| Restoration Hardware Enters Into Amendment to Merger Agreement With ...
CORTE MADERA, Calif., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Restoration Hardware, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSTO) today announced that it has entered into an amendment to its previously announced merger agreement with certain affiliates of Catterton Partners. Under the terms of the amended merger agreement, all of the outstanding shares of Restoration Hardware, other than those exchanged by certain stockholders participating with Catterton Partners in the transaction, will be acquired for a price per share equal to $4.50 in cash. The $4.50 per share cash consideration represents a 68% premium to the closing price of Restoration Hardware common stock on November 7, 2007, the last trading day prior to the initial announcement of the original merger agreement. The total equity value of the transaction is approximately $179 million.
Only a full inquiry can avert another disaster like Iraq
That was in October 2006, and the then foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, used the spurious argument that an inquiry could send a dangerous signal to insurgents that Britain did not have the determination to stick it out in Iraq. It was the worst kind of macho plea: "Don't give aid and comfort to the enemy", an unmerited claim of security in order to censor discussion. .
Neal's blog
Assuming the reindeer Santa employs are ten times stronger than any know reindeer species the job would require more than 200,000 animals in all. 10. The weight of the payload and reindeer (over 350,000 tons) traveling at 650 miles per second creates unimaginable air resistance. This will heat the reindeer the same way a spaceship re-entering the earths atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14 quintillion joules of energy per second. Each. 11. The huge amount of energy absorbed will create deafening sonic booms and cause the entire team to be vaporized almost instantly. 12. Santa would be subjected to centrifugal forces more than 17,500 times greater than gravity. The only conclusion one can reach from the above is that if Santa ever tried to deliver presents in this manner, the attempt killed him.
Who wants to know what the top quiz is?
The children's favourite Blockbusters was voted to have spawned the best catchphrase of all time – "Can I have a P please, Bob?" Other favourite phrases included "You are the weakest link. Goodbye", as Anne Robinson bids farewell to failed contestants on The Weakest Link, and "I've started so I'll finish", from the long-running Mastermind.Appropriately, two of the best-known catchphrases are from the show Catchphrase – "Say what you see" and "It's good, but it's not right", used even when contestants are nowhere near guessing the answer.The favourite theme tune was from darts-based Bullseye, and the top ten also includes the bouncy tune from 1970s favourite It's A Knockout and the catchy lyric from Blankety Blank.According to the research, 35 per cent of viewers want an intellectually challenging game show and only 32 per cent care if the presenter is charismatic.Only 1 per cent believe a show needs celebrity contestants, as featured in the most recent series of Family Fortunes and special editions of The Weakest Link and Who Wants to be .
Nature’s chance meeting
But this latest news is certainly a step – an important step – in the right direction. ............................... Going native in the bush Our Aboriginal guide tells us about “bush tucker" – lizards and wallabies, berries and roots. He offers us little fruits, “the best you'll have all day". They taste of damp tissue paper. At our picnic stop by a billabong, he reaches into his bag to get his lunch: a can of baked beans, writes Paul Miles Evan Yanna Muru, who leads Aboriginal tours of the bush in the Blue Mountains, a couple of hours' train ride from Sydney, refuses to indulge any fantasies that Aborigines dine on possums. “I have baked beans when it's cold and salad when it's hot," he says, sitting on rocks near a waterfall. The area's geological formations and rainforest trees are newcomers compared to Evan's ancestors.
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