by his ex rider CSC Tyler Hamilton's book The Secret Race. When Hamilton broke his collar bone in two places in 2003's Tour riding for CSC, Riis's typically un-empathetic first question was "Does it hurt?" (take a wild guess Bjarne..) and then "Can you carry on?" "I don't know. I think that's going to determined by the pain" was Hamilton's response. On the hill climb challenge of Mt Rehabilitation, Riis has already been passed by Hamilton. Looking down a couple of hairpins, I wouldn't wonder if that isn't Lance, on the way up to pass the Dane with a sob story of his own. If Riis had written a more honest book I'd almost feel sorry for him.
Stages of Dull and Grey would have been a more apt title for this self serving and dull book.
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Make and model: Riis: Stages Of Light And Dark by Bjarne Riis With Lars Steen Pedersen Translated by Ellis Bacon
Size tested: n/a
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Would you consider buying the product? No.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? EPO completists perhaps.
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I usually ride: Dolan Prefissio - winter bike My best bike is: Condor Moda Ti - summer bike
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Road.CC. Could you please do a review of the best cycling books and DVDs, preferably with a nifty competition to give the lot away, or at least nicely sharable so I can make not-so-subtle hints to my relatives in the run up to the primary gifting period (avoiding use of the C word when its still October)?
Road.CC. Could you please do a review of the best cycling books and DVDs, preferably with a nifty competition to give the lot away, or at least nicely sharable so I can make not-so-subtle hints to my relatives in the run up to the primary gifting period (avoiding use of the C word when its still October)?
Books gift guide certainly will appear nearer the time and we'll aim to make it a varied and eclectic list.


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When word arose that there would be an Evil Dead reboot, fans of the franchise that made Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell cult icons denounced the very idea that anyone else would dare tackle the classic's tale. Well, Campbell has heard your complaints, and he thinks we'll all be eating our words next April when Fede Alvarez's Raimi and Campbell-approved (and produced) reboot hits theaters.
The Comic Con crowd was rowdy from the moment moderator Dalton Ross of Entertainment Weekly walked on stage, and while they clapped for the introductions of Alvarez and the reboot's star Jane Levy, they went wild when Campbell strode on stage, wearing a black dress shirt, black slacks, and a bright red blazer. He is the king of Comic Con, and he knows it, strolling in front of the table so that crowd could get their lusted-for photo op. While pictures were taken through all five panels I attended today, nothing was like this, where the whole room became a blanket of bursting flashes as hundreds snapped shots of the biggest name in B-movies.
When Bruce took his seat, it was clear he was holding court, and he immediately began to—not explain, exactly, but declare why it was time for "new blood" in the Evil Dead franchise. This got off to a rocky start, though. When he suggested he is too old "to strap on that chainsaw one last time," the crowd responded with booming boos! In response, Bruce shrugged and joked, if we say so, Evil Dead 4 will happen. He then praised the reboot, calling Levy and Alvarez geniuses, and told assured us, "Your shit will be just as freaked as it is in this movie, as it was in the original. And if you need me to crown her [Levy] the next official Ash, I will put that crown on her myself!"
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The first question went to Levy, who confessed this is the first time she's seen the trailer, and she's in speechless awe, admitting it freaked her out. She seemed delighted by this, and so was the crowd. But after that, it was all about Bruce, a total love fest. Speaking of his cameos in Raimi's Spider-Man movies, he offered, "Just a reminder, I named Spider Man. In Spider-Man 2 I didn't let him into the theater…so technically I'm the only character who defeated Spider-Man." He told a girl cosplaying as a lady-version of chainsaw-armed Ash, "Female Ashes are kind of hot actually." Cheers and whooping ensue. When asked if he could recite "the passage," he replied coolly, "If I was your little monkey I could," which was met by boisterous cheers from the crowd and chanting of "Bruce! Bruce! BRUCE!"
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The nation on Thursday remembered the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, on his 124th birth anniversary. Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and other dignitaries paid floral tributes at his memorial - Shanti Van in New Delhi. A series of functions are being organised across the country to mark the occasion. The day is also observed as the 'Children's Day' in India as Pandit Nehru had great affection for children. They fondly called him 'Chacha' Nehru. Celebrating Children's Day is about giving children the right to enjoy and grow into healthy and educated citizens of the country. Show less


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Today: A whipped cream with staying power, just in time for apple pie season.
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Now is the time to talk of whipped cream -- before the last stone fruits of summer disappear, and we can still have a hurrah or two with plum cake and nectarine slump.
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Though McGee cautions that liquid with 30% butterfat is ideal for whipping -- too much fat will eventually weigh down and collapse the fragile house of bubbles -- here, we get a pass. It turns out that swirling in just a bit of smooth, glossy 42% butterfat crème fraîche after the cream reaches soft peaks is just right for adding one last protective layer to the architecture of a pudgy pile of whipped cream.
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Cruise Line Private Islandsby Luisa Frey Gaynor, CruiseMates Family Editor | October 6, 2008
Cruise line private island beach experiences (also known as "Out Islands") in the Caribbean and Bahamas had traditionally been a welcome retreat for adults to kick back and relax since there's nothing else to do other than simply swim in the azure water, relax on the warm sandy beach, or nap under a shady palm tree.
These days, though, there are plenty more active options for kids and those young at heart to do when calling at one of the many private islands in the Caribbean and Bahamas. From water sport rentals to water slides, feeding stingrays, and zip lining, there's a plethora of things that families can enjoy together in idyllic settings. (Many of them - but not all - do cost extra however.) A few private islands - such as Disney's and Princess' - also offer complimentary youth programming on the beach too.
Read on to discover all that private islands have to offer your family. Note that all islands/beaches have to be tendered to (a small boat takes you from your ship that's anchored at sea to the small pier on the island/beach) except Disney Cruise Line's Castaway Cay.
Since Catalina Island is located five miles south of La Romana, Dominican Republic, tender boats are necessary. Family friendly activities include volleyball, jet skis as well as scooter rentals to explore the island. Costa offers a few excursions from the island too, including a catamaran snorkeling cruise and horseback riding at the Casa de Campo estate.
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Another unique aspect of the island is that there are separate beaches for families, teens and adults. This allows passengers to choose the noise and activity level that suits them best. The teen and adult beaches are further afield than the family beaches but certainly are less populated.
Right next to the teen beach is Castaway Ray's Stingray Adventure where, for a fee, you and your family can feed the stingrays as well as snorkel with them in an enclosed lagoon. This is a much gentler alternative than Stingray City in Grand Cayman because the stingrays at Castaway Cay tend to gravitate to the feeding apparatus and are not swimming right at your ankles as at Stingray City; the latter which can intimidate young kids. (Minimum age is five years old.) Also, the potentially harmful part of the stingrays have been taken out of the creatures since they swim in an enclosed lagoon.
Offshore from the family beach is a play apparatus replicating a sunken ship in the water for kids to climb and swing from. Note that kids need to be able to swim a little bit to reach the sunken apparatus. Additionally, there are plenty of water sports rentals on the island.
Parents can bring their children for supervised youth programming to Scuttle's Cove located in a central spot on the island. There is a shaded area for organized play; sunny, sandy area for supervised water games; and a pretend whale vertebrate for kids to excavate bones.
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House Republicans on Thursday seized upon newly released documents from the White House to accuse the Obama administration of again lying about its role in drafting talking points about the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya — even going as far as to suggest that the White House behaved criminally.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) accused President Barack Obama of misleading the public about the talking points used by then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to discuss the attack.
"It's disturbing, and perhaps criminal, that these documents were kept from the public. It comes in a week in which the American people have learned that you cannot believe what the White House says…and you cannot believe what the president says," Issa said at an Oversight hearing.
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For nearly two years, Republicans have used this line of attack against the White House. The latest revelations are just a reminder that the GOP isn't going to let the issue fade away — especially ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
During an interview, Issa raised the possibility of holding White House officials in contempt. He's upset that the administration provided his panel with redacted documents while releasing a more complete set of records to Judicial Watch, which filed a request for Benghazi-related information under the Freedom of Information Act.
"That would be an act of contempt if you did it before a judge," Issa said. "We cannot allow this administration to continue to show, not just contempt, but to systematically defraud the American people out of getting to the truth."
( Also on POLITICO: White House defends Benghazi email)
Speaker John Boehner also called on Thursday for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify on the documents.
"Someone needs to answer why this administration hid these documents – and tell the American people what else is being concealed," he said in a statement. "The House used its subpoena power to obtain documents, including emails, last year, but these emails didn't show up until now, after a court ordered their release to an outside watchdog group."
Issa is no stranger to seeking contempt charges. He's leading the effort for the House to find former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress, a vote that could happen later this month.
Benghazi is an ongoing line of attack against the White House for Republicans — one that helps rile up the GOP base ahead of the 2014 midterm elections. The main campaign talking point for Republicans has been the unpopularity of Obamacare, but following the release of the Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes' email this week, their attention again turned to this explosive issue.
( Also on POLITICO: Pelosi: GOP Benghazi talk is 'diversion')
"We have a major, major scandal," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) on Fox News on Thursday, who has often played point on the issue for Republicans. "We have lies that are perpetuated by this White House."
Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer called the Rhodes email a "smoking document" and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called it a "smoking gun." Speaking on a radio show, Graham also called administration officials "scumbags." Sen. John McCain, meanwhile, said the White House response to the attack was a "political exercise."
In the nearly 19 months since Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed by armed Islamist gunmen, Republicans have used the terrorist attacks to criticize the White House for what they see as an attempt by the Obama administration to downplay their response to the attacks in favor of minimizing political fallout.
( Also on POLITICO: Cantor: White House 'misled' on Benghazi)
But Benghazi activity in Congress has slowed in recent months, seemingly because of a dearth of new allegations. The email was obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch and outlined "goals" from Rhodes for Rice's appearance on the Sunday talk shows.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 128 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
We're selecting 3 winners for this contest.
We are looking for a clean looking home page design that is consistent with a professional web 2.0 look and feel. This website you create will be used as a template across multiple websites used by local service providers to explain the services they offer to potential customers. Examples of local service provides that would be selling their services through this website would be plumbers, electricians, flooring contractors, realtors, insurance agents, etc. Each local service provider will have its own website hosted at a different URL.
The primary focus of the website is to get visitors to pick up the phone and call the local service provider. The entire focus of the website is to drive that action. In terms of actions we'd like the visitor to take, the input form on the site is of minimal importance, but we'd like to keep it on there.
The website should give a sense of trust and a feeling of professionalism. It should provide feelings of community-based trust, safety, reputation, and leadership. We want visitors to feel like the money they're going to spend with this service provider will be money well spent and that they will ultimately be happy with the level of service they receive from the service provider.
The target audience of the people visiting the website is consumers between 25-55 years old, and slightly skewed female. These are people who are concerned about getting the job done right the first time and at a fair price.
The template needs to be broad enough to work for any of the previously mentioned types of service providers. The photo that appears on the main part of the home page should be a stand-alone photo that is 250 pixels wide. That photo will be a stock photo for that we will choose based on each company's service type (i.e. plumbing).
We have wireframes already created that you should use as a base-line for your design. Basic wireframe: http://www.outrank.com/wireframe_template.xls - Wireframe with some real content filled into the wireframe: http://www.outrank.com/wireframe.xls - You do not need to follow the templates exactly. These are more for an example of what we're looking for, but we're also interested in creative ways of laying out the information we need on the page.
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The project was developed from a clay prototype modelled by Chia with his fingers and nails - a flat, round surface, enclosed by a sculpted edge decorated with outlined human faces, which constitute a typical element of his art. The edge is slightly raised to make it easier to grip the Tray. This exquisite object-cum-sculpture is a functional product with all the emotional value of a work of art. Fingernail's work, produced through a cold moulding process, is made from 18/10 stainless steel with a polished finish.
Born in Florence in 1946, in 1970 Chia moved to Rome where, after a trial period in the beehive of conceptual culture, he moves towards the dexterity of painting. In 1979 Achille Bonito Oliva integrated his work into the field of a new trend called Transavanguardia and invited him to exhibit at the shows curated by him to establish the movement internationally. Between 1981 and 1983 he participated in fundamental exhibitions which drew to the attention of the public the return of art as representation and the new neo-expressionistic quest. His paintings celebrate the sensuality of the body and the vitality of nature in the exuberance of figures increasingly monumental, which soon find a concrete solution in bronze. The dialogue with iconographic themes, motifs and techniques of art history, reworked with a completely personal easy-going irony, becomes more intense in his work. www.sandrochia.com


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Dancing in the District: Season 2: Sara
Shot on location in Washington, D.C. USA All footage and music is original and copyright IsItModern? © 2014 Have you ever experienced Modern and Contemporary Dance? If not, we invite you to experience Dancing in the District. A film that lightly touches on the art form by exploring the incites of four young Dancers. Through People, we understand the Profession, and therefore, the world beyond what we know! For more information, please visit us on the web! @isitmodern http://isitmodern.com/ http://dancinginthedistrict.org/ @arasdance arasdance.org/


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Klippenkop Chardonnay 2018, Robertson1 review(s)
BUY SIX FOR £35.94 A delicious Chardonnay from the Robertson region of South Africa, one of the country's best value wine-producing regions. Read More.£7.49
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Crestwood Cellars Chardonnay-Semillon 2018, SE Australia
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A blend of buttery Chardonnay and zingy Semillon, this is unbeatable value and has just a touch of oak spice. You'll detect the heady scent of melons on the nose and ripe tropical fruit on the finish.
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Domaine de Pellehaut L'Eté Gascon 2018, Gascony3 review(s)
Just 11% alcohol, brimming with pineapple, mango, and passionfruit flavours. Unique to us at Rude Wines, we're huge fans of this off-dry French white wine made from local native grape varieties, and we're convinced you'll be a convert too when you try it. Read More.£10.99
Il Faggio Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, 20171 review(s)
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This Italian red wine is a Best Buy. Don't just take our word for it, our customers agree. Francis left a great review and told us 'Italian wines are never a disappointment, and this is one of the best on offer. Very refined. Order some before it sells out!' We couldn't agree more. Like all good Italian wine this is great with pizza and pasta Read More.£8.99
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Beso de Vino Macabeo-Chardonnay 2018, Cariñena
Cracking Spanish white wine, marrying Macabeo (aka Viura) with Chardonnay to give both intensity of fruit and a zippy refreshment. Antonio the bull adds a very Spanish quirkiness to the labels, but won't distract from the wine within Read More.£9.99
Dominique Morel Beaujolais-Villages 2018, Burgundy
Tripping off the tongue, Beaujolais has to be one of our best-loved French red wines. Not nouveau here, but Villages, coming from the vineyards up to 70 years old, and so more intense than many a B-V. Fortunately, Dominique Morel makes wines he likes to drink, and you'll like his tastes Read More.£12.99
Peter Lehmann Wildcard Chardonnay 2017, South Australia1 review(s)
Fresh, peachy Chardonnay that's made to make your mouth water. Read More.£9.99
Château L'Argenteyre Cru Bourgeois Médoc, 2014
Philippe and Gilles Reich have produced this rich while structured wine from their family vineyard. It has generous black fruits that are supported by wood-ageing flavours and finely balanced tannins. The majority Cabernet Sauvignon blend gives juicy black-currant fruit. 90 points Wine Enthusiast Read More.£17.49
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Fantastic. Best champagne ever. Sarah
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- President Felipe Calderon speaks at an event marking five years of his presidency
- "We are going to continue defending the citizens until the last day of my term," he says
- The president warns that drug cartels are "threatening democracy"
- He says his government has captured or killed 21 of 37 most wanted criminals
Mexico's president defended his drug war strategy Sunday, pledging to continue his fight against organized crime.
"The first obligation of a government is to guarantee the security and the rights of the citizens," President Felipe Calderon said. "We have done that, and we are going to continue defending the citizens until the last day of my term."
Calderon spoke at an event marking five years of his presidency. He declared a crackdown on cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006, deploying thousands of troops into some parts of the country.
With one year left in his term, Calderon's remarks Sunday came as political campaigns heat up among candidates hoping to be his successor. Mexico's security situation, and the government's tactics for dealing with drug cartels, are likely to figure heavily in debates leading up to next year's elections.
In his remarks Sunday, Calderon warned that drug cartels were already "threatening democracy" by attempting to manipulate election results.
Calderon praised his government's crime-fighting record, noting that 21 of 37 criminals on the nation's most wanted list earlier in his term had been captured or killed.
He vowed to continue efforts to stamp out corruption and strengthen judicial institutions.
"The country needs to be able to count on honest, dependable police that are serving the citizens and not the criminals," he said.
Calderon also said his government was committed to human rights, and said he had reacted swiftly when any violations of rights were reported.
Criticism has mounted over Mexico's drug war strategy and the country's human rights record.
Last month, a group of activists filed a 700-page complaint with the International Criminal Court in the Hague, the Netherlands, alleging more than 470 cases of human rights violations against women and children.
"What we are denouncing are behaviors that are becoming systematic in the Army and Armed Forces such as rape, forced disappearances, killing of civilians and cover-ups of these killings. A series of a disturbing number of violations against international humanitarian laws lead directly to Felipe Calderon's responsibility," Netzai Sandoval, a lawyer representing the activist group, told CNNMexico.com.
Calderon's office released a statement describing the allegations as "false and slanderous."
"In the instances where, unfortunately, it has become known that violations of human rights were committed, the government not only has condemned such actions, but also has judicially proceeded against those responsible before the appropriate tribunals," the statement said.


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What is a Triad?
A local Triad consist of the sheriff and older or retired leaders in the community who agree to work together to reduce criminal victimization of the elderly.
Important to each Triad is an advisory council which serves as a sounding board, information channel and catalyst for renewing emphasis on reducing crimes against the elderly - together.
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Kids To Parks Day
Sat, May 21, 2022 9:00 am - 12:00 pm CDTParticipants will be exploring the park by foot while looking for thirteen geocache locations. At each location visited, event participants will learn more about the area of the park they are in and help maintain it by picking up trash as they go.
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The Operation Recreation GeoTour hosted by Geocaching.com, stretches from Pensacola to Key West and includes 71 of the First Three Time National Gold Medal Award Winning Florida State Parks and Trails. Visit 20 caches and win the Official Operation Recreation Geocoin.
The Outsiders Club
"The Outsiders Club" is an exciting 30-minute program starring kids who explore the great outdoors and model ways to pursue a healthier, more active, nature-connected lifestyle. Each episode is set in a beautiful Florida State Park and features an outdoor adventure, such as camping, fishing, kayaking or hiking.


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LORAIN, Ohio (AP) -- Union leaders are trying to save some of the 900 Ford Motor Co. jobs threatened with layoffs in northeast Ohio.
The effort involves the Ohio General Assembly Plant in Avon Lake, west of Cleveland.
United Auto Workers Local 2000 is working with state and county officials on holding additional talks with Ford to save the jobs.
Layoffs are part of a tentative agreement reached in 2011 for 2012-15, according to information on the Local 2000 website. The layoffs could affect those with less than 22 years of service at the plant, which has nearly 1,900 workers.
Ford spokeswoman Kristina Adamski tells The Morning Journal of Lorain that the company is exploring options including temporary layoffs, retirement packages and rotating shifts.


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New 2019 Chrysler300 TOURING L AWD SedanFor Sale in Montgomeryville
- Fuel Economy
- 18.0/27.0 mpg City/Hwy
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- Gloss Black
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18/27 City/Highway MPG Price includes: $4,250 - 2019 Retail Consumer Cash 35CK1. Exp. 10/31/2019
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perfect travel car
By T45 on Friday, December 02, 2016Comfortable. Trunk holds three large suitcases. Gets 19mpg city and 30 mpg highway, just as advertised. Separate passenger and driver comfort controls. Great ride. This is my second 300c and next will be the same.
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The best car I have owned!!
By The Phantom Owner on Saturday, March 25, 2017This car is absolutely fantastic!! Comfortable, I have severe back problems and needed a car that has a gentle ride, not jostling my back, this car provides that; though a little stiffer than I wish it was. It has the heated (and cooled front) seats, which is also very nice for my back. It handles extremely well, very easy to maneuver; the rear camera is wonderful - shows exactly enough behind you to back into any parking spot! Though there are times that the auto-shifting seems a bit off. And sometimes when stopping, there seems to be a bit of hesitation. The interior and exterior are gorgeous! I also need a car that can move, I like to be able to move when I push the gas pedal...no problems there!! This car has many options: leather heated seats-front and back, rear window shade, lumbar and many seat adjustments, dual comfort zones, power telescoping and tilting steering wheel, just to list a few! All in all a GREAT car!!
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I Like my 300
By M on Thursday, January 18, 2018great car, really under rated. very quiet, smooth and the v6 is very powerful.i drove a 2018 Buick lacrosse and the steering has a play in it. its rated higher than the 300, but the 300 steers perfectly. I would highly recommend anyone wanting a large comfortable car to take it for a ride.
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2012's Dredd was an attempt to reboot the cult-favorite character who originated in the British science fiction anthology 2000 A.D. In 1995, Sylvester Stallone starred as the helmeted dispenser of justice in a dystopian, seemingly post-apocalyptic future, who acted as judge, jury and executioner on the spot. While that movie remains a camp-tastic guilty pleasure, the Karl Urban-starring remake adopted the far darker, hyper-violent tone of the comics.
The film failed to catch on with the general movie-going public despite proving to be quite an excellent comic-book action flick. It's total worldwide box office gross was about $32 million, on a $50 million budget. It's surprising success on DVD and Blu-Ray (selling up to 650,000 copies, "making it the best-selling new release title of the year," according to a press release at the time), seemed to reignite new hope for a sequel. In fact, there is a Facebook page clambering for a second entry, along with a related petition officially sanctioned by 2000 A.D. (Click here to view the petition.)
Dredd was released on home video over six months ago, but no official word on a sequel has been heard despite its post-theatrical release success. Star Karl Urban hasn't given up hope, however. While at Comic-Con 2013 to help promote his upcoming Fox series Almost Human, Urban voiced his belief that it'll only happen if the fans want it badly enough, saying:
"The more people that campaign for it, the more people that email, Twitter, write-in to Lionsgate saying 'we want to see more of this,' then the more likelihood we will get to see it; we're certainly doing everything we can to make sure it happens."
On paper, Dredd seemed to be a safe bet: Urban stole his scenes as Dr. McCoy in the rebooted Star Trek, this project promised the prospect of the always-popular gritty reboot, and it even featured Game of Thrones star Lena Headey as the main villain, a twisted, drug-dealing matriarch. Also, the film would keep to the core of the source material, in which Judge Dredd never once removes his helmet.
It's interesting to note that star Urban and writer Alex Garland (The Beach, 28 Days Later) were actively discussing their sequel ideas up until the film's release - everyone behind Dredd really seemed to think they had a big hit on their hands. Garland talked about a potential trilogy, which could include pivotal comic-book villains like the Dark Judges (undead former Judges so extreme in their world-view that all of humanity needs to be eradicated due to living humans' potential to commit crimes) and the murderous tyrannosaurus rex Satanus.
So how likely is this? Searching Twitter for #dredd, #dreddsequel and #dredd2 does yield a good number of hits, especially during the past few days, and some reports from last month have the Dredd DVD spiking in Amazon sales when the sequel rumors started flying. Judging (ahem) by Urban's plea to fans, no one has given him a contract to sign yet, though.
Still, such strong home video sales point toward the steady building of a cult audience - and it's a world which deserves some expansion, especially considering Urban's interest in seeing Dredd take to exile in response to his character's disillusionment in the "big lie," namely that the Judges are doing what's best for humanity.
What about you, Screen Ranters? Did you like Dredd and would you like to see a sequel? Sound off in the comments!
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Security systems are very important these days if you want to protect your property and your home. The best way to do this is with theInterlogix Security NX-8 Wireless Ready Kit. This kit gives you all the protection you need for your home or business. Fastpacks with some of the most popular options to make it more convenient and cost-effective to buy all the products needed for most applications.
The fastpacks contain NX8 Control Panel, 48 zone LCD keypad with wireless receiver, Sentrol PI-6000 motion sensor, 15W speaker, RJ cord & block, transformer, and battery. All of these things combined will help you have the best security possible and make it very hard for anyone to get into your home or business.
TheInterlogix Security NX-8 Wireless Ready Kit has many important features that you need to know about because these features all combined give you added peace of mind knowing that you have great security. The different features for this security system include, 48 programmable zones, maximum 24 keypads, wireless expansion up to 48 zones, maximum 8 keypads per partition, 99 four digit or 66 six digit user codes, and 185 event log.
Each of these features is important to adding to your security at home or business. The 48 fully programmable zones will let you make sure that all the areas are secured that need to be. Plus, the wireless expansion up to 48 zones means that you will be able to add security for any area that needs it, if it was not secured before. Being able to program the zones and secure them how you choose is very important to having the best security possible.
The 24 keypads will give you more than one area that you can activate or disable the alarm system because you never know when you will need to do this. So, being able to put these keypads where you need them will be much more convenient for you and provide security where you need it. All of the different user codes are important because this will let you change the code often, which means that you will be able to make sure only the people that need the code have it. The less people that have the codes, the higher your security will be.
You don't want to wait until it is too late to get good security for your home, or business because if you do then you may just become the next victim. Prevent this from happening to you by getting theInterlogix Security NX-8 Wireless Ready Kit. You definitely can't go wrong with this security system because it has all of the features that you need to provide the best. The more security you have the less chance there is that you will ever be a victim of burglary. So, don't delay get this system or another one to make sure you can have peace of mind knowing that you have done everything possible to protect your family and property
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Here, among the periodicals stacks, we have a new name. We are now formally known as the Periodicals and Electronic Resource Services unit. But we still are the place you can come find all kinds of magazines with great images. … Continue reading
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Contact: Peter Genzer, (631) 344-3174 | Written by Diane Greenberg
July 1, 2011
UPTON, NY — The U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory is hosting a panel discussion on "Funding Your Technology-Based Startup" on Monday, July 25, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. This is the fourth meeting of the Entrepreneurs' Foundation Workshop series hosted by the Laboratory.
A panel of experts on funding technology startups will address such questions as: What types of investments are venture capitalists looking for? What are the characteristics of a winning investor pitch? What makes a technology-based business attractive to investors? Additional questions will be taken from the audience.
The workshop is open to the public. There is a $10 fee, and advance online registration is required. Online registration and payment by credit card is available at the Entrepreneurs' Foundation Workshop website. Registrants may also pay the fee at the door by cash or check after pre-registering. All visitors to the Laboratory age 16 and older must bring a photo ID.
The agenda includes refreshments and networking from 5 to 5:30 p.m., the panel discussion with time for Q&A from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., and more refreshments and networking from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
This workshop is sponsored by Nixon Peabody, and cosponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration, the New York State Small Business Development Center, and Stony Brook University.
The moderator for the panel discussion will be Walter G. Copan, Manager of Brookhaven Lab's Office of Technology Commercialization and Partnerships.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Small Business Administration, Stony Brook University, and the New York State Small Business Development Center at Stony Brook developed the Entrepreneurs' Foundation Workshop Series to help those interested in starting up small technology companies.
Brookhaven Lab is located on William Floyd Parkway, one-and-a-half miles north of Exit 68 of the Long Island Expressway.
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