Paris, 27 March 2006
EFITA newsletter / 253 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Point of view (in Fr-English): Newsletters
Last week, I told you that the most important French agricultural newsletter
(LMA) has 38 000 subscribers. I was wrong. I forgot the vitisphere.com newsletter
that has 45 000 subscribers. When LMA (Le Mél Agricole) deals with large crops
and animal production, vitisphere.com is dedicated to vineyards and wine producers.
Now, with only 25 000 subscribers to my newsletter "Du cote du web et de
l'informatique agricole", I feel "small".
> LMA newsletter
See: http://www.terre-net.fr or http://www.web-agri.fr
Contact: Pierre BOITEAU
Email: pboiteau(a)isagri.fr
> Newsletter of "wine lovers"
See: http://www.vitisphere.com
Contact : Michel REMONDAT
Email: michel.remondat(a)vitisphere.com
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
Email: Waksman(a)acta-informatique.fr
Prague conference - Info and registration and call for paper
16-17 May 2006 - PRAGUE
See: http://www.iszl.cz/
Contact: Karel CHARVAT
Email: lesp.charvat(a)netart.cz
EuroTier (organised by our old friend Dr Karl Schlösser)
14 -17 November 2006 – HANOVER - Germany
See: http://www.eurotier.de/
IST 2006
21-23 November - HELSINKI
One of the main themes will be ICT research objectives and procedures under
the new Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-2013). At the same time, the event aims
at supporting Europe's innovative potential in developing and rolling out ICTs.
See: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/index_en.htm
AMI@Netfood Project: The AMI@netfood Strategic Research Agenda on ICTs applicable
to Agrifood and Rural Development is already available for validation
AMI@Netfood is a Specific Support Action under the Information Society priority
of the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme. The objective of AMI@Netfood
project is to support the implementation of the Information Society Technologies
(IST) Research Priority and Framework Programme, providing a long-term vision
on future trends on Scientific and Technology Research oriented to the development
and application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the European
agri-food industry and rural development domain.
A draft Strategic Research Agenda with the key research guidelines to support
the development of the agri-food and rural areas from the perspective of the
ICT technologies is now available. This draft SRA will be validated though consultation
process including validation template and several workshops across Europe. The
template is available in the project web page in several languages. To participate
in the workshops, please contact us.
Full SRA is available in PDF format in the following link:
http://www.ami-netfood.com/Deliverables/D3.1_SRA_draft_v2.pdf
A summary of the SRA is available in PDF format in the following link: http://www.ami-netfood.com/Deliverables/Draft_SRA_summary.pdf
Validation templates (several languages) are available in:
www.ami-netfood.com
Email: info(a)ami-netfood.com
The future of maize
See: http://www.arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr/fr/com_detail.asp?id=280
Catholic parrots
A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, "Father, I have a
problem. I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing."
"What do they say?" the priest inquired.
"They say, 'Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?"
"That's obscene!" the priest exclaimed, then he thought for a moment.
"You know," he said, "I may have a solution to your Problem.
I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible.
Bring your two parrots over to my House, and we'll put them in the cage with
Francis and Peter. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship,
and Your parrots are sure to stop saying that phrase in no time."
"Thank you," the woman responded, "This may very well be the
solution."
The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest's house. As he ushered
her in, she saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage holding rosary
beads and praying. Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots In with
them. After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison "Hi,
we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?"
There was stunned silence.
Shocked, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed,
"Put the beads away, Frank. Our prayers have been answered.
Contact : I. KITRON
Email: kitron1(a)terra.com.br
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