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Charterhouse dragged into spotlight by feud at the top
On July 31, 2008, Geoffrey Arbuthnott drove from his home in Hertfordshire to an upmarket restaurant at The Hoste Arms in the small town of Burnham Market in Norfolk. He arrived early and waited in his car for his former colleague Edward Cox, chairman of the legendarily low-profile Charterhouse Capital Partners, to arrive.
Arbuthnott had worked at the firm for over 20 years and had retired earlier that year but still held 8.9% of the shares in Charterhouse Capital Limited.
Fast-forward six years and what was said at that lunch at The Hoste Arms, a pub that claims a history dating back to 1550, is now being raked over by about a dozen lawyers the Chancery Division of the High Court in London as part of a six-week trial that centres on a disagreement over the value of Arbuthnott's shares in the firm.
Alleged blackmail is just one of a number of issues that have come out in court but the real heart of the case is how private equity firms deal with succession and find a fair price to pay old guard partners for their shares once they retire.
The case has also provided a rare insight into the workings of Charterhouse. Despite an 80-year history, outsiders know relatively little about the inner workings of the group, even though it controls more than €8 billion of investments, because it is run by a small, tightly knit group of long-time executives.
Arbuthnott has launched legal action against Charterhouse and current and former colleagues, saying that the firm's executive chairman Gordon Bonnyman and 15 other current and former Charterhouse shareholders tried to force him to sell his entire stake in the firm in November 2011 for £1.35 million – which he says is less than its true value. He is now petitioning the courts to get an independent valuation of the shares.
Bonnyman's lawyers, Slaughter and May, described the proposed purchase price of the shares as fair in court documents and said that Arbuthnott was pressuring the respondents to buy his shares at a "grossly inflated price".
Although both sides say the lunch took place, the tone and what was said are in dispute. Cox said in a witness statement that the meeting was "frosty" but speaking in court last week Arbuthnott said it was "difficult but amicable" and "businesslike".
Lawyers for Charterhouse now state in court documents that over the two-course, hour-long lunch Arbuthnott tried to blackmail the firm by alleging malpractice during the buyout in 2005 of washroom service provider PHS.
The lawyers say that Arbuthnott said the then-UK regulator the Financial Services Authority would "go nuts" if it knew the details of the matter and said: "Buy my shares and I go away". Charterhouse strongly denies any malpractice.
At the end of the lunch, which Cox said he paid for, Arbuthnott said that he wanted £50 million for his shares and 9% of the carried interest in the firm's ninth fund, according to Arbuthnott in court last week. Carried interest is a share of the fund's profits which can be retained by the fund's managers and which in Arbuthnott's case could be worth additional tens of millions of pounds.
Arbuthnott said in witness statements that he had "no intention of blackmailing anyone" and felt that he was raising legitimate business concerns.
Lawyers for Charterhouse said in court documents: "The 'concerns' were merely ammunition to try and force a purchase price higher than Charterhouse or its other members would be willing to contemplate". The documents added: "The language he used was plainly an unjustified threat made to make an illegitimate gain unless his demands were met."
Background and history
Arbuthnott had worked at Charterhouse for 20 years before retiring several months before the meeting in Norfolk in 2008. He described himself in court last week as Bonnyman's "right-hand man", who met with the top director for around an hour every morning to discuss the business.
Bonnyman, widely credited as being the driving force behind Charterhouse's rise to prominence, was formerly managing partner of Charterhouse but stepped back from running the firm and became executive chairman in 2012.
During the 1990s, Arbuthnott was one of the most important investment managers at the firm and responsible for some of the most significant transactions, including the very profitable investment in train owner Porterbrook Leasing in 1996.
Charterhouse was spun out from HSBC in a management buyout in 2001, with executives paying £6.1 million to take control of the business. At the time of the buyout, Bonnyman was the largest shareholder with 17.8% of the shares, followed by Arbuthnott who held 8.9% of the shares and seven other partners each taking around a 7% share in the business, according to court documents filed by Charterhouse.
Soon after the spin-out, fundraising began in earnest, with the firm raising €2.7 billion for its seventh fund, which closed in 2003. That fund delivered handsome returns for the firm's executives, paying out carried interest of over £353 million for Charterhouse's executives between August 2007 and October 2010, according to Arbuthnott's lawyers in court documents, which has never previously been disclosed.
Overall, the firm's funds from its fourth fund (raised in the late 1980s) to its eighth (raised in 2006) generated average returns of 2.8-times the original investment, according to Arbuthnott in court last week.
In the years leading up to his retirement, Charterhouse had made Arbuthnott a wealthy man. He was paid around a total of £49.2 million in salary, bonus, pension contributions and carry from 2002 to 2006, according to court documents filed by Charterhouse.
But Arbuthnott's retirement from the firm had been a different story, with his share of entitlement to the carried interest in the firm's eighth fund cut by Bonnyman in a meeting in his office in 2006, according to documents from both sets of lawyers.
Commenting on the meeting on the eighth fund, Arbuthnott said in court last week: "I said 'I'm just getting mugged here'. I had been there 20 years and had great performance appraisals and then this. I didn't see this coming. There was no warning."
Documents filed by Bonnyman's lawyers justified the cut in Arbuthnott's carry by saying that Arbuthnott had become increasingly "disengaged" from the running of Charterhouse, had not wanted junior members of the business to buy shares in the firm and had last worked on a deal in 1999. Arbuthnott said in court that he was closely involved in the running of the business, was effectively Bonnyman's deputy and was particularly involved in fundraising for the firm's seventh and eighth funds.
Arbuthnott had also seen his bonuses steadily decline in the years leading up to his retirement, from £2 million in 2003 to £400,000 in 2007, according to court documents filed by Charterhouse.
"By December 2007, it was pretty clear that Bonnyman wanted me out", said Arbuthnott in court last week.
In January 2008, Arbuthnott had handed in his retirement notice, but still held on to 8.9% of the shares in the firm and was keen to have his portion bought out.
The blackmail allegations
By mid-2008, when Cox and Arbuthnott met at The Hoste Arms, little had been resolved and the meeting only served to make relations even more strained between Arbuthnott and the firm.
The most serious allegation that Arbuthnott has made on misconduct relates to PHS, as it was a listed company. Charterhouse bought the company for £215 million in 1999, then floated it in 2001, valuing the company at £414 million. In 2005, PHS put itself up for sale, and according to documents for Charterhouse, Charterhouse investment manager James Arnell and fellow Charterhouse executive Stuart Simpson had a meeting in 2005 with Peter Cohen, then chief executive of PHS, just before final bids for PHS were to be submitted.
Arbuthnott's allegations about wrongdoing in the PHS bid have not been made clear in court. However, Charterhouse's lawyers say in court documents that Arbuthnott alleged Simpson might somehow at that meeting have learnt the PHS board's "walk away" price – information that would be very useful in the auction if known.
Arnell told Charterhouse's lawyers in court documents that Cohen did not disclose any information concerning a "walk away" price. A spokesman for Cohen told Financial News that he "firmly denies any wrongdoing" and said "no inappropriate conversations took place between himself and Mr Simpson". The spokesman added: "In accordance with proper practice, all discussions regarding the Charterhouse Capital offer were conducted by the independent non-executive directors of the PHS board, and not the executive directors". A spokesman for PHS declined to comment.
Charterhouse documents filed with the court say no price was disclosed and that anyhow Charterhouse "was not at the time focused on pricing any bid".
In July 2005, Charterhouse bought PHS for £730 million in debt and equity, according to Charterhouse's website.
Court documents for Charterhouse added that it commissioned law firm Dickson Minto to investigate allegations of improper business practice.
The report found that "there had been a number of relatively minor breaches of process letters and confidentiality agreements" but there had "been no significant breach of any FSA rules or principles and that no FSA notification was required" – in other words, there was no need to tell the then-regulator Financial Services Authority of any rules broken.
The FSA's successor, the Financial Conduct Authority, declined to comment.
Watling Street
After the lunch in Norfolk, a series of letters went back and forth between Charterhouse's lawyers and Arbuthnott's lawyers but the parties were still in deadlock by January 2011. By then, several of the founding partners of the firm had retired, while some others were close to retirement. Bonnyman was stepping back from the running of the firm.
It meant that over half of the shares in the business were owned by retired or soon-to-be-retired partners, with younger people on the investment team unable to get a slice of ownership. Bonnyman agreed that it was time to devise a solution to the firm's "misalignment" problem, as it would be a worry to investors and was disincentivising junior investment managers. He appointed Dickson Minto to come up with an answer, according to Charterhouse's court filings.
Dubbed "Project Parker" by Charterhouse's general counsel Tom Patrick, the law firm proposed creating a new structure, called Watling Street Limited, referring to a narrow street near London's St Paul's Cathedral, that would buy out the existing shareholders for a total of £15.15 million. This valued Arbuthnott's stake at around £1.35 million, according to court documents from Arbuthnott's lawyers.
Charterhouse executives paid a nominal £200 to become members of Watling Street Limited. Subject to a few provisions, when Charterhouse executives retire they will be forced to give up their interest in the vehicle and will be paid back their initial £200, according to court documents from Charterhouse and a firm spokesman, meaning Charterhouse would no longer have non-active staff as shareholders. By November 2011, Watling Street made offers to all the Charterhouse shareholders. All accepted except Arbuthnott.
Arbuthnott said that he was not provided with adequate information on why the new vehicle was set up and that the price he was being offered was too low, according to documents filed by his lawyers. In court he said that valuing Charterhouse at £15.15 million was too low, "absurd", and that "I have always said that all I wanted was an independent valuation" of the shares.
Private equity firms are hard to value. Experts called by Arbuthnott have given figures ranging from £20 million to £325 million. Charterhouse's own experts KPMG valued the business at between £10 million and £20 million in 2009.
The case continues, with about five more weeks of hearings expected.
• Allegations over private jet expenses
When Charterhouse's then-chairman Edward Cox met Geoffrey Arbuthnott for lunch at The Hoste Arms in 2008, Arbuthnott made a series of allegations. Among them: $23,000 in private jet expenses had in effect been paid by investors in Charterhouse's funds when they should have been paid by Charterhouse itself, according to a court witness statement from Cox.
Both Arbuthnott and Gordon Bonnyman had been using a private plane to travel across America visiting potential investors for Charterhouse's fundraising around January 2006, according to the statement.
The statement says Arbuthnott said at the lunch that Bonnyman used the private jet to travel from Albany to Fort Lauderdale in Florida for personal reasons in January 2006. Cox noted that Arbuthnott said this "$23k" flight was later charged to "fund expenses".
In the private equity industry, travel, salary costs and other overheads are usually paid for out of the firm's own expenses, rather than from investor money.
After the lunch, Cox says that he asked Charterhouse's former compliance officer Thomas Plant and former director Roger Pilgrim to investigate the matter.
In his witness statement Cox says that Pilgrim found the expenses should "perhaps properly have been billed to the firm rather than the fund" but that "it was a relatively immaterial expense in relation to the size of the fund and the expenses which were incurred by Mr Bonnyman and other members of the team in conducting the fundraising".
Cox's witness statement added that Pilgrim found that this incident wasn't "representative of a culture at Charterhouse of excessive expenses or of a 'free and easy, high spending (of other people's money) approach' at the firm".
A spokesman for Charterhouse said: "This was a legitimate expense relating to a lengthy fundraising trip in the United States.
"The tardy allegation should be seen in the context in which it was made. It was accompanied by an offer to 'go away' if Mr Arbuthnott's shares were bought for a ludicrous price."
The spokesman added that Bonnyman couldn't comment as he is giving evidence in the ongoing court proceedings.
• Who runs Charterhouse?
In 2009, after the firm's ninth fund was raised, long-standing managing partner Gordon Bonnyman (right) began sharing his management responsibilities with Lionel Giacomotto, Malcolm Offord and Jeremy Greenhalgh, according to documents filed by Charterhouse. This governance structure was deemed too "cumbersome" by the investment team, with matters coming to a head in 2011. At the end of 2010, the firm had a larger-than-normal bonus pool. Instead of dividing up the excess cash among all the members of the investment team, the four-person management team decided to keep the extra bonus money for themselves, according to documents filed by Charterhouse.
This prompted a "backlash" from the investment team, with two directors tendering their resignations, the documents state. After internal discussions, a consensus emerged that Giacomotto alone should succeed Bonnyman as managing partner and that in the future bonuses would be divided up as in previous years. In the end, both directors withdrew their resignations, according to documents filed by Charterhouse.
At present, Bonnyman and Giacomotto jointly guide the important decisions at the firm, particularly on identifying early-stage prospective investments and setting remuneration, according to documents filed by Charterhouse.
Certain decisions are then formally put to Charterhouse's various committees. At the top of the pile is the executive committee that has responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business, including financial reporting, tax and compliance. The remuneration and allocation committees respectively set bonuses and carried interest levels for investment directors. The board investment committee, on which all income members of the firm sit, then makes the decisions about what businesses Charterhouse will buy or sell and at what price. All other issues are discussed at quarterly limited partner meetings.
--This article was first published in the print edition of Financial News dated February 3, 2014


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Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests in two years for molesting children, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.
The statistics for 2011-12 show a big increase over the 170 priests removed in 2008 and 2009. That's when the Vatican first provided details on how many priests had been defrocked, the AP reported. Previously, the Vatican only revealed the number of alleged cases of sexual abuse it had received.
According to the AP, the document was prepared from data the Vatican collected to help the Holy See defend itself before a U.N. committee.
A senior Vatican official acknowledged Thursday there is "no excuse" for child sex abuse, as he and others were grilled by a U.N. committee about the Catholic Church's handling of pedophile priests.
It was the first time the Vatican had been forced to answer allegations so publicly that it enabled the sexual abuse of children by protecting such priests.
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The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 reauthorized the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP). The FRPP provides matching funds to help purchase development rights to keep productive farm and ranchland in agricultural uses. Working through existing programs, USDA partners with State, tribal, or local governments and non-governmental organizations to acquire conservation easements or other interests in land from landowners. USDA provides up to 50 percent of the fair market easement value of the conservation easement.
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"Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition," the ABC show, is coming to Milwaukee in search of participants for its Season 4.
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2 longtime Milwaukee Symphony players retiring
For Dennis Najoom and Maurice Wininsky, who are retiring from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra at the end of this season, retirement plans hold a lot of music-making.
"I love to play the trumpet and I'm not ready to stop being a musician," explained Najoom, who came to the MSO in 1970. "I'm just ready to stop being the co-principal trumpet in the MSO." »Read Full Article
New CDs in stores this week
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Keep in mind that Character Bashing is now prohibited. Making fun of certain characters/character pairings leads to a pointless thread filled with insults and general rule breaking.
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Obito he would warp him away
Shisui... Kotomataksuki it's over... Madara can't cancel it he can't protect against it he can't even tell if it's on him, boom done
choose ''one'' naruto character that could protect you while you're running for you're life and why would you put
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i would choose neji, he is a great defender!
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obito! if obito could survive being crushed by a ton of boulders theres no telling what else he is capable of, even saving one from madara uchiha
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I like guys, who thinks KA is a battle-technique.
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Obito he would warp him away
minato .... madara is about to kill me , minato FTG's me to the other side of the earth and seals him
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Karin is good at taking hits.
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Iowa teachers union seeks school funding boost
The state teachers' union wants lawmakers to approve legislation that would increase state aid to school districts for the coming school year.
A staffer for the Iowa State Education Association told senators at a subcommittee meeting Wednesday that one rural district would likely have to layoff teachers if lawmakers don't increase aid to schools.
Democratic lawmakers have proposed a 4 percent increase in state support to school districts, putting them in conflict with Gov. Terry Branstad. The governor is pushing for passage of changes to Iowa's education system before considering state aid.
The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to vote on their school funding plan next week. Lawmakers in the Republican-controlled House say they will take up the governor's plan first, or at the same time as school funding.
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Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years.
True, Amazon does not give specific details of their books. But it does have a "Look Inside" link to a lot of its books--paper and digital-- plus free sample downloads of ALL kindle ebooks that covers up to an entire chapter which should give a browsers all the information needed. John Ormsby's is the definitive translation of the Don as far as I am concerned for capturing what must have been the dry humor of the original.
I agree about the Amazon site, which often mis-describes books, stating that the translator is so-and-so when it is not. Feedbooks is more careful.l In the case of Don Quixote, John Ormsby is named as translator, so we do know what we are getting.
Edith Grossman's excellent translation was published only a few years ago. It's very good. But it's unreasonable to expect to get it for free!
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Published in: 1615
Translator: John Ormsby
Word count: 405,552 words (≈ about 27 hours)
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The Know Direction Podcast will once again be releasing audio recordings of the majority of the sessions, presentations, and seminars of PaizoCon! So for those of you, like myself, who were not able to make it, this is the second best thing!
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Home List of Titles Dynamical evolution of globular cluster systems in clusters of galaxies: the case of NGC 1404 in the Fornax Cluster
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- Dynamical evolution of globular cluster systems in clusters of galaxies: the case of NGC 1404 in the Fornax Cluster
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- Bekki, Kenji; Couch, Warrick J.; Forbes, Duncan A.; Beasley, Michael A.
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- We investigate, via numerical simulations, the tidal stripping and accretion of globular clusters (GCs). In particular, we focus on creating models that simulate the situation for the GC systems of KGC 1404 and NGC 1399 in the Fornax cluster, which have poor (specific frequency SN~2) and rich (SN~10) GC systems respectively. vVe initially assign NGC 1404 in our simulation a typical SN (~5) for cluster ellipticals, and find that its GC system can only be reduced through stripping to the presently observed value, if its orbit is highly eccentric ( with orbital eccentricity of> 0.5) and if the initial scale length of the GCs system is about twice as large as the effective radius of NGC 1404 itself. These stripped GCs can be said to have formed a 'tidal stream' of intra-cluster globular clusters (ICGCs) orbiting the center of Fornax cluster (many of which would be assigned to NGC 1399 in an imaging study). The physical properties of these GCs (e.g., number, radial distribution, and kinematics) depend on the orbit and initial distribution of GCs in NGC 1404. Our simulations also predict a trend for SN to rise with increasing cluster-centric distance - a trend for which there is some observational support in the Fornax cluster. We demonstrate that since the kinematical properties of ICGCs formed by tidal stripping in the cluster tidal field depend strongly on the orbits of their previous host galaxies, observations of ICGC kinematics provides a new method for probing galaxy dynamics in a cluster.
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- Highlights of Astronomy: as presented at the XXVth General Assembly of the IAU, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 13-26 July 2003, Vol. 13, p. 197
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If you're not comparing Nash to the greats, then why are mentioning all these NBA ledgends for? I never said Nash was better than them, SAY WHAT YOU MEAN...don't be afraid boy.
And remember one thing, all time great players aren't based on two seasons. Let the whole thing go, its taking your agruement no where.
Okay your agruement is
Nash isn't a great player
He's not worthy of MVP.
Let me shut down your agruement completely right now with ease.
Nash is atleast a top 10 NBA player right now, go ahead and name 10 guys in the NBA that are better than Nash right now.
So if Nash is a top 10 NBA player...they are only 9 great players according to you? The rest of the NBA all stars and all NBA second and third team players aren't great now, according to your off the head logic.
And is there a player in the NBA as good as Nash with both hands? Nope... I mean look at those left handed bounce passes, he's one of the most craftiest players in our generation.
If Kidd can take over an NBA game, then Nash can. I thought you meant by taking over meaning that score 50 bull**** Kobe does, but still losing. If you're gonna through Kidd's name in there, you have to throw in Nash, don't even contradict yourself like that again child.
Shaq, Kobe and Dirk couldn't even get out of the first round this year, its also useless when you bring playoffs into the regular season MVP discussion.
Nash is the keystone for this Suns team that has challenged and redefined the brand of basketball played in the NBA, and that says a lot. The value for for pass first PG's is increasing. Look at the Toronto Raptors with Calderon and TJ Ford. Others PPG doesn't always equal wins. The year Wilt averaged 50 they didn't win ****. Same with Jordan's for his first 3 or 4 years in the league. He averaged around 35-37 and wouldn't even make the playoffs. Nash is not better than those guys at their prime, but Nash living proof you do not need to lead the NBA in PPG to win MVP. If that was the case, where are agruements for Jerry Stackhouse MVP's trophy in the year he averaged almost 30 points per game? Not only Nash scores points 17-19 ppg a game, he's by far the league leader in assist per game. This is reason why Nash deserved MVP. The funny thing is, Nash got better after each year he won MVP, so he was definately a deserving canidate for MVP this season.
Stop trying so hard to disagree.


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When Candy Fisher's dog, Chrissy, was attacked by a pit bull two years ago, she spared no expense getting her the best medical treatment at her vet.
"I don't even think about these things. I take her all the time because I want to be sure that she's taken care of," says Fisher.
Candy's not alone. Even during this recession, spending on pets grew to $48 billion last year. But Consumer Reports finds there are plenty of ways to tame your pet costs and still get good care.
First, comparison shop for veterinary care. A good benchmark is how much a vet charges for a physical exam.
"You probably won't find huge differences in the costs, but this could be a good indicator of other costs, such as major procedures that can add up to a lot of money," says Greg Daughterty of Consumer Reports.
Also, if your pet needs any medication, don't automatically buy the meds from the vet. Vets typically charge at least 100 percent more than wholesale and sometimes even more than that.
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text: Home > LifeStyle > Health & Fitness 13 Reasons to Have Sex Today By HealthMeUpNovember 10, 2012 facebook twitter reddit SKIP AD Image 6 of 14 Related Galleries Next Gallery Starts in 12 Secs X SKIP WAITING AUTOPLAY ON OFF Prev Next World's Scariest Cities To Live In Watch Randeep Hooda In A Painter's Avatar For Rang Rasiya Watch The Crackling Chemistry Between Randeep Hooda And Nandana Sen In Rang Rasiya 5 Reasons Why You Must Watch Kill The Messenger All The Stars From Kill The Messenger's New York Premiere Keanu Reeves Gets In Action For John Wick 49758 Prev Next Stressed, burdened with life's difficult problems and fear that your health is declining? Then sex is the answer to happiness, longevity and a healthy body. You don't agree? Well, here is a list of the health benefits of sex, so do it daily to experience complete pleasure. These are 13 reasons to have sex today! *Images courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/Getty Images De-stress: Sex helps you reduce stress. When deep breathing exercises fail to de-stress you, sex will do the needful. In a study, published in the Public Library of Science journal, three neuroscience researchers conducted a test on male rats and found that the sexually active rats were less anxious than rats with no sexual activity. Lowers high blood pressure: Hugs and sex can improve your blood pressure. Sex reduces diastolic blood pressure, that is, the bottom number while reading blood pressure. Researchers with the University of Paisley conducted an experiment on the same. They concluded that sex improves blood pressure. Builds your immunity: Trying to fight the sniffles? Sex is the answer to fight cold and other health problems; sex can boost your immunity. Immunoglobulin A, an antigen that fights the flu increases when the frequency of sex increases. Burns calories: If you are trying to lose weight, add sex to your daily fitness routine. Apparently, you can burn 700 calories a week if you have sex daily. In an article published in the American Journal of Exercise Calorimetry in August 2006, Dr. Wieder confirms that sex helps to burn calories. Check out the lengthy study and calorie count. Healthy heart: Sex helps you burn calories but it can also improve your heart. Sex will take care of stroke and heart attacks, you just have to enjoy the moment. Scientists with New England Research Institute examined the effect of sex on the heart. The study concluded that men are 45 percent less likely to experience cardiovascular diseases. But the study fails to study the effect of sex on a woman's heart. Pain relief: Pleasure is the measure to beat out the pain. Do you experience migraines and body pain? Well sex is the answer. But if you experience back pain, it is best to consult a doctor. Dr. George E. Erlich, an arthritis specialist from Philadelphia conducted a study on the link between arthritis and sex. He narrows down that patients who engaged in sex experienced less pain. Builds trust and intimacy: The act of sex spikes the hormone oxytocin; this hormone is responsible for your happiness and love. If your feel your relationship is falling out, there is trust or you're worried that your partner will stray away, then sex will dispel these doubts. The hormone oxytocin builds trust and brings couples closer, and cupid too. Less chances of cancer: Regular ejaculation reduces your chances of developing prostate cancer. In an Australian study men who ejaculated 21 times a month were least likely to develop cancer. It is further supported by other researches that sexual intercourse reduces the risk of prostrate cancer. Stronger pelvic muscles: Sex involves the use of several muscles; hence regular sexual intercourse can help you develop stronger pelvic muscles. Further, since the act of sex involves a range of muscles, it also helps strengthen these muscles - for ex: quads, your core, and the upper back. Through regular sex, you can also maintain a strong bladder and bowel function. Strong muscles, calorie burner, improves heart health – sex seems to take care of you. Induces sleep: After that great, lovely workout you are bound to get good sleep. But guess what? Sex works the same way as exercise. The increased heart rate leads to increased post-coital relaxation. Sex could be the next thing for insomniacs! So what really happens: - Sex can relax you, hence if you are already tired, the act of sex will induce sleep. - When men ejaculate they become lethargic, this can make them sleepy. Regular periods: Apparently sex can improve your menstrual cycle. Sex regulates hormones, which in turn regulate the menstrual cycle. Sex reduces stress, which is one of the reasons women miss their periods. Sex seems like a better option than pills. Live longer: A healthy heart, stronger muscles, increased circulation of oxygen and happiness are some of the factors that add life to the years and as a result - years to your life. A study published in the British Medical Journal reveals that men who engaged in sex often live twice as those who rarely had any action. Healthier semen: If you're trying to conceive, you increase the volume of semen if you have sex regularly. Regular sex replaces old sperms from the testicles. If there is a natural build of sperms it can lead to DNA damage. < 4 5 6 7 8 > Follow @indiatimes facebook twitter reddit Comment Here Healthy heart: Sex helps you burn calories but it can also improve your heart. Sex will take care of stroke and heart attacks, you just have to enjoy the moment. Scientists with New England Research Institute examined the effect of sex on the heart. The study concluded that men are 45 percent less likely to experience cardiovascular diseases. 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On May 15, President Bush offered further evidence that he has strayed far from traditional Reaganite Republican principles by urging the Senate to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Treaty.
With a Democratic majority, ratification has become a possibility.
It would be a mistake.
The Law of the Sea Treaty was negotiated between 1973 and 1982, back in the era when, as author Doug Bandow put it in a recent report for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, "socialism was seen as the wave of the future."
Most of its provisions, regarding rights of passage and exclusive economic rights in territorial waters, are not especially controversial, since they mainly codify existing international law.
The objectionable provisions are mostly contained in Article XI, which caused President Reagan to reject it. It declares the resources on the seabed beyond any country's international waters to be "the common heritage of mankind," not to be owned by anybody.
This lofty declaration is implemented by the creation of an International Seabed Authority, which would issue licenses, collect taxes, and redistribute wealth on deep sea mining operations, and something called the Enterprise, which would actually mine the ocean floor.
Thus not "all mankind," but a discrete group of unelected bureaucrats would control access to the potentially lucrative mineral resources in international sea beds. This would create endless red tape, political favoritism and corruption.
The Clinton administration announced in 1994 that the United States would treat the treaty as binding, but the Senate still declined to ratify the treaty. Now President Bush has urged the Senate to ratify the whole treaty.
A much less ambitious international regime would be a better way to encourage the safe exploitation of the oceans' mineral resources. A modest international body could simply record claims to portions of the seabed believed to contain significant resources, from private companies, countries, or even individuals. If the entity claiming a piece of the seabed was unable to retrieve the resources after a reasonable period of time, the claim would expire.
Such a market-friendly system would be much more likely to encourage responsible exploitation of deep-sea resources than the convoluted international bureaucracy set up under the Law of the Sea Treaty. Then Article XI could be eliminated from the treaty and the U.S. could ratify it without significant reservations.
The first step toward this or some other sensible approach to harvesting resources at the bottom of the sea, however, is for the U.S. Senate once again to decline to ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty in its existing form.
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By Karl Terry: Freedom Newspapers
Plans to begin vaccinations for human papillomavirus are creating a stir among school officials, parents and public health officials.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry touched off a firestorm earlier this month when he issued an executive order requiring all sixth-grade girls to receive the vaccine.
The New Mexico Department of Health is working on plans for doing vaccinations for the sexually-transmitted virus that doctors say is a major factor in females developing cervical cancer later in life, according to Chris Minnick, state Department of Health regional public information officer.
He said the vaccinations will be voluntary.
NMDH officials in Region 4, which includes Clovis and Portales, sent school nurses information indicating the state would like to start the vaccinations in March. The inoculations would be offered to girls who are age 11 when the series of three shots, given over six months, begins.
State health officials asked Portales school officials last week to hold distribution of the information to parents while the program details are finalized and vaccine availability is determined.
"They kind of shocked us a little bit by sending the e-mail to the health nurses," Portales Municipal Schools Superintendent Randy Fowler said. "I think they have some issues that need to be addressed."
Fowler said he just wanted to make sure everyone was on the same page and well informed before it started.
Clovis Municipal Schools Director of Nursing Rhonda Sparks said the HPV vaccine will not likely be administered in Clovis schools this school year, but could be in the near future.
The state provided a first wave of vaccines for 11-year-old girls, but not in sufficient amounts to cover girls in each school district, she said.
Lu Ann Fillpot, registered nurse at Farwell Independent School District, is excited her district could be moving ahead with the vaccinations as early as Wednesday. She said the governor's order would likely not take effect for some time but the vaccine is available and the Texas Department of Health Services is able to start giving the shots on a voluntary basis.
"Who wouldn't want to vaccinate their daughter against cervical cancer," Fillpot said. "It's a powerful tool, why wouldn't we take advantage of it."
She said she had sent out an e-mail to faculty about the program and reaction from her coworkers ran the gamut. Comments included the argument vaccinating children against a sexually-transmitted disease would promote promiscuity and some feared it was a scheme by the drug company.
Muleshoe Independent School District Superintendent Gene Sheets said his district will be going much slower on the vaccinations. He said the issue hadn't been thoroughly discussed in the district, however, his feeling was that it was an issue for parents.
If Texas' mandatory program gets past challenges by citizens and legislators, parents will still be able to chose not to have their child vaccinated, but would have to have a notarized affidavit to do so.
The voluntary program in New Mexico would just require parents signing a consent form for their child to receive the shots.


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From the article and Q&A by Diana Manos in Health Care IT News: Patient Privacy Rights hires CTO
"Patient Privacy Rights appointed Adrian Gropper, MD as its first chief technology officer. Gropper is an expert in the regulated medical device field, an experienced medical informatics executive, and he has a long record of contributing to the development of state and national health information standards, according to a PPR news release.
Gropper, who has worked with federal initiatives and the Markle Foundation to help create the Direct Project's secure email system and Blue Button technologies says he joins PPR because the challenges of runaway costs and deep inequities in the U.S. health system call for new information tools and inspired regulation.
"PPR's deep respect for the medical profession and our total dedication to the patient perspective form the foundation for a series of policy and practice initiatives to shape health reform and electronic health systems," Gropper said in the news release. "As a member of the PPR team, I look forward to driving a national consensus on the most difficult issues in the information age, including respectful patient identity, trustworthy consent, research acceleration, and effective public health."
According to PPR, Gropper is a pioneer in privacy-preserving health information technology going as far back as the Guardian Angel Project at MIT in 1994. As CTO of one of the earliest personal health records companies, MedCommons, he actively participated in most of the PHR policy and standards initiatives of the past decade."


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Attending: Steve Huntsberry, Linda Kahan, Mark Lacina, Matthew Loxterman, Timothy Quinn, Sherry Parsons, Darren Shaffer, Masao Sugiyama, Bill Zaugg, John Carmichael
Mark Lacina led the meeting in Wendy's absence.
1.Review of survey
Mark distributed a draft survey that he intends to distribute campus-wide during the week of December 6. Mark invited comments and suggestions.
The DTF made several comments on the draft survey generally, including:
- Collect information about the people responding. Are they faculty, staff, on-campus students, off-campus students? Do they currently use the lots? Which ones?
- Provide a scale for people to use in responding to questions (for instance, "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree").
- Provide lots of room for narrative comments.
- This survey will not be statistically valid. Responses will be highly biased. It will be impossible to make valid inferences from the survey results.
The DTF made comments on several specific questions:
- Regarding question #3, the "center of campus" may not be the relevant area for some respondents. Perhaps "for your purpose" would be better.
- Regarding question #5, add a few parenthetical words to define "utilitarian look."
- Regarding question #6, ask respondents to rank their choices.
- Regarding question #7, provide more detailed information on the range of fee increases under consideration.
- Regarding question #9, "how parking is administered" is very broad. How could the Parking office or the DTF use this feedback?
2. Student group
Mark introduced Matthew Loxterman and Darren Shaffer from the student group Evergreen Alternative Transportation (also known as "EAT This"). The group was formed by students who were involved in the Student Bus Pass project and intends to develop a Commute Trip Reduction program focused on students. Darren urged the DTF to spend time considering strategies to reduce demand for parking rather than focusing exclusively on adding parking spaces. The group would like to be involved in the DTF's work.
3. Subcommittees
The DTF began to form subcommittees to focus on specific issues, including:
- Costs and fees - Bill Zaugg and Steve Huntsberry are working on this. Masao volunteered to help.
- Outreach - It was suggested that Thad Curtz, who was not present, might join this group.
- Commute Trip Reduction - Sherry Parsons and Mark Lacina
- Environmental Issues - Timothy Quinn volunteered and suggested that Trevor would also join this group.
4. Next meeting
The next meeting is Wednesday, December 8 from 1:00-3:00 in Library 1507. Possible agenda items include:
- A member of the Seminar II DTF may join the discussion.
- The survey should be ready to distribute.
- Progress reports from subcommittees.
- Decide on how the DTF might participate in the Commute Trip Reduction fair on December 15.
- Return to the Parking Expansion DTF Home Page.
- This page last updated on December 6, 1999.


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WASHINGTON, DC — Readers of The River Reporter know that their papers are not being delivered through the mail on time, and the paper has reported this is mostly attributable to consolidation of United States Postal Service (USPS) mail sorting facilities, which has been taking place across the country.
Lawmakers in Washington are aware of the problems that the USPS is undergoing, and before they shut down the government on October 1, some lawmakers were working on some solutions. One of the biggest problems, in the opinion of many observers, is that USPS, unlike any other entity in the country, is required by a 2006 law to prefund 75 years worth of the healthcare costs of future employees, and to do that in 10 years.
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The ups and downs of warMarch 13,2014As the American Civil War progressed, the problem of finding competent leaders for the Union Army took some odd turns. In peacetime, seniority often prevailed but, as it turned out, sometimes seniority didnt necessarily mean combat competence. So, as the war progressed, age became less important than other abilities.
A century and a half ago this year, Philip Sheridan was put in charge of Union forces in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with orders to clear out the Confederates and keep the valleys drops from being used to feed the rebels.
One of the generals serving under Sheridan in the valley had graduated from the military academy at West Point in 1831 and that was the year Sheridan was born.
Another figure with an unusual career during the war was Joseph Hooker, who carried the nickname Fighting Joe. Wounded in the Battle of Antietam, where he commanded a corps, he became commander of the Army of the Potomac until after his withdrawal of Union forces after the Battle of Chancellorsville, when Stonewall Jacksons flank attack crumpled up one wing of his army.
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When Sherman began his campaign through Georgia to take Atlanta, Hooker commanded a corps in the Army of the Tennessee, whose commanding general was J.B. McPherson. As the former commander of the whole Army of the Potomac, it must have given Hooker an odd feeling to be serving under a commander who was 14 years younger and 15 years behind him at West Point.
There were some personality differences as well. In the various actions during the drive toward Atlanta, Hooker had a tendency to boast about his part in such actions. That didnt sit well with Sherman, who didnt approve of such things and at one point, told Hooker as much. An observer at the time said that make Hooker go into a tremendous sulk.
Finally, the Union forces reached Atlanta and surrounded it. At that point, McPherson was killed by a Confederate sniper. As the senior general under McPherson, Hooker seems to have expected that he would be given command of the Army McPherson had been in charge of. But, instead, after consulting with some of the other leaders, Sherman appointed O.O. Howard to that position.
Hooker was not only annoyed at being overlooked. He was particularly upset that Howard got the job, because Howard had been in charge of the wing that Jackson had crumpled in the Battle of Chancellorsville, leading to Hookers retreat. At least, Hooker blamed Howard for that particular incident, though not everyone agreed.
In any event, Hooker asked to be relieved of duty, which Sherman seems to have granted with a certain amount of relief. Hooker spent the rest of the war in non-combat duty, and after retirement from the Army, lived as a civilian on Long Island until his death in 1879. His career is a good illustration of the ups and downs that sometimes took place in military life during the Civil War.
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WBC USA vs. PUR 3/17: Watch the walk-off, and more!
First of all, if you missed the D-Wright walk off hit last night, you must watch it here. If you did see it? You must watch it again. What an ebullient moment. What a win. It's easy to imagine David counts it among the best in his life. Keep watching to the end of the clip to see J.J. Putz find D-Wright and shout something like, "My boy!"
I tried to upload a later, slo-mo clip from another angle, where you can see that the first 3 teammates to embrace David wholeheartedly are Derek Jeter, Shane Victorino, and Kevin Youkilis, but the playback came up blank. The Jeter thing I found rather sweet, I admit. The Victorino? Erm, a bit harder to handle. Youk taking off D-Wright's batting helmet with a big goofy smile? Adorable. (I'll try uploading the clip again later, see if it works better.)
Not to mention that D-Wright's clever, skillful head-first slide into home scored a previous run for USA. And on the Puerto Rican side? Carlos Beltran leaped for one of his unbelievable catches at the outfield wall, robbing Brian McCann of a likely home run, and Delgado's 2-run dinger took away an early USA lead to tie up the game. Let's just say, with the Mets on both teams? What a helluva friggin' game. Without the Mets? Eh, woulda been bubkis.
Okay, boys. Let's keep this up during the actual season, mmkay?
During the excitement after the amazin' win, Yahoo! Sports reports a touching story about an army veteran who was badly wounded in the Middle East (and who's a rabid Mets fan), and how he spent an unexpected half hour celebrating with Team USA last night. It's worth reading! Players' quotes about the game itself include this, from Brian McCann: "That was the greatest game I've ever been a part of. Ever."
On a completely different note, I'm so glad to have Gary Cohen back for our preseason play by play! I wholeheartedly love Kevin Burkhardt, but nothing compares to Gary's vast knowledge and humor, and his chemistry with Ron and Keith. Today, Ronnie and Gary were joking that SNY needs a whole program just for Terrell Owens and A-Rod news. Gary: "But if you had that show, the T.O. A-Rod Hour, which one gets the mirror?"
Hahaha! If you don't know what Gary's referencing, it's A-Rod's ridiculous, self-loving photo spread in Details Magazine, Apparently these pics were taken after A-Rod's steroids-centric ESPN interview, but before the public press conference. Just…bizarre.
I quite enjoyed Jimmy Fallon's take on the situation🙂
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Thanks for the clip! I hadn't actually seen it anywhere yet, so it's nice to put images to the game everyone is talking about. Great job from your boy David Wright!!
What the heck was A-Rod thinking? Talk about adding fuel to the fire.
Oh Zoe, I have gotten hooked, and BAD on the WBC– because of the preponderance of Mets in the tournament.
That game against PR was incredible AND poignant, because I was rooting for them when they weren't playing the USA– because of Carlos and Carlos, of course. And how great were THEY? That game was awesome because all our guys were so awesome– they can ALL be incredibly proud, and so can we as Mets fans.
That game was just what I needed, since I had read the depressing New Yorker piece, and Dana's (as usual) insightful response on his blog, and I had been hearing a lot of complaining and hating on the WBC for various reasons. And I do think a lot of guys are getting banged up, because they were never meant to go so hard in March (please David, be OK).
But I am incredibly proud of our guys as a Mets fan. This gave me a great shot in the arm.
Finally, something really funny from MLB Network, that captures the spirit of spring training. CLick on "Sounds of Spring Training" and wait thru the ad– it's worth it:
Hello Zoe! Go Team USA! Go Mets. PS: I'm buying your book at Amazon. Yes, I'm allowed to read chick-lit too, right?😉
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Keep in mind that Character Bashing is now prohibited. Making fun of certain characters/character pairings leads to a pointless thread filled with insults and general rule breaking.
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Do you have any character you hate soo badly? If you do, why or what made you think they re less better than the one(s) you like? (reasons why he/her is hated by you?)
Why should I have to hate fictional character?
Well Sakura is horrible for being pathetic, but nothing personal or her fans.
i don't hate anybody.
maybe the ramen guy because he didn't give naruto free ramen when he saved konoha. :shrug:
I am a madara fan but i used to like naruto
Originally Posted by basegirl
i don't hate anybody.
maybe the ramen guy because he didn't give naruto free ramen when he saved konoha. :shrug:
:rofl: exactly
dont hate anyone but i got a bone to pick with sakura....she lied to naruto and then tried to execute a kill sasuke plan at the cost of her friends:less kiba and sai...thats a low blow since they been there for her since the beginning
love tobi dont like obito...i just feel like it shouldnt have been him...he was introduced in a filler....what if people didnt watch the filler? how would they have known him...and now he is throwing a war cuz rin passed and he went thru lots of pain because of that(nothing compared to garra or nagato or sasuke)
Naruto, because he think he can do anything without using his own power instead of someone or something else's, and then brags about it.
Madara I hate this dude seriously he is the epitome of gay ohhh and the Raikage and Kabuto
Idk why, but I loathe granny chiyo and konkuro. Puppet masters are hated characters in my book, except for sasori. He is the exception.
I don't like shino that much, or kakuzu or Ebisu.
i hate madara,sakura and hinata
BEASTLY NARUTO... why cuz of his gay ass user name...
tzunade for actin like she is somethin same goes for sakura weak fellas should not be in da pimpin worlds FTW !
Reasons: abandoned his friends for selfish reasons, was willing to give his life to Orochimaru for power( if he had gone through with it then the world would have had a bigger problem then Obito and Madara), treated karin's life as a tool, willing to kill an entire village of people, willing to kill his best friend, so far cannot see past his own hate, cares little to nothing for other people.
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Hating fictional character!!!
Get a life
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Sakura because she is always scolding naruto and thinks she know everything
Kiba, too high and mighty for how terrible he is lol.
Everyone who says hating a character is beneath them for whatever reason is a hypocrite lol. Are you gonna say you don't have a character you love/like? Or that you don't love the series itself? I suppose you've also never watched, read or played anything ever where you hated a villain or loved the characters?
I call BS.
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Originally Posted by Altaneen
Kiba, too high and mighty for how terrible he is lol.
Everyone who says hating a character is beneath them for whatever reason is a hypocrite lol. Are you gonna say you don't have a character you love/like? Or that you don't love the series itself? I suppose you've also never watched, read or played anything ever where you hated a villain or loved the characters?
I call BS.
yeah some people claim they don't hate any character but that's a big lie they hate a character but also the good part of such people is that they don't use their hatered to flame or abuse other fans they just keep the reasons for the hating personal or talk lil bout it.
Obito, Kabuto and Hinata
Obito: Wants "peace" by hacking everyone's brain and overtaking the world. All because he got friendzoned.. like, have a bit of dignity. Also he ruins the Uchiha name and I don't even care for Uchiha's to start off with.
Kabuto: hate him. Wants to be like Orochimaru when clearly is just a fodder that took his DNA. Thinks he is a genius at everything and is a cocky **** but fails to live up to this standard which just makes me facepalm. Also he is just... gross
Hinata: Can't stand her. I like how she inherited Naruto's ninja way and all but every time she is shown in the manga she is always talking about him and how awesome she thinks he is and how she wants to be like him. Obsession much? Didn't like how she jumped out in a stupid attempt to "save" him. It was pretty much her telling him she loves him and committing suicide in the process.. the thought behind it justifies it slightly.
Anyway this is just my opinion feel free to disagree.
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Originally Posted by November Nolove
Hating fictional character!!!
Get a life
yeah it alright if you hate cause the parts they play some times explain what happens in real life for example you have an uncle who always beat his wife every time they fight and your uncle beats her you don't like it you always call him a bad man and one day you were watching a movie where a similar scenario occured ofcourse you will be affected cause you already saw it happen in the real world.the thing is no matter how you hate a fictional character you should calm down to also learn something from em instead of going around complain or blabbering about how you hate that person.
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He was out of jail on "pre-trial release" when he was arrested again, on September 26. Galicia and a 15 year old relative allegedly spray painted graffiti on the Ferndale Medical Arts Center and Handsome Freddies Apartments in the Town of Liberty causing several thousand dollars in damage.
Sheriff's deputies were alerted to the damage by a business owner and conducted a series of neighborhood interviews. "Deputy Richard Morgan eventually developed information that led to Galicia", said Sheriff Mike Schiff. "He was able to recover the spray cans and obtain a confession from the suspect".
Deputies are concerned that Galicia may have involved other younger neighborhood children in his activities. The Sheriff's Office has passed the information on to the school resource officer in Liberty where similar graffiti has appeared recently.
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