[protest-ro] Jonathan Scheele va da explicatii si pentru Afacerea YPS
http://www.gazetadebucuresti.ro/fullnews.php?ID=1609 Dezvãluiri ºocante despre afacerile cu fonduri comunitare europene (1) Jonathan Scheele va da explicaþii ºi pentru Afacerea YPS GAZETA DE BUCUREªTI continuã sã facã luminã în tenebrele marilor afaceri cu fonduri europene, aºa cum a promis încã de la primul sãu numãr apãrut la începutul lunii decembrie 2005. Articolul publicat atunci se intitula YPS schema româneascã de irosire a fondurilor europene ºi încerca sã determine autoritãþile române ºi oficialii europeni sã stopeze irosirea multor milioane de euro alocate din bugetul guvernamental ºi din fondurile Uniunii Europene. Programele monitorizate de Gazeta de Bucureºti produc pe bandã rulantã manageri publici, funcþionari publici cu statut special antrenaþi în cadrul a douã programe pentru a moderniza administraþia publicã româneascã. Bursa specialã Guvernul României ºi Programul YPS au consumat deja circa 12 milioane de euro. Articolul integral este postat la http://www.gazetadebucuresti.ro/fullnews.php?ID=1609 Bogdan Draghici www.draghici.ro Sageata Albastra e cea mai mare tzeapa a transportului public! Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protest-ro/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protest-ro/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[protest-ro] Secrets of the digital detectives
http://www.economist.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=7904281CFID=94420119CFTOKEN=2d8d605-6da28685-d61d-454d-8214-602a644bce5b Computing: How fraud-detection systems combine dozens of clues to spot suspicious patterns in mountains of transactions THE pleasure of reading a classic detective story comes from the way that the sleuth puts together several clues to arrive at a surprising conclusion. What is enjoyable is not so much finding out who the villain is, but hearing the detectives explain their reasoning. Today, not all detectives are human. At insurance companies, banks and telecoms firms, fraud-detection software is used to comb through millions of transactions, looking for patterns and spotting fraudulent activity far more quickly and accurately than any human could. But like human detectives, these software sleuths follow logical rules and combine disparate pieces of data-and there is something curiously fascinating about the way they work. Consider car insurance. Every Monday morning, telephone operators at insurance firms listen to stories of the weekend's motoring mishaps, typing the answers to several dozen standard questions into their computers. Once, each claim form then passed to a loss adjuster for approval; now software is increasingly used instead. The Monday-morning insurance claims, it turns out, are slightly more likely to be fraudulent than Tuesday claims, since weekends make it easier for policyholders who stage accidents to assemble friends as false witnesses. A single rule like that is straightforward enough for a human loss adjuster to take into account. But fraud-detection software can consider dozens of other variables, too. If a claimant was nearly injured (because of an impact near the driver's seat, for example), the accident is less likely to have been staged and the claim less likely to be fraudulent, even if it is being filed on a Monday. Drivers of cars with low resale values are proportionately more likely to file fraudulent claims. But that factor is less important if the claimant also owns a luxury car, which suggests affluence. And if the insurance on the luxury car has expired, the likelihood of foul play drops further, since this increases the likelihood a person will drive a cheaper but properly insured car. And so on. The staggering number of combinations, each an indication of fraud or legitimacy, underscores the limitations of human analysis. Fraud-detection software, however, can evaluate a vast number of permutations and deliver a fraud-probability score. And such programs are getting better as new claims provide extra statistics that can help tune the computational recipes, or algorithms, used to detect fraud. German insurers, for example, recently noticed that claimants who call back shortly after filing, angrily demanding speedy settlement, are disproportionately more likely to be cheaters, says Jörg Schiller, an insurance expert at the Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, Germany. Evidently fraudsters consider themselves good actors. But when pugnacious policyholders call after the 20th of the month, the probability that they are acting decreases slightly, since funds from the previous month's paycheque may be dwindling. Mr Schiller says most car insurers in rich countries now use fraud-detection software, and those in developing countries are adopting it rapidly. Play your cards right With an estimated $250m in annual sales, and yearly growth topping 25%, the largest and fastest-growing category of fraud-detection software is that used to spot fraudulent credit-card transactions. According to the Association for Payment Clearing Services, based in London, such software is largely responsible for reducing losses from credit-card fraud in Britain alone from £505m ($925m) in 2004 to £439m ($799m) in 2005. Merchants implementing anti-fraud software for the first time commonly see losses from fraud reduced by half. Such software evaluates many parameters associated with each credit-card transaction, including specific details of the items being purchased (derived from their bar codes), to evaluate the likelihood of foul play in the form of a numerical risk score. Any transactions that score above a certain pre-defined threshold are then denied or challenged. Buying petrol seems innocent enough. If no attendant is present, however, the risk score goes up, because fraudsters prefer to avoid face-to-face purchases. Buying a diamond ring soon after buying petrol results in an even higher risk score: thieves often test a card's validity with a small purchase before buying something much bigger. A $100 purchase at a shop that sells hard liquor is more likely to be fraudulent than a more expensive shopping spree at a wine shop, because whisky is easier to fence. A purchase of sports shoes is risky because trainers appeal to a demographic with less money than, say, buyers of golf clubs.
[protest-ro] Comunicat de pres�, Asociatia Transilvania Verde
25 septembrie 2006, Cluj-Napoca Asociatia Transilvania Verde a înaintat o contestatie Ministerului Mediului ºi a Gorpodãririi Apelor, în care solicitã investigarea procedurii de emitere al acordului de mediu pentru exploatarea sienitelor din Ditrãu, respectiv respingerea emiterii acordului. Asociatia Transilvania Verde aduce obiectii datoritã restrictionãrii accesului publicului la studiul de evaluare a impactului, respectiv datoritã insuficientei informãrii factorilor interesati Detalii: http://www.greentransylvania.ro/home.php?lang=rokozep=1id=148m=1 www.greentransylvania.ro Portalul verde al Transilvaniei - Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Sageata Albastra e cea mai mare tzeapa a transportului public! Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protest-ro/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protest-ro/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[protest-ro] Din nou parcul Bordei, pe site la MCC
Daca intelege cineva ceva din asta, poate explica - eu nu mai inteleg nimic! ? Codruta Scrisoare adresata de Adrian IORGULESCU, Ministrul Culturii si Cultelor, domnului Adriean VIDEANU, Primarul General al Capitalei, si domnului Andrei Ioan CHILIMAN, Primarul sectorului 1 Bucuresti http://www.cultura.ro/News.aspx?ID=881 Biroul de presa al Ministerului Culturii si Cultelor va aduce la cunostinta ca domnul Adrian Iorgulescu, ministrul culturii si cultelor, i-a trimis azi, 26 septembrie 2006, domnului Adriean Videanu, Primar General al Capitaleri, si domnului Andrei Ioan Chiliman, Primarul Sectorului 1 Bucuresti, urmatoarea scrisoare: CABINET MINISTRU Domnului Primar General Adriean VIDEANU, În atentia: Domnului Andrei CHILIMAN, Primarul Sectorului 1 Domnule Primar General Adriean VIDEANU, În legatura cu avizul Ministerului Culturii si Cultelor nr. 164 - M/04.07.2006 privind Studiul istoric de fundamentare, delimitare a zonei de protectie a monumentelor istorice si regulamentul acesteia, aferente Planului Urbanistic Zonal Bd. Mircea Eliade- str. Turgheniev, sect. 1, Bucuresti, va informam: 1.. Ca urmare a primirii contestatiei mentionate, am constatat ca Avizul a fost emis cu depasirea competentelor materiale ale Comisiei Nationale a Monumentelor Istorice si am solicitat acesteia solutionarea contestatiei. 2.. Legea 422/2001 privind protejarea monumentelor istorice a fost modificata, cel mai recent, prin Legea nr. 259/2006, astfel încât Ministerul Culturii si Cultelor a elaborat un nou Regulament de organizare si functionare a Comisiei Nationale a Monumentelor Istorice. Întrucât contestatia formulata de Primaria Sectorului 1, în legatura cu Avizul mentionat nu a putut fi, pâna la aceasta data, solutionata tocmai din cauza modificarilor legislatiei în domeniul monumentelor istorice si a declansarii procedurii de numire a unei noi Comisii Nationale a Monumentelor Istorice, în prima sedinta a noii Comisii Nationale a Monumentelor Istorice se va discuta contestatia depusa. 3.. De îndata ce Comisia Nationala a Monumentelor Istorice va decide cu privire la obiectul contestatiei, va vom înainta punctul de vedere al acestui organism. 4.. Având în vedere cele de mai sus, apreciem ca, pâna la solutionarea definitiva a contestatiei, este necesar ca procedura de elaborare a altor documentatii urbanistice în legatura cu obiectul Avizului sa ramâna în asteptare, situatie pe care va rugam a o lua în considerare. Adrian IORGULESCU Ministrul Culturii si Cultelor -- Let me know, that at least, she will try Then she'll be a true love of mine www.arin.ro [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Sageata Albastra e cea mai mare tzeapa a transportului public! Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protest-ro/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/protest-ro/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[protest-ro] Popular resistance from Caracas to Cairo
Popular resistance from Caracas to Cairo The struggle for justice and prosperity in the Arab world and everywhere depends upon popular resistance to US imperialism and its local clients. By George Galloway http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14996.htm 09/17/06 Al-Ahram -- -- Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! reads the eponymous statue's inscription in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias. But it is the boastful tyrant's monument, not the self-confidence of his enemies, that lies splintered in the sands. Five years on from the atrocities of 11 September 2001, George W Bush and the neo- conservatives have managed to turn much of Afghanistan and Iraq into desolation, full of now lifeless things. Amid this carnage lies another, unlamented casualty -- the colossal wreck of US and British foreign policy. The authors of that wreckage cannot conceivably claim they were not warned of the calamities they would unleash. Millions of us told them what would happen if they seized on the events of five years ago to launch what the Pentagon now calls the long war. Four days after the attacks in New York and Washington I spoke in a sitting of the recalled British parliament. I warned that if the US and its allies mishandled the response, they would create a thousand, ten thousand Bin Ladens. Five years on, is that not what's hapened? Many tens of thousands of people -- mostly women and children -- have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do the ultimate perpetrators of the killings, as they sit behind their mahogany desks in the White House and Downing Street, imagine that the rest of us have not noticed how they do not deem those Arab and Muslim dead worthy of the same grief as attends their own? Do they think we have not noticed how they refuse even to count the number killed in Iraq? Did they believe that the pornographic images of Abu Ghraib would be discounted? Did George Bush and Tony Blair delude themselves into thinking they could whet the knife that Israel plunged into Lebanon without being seen as accomplices to war crimes? Blair certainly gave every appearance of having lost all contact with reality when he flew to Tel Aviv last weekend. With his own MPs plotting to oust him for damaging their re-election prospects, he went to occupied Jerusalem and threw his arms around Ehud Olmert, whose war in Lebanon the vast majority of people in Britain opposed. As for Bush, he has always struggled even to give the impression of having a connection with reality. Nevertheless, the reality of the last five years stubbornly remains. The world is not a safer place; it is more violent, more dangerous. There are more, not fewer, jihadists of the Bin Laden stripe. The bitterness in the Arab and Muslim world is deeper, broader and more incendiary. In Afghanistan, Blair, oblivious to his nation's history of military catastrophe in that proud country, has hurled his soldiers into the most unforgiving terrain, against a ferocious and growing military resistance, in a part of the world that even Alexander the Great could not occupy. In Iraq, the occupiers have spilt enough blood to turn the two great rivers red. In order to cling on they foment sectarian and confessional strife which, and this may be their parting gift, threatens tragically to trisect the country. Can they with a straight face claim Iraq is better off now than it was before the invasion? Remember what they said their war would achieve: freedom and democracy, respect for women, prosperity and dignity. In truth, it was the freedom of US corporate culture, the democracy of the dollar and an Arab world ruled by corrupt kings and puppet presidents just as pliant but a little less gauche, able to rig an election as the Bush's do in Florida rather than tactlessly incarcerating the opposition. Even these, their own selfish ambitions, have not been achieved. That increasingly stands out as the most salient feature of the reality they have created over the last half- decade. Nowhere symbolises it more than Lebanon. In March of last year the US State Department and British Foreign Office were incongruously playing the role of revolutionary pamphleteer. The Cedar Revolution in Lebanon was, we were assured, about to usher an irresistible movement for a New Middle East. Fifteen months later and we know what that looks like: the Israeli army pledging to bomb Lebanon back two decades and embarking on an invasion whose success was predicated on reigniting the flames of civil war which the people of Lebanon have done so much to douse. The war this summer was not merely another episode in the bloody history of Israel lashing out at bordering states. It was a battle in Washington's wider war on terror. It was a front that opened up, ironically, precisely because the US is mired and losing on the Iraq front. The assault on Lebanon was meant to pave the way to further aggression
