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The Fedora team has announced the Fedora 11 beta release. It comes packed with new features, such as Ext4 as the default filesystem, Nouveau driver by default, kernel mode setting on Intel, ATI and Nvidia drivers, many virtualization improvements, IBus input method, GCC 4.4, and much more.
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by orestes on Tue 31st Mar 2009 20:23 UTC in reply to "Ext4 as default"
Personally I like that Fedora pushes the bleeding edge a bit, if I wanted guaranteed stability I'd be running Debian or CentOS. As for Ext4 specifically, it's no worse than the old days of distros including ReiserFS as the default methinks. I distinctly remember some downright nasty issues in the 2.4 series with that one.

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- So I reread the series for the third time. I finish the whole thing, and start thinking about Psycho Mantis, both in-comic and in-game, in particular Mantis' death scene, where he says he's helping someone for the first time in his life, and that "[I]t feels kind of... nice...". I then think of someone pointing out once that Mantis was actually continuing with the overall plan when he did this in the game. Now, think of this within the context of the comic - Mantis was becoming friends with and actually trusting Liquid. He was tired of being controlled by Ocelot, the Patriots, and Solidus. He started obeying Liquid, wearing clothing that Liquid suggested, and calling him Boss. When he told the ninja to kill as many people as possible, he said he was doing it out of a desire to kill as many people as possible. When he helped Snake continue down the right path for the plan, he was helping Liquid fufill his dream of a better world. The line "It feels kind of... nice..." suddenly carries a lot more weight, now that we've seen where it came from.
- The scene where Liquid beats Mantis by letting Big Boss take control of him makes perfect sense considering how Mantis is beaten in the actual game. Liquid switched his controller.
- Genetic and recessive traits (as far as they exist) can both be good or bad. But if genes were as simple as dominant and recessive, then for every gene that the person you're 'cloning'note is heterozygous for, the dominant allele corresponds to the trait they actually express - and if they are a perfect specimen of whatever you're trying to produce, then that should a 'good' trait. Of course it doesn't get around the fact that the dominant-recessive thing isn't really true, or that Big Boss and his three clones are said several times to be genetically identical, and sometimes it's essential to the plot, or that a lot of Big Boss' super-soldier traits ought to be more down to his upbringing than his genes. But one out of four ... is pretty terrible actually. But better than none.
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 184.108.40.206
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for UNIX?
Jake's list:
From the Securing Windows [webmasterworld.com] list, you should do the following:
Additional things I do on UNIX servers:
Lock down user accounts - Even though this is in the Securing Windows list, I gave it special mention here. In the old days, most UNIX software was designed to be used from or in conjunction with a shell account. That mentality has held over to today's software in its default state. If you run an FTP or mail service, and that user only needs to access FTP or mail, there's no reason to give them shell access. Keep that in mind when performing your lockdown - no shell access unless necessary!
Kill X - You don't need a GUI on a server. It's wasteful. Get rid of it.
Compile services yourself - I generally compile all services myself (such as apache, qmail, djbdns). The benefit here is twofold: one, you completely customize the software to your preferences; and two, since you set the software up to your specifications, you'll have a much easier time indentifying and combatting problems. No packages, no binaries, only source. Note: I consider skeleton source port systems (such as those that Gentoo or the BSDs use) to be okay.
Install chrootkit [chkrootkit.org] - Run it regularly, and send the output to someone that will read and act upon the reports.
Install tripwire [sourceforge.net] or aide [sourceforge.net] - Run it regularly, and send the output to someone that will read and act upon the reports.
Get a package update notification service - This is critical. With so many open source software apps, things change daily. I know that RedHat has a service, Mandrake has a service, and there's a bunch of others. I'm biased, and mainly use FreeBSD, so I use FreshPorts [freshports.org].
Install nmap [insecure.org] - Run it against your entire network on a regular basis and send the output to someone that will read and act upon the reports. It will tell you immediately if any backdoor is currently running on a server.
Personal/Political Rant (flamesuit on):
Don't use BIND, sendmail, or a GUI (web-based or otherwise) control panel - These are the top offenders of UNIX security and good practices.
If you're running a service, know what it does, make sure it's configured the way you need it, and keep on top of updates.
After years of compiling Apache from scratch every time there is an update, I've gone back to the RPM method. I've saved time, and the updated RPM is available within hours of the patch being released. Anything that I do track the source of, I make into an RPM anyway. Far more efficient to roll out across a dozen servers that way, not to mention ensuring consistency across builds.
The number one thing about security is that locking down your server is only half the equation. If you don't know when you've been hacked, you may as well not bother spending the time on the patching.
Nice firewall apf:
and Brute force protection scrittie:
They have some others. For monitoring I suggest nagios, they have som eplugins that you can use to alert you if someone logs in to your server and such.
Brute Force Detection [hostinglife.com]
Advanced Policy Firewall [hostinglife.com]
CHKROOTKIT [hostinglife.com]
MailScanner [hostinglife.com]
Logwatch [hostinglife.com]
There are lots more, but those were some mentioned here.. the site is great for all Server Help [hostinglife.com]
also if shell access in general is required always use SSH not telnet.
make sure to have a software firewall.
Close as many ports as you can. I have a Linux server with ONLY the following ports open:
22 - SSH for shell and sftp access
25 - SMTP for email
if possible make sure to have a proper SSL certificate on your server and check your email securely.
use SFTP through the SSH port 22. there is no need for regular FTP because it sends your password in clear text.
I respectfully disagree on the BIND and Sendmail parts...
Just curious to know why that is? I use to use sendmail/bind but about a year ago switched to qmail/djbdns on *all* my servers.
I decided this one day after I was faced with another upgrade to sendmail or bind (can't remember which) due to security flaws.
You know what I'd never go back. They are much leaner. Do everything I need and more and most of all the configuration files are *very* programmer friendly. Ie it's very very easy for me to write a script to add a DNS entry to change my rcpthosts file.
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Dual-language immersion programs growing in popularity
Dual-language immersion programs are the new face of bilingual education — without the stigma. They offer the chance to learn a second language not just to immigrant children, but to native-born American students as well. (Continue.)
Why we are still losing it in translation
Elisabeth TaricaMay 30, 2011
USUALLY it's almost impossible to keep a group of six and seven-year-olds still, but today all it takes is colourful pictures of horses, goats, roosters and a black cat.
Teacher My Hoa Lam is speaking Mandarin at what seems a cracking pace, counting the legs of the pictured animals, firing questions that are easily understood and quickly answered by blond, blue-eyed children. (continued)
From our Facebook page, a retrospective list of cities where dual-language education is funded publicly and one of the languages of instruction is English: Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg (I've excluded dual-language programmes in Canada's two official languages); New York, San Francisco; Vienna, Klosterneuburg (Austria); Berlin; Ljubljana; Kongsberg, Telemark, Arendal, Oslo (Norway); Luxembourg; Helsingborg, Gothenburg, Malmö, Stockholm (Sweden); Helsinki; Copenhagen; The Hague, Amsterdam; and Madrid.
I've received this query from a colleague involved in an educational think tank:
"Si deixéssim al marge les qüestions polítiques i tinguéssim en compte només l'interès dels estudiants angloparlants (o estrangers no catalanoparlants), creus que els hi interessaria més que el sistema fos només castellà-anglès o que preferirien que fos català-anglès o català-castellà-anglès?"
That's not something I feel comfortable answering without knowing what parents of English-speaking kids think, so I've drawn up a Google survey. Please take a moment to respond.
Canada pioneered second-language immersion programmes in the 1970s, in the two official languages of English and French. The Vancouver Public Board is now offering Mandarin-English bilingual programmes in kindergarten and in primary levels, in addition to its French immersion programmes.http://www.vsb.bc.ca/programs/early-mandarin-bilingual
The Generalitat's Department of Education (a.k.a. Ensenyament) may soon pilot an after-school programme for kids who are native speakers, heritage speakers, or very strong EFL speakers of English. The programme would be piloted in Barcelona and eventually extended to any area where there exists a concentration of English speakers. For planning purposes, we'd like to know where these kids live. If you live in Barcelona, please let us know where your kids live by filling out the following form:
It's anonymous. Thanks for your help.
If Vancouver can offer Mandarin and English (and French as a subject), why can't Catalan schools offer English and Catalan (and Spanish as a subject)? http://www.vsb.bc.ca/programs/mandarin-bilingual
Many thanks to everyone who came to yesterday's AGM. We've decided to accept the Barcelona municipal authorities' offer of a twice-weekly use of rooms at a former children's library. Our plan is to offer phonics/literacy classes in a glassed-in classroom and parallel activities in the building's three other, open-plan spaces. Classes would be open to association members. Ideally, parents would pay any fees for the literacy classes directly to the teacher involved. (Parallel activities could be organised on a volunteer basis to save money, or the other spaces could be used as an open-house, playgroup setting.) Ideally, we'd get started in September 2012.
If we use the classrooms from 6 pm to 8 pm on Fridays and 10 am to 12 noon on Saturday, the classes could look something like this:
5-6 year-olds (Fridays, 6-7 pm)
7-8 year-olds (Saturdays, 10-11 am)
9-10 year-olds (Fridays, 7-8 pm)
11-12 year-olds (Saturdays, 11 am-12 noon)
Any and all feedback welcome!
Learning to Be French in Brooklyn
By KAVITA MOKHA
French dual-language programs, which didn't exist in New York City public schools five years ago, are booming across the city, spurred by lobbying efforts from the French community. (continue)
This survey, which many of you have already taken (thanks!), is meant for people living in Catalona by not in the city of Barcelona propoer.
The Generalitat's Department of Education (a.k.a. Ensenyament) may soon pilot an after-school programme for kids who are native speakers, heritage speakers, or very strong EFL speakers of English. The programme would be piloted in Barcelona and eventually extended to any area where there exists a concentration of English speakers. For planning purposes, we'd like to know where these kids live. If you live in Catalonia but not in Barcelona, please let us know where your kids live by filling out the following form:
It's anonymous. Thanks for your help.
By Justin Webster
(Originally published in The Independent, reproduced here by permission from the author.)
I live in a predicament I could never have envisaged: my two very young daughters speak a language I don't. I understand it perfectly, and could, if I had to, keep up a pidgin version of it. But in our house three languages co-habit - English, Spanish and Catalan. They have taken root and grown up like the bougainvilleas in our garden, intermingling here and there but jealous of their own territories, and evolving with unpredictable natural force. To maintain some order amongst the linguistic foliage, we had to plant carefully. We have sometimes had to cut back. And one of several rules, which soon turned into a habit, and then into an unconscious reflex, is that at home it is not my job to speak Catalan.
I had to be reminded that this was an artificial situation - that is, it was planned, thought about, and established by design - when I arrived back home, from a trip to London. Home is a small village outside Barcelona, where I live with Sumpta, my Spanish wife, and our two daughters. Julia was born four and a half years ago, and Rita is now on her way to two. Julia talks a lot, and Rita is beginning to do the same.
The morning after I got back I was shaving and Julia was leaning in the bathroom doorway in that offhand way children have when they have something to say:
"Daddy. Mummy speaks English but you don't speak Catalan," she said.
The mirror reflected a puzzled expression, my own, back at me. She was clearly right. I remembered vaguely that this was delicate territory, but I was still too dozy to remember exactly why.
"Would you like me to speak Catalan?" I ventured, shaving very carefully.
"No!" she said, horrified. "Some Daddies speak Catalan, and some don't."
Then she turned and shouted downstairs. "Mama, avui vaig al cole?" (Mummy, am I going to school today?)
"No! Avui es dissabte!" came the reply. (No, today is Saturday).
"Can I watch a video then?" I could tell by the language it was me who got to decide this time.
"After breakfast."
"Aeeeee!" she said, in a universal expression of childish pique.
As we went downstairs I thought back to how we had worried about languages before Julia was born. The three she would encounter were at that stage in a rather more tangled and untended state, like everything else in our home before we became parents.
First there was English. Sumpta and I met in English, in England, and we lived together in London before moving to Spain. The King and Queen of Spain also - I have subsequently learnt - met in English, in Greece (Queen Sofía is Greek), a fact that emerged because it is a royal household joke that they met and fell in love in such an unromantic language. That is not what we thought. I liked Sumpta's slight accent and the way, as sometimes happens with foreigners, she had of speaking more precisely than normal. She also paused and composed herself before answering a question, which had everyone hanging off her words, though she was in fact frantically translating her answer. When we moved to Spain English remained our private language, and our attachment to it - taken for granted before - became more accentuated. For Sumpta, who had not imagined reurning to her home country so soon, English was a refuge, a balance against the intensely local concerns of a Spanish village. Instead of living abroad she had compromised and brought some of it (me and my language) home. It developed a subversive side too, like the cant of 18th-century thieves, or the caló of a few modern day Spanish gypsies. We could use English when we didn't want anyone else - friends or family, or people in a restaurant or bar - to understand. One of the hidden benefits of speaking more than one language is actually not being understood.
As soon as we arrived in Spain - in Catalonia to be exact - I started to learn Spanish sobre la marcha - as we went along. Before we left I'd had a look at the grammar, the road map of any language, to get an idea of how difficult this was going to be. I found in the end that it was easy to learn Spanish not because the grammar is relatively simple - it is - but because Spaniards will talk and listen to you when you are barely capable of stringing a sentence together.
Enric González, author of a perceptive and hilarious book on London, Historias de Londres, and former correspondent for El País says the English are the most articulate people he has ever met, but that we use language as a shield. As a result a certain type of English person, who Gonzalez defines as cultivated middle class, is uncomfortable conversing with foreigners who command only basic English and cannot aspire to irony. They are invariably too blunt, like children, some Americans, and most Australians.
The opposite is the case in Spain. Spaniards thrive on bluntness, on simple concepts that have to be communicated, and they warm to foreigners struggling to express their most basic thoughts or feelings. This is because it is not so much the idea that interests them but the person behind it and they know speaking a language badly can be especially revealing. As I have never been part of an ex-pat community, and I needed to work, I had to learn fast. Relishing the freedom that speaking a new language bestows I became so blunt that close friends had to hint I drop some of the more colourful expressions I'd picked up. Beginners often get stuck on certain phrases. I went through a phase of overusing "Me cago en la leche" - literally "I shit in the milk" - or "I obscenity in the milk" as Hemingway coyly translates it in "For Whom the Bell Tolls", though with a certain justification because it has a much milder charge in Spanish. Indirectness is valued in Spanish, only in different situations, like when, for example, you have to tell a friend he is making a fool of himself. I eventually got the hint.
Our third language, Catalan, brought with it not just a new vocabulary but a whole new linguistic dimension. Without Catalan we would not have had to do so much thinking about the peaceful co-existence of languages.
Sumpta is Catalan by culture but her father came from Castile, the home of Castilian otherwise known as Spanish. She has never been a militant Catalan, what is known as catalanista. She has always used both languages. Like millions of Catalans she grew up bilingual. It is precisely this bilingualism, and not Catalan on its own, that is an essential aspect of living in Catalonia.
There are political postures and programmes all tied up with championing one language above the other. Catalan has survived persecution in the past, and in the last two decades it has undergone an officially promoted revival. Politics aside, at street level the practical outcome is that you can see, for example, two women talking to each other in the market, one is speaking Catalan and the other replying in Spanish. These are not dialects but completely different languages which have evolved alongside each other, despite failed attempts to stamp one of them out. On the Spanish national news, for example, a Catalan politician speaking Catalan has to be subtitled.
This bilingualism functions with a peculiar, almost mysterious equilibrium, which is often very hard for people from other places where there is only one lingua franca, such as Madrid, Paris, London or New York, to grasp. It seems to be particularly hard for Americans to accept, and its not easy for Britons or the French, however broad-minded. Surprisingly the Japanese don't have such a problem with it, perhaps because one of their chief references for Spain is Antoni Gaudí, the architect and mystical catalanista.
Whatever an immigrant's nationality the first two years in Catalonia are inevitably spent thrashing out this conundrum in hundreds of fraught conversations. Bilingualism is not necessarily comfortable but it can be enlightening. After a while, like a piece of leathery meat hammered at by a butcher, you get tenderised. You begin not to dismiss quite so easily the emotional arguments for culture. You begin to appreciate the fervour with which Milan Kundera, a Czech, could campaign in Paris for solidarity with Slovenians or Estonians amidst the indifference of his French friends.
In "Slowness" Kundera writes a vignette of an elderly Czech entomologist modestly, almost apologetically, correcting the spelling of his name when he arrives to attend an entomologists' conference in France. His name is written Cechoripsky, but they have left off the inverted circumflex from the first letter. The young French secretary has no chance of pronouncing his name correctly with or without the circumflex, but the entomologist so charms and dazes her with an explanation of its beauty - touching on The Holy Roman Empire, butterflies and Jan Hus's orthographic reform - that their brief encounter ends in a tender smile, on her part, and melancholy pride on his. This is a dream situation for all those who love a language that not many other people in the world speak. The idea that this language could, one day, disappear, that its days as a living thing are numbered, is not unthinkable as it is, say, with English. Small cultures can never be too sure about their existence. Larger ones have sunk with little trace in the past. Some things you took for granted you reexamine.
On the other hand you start avoiding fruitless debates. Although I seldom speak Catalan I understand it so well I'm often not conscious of what language I'm listening to. I reply in Spanish except at special moments, which are themselves revealing. Sometimes when a group of friends are all speaking in Catalan, and I know that they will suddenly - and automatically - switch languages when I say something in Spanish, I try to make sure that that when I do, it is my pidgin Catalan. It is a small act of courtesy, so as not to break their stride, in return for their unconscious sense of good manners. All the political and cultural considerations are in fact resolved quite naturally by courtesy, which is bilingualism's big lesson.
So we had plenty to think about, when Sumpta was pregnant with Julia, about the cultivation of children and languages.
I had a fear. That my girls would grow up without speaking English. This appeared as a distinct possibility. I had seen other families, which included foreign parents, immigrants from other cultures, who had so assimilated themselves they had forgotten to pass on their mother tongue until it was too late. The children always understood this lost language, sometimes almost instinctively, but were too embarrassed or unpractised to speak it.
All schooling in Catalonia is in Catalan. On the street, in our village, there is the usual bilingual mixture. English is quite naturally very much in the margins. I'm not very patriotic. At least I didn't think I was. I'm not so sure now because I began to feel very passionately about my language. I discovered I carried a belligerent character inside me, who until then I had been completely unaware of, who I imagined with a shaved head, DMs and a T-shirt saying "You, er, threatening my mother tongue then?"
I wasn't worried about English being useful or not. In the Hispanic world everyone is understandably obsessed with how important English is for business, travel and generally getting on. I was afraid for different reasons. English was the future key to me communicating with my children. Like any language English is a whole world, a universe even, which I was looking forward to showing them around.
My fear reminded me of a story referred to once by Gabriel García Márquez. The central character is a Latin American exile who lives for so long outside his home country that he begins to forget the particular Spanish idiom which he had grown up with. At the same time he notices that people have stopped listening to what he says. First it is a shopkeeper, then a taxi driver, then acquaintances until finally even his wife is not only not paying attention, but they actually can no longer hear him. Cut off from his language, his personality had simply disappeared.
Distrustful of the commonest views, that too many languages are confusing, or at the other extreme that children just absorb them osmotically, we set about observing our friends' children. Joan and Encarni, bilingual Catalans, have a son, Xavi, who was then aged five. He was going to a Catalan school. Both his parents always spoke to him in Catalan. But he went through a phase of answering them only in Spanish. They were surprised. Not particularly bothered, but surprised. Xavi could not explain why he did it, but he was stubborn about it.
"So when does he hear Spanish?" we asked. "Is it that he talks with his friends in Spanish outside school." (A curious side effect of Catalan establishment pushing Catalan is that more children now speak Spanish in the playground).
"No, no," said Encarni, "I've heard them and they all speak Catalan. The only time Xavi hears Spanish is when we talk to each other. Joan and I speak Spanish when we're on our own. We always have."
It was obvious. The language a five year old most wants to speak is the language his parents speak - not to him, but to each other.
That gave me hope. We had considered both trying to speak only English at home but that would have been unnatural. I didn't realise until I had children how we instinctively revert to the language our parents used with us with our own children. It is not just the language but even, rather spookily, the phraseology. Some phrases come from so far back I can't place quite hearing them, like "Bedtime for Mummy's little soldier." Why does that float around my head in the evening? Did my mother really say that? Others like "What on earth do you think you are doing!" and "I want doesn't get" are more easily traceable. They all show up again, these phrases, eager to be re-employed. When I let go I can find myself sounding like Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins, which was made, not by coincidence I believe, when I was exactly the same age that Julia is now.
So it would have been pointless to ask Sumpta to speak only in English to her child. In the event I had never heard her speak so much Catalan until Julia was born.
For English we relied on heavily on our private language becoming one of hers. And believing that a language is learnt before they learn to speak (or how else does a Chinese baby say its first words in Chinese?) we talked a lot. Julia suffered the age old fate of all eldest children. She had novice parents. In her case they had a thing about language, and they jabbered at her.
So far it has worked. Julia looks at me and speaks English, looks at her mother and speaks Catalan, and when she meets a child she doesn't know in the playground her first words are in Spanish, just to be safe. Rita understands all three, and shuffles a mixture of words and noises when she speaks. As she follows Julia's footsteps her languages should branch out separately soon. At the moment Julia speaks to her more in English than Catalan. But we are wary of jumping to any conclusions yet. It'll be revealing to see which language they choose to speak together.
There are continual surprises about how they speak, connected to the mystery of our unconscious learning abilities and how a young child can grasp instinctively such a complex net of meanings and noises. It is no different with a single language, but having three throws it into relief. When I take Julia with me to the local shop the old ladies of the village marvel at how someone so young can speak a foreign language. When we go to Britain my family smile quietly to themselves when she breaks into Catalan.
An important turning point for Julia's English she reached when she was two. We went to Britain in August for the holidays and stayed with my parents. There she met all her cousins, and most importantly, her two female English cousins, Hannah and Jemma, both two years older than her. She desperately wanted to play with them and she needed all the English she knew to keep up. I heard her say quite complicated things for the first time. It dawned on her that this father tongue was shared by other little girls, it was not just a secret paternal dialect.
The consciousness of speaking different languages didn't come till she was three. By the time Rita was born Julia was beginning to invent her own words, part of her own special nonsense language which she pretends exists, particularly when anyone in the village asks her to perform, and speak English, just to listen to her. She finds her own language - which we have dubbed swahili - a source of profound hilarity, as if the exuberance of different languages living under the same roof produces not confusion, but a desire for more variety. Her secret vocabulary is inexhaustible. Makashi, piko, potososo, kantolo, seeposh, pur-r-rto, boliki. I once tried to get her to tell me her favourites but I stopped writing when we went past fifty and she was still giggling about the new ones.
I soon reached the conclusion that adults get much more confused about languages than children. For Julia the confusion is not that she speaks three languages, but that her father only uses two, and there are some people who restrict themselves to one.
Her infectious exuberance has led to a further insight. Rather than learn or use a language, you have to live with it - at the breakfast table, in the bath, in the middle of the night when you would prefer to be in bed - to love it. Only that kind of familiarity allows you to feel the weight of each word, and inspires you to play around with them.
My relationship with Catalan, for example, has gone through many stages of curiosity, annoyance, acceptance and respect before reaching what I can now call love. Few foreigners prefer Catalan compared to the more mellifluous Spanish. Catalan has a northern, where there's muck there's brass, hang to it. Its clipped character seems to fit with its recent commercial, practical and industrial past, which has some parallels with English. The old brick textile factory next to our village is "manchesteriano". Spanish is more courtly, refined, theoretical. Not until I discovered the amazing wealth and vitality of Catalan children's songs did my feelings towards it change. Now its rustic, staccato phrases suggest a larger and much more varied horizon. Some songs carry now with them a whole batch of powerful associations, from Catalan countryside to singing in the car on the way back from Barcelona, as well as being phonetically beautiful.
Una nit tot d'una
Sobre el tronc d'un vell pi
s'enfilava la lluna
com el punt d'una i
(One night, above the trunk of an old pine tree, the moon had climbed up, like the dot on an i)
The next step, which I took with a sudden sense of vertigo, was to see the whole world in a new light. As well as being a planet of 166 countries, or five continents and five oceans, or six billion people, it is the home of 6,000 languages.
Geographical travel is so easy that I can look at the world map on the wall in my study and imagine going almost anywhere from an airport only a ten minute drive away. A few places still seem strange and inaccessible, such as the frozen wastes of Siberia, Greenland, or Northern Canada - or unwelcoming - but many other countries I have never been to appear so familiar, from films, documentaries, books, and a mixture of experience and imagination that I easily envisage what they look like.
Travelling linguistically would be a far more arduous voyage into the unknown. Members of my English family are spread over four continents, but they can live almost exclusively in English. Even with, say, five languages you could only visit a small fraction of the world's verbal culture. In Barcelona an association of African immigrants has stuck up posters offering tuition in African languages: Arabic, Bantu, Swahili, Mandinga. I find myself wondering what the world looks like in Mandinga. As well as the vocabulary there are bound to be forms, expressions, rhythms, ideas and songs that are unique to it, and naturally completely inaudible to the uninitiated. I think it is quite likely you would learn more about Africa learning mandinga than travelling to the place where it is spoken. The sense of vertigo produced by this thought arises because it is linked to a deep human desire, tinged with megalomania, the desire for total communication. These are the terms in which Freud wrote about the dream of the "gift of tongues." The Tower of Babel, and God's punishment of mankind's pride, condemning us to speak in thousands of different tongues, is the story which explains to us, in mythical terms, our own frustrated desire.
There is a different, more positive way of looking at the multiplicity of languages. I believe that the dream of total communication through a single language, was itself erroneous and somehow unnatural. Pidgin English, the world's lingua franca - a modern day Tower of Babel under construction - is a very useful but very blunt tool. It is not impossible to understand anyone unless you speak their mother tongue but it is a handicap.
Bernardo Atxaga, the Basque poet and novelist, who writes in Basque, has become internationally successful in translation. Only a million people can read Basque, an extremely difficult language to learn. Atxaga, who defends his language in a practical way, by writing in it, once told me that the language was always secondary, that what came first was a need to express, to communicate, and that when this was strong the method and the medium would follow. But the fact that Basque is his mother tongue is present in everything he writes, and into whatever language it is translated. The knowledge that relatively few people can penetrate his poetry, or the rest of Basque literary or musical culture so close to him, makes him very circumspect about facile judgements about other cultures, or facile judgements of any type.
Of the 6,000 languages in the world at the moment, it is estimated that there will be only half left in a hundred years. The Catalan sociologist Salvador Giner lamented this recently: "The loss of a single language impoverishes mankind....because it impoverishes the huge idiomatic diversity which, like biodiversity, we should preserve at all costs, as it constitutes the foundation of our future as beings capable of marvelling and delighting in words in all their guises."
This sensibility is probably only to be found in places where there is more than one language, or where the language that is spoken is not so dominant that it is taken for granted. I might not have appreciated it myself unless I had looked into the future and seen, for a moment, my own mother tongue under threat and me exiled to a place where no one would listen to my strange and useless idiom.
The English-language version of the Association's interview with Neus Lorenzo Galés of the Servei de Llengües Estrangeres (Subdirecció General de Llengua i Plurilingüisme) is now available as a pdf. We're very grateful to Ms. Lorenzo Galés for having answered our questions.
Prof. Joan Ramon Resina of Stanford has kindly let me know that he discusses the need for English language immersion in an interview featured in a newly published collection, What Catalans Want. The book's been published in English and will shortly appear in Catalan. For discussions of language and education policy in a wider political framework, it should be well worth a look!
The Bilingual Advantage
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Published: May 30, 2011
A cognitive neuroscientist, Ellen Bialystok has spent almost 40 years learning about how bilingualism sharpens the mind. (continue)
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The final public meeting on proposed changes to the provincial government's pension plan drew more than 1,000 people in Fredericton on Wednesday night.
Pension Coalition NB has been holding meetings around the province in reaction to the Alward government's announced plans to convert the pension plans for provincial civil servants to a shared-risk model.
That change would transfer some of the investment risk to pensioners and could mean the cost-of-living increase for retirees would change, removing the guarantee of such increases.
The prospect of that worries retirees such as Phyllis Prendergast, who retired nine years ago.
"All though my working life, part of our employment agreement was you pay into the pension plan and this is what you get," said Prendergast. "That was a guarantee and now that's gone, or it could be gone."
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Walter Reinhardt was a university student when Japanese naval aircraft bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Like a number of other young American men in the weeks afterwards, Reinhardt decided to enlist in the armed forces.
"It was the thing to do," he said, when asked why.
He was originally planning on enlisting in the Navy, but the Navy recruiter's office was closed the day he showed up. The Army recruiter was open for business that day, so he enlisted there.
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FC Barcelona are expected to announce the signing for Ivan Rakitic this week. Cesc Fabregas is also set to complete his move to Chelsea in coming days.
It seems that Ivan Rakitic will be a FC Barcelona player once he returns from the World Cup as the Blaugrana management has already agreed a fee with Sevilla's president.
Spanish daily Marca has confirmed the news today by claiming that: "Barcelona hope to officially announce the signing of Ivan Rakitic today. Around six o'clock on Monday evening, Barcelona's vice-president, Javier Faus and sporting director, Andoni Zubizarreta left Sevilla's Sánchez Pizjuán stadium in a club car after laying down the foundations of the transfer. The deal is all but done. Barcelona want to tie up any loose ends before Croatia's opening World Cup game against Brazil this Thursday, and for that reason, Sevilla are negotiating hard for the best deal they can."
Ivan Rakitic emerged as the most valuable player of Europa League. His consistently brilliant displays for Sevilla were also noticed by some of the top clubs of Europe who were vying for his signature. However, FC Barcelona has beaten the competition to sign the Croatian in the early parts of this transfer window.
New Barca boss Luis Enrique consideres Rakitic as the best attacking midfielder of Europe and made him the first priority when he took the reigns of FC Barcelona last month. And as per the request of Luis Enrique, Sporting Director Andoni Zubizaretta made his moves quickly to secure the signature of the player.
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It seems that the arrival of Ivan Rakitic has paved the way out for Cesc Fabregas as the midfielder has reportedly agreed personal terms with the Blues' and will be playing at Stamford Bridge next season.
Experts in Spain have termed the strategy of FC Barcelona as the brilliant one as they will sign Ivan Rakitic for 20 million euros but sell Fabregas to Chelsea for around 45 million euros. And arguably, considering the current level of form, Rakitic is considered as a better player than Fabregas by Luis Enrique.
Meanwhile, Chelsea were in a desperate need for a creative player as they were too much dependent on Eden Hazard last season. Jose Mourinho also has money in his pockets as they have generated 50 million from the sell of David Luiz to Chelsea.
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Pasadena, CA's Gypsyhawk will be celebrating the release of their second album, Reverly & Resilience, with an in-store performance at Vacation Vinyl in Los Angeles, CA. The album release party/performance is FREE and will be held on August 24th at 8:00pm. Additionally, 'The Great Food Truck Race'-winning Grill 'Em All truck will be serving their critically-acclaimed, metal-themed burgers before the show from 6:00pm-8:00pm. Gypsyhawk and Metal Blade invite all fans from the greater-LA area to help celebrate the release of Revelry & Resilience and crush some burgers!
Revisiting the electrifying sounds of bullshit-free 70s rock, Gypsyhawk are a breath of fresh air compared to the endless onslaught of breakdown obsessed bands cluttering up heavy music. Marinating their wares in whiskey and weed, they hurl out blistering riffs and irresistible hooks and grooves, doing their damnedest to ensure that everyone at their shows is having as much fun as they are. With Revelry & Resilience, their second full-length and Metal Blade debut, this vibe bleeds from the speakers from start to finish, determinedly putting a smile on your face and compelling you to throw your hair around, no matter how much or how little you might have. "It's music for girls to shake their asses to and dudes to bang their heads," states vocalist/bassist Eric Harris. "It's good-time rock and roll, and we don't take ourselves too seriously, but at the same time we're not one-dimensional 'yeah-dude-let's-party-all-
Reverly & Resilience will be in stores on August 28th, 2012. Fans can pre-order the album and listen to the first single, Hedgeking, now at metalblade.com/gypsyhawk.
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A German goalie charging off his line to engage a French attacker is not a happy image after Harald Schumacher's levelling of Patrick Battiston in 1982.
If Manuel Neuer surges out of his goal at the Maracana, the effect will be more Beckenbauer than bulldozer.
Joachim Löw, the Germany coach, thinks Neuer could "play in midfield" and Toni Kroos, who fills one of those positions, calls him the team's "11th outfield player." In a tournament of "high" German pressure, Bayern Munich's keeper is reinventing the last line of defence.
"This is the class of Manuel Neuer. He can basically play as a player behind the defenders," Löw said in Rio. "He can basically pass like an outfield player."
In the face of stiff competition from America's Tim Howard, who made a World Cup-record 16 saves against Belgium, Neuer has been the outstanding keeper of this tournament. A crack centre-back's instinct drove him off his line in that second-round tie to kill an Algerian counter-attack 30 yards from his net. Unlike Schumacher v Battiston, there were no broken teeth or vertebrae.
Germany's quest for a first trophy since Euro '96 moves up a gear with the big EU derby against France before an all-South America tie in Fortaleza.
The Germans have finished third at the last two World Cups and were beaten finalists in 2002. The screw is tightening on the claim that Germany's academy revolution after Euro 2000 will produce a clatter of international trophies.
If there is room for doubt, it does not extend to Neuer. Andreas Köpke, Germany's goalkeeping coach, was asked whether he has ever seen a better clean-up specialist than Neuer, who will win his 50th cap against France. "Only Franz Beckenbauer, perhaps," he said.
A sense took hold in Porto Alegre that Algeria would not be reaching the quarter-finals because there was no way past Neuer. France may feel the same nag of fear, though Karim Benzema is more skilled at beating world-class keepers than anyone Algeria could summon in a 2-1 extra-time defeat.
In this World Cup of blitzing counter-strikes and frazzled centre-halves who are having to fend off sprints and low balls whipped into their six-yard box, an imposing, athletic and alert goalkeeper is invaluable.
Germany's official account of the Algeria game has Neuer's performance marked down as "one of the most spectacular by a goalkeeper in the long history of German football". And on the flight back to base the German federation president commandeered the Tannoy to say: "I think we can all say a big thank you to our No 1 tonight. Manu, what you achieved tonight was just absolutely world-class."
Löw said on the eve of the France game: "If a team tries to play high the way we did against the USA and Algeria where the defenders are moving up high, this means you have to go into the opponent's half and it's obvious the goalkeeper has to move up too. If a player can hit a 60-yard pass on the counter-attack you need a goalkeeper who can move up [to intercept]. He has the same technical skills as the others. He has a feeling for the field and a feeling for distances."
Kroos said: "We know Manuel Neuer is an extraordinary football player and there is nobody in the world better than him. With our philosophy and with the way we play he can clear the ball with his foot which is not really normal with a goalkeeper. Having him behind gives you a good feeling.
"He's very important because he's a complete goalkeeper and he's always present when you need him. We try to keep the ball away from him but if it does get that far we know he's going to deal with it."
Neuer's influence on this German side reflects the growing part played in this World Cup by Bayern Munich, whose players have supplied 14 goals, via Thomas Müller, Arjen Robben, Xherdan Shaqiri, Mario Mandzukic, Mario Götze and Julian Green.
Germany fielded a record seven Bayern players against Algeria, though the goals both came from London and the Premier League (André Schürrle and Mesut Özil).
The new German passion for scoring is less well rooted than the tradition of stopping goals. Neuer is part of a grand narrative of goalkeeping, starting, in modern times, with Sepp 'The Cat' Maier, who kept four clean sheets for the victorious 1974 World Cup winning side and made almost 400 consecutive appearances for the Nationalmannschaft.
Maier was a Bayern Munich player, too, as was Oliver Kahn, another with a linebacker's frame and a frequent air of impregnability.
Harald 'Toni' Schumacher is the villain of this piece. In the 1982 World Cup semi-final between France and West Germany, Schumacher stampeded out of his six-yard box with the score 1-1 and flattened Battiston, who had already taken his shot. Even a rugby referee would have sent him off. But Schumacher stayed on and Battiston went to the infirmary. In the penalty shoot-out, which Germany won 5-4, Schumacher saved two French spot-kicks. Köpke, meanwhile, was the German keeper when England lost the Euro '96 semi-final shoot-out at Wembley.
This German squad is plainly ecstatic about Neuer's strength between the posts and mobility. Consider this, from the German federation website: "Neuer's heat map includes blue traces near the touchline on the right and left flanks as well as 30 metres from goal. He also helped to set up some of Germany's chances by feeding the ball to players such as André Schürrle – just as legendary sweeper Franz Beckenbauer might once have done."
"Once I've decided, I see it through, 100 per cent," Neuer says. "That's the way I play." With no prisoners, and no need for ambulances.
- France v Germany live
- France v Germany: The players rated head-to-head
- Henry Winter: Fearless France and German prepare for epic
- Battiston still haunted by Schumacher's brutal foul
- From the archive: Report of France v West Germany, 1982


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Author Will Self correctly said that, at the end of the day, it all comes down to the editing. The words flow forming some sort of cohesive narrative but things like grammar, punctuation and all the other 'tricksy' bits are ironed out under the editor's scrutiny. I have (sounding like a real pro here) been fortunate in having three superb, unpaid editors, who have taken my ramshackle efforts and knocked them into shape.
Of late a real life 'English Professor' (yes, even academics have insane members) has been kind enough to work with me. (Work with me is a defensive posture as I merely do what she tells me and take her amends as gospel.) The question of her sanity, or perhaps mine for inflicting my work on her, needs clarification.
The Village Tales of Fekenham Swarberry are, in themselves a bit 'left field.' I have struggled long and hard to explain them but until recently failed to do so adequately. Imagine if you will four hands on a saucepan (bear with me). The hands belong to Spike Milligan (deceased), Jilly cooper, Fred Vargas and Hergé (also deceased). The ingredients they toss into the saucepan are these: a sprinkle of 'Puckoon' (Under Milkwood might suffice), a dash of bawdy romance, a lick of off-beat detective thriller and a slice of adventure (with a bit of occasional soft porn). Mad as a bag of frogs of course but so is the author.
However, that is not the stuff I sent the lovely L.W who, at this point in time, must be wringing her hands in long distance imitation of what she'd like to do with my throat. The book of short stories currently littering her inbox is entitled 'Simian Simpering – Private Detective and Surrealist Investigator (Dredging Silkworms and Ten Reversible Faces). No, it is not a treatise on world famine but something far less worthy. It is nothing like Fekenham Swarberry either, which is daft enough, but a rather bizarre set of stories, ten in total, that feature a character who really belongs in the bottom draw marked rejects of Edward Lear. They make the term nonsense seem, well, nonsensical.
As I said, I am very grateful to the good lady but also Jason Daniels who I would love to do the cover art but having had him design three for Fekenham, and all as yet unpaid, shall not add insult to injury. Also (sounding like a Miss World winner) young Mark Scammell for his sterling work on my website.
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Lemone Lampley came to De Paul with the grace of a tiger and the soul of a pussycat. But someone has put the growl in the 6-foot-11-inch senior, and Tuesday night Lampley turned predator.
Patrolling the hardcourt with the power and ferocity of a jungle cat, Lampley guided De Paul to a sometimes shaky 70-59 victory over Western Michigan in the Horizon.


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For me it is probably exploring the Timeless Isle and some PVP maybe to test out my buffs,
For me it is probably exploring the Timeless Isle and some PVP maybe to test out my buffs,
The dragons' flame sealed my fate. The world of the living can no longer comfort me.
Probably try the Proving Grounds.
Have a shower, get some bacon then finish my Quest for my cloak.
Get the engineering golem recipe
Get the Sky Golem pattern on my Engineer.
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grabbing the new coins for extra loot.
after that probally starting wrathion follow up and then too timeless isle too rush my legendary cloak.
1) Log onto my paladin and start working on gathering Timeless Coins for the legendary questline.
2) Get the recipe for the Sky Golem on my Warlock
VP cap. Cry.
Same thing I do every day, Pinky.
Try to loot Mandokir's raptor.
If World of Warcraft has taught me anything, it's that teaching a crowd something is far harder than teaching individuals.
I'd like to try flex raiding, but I don't think that will be the first thing I will do. I'll most probably just go to the Timeless Isle, fight the Celestials and after that, hit the Proving Grounds.
I. Like. To. Kill. Things.
For Pony!
Timeless isle, I'm on a new alt so I'll need the gear.
One cannot simply quit wow his way into Mordor.
Head for the isle to get my cloak/coins/eng recipe/face smashed in by horde.
1) First thing I will do is use my scroll of resurrection my friend sent me.
2) Check out the Timeless Isle.
3) See what character to boost to level 80.
4) Do what ever else I can really since I won't have much time.
1) Warforged Emblems
2) Heading to Timeless Isle to complete legendary quest chain.
3) Sky Golem Schematic.
Well after I've resubbed 2 weeks after it's release to avoid all of the server issues that are common place on patch releases I will probably buckle down and start doing LFR and seeing how many flex raid groups are up and maybe give that a go. Ultimately though I just want to get some cheap gear and do SoO.
I'm also planning on taking my main through all of the 1-60 content as I still haven't played through all of the stories. Also it's worth an achievement .
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Guess what, Sparky? I already knew that. I LIVE here. I read NRA's disgusting, over the top, breathless endorsement in my copy of American Rifleman.
Maybe NRA should pay some attention to folks who live in the states where these smarmy bastards come from, instead of sitting in their NoVA Ivory Tower deciding what looks good on paper.
That might be nice, but unfortunately, the paper record is all they have to go on, as limited as it is. The record is fact. Opinions vary.
I suspect there is some payola going on, too. That is, Manchin contacts NRA, has a sit down, tells his story, forks over 20 or 30 large ....


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I am sorry it has been so quiet around here... We are gearing up for Shop Hop By The Bay which starts next Wednesday. We will have a trunk show of Alison Glass' Quilts from Market. If you love Alison and Angela Walters you don't want to miss it. Tons of new notions are coming in today and new displays... it is going to be a busy weekend.
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Kristanne Elizabeth Andersen and Daniel Thomas Mahony of Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, recently announced their engagement.
The bride-elect is the daughter of Kathy Medley of Simi Valley, Calif., and Harold Andersen of Sequim, Wash. She was born in Juneau and lived here for 11 years. She then moved to California. She was a valedictorian of Royal High School in Simi Valley in 1993; graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, with a baccalaureate degree in civil engineering in 1998; and graduated from the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales, with a master's degree in natural resources in 2002. She is an environmental engineer with the New South Wales Department of Land and Water Conservation.
The groom is a native Australian, and the son of Timothy and Marlene Mahony, of Yangan, Queensland. He received his high school diploma from Moranbah State High School in 1986 and completed an apprenticeship with Telestra in 1988. He works with Telestra as a technician/linesman and has recently been named the ADSL Area Expert for the New England area of New South Wales.
The wedding is planned for Jan. 25, 2003, in Armidale, New South Wales.
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Swimming the Distance for Cancer Research
Hundreds of swimmers -- including Rush employee Megan Kono -- chose to swim Lake Michigan in July to support cancer research, prevention and treatment at Rush.
On July 20, about 250 swimmers gathered at Ohio Street Beach along the Chicago lakefront to support cancer research at Rush. This year's Swim Across America event in Chicago generated $320,000 in vital support of Rush's cancer programs.
Megan Kono, who works in Rush's Office of Philanthropy, was among the dedicated men and women who took part in the 20th annual Swim Across America. Before the event, Kono wrote a blog post for Rush InPerson about why she chose to get involved with Swim Across America.
The following is an excerpt from her blog post:
For as long as I can remember, swimming has been a big part of my life. From tiny tots swim lessons to year-round club teams, from high school swimming all the way through college, the sport has served as a constant anchor for me growing up.
But after graduating in 2011 and taking a position on the Philanthropy staff at Rush, I wasn't sure that swimming would have a place in my life as an adult, and I certainly didn't think it would weave into our mission at Rush. After learning about the partnership between Rush and Swim Across America, I'm happy to say I was wrong.
Swim Across America is a nationally recognized foundation dedicated to increasing both awareness and funds in the fight against cancer. Ordinary people all over the country take part in the many open water events that Swim Across America organizes, swimming to raise money for cancer research.
This summer marks the second year that Swim Across America has partnered with Rush to raise funds for research projects in our cancer center. Once again, proceeds from the Swim Across America Chicago Open Water Swim will be used to forward cancer research at Rush and bring us one step closer to eradicating this awful illness.
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How Linked Lifecycle Data can transform your systems engineering environment
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Date archived: December 20, 2016 | First published: October 09, 2012
Organizations today are building increasingly complex products and systems, and this engineering effort is generating more and more data with ever-increasing complexity. This trend is likely to continue. In this article, Ben Williams explains how Linked Data architectures can enable capabilities that help solve challenges inherent in building complex products and systems and how they help increase innovation.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – According to an affidavit from Allen Superior Court, an 88-year-old woman was attacked by a naked teenager after letting her dog out into her backyard.
On Friday, October 28 at approximately 7 a.m. Riley Heilman, 18, left his home naked, jumped the backyard fence of the 88-year-old woman's home and began to chase the woman's small dog, court documents said. The woman had just let the dog out of her back door.
When the woman saw a naked Heilman chasing her dog she attempted to direct the dog back into the house, court documents said. At this point, Heilman allegedly pushed his way into the back door of the woman's home. In the process of forcing his way into the residence, Heilman crashed into the glass screen door, causing it to shatter. Heilman then allegedly entered the residence and started attacking the woman. According to court documents, Heilman struck the woman numerous times in the head with a closed fist and dragged her across the kitchen floor by the hair, causing a large clump of hair to come out.
Court documents advised, the woman's 51-year-old male neighbor heard the screaming and ran to the woman's back door. The neighbor saw Heilman standing naked over the injured woman, attacking her while clutching a piece of wood. Heilman then allegedly attacked the neighbor, and the neighbor and Heilman fell down on the back patio where Heilman grabbed a nearby dog bowl and struck the neighbor numerous times in the face and head, causing the neighbor's glasses to break.
Another neighbor called the police after hearing all the commotion and witnessing the scene from her home. When an officer arrived he found a naked Heilman struggling with the male neighbor. Heilman disregarded all demands made by the officer and continued to fight and resist arrest. During the fight, Heilman threw the officer's radio. The officer then tried to stun Heilman with a Taser, but it had little effect, court documents said.
When two other officers arrived, they managed to gain control of Heilman and handcuff him. According to court documents, the woman was taken to the hospital, having sustained several injuries. The male neighbor sustained minor injuries. Heilman was taken to Allen County Jail where he faces charges of burglary, two counts of battery, residential break-in, resisting law enforcement and public nudity.


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Former UN drug czar Antonio Maria Costa dropped a bombshell speaking at the British Empire's leading thinktank the Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House in London, on July 2. Attacking the campaign for drug legalization, he charged this campaign would have the same result as the only drug legalization in history, Britain's Opium Wars against China. Costa repeatedly warned that his evidence "is going to hurt some members of this audience" and then went on to describe the criminal greed of the British East India Company, and today's "coalition of bankers, private investors, venture capitalists," out to profit from legalization. He concluded pointing to the massive scandal in the U.S. around the hundreds of billions of dollars in cocaine money laundered by Wachovia Bank, and that "despite the evidence, no indictment, nobody was arrested, nobody went behind bars." This coverup, as EIR has reported, was orchestrated in 2010 by the Obama Administration, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and his top assistant Lanny Breuer. The massive drug money flow documented in the Wachovia case is the core of the scandal around U.S. government orchestration of otherwise illegal trafficking of weapons to the Mexican cocaine cartels, known as the "Fast and Furious Scandal." We are waiting for the next, Wachovia/drug money phase of the scandal, the last straw in the impeachment of President Obama.
Here are substantial excerpts from the transcript of Antonio Maria Costa's July 2 nine-minute comments at Chatham House:
"The reorganization of drug policy to curb crime is needed, but, it cannot be made on the basis of the simplistic argument, legalize drugs, and crime will disappear. Fighting crime by legalizing drugs would cause a drug epidemic, and I can prove the point on the basis of historical evidence, even if it is going to hurt some members of this audience. The pressure to legalize drugs comes from different sources, some innocently well-meaning that I respect, others dangerously speculative. I fear the latter, I fear in particular the coalition of bankers, private investors, venture capitalists, pharmaceutical companies and alike, that in the expectation of drug legalization, are spending huge sums to develop drug brands, just like tobacco companies have done over the years. It would be detrimental to society if the re-examination of drug policy, things of that sort, led to the replacement of drug mafias with drug capitalists, therefore leading to privatization of investors gains, and socialization of health costs.
"But I said earlier, that historical evidence would give me support to prove that drug legalization would cause a drug epidemic and I said, even if this would hurt some members of this audience. History has indeed shown that investors greed can be harmful, and as harmful as mafias guns. Think of the East India Company that for over a century made huge money by poisoning the Chinese with opium. That first and only case so far of drug legalization cannot and should not be repeated. The tragedy of drug legalization forced upon China by Western countries, especially this country, at the end of the Opium Wars dwarfs what is happening in Mexico and Guatemala today, and I pay a tribute to what the Mexican authorities are doing. Over 20 million people died in China, poisoned by opium we forced them to take, against the 60,000 people in Central America today."
And concluding, Wachovia:
"Second, anti-money laundering measures. Think of the Wachovia Bank of New York caught, not long ago, after the crisis, recycling, listen to the number, $480 billion of Mexican drug money, recycling $480 billion, 'b,' like 'billion,' of drug money. Despite the evidence, no indictment, nobody was arrested, nobody went behind bars. Countries must follow the money trail to curb the economic power of cartels.
"Third, we must force financial institutions to clean their balance sheet of bloody assets. At the time of illiquidity the crisis, and the aftermath of the financial crisis, too many banks welcomed, and still do, drug money. Asset forfeiture, mentioned by the Ambassador earlier, must be drastic. It is not."
"And finally, and this will be very long-term measures, promote economic growth and job creation especially in the communities where poor young people are attracted by drug trafficking."
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