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As you might know, Wallace helped build the Griz into a Western Conference force. But you might also know the team has a new owner in Robert Pera, who hired Jason Levien as the CEO. Pera and Levien decided to can coach Lionel Hollins. Wallace's role also appears to be marginalized.
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I didn't like it at first either. It does take some getting used to, but I can work with it just fine now. It is designed to be intuitive for the user, and after a bit of use I realized the changes are not as bad as I initially thought. I reacted much the same way as most in the beginning. It wasn't initially intuitive to me either after more than a decade working with Office products. If you give the interface a chance it will grow on you. To stay on topic...
The ribbon interface is here to stay I'm afraid. Even the upcoming Mac version of Office is supposed to switch to the ribbon. That's the interface you'll have to get used to going forward, like it or not.
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Dan Heath in today's Reading - "Want Your Organization to Change? Put Feelings First" - points out that typically when we want people to change, we try to teach them something. Sounds good, right? WRONG! According to Heath and John Kotter, knowledge rarely leads to change.
Heath observes that we know that obesity causes significant health problems but people don't generally eat better. Similarly, we know that texting while driving causes accidents, but that knowledge doesn't change behavior. And, we know that the warnings on cigarette packs - US: "Cigarettes release carbon monoxide" and Italy: Smoking kills" - don't seem to make a difference either.
So, it should not surprise us that knowledge alone doesn't lead to organizational change. John Kotter says most people see change as happening in three stages: First, you analyze the situation, then you arrive at a solution, and finally you change. And, not much happens! In Kotter's experience, it is still a three stage-process: "People SEE something that makes them FEEL something that gives them the fire to CHANGE. SEE-FEEL-CHANGE.
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What more could be said about the necessity for a transportation authorization bill? Nothing? We all understand it is vital, right? OK, good. Maybe it's more important to discuss what is actually going on and what some industry insiders talk about off the record.
First, Congress is currently working under a March 31 deadline to get an authorization bill done or risk the further slowing down or stoppage altogether of more than 100,000 transportation construction projects around the nation. Yesterday, the Senate roundly rejected Republican-backed attempts to extend the Keystone XL oil pipeline, delay tougher air pollution standards for industrial boilers and expand offshore oil drilling, as part of the House's authorization proposal.
The House's proposal from the start has been a complete sham. First, Republicans are painting it as their way to create jobs and get the nation's economy rolling again. This attempt was already made by President Barack Obama in both his American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and in his own transportation plan, which started out as a $556 billion package but has now shrunk significantly. Both of these proposals were roundly criticized by Republicans.
It doesn't take a fool to realize that the House proposal is less about maintaining or growing jobs and investing in all forms of transportation, and actually, more about some Republicans attempting to sneak in issues like extending the Keystone XL pipeline, which they have now been trying to do for years. In fact, yesterday it was reported that U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) held a private meeting urging Republicans to get on board with his proposal, which he has not been able to garner enough support for. If there isn't support why is Boehner pushing so hard?
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text: Tom Bechman Archives Email Author Crop Yields All Over the Map Figuring out Indiana yields like playing pin the tail on the donkey. Published on: Sep 28, 2011 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print From reports coming in from the field, even though it's early, trying to pinpoint Indiana yields, especially on corn, is like trying to pin the tail on the donkey blind-folded in the age-old party game. The goal may be to put the tail on the rear of the donkey, but apparently most will be way off once they pin the tail and open their eyes. Very few will have the tail, and their yields, where they want them this year. Here are some anecdotal reports form reliable sources that set the table for a less than stellar harvest. Soybeans may not be affected as much, but they're obviously still affected. One farmer in central Indiana says out of his first 400 acres of dryland corn, with gravel at three feet, his best yield for corn was 40 bushels per acre The same farmer harvested 85 bushels four years ago in a field that made 40 this year and thought 85 bushels was bad, in good years with rain, he's harvested up to 180 bushels per acre. A farmer north of Indianapolis typically harvests 170 to 190 bushel per acre corn. He says it till be pushing it for his county to average 120 bushels per acre, well below trend yield. Corn yields are highly variable. One farmer says he's seeing nearly 100 bushel per acre differences within the same row from one part of the field to the other. It's all tied to soil type, with lower ground yielding more than higher ground, unless it didn't get flooded in early June. A farmer who plants soybeans in March said his first field of March beans made 49 bushels per acre. His next two yielded 27 and 32. A neighbor of the above farmer has harvested soybeans at both 22 bushels per acre and 51 bushels per acre so far this year. One farmer found he couldn't shell 31% corn to meet an early delivery program because the combine ground it up too much. He has harvested similar moistures before with little problems. He wonders if it is because the corn died prematurely. A field of irrigated seed corn made 11 bushels per acre- bad pollination nick. Two other irrigated seed fields averaged just over 30 bushels per acre. That's low to average for seed yield, but is a blessing compared to a harvest of 11 bushels per acre. The eastern half of Indiana remains a mystery. Some say the late-planted corn there is decent, others say it's not. It sounds like a hot-and-miss situation. Actual yield reports have not come in yet. Yields in western Illinois are better than expected. One farmer's first field went 137 bushels per acre, a disappointment for him on his soils. Now he's into 150 to 180 bushel per acre corn. Yields in central Illinois are around 120 bushels per acre and up, but about 60 bushels per acre off pace vs. normal for those areas. It's what's in the middle of the field that counts- not what's on the outside rows. Higher temperatures have led to barren stalks and shorter ears in the inner parts of the field. Soybean reports from areas which receive more timely rains have yet to come in. Reports of corn diseases are beginning to filter in. Some are ear rots. Goss's wilt is spilling the border from Illinois. Have you harvested yet? If you have, tell us your yield so we can share them and help everyone get a better pcituere of ields across Indiana and the country. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Posted: 2012-10-04
Football practice went exactly like this. There are some of you that can relate.
The next morning I boarded the bus and found my seat in the back right corner. In a few stops, my new girlfriend, Katie Schultz would be boarding. It made getting up early to catch the bus worthwhile. Even though I only met her a few days before, I had taken an immediate shine to her. She would have been called nerdy if that word had been invented yet. She was bookish. Brown hair, blue eyes, always loaded down with books, she lit up the world when she smiled and she smiled a lot. She had only worn simple dresses the few days I'd known her. If I had to call her something, I'd call her simple country pretty. What I felt lucky to call her was my girlfriend.
Katie mounted the bus stairs when we rolled to a stop at the end of her lane. At least I thought it was Katie. The girl that locked eyes with me when she made her way to the back of the bus was no simply country girl. Sometime during the night, my pretty caterpillar had become a beautiful butterfly.
"Do I look that bad?" she asked when she got to our seat.
"Uh uh." I shook my head slowly. Then I realized my mouth was open. She stood there staring at me. I wondered why she didn't just sit down already.
"Ahem," she pretended to clear her throat. I didn't move. Then she pushed my shin with her thigh and I realized was waiting for me to move my leg so she could sit next to me. I was so stunned by her looks I didn't realize I was still sitting halfway across the seat, taking up the space she wanted to occupy. I moved my leg. Instead of bangs hanging down to her eyebrows and curls dangling around her ears, she wore her long brown hair back in a single pony tail. Instead of a plain country dress, she has on a plaid white skirt with blues and greens. She wore a white high neck blouse with short poofy sleeves and a tight pink sweater over the top. What I hadn't notice before was how developed she was. Pushing her sweater to points were two of the nicest young breasts a young man can ever envision. I wasn't sure, but I think she was even wearing makeup, just a little, that brought a little more color to her lips and to her cheeks. My cute, bookish, country girl nerd was gone. A fresh-faced young woman had taken the seat with me.
"Wow. You look great!" I finally gushed. She blushed a little deeper.
"Do you really like it? It's something new. I did it for you, so you wouldn't change your mind."
"Change my mind? About being your boyfriend? Not hardly. You are the prettiest girl in Lancaster County. The whole danged state. And you are mine!" I couldn't help it, I just threw my face towards hers and kissed her right on the lips. The giggles from the other bus seats reminded me that we weren't alone and that we were being observed by the other kids on the bus. I thought she might slap me for being fresh, but she just grabbed my upper arm and snuggled up against me.
Only three days into school and already I had a routine. I added a couple of new wrinkles, walking Katie to class and then dashing off to beat the tardy bell in mine. At lunch, I wasn't sure if I could ask Katie to join me at the senior table, but I steered her over there anyway. Jack Baldwin just gave Katie a serious look up and down and then smiled at me and winked. She was approved. I could hear kids all around us whispering and once in a while I caught them pointing. I looked at Jack, with a "what gives" glance.
"They never saw a Legend the day after he was born before, Pauly-boy. What did you think would happen when you became the first freshman to play varsity football in the history of Centerville High?" He punched me in the shoulder to let me know not to take it too seriously. I looked down the table at some of the lettermen who were giving me the death stare.
"What about them?" I said with a tilt of my head in their direction. "They look plenty mad."
"Don't worry about them," warned Harold Handell, the leading tackler on the Warrior Defense. "Worry about ME. We are gonna find out if you are a stud or a dud at 3:30 this afternoon. Don't expect me to let up on you. I am gonna bring a freight car of pain right to your doorstep."
I couldn't finish my lunch. I had lost my appetite. Harold was right. Eighth grade football was one thing, but this was varsity football on a state championship caliber team. I was in way over my head. I was gonna get creamed. For the rest of the day, I dreaded going to practice. When the final bell rang, I went down to the varsity locker room and got dressed. Had I taken the time to look around, I would have realized I wasn't the smallest guy in the room. I could only see the big, hungry, hairy beasts on the defense that looked at me like a pork chop. I pulled on my helmet and trotted outside.
I was put with the receivers and met my new position coach, Steve Lenning. Coach Lenning had been a college football star and even had a tryout with the Los Angeles Rams. Now he was coaching football, hoping to make a career out of it. He was full of energy and looked like he could still catch every ball thrown at him. To his credit, he didn't make a big deal out of my being a freshman. He just pulled me aside when I did something wrong and showed me how to fix it. I found out it was important to read how the defensive back stood at the line. Were they close? Were they back? Which foot was forward? Were they shading to the inside? Were they shading to the outside? Each of those answers gave me an advantage. Only I would know where I wanted to go. It would be the cover-backs job to either stop me from going there or trying to catch me. We ran drills against dummies and then drills against the second team defense. I couldn't tell if I was doing anything right, but no one was yelling at me, mostly they ignored me until I didn't go where I was supposed to.
We finally came together as a two teams, offense and defense and the number one offense played against the number two defense and the number two offense played scout team against the number one defense. I was put on the scout team, and I was instructed how to run plays like our opponent would, just over a week away. The first play had me running five yards up field and then slanting toward the goal post in an effort to get behind the defense. The ball was hiked and I through a shoulder fake to the outside, getting my defender to lean and then ran inside of him for five yards and took off on a slant for the goal post. When I looked back, I could see the ball arcing through the air right at me. I didn't have to slow; I caught it in full stride. Thrilled, I didn't realize I was in the cross-hairs of James Baldwin. My world flipped upside down and I came crashing down on my head. I heard someone say "OOOOAFFFFFF" and realized it was me. Laying on my back, staring up at the fall sky, I came to several simultaneous conclusions: I still had the ball. I was going to live. And hot dang, that was fun! I popped up with a grin and trotted back to the line of scrimmage. The entire defense stared. The youngest Baldwin had leveled me with the same ferocity he had sent multiple players crying home to their mamas with, and I just grinned and shrugged it off.
"Nice stick Jimmy," I said as I ran off. When I got back to my side of the line of scrimmage, I was smothered with back slaps and ass pats and several 'nice catches'. Coach asked me if I was all right. I might not have had all the experience in the world, but I knew the truth wouldn't be what they wanted to hear.
"Yeah Coach, no problem. I'm fine." That was a damn lie. I knew that the only thing that was going to save me that night was a long hot soak and a little sister who would rub my cock until I came all over her. "What do I do next?"
We kept going for another forty five minutes. I kept getting open every time I tried. I could tell it was frustrating the cornerbacks who were supposed to be covering me. I was less than a great blocker on running plays, because that takes brute strength or good technique. I had neither. On one running play Greg Chapman, the cornerback I was supposed to be blocking, slipped his hands under my shoulder pads and spun me around like a helicopter, throwing me off into a heap. This made me see red. I came up, fists ready, and went after him. I didn't know how to fight, but something told me this was important. The whistle blew. Everyone froze.
"David! Chapman! In the circle." Coach Kennedy barked. He sounded mad. The entire team circled around us with Coach Kennedy inside. "If you two knuckleheads want to fight, we'll have a bullfight. On the whistle."
I had no idea what a bullfight was. Chapman got down in a four point stance facing me. I figured that's what I should do, so I got in a four point stance of my own. The whistle chirped and Chapman fired out, leveling me. So THAT'S what a bullfight was.
"Again!" barked Coach.
We lined up again, and I would like to say I leveled Chapman, but that would be a lie. He landed on top of me, and I got a face full of turf and dirt. I got back up, refusing to remove the grass stuck in my facemask. I lined up without instruction. Chapman beat me again. I got up and got back in my stance. Again he flattened me. Over and over we went at it, a young dumb bull versus an old, strong, wise one. I kept getting up. He kept knocking me down. I started to detect the patterns to Chapman's attacks. On about the thirty-fifth attempt, I managed to stand him up, get my hands under his pads and flip him off to one side. It wasn't a pancake, but it was more than a draw. I had my first victory. I got back into my stance.
"That's enough. Right Chapman?" commanded Coach. Chapman was leaning on his knees, breathless. He didn't reply, just nodded and stared at the ground. By comparison, I wasn't breathing that hard. I had taken everything Chapman could dish out and kept coming. The other players realized I was a legit phenom and no one gave me a hard time after that.
On the way off the field back to the locker room, the Pipe Crew surrounded me. "Good job Pauly," said Jack.
"I only beat him once. He beat me a million times," I pointed out. "I am sore as hell too."
"Don't worry about that, its football. But Chapman has a reputation for being a dirty player. You took the worst he had and kept coming. You earned some respect points today. Don't let it go to your head." He patted my ass and trotted off toward the showers. I tried to trot along and keep up, but I was too sore and stiff already. Coach Lenning was waiting by the doors to the building.
"David. Come over here. You did very well today. Stop by Coach's office and get your playbook. Tomorrow we are going to run special teams. Learn all the punt and kick return formations. Both ways." He disappeared into the hallway and I trotted along slowly behind, my cleats clacking on the cement floor. When I got to the locker room, Chapman was waiting just inside the door.
"Pauly, you are a tough son-of-a-bitch, I'll give you that. But you have a lot to learn. Stick around after practice tomorrow and I will show you some of my best moves and how to beat them." He slapped me on the shoulder and walked away. I immediately felt a huge sigh of relief. I thought he might want to beat my ass.
The Baldwins were all bent over the bed of the green Datsun, along with Tater and Spud and half a dozen other upperclassmen. I shambled out, each step causing me pain in my sore thighs, stomach, shoulders, neck, back, ankles, hell even my scalp ached.
"Good job out there Pauly. You are going to do just fine. Three aspirin, a hot bath, and then ice packs on the parts that hurt the most. It'll get better quick."
I fell asleep on the ride home and only awoke when we came to a stop at the door to the house. I gingerly got out and went in the house. It hurt to chew so dinner was a long process. When I finished, I headed to the bathroom to try and soak away some of the pain. While the water was running, I downed three aspirin and took a long look in the mirror. My forehead was red from rubbing against my helmet. I looked a lot older than thirteen that first night. I was almost fourteen by then. I felt forty-five. Becka came in and took her usual perch on the toilet lid.
"How did it go?"
"Fine, just fine. Can't you tell?" I asked her with as much of a grin as I could muster. I was trying to get undressed and making a mess of getting my t-shirt off when she took pity on me. She stood on the toilet.
"Come over here before you break something." She lifted my t-shirt over my head. Then she hopped down and undid the buttons on my jeans and pulled them off of my legs after I sat down on the edge of the tub. She pulled off my socks as well. Then she grabbed my tight whites and pulled them down, freeing the only muscle on my entire body that wasn't sore. She leaned forward and gave my drooping cock a quick kiss, causing it to twitch. I slowly lowered myself in the tub and she used a hot washcloth to rub my shoulders and chest. I felt much better. Her hand slipped down lower and lower until she was rubbing my cock under the water. It felt so nice. But it was dangerous. I made her stop before our mother came in to check on us. I got out and got dressed and hobbled out into the living room. My dad looked up from his book and just nodded. He went back to reading. He knew what I was going through and knew I would survive.
I emptied a tray of ice cubes into a bread sack and wrapped the sack with a kitchen towel. Instant cold back.
"I'm going to bed while I can still walk." My mother clucked with worry, my father chuckled. My sister just gave me a hug that said she'd be seeing me later.
The evening air had a coolness to it. Summer was winding down. Still I lay under the open window in just a pair of shorts and put my ice pack on various parts of my body until I heard Becka come in for bed. My mom came in and checked on us, kissed us each good night and slipped out. The door had hardly shut when Becka climbed into the bed with me.
"What can I do to make you feel better?" she asked sweetly. "Do you want me to put it in my mouth again? Do you want to put it in my privates tonight? It's ok if you do. We don't have to wait until I have had another boy do it first. I don't want anyone but you to put his thing in me. I want you to do whatever you want to me." Her total lack of guile was so sexy. My cock started to rise to attention. She stroked it through my shorts. Then she leaned over and kissed me on the lips. "I know you kissed Katie Schultz on the bus this morning. Everyone knows."
"Even mom and dad?" I was afraid I'd be in trouble if they knew.
"No. All of my friends though. You kissed her in front of everybody!"
"Are you jealous?" I asked, wrapping my arms around her.
"Jealous? No. She only kissed you once. I can kiss you a million times if I want." She started to kiss me rapid fire.
"Easy Becka, easy. I am really sore. Can you just lay on top of me and squeeze my dick with your thighs again? That felt so nice last night."
"Do you want me to put it in my mouth again? I kind of liked that."
"If you want to. I kind of liked it too."
She pulled my shorts down and my cock sprang up, pointing at the ceiling. She removed her pajama bottoms completely, for the first time. She gingerly climbed up and mounted my stomach like sitting a horse. She leaned forward until we were chest to chest and then closed her tight thighs around my erection, trapping it against her lightly hairy pussy. The began moving her hips up and down, spreading her sex moisture on my shaft, making it slippery. I gently thrust upward. I moved my hands up her body until her nipples were within pinching range. I felt those hard nubbins and my cock moving between her legs and I knew I was close.
"I'm close Becka." I expected her to move down and put my cock in her mouth so I could blow. I didn't expect her to straddle my stomach, reach behind her and point the head of my cock into her tiny vaginal opening. "What are you doing?" I hissed trying to stop her. I was too late. She was already flowing juices and though extremely tight, her cunt was fully lubed. I felt her pelvis settle against mine, my cock fully impaling her. Both of our virginities were gone. "Becka, stop!" Instead of stopping, she began to grind her groin against mine, my cock trapped in her deepest reaches. "Becka, stop it now!" but my protests were weak at best. She leaned forward and my shaft started to slide out, then she sat back up and I was buried again. She changed her position so her knees were on my stomach and her feet were against my hips. She started riding me, slow and steady. I couldn't help it, I started humping up to meet her, matching her rhythm.
"Oh god Pauly! This feels so much better than I thought it would. " Thinking back to having Rusty's cock buried in my ass, I knew how good it really could feel.
"We should have waited," I protested. "Until you were older."
"You might not want me then. You have a girlfriend now. She might be the girl you want to stick your thing into. Then where does that leave me?"
"It…. Leaves……. You…… As….. The ……. Girl…… I …… Will …….Al…..Ways…..Want……" That was enough. I flooded my little sister's tiny womb with my seed. My orgasm sent her over the top. I had to pull her head into my shoulder so she could moan and buck without making enough noise to wake our parents in the next room. Coitus complete, we just lay there kissing each other. For the rest of our lives we would be each other's first. No matter how many men or women came through our lives, we would always share that. After resting for ten minutes, she eased out of bed and slipped into her pajamas again. Then she slipped out our door and went to the bathroom. I wiped my dick with my hand and licked it clean. Then I took the damp towel from the ice pack and gave it a thorough wipe down. When I finished, I pulled up my shorts and expected to go right to sleep. Instead, my sister climbed into bed with me and lay against me, her back to my front. My cock rose again in appreciation and she trapped it between her pajama clad thighs. That's how I went to sleep, the first night of varsity football practice.
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@Phoenicks; I agree that discussion should be done in thread and not somewhere like skype. It can be hurtful to town if not all use skype or keep up with it.
@Phoenicks; I agree that discussion should be done in thread and not somewhere like skype. It can be hurtful to town if not all use skype or keep up with it.
@mwto; You're actually participating. Just started college and you're putting forth an honest effort. I don't care if you think I'm scummy. I don't care if you're mafia. I could kiss you. Please, keep doing what you're doing.
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Because I want to lynch, and to lynch somebody who's not participating. You guys really boxed us into a corner by not voting.
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Since Karamazov refused to vote DB but was willing to vote Hitomi, I'm calling scum team on DB and Karamazov.
From the public Music Mafia Skype chat; I really am done with the private chats. Phoenicks = Nick Murray
Then the mafia will be in a good position to get me / whichever inactive I go after next.
The songs had all seemed to lose their enthusiasm from the previous day. A small group took up the burden of deciding a lynch, leaving others to remain idle.
I'd like to make a note about activity. This game has been running for 24 hours and I'm already pretty frustrated over the level of sheer inactivity. If you are not planning on being active, ask to sub out now. Not only I, but a few players are also more than irritated over the inactivity of players that are apparently simply lazy. I have three substitutes that wanted to play, and honestly, joining just to be inactive is pretty disrespectful not only to me and the other players, but to the subs that wanted to play as well. I understand if you have irl issues/a busy schedule. Real life happens. But if it is beyond your means to play, say so.
It is now NIGHT 1. This phase will end around 10pm Eastern Time on 9/8.
Aww, my song. ;_;
I love the role you gave to it, btw, Feralize. That's how I interpret the song too. :3
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Okay, that's a load of B.S. You never do anything without meaning to, especially not vote. Both mwto and Hitomi had votes on them by the time you "randomly" voted for them - and yes, I'm counting your vote for Hitomi as supposedly random since you gave no reason for giving that vote other than just to get a lynch - and because of that we lost the lie detector. Frustration with inactivity or not, I know you are more than capable of gathering info on roles on Day 1 no matter what your role is.
FoS: Phoenicks and Karamazov
For following that vote when there were already enough to lynch her off for no discernible reason.
Also, Feralize, I apologize for my relative lack of activity. I got home very late last night, and am generally only able to get on the computer in the evenings anyway. I will do my best to get on earlier in the future, but for the record, I have a wedding shower I have to attend tomorrow that will keep me away until after the phase change. I sincerely apologize for my absence in advance.
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Council Regulation (EEC) No 443/92 of 25 February 1992 on financial and technical assistance to, and economic cooperation with, the developing countries in Asia and Latin America
OJ L 52, 27.2.1992, p. 1–6 (ES, DA, DE, EL, EN, FR, IT, NL, PT)
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 443/92 of 25 February 1992 on financial and technical assistance to, and economic cooperation with, the developing countries in Asia and Latin America
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 235 thereof,
Having regard to the proposals from the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Whereas the Community has been pursuing a policy of financial and technical cooperation with the Asian and Latin American (ALA) developing countries since 1976 and has, more recently, also embarked on economic cooperation with those countries; whereas these forms of cooperation are part of an overall policy of cooperation with the developing countries as a whole, which includes expansion of their trade by integration into the multilateral trading system, by appropriate measures to be taken within the relevant international organizations and by specific measures such as the Community system of generalized preferences;
Whereas the current process of European construction and the growing influence of the Community in the developing countries worldwide justify the continuation, with due regard for the complementary nature of Community action, of mutually advantageous economic cooperation with, and Community development aid to, the Asian and Latin American developing countries, the extension of cooperation to other countries or sectors in the two regions, increased financing for such policies and efforts to ensure that they are better adapted to national and local needs within each region;
Whereas the European Council has on a number of occasions confirmed the Community's political will to reinforce its cooperation with regions of the world where the level of development is still inadequate and to do so via an increased, coordinated and multi-faceted effort on the part of the Community and its Member States;
Whereas the European Council, meeting in Luxembourg on 28 and 29 June 1991, asked the Community and its Member States, through Community cooperation policy and by including clauses on human rights in economic and cooperation agreements with third countries, actively to promote human rights and the participation, without discrimination, of all individuals or groups in the life of society, bearing in mind particularly the role of women;
Whereas the European Parliament has examined the matter in detail on a number of occasions and has called for reinforced cooperation and for a revision of present legislation in order to ensure that aid is more efficient and more transparent;
Whereas, on 4 February 1991, the Council adopted final conclusions on guidelines for cooperation with the Asian and Latin American developing countries, covering in particular the priorities and sectors for consideration and the desirability of increasing the resources to be allocated to them and of enabling indicative medium-term programming for those resources to be undertaken;
Whereas both the European Parliament and the Council, while confirming traditional fields of action, have identified new priorities relating, in particular, to the environment, the human dimensio of development and the need for economic cooperation to take place in the mutual interest of the Community and its partner countries;
Whereas provision should be made for funding the aid referred to in this Regulation and other aid to the Asian and Latin American developing countries;
Whereas an amount of ECU 2 750 million is deemed necessary for the implementation of the aid covered by this Regulation and of other aid to the Asian and Latin American developing countries for an initial five-year period (1991-1995);
Whereas the amount deemed necessary for the funding period 1991-1992, under the present financial perspective, is ECU 1 069,8 million;
Whereas the amounts to be committed for funding the aid during the period 1993 to 1995 should be included in the existing Community financial framework and whereas the Asian and Latin American developing countries should be given the same priority in the budget for 1993 to 1995 as they were in the period 1991 to 1992;
Whereas the volume of Community aid for the period after 1995 should be determined in accordance with existing procedures;
Whereas the rules governing the administration of financial and technical assistance to, and economic cooperation with, the Asian and Latin American developing countries should be established;
Whereas it is necessary to repeal Council Regulation (EEC) No 442/81 of 17 February 1981 on financial and technical aid to non-associated developing countries (3);
Whereas the Treaty does not provide specific powers of action for the adoption of this Regulation, other than those contained in Article 235,
Article 1
The Community shall continue and broaden Community cooperation with the Asian and Latin American developing countries, hereinafter referred to as 'the ALA developing countries', which are not signatories to the Lomé Convention and do not benefit from the Community's cooperation policy with Mediterranean third countries. This cooperation, which shall be in addition to assistance from the Member States, shall involve financial and technical development assistance and economic cooperation. In this connection, the Community shall attach the utmost importance to the promotion of human rights, support for the process of democratization, good governance, environmental protection, trade liberalization and strengthening the cultural dimension, by means of an increasing dialogue on political, economic and social issues conducted in the mutual interest.
Article 2
The aim of Community development and cooperation policies shall be human development.
Aware that respect for, and the exercise of, human rights and fundamental freedoms and democratic principles are preconditions for real and lasting economic and social development, the Community shall give increased support to the countries most committed to those principles, particularly for positive initiatives to put them into practice.
In the case of fundamental and presistent violations of human rights and democratic principles, the Community could amend or even suspend the implementation of cooperation with the States concerned by confining cooperation to activities of direct benefit to those sections of the population in need.
Article 3
All ALA developing countries shall be eligible for financial and technical assistance and economic cooperation. The recipients of aid and partners in cooperation may include not only States and regions but decentralized authorities, regional organizations, public agencies, local or traditional communities, private institutes and operators, including cooperatives and non-governmental organizations. The needs and priorities of each country and each region shall be taken into account when granting the aid covered by this Regulation. Financial and technical assistance
Article 4
Financial and technical assistance shall be targeted primarily on the poorest sections of the population and the poorest countries in the two regions, through the implementation of programmes and projects in whatever sectors Community aid is likely to play an important role. In particular, measures shall be implemented in areas where domestic, economic and human resources are difficult to mobilize, but which are of strategic importance either for the development of the countries concerned or for the international community as a whole.
Article 5
Financial and technical assistance shall give priority to developing the rural sector and improving the level of food security. In this regard, integrating food aid into other development instruments may help this form of aid to fulfil its specific role and objectives. Community support for the rural sector must also include measures in small towns serving rural areas, in order to promote employment. The improvement of the economic, legal and social environment for the private sector, including small and medium-sized undertakings, must also be taken into account.
Protection of the environment and natural resources, and sustainable development, shall be long-term priorities. 10 %, being the weighted average of the necessary financial resources of the aid, for the period 1991 to 1995, shall be set aside for projects specifically aimed at protecting the environment, in particular tropical forests.
Furthermore, consideration shall be given in all operations to protecting the environment and natural resources.
Special attention must be given to measures to combat drugs. Community cooperation with the ALA developing countries to promote the fight against drugs shall be stepped up on the basis of a dialogue within the more general context of the economic development of the producer countries and their cooperation with the European Community. This cooperation shall cover measures involving both humanitarian and development aid.
The human dimension of development shall be present in all areas of action, given the objective of this form of cooperation.
The cultural dimension of development must remain a constant objective in all activities and programmes with which the Community is associated.
Aid should accordingly be allocated, inter alia, to specific projects for the spread of democracy, good governance and human rights.
Furthermore, care should be taken to ensure not only that the changes brought in by the projects and programmes do not have any detrimental effects on the position and role of women, but that, on the contrary, specific measures, or even projects, are adopted in order to increase their active participation, on an equal footing, in the productive process and its results, and in social activities and decision making.
Special attention shall also be given to child protection.
Ethnic minorities warrant special attention through measures designed to improve their living conditions while respecting their cultural identity.
Special attention shall be given to demographic questions, in particular those relating to population growth.
Community aid for development projects and programmes must take account of macro-economic and sectoral problems and favour operations which have an effect on the structural make-up of the economy, on the development of sectoral policies and on the development of institutions. In order to increase their effectiveness and obtain greater synergy, dialogue and cooperation with the relevant international institutions and bilateral financiers should be sought.
Support for the national institutions of the developing countries, so as to strengthen their capacity to manage development policies and projects, represents an area of action likely to assume a strategic role in the development process.
Maintaining a suitable dialogue between the developing countries and the Community is an important element in this context.
Regional cooperation between developing countries shall be considered a priority area for financial and technical assistance, particularly in the following fields:
- cooperation on the environment,
- the development of intra-regional trade,
- the strengthening of regional institutions,
- support for regional integration and the establishment of joint policies and activities among developing countries,
- regional communications, particularly as regards standards, networks and services, including telecommunications,
- research,
- training,
- rural development and food security,
- cooperation in the sphere of energy.
Part of the aid may be used for rehabilitation and reconstruction following disasters of all kinds and for disaster-prevention measures.
Article 6
Financial and technical assistance, shall be extended to the relatively more advanced ALA developing countries, in particular in the following specific fields and cases:
- the spread of democracy and human rights,
- prevention of natural disasters and reconstruction in their wake,
- the fight against drugs,
- the environment and natural resources,
- strengthening institutions, especially public authorities,
- pilot schemes to help particularly under privileged strata of the population especially in large conurbations,
- regional cooperation and integration, with special attention being paid to regional cooperation and integration schemes allowing partnerships to be formed between poor and relatively advanced countries. Economic cooperation
Article 7
Economic cooperation, devised to serve the mutual interests of the Community and its partner countries, shall contribute to the development of the ALA developing countries by helping them build up their institutional capacity so as to create an environment more favourable to investment and development and make the most of the prospects opened up by the growth of international trade, including the European single market, and by enhancing the role of businessmen, technology and know-how from all the Member States, particularly in the private sector and in small and medium-sized undertakings.
Economic cooperation shall be aimed in particular at establishing a climate of confidence by supporting countries which pursue macro-economic and structural policies that are open to trade and investment and conducive to technology transfer, in particular by protecting intellectual property rights.
Article 8
Economic cooperation shall include three sectors:
1. Improvement of scientific and technological potential and of the economic, social and cultural environment in general by means of training schemes and the transfer or know-how. Scientific and technological cooperation, including such cooperation in the field of high technology programmes, may derive benefit also from the implementation of the multiannual framework research programme and from the provisions of Article 130N of the Treaty. Economic cooperation shall be directed chiefly at executives, economic decision-makers and instructors and shall cover all economic, technical and scientific fields, in particular energy, industrial and urban ecology and services technology. It should promote links between institutes and research centres on both sides and take account of their capacity for the rapid acquisition of know-how and modern technology which can then be disseminated in the recipient country;
2. Improvement of the institutional structure, which must go hand in hand with a closer dialogue with partners, in order to make the economic, legislative, administrative and social climate more conducive to development;
3. Support for undertakings, for example by means of trade promotion, training and technical assistance schemes, by establishing contacts between undertakings and by schemes to facilitate cooperation between them.
Regional cooperation must be regarded as an important sector for economic cooperation, in particular with respect to:
- cooperation on industrial ecology,
- intra-regional trade,
- regional institutions for economic integration,
- regional policies,
- communications, including telecommunications,
- research and training,
- cooperation in the sphere of energy,
- industrial cooperation. Implementing procedures
Article 9
Financial and technical assistance and expenditure on economic cooperation shall be provided mainly in the form of grants financed from the general budget of the European Communities.
Wherever possible, indicative five-year programming shall be established for each objective, country or, if appropriate, region.
Co-financing with the Member States or other donors shall be sought through greater coordination. The Community nature of the aid must be maintained.
Article 10
1. Community funding of the aid referred to in Article 9 shall cover an initial five-year period (1991-1995).
2. The amount of Community funding deemed necessary for the implementation of the aid shall be ECU 2 750 million, 10 % of which shall be allocated to the environment, especially the protection of tropical forests. An amount of ECU 1 069,8 million shall be earmarked for the period 1991-1992 under the financial perspective for 1988-1992.
For the period 1993-1995, the amount shall be included in the Community financial framework then in force.
3. The budget authority shall determine the appropriations available for each financial year, account being taken of the principles of sound financial management referred to in Article 2 of the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities.
4. For the subsequent period covered by this Regulation, the amount of aid shall be determined in accordance with the procedures then in force.
Article 11
Financial and technical assistance may cover all foreign currency costs and local costs for carrying out projects and programmes, including, whenever necessary, integrated programmes and sectoral projects.
Maintenance and operating expenses for economic cooperation operations, training and research programmes and development projects and programmes may, in particular, be covered. However, except for training and research programmes, such expenses may be covered only at the launching stage and in gradually decreasing amounts.
Systematic efforts must be made to seek contributions, particularly in financial form, from partners (countries, local communities, undertakings, individual recipients) within the limits of their possibilities and according to the nature of each operation.
The payment of taxes, duties and charges, and the purchase of land, shall be excluded from Community financing.
Study costs and the short- and long-term use of experts to assist the recipients and the Commission in devising general policies, identifying and preparing operations and monitoring and evaluating them shall normally be covered by Community funds, either as part of the financing for individual operations or separately.
Article 12
1. Part of the financial and technical assistance and of the economic cooperation shall be set aside for measures to deal with exceptional circumstances, in particular projects to promote reconstruction in the wake of disasters, and to meet unforeseen priorities, particularly in countries in which the human rights situation or other political conditions did not previously allow Community aid to be given. An amount of, at most, 15 % shall be provided for to this end when the budgetary authority adopts the annual appropriations.
2. Any unallocated amount equivalent to the 15 % portion of the annual appropriations shall be released on 31 July of the same year to be allocated in some other way.
Article 13
Participation in invitations to tender and purchasing and other contracts shall be open on equal terms to all natural or legal persons of the Member States.
With regard to financial and technical assistance, such participation shall usually be extended to the recipient State and may also be extended, case by case, to other developing countries.
In exceptional cases which are duly justified, other countries of origin may be allowed for specific components.
Article 14
Aid projects and programmes for which Community funding exceeds ECU 1 million, and any substantial modifications and possible overruns of approved projects and programmes which exceed 20 % of the amount initially agreed, shall be adopted according to the procedure laid down in Article 15 (3).
The same procedure shall be followed for adopting the acts required to establish:
- the indicative multiannual guidelines that apply to the main partner countries,
- the areas of cooperation according to subject or sector.
Article 15
1. The Commission shall administer the financial and technical assistance and the economic cooperation.
2. The Commission shall be assisted by a committee composed of the representatives of the Member States and chaired by the representative of the Commission.
3. The representative of the Commission shall submit to the committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The committee shall deliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit which the chairman may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinion shall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty in the case of Decisions which the Council is required to adopt on a proposal from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of the Member States within the committee shall be weighted in the manner set out in that Article. The chairman shall not vote.
The Commission shall adopt the measures envisaged if they are in accordance with the opinion of the committee.
If the measures envisaged are not in accordance with the opinion of the committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall, without delay, submit to the Council a proposal relating to the measures to be taken. The Council shall act by a qualified majority.
If, on the expiry of a period of one month, the Council has not acted, the proposed measures shall be adopted by the Commission.
4. On a regular basis, at least once a year, the Commission shall send the Member States whatever information it has on known sectors, projects and operations which could be supported under this Regulation.
5. In addition, coordination between Community cooperation schemes and bilateral schemes undertaken by Member States shall be carried out in this committee, through an exchange of information.
Article 16
The Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council an annual report on the implementation of this Regulation. The report shall set out the results of implementation of the budget as regards commitments and payments and presenting the projects and programmes financed during the year. The report shall contain, as far as possible, information on the funds committed at national level during the same financial year. It shall also contain specific, detailed information (undertakings, nationality, etc.) on the contracts awarded for the implementation of the projects and programmes.
In addition, at the end of each five-year period the Commission shall submit a comprehensive report giving the results of the regular evaluation undertaken to show not only how the projects and programmes have been implemented but also the advisability of maintaining or amending the aid guidelines.
Article 17
1. Regulation (EEC) No 442/81 is hereby repealed.
2. Any reference to the repealed Regulation shall be deemed to be a reference to this Regulation.
Article 18
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 25 February 1992. For the Council
The President
Vitor MARTINS
(1) OJ No C 119, 4. 5. 1991, p. 6 and OJ No C 284, 31. 10. 1991, p. 4. (2) OJ No C 267, 14. 10. 1991, p. 35. (3) OJ No L 48, 21. 2. 1981, p. 8.
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Paranoid Penguin - Building a Transparent Firewall with Linux, Part I
Normally, a firewall acts like a router. It receives traffic from two or more network interfaces and makes decisions about whether and how to route that traffic. Any host that needs to send traffic through the firewall must either use the IP address of the firewall interface that faces it as its default gateway, or a router between that host and the firewall must be configured to use the firewall as a route to whatever networks are on the other side of the firewall.
Figure 2 shows a routing firewall. As you can see, each firewall interface has its own IP address that is valid on the network to which that interface connects, and that IP address serves as the route to the other side of the firewall. In this example, hosts in Network A have to know (or send packets to some router that knows) that 10.20.30.254 is the gateway to reach Network B. Hosts in Network B have to know (or speak to a router that knows) that 126.96.36.199 is the gateway to reach Network A.
One ramification of the "firewall as router" approach is that normally, if you have a big bunch of existing systems you want to divide into two security zones, one "trusted" and the other "non-trusted", you'll probably need to re-IP-address the hosts in one or both zones (or re-mask the subnet they're on, which may not be possible) and insert a firewall configured as a gateway between those zones. In other words, inserting a routing firewall into an existing network usually means reconfiguring both the network and the systems connected to it.
But, what if you wanted to insert a firewall between two parts of the same network, without re-addressing anything? Is it possible to configure a firewall to act more like a bridge than a router?
Indeed, it is. And best of all, the firewall's rules will look and behave in much the same way as if it were a standard routing firewall! All the trickery is in the firewall's network configuration.
What Is Bridging, Exactly?
This month's column assumes you know something about networking. IP firewalls, whether standard/routing or transparent/bridging, are at least an intermediate-level topic, and you really can't expect to configure either kind unless you have a working understanding of how TCP/IP protocols work. But even if you do, you might be a bit rusty on the difference between bridging and routing. Here's a quick, simplified primer.
Routers operate at Layer 3, the IP layer. They evaluate network packets based on their IP headers. In contrast, bridges operate at Layer 2, the Data Link (most commonly Ethernet nowadays) layer. Bridges evaluate Ethernet headers. A "switch" is simply a bridge with lots of ports.
To "route" is to make decisions on what to do with a packet based on its destination IP address—specifically, to determine the most efficient "route" (series of forwarding routers) by which to deliver the packet to its destination. These decisions can be complicated. There may be many possible routes, and because individual "hops" between gateways in a given route may become congested or otherwise slow down, the "best" route for a stream of packets may change during the course of a single network transaction.
For this reason, routers use a combination of routing algorithms, routing tables and forwarding tables to compute routes "on the fly". Note, however, that although firewalls act like routers, they seldom have to make nearly so complicated routing decisions as true routers typically do. Typically, a firewall uses a single gateway for all routes to "internal" networks and another for all other ("outside") networks, where both gateways are actual routers.
Bridging, in contrast, is much simpler. A bridge, or switch, looks at each incoming Ethernet frame entering each bridge/switch port and determines its destination Ethernet address (also known as a MAC address). It then matches this against the entries in its local MAC table (which is simply a list of the MAC addresses of all devices currently attached to active ports) and delivers the frame to the corresponding local port.
For more complete discussions of how routers and bridges/switches work, Wikipedia is a good place to start.
Figure 3 shows a transparent (bridging) firewall. In this example, the firewall has been configured to treat both of its network interfaces as switch ports. Neither interface has an IP address bound to it! Instead, the virtual switch that they comprise has a shared IP address of 188.8.131.52. Although the firewall might be reachable by this IP address (actually there are good reasons for it not to be), none of the hosts in Zone A need to use that IP as a gateway in order to reach the hosts in Zone B, or vice versa. Just as with any other switch, the firewall will propagate packets automatically without needing to be explicitly routed through.
However, the firewall will propagate packets only after first matching them against its firewall rule set and determining whether it even should propagate them. If you want to evaluate packets based on Ethernet header attributes, you can do so using ebtables. However, in this series of articles on building your very own transparent Linux firewall, we'll use plain-old iptables to evaluate packets in the same way that routing firewalls do, using IP/TCP/UDP header information.
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