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How Old People Park Their Car
See: http://biggeekdad.com/2012/01/how-old-people-park-their-car/


Incredible… it’s impressive… one can localize any street address… and it’s even faster than Google Earth (?)
See: http://showmystreet.com/


About efita.net (Who will answer the question?)
I wonder if EFITA is function as an organisation even in 2012. Do you have some Swedish members? Best regards
Contact: Christer SVENSSON
E-mail: christer.s.svensson(a)telia.com


Salon du Végétal
21 - 23 February 2012 – ANGERS (FR)
See: http://www.salonduvegetal.com/web/en/home_p_4.html


agINFRA: creating a data infrastructure to support agricultural communities
agINFRA is a European innovative Integrated Infrastructure Initiative (I3) project - launched November 2011 - that will introduce agricultural scientific communities to the vision of open and participatory data-intensive science. To achieve this aim, agINFRA will design and develop a scientific data infrastructure for agricultural sciences that will facilitate the development of policies and services that promote the sharing of data among agricultural scientists in a manner that develops trust within and amongst their communities.

Through the establishment of an open and interoperable data e-Infrastructure, agINFRA will remove existing obstacles concerning sharing, processing and accessing scientific information and data in agriculture, as well as improve the preparedness of agricultural scientific communities to face, manage and exploit the ever-increasing abundance of multi-disciplinary data that is available to support agricultural research.
 
Ultimately, agINFRA will demonstrate how a data e-Infrastructure for agricultural scientific communities can be set up to facilitate data generation, provenance, quality assessment, certification, curation, annotation, navigation and management.

>>> Goals and Objectives
The agINFRA project represents a unique opportunity for the innovation and transfer of scientific and technological results in the agricultural field into real outcomes that help improve scientific community-driven policy development and service deployment for data generation, management and sharing. The key goals and corresponding project objectives are as follows:
> Increased sharing and federation of agricultural data
> Efficient data management in the agricultural research process
> Deployment of robust European service infrastructure for scientific agricultural data
> High interoperability between agricultural and other data resources
 
>>> Partners
The agINFRA Consortium unites world-leading scientific and technical research institutes, specialist SMES and agricultural enterprises and NGOs, including one of the main players in the agricultural information community - the Food & Agricultural Organisation of the UN – to design, develop and promote a scientific data infrastructure for agricultural sciences. Each partner brings relevant, high quality experience to the team, ranging from major agricultural databases and in-depth data infrastructure design and deployment skills through to first-hand domain expertise in agricultural sciences, an extensive understanding of European project requirements and a proven track record in training and capacity building.

Collectively, the agINFRA Consortium as whole provides a one-stop-shop of agricultural subject matter, data repository and e-Infrastructure expertise.
See: http://aginfra.eu/
Contact: Laura GAVRILUT
E-mail: info(a)aginfra.eu, lgavrilut(a)agroknow.gr


Plantwise update - new clinics start in Rwanda and Pakistan
Plantwise is bringing together a wide ranging network of international partners to provide direct support and advice to farmers who are facing devastating losses to plant pests and diseases.

Plantwise received funds of $28 million thanks to our two main donors UK Department for International Development and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and others.

During 2011:
- We helped Rwanda, Peru, Suriname and Pakistan begin plant clinics in their countries
- The number of Plantwise assisted clinics worldwide rose by 47% to 182 (with a doubling of the number of clinics in Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and Uganda).

We worked towards the next stage of the online Plantwise knowledge bank which will include:
- A new diagnostic support tool. Based around images of all types of damage and symptoms, it will assist with diagnosis and link the user directly to factsheets with treatment recommendations
- A tailored interface for each country, which would include information on the top crops and pests, as well as country specific treatment advice is being developed

See: http://www.cabi.org
Contact: Phil ABRAHAMS
Email: p.abrahams(a)cabi.org


Free Tools For Online Marketing!!
There are several tools/resources available for Online marketing like: email marketing, website design and its promotion, SEO etc.
Email marketing plays an important role when one has huge database (of leads) to use.
Social media has become an integral part of Online marketing these days.
For e.g. LinkedIn plays an important role for same.
One of the preferred methods is Search Engine Optimization but must be molded with "Pay for Performance Model".
For e.g. Resultfirst.com is one of the leading Unique "Pay For Performance SEO" Provider for it, wherein you pay only when the keywords desired rank which can be stated as "Rank First, Pay Later".
See: http://www.resultfirst.com/landing/11may2011/index.php?q=d


The fastest thing in the Universe
The top physicists from the United States, Russia and Cyprus are delivering presentations about their findings at an international physics convention.

First, the American top physicist goes to the podium to deliver his speech:
"Ladies and Gentlemen, based on our findings from our latest experiments, we have reinforced the fact that LIGHT is indeed the fastest thing in the universe".
After an hour of presentation, presenting, among others, the various experiments conducted in particle accelerators, the audience applauds enthusiastically.

Then, the Russian top physicist goes to the podium to deliver his own speech:
"Dear colleagues, I beg to differ from my American colleague and I am here to announce that, based on our research, the human THOUGHT is the fastest thing in the universe, and not light".
So, after 2 hours of presentation, theories and arguments with the audience, the Russian scientist gives the floor to the top Cypriot physicist.

"Dear friends, I must disagree with both my American and Russian colleagues, and I must state that the fastest thing in the universe is DIARRHOEA".

The audience was shocked and angry by this statement.

"Please, allow me to explain, it's very simple: Last night while I was sleeping in my hotel room, I woke up realising that I was sick with diarrhoea. And then, before I could even THINK turning the LIGHT on, I sh*tted in my bed sheets!"

Contact: Orestis TRINGIDES
E-mail: orestis(a)tringides.com


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