“In other words, the earlier town of Mochlos was not on a separate small island at all but on Crete itself. Dry land extended between Crete and what is now the little island”.
“What happened to the sea level since then is not that the general ocean level rose dramatically, Lewis said, but that the island sank” - Do you really believe this?
EN.Wikipedia "Dabbawala", DE.Wikipedia "Dabbawala" - “A lunchbox delivery and return system that delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in India, especially in Mumbai”.
Partizipation & nachhaltige Entwicklung in Europa "SOZIOKRATIE" - “1.) Das Konsentprinzip. Eine Entscheidung gilt dann, wenn kein Teilnehmer einen schwerwiegenden und argumentierten Einwand gegen einen zu fassenden Beschluss hat (ist kein Vetorecht, sondern das Aushandeln auf der Basis von nachvollziehbaren Argumenten)”.
“Whether you speak it fluently or have never heard it before, you will speak French at the end of your basic training. Basic training aims at teaching a non French speaking recruit a minimum of 500 words of French before he can join his regiment”.
“That is thought by using the system we call binome in the Légion. This meaning that every French speaking recruit is assigned a non speaking recruit to endorse as tutor in the learning of French. During French class and for the entire duration of basic training. Sometimes, depending on the demographics of the section one might be assigned two binome (trinome), I for that matter was assigned a guy from Finland and a guy from South Korea (perks of being a native speaker) . When your binome commits mistakes blatantly related to a poor understanding of basic French, the punishment is collective for you and your binome. Needless to say this accelerates the language learning process significantly”.
EN.Wikipedia "Skeuomorph", DE.Wikipedia "Skeuomorphismus" - “Eine Stilrichtung hauptsächlich im Design, bei der Objekte in ihrer Gestaltung ein anderes Material oder eine Form eines älteren, vertrauten Gegenstandes nachahmen, ohne dass diese durch ihre Funktion begründet ist”.
The author develops the idea that a software developer is more a gardener who plants plants, instead of beeing a constuctor who builds a building ( in German: “Ein Gärtner der anbaut statt zu bauen” ).
Event “Bye-bye Management - Lesung und Diskussion mit 'Management-Exorzist' Niels Pfläging” ( “Bye-bye Management - Lection and discussion with 'Management-Exorzist' Niels Pfläging” ) by Niels Pfläging and neuwaerts GmbH at Transformationswerk in Hannover, 2015-04-21.
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