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Naughty Dog seriously considered new Jak & Daxter title
Developer contemplated creating new game in platformer series prior to The Last of Us but decided it would "do everybody a disservice."
By Eddie Makuch on February 6, 2012 at 11:41AM PST
Naughty Dog's next game is survival action title The Last of Us, but it could have been a new entry in the Jak & Daxter series.
Jak & Daxter aren't coming out of retirement just yet.
Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells told the GameStop-owned Game Informer magazine (via VG247) that the developer seriously explored creating a new Jak & Daxter game.
"We'd all talked about it in interviews with fans asking, 'Where's the next Jak & Daxter?' I don't know if this is going to make them happy or sad, but we did explore the idea fairly extensively," Wells said.
Naughty Dog ultimately decided to not pursue a new Jak & Daxter title because the studio felt creating such a game would be a "disservice" to fans.
"Even if we felt like we're going to give the fans another Jak & Daxter, we felt we weren't going to give them the game that they wanted," he said. "We just realized we were going to just do everybody a disservice. So at that point, the conversations started to move in a new direction."
As for whether or not Naughty Dog might ever return to the Jak & Daxter series, Wells left that possibility open, albeit very narrowly.
"Naughty Dog's got a long history, and I think it's got a long future, so to say we'll never go back is kind of crazy," he said. "It's still up in the air, but I wouldn't think that's going to happen because I think we'd run into all of the same problems with that team that we did with this team."
Naughty Dog's current project is survival action game The Last of Us, which is due at the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013. The title--which has been in development for over two years--is set in a postapocalyptic United States and follows the efforts of main characters Joel and Ellie.
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Little evidence to suggest that electoral pacts had 'material impact on the result'
Megan Collins, Student Placement
Posted on the 11th March 2020
Last week I wrote about tactical voting at the 2019 General Election, after the ERS revealed that almost a third of voters did not feel they were able to vote for the party they actually supported – instead settling for the 'lesser evil'.
The logic of this is unsurprising. The First Past the Post system used by the UK to elect our MPs constrains voters into selecting the party most likely to win the seat for fear of their vote being 'wasted'. Indeed, a recent report from the ERS found that as many as 71% of votes did not count in the 2019 General Election – further fuelling the idea that that only a few votes are worth the trip to the ballot (or post) box.
The Brexit pacts of 2019
This winner-takes-all system has long encouraged voters to hold their nose at the ballot box. But as a recent paper by election expert Jonathon Mellon has outlined, this became particularly relevant in 2019, where the EU referendum provided a backdrop for tactical voting based on Leave/Remain standpoints.
Facilitating this rise in tactical voting were the two electoral pacts formed in 2019 – Unite to Remain, and the Brexit Party's decision to stand down in Conservative-held seats. As noted last week, these electoral pacts are two sides of the same coin. Not only are voters having to change their behaviour in response to this broken electoral system, but parties are too. The end result of this system-imposed scheming? Less choice for voters.
However, Mellon's research has found little evidence to suggest that either of the pacts had 'material impact on the result'. For the Brexit party, for example, so many of its supporters had defected to the Conservative party that standing down candidates in these areas did not appear to have a significant impact.
On the other side, Mellon finds that there are no constituencies where a Unite to Remain candidate won by a smaller margin than the combined 2017 share of the parties that stood down – in other words, where the pact was likely to be decisive in electing a Remain MP.
This is because supporters of the parties making up this pact – the Liberal Democrats, Green Party and Plaid Cymru – were as likely to prefer the Conservative party as the pact parties. If Labour had joined this pact, Mellon argues it would likely have made little or no difference to how many seats Labour won – only putting it marginally closer to government by reducing the total number of Conservative seats.
Getting around an absurd voting system
Let's be clear: voters aren't to blame for trying to get around an absurd voting system – one that is built for two parties and penalises choice. When pacts are valued above policies in influencing people's decisions, it is no wonder politics is so polarised.
To make matters worse, tactical voting is never guaranteed to work. Not only are voters having to 'hold their nose' at the ballot box, but they're also having to cover their eyes. Voting tactically means is the kind of electoral gambling forced on people by Westminster's broken voting system.
Tactical voting is never guaranteed to work. Not only are voters having to 'hold their nose' at the ballot box, but they're also having to cover their eyes. Click To Tweet
One of the many consequences of this failing system is that when only one party stands in a seat, the issues we care about are easy to ignore.
The way to avoid these awful throws of the dice at elections? Moving to a fair, proportional voting system where you can rank candidates by preference.
As 2019 showed once again, creating an artificial binary choice in elections means that voters simply continue to go unrepresented in Westminster. This increases voter disillusionment and distrust in the political system.
It is no wonder that people are fed up with a toxic, divisive political system that benefits the already powerful. It is time that Britain caught up with other modern democracies to create a fairer system where all voices were heard.
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Thankfully, local elections in Scotland and all elections in Ireland show there's an alternative. The Single Transferable Vote means voters don't have to opt for the 'lesser evil' every election.
Let's work towards a political system that isn't built on second-guessing other voters about 'who can win here' and what's a 'wasted vote'. Instead, we can ensure it's policies and principles that matter – every time.
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The scars of modern slavery: trafficked people with severe mental illness
The phenomenon of human trafficking, the exploitation of one human by another, takes place across the globe and predominately targets women and children. Those trafficked are such hidden populations that it has been difficult to estimate the numbers actually affected at any one time; possibly up to 30 million individuals are currently being trafficked.
Almost every country in the world has been implicated, either as a country of origin, transit, or destination; or all three (UNODC, 2104). The most common reason for trafficking is believed to be for sexual exploitation, followed by domestic and agricultural or sweatshop labour, but also includes child soldiers and forced marriage.
As would be expected, trafficked populations have been found to have high rates of mental health problems. The most prevalent disorders are depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder with widely different estimates from community samples as highlighted in a systematic review; reflecting the heterogeneity of the population concerned (Oram 2012; Ostrovschi 2011). For those of us who have worked with trafficked children, they can present with the most harrowing and devastating narratives we have heard.
This study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry yesterday to coincide with #AntiSlaveryDay, is the first 'historical cohort' study, retrieving data about patients who have been involved with mental health services and have been trafficked (Oram et al, 2015).
The British Red Cross say there are 21 million trafficked people worldwide, a quarter of whom are children.
The study takes advantage of the electronic database of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, through the system of gathering data from 'CRIS' (a Case Register Interactive Search), which will pick up search terms; a sort of Google for secondary health care records.
The researchers identified those 'exposed' to trafficking and compared them to four matched 'non-exposed' patients over a six year period (up until 2012). They matched participants for sex, age, primary diagnosis, type of initial care (in-patient or not) and year of most recent service contact. The trafficked and non-trafficked patients were compared with the aid of sophisticated imputation models.
133 trafficked patients, including 37 children, were identified from health records from over 200,000 patients.
The majority (77%) were female
51% of the children were trafficked for sexual exploitation
Simplified results are included in the table below:
Child Adult
Female 68% 81%
Diagnosis PTSD, severe stress, adjustment disorder 27% 28%
Affective disorders 27% 34%
Schizophrenia and related disorders 15%
Pre-trafficking: Childhood physical/sexual abuse 43%
Post-trafficking: intimate partner violence 11%
Trafficked adults:
Were more likely to be compulsorily admitted (OR 5.47; CI 2.14 to 14.00; p=<0.0001)
Had a longer duration of in-patient stay, compared with non-trafficked patients (OR 1.61; 1.21 to 2.14; p=0.001)
Over half of the children in the study were trafficked for sexual exploitation.
This study provides information on the subgroup of the trafficked population who make it into secondary mental health care facilities. PTSD and affective disorders were the most commonly recorded diagnoses and the vulnerabilities of the trafficked population were apparent. They were more likely to have pre-existing psychiatric disorders and histories of abuse, and have ongoing vulnerabilities to abuse, including domestic violence and sexual assault, after escaping exploitation.
Strengths and limitations
The paper uses an innovative data resource to better understand a difficult population for services to reach. The study highlights the complexity of these cases, the need for a multidisciplinary approach and the pre-trafficking vulnerabilities of the population.
The main weakness of the study is the comparison group, given the opportunities that present themselves through the CRIS, a migrant comparison group would have been of greater interest, in particular comparisons with forced migrants such as refugees, who also have documented higher rates of post-traumatic, affective and psychotic disorders. The study also suffers from the limitations of historical cohort studies, and therefore potentially a lot of information has not been gathered or recorded in a manner that could be used to help answer the study questions.
The study population is a highly select group (those who have made it to secondary mental healthcare) and so, marrying this study with other data sources, will be an important next step to better understand the overall mental health risks and opportunities to intervene.
A comparison group made up of forced migrants such as refugees would have been of greater interest than the matched 'non-exposed' patients chosen by the authors.
This study shows how the mental health presentations of those who have experienced trafficking is often more severe, requiring longer periods of admission and more compulsory care orders. The sample size from which this study is drawn is not easy to determine, given the difficulties of studying populations who by definition are hidden from public services. However, as demonstrated in the study, there are a few key entry routes for trafficked persons with severe mental illness; maternity services, accident and emergency and primary care. Therefore, those working within the front-line of such specialties need to have a robust system of support and referral to ensure that if trafficking is suspected then the individuals can be cared for in such a way that will maximize their ability to trust those looking after them and that those in the system of care can provide the protection these individuals might require. This is important but time consuming work.
The need is for services to work in a more coordinated and integrated manner, for example, with one-stop services, where a single point of access for physical and mental health problems is readily available. There are a host of voluntary organisations offering supportive networks and therapeutic spaces, these need to be better integrated with statutory services. The reintegration process for individuals affected will require multidisciplinary effort and central commitment (Fazel, 2014).
Finally, the important area of interventions must be considered (Miller, 2010). There are a host of interesting interventions that have been tried for these populations, involving the scope of psychotherapies, including verbal processing of the traumatic experiences (with for example Trauma-Focused-Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)) and also through the use of drama and the range of creative arts. The evidence base is best for CBT and NET, but considerably more research is needed to answer key questions (Nickerson, 2011; Robjant, 2010). With a systematic research agenda, there is optimism that those able to access services will be able to benefit from therapeutic approaches that can assist in the process of recovery.
Less hope, however, remains for those individuals, representing some of the greatest depths of human depravity, who are perpetrating the crimes of rape, forced labour and organ theft against innocent children, women and men. This crime spans the globe, taking place in both the domestic and transnational context, involving high profit and low risk, given the pitiful rates of conviction internationally. Tackling the determinants of trafficking calls for a new method of investigation, involving researchers, humanitarian organisations and governments in a coordinated and committed effort to scale the depths of modern slavery. This focus will help prevent the mental health and a host of other individual, community and societal consequences of these vile acts.
Governments, humanitarian organisations and researchers must work together if we are to scale the depths of modern slavery.
Oram, S, Khondoker, M, Abas, M, Broadbent, M, Howard, L. (2015) Characteristics of trafficked adults and children with severe mental illness: a historical cohort study. Lancet Psychiatry
M Fazel, U Karunakara, E Newnham. (2014) Detention, denial and death: migration hazards for refugee children. Lancet Global Health; 2(6), e313-e314
Miller KE, Rasmussen A. (2010) War exposure, daily stressors, and mental health in conflict and post-conflict settings: bridging the divide between trauma-focused and psychosocial frameworks (PDF). Social Science & Medicine 70, 7–16.
Nickerson A, Bryant RA, Silove D Steel Z. (2011) A critical review of psychological treatments of posttraumatic stress disorder in refugees. Clinical Psychology Review, 31, 399-417. [PubMed abstract]
Ostrovschi N, Prince M, Zimmerman, Hotineanu MA, Gorceag L, Gorceag VI, Flach C, Abas M. (2011) Women in post-trafficking services in Moldova: diagnostic interviews over two time periods to assess returning women's mental health. BMC Public Health
Oram S, Stöckl H, Busza J, Howard LM, Zimmerman C (2012) Prevalence and Risk of Violence and the Physical, Mental, and Sexual Health Problems Associated with Human Trafficking: Systematic Review. PLoS Med 9(5): e1001224. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001224
Robjant K, Fazel M. (2010) The emerging evidence for narrative exposure therapy: a review. Clinical Psychology Review 30,1030–1039. [PubMed abstract]
UNODC (2014) Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014 (PDF). (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.14.V.10).
Tagged with: adjustment disorders, anxiety disorders, child abuse, child and adolescent, child sex abuse, cohort study, depression, inpatient care, involuntary admissions, PTSD, schizophrenia, severe mental illness, sexual abuse, stress, substance misuse, trafficked people, youth mental health
Mina Fazel is an Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry and a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry in the department of Children's Psychological Medicine at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She has been working for over a decade developing mental health services for refugee children and has an interest in schools and understanding how best mental health services can work within schools to reach and treat children who might not easily access services otherwise. She has helped train UK practitioners to deliver Narrative Exposure Therapy which is a psychological treatment now offered across trauma centres to treat PTSD.
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Sissy est une commune française située dans le département de l'Aisne, en région Hauts-de-France.

Géographie

Communes limitrophes

Sissy se trouve sur la route départementale 12 qui relie Saint-Quentin, la sous-préfecture, à 12 kilomètres au nord-ouest à Ribemont, le chef-lieu de canton, à 2 kilomètres au sud-est.
La commune se situe sur les bords de la rivière Oise et plusieurs bras de la rivière ainsi que le canal de la Sambre à l'Oise traversent le village.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Sissy est une commune rurale. Elle fait en effet partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Saint-Quentin, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (94,1 % en 2018), en augmentation par rapport à 1990 (87,8 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (73,2 %), prairies (12,1 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (8,8 %), zones urbanisées (5,7 %), eaux continentales (0,2 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Histoire

Politique et administration

Découpage territorial

La commune de Sissy est membre de la communauté de communes du Val de l'Oise, un établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre créé le  dont le siège est à Mézières-sur-Oise. Ce dernier est par ailleurs membre d'autres groupements intercommunaux.

Sur le plan administratif, elle est rattachée à l'arrondissement de Saint-Quentin, au département de l'Aisne et à la région Hauts-de-France. Sur le plan électoral, elle dépend du  canton de Ribemont pour l'élection des conseillers départementaux, depuis le redécoupage cantonal de 2014 entré en vigueur en 2015, et de la troisième circonscription de l'Aisne  pour les élections législatives, depuis le dernier découpage électoral de 2010.

Administration municipale

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Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 Église Notre-Dame de Sissy, partiellement détruite pendant les guerres 1914-1918 et 1939-1945. Restaurée en 1930, elle a une flèche ajourée en béton armé.
 La chapelle des Dormants, ruine, classée monument historique en 1920.
 Monument aux morts.
 Croix de chemin avec une niche-oratoire dans le piédestal.
 Chapelle des Marais.
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 L'écluse sur le canal de la Sambre à l'Oise.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Héraldique

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes de l'Aisne

Liens externes
 Sissy sur le site de l'Insee

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Ville décorée de la croix de guerre 1914-1918
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The eXplorist 610 is an advanced, rugged, and waterproof outdoor GPS with core outdoor navigation and experience recording built-in. Includes camera, sensors, pre-loaded Summit Series map, paperless geocaching, and expandable memory.
The eXplorist 710 is an advanced, rugged, and waterproof outdoor GPS with detailed topographic and turn-by-turn maps for a complete outdoor navigation experience. Includes camera, sensors, Summit Series and Cities Series mapping, paperless geocaching, and more.
Oh. . . You do!
And, that's a reason right there as to why I wouldn't consider one for a LONG time... Not enough support, not enough of a user database, etc. Map updates? Yeah, right... Customer service was TERRIBLE when I had my Magellan SporTrak Pro. And, they still haven't caught up in the marketplace... Garmin sure has a lot of faults, but you have to admit...they are pretty much the "giant" in portable outdoor/auto GPS units.


I'm super excited to have some of my pictures featured on an article on this month's issue of Marie Claire Czech Republic.
Dana Talibova presents Camomile ( http://www.camomile.cz), a community of healthy cooking, for both kids and families. She is also Jamie Oliver's ambassador in Czech Republic.
The cooking lesson took place at the amazingly beautiful Chateau Heralec, not too far from Prague but fairly unknown.


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Mount Arthur, CFMEU, newcastle herald, kirkwood, coal, one nation, minerals council
ON Saturday, Brodie Gilks and Corrine McCarthy took the difficult step to speak publicly about the hostility they've encountered working at Muswellbrook's Mount Arthur coal mine, and the problems they've had after injuring themselves driving the massive 240-tonne-load Caterpillar trucks used in the Hunter's biggest open-cut pit. Their gender is not the main issue here. There are male mine workers at Mount Arthur and elsewhere who have found themselves just as let down, isolated and angry as Brodie and Corrine, after injuring themselves on the job. But with BHP chief Andrew Mackenzie wanting a 50 per cent female workforce by 2025 it would seem the company has some work to do on the ground, even if it wants to exit thermal coal by selling Mount Arthur and its half-stake in Brazil's Cerrejon mine. The Mount Arthur saga has been rumbling away in the Hunter since at least 2015, but neither side of politics, it seems, has been interested in the growing list of concerns amassed by injured mine worker Simon Turner and his friends. Now, however, One Nation has taken up the case, with Senator Malcolm Roberts asking questions at Senate estimates committee a fortnight ago, and making it clear that he and his party leader, Pauline Hanson, are determined to get to the bottom of things. Regardless of what One Nation does from here, it appears that the renegade party's initial interest has opened doors to the Coalition in Canberra, which has been listening to the Hunter contingent at ministerial level. Time will tell whether the Coalition is interested because it genuinely cares about the plight of injured Hunter mine workers, or whether it sees the situation as a potential weapon against an already struggling Labor opposition. Mine worker and One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds is agitating for an independent inquiry to clarify both the conditions at Mount Arthur, and the performance of a number of industry bodies controlled with legislative approval by the CFMEU and the NSW Minerals Council. Before then, the Herald believes that the companies involved, and the industry's existing structures, should be given a chance to address the issues confronting them. The still-necessary coal industry has enough enemies at the moment, without giving its critics more ammunition. ISSUE: 39,449. While you're with us, did you know the Newcastle Herald offers breaking news alerts, daily email newsletters and more? Keep up to date with all the local news - sign up here.
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HERALD'S OPINION: Mount Arthur coal issues are legitimate concerns and need addressing
Corrine McCarthy and Brodie Gilks
ON Saturday, Brodie Gilks and Corrine McCarthy took the difficult step to speak publicly about the hostility they've encountered working at Muswellbrook's Mount Arthur coal mine, and the problems they've had after injuring themselves driving the massive 240-tonne-load Caterpillar trucks used in the Hunter's biggest open-cut pit.
Their gender is not the main issue here. There are male mine workers at Mount Arthur and elsewhere who have found themselves just as let down, isolated and angry as Brodie and Corrine, after injuring themselves on the job.
But with BHP chief Andrew Mackenzie wanting a 50 per cent female workforce by 2025 it would seem the company has some work to do on the ground, even if it wants to exit thermal coal by selling Mount Arthur and its half-stake in Brazil's Cerrejon mine.
The Mount Arthur saga has been rumbling away in the Hunter since at least 2015, but neither side of politics, it seems, has been interested in the growing list of concerns amassed by injured mine worker Simon Turner and his friends.
Now, however, One Nation has taken up the case, with Senator Malcolm Roberts asking questions at Senate estimates committee a fortnight ago, and making it clear that he and his party leader, Pauline Hanson, are determined to get to the bottom of things.
Regardless of what One Nation does from here, it appears that the renegade party's initial interest has opened doors to the Coalition in Canberra, which has been listening to the Hunter contingent at ministerial level.
Time will tell whether the Coalition is interested because it genuinely cares about the plight of injured Hunter mine workers, or whether it sees the situation as a potential weapon against an already struggling Labor opposition.
Mine worker and One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds is agitating for an independent inquiry to clarify both the conditions at Mount Arthur, and the performance of a number of industry bodies controlled with legislative approval by the CFMEU and the NSW Minerals Council.
Before then, the Herald believes that the companies involved, and the industry's existing structures, should be given a chance to address the issues confronting them. The still-necessary coal industry has enough enemies at the moment, without giving its critics more ammunition.
ISSUE: 39,449.
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It was almost impossible to post anything from the Wifi connections in public spaces while I was in Hungary. The only place posting on my blog that worked first time, and therefore in the time that I had available, was at Amsterdam airport.
This was very frustrating as I had planned to do a running commentary here on my blog throughout the congress.
Now that I am home I will have to recall my memories and be reminded by my photographs (and by those online at www.peto.hu in the Kép Galeria) to reconstruct an overview of the proceedings.
In general it was a good congress, well organized and interesting.
It was tiring because of the early-morning starts (something that I would have enjoyed a break from) and the many people to meet (something that I am not used to), but it was easier to manage during the day than WCCE8, Germany 2013 was, because the Congress venues were compact. There were lots of extra-curricular laughing sessions too.
As always making a decision as to which parallel sessions to attend was impossible for me. I had tried to decide ahead, even before I got to Hungary, but once I started talking and listening to people, looking at posters and relating some presentations to others, that initial plan went out of the window.
No one really knew beforehand whether it would be possible to listen to one presentation in one parallel session, then slip out afterwards to listen to the next in another. In the end this was doable, slipping out after one presentation was easy if you sat near the door but slipping into another room was harder as it was not possible to time it for when the speakers were changing.
It may be a point to consider for the future, to have someone on the doors to open them quickly during the changeover and shut them when presenters are speaking. There were one or two occasions when I admired very much the presenters who managed to continue while people came and went. Some people entered just to talk to colleagues and then left, others simply arrived and left in the middle of a talk. These sessions take a lot of preparation which we should all do our best to respect, but it was not easy.
On Tuesday I was very disappointed that I felt unable to man my poster for the lunch-break 'walking the poster street'. It was a decision that I made so as not to disturb the session, and so other presenters could have an audience. The plenary lectures on the second day had begun very late as the organisers had waited for the hall to fill up first thing in the morning. This caused a huge delay for the parallel session that was later held in this main room. The delay was also exacerbated by several minor technical hitches (that were a bane of the whole Congress and added on the minutes). I had felt unwilling to leave this session where I was listening to a series of presentations on art, theatre and sport because gradually the room had emptied for lunch and with no fault of their own the later presenters could have been left with no listeners. My posters both spoke for themselves and had my website contact details on them for any viewers to contact me later, so I listened till the end.
I was happy to have bought the posters to Hungary and have them hanging amongst many other interesting accounts of the work of colleagues all over the world.
I think the importance of poster-making is in their production, just like painting and writing my blog. Yes, the viewers enjoy them, some are inspired by them, but the main point for me is gathering together my thoughts on my work, whether recent work like the music poster, or long term like the Conductive Living poster and at the same time involving my clients.
The arrangements for displaying the posters had been changed at the last minute. The organisers had planned to hang them in the Pető College, probably the reason for the smaller size that we were asked to submit. Due to a higher number of people attending than at first imagined the venue had changed which meant that the display of the posters was changed at the last minute too. At the new venue the provisions for displaying posters was adequate but not inspiring. The posters were too small for the large display boards that they were fixed on, but on the positive side they are small enough to be able to display them easily at home after the Congress.
I made my Conductive Living poster (No. 21) with my client of over twenty years and his Mum who took many photographs for me. I will send him a copy as his Christmas present and as a thank you for years of learning about athetosis, for inspiration added to my passion for my work.
My colleague, Éva Bugya made her poster (No. 42), about pastimes, with our school children in our art sessions and as their homework. We have decided that any future poster-making for congresses will only be done together with the children or adult clients. This shared activity results in a very lively posters and also brings the clients in contact with what it is we are doing during the days that their sessions are cancelled. They realise that there is more to our work than the weekly sessions that they attend and they realise how important they themselves are to the world of Conductive Education and to the dissemination of conductive information. I first became fully aware of the importance of this with the first book that I published that featured Little Princess and Jolly Professor.
Six years ago when I presented this book in Hong Kong these two children were 7 or 8 years old but even at that young age they were so proud to be a part of an international meeting on Conductive Education. These two are still part of our after-school group and they are part of Évi's poster and my own. Laddo, who also featured in that first book in Hong Kong, 2010, had the starring role on my poster this year (2016) with Little Princess and another long-term client being mentioned in the credits.
Having learnt from this year's positive experiences, in the future my colleague and I aim to pass more of the responsibility for the creation of congress posters to our clients thus bringing the learning of life skills such as writing, artistic design, computer use, language use and many other areas into practice. I hope that for the 2020 conference I will be encouraging clients to submit posters of their own and to even think about presenting in one of the parallel sessions as Franziska Walz did in 2013 with conductor Eszter Torma.
It is a funny thing that in the run up to a congress I say that I am going to the next one without any presentations but as soon as the stress from one congress has passed I am full of ideas for the next. I cannot imagine going to one and not taking part.
Taking part in my first-ever podium session on the day of the Opening Ceremony in the Vigádo was amazing. I actually enjoyed it! I had been very worried about it for months, but I prepared well and had amazing support from all on the stage beside me and from the audience in front of me. If asked I think that I would do it again, depending on the subject of course.
More on the podium discussion later.
I had asked many Hungarian colleagues about what had happened to the clock when Széll Kálman tér was renovated. No one could answer me. But deep down I believed in the Hungarians' creative skills, their love of nostalgia and artist talents. Somehow I knew that I would find the clock was there, somewhere.
I was at first a little bit disappointed that the old clock was not still there but thrilled to see the new one and to realise that I had been right to believe that someone somewhere knew of the clock's importance in the life of the people of Budapest, tourists and expats included. In the photo that heads this posting you can also see what I discovered. Friends meeting again after 25 years, under the clock just as we did then!


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"[Graceland is]...one of the most astonishing metropolitan novels of our time" — The New York Times Book Review
Abani's best-selling novel, Graceland, about an Elvis impersonator in Lagos, won the Hemingway/PEN Prize. His other works of fiction include The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail and the award-winning Song For Night, about a child soldier who has lost his voice. Each was named a New York Times Editor's Choice.
Imprisoned by the Nigerian government as a teenager for his first novel, Abani was tortured and placed on death row for subsequent work critical of the government. He is the recipient of the PEN Freedom-to-Write Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship and many other prizes. Abani is also the author of five poetry collections and a saxophonist.
He holds a BA in English (Nigeria), an MA in Gender and Culture (Birkbeck College, University of London), an MA in English and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing (University of Southern California). He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
"Abani ranks among our most incendiary and emotionally devastating and important writers" — Miami Herald


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The Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn was born in Delft and studied violin and voice at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. After obtaining her solo violin diploma she continued her vocal studies with Udo Reinemann, Jard van Nes and Dame Janet Baker. Over the years Christianne has won numerous awards, including the prestigious ECHO Rising Stars Award 2005/2006, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2005, and the Nederlands Muziekprijs in 2008. In 2007 she was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist.
Christianne is a passionate interpreter of art songs. Accompanied by the pianists Joseph Breinl and Julius Drake, with whom she has a longstanding duo partnership, she has appeared in the world's leading concert venues. She regularly performs chamber music with musicians such as the violist Antoine Tamestit, her brother the double bassist Rick Stotijn and the Oxalys Ensemble.
The conductor Bernard Haitink has had a profound influence on Christianne's career. Under his direction she has performed with orchestras including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra.
Christianne has also worked with world-class conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Ivan Fischer, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel, Vladimir Jurowksi and Jaap van Zweden, performing repertoire including: Alto Rhapsody by Brahms, Berlioz's La Mort de Cléopâtre and Les Nuits d'été, Elgar's Sea Pictures, Britten's Phaedra, Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, Mahler's Rückert Lieder, Knaben Wunderhorn and Kindertotenlieder, the Neruda Songs by Peter Lieberson, Fünf neapolitanische Lieder by Hans Werner Henze, Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder and Sieben frühe Lieder by Alban Berg.
She has performed diverse world premières of contemporary works. For instance, Michel van der Aa jointly dedicated his song cycle Spaces of Blank to Christianne and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2009. In 2013 she sang the world première of Totentanz by Thomas Adès at the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Christianne also appears regularly on the operatic stage. She has sung the role of Pauline in Pique Dame at the Paris Opera, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Ottavia in Poppea at the Dutch National Opera, the Teatro Campoamor in Oviedo and the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao. She sang Cornelia in Giulio Cesare at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and at the Dutch National Opera. Other major engagements have included the title role in Tamerlano at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden and the role of Brangäne in a concertante performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. In 2014 she appeared as Marfa in Mussorgsky's La Khovanshchina at Oper Stuttgart. In 2019 she performed the role of Marguerite during a concertante performance of La Damnation de Faust with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.[Einde van tekstterugloop]In 2020 she made her role-debut as Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Since 2013 Christianne Stotijn is the artistic director of the Udo Reinemann International Masterclasses, based in Brussels. Since 2021 she teaches as Professor für Gesang an der Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg.
Christianne Stotijn's recordings are brought out by the Onyx label and Warner Classics. In 2010 her recording of Tchaikovsky songs received the BBC Music Magazine Award. For the MDG label Christianne recorded a work close to her heart: Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke by Frank Martin. This recording earned her the ECHO Award 'Liedeinspielung des Jahres 2008' Her Album 'If the Owl calls again" received the Gramophone's editor's choice with the comment:
"Eclectic and engaging throughout, this recital has a strong sense of personality- and personal choice-running throughout it"[Einde van tekstterugloop]Her most recent cd from 2020 with Thomas Ades' Totentanz recorded with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the Deutschen Grammophon label won a Gramophone award.