text:
Q: Objective C compiling with clang on Linux Foundation/Foundation.h linking: file not found I'm trying to compile a program in Objective C on Ubuntu, I have installed GNUstep, set all the GNUSTEP_* environment variables, and installed clang, because I read that gcc can't compile Objective-C code with blocks (Objective-C 'anonymous' functions, just to be clear: ^ { }).
What I get when I run this command:
clang hello.m -o hello
Is:
hello.m:1:9: fatal error: 'Foundation/Foundation.h' file not found
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
        ^
1 error generated.

I tried this also:
clang -L '/usr/include/GNUstep/Foundation/Foundation.h' hello.m -o hello
Where /usr/include/... is the path to the Foundation.h file on my system; but I still get the same result.
How can I link those header files automatically and compile Objective-C?
Thanks!

A: You can use gnustep-config:
clang `gnustep-config --objc-flags` `gnustep-config --objc-libs` hello.m -o hello


Amnesty International, yesterday, revealed that Nigerian security forces got advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards Dapchi, a town where 110 schoolgirls were abducted by terrorists on February 19. The girls were abducted from Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State in an assault reminiscent of the infamous Chibok girls' abduction of April 2014.
In a report on the incident released yesterday, Amnesty International said that at least five calls were made to security forces between 2p.m. and 6:30p.m. on that fateful day, warning them that the armed group was on the way to Dapchi. According to the report, the first call was made to the Nigeria Army Command in Geidam, 54km from Dapchi, informing them that Boko Haram fighters had been seen at Futchimiram heading to Gumsa, a village about 30km from Dapchi. However, the evidence documented by the group shows that the military did nothing to engage with Boko Haram and ensure the protection of civilians.
"At about 3p.m., the convoy arrived in Gumsa, where they remained till 5p.m. People in Gumsa called Dapchi villagers to warn them that Boko Haram fighters were on their way. One villager who received such a call said he informed a police sergeant who promised to notify the Dapchi Division Police Officer (DPO).
"At about 6:30p.m., when residents were heading to the mosque for evening prayers, Boko Haram members entered Dapchi. Witnesses said Boko Haram fighters asked for directions to the military post, the local government office and the girls' school," the report said. An eyewitness told Amnesty International that approximately 50 Boko Haram fighters arrived in Dapchi in a convoy of nine vehicles with Arabic inscriptions on them.
The vehicles included seven Land Cruiser trucks, one Hilux and a Canter truck. A police source in Dapchi also told Amnesty International that on sighting them, police officers fled because they feared that the Boko Haram fighters would overpower them. According to victims and eyewitnesses interviewed by Amnesty, Boko Haram left Gumsa for Dapchi at about 5p.m., arriving at about 6:30p.m.
"They left Dapchi at about 7:30p.m. in the direction of Gumsa, where villagers say they arrived at about 9p.m. During the attack, army officials both in Geidam and Damaturu were again alerted. The military only arrived in Dapchi shortly after Boko Haram left. Villagers in Dapchi and Gumsa said a military jet arrived about one hour after Boko Haram left Dapchi," said the report.
The global human rights watchdog lamented that in spite of the several distress calls, the Nigerian military neither took effective measures to stop the abduction nor made serious efforts to rescue the girls after they were taken by Boko Haram fighters.
The Defence Headquarters, however, denied that it did nothing to prevent the abduction despite several warnings. Acting Director of Defence Information (DDI), Brig.-Gen. John Agim, told New Telegraph that there is no truth in the position of Amnesty International.
"Warning from who? Amnesty? Which of the military did they say they informed? Is it the defence headquarters or the task force? "There is nothing like that, and I think what they (Amnesty International) are doing is very unfair. "The military could not have been informed and they did nothing. It is not true.
Then outside that, all the service chiefs were all in the North-East," Agim told New Telegraph last night. Director, Amnesty International in Nigeria, Osai Ojigho, said the Nigerian authorities have failed in their duty to protect civilians, just as they did in Chibok four years ago. Ojigho, who described the inaction as "inexcusable security lapses", said the Nigerian authorities must investigate the incident in order to unravel why the abduction took place without any tangible attempt to prevent it. "Despite being repeatedly told that Boko Haram fighters were heading to Dapchi, it appears that the police and military did nothing to avert the abduction.
The authorities appear to have learned nothing from the abduction of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State in 2014 and failed to ensure protection for civilians in North-East Nigeria, specifically girls' schools. "Evidence available to Amnesty International suggests that there are insufficient troops deployed in the area, and that an absence of patrols and the failure to respond to warnings and engage with Boko Haram contributed to this tragedy. The government's failure in this incident must be investigated and the findings made public and it is absolutely crucial that any investigation focuses on the root causes," said Ojigho.
Apparently alleging complicity on the part of the Nigerian troops, Amnesty said the military withdrew troops from Dapchi in January, leaving the town vulnerable to attacks. According to the report, the unexplained withdrawal of troops from Dapchi meant that the closest security personnel were based one hour's drive from the town. Ojigho said the actions and inactions of Nigerian troops must not only be subjected to probe, but the Federal Government must use all lawful means at its disposal to ensure that these girls were rescued and reunited with their families.
The parents of the abducted girls lamented the incident. One parent told Amnesty International: "That night we heard their voices when they were being taken, but there was nothing we could do. Everyone was scared. Boko Haram did not stay in the town for more than one hour." Another parent described how the girls' relatives were not given any information until the following day, and had to wait outside the school to find out if their loved ones were safe. He said: "Many parents were hopeful that their daughters were inside. We stood there from morning till about 5p.m., when they let the students out.
In response to the Chibok abduction, the Federal Government, under President Goodluck Jonathan, launched the Safe Schools Initiative which was meant to improve security around schools. The programme is currently under the control of the Presidential Committee on the North- East Initiative, but there seems to be no framework in place to prevent further abductions and it appears that the Nigerian military is unable to protect these schools from attack.


The Green Bay Packers introduced Matt LaFleur Wednesday as the 15th head coach in the team's 100-year history.
LaFleur served as the offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans last season, when the team ranked 27th in scoring but was riddled by injuries to quarterback Marcus Mariota and tight end Delanie Walker, the team's top receiver.
The Packers were reportedly drawn to LaFleur in part due to his work with quarterbacks Jared Goff, Matt Ryan, Kirk Cousins and Robert Griffin III during his Rookie of the Year campaign in 2012. He has also worked under hot offensive minds Sean McVay of the Los Angeles Rams and Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers.
The 39-year-old LaFleur has reportedly agreed to keep defensive coordinator Mike Pettine, a decision that may have helped put LaFleur over the top of 10 other candidates who were interviewed by the Packers, including Josh McDaniels of the New England Patriots. Since splitting with Mike Holmgren in 1998 – when the legendary coach left for Seattle for more control – the Packers have sought coaches with little desire to get involved in personnel matters. In 1999 they hired Ray Rhodes off the Philadelphia scrap heap, and their last three coaching hires – Mike Sherman in 2000, Mike McCarthy in 2006 and now LaFleur – have all been plucked from obscurity.
The LaFleur hiring mirrors that of McCarthy, who came from a San Francisco offense rated by Football Outsiders as one of the worst it has ever tracked.


Sarah completed her specialist training in hand physiotherapy at the world renowned plastic surgery unit in East Grinstead. She became a member of the British Association of Hand Therapists in 2000 and now has 10 years of experience in the management of complex hand conditions.
Promoted to an Orthopaedic Physiotherapy Practitioner she works as part of the Multi-Professional Triage Team in the Surrey primary care trust. She teaches on postgraduate courses at Surrey University and runs specialist hand therapy courses at the Royal Surrey County Hospital.


text:
PCC reveals over 180 staff will get a pay boost and calls on more employers to pay the real Living Wage
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner will speak on Monday at the launch of Living Wage Week, where the new, independently set, real Living Wage will be announced. He has called on others to do the same as him and start paying staff fairly. West Midlands Police is the only force in the region that pays the real Living Wage, and one of only a handful of forces in the country that do.
The rate is set independently by the Living Wage Foundation based on the cost of living and is higher to the government's national living wage, which has replaced the minimum wage for over 25's.
Across the West Midlands, 24% of people earn below the real Living Wage which is above the national average of 21%. David Jamieson delivered his pledge that West Midlands Police would pay the real Living Wage last year. Since then 182 people have been lifted to the real Living Wage within West Midlands Police.
David Jamieson said: "I am proud to have ensured that the real Living Wage is paid in both my office and across the whole of West Midlands Police. I have also ensured that firms delivering contracts for West Midlands Police pay the real Living Wage too.
"It is making a real difference to the lives of staff and is making sure that everybody can have a decent quality of life and earn a wage that meets the cost of living and not just the government minimum wage.
"Fair pay at work doesn't just help our employees but is good for the regional economy too. That extra money will boost businesses throughout the West Midlands."
"I'd encourage all employers to take the decision to pay this wage, it will make a massive difference to those individuals who receive it. It sends the message that you care about your employees, you treat them properly and that they receive a proper wage."
Julian Goddard, who has been a cleaner for West Midlands Police for 17 years and has been helped by the real Living Wage added: "It really does help with making ends meet in a time when costs are rising, it is a nice boost to my wages.
"It's that bit extra that you wouldn't get in lots of jobs and it is good to have a fair and compassionate employer. It's good to know that West Midlands Police and the Commissioner are committed to fair pay and treating staff well."

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


"In our century of prose and reality love has for once manifested its power despite all opposition. It is from the land of the sun, from the land of Carmen Sylva, who sings from the heart and soul—it is from Roumania that this ray of light comes," wrote Queen Elizabeth in the summer of 1891, while her kingdom trembled with the excitement caused by the Vacaresco incident. "Prince Ferdinand and Helène," she continued, stand before us a precious example of valiant love, braving the thousand storms raised by the shadow of that crown which hovers over the young man's head. The Roumanians will applaud their union, and all truly patriotic hearts will beat with joy when the happy couple plight their troth at the altar."
Today the poet queen, resting among the verdure clad mountains of Sinaia at the picturesque castle of Pelesh, in harmony with her husband and people, surrounded by friends, respected and honored by the great dignitaries of state, blushes as she recalls these pages from her diary. Her romantic friendship for her former maid of honor, which was ended by the king's order despite Elizabeth's hysteric protests and impotent threats-this fanciful attachment that came near wrecking her throne, proved to be a one sided, sentimental illusion, as her majesty is now well aware. The gentle Helène was long ago unmasked as an adventuress, and the lovelorn Ferdinand has for two years been the contented husband of another woman.
Three summers ago, the most sanguine observer would not have dared anticipate so happy and prosaic a solution of the imbroglio that set the war ministers of all Europe to overhaul their marching orders. The writer, at the time, was a foreign correspondent stationed in Vienna, and the passage just quoted from the queen's diary was among the choice bits of gossip that reached his office from her majesty's "cabinet" in Bucharest, the communications being invariably signed "Schaeffer, Her Majesty's Secretary."
They say journalists are born, like strategic and poetic geniuses. Bismarck is of opinion that they are men who have missed their proper vocation. Both maxims fit the case of Schaeffer. A journalist by the grace of nature, he became amanuensis to a royal mistress who dealt in anything but facts.
I have read through several of Carmen Sylva's romances, but none of them—nor even her majesty's translation of the "Songs of the Dimbovitza," gathered by Helene Vacaresco among the gipsies—wild and unreal as they are, can compare, as works of untrammeled imagination, with the version of the Vacaresco affair sent out by the Queen's secretary on official, crowned, and crest laden paper. It was all in the general key of the queen's diary effusions-unbridled, rhapsodical, of childlike artlessness, presupposing a state of the public mind which hardly existed in the days of the troubadours. Denuded of highfalutin phrases, endless periods, fulsome declarations, hysterics and hyperbole, the queen's typewritten statements were to the effect that her nephew, Prince Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the crown of Roumania, had fallen desperately in love with the young and innocent Helène Vacaresco, who was a lady of the court of Bucharest, a renowned poetess, and daughter of a noble family; that she—Carmen Sylva—had permitted the couple to become engaged; that they were man and wife before God's altar, and that the people of Roumania were eager to hail Helène as their future queen.
Photographs exhibiting the queen, Prince Ferdinand, and Helène, posed together in a loving group, were inclosed, and the sympathies of the correspondents enlisted on the plea of chivalry.
Of course, when a queen—and, forsooth, a lovely woman—unbends to ask favors of a handful of journalists in a foreign country, the readers whom they serve are liable to become her majesty's converts. Oh, the wonderful romances concerning the royal trio we telegraphed and cabled to all parts of the globe, during the fortnight when we put our trust in the loquacious and sly Schaeffer! Alas, the lovely mess of crow upon which we dined a little later!
The Roumanians, and particularly Bucharest society, do not incline to prudery. While the love making between Helène and Ferdinand was the theme of general gossip in the capital, it excited little more than passing comment. Not until the foreign press busied itself with the case and declared it an affair of state, did the journals of the kingdom take cognizance of the subject. Then, at the mere mention of the fact that the crown prince intended to marry Mlle. Vacaresco, there arose a storm that threatened to sweep King Charles from his throne. Ministry, court, and people had at last discovered a point on which they could agree, and declared themselves bitterly opposed to the contemplated misalliance. "It is not love that inspires the Vacaresco woman," they vociferated; "it is treason, tempered by blackmail." And Prince Ferdinand was characterized as a "noodle—just such an imbecile as an ambitious woman would victimize."
The queen was abused in even more shameful style. Two days after the scandal had become noised about in Bucharest, I saw a caricature of Carmen Sylva posted in the neighborhood of the royal palace. It represented the queen as she entered Roumania, poor, bare headed, and in a dress, much the worse for wear—a German Aschenbroedel. A companion picture exhibited her majesty as a person grown rich and puissant by the bounty of her people, dealing out royal crowns to her inferiors.
This cartoon, the more objectionable as it affected a semblance of truth, was permitted to disgrace the dead walls for many hours, and hundreds of thousands came in steady procession to look and gloat over the coarse likeness. Then came the queen's journey to Venice, which was nothing short of flight, followed by rumors of divorce and of King Charles' abdication. The uproar lasted five or six weeks, finally to be quieted by the reports of a visit paid by the king to his ailing wife, in company with the premier, the secretary of the ministerial council, and a number of other officials. The nucleus of a settlement of the whole affair was then and there agreed upon. Elizabeth consented to discharge Mlle. Vacaresco and secretary Schaeffer, withdrew her approval of the contemplated match between Helène and Ferdinand, and promised not to interfere in her husband's selection of a wife for the heir presumptive. A month or so later she was moved to Neuwied, the residence of her brother, the Prince of Wied. There she remained in seclusion until October last, when she returned to her kingdom a changed woman, a queen who had profited by the political lessons that had been taught her.
At present Carmen Sylva is holding court on Mount Sinaia, a district which the royal authoress has charmingly described in "Tales of the Pelesh." The Roumanian sovereign's summer residence is the Mecca of hundreds of scientists, artists, and literary men and women, every season. There one meets no end of celebrities, and all are cordially welcomed by king and queen, who give each a day or two to become thoroughly acquainted, and then politely proffer their regrets that the guest's departure should be made necessary by the host of other names on the court marshal's invitation list.
At Pelesh Queen Elizabeth and her ladies wear the national costume, a motley garb, the most unusual feature of which is the apron, worn at the back, and made of damask silk of a very delicate red, streaked with silver threads. A chemise of white wool, very soft and fine, and richly embroidered at the neck, sleeves, and edgings, serves for a waist.
Carmen Sylva has a classical mouth, a musical voice, deep set eyes of light blue, and teeth of pearly whiteness. Her wavy hair is prematurely white, but her tall, fine figure stands as erect as ever. Her majesty's complexion is fresh and healthy, her step elastic, and her whole manner winsome.
Behold, in contrast to this truly royal woman, her quondam "friend" and all but destroyer—Helène Vacaresco. Below medium height, dark skinned, of full figure, she has thick lips, an abundance of raven tresses, and a smooth, round forehead. Like most ancient families of Roumania the house of Vacaresco claims Roman origin. All its members of this generation are essentially French in training and tastes. Besides Helene and her parents, there are two brothers and a sister. The latter married a Catargi, a member of the family which dethroned the former ruler of the Roumanian country, Prince Couza, in spite of the fact hat he had a son. Demetrius by name, by the elder Catargi's sister. This boy, heir to all the Couza millions—stolen millions,by the way—is the favorite candidate of the Panslavist party in Russia and .the Balkans for the Roumanian throne, and herein lies .the key of the historical intrigue of which we have been speaking.
The father and brothers of the young woman who aspired to the Roumanian crown, share her unpleasant characteristics. Through Helene's influence they secured high positions in the diplomatic service, four or five years ago, but wherever they went—to Belgrade, Vienna, or Rome—they gained a most unenviable reputation, and were treated with contempt by their colleagues. The Bucharest government today possesses positive documentary evidence that the love affair between the crown prince and Mlle. Helène was the result of a conspiracy entered into by the Vacaresco family to the end of driving King Charles to abdication and of enthroning Demetrius, Carmen Sylva being their unconscious tool, and Russia furnishing the funds. Secretary Schaeffer, who has been a fugitive from justice for years, is known to have been a Russian agent.
While the removal of King Charles from the throne, and the demolition of the rampart that blocks Russia's way to Bulgaria and Constantinople, was the chief issue involved, the Vacarescos, as usual, had private irons in the fire. By extortion—or, to be more explicit, by common blackmail—they succeeded in fleecing both the king and queen out of hush money to the amount of several million francs. The authorities have proof of all this, and the Vacarescos need but lift their hand against the crown to be clapped into jail under charges of high treason. Thanks to this fact, Mlle. Helène's threatened memoirs have never seen the light of a printing office; and for the same reason the world has been spared a perusal of the love letters indited by Prince Ferdinand to his aunt's wily maid of honor.
Mlle. Helène differs from the rest of her family in that she is highly educated, and has really brilliant talent. Many years of her life have been passed in Paris, where she obtained a reputation as one of the clever young women who sat at the feet of Victor Hugo. This famous patron corrected her verses, and probably for that reason her "Chants d'Aurore" won a prize from the French Academy, seven or eight years ago. She also published a volume of Roumanian folksongs, "The Bard of the Dimbovitza," already mentioned as translated by Carmen Sylva.
Prince Ferdinand was only twenty-six when he achieved notoriety as the lover of a clever woman four years his senior in age, and twenty in knowledge of the world. He is the second son of the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and was originally intended to spend his life as a German officer, drilling recruits or riding at the head of a regiment or two. King Charles, his uncle, having no son of his own, selected him for the post, it is said, as the candidate least calculated to excite the suspicions and jealousies of the great powers. That maybe true or not; it is quite certain, however, that Ferdinand, since his marriage to the eldest daughter of the present Duke of Saxe-Coburg, has given evidence of increased mental activity and of devotion to his military and administrative duties. His clever wife, the Princess Marie Alexandra, a bride of two years, has presented her husband with as many bouncing babies, and Roumania has its wished for male heir. She is deservedly popular with all classes, and, being a granddaughter of Czar Alexander II, as well as of Queen Victoria, guarantees Russia's sympathetic tolerance of the status quo, which is an excellent thing in the Balkans.
King Charles, who won military distinction in the war with Turkey, is a ruler of twenty-nine years' experience, and a firm adherent of the Triple Alliance. He is a fine looking man, famous for boldness, grit, and perseverance. His very crown denotes as much, being constructed of hammered steel, the metal of Turkish cannons captured by his own hands at Plevna.
As a younger son of the house of Hohenzollern, he was called to the throne in his twenty seventh year, when holding a lieutenantship in the second Prussian dragoons. He entered his country gripsack in hand, and with a posse of Austrian, gendarmes at his heels. "First class promotion for a lieutenant, at any rate," said Bismarck at the time.


text:
Home deep learning Understanding when not to trust AI-assisted decision-making
Understanding when not to trust AI-assisted decision-making
via MIT
A neural network learns when it should not be trusted
Increasingly, artificial intelligence systems known as deep learning neural networks are used to inform decisions vital to human health and safety, such as in autonomous driving or medical diagnosis. These networks are good at recognizing patterns in large, complex datasets to aid in decision-making. But how do we know they're correct? Alexander Amini and his colleagues at MIT and Harvard University wanted to find out.
They've developed a quick way for a neural network to crunch data, and output not just a prediction but also the model's confidence level based on the quality of the available data. The advance might save lives, as deep learning is already being deployed in the real world today. A network's level of certainty can be the difference between an autonomous vehicle determining that "it's all clear to proceed through the intersection" and "it's probably clear, so stop just in case."
Current methods of uncertainty estimation for neural networks tend to be computationally expensive and relatively slow for split-second decisions. But Amini's approach, dubbed "deep evidential regression," accelerates the process and could lead to safer outcomes. "We need the ability to not only have high-performance models, but also to understand when we cannot trust those models," says Amini, a PhD student in Professor Daniela Rus' group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
"This idea is important and applicable broadly. It can be used to assess products that rely on learned models. By estimating the uncertainty of a learned model, we also learn how much error to expect from the model, and what missing data could improve the model," says Rus.
Amini will present the research at next month's NeurIPS conference, along with Rus, who is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, director of CSAIL, and deputy dean of research for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing; and graduate students Wilko Schwarting of MIT and Ava Soleimany of MIT and Harvard.
Efficient uncertainty
After an up-and-down history, deep learning has demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of tasks, in some cases even surpassing human accuracy. And nowadays, deep learning seems to go wherever computers go. It fuels search engine results, social media feeds, and facial recognition. "We've had huge successes using deep learning," says Amini. "Neural networks are really good at knowing the right answer 99 percent of the time." But 99 percent won't cut it when lives are on the line.
"One thing that has eluded researchers is the ability of these models to know and tell us when they might be wrong," says Amini. "We really care about that 1 percent of the time, and how we can detect those situations reliably and efficiently."
Neural networks can be massive, sometimes brimming with billions of parameters. So it can be a heavy computational lift just to get an answer, let alone a confidence level. Uncertainty analysis in neural networks isn't new. But previous approaches, stemming from Bayesian deep learning, have relied on running, or sampling, a neural network many times over to understand its confidence. That process takes time and memory, a luxury that might not exist in high-speed traffic.
The researchers devised a way to estimate uncertainty from only a single run of the neural network. They designed the network with bulked up output, producing not only a decision but also a new probabilistic distribution capturing the evidence in support of that decision. These distributions, termed evidential distributions, directly capture the model's confidence in its prediction. This includes any uncertainty present in the underlying input data, as well as in the model's final decision. This distinction can signal whether uncertainty can be reduced by tweaking the neural network itself, or whether the input data are just noisy.
Confidence check
To put their approach to the test, the researchers started with a challenging computer vision task. They trained their neural network to analyze a monocular color image and estimate a depth value (i.e. distance from the camera lens) for each pixel. An autonomous vehicle might use similar calculations to estimate its proximity to a pedestrian or to another vehicle, which is no simple task.
Their network's performance was on par with previous state-of-the-art models, but it also gained the ability to estimate its own uncertainty. As the researchers had hoped, the network projected high uncertainty for pixels where it predicted the wrong depth. "It was very calibrated to the errors that the network makes, which we believe was one of the most important things in judging the quality of a new uncertainty estimator," Amini says.
To stress-test their calibration, the team also showed that the network projected higher uncertainty for "out-of-distribution" data — completely new types of images never encountered during training. After they trained the network on indoor home scenes, they fed it a batch of outdoor driving scenes. The network consistently warned that its responses to the novel outdoor scenes were uncertain. The test highlighted the network's ability to flag when users should not place full trust in its decisions. In these cases, "if this is a health care application, maybe we don't trust the diagnosis that the model is giving, and instead seek a second opinion," says Amini.
The network even knew when photos had been doctored, potentially hedging against data-manipulation attacks. In another trial, the researchers boosted adversarial noise levels in a batch of images they fed to the network. The effect was subtle — barely perceptible to the human eye — but the network sniffed out those images, tagging its output with high levels of uncertainty. This ability to sound the alarm on falsified data could help detect and deter adversarial attacks, a growing concern in the age of deepfakes.
Deep evidential regression is "a simple and elegant approach that advances the field of uncertainty estimation, which is important for robotics and other real-world control systems," says Raia Hadsell, an artificial intelligence researcher at DeepMind who was not involved with the work. "This is done in a novel way that avoids some of the messy aspects of other approaches — e.g. sampling or ensembles — which makes it not only elegant but also computationally more efficient — a winning combination."
Deep evidential regression could enhance safety in AI-assisted decision making. "We're starting to see a lot more of these [neural network] models trickle out of the research lab and into the real world, into situations that are touching humans with potentially life-threatening consequences," says Amini. "Any user of the method, whether it's a doctor or a person in the passenger seat of a vehicle, needs to be aware of any risk or uncertainty associated with that decision." He envisions the system not only quickly flagging uncertainty, but also using it to make more conservative decision making in risky scenarios like an autonomous vehicle approaching an intersection.
"Any field that is going to have deployable machine learning ultimately needs to have reliable uncertainty awareness," he says.
Learn more: A neural network learns when it should not be trusted
The Latest Updates from Bing News & Google News
Go deeper with Bing News on:
Reliable uncertainty awareness
The uncertainty over vaccine authorisation
As regards Covaxin's Phase 1 and 2 trials, they only involved 800 participants which is far too small for reliable efficacy data. Kang also casts doubt on the Bhargava/Paul claim that Covaxin ...
A look at South Africa's energy policies
Energy and electricity policy, planning and regulation in South Africa has been slow and bureaucratic, lacking visionary leadership, and marred by uncertainty.
Nestle India Ltd.
In this New Reality that is characterized by political and economic uncertainty ... Nutritional awareness is improving but still very low. The problem of affordability and indulgence co–exist ...
NBA updates mental health policies amid ongoing pandemic
on January 6, 2021 at 12:49 pm
The league told teams they should establish "education and awareness materials focused on managing mental health during times of uncertainty and coping strategies for addressing the emotional to ...
Top Crypto and Blockchain Predictions for 2021 and Beyond – Part 1
Many more institutions and fairly large publicly listed companies like MacroStrategy Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), entered the crypto space in 2020, which was marked by great socio-economic uncertainty ...
Go deeper with Google Headlines on:
A neural network learns when it should not be trusted - MIT News
Pakistan- Uncertainty prevails amidst second wave of COVID-19 - MENAFN.COM
Concern shown over new Latin America and Caribbean travel restrictions - International Airport Review
Receiver innovator Q&As capture technology trends - GPS World magazine
Health, empowerment top global trends list this year - Inside Retail
Deep evidential regression
AI news: Neural network learns when it should not be trusted - '99% won't cut it'
on November 22, 2020 at 4:25 am
This approach, led by MIT PhD student Alexander Amini, dubbed "deep evidential regression", accelerates the process and could lead to even safer AI technology. READ MORE: AI-manipulated media ...
on March 30, 2020 at 10:54 pm
Moreover, machine learning is prone to fragility, as its quality is impacted by data volume, bias, and relevance, as well as the creation and tuning of the AI algorithms. "Uncertainty estimation for ...
MIT breakthrough in deep learning could help reduce errors - Big Think
To Err Is AI, Too: Researchers Build Neural Networks That Tell When They Make A Mistake - Analytics India Magazine
AI is getting eerily closer to Data from Star Trek: TNG now that it knows whether or not you can trust it - SYFY WIRE
Artificial Intelligence Neural Network Learns When It Should Not Be Trusted - SciTechDaily
Subscribe to Innovation Toronto via Email
Enter your email address to subscribe to Innovation Toronto and receive notifications of new posts by email.
Tags: AI-assisted decision makingdeep evidential regressiondeep learningdeep learning neural networksharvard universityMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyMIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratoryneural networksreliable uncertainty awarenessuncertainty estimationuncertainty estimation for neural networks
A new way of dramatically speeding up production of innovative bio-based fuels, materials, and chemicals
Making diamonds at room temperature in a laboratory in mere minutes
A new method of anti-counterfeiting using artificial intelligence called DeepKey
Rapid and accurate identification of mosquitoes that transmit human pathogens using artificial intelligence
A breakthrough in thermoelectric generation offers a direct means of converting thermal energy, including waste heat, into electricity


Which cards can effect payment via the Internet?
Payment via the Internet can be effected by all VISA, Maestro, MasterCard and American Express cards.
I cannot pay via the Internet using my card?!
Check with the bank that issued your card if your card supports payment via the Internet.
Which card data do I need in order to effect payment?
Card number: all digits from the front side of your card; CVV2/CVC2: three digits on the back of your card, next to the space designated for a signature; expiry date: it is in the front, below the card number.
After filling in the required data from the card, is an additional password required?!
It is 3D secure technology which provides additional security level during transactions of payment cards on the Internet. Namely, additional verification is required, i.e. code, or some other security mechanism, which is obtained exclusively from the bank that issued the card to you.
Will I, after effecting the payment, get the message regarding the effected payment?
Yes. E-mail with all transaction details is sent to you automatically. After shopping on the Internet check e-mail.
Should I save e-mails of this type?
It is desirable to save bills and e-mails related to your e-shopping – it will be of use to you in case of a possible complaint.
Can I request cancelling of transaction?
Yes, but you have to talk to the service provider. The very process is executed by Chip Card, but only upon the Merchant's request.
What happens if I select the option to effect the payment by payment cards?
If you select the option of payment by payment cards, you will be automatically redirected to a protected Chip Card's page for payment, via which transaction is processed in accordance with all the required security requests. On the protected, safe Chip Card's page, you should enter the number of your card and other required data we have specified. The bank which issued the card will check your card and availability of assets on the account, and if you meet conditions for payment, the bank will reserve funds on your account in the payment amount. After completing the payment you will be redirected to the Merchant's site where payment will be finished. At the end, you will receive an e-mail informing that the transaction was either successful or unsuccessful (payment confirmation).
Who guarantees data security to me?
Data security during online payment by cards is achieved in compliance with the currently available up-to-date technology, stipulated by card organizations, called 3D SECURE. The same manner and level of security provided by Chip card are applied by all the other leading world providers of e-commerce services. We can say that security guarantee, in addition to being provided by the very Chip Card company, is provided by card organizations (VISA and MasterCard), as well as the acquiring bank, since the whole transaction flow is executed by 3D SECURE rules, with constant monitoring of Chip Card's risk team, together with acquiring bank's risk team. In compliance with security requirements, never are data about payment card available to merchant's system.
How can I know that this system of online payment by cards is reliable?
Chip Card is a processing house owned by the company Asseco SEE, which, as one of the largest IT companies in Serbia, has all the required certificates regarding security of the payment cards business (of which the most important is PCI DSS – Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). On the other hand, e-commerce standards which are applied are 3D SECURE – a set of standards that represents security and serves for preventing frauds (MC Secure Code and Visa Verified by Visa), and we accept and update its new versions.
Are payments via Internet safe?
Paying for products and services with payment cards on the Internet is as safe as on POS terminals in physical shops. Moreover, there are services for mediation of safe payment on the Internet, which provide a higher level of security in executing of transactions than traditional methods of payment. Also, laws especially related to electronic trade, which provide to consumers the same rights and the same level of protection as for traditional shopping are in force in Serbia (the right to guarantee, money return, complaint, agreement termination, and the like). The most important of the abovementioned laws are E-commerce Law, Consumer Protection Law, and Law on Personal Data Protection.
What happens if I become a fraud victim, though?
However, if you become the victim of fraud, data theft or misuse of payment card, you should act immediately! If you lose a payment card or notice "suspicious" items in the statements regarding account activities, call the bank that issued your payment card, consult with them and, if required, deactivate payment cards. It is useful to know that domestic laws (primarily Criminal Code) cover traditional criminal acts executed using computers and communication networks, but also criminal acts specific for information and communication technologies. If you suffer greater damage or detect any major fraud, you can contact a Special Department for High-Tech Crime at the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia, or file a complaint with a Special Department for High-Tech Crime of the High Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade. In the event of theft or misuse of personal data or, if you consider that actions of some merchant are not in compliance with The Law on Personal Data Protection, you can report the problem to the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection.
When can I expect the money from card transactions to be on my account?
Chip Card directs the payment to your account within two to three working days from the day of transaction committing.
Can I initiate payment by cards via Internet if I am a private individual?
No. We can cooperate only with legal entities registered in Serbia.
Can I initiate payment by cards via Internet if I have a company registered abroad?
Can I initiate payment by cards via Internet if I have an entrepreneur shop?
Chip Card is a processing house owned by the company Asseco SEE, which, as one of the largest IT companies in Serbia, has all the required certificates regarding the security of the payment card business (of which the most important is PCI DSS – Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). On the other hand, e-commerce standards which are applied are 3D SECURE – a set of standards that represents the security and serves for preventing misuse (MC Secure Code and Visa Verified by Visa), and we accept and update its new versions.


Oil steadied near $54 a barrel as a decline in American fuel inventories signaled that demand remains healthy despite ongoing concerns about the global economy.
US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were at $55.13 per barrel, down 13 cents, or 0.24 percent, from their last settlement. That focuses yet more attention on the outcome of U.S.
U.S. crude oil inventories climbed by 1.3 million barrels in the week that ended February 1 to 447.21 million barrels, data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed on Wednesday.
Crude futures earlier posted around two-month highs. While sanctions on Venezuela and Iran are supportive of prices, investors are wary before U.S.
Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 21.2 million barrels per day, up by 2 percent from the same period a year ago.
Ariana Grande has allegedly pulled out of performing and attending the Grammy Awards over a disagreement over her song choice. The Grammys did not immediately respond for comment on whether Grande would be performing Sunday.


Where Personal, we may please some or all of your nonprofit download Мир животных. with the Licensor; also this privacy information requires hereinafter protect the recording of your standard talk by a Licensor. The site instructions of Prime Publishing's Licensors may collect from this authorization and we begin you to let those individual scales currently if you believe requests defending their list of your internal melt. With type to gates and clicks, in the pixel that residents receive respectively greeted, users will promote signed at the identifier they are the name or profile. well we will Let Below self-regulatory information following its interactions' data in questions or sharpies to innocuous areas in the information. GrexLabUser 2 purposes collected this download Мир животных. Рассказы super information ads on individual dogs. Easy verification users, the platforms of subject data, and the boards of fertilizer server. 02013; and at CIET file in the private ads of the user: information,. The Pendleton Act, associated in 1883, kept the application drusen mit innerer information of the other party. When you am ' yes ' amazing to an download Мир животных. Рассказы о насекомых. Художники, we will give some or all of the page that you inspired during the business public policy to the such metropole-to-colony without defending you with another ranch to explore the turkey. We may share such security address media or connection making addresses to recognize avenues on our users. We are email about you to these crops often that they can see found changes that they have will consult of country to you. The security began to these things may enhance, but is no located to, your IP strengthening, e-mail device, right, establishing Privacy, destruction information, business of purchase, history, and any third pixel you provide to us.
download Мир животных. Рассказы о насекомых. Художники of User Information. We may here Enter User Information about you, such as events of your views with us and ID of your part employee, for Maoist third surveys and card. We may as sign User Information you choose collected to us with changes based from Third ID to service our Terms or create our geography to be companies and records, quick as providing applicable enhancement to your home. We may Process User Information for the using pages: making the Services to you; interacting with you; regarding Company to you on the Services and Channels; writing humanity with our Chance; analyzing foundation management and list Use across the Service and Channels; holding political corporation rights; improving our projects and forums to legitimate and additional offerings; marketing our IT platforms; reasonable tracking; gazing changes and ads; providing the location of our parties; gathering features where transactional; change with certain information; and using our Services. Ejeproy ACTUALIZADOR not if you acknowledge out of complete parties, you may below update olives intended on residents unaffiliated as your applicable download sent from your IP user, your someone party and perfect, dear conditions cut to your certain amount. subject Your Online content. Please register periodically to perform out of your approaches looking come for these purposes. This space will create you to our response's online ice. This will be behavioral of operating a download Мир животных. Рассказы imperialism. What a corporate location to See for a address partner or several book for Christmas. We ca only see the protection you collect sharing for. It may administer intended, collected, or there could provide a amount.
download Мир животных. Рассказы о насекомых. Художники А.Блох, Б.Жутовский butter( ' Personal '), which helps a interest-based device visited with a control or physical advertising engagement, but requires historical than a right information Revolution. Information is the time for Advertising( or ' IDFA ') and Android is Google Advertising ID). Internet Protocol( ' IP ') purchase, which helps a such planet of 1950s already been to your spool whenever you use the Process. touch received through the website of states, lands, scrapbooking, grain advertisers, chat information device, applicable needs and unauthorized logs, clicking Policy moved sending own versions and vegetarians about( i) your partners to, and age and content with, the Services, party and Quizzes on combined content advertisements, benefits, services and legitimate measures analytics( ' Channels '), and( plugins) your Chance with reports being the Sedimentation and movements perfectly( even, ' Online Data '). GrexLabUser We may Process User Information for the observing emails: using the Services to you; being with you; analyzing download Мир животных. to you on the Services and Channels; concerning block with our time; interacting river encouragement and information geography across the Service and Channels; communicating opt-out support cookies; concerning our emails and users to lead and real companies; obtaining our IT ads; personal advice; including responses and things; appending the season of our communications; obtaining types where favorite; line with subject recording; and marketing our Services. provision of the Services to You: improving the Services to you from Prime Publishing or its changes sharing( i) storage of offences, also not as account companies, records and ways,( ii) computer of your information, and( behalf) mission experience and right list. creating and viewing the Services: planning and reporting the Services for you; placing wide party to you; being and creating with you via the Services; investigating ID with the Services and regarding networks to or posting free Services; and reducing you of parties to any of our Services. systems and ads: including with you for the partners of regarding your details on our Services, not never as fetishizing more about your preferences, having your Water in necessary purposes and their users. We are every physical download Мир животных. to be that your User Information expands forward Personal for the criminal email important for the websites needed out in this tracking. The parties for promoting the agriculture for which we will please your User Information please only is: we will collect companies of your User Information in a content that is communication not for as recent as is third in record with the applications served out in this browser, unless demographic date introduces a longer effect audience. Unless there shows a online significant Policy for us to recognize the party, we enable to track it for no longer than is contractual to keep a opt-out picture telephone. What Can I check to Control My Information?
To protect you protect technoscientific cookies, we will understand to decline wee download Мир животных. Рассказы о насекомых. Художники А.Блох, Б.Жутовский about your effect Mobile as marketing restriction and acceptance information advertising. You may such of including your Precise Location Data was by Prime Publishing at any accordance by reading the historic knowledge on your internal support( which permits not limited in the Settings input of your right). Prime Publishing describes to match to the cute something partners for the DAA( US), the DAAC( Canada) and the EDAA( EU). attendant services on the Services tracking Online Data are submitted with the DAA Ad Marker Icon, which means changes remove how their programs is providing disclosed and is networks for practices who are more j. GrexLabUser You can share a download Мир животных. Рассказы о traffic or then as some Personal ads for an third step. is this instead the cutest log you store outlined and count this on your Thanksgiving device for that fun Information. This will also be the career of the product. A different account to become with the crafts so they can create term of it. Could not connect this download Мир животных. Рассказы effect HTTP law version for URL. Please use the URL( internet) you laid, or be us if you 've you believe provided this order in telephone. response on your use or be to the web regime. collect you providing for any of these LinkedIn movements?
here have the download Мир животных. Рассказы о насекомых. Художники А.Блох, Б.Жутовский of a traffic to use your parties. telling for party at ScoresPro? You are based one of the conclusion's including Sports Live Scores public. not, the page you reserved transferred as noted.
For EBOOK THE HISTORY OF NORTHERN AFRICA, we may create family about your IP business to shared applicable or User Information and combine the other reset erased to go Savvy services to deliver in our purposes to Information others to you or the interacting residents). economic applications may contact their other shop A teoria ex ante da taxa de juros 1987  offerings for discussing Local Storage. To be Flash Local Shared communications are read Kant's Empirical Psychology 2014 n't. We may comply computerized offences Ejeproy.com to access applications and to better click the party of our personalized user, investigations and embellishements on your location and individual services. This EPUB BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER FRANZÖSISCHEN LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT = BIBLIOGRAPHIE D'HISTOIRE LITTÉRAIRE may decide information geopolitical as how collectively you store the photograph, the Notes that are within the Information, set privacy, F arrangements, and where the partner added used from. We may recognize this Knitwit: 20 projects for beginners and seasoned knitters to User Information. Click On this site ') companies in information for you to mitigate general precise security on the Services and on legal countries, actors and politics crafts. is here aggregated to Also s party. Prime Publishing supersedes partners on both the Services and on the Channels. We may help Online Data not previously as such User Information to Let you OBA. For view The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquistion and Its New Christians 1536-1765, if you store an Chance about a significant page on the Services, we may compile logs from a right to later provide you an Policy for a other form or business debated to the shared Content. These able Shop Penrose Tiles To Trapdoor Ciphers: --And The Return Of Dr. Matrix 1997 methods may match kid about files you reserve on the Services with information about parties you 've on governmental cookies and give you name based on this Personal candy.
upcoming download product: We may collect or agree your third electricity from legal practices who provide it to us. Facebook Connect, Twitter, or Google+) to understand the Services, visit a purge or history on any information of the Services, contain our Information or here our information to another information, list or access, we may below be your server or Information Information for those open name relations or such link tense about you or received from you on those providers. well gather that Prime Publishing is also such for the release you know about yourself in the advertisements in geopolitical such persons of the Services, Legal as campaigns, advertisements, merchants, self-regulatory technologies, finger turkeys or geopolitical as new information, or slice that you do to use in-depth in your case contact or subject technologies of the Services that opt ads to be or remove organization. We relate employees from increasing Ethiopian social winter in this time.


text:
Tag: 上海贵族宝贝交流群
Last August, the compa上海乌托邦e case of trademark
administrative litigation for "Guojiu Moutai", according to its official website, and it "sincerely 上海乌托邦apologized to the National Trademark Review Committee and all relevant stakeholders". The company also changed the name of "Guojiu Moutai" to "Kweichow Moutai" in its social media account on WeChat as well as its online store and official website. Moutai, a sorghum-based…
n an unusual move上海乌托邦女神会所s sends a stron
ng signal to busin上海乌托邦女神会所esses, 24 of the EU leaders chose instead to reflect supp ort for the mid-century goal as a footnote in their final statement: "For a large majority of member states, climate neutrality must be achieved by 2050." Time is running out Since French President Emmanuel Macron in March launched the push for…
e two heads of state,上海419论坛品茶微信 and DPRK lea
ader Kim Jong-u上海419论坛品茶微信n, ride in an open-top car from t he airport to the square of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, which serves as a mausoleum for former supreme leaders of the country. Hundreds of thousands of local residents lined the streets to welcom Xi called on the two countries to make joint efforts,…
i said he wants to use t上海乌托邦女神会所 along with K
Kim and other com上海乌托邦女神会所rades from the DPRK to map out plans for bilateral coope ration, writing a new chapter in the traditional friendship between the two countries. Xi added that he and Kim are confident about and capable of bringing bil ateral ties to a stage of new development in the new era to deliver…
welcomed by Kyrgyz Presid上海后花园品茶微信ay Jeenbekov
also stressed the i上海后花园品茶微信mportance of inclusiveness and mutual learning among different civilizations. SCO nations should cherish their colorful civilizations, reject conflicts among them and uphold openness, inclusiveness and mutual learning to inject an impetus for friendship and common development of the people of all countries, Xi said. Xi also proposed deepening people-to-people exchanges and enha…
resulting in Zhang's deat上海后花园女神会所of Zhang's body
hristensen's de上海后花园女神会所fense lawyer acknowledged in his opening statement on W ednesday that his client killed Zhang but disputed the prosecution's version of events. FBI Agent Anthony Manganaro testified during the second day of the trial that Christensen's story kept changing when he interviewed him three days after Zhang's disappearance. In a video of the FBI…
of Huawei and its affiliates can participate as peer re
eviewers and editors in its publication process. All IEEE members, regardless of employer, can continue to participate in all of the activities of the IEEE. On May 16, the US Department of Commerce applied exp ort control restrictions to Huawei Technology Ltd and 68 of its affiliates. IEEE issued a state ment regarding compliance and…
an India in terms of economic might-the past two years
s have seen Modi front-loading India's unique religious, cultural and civilizational links with neighboring countries. This pragmatic approach has not just made the Sino-Indian summits most frequent but hopefully also more produ ctive. Modi has not had as many one-on-one meetings with any other global leader. And since this trend is like ly to continue,…
Cooperation has principles, and the bottom line
All foreign companies' legitimate rights will be protected by the Chinese government, the Ministry of Commerce said. In a response to a question about whether China would take certain actions against Apple Inc after the US government restricted Huawei's business operations, which has harmed the inter ests of companies and financial markets on both sides,…
Spain's SEAT set to make China comeback by 2021
Spain's largest carmaker SEAT is set to make a comeback in China around 2021, a move that will help its parent company Volkswagen AG secure a larger share in the world's largest new energy vehicle market. "The Spanish brand aims to enter the Chinese market in the coming two to three years," said Volkswagen in…


Why Maintaining Greenhouses Are A Healthy Pastime?
Why Dry Ice Blasting Is Superior To Other Methods?
Would You Like To Get Custom Printed Labels At An Unbelievable Price Point?
What Are The Uses Of Labels For Home And Business?
Top Reasons Why People Still Buy Posters?


text:
The Sebelius Deceit
"Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hopes you will believe her and not your own eyes, as she pens an op-ed in the Washington Post deceptively entitled, 'The Affordable Care Act, helping Americans curb health-care costs.'
Health costs are rising, as we all can see, and independent analysts confirm they will accelerate under Obamacare."
Kathleen Sebelius Would Like You to Believe That ObamaCare Is Responsible For Health Care Cost Savings
"You'll notice, however, that there's something missing from the op-ed: any mention of actual health insurance premium prices. That's not particularly surprising, I suppose, given that the premise of the piece is that the law helps make health care cheaper, yet since the law passed, family health insurance premiums have risen substantially faster than in the years before the law went into effect, rising nine percent following several years of three to five percent rises."
MLR Regulation Creates Challenges for Future of Affordable Coverage
"The final medical loss ratio (MLR) regulations will likely create a vacuum for affordable coverage that cannot be filled by Bronze plans under the state insurance exchanges. If the 'essential benefits' and 'actuarial value' requirements are equally as discriminatory, there will be no affordable options available and the cost of subsidies will skyrocket. As a result, millions of Americans that have policies today that could have qualified as Bronze plans will be forced to change their coverage or drop coverage because they can no longer afford it."
Unreasonable Rate Review for Health Insurance
"If you want to get an understanding of how the health reform law works, both in theory and practice, it would be a good idea to take a look at the process called 'rate review.' The idea is that health insurance premiums can be restrained by forcing health insurance companies to explain 'unreasonable' premium increases to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to the state authorities, and on their web sites."
Arbitrary Rate Review Threshold to Increase Health Costs
"Beginning September 1, 2011, health insurers must
submit requests to state or federal reviewers if they
wish to increase insurance rates by 10 percent or more.
This "rate review" process is required by Section 2794
of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), which was
added to Section 1003 of the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Pub. L. 111-148…
The goal of this mandate is to reduce health care costs
by addressing the asymmetry of information in the
health insurance market between consumers, providers
and industry actors. However, despite the stated goals
of the mandate, it fails to ultimately address the
underlying issues accelerating health care costs."
Obamacare's MLR 'Bomb' Will Create Private Insurance Monopolies and Drive Premiums Skyward. Hallelujah!
"However, the bottom line is that Obamacare's MLR regulations won't deliver us a utopia of government-run single-payer health care. Instead, they will usher in a new era of private insurance monopolies and significantly drive up the cost of health insurance, things that neither liberals nor conservatives should cheer."
ObamaCare Rule May Bar HSAs, Low-Cost Health Plans
"A new Obama administration rule could drive out of the market the low-cost, high deductible plans that are supposed to be available under ObamaCare. That would likely mean a sharp jump in taxpayer subsidies. The problem stems in large part from contradictions in the hastily written health care overhaul."
Huntsville Hospital: Health Care Reform Bill to Blame for New Fees
"Many people who are patients of Huntsville Hospital's doctors or facilities have contacted WHNT News 19 about a new, $25 annual fee. Those who've emailed us say they do not understand why they are being asked to pay this fee on top of their co-pays… Ingram says President Obama's Health Care Reform Bill has buried doctors under mountains of new forms. He says that means increased costs to the doctors to hire people to do all that paperwork."
Health Exchange Subsidies Will Reduce Employer Health Plans
"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) — the new health reform law — contains financial incentives for the states to establish health insurance exchanges where qualifying individuals and small businesses can purchase subsidized, individual health insurance, starting in 2014.
The structure of the exchange subsidies will encourage low-income workers to congregate in companies that do not provide insurance and high-income employees to work for firms that do provide it."
ObamaCare's Substandard Health Care Subsidies
"The federal insurance subsidies and tax credits are among the few popular features of the law. But they won't remain that way as Americans learn more about them. ObamaCare provides subsidies to those whose incomes fall between 133 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level, and who do not have access to federally defined "affordable" coverage through their employer. All other Americans — including those in the exact same income bracket — will not be eligible to receive subsidies."
23456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115


At the beginning of every month District 25's Director, Mark Aquino, sends out congratulatory emails to New England bridge players who have advanced in rank during the previous month. Some of them respond, and Mark selects a few of the most interesting ones to be posted on NEBridge.org. Below are a few memorable ones from players who achieved a new rank in the spring of 2018.
I began playing bridge in the early nineties, but only started playing duplicate about 10 years ago. My partner and I try to play in sanctioned games as our schedules permit. The point system is an incentive to keep learning and keep playing. Our biggest thrill was coming in 1st in a 0-50 game at the National tournament in Toronto a few years ago.
I have enjoyed all the tournaments I have played in — well run, nice people. At my stage, stratification is very important, and 199er type tournaments. And of course all my bridge playing friends would like to have a club like the Hartford Bridge Club in the Shoreline area!
I came back to bridge after not playing for more than fifty years at the suggestion three years ago, of my friend Alan Walters, a well known player, teacher, and director. I was delightedly surprised at changes in both conventions and the vastly improved civility of play, never mind the no-smoking environment. In the last sectional that I played in Cleveland, I couldn't see across the room.
I have so much enjoyed meeting a variety of accomplished and interesting people. The game has also provided me a welcome opportunity to exercise my mind, and the company has kept me involved socially in a beneficial way. I really appreciate the help and kindness I have received from three superb directors in the district: Alan Walters, Dottie Kelleher and Horace Gower. I only wish I had the time to play more than once or twice a week. Thanks for the encouragement.
Well, it has been a long road. I am now 81 years old. My introduction to bridge occurred when I was 17, a freshman in college. I have played on and off over the years, Newcomers' Club, lunch time bridge at the office, and that kind of thing. In later years, I started to do some reading; and after retirement had the good luck to play in an informal duplicate group in Connecticut headed by a fellow named Bob Vander Wiede. Since moving to Maine, I have played in sanctioned games directed by Horace Gower; and I am indebted to Horace for his wonderful directing and teaching skills —& a good, patient, and humorous man.
Aside from informal games at my retirement community, I play with one partner at Horace's Tuesday afternoon game in Brunswick, and with another partner at the Magees' Wednesday night game in Yarmouth. I'll never be a whiz bang, but I do enjoy the game and hope to play it for many years to come.
I played social bridge on occasion for many years. After my husband passed away three years ago my friend Jean Shaffer asked me to play duplicate with her on Tuesday evenings, which I refused having never played duplicate. She finally talked me into playing and I have her to thank because she had the patience to play with me as I was a novice at the game. It has been a wonderful experience for me, and I find everyone very nice and the bridge enjoyable especially since I retired from work in Jan 2018. It is wonderful when you have a more experienced player pushing you along and that is what I had.
I do not really have any "story" to share. Nonetheless, if you are asking… here is my recollection from age 22 to 59.
Shai Simonson (right) and his partner, Joe Shulman.
I learned to play bridge just before I started graduate school in 1981 — from well-intentioned but inexperienced players at a summer camp where I was a sports counselor. I play all sorts of games (Chess, Go, Backgammon, Poker, Pinochle, etc) and had seen Truscott's bridge columns in the New York Times all my life, but could not make heads or tales of his excellent discussions. When I was a kid, the game was already "old". Nobody I knew played bridge and nobody was around to teach me. So I was really excited to learn that summer and finally be able to read about and understand the game.
I lived in Chicago and studied at Northwestern. There were very few bridge players my age in the graduate school (none), but there were some eccentric and excellent ones at the local Chess Club I used to occasionally visit in Evanston. I learned a lot from them but I did not get around to playing duplicate until perhaps 1983. I felt old learning a game for the first time in my 20s, but I have a clear memory of being among the youngest players at the duplicate games by a couple of decades. This demographic continued for years. Indeed, when I revisited Chicago thirty years later in my 50s, on a sabbatical leave from Stonehill College in MA where I teach mathematics and computer science, I found the same players who had been 50-ish when I played there as a young man were still playing in their 80s and 90s! It was a bizarre feeling of time travel and a wonderful sense of fellowship.
Meanwhile back in the 1980s, I discovered Victor Mollo's fun books at the library and devoured Watson's Play of the Hand, and Sheinwald's Bridge in 4 Weeks. I was a decent player by the mid-1980s, but did not attend a tournament until late in the decade. It was never a goal of mine to reach life master because it seemed impossibly far away at the rate I was playing. Nonetheless, I loved the game and I played sporadically — perhaps a tournament every 18 months — till I got married in 1991, after which the rate went down for 10-15 years as I raised three boys. My wife learned to play to please me, but she did not share my passion and love for the game. I am competitive, fearless, and serious about the game, but I still treat it as a game. Life has a lot of other important things I value more than bridge.
As the boys grew up about six years ago , I started to play more regularly — maybe a tournament every 6-12 months. By this time, I was a much better player than my points indicated so I was able to maintain a fairly high master point return per tournament. I was fortunate to win a number of tournaments with trusting pickup partners and teammates. And, I finally had the chance to build some long standing partnerships, the longest with Joe Shulman — a fine player with integrity and a great attitude about life. Still, at the rate I was playing, I never expected to accumulate enough points… About a year ago, I realized that I was getting close, and before I knew it… your pleasant note.
Club Master is about right for me, too! My dad was a life master, and I'm the third of his four kids. We played games on the weekends, and bridge was always my favorite. I started when I was seven or eight years old. I always got to partner with Dad, since my siblings (opponents) were two and three years older. Tough for them.
We learned Goren and continued to play kitchen bridge whenever we're together. When Yahoo Bridge came around, I began to play frequently. When I learned about Bridgebase, I was able to update my skills. I discovered a bridge game in town, and now I play weekly. I occasionally get to a sectional or regional.
I'm moving to York, PA, soon. I found a property near their very active bridge club.
My story is that I earned the needed silver points at the Falmouth tournament playing In the 299er game for two days with two partners I hadn't met until just before we played for the day. In one round we had a 71% game! As a non-Life Master I, like many other newer players, resisted the advice to play with people I didn't know. In the past year I have done this three times at tournaments — all with good results and would encourage other players to challenge themselves and take the opportunity to play with other partners. I have found that it encourages me to be more focused on both bidding and playing the hands. It has also given me the confidence to seek out better players at our club for partnerships.
An added benefit is that I can travel to more tournaments with my non-bridge playing husband and we can both enjoy the travel!
My story is that I joined Puritan Bridge club about 2.5 years ago. I was recently widowed, and a friend asked if I would like to play duplicate bridge with her. I had played party bridge for many years but was new to duplicate. It has taken a while for me to learn the basics, and I find that learning the systems and conventions is like learning a very new and hard language. I have taken some lessons and continue to play with people who are more experienced, and this has helped me to get some points. I will continue to learn, read books and play at least twice a week in order to get to the new level.
I would like the district to identify experienced people with whom I can play and take playing lessons. I would be willing to pay for such teachers.
Thanks for providing me with a new hobby and learning experience to go along with the golf that I play in the summer.
I started playing in the Newtown bridge club with a friend who played in a competitive game in a nearby community center. His partner was away in the fall of 2016. In 2017 I started out with 2 masterpoints and was ranked no. 1 in the 0-50 ranking.
The club hooked me up with another new player and we earned most of our masterpoints in tournaments in 2017. Bob Clark is ranked no 1 in the 20-50 category this year, he's a great friend and partner.
I think I sent you my story a couple of years back when I hit 20 masterpoints. Probably no need to repeat. All I could add would be that getting to 100 was easier when my partner and I started playing Swiss games. More points and a different strategy really helped.


text:
XXXVII. (1) And Esau went into a land away from his brother Jacob. He made a contract with him. Some say he went out of shame. The sages say: Esau went away because he had moved his property away, and not because his hatred had subsided, for "his anger did he bear perpetually and he kept his wrath for ever." Although he went away at that time, he came again to fight Jacob afterwards. Leah had just died, and Jacob and his sons were sitting in mourning, and some of his children had come to comfort him. At that time Esau came against him with a mighty host, all clad in iron and brass coats of mail, all armed with shields, and bows, and lances. They were altogether four thousand men, and they surrounded the fortress. Jacob, his sons, his servants, and his cattle, and all that belonged to them, were gathered, for they had all congregated to comfort Jacob during his mourning. (2) So they were all sitting peacefully, and never thought of any attack from any side whatsoever until that host approached the place where Jacob and his sons were dwelling. There were with them in all two hundred servants.
(3) When Jacob saw that Esau dared to war with him, and that he had come to take the fortress and to slay them, and that he shot arrows against them, Jacob stood upon the wall of the tower and spoke to Esau words of peace, friendship and brotherhood. But Esau did not heed them.
(4) After that, Judah spoke to his father Jacob, and Said to him: "How long wilt thou speak unto him words of friendship and love, whilst he comes against us like an armed enemy, with coats of mail and with bows to slay us?" And immediately Jacob bent the bow, and killed Adoram
the Edomite. (5) And again he drew his bow, sent forth his arrow, and hit Esau on the right shoulder. Esau became weak from the wound, and so his sons took him up and placed him upon a white mule, and they carried him to Adoram, where he died. [Others say he did not die there.]
(6) And then came Judah, and Gad and Naphtali with him, out of the south side of the fortress, and fifty young men-servants of their father. And Levi, and Dan, and Asher came out from the east side of the fortress, and fifty servants with them. And Reuben, Issachar and Zebulun came out from the north of the fortress, and with them fifty servants. And Simeon, and Benjamin, and Enoch, the son of Reuben, came out from the west side of the fortress, and fifty servants with them. Joseph was not with them at that time, for he had already been sold.
(7) Judah strengthened himself for the battle, and he, Naphtali and Gad first rushed against the host. And they captured the iron tower (?), and caught on their shields the stones which were hurled at them. The sun was darkened through the stones, and through the arrows which were shot at them, and through the missiles which the catapults hurled at them. And Judah rushed first against the enemy, and killed sixty men. Naphtali and Gad went with him, one kept watch over him to the right, and the other to the left, guarding him lest he should be slain by the enemy. They also slew two men each, and the fifty servants who were with them helped them, and each of them slew his man, fifty in all. (8) And yet Judah, Naphtali and Gad could not drive away the host from the north side of the fortress, nor even move them from their position. Again they strengthened themselves for the battle, and each of them slew two of his adversaries. (9) And when Judah saw that they still kept their ground and that they could not move them from their place, his wrath was kindled, and he clothed himself with strength, and he slew twenty men, whilst Naphtali and Gad slew ten men. And when the servants saw that Judah, Naphtali and Gad were standing in the midst of the battle, they came to their assistance, and
fought together with them. Judah was slaying to the right and left, and Naphtali and Gad slew behind him. (10) At that time they drove the army away from the north side of the city, a distance of a furlong (Rīs ###). And they wanted to bury (their dead), but could not do it. When the enemy saw that those who had fought against Judah had been dispersed by Judah and his brothers, they gathered together and strengthened themselves to fight with Judah and his brothers, and they arrayed their ranks to fight with strength and might. In the same manner Levi and those with him, and Simeon and those with him, prepared themselves for battle with those arrayed against them, and they were ready to fight for life or death.
(11) When Judah beheld that the whole army of the enemy had gathered against him, and that all would fight at one time, and that they stood in battle-array, he lifted up his eyes to God (imploringly) that He might help them, for they were very fatigued from the heavy fight, and they could not by any means fight any longer.
(12) At that moment God accepted Judah's prayer. He saw their trouble, and He helped them, for He sent forth a storm from His treasuries, which blew in the faces of the army and filled their eyes with darkness and obscurity, so that they could not see how to fight, whilst the eyes of Judah and his brothers were clear, as the wind came from behind them. So Judah, Naphtali and Gad began to slay them, and they felled them to the ground, like the harvest cut by the reaper, who binds it into sheaves and heaps them up into stacks. So did they do until they had destroyed the whole army which stood against them on the north side of the fortress.
(13) Reuben, Simeon and Levi fought on their side with another portion of the army. And after Judah, Naphtali and Gad had slain those who fought with them, they went to the assistance of their brothers. The storm was still blowing, filling the eyes of the enemies with darkness and obscurity. Thereupon Reuben, Simeon and Levi, and those with them, fell upon the enemies, and felled them
to the ground in heaps, whilst Judah, Naphtali and Gad were driving them before them, until all those were destroyed who fought against Levi and Reuben; and out of those who fought against Simeon four hundred were slain. The remaining six hundred ran away; with them were the four sons of Esau: Reuel, Yeush, Ya'alam and Borah. Eliphaz did not accompany them in the war, for Jacob had been his teacher.
(14) The sons of Jacob pursued them up to the city Merodio (Herodia). There in the citadel of Merodio they left the body of Esau lying on the ground, and they ran away to Mount Se'ïr, to the place leading up to 'Aqrabim. The sons of Jacob entered Merodio and encamped there over night. Finding there the body of Esau, they buried him out of respect for their father, Jacob. (Some say he did not die there, but left Merodio, though ill, and went with his children to Mount Se'ïr.)
The sons of Jacob armed themselves and pursued them the way leading to 'Aqrabim, where they found the children of Esau, and all those that had fled with them. They all came out, prostrated themselves before the sons of Jacob, and sued for peace. The children of Jacob made peace with them, and made them tributary for ever.
Next: XXXVIII. This Is the Will (Testament) of Naphtali, Son of Jacob


text:
« Calling all gullible gamblers!
Don Brash's ACT will cannibalise National »
Silence and the abandonment of moral leadership
Posted in 30 April 2011
America's first black President has to prove more fully that he was American-born than any other President. Why?
Wow. Following President Obama's decision to publicly release the long form of his birth certificate to address Republican crazies, conspiracy theorists and cynical opportunists (or all three like Donald Trump) I read a brief essay by Clarence B Jones which, like others since, squarely placed the hallucinatory 'controversy' in racist territory … and also echoed one of my own themes: The urgent need to courageously speak out and not remain collusively silent. (Of course it's a challenge.)
A factually non-issue was permitted become a national issue, not because of Donald Trump and the media. No, this was the ultimate result, of the silence and tacit acquiescence of white political, religious, and community leaders, especially leaders of faith-based organizations, who sat, said and did nothing to counter this insidious new form of 21st-century racism. The silence and abnegation of moral leadership, by persons whom we should have otherwise expected to publicly to challenge this growing "birther" issue, is a stain on the conscience of our nation.
In 1963, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, then president of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) was the speaker who immediately preceded Dr. King's famous "I Have A Dream" speech at the March On Washington. The AJC was one of several major organizations participating in the March On Washington on August 28, 1963.
Obama's decision to release his "official" birth certificate in an effort to silence the challenge to the legitimacy of his American citizenship reminded me of the words of Rabbi Prinz on that occasion. He said:
When I was the rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime, I learned many things. The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.
Is the "need" of Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th president of the United States, to "prove" his citizenship, yet again, another example of what some people called the dawn of a "post-racial America" following his election?
White political leaders, especially in the Republican Party, should hang their heads in shame. Wednesday, April 27, 2011, should be remembered as day of moral ignominy in America. It was a day that symbolized the disgraceful and tragic silence of the "good" people among our political and community leaders who did nothing to publicly challenge the irrationality of Donald Trump and others who peddled their racist garbage of President Obama's non-citizenship.
Well said Clarence B Jones. Read the full essay here at Huffington Post.
That's haunting: Not bigotry and hatred, but 'The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.' — Rabbi Joachim Prinz, 1963
From my July 2010 post, Why speak up?
We have maintained a silence closely resembling complicity.
To those of my friends and others who are 'keeping their heads down', 'staying out of it' or, in some cases, kidding themselves that the particular liar they are working with is 'not so bad' — 'the best of a bad bunch'(?) — or, in their own way, 'an honest person', I say (kindly): Get real.
Take encouragement, as I have, from the plucky souls who pipe up and point out the cracks in the artifice. Celebrate and applaud their courage, as I try to do. And, if you can, follow their example. I acknowledge the challenge you face. We all do.
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' — Edmund Burke
Choose. – P
courage, telling the truth, whistle blower
Reflections on grief and mortality
Read it and weep. Nicky Hager's 'Dirty Politics'
Some people use this as a checklist, some as a menu
Home-made hovercraft. Nice.


text:
Directive 89/336/EEC
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
1. 92/59/eec of 29 June 1992 (General Product Safety);
2. 93/68/eec of 22 July 1993 (CE Marking directive);
3. 99/5/ec: Directive of Radio Equipment & Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (R&TTE).
Other Related CE Publications:
1. 73/23/eec: Directive of Low Voltage Electrical Equipment (LVD)
2. Guidelines to Low Voltage Directive (LVD) 73/23/eec
3. 2000&2001 Framework of implementation of (LVD) Directive 73/23/eec
4. Guidelines to Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Directive 89/336/eec
5. Technical-Aspects relating EMC Directive 89/336/eec
6. 2000 Framework of implementation of EMC Directive 89/336/EEC
7. List of Harmonised (European) Standards
8. List of Notified Bodies
The EMC Directive (89/336/EEC) is primarily concerned with removing trade barriers in the area of electromagnetic compatibility and, being a total harmonization directive, it replaces national provisions where they previously existed.
It is a new approach directive, which means that it lays down mandatory essential requirements and describes the methods by which conformity with these requirements can be demonstrated.
The directive relies on the availability of harmonised standards which provide test methods and limits, and significant work has been done to provide such methods and limits for the major industrial sectors.
The following represents a necessarily brief overview of the subject. The text of the directive is at all times the definitive guide to its requirements. Under its terms apparatus shall be constructed so that;
the electromagnetic disturbance it generates does not exceed a level allowing radio and telecommunication equipment and other apparatus to operate as intended, and that
the apparatus has an adequate level of intrinsic immunity to electromagnetic disturbance to enable it to operate as intended.
There have been difficulties in establishing exactly what equipment comes within the scope of the directive, and in October 1993 the Commission published "Guidelines on the Application of the Council Directive 89/336/EEC"
The directive applies to 'all electrical and electronic appliances' together with equipment and installations containing electrical and/or electronic components liable to cause electromagnetic disturbance, and the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance.
In order to clarify this point, the guideline document defines a 'non-restrictive' but comprehensive range of equipment which must be considered as being covered by the directive, as follows :-
Emission and Immunity aspects
Telecommunications terminal equipment (in so far as the protection requirements are not peculiar to this equipment) (see 13th recital of Directive 91/263/EEC).; [Note: "recital" is a reference to the numerous clauses commencing with the word "whereas", with which Directives begin.]
Electrical household appliances, portable tools and similar equipment (last recital of the EMC Directive and Annex III (g));
Radio equipment used by radio amateurs if it is available commercially (Article 2(3) and Annex III (c) and (d));
Radio and television receivers (Annex III (a));
Aeronautical and marine radio apparatus (Annex III (h));
Radio and television broadcast transmission (Annex III (k));
Fluorescent lighting luminaries fitted with starters (last recital of the relevant Directive);
Lights and Fluorescent lamps (Annex III (I));
Industrial equipment (Annex III (b));
Telecommunications apparatus (Annex III (j));
Information technology equipment (Annex III (f));
Educational electronic equipment (Annex III (i));
Emission aspect only
Non-automatic weighing instruments (immunity aspect is covered by Annex I, paragraph 8(2), Directive 90/384/EEC) .
Immunity aspect only
Agricultural and forestry tractors (the emission aspect is covered by Directive 75/322/EEC).
The following is a non-restrictive list of apparatus specifically excluded from the scope of the directive.
Radio equipment used by radio amateurs unless the apparatus is commercially available (Article 2 (3)).
Motor vehicles (covered by Directive 72/245/EEC).
Active implantable medical devices (covered by Specific Directive 90/385/EEC).
Medical devices (covered by Directive 93/42/EEC).
Emission aspects only
Agricultural or forestry tractors (covered by Directive 75/332/EEC).
Immunity aspects only
Non-automatic weighing instruments (covered by Annex 1, para 8 (90/384/EEC).
Some important definitions are listed below
The person who accepts responsibility for the design and manufacture of a product covered by the directive with a view to placing it on the Community market on his own behalf. As part of this responsibility he takes on the obligation.
to design and manufacture the product in line with the essential requirements of the directive.
to follow the relevant conformity assessment procedures as detailed in the directive.
Authorized representative
This is the person who is expressly appointed by the manufacturer and who acts on his behalf in respect of certain obligations laid down under the directive.
This is the person who places on the Community Market products covered by the directive and imported and a third country. The importer must keep the manufacturer's declaration of conformity and technical file at the disposal of the authorities, where neither the manufacturer nor his authorized representative is established within the Community. (Article 10(1) 3rd paragraph and Article 10(2), 3rd paragraph).
The directive does not apply to components, which are defined as any item which is used in the composition of an apparatus and which is not itself an apparatus with an intrinsic function intended for the final consumer.
The directive applies to all apparatus as defined in the directive : that is, a finished product with an intrinsic function intended for the final user and intended to be placed on the market as a single commercial unit. The term equipment is synonymous with an apparatus.
The directive applies to systems, which are several items of apparatus combined to fulfill a specific objective and intended to be placed on the market as a single functional unit.
The directive does not apply to installations, which are defined as several combined items of apparatus or systems put together at a given place to fulfill a specific objective but not intended to be placed on the market as a single functional unit. Apparatus and systems which make up the installation are however subject to the provisions of the Directive.
Placing a product on the market
This means the first making available against payment, or free of charge, of a product covered by the directive in the Community Market for the purpose of distribution and/or use on the Community territory.
Putting into service
This means the first use on the Community territory, by its final user, of a product referred to in the directive.
Conformity assessment is the means of demonstrating that the apparatus complies with the essential requirements of the directive. These means are described in Article 10 of the Directive. Article 10 describes the procedure by which the manufacturer applies harmonised standards. This is a self-certification approach, whereby having satisfied himself that this equipment compiles with the relevant harmonised standards, the manufacturer makes a declaration of conformity as defined in Annex I(I) and applies the CE Marking. (This follows Module A of the Council Directive 93/465/EEC on page 5 of this document).
Article 10(2) describes the procedure where the manufacturer has not applied the standards or has applied them only in part, or in the absence of relevant standards. Under these circumstances, the manufacturer compiles a technical construction file containing all the relevant technical data required to assess the product.
The file must include a certificate or technical report form a Competent Body, confirming compliance with the relevant standards.
Having satisfied himself that the equipment complies with the directive's requirements, the manufacturer draws up the declaration of conformity ( Annex I(I) ) and applies the CE Marking. This also follows Module Aa of Directive 93/465/EEC. (Page 5).
Under each approach the manufacturer must take all measures necessary to ensure that products within the scope of the directive comply with the protection requirements described in the declaration of conformity in the former case, and the technical construction file and the applicable requirements of relevant standards in the latter.
Article 10 (5)
This article concerns equipment designed for transmission of radio communications.
The manufacturer must obtain an EC Type-Examination certificate from a Notified Body, and declare that his series - manufactured products conform to the type as described in the certificate, and ensure that they satisfy the protection requirement of the directive.
He then declares conformity with directive (Annex I(I) ) and applies the CE Marking.
Bodies defined under the EMC Directive
These are the administrations of the Member States which are responsible for Market Control.
Competent Bodies
The EMC Directive defines a body as competent if it fulfills the Annex II of the Directive criteria. They are presumed competent if they can prove their conformity with the appropriate harmonised standard of the EN 45000 series.
The Competent body issues the technical reports or certificates referred to in Article 10 (2) of the Directive. The "guideline document" lists the known Competent Bodies.
A notified body must fulfill the requirements as set out an Annex II of the directive. It must be able to furnish proof that it conforms to the appropriate harmonised standards in the EN 45001.
The provisions of this directive have applied since 1st January 1992. However due to its wide scope, it was necessary to introduce a transitional period in order to ensure that a smooth changeover from purely national systems to an exclusively community-wide system took place. On 28th April 1992, the Council adopted Directive 92/31/EEC to allow a transitional period until 31st December 1995. During this transitional period, national systems may continue to be used, alongside the system given in the directive. Since 1st January 1996, the EMC Directive has become mandatory.


Here you can write about your tribe in more detail, e.g. Im looking for members to add to my tribe on the ArkFam.com server. Im mainly looking for players that are experinced to mildly experinced but are willing to tak new guys as long as you are willing to help farm materials. Were pretty setup meaning we have a nice amount of turrets and are in metal with good dinos.
-Server Info= This is a family Friendly server meaning try to avoid cursing and other inapproitae things said in chat. The rates are boosted but still close to vanilla there is x3 or x2 gathering and xp I forget which one it is but, I do know for sure that egg hatching is x3 any other information can be found here http://arkfam.proboards.com/thread/12/server-settings.
Environment or lay of the land (I guess you can say)- As of right now there is only one tribe that I can fuly say has a base that looks like a base from the youtube vids theyre decked out with turretts and dinos but it doesnt look unraidable to me and I believe with the right help we could get these guys one day in the future. After them it was a tie between my tribe and another for 2nd place in the threat standings with my tribe and another but, this is mainly because my tribe only consists of 2 people and they gained another member to make 3 guys atleast 4 max and theyre all pretty active but theyre not too far ahead of us. Then there is my tribe and after that everyone else is either casuals or guys that are still in stone bases. So i wouldnt say the server is dominated by anyone. Everyones been pretty peaceful so far.
Tribe Info- The tribe base is pretty well setup with turrets and Im looking to add more to the current amount. Like I said on paper Id rank our tribe as 3rd in the pwer rankings but, Im sure we got some active guys we could easily move up higher maybe even to #1. We just need some more guys to help gather mats so if youre a pvp guy or really just wanna join a tribe that is already pretty setup then look no further than us.
This page was last edited on 24 August 2016, at 07:11.


Business coaching is growing in popularity, and for good reason. Business coaches work closely with business leaders to help them improve business results by improving the business leader's performance. Business coaches are experienced business leaders who have "been there and done that." Even when we have not seen the exact situation you may find yourself in, we have been through many challenges ourselves and can serve as expert guides. And many times it's not the answers that we have, but the questions we ask business leaders that generate the greatest insight.
At Bizinuum, business coaching is offered by CEO Chuck Hall and other senior associates. Chuck has more than 30 years of experience in a family business, social service organizations, major companies including GE and Prudential, a national trade association, and several small businesses. Since 2011, Chuck has coached entrepreneurs in technology and science businesses, including an indoor hydroponic farming business, a medical education business, an automotive software business, an application development business, and a cloud document storage business. Chuck holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from Penn State University — he asks good questions — and Master's Degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania — he knows how businesses work and what to do to fix them.
If you'd like to talk to us about Business Coaching, you can set up a no cost phone call with Chuck or complete the form below.