Paris, 19 January 2004


EFITA newsletter / 143 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment


The first picture of Mars
See: http://www.acta-informatique.fr/apps/accesbase/dbtoweb.asp?d=5559&t=0&identobj=ppIPwgpe&uid=57305290&sid=57305290&idk=1


Postponement of the AFITA/WCCA2004 deadlines
The organizing committee of AFITA/WCCA2004 has decided to postpone the dead line for the abstract submission to February 10, 2004.
Subject areas of interest include but are not limited to:
1. Rural development
2. Adoption and extension
3. Agricultural risk management and farm management, IPM
4. Decision support system and modelling
5. E-Ag-Business and production chain management
6. Information resource and databases
7. Grid and web services
8. Field data acquisition and recording
9. GIS, remote sensing and precision agriculture
10. Food safety, food security, traceability, and quality management
11. Education and distance learning
12. Digital library/knowledge representation and library science
13. Water management
14. Multi-lingual services
15. Aquatic resource management
16. Bio-information
17. Environmental control
18. BOFs.
See: http://www.afitaandwcca2004.net/
Contact: Seishi NINOMIYA
mailto:snino@affrc.go.jp
Contact: G. SCHIEFER
mailto:schiefer@uni-bonn.de


Nineteenth COLUMA Conference -International Meeting on Weed Control
8 - 10 December 2004 - Dijon - France
Call for offered papers
See: http://www.afpp.net/Calendrier/BMH_appel.htm


ICT indicators of 15 EU and USA and Japan
See: http://www.cordis.lu/indicators/
Information provided by Laura LORENZO
mailto:allorgr@gencat.net


Land Parcel Identification Systems in the frame of Regulation (EC) 1593/2000 to be implemented by 1 January 2005
See: http://mars.jrc.it/documents/lpis/2580_LPIS_discussion_EN_v_1_4.pdf


Goemar finds in the sea the answers we are searching for on earth
See: http://goemar.com


La fiera meccanica permamente - promozione ALTO TRAFFICO
See: http://www.expomec.it/map.html


Recognition and assessment of acute and chronic animal pain
See: http://www.vet.ed.ac.uk/animalpain/introduction.htm


Portal de Cooperación de España y FAO
See: http://www.fao.org/tc/tca/esp/index_es.asp
Contact: Francisco López
mailto:francisco.lopez@fao.org


Tecnología para la agricultura
See: http://www.fao.org/sd/teca/search/index_es.asp
Contact: Francisco López
mailto:francisco.lopez@fao.org


PROGIS newsletter
See: http://www.progis.com/download/form/newsletter.htm


PROGIS - WinGIS test-version
See: http://www.progis.com/download/form/winGIStrialversion.htm


PROGIS - AGROffice demo-movie
See: http://www.progis.com/download/form/downlaodagrofficemovie.htm

Who are you ?
From your e-mail addresses, I have an idea about your origin…

Tripod
The Smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr. Smith kissed his wife and said "I'm off. The man should be here soon".
Half an hour later, just by chance, a door to door baby photographer rang the doorbell, hoping to make a sale.
- "Good morning madam. I've come to...".
- "Oh, no need to explain. I've been expecting you," Mrs. Smith cut in blushing.
- "Really?" the photographer asked. "Well, good! I've made a specialty of babies."
- "Thats what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat".
After a moment she asked, embarrassed, "Well, where do we start?"
- "Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch and perhaps a couple in the bed. Sometimes the living room floor is fun too--you can really spread out!"
- "Bathtub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work for Harry and I".
- "Well Madam none of us can guarantee a good one every times. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you will be pleased with the results."
- "My, that's a lot of......" gasped Mrs. Smith.
- "Madam, in my line of work, a man must take his time. I'd love to be in and out in five minutes, but you'd be disappointed with that, I'm sure".
- "Don't I know it," Mrs. Smith said quietly
The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on top of a bus".
- "Oh, my God!!: Mrs. Smith exclaimed, tugging at her handkercheif.
- "And these twins turned out exceptionally well--when you consider the fact that their mother was so difficult to work with."
- "She was difficult?" asked Mrs. Smith
- "Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep, pushing to get a good look."
- "Four and five deep?" asked Mrs. Smith, eyes widened in amazement.
- "Yes" the photographer said "and for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling and I could hardly concentrate. Then darkness approached and I began to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just packed it all in."
Mrs. Smith leaned forward, "you mean they actually chewed on your um .... equipment?"
- "That's right. Well madam, if you are ready, I'll set up my tripod so that we can get to work."
- "Tripod?????"
- "Oh yes, I have to use the tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big for me to hold very long. Madam? Madam? --Good Lord, she's fainted!"
Contact: Anne GOUYON
mailto:anne.gouyon@ideforce.com


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