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Ibiza 2006

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This was a marvellous holidays. 1 week with Matilde, Sylke, Vincent, Christiane and Lennart. Before I was some days with my Gerhard Stamer, Ingrid and their daughter Joanna, friends! CIMG0751

Demand the nearly impossible

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But when politicians look only one or two weeks ahead, we, the citizens, should compel them to look one or two years ahead. When they raise their sights to one or two years, we should insist on ten or twenty. We should not demand the impossible of them; just the nearly impossible. Demand it of them and of ourselves. For we are the thousand million, that never have spoken yet.

On State monopoly of power

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..Schoolchildren are currently fed the disinformation that Native Americans and other peoples in pre-state societies were inherently peaceable, leaving them uncomprehending, indeed contemptuous, of one of our species greatest inventions, democratice government and the rule of law.....

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Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate

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Steven Pinker's importance

I think that Steven Pinker's theories are an important part of a keyset to rethink the concepts of "Freedom and Progress". The existence of a "human nature" also justifies something as a concept of "humanity" but thought very severly only in a "non-transcendental"way. But there are global human values - from evolution and civilization.

https://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/conlaw/pinkers.html

Paper on Merging of FAODOC and CDR accepted by GIL Management

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https://gilw028/GILWS-Library/papers/Microsoft%20Word%20-%20FAO-Repository-Project_2006-07-04.pdf
The paper on merging the metadata workflow of FAODOC and the Corporate Document Repository has been accepted by GIL Senior Management. The paper has been written commonly by people in my Group and GILWW. It paves the way to a more efficient management of FAO publications metdata.

This Blog links to the paper but it is available only FAO internatlly

Essen in der Maremma

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Es is bekannt, dass dies ein Ort fuer Schlemmer ist. Auch das Restaurant Coq, das zum schlecht beleumundeten Hotel La Palma gehoert, ist excellent (40 € zu zweit mit Bistecca Fiorentina).
Ein Produzent, der gute Fleischwaren produziert (Cinta Senese!!!!!) ist Capal-Bio, Strada Pescia Florentina 23, cell.333-2153630, auch Schafskaese kann man bekommen.
Bekannt ist La parrina in Albinia, aber ihr Rotwein gefaellt mir nicht.

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