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Today is Wednesday, June 5, the 156th day of 2002. There are 209 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
On this date:
In 1783, Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier publicly demonstrated their hot-air balloon in a 10-minute flight over Annonay, France.
In 1794, Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign power.
In 1917, about 10 million American men began registering for the draft in World War I.
In 1933, the United States went off the gold standard.
In 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall gave a speech at Harvard University in which he outlined an aid program for Europe that came to be known as "The Marshall Plan."
In 1967, war erupted in the Mideast as Israel raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict.
In 1975, Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping, eight years after it was closed because of the 1967 war with Israel.
Ten years ago: The government announced the nation's unemployment rate had jumped to 7.5 percent the month before, the highest level in nearly eight years.
Five years ago: Harold J. Nicholson, the highest-ranking CIA officer ever caught spying against his own country, was sentenced to 23 years in prison for selling defense secrets to Russia after the Cold War.
One year ago: Senate Republicans spent their last full day in power before turning control over to Democrats, a change that came about because of a decision by Vermont Sen. James Jeffords to leave the GOP and become an independent.
Today's Birthdays: Broadcast journalist Bill Moyers is 68. Actor Spalding Gray is 61. Rhythm-and-blues singer Floyd Butler (Friends of Distinction) is 61. Country singer Don Reid (The Statler Brothers) is 57. Rock musician Fred Stone (Sly and the Family Stone) is 56. Rock singer Laurie Anderson is 55. Country singer Gail Davies is 54. Rock musician Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) is 48. Jazz musician Kenny G is 46. Rock singer Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs) is 46. Actress Karen Sillas is 37. Actor Ron Livingston is 35. Singer Brian McKnight is 33. Rock musician Claus Norreen (Aqua) is 32. Actor Mark Wahlberg is 31. Actor Chad Allen is 28. Rock musician P-nut (311) is 28.
Published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, June 5, 2002.
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I have been most blessed to have a few people in my life who generally know the perfect thing to say. This week in particular, two such people touched my heart in perfect and loving ways that I don't want to ever forget.
Exhibit 1:
Me to a close friend: Thanks for knowing me and loving me anyway.
Friend: Not "anyway." I love you because.
Exhibit 2 (aka Card Writing 101):
Actually, when I showed it to my kids (telling them, of course, to "watch and learn"), Zack pointed out that this is a little more upper division than 101, probably at least 303.
"This" is a gorgeous scarf my little brother has spent the past three months knitting for me for my birthday. Knowing that my kid brother spent the past three months putting all kinds of love into such a lovely gift from the heart–via his time and labor–warms my heart more than my mere words can say.

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If Ruby Wright could have her way, her dad would never have met and married her stepmother Willow, her best friend George would be more than a friend, and her mom would still be alive. Ruby knows wishes can't come true; some things just can't be undone. Then she discovers a tree in the middle of an Ohio cornfield with a wormhole to nine alternative realities. Suddenly, Ruby can access completely different realities, each containing variations of her "life" if things had gone differently at key moments.
The windshield wiper missing her mother's throat, her big brother surviving his ill-fated birth her father never having met Willow. Her ideal "world" one with everything and everyone she wants "most" could be within reach. But is there such a thing as a perfect world? What is Ruby willing to give up to find out?
©2013 Cristin Bishara (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
"What might have been if one thing were different"
It is a feel good story, with action and adventure. Every kid inside of us wonders what could have been if just that one thing didn't go wrong. Ruby gets to find out.
The feeling you get before she opens the door on each new reality, wondering what this one would be like.
She did a great job with all the characters.
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Sally Quotes
Josh: You need to snap out of it.
Sally: I'm hungry.
Josh: They're empty calories, Sally.
Sally: Everything I eat is empty calories. Nothing sticks. I had two whole chickens last night. And a tub of ice cream. I have it handled. I'm just stressing. Every time I leave the house I think I'm going to think I'm going to kill somebody.
Okay, one thing I do miss about being a ghost is that I woke up this morning and tried to whoosh myself down here and fell on my face.
Aidan: Oh wow. I just can't get over the fact that I can touch you.
Sally: You're not as cold as I thought you would be.
Aidan: Okay. That's weird.
Hey, we're outta here, chief. I'm taking Trent home like a goody bag.
No, it's really me. Josh saddled up for me and sprung me out of limbo.
Stevie, you have no money. Nowhere to go. You're going to end up giving tuggers under the bridge for five hundred bucks a go.
Josh: Yeah, I kinda get it now. He's super compelling.
Sally: I kinda want to make out with him.
You two are totally about to go on two separate killing sprees for women. That is so hot.
Well I am guilty, aren't I? She's in the psych ward because I possessed her.
You're going to rip each other to shreds tonight. Just a couple more hours and you'll all be dead.
Daddy boy gave all his food to his tender, helpless offspring, didn't he? Not even a morsel for himself? Look at you. What a hot mess.
I used to think the supernatural, haunted houses, that it was a bunch of crap. Then it started happening to me.


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The Belgian drugmaker UCB is to buy rival Schwarz Pharma for €4.4bn (£2.3bn) in the latest takeover to shake-up Europe's pharmaceutical industry.
UCB, producer of the Zyrtec allergy drug, has agreed to pay a 20pc premium in a mixture of cash and shares to secure the closely held family business, based in Monheim, Germany.
The company said it hoped to generate €2 bn a year in revenues from Schwarz Pharma's trio of promising drugs for Parkinson's disease, bladder control, and epilepsy.
"A few competitors must be sad today," said the UCB chief executive Roch Doliveux.
Schwarz Pharma's shares jumped 19.9pc to €90.68, a windfall for the Schwarz family which still owns 60pc of the company it created in the late 1940s.
UCB, which acquired the British biotech company Celltech in 2004, fell slightly on concerns over future share dilution to pay for the deal, despite promises of €300m in synergies within three years. The merger comes days after Merck agreed to pay €10.6bn for the Switzerland's Serono, Europe's biggest bio-technology company. Merck failed to acquire German rival Schering earlier this year. Nycomed Holding in Denmark is buying Altana's drug unit from Bavaria's Quandt family, the owners of BMW.
Analysts say family drug-makers are pulling out of the business in the face of competition from generic products and cheaper imports from the new bio-tech hubs in Asia.
The combined UCB-Schwarz group, to be based in Brussels, will be a world leader in neurology with an annual research budget of €770m, targeting diseases that prey on the central nervous system.
Belgium's KBC bank said the merger was a "good fit" that would boost the UCB's franchise of neurology products.
Pharma Schwarz hopes to triple its income during the next 10 years from its new range of medicines, including its Cimzia drug for Crohn's disease and its Neupro skin patch for Parkinson's.


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Well hockey fans, the lockout is over and starting Sat. Jan 19th we will have a shortened season that will go by faster than an Al MacInnis slap shot. Soon we will be hearing Chelsea Dagger blaring from the United Center speakers! Questions abound in this shortened season, as teams will have to quickly gel in hopes of making the playoffs. Will the defending Stanley Cup champs, the LA Kings, be able to defend their crown? Or, will they be dethroned by the Chicago Blackhawks and budding young superstars Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews?
The Vancouver Canucks remain a Stanley Cup hopeful thanks to the combined talents of Ryan Kesler, Mason Raymond and the always-dangerous Sedin twins. With Cory Schneider now guarding the net, Hawks fans won't have a chance to chide Roberto Luongo anymore but what happens if he joins them via a midseason trade? Several teams have fresh talent, including Zach Parise and Ryan Suter who joined forces in Minnesota while Rick Nash jetted to the Big Apple play for the New York Rangers.
Hockeytown's own, the Detroit Red Wings, are hoping for a successful season as well, especially with new captain Henrik Zetterberg leading the charge. No team may have benefited more from the lockout than the Pittsburgh Penguins where injured players Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, arguably the best duo in all of hockey, are now healthy and well rested. The Eastern Conference will be tough as always as no team stands head and shoulders above the other. The Philadelphia Flyers are always a force as long as Claude Giroux is around but they'll have to shore up some goaltending issues, which is a major reason they haven't made it to the finals in the past three years. Expect Boston to play tough as well but as goaltender Tuukka Rask takes over for the departed Tim Thomas, one thing is for sure–this season will be unpredictable and exciting!
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Gen. William L. Shelton, USAF, commander, Air Force Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., toured the Space Foundation Discovery Center in Colorado Springs today and learned what the Space Foundation is doing to support STEM education.
The visit included a demonstration of Science On a Sphere® (SOS), in the Discovery Center's Northrop Grumman Science Center. SOS was developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and uses special software, satellite imagery and four projectors to render images onto the global surface that provide dramatic, full-motion views of the Earth, Sun, moons and planets in space.
SOS provides a dramatic display of our universe and is an ideal educational instrument for teaching science, math and geography, easily translating sometimes complex environmental processes in a way that is of interest to people of all ages.
The Space Foundation Discovery Center is open to the public; find information about hours and exhibits here.
Support the work of the Space Foundation here.
Pictured: Gen. William Shelton with Space Foundation CEO Elliot Pulham, and viewing Science On a Sphere® with Pulham and Space Foundation Vice President - Education and Discovery Iain Probert.
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That's interesting Heidi! Apparently they're not real plentiful in the wild here now - but are very popular with bird fanciers.
Star Finches are popular cage and aviary birds here in the States. They're gentle and good for community finch collections.
My pleasure Sally - I have to agree!! Thanks :))Thanks Monica - he's a real beauty I agree :))
Ohhhhhh he's so beautiful Rob, I love his colors! I really love how his red face continues through his beak! Very pretty indeed, thanks for sharing him with us!
Beautiful colour... The birds in Australia are wonderful... Fantastic colouring... Thanks, Rob... :) :)
Thanks pg!!That's interesting Shirley - thanks!!
Our son breed Finches a few years back now, he had some of these, there are alot of very pretty finches in Australia, I love these guys too, Thanks Rob.
It does too fileusa - thanks!Sort of chickie - thanks :)))
It looks like a piece of metal. LOL
his face is like the colour of a turkey's but of course not that ugly... and it looks like its body has been dipped in a metalic green paint..but it is beautiful... good clear cut picture...thanks..
He does too Laura - thanks!Thanks Gracie!he sure is cute & different lyndee - thanks.Thanks aggie :)) But he's real!!Thanks Jacques!
cute one!
I've never seen a bird that even looks close to this one. You can't even see his feathers.....and where's his wings??????? He is different that's for sure.
So cute Rob!
How sweet. He looks like he dipped his head into paint.


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Sanctuary Beauty Clinic
Three Hour Pamper Package - $89 for One Person or $175 for Two People. Includes Facial, Massage Plus More (Valued from $244)
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Find your bliss with a pamper package from Sanctuary Beauty Clinic
Three hour pamper package for one person for $89 (value $244)
Three hour pamper package for two people for $175 (value $488)
Available Tuesday to Saturday
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One hour full body massage
One hour customised facial
Manicure and pedicure
15 minute foot or scalp treatment
Unwind and let the experts at Sanctuary Beauty Clinic take care of you! Relieve knots and tension with a 60 minute full body massage, followed up a serene 60 minute facial customised to suit your skin's needs and to reveal a refreshed and rejuvenated complexion
Treat your hands and feet to an express manicure and pedicure and add a pop of colour with your choice of nail polish colour. Finish with your choice of a 15 minute foot or scalp treatment for that extra bit of relaxation
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Offer expires on 6 February 2016
We strongly encourage bookings to be made by 9 January 2016. Bookings after this date cannot be guaranteed. If there are no available bookings after 9 January 2016, simply contact our Customer Support Team before 6 February 2016 and you will be entitled to a full credit back to your account
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Editorial: Privacy of LIRR engineers shouldn't trump safety
Since the train derailment that killed four people in the Bronx last December, there have been calls for new safety equipment that can prevent such occurrences. Union officials have said the engineer fell asleep briefly, allowing the train to take a dangerous curve far too fast.
It's maddening that the Metro-North train was equipped with a safety system designed to keep engineers alert. The device sounds an alarm if an engineer is idle for 25 seconds and he or she fails to respond to a warning by hitting a button within another 15 seconds. The device was installed in a cab at the front of the ill-fated train, but the engineer was operating it from the rear, which is routine on alternating runs. Metro-North now says all cabs, front and rear, will have the alerts by the end of 2014, as Long Island Rail Road trains already do. That's a start, but more can be done.
Last month, the LIRR and Metro-North announced plans to install inward- and outward-facing cameras on trains. Both cameras can provide evidence in case of accidents, and the inward-facing ones are also meant to deter inattention by engineers.
The ideas seem like obvious winners -- inexpensive and helpful. They sound even better now that we know the engineer on the Bronx train suffered from an undiagnosed sleep apnea that may have kept him groggy. A camera might have caught that and revealed his condition. The National Transportation Safety Board, the Federal Railroad Administration and federal lawmakers have called for the installation of the cameras. Who could disagree?
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen does. The union argues that inward-facing cameras invade operators' privacy and are unnecessary. The union is wrong. Safety comes first, and engineers shouldn't be doing anything while operating a train that they wouldn't want us to see.


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Quick Details
- Specific Use: Garden Set
- General Use: Outdoor Furniture
- Material: Rattan / Wicker, PE RATTAN/ALUMINIUM
- Folded: No
- Place of Origin: Guangdong, China (Mainland)
- Brand Name: NICO ART RATTAN
- Model Number: NL09208, NL09208
- Style: Modern
- General use: outdoor, garden, patio, jardin
- Rattan: 1.3-1.5mm thickness
- Aluminium: 1.3-1.5mm thickness
- Cushion: No
- Color: Optional
- Certificate: SGS test report
- Loading qty: 105sets/40HQ
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Sun lounger Outdoor furniture
1. Material introduction:
1) Aluminium: brand-new aluminium, not recycled. usually we use 1.3mm thickness tubes to make sure its durability.
2) powder coating: all frames will be treated by powder coating. the color follows the wicker color so that it keeps the same tone from outside to inside.
3) high-quality PE rattan: PE rattan is polymerized by high-quality rattan . The kind of rattan is suitable for indoor and outdoor furniture for its non-toxication, washablility, scalability, UV and corrosion resistance . besides, it's totally eco-friendly.
---The protection of the earth starts from me.
3) cushion: 25 density foam and water resistant cover.
2. Description:
1.Synthetic PE rattan with aluminum frame
3. Certificate: SGS Test
1.professional design fashion and tast
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3.competitive price and good quality
4.profession OEM manufacturer can according to pattern design products
5.professional products outdoor rattan furniture,service first
6.long-term cooperation with you is our aim
7.water proof
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As part of a divorce decree in 2001, I agreed to pay child support for two children of $900 a month based on my income at that time. Within 6 months I had lost my job, was out of work for 6 months and have since seen a significant reduction in my income. I continued to pay full support out of savings which I was living on while out of work until that ran out. Since then I have been ubnable to maintain the $900 but have paid as much as I can based on current income (under $20,000 in 2002). By my reckoning I have kept up the mandated percentage of income, but I never petitioned the court to reduce child support, because I had hoped that I would find better work and could resume the larger payments. Now I am being threatened with court action to recover the full amount pledged at the time of the divorce. I would like to file a motion for child support reduction, and can prove my income and payments since the divorce. Will the court consider a retroactive reduction based on actual earnings? What is my best course of action?
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General Motors today celebrated the assembly of the 100 millionth small-block V-8. The milestone engine was an LS9, the 638-hp supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 found under the hood of the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1.
Chevrolet officials admit this was a symbolic milestone, as it's hard to establish exactly which V-8 was the 100 millionth. The celebrated LS9 built today, however, won't ever be started, and is destined for display at the GM Heritage Center museum. The engine also will likely be shown at events like the Woodward Dream Cruise. Chevrolet has even inquired about displaying the LS9 at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit — it is, after all, an important piece of automotive history — but the museum has yet to respond.
The history of the Chevrolet small-block V-8 goes back to 1955, when the engine was launched in the 1955 Chevrolet. Even today, Chevrolet small blocks follow the same basic dimensions as the original engine of 1955 — but with massive improvements in performance. The original 4.3-liter V-8 of 1995 produced just 195 hp, which pales compared to the 638-hp output of the 6.2-liter LS9.
The many variants of the small-block V-8 design have powered everything from sports cars and trucks, to boats and construction equipment. Officials claim that if all the small-block V-8s ever produced were laid end to end, they would wrap around the equator twice. On average, 1.78 million examples of the engine family have been built for each of the past 56 years.
Like all other LS9 engines and the 7.0-liter LS7, the 100 millionth small-block was assembled at the GM Performance Build Center in southeast Michigan. GM let journalists and plant officials assemble various parts of the LS9, which may partly explain why the mill won't be sold in a customer car. Corvette Z06 and ZR1 customers also can build their own engine at the Performance Build Center, although only about 15 have elected to do so since the program began. A trained assembly technician can hand-build the engine in two to three hours, but customers typically take six to eight hours.
Among the attendees was Denny Davis, who worked on the Chevrolet small-block development team from 1953. He says that the only thing he recognizes on today's LS9 is the engine's 4.4-inch bore spacing, but admits that developments like variable valve timing and supercharging have helped made the small-block an enduring design.
"Phenomenal, isn't it?" Davis said. "This has got to be the most popular engine ever built."
The small-block was pioneered by former Chevrolet chief engineer Ed Cole, whose son David Cole is now chairman emeritus of the Center for Automotive Research. David recalled his father spending nights and weekends tinkering with the design for the small-block, even working with fellow GM engineers in the family basement to develop the engine.
"I don't think any of us back years ago expected 100 million of this engine," Cole said. "Let's try for 200 million now."
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GM also hinted again at the future of the small-block V-8. The next iteration, called Gen V, should debut in a few years' time. It will have direct fuel injection for the first time, but is likely to retain its pushrod and two-valve architecture. Importantly for Chevy purists, the engine will retain the small-block's 4.4-inch bore spacing.
Officials promised the new family of V-8 engines will have better power, torque, fuel economy, and refinement than the current generation. GM already has invested $1 billion to prepare its production facilities for the new generation of V-8s, which is expected to create or retain around 1700 jobs.
Davis, who worked on various GM engine projects through the late 1980s, said he doesn't think the small-block V-8 will ever go away, in part because the engine's simple, reliable design has proven so versatile over the years. But he concedes that such engines could be phased out based on market and government pressures — 15 years ago, Davis says he would have laughed if someone had suggested Chevrolet would one day sell a range of turbocharged four-cylinder engines.
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The Madison County Library will host a computer lecture class on Microsoft Excel, which will be taught by Debi Morrison from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 4.
"Most folks know enough about Excel to get around, but there are many, many more shortcuts and tricks to make Excel work better and faster for you," she said.
The lecture is designed for the beginning and average users.
Among the topics to be covered are creating an auto list, grouping sheets, hiding cell contents from a printer, moving cells, pasting column widths, selecting visible cells and taskbar displays.
People are encouraged to take notes while Morrison demonstrates the various tools. Registration is not required for this lecture course.
"This will be a lecture-type class, unfortunately, there are not enough computers available for a 'hands-on class,' " Morrison said.
"I have been working with Excel for over 15 years and am certified by Microsoft as an Excel Professional. I love Excel and usually take an Excel book to the beach to read. I am currently working in the accounting field in Athens and have taught Excel classes in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Baltimore," she said.
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The Fall Book Sale for the Madison County Library has been set for Sept. 12-20 at the library.
Volunteers are needed to help with various phases of the sale including sorting the books donated before the sale and helping during the sale itself.
Anyone interested is asked to contact Dena Chandler at (706) 797-3501 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Two Danielsville potters have been invited to display their work in Perspectives 2008: Georgia Pottery Invitational, an annual pottery exhibit that features the work of 50 Georgia potters. Will Langford and David Morgan were invited to participate in the state's largest pottery event.
The exhibit will be from Aug. 30-Sept. 17 at the Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation Center in downtown Watkinsville. The opening gala is planned for 6 p.m. Aug. 29 with $5 admission.
The Members Gallery exhibit will feature seven artists who used functional pottery in their sculpture. Andy Nasisse, Michael Schmidt, Donald Penny, Carissa Doying, Micah Cain, Mark Burleson and Priscilla Hollingsworth will be featured.
There will be tours of at least six pottery studios on Sept. 7.
For more information, call (706) 769-4565.
Group to discuss novel on Irish doctor
The Evening Book Discussion group at the Madison County Library will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss the book "An Irish Country Doctor" by Patrick Taylor. The story is about a novice doctor who moves to a small town in Northern Ireland to practice medicine.
Copies are available at the circulation desk.
The Young Adult Book Discussion group will meet at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 27 to discuss "Brave Story," a graphic novel by Miyuki Miyabe, a Japanese author. The group also will celebrate library employee Jennifer Ivey's birthday with a cake.
And for those young readers, Pajama Storytime is planned for 7 p.m. Aug. 28. Children are invited to wear pajamas while reading and have snacks. The program is led by Ivey.
Dark Side of the artist at Blue Bell
Blue Bell Gallery in Comer will hold its second annual "Hauntings Exhibition - Dark Works" by local Georgia artists. The artwork will be exhibited in October with a reception planned for 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at the gallery.
Artists are asked to submit their work or their ideas by Sept. 5 by e-mailing images to email@example.com or mail photos to Blue Bell Gallery, PO Box 246, Comer, GA 30629.
Contributors are asked to include an artist statement, dimensions of the work, the medium used and its price.
Raffle to help animal shelter in Madison
The Alibi Saloon on Gaines School Road in Athens, is selling raffle tickets for $1 each with half of the money raised going to the Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter in Danielsville.
The winner of the raffle and the shelter split whatever money the raffle sales bring in.
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Charm Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: CHRM) ("Charm" or the "Company"), a leading advertising agency in China, today announced that it has established a special committee of its board of directors (the "Special Committee") to consider the preliminary non-binding proposal letter dated September 30, 2013 (the "Proposal Letter") from Mr. He Dang, the chairman of the board of directors, Merry Circle Trading Limited, a British Virgin Islands company controlled by Mr. Dang ("Merry Circle"), Honour Idea Limited, a British Virgin Islands company owned by Mr. Dang ("Honour Idea" and, collectively with Merry Circle, the "Founder Shareholders"), and CMC Capital Partners HK Limited to acquire all of the outstanding shares of the Company not currently owned by the Founder Shareholders in a "going private" transaction (the "Proposal").
The Special Committee is composed of the following independent directors of the Company: Mr. Zhan Wang, Mr. Andrew J. Rickards and Mr. Gang Chen, with Mr. Zhan Wang serving as chairperson of the Special Committee. The Special Committee intends to retain advisors, including an independent financial advisor, to assist in the evaluation of the Proposal and any additional proposals that may be made by Mr. Dang and his affiliates.
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Various different multimedia systems are available for your use in the temporary exhibitions of the Louvre-Lens. Integrated into the tour, these systems offer the keys to understanding as you explore the works of art on display. Whether they involve listening to a story or the possibility of interaction, the experiences offered by these systems are very varied.
In the "Renaissance" exhibition, an animated chronology shows visitors the scope of this historic and artistic period; a film recounts the travels of Leonardo da Vinci and a special virtual device allows you to leaf through the fabulous drawings of a work by Albrecht Dürer at your own pace.
In the "Perception of Time" exhibition, a poetic film describes the rhythms of the astronomical cycles; a more interactive system allows you to discover and manipulate the world's different calendars.
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Florida invaders Gourmet Dinner and Rustler Hustler
exercised on the Hollywood Park main track Wednesday morning after being flown
to California
Tuesday for the $750,000-guaranteed CashCall Futurity, a Grade I test for
2-year-olds on Cushion Track Saturday.
Gourmet Dinner, based at Calder with trainer Steve
Standridge, and Rustler Hustler, stabled at Gulfstream with conditioner Rick
Dutrow, arrived here at 6:30 p.m. after a flight that originated in West Palm Beach, Fla.,
stopped in New Orleans and landed in Ontario.
Gourmet Dinner, victorious in the rich Delta Jackpot
Stakes in Louisiana for his fourth victory in five starts on November 20,
figures to be one of the favorites in a field of 10 with regular rider
Sebastian Madrid.
Gourmet Dinner, a Florida-bred colt by Trippi out of
the Pentelicus mare Potluck Dinner, hopes to provide his connections with
another prime rib celebration.
"I don't think the synthetic will bother him," said
Standridge of the colt whose previous starts have all been on dirt. "We thought
he was a grass horse all along.
"He's definitely going to be off the pace, probably
six or seven lengths back," continued Standridge. "He will probably have a
minor blowout tomorrow (Thursday) to get a feel of the track.
"He's probably the best horse I've had," said
Standridge, who has trained for 25 years, mostly in Florida. "I had a good sprinter a couple
years ago, Mach Pride, who won a Grade II at Calder and finished fourth in a
couple of Grade I's in New York. But he was a stone sprinter. This one can run
two turns. In the back of ouf minds, we're thinking (Breeders' Cup) Classic
down the road.''
Standridge credits jockey Darrel McHargue for his
start in the sport. "I went to school with Darrel at Western
Heights High
School in Oklahoma
City," said Standridge. "When he started riding, I
followed him to the barns."
Standridge hopes for better luck with Gourmet Dinner
than he had with the first horse he flew to California. "I shipped Mach Ride out a
couple of years ago to run in the Sunshine Millions at Santa Anita, but he
popped an abscess and didn't run," said Standridge.
William J. Terrill, who co-bred the horse and owns
him with his wife Bernadette under the name Our Sugar Bear Stable, also hopes
for a better show in a return to California.
"My father trained Secret Prince," said Terrill in reference to the longshot
seventh-place finisher in the 1983 Hollywood Futurity trained by William V.
"Red" Terrill.
Terrill, who divides his year between Florida and New
York, owns Ebert, a trucking company that transports
horses. He explained that he bred the colt in partnership with Mike O'Farrell's
Ocala Stud and bought him out of the Ocala
2-year-old sale in April for $40,000. Gourmet Dinner has earned $809,660.
Terrill said he was also the underbidder on Rigoletta, winner of the Oak Leaf
Stakes here in October.
Gourmet Dinner hopes to cap a banner year for
Florida-bred 2-year-olds. Unbeaten Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner
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Here I am Blogging
Well I am blogging. Something I thought I would never do. My mindset approaching life as a blogger (is that a word? It sounds suspiciously rude if you ask me) is going to be the same as it was as I approached life as a vegan. I decided I would try it for one meal and then re-evaluate. Then one day, then one week and well, I am still a vegan today so maybe this will stick as well.
Let me just say, for the record, right now, that my spelling, grammar & punctuation is likely going to suck here. I can blame it on the fact that I am dyslexic but, as true as that may be, the real reason behind my writing form or lack thereof is quite honestly the same reason I resisted being a b-word in the first place . . .blogger I mean not b-otch (the reasons for that may be far more profound). Really, my life is crazy busy so I didn't think I would have time to blog. We will see. Bottom line is if you are offended by a lack of perfect verbage you may not want to be a regular here at my blog.
So it seems that people that blog tend to share a load of personal information about themselves on their blogs . . . sometimes embarrassingly so. I always wondered why that happens. I guess, if I qualify to have an opinion (now that I have a case study of one blog post) is that I guess it just happens . . since it appears that on my very first post I divulged two pretty personal details about myself! I'll try not to let that happen too often.
Anyway another thing I notice on blogs is that alot of people sign their blogs with some cutesy little catch phrase or famous quote. I'm not going to do that but I am going to do something for myself. I am going to end my posts with something I am grateful for (there I go, I think I just dangled something there in that sentence didn't I?). Anyway I think gratitude is a great feeling and if I am going to post, I am going to do something for myself every time I do it. That is, I am going to write something I am grateful for (whoops there it is again).
So I must start by saying I am being grateful for John. He is a good guy and after 13 years I think I will keep him:).
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Debbie says:
Friday, December 5, 2008 at 9:09pm
Look forward to fun reading from you. Love your sense of humor!! As for John, I enjoyed being judged by him many years ago in obedience…he is a keeper!! Enjoy life…..skip the grammer…
Melissa says:
Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 5:34pm
Looking forward to reading your posts. I've been a fan for a while and am just getting into agility with my dog.
Amy says:
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 3:48pm
An attitude of gratitude is always a welcome read.
Mary Lou says:
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 8:52am
Oh my Susan! You never cease to amaze me.
Proper or improprer grammer aside I just love your writing. You have me laughing out loud. Sprinkled amidst your thoughts as always are some wonderful inspirational comments both about dog training as well as about life. You really challenge me in so many ways and I am grateful for that.
BTW, speaking of getting personal, the picture on the blog of you sitting on the loo while training the dogs was a real hoot!
Judy C says:
Monday, November 24, 2008 at 3:11pm
Love your ramblin' and can't wait for the DVDs
Helen says:
Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 1:07am
AND…He is an awesome person for whom to be grateful!
Jodi says:
Friday, November 21, 2008 at 11:37pm
That's hilarious. Your rambling is so real, I could swear we were all sitting around the kitchen table and I just wiped some almond butter off your nose.


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If you take a look at the pic, I have two iconboxes side by side using 1/2 layout elements. I want them to both have the same height. Is this possible?
Hi unitedwc,
The containers would need to have their height set specific to that page and those elements. If we can see the site live we can assist with the css.
I finally got my site uploaded.
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Note the "who we need" and "what we provide" has different box heights.
Try adding the following CSS to your Quick CSS (located under the Styling Tab in the theme options) or the custom.css file in the css folder of your theme files:
#top.page-id-1473 .post-entry-1473 .iconbox .iconbox_content {
height: 350px;
You'll probably want to make this only effect desktop sizes so place it in your custom.css file in the desktop media query that is provided in the file.
The text box under the icon boxes will also need a bit of space so you'll want to add an HR element above it and set it to just whitespace.
Works like a charm, except changed the 350 to 310.
Also, if you had the icon boxes inside a page section, you could assign a custom CSS ID to the section and then apply the CSS rules to that. Would save worrying about specific page Ids then.
You need to add this on your functions.php before you can assign specific css selector for each element.
hmmm, that custom css id sounds interesting: how do you use that?
I added the call in functions.php and see the custom css id field now in the elements.
Hi unitedwc,
Once it has been set you can just add any class name into that field and then target it specifically with css. For example if you add:
and then you add this css to your Quick CSS:
margin-top: 10px;
You could have an additional 10px margin on the top of that item.
Wow, that makes my life a lot easier, works great! thanks Richard Olpin, Devin and Ismael
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CUNA Mutual Mortgage Celebrating 25 Years of Helping CUs Become Viable Mortgage Lenders
MADISON, Wis. - Bring out the champagne. Twenty-five years after it was formed as CUNA Mortgage Corp. to help credit unions participate in mortgage lending by providing expertise and securing them mortgage funds, CUNA Mutual Mortgage is celebrating its silver anniversary this month. Credit unions, like other mortgage lenders, enjoyed record low mortgage rates over the past 18 to 24 months that helped buoy their mortgage loan portfolios. CUs' total first mortgage portfolio as of the end of the second quarter 2003, according to Callahan & Associates, was $110.5 billion, and their total real estate portfolio was $158.2 billion. But in November 1978 when CUNA Mortgage Corp. was formed by CUNA Mutual and ICU Services - which later because CUNA Service Group - credit unions' mortgage lending landscape was much different. Congress had just enacted legislation that allowed credit unions to offer mortgage loans to their members. Mortgage rates hovered at 12%, and CUNA Mortgage Corp. hired its first staff that included four employees - James Bouwkamp, president; David Shiremeyer, vp, sales; William Young, vp, underwriting; and Patricia Gregoire, office secretary. By the end of 1979, it hit another significant milestone in its history - the company serviced 25 loans for $1.1 million, and by the end of 1980, it serviced 143 loans for $7 million. After that, CUNA Mortgage Corp. continued to hit servicing milestones - * in 1981, it began selling and servicing Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae loans; * in 1985, it serviced 3,899 loans for $180 million; * in 1987, it serviced 12,365 loans for $643 million; * in June 1990, servicing reached $1 billion; * in 1992, it serviced 39,655 loans for $2.52 billion; * in 1993, it serviced 56,700 loans for $3.72 billion Three years later, CUNA Mortgage Corp. introduced its automated underwriting system to quicken the mortgage loan process, and two years after that, CUNA Service Group sold its 50% interest to CUNA Mutual. That same year, 1998, CUNA Mortgage debuted its CU Connect online loan origination system. In March 2000, after operating for two years as CUNA Mortgage Corp., the company merged with CU Mortgage of California, headed by Stephen Renock, to operate as CUNA Mutual Mortgage Corp. That same month, it signed a Web service agreement with Mortgagebot to give members an online estimate of all closing costs and credit unions the ability to capture loan applications. The milestones didn't stop there: * in October 2000, CUNA Mutual Mortgage formed an alliance with Freddie Mac to offer Internet-based mortgage originations; * last year, the company provided $4.7 billion in loan origination services and reached $9.02 billion in loans serviced. * as of October 2003, CUNA Mutual Mortgage's servicing loans totaled $10.7 billion for 104,000 members. Not in Kansas Anymore Dan Rotert, svp and COO for CUNA Mutual Mortgage joined the company last year with 13 years of experience in senior leadership positions in lending, mostly on the bank side of the business with banks such as Wachovia Bank, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati. Thinking back to how the mortgage lending industry looked when he first started out in the business, Rotert said "it didn't even come close to resembling what we have now. For one thing, loan origination systems were just on the cusp of becoming a necessity. In the late 1970s, loan origination systems didn't even exist. Now, mortgage lenders couldn't live without having a loan origination system." To add another perspective, Rotert offered this bit of information: at the height of the latest refi boom, lenders were struggling to close mortgage loans within 60 days. "If it took you any longer than that, consumers were beating you up," said Rotert. In comparison, during the previous refi boom in the 1980s, loan applications took about 180 days to close, he said, adding that that was acceptable then because consumers' expectations were lower and lenders didn't have ready access to information like borrowers' credit history like they do now. "The development of the automated underwriting system created a mental shift for lenders," he explained. "Before, a loan package was developed for each individual borrower and loan decisions were determined by committee. Underwriters scrutinized every loan package down to minute details. Now this has been replaced with a software system that can make a loan decision in seconds," he explained. "Underwriters today really just validate automated decisions." Rotert credits an advancing market with pushing the development of mortgage technology that in turn allowed for more non-traditional mortgage lenders to enter the market. In the late 1970s, he said, the secondary mortgage market was just developing. But then Fannie Mae introduced mortgage-backed securities "and that changed the dynamics of the mortgage market from one of being a consumer accommodation market to a securities market," said Rotert. "Before, a lender would make a loan and hold on to it for the term of the loan. With the advent of mortgage-backed securities, mortgage lending became a volume based business. All of a sudden, lenders had lending capacities they didn't have before," he explained. Technology and the maturation of the secondary market have been the two drivers of the mortgage industry, Rotert opines. Ironically while credit unions have been early adapters of mortgage technology, Rotert said they haven't been as quick to realize the benefits of mortgage lending. There's still a sizeable number of credit unions that don't offer mortgages-too many in Rotert's opinion-and among those that do, he said "they still see it as a seasonal business." He added that, "We're slowly getting credit unions to realize that they have to market mortgages year-round. The latest refi boom has hopefully helped credit unions to realize the value of continuous mortgage marketing. To be members' preferred financial institutions, credit unions have to be in mortgage lending continuously so they're always able to offer members a full range of products and services. "Credit unions need to think of the life cycle of mortgages and realize that if they don't market mortgages constantly, then another provider is marketing to them," Rotert continued. "Credit unions can't afford not to be in mortgage lending. If they take that position, they might as well sell their member list to their competitors." To those credit unions that argue they're too small to offer mortgage lending, Rotert says "being too small is incidental. CUNA Mutual Mortgage offers credit unions enough options that they don't even have to lift a finger if they don't want to." CUNA Mutual Homeownership Solutions allow credit unions to enter mortgage lending at a level that suits them. They include: * MEMBERS Choice netmortgage, a Web-based product that allows members to apply and receive instant approval online; * Member-Direct: credit unions refer members to loan consultants. CUNA Mutual Mortgage handles the loan processing, underwriting and closing; * Wholesale lending: suitable for credit unions that want their own mortgage department but don't have the resources, or are looking for alternatives to improve or enhance their existing mortgage department; * Correspondent lending: credit unions hold the mortgage lending ownership as they manage the entire loan process, from origination through closing and funding; * Loan administration: allows CUs to include servicing or subservicing without additional staff; * Private mortgage insurance: allows low or no down payment, high loan-to-value mortgages while protecting the credit union. Rotert is equally as adamant about credit unions that sell their mortgage servicing to a non-credit union provider. "Whenever I hear about this, I think the credit union might just as well not be in mortgage lending at all," he said. According to Rotert, of every loan originated by a credit union, more than 50% are being serviced by a non-credit union provider. He's not sure it matters to members who services their loans, "but it should matter to the credit union. If the servicing is being handled outside the credit union system, then you've essentially turned your members over to a competitor." As much as he encourages credit unions to offer mortgage lending, Rotert is under no illusion about dealing with the secondary mortgage market. "It is intimidating, that's not a false perception," he said. "There's a certain level of expertise that goes with trading on the secondary market, and there are some inherent risks. That's why only large credit unions are direct secondary market sellers. But credit unions' concern of having to sell mortgages on the secondary market shouldn't keep them from getting involved with mortgage lending," said Rotert. CUNA Mutual Mortgage sells mortgages on the secondary market for 579 credit unions. Trying to predict what the mortgage market will look like in five years is a futile exercise, said Rotert, because rates are still so volatile. One noticeable shift to lenders has been in the ratio of refinanced loans to conventional loans. At the height of the refi boom the ratio was running about 80/20, said Rotert, but now it's about 60/40. "We didn't do ourselves any favor by taking away any disincentive to refinance, namely by charging points," he said, adding that it will take a few more months for credit unions to realize any gains in market share because of the high incident of "serial refi borrowers" during the last boom. Rotert is confident that credit unions will remain competitive mortgage lenders. Coming out of the last refi boom period, "experience has put them in a position to be more competent mortgage lenders. There have been efficiencies learned and knowledge shared." But to get there, credit unions will have to be able to differentiate themselves from other mortgage lenders. "Traditional methods won't get it done," said Rotert. "There should be no reason why a member needs to go to any credit union competitor like Countrywide or BankofAmerica for a mortgage product mix. CUNA Mutual Mortgage's objective is to take the pain out of the process of developing mortgage lending products." That extends, he added, to servicing and "providing an infrastructure that allows us to combine the efficiencies of the credit union marketplace so everyone gains." Rotert admitted he doesn't know what the next big driver of the mortgage lending market will be, "but CUNA Mutual Mortgage wants to be able to adapt technology to deal with that and let credit unions compete. We want to be able to give credit unions the tools that allow them to be at the pinnacle of the mortgage lending marketplace. "We have no misguided desire to be all things to everyone, but we want to be the driver of all things related to mortgage lending to credit unions," Rotert said. -


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Here are the results from the "Sterling" poll (We'll see how they compare!)
I'm actually on the first read through of book 3, and have reached Chapter 22. I had to do some minor rewrites, but the drafting won't begin until I've taken down some notes and assembled my thoughts.
Does anybody else hate this whole Daylight Savings thing? I don't remember getting the vote when they decided to extend it even longer during the year. I actually grew up in places that did not have daylight savings, so it CAN work. I don't believe it helps reducing energy usage, because if you're up early in the morning and it's still dark, you're turning on all the nights anyhow. I think sometimes people are afraid to break habits.
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When Islamist radicals destroy centuries-old artifacts, from Bamyan to Palmyra, civilized people everywhere register their outrage. Yet in the name of fighting those same Islamists, some Western governments are destroying their own architecture of legal and human rights that took centuries to build.
The United States, post-9/11, offers countless examples. But now the government of French President François Hollande is bucking condemnations from local and international human rights groups, the United Nations, and the European Council to ram through parliament constitutional amendments that would permanently enshrine the government's emergency powers.
In the classic words of authoritarian leaders everywhere, France's interior minister insists, "it is terrorism that is the threat to freedom not the state of emergency."
France is today living under a temporary national state of emergency, imposed after the Nov. 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people and injured hundreds. Already extended once, the emergency will expire Feb. 26, unless extended again by parliament.
The national emergency — based on legislation dating back to the Algerian War in 1955 — gives the government extraordinary rights to search homes and hold people under house arrest without warrants, ban public protests, and censor the media. The French bar association condemned it as "a judicial and social model which breaks with republican values."
The constitutional amendments, if adopted, would not only bar legal challenges to the emergency powers, but would strip French-born nationals of their citizenship if they are convicted of terrorism. Hollande's Justice Minister, Christiane Taubira, resigned in protest against the latter proposal. She tweeted, with a nod to Charles de Gaulle, "sometimes resisting means leaving."


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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands could be BLINDED by super-strength DIY laser pens, experts warn
THOUSANDS of Britons could be blinded by a new breed of super-strength laser pens, experts have warned.
Britons could be blinded by laser pens knocked up in minutes
Teenagers are thought to be knocking-up the potentially deadly gadgets in minutes using parts found around the house.
A series of video tutorials explaining how to create them with lip-balm, batteries and springs have racked up millions of hits on YouTube.
Yet doctors have warned the lasers – which are 1,000 times more powerful than the UK's recommended safe limit – could blind Britons instantly.
Last night David Allamby, medical director at London's Focus Clinic, called for a ban on the shocking videos.
He said: "If the laser from one of these homemade pens is shone in someone's eye for just a split second, it could potentially blind them for life.
"The power generated would simply burn a hole in the retina causing irreparable damage."
David Allamby has warned of the dangers of the devices
Around a dozen children are blinded or injured by laser pointers each year, according to to official figures.
And two British Airways planes have been targeted by the devices this month alone – sparking fears pilots could be blinded.
The most recent incident affected a service from Amsterdam to Heathrow just before 8pm on Monday.
Two British Airways jets have been targeted by laser pens this month
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Critics have called for a blanket import ban on the devices.
But some fear youngsters could get around any potential clamp-down by making their own laser pen.
Optical Physics Professor Mark Fox, from the University of Sheffield: "You can get all the bits very easily.
"You can buy them from Amazon, or they can be taken from a DVD or Blu-Ray player. It'd cost you 10 or 20 quid."
Some of the lasers are blue or green but Professor Fox says the most dangerous ones are invisible to the human eye.
He said: "They're dangerous because you wouldn't know you were looking at it until you felt the burning in the eye."
He added: "These lasers would easily set fire to wood or paper and burn through skin if you don't flinch first."


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Legal Question in Medical Leave in California
Pregancy Leave
My wife and I own our business and have 2 ft and 1 pt employees including ourselves. Are we required to give any time off for pregnancy? Are we required to hold the employees job?
This is going to be difficult for us because of the work load. We will have to hire and train her replacement. What are our legal obligations?
Thank you
Asked on 2/22/08, 12:15 am
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Re: Pregancy Leave
Employers with less than 5 employees total are not covered by the pregnancy leave rules. You need to follow whatever leave policies you may or may not have.
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Host Name
Just tried to install this plugin and it doesnt accept my host name in ftp section. I host with 1and1 and they say to use your web url as the host, and I cant find any other info from them to find out an alternative.
But is entering in ftp details for a plugin a tad unsecure ?
Anyway as it did not accept my host name, i tried manual install, and it does not appear on plugin page.
I tried updating my wordpress and a few other plugins but everytime i go to update I get this ftp screen even though there are no auto post files in my plugins folder.
Please help -I cant believe after working many many hours to get my site finished, the whole site is now compromised by this plugin.
It sounds a very good plugin and I want to use but please tell me why ftp details are necessary on installalion, as this does not seem very secure to be giving out this info, and secondly please advise either a host name alternative, or a way to get rid of your ftp screen, as I cant update wordpress or any other plugins now.
I'd appreciate your help and advice !
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