Paris, 24 May 2004
EFITA newsletter / 160 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Attention!
Please feel free to provide us with news that will feed this newsletter.
Without your active participation it will die…
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
mailto:waksman (a) acta-informatique.fr
Wanted: Experience on LEADER+
If you are involved in a LEADER+ project, please contact me. I would like
to exchange information.
mailto:katonaj (a) helios.date.hu
Behaviour of Pesticides in Air, Soils and Water
8 - 9 July 2004 - Cologne (DE)
See: http://www.akademie-fresenius.de
See: http://www.akademie-fresenius.de/uploads/Agro_web.pdf
Workshop: Multilingual eContent Management
16 June 2004 - Brussels, Belgium
The basic theme is how one can manage eBusiness content issues on a multilingual
basis. Participants receive an overview of eBusiness topics relevant to standardization,
focusing for the first time on the previously neglected aspect of multilinguality
paired with practice-oriented solution strategies.
See: http://linux.termnet.org
EVA - Electronic imaging in the Virtual Art
July 26-30, 2004 - London
A team of Russian researchers will describe current research in e-culture, multimedia,
electronic imaging, visual art and cultural heritage at the EVA 2004 conference.
EVA - Electronic imaging in the Virtual Art - will be held in London, UK on
July 26-30, 2004. It includes presentations of new research projects funded
by the European Commission's IST programme as well as case studies and the use
of virtual reality in cultural application.
See: www.eva-conferences.com/eva/london/index.htm
The Russian team will be meeting EU researchers at the conference to discuss
potential research collaboration. Information on expertise and project ideas
of about 40 Russian organisations will be available at the Russian exhibition
stand.
See: http://www.singleimage.co.uk/admire-p/eva.php
Contact: Olga Pekushkina
mailto:olga.pekushkina (a) singleimage.co.uk
PROGIS-Conference 2004 "IT in Rural Areas"
22 - 24 September 2004 - Austria / Carinthia
PROGIS will organize its International Conference 2004 this year again in Austria
/ Carinthia, at the lovely "Woerthersee" and would like to invite
you cordially to take part. See new technologies - get new ideas - talk with
other participants - take home benefits for you!
Many new IT-challenges will result from the joining of 10 new countries to the
European Community and from new EU-legal regulations. Winners will be those
who adopt approved concepts and who will be visionary enough to enable further
developments which will increase automatically their own profits.
With this conference, PROGIS wants to bring together relevant organizations,
partners and customers in order to give answers to important questions linked
to legal requirements, to show solutions and to share experiences of users coming
from many European countries.
After our conferences last year, with a total of 150 participants coming from
15 countries we could convince many of our partners being on the right way and
could also find some new, very innovative thinking partners who are bringing
IT and specifically PROGIS based products to the entire rural area of their
countries. Farmers, foresters, mayors, utility managers, cooperatives in forestry
and agriculture as well as public organizations are meanwhile heavily using
PROGIS products or components of our product line.
Are you interested in finding out answers, see practical examples and learn
for your benefits? If yes, please join the upcoming PROGIS conference "IT
in Rural Areas"!
See: http://www.progis.com/event/conf2004/index.htm
A prerequisite to effective implementation of e commerce procedures…
Facilities for sampling, testing, grading and certification of agricultural
produce are necessary before commodities can be traded by e-commerce. These
should be available as near the site of harvesting of the produce as possible.
At present, this task is done by brokers/agents of buyers of the produce. The
farmer has to take the word of the broker which may sometimes be unreliable
yet hard to challenge. An assessment by accredited, neutral, professional agency
that performs the task accurately, reliably and promptly at reasonable cost
will greatly help the farmer and the buyer alike, particularly in e-commerce.
I am speaking this in the context of food grain farming and trading at the farmer's
level in India.
Contact: Choppella V.Ramachandra Murti
mailto:cvrmurti (a) yahoo.com
Cinderella is now 95 years old.
After a fulfilling life with the now dead prince, she happily sits upon
her rocking chair, watching the world go by from her front porch, with a cat
named Bob for companionship. One sunny afternoon out of nowhere, appeared the
fairy godmother. Cinderella said, "Fairy Godmother, what are you doing
here after all these years"? The fairy godmother replied, "Cinderella,
you have lived an exemplary life since I last saw you. Is there anything for
which your heart still yearns?"
Cinderella was taken aback, overjoyed, and after some thoughtful consideration,
she uttered her first wish: "The prince was wonderful but not much of an
investor. I'm living hand to mouth on my disability checks, and I wish I were
wealthy beyond comprehension".
Instantly her rocking chair turned into solid gold. Cinderella said "Ooh,
thank you, Fairy Godmother." The fairy godmother replied, "It is the
least that can do." "What do you want for your second wish?"
Cinderella looked down at her frail body, and said, "I wish I were young
and full of the beauty and youth I once had." At once, her wish became
reality, and her beautiful young visage returned.
Cinderella felt stirrings inside of her that had been dormant for years. And
then the fairy godmother spoke once more:
"You have one more wish; what shall it be?"
Cinderella looks over to the frightened cat in the corner and says, "I
wish for you to transform Bob, my faithful old cat, into a kind and handsome
young man."
Magically, Bob suddenly underwent so fundamental a change in his biological
make-up that, when he stood before her, he was a man so beautiful the likes
of him neither she nor the world had ever seen.
The fairy godmother said, "Congratulations, Cinderella, enjoy your new
life!" With a blazing shock of bright blue electricity, the fairy Godmother
was gone as suddenly as she appeared.
> >For a few eerie moments, Bob and Cinderella looked into each other's
eyes. Cinderella sat, breathless, gazing at the most beautiful, stunningly perfect
man she had ever seen.
Then Bob walked over to Cinderella, who sat transfixed in her rocking chair,
and held her close in his young muscular arms. He leaned in close, blowing her
golden hair with his warm breath as he whispered.........
"BET YOU'RE SORRY YOU NEUTERED ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!."
Contact : Christopher WATHES
mailto:christopher.wathes (a) bbsrc.ac.uk
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