Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 15 February 2016


EFITA newsletter / 726 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment



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Vacations
Our friend José Francisco Agular from the University of Costa Rica invited me when we met in July 2015 in Poznan (PL) at the last Efita congress. I was very happy and accepted this invitation. End of January, beginning of February we had for two weeks fantastic holydays in Costa Rica. This is the reason why you did not receive the efita newsletters for the last weeks. Thanks José.


The famous Selman A. Waksman (no link with me – GW), who discovered the streptomycine antibiotic, member of the Agricultural Academy of France and Nobel price of medecin
E. Choné, a friend of mine being in charge of the archives of our Agricultural Academy created in 1761, gave me a copy of a few documents related to the membership of Selman A. Waksman (my homonym without any family link) of our Academy.
See: http://www.academie-agriculture.fr/
aaf-mensuel/images/MEA-2016-9-photos/Selman_A_Waksman_AAF.pdf


WCCA AFITA 2016
21-24 June 2016 - Sunchon National University, SUNCHON, Korea
Korea is one of the leading country with rapid development in the field of Information and Communication Technology. These technologies will be able to contribute to agricultural and rural life to great extent by converging agricultural technology into rural life.
Korean government recently focused on ICT convergence in various field of economy such as industry, agriculture, education etc, and increased the agrifood ICT convergence research fund. At this point, we believe it is very meaningful to hold WCCA·AFITA 2016 in Korea.
The conference will provide a forum for agriculture related professionals to exchange information, experiences and expertise on ICT applications and developments in various fields of agriculture.
We are now looking forward to welcoming many participants in Sunhon in Korea in June 2016 and will do our outmost to make your stay in Korea pleasant, entertaining, educational and to provide you with further thoughts for Agri-ICT convergence at this conference.
See: http://www.wcca2016.org/

Do your genes determine your entire life?
See: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/mar/19/do-your-genes-determine-your-entire-life


13 qualities Google looks for in job candidates
See: http://uk.businessinsider.com/what-google-looks-for-in-employees-2015-4?r=US&IR=T


World Bank Forecasts Global Poverty to Fall Below 10% for First Time; Major Hurdles Remain in Goal to End Poverty by 2030
See: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/10/04/
world-bank-forecasts-global-poverty-to-fall-below-10-for-first-time-major-hurdles-remain-in-goal-to-end-poverty-by-2030


For the first time, less than 10 percent of the world is living in extreme poverty, World Bank says
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/10/05/
for-the-first-time-less-than-10-percent-of-the-world-is-living-in-extreme-poverty-world-bank-says/


Humour: Funny story about a "terrific" GM tomato by the satirical "The Onion"
See: http://www.theonion.com/article/monsanto-lab-lockdown-after-scientists-find-shatte-52171


Happiness: Is it in your DNA?
See: http://www.globalpost.com/article/6719882/2016/01/14/happiness-it-your-dna


Invitation to a Dialogue: Reclaim Reason in Politics
We know, not only from the Trump campaign, but also from the successes of Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and others, that pandering to the anxieties of lower-income, less-educated or older white voters is where we find the most energy today in American politics. The debate and the division are driven by the skillful manipulators of economic and cultural anxieties, both real and perceived.

Those most susceptible voters are, by now, immune to evidence and rational argument. Our media and political environment is built to reassure them hourly about how right they are, to more deeply fix them in a one-sided worldview.

We are past mere political division. We have embarked on a more visceral era in which emotion supersedes political discussion. A reasonable argument is no longer enough. Somehow, we must address those anxieties to reclaim the place of reason in our political life. We must abandon the idea that there are only two sides to our politics, a left and a right. Politics becomes something better when we look above the divide and see problems not from two sides but from all sides.
See: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/opinion/invitation-to-a-dialogue-reclaim-reason-in-politics.html

For the first time, less than 10 percent of the world is living in extreme poverty, World Bank says

Typical Irish Baby

An Irishman was drinking in a pub in London when he gets a call on his cell phone. He orders drinks for everybody in the bar as he announces his wife has just produced a typical Irish baby boy weighing 25 pounds. Nobody can believe that any new baby can weigh in at 25 pounds, but the man just shrugs, "That's about average up our way, folks... like I said… my boy's a typical County Clare baby boy."

Two weeks later the man returns to the pub. The bartender says, "Say, you're the father of that typical Irish baby that weighed 25 pounds at birth, aren't you? Everybody's been making bets about how big he'd be in two weeks.... so how much does he weigh now?"

The proud father answers, "seventeen pounds." The bartender is puzzled and concerned. "What happened?" "He was 25 pounds the day he was born."

The father takes a slow swig of his Jameson Irish Whiskey, wipes his lips on his shirt sleeve, leans into the bartender and proudly says, "Had him circumcised."

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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
Mick Harkin, ex Secretary of EFITA, who has kept us amused with his Friday Jokes over the years, has published a book on Amazon entitled "Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit".
See: http://www.jokesquotesandanecdotes.com
Contact: Mick HARKIN
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