Paris, 10 April 2006
EFITA newsletter / 255 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
After the announcement of the 16th International Agritech Exhibition - 9
– 11 May - Tel Aviv, Israel - in this newsletter
Many thanks, Guy, and best regards. There are some bottles of wine waiting
for you when you will come to Rome.
Contact: Giorgio AMANTE
Email: giorgio.amante(a)tin.it
42nd AgriMMedia seminar ICT and fertilisation (in French)
11 May – PARIS
See: http://www.acta-informatique.fr?d=6348
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
Email: waksman(a)acta-informatique.fr
IANIS Annual Conference 2006
“TOWARDS eREGIO 2010 – Challenges & Threats for the competitiveness
of the regions in the Global Knowledge Economy”
15 - 16 June - BLEKINGE - Sweden
See: http://www.ianis.net/Blekinge2006/
3rd EU eLearning Conference 2006
4 - 5 July 2006 - HELSINKI
Theme 1: Digital literacy for all
Theme 2: Research, Foresight and Innovation for learning
Theme 3: Partnerships for lifelong learning
See: http://www.elearning2006.fi/
Seventh Agricultural Ontology Service (AOS) Workshop on "Ontology-based
knowledge discovery: Using metadata and ontologies for improving access to agricultural
information"
in collaboration with the Fifth Conference of the Asian Federation for Information
Technology in Agricultural (AFITA - 2006)
9 - 10 November 2006 – BANGALORE - India
The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Automatic and semi-automatic metadata generation
* Decision-support tools
* Knowledge acquisition methods
* Knowledge elicitation techniques
* Knowledge extraction techniques
* Knowledge representation techniques (in ontologies)
* Metadata and accurate knowledge mark-up
* Ontology application
* Ontology learning
* Ontology life cycle
* Ontology modelling
* Question-answering systems
* Rules in ontologies
Important dates
* Paper submission deadline : April 20, 2006
* Announcement of paper acceptance : April 30, 2006
* Camera-ready paper submission deadline: June 26, 2006
Paper submission
All papers should be written in English. Electronic versions of the paper can
be submitted via: http://caitian.cn:7001/lianong/en/send.jsp
See: http://www.fao.org/aims/aos7.jsp
Point of view (in Fr-English): CAP management
TelePAC is the web service of the French ministry of Agriculture dedicated
to CAP management. When connecting this web service, French farmers are able
to establish their declarations on the basis of the maps of their farms. For
the first time in 2006, the TelePAC web service will not be closed after the
declaration period. It will remain open to enable farmers to download the maps
of their fields for e.g. further use within a GIS based farm management system.
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
Email: Waksman(a)acta-informatique.fr
Biofuels in the European Union A Vision for 2030 and Beyond
See: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/energy/pdf/draft_vision_report_en.pdf
Agrimente 2006 : German agriculture
See: http://www.zmp.de/produkte/fax_online/agrimente.asp
See: http://www.bmelv-statistik.de
Two cows (new version)
DUBAI** SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. You create a website for them and advertise them in all the
magazines. You create a Cow City or Milk Town for them. You sell off their milk
before the cows have even been milked to both legit and shady investors who
hope to resale the nonexistent milk for a 100% profit in two years time. You
bring Tiger Woods to milk the cow first to attract attention.
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*QATAR** SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. They've been sitting there for decades and no one
realized that cows could produce milk. You see what Dubai is doing; you go crazy
and start milking the heck out of the cows in the shortest time possible. Then
you realize no one wanted the milk in the first place.
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*SAUDI SYSTEM:*
Since milking the cow involves nipples the Gov't decides to ban all cows in
public. The only method to milk a cow is to have a cow on one side of a curtain
and a guy milking the cow on the other or to hire females and train them to
milk the cows ... The debate is still going on.
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*BAHRAIN** SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. Some high Gov't official steals one, milks it, sells the
milk and pockets the profit. The Gov't tells you that there is just one cow
and not enough milk for the people. The people riot and scream death to the
Gov't and carry Iranian flags. The Parliament , after thinking for 11 month,
decides to employ ten Bahrainis to all milk the cow at the same time and so
cutting back on unemployment.
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*EGYPTIAN SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. Both are voting for Mobarak!
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*AMERICAN SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of
four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead.
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*FRENCH SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. You go on strike because you wanted three cows.
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*RUSSIAN SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them
again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2
cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
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System:*
You have two cows. Both are mad.
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*AUSTRALIAN* *SYSTEM:*
You have two cows. You give one to the Americans and one to the British and
you go back to! shagging sheep!
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Contact : Sébastien RECORD
Mél : sebastien.record(a)missioneco.org
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