Paris, 1 December 2008


EFITA newsletter / 388 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment


"A lesson of Realpolitik": It was a joke... (Newsletter 17 November)
See: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_remus_rodham.htm
Contact: E. ZUNDEL
E-mail: etienne.zundel(a)tours.inra.fr


What is your vision for the future of Mobile Telephony in Agriculture Development?
e-agriculture is looking for your suggestion for new services or improving existing services, and ideas for collaboration going forward.
You can access the forum on Mobile Telephony at www.e-agriculture.org. Just log in and participate! We are looking forward to your input!
Join the participants from over 50 countries who are contributing to this exciting forum!


Launch of the Rural-eGov Observatory for Rural Small & Medium Enterprises
The public version of the Rural-eGov Observatory is now on-line at: http://egov.aua.gr:8080/observatory/. In the Rural-eGov Observatory you can search and find resources related to e-government in various European regions. We would like to invite you to try using the Rural-eGov Observatory and then spend some minutes completing this short evaluation questionnaire: http://infolab-dev.aua.gr/ruralegov/questionnaire/.

More specifically, in the Rural-eGov Observatory you can search, retrieve and find information about the following:

(i) e-Government services from five European countries (i.e. UK, Germany, Greece, Slovenia, and Poland) that can be useful for supporting business operations of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in rural areas.

(ii) Training resources on how SMEs can use and take advantage of e-Government services in their everyday business operations.

The Rural-eGov Observatory is currently operating in five languages (English, German, Greek, Slovenian and Polish). It has been developed in the context of the Rural-eGov pilot project that is funded by the European Commision's Leonardo da Vinci (LdV) programme.

See: http://rural-egov.aua.gr

Contact : Alexander SIDERIDIS, Argiris TZIKOPOULOS
Mél : as(a)aua.gr, tzikopoulos(a)aua.gr


EuroTier news
> BioEnergy Europe 2008 - Plant manufacturers completely satisfied
The member companies of VDMA Power Systems reported that they were extremely satisfied with the course of the exhibition. The week was characterised by throngs of visitors, interesting discussions with customers and initial contacts with potential new customers.
See: http://www.eurotier.de/3513.0.html

> Results of a survey of exhibitors
The organiser commissioned the firm Walter, Wissler & Partner Trade Fair Marketing from Basle to conduct a representative survey of exhibitors at EuroTier 2008. All exhibitors' stands were included in this survey on Thursday, 13 November 2008. Responses from 364 exhibitors were available for the preliminary evaluation.
See: http://www.eurotier.de/exhibitorsurvey.0.html

> Preliminary results of a survey of visitors
The DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft – German Agricultural Society) commissioned the firm Walter, Wissler & Partner Trade Fair Marketing from Basle to conduct a representative survey of visitors to EuroTier 2008. For this purpose 2,609 visitors were interviewed at different locations in the exhibition. From the wealth of data available the following are particularly interesting .
See: http://www.eurotier.de/visitorsurvey.0.html


However, I think also that you have crossed the yellow line with this bad-taste joke about the priest, the cock and the goat
I may have missed this important information, please include this one in an upcoming newsletter.
Contact: Dan SUMNER
E-mail: dan(a)primal.ucdavis.edu


The priest, the cock and the goat? (on the efita web site)
See: http://www.efita.net?d=6432


However, I think also that you have crossed the yellow line with this bad-taste joke about the priest, the cock and the goat (2)
I had wondered if religious sensibilities would be offended with that story about the priest, but I thought it was funny, and certainly it was on a humour par with previous submissions from our friend Mick in Ireland. Appended are three more "stories" with elements to offend just about everybody ... who is inclined to be offended. Anyway, I thought they were funny.
Contact: Bill PARLETTE
E-mail: bparlette(a)sunrise.ch


However, I think also that you have crossed the yellow line with this bad-taste joke about the priest, the cock and the goat (3)
On the contrary - My (English speaking) para-efita circle (i.e. group that I sent quotations from efita) found the joke superb!
Contact: Alecos TRINGIDES
E-mail: tringos(a)logos.cy.net


However, I think also that you have crossed the yellow line with this bad-taste joke about the priest, the cock and the goat (4)
Don't worry about it Guy! I thought the joke was great.
Good on you for publishing the criticism.
Contact: Andrew CRAGG
E-mail: acragg(a)farmline.com


However, I think also that you have crossed the yellow line with this bad-taste joke about the priest, the cock and the goat (5)
Jokes are jokes, usually somebody will not completely agree with the subject. Please, do not hesitate to publish them. Fortunately and hopefully we belong to a not narrow mind community.
The newsletter reaches people around the world, keeping us up to date with IT in Agriculture.
Jokes are a very attractive part of the newsletter. They stimulate colleagues, students and me, to read and discuss about IT in Agriculture and, of course, about the jokes. Please, keep going.
PS: I did not understand the "bad-taste joke". Was the bad taste related with goat or cock meat?  :-)
Contact: Marcelo G. CANTERI
E-mail: canteri(a)uel.br


Proud To Be A Paddy!

A recent study found the average Paddy walks about 900 miles per year.

Another study found that we drink, on average, 22 gallons of beer a year.

That means we're averaging about 41 miles to the gallon.

Kind of makes you proud to be Irish...!

Contact: Mick HARKIN
E-mail: harkin(a)iol.ie


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