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SAC Capital Advisors LP, one of the nation's most successful investment firms, will pay a record $616 million penalty to settle two insider-trading cases, including what authorities called the most lucrative such scheme ever.
The civil settlements with the Securities and Exchange Commission represent a high-profile chapter in a historic period for insider-trading enforcement in the U.S. They come as federal prosecutors and securities regulators continue to investigate whether SAC and its billionaire chief and founder, Steven A. Cohen, traded illegally on secret information.
SAC founder Steven A. Cohen Reuters
SAC didn't admit or deny the allegations. "This settlement is a substantial step toward resolving all outstanding regulatory matters," SAC said in a statement. "We are committed to continuing to maintain a first-rate compliance effort."
The firm has said it will continue to cooperate with the investigations and believes Mr. Cohen has acted appropriately. He hasn't been accused of any wrongdoing.
The deal comes amid a tumultuous period for SAC. In recent months, criminal and civil investigators have pored over its trading records. SAC continues to turn over documents to authorities stemming from subpoenas and requests for information, a person familiar with the inquiries said.
Meantime, SAC has been trying to stem an investor exodus. Investors recently have issued requests to redeem $1.7 billion of SAC's $15 billion in assets under management, according to people familiar with the matter. SAC has said the redemptions would have no significant impact on its funds.
The settlements end the hedge fund's exposure to SEC charges over allegedly illicit actions by a pair of former employees who faced criminal and civil charges in separate cases, one of whom is cooperating with authorities.
Ex-fund manager Mathew Martoma Bloomberg News
But they don't remove the legal pressure facing the 56-year-old Mr. Cohen, one of the world's best-known hedge fund managers. Investors say he has generated annual returns averaging nearly 30% over two decades, and 13% after fees last year.
The SAC settlements—for $602 million and $14 million—do "not preclude any such [future insider trading] charges at all against any person, including Steven Cohen, who's not named as a defendant in these cases," said George Canellos, the SEC's acting enforcement chief.
He added, speaking broadly: "There's a lot more to come in insider-trading cases."
The settlements follow years of investigations of SAC and Mr. Cohen. It is the first time SAC has settled government allegations. Federal law-enforcement officials have been trying to build an insider-trading case against Mr. Cohen by charging lower-level employees who pass him their best trading ideas and attempting to get those people to testify against their boss, people close to the investigation have said.
The $616 million penalty is "by far the largest" in an insider-trading case, according to SEC officials. The civil sanctions are the third-highest in SEC history, exceeded only by $800 million paid by American International Group Inc. AIG +1.48% American International Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE $49.42 +0.72 +1.48% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14.08M AFTER HOURS $49.49 +0.07 +0.14% Dec. 12, 2013 4:44 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 488,263 P/E Ratio 23.21 Market Cap $71.70 Billion Dividend Yield 0.81% Rev. per Employee $984,698 12/12/13 Japan-led M&A pushes Perella W... 12/01/13 No Penalties Planned in Swaps ... 11/19/13 BofA and AIG Battle Over Mortg... More quote details and news » in 2006 and the $750 million by WorldCom Inc. in 2003, officials said.
The previous record SEC penalty paid by a Wall Street firm was $550 million in 2010 from Goldman Sachs Group Inc., GS +0.44% Goldman Sachs Group Inc. U.S.: NYSE $168.33 +0.73 +0.44% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2.89M AFTER HOURS $168.38 +0.05 +0.03% Dec. 12, 2013 4:32 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 20,126 P/E Ratio 9.68 Market Cap $75.96 Billion Dividend Yield 1.31% Rev. per Employee $1,228,950 12/12/13 Warburg Pincus-Backed e-Shang ... 12/12/13 Warburg Pincus-Backed Chinese ... 12/11/13 Hilton IPO Prices at $20 a Sha... More quote details and news » to settle allegations the bank defrauded investors in a mortgage-bond deal. Goldman didn't admit or deny wrongdoing.
On the criminal front, federal authorities in New York have secured 71 convictions or guilty pleas out of 76 people charged in insider-trading cases in the past three years. Since 2009, six former SAC employees have been convicted in criminal cases or pleaded guilty to insider-trading charges; four of those are cooperating with authorities, according to court documents.
The $602 million deal with SAC unit CR Intrinsic Investors ends the hedge fund's potential civil liability for more than $275 million in profits—and avoided losses—allegedly achieved by trading in the stocks of two pharmaceutical companies ahead of the results of an Alzheimer's-drug trial. In the CR Intrinsic case, the SEC could have sought up to $1.1 billion in court, a person familiar with the case said.
Mr. Cohen trades in a portfolio known internally as the "Big Book," based partly on his employees' best ideas. According to people familiar with the matter, authorities are investigating Mr. Cohen's trading based on the recommendations of Mathew Martoma, a former CR Intrinsic portfolio manager who has pleaded not guilty to securities fraud and conspiracy.
Criminal and civil authorities have accused Mr. Martoma of obtaining inside information about the Alzheimer's trial from a neurologist who is cooperating with federal prosecutors and the FBI.
Based on information about negative results of the trial, SAC allegedly sold $960 million of Elan Corp. DRX.DB -0.27% Elan Corp. PLC Ireland: Dublin €12.86 -0.04 -0.27% Dec. 12, 2013 4:30 pm Volume : 944,948 P/E Ratio 3.63 Market Cap €6.65 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee €327,048 More quote details and news » and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals securities in little more than a week in July 2008, according to court documents. The hedge-fund firm sold shares it held to avoid losses, and also executed "short sales" to bet against the stocks, the complaints said.
The sales were in portfolios managed both by Mr. Martoma and by Mr. Cohen, people familiar with the case have said.
SAC has said Mr. Cohen did nothing wrong. "SAC's business decision to settle with the SEC in no way changes the fact that Mathew Martoma is an innocent man," said Charles A. Stillman, a lawyer for Mr. Martoma.
In a separate settlement, SAC unit Sigma Capital Management agreed to pay $14 million to settle civil charges that an analyst obtained inside information about technology companies Dell Inc. and Nvidia Corp. NVDA -1.95% NVIDIA Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq $15.11 -0.30 -1.95% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6.36M AFTER HOURS $15.10 -0.01 -0.07% Dec. 12, 2013 4:42 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): 101,051 P/E Ratio 19.62 Market Cap $8.76 Billion Dividend Yield 2.25% Rev. per Employee $513,274 12/05/13 SAC Portfolio Manager's Lawyer... 12/04/13 Witness Is Pressed on Whether ... 11/19/13 The Steinberg Trial: Cheat She... More quote details and news » He allegedly passed illicit information to two portfolio managers, who the SEC said earned profits and avoided trading losses of more than $6.4 million.
—Jenny Strasburg and Juliet Chung contributed to this article.
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We have we have -- depth problem that is out of control.
We've got to just I mean I am -- five -- as appropriate but revenues on the table.
Now the revenues were front and on the table -- gonna come from gas soon.
The rich.
There are ways to limit deductions.
Close loopholes and have the same people paid more.
More of their money to the federal government without raising tax rates which we believe will harm our economy.
And bat Internet and you know perfectly well by now is John Boehner the speaker of the United States House of Representatives he's a Republican from the state of Ohio.
And this is power play.
Good morning Internet.
Well I guess I should say -- good morning most of the Internet -- from frequently reminded that.
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You know we say good evening I guess twins -- -- -- no chance to to you that's.
By linguists.
Right there I was Susan appreciate -- It is the chief congressional correspondent for the Washington examiner she -- -- your friend of mine -- a friend of this Internet telecast.
Welcome -- -- great -- OK so.
Here's the deal you heard John Boehner they -- talking a bona.
I feel about this -- -- I'm -- start -- for those of you who cannot see that sign back there.
But the the question ms.
Susan is this.
John Boehner is trying to walk in -- narrow tightrope right now with the president on one side.
And conservative members of his caucus on the other side.
And there are signs that -- Position is is secured that he is not in danger of -- revolt right now here in -- seems to be giving him the majority leader seems to be giving him some latitude these days.
And some other things but there are complaints from his base.
Not just about.
-- -- tax deal because in that quote you heard him is -- telling you in the rest of -- of the gang.
And can't help that yeah people are gonna pay more taxes under his plan and he's OK with that.
That he's got to deal with a complaint from his.
Caucus about that but also about the fact that he has punished if you punished for five members.
Of his caucus by stripping them -- -- Making posts and because they didn't vote with him before.
Well I think setting things up right now to make for an easier passage of whatever deal he comes up with -- -- I think it will include people on the hill you know Republicans and Democrats alike acknowledges that included tax rate increase of some kind not just closing loopholes -- actually raising rates rates may not be the 215 about it may -- a higher number than that millionaires you know.
500000 but it's it's this -- a rate increase.
But I by telling these -- members in Gloucester committee sent assignments for voting against -- being a thorn in my side it's any message and he also said in that meeting.
There could be more he said that to the crew yesterday that he met with -- at least rank and file that you know hot or not.
Members who write our republic is actually show up -- those things.
He said there could be more so that means basically.
There's a big vote coming coming I'll think about how you're going to stand on it because if you vote against me on this you -- lose -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- who lost their committee assignments.
-- -- who voted against the last really big important piece of legislation which was the debt ceiling bill from August 20.
I think that made the spending side of the fiscal club.
Created a fiscal cliff and and they voted against it sounds a big no no -- -- -- Khamese and is now.
So dizzy and internal struggle going on -- -- -- right now you still a lot of members who are not really inclined to raise rates.
At all or even closes loopholes still don't like it all -- wanna raise taxes.
But they've got two problems line is that this is the clip is coming they could be blamed too is it could vote against something like that and lose their committee signing.
Says two big things that might influence these guys he's you know rabble browsers on the far right.
Google on with whatever deal -- comes up with -- eventually of course that's the question what is that deal going to been.
Is it going to be a big tax rate increase -- he agrees to Boise just to hold it is ground because Democrats are willing to put forward their side of the deal.
Which of course going to be have to be some kind of being cut.
Somewhere along line discretionary spending in an agreement to do it happening reforms and -- have to have that.
Susan did you know that.
I write the column every morning.
I read everything you know that I do.
It's also called power play and it's available in convenient word for word based form for -- Internet.
And you can have it.
Simply for the cost -- -- Twitter follow if you probably act.
-- -- -- -- -- -- On yourself there Internet you can have a what I -- today was this and you're very good at knocking down my -- -- I -- he did for years.
When I -- -- -- it when I was -- editor and she would say oh no no you don't know what you're talking -- here's my question.
If you're Republican and you know you know no no no that.
If you do nothing everybody's rates go up.
Well that of 53%.
Of American households that pay income taxes the they're all their rates are gonna go up.
On January 1 and beyond January 1 you're negotiating from a place where the taxes are already -- the law of the land.
Is that.
What is wrong with the idea.
From a strategic point of view.
I understand -- thing about primary challenges but -- -- street strategic point of view of passing at the end on December 31 you negotiate as long as you can't get as good a deal is you can't.
And then on December 31 letting go through an extension of the rates.
For everybody but the 2% targeted by the president.
And then move on to the next fight which is the debt -- why is that a bad idea and then use your dad telling us your second point of leverage and then you get to the debt ceiling and you say OK you -- a debt ceiling increase now you got to give me some cuts now you got to give you whatever and by the way the Republicans who like cutting spending -- not -- the Pentagon.
Would be seeing the automatic cuts from the sequestration go into effect at least they'd be -- that.
In the issue that is once you let those tax rates rise for those top income earners it's really hard to undo -- right.
It's really hard to get that back on the table I think a lot of Republicans fear.
This is -- one shot at keeping those rates at their -- at the -- keeping those rates sustained for everybody.
But I'll tell you that is the plan that's being talked about him right now people are saying.
They're acknowledging we've got two points of leverage here the first one being of course the fiscal -- that we talk about happening on January 1.
But the second is a debt ceiling increase and here's a problem with that theory.
Yet to listen you know in between the lines on what's really going to be important what each side is -- insist on for Republicans is gonna have to be big cut cuts.
-- the Democrats whether they've been saying.
We're not moving a bill that she got connected to increase and so whenever -- -- They are you serious that on -- -- the senate has in the senate passed the bill.
That would just extend before word 98% of federal income taxpayers wouldn't it just extend the rates for them.
The debt but.
Yes but but if if we going to if this still if we if we possibility -- stopped fiscal cliff which many people believe will happen.
It's probably going to get rid of that second point of leverage that you mentioned your story -- that would give them another out -- at the apple.
-- include that in every night I hey there's some lines in the sand that are not negotiable right now rock.
Obama would not Vito.
Or maybe he would maybe he would but that would be I mean there is audacious and then there's -- day she wouldn't be doing veto -- bill you're saying he would cities.
Did you know -- positively impact but the -- already -- that -- their existing legislation.
Fitting -- it doesn't matter what ever heard that fiscal cliff.
It legislation that -- the last train out the door as we say right it's going to -- -- it's going to have a debt ceiling increase that carries it.
That stops the second point of -- that's and in times and that's why you see Obama's saying right now.
We're not moving to bill -- as a debt -- increase -- -- -- -- hang it over and over.
They wanna get rid of that second -- and how good they really know that I know.
They know even those tax rates which I still argue would be hard to -- Even even if you don't get the tax rates -- the Republicans even if they don't have tax rates that.
At least they would be able to get spending cuts won't bring entitlements that.
Right they're pretty -- spending cuts.
This time around.
Here's like I say there are some bright lines and I don't -- negotiable right now tax rates are negotiable folks sorry.
And so and so -- but here's what's not negotiable I don't see.
Republicans doing much in the way of taxes if they don't see something big on the table right now that substantial for cuts in entitlement reform.
That that brings the promise.
That there will be -- this happening next year where they're going to be working on reform any traumas and attacks.
They're not gonna do that unless they see the cuts on the table those sit there and I think that's only get a real problem for this fiscal cliff situation.
If Democrats are willing to put those big cuts on the table but if they are.
Then I think you're gonna see the Republicans really I think -- backwards and they.
You've heard it here first Susan -- often quite right.
Says this.
If in fact.
The Republicans -- -- even pass legislation that included.
An extension of current tax rates for the 98% as the president likes to talk about the did not.
Unilaterally disarm on the question of the debt ceiling that this and it would kill it.
That's a -- That is bold talk that is bold talk madam but we will see what happens because the clock is ticking down that is not to Christmas but but to -- -- day.
Susan we thank you luxury to be here all right good Internet.
Collect yourself take a moment.
Gather your thoughts because when we come back we're going to be with some of your very favorite we're gonna have Tony welcome Bradley and are going to be -- -- -- out all of this stuff.
On the debt ceiling we will test.
Susan supposition is we will have -- points we -- hilarious word from Charles.
This show is something that should delight in inspire you for the rest of your day.
-- -- Isn't bad strategy -- -- As bad strategy for businesses.
And it is not a game that I won't play.
And that was President Obama tell you about the game he would not play it is not for cheesy.
It is not my -- it is the debt ceiling game that he will not -- he's talking there to these CEOs -- the business roundtable the bigs of the bigs.
And saying that he was not interest it.
In negotiating something out with Republicans.
On an increase to the debt ceiling this is power play that we increase the debt ceiling for the federal government borrowing limit for the federal government by 2.2 trillion dollars.
Back in August it sounds like a lot.
But it turns out that if you were spending an extra.
Four billion today that you don't have you go through that pretty fast.
So we're gonna be out soon.
And the extraordinary measures that Treasury Secretary was able to use back in August to bump things out.
Are less available to him now because we have less liquidity.
And based on the time of the year went acts of rebates are being paid there's just less cash on hand.
So it's going to get squeezing pretty quickly into the beginning of the new year the president says he will not play that game.
So let's talk about this gamesmanship challenge.
Let's do that with Tony Welch he is a former.
Press Secretary for the Democratic National Committee.
You follow him -- you should follow and that -- sixer and Tony when people want to hire you where there are you.
-- at beat Dewey square group that the Dewey -- and they'll get a place there a lot of happy couple Democrats over the duties there are you -- -- ready to help their fellow Democrats get elected to stuff.
And do other things.
-- Blake meant of course as you know perfectly well Internet is a former senior advisor to president George W.
He also worked for bush -- And we wish continue to wish a speedy recovery from his -- You follow him -- Blake and indeed he switched it up on you he put -- this person actually the end and if you're very lucky.
And either get a scholarship or average and if you could learn from it and -- thought.
I guess he's a professor at Georgetown University welcome back that brother -- -- Are -- here's the question.
Susan says this that the real -- No go point the real red line for the president in the current negotiations.
Is over this.
The debt ceiling not.
The not the tax rate increase for upper -- that this is mostly talk this is mostly showmanship.
The real thing the president wants now and will insist on now and Democrats insist on now is that whatever happens today.
His condition on an increase in the debt ceiling to more do you think that's true you're a Democrat what -- you.
What an increase in the debt -- or or -- or not having this fight again.
That is why you know congress -- giving -- the right to let the president borrow money well I'll say this.
You can avoid -- this -- the rise in the debt ceiling either he's buying time for the year.
Well he's saying we are gonna -- -- and we if you seen this happen before Houston we've been talking about leadership from the for the from the president for quite some time.
And the idea that America now is going to.
Regularly and regularly.
Get into the position -- it is going to put its economy at risk we're gonna do this on an annual basis depending on the does this is what's going on in the Republican caucus.
Is absurd and so I think he will find the president not only asked for let's say.
We are we are going to find a solution I'm not going to accept things on these terms where you get to hold -- gun to the American economy every.
So often every year to six months whatever it's going to people were doing we do a lot of gun holding -- to the American economy in Washington and we just do.
Well now wait -- -- And I'll let Brad carried the ball on this but.
As Rob Portman wrote in a letter last night.
To president that Mitt most or all of the Republican senators are signatories to the city the debt ceiling increase was part of all of the big.
Fiscal deals that have happened over the last.
Thirty odd years so why should we disarm on the debt ceiling when we know that this has been a leverage point -- people abuse in the past.
Democrats and Republicans.
This is a hostage negotiation everywhere and we're in the in the position.
Not only have you got her head but also then be forced to negotiate against ourselves if the present were real.
He wouldn't be talking in Arlington Virginia into the distract -- will he be talking to.
Leadership on Capitol Hill he refuses to do that he can't negotiate -- -- somebody sitting on the other end of the table the president's latest.
Demand is that debt ceiling and then what does he do he -- this particular cabinet secretary of the Treasury Secretary up.
To the speaker of the house to demand that they relinquish their constitutional.
Power of the purse and oversight to the president and executive branch and raising the debt as they see fit.
This is not serious negotiation because of that was the -- it would be engaged every day.
On this issue with the leaders who can make the deal the present interest in a deal I believe he thinks she's in a better position if we go off the -- And then will live to fight another day with a new car.
Tell -- whether the president thinks that whether he wants to fail or not it's hard to argue with the logic that Democrats are -- Advantaged position.
In January.
If at least as it relates to taxes that if you if in fact all the rates go up because they're starting from age they're starting from their side of the from the from their opponents out of the fifty yard line.
Instead of their -- -- Sure all together just it's it's a stronger position if I don't think it's accepting with a couple things the -- of the president's campaigning.
First you talk -- Don -- on the phone.
Very recently they can they can they can move this along.
And you don't have to be there every day if there's if nothing's moving down to earth -- -- things on his side and there's leadership required on his end as well.
But to the other point to present today we'll sit down with the middle class families and it scares Republicans so much.
That the president is talking to business leaders and regular Americans about what we should do at this point -- -- I'm really sorry for them but here's what he has to.
Here's here's a point he should make.
He should make the point that.
I am not going to.
Year after year after year allow you to to hold our economy hostage that he can't play on those terms and he's not going to I don't think.
Wouldn't this -- in the industry standard just to give you some perspective on this and who's the industry standard in the past was that there would be budgets of some kind -- you have budgets.
And when the budget was passed when a spending bill was passed it was -- into it like oh and by the way the debt ceiling is gonna go up.
A trillion -- like suddenly go.
This the spending happened earlier this right ending that this is only saying we're going to pay for the groceries we bought our credit card.
Look at video but eventually president you've never been the type of Kentucky case that doesn't always happen that is not always -- that this has -- the president's credit card right the last eight years.
Do you last four years don't get and we got a long way to go now I don't get well.
Yeah but it.
It that we don't miss that the president said in 2008 as a candidate for president it's irresponsible in fact I -- -- using his words unpatriotic.
To run up the kind of gets.
That he -- quote inherited and that he's blown through that.
He's he spent more money than every president who preceded him.
But now all good things come to an end and we're not gonna negotiate against ourselves if the president wants to drive off the cliff that we're gonna watch him go we're not going with a.
But but they set up the -- -- -- -- this is the Republicans the -- set up this way but this is the Republicans doing big push the issue on this Bradley now that we've gone through this budget process in decades before without any drama of the this morning we're all going to yeah.
It well calibrated when we are down that's the cliff but the down but the downgrade to -- putting us and we had a.
-- I'm gonna stop myself but that the downgrade.
I think -- -- point -- can we agree that the downgrade as a consequence of the impasse being the straw that broke the camel's back.
On a forty year fiscal failure right that wasn't that didn't all happen in a week it wasn't like we think the United States is robust and fiscally sound though it took one incredibly reckless move to make that happen but it but it was we've we've been doing wrong for a while I think we can stipulate we've we've done and been doing wrong for a long time.
Okay we're gonna take a quick break I'm gonna stop myself now from talking anymore for a brief moment so that when we come back we talk about fun we -- ice this cupcake that we've been -- here and say.
Hillary -- sixty.
What do you think.
I know it's too soon and it's wrong and we shouldn't do it but much like entitlement failing to reform entitlements or failing to normalize the tax code it just feels good to do it so that's what we're gonna do when we come back.
So stick around.
Well faith and -- -- that is Hillary Rodham Clinton secretary of state on a visit to Ireland.
And you know who else likes to go to Ireland presidents of the United States because there -- to be a lot of -- voters in America and it looks cool and I'd like to get straight appearance stuff so that's great.
And this is powered by welcome back.
And Hillary Clinton for all the talk for any talk in fact about Hillary Clinton not being a candidate in 26 team.
The drumbeat has begun that seems to inexorably lead us to the moment.
When the secretary of state says as much as I didn't want to run for president I really wanted to just help -- world hunger or something.
I was say I feel duty -- To go and do my running.
So what about the fact that the Democrats already have a front runner for 2016 and it cleared -- on front runner at bat.
We'll ask that question of -- Blake man who knows what Republicans will have to do in order to get ready for that.
Tony -- would tell us whether it's really going to happen because -- well.
Has been within the house of Clinton you know how.
The Clinton.
Operation operates.
And all of that good stuff from your time at the DN CETC -- -- So let's start with the numbers.
Hillary twice sixteen -- the Washington Post and ABC.
Of respondents.
Of American respondents said yes.
They would support her compared to 37% who -- it closer and -- this is a meaningless poll.
This is -- overwhelmingly meaningless bowl because it's acts it's asked in the abstract right.
But 57%.
Is you've got -- like that if -- Mark Penn or whomever she's gonna hire this time you've got to like that right.
You're gonna hear that number and run away -- location.
And -- -- and say I say this is not doable what's interest things can people take four years -- from their last field campaign most of them run distinct tanker doing this job or do this work and she happened to be in the very.
As a whole world -- that could happen to be in the very visible on the secretary of state was an incredibly high approval rating in that job and we arrived here today one of the first emails I got after the election was over an email about retiring the debt from her.
So I know I know -- right now Brad the Republicans have seen this movie before that your.
Hillary Clinton was barreling into 2008.
That not only was she -- dead insert favorite to win the democratic nomination.
But also.
Was going to walk away she was riding high and not this -- but she is running very high going into 2008.
And was it certainly looked past the primaries.
Which turned out there.
Look pass the time.
Primaries and was ready to face off -- either Rudy Giuliani or John McCain how does having a presumptive front runner in the Democratic Party affect the process in the Republican -- Well look if it gives us the ability.
Two Foster are only eight to twelve candidates we're gonna run.
The fact is that Hillary -- -- you you've said we've seen this movie before she was going to Waltz into the White House usually get the nomination none of that happened.
And actually think she's going to learn from her mistakes and do it again.
-- to ignore.
Hillary Clinton and -- we're gonna have our own fish to fry with.
Ten or twelve candidates were gonna be making appearances shortly and in Iowa New Hampshire and Florida and Virginia.
Marco Rubio are on the trail so -- we basically ignore.
We think about what they are trying to do different areas we pay the talent and potential and our last night what did you do this -- so you -- you're saying don't worry about it than do what they do you figure you pick your guy.
Other other potential Democrats a number like that not only would a number like this.
-- inducements to the house of Clinton but also it would tend to terrify I would think other Democrats who are thinking about -- that way right.
Well that's all.
-- theory and and to back regrets point.
It is is difficult -- wire to wire act that says it's a safe bet to take the field against anyone Mitt Romney.
It's really really hard today and so for the person running you've got.
-- about -- one path that's not the only path to defeating machine but.
I think it's polar this time she's good list that you released him from from candidate to First Lady to -- To successful secretary of state is a horror -- what I was will have a wholesale web play segments about how successful as secretary of state she was -- WWW.
It is safe.
I advised on it and that question -- gentlemen.
We thank you very much for your time today I think candidates are wishing people Merry Christmas and happy -- -- it today today begins we begin the holiday march forward -- center Christmas.
Happy Chanukah and here we go.
Hear your power points for today it goes fast it goes fast so here's your first PowerPoint.
53% that's president Obama's approval rating in the quinnipiac poll quinnipiac -- you know as a -- that I like and trust and listen to a lot.
And that's up.
That takes him up five points from where he was prior to the election and nothing.
As Peter Brown -- get points out helps your approval rating.
Like winning an election that's a good thing makes people like you more and they -- well let's give this guy another chance.
But here's your second PowerPoint.
Holding the line.
Now in the old days when it came to post election approval balances you were talking about what people like Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan experience which takes you back up.
Into happy town up into the sixties.
Up into the high fifties -- -- these are great things and happy days might be here again.
What the president is experiences and what George W.
Bush experience.
Which is a -- One it's over the top and that's all and that's not a lot of political capital to spend.
And he's gonna spend as in fact George W.
Bush did with the Iraq War probably most of his term holding the line on his big.
His biggest issue which is is -- 2010 health law that's going to be what present will have to spend most of his capital doing is holding the line on that.
So here's your third point.
Fresh and exciting.
How do you be fresh and exciting.
As a re elected president.
You need a big idea you need something to galvanize people around if the president can outrun this moment with Republicans right now are taxes and spending.
He ought to think of something fresh and exciting to talk to voters about that might engage them -- So that was your power points on the hunt -- Jonathan Hunt is up next as you well know and now.
As we like to do every day.
Normally do with the word from our French are.
It's so I think you're looking once again in the media that's here blame Republicans but that's where I am correcting them.
You're correct we -- them we have I don't live show where we can talk more about this is a direct them even -- and you corrected me even more.
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Ever considered running a cycling race? Got what it takes? Read this, think carefully, and then do it. Just be ready to put heart and soul into it…
The Premise
Start by moaning to anyone prepared to listen about how poorly presented bike racing is in your chosen domain – in this case cyclo-cross in the UK – without any actual intention of getting involved per se, hoping to throw some ideas in the mix, then neatly step back for others to take on the baton. Fellow lovers of the sport will back everything you say, before disappearing into the shadows. For the moment, you and your brilliant ideas are all alone.
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Sport's governing bodies are one of life's necessities, but it is amazing how much can be done without their involvement. Keep asking questions and you will probably be told no. Keep your head down and crack on and it's fait accompli.
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And that's about it. If you can cope with that lot and still come out the other side with a smile on your face, then get stuck in and do something for the sport instead of moaning about it. If I can do it, anyone can.
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United States Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service Oklahoma Crop Weather Oklahoma Field Office Cooperating with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry P.O. Box 528804 · Oklahoma City, OK 73152-8804 (405) 522-6190 · FAX (405) 528-2296 · www.nass.usda.gov/ok A combined contribution with Cooperative Extension Service, USDA Farm Service Agency and Oklahoma Mesonet -over- USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. VOLUME 35, NUMBER 29 Weekly Summary for Aug 20-Aug 27 Issued August 27, 2012 Rainfall Brings Limited Improvements Every Mesonet station recorded rainfall during the past week with a state average of 0.89 of an inch. Most of the precipitation fell over the weekend with the Northeast and Central districts receiving the most generous totals. The precipitation received was only a fraction of what is needed for drought relief, and has had little effect on the row crops in the ground. Recent rainfall did improve the outlook for small grain planting in some areas of the state. Seedbed preparation is far behind normal for all small grains and canola so far this year. Cattle producers were still suffering from low hay supplies and the lack of quality grazing. Temperatures remained cooler than normal for August for the second week. Topsoil ratings showed some improvement moving from very short to short. Eight percent of topsoil and five percent of subsoil were rated adequate, up slightly from the previous week. There were 6.0 days suitable for field work. Small Grains: Seedbed preparation for fall planting was behind normal for all small grains and canola. Plowing of wheat ground was 92 percent complete, and eight percent of seed preparation was complete by Sunday, 25 points behind normal. Rye plowing was 92 percent compete, and seedbed preparation was completed on only seven percent of rye fields by the end of the week. Oat plowing was 93 percent complete and six percent of seedbed preparation for oats was complete, 17 points behind the five-year average. Seedbed preparation was complete on one quarter of canola fields by Sunday, 17 points behind last year. Row Crops: Conditions for corn, sorghum and soybeans were rated mostly fair to poor, while cotton was rated mostly poor and peanuts were rated mostly good. Corn dent was reported in 89 percent of the crop and 67 percent was mature, 23 points ahead of normal. The corn harvest was 43 percent complete by the end of the week, 30 points ahead of the five-year average. Sorghum headed reached 78 percent complete and half of the crop was coloring, 15 points ahead of normal. Sorghum mature reached 27 percent complete by week's end, and 12 percent of the sorghum crop was harvested, significantly ahead of normal. Soybeans blooming reached 81 percent complete and 58 percent of the crop was setting pods, four points behind the five-year average. Eighty-nine percent of peanuts were setting pods by Sunday, and eight percent of the crop was mature. Eighty-nine percent of cotton plants were setting bolls by the end of the week and 11 percent had bolls opening. The watermelon harvest was 92 percent complete by week's end, just ahead of the five-year average. Hay: Conditions continued to be rated mostly poor to very poor. The third cutting of alfalfa was 90 percent complete and a fourth cutting of alfalfa was 31 percent complete by Sunday, 22 points behind normal. The second cutting of other hay reached 54 percent complete, 10 points ahead of the five-year average. Pasture and Livestock: Rainfall from the last two weekends resulted in a slight improvement in condition ratings, but 79 percent of pasture and range was still rated poor to very poor. Overall, the rain provided little to no runoff to refill stock ponds, and short hay supplies continued to be used to supplement the lack of grazing. Livestock was rated mostly good to fair. Prices for feeder steers less than 800 pounds averaged $139 per cwt. Prices for heifers less than 800 pounds averaged $132 per cwt. Soil Moisture Conditions by Percent Week Ending Sunday, August 26, 2012 Moisture Rating Current Week Previous Week One Year Ago Topsoil Very Short 57 77 75 Short 35 20 22 Adequate 8 3 3 Surplus 0 0 0 Subsoil Very Short 73 78 85 Short 22 20 14 Adequate 5 2 1 Surplus 0 0 0 Conditions by Percent For Week Ending Sunday, August 26, 2012 Commodity Very Poor Poor Fair Good Excellent Corn 16 31 30 22 1 Sorghum 24 28 36 12 0 Soybeans 22 42 25 11 0 Peanuts 1 1 24 69 5 Cotton 20 51 19 10 0 Alfalfa Hay 28 39 24 8 1 Other Hay 29 41 22 6 2 Livestock 2 15 49 31 3 Pasture and Range 42 37 17 4 0
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Colorado Springs police arrested a 29-year-old man accused of carjacking a man late Thursday evening.
Just before 11 p.m., on Thursday, police responedd to a carjacking near East Fountain Boulevard and South Shelton Road.
Police said a 54-year-old man was approached by two white men who assaulted him with a handgun. One of the suspects fled with the man's pickup, a Ford F-150, police said. The other suspect, according to police, ran away.
The vehicle and suspect descriptions were broadcast on police radio. Soon after the message, Falcon police officers found the stolen pickup in an area near Garden of the Gods Road and Interstate 25.
After contacting the man, 29-year-old Gene Hamilton, in the vehicle, he was arrested as he matched the suspect description. A handgun was found in Hamilton's wasitband, police said.
Hamilton was charged with Aggravated Robbery, Second Degree Assault, Felony Menacing and Possession of a Weapon by a Previous Offender.
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Planet: New Tombstone
Designation: Free Rasalhague Republic Border Colony
Position in System: 5
Surface Gravity: 1.15
Equatorial Temp: 35o C
Population: 240,000
HPG Class: B
Planetary Governor: Madeline Swaney
Industries: Livestock
Date: August 19, 3044
Local Time: 18.40 hours
By even the most charitable of standards, New Tombstone was a hellhole of a planet.
The extreme tilt of the planet's axis of rotation meant that temperatures in the southern hemisphere reached excesses of 100 degrees Celsius, while the northern regions were locked in a perpetual deep freeze. The difference in air pressure between the hot and cold sides of the planet made for constant, violent windstorms. Only a strip of land around the equator - no more than eighty kilometers wide - was even marginally suitable for human habitation.
The fact that humanity had found a foothold in such an unthinkably hostile environment was a tribute either to the tenacity or to the stupidity of mankind, depending on your point of view. Regardless, New Tombstone had become a thriving center of commerce in the half century since its foundation. Beef was hard to come by this close to the Periphery; the cattle bred and pastured across the sweep of New Tombstone's equatorial fields were a lucrative export.
Nobody ever asked the cows how they felt about the whole arrangement, which was probably just as well.
The closest thing to a major population center on the whole of the planet was the city of Baker's Stake, and the closest thing to a high-class establishment in Baker's Stake was the Rancher's Council Club.
This was where the few dozen men who owned most of the planet came to enjoy the dubious pleasure of one another's company. Most bars on the planet had jukeboxes; this one had a string quartet. The dance floor was made of marble, the bar of walnut with gold inlay.
A middle-aged Kuritan man sat alone at a private table towards the back of the bar. He was dressed in a white tuxedo and wide-brimmed hat, like a country baron from the holovids. For the moment, he was enjoying the way that the light from a nearby crystal chandelier danced at the bottom of his glass. Overall, he looked almost obscenely pleased with himself.
To the socialites of Baker's Stake, this man was known as "Jean Owen."
During Jean's many years as a mercenary, he'd been forced to meet more clients than he could remember in seedy holes-in-the-wall. Now that he was the one doing the hiring, he'd decided to hold the meeting at a venue that was a better fit for his own sensibilities.
That was one reason that Jean was smiling.
He'd put out the call for... what were the words he'd used? The "roughest band of outlaws this side of the Periphery." Within the next ten minutes, a gang matching that very description would be meeting him here - and crashing the planet's most exclusive party in the process.
That was the other reason that Jean was smiling.
Jean had been raised amongst a class of people to whom nobility had meant more than privilege. During his short stay in Baker's Stake, he'd come to deeply detest the petty bourgeois posturing of New Tombstone's upper crust. The arrival of Jean's invitees was likely to cause the biggest scandal of the season. It'd be nothing compared to the uproar when these socialites found out that the accounts into which Jean Owen had supposedly been depositing their investments didn't exist, but he didn't plan on being around to see the reaction to that first hand.
At any rate, Jean's new business associates would be arriving at any minute. If he was lucky, one of them would punch the doorman.
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The theme of last week was divergence. Relationships that we've seen hold water for months if not years have stretched the rubber band, almost to the breaking point. We have an important change developing in gold and the Greenback. You could've set the inverse relationship between the precious and the US Dollar to your Bulova, it was that precise. Within the metals themselves, we've seen a divergence between Copper and Palladium. But perhaps no where was it more prevalent than on Friday with the SOX/BTK and the BKX.
Finally, it was the NDX that did not confirm a new high in the Dow. What that means is a correction has started. What that means is I have some good news and some bad news.
I know, I prefer bad news first as well. If you are following inflation, one would think the best hedge against it is the precious metals. Well, that's not working right now. So if gold is not working, that must mean deflation is waking up. With a lower Dollar, we don't have deflation working either. I know that Corn is still through the roof and we have a CRB at relative new highs. But Copper is not confirming.
So if the Dollar is dropping and the Gold charts getting absolutely creamed, something isn't adding up. I get concerned anytime I see something new develop. Everything you'll see in the headlines later this year as economic fact first materialized on a chart. So by the time the media and economic think tanks get around to it, the new direction will entrenched. So let's talk about it while it's in the infancy stage. The fact that Gold and the Greenback are going the same direction means one of two things. Either the US Dollar or the precious metals are in a larger degree sideways pattern and it just so happens they are both going the same way for a short spell; or the Dollar is trying to tell us something really serious. The fact of the matter is the Dollar never gave us even a truncated C wave up in its move off the November low. It appears we are headed for a retest of that low and now the best case scenario is a larger degree trading range above the November low and below the December high. Right now the 38% retracement, 3rd rail of deflation up at the 90 handle is light years away. More likely is a breakdown that could take us to a climax this summer as the chart squares out at 121 months off the 121 bull market top from a decade ago. If that were to happen, we could end up with a test of the bottom of the long term pitchfork channel I've shown you from time to time. We are not in danger of that yet, but prices right now are in the process of a major failure at the long term median line.
We've discussed in this space last year what would happen if the Dollar were to breakdown. This time, I think we would be looking more to hyperinflation than inflation. Think about it, this is a feast or famine type of market. It does not appear to give us middle ground. Truly the best thing that could happen is the Greenback holding the lows as the economy continues to recover. We certainly do not need any new crisis to worry about. I don't think the Fed can handle it. One thing is for sure, the Dollar will square out this year just like the Gold market did earlier this month.
Getting back to the stock market, the reason tech is pulling back is because the 2 most important components of technology hit key points in their development. The SOX hit an important intermediate term time window off the 2006 high and the BTK hit an important Gann square of 9 level off its 2002 bottom. There is every chance we can now have a repeat of what happened last January. You'll remember that tech pulled back while the BKX stayed even. What I told you at that time was as long as the banks didn't participate to the downside, the market would eventually recover. At that time, most people were looking for a return to the bad old days of 2008. While we did suffer a serious shake of the trees into the middle of the year, markets recovered as some important Gann levels fired off in August, one of which we will discuss in February at the New York Traders Expo in my price and time breakout session. Here's the link: http://www.moneyshow.com/tradeshow/new_york/traders_Expo/workshop_details.asp?wid=737FDAA2785D43AAB8A1BA988530DDCC&scode=021493
What is most interesting about last week is the fact banks started to participate in the move off the high but held the line on Friday. They literally HELD THE LINE. It is the banks holding the line which gives one hope we are not going to see the worst case scenario in the Greenback. IF the currency goes over the cliff I don't see how it would be possible for banks stocks to go higher. But sometimes storms start slowly and develop into monsters. A hurricane was once a tropical depression. But you can usually tell if conditions for the perfect storm are setting up. We have a couple of elements in place but an incomplete picture. I'll tell you the same thing I did 12 months ago. Nothing seriously bad happens to this market unless banks are leading to the downside.
There's one other problem we haven't discussed. It's the bond market which has consolidated sideways for a whole month. At this stage of the game, the longer it consolidates, the greater the opportunity it's going to have to drop in price and it should test the far end of a downward sloping pitchfork line in exactly a week. That brings up the state visit of the Chinese last week. Sentiment was interesting to say the least as our media and Congress maintained a high level of hostility pointed at the Chinese President. It seems we are having a hard time understanding our new role as debtor to the developing new superpower of the world. We have a society open to debate, that's where our strength as a democracy comes from. However, when we don't show a united front to our largest competitor that can't be viewed as a good thing. The way it looks to me right now, if the Chinese or the Treasury doesn't start buying our bonds pretty soon that is another component that will add to the storm.
With the divergences the way they are, we could be all over the map this week.
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It was in March at its "Fahrzeug IT 2008" conference that BMW first presented its plans to develop infotainment packages for its luxury cars based on Open Source technology. BMW already ventured into a cooperative undertaking with chipmaker Intel and embedded Linux vendor Wind River. Its goal was uniform ports for multimedia applications in its cars, with the basic idea to use readily available instead of costly internally developed software. At the Convergence 2008 auto show in Detroit, BMW campaigned for coordinated work among the automakers on the Open Source platform.
A cooperation spirit in new development is not uncommon among automakers at first glance. As BMW spokesperson for innovation and research Katharina Boelsterl states, "a strong collaboration is desirable especially for noncompetitive functionality." She says that carmakers generally divide their development into two spheres. One is the specific classic electronics area, such as related to drive handling characteristics, that generally stays with the manufacturer. The other sphere is infotainment electronics where this rule doesn't apply and where actual collaboration is already occurring. Boelsterl suggests that the Consumer Electronics for Automotive (CE4A) project is one example. Under the umbrella of the German VDA auto industry association, automakers are working on a common port for mobile phone, navigation device and multimedia software. The Autosar development partnership is to have similar goals. It is a forum designed for international automakers to mull over such things as drive trains and steering mechanisms for the common good.
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What exactly were you smoking?
Taxes are what the rich pay for the privilege of staying out of the guillotine.
Repurposed plasma screens are just that; you're making use of a huge supply chain designed for providing TVs to provide for a special purpose application. It would cost rather a lot to produce 30" eink displays, and there aren't many people to spread the initial costs around.
They'll give you a "discount" for using cash or debit.
There are more people using Baidu. Who cares if it works on Windows Phone or not?
But if they push too far, Google has the option to close them and nope itself outside of their jurisdiction. They'll still be able to sell and display ads to Europeans, safely on the other side of the internets.
They shouldn't have been issuing certificates trusted by default anyway. Pare down the CA list included by default in browsers since so many of them are no more authoritative than self signed certificates anyway. If someone wants to trust TURKTRUST, let them import them themselves. The vast majority has absolutely no reason to.
Both of them?
Is that really too much to ask?
Well that was damned classy. My toque is off to you, yankee.
Even just putting up a standard ad landing page would generate income, there.
We'll see if ICANN just brings down the hammer for powerful corporations here.
Commercial users are being expected to pay extraordinarily low commercial rates. Someone call the Wambulance.
If they were providing 8 as a free update, you might have a point, but who is really going to be shelling out $100 for it?
And no one bought that any more than they'll be buying 8.
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THE head of West Mercia Police has described a decision by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) not to review a report into the conduct of three Police Federation members as part of the Plebgate affair as "a big mistake".
Following his appearance in front of the home affairs select committee in Westminster on Wednesday, chief constable David Shaw told your Worcester News that he was disappointed the organisation had not agreed to re-examine the report into the actions of the three officers – including West Mercia police inspector Ken MacKaill – after a meeting they held with former chief whip Andrew Mitchell last October.
Insp MacKaill, along with his colleagues from Warwickshire and West Midlands Police, called for Mr Mitchell's resignation following their meeting with him to discuss the incident in Downing Street, in which he allegedly called officers 'plebs'. Last week it was revealed a recommendation in an internal investigation by West Mercia Police that the trio should face a misconduct panel had been removed before it was published and on Wednesday Mr Shaw announced that the report was to be re-examined.
He said he had asked the IPCC to review the report but they had refused and instead it will be examined by an independent chief constable.
"I think that was a big mistake and it has come at a great cost," he said.
Only Insp MacKaill's conduct will be reviewed after the chief constables of Warwickshire and West Midlands Police yesterday refused to follow Mr Shaw's lead in asking for the report to be re-examined.
Mr Shaw said: "It might seem strange that we've got a different view – but that is the way these things go. We are individual chief constables running individual forces."
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ruth wrote:In the September "What's going on in your world" section I reported that one of my daughters was a victim of identity theft when records were stolen over a two year period from her mortgage company, "Countrywide". I found a few articles about this and now I have a better grasp of what occurred. Countrywide is owned by Bank of America. Here are two links to reports that you might be interested in reading:
Trust loses 18,000 staff records
Discs containing personal information on almost 18,000 NHS staff have gone missing from a North London hospital. Whittington Hospital NHS Trust admitted the discs were lost when they were put in the post by mistake in late July. The discs contain names, addresses, dates of birth and National Insurance numbers, of 17,990 staff members.
In a statement, the hospital said the four discs were password protected and did not contain bank account details. An investigation is under way. The trust said police had been informed, but advised that the incident should be treated as a loss with minimal risk to staff. David Sloman, Chief Executive of the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, said the hospital had apologised to all the staff involved and one staff member had been suspended.
"It is trust policy to send any such information by courier. To our knowledge this is the one and only time that such information was directed through the post," he said in a statement.
Those affected include current staff and some former staff at the Whittington Hospital, Islington Primary Care Trust, Camden Primary Care Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust.
West Midlands Police would not confirm or deny reports that the data stick contained information on terrorism.
ruth wrote:West Midlands Police would not confirm or deny reports that the data stick contained information on terrorism.
25 million people! How did the world exist before computer technology. Where would they have filed 25 million records? We seem to be going to hell on a handcart, a computerized handcart.
ruth wrote:Hello Hutong69
Don't quite understand how the story of "Little Tommy" is relevant to this thread. Maybe it wasn't intended to be. We have a joke thread on the forum. viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2457
ruth wrote:Thanks Nocti. No need to apologize. Span happens.
Sophist wrote:ruth wrote:Thanks Nocti. No need to apologize. Span happens.
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"Hi, I'm Chelsea, and I'm an addict," I said, introducing myself to a group of mostly middle-aged men and women.
I was 20 when I attended my first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
"Hi, I'm Chelsea, and I'm an addict," I said, introducing myself to a group of mostly middle-aged men and women.
The room fell silent.
"No!" a discouraging voice bellowed from the back of the room. "This is a meeting for alcoholics!"
I didn't understand. The staff at my inpatient treatment program had told me that newcomers were always welcome in AA. In fact, they said that if I wanted to get well, AA was the best place to go. I wouldn't find the kind of sobriety in Narcotics Anonymous, the 12-step program for drug addicts, that I would in AA.
"I'm so sorry," I mumbled to the group. "I didn't mean to offend anyone."
I started again: "I'm Chelsea, and I'm an alcoholic."
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery, but perpetually admitting you have a problem that you don't actually have can make recovery difficult. Accordingly to AA's literature, approximately 10 percent of members are under age 30. Many of these younger folks are only beginning to struggle with addiction to drugs or alcohol. The recovery community requires them to fully take on the addict and alcoholic identity as a part of the acceptance process. But, from what I've seen, by defining these members as addicts or alcoholics, 12-step programs can unintentionally encourage their members to develop self-fulfilling prophecies.
Adolescents and young adults are deeply affected by the labels thrust upon them. Once labeled "troublemakers" or "difficult" by parents or teachers, they find it hard to overcome such a persona. In my experience, many of those who acquired the addict/alcoholic designation, even if they didn't deserve it at first, began to behave accordingly.
When I labeled myself an alcoholic that day, I hadn't picked up a drink in almost three years, and I'd never been a heavy drinker. My troubles began when I was introduced to Adderall during finals week my first year in college. As a high-achiever who was struggling with the freshman 15, stimulants seemed like the solution to my problems. I could sit in class all day, study all night and skip meals without the slightest hint of exhaustion. Most important, I could compete with the other students who were also abusing such drugs.
After a few months, I was starting to fall asleep in class but couldn't seem to sleep at night. So I started taking opiate painkillers to help come down from the Adderall. It wasn't long before I was waking up with opiate withdrawal symptoms — cold sweats, seizure-like shakes and awful mood swings. I realized I needed help, so I approached my mom and checked into a rehab facility.
A few days into my treatment, as I embraced my new identity as an alcoholic, my mom was in a meeting for addicts' loved ones. She refused to introduce herself as the mother of an alcoholic, instead saying she was the mother of a "young woman struggling with an addiction." She received more than a few eye rolls. Mom preferred to concentrate on my identity as an honors student and a student council representative.
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