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Seniors are the Fastest-Growing Group of Cannabis Users in Canada
Even accounting for growth, seniors still smoke less marijuana overall.
by Anna Lucia Krupp– November 1, 2019
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Recreational cannabis has been legal across Canada since 2018. The fastest-growing group of cannabis users in the country? Senior citizens. This is according to the results of a recent data analysis, released just last week by Statistics Canada. Results of the National Cannabis Survey showed that "while 10 percent of cannabis consumers aged 25 to 44 were new users in the second and third quarters of 2019, this was the case for more than one-quarter (27 percent) of cannabis consumers aged 65 and older."
Even accounting for the recent growth, senior citizens still consume marijuana at a much lower rate compared to their younger counterparts. In fact, only 7% of people over the age of 65 are cannabis users, with 10% of those between age 45 and 64, and at least 25% of adults ages 25 to 44 reporting cannabis use, either medical or recreational.
Older people are much less likely to use cannabis recreationally, perhaps due to the stigma that greatly affected earlier generations and remains an issue today. According to the survey results, medical use was the most common reason cited for cannabis use among seniors, with 52% of adults over 65 "using cannabis exclusively for medical reasons."
The survey also demonstrated that those over the age of 65 are much less likely to obtain cannabis illegally. Legalization has clearly had a significant impact on the older population and their decision-making when it comes to marijuana – most are first-time users. In addition, compared to the younger age groups, seniors are also less likely to use cannabis on a daily basis.
Thanks to legalization, the increased availability of recreational cannabis in local dispensaries has allowed seniors, many of which suffer from qualifying medical conditions, to partake without worrying about suffering legal consequences, a barrier which likely prevented many from indulging before.
Many of the seniors now using cannabis were previously reliant on pharmaceutical drugs and addictive painkillers. Some are more comfortable trying cannabidiol (CBD) first; CBD is the non-psychoactive component of cannabis, responsible for its anti-inflammatory effects, unlike tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the component associated with marijuana and 'getting high.'
Back in 2017, in an interview with the Canadian publication, The Globe and Mail, Hope Bobowski said that initially she thought, "No way, I'm not having anything to do with cannabis."
"You didn't go around drugs."
Faced with the alternative of more prescriptions from her doctor, however, Hope decided to try CBD oil, and it worked for her: the next day, "there was no pain."
In a recent Forbes article, said Alana Coleman, NP, "CBD helps to reduce those negative side-effects associated with THC. It reduces the psychoactive effects, and certainly, in older adults we are worried about that: it increases their risk for falls, especially for people with a history of dementia. For people with osteoporosis, falls can be quite devastating. So[,] starting with the CBD-dominant products can reduce those risks."
According to Dr. Jess Goodman, MD, "[Cannabis] can help people with discomfort in a way that reduces the need for narcotic meds, and I guess that holds for the oils and other delivery vehicles as well. Alanna and I have been able to see very dramatic reductions and even elimination of opiate meds and anti-psychotic meds in the senior population, especially the long-term care population."
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Wonder Woman 1984: Ending explained and unanswered questions – CNET
2020年12月24日 由 Sean Keane
Wonder Woman 1984 may leave you with a few unanswered questions.
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If you've experienced the neon delights of Wonder Woman 1984 in theaters or on HBO Max, you might be wondering about that ending. Let's dive into the ninth movie in the DC Extended Universe, and hopefully answer your burning questions. For those who've yet to watch director Patty Jenkins' movie, beware of SPOILERS ahead. Read more: How to watch Wonder Woman 1984 on HBO Max this Christmas
The monkey's paw Excellent suit-wearing baddy Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) has absorbed the power of the Dreamstone, giving him the ability to grant people's wishes and fulfil his own desires in return. However, the Dreamstone is a monkey's paw — it's creating chaos as Lord gives people what they want. Lord's body also starts to fail due to the stone's power, but he drains people's lifeforce to keep himself healthy. So it's clearly a bad situation that's only going to escalate, but he's too self-absorbed and power-mad to see it. Read more: Wonder Woman 1984 review: Gal Gadot's return is a wild, neon-injected thrill ride Since they're the good guys, Diana and the resurrected Steve Trevor (Gal Gadot and Chris Pine) figure out that the stone was created by the God of Treachery and Mischief (who sounds a lot like Marvel's Loki), and it takes people's most treasured possession as it grants their wishes. Steve was restored — his soul inhabiting some guy's body — by the stone after Diana wished to have him back, but it's draining her demigod powers in exchange. However, Diana's buddy Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) also made a wish, to become powerful and stylish like her friend. So she's got a sweet '80s wardrobe, newfound balance and superhuman strength: the most dangerous combo of all. Diana ultimately accepts that she'll have to let Steve go.
Giving it all up, or not Diana and Steve realize that the only way to undo the stone's chaos is to renounce their wishes, and he convinces her to let him go so her power will be restored. At least they could go on a big '80s adventure together, and Diana could move on emotionally. But Barbara isn't about to give up her strength or dress sense to get her empathy back, and she allies herself with Lord. Neither of them realize he's leading the world to apocalypse, because it's a superhero movie and the stakes have to be this high.
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Escalation in the '80s Meeting with the US president, Lord finds out he can communicate with everyone on the planet using a super secret satellite broadcast system, so he can grant all their wishes and gain absolute power in return. (Presumably he'd have just done a YouTube livestream or Facebook Live if he'd hatched this scheme in 2020.) Since this is the era of the Cold War, the unintended consequence of Lord's wish-fest is bringing the US and Russia to nuclear war. Diana dons the bling golden armor of legendary Amazonian warrior Asteria, then uses her newfound ability to fly to reach the broadcast system. She fights Barbara, who wished to become an "apex predator" and transformed into a cheetah person. I don't think people become cheetahs if they get really strong, but that's what happened to her character in the comics and we must pay homage to the source material. It turns out that Diana is still the apex predator anyway, and she takes Barbara down hard. Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth proves vital in stopping Max Lord.
Mass renunciation The world is falling apart as the globally broadcasting Lord grants everyone's wishes, so Diana uses her Lasso of Truth to communicate with everyone through him. She convinces everyone to accept reality and renounce their wishes, averting nuclear disaster and basically making everyone chill out. Lord also sees his son wandering alone in the chaos and realizes he's been a bad dad, so he renounces his own wishes and nopes right out of there to reunite with the young lad. Barbara also renounces her wish, and turns back to normal. In the aftermath, we jump to Diana wandering around a festive market — setting this movie up as a future holiday favorite — and running to the guy whose body Steve took over. Diana dons Asteria's golden armor in the final act.
Midcredits stinger This was edited out of the version of the movie shown to the media for review because Patty Jenkins was determined to control spoilers, so I haven't seen it firsthand. It's as if I cluelessly walked out as the credits rolled, even though 12 years of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies (and some DC Extended Universe movies) have conditioned me not to. This will be updated as soon as I can see the scene. Unanswered questions Did Lord face any consequences for his actions? It seems like the magical nature of the wishes made the whole situation fade from people's minds like a dream, so the US and Russia may have forgotten how close they came to destroying each other.Who remembers what? It seems likely Diana and Lord remember everything that happened since they were right at the center of the events caused by the Dreamstone and kept their agency, but everyone else seemed they were under the stone's influence and in a trance-like state.What happened to Barbara? Did she go back to her job at the museum after her furry form faded? Has her memory of style, balance and super-strength faded?Was the Dreamstone destroyed? It turns to dust when Lord absorbs its power, but we don't see it re-forming after he rejects its power.When did Diana get her golden armor? This was likely edited out to save time, but one minute she's discovering her flying power and the next she's armored up and arriving at the broadcast station. It feels odd that she'd go back to her Washington DC apartment in between, even though she looks super cool in fancy gear.Since magic plays a huge role in all of this, it's easy to use that to explain everything away. It's magic, don't worry about it.
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A huge new cathedral, the largest Orthodox church in the world, has been consecrated in the Romanian capital Bucharest. Tens of thousands of people attended, many having queued overnight, both to take part in the inauguration ceremony and to worship at relics of St Andrew, Romania's patron saint.
Construction of the cathedral began in 2010 – almost 150 years since the idea of building it was first proposed by Romania's then king, Carol I – but work was sped up this year in order to ensure at least partial completion by December 1, the 100th anniversary of Romania's unification. In 1918 the southern and eastern parts of Romania were united with Transylvania – until then part of Hungary. The first official mass at the cathedral will be held on November 30, St. Andrew's Day.
Guests at the ceremony included Romania's prime minister, Viorica Dancila, as well as the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew. His presence is worth noting in the context of the current dispute between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Constantinople. Bartholomew granted Ukraine's Orthodox Church independence last month, much to the annoyance of the Russian patriarch Kirill. The presence of Bartholomew – Kirill was apparently not invited – appears to suggest that Romania is siding with Constantinople in the dispute.
While the cathedral's construction does have broad, if far from total, public support in what remains a staunchly religious country, the cost – the vast majority of which has been has been met by central government – has led to much criticism. So far, the cathedral has swallowed 110 million euros: 83 million euros have come from the state budget, the rest from Bucharest City Council, donations, and the church's own funds. Ever since construction of the cathedral began there have been no checks and balances in place to keep track of how the money is spent, leading many Romanians – even those who support the state funding the cathedral – to question the fact that there is no way to check that the money has actually been used as intended.
While the Romanian Patriarchate claims that the cathedral is 95 per cent complete, it will most likely take years, and many more millions of euros of public funds before it is fully finished.
Oh, Craig, how fortunate country Romania to have "journalists" like you as her foreign correspondents. You don't understand much of Romanian society, isn't it?


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Payment in lieu of tax (PILOT) program
Many of Boston's major schools, hospitals, and cultural institutions make a voluntary contribution to the City each year. These contributions come in the form of cash and community programs that uniquely benefit the City's residents.
Fiscal Year 2020
Community Benefits reports
About the task force
The property tax revenue collected by the City of Boston each year helps to fund important services such as police and fire protection, as well as snow removal. These City services are made available to both taxable property owners and those property owners who are exempt from the property tax. PILOT contributions help to offset the burden placed on Boston taxpayers to fund City services for all property owners.
In January 2011, the City adopted new guidelines for the PILOT program as recommended by the PILOT Task Force. The new guidelines call for voluntary payments based on an institution's tax-exempt property value. Participants in the program include institutions from the educational, medical, and cultural sectors that own property valued in excess of $15 million.
Each institution is eligible for a community benefits deduction generally limited to 50 percent of the PILOT contribution. The new guidelines also allow a deduction for any real estate taxes paid on property owned by the institution that is used for a tax-exempt purpose.
Fiscal year 2012 was the first year under the new PILOT guidelines.
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Fiscal Year 2020 PILOT results
The following table shows the results for the Fiscal Year 2020 Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) Program as of November 3, 2020. Collectively the institutions contributed 79% towards the PILOT requested.
REQUESTED PILOT
COMMUNITY BENEFITS CREDITS
CASH CONTRIBUTIONS
% PILOT REQUEST MET
$ 112,242,116
In all, 47 private institutions from the educational, medical, and cultural sectors were identified as owning tax-exempt property valued in excess of the $15 million threshold established in the PILOT guidelines.
FY 2020 PILOT RECAP
FY 2020 COMMUNITY BENEFITS SUMMARY
Berklee College
Beth Israel Deaconess
Boston Children's Museum
Boston College High School
Brigham's and Women's Hospital
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Faulkner Hospital
Franciscan Children's Hospital
Harvard University - COVID-19 Response
Institute of Contemporary Art
Isabella Gardner Museum
MASCO
Mass College of Pharmacy
Mass Eye & Ear
Museum of Science
New England Aquarium
New England Baptist Hospital
Showa Institute
Spaulding Rehabilitation
Tufts Medical Center
Wentworth Institute
WGBH
Bayridge Center
Bayridge Center 2
Beth Israel Deaconness
Bostonian Foundation
Dana Farber
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Mass. College of Pharmacy and Health Science
Mass. General Hospital
Mass Eye & Ear 1
New England Conservatory of Music
Northeastern University 1
Spaulding Rehabilitation Center
Winsor School
Bayridge Residence Cultural Center
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (cover letter)
Boston Children's Museum Exhibit B
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Bostonian Foundation Inc. (income statement)
Catholic Memorial School
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Mass Eye And Ear
New England Conservatory of Music, Inc.
Partners HealthCare
Showa Boston Institute
Catholic Memorial
Emerson College 1
Mass. College of Pharmacy
Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Previous PILOT Contributions
FY 2019 PILOT Results
The following table shows the results for the Fiscal Year 2019 Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) Program as of August 29, 2019. Collectively the institutions contributed 79% towards the PILOT requested.
Community Benefits Credit
Educational $57,266,205 $25,909,339 $14,555,085 71%
Medical $47,760,501 $24,625,768 $19,177,351 92%
Cultural $4,108,542 1,961,668 $455,493 59%
Total $109,135,247 $52,496,775 $34,187,928 79%
The City received $33.6 million in PILOT cash contributions in fiscal year 2018, $1.2 million (1.0%) more than the City received from PILOT contributors last year and $18.5 million (122.5%) more than in the year prior to the implementation of the new PILOT guidelines (fiscal year 2011).
The fiscal year 2018 PILOT cash contributions represented 66% of the $50.8 million requested PILOT amount.
In all, 49 private institutions from the educational, medical, and cultural sectors were identified as owning tax-exempt property valued in excess of the $15 million threshold established in the PILOT guidelines. In October 2016 and April 2017, these 49 institutions received a first and second half notice, respectively, by mail that included the calculation of their PILOT amount.
In sum, the institutions were asked to contribute approximately $49.5 million in cash and $52.3 million in community programming to the unique benefit of Boston residents for fiscal year 2017. Proof of community benefits spending consistent with the guidelines was due on March 1, 2017.
The fiscal year 2017 PILOT cash contributions represented 65.5% of the $49.5 million requested PILOT amount.
A summary of the fiscal year 2016 PILOT contributions - the fifth year of payments calculated according to the City's PILOT guidelines - is listed by institution:
The City received $32.1 million in PILOT cash contributions in fiscal year 2016, $4.2 million (14.9%) more than the City received from PILOT contributors last year and $16.9 million (111.8%) more than in the year prior to the implementation of the new PILOT guidelines (fiscal year 2011). The fiscal year 2016 PILOT cash contributions represented 67.7% of the $47.4 million requested PILOT amount.
A summary of the fiscal year 2015 PILOT contributions - the fourth year of payments calculated according to the City's PILOT guidelines - is listed by institution:
The City received $27.9 million in PILOT contributions in fiscal year 2015, a 84.4 percent increase over what was previously paid under the prior PILOT program in fiscal year 2011. This amount represents 68.6 percent of the $40.7 million requested PILOT amount.
By comparison, in fiscal year 2014 the City received $26.0 million in PILOT cash contributions and $35.5 million in community benefits.
A summary of the fiscal year 2014 PILOT contributions - the third year of payments calculated according to the City's PILOT guidelines - is listed by institution:
The City received $26 million in PILOT contributions in fiscal year 2014, a 71.6 percent increase over what was previously paid under the prior PILOT program in fiscal year 2011. This amount represents 75 percent of the $34.6 million requested PILOT amount.
In sum, the institutions were asked to contribute approximately $34.6 million in cash and $35.5 million in community benefits that uniquely benefit Boston residents for fiscal year 2014. Proof of community benefits spending consistent with the guidelines established by the Task Force was due on March 1, 2014.
A summary of the fiscal year 2013 PILOT contributions - the second year of payments calculated according to the Mayor's PILOT guidelines is listed by institution:
In all, 49 private institutions from the educational, medical, and cultural sectors were identified as owning tax-exempt property valued in excess of the $15 million threshold established in the PILOT guidelines. In September 2012 and April 2013, these 49 institutions received a first and second half notice, respectively, by mail that included the calculation of their PILOT amount.
The following institutions submitted proof of qualifying community benefits:
Children's Hospital Boston
Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
Showa Institute for Language and Culture
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
The fiscal year 2012 PILOT contributions - the first year of payments calculated according to the Mayor's new PILOT guidelines - are completed.
The City received $19.5 million in PILOT contributions in fiscal year 2012, a 28.4 percent increase over what would have been paid under the prior PILOT program. This amount represents 90.7 percent of the $21.5 million requested amount.
By comparison, in fiscal year 2011, these institutions paid PILOTs under the prior program of $15.1 million in cash and $2.3 million in community benefits.
The following institutions contributed a PILOT at the requested amount and submitted proof of qualifying community benefits:
Fiscal Year 2011 PILOT Contributions
Other PILOT Information
PILOT Task Force Final Report (December 2010)
PILOT Task Force Executive Summary (April 2010)
Fiscal Year 2018 PILOT Program Summary
About the PILOT Task Force
In January 2009, the City of Boston created a Task Force to examine the relationship between the City and tax-exempt institutions, specifically the major educational and medical institutions in Boston.
At that time, most of these tax-exempt, land-owning institutions were making a voluntary PILOT contribution to the City to help cover the cost of providing the institutions with essential City services (i.e. police, fire, snow removal).
However, the PILOT contributions varied considerably between the institutions. The Task Force was responsible for reviewing the PILOT Program, as well as the institutions' community benefits, and ultimately made recommendations to strengthen the partnership between Boston and its tax-exempt institutions.
The PILOT Task Force's primary objectives were:
Set a standard level of contributions - in programs and payments - to be met by all major tax-exempt land owners in Boston.
Develop a methodology for valuing community partnerships made by tax-exempt institutions.
Propose a structure for a consolidation program and payment negotiation system, which will allow the City and its tax-exempt institutions to structure longer term, sustainable partnerships focused on improving services for Boston's residents.
Clarify the costs associated with providing City services to tax-exempt institutions.
Provide recommendations on legislative changes needed at the City or state level, if necessary.
PILOT GUIDELINES
The City adopted the following PILOT Program guidelines as recommended by the Task Force and in effect beginning in Fiscal Year 2012:
Participation in the PILOT Program is voluntary
All institutions that own tax-exempt property valued in excess of $15 million should be asked to participate
PILOT contributions should be 25% of what the institution might expect to pay in real estate taxes if the exempt property were taxable
Institutions should receive up to a 50% PILOT deduction for qualifying community programs that uniquely benefit Boston residents. In the case of exceptional opportunities for partnership, the 50% cap may be exceeded.
The new PILOT formula should be phased in over a 5-year period starting in Fiscal Year 2012
If an institution pays standard real estate taxes on a property that it uses for its charitable purpose, the institution may receive a PILOT credit
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The Genocide of Indigenous People Continues Today: Why Language Matters
Author: Devan Gunther, WPJC Intern
More than 4 out of 5 Indigenous women have experienced violence, with 1 out of 2 having experienced sexual assault. In 2016, almost six thousand missing Indigenous women and girls were reported. Only 116 of them were logged in the United States' federal missing person database.
Violence against Native American women——and Native Americans as a whole—is not anything new. The data shows a governmental indifference——if not malice——towards the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
With a red handprint over the mouth and the mantra "no more stolen sisters," people have sought to bring national attention to this issue. However, apathy and a lack of attention towards this violence——often due to anti-Indigenous racism——disregards these preventable tragedies. The cases get lost due to institutional mismanagement and negligence. The women fall through the cracks, often victims to addiction, domestic violence, and sex trafficking. The women and girls continue to go missing, and the ones that return often go missing again because of insufficient follow-up or support. Too often, they don't come back.
The vanishing and murders of Native Americans has a legacy that goes back hundreds of years to one of the most fatal events in history. Though, often it's not ever referred to by its true name: genocide.
There's significance in language, in how one describes both the past and the present. The term "ethnic cleansing" was used in the Bosnian Genocide to avoid calling it what it was, to give a loophole so that other states didn't have to intervene per the UN Genocide Convention—--so they wouldn't face the consequences of their crimes. Russia still denies that the Holodomor—--the intentional famine of Ukrainians—--was a genocide. The People's Republic of China denies the current genocide of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang. In the same way, the United States denies the genocide of the Native Americans by European colonizers and the current genocidal discrimination against them today.
According to Genocide Watch, there are ten stages of genocide, with the final stage being "denial". Denial is said to last throughout the genocide itself and tends to follow it, leading in the coverup of evidence as well as systematic oppression of the traumatized survivors. The United States' own denial of the past only furthers this, cementing the dismissal of their present day massacres.
Genocidal acts do not have to just be about the killing of the physical body——they are also of the culture, the religion, the identity. The United Nations defines genocide as
"[...] any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Even decades after the distribution of blankets contaminated with smallpox (which, in some cases, was documented as an intentional act), the Trail of Tears, and the forced assimilation of boarding schools, we still see active destruction of a culture. We still see a genocide occurring——just wearing a different disguise. And yet, despite having all the components to call it genocide (the intent, the dehumanization, even the deaths of millions and the near-extinction of hundreds of practices and cultural aspects), many Americans still claim misuse of the term, saying it doesn't meet the qualifications because it's not as "obvious" as the Holocaust——as if the United States didn't deny the existence of the Holocaust as well. As if there isn't incentive to let the genocide remain unnamed.
Genocides are not exceptional. There have been dozens (if not more) in history and many remain unnamed or mislabeled. Most claims of "misuse" of the label genocide come from people who either don't know the definition or are in denial of these atrocious acts. Not every genocide is the same and not every genocide is condemned.
In bringing attention to the missing and murdered Indigenous people, we must refer to the past and present with a label that reflects the truth——it was and is an ongoing genocide. We must emphasize how that past has caused the issues of apathy and denial today. European colonizers had the intent to destroy Native Americans and that intent is still here, that genocide is still with us. The destruction of Indigenous people in America still continues to this day with the pipelines through native land, with revoking reservation status from tribes, with ignoring the pleas for help amidst the pandemic outbreak in these areas, with ignoring the ever growing list of missing and murdered Indigenous women...
With every death or disappearance is another victim added to this legacy of genocide, another sister stolen. Another cultural practice lost, another unjust incarceration of an Indigenous man, another sacred site desecrated for racial capitalism...The United States continues to deny the Native American genocide and will continue to do so unless widespread attention is brought to this issue. To ignore what is occurring is to be complicit. We cannot continue to deny the truth of what is occurring any longer. The colonization of the Americas involved a genocide of the Indigenous people and that genocide never truly stopped——people must speak out and lift Indigenous voices, must call the mass execution by its true name——genocide——and we must start on structural reforms and reparations for Indigenous people.
Please consider donating to one of the following organizations, clans, or nations:
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women (CSVANWW)
Unist'ot'en Clan
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA's (MMIW USA)
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center


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The 1976 UK & Ireland Greyhound Racing Year was the 50th year of greyhound racing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Roll of honour

Summary
The National Greyhound Racing Club (NGRC) released the annual returns, with totalisator turnover down, at £66,657,176 and attendances up, recorded at 6,517,864 from 5923 meetings. The sport remained the UK's second most popular spectator sport behind football and Ireland's most popular sporting pastime.

Peruvian Style equalled Westpark Mustard's world record. Mutts Silver, a fawn dog trained by Phil Rees Sr. and Westmead Champ, another fawn dog trained by Pam Heasman were voted joint winners of the Greyhound of the Year. Mutts Silver won the premier event the 1976 English Greyhound Derby and Westmead Champ won the Gold Collar at Catford Stadium, the St Leger at Wembley Greyhounds and the Regency. A new system of selecting the greyhound of the year was inaugurated; it involved thirteen members of the greyhound press voting for one greyhound each. Mutts Silver and Westmead Champ ended with six votes each and were declared joint winners.

The Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) Property Trust relied on a scheme of arrangement that was organised to stop the once great greyhound company from going into liquidation, they owed £15 million to creditors. The remaining GRA greyhound racing tracks were left to pay the creditors by virtue of payments from their operating profit.

Tracks
Two bookmaking giants Corals and Ladbrokes came directly into greyhound racing, Corals purchased Romford from Romford Stadium Ltd, headed by Managing Director Archer Leggett, the same man that had started the track in 1929. They invested heavily with a new grandstand, restaurant and track facilities. John Sutton became the new Managing Director and Sidney Wood became the new Racing Manager. Coral also bought Brighton, which received new investment and the track would go on to beat Shawfield Stadium in the final of the National Intertrack. Ladbrokes had been beaten to the purchase of the two tracks by Corals denying Ladbrokes the opportunity to own eight tracks in total because they had just purchased Totalisators and Greyhound Holdings (TGH) on 6 February. TGH owned six stadia at Brough Park, Crayford & Bexleyheath, Leeds, Gosforth, Willenhall and Monmore. However they were successful in acquiring a seventh track in July, when they purchased Perry Barr. Arthur Aldridge, formerly of the Greyhound Racing Association, joined Ladbroke as Racing Director.

Former Oaks winning trainer Mick Hawkins bought Ramsgate, under the name Northern Sports (parent company Hawkins of Harrow) from Dumpton (Thanet) Greyhounds Ltd for £185,000. His son David Hawkins was the Managing Director of Northern Sports who also owned the independent Doncaster Greyhound Track.

The unsold Oxford Stadium was renamed Cowley Stadium under a caretakers Don Joyce and Peter Jones and Maidstone opened following an agreement with Horace Luper and the Maidstone United Football Club. Salford closed on 30 July.

News
Charles Chandler Sr. (the Walthamstow Stadium Chairman) died. Wimbledon Stadium introduced sectional timing and was one of the first tracks to use the system of grading in classes. A Romford bitch called Go Ahead Girl recorded 17 consecutive wins.

Prominent sire Newdown Heather died at Jack Mullan's kennels aged 12. His progeny included Dolores Rocket, Westpark Mustard and Time Up Please.

Competitions
A white and blue dog called Xmas Holiday won both the Laurels at Wimbledon and the Scurry Gold Cup at Slough Stadium.

Ireland
American tracks were increasing in number and with the 22 Irish tracks in operation the demand in breeding increased. Irish bred greyhounds increased in value as a consequence. Peruvian Style returned after his winter rest in a quest to beat Westpark Mustard's world record. After winning the Callanan Cup at Harold's Cross Stadiums the sequence stood at 16 consecutive wins. Two runs and wins with a track record in 29.28 seconds, during the Truboard Gold Cup at Waterford extended the run to 18 just one short of Mick the Miller and two less than Westpark Mustard. However an injury sustained in the final would leave him side-lined for six months. Peruvian Style returned to action in October with the defence of his Waterford Glass Stakes title. In the first round he won but pulled up lame after the race resulting in a one-month break. He was then entered at his home track Galway for the Federation Championship. A heat win enabled him to overtake Mick the Miller and equal Westpark Mustard's world record. A record attendance watched the final and witnessed an incredible shock when a greyhound called Pet Ace defeated Peruvian Style and the world record was not surpassed. He was immediately retired and put to stud duties. A greyhound called Tain Mor was voted Irish Greyhound of the Year despite the exploits of Peruvian Style

Principal UK races

Totalisator returns

The totalisator returns declared to the licensing authorities for the year 1976 are listed below.

References

Greyhound racing in the United Kingdom
Greyhound racing in the Republic of Ireland
UK and Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
UK and Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
UK and Ireland Greyhound Racing Year
UK and Ireland Greyhound Racing Year

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Q: Is there an Atlassian stash plugin to handle git notes? Atlassian stash doesn't support git notes natively but notes are so useful for things like bug tracking, logging build results and so on that it boggles my mind there's no official support for it.
Has anyone written a plugin to provide at least rudimentary support for notes in Stash?  Ideally I'd like to be able to view notes attached to a commit and search for commits based on notes contents.

A: Not that I know of.
Support for git notes is recorded in STASH-2759 since October 2012.

It would be useful if the commit screen showed any notes associated with a commit. It would be even better if one could configure (either at the system administration level or the user profile level) which notes namespaces are shown.
  Another approach would be to show the default namespace notes by default and have a "show all notes" button to show everything else (equivalent to a --show-notes=*).

A: Yes there is an add-on for Bitbucket Server called "Tag Details And Notes" at the Atlassian Marketplace.
At Commits page and Pull Request page it adds a new column "Notes". Commits with at least one note gets an icon in that column. Hover over it shows the full note(s).
The add-on also adds a "Notes" section to the Commit View page.
The add-on is for free. You can download it at: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/jh.atlassian.stash.stash-tagdetails/server/overview

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I haven't seen this before, thanks for sharing!
that chick's from shino kaboua (mind my spelling) a work shop near Tokyo thats been helping aussies dirft in J/Land for years.
there good clips but the guy seams to be a legit car journalist rather than a car tuner looking at the car tuning scene.
done a better job than alot of people thats come before him tho.


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Vitor Hugo Ribeiro Burko (Guarapuava, 5 de outubro de 1962) é um advogado e político brasileiro.

Biografia
Foi vereador e prefeito do município de Guarapuava no Paraná por dois mandatos entre as gestões de 1997 a 2000 e 2001 a 2004. Foi também presidente do Instituto Ambiental do Paraná.

Foi candidato em 2006 a vice-governador pelo Partido Liberal na chapa encabeçada por Flávio Arns pelo Partido dos Trabalhadores.

Burko foi acusado de contratar funcionários sem concurso em uma fundação municipal, quando era prefeito, sendo condenado por crime de responsabilidade e tendo a suspensão do direito de exercer função pública por cinco anos.

Naturais de Guarapuava
Prefeitos de Guarapuava
Vereadores de Guarapuava
Advogados do Paraná
Membros do Democratas (Brasil)
Presidentes do Instituto Água e Terra
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A professor in the online MBA program for working adults at the Graziadio School of Business and Management (Pepperdine University) collaborated with an instructional designer, located on the opposite coast, to create an interactive exercise in which students used Porter's Five Forces model to analyze an industry. Developing the exercise, which incorporated the higher-order skills of critical thinking and evaluating alternatives, proved to be more challenging than expected. Decomposing the model and applying it to an industry case had unknown design challenges and technical issues that increased the time and funds to develop. However, this experience provided a model for future course enhancements - the policies and procedures developed will apply to all online courses. This paper discusses the process and tools used, design challenges, and lessons learned from the perspectives of the Assistant Professor of Strategy, the Senior Instructional Designer, and the Director of e-Learning.


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Three Whistleblowers Honored
Reuters � by Javier David � December 24, 2002
Time Names Whistle-Blowers as Persons of the Year
NEW YORK - Time Magazine named two women who uncovered massive accounting fraud at Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc. and a third who detailed FBI failures after the Sept. 11 attacks as its 2002 "Persons of the Year" on Sunday.
The magazine praised Sherron Watkins, a vice president at Enron, and Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, as well as Coleen Rowley, an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, for exposing malfeasance that eroded public confidence in their institutions.
"It came down to did we want to recognize a phenomenon that helped correct some of the problems we've had over the last year and celebrate three ordinary people that did extraordinary things," Time managing editor Jim Kelly said.
Accounting at United Way
New York Times � by Stephanie Strom � November 20, 2002
(11/19/02) - Some United Way organizations, trying to appear more successful and more efficient with their donors' money, are counting contributions in ways that make the numbers look more robust � and expenses look smaller.
In a number of cases, including two of the largest United Ways � those in Washington and Chicago � different organizations counted some of the same contributions, thus inflating not only their own numbers but the system's totals, according to United Way executives.
Moreover, the United Way of America's reporting guidelines direct its 1,400 members to count as their own contributions money that was actually handled by or raised for competing organizations in shared campaigns, the executives said. The guidelines also tell members to count as contributions the value of volunteers' time, a practice many other charities frown on, although it is permissible in limited circumstances.
And while local United Ways publicly report the percentage of their total contributions used for administrative purposes, they do not tell donors that different amounts are applied from different types of contributions to cover costs, a review of their practices shows.
United Way of America's president said that while some of the practices conformed with generally accepted accounting principles, they might no longer pass muster after recent corporate scandals demonstrated that even approved practices can be used deceptively.
"What happened at Enron and WorldCom has raised the bar for both for-profit and not-for-profit businesses," said Brian A. Gallagher, president of the United Way of America. "We have to respond."
United Way is by far the largest organization raising money in American workplaces. It channels money to thousands of small local charities that would otherwise struggle to find donors and increasingly creates its own programs to address community needs.
No one disputes its good intent. But its accounting practices raise questions for potential donors who want to know precisely how much of their contributions go to people in need rather than the organization helping them. In effect, these practices, by artificially inflating reported contributions, make it seem as if expenses consume a smaller portion of donor dollars. That makes United Way look better against competing charities at a time when more and more donors are relying on services that rate charities.
"Because they miscount the totals, they start off with a faulty number," said Rick Cohen, president of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, a watchdog group in Washington. "That's their fundamental flaw."
Each time a case of double counting has arisen, United Way of America executives have said it is limited to a particular United Way. They defend the other practices that have been called into question.
But executives at some local United Ways are less certain. After reading in newspapers about questionable accounting and financial management at the United Way of the National Capital Area in Washington last January, "I felt chilled because I had seen some similar things in other United Ways," said Brian T. Hassett, who served as president of the United Way in Chicago until recently.
Les White, a former county manager in San Jose, Calif., said he saw some of the same things when he was brought in to resuscitate the United Way Silicon Valley. "Some of what I read about in Washington, D.C., sounded so familiar," he said. "It's myopic to insist that these problems are only in one place."
The practices have developed as the United Way has struggled to recover from recent scandals. Contributions began falling in 1992 when William V. Aramony, the United Way's national leader, was accused of fraud, embezzlement and other charges, and a string of local scandals like the one in Washington this year have not helped. Contributions are now lower, after adjusting for inflation, than they were a decade ago, even as charitable giving has doubled over all.
One of the most serious accounting issues the organization faces is known as double counting, which occurs when each of two or more United Ways counts the same contribution as its own.
The problem has come to light this year in the Chicago area and in Washington. Here's how it happens. The United Way of Suburban Chicago, an umbrella organization for 52 United Way organizations in the Chicago area, planned to count as its own some $350,000 raised at Baxter International � the same money counted by an unaffiliated United Way, that of Lake County.
Each organization insists that it managed the campaign and wants to include the money in its total, as each has in the past. The United Way of America is now conducting a review.
In 2000, The Arizona Star reported that the United Way of Tucson counted almost $1 million raised in California for charities there. And the United Way of the National Capital Area counted as its own the $1.2 million raised from Giant Food's employees, who assigned some of that money to the United Way of Baltimore.
Each time an instance of double counting surfaced, the United Way of America insisted that the practice was exclusive to the United Way in question. But in 1999, Mr. Gallagher headed a task force to address double counting, which suggests that the United Way had concerns about how widespread the practice might be.
The task force prescribed how such contributions were to be booked. But its explanation was confusing � and it undercut its own recommendations. "The task force realized early on that it would be impossible to create standards that all United Ways `must' adhere to, and demanding strict adherence is arguably not part of our culture right now," the task force report said.
When the report was released, fewer than 13 percent of United Ways, or roughly 178 of the 1,400 organizations, had written guidelines for reporting and spending, and as the task force recognized, the national organization has little ability to compel compliance.
"There's so much variance among United Ways in things like accounting, finances and systems," said Arnold Henning, the interim president of the United Way in Chicago. "The independence to vary from city to city is our strength when it comes to services because it means we know the needs of our communities. But it's also our weakness because people don't understand that the practices of one United Way are not the practices of all United Ways."
Double counting is not the only way that reported contributions are overstated. An increasing number of companies like Sears, Hewlett-Packard and Verizon are using newer organizations like the JK Group to administer employee-giving campaigns and allowing other fund-raising groups like the Black United Fund or the Public Interest Fund of Illinois to take part.
Yet United Ways count this money as their contributions. Indeed, the United Way of America instructs members to count the entire amount raised in those campaigns, not just the amount of money designated for United Way.
At least $2.4 million counted as contributions by the United Way in Washington was handled by its competitors, officials said, and $7.5 million was counted in New York City, according to its annual report.
United Way says this is legitimate because even when it does not actually collect or receive the contributions, its marketing and publicity efforts are responsible for them. "The question is, Did the United Way incur a cost during the campaign?" Mr. Gallagher said. "If it did, then it's reasonable to include all the revenues raised in the campaign and calculate operating budgets and expenses against them."
But others disagree. "The guidelines say we can count this money, but frankly, it made me uncomfortable," Mr. Hassett said.
Nan Langen Steketee, consultant and co-founder of the National Alliance for Choice in Giving, noted that there are many other organizations managing fund-raising for governments and businesses. "They do not count the money raised for other charities in their yearly totals," she said.
Mr. Hassett and others argue that counting such money creates "phantom revenues," and expenses cannot be deducted from money that is not received. "If the money doesn't flow into your coffers, you can't deduct from it," said Anthony DiCristofaro, a longtime United Way marketing executive.
The solution, Mr. DiCristofaro and other United Way executives say, is simple: Charge companies and governments a fee for United Way services to help offset the loss of phantom revenue.
There are other forms of phantom revenues. The United Way of America tells members to place a value on donated goods and include the amount in their tally of donations. This is acceptable accounting practiced by some other charities, but United Way critics question how the values are calculated.
More controversial is placing a value on volunteers' time and including it in contribution totals. The United Way directs its members to value their volunteer time at $14.83 an hour, although many local organizations refuse to go that far. For the most recent campaign, the United Way valued in-kind donations, including volunteer time, at $267 million.
The Financial Accounting Standards Board, the rule-making body for the accounting business, allows organizations to place a value on contributed time but with strict limits: Volunteers must either create or significantly enhance a nonfinancial asset or provide special skills that would otherwise have to be purchased. The Internal Revenue Service does not allow valuation of volunteer time at all for tax reporting purposes.
"With the United Ways, it is often quite a reach for them to try and use this volunteer time in their accounting," said Trent Stamp, executive director of Charity Navigator, an online charity rating service. "I get the feeling they might be putting a dollar value on people licking envelopes, which is not what was intended."
The United Way of America reports that on average administrative costs amount to 12.7 percent of total contributions. But because total contributions are inflated by the inclusion of noncash gifts like free computers or the gift of children's coats, expenses are understated.
Mr. Gallagher disagreed that contributions were inflated, saying the United Way's practices conform to accepted accounting principles.
Further, donors making "unrestricted gifts" � those that allow the United Way discretion in spending their donations � often pay a higher percentage of their contributions. The Washington United Way boasted that its administrative costs ate up only a dime of every dollar donated, but this masks the fact that 62 cents of every unrestricted dollar was going to cover overhead.
That was an extreme example but indicative of an overall problem, which also surfaced in Tucson two years ago. "The sad thing is that the donors that are the most valuable to the United Way are the ones who are paying most," Mr. Hassett said.
The annual report of the United Way of New York City, perhaps the most candid of the United Ways about accounting, stated that it raised $132.4 million in total contributions last year. Almost 14 percent, or $18.3 million, was used to cover administrative expenses, it said.
But only $91 million of that total was in cash, it said, meaning that on average almost 18 cents of every actual dollar it handled was eaten up by expenses.
The organization deducted an average of 6.9 cents of every dollar for administrative purposes, it said, from $14 million collected from donors who earmarked their gifts for specific charities, a program the United Way calls Donor's Choice.
That means on average roughly 20 cents of every unrestricted dollar went to cover expenses, which falls within the Better Business Bureau's guidelines for expenses but is higher than the annual report would lead a donor to believe.
Lawrence Mandell, executive vice president of the New York United Way, defended the practice of charging different donors different amounts, stressing that donors who make unrestricted gifts to the United Way receive services that other donors do not.
"We have a strict volunteer review process that vets agencies on their behalf, we give those agencies management assistance, help develop their boards, and we find really highly competent agencies that donors might not otherwise know about," he said. "Donors Choice donors don't get any of that."
That said, Mr. Mandell acknowledged the need to give donors a clearer picture of how costs are allocated to them.
Recently, the United Way's National Professional Council approved standards being championed by Mr. Gallagher that would require United Ways to provide fuller disclosure to the national organization. Not complying would mean a loss of membership.
But the new standards do not address much of the reporting that makes contributions seem larger and expenses smaller. The council, for instance, left open whether or not to include donations raised by a third party.
The new standards face a vote at the United Way's annual meeting in April, but Mr. Gallagher said the council's endorsement gave him the power to carry them out earlier. "I would be surprised and disappointed if they don't pass," he said.
Some United Way executives, however, worry that their colleagues will see the new standards, with the scrutiny from a committee that includes outside experts on ethics and finance, as another effort by the national organization to increase its power.
United Way Grand Jury Investigation
Tornado Took Boy for a Ride
New York Times � by David M. Halbfinger � November 14, 2002
MOSSY GROVE, Tenn., Nov. 12 � Stunned and weary, survivors of the tornadoes that tore a 1,000-mile swath of the country sifted through the shards of 36 lost lives and hundreds of homes today.
Quentin Woody, 11, who was sucked from the shower in his mobile home and blown 300 yards away stark naked, tiptoed through a mud-soaked field here that was smeared with his family's belongings as his mother lay in a hospital with a broken back. He found his 13-year-old sister Sarah's camera. She had broken her arm. His father was in the hospital, too, with badly injured shoulders. But Quentin, somehow, only needed a few stitches, which he was only too eager to show the television photographers who kept asking�
CEO Offers Workers $25 Million
New York Times � - by Simon Romero - October 2, 2002
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 � Even as he denied personal wrongdoing in the demise of Global Crossing, the chairman, Gary Winnick, told a Congressional committee today that he would write a check for $25 million to cover part of the retirement money several thousand employees lost when the stock collapsed.
Mr. Winnick, who made $734 million from the company's stock before the shares became worthless, also challenged other telecommunications executives to follow his example.
Tens of thousands of employees have lost jobs and savings during the industry downturn in which many companies have gone bankrupt or come under investigation � or, as with Global Crossing, have done both.
"I call on other chairmen and C.E.O.'s of other companies to step up and write a check," Mr. Winnick said. "The only legacy I'm going to leave this planet with is my name."
The announcement, during a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Global Crossing and Qwest Communications International, caught lawmakers and other executives at telecommunications companies by surprise. But some of the committee members were quick with skeptical comebacks.
The committee's chairman, Billy Tauzin, Republican of Louisiana, said: "I wonder who has the billions for the investors who lost big in the telecommunications crisis? I'm not sure there's enough money anywhere except in the federal Treasury, and using that money could bankrupt us all."
Lawmakers have been investigating Mr. Winnick's day-to-day involvement at Global Crossing and his sales of the company's shares before its collapse last year, which resulted in Global Crossing's filing for bankruptcy protection this year.
Several documents released this week by the committee showed that Mr. Winnick knew of transactions involving the swapping of communications capacity with other companies, a widespread practice in 2000 and 2001 now under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Justice Department.
Investigators are trying to determine whether there was a valid business reason for many of those swaps, some of them between Global Crossing and Qwest, or if the deals were conducted primarily as a way for the companies to book revenue to improve the appearance of their financial statements � which had the effect of misleading investors.
Mr. Winnick and other executives from Global Crossing who testified today defended the swaps, saying these transactions were based on strong business cases.
Meanwhile, Joseph P. Nacchio, the former chief executive of Qwest, defended Qwest's swaps, telling the committee that to his knowledge "every purchase of capacity by Qwest was with the intent of furthering the company's business plan."
On Monday, Mr. Nacchio was one of five telecommunications executives named in a suit filed by the New York State attorney general, Elliot Spitzer, who is seeking to seize the executives' stock profits as a way to compensate investors.
Mr. Nacchio, who sold $230 million in Qwest stock before the collapse of the shares � which have lost about 96 percent of their value since reaching a peak of $64.50 in March 2000 � defended his stock sales. He told the committee today that most of his shares had come from stock options granted in 1997 that carried a maturity of five and a half years, leaving him with the choice of exercising the options or losing them. "I sold shares based upon the advice of my financial advisers in order to diversify my holdings," he said.
Mr. Winnick was not named in the New York attorney general's lawsuit but today he found himself trying to defend his sale of $123 million in stock in May 2001, a month before the company disclosed that it would not meet analysts' revenue forecasts.
Mr. Winnick, committee investigators contend, had warnings long before the investing public did that the company was in trouble.
On Monday, the committee released Global Crossing memorandums indicating that Mr. Winnick was warned on multiple occasions, beginning as early as mid-2000 by a former chief executive, Leo Hindrey Jr., that the company was headed for a collapse and that the only way to avoid that outcome was to find a buyer for the company.
Mr. Winnick told the committee today that the memorandums by Mr. Hindrey, who left the company in October 2000, were documents Mr. Hindrey prepared to defend his own actions in talking to an investment bank in early 2000 about selling Global Crossing, without the board's authorization.
Mr. Hindrey, reached today at his office in New York, where he is chief executive of the YES Network, the cable sports channel for the New York Yankees, declined to comment.
Mr. Winnick's surprise announcement of his plan to donate $25 million to the employee retirement fund quickly drew scrutiny from lawyers proceeding with class-action lawsuits on behalf of shareholders against Global Crossing and its senior management. Some lawyers said Mr. Winnick's offer to partly compensate employees might be used as evidence of his culpability.
"This opens up a lot of questions," said Jules Brody of Stull, Stull & Brody, one law firm with a class-action lawsuit against Global Crossing. But Mr. Brody said the full implications would be unclear until more details of Mr. Winnick's plan became known. "It's kind of hard to analyze because Winnick is using his own measurement of employee losses," Mr. Brody said. "Who's to say he'll be able to do this if his assets are frozen for some reason?"
Mr. Winnick said his plan was to provide $25 million to the administrator of Global Crossing's retirement plan, an amount corresponding to money that current and former employees had invested in the plan and lost since the company's acquisition of the Frontier Corporation in Rochester was announced in October 1999.
Terry Christensen, a lawyer for Mr. Winnick, said he had not expected the announcement to be made today and that the plan's details had not yet been nailed down. Mr. Winnick said at the hearing that he had planned to announce the gift at another time but did so after hearing testimony from an employee, Lenette Crumpler, who lost her retirement savings.
"How was I or any of us to know that no longer were there men of integrity at the helm of our 100-year-old phone company?," Ms. Crumpler, a 31-year employee of Frontier, told the committee.
California Family Leave - With Pay!
New York Times � by John M. Broder � September 25, 2002
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 � Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill today to establish paid family leave to care for a new child or an ailing relative, giving California workers the most expansive family benefit in the nation�
NextCard CEO Abandons Sinking Ship
Associated Press � September 9, 2002
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Failed online credit card issuer NextCard Inc. disclosed Friday that federal securities regulators are investigating the company's downfall, which could cost a taxpayer-backed insurance fund as much as $400 million.
The San Francisco-based company also revealed that its chief executive, John Hashman, resigned earlier this week. Hashman oversaw NextCard's rise and fall as the Internet's biggest credit card issuer.
After distributing more than 1 million credit cards, NextCard last year sank in a morass of bad loans that prompted banking regulators to seize control of the operations.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has estimated the failure of NextCard's credit card business will result in a loss ranging from $300 million to $400 million.
In a government filing Friday, NextCard didn't provide any specifics about the Securities and Exchange Commission's probe. The SEC's San Francisco office declined to comment.
Federal banking regulators opened investigations into NextCard's failure seven months ago. In May, the FDIC notified NextCard that it might take legal action against several unnamed company executives and directors.
A shareholder suit filed in Delaware alleges NextCard insiders illegally sold stock to lock in profits before the company's credit card portfolio imploded.
Like many other Internet companies, NextCard stock once was a hot commodity on Wall Street. The company's shares peaked at $53.12 in late 1999. The Nasdaq Stock Market delisted the shares six months ago.
Before the company's shares crashed, NextCard's five highest-paid executives made $29.2 million by cashing in a combined 1.47 million stock options during 1999 and 2000, according to SEC filings.
Timothy J. Coltrell, formerly NextCard's chief operating officer, collected the biggest windfall by selling 715,499 options for $14.5 million in 1999 and 2000.
Hashman pocketed $3.6 million by selling 305,000 stock options in 1999 and 2000.
NextCard helped its executives pay for their tax and stock brokerage expenses by giving them loans at an 8 percent interest rate, according to SEC records. As of June 2002, the company said all the insider loans had been repaid except $120,000 owed by Hashman.
The company's demise has hurt its employees and customers. More than 800 NextCard workers have lost their jobs in the meltdown. About 800,000 NextCard customers abruptly lost their credit cards in July after federal regulators could not find a buyer for the accounts.
NextCard continues to run a skeletal operation as its remaining management team contemplates a bankruptcy filing. The company's chief counsel didn't immediately return phone messages left Friday.
Uranium Smuggled in ABC Test
Associated Press � by David Bauder - September 7, 2002
NEW YORK - While some news organizations have tried to sneak material through airport screeners, ABC News thought bigger: the television network smuggled depleted uranium into New York.
ABC conducted its operation to test how authorities are guarding against the possibility of a nuclear "dirty bomb" attack. Correspondent Brian Ross' investigation will air as part of ABC's Sept. 11 anniversary coverage next week.
Federal authorities are angry that they've had to spend time on ABC's experiment.
"The U.S. Customs Service is engaged in a deadly serious business," said its spokesman, Dean Boyd. "The American public wants us to focus on real threats, not fake ones."
The story comes amidst controversy over stories in the New York Daily News and on CBS this week about how journalists tried to test airport security by trying to pass items that should have set off alarms.
ABC said it borrowed 15 pounds (7 kilograms) of depleted uranium from an environmental group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, to send on its journey. The network said it consulted with experts to make sure it was safe; the Customs Service said such material has less radiation than a typical chest X-ray.
Ross carried it by train from Austria to Istanbul, Turkey. The contents clearly marked, it was packed in a container with wooden horse carts and terra cotta vases and shipped overseas to New York. Through it all, the uranium went undetected.
"Seven countries, 25 days and 15 pounds of uranium," Ross said, "and not a single question."
The network was careful to obey all laws, federal and international, he said. The route and manner of transport followed a path outlined in court documents by an Osama bin Laden associate, who was investigated for his role in a plot to smuggle nuclear material, he said.
"One of our big concerns going into this was that we didn't want to teach terrorists something they didn't already know," he said.
ABC sent the container from Istanbul, a known smuggler's hotbed, to an address that had never received overseas shipping before because, in both cases, that should have made authorities suspicious, he said.
ABC and Customs differ on how authorities responded to a potential threat.
Of 1,139 containers on the vessel, the ABC package was one of fewer than a dozen identified for closer inspection before the ship even reached port, Boyd said. It was inspected by X-ray equipment and a separate device that tests for radiation and was found to pose no threat, he said.
Ross said, however, that the suitcase of depleted uranium would emit about the same radiation as live uranium would if it had been shielded in a lead-lined case. The container should have been opened and checked, he said.
"They missed it," he said. "They could say that it was no danger, which is true because we made sure there was no danger. But I think that misses the point."
Boyd insisted inspectors have ways to determine without opening the container whether the uranium was live or not.
"It was a fake threat that we were forced to divert resources and manpower to address," he said.
Responded Paul Friedman, executive vice president of ABC News: "When did they divert any resources? They didn't catch a thing."
Friedman said the press plays an important role in testing how well government is protecting its citizens.
Reporters Test Airport Security
NEW YORK - It makes an eye-opening story: knives, razors and pepper spray easily passing through supposedly beefed-up airport security. But it also raises troubling ethical questions: In particular, are journalists justified in breaking a law to expose weaknesses in enforcing it?
The New York Daily News, in an investigation published this week, revealed that its reporters had taken prohibited items through airport security 14 times at 11 different airports. Not one of them was caught.
The potential weapons were concealed in carry-on bags. Contraband was slipped past security at all four of the airports where terrorists boarded planes last Sept. 11, the News revealed.
A "CBS Evening News" story this week exposed similar weaknesses. The television network CBS didn't smuggle prohibited items, but tried to pass lead-lined film bags that block X-rays through security. In 70 percent of the cases, scanners didn't notice or check the bags.
The stories, and the prospect of more of them, infuriate federal officials � not just, they say, because the results are embarrassing.
"It's bad for the country," said Department of Transportation spokesman Chet Lunner. "That these stories are helping the bad guys seems to be completely obfuscated by the rush to get attention or notoriety for your newspaper or broadcast."
The Air Transport Association, the airline industry's largest trade group, said reporters who try to test security this way should be prosecuted. Federal law prohibits both passing banned items through security and taking them on airplanes.
The Daily News story followed a similar investigation done last October, said Edward Kosner, the paper's editor in chief.
Given the crucial part security lapses played Sept. 11 and the increased spending on improving the system, the Daily News believed it was important to check how the system is working.
"No one breaks any law lightly," Kosner said. "In a way, I guess you could look at it as civil disobedience. We were willing to take the consequences."
It would be different if reporters created a hazard by, for example, testing airline security by rushing a cockpit, he said.
CBS thought it could probe the system without smuggling prohibited items. If security didn't see a large black blob that indicated their X-rays couldn't get through, they wouldn't see a concealed knife, said correspondent Vince Gonzales.
CBS would never break the law to get the story, he said.
"We didn't believe it would be a good idea to try that," he said, "especially when you had the National Guard standing with guns at a lot of those checkpoints."
A code of ethics published by the Society of Professional Journalists doesn't specifically address law-breaking. It advises that undercover or other surreptitious methods not be used unless there is no other way to get a story of compelling public interest.
"I don't condone breaking the law just for the sake of doing it, just to get great footage for sweeps week," said Jane Kirtley, a professor on media ethics at the University of Minnesota. "But the question always comes down to, how else are you going to test these things out?"
The federal government says these systems are checked by independent inspectors, with the results shared with Congress.
Reporting publicly on their weaknesses is like Pentagon reporters publishing news of troop movements, Lunner said. Potential terrorists could learn which airports have the weakest security and the best way to conceal weapons, he said.
28 Falsified Data for Airport Access
Reuters - September 7, 2002
MIAMI (Reuters) - Federal authorities arrested 28 people on Friday on charges of lying about their backgrounds in order to get jobs in restricted areas at three south Florida airports, prosecutors said.
There was no indication any of the suspects planned terrorist acts or other crimes, FBI spokesman Mike Fabregas said.
"They lied to get their employment," he said.
The workers gave false names or Social Security numbers, used phony immigration documents or falsely claimed they had not been convicted on drug charges when they applied for jobs at the international airports in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, prosecutors said.
Based on the false information, they obtained access badges that allowed them to enter secure areas of the airports without escorts, prosecutors said. The workers held a variety of jobs, including custodial work, baggage handling and food service, investigators said.
The arrests stemmed from an ongoing joint task force investigation of airport workers begun after last year's Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks that killed about 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon outside Washington and in Pennsylvania.
"The integrity and the security of our airports involves not just those who fly our planes or screen our passengers, but includes all those who work in or have access to secured areas of the airport," U.S. Attorney Marcos Jimenez said.
The suspects were charged with submitting fraudulent applications for work at federally supervised airports, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, or with using fraudulent immigration documents, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
United Way Official Allegedly Knew of Abuse
New York Times � by David Cay Johnston � September 4, 2002
(9/3/02) - Contrary to his public denials, the chief executive of the scandal-ridden United Way in the Washington area was aware of improper financial practices, was involved in them and disregarded those who tried to stop them, one of the charity's top executives has written in a memorandum.
Norman O. Taylor, the beleaguered chief executive of the United Way of the National Capital Area, has repeatedly said he was unaware that expense accounts had been abused, that donations had been inflated to make the agency appear more efficient and that only 52 percent of the gifts from some donors had been passed on to social services charities.
Mr. Taylor has also repeatedly denied knowing about a $6,000 a month consulting contract for his predecessor, Oral Suer. The senior executive wrote, however, that Mr. Taylor had arranged that contract.
The accusations were made by Kenneth Unzicker, the director of corporate fund-raising campaigns for United Way in the Washington area, in a four-page memorandum to an ethics committee formed to deal with the charity's crisis.
Mr. Unzicker, who has worked at the agency for 28 years, wrote of his "grievous concerns about existing policies, practices and conditions" at the charity. "In the past 19 months," he wrote, "my attempts to air my concerns have been rebuffed or ignored by Norman Taylor and others in control of the organization."
The memorandum was dated Aug. 27. A copy was provided to The New York Times by a third party after Mr. Unzicker sent it. The ethics committee, composed of volunteers, will meet today to review the information from Mr. Unzicker and others.
The committee chairman, Prof. Samuel Dash of Georgetown University Law School, sought such information in a meeting last month with United Way staff members at which he promised that they would not face retaliation. In an interview, Professor Dash, who was counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1974, restated his determination to protect whistle-blowers.
Calls to Mr. Taylor's home and cellphone yesterday were answered by his wife. He did not call back. Mr. Suer did not respond to messages left on his home telephone.
Mr. Unzicker wrote that he had attended more than a half-dozen meetings at which Mr. Suer had orchestrated Mr. Taylor's appointment as chief executive. "The strong implication" of these talks, Mr. Unzicker wrote, "was that the approval of Mr. Suer's consulting contract was a condition of Mr. Taylor's selection as C.E.O."
The memorandum says Mr. Suer "maintained complete control over the selection process" for his successor. "Mr. Suer never disclosed to the selection committee the circumstances of Mr. Taylor's departure from the United Way of Baltimore," Mr. Unzicker wrote.
Mr. Taylor was ousted as head of the Baltimore United Way in 1995 for what its board members have called sustained unsatisfactory performance. He was paid a six-figure settlement � the amount was not disclosed � which was never listed on that charity's Form 990 tax returns, although such disclosure was required by federal law.
"Mr. Taylor flatly denied any knowledge of these contracts" with Mr. Suer and a second person, Brian Ferguson, at a United Way board meeting and at a briefing last month for agencies that depend on United Way money, Mr. Unzicker wrote. Mr. Ferguson, a videographer, was the organization's publicist under Mr. Suer. Mr. Unzicker wrote that after hearing Mr. Taylor's denials, "I confronted him with this lie, to which he had no response."
Mr. Unzicker wrote that in 2000 he grew concerned about expense account abuses by Mr. Suer and others, whom he did not name. He delayed raising the issue, he wrote, until Mr. Taylor took office in February 2001. Mr. Unzicker and his staff felt relieved after the change in executives, he wrote, saying that they expected changes by Mr. Taylor.
"My relief was short-lived," Mr. Unzicker wrote. "The first time I was asked to sign a check written to Mr. Taylor for expense reimbursement turned out to be the last time I was able to sign a check payable to him. I questioned Mr. Taylor about his request for reimbursement of several thousand dollars. I was told that he was paying for Internet service" for the United Way office that solicits contributions from federal workers, known as the Combined Federal Campaign.
Mr. Unzicker wrote that Mr. Taylor said "he would provide a more detailed explanation later."
"I did sign that check," Mr. Unzicker added, "but I was never again asked to sign another check for Mr. Taylor."
Mr. Unzicker wrote that he and a member of his staff, Dulcy Hooper, had warned Mr. Taylor in February 2001 about "funny money," which was the staff term for inflating donations to make the charity appear to spend a reduced share of its revenue on overhead. Mr. Taylor responded by having Ms. Hooper fired and by shutting Mr. Unzicker out of executive decisions.
Armed Detainee Had Pilot Training
New York � by Alan Cowell � September 2, 2002
LONDON, Aug. 31 � Swedish authorities said today that a man arrested at a Swedish airport with a gun in his carry-on luggage as he tried to board a London-bound flight had studied at an aviation school in the United States and had a criminal record.
However, almost two days after the man, identified as Kerim Chatty, 29, was arrested, a senior Swedish official denied reports attributed to Swedish intelligence and police circles that he had planned to seize the plane and attack an American embassy in Europe in a conspiracy with four other men. There was no word either on whether the man was suspected of being linked to Al Qaeda.
The reports nonetheless deepened apprehension among European security officials that, days before the commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, anti-Western militants might be planning copycat attacks on this side of the Atlantic.
Margaretha Linderoth, Sweden's security police director, denied that Mr. Chatty was part of such a conspiracy. "It's false information," she said. "We are not looking for four more men." Earlier, Reuters had quoted an unidentified military intelligence source as saying, "We know for sure that the plan was to crash the plane into a U.S. embassy in Europe."
Mr. Chatty underwent training at the North American Institute of Aviation in Conway, S.C., near Myrtle Beach. He was dismissed from the school's pilot program for poor performance, a top school official said tonight.
The flight school specializes in training foreign pilots, particularly students from Scandinavia, who arrive with special visas allowing them to attend school and later work in the United States. School officials go to Scandinavia every year to test and recruit potential students, according to the school's Web site.
Mr. Chatty was arrested late Thursday as he tried to board a flight operated by Ryanair, a low-cost carrier, out of a small airport in Vaesteraas, 60 miles northeast of Stockholm.
He was identified as belonging to a group of about 20 Muslims on board the plane that was heading for a conference in Birmingham, England, arranged by a Muslim sect known as Salafists. The sect describes itself as a purist strand of the Islamic faith. Its spokesman in Birmingham, Abu Khadeejah, said the conference organizers did not know Mr. Chatty. He also said the Salafists reject terrorism and had condemned both Osama bin Laden and the attacks last Sept. 11.
The Swedish police said they might hold Mr. Chatty until midday Monday before seeking court action against him. He is being held on suspicion of attempted hijacking and illegal possession of a firearm.
Nils Uggla, his defense lawyer, said that Mr. Chatty, a Swedish citizen of Tunisian descent, could explain the presence of a handgun found in his luggage. "He denies that this has anything at all to do with terrorism or airplane hijacking," Mr. Uggla said.
Several passengers already aboard the aircraft were evacuated while police officers searched the cabin and luggage compartment.
The flight school in South Carolina opened in 1972 and has trained about 3,500 pilots over the past three decades, according to its Web site.
The school offers a six-month course that trains students to fly and work as flight instructors, the first step to obtaining a commercial pilot's license. At about $35,000 including housing, the course is considered a bargain compared to comparable European programs.
Beginning in 1997, the school was 1 of 21 in an experimental program in the southeastern states that used the Internet to report foreign students who did not show up for classes to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
All schools are required to report students who do not show up for classes, but reporting was spotty before Sept. 11. One of the hijackers came into the United States on a student visa but never reported to the California school that he was supposed to attend.
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents visited the school twice after Sept. 11 during sweeps of flight schools across the country, The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported last year. Robert Sunday, the school's chief operations officer, told The Sun News at the time that his school took extra care in admitting its students. Typically students are required to have J-1 visas, a special educational visa that requires tougher screening than a typical student visa. Mr. Sunday also said the school immediately reports students who do not show up for class.
In May, a fire destroyed the administrative offices of the school. James Lamb, an instructor at the school, said he could not be sure whether Mr. Chatty was a student because student records were destroyed in the fire.
Morgan Martin, a former state legislator from Conway who serves on the state Transportation Commission, said the school had a good reputation.
"As far as I know it is a well-respected and well-run operation," he said.
Swedish newspaper reports depicted Mr. Chatty as a recent convert to Islam. He had been convicted of theft and assault charges, relating to a brawl with American marines at a gym in Stockholm and an earlier scuffle at a bar, according Mr. Uggla, the defense lawyer.
Former WorldCom Executives Indicted
CBS Market Watch � by Jeffry Bartash - August 29, 2002
(8/28/02) - NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- A grand jury Wednesday indicted two former WorldCom executives accused of orchestrating an effort to hide more than $7 billion in expenses at the bankrupt phone carrier.
Scott Sullivan, the former chief financial officer, and Buford Yates Jr., onetime head of the company's accounting office, were indicted in New York on charges of securities fraud and making false filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Another top executive implicated in the coverup, ex-controller David Myers, was not indicted. That's fueled speculation that Myers has agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with federal investigators, who are trying to determine whether former Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers was involved.
Two other executives who worked in WorldCom's accounting office were named unindicted co-conspirators.
Sullivan, who was arrested a month ago, could go on trial later this year. He's seen as the key architect of WorldCom's attempt to conceal billions of dollars in operating costs, a move that generated phantom profits and hid the company's deteriorating financial condition from investors.
Sullivan was fired June 25 after the ruse was discovered. Myers was forced to resign. So far, Ebbers has escaped prosecution. He quit under board pressure in April, but has strenuously denied any involvement.
Under Sullivan's direction, Myers shifted billions of dollars in so-called line costs to the company's capital-goods account -- in effect treating ordinary business expenses as long-term investments.
By hiding those costs, the No. 2 U.S. long-distance carrier was able to report profits instead of actual losses during all of 2001 and the first quarter of 2002.
Further investigation has revealed that the company started manipulating expenses as early as 1999.
On July 17, WorldCom filed the largest U.S. bankruptcy claim ever. It reported $41 billion in debt at the time of its filing vs. $107 billion in assets. Since then, the company has said it will probably write off $50 billion in assets whose value has shrunk.
The shocking revelation, the biggest in a series of Wall Street scandals, stunned investors and generated a public outcry. It also forced U.S. lawmakers to pass a major bill aimed at reforming the financial sector.
The White House, meanwhile, has pressured federal investigators to intensify their corporate investigations and to start making arrests.
Gun Carried Through Airport Security
Reuters � August 27, 2002
PHILADELPHIA - An Ohio woman carrying a loaded handgun made it through U.S. airport security and may have completed at least one domestic flight before she was stopped, officials said on Monday.
Nancy Keller, a 37-year-old resident of Columbus, Ohio, faces a charge of attempting to board an aircraft with a concealed weapon, in what appears to be the latest in a series of airport security lapses despite tough measures adopted after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Keller was arrested at Philadelphia International Airport on Sunday after baggage screeners found a loaded HK .357 semiautomatic handgun in her bag.
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia declined to comment on media reports that before her arrest Keller had flown from Atlanta to Philadelphia with the gun. Officials also declined to say where Keller was headed when authorities in Philadelphia found the weapon.
"We in the U.S. District Attorney's office are very concerned about airport security and hope to understand not only why she was carrying this gun, but how it made it through security," U.S. Attorney Mary Crawley said.
According to an affidavit filed at a federal court hearing on Monday, Keller told security personnel that both the bag and gun were her husband's and she did not know she was carrying the weapon.
At the hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacob Hart freed Keller on a $100 bond but ordered her to give up her passport as she awaits a probable cause hearing set for Sept. 9.
In addition to the handgun, Keller was found to be carrying a separate magazine containing 12 rounds of ammunition. Both the magazine in the pistol and the separate magazine were labeled "restricted-law enforcement use only," according to the affidavit.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is trying to determine ownership of the weapon.


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Frostburg State University
Frostburg State University (Frostburg State) is a Public, 4 or more years school located in Frostburg, MD. It is classified as Master's College and University (larger programs) by Carnegie Classification and its highest level of offering is Doctor's degree - research/scholarship.
The 2020 tuition & fees at Frostburg State University is $9,410 for Maryland residents and $23,510 for out-of-state students. 61% of the enrolled undergraduate students have received grant or scholarships and the average aid amount is $7,344 at Frostburg State.
The school has a total enrollment of 5,295 and student to faculty ratio is 15 to 1 (6.67%).
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For undergraduate school, its 2020 tuition and fees are $9,410 for in-state students and $23,510 for out-of-state students. For graduate programs, its 2020 tuition and fees are $10,576 for in-state students and $12,790 for out-of-state students.
The estimated 2021 tuition & fees are $9,654 for Maryland residents and $24,145 for out-of-state students. The estimated 2021 graduate school tuition & fees are $10,834 for Maryland residents and $13,028 for out-of-state students.
The average earning in 10 years after graduation from the school is $47,200. The average salary varies depending on the field of study where Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse program shows the highest salary with $67,900 after graduating from Frostburg State University.
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The Acceptance rate at Frostburg State University is 80% and the yield (enrollment rate) is 30%. The average graduation rate is 49%. Total 5,295 students are attending at the school and the school offers campus housing facilities (i.e. dormitory and residence halls possessed by the school). Key academic stats for the school are listed in next table.
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