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Pupils of the 9, 10, 11 years and graduates of the past years;
Foreign students and specialized foreign student recruitment organization that are interested in cooperation;
Parallel study at Polish higher educational institution in Ukraine without certification testing.
Latest news of the Academy
Sheikh Ahmad Tamim Visited the Academy – Mufti of Ukraine, President of Islamic University
On October 30, 2019, Sheikh Ahmad Tamim – Mufti of Ukraine, President of the Islamic University, member of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations visited the Academy. During the meeting, issues of organization of training and education of foreign students were discussed. An agreement was also signed between the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Auditing and the Islamic University on cooperation in the field of education aimed at improving the quality of education, expanding opportunities for development in certain areas of educational, scientific, methodological, research and educational activities of both educational institutions.
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Results of career guidance for September 2019
Since September 2019 the active work of the vocational guidance department with schoolchildren, college and vocational students begun at NASAA. Together with the dean of the regional statistical department O. Pilipenko, the dean of the financial and economic department V. Parkhomenko and the assistant professor of the statistics department G. Golubova made visits to secondary schools and vocational schools of Kyiv region: Vyshhorod, Dymer, Demydiv, Liutizh, Novi-Petrivtsi, Stari-Petrivtsi, Havrylivka, Obukhiv, Vyshneve, Vasylkiv, Ukrainka, Trypillia, Staiky, Yurivka, Vita Poshtova, Putrivka, Kalynivka, Hrebinky, Hlevakha, Borova, Ksaverivka, Hatne, Khotiv, Novosilky, Kovalivka, Velyka Oleksandrivka, Shchaslyve, Hora. In a total, 42 schools (126 classes) were attended. Head of the Department of Information Systems Associate Professor O. Yershova and Associate Professor V. Odnovolyk conducted vocational guidance in Fastov schools. Deputy Director of the College of Business and Analytics Telegei N. And methodologist of the Philosophy and Social and Humanitarian Disciplines Department V. Molodko visited middle schooled youth of Kagarlyk. Pupils of 9-11 classes and their parents were invited to the Academy on the Open Day, which will take place on 05.10.2019 and at the Preparatory courses.
The first-year students dedication – 2019
On September 1, 2019, according to a long tradition, celebrations on the occasion of the Day of Knowledge and an exciting ceremony of dedication of first-year students to the students of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit took place in the auditorium of the Main Department of Statistics in Kyiv. This year, the Academic Student Family has increased by more than 450 boys and girls. Rector of the Academy, Doctor of Science in Public Administration, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with specialty "Statistics", Honored Economist of Ukraine Oleksandr Osaulenko congratulated students with the beginning of the new academic year and a new stage in students' lives. The Honorary Guest of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine Candidate of Technical Sciences Ihor Werner addressed the ceremony with warm words, expressing his hope that the young elite who chose the Academy as their Alma-Mother would make every effort in the future for the development and prosperity of our country. The student family and the guests were sincerely congratulated on the beginning of the new academic year by the Vice-rector for scientific-pedagogical and educational work LE Momotyuk, Director of the College of Business and Analytics OA Yurchenko. Greetings were given to students by Master-student Maria Muzychenko. According to the long-standing tradition, rector of the Academy presented the first-year students with the symbolic Key of Knowledge, and the deans of the faculties presented the symbolic student ticket and the record book with the wishes of success in their studies, bright and unforgettable student years and studying only for excellent. The freshmen took the oath of students and promised to study well and gain knowledge for the benefit of Ukraine and the Academy. The solemn meeting ended with a concert of amateur students of the Academy and masters of art of Ukraine. The highlight of the concert were musical works performed by the People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit Irina Dats accompanied by the Academic Orchestra of Folk and Popular Music of Ukrainian Radio (artistic director and chief conductor of the collective Mykhailo Pikulsky). Video
Excursion to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
On April 5, 2019, the Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance, in coordination with the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, organized an excursion to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for students of the Faculty of Finance and Economics and teachers of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit. Participants of the excursion got acquainted with the premises of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, its architectural heritage. They were able to see the magnificent paintings, the room of the balcony, from which the Rada itselfcan be seen. Of great interest was the O.Kulakov's painting called "Creation of a Country", depicting deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, historians who participated in state-building at various stages of the struggle for the independence of Ukraine and the state symbol – a large flag in the center of the painting. In addition, they were able to attend the session hall of the parliament, where laws of Ukraine are adopted, they also visited the corridors of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, where briefings of people's deputies are held. All the students have learned a lot of interesting new facts linking the history of our state and the present work of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Students of the Faculty of Finance and Economics and teachers of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit express the words of sincere gratitude for an interesting and meaningful excursion to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
The first stage of the 2nd round of the All-Ukrainian Student Scientific and Research Contest on Accounting and Taxation 2019
We are proud to inform you that on the basis of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit, on April 2, 2019, the first stage of the 2nd round of the All-Ukrainian contest for students' scientific papers on accounting and taxation took place. The commission received 132 works, 129 of which were accepted. In accordance with the rules of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, no more than 25% of all the works can go to the second round of the contest, thus, 33 works made the cut. These 33 works, their authors and scientific leaders are invited to the final scientific-practical conference, which will be held on April 23 in Kyiv at the premises of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit. At the scientific and practical conference, winners of the first stage will make reports (up to 10 minutes) with visual presentation. The branch commission can evaluate both the report and its visualization by adding up to 15 additional points. According to the established rules, among the 33 works, diplomas of the first degree can be received by 20% or 7 works, a diploma of the second degree – 30% or 10 works, a diploma of the third degree by 50% or 16 works. All participants of the second stage of the 2nd round of the Competition, who will be willing and able to come to Kyiv for a scientific and practical conference on April 23, 2007, please inform the coordinators of the competition. Coordinators of the competition Head of the Department of "Accounting and Taxation", Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor – Maria Telovata, (044) 489-66-39, 067-723-18-79; e-mail: konkurs_nasoa@ukr.net Associate Professor of the Department of Accounting and Taxation, candidate of economic sciences – Olena Petrakovskaya, (044) 489-66-39, 066-985-09-01 You can download: the rating of competitive student works.
ХVІІ Student conference "Development of accounting, analysis and audit system: theory, methodology, organization"
On March 21, 2019, the XVII All-Ukrainian Student Conference "Development of the Accounting, Analysis and Audit System: Theory, Methodology, Organization" was held at the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit dedicated to the memory of the Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology Ukraine Oleksiy Borodkin. Congratulations to the participants of the conference were given by: the first vice-rector of NASOA, doctor of sciences, professor Oleksandr Redko, head of the department of "Accounting and Taxation", D.Sc., professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine Maria Telovata, deputy Head of the State DPS Department in Kyiv, Tax and Customs Adviser Lesia Britskaya, Head of Internal Control Department of the State DPS in Kyiv Olga Bakerik, Head of the Department for Paying Debt of Legal Entities GU DFS Viktor Surma, Director of All-Ukrainian newspaper "All about accounting" Zoya Slobodenyuk and deputy director Tatyana Pirog. The conference was dedicated to topical issues related to the current problems of accounting and taxation, analysis and audit. More than 110 students from different institutions of higher education of Ukraine took part in it. Scientific reports of participants (K.Lozotskaya, O. Makohon, S. Sinhaevskaya, A. Kravchuk, R. Durneva, T. Tkachenko, D. Humenyuk, A. Stashevskaya, V. Tkach, A. Schek, M. Mechova, Y. Shcherbak, etc.) covered the extremely important aspects of accounting, taxation and audit and caused great interest and discussion. The head of the Department of Accounting and Taxation M. Telovata, summed up the student conference, sincerely thanked all participants and scientific executives for their interesting presentations, presented certificates and wished further creative success and development in scientific activities.
ХVІІ Scientific Conference "Development of the system of accounting, analysis and audit in Ukraine: theory, methodology, organization"
On March 22, 2019, the XVII All-Ukrainian Scientific Conference "Development of the Accounting, Analysis and Auditing System in Ukraine: Theory, Methodology, Organization" was held at the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit, which discussed innovations and prospects of accounting and taxation in Ukraine, problems related to analysis, financial system, audit in the conditions of globalization of the economy. The conference was attended by scientists, practitioners, lecturers, doctoral students, postgraduates from the HEI of Ukraine. The conference was dedicated to the memory of Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine O. Borodkin The plenary session was opened by the rector of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Economist of Ukraine O. Osaulenko, who greeted the participants and wished them all creative communication, interesting ideas, defining ways to solve problems. Head of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine I. Werner presented the "Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine" state award to the Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Accounting and Taxation M. Telovata. The plenary session was attended by leading scientists and experienced practitioners: Head of the Department of the Real Economy, First Deputy Head of the Main Department for Economic Policy of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Doctor of Economics, Professor O. Kantsurov; Rector of Lviv National University of Trade and Economics, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Professor P. Kutsyuk.; Professor of the Department of Accounting and Audit of the Kiev National University named after T.G. Shevchenko, doctor of sciences, professor N. Dorosh; Chief Accountant of the State Enterprise "Antonov" V. Melnichuk; Professor of the Department of Accounting and Taxation of the State University of Infrastructure and Technologies, Doctor of Economics, Professor O. Malyshkin; Head of the Department of Accounting, Audit and Taxation of Kharkiv State University of Food and Trade, Doctor of Economics, Professor T. Bochulya; Professor of the Department of Accounting and Taxation, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Honored Economist of Ukraine V. Parkhomenko; Professor of the Department of Accounting and Taxation of Mykolaiv National Agrarian University, Doctor of Economics, Professor M. Dubinina; Advisor to a member of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor Y. Pohorelov; Associate Professor of the Department of Accounting, Taxation and Audit of the National University "Lviv Polytechnic", Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor O. Tivonchuk; Senior Researcher of the Information and Analytical Support Service of the State Authorities, National Library of Ukraine. VI Vernadsky, Candidate of Economic Sciences, associate professor S. Kulitskiy; Senior Researcher, Division of Information and Didactic Modeling, National Center "Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine", Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, NAS of Ukraine, Ph.D. M. Rostoka. Head of the sector of development of information and digital competence of the Department of Digital Education and ICT, State Scientific Institution "Institute for the Modernization of the Content of Education" I. Tropina. The speeches of the participants of the conference caused lively discussions, during which they expressed their own opinions on the issues and suggested ways to optimize them in practice. First pro-rector of NASAA, doctor of sciences, professor O. Redko in the final word summed up the conference and handed the certificates to the participants, and the head of the department "Accounting and Taxation", D.Sc., professor, Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine, M. Telovata, summed up proposals for solving the problem issues of further development of accounting, taxation, analysis and audit in Ukraine and harmonization of their provisions with international standards. The materials of the conference are published in the abstracts of the participants' reports.
Conference of Scientific Youth 2.0 "Economic Future of Ukraine"
Students of the second year of the financial and economic faculty of the specialty "Management" and lecturers of the Department of Economics and Management of Foreign Economic Activity of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit became participants of the Conference of Scientific Youth 2.0 "Economic Future of Ukraine". On April 5, 2019, in the Unit.Verse hall of the Business-Campus Unit.City, a Conference on Scientific Youth 2.0 "Economic Future of Ukraine" was held, attended by talented economists, teachers and researchers from leading universities from all over the country. Issues of economic policy and state administration, business and entrepreneurship, as well as personal development were discussed. The organizers of the conference were the Ukrainian Association of the Club of Rome and the Kyiv International Economic Forum. The conference was attended by a well-known Norwegian economist Eric Reinert, author of the best-selling "How Rich Countries Got Rich … and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor". His interests and publications focus on the theory of uneven development and the history of economic thought and politics.
Students and lecturers have visited the Mint, pride of the National Bank of Ukraine
On April 4, 2019 students of the Faculty of Finance and Economics and teachers of the National Academy of Statistics, Accounting and Audit had a unique opportunity to visit one of the best companies in Europe, the pride of the National Bank of Ukraine – Mint. By communicating with the specialists of the institution, the students and academics of the Academy expanded their theoretical knowledge about the history of the birth of the hryvnia, the introduction of commemorative and jubilee coins into circulation, familiarized themselves with the internal organizational structure, and the production capabilities of the enterprise. They also had the opportunity to directly observe the technological process of minting coins, learn about the technical characteristics and design of new coins, as well as the peculiarities of manufacturing state awards and honors. The Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance expresses gratitude to the leadership of the National Bank of Ukraine for an interesting and informative excursion!
Congratulations to Ilona Stelmakh on winning the All-Ukrainian Competition for Student Scholarship
Congratulations to the student of the Faculty of Finance and Economics, Ilona Stelmakh, on the victory in the All-Ukrainian Contest of Student Scientific Papers on the specialty "Finance and Credit". On April 1-2, 2019, the final scientific-practical conference of the All-Ukrainian competition of student's scientific papers on the specialty "Finance and Credit" was held on the basis of Kyiv Trade and Economic University. As a result of the conference, the student of the first year of the educational level "master" Ilona Stelmakh won a diploma of the III degree with the scientific work "Assessment of the level of decentralization of local budgets" under the leadership of doctor of economics, professor, head of the Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance T. Bondarok. We are sincerely grateful to Taisiya Bondaruk for the high scientific and pedagogical professionalism and tireless work! Congratulations to Ilona, we wish her further success and development in her scientific activities!
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Here is my front-end code for the register page, this code is using Dart language.
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import 'package:flutter/src/widgets/framework.dart';
import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
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LDL modification by activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes: A cellular model of mild oxidative stress
Cristina Scaccini, Ishwarlal Jialal
The purpose of this study was to determine the most potent activator of the respiratory burst of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) with respect to the oxidative modification of low density lipoprotein (LDL). Phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA), n-formyl-methionyl-leucylphenylalanine (nFMLP), lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and opsonized zymosan (OZ) were tested. The generation of reactive oxygen species by PMN was assayed as superoxide anion production. Oxidative modification of LDL was monitored by thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) activity, by conjugated dienes formation at 234nm and by electrophoretic mobility on agarose gel. PMA was the most potent activator of PMN, inducing a 6-fold increase in the superoxide anion production, followed by OZ (3-fold increase). PMA activation also induced the greatest modification of LDL by PMN: 700% increase of conjugated dienes formation, 222% increase of TBARS, and 70% increase in the electrophoretic mobility. The indices of oxidative modification significantly correlated with the superoxide anion generated by different activators. Also, LDL oxidation by PMN was inhibited by superoxide dismutase but not by catalase, methionine, or hydroxyl radical scavengers. Our data indicate that PMNs activated by PMA produce a mildly oxidized form of LDL by a mechanism that appears to involve the superoxide anion.
Free Radical Biology and Medicine
LDL Lipoproteins
Superoxides
Zymosan
Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances
leucyl-phenylalanine
Respiratory Burst
Sepharose
Low density lipoprotein
Polymorphonuclear leukocytes
Superoxide anion
Scaccini, C., & Jialal, I. (1994). LDL modification by activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes: A cellular model of mild oxidative stress. Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 16(1), 49-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/0891-5849(94)90242-9
LDL modification by activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes : A cellular model of mild oxidative stress. / Scaccini, Cristina; Jialal, Ishwarlal.
In: Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1994, p. 49-55.
Scaccini, C & Jialal, I 1994, 'LDL modification by activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes: A cellular model of mild oxidative stress', Free Radical Biology and Medicine, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 49-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/0891-5849(94)90242-9
Scaccini C, Jialal I. LDL modification by activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes: A cellular model of mild oxidative stress. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 1994;16(1):49-55. https://doi.org/10.1016/0891-5849(94)90242-9
Scaccini, Cristina ; Jialal, Ishwarlal. / LDL modification by activated polymorphonuclear leukocytes : A cellular model of mild oxidative stress. In: Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 1994 ; Vol. 16, No. 1. pp. 49-55.
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After a national search, Lariviere says Geller was the most qualified candidate. "His attitude towards transparency and accountability was exactly what I was looking for," Lariviere said.
KEZI requested an interview with Randy Geller and also requested just a photograph of him more than two weeks ago. Neither of those requests have been granted by Geller or the university.
Yes, that's the attitude alright. More on this after I have a few stiff drinks and then sleep them off.
But this is just a theory. I'll give a UO Matters coffee cup to the first person who falsifies it, with a picture of Geller at Grier's desk.
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Adaptation by Relocation: It's Coming
December 29, 2016 Randall Cuthbert
Time to pack your bags?
Humankind has a long history of relocating large populations due to climate change and related factors like failed agriculture, drought, desertification, and/or a general lack of water.
Examples from our history include:
-- The abandonment of the Incan, Aztec, and Mayan civilizations of Central and South America.
-- The abandonment of Greenland by the Vikings.
--The abandonment of parts of the American Southwest by the Pueblo peoples.
And more recently, right here at home:
-- The exodus from areas of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina and disappearing coastal lands.
-- The decision of the Alaskan village of Shishmaref to relocate due to rising sea levels.
So we have plenty of evidence from our past that the relocation of large populations is not outside the realm of possibility; in fact, it has occurred many time before. It's currently happening right now as large populations across the Middle East and North Africa flee lack of access to water and thereby, a sustainable life for their families.
That's why emigration occurs in general: People cannot visualize a sustainable and prosperous life for their families, and so they pack up and leave. Or just leave without packing up, depending on their level of desperation.
Preparedness: One of the five pillars of emergency & disaster management
With all of our history of emigration and immigration, it seems wise, intelligent, prescient, and generally a good idea to begin preparation for migration due to climate change impacts--particularly sea level rise--right here at home. We have enough factual evidence of what's going on around us to know what to do.
So I laud our federal government for beginning the planning process with regard to how to move entire cities threatened by rising seas or extreme weather. It's not a popular thing to think about, but if you go back to why we have political leadership to begin with, it's to protect us as a country from threats. These are bona fide threats that our government would be negligent if it did not consider. Have a look through the article. You may identify as a community that is threatened by the listed hazards, or you may not. You may think that the emigration-immigration process won't affect you, but it will.
You may think that living without a Miami or a New Orleans is far-fetched, but is it really? I think there was probably a lot of denial present when the Viking and Mayan crops started to fail, and what did that get them? Nothing good.
So, in sum, as we've indicated before, when no one else has the ability to visualize threats and figure out how to protect our served population from them, then it's up to us. This federal initiative appears to be a train leaving the station in the right direction that we should all jump aboard in order to accomplish our duties and earn the public trust.
Can you find your part in this? It's there somewhere.
tags: climate change adaptation community relocation
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Randall Cuthbert Dr. Randall Cuthbert is a retired APUS Professor of Emergency & Disaster Management. He has also worked as a Red Cross Shelter Supervisor, and spent a 20-year career as a US Air Force Civil Engineer Officer. His blogging interests include: protecting & enhancing the EDM profession in the areas of integrity, honorable public service, and social justice; education regarding the 'big picture' role of EDM in our society; educating our professionals and neighbors with regard to the greatest threat to our civilization--climate change; and in general terms, creating a better world for our children and grandchildren.
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On Thursday, The Post & Email learned that two U.S. Senators, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Orrin Hatch of Utah, requested Sheriff's Kits produced by Michael Volin of WheresObamasBirthCertificate.com (WOBC) with the purpose of informing the public and elected officials of the forgery of the long-form birth certificate image posted since April 27, 2011 on the White House website. The kits contain a presentation given by Maricopa County, AZ Cold Case Posse lead investigator Michael Zullo, who details the findings of an investigation begun in September 2011 into claims that the birth certificate was a forgery. The investigation has since broadened its scope and earlier this month reportedly yielded "universe-shattering new information" which may be made public in March.
Sheriff's Kits can be downloaded for electronic distribution or ordered in DVD format.
On December 16, Volin issued a challenge to Congress and the White House to release the "original Obama birth certificate for inspection" by the Cold Case Posse and the American people.
Volin contacted The Post & Email early on Thursday to provide the latest update.
The posse also investigated the Selective Service registration form which has been sent by the Selective Service System (SSS) to members of the public who have requested it and found it to be fraudulent.
On November 18 and 19, 2013, Volin and a group of team members visited numerous congressional offices in Washington, DC to distribute the kits and discuss the findings of the posse. Following the trip, Volin informed The Post & Email that approximately 200 kits were distributed to members of Congress, with another 100 given out at a rally held by Atty. Larry Klayman on November 19 to protest Obama's policies, perceived overreach of power, and questionable constitutional eligibility.
Volin told us that after the two senators' offices made the requests for the kits, he "decided to make it a personal delivery service." Volin said that Mr. David Small agreed to make a return trip to Washington, having been part of the original trip in November. "David personally delivered them," Volin said.
Neither McConnell nor Hatch had previously received a kit. Both are running for re-election in 2014.
Small returned to Washington with a traveling companion on December 4 and spent the afternoon delivering the kits, including two additional, unplanned stops which he detailed to The Post & Email.
A friend and I went to Orrin Hatch and Mitch McConnell's offices. Neither of them was in. I wasn't able to speak to staffers other than receptionists in those two offices and I simply dropped off the kits with the receptionists. I attempted to relate a little bit of the information in the kit to the receptionists. The receptionist in Mitch McConnell's office couldn't have cared less. The receptionist in Orrin Hatch's office, however, was very attentive, and I have a very good feeling that he would have at least given it to a staffer with some information about what was enclosed.
Trey Gowdy is a member of that subcommittee.
I spoke to the receptionist and showed her the packet. She asked me to sit down and wait for a few minutes so that she could get someone to come and speak with us. She did. The individual who came and spoke to us was Caroline G. Lynch, Chief Counsel of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.
I explained to Ms. Lynch that we were here dropping off information related to the investigation done by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Cold Case Posse. She pretty quickly told me that they were going to have nothing to do in her office with "eligibility." I told her, "This isn't about eligibility at all; it's about the birth certificate and a crime around that." She very quickly stopped me again and said, "If you want to report a crime, we don't investigate crimes in this office; that needs to be done through the FBI." It was all very, very quick and plain to me that she was indicating that her office was not going to do anything around this issue, no matter what.
I told her that I was sure the FBI has been contacted multiple times regarding the matter. I told her that we were meeting with people who directed us to Mr. Goodlatte's office, which then directed us to her, and that we had information that we would like to run by her committee, and "Can I give you this packet?" Again, we went round and round several times about "eligibility" and reporting a crime, and she made it clear that "This office does not investigate crimes." I made it clear that we were there with the blessing of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and that we really wanted to deliver the packet to her. Finally, she agreed to take the information, walked away with it, and we parted company. I have no idea what's been done with the information, but Caroline G. Lynch, Chief Counsel of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, was presented with that packet.
She wouldn't allow any pictures to be taken in the office, but I have a picture of myself right outside the door of the office.
Q: Did you get the idea that Ms. Lynch was familiar with the eligibility issue?
A: Yes, absolutely from her responses, she was indicating that she was aware that there was a question around eligibility and that her office would have nothing to do with it. I can't read her mind, but I would be surprised if she didn't know a certain amount about the issue. She was very steadfast that her office was going to have nothing to do with it, no matter what.
Q: Do you think she had heard about the forgery?
A: I can't answer that; she did not indicate that she was aware of it at all.
Q: Have you planned any type of follow-up?
A: There is nothing firm planned yet, although I definitely want to do some follow-up around this. I think it would be great to contact Rep. Goodlatte and Rep. Trey Gowdy, as I dropped off a packet at the Judiciary Committee as well.


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Q: Change Form Size Depending on Screen Resolution I've had a look online and via Stack but have only be able to find fixes for C# so far.
I've been working on a new Job Search Form - The actual form works great, however I'm having issues when I test it on different sized computer screens.
The form is supposed to look like this: A simple design.

When I use the form to search our job boards, it works great. The problem that arises is when I use it on a different resolution screen, I will get an issue like this:

Now I believe this error has come from me actually coding in the size of the input bars:
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Is there a way that I can code in the size so that it fits in depending on the size of the screen the user is viewing from?
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spent her childhood being called ugly because if those bullies saw her gracing the October issue of Essence, "beautiful" and "radiant" would be the words that would come to mind instead. The 48-year-old actress shines as she opens up about natural beauty, struggling with her mom's own insecurities and what she hopes to instill in her two-year-old daughter.
When it comes to motherhood, Davis is fairly new to the game having adopted her newborn daughter Genesis in 2011 with husband Julius Tennon (the pair also co-parent Tennon's two sons from previous relationships). And parenting is not a role she takes lightly, no matter how hard it can get, saying it is "five hundred million joys and a hundred million heartbreaks every single day."
Davis admits that her mother suffered from self-esteem issues and so the actress struggled with accepting her own beauty.
"My image of myself [as a youth] was in the mouths of young White kids calling me…ugly…and then going home to a mother who did not fully embrace her own beauty."
This is why she's keen on nurturing that sense of empowerment in Genesis starting with a love for her hair.
"There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair," Davis says. "But we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair."


Thanksgiving Play The Conversion of Tactless Turkey. This is a short script that can be read in the classroom or put on as a mini performance for Thanksgiving. It is about turning negative character traits into positive ones – in the case of our tactless turkey, into a more considerate individual. And breaks down the word THANKS into – T for Thanks, H for Help, A for Attitude, N for Neighbor and K for Kind.
Thanksgiving Play The Conversion of Tactless Turkey is a very short play – if you'd like me to write a longer one, do let me know! I offer a write on request service.
Whole cast: (Shouting) Happy Thanksgiving!
Feisty Pheasant: (Bowing with great style) Delighted to be here!
Clumsy Chicken: (Tripping) Oops! There I go again!
Grumpy Goose: (Grumbling) Huh! As if I didn't have better things to do with my time!
Daft Duck: You heard the joke about the ducks kept in a cardboard box? (Pauses) They all went quackers!
Narrator: And last but not least, Tactless Turkey!
Tactless Turkey: (Turning to Daft Duck) Those jokes should come with a public health warning! They get worse every time I hear them!
Narrator: And so, my friends, what does Thanksgiving mean to you?


Brenda Morris invited me to assist her at the MSEA Convention Health Fair in Ocean City, Maryland on October 21 - 22. We must have done at least 75 reflexology sessions between the two of us in a day and a half. Those teachers were really eager to get their feet rubbed - the average wait time for a session was 30 to 45 minutes.
On April 25, my reflexology posse (Brenda Morris and Terri Lambdin) and I traveled to the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing to give a presentation and demonstration on reflexology. Our presentation was part of a two elective course, Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Health Care, for medical and nursing students. We were given 45 minutes to explain reflexology and its benefits and to walk the students through a mini-session. I talked and fielded questions while Brend and Terri delivered the foot goodies. There were roughly 17 students in attendance and only 3 of them had ever had reflexology. It was a very new subject to most of the students. One student who received a mini-session was so blissful she was speechless.
On Saturday, April 2, I volunteered as a reflexologist for REJUVENATE - the annual 2011Women's Health Expo sponsored by the National Ovarian Cancer Coaltion. The coalition's mission is education and awareness about ovarian cancer as well as improving the survival rate and quality of life for women with ovarian cancer.
In addition to reflexology, there were reiki and massage practitioners also in our relaxation room. In addition, participants could take fitness classes, go to mini-workshops and I met some wonderful folks and we all had a great time!


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Categories:Dayu Industrial Park
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Dayu both cultural relics sites, capital, place of birth and relics, but also allusions, stories and legends in Dengfeng territory, and relatively more concentrated, there is unique and exclusive in the country, it could become the country and the world Dayu cultural heritage places, to demonstrate and proclaim the history of Chinese civilization 4,000 years ago.
2. Domestic within range: Chinese history and civilization heritage, innovation, demonstration of the pilot zone
Construction of the park not only enrich Songshan existing cultural, and regional Chinese civilization can be traced back to ancient times, both good blend of Songshan cultural resources, but also on the Chinese cultural heritage and innovation play a leading role.
An important demonstration to culture and nature, culture and tourism, cultural and educational co-development: the range within 3 Henan
Yu Cultural Industry Park within the natural and cultural integration, Dayu culture heritage of traditional culture, but also has myths and legends of the performing arts, heritage and can do a very good culture of innovation, to break the existing relics of Dengfeng City, cultural shackles, play a strong demonstration effect.
4 Dengfeng City in the range: a new landmark in tourism and the city's new business card
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Conrad Joseph Logan (born 18 April 1986) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Anstey Nomads.

Logan joined the Leicester City academy in 2001, making his professional debut in 2005. He largely served Leicester as a backup goalkeeper, playing for several other clubs on loan. During a loan spell at Stockport County, Logan helped the club win the 2008 Football League Two play-off Final. At the time of his release in 2015, he was the longest-serving player in Leicester's squad.

After spending over a year out of the game, mainly due to injury, Logan signed for Scottish club Hibernian in March 2016. In his debut appearance for the club he made two saves in a penalty shoot-out earning them a place in the 2016 Scottish Cup Final, which they went on to win.

Career

Leicester City

Born in Letterkenny, County Donegal, he began his career in 2001 in the youth system at Leicester City. He had two loan spells at Boston United during the 2005–06 season.

Logan, who made his senior debut for Leicester in a 2–0 League Cup win over Macclesfield Town on 22 August 2006. After a series of poor displays from first-choice keeper Paul Henderson at the start of the 2006–07 season, Logan made his league debut in a 0–0 draw against Colchester United on 23 September. He was dropped from the first-team squad after conceding four goals against Sheffield Wednesday on 2 December 2006. Nonetheless, he signed a new three-year contract on 21 December. When Nigel Worthington was appointed caretaker manager, Logan regained his place in a 2–1 defeat to Norwich City on 14 April 2007. He played in the club's last five league games of the season, earning two clean sheets helping Leicester avoid relegation.

Stockport County (loan)
On 6 August 2007, Logan was made available for loan for the forthcoming season, and he signed a season-long loan with Stockport County on 9 August. In the 2007–08 season, Logan played 38 games for Stockport and helped the team to a League Two play-off final on 26 May where they met and defeated northwest rivals Rochdale 3–2.

Luton Town (loan)
Logan joined Luton Town on loan for six months in the 2008–09 season, providing competition for Luton goalkeeper Dean Brill. He saved three penalty kicks in a 0–0 FA Cup draw against Altrincham on 21 November 2008, which Luton won 4–2 on penalties. Logan helped the club to another penalty shootout win against Brentford in the Football League Trophy second round on 7 October 2008. His form prompted the club to make an offer for his loan to be extended by a further month. However, this was rejected by Logan's agent, and he missed out on the 2009 Football League Trophy Final against Scunthorpe on 5 April 2009, which Luton won 3–2.

Stockport County (second loan)
On 27 March, Logan rejoined Stockport County on a one-week emergency loan as cover for injured keepers Owain Fôn Williams and Lloyd Rigby. He extended his stay with Stockport by a further week on 3 April in where the club's win against Crewe on the penultimate game guaranteed safety in League One.

Return to Leicester City
Despite a succession of loan moves, Logan refused to give up on his career at Leicester and vowed to fight for his place in the 2009–10 season. Tim Flowers, who was previously coach at the club, felt that "to be fair to Conrad, he has also done well." Logan signed an extended contract with Leicester until the summer of 2012 on 16 February 2010. He finally played his first league game for the club since 2007 against Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough Stadium on 6 March 2010, conceding one goal in a 2–0 defeat. Coming on as a substitute for injured first choice keeper Chris Weale, Logan was still happy with life at the club. With Leicester already qualified for the Championship play-offs, Logan was finally given his first start against Middlesbrough on 2 May 2010, saving a penalty kick and keeping a clean sheet in a 2–0 win.

Bristol Rovers (loan)
Logan played seven games for Leicester in 2010–11 season, before on 18 February 2011, he joined Bristol Rovers on a one-month loan deal. Logan then extended his loan deal until the end of the season, after impressive displays, including two penalty saves in as many games against Huddersfield and Notts County. Towards the end of his 16 games at Bristol Logan expressed his desire to stay at Rovers permanently, a move that failed to materialise.

Rotherham United (loan)
On 5 August, Logan joined Rotherham United on loan until January 2012. Logan made his debut for the Millers in the 1–0 win over Oxford United on 7 August. At the end of his loan, Logan returned to Leicester amidst rumours about a permanent move away from Leicester.

Second return to Leicester City
On 29 June 2012, Logan signed a new deal extending his stay at the King Power Stadium until June 2013. Logan was an unused substitute in every one of Leicester's league and cup games that season and did not play a competitive match. Despite this, he was a regular for the club's Development Squad, captaining the side on many occasions as they won promotion to the newly formed Barclays Under 21 Premier League.  At the end of May 2013, Leicester City announced, whilst publishing their release list for out of contract players, that negotiations were taking place for Logan to remain at the club for another season. On 13 June, Logan signed a new two-year contract until 2015. On 27 August 2013, he made his first appearance for Leicester City since October 2010, playing the full 90 minutes of the club's 5–2 League Cup win over Carlisle United.

Rochdale (loan)
On 18 August 2014, Logan joined League One side Rochdale on an initial one-month loan, following an injury to Josh Lillis. Logan made his debut in Rochdale's 5–2 victory at Crewe Alexandra, putting in an impressive display. On 28 August, Logan extended his loan at the club until January. Logan saved a penalty in Rochdale's 3–2 victory over Leyton Orient on 27 September, a feat he would replicate in the next game, saving Conor Hourihane's last minute penalty, although it couldn't prevent a 1–0 loss to Barnsley. On 20 December, Logan fell awkwardly during a match against Notts County and later had to be substituted. Following the match, manager Keith Hill confirmed that Logan had suffered a 'serious' injury and Logan himself later tweeted that his loan spell had ended due to the injury. He made 24 appearances for Rochdale in all competitions that season, as they finished a very credible 8th place, their highest-ever league placing.

Hibernian
Logan signed a short-term contract with Scottish club Hibernian in March 2016. In his first senior game for sixteen months, he was man of the match in Hibernian's Scottish Cup semi-final win against Dundee United. Logan made a series of saves during the match, which finished goalless, then made two saves in the penalty shootout. Despite this performance, manager Alan Stubbs opted to restore regular goalkeeper Mark Oxley to the starting lineup for the following match. Logan regained the starting place before the promotion playoffs, in which Hibs lost to Falkirk 5–4 on aggregate. He then started the 2016 Scottish Cup Final, which Hibs won 3–2 against Rangers. Logan left Hibernian at the end of his contract after making eight appearances for the club.

Return to Rochdale
On 10 August 2016, Logan joined EFL League One side Rochdale on a six-month contract. He made 11 appearances in those six months prior to signing an extension until the end of the 2016–17 season.

Mansfield Town
Logan joined Mansfield Town on 10 May 2017. He was released by Mansfield at the end of the 2019–20 season.

Forest Green Rovers (loan)
On 24 January 2020, Logan joined Forest Green Rovers on loan until the end of the season.

Anstey Nomads, Stamford AFC and return to Anstey Nomads
In November 2020, Logan turned down offers to return to The Football League and officially committed to United Counties League Premier Division club Anstey Nomads as a player, but also as a coach with the club's junior team and as a guide to the club's other coaches.

In January 2021, Logan signed for non-league side Stamford AFC. However, he returned to Anstey Nomads six months later.

International career
Logan was capped by the Republic of Ireland at youth international levels from under-14 to under-19.

Career statistics

Honours
Hibernian
Scottish Cup: 2015–16

Stockport County
Football League Two play-offs: 2008

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
People educated at St Eunan's College
People from Letterkenny
Association football coaches
Association footballers from County Donegal
Association football goalkeepers
Republic of Ireland association footballers
Republic of Ireland expatriate association footballers
Republic of Ireland youth international footballers
Expatriate footballers in England
Swilly Rovers F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. players
Luton Town F.C. players
Boston United F.C. players
Stockport County F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Rotherham United F.C. players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
English Football League players
Hibernian F.C. players
Mansfield Town F.C. players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Forest Green Rovers F.C. players
Anstey Nomads F.C. players

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, aka Open Your Mind (international title), is a 2005 three-act musical drama presented on a multidisplay IMAX-like theme theater mixing CG-animated video with live-action footage directed by Japanese filmmaker Mamoru Oshii.

An OVA compilation version, renamed Open Your Mind: Special Edition, was available in limited quantities only at the Aichi Expo souvenir shop until it was re-released at the end of the expo as a Complete Edition which included a "Making of" bonus DVD and a color booklet.

Concept

Pavilion version

Theme theater
Open Your Mind was created for the World Exposition 2005's (" Expo 2005 Aichi Japan") "Mountain of Dreams" (, Yume miru yama) pavilion. The theme theater had a capacity of 200 viewers and the facility was named "Floor Plasma Multi MultiDisplay System" and used 99 screens. The show was available for six months, from March until September 2005, with a new 10 minutes episode released bimonthly.

The theater was designed as a shrine with each side of the floor screens surrounded by four rows of full sized standing Ku-Nu clones. Above the 139 dog-headed generals hovered the Pan doll appearing in the movie. The goddess was surrounded by silk curtains and the doll footage featured in the Intermission: Pan scene was shot in the theater.

Viewers were divided in two groups with 30 tickets available for the floor (aka "arena", ) while the remaining 170 viewers had to go to the second level (known as the "slope" ).

Video
The visual part consisted of a two level multidisplay. The first part was a floor panel linking ninety-six 50" plasma screens. It was suitable for 1:33 video which could be individually displayed by each monitor or as a synchronized 10 m x 9 m large screen. It was made of a horizontal row of 8 monitors and a vertical row of 12 monitors, which gave a 90m² floor screen and was the world's largest.

The second part of the facility was a panoramic 3-widescreen 180° multidisplay broadcasting 16:9 footages. Pictures and light effects were also projected on the ceiling, made from eight silk curtains, or the 5 meter acrylic egg-shaped (, tamago) screen.

Audio
The movie score composer Kenji Kawai chose three kinds of music to illustrate the show. One part was made of synthesizer-based new-age pieces, similar to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, the other themes are typically Japanese. One was based on the use of taiko, the folkloric drums backing Noh polyphonic chants sung by a chorus of seven women — This is Kawai's signature since Mamoru Oshii's critically acclaimed and cult anime feature film, Ghost In The Shell. The other was the remaining meditative part combining Zen music with the soundtrack's natural audio effects.

Special Edition

Home cinema
Due to the technical limitations of video formats the original 360°, bipolar, multidisplay system was reduced to a straight and flat projection which reduces the three dimensional experience and immersion felt in the pavilion version.

Video
The Special Edition allows a better visibility of the overall film which was reduced in the pavilion due to viewers walking on the floor screen monitor and slope viewers standing in front of the wall widescreens. A benefit of the single screen projection is the removal of the mosaic effect, on the main screen, due to the PNP (Plasma Network System) architecture.

Audio
The soundtrack of the OVA editions is available in both stereo and DD5.1 multichannel versions — the latter being more faithful to the 6.1 channel surround sound original format.

Overview

Musical drama
The tale is of mixed genres, from Science-Fiction to Ecology and through Mythology to Fantasy. It is a three-act musical drama concept with a prologue and epilogue, both named intermission, by Kenji Kawai who is the composer of the score. The characters' introduction and drama is narrated through the lyrics of the opera-like Noh chanted recitation, which is self referred to as utai () within the movie.

Plot
The plot of Open Your Mind follows the extra–terrestrial origin of life coming from outerspace as six deities (Intermission act), evolving into water (Sho-ho) who then emerge into the air (Hyakkin) and to the ground (Ku-nu). Each of these creatures rules one of the six elements of the godai philosophy — Earth, Water, Fire, Wind (referred to as kaze in the Hyakkin chant), Sky and Consciousness (referred to as "Awakening" in the movie's title).

Characters
Pan (, "Pantheism")
The three headed goddess sending the generals to Earth. Her six arms physical aspect remembers Benzaiten, Japanese pantheism goddess of music, arts, sciences, wisdom and a protective figure.
The 6 Riki-Shou (, "Generals")
Sho-Ho ()
Hyakkin (, "Hundred-Bird")
Ku-Nu (, "Dog Being")
Batoh
Ryo-Ketsu
Kon-Goh
Chimeras (, kimera)

Possible interpretations
Open Your Mind starts as a kind of space journey and exploration of a foreign planet by an advanced civilization. The time is unexplained: it could be an offworld intelligence form visiting our planet, or it could be future human travellers visiting a remote galaxy.

Also it could be a fabricated dream, à la Soylent Green, experienced by one of our descendants willing to learn how precious and beautiful the Earth was in its prime and experienced through a chronological and geographical exploration of the planet. Dreams are a classic theme in Oshii's production including Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer and The Red Spectacles. The pavilion concept's name "Mountain of Dreams" is probably not a coincidence.

According to the theory, agreed by Oshii (quote interview), that the futuristic projection of Science Fiction is nothing more than a metaphorous description of the present and current society, just like Montesquieu (in Persian Letters) and Voltaire (in L'Ingénu) implicitly describing -criticizing- their own country through the eyes of a foreign character or civilization, this work could be viewed as a warning (or "Awakening") to preserve our, current, highly menaced, biosphere and ecosystem before it is too late. This film was presented at the World Exposition hence its universal message and collective matter.

The original title "Ark of Awakening" (Mezame no hakobune), is a double reference to the Bible's "Noah's Ark" and to Buddha, which means "awakened". In this perspective the movie can be interpreted as a futuristic, post-flood, returning trip to Earth on board an ark ship with the featured creatures being part of the breeding stock of saved animals. Vis-à-vis the amount of religious references being Shinto (animist presentation of nature as a living power, lyrics about kami, kagami or mikoto), Buddhism (mandala, music, "zen" blue shaded photography, animal headed anthropomorph beings), the Bible (Noah's Ark, Great Flood, Genesis)  or the Greek mythology (Centaur, Chimera), and connecting them with the depiction of fantasy ancient or future- races that are the mysterious creatures, this work could also be regarded as a mythological tale of Creation (or Genesis), in the likes of Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey.

Story

Opening
This introduction begins with the Buddhist representation of the cosmos through mandala shaped cogwheels emitting a mechanical clockwork sound. The following sequence is set in space with a liquid planet soon entered by six shining globes (the Riki-Shou sent by Pan) moving at fast speed and coming from each side of the screen.

Intermission: Riki-Shou (prologue)
This first live-action scene is set in a foggy forest (which is also an Element in the gogyō philosophy), inhabited by a group of three mysterious anthropomorph creatures. They are standing still, silent, glowing in their shining white togas, they look like some kind of anthropomorph gods of Buddhist mythology. They are the Riki-Shou, the animal headed generals, sent by Pan. The creature standing in front of the trio is Ku-Nu, the dog face Riki-Shou, on his right is Hyakkin, the eagle faced, while on his left stands Sho-Ho, the fish head general. The action is seen in first person view through the eyes of an untold character which makes the viewer the main character of this story. After a while the viewer leaves the woods and the following acts will introduce the Riki-Shou, one after the other, starting with Sho-Ho. This forest scene will follow and end in the last part of the movie which is set after the Ku-Nu act.

This unnarrated introduction is wrapped with sounds of nature and Buddhist music that is in homage to Kawai's previous score on the prologue of Oshii's Patlabor 2: the Movie which takes place in a Cambodian forest and features a giant Buddha statue.

Act I: Sho-Ho ()
(Sho-ho: Mizu no kioku, lit. "Bluegreen-Sturgeon: Remembrance of water"
Open Your Mind episode available from March 25 until May 24, 2005.

Act II: Hyakkin ()
(, Hyakkin: toki o wataru, lit. "Hundred-Bird: Across Time")
Open Your Mind episode available from May 25 until July 24, 2005.

Like a video game
This act features sequences with a moving crosshair appearing on top of the 3-panel panoramic screen and locking onto flying creatures that explode in a myriad of polygons when fired upon. This presentation is close to the principle opening stage of the Panzer Dragoon 1995 classic and revolutionary Fantasy/SF 3D shooting game which had a similar use of a 180° screen, dragon back flights, shooting of fantasy flying creatures through a similar crossair and was packed with a New Age score. Mamoru Oshii is an enthusiast gamer playing games such as Wizardry and Virtua Fighter. In 2001 he envisioned a "living by the game concept" in the live-action film Avalon.

Act III: Ku-Nu ()
lit. "Dog Being: Remembrance of Seedling"
Open Your Mind episode available from July 25 until September 25, 2005.

Answers
In this concluding act the viewer gets answers about the origins and nature of the mysterious creatures met in the forest. These were made through scientific achievements as the civilization was actually human and used nanomachines to modify DNA sections in order to create new hybrid beings; the anthropomorph animals.

Controversy

Ku-nu features a controversial sequence morphing human newborns with puppies. The shock comes less from the creation of a human-dog hybrid race through genetical modifications than from the explicit visual presentation of human and dog newborns as equals through morphing.

For both ethic, philosophical and religious concerns human genetic manipulations such as cloning are forbidden and a touchy subject, or sometimes a taboo matter, in many countries in Europe and North America while not so in other parts of the globe.

Even though the conception of dog has evolved since Descartes' perception and depiction of animals as just "mechanical beings", toward the modern recognition of a more complex nature as argued by the animal rights theory, there is a mostly Western conceptual difference between animals and humans, hence an established hierarchy that means dogs are still considered in some human societies as food, disposable, caged, experimental subjects or used in military warfare such as the mine-dogs (hundminen). On other hand, according to modern philosophers, the psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto and some psychologists such as Didier Pleux the baby figure has become the only remaining holy figure of agnostic societies which sums up the concept of "l'Enfant-Roi" or "enfant Roi" (French for "Boy King" literally "Child King"). The 20th century saw the rise and crowning of the Child King which became apparent through various protection measures such as the abolition of child work, the creation of various child care and protection associations, and even the international Convention on the Rights of the Child created in 1989 and applied the following year.

In 1995 Mamoru Oshii invited viewers of Ghost in the Shell to open their mind and think about a new social and legal status for autonomous, evolved Artificial Intelligence creatures. Now, ten years later, his Ark of Awakening work evokes a similar reflection about genetically modified beings and by extension to the status of animals.

Intermission: Pan (epilogue)
This second filmed part shows the theater as the silk curtains opens to reveal Pan. The last scene is a return to the now deserted forest.

Releases
The pavilion included an Open Your Mind souvenir shop selling figures, books, keyholders, pamphlets, posters, soundtrack CD and the limited premium DVD "Special Edition".

Book
 2005.04.DD: : Gem in the Pan, art book
Mamoru Oshii (text) / Tetsuya Nishio (illus.), Be-next (15.5cm, 32p., color)

Audio
 2005.08.24:  Open Your Mind: Original Soundtrack, OST CD
Kenji Kawai, (SVWC7283) Aniplex / Sony Music Dist.

Video
 2005.04.DD:  Open Your Mind: Special Edition, 1DVD (limited)
(ANZB1195) Aniplex
 2005.08.24:  Open Your Mind: Complete Edition, 2DVD
(ANSB1061~2) Aniplex / Sony Pictures Ent. (110 min. making of bonus disc, color booklet)

Toy
 2005.04.DD: ) ("Riki-Shou figure: Sho-Ho, Hyakkin, Ku-Nu"), 1/12 polystone painted figure (22 cm)
Poppy (Bandai-Namco Group)

Quotes
Mamoru Oshii, about his upcoming work (September 2004)

"I decided to take this offer because I wanted to work on something other than films.I am waiting to get the final products for display, the images to show on the monitors from the vendors....Everything should be completed no later than the end of this year....I created the concept of the entire project and I supervised all the designs. I did basically the same thing that a director would do to make a film."

Staff
Direction supervision: Mamoru Oshii ()
Producer: Atsushi Kubo (), Masuo Ueda, Tomonori Ochikoshi
Direction: Hiroyuki Hayashi ()
Music: Kenji Kawai ()
Arts: Toshihiro Isomi ()
Technical director:Yasuhiro Yamaguchi ()
Character design: Jun Suemi ()
Ceiling iron modelling work:
Ceiling doll (Pan):
Floor dolls (Riki-Shou):
Egg shape screen production:
Silk curtain installation work:
Project manager:
Technical producer:
Sound & visual engineer:
Lighting director:
CG producer:
Acoustic supervision: Kazuhiro Wakabayashi ()
Sound supervisor:
Production manager:
Coordination production: Dentsuu Tech
Distribution: Deiz
Theme zone exhibitors: Sekisui House, Chubu Nippon Broadcasting, Tokai Television Broadcasting, The Chunichi Shimbun

References

External links
 Aichi Expo 2005 "press release"
 Aichi Expo 2005 "event"
 Aichi Expo 2005 "pavilion"
 Kenji Kawai "Mezame no hakobune Report"
 Staff interview (CG Arts vol.12)
 Mamoru Oshii "licensed products"
 Poppy "Riki-shou 1/12 figures"
 Theme theater facility "close up"
 Movie Walker report
  blog

2005 films
2005 anime films
2005 short films
2000s Japanese-language films
Science fiction anime and manga
Japanese short films
Anime short films


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