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[Churak]

only in France, eh? I can't even follow the liaisons...

France’s Sarkozy, wife Bruni reportedly having

Chantal Jouanno, the French junior ecology minister, and singer Benjamin Biolay are at the centre of media reports about duelling affairs by president Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni.

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Cathal Kelly
Staff Reporter

The romantic flowchart of France’s first couple has become exponentially more complicated now that both are reportedly carrying on extramarital affairs.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, former model Carla Bruni, cut a glamorous figure (if a slightly skewed one, when he’s not wearing his lifts).

Their sex life has been a topic of national absorption. Bruni reportedly taunted a romantic rival by showing her the presidential bed and saying, “You’d love to occupy it, wouldn’t you?” She later urged her husband to hire a personal trainer who claimed to improve the 55-year-old president’s sexual stamina.

Apparently, both of them need the added vigour.

Rumours are now swirling that both Sarkozy and Bruni have strayed. The leggy brunette has been linked with a pop star. The less leggy right-winger has reportedly been putting a limb over with a junior minister.

The story broke on Twitter and the website suchablog.com, but it was quickly picked up by reputable French outlets.

The story so far is that Bruni has fallen in love with Benjamin Biolay, a 37year-old singer five years her junior. Bruni reportedly moved into Biolay’s Paris flat.

That thrust Sarkozy into the arms of one of his colleagues, Chantal Jouanno, the junior minister for ecology. Jouanno has described herself as “scandalized” by the suggestion of an affair.

If that’s the case, Sarkozy should tread carefully – Jouanno is a national karate champion.

On Wednesday, Bruni would not specifically address the rumoured affairs. But allegorically, she spoke volumes.

Asked by Sky News if her marriage to Sarkozy was “forever”, Bruni said: “I guess marriage should be forever, but who knows what happens … we could be dead tomorrow.”

She wasn’t quite so cavalier about her husband’s commitment.

“He would never have affairs,” Bruni asserted.

All this romantic to-ing and fro-ing should be old hat for the pair of them.

Sarkozy ditched his first wife, Marie-Dominique Culioli, for Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz. He was reportedly taken by Ciganer-Albéniz when he attended her wedding.

Ten years later, he was famously cuckolded by Ciganer-Albéniz. She decamped for New York with a wealthy publicist, Richard Attias. Sarkozy publicly wooed her back.

In a scene worthy of a Nicholas Sparks novel, Sarkozy and Ciganer-Albéniz reunited at Charles de Gaulle Airport in front of a throng of reporters. She ran into his arms and cried. Attias politely waited on the plane while the drama played out.

Later, Ciganer-Albéniz announced that she wouldn’t vote for Sarkozy. They divorced soon thereafter. She later married Attias.

Sarkozy eventually got his own back, when Bruni – an Italian model formerly linked with Mick Jagger and Donald Trump – sidled up to him at a 2007 dinner party. Three months later, they married.

Bruni’s own romantic past is also more epic than poetic. She once left journalist Jean-Paul Enthoven for his philosopher son, Raphael. In turn, Raphael Enthoven ditched Bruni, saying she was “uncommitted to the relationship.” The pair share a son.

The embarrassing soap opera with Ciganer-Albéniz may have been a lesson well learned for Sarkozy.

Some pundits have suggested that the president leaked his own infidelity rumours once he became sure that Bruni’s dalliance was about to go public.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/777703--france-s-sarkozy-wife-bruni-reportedly-having-affairs

[Churak]

what exactly does this mean?

Item 7.01

Regulation FD Disclosure

On February 13, 2010, our board of directors approved a forward split, payable by way of the declaration of a share dividend on the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of our company, par value $0.001, to be paid by the issuance of 8.2 shares for each issued and outstanding share held by stockholders of record of our company as of February 25, 2010.

Does this mean that if you had 1000 shares before the split, you would have 8,200 after the split OR does it mean that if you have 1000 shares pre split, you get an additional 8,200 for a total of 9,200 shares. A dividend ain't the same as a split so that if they issued a dividend of 8.2 for every share, you would think the latter...no?