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ISINI 2022 - Wrocław, Poland, 01-02 September 2022, preliminary conference programme
The fifteenth international conference of the International Society for the Intercommunication of New Ideas (ISINI) is organized by the WSB University in Wroclaw, Poland on Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd September 2022.
Thursday 01.09.2022 ISINI panels
Link to panel meeting (opening session, panel 1): https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWE3Yzg5OTYtZjRlMi00MmNjLWFlOGQtMDIwNTMzYmM2MDc4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2253bc24c5-73ad-421a-9408-3ea555be4a07%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f4d11ca5-bbf5-41e4-bb47-226576ed337f%22%7d
09:00 – 09:30 Opening. Johannes (Joost) Platje (ISINI president), Katarzyna Kurek (ISINI vice-president), Wim Westerman (CEVI president), Mehmet Baha Karan (President of the Boards of Trustees, CEVI).
09:30 – 11:30 Panel 1: Current Issues and Perspectives in Finance, Management and Business Administration
Panel chair: Mehmet Baha Karan, Head of Finance and Accounting Division, Hacettepe University, Turkey, and President of the Boards of Trustees, CEVI
- Mehmet Baha Karan, Hacettepe University, Turkey, Can cryptocurrencies be the future of money? The role of democracy (access to paper: https://www.cerem-review.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cerem_6_1_art_01.pdf)
- Cem Menten-Bülent Cekic, Hacettepe University, Turkey, Ranking of G20 Countries According to Sustainable Energy Production Types with Topsis Method
- Goknur Buyukkara, Hacettepe University, Turkey, Relationship Between Property and Equity Markets: Evidence From UK and Norway
- Sıla Can Demir, Hacettepe University, Turkey, The Moderating Role of Lack of Alternatives on The Relationship Between Psychological Resilience and Career Change Intention
- Saadet Nur Karadenizli, Hacettepe University, Turkey, The Effect of Workplace Loneliness and Leader-Member Exchange on Perceived Job Performance
11:30 - 14:00 Break
14:00 – 16:30 Panel 2: The multiple crises at our door
Link to panel meeting: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Mzg4MTMzMjItMmJiYy00YzgxLTliYzItOWFhZGQ5NTFkYmQ0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2253bc24c5-73ad-421a-9408-3ea555be4a07%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22f4d11ca5-bbf5-41e4-bb47-226576ed337f%22%7d
Chair: Johannes (Joost) Platje, WSB University in Wrocław, Poland
Co-chair: Katarzyna Kurek, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic.
- Johannes (Joost) Platje, WSB University in Wrocław, Poland. Sustainability – a dystopian research agenda
- Diana Rokita, Opole University of Technology, Poland, Economic dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic in university towns and cities. Evidence from Opole in Poland
- Markus Will, University of Applied sciences Zittau/Görlitz, Germany, Existential risk, long tails and idiocy.
- Johan van Ophem, Katarzyna Kurek, Wim Heijman, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands,
Czech University of Life Sciences, Czech Republic, Applying shift-share method to study regional inequality
- Laurenc L. DE VITA, Independent Researcher, USA, Make me dictator and I will save humankind. A rational approach to the emergency of the 21st century (access to paper: https://www.cerem-review.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cerem_6_1_art_04.pdf).
Ela Balsewicz; Maastricht University, The Netherlands, Time & Place Consulting Brussels, Belgium, Centralizing the decentralized? Explaining the regulatory design of the EU Markets in Crypto Assets proposal.
- Monika Paradowska, Wrocław University, Poland, Nudges for (un)sustainable urban mobility.
16:30 - 17:00 Break
17:00 – 19:00 Panel 3: Latin American perspectives on global risk
Link to panel meeting: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzllZjdmNDQtM2FlZC00ZmZjLThhZjgtODFhODhmZmQwZjI5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2267553645-0db3-4480-b127-6f819a79e367%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22d80b8b63-0975-427a-bb76-11ee97c32bac%22%7d
Chair: David Zepeda Quintana, Universidad de Sonora, México.
- Francisco Vargas, Vannia Domínguez Borbon and Luis Renteria Guerrero, Departamento de Economía, Universidad de Sonora, México, Environmental risk, a financial approach
- Bárbara Ormeño Coronado, Lisbeth Simón Ortiz and Natalia Romero Hernández Equipo RSS, Facultad Tecnológica, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Chile, Attitudes towards the risks of climate change: contributions from a Chilean case study
- Javier Esquer Peralta, Posgrado en Sustentabilidad, Universidad de Sonora, México, Barriers deterring young people's environmental awareness
- Biagio Giannetti, Graduate Program in Production Engineering, Universidade Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Risk of Poverty in Brazil: An EMERGY-Based Approach and the Five Sector Sustainability Model
19:00 ISINI 2024 - organization of 16th ISINI conference
Friday 02.09.2022 Special CEVI session on "Energy and Valuation Issues"
09:00 – 10:30
Chair: Wim Westerman, Groningen University, The Netherlands.
Co-chair: Kazim Baris Atici, Hacettepe University, Turkey.
Link to panel meering: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/6436d7f0cb0445cf8d6cead2642022aa
09:00 – 09:30 Wietze Lise, Decomposition of CO2 emissions over 1987–2018 in Turkey
09:30 – 10:00 Sıdıka Başçı, Ayşenur Şahinler, Time-frequency Connectedness Between Green Bonds and Clean Energy Markets
10:00 - 10:30 Mustafa Kaya, Mehmet Baha Karan, Erdinç Telatar, Electricity Price Forecasting Using Deep Learning Approaches: an Empirical Study on Turkish Markets in Normal and Covid-19 Periods
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:30
Chair: Wim Westerman
Co-chair: Kazim Baris Atici, Hacettepe University, Turkey.
Link to panel meeting: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/6436d7f0cb0445cf8d6cead2642022aa
11:00 – 11:30 Robin van Emous, Rytis Krušinskas, Wim Westerman, Sector and Country Effects of Carbon Reduction and Firm Performance
11:30 – 12:00 Nermin Yaşar Başkaraağaç, The Causal Relationship Between ESG and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Panel of Commonwealth Independent States
12:00 - 12:30 André Dorsman, Some words on ESCO's and closure CEVI part ISINI conference
James Thewissen, Announcing the CEVI conference in May, 2023 (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
Call for papers
As per ISINI tradition, you are cordially invited to submit topics, summaries of full papers that are within the scope of the ISINI society. The Society is driven by:
- fostering the discovery and dissemination of new ideas, in particular in economics and other social sciences (e.g. law, legal science, history and political science),
- testing these ideas and to study the application to problems of the real world.
- fulfilling these purposes by creating and upholding an environment where economists and practitioners regularly meet, consult and cooperate with scholars from other disciplines.
The major instrument of ISINI has until now been the conference. We hope to stimulate research that focuses on a cluster of pressing and actual social economic problems. The world economy and its constituent political entities see themselves confronted with a host of threatening problems, climate change among them. However, recent world conflicts and covid-19 pandemic show that if we want to preserve or build up a decent and well-functioning society, other societal problems deserve serious discussion as well.
Any topic related to the above is welcomed to be discussed. Below a description of topics developed by ISINI members:
1. The multiple crises at our door – lack of crises was a state of mind.
Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine bring up different weaknesses in the integrated global economy, ranging from energy dependence, increasing inequalities and price shocks to instability of global supply chains. The Ukrainian war threats the rearrangement of the globalized world order in an unpredictable direction. Added to the socio-economical-political challenges, scenarios related to environmental resource depletion and climate change remain untapped . Multiple crises are looming around the corner, while the sustainability discourse seems to center towards finding optimal transformations in order to persist our way of living. However, the basis for sustainability is hope. survival. In this context, the aim of science and policy is to eliminate lies, nonsense, threats to human existence, etc. It is about eliminating mistakes and problems that can destroy us, as well as enabling people, organizations and society to deal with such mistakes and problems when they cannot be prevented. This means a change in the approach as the world is too complex to engineer top-down. And if we undertake policy – know what not to do. This approach requires a change in the way people think as well as worldviews (mental models), as well as organizational and societal goals – it is not about bringing us into heaven, but keeping us out of hell. A Leitmotiv of the approach is: "The road to heaven may be worse than hell."
Within this general context, contribution to discussion are invited. Short opinion papers and op-eds can be published in the Central European Review of Economics and Management.
An example of a contribution to the discussion is the article "Make me dictator and I will save humankind. A rational approach to the emergency of the 21st century" by Laurenc L. DE VITA (https://www.cerem-review.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/cerem_6_1_art_04.pdf).
For participation, please contact:
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
- New Consumer Agenda (Will consumers become The Fifth Estate?).
In 2020, European Union proposed the New Consumer Agenda. It aims to empower European consumers to make informed choices and play an active role in the ecological and digital transition wherever they are in the European Union. Consumers are considered as pivotal elements in economic growth expectations. The Agenda is expanded into five pillars. They serve to empower the consumers to make sustainable choices. The new Agenda introduces measures that promote a fair digital and green society, taking into account that consumer behavior. A new element to this consumers' document is the emphasis on health and digital services effecting from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The New Consumer Agenda presents a vision for EU consumer policy from 2020 to 2025 focusing on five key priority areas:
- Green transition– The Commission aims to ensure that sustainable products are available to consumers on the EU market and that consumers have better information to be able to make an informed choice.
- Digital transformation – The digital transformation is radically changing consumers' lives offering new opportunities but also presenting them with challenges.
- Effective enforcement of consumer rights – While enforcement of consumer rights is the responsibility of Member States, the Commission has a coordinating and supporting role.
- Specific needs of certain consumer groups – Certain groups of consumers in certain situations can be particularly vulnerable and need specific safeguards, for instance children, older people or those with disabilities.
- International cooperation – In a globalised world in which online purchases transcend borders, cooperation with international partners has become crucial.
The New Consumer Agenda opens new paths for the consumer's economy introducing a holistic approach to the EU Single Market. It aims to tackle the market and societal changes aligning the national consumer policies. Implementation of the new Agenda is as well expected to boost the economy of consumer choice integrating the green growth. It will have direct implications for the economic growth which we would like to discuss during the ISINI 2022. The discussions we expect are about the changes that will take place in following 1-5 areas of economy.
We open the floor for following research problems: 1) change in consumers choice/ sustainable driven choice? Not anymore price driven choice?; 2) Who is a modern consumer and who is not? Income based definition?; 3) Reduced globalization and consumers empowerment?; 4) Degrowth as a consequence of changes in market organization?
European Commission. Public domain.
For participation, please contact:
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
- Economic growth vs. degrowth? Directions to take. (What is the best response to pandemic crisis and running inflation?)
Economic growth ceases to play an important role in the face of destabilization caused by the global pandemic and environmental damage. Growing energy demand and growing energy production pegged with the GDP can be hold accountable for economic growth disbalance and resource wars (e.g. recent conflicts in Middle East, Ukraine). Increasing consumption and globalization of logistics is related with environmental problems and greenhouse gases emission. New economic shocks (pandemic, global inflation) emerge because we are growth dependent. Nevertheless, modern economies continue to be oriented towards market growth and technological transformation, regardless the fact that the economic growth is on global credit.
Economic degrowth calls for creating a future where societies live within their ecological means, with localized economies and resources management more equally distributed through democratic institutions. Degrowth addresses the unsustainability of economic growth. It intends to decouple GDP from greenhouse gas emissions by downscaling production and consumption while ensuring legislation for distributing emission permits on an annually declining basis. Degrowth corresponds with the principles of 'wellbeing economics' such as societal values as health, nature, education, and communities.
Whereas developing countries are following the economic growth agenda, the developed economies become to introduce degrowth oriented policies incl. Elements of the degrowth are conceptualized by the EU Green Deal policy packages.
We would like to encourage debates on the economic growth and edgrowth concept as counterbalancing the externalities. Does degrowth have chances for replacing growth policies globally? Can degrowth be a credit-free economic approach? What are the alternatives to GDP? New economic indicators to substitute the GDP? New sustainability indicators? These questions are posed in the context of general aims: Staying with the limits of 1.5C, climate actions; Creating communities based in resources; Living within our means; Ecosystem thinking
Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Public domain.
For participation, please contact:
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
- Latin American Panel.
This an online session takes place on Thursday 1 September 2022, at 17:00 CET (09:00 local time in Sonora, Mexico). For participation, please contact:
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.
Messe Frankfurt. Public domain.
5. !!Special CEVI session on "Energy and Valuation Issues"!!
The objective of the CEVI session is to bring together academics and practitioners from all over the world to focus on timely energy finance and investments, financial performance, energy markets and valuation issues in the energy sector worldwide. Specific topics refer to energy issues, and include:
Financial Regulation; Financial Markets; Financial Risks; Asset Pricing; Value at Risk; Capital Structure; Sourcing Capital; Corporate (Re-) Structuring; Corporate Governance; Behavioural Finance; Financial Performance; Cost Control; Financial Accounting; Fiscal and Legal Issues.
The submission deadline is July 1, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be made shortly hereafter.


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Watch Out: Samsung Reportedly Making Gear 2 with SIM Card
The wearables war has finally gotten started, thanks to Google's announcement yesterday of Android Wear, and the accompanying announcements of Motorola's Moto 360 and the LG G Watch. Not to be outdone, it seems as though Samsung is looking to free the smartwatch from its reliance on the smartphone entirely. A post on TechCrunch today reports that the Galaxy Gear maker is looking into releasing a Gear 2 smartwatch equipped with its own SIM card, potentially giving users the ability to make calls and send texts right from their wrists without any accompanying phone.
The news comes by way of a report in the Korea Herald, which reports that Samsung is talking with Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom about bringing a SIM-enabled Gear 2 to market. According to the article, an unnamed source within SK Telecom says that such a model of Gear 2 would "only be available in Korea for a while, but did not rule out the possibility of a release in other global markets." The article also points out that a Gear 2 with its own SIM card would likely suffer a much higher rate of battery consumption than a non-SIM model, so that's a potential challenge that Samsung may need to reckon with before making this move happen.
Another important factor is that the Galaxy Gear 2 is built on Tizen, Samsung's proprietary operating system. While reports say that the Tizen OS can run Android apps, the process isn't as simple as just downloading and installing an .apk file. More importantly is this question: would users want a SIM-powered Tizen smartwatch as their main mobile device?
That's really the big question for whether or not a gadget like this would really ever take off. By now the world has not only embraced the idea of smartphones, but now basically relies on them. It seems like a stretch to ask people to ditch their phones in favor of wrist-mounted communicators. Because, really, there's no reason for a SIM-enabled smartwatch if you've already got a smartphone…right? Unless you want to have two mobile accounts, with one being strapped to your arm.
Is a SIM-powered smartwatch the next evolution of wearables? Or an experiment that doesn't need to happen?
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George Soros Teams Up With Koch Brothers to Promote Big Tech Censorship
After Charlottesville Project will bring political elites and big tech together
The Koch Brothers have announced they will be teaming up with big tech companies, universities and fellow billionaires, including George Soros, to fight what they term 'online extremism.'
The globalist Koch Brothers recently announced they would not be supporting Donald Trump's re-election campaign, intending to endorse the Democrats.
The brothers are also working with leftist billionaire George Soros in what seems to be a new wave of Internet censorship.
[RELATED] George Soros Gave $408k to Jussie Smollett Case Prosecutor Who Dropped Charges
This July, the After Charlottesville Project will host a second summit in San Francisco, California, bringing political and business leaders under one roof to discuss curbing 'political terrorism,' a blanket term used to describe conservative independent voices.
According to the events press release:
The focus on this year's summit will involve the "private tech sector" and "best practices on the fight against hate and extremism online."
Representatives for the Anti-Defamation League and the Charles Koch Institute will join with big tech companies.
"Now more than ever is the time to create communities that value diversity, inclusivity and positive change," Michael Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia and the founder and chair of the Communities Overcoming Extremism Project, said in a statement.
Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Censored with A.I Algorithms Says ADL ~ from @Know_More_News pic.twitter.com/JheWaT7Hhm— Taylor 🌻 (@itsinfrontofu_) May 1, 2019
"We're excited to assemble with these forward-thinking tech leaders to explore what positive outcomes we can gain from an event full of powerful conversations."
The news comes almost a month after President Donald Trump's administration has launched a new tool designed to fight online censorship and big tech bias directly to the White House.
The online tool allows Americans to report political censorship on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook directly to President Trump.
In a tweet on Wednesday, the administration announced the tool, declaring it is "fighting for free speech."
"No matter your views, if you suspect political bias has caused you to be censored or silenced online, we want to hear about it!" the White House stated in the tweet with a link to the censorship reporting tool.


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PM Expresses Concern over Flood Crisis in Southern Thailand
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has expressed her concerns over the flood crisis in the South of Thailand while instructing related agencies to monitor the water levels and find protective measures to ease the plight of southern residents.
Ms. Yingluck has instructed the Thai National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage to consult with the Ministry of Science and Technology to hammer out a solution to the flood problem down south. The committee was also encouraged to be in touch with all southern provincial governors in order to acquire prompt updates on the local flood situations.
The premier stated that she was particularly concerned by the flood's potential impact on people's farmlands and crops.
Science and Technology Minister Prodprasop Suraswadi said the sudden flooding in the South is due to poor city planning. His conclusion was derived from discussions with related agencies, which explained to him that over-construction of ring roads and bad planning in the region are to blame.
Therefore, the Minister has proposed that main waterways in the North and the South should be blocked to prevent flooding. He claimed that the operation could be carried out right away if approved.
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My name is Jonathan Robertson and I was a student at Portland Community College before applying for the COSEE internship working with settlement and disbursement rates of juvenile rockfish in Yaquina Bay. I finished my transfer degree this past spring and will be continuing my education at Oregon State University this fall! I have been interested in marine life since a young age, although I did not have strong backing or understanding of the scientific realm. Two professors I had the pleasure of getting to know had encouraged me to seek out and apply for a COSEE internship as a good way to help me transition from a community college to research and education within a four year university. I am very pleased to have been accepted as an intern with the Heppell Lab. This summer I will be working with Vincent Politano on developing and executing an independent project, and to be able to help some of Drs. Selina and Scott Heppell's graduate students with their current research. A part of the first week has been dedicated to arrival, orientation, and getting to know the other COSEE, Sea Grant, REU interns, and getting to know my mentor for the summer, Vince Politano.
The project will involve trapping juvenile fishes in two estuary locations, one along the south jetty coming into the bay, the other off a dock not too far from the end of the jetty entrance. At each of the locations we will use equipment to test for salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen to start to "paint the picture" of the fishes' environment. In addition to those environmental factors will be identifying the number of species to calculate species diversity, the number of individuals of each observed species to help identify species richness, and the length of each individual. Trapping will occur two times a week at each of the two sites. The collection period will start July 9th and last four weeks, giving us sixteen sets of data, eight from each site. Once all of the data has been collected Vince and I will use JMP and other statistical analysis software to look for trends that might develop into further research proposals/projects. Other outputs will be a presentation poster, a GIS map of the sampling locations used, and a PowerPoint slide show for a presentation to be given to a group of peers.
Vince and I have spent a good deal of time this week planning the design of and troubleshooting the independent project that we have decided on. After going through the process of project design, and being really careful to try and account for all obstacles, it is really amazing how sometimes the simplest things can still slip one's mind. For instance, the south jetty location that Vince and I had visited and decided to use for trapping was very easily accessible during low tide. High tide proved to be a different story. The original walkway to the trapping site during high tide was under water for two thirds of the distance between the access point and the trap location, a total of about twenty meters. Waders are the solution for this instance thought we may not have known that they were needed for this project had a site visit not been performed at both low and high tides. Just one reason good planning is essential for field work and science in general.
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E3 2019's Missing Games: Splinter Cell, Bayonetta 3 and More
E3 2019 had a few heavy-hitting games, but many, many big franchises and upcoming titles were nowhere to be found.
E3 2019 had a few heavy-hitting games, but many, many big franchises and upcoming titles were nowhere to be found.
From Watch Dogs and Final Fantasy to hot new tech from Microsoft and Sega, here's the best of E3 2019.
Computex 2019 proved to be a virtual smorgasbord of exciting new tech. From dual screens to keyboards with adjustable actuation, there was innovation hiding around every corner in Taipei this past week. Here are our top products of Computex 2019.
At ALT.CTRL.GDC, players can experience one-of-a-kind titles with the most bizarre control schemes they've ever seen.
GDC 2019 takes place from March 18 to 22; the conference will showcase all the latest announcements from Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony — and Google.
From tech to TV, and from films to Facebook, SXSW 2019 has a lot going on, and we're there taking it all in.
Here are our favorite games from New York Comic Con 2018, from big blockbusters to niche anime experiences.
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Outlook, opportunity and risk report
Forward-looking statements
The forward-looking statements and information given below are based on the Company's current expectations and assessments. Consequently, they involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Many factors, several of which are beyond the control of the KION Group, affect the Group's business activities and profitability. Any unexpected developments in the global economy would result in the KION Group's performance and profits differing significantly from those forecast below. The KION Group does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances. Furthermore, the KION Group cannot guarantee that future performance and actual profits generated will be consistent with the stated assumptions and estimates and can accept no liability in this regard.
Actual business performance may deviate from the forecasts due, among other factors, to the opportunities and risks described in the 2013 group management report. Performance particularly depends on macroeconomic and industry-specific conditions and may be negatively affected by increasing uncertainty or a worsening of the economic and political situation.
Expected business performance
Nine months on, the KION Group continues to adhere to the forecast for 2014 as a whole that was published in the 2013 group management report. The KION Group continues to aim for a slight increase in order intake and consolidated revenue, a marked rise in adjusted EBIT and – despite growing capital expenditure – a significantly higher level of free cash flow.
The expectations regarding sector-specific conditions still apply, even though overall economic growth has slowed slightly.
The KION Group's financial position has improved thanks to the measures implemented in the second quarter and is not expected to change substantially between now and the end of the year.
Overall, the KION Group is forecasting profitable growth for 2014 as a whole and aims to achieve a sustained improvement in its market positions worldwide.
Opportunity and risk report
The KION Group's overall risk and opportunity situation has not changed significantly compared with the description in the 2013 group management report. As things stand at present, there are no indications of any risks that could jeopardise the Company's continuation as a going concern.


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The cousins couldn't have been happier. It was a 'pre-exam' party at Meenu's house. Meenu couldn't wait for the party to get started. There were two hours
to go. She ticked off her party arrangement list-
*order food online
Soon, everyone was here and there was lots of dancing and fun. Suddenly, there was a loud cry of anger. One of the cousins had said something to Nisha in jest which had upset her. Nisha called Meena aside and said, " Tell them to leave." Meenu was in shock.
"Tell all the cousins to leave the party? Right now?"
When Meenu stood in disbelief, Nisha shouted again. "Did you not hear… what I said?"
"Hmmm…okay..okay," Meenu said and tried to calm her down but Nisha was in no mood to agree. There was a pin drop silence and all the party joy vanished.
Feeling desperate to save the party, Meenu said, "This is the last party Nisha, after that we will have our exams. Then it it will be a long time till we see each other." But Nisha ignored Meenu.
A year passed since that day.
It was Nisha's birthday and she had everything she wanted but she felt something amiss. Now what was missing? Was it her cousins? Nisha felt guilty of how she behaved with them last year.
Suddenly the room was full of noises. Her cousins were back! They had come to make Nisha's party a happy one. Nisha was overjoyed but she couldn't understand why hercousins has decided to come to her birthday, despite the way she had treated them.
That day Nisha concluded that east or west, cousins are the best! She decided to apologize to each of them and then find out why they had come. She had a
theory as to what might have happened. What do you think happened?


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To edit or add content to this Wiki, you can simply create a new account at http://wocommunity.org/account.
This page discusses ideas for a WOBuilder replacement / successor / clone and ideas how to achieve it. Below are excerpts pasted from various ideas from the WO mailing lists. Please add and update your ideas here to keep the page up to date.
A separate page for active projects is available here WO Builder Tasks .
We could focus on a much lower target in addition to the WOBuilder replacement : plugins for both DreamWeaver and Golive (or .wo -> HTML -> .wo conversion tools) that allow web designers to edit a WO component without destroying the WO tags. I believe the WO developer tasks and the WYSIWYG appearance tasks are completely separate activities, often done by different people, and with entirely different requirements.
We do NOT need a WYSIWYG WOBuilder replacement. We need an editor that, like WOBuilder, displays the organisation of the component, not the way it will be rendered in a browser. It's fine by me if someone wants to go down the path of developing a separate tool that previews what a component looks like in a browser, CSS and all, but in my opinion that is a waste of time because the rendered result would be so heavily dependent on the data and functionality of the WO application. The only real way to preview a component is to run the WO app and look at it in a browser.
Although a WO development plugin for a commercial Web editor would be nice, I too don't want to buy and learn DreamWeaver. I use Golive.
I'd like to have the ability to triple-click on a <webobject name="blah"> tag in Eclipse's HTML source view and have it select that tag up to and including the corresponding </webobject> end tag. Just like in WOBuilder. I find this immensely useful for all HTML editing. In fact, not just limited to webobject tags, but also regular HTML tags such as <table> </table>, etc.
Another thing I think could be useful would be the object browser being available in some sort of hybrid HTML/graphical source view. What I mean by this is instead of having a wysiwyg mode, the layout mode could use tag objects that you could drag and drop from the object browser to in order to set bindings. Of course, we'd need a tag inspector as well. I hope that makes sense. It does in my mind.
I never really understood the hype surrounding WOBuilder's Preview view and have only used it a few times with disappointing results.
The WOBuilder replacement should, however, have a Source and Layout view and allow the same (or better) ease of switching back and forth between the two views with selections of components from either view carrying into the other view. In a complicated HTML hierarchy, I've found this capability among the most helpful of services that WOBuilder offers.
I heavily rely on the visual display of the relationships of the components on the page: this is inside that, which is before that, and so on. As long as this is clearly, graphically displayed, I can do without the HTML rendering. One proviso: we still use tables a lot because of the CSS problems with MSIE, so some visual rendering of tables would be useful.
The value of the object browser is not just that you can browse actions and keys of your classes, and set bindings, but that you can add keys and actions safely into existing code. This part of it just cannot be emphasised enough; it is a big productivity gain compared to normal editing, refactoring IDE or not.
Absolutely. WOBuilder might have some serious flaws, but it has many of these almost invisible features that turn out to be key in the rapid, safe, high-level development of WO applications without getting bogged down in the code.
For the BVM - that's the Baby's View Modeler that would substitute WOBuilder - I'd like I could start working from a high resolution graphic or SVG design made by a professional designer.
I would then go along marking areas on the picture and saying 'this is going to be a WOForm; these, WOButtons', so that the corresponding web server resources would be automatically created (and properly linked) at different resolutions for different CSS "media" tags, browsing device capabilities, user preferences, etc.
In the BVM too I'd like to be able to select a flow, or more than one, of page portions1 that would be presented in some meaningful sequence to the client browser2.
1 something like the flowing you can do in Acrobat,
2 something like a wap stack.
I know I'm showing my bias thinking again on small real state devices, but if it is awkward to develop for three different desktop browsers, developing for a myriad of small devices is plain crazy. All this should be automated from the beginning to the extreme... and the extreme could be some clever D2W presentational rules that would even take into account if the presentation flow is going to be managed from the server or from the client (some small devices are really stupid). On second thought, something similar could prove useful too for designing whatever substitutes ajax in the future
We should also make a list of how it can be done. I think the options are:
I was thinking that a Dreamweaver plugin would make WebObjects more corporate friendly. Maybe there is a second tier company that would like to step up to the plate... Softpress' Freeway or such? Seems like it could be in their best interest too.
Earlier attempts about 2 years ago. I tried to contact the authors if code is available as a starting point:
and http://lists.apple.com/archives/webobjects-dev/2004/Jul/msg00700.html
See general idea about a separate WYSIWYG tool (in addition to the WOBuilder replacement for developers).
See existing code and ideas in WOLips and from Tapestry plugins, which could be used as ideas for a WO Builder replacement:
Has anyone used eZingBuilder ? it's a wysiwyg html editor eclipse plugin for tapestry.
http://www.aptana.com/ and
Good for integration with IntelliJ etc.
SOPE template editor is available for Mac OS X, could serve as input for a similar solution in Java:
I don't know if that will be functional after the Java Bridge is gone, probably a short term strategy only.
Current issues when running WOBuilder with WOLips:
Above options as listed in http://lists.apple.com/archives/webobjects-dev/2006/Sep//msg00079.html_
Please add options or additional content to this preliminary list, thanks
Idea to fund a first prototype with community donations, eg. using PayPal or similar. Donation ideas between $ 50 - 500 : http://objectstyle.org/woproject-old/lists/woproject-dev/2006/09/0077.html
We will probably need:
Proposed names WOve, Eclipstick, ...
(There are additional names proposed for a suite of community tools with installer etc. like WOO, WOOS, Wonderland, Wonderlust, Wonderlips or /Web )


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'Tis the season for ghostly gallivanting and tricks or treats. Our culture celebrates corpses by dressing as the dead. Have you ever wondered why? Read here about where Halloween traditions come from and what they mean for our candy-craving kiddies.
Pagan Roots
As we all know from Hocus Pocus, Halloween comes from ancient tradition of All Hallows' Eve, the one night a year when the dead can rise and walk among us. The actual holiday 2,000 years ago was called Samhain, a Celtic gathering where people wore costumes and lit bonfires to scare off spirits. From eighth century Europe, we got All Saints' Day on November 1st and All Hallows' Eve the night before.
The end of October marks the beginning of harvest season and the beginning of cold nights and frosty mornings. The Celts believed this change of seasons brought troublesome spirits as well. When Pope Gregory III dedicated November 1 to saints and martyrs, the intention was to abolish the pagan traditions of this time of year, but the result was a hybrid of Catholic observances and pagan rituals. The church attempted to include the prevailing pagan influence by altering the holiday to include All Souls' Day on November 2nd, where people were encouraged to dress up as angels and saints and devils and gather around bonfires.
Trick-or-Treating began when poor families in Europe would visit the houses of wealthier families in order to receive little cakes called soulcakes in exchange for prayers for the dead. American colonists used the holiday to go door to door asking for money and food. If their requests were not honored with a treat, the beggar might be tempted to play a trick on the homeowner.
Dressing Like the Dead
For years, many people believed that All Hallows' Eve was sacrilegious. They argued that the gruesome and frightening traditions of dressing as demons and burning fires in graveyards to ward off ghosts invited wicked and sinful acts and opened the door to trickster sprits. In the 1800s parents were discouraged from letting their children dress as ghouls or ghosts or anything of the like. Although this discord still exists today, it is less common and no longer prohibited by the Catholic church in particular.
Nowadays, our fascination with dressing as the dead stems from those ancient traditions of costuming, but there's also a bit of fun in being scary and shocking the one night a year that it's acceptable. When we stop to think about how many costumes are actually tributes to dead people—besides the zombies and ghosts, many people dress like Dolly Parton or Elvis or another deceased celebrity. The holiday has always been about remembering, celebrating, and honoring the dead. Whether to ward off evil spirits or communicate with the beyond in another way, our attachment with those who have passed on is palpable on this night more than any other.
We hope you have a haunted Halloween and a safe night this year!


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Welcome to the Fungal Underground Q&A. This is where I am compiling many of my questions and possible answers regarding my lifelong biological interactions(commensalism) with human fungal pathogens(opportunistic mycoses), diseases like cancer and why they like our skin so darn much. And looking for the best answers for why I am so driven to improve the quality of the skin I live in.
◊ What is cancer? ◊ What are tumors?
Human fungal pathogens: Why should we learn?
Content Source: US National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health
Fungi can infect humans and cause various diseases from superficial infections of the skin and mucosal surfaces to invasive infections of internal organs. While superficial infections are common and generally easy to cure, invasive infections have a much lower incidence rate than superficial infections and cause life threatening diseases, particularly in immunocompromised patients with HIV/AIDS or autoimmune diseases and in those undergoing anti-cancer chemotherapy or organ transplantation.
Paradoxically, modern medicine has greatly increased the number of immunosuppressed patients who are at high risk for invasive infections. Human pathogenic fungi causing invasive infections kill about one and a half million people every year, giving them the name hidden killers (Brown et al., 2012). Nonetheless, research on human fungal pathogens has not progressed as much as research on other microbial pathogens, and the slow progress in the field has hampered the development of novel antifungal drugs as well as techniques for diagnosing invasive fungal diseases. Among the estimated 3.5–5.1 million fungal species (O'Brien et al., 2005), only several hundred species are associated with human fungal diseases (Köhler et al., 2014). Just a small number of species among the human pathogenic fungi cause the most common invasive infections in immunocompromised individuals.
- Candida albicans
- Cryptococcus neoformans
- Aspergillus fumigatus
- Histoplasma capsulatum
C. albicans is a commensal fungus which exists as a normal microflora in the human body but becomes pathogenic if the host immune defense system is weakened.
C. neoformans, A. fumigatus, and H. capsulatum are environmental pathogens, and spores or yeast form cells that are accidentally inhaled cause invasive infections in immunocompromised patients(Reedy et al., 2007).
The following PDF document will provide a comprehensive review on a range of research subjects: essential concepts of fungal pathogenesis, molecular mechanisms of morphogenesis and virulence, interactions between pathogenic fungi and host cells, involvement of cellular structures in virulence, developmental regulators of pathogenic fungi, and the emergence of drug-resistance strains. This document also includes reviews about the host immune system and mechanisms to evade it.
PDF: Human Fungal Pathogens – Why We Should Learn


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The Prologue of the Wife of Bath's Tale
Experience is better than book learning regarding the area of marriage. The wife of Bath has had at least five husbands, starting from when she was 12 years old. She questions many biblical passages about the nature of marriage, widows, and virginity, and adds a seasoned flair to them. The Innkeeper asks her to tell the next story, and she agrees.


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Hamilton Tickets
Ohio Theatre | Columbus, Ohio
EVENT RESCHEDULED TO SUNDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2022. Originally Sunday 17th October 2021. All original tickets are still valid!
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Solved Admin cannot change member's password...
I used below information admin was able to change agent and member password. The agent's password can be changed but the member's password cannot be changed, the member password is not updated in the database. I use version 1.0.13 (2021-04-02). Please help me!
For Agent:
locate path in your project vendor->uvdesk->core-framework->Resources->views->Agent->updateSupportAgent.html.twig
open this file reach to this section https://github.com/uvdesk/core-framework/blob/master/Resources/views/Agents/updateSupportAgent.html.twig#L142-L160 and remove If and endif line in selected section(First and last line in selected section).
For Customer:
locate path in your project vendor->uvdesk->core-framework->Resources->views->Customers->updateSupportCustomer.html.twig
open this file reach to this section https://github.com/uvdesk/core-framework/blob/master/Resources/views/Customers/updateSupportCustomer.html.twig#L82-L100 and remove If and endif line in selected section(First and last line in selected section)."
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Locate file in your project:
Open Customer.php and replace its code from here.
Now clear your project cache by:
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Now update the password for customer and try to login using credentials.
If still any problem exist please let us know.
You help very quickly. Customer's password has been updated. Thank you so much UVdesk.


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UCLA must support students by providing more accessible options for textbooks
(Angela Song/Daily Bruin)
By Pravin Visakan
Sept. 27, 2018 11:11 p.m.
There are many things to like about attending a university during the 21st century. Ask someone older, and they may share a horror story or two of lugging textbooks for miles, uphill both ways.
But even today, Bruins don't have an easy time getting ahold of textbooks, with long lines in the Ackerman Student Union bookstore and per-quarter price tags. Textbooks take up money and time in terms of hunting for used book deals or waiting in lines.
These issues are only getting worse. According to a 2014 report by The Economist, textbook prices are only getting higher, at three times the rate of inflation since 1970. Class sizes are also climbing, with an increase of enrolled undergraduates at UCLA of more than 4,000 students in the last eight years. The demand for textbooks will likely stay high, and physical distribution of textbooks will likely remain impacted.
In other words, acquiring textbooks will only get more difficult.
Luckily, you won't have to fish your grandpa's old textbook out of the attic. The university has an option that could ease students' cost and accessibility woes: digital textbooks.
Digital textbooks are easier to distribute, eliminate costs associated with printing and make the difficulty of handling physical books a thing of the past. It's time UCLA considered a system to either lend or subsidize digital textbooks for students.
The payouts of going digital are significant.
In addition to better addressing general accessibility problems, digital textbooks have the potential to solve problems students with disabilities face. Educational material can be displayed and interacted with with greater flexibility than on paper.
That's an important consideration, given students with disabilities already have access to accommodations for computer use, and compatible books could make life easier for them. These technologies include screen reader software and the option to magnify text, which can make it easier for those with vision impairments to access class content. Even eye-tracking systems have been developed, which remove the need to physically flip pages for those unable to.
There are a number of ways UCLA could go digital. Publishers, who set many of the textbook prices, may actually provide one answer. Cengage, a major publisher, recently made all of its material available for a yearly subscription. The university already provides students access to HBO Go, a media streaming subscription service, and has provided access to lynda.com, an online learning platform, in prior years. A similar system for paying for, if not subsidizing, digital textbook subscriptions could reduce the financial and time strain on students and UCLA's bookstore.
Commercial options also exist for helping libraries lend digital books. Overdrive, one such company, is reportedly in a partnership with over 30,000 libraries. The company provides the infrastructure necessary for these institutions to lend books digitally. UCLA should consider entering such a partnership. The service provides support for many platforms, and contains accessibility features for students with disabilities. Though this specific service does not specialize in textbooks, UCLA, a major public university, could take the lead in forming such a partnership.
Open education resources are a part of another movement UCLA can join. These are educational materials that aim to be both free to use or modify, while still maintaining high quality. Because open educational resources are free, and largely available digitally, students have easier access to them.
Institutions, such as Rice University and the University of Minnesota, already contribute to open libraries, which largely feature digital resources. Nonprofit organizations, such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, provide funding via grants to implement these open resource systems. UCLA should promote these materials to professors and work towards contributing their own.
Of course, UCLA's Center for Accessible Education already makes certain accommodations available, but these can take time. A conversion to Braille, for example, can have expected times of up to eight weeks – nearly the entire quarter. Promoting digital textbooks, and making them normalized and easily available, could reduce these extra steps to simply checking the right setting.
A potential detriment of such a system would likely be the loss of the ability to resell used books. Reselling books is a easy way for students to save money, and many publishers implement a digital rights management policy that prevents the sharing or transfer of books. However, open resources, or even sufficiently subsidized books, would marginalize this cost. The loss of resale only requires that UCLA commit to the idea of digital books, and not settle for a half-measure.
It is 2018 – digital books are already a prevalent and widely available technology. Though the textbook market has its own complications, UCLA should strive to bring that convenience, cost effectiveness and accessibility to its students.
Digital textbooks can solve issues with distribution and student budgets. Even if the effort is long-term, perhaps the students of the future won't look back with horror at our own paper-bound dilemma.


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The Energize Desk is also customizable to nearly any possible configuration. So whether you're 4'10", or 6'10" - there's a desk that will fit you, and give you the desk height that you need.
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Although all yoga is potentially therapeutic, yoga therapy specifically applies tools like breathwork, meditation practices, and postures to address the holistic needs of an individual.
Yoga therapists learn how to apply yoga prescriptions to people with various physical and emotional conditions. The goals of yoga therapy are reducing or eliminating symptoms that cause suffering, as well as supporting wellness in body, mind, and spirit.
Yoga therapy can be successfully used for things like chronic pain, sleep disturbances, digestion issues, cancer, emotional trauma, trying to shift deep-seated patterns of beliefs, and more.
In this post, I'll explain why you may want to consider becoming a yoga therapist, and what your next steps could be if you want to explore this career path.
All yoga therapists are yoga teachers, but not all yoga teachers are yoga therapists.
Specifically, yoga therapists are skilled at adapting yoga practices to individual needs, and choosing tools that address illness on multiple levels to facilitate healing and reduce suffering.
To become a traditional yoga teacher, you need at least 200 hours of training with an accredited institution. If you want to become a yoga therapist, you must complete advanced training on top of your foundational yoga teacher training.
Certified yoga therapist training programs require at least 800 hours of training and at least 100 clinical hours working with clients in small groups or one-on-one settings.
With this advanced training, yoga therapists have more tools and skills available to help their patients reduce the symptoms of illness, empower themselves in their lives, and improve their quality of life overall.
Go deeper in your work with clients.
If you are eager to make a more significant impact on the people you work with, becoming a yoga therapist could be a good choice.
Yoga therapy goes deeper than typical group yoga classes. It is a customized, multi-dimensional approach that addresses all five levels of Self simultaneously:
Trained yoga therapists can recognize the symptoms of a problem, understand the causes, then choose the tools and practices needed for a coherent and effective holistic treatment plan. Prescriptions can be a mix of movement, stretching, breathing exercises, chanting and mantras, and nutrition recommendations.
Experience personal development as a yoga teacher.
In most yoga therapy training programs, you will receive your own yoga therapy sessions, so you can experience the transformation and learn from it.
From this individual treatment, you can understand the perspective of the client, and undergo the full range of benefits that yoga therapy brings for the body, mind, and spirit – including exploring any shadow side roadblocks that could be holding you back from health, happiness, and success.
Once you have graduated from your training program, the extensive work you do with clients will help you deepen your own practice on the mat, and make your life richer both personally and professionally.
Have a wide range of career options.
Yoga therapy is an up-and-coming field, and you will have many opportunities to advance your career once you have completed your training. Yoga therapists can work with clients one on one, or teach for organizations in hospitals, the military, doctor's offices, mental health facilities, non-profits, and/or retirement communities.
Yoga therapists can also develop specialities like cancer, autoimmune disease, or senior care.
According to the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IYAT), accredited yoga therapy training programs take place over a minimum of 2 years. In your program, you will study things like yoga-related anatomy, philosophy, therapeutic skills, and professional practices.
All certification programs require clinical practicum hours, where you gain practice experience working with real patients under the supervision of experienced yoga therapists.
Once you graduate from an accredited training program, you can apply to become an IAYT-certified yoga therapist, which is a straightforward process that contributes to the growth and recognition of the field of yoga therapy.
Getting trained is a commitment, but it's a rewarding and beneficial path for you and your clients.
Yoga therapy is a highly effective modality that is growing fast and receiving increased attention in all kinds of health settings. As research on yoga therapy's numerous benefits continues, the demand for qualified, talented yoga therapists will continue to grow.
For more information about becoming a certified yoga therapist, visit the IYAT's list of current accredited training programs.


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This application provides plenty of choices for the users to select numerous videos from the featured channels like Vimeo, Dailymotion, Tumblr, Metacafe etc for downloading and also let them search manually with the keyword from the search bar with lots of valuable recommendations for the users apart from the targeted result.
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As the prior article here talks about some moonbats in the Swiss government have concocted a set of rights for living things that even includes plants' rights.
This appears to be relevant to some other hot-button topics here in recent days.
First of all it occurs to me that for the holocaust to happen it was a necessary factor for plants to have their right to life stripped from them. It's really the first step down a slippery slope that ends with people having the right to life stripped from them. David Berlinski take note. We don't want to overlook this in the future when we round up the usual suspects for holocaust scapegoating.
The second thing that comes to mind is that this appears to be natural law – even plants have a right to a life unmolested by human
bullies thugs. It appears universal and transcendent. I think the Swiss did what C.S. Lewis only tried to do – found the one true universal transcendent moral law. The mother of all moral laws, so to speak.


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|My mesquite trees are growing very fast and limbs are hanging to the ground. Is it to late to prune them at this time. I did prune them in Jan.
|It is a characteristic of mesquite to grow quickly, especially if they are given too much water. You didn't say how long the trees have been in the ground, but once established, they can be watered about once a month in winter, twice a week in summer. Water should penetrate slowly and deeply through the entire root zone. If they grow too fast, they can develop weakly attached branches subject to breaking. Newly planted trees should not be pruned for at least one, or even two, years. The idea is to leave the lower branches on, as they help the trunk develop girth and stability. So, assuming your tree is relatively young, I'd leave it alone. You should not have to prune again so soon.


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Guitar Hero was originally launched on the PS2 on one wonderful day in November of 2005. This a lot anticipated video game was special in that instead of the standard control pad used to play, the game was designed for use with a life-like guitar shaped device.
This unique controller was modelled after a real guitar known as a Gibson SG. Utilizing the guitar controller was very similar to using an actual guitar, albeit with a few minor changes for simplicity's sake. Instead of containing a number of frets and six strings, the guitar hero controller had 5 fret buttons of differing colours, and a strum bar for strumming.
Originally developed by a video game company named Harmonix, it went on to receive numerous awards for its ingenuity and for the core of the sport, its musical soundtrack. With 47 rock tracks by numerous massive identify artists, from the trendy day to the 60s.
Due to the success of the first recreation, a second was launched for the Ps 2 in 2006, this time with an astonishing 64 musical tracks. Additional options included had been the ability to multi-play towards buddies and non-mates alike. It went on to grow to be the fifth highest grossing recreation of 2006 for the PS2. And because of unprecedented demand, a Guitar Hero II version was released for the Xbox 360. This version came with a special guitar and more songs.
The third within the series, aptly named Guitar Hero 3, might be released in October of 2007. The company behind it this time is Activision, who have taken over improvement of the game from Harmonix. However concern not, as Activision is a serious power-home in the gaming industry, having churned out such classics as the Tony Hawk Sequence and the Call of Duty series.
The much anticipated Guitar Hero 3, has been confirmed to include at the very least 46 songs, with new characters and an all new Battle Mode. Characters from the earlier video games to be featured within the new Guitar Hero three are Casey Lynch, Axel Steel, Judy Nails, Izzy Sparks, Johnny Napalm, Xavier Stone and Lars Umlaut. A model new playable character might be Midori. Unfortunately Clive and Pandora were faraway from the game. For the boss battles, there might be three. One in all them being Slash, who can also be rumoured to be a playable character.
Guitar Hero III, often known as Legends of Rock, will likely be accessible on the PS2, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii. Activision are also actively trying to convey the sport to the Nintendo DS.
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Neural Basis of Vision
Subject NEUR30001 (2014)
Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2014.
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|3 (Undergraduate)
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|Contact Hours: 24 lectures plus 6 x three hour practicals/tutorials during the semester
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Estimated total time commitment of 120 hours.
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Enrolment into this subject is only by invitation of the Head of Department.
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It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study and reasonable steps will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs.
This subject requires all students to actively and safely participate in laboratory activities.
Students who feel their disability may impact upon their active and safe participation in a subject are encouraged to discuss this with the relevant subject coordinator and the Disability Liaison Unit.
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|Subject Overview:
This subject is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Optometry. Enrolment into this subject is only by invitation of the Head of Department.
The series of lectures begins with a brief revision of the molecular and cellular mechanisms that allow signal transmission among neurones and then leads the student to an understanding of the neural mechanisms that underlie integrative processes of the brain ("systems neuroscience"), with particular reference to the visual system. The student will gain a detailed understanding of how visual information is first coded by anatomically distinct types of cells that carry functionally different types of information from the retina, and how later at further stages of the visual pathways, a meaningful integration of these inputs is enabled. The lectures will include a detailed account of the functional architecture of the visual cortex and neural mechanisms of visual attention, as well as an account of how our sense of balance and visual functions are related. The natural and abnormal development of the retino-striate pathways together with neural plasticity, both at molecular and systems levels, will also be covered in detail. The lectures will also show examples of how discoveries of basic neural mechanisms help in understanding of symptoms in neurological diseases and of some unusual perceptual phenomena. The subject should also prepare the student to engage in future developments of neuroscience in a laboratory or industry setting.
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This subject aims to provide students with a very sound neuroanatomical and neurophysiological knowledge base which will help them understand the structure-function relationships underlying sensory information processing with particular emphasis on the visual system.
Ongoing assessment of practical work during the semester (10%); two 30-minute written examinations held during semester (10%); a 3-hour written examination in the examination period (80%).
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Previously known as 655-328 Visual Neuroscience (prior to 2009).
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Bachelor of Optometry
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Science credit subjects* for pre-2008 BSc, BASc and combined degree science courses
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A city where history, beauty and culture coexist with 21st century consumerism.
In its heyday, Shanghai was the place to be. It offered the best art, the most magnificent architecture and was regarded as the centre of business in Asia. Shanghai was also a party city with dancehalls, houses of ill-fame, glitzy restaurants, international clubs and even a race-track. The "Paris of the East" as it became known, was also known as a place of vice and indulgence. This was where the term 'shanghaied' originated, referring to the practice of abducting sailors (usually while they were drunk in a local tavern) to crew sailing ships undertaking long sea voyages to places like the Far East.
Shanghai, which actually means the "City on the Sea" is today one of China's most open cities ideologically, socially, culturally and economically. While Beijing in the north is the capital and seat of Chinese government, Shanghai is the city of business and commerce and is a mecca for international visitors. It is also a mecca for the international marketing communication industry, as the city is generally regarded as the gateway to China and its 1.3 billion consumers. Sprawling across both sides of the Huangpu River, it has much in common with New York as a business and commercial hub. Maybe it should be known as the "New York of the East"!
10 days in Shanghai
I led a group of university students on a 10-day Industry Study Tour to Shanghai to visit a number of leading advertising and media agencies. The study tour itinerary reflected a cross-section of the industry's key players; both large multi-national and smaller advertising agency groups demonstrating expertise in all forms of communication, but with a particular focus on digital and new media. Additionally, we met with both national and international advertising industry representatives from the International Advertising Association (IAA) in China and the China Advertising Association.
Whilst I had been to China on a number of occasions, I had never been to Shanghai. Dinah accompanied me on this trip. We were met at the airport by Ling Sue who was to be our study tour guide and interpreter for the agency visits in Shanghai. While Shanghai is very much an international city, English is still not universally spoken. The itinerary saw us arriving in Shanghai via Singapore late on the Saturday evening. Sunday was a day to get over the trip and to explore a little of the city. Monday to Friday we had two industry meetings each day with advertising agencies and media companies, then free time in the evenings to enjoy the city by night. The final Saturday and Sunday were free days to explore the city, departing Shanghai for Australia on the Monday. In all, a full-on 10 days of business and cultural sightseeing.
Staying central
There are almost 7,000 hotels in Shanghai. Our hotel, the rather elaborately named Jinjiang Metropolo Classiq Shanghai Hotel was well priced and well located in central Shanghai on Nanjing Road East, a short walk from from the shopping mecca of Nanjing Road, the Shanghai Natural History Museum and the Bund. It was also within walking distance of the East Nanjing Road Metro Station and the metro line that runs east to west serving key central areas including the Science and Technology Museum and the skyscrapers of Pudong. We can certainly recommend this hotel. It is well located and excellent value for money. Check it out and book at: www.jinjiangmetropolohotelclassiq.com
For much of its length, Nanjing Road is a pedestrian precinct running through central Shanghai to the Bund, the waterfront embankment that runs along the western bank of the Huangpu River. Named after the city of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of Shanghai and is one of the world's busiest shopping precincts. Here you'll discover an eclectic mix of retail stores including large department stores such as the aptly named No.1 Department Store, the first state-owned department store in Shanghai; Yong'an Department Store in the classical European emporium style; Landmark Department Store; Lao Feng Xiang Jewellery; Shanghai First Provisions Store; Shanghai's City of Books; the Silk Commercial Building; and Bao Da Xiang, a store that caters just for kids – the shopping destination at Christmas time!
Each day, rain, hail, shine or even snow, thousands of locals and tourists transverse its kilometres of shops – even more in the evening. Here you'll find the world's top retail brands side by side with stores selling unique Chinese goods. In the streets and lanes that run off Nanjing Street you'll discover some of the best restaurants and eateries in Shanghai. One restaurant that we frequented during our time in Shanghai was the Longfeng Restaurant at the entrance to the Peace Hotel in East Nanjing Road. Serving authentic Shanghai, Canton cuisine and Sichuan cuisine food, this was a favourite of ours for dinner during our evening meanders down Nanjing Road. Street food too is plentiful in this area and it is excellent. However, if you are really homesick for western food there is always Starbucks, McDonald's and Pizza Hut. There are myriad websites that provide information on where and what to eat in Shanghai. One we particularly like is themed "How to eat like a local in Shanghai" at: www.chinahighlights.com Or, if street food is your passion, visit: www.seriouseats.com
Because GOCthePLANET is really about our travels and not about work, I won't dwell on the business aspects of our time in Shanghai, save to say that we visited a number of leading advertising and media companies, including Havas, OMD, Team Design, Weiden and Kennedy, BBDO, Mindshare, McCann and Continuum over the five days of our working week. In every instance we received a warm welcome from the companies we visited. They were extremely generous with their time and the sharing of knowledge. I know that my students both enjoyed the experience and learned a huge amount about the Chinese consumer and communication market from these locally-based organisations. As one student stated at the conclusion of the tour "The industry contacts and personal friendships we have made on this study tour are invaluable. Goodbye Shanghai. I will never forget you."
The lights and sights of Shanghai
While the focus of the study tour was on industry visits to gain insights into and knowledge of the consumer in China, an important aspect in the creation of effective communication is an understanding of culture and how it informs and guides everyday life. In this context, one might argue that the time we spent exploring the retail stores on Nanjing Road was in fact, consumer research. In reality, it was because this is a unique and exciting place to visit and the shopping is excellent!
During the tour we did have an opportunity to see a little of Shanghai and learn about the people, the history and the way of life. Our evenings were spent visiting the various attractions best seen at night. The Bund is a must-see, both during the day but especially in the evening. In essence, the Bund is an embankment boulevard that traverses the western bank of the Huangpu River and is a favourite location for locals and visitors. A great place for a leisurely stroll during the day, and in the evening the Bund provides a panoramic view of the Foreign Buildings Complex, a collection of historic colonial-era buildings. Across the river you look out to the Lujiazui – the 'Forest of Skyscrapers' that is a maze of ultra-modern high-rise buildings, including the imposing Oriental Pearl Tower. The skyline comes alive a night with the buildings bathed in light. Viewing Shanghai from the 100th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Centre is also a priceless experience. Great during the day, spectacular at night. You can look out over this sprawling international metropolis or you look down 100 levels through the glass floor to the scenery below. Personally, this was not for me as I hate heights, but the students loved it! Tickets to the World Financial Centre Observation Deck are around US$22 per person. You can book online at: www.klook.com
1400s Ming Dynasty to 1930s French Provincial
Our final weekend in Shanghai provided us two full days to really explore this fascinating city. There are just so many things to do and places to see in Shanghai – river cruises, food tours, walking tours, old temples and modern buildings, as well as theatre, concerts and musicals. We decided to spend our time getting to know the real Shanghai by exploring the amazing parks, garden and historic sites. A starting point was the Yu Gardens (Yuyuan Gardens) at Huangpu Qu. This extensive 2 hectare (5 acre) Chinese garden is located beside the City God Temple in the northeast of the Old City of Shanghai. The gardens were built in 1559 during the Ming Dynasty. Today they are recognised as a National Monument. This is a spectacular place to spend a few hours wandering the maze of walkways over rustic red wooden bridges and past temples, stone and bronze statues, fountains and ponds teaming with koi. If you are into bonsais like we are, there are some excellent examples of large trees shaped in the bonsai tradition throughout the gardens. The adjacent City God Temple, originally the Jinshan God Temple, dates back to 1403 and the Yongle era, and today enjoys a high status in Shanghai. The importance of this holy place to the city and people of Shanghai is captured in the saying: "One who fails to reach the temple never reaches Shanghai". The temple includes nine palaces and enshrines three town gods. Here you can watch folk and acrobatic performances or simply meander the grounds, immersing yourself in the atmosphere, admiring the oriental architecture and exploring the many gift shops.
Then, for something completely different it was on to a district of the city known as the Shanghai French Concession, strolling down the tree-lined Huaihai Road past amazing art deco and provincial French architecture. Once the homes of famous Shanghaiites, these buildings reflect the city's golden age of the 1930s. Today the French Concession is still the home of many residents of Shanghai as well as the location of many small businesses who choose the more eclectic village environment to the glass and steel of the CBD.
Not surprisingly, given the age and history of Shanghai, the city is an antique lover's paradise. As is our custom when we travel, Dinah and I like to purchase something interesting for our home that will remind us of our visit. Not necessarily expensive, but always unique. Fuyou Antiques Market in Shanghai is just the place. Located on Fangbang Zhong Road in the Huangpu District, it is best reached by taxi. The market is open seven days a week, but the real action takes place at the weekend when out-of-town antique traders bring their wares for sale. While the auctions are the place to be for the serious antique buyers, for most of us simply browsing the stalls and bargaining hard will offer the best opportunity of securing a treasure.
Shanghai really is a full-on, fabulous city. A place where we could spend 10 days or a lifetime exploring. I am sure that I speak for my students as well when I say – we will be back!
Tips for the Trip
Unless you are a citizen of a country that has a Mutual Visa Exemption Agreement with the Peoples Republic of China, you will need a visa to enter China. You can check to see if your country has an exemption agreement at: www.cs.mfa.gov.cn
If your country does not have an exemption agreement with China, you should check the visa requirements as they pertain to your country. For Australians, there are a number of visa types but the most commonly issued visa allows a 15-day stay. However, you must be travelling with a least one other person to obtain this visa. You will require a valid passport and prepare some additional documents to obtain the visa, including passport photocopies, photographs, an itinerary and a completed application form. It takes the Chinese Visa Application Service Centre up to 10 business days to process your application, plus you'll need to factor in the time it takes to post and receive your documents. And, they can't be processed until 30 days before your trip. To speed it up, there is a iVisa process. Yes, the visa process is complicated, so best to check it out well in advance at: www.ivisa.com.china-blog
It is important to note that while you do not need a visa to enter Hong Kong, if you plan to travel across the border from Hong Kong to China (Hong Kong being part of China), you will require a visa.
Unfortunately, Shanghai can be affected by air pollution, the result of industrial activity in northern China. If you are asthmatic of have any respiratory problems, make sure you take the appropriate medication with you. It is also best to obtain a letter from your doctor to take with you confirming any medication you are travelling with.
Check the weather forecast for your stay in Shanghai. It can get quite warm in summer and really cold during their winter months of December to March.
Photo Gallery
Main picture: Magnificent bronze statues in the Yuyan gardens in Shanghai
- The Bund on a typical Shanghai day
- Thousands enjoy night shopping on Nanjing Road
- Two stall owners enjoy a friendly game at the Foyan Antique Markets on Fanbang Road
- Opps! Caught taking a 'selfie' at the City God Temple
- Magnificent Chinese temples
- Yuyuan Gardens at Huangpu Qu in the Old City of Shanghai
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John and John - d!o
main characters: you're allowed to guess.
appears every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday - in English only
John and John is described in the title of the page as 'a sick comic by d!0' - can I start off with saying I have never heard of d!o before ? Which is odd because from the looks of his own personal website (which is under J&J's links page) it's abundantly clear that he knows what he's doing and has been around a while. He's clearly at a quality level where it's remarkable that his work hasn't appeared in the likes of Zone 5300 or MYX yet.
Dio 'D!o' van der Veen is a Dutch comic artist from Nijmegen. His comic John & John is best described as 'Maaike Hartjes meets Monkey Business', since it features Hartjes-style characters in jokes with a similar awkward sense of humour to it as Monkey Business.
In sharp contrast to Monkey Business, though, John and John discuss current events, and in fact do so from a Dutch point of view - but in English. So if you're a fan of Maaike Hartjes, Monkey Business, or you want a pretty funny way to gain some insight in how we in our little country view the world, this comic is for you. I for one like it.
Click here to read "John & John" for yourself
DISCLAIMER - This site designed by René van Densen, 2002. All artwork on this site is published with their artist's / owner's full consent.This site uses stylesheets and may look a bit strange in Netscape 4.This site is hosted by Protagonist.nl.


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Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1983, 48, 2862-2873
Vasopressin analogues with effect on central nervous system: Synthesis and biological propertiesFrantišek Brtníka, Ivan Krejčíb, Běla Kupkováb, Pavel Hrbasa, Jana Škopkováa, Tomislav Bartha and Karel Jošta
a Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 166 10 Prague 6
b Research Institute for Pharmacy and Biochemistry, 194 09 Prague 9
Synthesis of four vasopressin analogues which do not contain the glycinamine residue in position 9 and have a basic non-coded amino acid in position 8 is described. All the analogues exhibit very low endocrine activities and are effective in the passive avoidance test.


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