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The Malta Emergency Nursing Association Scientific Board invites abstract and poster submissions from all nurses and other health care professionals, who are interested in sharing their skills and knowledge. Conference Themes • Moving Maltese Emergency Nursing forward by collaboration between international associations. • Team work between emergency care professionals. • Leadership issues in emergency care. • Innovations in emergency care practice, research, education and management. • Extended practice development in emergency care. Abstracts should ideally fall within one of these categories, although other areas will be considered. However, presenters are reminded that papers or posters need to include an indication of how their work addresses and adds value to emergency nursing and emergency care as provided by various emergency care professionals

The Strategic Media Relations in Asia Conference and Workshop is designed to keep communication professionals updated on the latest developments in Asia and to show you proven techniques, tools and tips on how to overhaul your media relations programme to achieve better results. Our pre-conference Effective Media Campaign Planning Workshop will also impart to you the know-how to successfully plan your organisation’s media campaigns. Prominent industry bigwigs like OCBC, StarHub, MDA, Bloomberg News, The Straits Times, Radio Television Hong Kong, Deloitte, etc. will show you not only the ‘whats’ but also the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ behind their successes and failures. Look forward to delving deep into the complexities of press relations, new media management, crisis handling, strategic media planning with a unique Asian perspective. You will obtain new thinking, strategies, and developments to build symbiotic relations with the media as well as new technologies to move your message directly to the constituents. Attend this conference and workshop to win the roadmap to embracing the new positioning in media relations for sustainable corporate reputation and brand value.

Utilities have placed increased demands on their supply chain organisations to lower costs, improve supplier performance and increase market expertise. With the global expansion of utility companies and the on-going development and redevelopment of power plants in regions such as Eastern Europe and Asia, there has never been a better time to develop international partnerships than now. IPS 2008 presents the industry with the most effective platform for building partnerships and is the ideal opportunity to reach buyers and suppliers from traditional Western & USA markets as well as emerging markets such as Central & Eastern Europe, India, China & South East Asia. IPS 2008 will provide each and every delegate with the opportunity to share their experiences with others through roundtable discussions, panel discussions, workshops and during many social and networking events that will run throughout the Summit. Voted the best meeting 'under 100 people' by Meetings Professionals International 2006 Visit www.internationalpowersummit.com for further information Contact: Renee Hynes Email: events@vibevents.com Tel: +44 (0) 20 7915 9948 Website: www.internationalpowersummit.com

The Strategic Media Relations in Asia Conference and Workshop is designed to keep communication professionals updated on the latest developments in Asia and to show you proven techniques, tools and tips on how to overhaul your media relations programme to achieve better results. Our pre-conference Effective Media Campaign Planning Workshop will also impart to you the know-how to successfully plan your organisation’s media campaigns. Prominent industry bigwigs like OCBC, StarHub, MDA, Bloomberg News, The Straits Times, Radio Television Hong Kong, Deloitte, etc. will show you not only the ‘whats’ but also the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ behind their successes and failures. Look forward to delving deep into the complexities of press relations, new media management, crisis handling, strategic media planning with a unique Asian perspective. You will obtain new thinking, strategies, and developments to build symbiotic relations with the media as well as new technologies to move your message directly to the constituents. Attend this conference and workshop to win the roadmap to embracing the new positioning in media relations for sustainable corporate reputation and brand value.

Call for papers: Democracy and Social Justice Contributions are invited for a special issue of Theoria to mark a decade of democracy in South Africa. For this special issue contributors are invited to reflect on the process and challenge of building democracy and on progress towards social justice since 1994. Contributions from across the social sciences and humanities, both discipline-specific and interdisciplinary, will be welcomed. Contributors are encouraged to reflect directly on contemporary theories of democracy and social justice, on how different disciplines might define, address or apply these theories, on the applicability of such theories for processes of democratization and the advancement of social justice, on the implications of actual developments for theory, policy, implementation, research and future change and on the practical results and effects of ten years of social transformation in South Africa. Comparative perspectives, between countries or sectors, or situating South African efforts towards democracy and social justice in regional or global contexts, will also be welcomed. The deadline for submission of papers is 31 May 2004. Three hard copies of each paper, as well as an electronic version (preferably MSWord), an abstract and a short (three line) biography, should be sent to: Roger Deacon, Managing Editor: THEORIA, P.O.Box 50324, Randjesfontein, 1683, South Africa; e-mail: deacon@nu.ac.za. Further information may be obtained from our website: http://www.theoria.unp.ac.za/