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Campaign to Remove the label Of Schizophrenia
HEARING VOICES & REALITIES SUPPORT GROUPS
HEARING VOICES NETWORK AOTEAROA NZ
Te Reo Oro Oro providing support and information on hearing voices and visions
Tag: psychosis
Talking Minds
April 27, 2018 April 27, 2018 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
A new website created to provide information about psychosis.
What do you think? See it here
Haven't listed our support groups though, to see those, please visit our website here
Hearing Voices Network Support groups
Healing Voices movie premiere Dunedin
April 9, 2016 April 9, 2016 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
We are excited to announce that there will also be a screening in Dunedin of this movie.
We are awaiting the poster.
But for any bookings in the meantime details are as below
7pm Friday April 29th
McMillan Room
Dunedin Community House
Corner of Moray Place and Great King Street
Bookings essential as venue holds 50 seats
Contact Grant from Otago Mental Health support Trust on 477 2598 or emailotagomd@ihug.co.nz
HEALING VOICES – Movie Premiere April 29 2016
March 31, 2016 March 31, 2016 hearingvoicesnetworkanz1 Comment
The Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa NZ in conjunction with ISPS, and Affinity NZ are pleased to announce we are holding a screening of the Movie Healing Voices.
HEALING VOICES is a new social action documentary which will be released via grass roots, non-theatrical premiere events around the world on April 29, 2016. Written and Directed by PJ Moynihan of Digital Eyes Film, HEALING VOICES explores the experience commonly labeled as 'psychosis' through the stories of real-life individuals, and asks the question: What are we talking about when we talk about 'mental illness'? The film follows three subjects – Oryx, Jen, Dan – over nearly five years, and features interviews with notable international experts including: Robert Whitaker, Dr. Bruce Levine, Celia Brown, Will Hall, Dr. Marius Romme, and others, on the history of psychiatry and the rise of the 'medical model' of mental illness. Community screening partners will host HEALING VOICES premiere events in their local markets on 4.29.16, which will be followed by audience discussion around dialogue topics relating to the content of the film. The documentary is ideal for individuals with lived experience in the mental health system, educators, peer counselors, advocates, researchers, psychiatrists, psychologists, healthcare workers, first responders, family members, or anyone who has been touched by mental health issues in their life.
MOVIE TRAILER HERE
The Huffington Post here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-e-levine/healing-voices-intriguing_b_8817642.htm
says this:
Writer and director PJ Moynihan explores two question: What are we talking about when we talk about "mental illness"? What is truly helpful?
Over a five year period, Healing Voices follows Oryx, Jen, and Dan, all previously diagnosed with serious mental illness. Oryx, Jen, and Dan are each very different personalities but all are articulate, insightful, and fascinating in describing their return journeys from extreme states of consciousness to satisfying human relationships and meaningful work.
Healing Voices is not afraid to discuss aspects of our humanity that routinely terrify many of us, and Moynihan is also not afraid to make his movie fun and joyful—including playful music and animations. What is striking about Healing Voices is its combination of boldness and humility—its boldness challenging political correctness and its humility about its own assertions.
RADIO INTERVIEW HERE
https://soundcloud.com/kinkfm/healing-voices
Please see the details of our event at the Pumphouse in Takapuna on the 29th April, on the attached jpeg.
Space is limited so book asap!
Adrienne Giacon
HVNANZ
www.hearingvoices.org.nz
Research on Nutrients used for treating Mental illness in New Zealand- Julia Rucklidge
July 9, 2015 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
There is some great research and results done here in Canterbury NZ by Julia Rucklidge. Using micronutrients for treating children with ADHD and psychosis.
Here is the TED Talk
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this critically important talk, clinical psychologist Julia Rucklidge explores a range of scientific research, including her own, showing the significant role played by nutrition in mental health or illness.
Julia J Rucklidge, PhD is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Originally from Toronto, she did her training in neurobiology (McGill) and Clinical Psychology (University of Calgary). Her interests in nutrition and mental illness grew out of her own research showing poor outcomes for children with significant psychiatric illness despite receiving conventional treatments for their conditions. For the last 6 years, she has been investigating the role of micronutrients in the expression of mental illness, specifically ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, anxiety and more recently, stress and PTSD associated with the Canterbury earthquakes.
Here is a more detailed talk here: What if Nutrition Could treat mental Illness
Despite the advent of medications and other therapies over the last 50 years, the rates of mental illness have been on the rise rather than a decline. Over the last decade, scientists have been uncovering an uncomfortable truth: What we eat is affecting our mental health.
In this talk, Prof Rucklidge will discuss the data that shows an alarming picture of food choices serving as risk factors to all kinds of psychiatric problems; she will then introduce the recent paradigm shift of using nutrients to treat these challenges, reviewing the evidence to date. The talk will challenge our current treatment regime for mental disorders and suggest one alternative course of action.
John Read talking about Maori cultural view of voices
June 29, 2015 April 14, 2016 hearingvoicesnetworkanz3 Comments
A great little interview with Professor John Read here:
http://crazywisefilm.com/2015/07/07/john-read-maoris-viewpoint-on-hearing-voices/
Lewis Mehl Madrona: Definining Coyote Psychotherapy
November 3, 2014 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
Lewis Mehl Madrona and Barbara Mainguy are coming to NZ. The HVNANZ has received finding from the ASB community trust and Lotteries Commission to help with this. Yay. So I am going to bombard you with some of the great articles he has written in the meantime.
We are collating the workshop info and will get the fliers out in the next few weeks.
Here is an article on Coyote Psychotherapy
http://www.futurehealth.org/populum/page.php?f=Defining-Coyote-Psychother-by-Lewis-Mehl-Madrona-Body_Community_Healing_Health-141102-270.html
We are just completing three presentations at the Institute for Psychiatric Services, which is the community and public psychiatry meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. We had the opportunity to present our approach to the psychotherapy of psychosis, and had realization that we could own the name, Coyote Psychotherapy, which is, as we playfully told people, indigenous inspired, body-oriented, narrative and social psychotherapy, and still a little more, because Coyote can never be completely contained.
In relation to my indigenous origins and to our active practice of Native American spirituality, whatever we do is indigenous inspired. The concepts are powerful and important. All healing is spiritual. To thrive we need the help of the spirits. Community is everything. Healing is energetic. Faith and the power of belief matter enormously. Relationship is everything. These are the core concepts of our work. Beyond this, traditional elders have inspired everything we do. I think of Vern Harper, an elder we love in Toronto. Vern is well past 80 years old. Every week he ventures into the worse part of Toronto to sit and listen to the homeless, the alcoholics, the drug addicts, to anyone who wants to talk. Vern has a profound respect for the humanity and the value of all these people. He doesn't need them to change for him to love them. He just does. Vern is our hero. We strive to achieve the radical acceptance that Vern demonstrates.
Immediately that calls into mind John Charles. While I lived in Saskatchewan, John Charles was my hero. I've written about John before. For years he was an Anglican priest. Then, he was discovered to have brain cancer, so severe that the conventional doctors gave him 30 days to live (how they figure these things out is beyond me). John realized that Christian spirituality was not going to heal him. He went to see a woman who practiced the traditional Cree medicine and did everything she said. Within the 30 days in which he was supposed to do, he recovered and the tumors disappeared. That put John into a quandary of faith. He had been Anglican for most of his life, but he was Cree, and the Cree spirituality had healed him. One night he had a vision. He saw four elders smoking pipes around Christ on the Cross in each of the four directions. He was told distinctly that it was all one. He could be traditional and Christian all at the same time.
I spent many a Sunday at John's house on Sturgeon Lake Reserve, being doctored, taking people to being doctored, sitting in ceremony with him, and feasting of fresh caught sturgeon. I also inspire to be as loving and as accepting as John. When someone missed ceremony because they had been drunk the night before, John sent his helpers to go get them. That's when they really need to be in ceremony, John said. All were welcome at John's. For John and Vern, and all the other elders I have known, nothing could shock them. Whatever people had done, they were welcome. So we aspire to put these principles into practice in our work with people who suffer emotionally.
Psychotherapy has always been a problematic word for me. What indigenous elders do is healing. I'd like to use the term healing, but it has such a New Age connotation, that it alienates many people. In this strategic move to be somewhat mainstream, the term is psychotherapy for the work we do with people with psychosis, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, and the like. Yet, what we do is not just mental. We involve the body — sometimes directly through touch therapies, as with Cherokee bodywork, which I have learned, or in conjunction with colleagues who do osteopathic manual medicine. In preparing for our talks, we learned that a French psychoanalyst, Janet, preceded Freud by three years, and was very much involved in including the body in the healing of emotional pain (psychotherapy). Freud made the decision to reject the body for the "talking cure" and his followers went along, though at least one scholar points to the split with Wilhelm Reich (a good Mainer) as Freud's impetus to abandon the body entirely.
In the apprenticeship I undertook to learn Cherokee bodywork from traditional practitioners, I learned that life is energy. When energy moves, health follows. When energy is blocked, disease ensues. Our osteopathic colleague, Magili Chapman-Quinn, described how opiate use makes people's tissues feel as if they are stuck in concrete or think glue. These insights are important for healing.
I believe that psychiatry must reclaim the body. We should all be doing our own physical examinations on patients. We must overthrow the Victorian notion that all touch is sexual. The physical examination is a special moment of intimacy with patients. In examining their bodies, they often reveal concerns that would otherwise go unnoticed. I have found cancers on physical examinations that were being concealed by the patient. I have found skin diseases, the evidence of abuse in the form of bruises and other injuries, and, in the process of interacting through the exam, people have told me what is really bothering them. I believe psychiatrists must be doctors, too. We must stop hiding behind the Cartesian mind-body split and take control of the body.
When I present this idea at meetings, the inevitable response comes that we will be sued and charged with sexual assault. I note that it is we who have taught patients to think this way. Of course, every branch of medicine has doctors who abuse patients, and we are no exception, but the functions of the mind are manifest in and through the body, and we must examine the body to truly understand them. So, this is the sense through which our work is embodied. We understand that life is embodied and physical and that we have bodies so that we can be easily found (David Granger). Our bodies dutifully record the effects of the events of our lives. To recover from the effects of the events of our lives, we must address the body. We can do that through direct, hands on massage and manipulation, as in Cherokee bodywork, osteopathy, or tui nan. We can do it through embodied movement and dance therapies. We can do it through energy medicine, as in Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, or joh rei. We can do it through acupuncture or acupressure. But, however we do it, we must acknowledge the effect of a difficult life on the body (as well as the mind) and we are served if we liberate the body from the effects of these stressors and traumas even as we free the mind.
Our therapy is decidedly narrative in the sense that we understand that humans and stories are interchangeable. We are the stories that live through us. We live through the stories we enact. Stories are the default mode of the human brain. We evolved to make story about the many people in our lives. Stories help us keep track of our many social relationships. They inform us about how to seek the good life and how to interpret the events of our life. Stories help us construct meaning in our lives and find a purpose to occupy our time. Stories are very important.
We also recognize the healing power of community. I have written before about the power of being with others when having an experience. Gene induction is so much more powerful when we are in the presence of others than when we are alone. This seems to cut across the animal kingdom, and is called the audience effect in biology. Other people give us our sense of meaning and purpose. They help us create shared stories, which we feel are greater than us (transpersonal). They give us opportunities to be altruistic, to share, to demonstrate caring for others, and to learn and be supported from others. Our preferred hypothesis about brain development is the social brain hypothesis in which social experience is required to connect the circuitry from its rudimentary origins.
But there's more. Coyote has a thing or two to say. Coyote teaches us the value of humor and fun. We want to enjoy each client. We want to have something positive to say about them, and to them. Coyote teaches us to find the humor in each encounter and to have fun in our work. Over time I will write more about narrative work, but it is decidedly fun. When we can represent each of the voices inside a person's head with a puppet, and when we can get the puppets talking to each, it's inevitably lots of fun, and also very helpful. We are breaking the conventional psychoanalytic mold (as it was taught when I trained in the 1870's) and are finding the humor in life and its vicissitudes.
At the psychiatry conference, we presented outcome data. If people can stick it out with us for at least six months, they usually improve (over 90%). That was much better than I experienced in community mental health work. When I worked there, I tracked my patients, and, on average, no one improved (of course, some did, and some got worse, but the net impact was zero). So, we are arguing that we appreciate and enjoy our clients, we have fun with them, and they get better. However, it takes more than six months for serious problems, and sometimes years. Nevertheless, the joy is there.
Wildside Therapy anyone?
Link June 22, 2014 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
Wildside Therapy anyone? This is what the website says= online conferences, some excellent speakers, well known for their great work with voice hearers. Would you like to reach clients you previously had not been able to reach? To learn the secrets of working with people labeled with "psychotic," "schizophrenic" and "deeply disturbed"? To help […]
Hearing Voices Network UKs position on new DSM5 pyschiatric manual
May 20, 2013 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
Here is a great article from Hearing Voices Network Uks page I have written it out here . They are asking for comments on their page.
DSM 5, the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – often referred to as the 'psychiatric bible' – has now been released in the wake of huge controversy and debate. The alternative classification system, ICD, is based on exactly the same principles. Some of the world's most eminent psychiatrists have spoken out about the current system.
The former director of the US's largest funding body for mental health research, the NIMH, recently described DSM as 'totally wrong, an absolute nightmare'. The chair of the DSM 5 committee admitted that 'We have been telling patients for several decades' that the biological causes of distress are about to be discovered, but 'We're still waiting.' Another senior psychiatrist said, 'Patients deserve better.' In the UK, clinical psychologists have challenged the use of diagnosis and the 'illness' model.
The Hearing Voices Network, alongside many of our professional allies in psychology and psychiatry, has serious concerns about the way we currently understand, categorise and respond to mental distress . We also recognise the confusion that can be caused when accepted facts, often presented to service users as truths, are challenged.
We believe that people with lived experience of diagnosis must be at the heart of any discussions about alternatives to the current system. People who use services are the true experts on how those services could be developed and delivered; they are the ones that know exactly what they need, what works well and what improvements need to be made. This statement outlines the main issues, as we see them, and invites people on the receiving end of a diagnosis to have a voice in this debate.
Psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically unsound:
No objective tests: Unlike most fields of medicine, psychiatric diagnoses are not provided on the basis of objective tests or measures.
They're artificial: There is strong evidence that diagnoses do not represent meaningful clusters of problems or link to known biological abnormalities. Diagnoses are voted into existence by committee, representing opinion rather than scientific fact.
Drug company involvement: There is growing concern that new diagnoses are both suggested and shaped by (initiated by) drug company funded research and interests.
Unreliable: The diagnosis you receive from a psychiatrist is based on their opinion about what you have told them. Different psychiatrists often have different opinions about the same person, leading to multiple diagnoses. Two people with the same diagnosis may have nothing in common.
Limited explanation: Whilst diagnosis seems to provide an explanation for people's problems, this isn't the case. People are told they have 'schizophrenia' on the basis of their unusual thoughts, experiences, feelings & behaviour. If they then ask why they are having these unusual experiences, they are told it is because they have 'schizophrenia'. This circular argument explains nothing.
Limited use: The issues raised above mean that diagnoses are a flawed basis for deciding on treatment, predicting outcomes and carrying out research.
Psychiatric diagnoses have damaging consequences:
Misses the point: Increasing evidence demonstrates mental distress is an understandable reaction to adversity, including: bereavement, loss, poverty, discrimination, trauma, abuse and victimisation. By focusing on 'what's wrong with you', diagnoses can stop professionals asking 'what's happened to you'.
Missed opportunity: Psychiatric diagnoses can stop people addressing the links between social and economic policy and mental distress. Essential funds are used in the ongoing futile search for genetic markers instead of addressing the societal issues we know lead to mental health problems.
Disempowers: Psychiatric diagnosis ignores people's own explanations for their distress and encourages them to defer to an 'expert' for treatment. Having your reality redefined in terms of illness and biology is an incredibly powerful experience that can set the scene for a lifelong psychiatric career.
Medication-focused: In diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' treatment is primarily medication, which is becoming increasingly criticised for its harmful effects and lack of efficacy. Medication does nothing to address underlying difficulties.
Human rights: People are expected to accept diagnoses for fear of being labelled as 'lacking in insight' and having treatment forced on them, violating their basic human rights. Others may, understandably, hide their voices or visions to escape forced treatment – blocking them from receiving help to cope with their experiences.
Takes away hope: Diagnoses such as schizophrenia and personality disorder, seen as a life-long condition, can unnecessarily take away people's hope for a meaningful recovery.
Discrimination: People diagnosed with 'severe and enduring mental illnesses' are often subject to stigma, discrimination and exclusion. They may have trouble getting insurance, security clearance to travel overseas, and difficulty fostering or adopting children.
Finding the best way to support those of us who are suffering and struggling to cope without relying on diagnoses and the existing system is a challenge. It can be hard to see what is possible when all we have known is what is available. Still, we want to engage people with lived experience of diagnosis and our allies, in a discussion to create a way forwards.
Our initial ideas include:
Seeing mental distress as human and, ultimately, understandable: Rather than seeing voices, visions and extreme states as symptoms of an underlying illness, we believe it is helpful to view them as meaningful experiences – even if we don't yet know what that meaning is. We believe it's important to use human language when describing human experiences rather than medical terminology. Given the role of trauma and adversity, we need to start asking 'what has happened to you?' rather than 'what is wrong with you?'
Keeping the person in the driving seat: We want people to have the freedom to define their own experience. Support should be based on need, not diagnosis. Equally, people need to access a wide range of alternatives to understand and manage their experiences. Medication is just one way, amongst many, that people may choose. We need information about the pros/cons of each approach – true choice and collaboration, no coercion.
Supportive communities: Mental distress is not just the domain of mental health services. Communities have an important role to play in supporting those who are struggling to cope. Community based options can run alongside, and as alternative to, psychiatry. Equally, these approaches must go hand in hand with greater awareness of the causal impact of social factors such as poverty, gender and racial inequalities, unemployment, deprivation and abuse, on mental distress
See some other articles regarding the uproar here
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/we_re_all_mad_here_HHs3ZlRzqusuqXL5Ij7ZCI
http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/05/uk-clinical-psychologists-call-for-the-abandonment-of-psychiatric-diagnosis-and-the-disease-model/
Things are certainly heating up
Open Dialogue evening in Auckland May 30th 2013 with Jaana Castella
May 20, 2013 May 20, 2013 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
HEARING VOICES NETWORK AOTEAROA NZ are pleased to present:
"OPEN DIALOGUE" with Jaana Castella.
an innovative approach to acute psychiatric crises developed by Jaakko Seikkula, Markku Sutela, and their multidisciplinary team at Keropudas Hospital in Tornio, Finland. Jaana is a psychiatric nurse from the Region of Sjaelland who is trained in the "Open Dialogue" technique with Jaako Seikkula and Tom Anderson in 1999 and has been working with people with psychosis using this method and educating others in the techniques.
WHAT IS OPEN DIALOGUE?
Fundamental to the approach is the shift away from an immediate emphasis on trying to eradicate symptoms. The conversation, or dialogue, is not "about" the person, but a way of "being with" them and living through the crisis together. What Tom Andersen M.D. called "withness practices" mitigates the sense of isolation and distance a frightening episode can produce and leads to a path of recovery.
Starting in the eighties, there have been a variety of research studies of Open Dialogue and its outcomes with early psychosis.The results consistently show that this approach reduces hospitalization, the use of medication, and recidivism when compared with treatment as usual. For example, in a five-year study, 83% of patients had returned to their jobs or studies or were looking for a job (Seikkula et al. 2006), In the same study, 77% did not have any residual symptoms. Such outcomes led the Finnish National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health to award a prize recognizing the Keropudas group for "the ongoing development of psychiatric care over a period of ten years." http://www.dialogicpractice.net/open-dialogue%E2%84%A0/
See a video trailer about the Open Dialogue method here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBjIvnRFja4
Jaana will share how Open Dialogue works and we will have the opportunity to discuss and ask questions following her talk. This event is suitable for Professionals as well as voice hearers. Jaanas focus in NZ is around Peer support.
Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa NZ are a registered charity independent from Mental health services. Commited to providing research and support for voices and visions in NZ.
When: 7.00 to 9.00 PM Thursday 30th May 2013
Where: Room WF710 , Level 7 AUT Business School WF Building, 42 Wakefield St, Auckland City 1142.
Cost: $20 for waged , Gold coin Koha for Unwaged. We are a registered charity. These fees will help pay expenses, and support sending our members to the World Voices Congress in Melbourne this year.
Bookings: Adrienne at 0272650266 or email: hvnanz@gmail.com for a registration form. Please note spaces are limited. You will need to book.
A Poem on Hearing Voices by Chris
November 16, 2012 hearingvoicesnetworkanzLeave a comment
My friend Ying, was at a poetry evening, and one of the guys read an amazing poem on hearing voices. She kindly asked Chris, if we could share it here and he agreed. So here it is. Hope you find it as powerful as I did.
A POEM ON HEARING VOICES.
Having mental illness in family can be hard but the rewards for over coming them are so much greater then overcoming simpler things.
When i was 17 i had my first psychotic episode, and since then iv'e been diagnosed with psychosis, schizophrenia, bi-polar and depression, i hear voices, i have hallucinations and I have delusions
ahh Life is just a dream, woawo, lucky you, lucky lucky me
These days it starts with a gaze into the outer world, a blank stare into realms I'm not quite sure exist,
I can be staring at anything, such as, the alien species that hides trees
their limbs and their faces moved by the wind in such a way that they come to life
their waving hands simply stating "I see you, and I know you see me"
or I could be watching how the curtains breath at the pace of mother earths breath slowly hypnotizing me into a trance where I start to believe god himself has the curtains on strings or maybe
I'll just be staring at the boring ground, where spiritual life reaps like you wouldn't believe
as i walk with my head down i flow through a river of damned and tortured faces
lost souls trying to find peace and banished spirits trapped in purgatory trying to claw their way into me until
"Hey chris, got a spare smoke?"
"uh, uh yeah bro, help yourself"
Life is just a dream, woawo, lucky you, lucky lucky me
The voices that i hear aren't as bad as the media will have you believe, but theyre pretty bad.
Imagine having no privacy because the people sitting next to me can read your mind
They don't tell you your thoughts to your face tho, they tell you outside and down the road a little bit.
Imagine having no secretes because i feel like I'm under constant inspection, I'm to scared to even think a bad thought because something listening
Imagine trying to go to sleep and somewhere outside, you can hear people talking about you..there's
whispers in the wind and vocal cords seemingly attached to passing cars
ambient noises vocalized into the voice of fear,
rustling trees like gossiping woman
and people in the distance speaking my thoughts
and then i hear about people who say that they can hear gods voice, or that they heard demons or angels telling them things…
The problem with mental illness is that the people who know most about it aren't the doctors who've spent a life in school
it's not your psychiatrist or the leading team of psychologists..
It's the people, that are living with them, its the people, who hear voices, it's the people who believe theyre being followed and that their lives are at stake,
It's the people who at this very moment are suffering from diseases that should of be labeled gifts a long time ago its those people…
it's those people that hold the answers, not someone who's lived a straight edge life and only knows what the text book says cuz no matter how smart you are
and no matter how much you have studied, until you lose your mind and believe that you're Jesus, you only know half the story
Life is just a dream, woawo, lucky you, lucky lucky me.
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Contemporary Shaman Odette Nightskys website. She works with people who hear voices and has her own experience as a Shaman
Hearing Voices Network Melbourne Melbournes HVN website
Cultural and Spiritual
Dhushara on Maori Prophets Info on Maori Prophets in NZ
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Tohunga Teachings Some great info on the Maori concepts of the Selves.
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Intervoice Facebook group INTERVOICE- the international hearing voices organisations facebook group
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Hearing Voices Network Aotearoa NZ This is our official website. It is full of heaps of info, and has a forum where you can join in.
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Other HVN related sites
Rufus May Rufus is a great HVN supporter and has excellent stuff on his website
Working to Recovery Ron Coleman and Karen Taylors website, sell good resources and have excellent info
Keepwell NZ Keepwell provide training and resources in NZ and Aust re voice hearing
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Many companies approach the management of assets with a planned or preventative maintenance strategy – where maintenance is routinely performed on a piece of equipment to lessen the likelihood of it failing. Frankly, I follow the same approach with my pickup truck. Every 6,000 miles or six months, I bring it in for service – whether it needs it or not.
For me – a guy holding onto a truck for reasons that are practical (dump runs) and sentimental (I just love the old beater) – this approach works fine enough. It keeps the truck on the road and the expense isn't exactly preventing me from paying the mortgage.
But for companies that need to squeeze every bit of cost efficiency out of their assets, "better safe than sorry" no longer cuts it. Preventive maintenance has been calculated to consume nearly as much as utility costs in a typical facility's operating budget – amounting to more than one-third of total operating expenses.
My pickup has three gauges: speed, temperature, and gas. But in today's world of pervasive Internet of Things (IoT) technology, a new model would have hundreds of built-in sensors that enable real-time condition monitoring.
The same, of course, is true for leading companies managing large deployments of critical assets. Almost every asset deployed in the field or in a factory is designed and manufactured with built-in sensors to provide data on equipment status.
But there's still more. Today, we see examples of companies moving beyond simply predicting what will happen next. Leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics, companies can now produce outcome-based recommendations for the machine to follow. After the predictive analytics tells you that a problem is imminent, the prescriptive part kicks in to serve up a selection of actions and scenarios to choose from.
Let's say my 1994 pickup truck suddenly has prescriptive maintenance capabilities. One day on my way to the dump, my temperature gauge starts inching upward, indicating that my truck will soon overheat. Predictive analytics will look at the temperature history of not only my truck but others of the same design (if there are any more still on the road). Based on this dataset, it can calculate the probability of break-down if conditions remain the same. The prescriptive logic may then determine that if I drive just 10 miles per hour slower, I could double the "time to failure" – which would allow me enough time to get to a mechanic before I blow a head gasket. As I plan to drive my truck for another 25 years, this is advice I'd surely take!
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Turkey's Afrin op and the West
By NURAY MERT
I am against all sorts of wars and military operations, regardless of their justification and legitimacy even in terms of international law. But that does not stop me from feeling revolted by French President Emmanuel Macron's recent remarks on Turkey's military operation in Afrin, which came after he recently seemed very happy to sell military equipment to Turkey.
It is indeed common for the great powers to try to restrain others in order to reserve major roles for themselves. This is the case with France concerning Syria. But France is perhaps the least legitimate power to claim moral superiority in Syrian affairs, as it has a very dark history in that country. It has invaded and bloodily suppressed Syrian revolts, bombing Damascus twice after World War I and World War II before finally being forced to recognize Syrian independence. International relations are based more on the principle of power than morality, but a French president should certainly be more restrained on the Syrian issue considering his country's dark past there.
The reaction of Macron - who is an admirer of Napoleon and the French monarchy - may not be surprising. But it is still very disturbing. What's more, this sort of carelessness and arrogance on the part of powerful Western states tends to justify the militaristic politics of regional powers like Turkey. The same principle is also valid for the U.S., which long sought to achieve regime change in Syria through destabilization. As part of this policy it was the U.S. that encouraged Turkey and other regional powers to organize and arm the "Syrian opposition."
It is true that Turkey's government ended up becoming more alarmed about the prospect Kurdish autonomy in northern Syria than anything else and started to target Kurdish militia. But it was primarily the U.S.'s misjudgments concerning Syria that exacerbated the danger of radical Islamism in the country. ISIS is a byproduct of the enforcement and arming of Islamists in Syria.
Indeed, many of the Islamists who were supported were not even local groups but transferred to Syria from many other countries, including Western countries. Many Islamists came to Syria from troubled places like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Chechnya, where "jihadism" has been encouraged as a tool of misled Western policies. As for many of those who came from Western countries, they often reflect the problems of the integration and immigration of Muslims living in those societies. Others elsewhere also have disturbing stories, like the case of Lebanon. Many jihadists from Lebanon have been supported and armed by the Sunni party of major French ally Saad al-Hariri.
I do not mean to accuse Western powers and politics for all the ills in the world, in the region and in my own country. But Western hypocrisy certainly fosters religious nationalism and militaristic politics in our countries. Until the progressive voices for peace acknowledge these realities, we will lose the moral superiority necessary to convince our societies to embrace the politics of peace. Under current circumstances, those who regard French objections to Turkish military operations as legitimate or welcome U.S. warnings to the Turkish government will never be able to convince an ordinary person in Turkey about the sincerity of their politics of peace. We cannot console ourselves by saying problems are only the fault of warmongers who ignite the flames of the politics of war; it is also the responsibility of people who object to those politics to acknowledge that we must be convincing not only in the eyes of like-minded friends but also in the eyes of many others.
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Parashurama (), also referred to as Rama Jamadagnya, Rama Bhargava and Veerarama, is the sixth avatar among the Dashavatara of the preserver god Vishnu in Hinduism. He is believed to be one of the Chiranjeevis (Immortals), who will appear at the end of the Kali Yuga to be the guru of Vishnu's tenth and last incarnation, Kalki.

Born to Jamadagni and Renuka, the Brahmin Parashurama was foretold to appear at a time when overwhelming evil prevailed on the earth. The Kshatriya class, with weapons and power, had begun to abuse their power, take what belonged to others by force and tyrannise people. He corrected the cosmic equilibrium by destroying the Kshatriya warriors twenty-one times. He is married to Dharani, an incarnation of Lakshmi, the wife of Vishnu. He is present in the Ramayana due to the conflict with Rama (the protagonist of the Ramayana) over Shiva's broken bow. He is mentioned in the Mahabharata as the guru of Bhisma, Drona, Rukmi, and Karna.

Legend

According to Hindu mythology, Parashurama was born to the sage Jamadagni and his Kshatriya wife, Renuka, living in a hut (believed in local tradition to be located at Janapav). They had a celestial cow called Surabhi, which gives them all that they desire (Surabhi is the daughter of cow Kamadhenu). A king named Kartavirya Arjuna (not to be confused with Arjuna, the Pandava) – learns about this cow of plenty and wants it. He asks Jamadagni to give it to him, but the sage refuses. While Parashurama is away from the hut, the king takes it by force. When Jamadagni pleads his case and seeks for the return of the cow, the king strikes him with his fist, killing him. Parashurama learns about this crime, and is upset. With his axe in his hand, he challenges the king to battle. They fight, and Parashurama defeats and kills the king, according to the Padma Purana.

The warrior class challenges him, and he slays every single member of the class, save for those belonging to the lineages of Manu and Ikshvaku. The mighty son of Jamadagni, having rid the world of the Kshatriyas, then performs the Ashvamedha sacrifice. He grants the earth with the seven islands to principal rishis belonging to the Brahmin class. Having renounced the earth and his violent deeds, he retires to the hermitage of Nara-Narayana to engage in penance. The legend likely has roots in the ancient conflict between the Brahmin varna, with knowledge duties, and the Kshatriya varna, with warrior and enforcement roles.

Parashurama in geographical myths

There are legends dealing with the origins of the western coast geographically and culturally. One such legend is the retrieval of the West Coast from the sea, by Parashurama, a warrior sage. It proclaims that Parashurama, an Incarnation of Mahavishnu, threw His battle axe into the sea. As a result, the land of the Western coast arose, and thus was reclaimed from the waters. The place from which he threw his axe (or shot an arrow) is on Salher fort (the second highest peak and the highest fort in Maharashtra) in the Baglan taluka of Nashik district of Maharashtra. There is a temple on the summit of this fort dedicated to Parshuram and there are footprints in the rock 4 times the size of normal humans. This fort on a lower plateau has a temple of goddess Renuka, Parshuram's mother and also a Yagya Kunda with pits for poles to erect a shamiyana on the banks of a big water tank.

According to the Sangam classic Purananuru, the Chera king Senkuttuvan conquered the lands between Kanyakumari and the Himalayas. Lacking worthy enemies, he besieged the sea by throwing his spear into it. According to the 17th-century Malayalam work Keralolpathi, the lands of Kerala were recovered from the sea by the axe-wielding warrior sage Parashurama, the sixth Incarnation of Vishnu (hence, Kerala is also called Parashurama Kshetram 'The Land of Parashurama'). Parashurama threw his axe across the sea, and the water receded as far as it reached. According to legend, this new area of land extended from Gokarna to Kanyakumari. The land which rose from sea was filled with salt and unsuitable for habitation; so Parashurama invoked the Snake King Vasuki, who spat holy poison and converted the soil into fertile lush green land. Out of respect, Vasuki and all snakes were appointed as protectors and guardians of the land. P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar has theorised that Senguttuvan may have been inspired by the Parashurama legend, which was brought by early Aryan settlers.

In present-day Goa (or Gomantak), which is a part of the Konkan, there is a temple in Canacona in South Goa district dedicated to Parashurama.

Texts
Parashurama is generally presented as the fifth son of Renuka and Rishi Jamadagni. The legends of Parashurama appear in many Hindu texts, in different versions:
In Chapter 6 of the Devi Bhagavata Purana, he is born from the thigh with intense light surrounding him that blinds all warriors, who then repent their evil ways and promise to lead a moral life if their eyesight is restored. The boy grants them the boon.
In Chapter 4 of the Vishnu Purana, Rcika prepares a meal for two women, one simple, and another with ingredients that if eaten would cause the woman to conceive a son with martial powers. The latter is accidentally eaten by Renuka, and she then gives birth to Parashurama.
In Chapter 2 of the Vayu Purana, he is born after his mother Renuka eats a sacrificial offering made to both Rudra (Shiva) and Vishnu, which gives him dual characteristics of Kshatriya and Brahmin.

Parashurama is described in some versions of the Mahabharata as the angry Brahmin who with his axe, killed a huge number of Kshatriya warriors because they were abusing their power. In some versions, he even kills his own mother because his father asks him to and because to take his test obeisance towards his parents. After Parashurama obeys his father's order to kill his mother, his father grants him a boon. Parashurama asks for the reward that his mother be brought back to life, and she is restored to life. Parashurama remains filled with sorrow after the violence, repents and expiates his sin. After his Mother comes back to life, he tries to clean the blood-stained axe but he finds a drop of blood which he was unable to clean and tries cleaning the blood drop in different rivers. This is when he moves towards the south of India in search of any holy river where he could clean his axe, finally, he reaches Tirthahalli village in Shimoga, Karnataka and tries to clean the axe and to his surprise, the axe gets cleaned in the holy river of Tunga. With respect towards the holy river, he constructs a Shiva linga and performs pooja and the temple is named as Rameshwara temple. The place where Parashurama cleaned his axe is called Ramakunda.

He plays important roles in the Mahabharata serving as mentor to Bhishma (chapter 5.178), Drona (chapter 1.121) and Karna (chapter 3.286), teaching weapon arts and helping key warriors in both sides of the war.

In the regional literature of Kerala, he is the founder of the land, the one who brought it out of the sea and settled a Hindu community there. He is also known as Rama Jamadagnya and Rama Bhargava in some Hindu texts. Parashurama retired in the Mahendra Mountains, according to chapter 2.3.47 of the Bhagavata Purana. He is the only incarnation of Vishnu who never dies, never returns to abstract Vishnu and lives in meditative retirement. Further, he is the only incarnation of Vishnu that co-exists with other Vishnu incarnations Ram and Krishna in some versions of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, respectively.

Samanta Panchaka
According to the Sangraha Parva, after killing 21 generations of Kshatriyas, he filled their blood in five pools collectively known as the Samantha Panchaka (Sanskrit: समंत पञ्चक). He later atoned for his sin by severe penance. The five pools are considered to be holy.

The Anukramanika Parva says that the Samantha Panchaka is located somewhere around Kurukshetra. It also mentions that the Pandavas performed a few religious rites near the Samantha Panchaka before the Kurukshetra War.

Parashurama Kshetra
There is much interpretation of 'Parashurama Kshetra' (Land of Parashurama) mentioned in the Puranas.

The region on the western coast of India from Gokarna to Kanyakumari was known as Parashurama Kshetra.

The region of Konkan was also considered as Parashurama Kshetra.

The ancient Saptakonkana is a slightly larger region described in the Sahyadrikhanda which refers to it as Parashuramakshetra (Sanskrit for "The Land Of Parashurama"), Vapi to Tapi is an area of South Gujarat, India. This area is called "Parshuram Ni Bhoomi".

Iconography

The Hindu literature on iconography such as the Vishnudharmottara Purana and Rupamandana describes him as a man with matted locks, with two hands, one carrying an axe. However, the Agni Purana portrays his iconography with four hands, carrying his axe, bow, arrow and sword. The Bhagavata Purana describes his icon as one with four hands, carrying his axe, bow, arrows and a shield like a warrior. Though a warrior, his representation inside Hindu temples with him in war scenes is rare (the Basohli temple is one such exception). Typically, he is shown with two hands, with an axe in his right hand either seated or standing.

Temples

The Anantheshwara Temple is a famous temple in Udupi where Parashurama is worshipped in the form of a lingam.

There is a temple for Parashurama in Thiruvallam near Thiruvananthapuram Kerala. The temple called Athyarala in Rajempet, Andhra Pradesh, is dedicated to Parashurama. There is a Parshuram Kund, a Hindu pilgrimage centre in Lohit District of Arunachal Pradesh which is dedicated to Parashurama. Thousands of pilgrims visit the place in winter every year, especially on the Makar Sankranti day for a holy dip in the sacred kund which is believed to wash away one's sins. Mahurgad is one of the Shakti Pitha shrines in Maharashtra's Nanded District, where a famous temple of goddess Renuka exists. This temple at Mahurgad is always full of pilgrims. People also come to visit Parashurama temple on the same Mahurgad. The 108 Shiva Temples in Kerala which are believed to be consecrated by Parashurama.

Other places where temples for Parashurama are found are Chiplun in Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra and at Udupi, Karnataka. In Karnataka, there are a group of 7 temples in the stretch of Tulunadu (coastal Karnataka), known as Parashurama Kshetras, namely, Kollur, Koteshwara, Kukke Subrahmanya, Udupi, Gokarna, Anegudde (Kumbhasi) and Shankaranarayana.

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In popular culture
On top of the hills  of Janapav is a Shiva temple where Parshurama is believed to have worshipped Shiva, the ashram is known as Jamadagni Ashram, named after his father. The place also has a Kund (Pond) that is being developed by the state government.

In Kannada folklore, especially in devotional songs sung by the Devdasis he is often referred to as a son of Yellamma. Parashurama legends are notable for their discussion of violence, the cycles of retaliations, the impulse of krodha (anger), the inappropriateness of krodha, and repentance.

See also
Bhagwan Parshuram
Bhagavad Gita
Chiranjivi
Heheya Kingdom
Kalachuri Kingdom
Parasuram Express
Vijaya (bow)

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links
Is Parshuram Still Alive?  Lord Parshuram story by hindugodimage
Parshuram Stuti The Stuti of Purshuram by Jai Bhole

 108 Parashurama Kshetras published by Shaivam and Google Maps

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Characters in the Mahabharata
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Chapter 24: What About Him? Just Average (Part One)
When the morning sun climbed over the city gate of Fangu and shined the sunlight into the city, the people who woke up early and went out were stunned by what they saw.
Soon, the news spread, and all the residents of Fangu rushed onto the wide main street and sighed.
There were hundreds of tables on the street, and they were full of liquor bowls.
There were no dishes but liquor.
Except for Li Xiaozong, more than 700 soldiers of Fangu were all here. Right now, no soldier was patrolling on the city walls, and more than 3,000 liquor bowls on the tables were all filled.
There were four bars, six inns, and about a dozen restaurants in Fangu. The bosses, chefs, and waiters of these places and the workers of Gold Essence Shop worked a full night and moved almost all their liquor onto the street.
The soldiers wanted to help, but they were asked to sit and rest at the tables.
More than 2,000 people gathered on the main street, and they felt complicated when seeing all these tables.
Only those soldiers who protected Fangu for many years deserved to sit at these tables, and even Fang Jie who arranged this stood on the side and looked at them with guilt.
"Fang Jie, are you leaving for real?" someone couldn't help but ask.
Fang Jie waved his hand and didn't answer.
He grabbed a liquor bowl and slowly poured the liquor inside onto the ground. "This bowl of liquor is for our peers who died that night. I'm sorry for everything.
[TL Note: In Chinese tradition, pouring liquor on the ground is a way of paying respect to the dead. It is seen as a way for the dead to receive the liquor in the underworld.]
Except for the soldiers, not many people knew what this meant.
What happened that night could be hidden from the residents, but it couldn't be hidden from the elite soldiers. They knew who Fang Jie was paying respect to, so they were all sad. That night, more than 20 soldiers were killed at the west gate by Fang Jie.
Theoretically, the soldiers shouldn't forgive Fang Jie. But for some reason, someone suddenly shouted, "Rest in peace!"
Hearing this, all the soldiers stood up and each held a liquor bowl before pouring the liquor onto the ground and shouting in unison, "Rest in peace."
The most senior member of the military at Fangu, Captain Qu Feng, murmured as he poured the liquor, "Don't blame Fang Jie."
More than 700 people poured the liquor on the ground, wishing their peers to be well in Heaven.
After pouring the liquor, Fang Jie kowtowed toward the west gate three times. The soldiers stood on the two sides of the tables, and someone shouted, "Salute!"
All the soldiers placed their right fists before their chests in unison, giving a proper salute of Great Sui.
Qu Feng slowly walked over and pulled up Fang Jie whose forehead was still in contact with the green stone tile. "No one is blaming you. Although we soldiers hate fighting each other, it doesn't mean that we don't understand situations and logics. Li Xiaozong didn't come as he said that he imprisoned himself in his residence, but none of us called him. Look, even the soldiers who were guarding his residence are here. They don't see you as a foe."
"Regardless if you are at the Martial Arts Academy or other places, the soldiers at Fangu are always your brothers!"
"For our brother!" Qu Feng raised the liquor bowl and shouted.
"For our brother!" all other soldiers raised the liquor bowls and said to Fang Jie.
Fang Jie wanted to cry but held onto it. He took the bowl that Da Quan passed to him and chugged it.
"I know that you hate Li Xiaozong; we even hate him, let alone you," Qu Feng placed the liquor bowl back onto the table after chugging it down, and he took out a stack of silver certificates from his inner pocket. "The guards of Li Xiaozong's residence brought these to you. They said that they are too ashamed to face you, so they asked me to give them to you. These are the dividends that you gave to Li Xiaozong; not all but about one-third. You can hate him, but you made the money. You will need money to gift those officials in Chang'an; they are hard to talk to without gifts. Don't reject these silver certificates. If you don't feel like taking them, the more than 700 of us will each drip a drop of blood onto these silver certificates to wash away the resentment in your heart."
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Court halts xenophobic raids in inner-city Joburg
The Constitutional Court has put a stop to the metro police and home affairs officials using warrantless searches to drive out migrants from buildings in the city.
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Photographer: James Oatway
21 September 2017: Johannesburg metro police officers question a resident during one of former mayor Herman Mashaba's raids, which have now been declared unconstitutional.
The often xenophobic raids of inner-city buildings in Johannesburg during the term of office of the city's former mayor, Herman Mashaba, have been declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court. Mashaba, then a senior DA member and now the leader of ActionSA, had made the "clean-up" raids targeting migrants and impoverished Black residents a personal project.
Between June 2017 and May 2018, there was a series of search operations in 11 residential inner-city buildings by members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) and immigration officials from the Department of Home Affairs.
They forced the residents of these buildings outside to the streets, searched and fingerprinted them, and demanded copies of their identity documents, passports or asylum seeker's permits. Those who could not produce these were detained for being in breach of immigration laws. Inside the buildings, doors were broken down to gain entry into residents' living spaces and search their possessions, many of which went missing in the process.
21 September 2017: A metro police officer prepares to search a resident in one of Johannesburg's inner-city buildings that were raided.
These raids were often relentless and lasted for hours. Industry House in Davies Street, New Doornfontein, for example, experienced more than five raids in a year. In Wellington Court in Leyds Street, Joubert Park, residents were told it was an "illegal occupation" and officials were there to obtain their personal details. When they could not produce identification documents, people were detained for being "too dark" or having "a foreign accent".
While most of these raids were conducted with written authorisation from the police in terms of Section 13(7) of the Police Service Act, some took place without any warrant or authorisation. In Wemmer Shelter, Turffontein, for example, residents were subjected to a five-hour-long search during which their immigration status was verified. Those who could not produce documents were detained.
With the help of the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri), the residents of these 11 buildings approached the high court in Johannesburg in March 2020 to challenge the lawfulness of the raids. The high court ruled that Section 13(7)(c) of the act, which allowed for warrantless searches in a cordoned-off area, was unconstitutional as it infringed on the right to dignity and privacy. This has now been confirmed by the Constitutional Court.
Reining in the police
In a majority judgment, Justice Nonkosi Mhlantla held that Section 13(7)(c) "… neither provides for urgency when authorising such searches, nor does it provide guidelines for the manner in which these searches must be conducted or require that a reasonable suspicion of criminality must exist before the search". This, she wrote, makes the section "evidently overbroad".
The judgment noted that the raids were xenophobic in that they were "conducted for the ulterior purpose of enabling the Department of Home Affairs to arrest those suspected of being illegal immigrants". Mhlantla went on to say that "the rights to privacy and dignity in the Constitution attach to everyone and not just citizens. Human dignity has no nationality. It appears to me that the respondents were under the impression that because the applicants were largely suspected to be non-citizens or undocumented, they could repeatedly over many months, at any hour of the day or night, violate their rights without consequence.This cannot be so."
Joburg residents fight warrantless raids in court
She said that "the true purpose of the raids was not only to seek out and arrest undocumented immigrants, but also to frighten and harass the applicants into leaving their homes".
The majority judgment only found paragraph (c) unconstitutional and not (a) and (b), but acting justice Margaret Victor disagreed. For Victor, the entire section was unconstitutional in that both paragraphs gave a framework for the police to act in an unlawful manner and abuse vulnerable people.
But Mhlantla was of the view that there was no need to assume that the written authorisation in terms of these paragraphs will lead to unlawful searches in cordoned-off areas. She reasoned that these sections did not limit any rights within the Bill of Rights and could therefore not be unconstitutional.
Protecting privacy and property
The Constitutional Court went further than the high court's decision by ruling that it is not only prohibited to undertake a warrantless search of a private home, but also of people and private property outside of it. This will apply from the date of the judgment as the court said it cannot wait for Parliament to fix the repugnant parts of the provision.
The applicants were not granted constitutional damages as the court reasoned that there are other forms of effective remedies in common law and in terms of legislation.
The high court had not granted a final interdict restraining the JMPD and home affairs officials from interfering with the applicants' homes, but the Constitutional Court took a different view.
21 September 2017: The police search a flat in downtown Johannesburg during a raid. Eleven buildings, mostly housing migrants, were targeted for such raids over a period of about a year.
JMPD and immigration officials, it reasoned, "conducted the raids and searched the homes of the … applicants … without the involvement of members of the police and without any authorisation to do so under the SAPS Act. It seems therefore that whatever law might have been in place, constitutional or otherwise, these actors would probably have acted in exactly the same manner.
"Added to this, the applicants aver that a threat was made that more searches were to be conducted in future. So there is no reason to believe that a change in the law is likely to influence the conduct of these actors. An order invalidating a portion of section 13(7)(c) would do nothing to change the conditions that prompted the officers of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department and the Department of Home Affairs to conduct the unlawful raids."
The court therefore granted a final interdict against the JMPD and home affairs and ordered the minister of police to pay the applicants' costs.
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These three oaks are associated with Dransfield House. Constructed in the late 19th century in the Italianate style, this historic estate has had a colourful history, undergoing numerous additions and changes over the last century.
It was originally erected c. 1875, with subsequent additions for Joseph Dransfield, the first mayor of Wellington. In 1896 it was subsequently sold to Rose C. Focke , who, according to the City Building Index Register, is believed to have added the original spire that is now a feature of the Spire Lounge Bar, originally intended as a conservatory.
In 1905 the property was purchased by Alfred Ernest Kernot, Consul for Paraguay, who added extensive horse stables and a coach house in the area that is now the lower gardens.
In more recent times the building became abandoned and derelict where upon it was saved from demolition by the Smith family who set about restoring the house to its former granduer where it is one of only four homes of it's type dating from the 1870's in the greater Wellington region.
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Imagine you are a big drug company, testing out a new drug. You pick a group of people who you think are most likely to respond to the drug. If you give the new drug to ten cancer patients and nine of them have progressive disease — their tumors continue to grow — then you're probably going to shelve that drug. You wouldn't possibly want to give a drug to a group of patients when 90 percent of them will continue to get worse. But what about that one patient? While the other nine progressed, one patient improved remarkably. You're probably still going to have to shelve the drug. A 90 percent failure rate is unacceptable. And yet 10 percent of the patient population might be missing out on a phenomenal treatment for their specific tumor.
That one patient is the extraordinary responder — her response was different than the expected, ordinary response based on statistics. If researchers could figure out what made her extraordinary — why she responded to the drug and the others didn't — perhaps they could tailor a trial to patients with only that "extraordinary" characteristic. By better selecting a target patient population, they could take a drug with a 90 percent failure rate and turn it into a drug with an exceptional success rate!
The hard thing about studying extraordinary responders is that in any single trial, by definition, there are so few individuals to study. The Metastatic Breast Cancer Project being launched this month by the Broad Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has an answer to that problem. By collecting data, tissue and health records from metastatic breast cancer patients treated in any cancer center, oncology practice or community hospital across the country, they will be able to gather a much larger group of extraordinary responders than a researcher could ever find at any individual center. The scientists at Broad have considerable resources and expertise to analyze and compare the genomic data from all these patients — putting them in a tremendous position to find the "extraordinary characteristics" that these patients share. They require very little from the participants: Sign an online consent form and spit in the tube they send you. They do the hard work of acquiring your health records and tissue from your doctors and analyzing everything, and they'll even keep you informed as the studies progress. If you don't think your response qualifies as "extraordinary," they still want to hear from you, too! While they plan to begin by studying extraordinary responders and patients who presented with stage 4 disease, they are reaching out to all metastatic breast cancer patients (men too!) to sign up and share their voice. Starting with the extraordinary responders is a strategic way to quickly impact the most patients, but as the study grows, they will expand to study additional patient groups. They hope to have a robust collection of patients to draw from as soon as they're ready to start a new group.


There has been a chicken running around Westminster in recent weeks. Not a real chicken (well, depending on your definition of 'politician') but someone in costume, and they're doing a great impression of David Cameron – according to Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage. In a first for British politics, the party leaders of the Lib Dems, Labour, and UKIP appear to be united under one banner as they all accuse the Prime Minister of cowardice for not wanting to take part in TV debates in the run up to the next general election in May.
What has ensued is politicians demonstrating the sluggish and ineffectual bureaucracy of Westminster because they are currently engaged in a raucous, name-calling debate about whether or not they should have a future debate – definitely not a first for British politics!
The plans that were initially outlined by broadcasters would see three debates prior to the general election in May: one between Ed Miliband and David Cameron; one between these two plus Nick Clegg; and one between all aforementioned party leaders with the addition of Nigel Farage. If only it were that simple. David Cameron has thrown a spanner in the works and refused to take part –without the addition of the Green party.
Let's be under no illusion, David Cameron is not a passionate environmentalist who wants to support his friends in the Green party. The Prime Minister has absolutely no interest in campaigning on live TV – especially against UKIP leader Nigel Farage – because it will most likely do more harm than good.
After one of the 2010 TV election debates the approval ratings of the little known Nick Clegg soared and now he's the deputy prime minister. The public seem to like a fresh face, a challenge to the authority (or sometimes just any alternative) and Nigel Farage is bringing it: he will go in with guns blazing, promising change and David Cameron is deeply worried (yes, perhaps even chicken) that he will swoon too many voters if he is given too much air time. The plan behind the closed door of no. 10 seems to be to hinder the TV debates at all cost.
It's a selfish game plan of the prime minister because the British public will want to (and even feel entitled to) see is a fair televised debate between party leaders: they're accessible and they're informative. Some politicians have questioned if the debates should take place at all, but I think there can be no ifs, or buts, about it. Televised debates have already made an indelible mark on political campaigning in Britain: think last year's televised independence referendum debates as well as an EU membership debate between Clegg and Farage that got a lot of attention.
The leaders of Labour, Lib Dem and UKIP were hoping that if the broadcasters waited long enough Cameron would eventually give in; or, even better for them, they would simply give him the empty chair treatment and proceed with the TV debates without him – a no show from Cameron when all the other parties were debating would be an unthinkable disaster for the Tories.
But now, there's a new development in the ongoing saga. Cameron's steadfast tactic seems to have worked as broadcasters have been involved in secret meetings and have – although at the time of writing it's still to be confirmed – come up with a plan to have TV debates that would include not only the Greens but the national parties of Scotland and Wales (the SNP and Plaid Cymru respectively). This debate could be more controversial than TV debates themselves!
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The play that made Randall Cobb and Davante Adams lose their minds belonged to undrafted rookie Michael Clark, a former Division I basketball player.
GREEN BAY - The play that made wide receivers Randall Cobb and Davante Adams lose their minds belonged to undrafted rookie Michael Clark, a former Division I basketball player trying to make it in the National Football League.
Clark, who played one year of college football at Marshall, took off down the sideline on a go route during Thursday's practice inside the Don Hutson Center. The ball was heaved downfield.
Cornerback LaDarius Gunter ran stride for stride with Clark, who has a four-inch height advantage, and quickly realized the type of athletic ability Clark possesses. When the ball arrived, Clark leaped into the air and plucked the ball from over Gunter's head for a miraculous catch that had his fellow receivers roaring with delight.
It was at least the second occasion in which Clark's prolific aerial ability has come to light in the first week of training camp. Two days earlier, Clark made a similar grab over the top of cornerback Lenzy Pipkins. At 6-5 ½ and 215 pounds, Clark is a difficult matchup down the field. His timing, hand-eye coordination and 33-inch vertical leap only add to the potential peril.
In his own words, Clark is "very, very, very raw" as a football player. He played one year of high school football in Florida before quitting to focus on basketball. He earned a scholarship to St. Francis (Pa.) as a stretch four who loved to dunk and shoot three-pointers from the top of the key.
But after one season in Pennsylvania — he scored six points and grabbed six rebounds — Clark wanted to give football another chance.
"I gave up my full scholarship, I became a walk-on and had to find a school," Clark said.
He landed at Marshall thanks to a connection with an old AAU basketball teammate. Clark sat out the 2015 season due to transfer rules and caught 37 passes for 632 yards and five touchdowns in his only year on the football field. Then he declared for the draft and was not selected.
Clark's inexperience makes him a legitimate project for the coaching staff. He admits that he knows almost nothing about football, and many of the fundamentals that are second nature to receivers are still new for Clark. He has struggled at times on special teams, which are even more foreign.
But there are very few receivers who are that tall, that athletic and can run the 40-yard dash in 4.53 seconds. Clark is intriguing, and that's why the Packers brought him to camp.


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These options are designed for large data maps where you want to "get it right the first time." They can save you a lot of repetitive work.
Create the data map in the usual way, as instructed in the other Data Map help topics.
Select Report Defaults from the Data Map dropdown list.
There are basically two options. First, you can select any of the topics in the end topic tables to sort on, and you can select ascending or descending order. Second, if you have requested a PDF report, you can select the number of tables per page, either Auto or One.
Here is a typical end table, where the default was changed to sorting on profit in descending order. If this wasn't the original default and you didn't have the Report Defaults option, you would have to double-click the Profit column in each of the end tables to get this sort order. In other words, the Report Defaults option saves you a lot of repetitive work.
If you select Report Defaults again and apply a new sort order, you see the following warning. If you click Yes, all end tables will be resorted according to the new sort order.
If you create a data map report, as explained in the corresponding help topic, the end table sections of the report are also sorted in the selected default sort order. In the example shown here, the sort order was changed to descending on items sold. In addition, if you go back to the map and change the report defaults, as in the previous step, the sort order will automatically change in these report tables as well.
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Vivo V9 Plus (2018) review
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 MSM8976 Plus
6.3 inches (1080 x 2280 px)
13 + 2 MP, 4160 x 3120 px, autofocus, optical image stabilization
Vivo announced the launch of the V9 Plus smartphone in 2018. The manufacturer is offering the Vivo V9 Plus phone with 6.3 inches display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 MSM8976 Plus chipset, 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of internal storage.
The Vivo V9 Plus comes with Android OS v8.1 (Oreo) out of the box, and a Li-Po 3260 mAh, non-removable battery. The 6.3 inches phone comes with IPS display (1080 x 2280 px). The IPS display provides enhanced features, such as optimal viewing angles, color accuracy, invariable color reproduction and better power consumption.
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The weight of Vivo V9 Plus is about 5.29 oz with battery, which is average compared to most of the smartphones with same size. The dimensions of this Vivo phone are average (6.09 x 2.95 x 0.31 inches).
The Vivo V9 Plus comes with Android OS v8.1 (Oreo) out of the box, but it is upgradable to the next OS.
Octa-core, Quad-core 2.2 GHz Kryo, Quad-core 1.84 GHz Kryo
The size of V9 Plus screen is measured diagonally, from corner to corner. The 6.3 inches IPS display of Vivo V9 Plus with 1080 x 2280 px resolution is multitouch capable.
The internal memory of Vivo V9 Plus (6 GB) cannot be expanded, but the internal storage (64 GB) can be expanded with a compatible microSD card.
The camera of the V9 Plus is equipped with autofocus. An autofocus (or AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. Very few Android cameras come without autofocus. The main camera of V9 Plus has optical image stabilization (OIS) to counteract camera shake. Optical image stabilization is a must for anyone shooting without a tripod with a long lens or in low light conditions.
The Vivo V9 Plus supports 2G, 3G and 4G/LTE networks. This phone has a built-in GPS. GPS is a highly accurate navigation system using signals from satellites to determine a location on the Earth's surface, irrespective of weather conditions. Most phones have a GPS unit on board. The V9 Plus phone has built-in FM radio. The built-in FM Radio is great for listening to your favorite radio station.
The Li-Po 3260 mAh, non-removable battery gives the smartphone a good battery backup. The lithium polymer (Li-Po) battery is a thin, light-weight, rechargeable battery. No periodic discharge is needed and charging can be done at random. The battery of V9 Plus isn't removable without voiding the warranty.
Smartphones today come with a wealth of sensors to facilitate a better user experience. The accelerometer is a sensor that measures the tilting motion and orientation of the phone. The V9 Plus phone has a fingerprint scanner. This sensor identifies and authenticates the fingerprints of an individual in order to grant or deny access to a smartphone. This Vivo phones comes with proximity sensor. This proximity sensor detects how close the phone is to an outside object, such as your ear. The Dual SIM capability of Vivo V9 Plus phone is ideal for businesses wishing to provide staff with a mobile device that can offer separate numbers and bills for both personal and business use. This smartphone supports fast charging technology, which comes in handy when you need quick juice on your device.
The specifications above are based on the official data published by the manufacturer, but we also take user reviews into consideration. If you found an error or something lacking in the specifications above for the Vivo V9 Plus, then don't hesitate and signal the problem to us.
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