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Has anyone gone NC with parent and regretted it?(29 Posts)
For a bit of background, my DF once again showed himself to be the narcissistic, selfish idiot I've known he is for a while. He has a history of stealing money (from me and my brother's savings as children, from my DM - now divorced from him), cheating (which he justifies as retribution for my mums affair before they were married many years ago), twisting words, imagining himself to be a successful businessman which he isn't (a string of failed businesses including his latest one which is currently falling to pieces).
I went low contact with him about 5 years ago to protect myself as each time something else came out, it hurt like hell.
Things have been good in this time, and I guess I've been letting my guard down gradually and this weekend we went to stay with him and see his new extension and also meet my brothers new 3 week old baby. As soon as we got there it was obvious something was up - it turns out my DF has been siphoning off money into a secret savings account from the joint business he and my brother own 50/50 to the tune of £20,000. Which has paid for his new extension.
My brother always idolised him and never wanted to see his dad in the way I do - and now he has. His heart is breaking, as is mine all over again. They have a 3 week old baby - and now he is looking at finding employment or starting from scratch. He's lost everything.
I'm gutted. Currently considering options - do I go NC? Can I do it? Looking into the future it seems so final and painful. My brother wants nothing more to do with him.
He - typically, as I read more about narcissistic personality types - thinks he's done nothing wrong (he was, after all, just borrowing the money!!!) and said my outpouring of anger and disappointment is making him feel suicidal, which is making me falter to make the final cut. I'm fairly sure that's bull, but it's had the desired effect.
Any help or advice appreciated - did going totally NC help you? I'm worried the guilt will cripple me
NC with my dad for nearly a decade.
It isn't easy - at the start it is like a bereavement as you come to terms with the fact you will never see them again. But time does heal.
I am NC with my bio dad and have been for just over two years. He let me down time and time again throughout my life but was very good at emotionally manipulating me. The last straw was a comment that he made after I had a miscarriage and that was it for me. He has made no efforts to contact me since. I occasionally think of him and I wonder what is going on with him, but I don't regret it. Having my own children has made me realise how much of his behaviour was completely unacceptable, and I didn't want his terrible behaviours and attitude to be normalised for them.
You can go NC without actually making that final cut. No need to tell him. Just ignore his calls if he calls. That way it also leaves the door open for you if you did change your mind.
He sounds really nasty.
Nobody EVER takes the decision to go NC lightly
Ok so you have weirdo manipulative people who ghost innocent family members on purpose as punishment or a means to an end, but not a quiet, considered no contact.
I've not heard of anyone who's regretted that decision, no.
And I've been on stately homes threads for a few years now.
You have to be ready for full on NC in my experience. The first time I tried I was destroyed by the guilt and the worry about what was being said behind my back etc and went back on it after about 9 months (it was precipitated by a final nasty email from my parents and possibly a knee jerk reaction).
This time it's easier. I don't care anymore, I'm just not engaged with them. I did tell them that I was no longer going to tolerate their behaviour around my illness (anorexia) in a letter and have ignored everything since. It feels peaceful and calm this time, rather than anxious and frantic.
You know you don't have to "go NC" don't you? Just cut him out for a bit and see how you feel. Be too busy for calls or texts and just ignore. If you find that you are happy with it then extend the status to permanent. If you're not find a new course.
Being made to feel guilty by a parent isn't normal or functional though, so the guilt you might feel is because he is unpleasant. Can you maybe spend some time with a counsellor working through the guilt stuff (took me about 4 years to understand that).
Been NC with my mother for 2 years now, never regretted it once. But as another poster said, it is like a bereavement. It can be confusing emotionally when society dictates how we should always love our parents. To me, blood isn't necessarily thicker than water. You can do it.
I don't know if you have kids, but I decided to go nc when my first was tiny, it was the catalyst because i wanted to protect her.
Good luck! X
It is a bereavement and when it's the only option you can take to protect yourself mentally etc it hurts. Like nothing else on earth.
It keeps hitting you day in and day out for a while
You sort of forget you're nc, then you remember, then go through the memory trigger process and remember the hurt that made you go nc in the first place
It's like peeling off layers and layers of already very sore skin.
Eventually it gets easier to bear.
I'm non contact with my mother - will be three years this summer
I don't regret it at all.
My life is so much easier without waiting for the inevitable text or phone call to give you a good old verbal kicking topped off with a large dose of guilt and martyrdom
I wobble sometimes, mainly when I hear about the things other grandparents do for their grandchildren and I hurt that mine don't have that, but I remind myself that even if we were in contact, she wouldn't be that grandparent anyway and I don't want my own children poisoned against me, like I'd know she'd try to do
This is not an easy decision and like a op said, no one goes nc lightly but you have to get to a point where you save yourself or get dragged under by them
Looking into the future it seems so final and painful.
Because it is and regret is not something you can wipe away so I'd think long and hard about NC and tbh this is between him and your brother, and he is saying it's a loan? Have you and your brother actually sat down with him and discussed this properly and fully?
I could never go NC with any of my family, not unless they were actually putting me or my family in danger; yes they get on my tits at times and yes they infuriate me but you only get one mum and one dad, nobody is perfect although I get when things are so bad it's affecting your health then yes NC might be your only option.
I've been NC with my father for about 9 or 10 years - I don't know exactly how long as I never think about it. I was in my mid 20s anyway. Honestly, I didn't find it that difficult as by the time I decided I just didn't want to engage with him any more he'd pushed me over a period of years to a point where I genuinely had no fucks left to give. He wasn't abusive, just hard work in many ways, told lies, let me down time and again and made it abundantly clear that I wasn't really an important factor in his life and I just got to a point where I didn't want to deal with it any more. He was bringing nothing good to my life, just guilt tripping and angst and stress. Fuck that.
It does help that I have a fantastic relationship with my DM and DStepdad, no siblings to take into account and I don't live in the same country so never going to bump into him or anything. Anyway, I've never regretted it, like I said I never even think about it, haven't done for years. Obviously it's sad in the sense that it's one of those things that in an ideal world you wouldn't have to do, but sometimes you just have to walk away for your own sanity. I wish you all the best whatever decision you make
Tell your brother to take him to court and put a charge on his house and force a sale. And yes NC is the way forward.
^ thinks he's done nothing wrong (he was, after all, just borrowing the money!!!) and said my outpouring of anger and disappointment is making him feel suicidal, which is making me falter to make the final cut^
Tell him that you will talk to him again after he's paid back the money, and only then.
Keep to it.
That's not meant to be glib. But it puts the responsibility right back in his court.
you will need time to grieve. Discovering your father is a shit of the first order is a real shock and it takes time to grieve both the father you have, and the father that you want him to be but he never will.
It's hard, even harder when people don't usually talk about dysfunctional parents and so you feel lonely.
But your father really is a callous man.
adora the thing is, he is putting people in danger. My brother has to find money to pay his mortgage and feed and clothe his newborn and financially support his partner. In the past he's borrowed money from me when I barely had any myself (student at the time), for me to find a picture post on Facebook of him on holiday with his latest girlfriend abroad 2 weeks later. I kid you not. It is so much more than him 'getting on my tits', it's mine and my brother's mental health, it's our lives, the lives he created himself and seems to be happy to ruin! We have spoken about it yes (a 5 hour exhausting and frustrating conversation), and was met with complete denial that he'd done anything wrong both in this instance and those before it and a "but don't I deserve some happiness? What about my feelings? Why is everyone ganging up on me?". I only have one father, certainly, but what good is one like this?
seaeagle that's a sensible option, he does usually pay back what he's taken of enough fuss is made so at least that would provide my brother with something. I'm not sure he wants it though, he feels it would be tainted.
fish my brother had threatened court action when he first found out - DF was horrified and outraged that his only son would consider doing such a thing to his father! Funny though, that he doesn't have a problem stealing from his son, eh?
One thing I know for sure is I can never trust him again, and therefore my forgiveness is limited.
Thank you for every reply, I appreciate it. It was cathartic writing it out. I have some thinking to do.
It's nearly 20 years since I went mostly NC with parents - frigid politeness on my part at family events, which is greeted with head turning away and blanking that would make a five year old proud. No regrets.
But what I do have is sadness and grief for the parents I should have had, that many people do have; parents who love unconditionally, who put their children first, who create stable warm and loving homes, and who give good enough emotional support. What I realised in the process of going NC was not that I was losing my parents, but that I had actually never had them, and so my grief was for something that had never existed but should have. When they die, I think I will grieve again - not because I didn't make it up with them - I've tried and they won't, but because that will be the final end of even the faintest hope that they might want to change.
I'm 28.
Have been NC from my father since I was 14 (divorced parents, half my siblings continued to see him)
NC from my mother since I was 21. (other half of siblings continue to see her)
Sometimes I do feel a little sad about it, however I never feel as angry and distraught as when I have my siblings on the phone and hear about the shit (émotionnel & financial) my parents continue to pull on them, and how it affects my siblings.
Had a very long discussion with my sisters husband this weekend (he made a 5 hour train trip to come and see me - my sister is away on fieldwork) about how sad he that my parents inflict such shit on her. We cannot tell her to go NC too, that is her choice, but how we wish she would, she is such a beautiful articulate succesful woman, who takes no crap in any other domaine in her life, yet puts up with so much from my parents, they often reduce her to tears from 100s of Km away.
I am surrounded by other people who love me. It does sound very cliché, but I do feel very loved.
They used to pick me up "with a teaspoon" as we say in french whenever I returned from seeing my mother. And I came to the conclusion that it wasn't fair, wasn't fair on the people who love me, the people who care for me, to put them situations of having to console me about my crap parents. And it wasn't fair on me.
All that to say, you are an adult now, you can make the choice, of who does you good and wishes you well.
Well wishes should be welcome in your life.
Of course it is painful to go NC, but you have to ask yourself if you are willing to put up the pain that staying in contact brings. You can choose your pain. And own it.
I wish you the best of luck.
Adora - I don't men to be rude, but that "you only have one dad, they can get in your nerves but ...." Is soooo painful for the child of a true marc to hear.
A truly narcissistic parent makes your life an absolute misery. They make you question your own sanity, and damage every other relationship you have because your head is so screwed.
For various reasons, I could not go NC with my dad while he was alive. Since he died, it has taken me 3 years to get my head straight and recover from his abuse. Going NC via his death was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Your father sounds bloody toxic OP - cut him out. It will hurt so much for a long time, but it will save you in the end.
I think what is hard when thinking about this is that there is a 'normal range' about family relationships that says that nobody is perfect, we all have our quirks and because we're blood we rub along, and when we really need each other we are there for each other etc etc. And I think Adora's comments come from this place - s/he has a dad who is in that normal range, and for most people what she says is right, and I'm glad for her/him. But then there are some of us whose parents are not in that normal range and for whom none of that normal stuff applies and then the only way to find emotional safety is to minimise or cut out all contact and begin to heal away from the source of the damage.
I dunno, when your 'only one dad' leaves you without food in order to go on holiday and takes 20K out of your brother's account, betraying his trust, I think that love needs to take a long hard look at what's going on.
broken hearts - and a betrayal of trust on this scale leads to broken hearts - don't heal easy
would you suggest that someone stay with their husband if they stole, lied, left their wife hungry?
You don't have to do the full whammy all at once. It's a HUGE decision and you can take your time, see how it goes.
I struggled with contact for many years with my parents, getting the right 'dosage'. I'm glad I didn't go entirely nc bcs now they are ancient and very much need my help: I have a good relationship with them
bordering on very good now. They are damaged, therefore damaging, people. I can see now they did the best they could with a shocking heritage.
I think accepting a parent for who they are is a process, it takes time as you let go the hopes and work through the grief. A narc is a different thing altogether, there is only one option with a narc. Thankfully, true Narcs are rare.
Why is it that pretty much every thread where the agonising NC issue is being considered, some monumental idiot pops up to trot out the clueless "you only have one..."
Don't you think we know that already? The only mum/dad/whatever we have is vile/hateful/hurts us/our children, leaves us with mental hang ups and irrational fears/wipes us out/whatever...
I don't want this comment deleted, so I'll leave out what I want to say next, but Adora... and any other who thinks the same You have no clue of the damage being caused in dynamics such as these, and good for you that you do.
We wish more than anything that things for us were different to how they are.
Hi all,
I rarely post these days.
Very, honest & heartening post Hissy Thankyou.
Often if you grow up with parents who place a greater value on their 'thoughts, feelings & opinions' it does hurt & causes harm. Not being treated equally does. To undo this damage, it takes alot of work & is not easy. To let go of a sense of self blame/guilt & acknowledging how your parents behave is not your fault, your are not responsible for & beyond your control is very painful. However with that pain comes acceptance. And acceptance is the greatest gift you can give yourself xxx
Adora with the greatest respect, your comment, although meaning well, is hugely damaging & could feel quite re-victimising.
LittleShoutyMouse I'm sorry about what you are going through
Whether you choose to go NC or not, you have nothing to regret. Your Dad should feel regret for how he has treated you & your brother & acted before he lost you both but didn't.
You have done the right thing, standing by you brother, who has been hurt by your dad's behaviour, your brother is lucky to have you.
Sending thoughts of strength to you xxx
Thank you for the support and hand holding all, it's really lovely to read and makes me see that I am not alone to have been through these feelings. It's strangely comforting, so thank you.
I asked my mum for clarification on what he took when we were younger last night. I knew it involved their joint pension/savings but no more than that. She reluctantly told me: £6,000 in savings in 1990 and in 2003 my dgm (mum's mum) died and left her £60,000 in her will, which was put into an offset mortgage. DF accessed this pot of money somehow and took £30,000 of it to pay off business debt that she didn't know about (and presumably was never meant to find out). Thankfully it got recovered when she divorced him and they sold the house.
I'm utterly disgusted. Feeling strangely calm today but I have a feeling the rage will be along shortly.
Also slightly cross that DM wasn't more forceful in stopping my DB going to business with him when he did, but I am trying to remind myself it's DF I need to be angry at.
Adora, it's very clear that you haven't experienced the depth of mental and emotional damage a narc parent can do to their son/daughter. I have a narc mother and am currently going through some bad times, after waves of realising that the mother I should have got, never existed. The mother I did get, unfortunately, did a monumental amount of emotional damage to my self-esteem/confidence and she ground my MH into the pavement.
I became antisocial (not going out unless absolutely necessary), kept to myself, and out of a false sense of duty, went round to her house to help out, only to be met with a barrage of verbal abuse about how much of a shit daughter I was when my dad died. I lost my shit with her and walked out, but not before telling her that I'd only make the same effort in our relationship that she was prepared to make, and that I wouldn't stop the kids from seeing her, but I was leaving it to them to call round when THEY want to.
Funny enough, DS and DD have seen how mum treats me and want nothing to do with mum. The one saying I will always go by is this: ^If a person wants to be in your life, they'll be happy to make the effort. If they don't make any effort at all, then that tells you all you need to know about them (that they don't think you're worth it)^.
My mum has not made one single phone call to ask how the DC are in *over 7 years*. Nor has she called round to see them, despite passing in front of our previous house, to go to the shop. She has rung once to tell me that my dad was in hospital, but that was over 5yrs ago. Narcs can make you feel unloved, unwanted, worthless etc. They can grind your sense of self down until you literally feel like the only way out of that dark hole, is to end it all. Luckily I have a wonderfully supportive husband, who has seen mum for the person she really is, and if it wasn't for DH, my dad, my lovely friends and DC, I wouldn't be here telling you this. I got through it, and it made me see that I didn't have to have any contact with her.
So Adora, I might only have one mum, but I would rather not have had one, than the one I got. You see, just because you give birth to DC, it doesn't give you the right to destroy them mentally and emotionally.
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Discussion in 'General Marijuana Growing' started by doc111, Jan 20, 2010.
Loving this thread, water is totally overlooked by some!
Ive been using recycled dehumidifier water for years...7 ppm 6.8-7 ph
I have some plants in soil that I have been giving nothing but RO water to. I will be moving outside in next week or two using well water with a ppm of about 450. I was curious as if there were such a thing as hardening off a plant to a water, say I start using tap water 200-250 (after 24 hours of course) to get the plant used to heavy metals or excess stuff it may not need. Not sure if this is necessary or im thinking too much into it. I just like to gradually ease them into a change i feel 0 to 450 is a major jump, especially if i start adding nutrients
jensen.... u think far too into this. lol
couple years, you'll leave them to do there thing.
Lmao just thinking of all the possibilities throwing it out there for someone for reassurance/answer any doubts. I have another question its been almost a week no watering no wilt and droop i didnt overwater in the beginning havent seen any sign of overwatering. Im wondering if im going too long in between waterings still regardless of how the plant looks ive been lifting the pots for weight and they seem to have some weight still. Ive just get small spells of thin yellow leaves seems to me then goes away. Could this be from "underwatering" though plant s have yet to ask for water?
I see growth and roots at the bottom it doesnt seem stunted at all
recurring yellowing sounds like your on your nitrogen threshold.
try and water less more often, the top half of your soil takes the water and nutrients first, i would figure if your pots are taking a while to dry out your top half of soil is gonna be really dry by the time you water next.
if its bone dry your plant isn't taking up any nutrients from the top half, so any nitrogen is unavailable. i would imagine that not very good for the bacteria and micro organisms either. once you find the style your plants love, stick to it.
if you have any problems after that, or you've changed it up a bit, you have a 'base regime' to go back too that you know your plants will thrive on.
imo. up the N/ just slightly to stop the recurring yellowing and water with less but more often.
feeling pretty stoned right now so im hoping this all makes sense because i feel like im rambling a lot
No it does, and it youre right it gets bone dry on the top sometimes i add very little to the top just to moisten it up. Ive heard microorganisms only live on 2 inches and it needs to stay moist been trying to figure out how people keep that possible. I agree I need to water more often and less I am shocked they are lasting this long w.o more water especially w.o showing signs of overwatering. I think the issue was I usually soak the soil before i transplant and it was the first watering since then probably wasnt dried fully then i fully saturated again. With the roots just starting in the pot taking awhile for it to get used up. I was told its good to presoak to prevent dry pockets in the soil. I think youre right with the drying out and nute issue its probably why I keep think im having a recurring issue, just everytime it reaches that threshhhold. The roots looked great no brown or anything nice and full thats why I was curious if theres such a thing as underwatering while no signs of actual underwater actually occur(drooping anyways). Im going to get them on a less water more often starting this next watering. Im doing 1 dixie and 1/2 cup dixie water per 1 gallon pot pouring slowly and I typically then dont see any run off. May have just went too gung ho early on the first watering since transplant fully saturated it
as long as your plants are looking healthy you've usually nothing to worry about. just little tweaks here and there.
When your making your changes do them gradually and 1 at a time so you know if it starts to go wrong where to go back to that works.
treat each change like a restoration point on your computer.
I have a Hydrogen Peroxide H2O2 question ... I know it has a lot of good uses, antimicrobial etc just to name one so Im not debating its usefulness, but I'm just confused about how it "provides extra oxygen" to the plant, when 99% of a hydro res is water/H2O? Especially when adding such a tiny amount which is typically just a few milliliters. (plus the roots already have good aeration in clay pebbles, coco, aeroponics etc, plus the res probably also has an air bubbler)
Your intuition is correct. It's a meaningless claim. Meaningless, in that it doesn't affect the plant's metabolism
I've been using this lately with mixed results. Some plants show signs of cal/mag def. or nute lockout, not sure which. I give them aloe and coconut water every third watering and they all get the same compost tea so I'm not sure which factor I could be overlooking. I haven't tested my water, I have a meter on the way.
Any tips or tricks you can offer on treatment of recycled dehu water?
Aloe and coconut water lolol
Yes. Aloe and coconut water. Quite a few use these for micros, enzymes, hormones and K.
At a glance:
Well its pretty much like r/o water there is nothing in it....so i always ad 3-5 ml of cal mag per gallon of water to remineralize it along with my base nutes...but im in promix which is inert so your situation may be different...and the ph of your water is critical so that meter is a necessity imo....
Man, so much to think about when growing, it's a little overwhelming really
Great post.
This thread has some wonderful information in it!
Great question!!!
It's easy to overthink also. If you are growing in a good soil like Fox Farms don't worry about the water. If you are hydro, then you may want to think of your water, but it's not necessary in a decent soil.
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• Scott+Scott Files Second Amended Complaint in FX Antitrust Litigation Alleging Broader Conspiracy
• U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office Secures Libor Manipulation Conviction
• Delaware Legislature Prohibits Public Corporations from Shifting Legal Fees on to Shareholders
• Whistleblower Anti Retaliation Act
• Conferences and Educational Seminars
Scott+Scott Files Second Amended Complaint in FX Antitrust Litigation Alleging Broader Conspiracy
Scott+Scott, Attorneys at Law, LLP filed a Second Consolidated Amended Class Action Complaint on behalf a proposed class in In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 1:13-cv-7789 (S.D.N.Y.). When the original complaint was filed in November 2013, plaintiffs alleged that since 2003, financial institutions had conspired to manipulate the WM/Reuters Closing Spot Rates in the $5.4 trillion-per-day foreign exchange market.
As a result of cooperation obtained from certain settling Defendants, the complaint now alleges a broader conspiracy – one that affected dozens of currency pairs, including the seven pairs with the highest market volume, and impacted trading both over the counter and on exchanges. More specifically, the Complaint alleges that from as early as 2003 and continuing through 2013, the world's major banks used multiple chat rooms – with names such as "The Cartel," "The Bandits' Club," and "The Mafia" – to communicate with each other. As the Complaint explains, "[b]eing a member of certain chat rooms was by invitation only, indicating the secret nature of this conduct. These electronic chat rooms replaced the classic, smoke-filled backrooms of the past." In these chat rooms, defendants used code words to avoid detection.
The plaintiffs allege that defendants manipulated the FX market in at least three separate respects. First, defendants fixed prices by agreeing to widen bid/ask spreads on FX spot trades. Bid/ask spreads represent the difference between the price at which a bank will buy a currency and the price at which it will sell it, and are a source of profit for banks. As the Complaint describes, "there are thousands of communications involving multiple Defendants reflecting discussions about FX spreads." It goes on to explain that "[t]hese communications show traders at more than 30 banks, including Defendants, participated in interbank chats where traders coordinated and exchanged information about spreads or customer orders."
Second, plaintiffs allege that defendants manipulated FX benchmark rates, including the WM/Reuters Closing Spot Rates and European Central Bank's FX Reference Rates, as well as CME/Emerging Markets Traders Association Russian ruble/U.S. dollar rates. As the new Complaint explains "[c]hat room communications demonstrate Defendants exchanged confidential customer information and coordinated their trading to manipulate these key rates."
Finally, defendants exchanged key confidential customer information in an effort to trigger client stop loss and limit orders. They exploited these types of orders by manipulating prices to move the market to levels that triggered the stop-loss or limit orders.
In addition to adding broader allegations of unlawful behavior, the Complaint accuses four defendants that were not previously named. Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd., RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Société Générale S.A., and Standard Chartered plc, have been added to the list of banks that the Complaint alleges conspired to manipulate the FX market, bringing the total number of defendants to sixteen.
"Our complaint makes clear that the conspiracy to manipulate the FX market was long-running and pervasive," commented David R. Scott, Managing Partner of Scott+Scott. He added, "we hope that that our new complaint helps to rid this market of unlawful and harmful manipulation."
The new Complaint follows four settlements that Scott+Scott previously announced, all of which included cooperation provisions as well as monetary relief. In May 2015, Scott+Scott announced a settlement with Citigroup Inc. and Citibank, N.A. that requires it to pay $394 million, while also providing cooperation to the plaintiffs in their prosecution of claims against the remaining defendants. In April 2015, Scott+Scott announced a settlement with Bank of America Corporation and Bank of America, N.A. that includes $180 million in monetary relief and cooperation. In March 2015, Scott+Scott announced that it had reached a settlement with UBS AG, UBS Group AG, and UBS Securities LLC for $135 million, in addition to their cooperation. In January 2015, the firm announced a settlement with JPMorgan Chase & Co. and JPM Chase Bank, N.A. for $99.5 million, in addition to their cooperation. All told, the settlements disclosed to date amount to $808,500,000.
Scott+Scott, an internationally recognized law firm, prosecutes high-stakes antitrust and securities lawsuits throughout the United States on behalf of institutional investors, businesses, and corporations. It has offices in New York, California, Connecticut, and Ohio, and the firm recently announced the opening of its first European office in London.
U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office Secures Libor Manipulation Conviction
On August 3, 2015, former bank trader Tom Hayes was sentenced to 14 years in prison after a London jury convicted him of trying to fraudulently rig the London interbank offered rate, or Libor. Over the last four years, the U.S. government and its counterparts in Europe and Asia have unearthed information indicating that the largest banks in the world manipulated Libor, the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor), and the Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate (Tibor). These rates are benchmarks used in countless financial instruments, including from asset-backed securities to interest rate swaps.
Before and after the financial crisis, banks would communicate with each other and discuss what rates to submit. This conduct was improper because, even within any given bank, the bank's trading operations are not allowed to contact the department responsible for their panel submissions. The investigations found instances where the banks engaged in such misconduct for their own benefit on trades, at the expense of their counterparties. In addition, the investigations also found that during the height of the financial crisis, panel banks made artificially low submissions. It appears that the motivation for doing so was to present a better financial condition than was actually the case. In other words, if a bank reported that it had to pay a high interest rate to borrow money, this would signal that the bank had poor credit and might cause investors and lenders to stop doing business with the bank.
The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") brought the case against Hayes and described the Libor prosecutions as a priority and key proving ground for the agency. U.S. and British authorities portrayed Hayes as the ringleader of an international scheme to skew the Libor benchmark. The judge, Jeremy Cooke, called Hayes "the hub of the conspiracy."
Hayes moved to Tokyo with UBS in 2006. He generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for UBS by trading interest rate swaps. He joined Citigroup in late 2009. In September 2010, Citigroup fired Hayes for Libor manipulation. At the time, Hayes told Citigroup that he denied wrongdoing, partly because his bosses knew about and participated in what he was doing. In 2013, Hayes agreed to cooperate with the SFO, to plead guilty, and to testify against his alleged co-conspirators. As part of the process, Hayes gave 82 hours of taped interviews to the SFO investigators in which he repeatedly admitted that he acted dishonestly. Hayes subsequently pulled out of the SFO process and decided to fight the legal proceedings against him. Hayes now says he never actually considered himself to be guilty but instead was trying to avoid extradition to the U.S., where the Justice Department charged him with similar crimes in December 2012.
The trial ran for nine weeks and the 12-person jury, after deliberating for more than a week, unanimously convicted Hayes on eight counts of conspiring to defraud. Shortly thereafter the Judge sentenced Hayes to 14 years in prison. Judge Cooke said he was imposing the stiffer-than-expected sentence "to send a signal" to the banking industry. "Probity and honesty are essential, as is trust," he said to Hayes when announcing the sentence. "The Libor activities in which you took part put all that in jeopardy."
Delaware Legislature Prohibits Public Corporations from Shifting Legal Fees on to Shareholders
On June 24, 2015, Governor Jack Markell of Delaware signed into law a bill banning public companies from creating bylaws that shift the cost of legal action onto "losing" shareholders. The bill allows shareholders to bring derivative actions to recover against the wrongdoing of corporate directors and officers without risking the possible penalty of paying the corporation's legal fees. This prevents corporations from punishing shareholders for attempting to enforce their rights. The bill passed with resounding support in the legislature. The Delaware State Senate voted in favor of the bill 16-5, while the Delaware house passed the bill unanimously.
Corporate governance groups such as the Council of Institutional Investors backed the new law, stating "fee-shifting bylaws create prohibitively high hurdles for shareholders to pursue litigation for meritorious claims." As shareholder suits are typically brought to enforce the rights of all shareholders, few individual shareholders are willing to shoulder the risk of enforcing the rights of the group. The possibility that a corporation's bylaws would require individual shareholders to pay the corporation's legal fees would have further disincentivized shareholders from enforcing their rights. Fee-shifting, as the Delaware legislature recognized, carries the risk of unduly restricting a shareholder's ability to demand accountability and responsible corporate governance.
This bill was necessitated by a May 8, 2014 decision from the Delaware Supreme Court, which ruled in ATP Tour Inc. v. Deutscher Tennis Bund that fee-shifting provisions within non-stock corporations' bylaws could be enforceable. In that case, ATP Tour's bylaws forced any member of the non-stock corporation who brought suit against the corporation, its members, or its directors to pay all defendants' legal fees if the member did not fully prevail.
The Court's ruling raised the issue of whether similar provisions could be written into the bylaws of publicly traded corporations. Less than a year after ATP Tour was decided, over 30 public corporations implemented fee-shifting provisions in their bylaws, and an additional six new corporations included fee-shifting bylaws as part of their initial public offerings.
The bill, introduced by state Senator Bryan Townsend, also addresses the danger that the elimination of fee-shifting provisions could lead to frivolous claims. Senator Townsend solicited support for the bill by seeking to prohibit the "really aggressive" trend toward fee-shifting, but also included language confirming Delaware corporations' right to adopt forum-selection clauses. The bill confirms Delaware corporations' right to establish Delaware as the exclusive forum for all shareholder litigation.
Without legislative action, the Court's ruling was likely to have a dramatic effect on the ability of a shareholder to enforce his or her rights in Delaware courts. Senator Townsend's bill provides much-needed clarification to the Delaware judiciary with respect to the proper bounds of important fee-shifting and forum selection clauses available to Delaware corporations under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Whistleblower Anti Retaliation Act
Following prior recommendations from the Government Accountability Office, as well as recent judicial trends interpreting broader protections for federal whistleblowers, on July 22, 2015, the United States Senate passed the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act (the "Anti-Retaliation Act"). The bipartisan Anti-Retaliation Act was sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) as an amendment to the existing Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act (ACPERA). Given the bipartisan origins of the bill, the Anti-Retaliation Act passed in the Senate with unanimous consent. The Anti-Retaliation Act will now go before the United States House of Representatives for a vote before being presented to the President to be signed into law.
Assuming that the Anti-Retaliation Act is enacted, it will further expand on the protections afforded by ACPERA to federal whistleblowers, particularly with regard to antitrust tipsters. Specifically, the Anti-Retaliation Act addresses critics of ACPERA who argue that the existing federal protections for antitrust whistleblowers who report corporate fraud or wrongdoing were not comprehensive enough. Those critics had urged lawmakers to provide more robust protections to antitrust whistleblowers in light of the very real possibility that an employee reporting corporate malfeasance could face corporate backlash and suffer irreparable harm to their current and future career prospects.
The Anti-Retaliation Act is designed to extend protections to whistleblowers by preventing an employer from suspending, demoting, terminating, harassing, or otherwise discriminating against an employee who reports unlawful antitrust conduct of an employer to the federal government. The Anti-Retaliation Act stipulates that whistleblowers who are retaliated against by an employer can file a claim with the Department of Labor, and the Anti-Retaliation Act also provides a fast track de novo review of their retaliation claim by a jury in federal court. In the event that the Department of Labor finds that an employer did indeed retaliate against an employee who reported wrongdoing, the Anti-Retaliation Act allows for immediate reinstatement of the whistleblower and provides for the collection of back pay, special damages, attorney fees, and costs. The Anti-Retaliation Act does not allow for a whistleblower that is part of any wrongdoing to avail themselves of these protections, and requires clean hands on the part of the whistleblower.
The protections that the Anti-Retaliation Act seeks to enact are necessary to encourage employees who witness antitrust violations to come forward, which is often the only way that such crimes are discovered. According to Stephen M. Kohn, the executive director of the National Whistleblower Center, "numerous studies have shown that employees are the first defense to prevent fraud. Investigators rely heavily on insiders to protect the public interest and prevent illegal competitive practices." Consequently, the Anti-Retaliation Act simply provides a sense of security for potential whistleblowers and encourages them to come forward without fear of losing their job. The sense of security that the Anti-Retaliation Act intends to produce is a "major step forward in plugging a loophole in the patchwork of whistleblower protection that currently exists," says Kohn.
The next step, according to pundits, is to provide more significant financial incentives to potential antitrust whistleblowers. Those pundits argue that there are strong financial incentives for whistleblowers to come forward under existing SEC programs designed to encourage reporting of violations of securities laws, and that similar financial incentives are needed to encourage reporting of antitrust violations.
However, the anti-retaliation protections that ACPERA and the Anti-Retaliation Act endeavor to provide are a good start and demonstrate the Government's commitment to consumer protection, according to observers. The Anti-Retaliation Act will now go before the House of Representatives, where it is expected to receive bipartisan support. Once it becomes law, whistleblowers that report federal antitrust violations will have a much greater sense of security and a legislative shield to protect against retaliation by employers who violate the federal antitrust laws and seek retribution against employees who report such violations.
Conferences and Educational Seminars
+August 30- September 2, 2015
New England States Government Finance Officers' Association Conference
Sheraton Boston Hotel, Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts
The New England States GFOA is the nation's first multi-state GFOA that is comprised of membership from each state in the region of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. For nearly 70 years state and local finance officials along with private sector professionals have been collaborating with each other to share solutions on common issues. The NESGFOA has a proud legacy and is open to all in public service.
+September 13-15, 2015
New Orleans Marriott
Organized in 1985, the Louisiana Association of Public Employees' Retirement System (LAPERS) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that brings together individuals employed by state, statewide, and local public employees' pension plans to exchange information, ideas, and experiences with others facing the same challenges. By uniting Louisiana public retirement systems, LAPERS works for their common interests, monitors state and federal legislative activities, and enhances public pension fund management and administration by providing educational and informational services to its more than 347,000 members with 26bn in assets.
+September 13- 15, 2015
Native American Finance Officers' Association Fall Finance and Tribal Economies Conference (NAFOA)
Westin Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts
NAFOA's mission is to improve the quality of financial and business management of tribal governments and their business entities. NAFOA advocates for tribes on issues affecting sovereignty and supports the development of Native American financial professionals. NAFOA invests in Native American communities by building the next generation of Native American financial leaders through educational and networking opportunities in finance. Board members are elected by the membership and serve staggered two-year terms. Members of this governing board are volunteers who hold financial management positions within their organizations and are members of a federally recognized tribe. Expert speakers will illustrate market relationships, policy effects, forecast the near- and long-term global trends, weigh in on tax reform, new accounting standards and offer ideas on governmental best practices for navigating outside influences and protecting Native American assets.
+September 13 - 16, 2015
TAMIU Convention Center
Laredo, Texas
During the Great Depression, the
+September 14-17, 2015
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Business Managers Membership Conference (IBEW)
The Paris Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada
More than 1,300 IBEW delegates attended last year's conference which could effectively expose participating organizations to the leaders of more than 700,000 IBEW members. This is the largest annual networking event with decision makers and industry leaders of the IBEW who value the USA service providers. This year's program agenda will be innovative, dynamic and somewhat controversial as the election approaches.
+September 15 - 17, 2015
37th Kentucky Labor - Management Conference-35th Anniversary
Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park
Gilbertsville, Kentucky
Established in 1977, the conference is governed by a Board of Directors and co-sponsored by the Kentucky Labor Cabinet and the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development. The Kentucky Labor-Management Conference serves as the centerpiece of the state's effort to promote labor-management cooperation as an enhancement to economic development. The event provides participants a relaxed atmosphere, apart from the work environment, that is conducive to positive, meaningful dialogue between labor and management. The conference begins with two days of interactive educational opportunities in which the participants are given the chance to talk directly with the presenters on a wide variety of topics of mutual interest to labor and management.
+September 20-24, 2015
Hyatt Regency Conference Center
Savannah, Georgia
In the summer of 2009 administrators and trustees of several of the public pension plans in Georgia gathered together to form an association to provide a forum for support and information for education, training, advancement and accreditation for public plan trustees and personnel. GAPPT is a non-profit association formed solely to promote and support the education and development of the Trustees and Administrators of Georgia's Public Pension Plans in the areas of: fiduciary responsibility and liability, board governance, investment acumen, and plan administration.
+September 24, 2015
National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP)
Hotel Monaco
Baltimore, MD
"The National Association of Securities Professionals is the premier organization that assists people of color and women achieve inclusion in the financial services industry. NASP is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and currently has 10 local chapters throughout the United States. NASP was founded in Chicago in 1985 by Maynard H. Jackson, Felicia Flowers-Smith, Joyce M. Johnson & Donald Davidson. From a core group of 44 people it has grown to more than 500 members."
+September 28-30, 2015
The 20th Annual Institutional Investment Conference - Investment Trends Summit produced by OPAL
Financial Group
The Four Seasons, The Biltmore
Santa Barbara, California
This year's conference will serve as an educational forum focused on analyzing trends for the future, as well as exploring ways to implement new strategies in particular investment plans. In this period of dynamic change it is more important than ever to stay abreast of future investment opportunities and winning strategies, upcoming regulation and asset allocation plans from leading allocators, out-performing managers and industry experts. Speakers from across the globe will present during the 3 day conference.
+September 26-29, 2015
Grand Traverse Resort and Conference Center
Acme, Michigan
Michigan Association of Public Employee Retirement Systems is recognized as the
principal educational and legislative forum for trustees, plan administrators,
and other retirement and financial professionals in the State of Michigan. MAPERS was established to provide educational
training and legislative updates to trustees of Public Employee Retirement
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+September 30 – October 2, 2015
Council of Institutional Investors (CII) 2015 Fall Meeting
Westin Copley Place
Boston, Massachusetts
The Council of Institutional Investors is "the voice of corporate governance." As a nonprofit association of public, union and corporate pension funds. Member funds are long-term shareowners with a duty to protect the retirement assets of millions of American workers. The annual meeting will educate members, policymakers and the public about good corporate governance, shareowner rights and related investment issues.
Government Finance Officers' Association Conferences
+September 7-9, 2014
Illinois GFOA Annual 2015 Conference
Springfield Hilton
Springfield, Illinois
+September 9-11, 2015
Wyoming Association of Municipal Clerks and Treasurers Annual Conference
The Inn at Landing
Landing, Wyoming
+September 15-18, 2015
Washington Finance Officers Association
Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center
Yakima, Washington
+September 16-18, 2015
Officers of
Atlantic City Sheraton Hotel
+September 16-18, 2015
The Riverside Hotel and Conference Center
+September 23-25, 2015
League of Nebraska Municipalities Annual Conference
Cornhusker Marriott Hotel
Lincoln, Nebraska
+September 24-25, 2015
Officers of
The Olympia Resort
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
+September 24-25, 2015
North Dakota League of Cities Annual Conference
Holiday Inn
Fargo, North Dakota
+September 22-24, 2015
Oklahoma Municipal League Annual Conference
Tulsa Convention Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma
+September 23-25, 2015
Minnesota GFOA Annual Conference
Arrowwood Resort
Alexandria, Minnesota
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I mentioned, a few weeks ago on my semester's preview, my participation on a UFMG (a brazilian University) project for the development of an ecologic educational game about Mangabeiras Park. And as promised, here's a post with a little more about the game.
Formed by an ICB (Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Biological Sciences Institute in english) studies group from UFMG, the project's main objective is to teach the population about the variety and fragility of the species that live in Mangabeiras Park, a natural park with a green area of approximately 337 hectares. Through events, long range campaigns and research about the behavior of the creatures that inhabit the park, the group has acted to educate and guarantee the balance of the huge ecosystem that is the park.
Although there are about 28 species of mammals, 160 species of birds, 20 species of reptiles and 19 of amphibians living on the 2.8 million kilometers of the park, the animal in the spotlight of the project is the Quati.
Object of study that resulted on the monograph of one of the founders of the group, the Nasua nasua (scientific name of the animal) has diurnal habits and feeds on insects, fruits, small mammals and, unfortunately, remains of food, trash and food given by visitors. That high offer of food, combined with the absence of predators resulted on the highest Quatis population density ever registered, what poses a threat to the balance of the ambient.
And that's where the game comes in.
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To meet the need of teaching the population about the eating habits of the Quati and other animals that
live in the park, one of the many approaches chosen was the digital game. Relatively simple and yet rich in content, the interactive media has a great potential to teach fast in a fun way.
The game is being developed for the Web with Unity and will be available on the web site of the project.
The original idea was to develop a platform game that would happen on Mangabeiras Park. The player would be able to control, besides the Quati, two other animals featured in the project (Jacu and Mico-Estrela) and would have the mission of exploring the park looking for food, winning points when eating good food and losing them when eating bad food.
However, due to several problems with a prototype made with Game Maker and the significantly higher reach of a simpler game, we decided to take another route and create a memory game with images and information about the species and the park.
"Memória natural" (in english, Natural Memory), name chosen for the game, features three game modes, each one with three different difficulty settings and a star ranking based on the score of the player on each level. The game modes are:
- Memory: Tradicional memory game where the player must find a pair for each card he picks.
- Know More: On this mode the player must find the pair with the content that completes the content of the previous picked card.
- Answer: On this one the player has to find the cards answering the questions asked.
The 2D art and the music are 100% original, made in collaboration with other participant members of the project, amazing artists by the way. The cartoonish style was meant to settle the charismatic tone and please the main public of the game (children mostly, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun with it ;D ). The game will be ready on the beginning of November, as soon as it's online I'll post the link here. Meanwhile here's some images of the game:
Any sugestions, doubts or critics, just send me a message. And if you like, visit the project's website (portuguese only).


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Argentine residnts have been left in shock after discovering an image of Jesus in a tree trunk.
Residents of General Las Hera say they have been visited by a "holy power" after the astonishing likeness was discovered in the town near Buenos Aires this week, Sun UK reports.
One resident, named Pablo Jose Fredes, took pictures of the find.
He said: "This is a strong image, you can see Jesus Christ in the tree and when you are standing in front of the tree you can feel something inside yourself."
Another local, named Ajv Velo, photographed the rare image and said: "So many people of faith have arrived in the area in order to see his face and to pray in front of the tree and offer themselves to God in front of it."
The images were posted online and quickly went viral.
And that has seen busloads of pilgrims flock to the town to pay their respects and pray in the hope of receiving a holy blessing.
Residents say the tree is in an area of the city centre than is rarely used.
Scientists recently recreated what Jesus would have looked like using cutting-edge technology.
While a miracle was reported in Mexico when a statue of Mary began to cry.
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There are Plaintiffs and . . . There are Plaintiffs: An Empirical Analysis of Securities Class Action Settlements
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Public Pension Funds as Shareholder Activists: A Comment on Choi and Fisch
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In an important paper recently appearing in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Professors Stephen Choi and Jill Fisch generate survey evidence from public pension fund respondents that documents the low cost activism practiced by ...
Overruling Erie: Nationwide Class Actions and National Common Law
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NGO fears death of at least 240 migrants in Mediterranean
Lifeguards from the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms lift the body of a migrant onto the former fishing trawler Golfo Azzurro during a search and rescue operation in central Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast, March 23, 2017. [Photo/VCG]
MADRID — A Spanish aid organization says it has recovered five bodies from waters off the Libyan coast and fears that at least 240 migrants could have died after two boats capsized in the Mediterranean.
Proactiva Open Arms spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said each rubber boat usually holds 120 people, but smugglers tend to fill them over capacity to maximize their benefits in each trip.
She said the NGO confirmed the sinking of two boats but was only able to find the bodies of five men of African origin on Thursday morning, about 13 miles (21 kilometers) north of the Libyan town of Sabratha.
The migrants were between 16 and 25 years old and appeared to have drowned, said Lanuza, as their bodies didn't show any sign of violence. The NGO's rescuers were searching for a third boat.
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Ashland is crawling with folks who have interesting literary goals for the new year.
Whether it's to finish up the novel you're writing or finally read "Paradise Lost," it's good to set a goal and resolve to reach it. Besides, literary resolutions are a lot more fun than skipping the french fries or doing sit-ups every day.
For example, this year, I want to read more local history. I've lived in the area for more than six years and there's still so much I don't know. So far, what I have learned about this lovely valley is fascinating. I still recall the relief I felt when I read that White City was actually named after a popular general, rather than as a demographic statement.
I asked local bookworms to share their literary New Year's resolutions. Most echoed common themes of wanting to read or write more, but one brave soul confessed an unexpected goal.
Write more
Perii Hauschild-Owen, children's librarian: "I want to write more. I write picture books for children. I'd like to work on these books and explore publishing them."
Claudia Alick, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's community curator and Green Show producer: "My 2011 literary wish list is to read more non-fiction, finish several plays and get one produced, get my children's book, 'Plug Free: Games for Kids,' into field tests, do at least one poetry performance in New York City, and continue with my sci-fi and comic book clubs."
K. Silem Mohammad, Southern Oregon University professor of English and writing: "I hope to finish my book manuscript, 'The Sonnagrams: Anagrams of all 154 of Shakespeare's Sonnets.' I'm about halfway done."
Amy Miller, production editor, "Uncle John's Bathroom Reader": "I've made a commitment to get up early every weekday and do something, however small, to further my writing career: send out a submission, work on a book manuscript, write a blog entry or revise a poem."
Kevin Davidsohn, Bloomsbury Books: "I definitely want to write more, and I want to fulfill my friend's request to submit more microfiction to her website."
Steve Dieffenbacher, Mail Tribune copy editor: "At the top of my list is completing a book-length poetry manuscript I can submit to publishers, my first attempt at this."
Read more
Maureen Battistella, Ashland Mystery Readers Group: "I plan to read more mystery, particularly mysteries translated from Italian. I just finished 'The Leopard,' by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, on the modern origins of the Sicilian Mafia."
Margie Cicerrella, children's librarian: "I'd like to read more nonfiction, books about nature, gardening, geography and parks. These types of books can take me where I am most curious. Reading like this can be a real stress reliever."
Lie less about reading
My friend Jeff, who does not want me to use his last name, admitted his plan to read all the books he has pretended to have read over his life. His list includes classics such as "Ulysses," by James Joyce, and "War and Peace," by Leo Tolstoy. "I'm tired of quoting CliffNotes. It would have been easier to have just sat down and read the books a long time ago," he said.
Good for Jeff, and I'm sure he's not alone. Until last year, I was an "Anna Karenina" fake. It felt great to conquer my secret shame, and to sink into a great brick of a book knowing that I wouldn't have to write a term paper about it afterward.
What are your literary goals for the new year?
Angela Howe-Decker is a freelance writer living in Ashland. Reach her at email@example.com.
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Ashland is crawling with folks who have interesting literary goals for the new year.