EFITA Newsletter / 728

Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 29 February 2016

EFITA newsletter / 728 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment

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Le Big Data Agricole : quelle réalité aujourd’hui ?
10 mars 2016 - PARIS
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/colloque-le-big-data-agricole-quelle-realite-aujourdhui/

CIGR AgEng conference
26-29 June 2016 - AARHUS, Denmark
Abstracts are flowing in for this coming event and almost every sub-session received submissions. However, we are not at the volume yet where this will be a challenge for our big crowd of reviewers. Consequently, we have decided to extend the deadline until 28 of February for submission of abstracts. Please consider presenting your excellent paper at the conference.
The conference covers subjects going from water irrigation, animal, environment and plant production technologies to bioenergy, systems management and post harvest and information techonologies.
See: http://www.conferences.au.dk/cigr-2016/
Contact: Morten Dam RASMUSSEN
E-Mail: mdr(a)eng.au.dk

Recapping the National Farm Machinery Show
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/blog/recapping-national-farm-machinery-show

Umstrittene Glyphosat-Studie: Brauer bezeichnen Pestizid-Vorwürfe als "absurd" (the anti-glyphosat and anti-chemicals is completely incredible in Germany too! - GW)
Sehen : http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/glyphosat-in-bier-brauer-bezeichnen-pestizid-vorwuerfe-als-absurd-a-1079283.html

Auch in Deutschland… Komplettierte Nachrichten: Wie STERN und Süddeutsche ein leidendes Kind missbrauchen
Dies ist mein schwerer Vorwurf: Beide Redaktionen wissen genau, was sie tun. Sowohl „Stern“ als auch „Süddeutsche Zeitung“ haben das Leiden dieses Mädchens zum Zweck der Desinformation missbraucht. Was haben Aixas Nävi mit Gentechnik und dem Versprühen von Chemikalien zu tun? Aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht nichts, aber auch gar nichts. Als Dermatologen sollten wir gegen diese Form des Journalismus protestieren. Denn schweigen wir, wer soll dann sprechen?
Sehen : http://www.achgut.com/artikel/komplettierte_nachrichten_wie_stern_und_sueddeutsche_ein_leidendes_kind_mis

Bioenergy is the weakest link in EU renewable energy policy
See: http://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/opinion/bioenergy-is-the-weakest-link-in-eu-renewable-energy-policy/

Swincar E-Spider
Voir : http://www.swincar.fr/
Voir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdM5yCBy0jY
Voir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FbW_kVYcl0
Contact: Luc BECKER
E-mail: luc.becker(a)wanadoo.fr

I would like to inform you about my e-mail address change due to the reorganization of the university
Shall I remove myself and subscribe with new address? With my best regards,
Contact: Laszlo BARANYAI
E-mail: baranyai.laszlo(a)etk.szie.hu

My answer: I changed your address in the efita mailing list, but you are right: you can remove yourself your old address and subscribe with your new address.

Brexit
Thank you for your comment in relation to this in the latest EFITA newsletter. Exit from the EU has to be the stupidest, most short-sighted decision ever contemplated by politicians, and there have been so many.
As far as I can see, it is solely intended to give the Westminster Government carte blanche to continue their assault on workplace rights, wider human rights and environmental protection, while cossetting the financial "industries" and using our money to protect them in their criminal excesses. Merci bien.
Contact: Dr Dick MORRIS
E-mail: dickm(a)waitrose.com

My remark (GW): I am not a specialist but it seems to me that even for the "financial industries", the Brexit would not be profitable!

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Warren Buffett's letter to the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders (I do believe that most of the following views and arguments stand for the EU too! – GW)
It’s an election year, and candidates can’t stop speaking about our country’s problems (which, of course, only they can solve). As a result of this negative drumbeat many Americans now believe that their children will not live as well as they themselves do.

That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history.

American GDP per capita is now about $56,000. As I mentioned last year that – in real terms – is a staggering six times the amount in 1930, the year I was born, a leap far beyond the wildest dreams of my parents or their contemporaries. U.S. citizens are not intrinsically more intelligent today, nor do they work harder than did Americans in 1930. Rather, they work far more efficiently and thereby produce far more. This all-powerful trend is certain to continue: America’s economic magic remains alive and well.

Some commentators bemoan our current 2% per year growth in real GDP – and, yes, we would all like to see a higher rate. But let’s do some simple math using the much-lamented 2% figure. That rate, we will see, delivers astounding gains.

America’s population is growing about .8% per year (.5% from births minus deaths and .3% from net migration). Thus 2% of overall growth produces about 1.2% of per capita growth. That may not sound impressive. But in a single generation of, say, 25 years, that rate of growth leads to a gain of 34.4% in real GDP per capita (Compounding’s effects produce the excess over the percentage that would result by simply multiplying 25 x 1.2%.). In turn, that 34.4% gain will produce a staggering $19,000 increase in real GDP per capita for the next generation. Were that to be distributed equally, the gain would be $76,000 annually for a family of four. Today’s politicians need not shed tears for tomorrow’s children.

Indeed, most of today’s children are doing well. All families in my upper middle-class neighbourhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth. His unparalleled fortune couldn’t buy what we now take for granted, whether the field is – to name just a few – transportation, entertainment, communication or medical services. Rockefeller certainly had power and fame; he could not, however, live as well as my neighbors now do.

Though the pie to be shared by the next generation will be far larger than today’s, how it will be divided will remain fiercely contentious. Just as is now the case, there will be struggles for the increased output of goods and services between those people in their productive years and retirees, between the healthy and the infirm, between the inheritors and the Horatio Algers, between investors and workers and, in particular, between those with talents that are valued highly by the marketplace and the equally decent hard-working Americans who lack the skills the market prizes. Clashes of that sort have forever been with us – and will forever continue. Congress will be the battlefield; money and votes will be the weapons. Lobbying will remain a growth industry.

The good news, however, is that even members of the “losing” sides will almost certainly enjoy – as they should – far more goods and services in the future than they have in the past. The quality of their increased bounty will also dramatically improve. Nothing rivals the market system in producing what people want – nor, even more so, in delivering what people don’t yet know they want. My parents, when young, could not envision a television set, nor did I, in my 50s, think I needed a personal computer. Both products, once people saw what they could do, quickly revolutionized their lives. I now spend ten hours a week playing bridge online. And, as I write this letter, “search” is invaluable to me. (I’m not ready for Tinder, however.)

For 240 years it’s been a terrible mistake to bet against America, and now is no time to start. America’s golden goose of commerce and innovation will continue to lay more and larger eggs. America’s social security promises will be honored and perhaps made more generous. And, yes, America’s kids will live far better than their parents did.
See: http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2015ltr.pdf

Seenager, I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager)

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later.

I don't have to go to school or work.

I get an allowance every month.

I have my own pad.

I don't have a curfew.

I have a driver's license and my own car.

The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant. They aren’t scared of anything. They have been blessed to live this long - why be scared?

And I don’t have acne!

Life is good! Also, you will feel much more intelligent after reading this, if you are a Seenager.

Brains of older people are slow because they know so much. People do not decline mentally with age. It just takes them longer to recall facts because they have more information in their brains. Scientists believe this also makes you hard of hearing as it puts pressure on your inner ear.

Much like a computer struggles as the hard drive gets full, so too do humans take longer to access information when their brains are full.

Researchers say this slowing down process is not the same as cognitive decline. The human brain works slower in old age, said Dr. Michael Ramscar, but only because we have stored more information over time. The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.
Also, older people often go to another room to get something and when they get there, they stand there wondering what they came for. It is NOT a memory problem - it is nature’s way of making older people do more exercise.

SO THERE!!

I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names. So, please forward this to your friends; they may be my friends, too.

And finally, in 2016… Happy New Year!!!!!! (even if it is a bit late!)

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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".
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