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Who: Myself, EuropeanaLocal colleagues

What: Sightseeing in Umbria and Marche, meeting in Ancona

Where: Gubbio and Spoleto (Umbria), Bolognola, Monte Sibillini, Macerata, Numana, Monte Conero, Ancona (Marche)

When: March 2009

Farmlands in the countryside in the western part of Marche

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The New Year was kicked off with a bonfire, Champagne and entry-level fireworks in accordance with the latest Norwegian law on pyrotechnics. (From right to left: Natasja, Kjetil and Asgjerd).

Preceded by the Quran and Communism, Muammar al-Qaddafi in 1975 proceeded to write the Green Book. The Green Book in a very simple way summarizes – and solves – the bulk of global problems over less than 100 pages of text. The work consists of three sections:

Part I: The Solution of the Problem of Democracy

Part II: The Solution of the Economic Problem

Part III: The Social Basis of the third Universal Theory

It is particularily in this third section of the Green Book that the entertaining bits are to be found. In this chapter Qaddafi tackles such topics as…

• Women
• Minorities
• The Blacks
• Horsemanship

…all of which are treated as equal and given proportional space in the text. The only section where Qaddafi resorts to 3rd party sources is in the chapter about women where he quotes a gynecologist which states such dramatic facts as that:

“It is an undisputed fact that both man and woman are human beings.”

“According to a gynaecologist, woman menstruates or suffers feebleness every month, while man, being a male, does not menstruate and he is not subject to the monthly period which is a bleeding.”

Follow the link below to download the Green Book:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8744/green10.zip

Who: Evaluation Working Group, EuropeanaLocal

What: Project meeting with a hint of sightseeing

Where: Veria, Greece

When: September/October 2008

These gentlemen may look innocent enough but combined with sufficient amounts of Tsippouro they proved to be quite sufficient to kick-start our evening out.

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A brief visist to London in the end of June to attend the kick-off meeting of the EuropeanaLocal project at Regents College.

On the negative side:

• Etihad was considerably less nice on this leg than I’ve become accustomed to from my previous flights with them travelling from Brussels to Abu Dhabi. Any basket is likely to have one rotten egg. Etihad’s seems to be the check-in attendant at Heathrow.
• The chairs at the conference venue were targeted more at efficient use of space rather than a comfortable sitting experience.
• The taxi drivers in London likes to rip me off.

On the positive side:

• The project kick-off was a success.
• The kick-off dinner