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September 9, 2015Shayna Rated helpful
@Cash, glad that works for you.
I thought Zoloft was an antidepressant?
There are givers and takers. The takers eat better. But the givers sleep better.
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@DrWho. Pretty much most drugs have either dangerous or unknown long-term health implications, especially ones such as anti-psychotics, but you weigh this against how much more dangerous it is to your health to be an untreated psychotic patient. Sure, I agree that there are absolutely some nasty side effects and long-term dangers, but if I don't take my olanzapine, I try to kill myself, I try to kill other people, and it is only with extreme luck and intervention from others, combined with these dangerous drugs that ensured neither of these things ever happened.
As with most things, it is a calculated risk, usually worth taking, though I reserve this opinion specifically for the treatment of psychotic disorders. However, I think off-label use of anti-psychotics for things like insomnia or anxiety is down-right stupid when you consider the long-term effects.
i flushed half the doctors script of Lexapro, told him his nurse should of never tried to experiment with me on my last visit and give it to me, which the new Doctor replacing my old gave me a hard time that i was on [email protected]@x and Lexapro, i was like the lexapro was recently added, i dont need it. The Doc was unsure and unclear, the new one so recommended i see a Pysch> I got freaked out cause of the nursses bad judgement about putting me on Lexapro, which 3 months ago I had no idea about AD's or Lexapro, i was just [email protected]@x for work and whatever else that streses me out
exercise,water, ginger green tea, cardio, i want to get back to 2mg [email protected] and with klonopin for 30days to help with the tapper down, if the new GP (Primary Care) doesn't refill my script for [email protected], the extra's i have will cause me to go into a hard tapper down and save what I got til i get the motivation to find a new GP or Health Care provider, after 9yrs with the same practice, the old Doc retires and new one comes in making it more difficult.
Speaking from personal experience, yes, there are absolutely some very dangerous side-effects of long-term anti-psychotic use.
I've been on olanzapine for many years, as well as aripriprazole, risperidone, quetiapine, and haloperidol amongst many, many others.
These have been proven to cause a number of side-effects with long-term use, including; parkinsonism, akathisia,dystonia and Parkinson disease.
Some of these can be counter-balanced by prescription of procyclidine, which I take 3 times a day. It doesn't always work perfectly, but it is better than nothing.
I'm honestly terrified one day I will develop one or more of these side-effects, and as such, I hope I can come off the anti-psychotics eventually, though with class II paranoid schizophrenia, I'm not so sure that will happen.
@DrWho I was in detox in 1995? And I heard the nurse saying med call. For those who don't know med call it is just a fancy name for come to the nurses station and get your drugs. So it was my turn and when I looked in the little paper cup that had my pills in it I saw one pill I didn't recognize. I blew it off thinking it is a fancy vitamin. I went ahead and took the pills thinking this was fine and that RN knew what she was giving me. After I had taken the pills I sat down to watch the TV. After about an hour the back of my neck starting getting really stiff. I thought maybe I was getting really te nse from the football game.
Then all the sudden my back muscles tightened up. So I went back to the nurses station. It was a different nurse than the one who gave out the pills. I told her my neck and shoulders and my back.w ere very stiff. She looked up my records and said" you are not psychotic are you" and I said no. She said that someone made a mistake. Then she gave me a high dose of a benzo and told me to lay down for a while. So I understand the muscle tension.
HCBrown !
I have a long adult history, well, from seeing my first Psychiatrist, at age 19 years old to about age 29 years old. Took a break, then
been seeing a Shrink, since the year 1994, last one, the last 18 yrs in a row. I have a STRONG blatant attitude about taking any
anti-psychotic, be it, old school, Thorazine, to new school, Zyprexa, or, Risperidone, or Abilify, SEROQUEL,at any dose !! This
includes many trials (years ago) on Depakote, and, Eskalith (Lithium), to "Lamictal" (misc anticonvulsant to phenyltriazines)
Haldol? (NEVER!)
I do know some adult and "calm" individuals who take some of the above, or a combination of above meds. They have a DX of
Bipolar I, far more extreme than "Bipolar II". Others have, one of the 10 to 11 Axis II Personality Disorders, in DSM-IV. Others have
some SEVERE medical conditions that warrant their use, for a half way life, with "measurable serenity".
All my various DX's involve Axis I, in common language, a dual diagnosis, of, either, ADD inattentive type, + MDD, (Retardant
Depression a/k/a Treatment Resistant Depression,with a overlap of again Axis I, some traits, of, OCD Anxiety Disorder, (not the
full spectrum). I have tried, ten years of non stop, add on either expensive focus group therapy, or one on one psychotherapy,
(still very expensive) to aid in my pharmacotherapy, to, reach, that "measurable serenity", including two inpatient 28 to
42 day in patient treatment centers, that was a "head start"............. but did not cure me. Some DX's have no real "cure".
In summation, many MD's get frustrated, and IMHO, will prescribe "off label" powerful anti-psychotics, phenothiazines, to "new
generation" drugs as mentioned. IMHO,to just shut the patient up, and, leave the patient, in a continuous lethargic state, with
ensuing often weight gain, etc. and not deal with any DEA controlled pharmaceuticals. Not all MD's do this, but some do, I have
been there, I know. Some pts NEED the anti-psychotics, to lead a independent, reasonably calm life, due to true BiPolar I or
other serious Mental health DX's. Just my 2 cents worth. PS. I have had over 36 ethical pharmaceuticals RX'd to me, after that,
I stopped counting, over the past 40+ years !!
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My Doctor/s have tried me on anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. I knew that they would do me no good at all or even make me worse, I realised that my anxiety and paranoia was making me depressed. So after speaking to my Doctor "this was years ago" he prescribed me Diazepam which helped me tremendously.
Only the past couple of years I felt more anxious so I use other meds when needed.
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Mail Call!
While mailing my monthly bills this Saturday morning (Nov. 26), at the Gosling post office, "Military Families and Friends" had a table set up with prepackaged boxes ready to dispatch to our military service personnel in Afghanistan. They got the packages as far as the door, but need help getting them into the post office and shipped.
Those wishing to spread holiday cheer outside The Woodlands borders can take a package to the Postmaster and ship a package for about a fourth of what you usually spend on a holiday gift for someone. And you don't even have to pay for the gift! Generous residents and merchants contributed the contents, and your portion of the gift…the postage, is less than $13. The post office closes at 2:00 on Saturdays, so you better hurry, or you'll miss the 'mail call.'


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Dust Mites in Homes
How many of us are allergic to dust? Quite a few, it turns out. Simple household dust can cause difficult allergic symptoms, asthma, and even stress already struggling immune systems, making the sufferer more vulnerable to respiratory infections.
The thing is, it's not the dust you are allergic to. 'Dust' is mostly minute particles of human skin that we all shed constantly throughout the day. Not very pleasant, but the vast majority of people aren't allergic to our own skin, or that of other people. It's what lives in the dust that causes problems.
Dust Mites
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After investigating further, Holmes plans to conduct a secret stakeout in Julia's old room. As Holmes and Watson wait in the darkness, they suddenly hear a metallic noise and see a light shining through the ventilator from Roylott's room. They discover a venomous snake, the speckled band, on the bell-rope. Holmes hits the snake with a stick and it returns through the ventilator to Roylott's room, biting and killing him. Holmes later reviews the details of the mystery with Watson and explains how he solved it.
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August 11, 2016
The 240-unit Villa Espada Apartments in San Antonio's Mission del Lago area has been sold to Salem, OR-based Windmill Investments. Seller and developer 210 Development Group was represented by Jones Lang LaSalle's Scott LaMontagne and Moses Siler. The sales prices was undisclosed, and The Bexar Central Appraisal District assess the asset at $25.2 million.
The Class A property at 12910 Clubhouse Blvd. was completed a year ago. The complex was 50% leased upon closing. According to LaMontagne, Villa Espada is the first market-rate property in an area that is better known for its affordable housing. As such, the buyer pool was expanded to "opportunistic buyers that do not typically invest in new assets," he said.
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I have been really excited about the new Jack Johnson album: Sleep Through The Static. It contains his signature truth-telling lyrics with that whimsical, plucky guitar. It's a gorgeous composition of soft and loud, and it reminds me of spring time in college. It's the kind of music that makes it almost glamorous to be alone––the music itself is intimate, deeply personal, yet universally true. Or so I thought.This week, we've been writing for our portfolios, so I've been playing a lot of music during class. Usually I play it safe with wordless jazz and I stick to the basics: Miles and Coltrain. But the other day I decided to introduce some of my own music. Class, meet Jack Johnson. I was thinking, How could anyone not love this? I mean, I know it's not Fergie or Van Halen or Lil Wayne, but c'mon. This is real. good. stuff. (But not as real or as good as Miles and Coltrain obviously.)Before the first song was 15 seconds in, I was greeted with the following critique from my astute musical connoisseurs. "Ugggh. This is lover's music." or "Awww man. What is this?" Some of the students tried to build my ego back up by offering comments like "If I were sitting in a restaurant, and this played, I would be like, hmmm. What's that?" Of course, this kind soul's final words were cut off by another commentator's insistence that such music would make her "Get up and leave that joint!" Then yet another sympathetic student said, "Naw… It sounds like elevator music to me."And so it is decided. I am lame. According to 8th graders anyway. I have to admit, Jack Johnson sounds different post 8th grade bashing, but they can't take away my history with Jack. And so I will continue to listen and enjoy that melancholy "lover's music."
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Thoughts on Writing (and other products of my procrastination)8 12 2007
In the past three days, I have spent a total of 20 hours in the library with my nose in some fascinating and not-so-fascinating 19th century material. First off, I think we need to give at least the second half of the 19th century some serious props for doing some serious work in terms of education, philosophy, writing, lecturing (lots of lecturing), having riots about who was more awesome: Catholics or Calvinists. I've been focusing on the educational movement that took place under the leadership of Horace Mann (the man to whom we owe much thanks for the beginnings of No Child Left Behind). Bronson Alcott (Louisa May's father) was a tasty piece of Transcendental ass–he was in the philosophical bed with the big boys like Emerson (who called him a "world builder") and Thoreau (whom Louisa supposedly had the hots for). If you're interested in the Alcotts, check out Eden's Outcasts. It's really interesting, it's like looking through the Marches in Little Women–add a Transcendental commune, a few (brilliant) failed schools, lots of lectures, a few more deaths and you've got the Alcotts.
So when I haven't been reading or writing, I've been finding ways to procrastinate. Here's what happens every two hours or so: Check email, make playlists, get on facebook (send a few hatching presents, chuck a book or two), check email, read my friends' blogs, check my phone (no messages), ask someone to watch my stuff so I can go pee (and possibly smoke a cigarette, depending on how late it is and how desperate I am), get some water, settle in and check email/facebook one last time. Sometimes the sequence of events varies, but it stays more or less the same. I have found that the more I write, the more painful it gets–writing never gets "easy" because it's never done. In every paper I write, there is a point at which I feel as though I simply cannot, will not pull it off. Grad school is the marines of academic writing. Right now, I feel as though I am living the scene in G.I. Jane where they've been doing whatever kind of hellish training they do all day and they're made to sit and write all night long with sleepytime classical music playing. Oh, and they're cold and wet. At least I'm not cold and wet.
I have found that music is key because it's the only thing that keeps your brain alive during the long haul to a paper's due date. Playing on my ipod right now: George Winston (December and Summer), Enya (Shepherd Moons), Miles Davis and Coltrain (I don't know what the albums are–it's a collection I put together in college), some French music, and a few soundtracks (Finding Neverland, Meet Joe Black, Braveheart, Upside of Anger, Piano).
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"One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years." ~Thomas Wolfe
My love affair with New York began, I think, with Sex and the City–the show of my coming into my own. I wanted to be Carrie Bradshaw–I wanted her curly hair and her studio apartment. I wanted to smoke cigarettes, wear vintage couture clothes and write, write, write in a very glamorous way. I wanted to be alone in the way that she is alone in that show, which is much more than a show, really. Let's be serious–it's a revolution.
I spent the last 5 days in New York City. While I was there, I found myself writing and reading more than usual. Part of the reason for this was that I was alone. Usually, the only time I'm alone is after everyone in my house goes to bed– problem is, I generally want to go to bed then, too. So having longer periods of alone time during my most productive parts of the day (morning and early afternoon) had a dramatic effect on the amount of writing I did, but also on the kind of writing I did– it was much, much more thoughtful. I also had material to write about. The sheer volume of people in the city creates a kind of energy that I believe is what draws people to there. And everyone looks different. Granted, people look different on 5th Avenue than they do in SoHo, but overall, everyone is wrapped up in their own style.
I felt like I was more *me in the city that I have been in a long time. But, the good news is, I think I brought her back to Alabama with me. I listened to music more, I wrote some observational pieces, I read Chomsky on Democracy and Education and I read Rumi's Bird Song. I rode the subway and composed narratives in my mind about the people who were packed up against me. I walked to the top of Saks, I ate tira misu at nearly every restaurant I visited, I caught a taxi all by myself, I was questioned on whether or not I was "famous," I attended a drag bar (Lucky Cheng's, I highly recommend it) I heard my own thoughts, I walked in the rain (though I did not sing). Indeed, I believe I belong to New York. Perhaps someday, I will live where I belong.
My playlist for the trip: "More Than This," Charlie Hunter Quartet; "The Golden Dream," Erin McKeown; "I Feel It All," Fiest; "Past in Present," Feist; "Remember the Sun," Pieta Brown; "Casimir Polanski Day," Sufjan Stevens; "Firecracker," Ryan Adams; "Sonic Boom," Pieta Brown; "My Moon My Man," Feist
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A man and woman face charges Wednesday after police say they were found living in a New York man's vacation home with narcotics, 10 grenades, a firearm and a pet pig.
Darin James Febus, 37, and Miriam Scott Bailey, 32, were arrested after police responded to a report of a disturbance at 2012 S.W. 37 Ave. on Tuesday night.
Authorities say they were squatters and the drugs that were found in the home included cocaine and marijuana that apparently belonged to them.
Febus was charged with grand theft auto, possession of cannabis, and also possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. His bond is $13,500. Bailey was also charged with grand theft auto and possession of cannabis, with a bond of $6,000.
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New Zealand should purchase Munro medals
Les Munro is one of New Zealand's greatest living war veterans and his medals should be purchased and kept in New Zealand, Labour's Defence spokesperson Phil Goff says.
"Labour is calling on the Government to purchase these medals which are being donated by former Squadron Leader Les Munro to auction in London to raise money for the Bomber Command Memorial Fund.
"Les Munro's decision to give up his prized medals and logbooks to support the Memorial that honours the Bomber Command mates he lost in the war is an act of extraordinary generosity.
"As the last surviving pilot from the famed 1943 Dambusters Raid and the survivor of 57 bombing sorties, Les Munro is one of New Zealand's most distinguished war veterans.
"It would be a tragedy, however, if his medals were lost to New Zealand because they were purchased by an overseas buyer.
"The Government should take the initiative and purchase the medals and logbooks so they can be put on permanent public display in our country.
"It would be a fitting tribute both to Les Munro personally but also to the 1851 New Zealand pilots and air crew who died in the Second World War while serving with Bomber Command.
"This year we mark the centenary of the occasion which gave rise to ANZAC Day, the day we commemorate all those who served and those who died for our country. Purchasing the medals would be an appropriate commemorative action.
"The expenditure of around $100,000 is a small price to pay for retaining the medals as a lasting memorial to those who died over Europe to protect the freedom of future generations of New Zealanders", Phil Goff says.


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"Art is not a thing. It is a way"
Elbert Hubbard, 1901
The Art of Standing Out is about finding that way, a different way of doing things that allows us to transform our schools to outstanding and beyond. Schools that are standingout have flipped the traditional Ofsted model on it's head so that teachers, leaders and pupils are able to stand out in ways that they never before thought were possible.
The Art of Standing Out is not about being the best, but about being better than you ever thought you could be. It's about going from good to great and beyond in a way that is worthwhile, sustainable and nourishing for all. Were you to tweet the gist of the book, this is what you would write: "How to transform your school in a way that is courteous, wholesome and meaningful for all without giving two hoots to Ofsted."
The Art of Standing Out is available on Amazon and is published by John Catt Education.
Amazon Reviews
"This is a book about flipping the telescope of how we see our schools. From outstanding to standing out – and the imperative to stop dancing to other people's tunes. Authentic, moral and courageous a real guide to being your best. This book will resonate with many on their own journey of leadership. Believing in and implementing your own leadership means you believe in change; deep-rooted school improvement and ultimately have a profound belief in all our young people. It is a sweeping tale and much more: It's about the ultimate public service to our country. Standing Out is about thinking without 'shackles', optimistic and heartfelt." –Ty Goddard, Co-founder of the Education Foundation
"Andrew Morrish has given us a rich, deeply personal, story that is made up of multiple stories that provide insights and questions and a range of ideas. The Art of Standing Out is a timely and powerful book of profound honesty, deep humanity and wisdom. Drawing on a wide range of experiences and ideas Andrew challenges prevailing thinking at many levels but always returns to affirm the centrality of learning in leadership. It is ultimately a profoundly honest account of leadership and a narrative of hope and as such is to be warmly welcomed and deserves to be widely read and debated." –Prof John West-Burnham, author of Leadership Dialogues: Conversations and activities for leadership teams
"In this passionate and very personal account, Andrew Morrish gives the reader an inspiring reminder of why, now more than ever, school leaders need to have the courage to lead with conviction and belief. But refreshingly, that belief is that anything's possible and the focus shouldn't be exam results. He demonstrates throughout the book from his own schools successes, that if you focus on creating the right culture and climate, pupil outcomes cannot help but follow. This is an uplifting reminder of why, if you stick to your core beliefs and values, leading in a school is still one of the best jobs in the world." –Andy Buck, Leadership Matters.
More praise for The Art of Standing Out
'A beautiful, inspirational book. I hope it flies off the shelves!' Richard Gerver
Y'Written in crystal clear prose. A memorable, uplifting read. I loved it.' Geoff Barton, General Secretary of ASCL
'Utterly, utterly gripping … Oh, and hysterically funny.' Mary Myatt
'Compelling, moving and practical.' Russell Hobby, General Secretary of NAHT
'An enjoyable read, peppered with accumulated wisdom and amusing anecdotes.' Professor Rob Coe
'I love this book. If you want to be a school leader then read it.' Vic Goddard
'A hugely entertaining read.' Dame Alison Peacock, CEO of the Chartered College for Teaching
'A thought-provoking book using deliciously bittersweet moments.' Ross Morrison McGill (@TeacherToolkit)
'A compelling story, refreshingly honest and open.' Zoe Elder
'A must-read for all aspiring leaders.' Sue Williamson, CEO of SSAT
'A book that will make you laugh, cry and think.' Stephen Tierney
'A sweeping tale…Optimistic and heartfelt.' Ty Goddard
'A timely powerful book that deserves to be widely read and debated.' Professor John West-Burnham
You can read extracts from the book here, here and here.
Further extracts from the book have also appeared in articles here, here and here.
To hear a podcast interview of me discussing the book as part of the series 'A Head of our time', click here or download it from iTunes.


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On Easter in 1994, a man claiming to be a Private Investigator by the name of Tom Grant was contacted by Courtney Love to find Kurt Cobain at their Seattle home. Courtney and Kurt bought a house next door to the owner of the Starbucks coffee franchise and directly across from Bill Gates' home located on Lake Washington.
The "Soaked in Bleach" movie was released June of 2015 in seedy theaters and, eventually sold to Netflix, which they buy anything to add to their servers for subscriptions paid. "Soaked in Bleach" is from Nirvana lyrics of song "Come As You Are" and sings 'as a friend, as a friend, as an old enemy' and 'when I swear that I don't have a gun.' This film is based all about Tom Grant taking money from Mrs. Cobain to find Mr. Cobain with Kurt's best friend, Dylan Carlson. But Kurt happened to killed himself in the middle of the investigation. Now, Tom Grant is not a very good P.I. for finding his client's husband alive, but dead. Tom Grant claimed to have gone through the house, but never looked in the guest room above the garage, when it is in plain sight from the driveway or the entrance of the home. Kurt drove a silver colored stationwagon Volvo, where he parked his car. Wouldn't an investigator first look for Kurt's car?
This private investigator has tried to make himself a celebrity by creating his career based on bad mouthing Courtney Love as the murderess. But, she was in Los Angeles at the time releasing her album, false arrest stories and untrue hospitalization news reports to the media. So, Tom Grant joined the media for any number of reasons:
- Courtney was trying to frame Tom Grant by hiring this ex-cop to kill Kurt Cobain.
- Tom Grant says he had no idea that Kurt Cobain was a well-known celebrity and now seeks fame as a good cop with personal convictions for justice, but does not want the crime scene photos released to the public for the sake of accused murderess' daughter.
- Courtney's attorney, Rosemary Carroll had phone conversations with Tom Grant that were recorded without her knowledge, yet Tom Grant made them public in this Netflix docudrama. This action is not legal, unless announced.
- Tom Grant is keeping Kurt Cobain's memory alive for his ex-client, Courtney Love and the managing attorney, Rosemary Carroll to be able to profit from Nirvana's music for years to come.
"Soaked in Bleach" lies by Tom Grant:
- According to California licensing records, a Tom Lee Grant or Tom H. Grant are security guards, not licensed private investigators. And, can a California P.I. use their license in another State? Not without filing legal documents.
- The name Kurt Cobain goes through his mind 300 to 400 times a day from all the mail from fans, but Tom blogs he doesn't just sit behind his computer answering emails, but TRIES to spend time as a family man.
- Kurt or Dylan's gun was given back to Courtney Love and it was meltdown, when Seattle P.D. recently released a picture of the rifle in the news.
- The shotgun shell had to swirl and fly in the air and around the gun to land on the right side of the floor, when this is where the barrel of the gun is shown to be on the right side of the shotgun, yet Tom Grant claims he was never was at the crime scene.
- That Courtney Love is gay.
Tom Grant was also in the "Courtney and Kurt" documentary too. This movie was released in the theaters, but was edited with key information taken out of it, before it was released online. Mtv pulled funding of the film, so we have a really pissed off movie maker that may have joined the Kurt Cobain murder myth out of spite. This is just speculation, but isn't "Soaked in Bleach" based on hear say and publicized news stories with a delusional man wanting to be the top of his profession, yet went bankrupt over his obsession with the Cobain case. This is technically not a case and there is nothing in legal documents of being anything other than suicide.
The thing that Tom Grant does not state about Kurt Cobain is he was left handed and there was a picture released of Kurt's dead body on the floor with his right arm clearly seen. Kurt would have held the shotgun with his left hand, so why wasn't any truth told in the "Soaked in Bleach" Netflix's film?
May of 2000, Tom Grant interview with NFC credited The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 11/4/94, Page A1
By Christopher Ruddy:
- "But something unexpected happened. Kurt left the house Saturday night and was unavailable for his appointment with "suicide." When Courtney found out the hit wasn't made and Kurt didn't show up at the house on Sunday, she panicked. Then she learned, while still in Los Angeles, Kurt had purchased another airline ticket out of Seattle!"
- Tom goes on to say, "So I was truly hired to locate Kurt, but once he was killed, I was used and manipulated by Courtney as she continued to formulate the scheme for her inevitable 'rise to fame'"…"Very few, however, actually commit suicide. Does the fact that a person might feel depressed or even suicidal give someone else the right to murder them? Of course not."
- He says about Kurt's cousin, Bev Cobain,"she's been told by others, not what she knew from personal contact with Kurt." So, Tom had personal contact and disregarding a blood relative's book?
- "The second letter was, in fact, written to Courtney. She deliberately concealed this letter from me, the police and from the media. Why conceal the second letter? BECAUSE THE SECOND LETTER CLEARLY EXPLAINED THE REAL MEANING OF THE FIRST LETTER! Kurt was quitting the music business, he wanted a divorce, he was leaving Courtney AND he was leaving Seattle. When read together, the second letter proved the first letter was not a 'suicide note!'" Tom Grant has lied about finding the right note by publicizing it instead as 'rohypnols' in a phone recording with Courtney 'the right note' was in between the mattresses. So, how would Tom know if the first note supported a retirement note not being a suicide note, if he did not read it or does he draw this from speculation?
Conspired and/or hired P.I. Tom Grant statements in a 2000 interview are very alarming and more Kurt Cobain factual and speculative stories are coming soon. R.I.P. Kurt Cobain!


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We are off to Louisville, Kentucky today for the annual conference of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. We look forward to seeing MVFHR members and colleagues from all over and to re-igniting our commitment and inspiration to carry on with the work that we're all engaged in.
Kentucky is one of the states considering a bill that would exempt people with severe mental illness from the death penalty, and a brief clip about MVFHR's work in this area should air on several Kentucky news stations today. I'll try to post it here as soon as I get a link. Meanwhile, if you're in the area, keep an ear out for it.
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Yesterday, I found out that Jonathan Crombie, the actor that played Gilbert Blythe in the fantastic TV movie adaptations of Anne of Green Gables, passed away far too early at the age of 48. He was a beautiful man and actor. The news nearly threw me into "the depths of despair." Gilbert is my absolute favourite romantic character from my absolute favourite series of books by L.M. Montgomery. Gilbert is sweet, funny, smart, and so patient in his love for Anne. Swoon. I am forcing Mr. K to watch Anne with me while I reflect on how much these characters have influenced my life choices and ignore the mess in my kitchen.
Top 5 things that Anne has taught me.
1. Anne taught me to be myself. No one is perfect, but staying true to your hopes, dreams, and personality will make your life interesting and rich. I don't recall one instance when Anne changed to please others.
2. To overcome adversity. A little imagination goes a long way. Anne had a difficult start in life but did not let it dampen her spirits or weigh her down. She actually became stronger through each difficulty.
3. The maritimes (the East coast of Canada) is the best place in the world. When I was 20 years old, and had been married for only a year, my love and I drove across the country (57 hours) with not much in our bank account and no jobs lined up. Living in the maritimes for 8 years absolutely shaped me as a person. The kindest people live there. I learned how to live in New Brunswick.
4. Take risks. Follow your heart. Live in new places, try new things, and collect friends wherever you go. Kindred spirits are everywhere.
5. There is no substitute for your first love. If your first love is also your best friend, you are among the luckiest people in the world. Anne took much longer to realize this than I did, and I didn't need my love to be near death to discover my feelings. Anne does have a flair for the dramatic. That's why we love her! Oh Gilbert... sigh.
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3. Give clear direction
The Fallen is a multi media theater show i wrote a few years ago which is currently in a long but ultimately fruitful pre-production stage for another run. The filming and film editing should wrap up by the end of the year and then i'll go back and give the music another mix since a few things drive me crazy, but let's not bore you.
The stunning Jen Folden is the star of today's tale. The album/show is about a fallen angel and on the album Jen is that angel. Her voice is perfect for it, she sound like the voice of an angel. There are so many tidbits from the album i could play, but few songs where she is the sole singer so i'm ultimately choosing today's song, a long one i admit, but after the 4 minute intro it's Jen's song.
This was a tricky album because i had to hire and record a singer 6,000 miles away. Several tries were fruitless. How do you record a vocalist sing your material if you aren't going to be at the recordings? My suggestion? Don't do it. What if you have no choice? Well…. you're buggered, but is you HAVE to, go with someone you know.
My partner, director and choreographer Shaun Rolly was on the east coast and able to run the recording sessions so we were looking to hire there. But it wasn't working. So what do you do when a stupid idea is turning out stupid? Whatever you have to! Double down! Get even stupider! Eventually you'll go round the bend to smart.
I already knew Jen Folden but she lives in California. However it seemed to me that hiring someone whose instincts i know and trust would be the best option even if she'll have to set up and run the sessions by herself.
It was a good move. She was the right voice for the part, but more so was able to make the right choices. Thank goodness, but this is a situation you NEVER want to be in.
Singers sometimes need direction in order to know what exactly it is that you want. That direction is your job. If you like the voice but aren't getting the performance, you need to be giving clear direction. I myself like to see what singers come up with on their own in case it's something great i wouldn't have thought of. But you need to be ready to guide the performance to what you need. When running a recording session this is especially important because the singer is putting themselves in an emotional state doing all those takes. You need to be the clear, cold ears that hear what it's actually sounding like, the objective observer who makes sure in 2 weeks when everyone listens back to the recording, there wasn't something stupid you missed.
Giving clear direction is an art in itself and one i still try to work on. I'm much better than i used to be. Communicating intent in art is not always easy, but learn how to do it. When you see someone else doing it well take notes. NEVER let some minor thing slide. It will end up bothering you forever. But we'll get into that more tomorrow.
So here is one damn long song. The Angel has been lured into and trapped in Raven's carnival. The demon responsible for her fall is working on getting her out (turns out he's kind of a nice guy), but this show is not as clear to follow from the audio as the steampunk opera so don't worry about that part. The intro is so long because there's an AWEsome film sequence depicting the carnival. You can hear at the 4:25 mark where the film fades out and the stage lights fade up as we switch to the stage to tell the story from then on.
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Steampunk Spotlight: Twisted Skies with ASI
An exciting new Steampunk RPG Card Game is being developed by Jim Trent and Airship Isabella. Today, YOU can help make this game a reality!
From their Kickstarter description: "Twisted Skies is a fun and exciting card game set in a Steampunk Multiverse.
This project has been a labor of love for multiple Steampunk gamers! The desire for a fun Steampunk themed card game based around the imaginative ideas and concepts of the Steampunk Multiverse! After extensive design and play-testing we are excited to have the support of the nationally recognized Airship Isabella for this project and have based our first exciting set around their characters and adventures! The game is designed for 4-6 players played in a round the table fashion. An average game of Twisted Skies takes an hour and a half. Each basic set of Twisted Skies includes:
160 game cards, Full Instructions, One 6 sided dice.
As the design, artwork, and layout of the game is accomplished this Kickstarter is designed in the hope of having the product printed, boxed and made available to the gaming public at large. Professional grade photography and illustration from some of Steampunk's most talented rising stars have made for a great looking game. Working with local game stores and distributors we'll be placing this product in your friendly neighborhood game store!"
They've got GREAT rewards like ASI promo cards and posters, copies of the card game, ASI graphic novels, and MORE! Check out their cool videos and graphics explaining more about the game.
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What are the facilitating conditions that support teaching as inquiry (TaI) for secondary technology teachers who are middle leaders in greater Christchurch? (2016)
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Degree NameMaster of Education
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury
AuthorsJohnson, Catherineshow all
This study aims to propose ideal conditions for Technology teachers to develop effective philosophies enabling them to focus on activities that promote successful learning. This research examines how selected secondary Technology educators, exemplify aspects of Teaching as Inquiry (TaI) effective pedagogies, that support the generation and development of successful philosophies. By identifying five common traits or characteristics, this study enquires what it is they do that supports successful teacher philosophy, generating positive outcomes for learners. It explores how and why Technology teachers have developed this approach, how these traits are connected and inter-related to attitudes and the resulting dispositions they hold, and the philosophies they have developed. In the quest for sustainable conditions, enabling and inhibiting influences are also investigated. To be fully inclusive of all aspects influencing TaI practice, aspects outside the location of individual inquiry are explored: How individual TaI exists within school culture, faculty, senior administrative and management philosophies within systems where the teacher is employed, and how TaI practice exists within wider national policy. It explains how TaI in New Zealand, appears to flourish within a foundation of Culturally Responsive Pedagogies. It also suggests a simple re-consideration around the nature of individual learners, and how their needs to develop responsive and effective pedagogies, seeing a different 'new construct, end-goal' of future focussed schooling, could conflict with immediate current assessment, and compliance needs. This study concludes by suggesting a set of ideal facilitating conditions that together could enable the development of philosophies supporting the effective pedagogies of Teaching as Inquiry.


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The National Sustainability Council presented its long awaited report called the Sustainable Australia 2013: Conversations with the Future. This is the first of a series of biennial papers to advise the government about the state of the economy vis-a-vis the environment.
Full of optimism, the newly founded council said the future looked bright if we changed to building sustainable communities. However, the type of community needed is far more radical than envisaged by the council. Despite Australia having many of the most livable cities in the world we need to start planning immediately for the kind of balanced society of the future.
Oil will not be around forever and coal is too polluting to be used at such high rates. This means individuals driving around in five seater cars will not be possible. Electricity use is skyrocketing with Internet cloud servers and hungry mobiles gobbling up tonnes of coal and oil in power stations. Future cities will have to be designed with houses laid out in a manner that allows public transport to easily be used to get to work. Little is said about this now, but it will be in the future.
Somehow workers will have to be able to get from side roads to main roads where buses or vehicles on rails can travel. This will involve many more stops than at present and it will take longer to get to places of employment. We could see the return of bicycles or low-powered slow speed electric vehicles.
A place without car ownership will be an odd place to people of the current era. Nonetheless, it will have to happen eventually. Modern cities are car dependent. If an economic crisis stops the flow of oil these cities will die.
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Provincial Superior's circular n.9
Circular 9
September 19, 2017
Dearest Sisters,
May God's peace and mercy incarnated in our Lord Jesus Christ live on in our hearts and communities!
In this Month of the Word being celebrated by the Pauline Family the world over, we participate in the various initiatives being undertaken, with the objective that more and more people may be receptive to the Word of God. In the closing celebration of this Month of the Word here in the Luzon sector, we shall also be commissioning different groups of lay collaborators associated to us through the Bible Commissioning Rite to be done at the closing Eucharist at St. Paul Sanctuary in Makati on September 24, 2017.
We endeavor to be the "living Word" to each other as we become sensitive to the power of the Word which purifies and directs our lives. We can even extend this consciousness to the bigger perspective of our lives and society and heed the call of one of the mystics of our times: "One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words… Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the Word of God, the world was created" (Abraham Heschel).
With the ongoing crises in our Philippine society and the world at large regarding issues of terrorism, threat of war, extrajudicial killings, natural and human-made disasters, we are constantly challenged to exercise discernment in our choices concerning our relationship with God, persons, things and nature. I trust that the Courses of Action decided on during the last Provincial Chapter will be taken seriously by every member and community. Believing in the interconnectedness of all life, let us examine our lifestyle, discern and decide how to carry out the process of conversion asked of us in this regard.
Finally, I would like to invite every sister and community to start invoking the light and wisdom of the Spirit. Soon we shall be receiving the letter and indications of the Superior General regarding the consultation process for the nomination of the new Provincial Superior, and successively, of the Councilors to assist her. May we truly open our hearts and minds to the leadings of the Spirit in the search for the persons who will serve the Province in the ministry of governance. Even now we start praying for them so that they may truly serve in the best interest of the members and the mission, heeding the specific call of God for them at this moment.
I would like to reiterate here my gratitude, also in behalf of the members of the Provincial Government Team, for the years of collaboration during my term as servant leader. Additionally, I repeat my request for sincere apologies if in anybody's perception, I have "over-challenged" some persons; please be assured that I have always tried to listen to the Spirit and acted in good faith. Even now, I do not sleep without praying for each of you.
Let us continue to journey forward in hope, strengthened by the loving presence of Mary, Queen of the Apostles. Let us be assured of the wise and merciful guidance of Jesus our Master. I greet you all affectionately, especially our sisters who are going through difficult times. Please remember me too in your prayers.
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I love failures. My life is full of it, so I kinda have to.
The best part about failures is that you can start again. Nothing better than starting over, right? Starting over with more knowledge, wisdom or strength or resilience… ultimately, failures will do you good. After the failing part of it, of course.
Maybe this is why I keep coming back to this blog. While I feel that I've failed at blogging many times now, I keep coming back to it… and it teaches me something new every time I start over. And I'm inspired to do new things every time. I might make some changes here and there, but I just keep writing. And I love it.
There may be something we can learn here from nature. Would nature ever stop going after it fails?
We saw this tree a while back in the forest… it looks like it's been starting over again and again, turning into this majestic statue because of it. And when you think about it, kids too (being the kind of people probably closest to nature) hardly ever have trouble starting over after failure. They fall down, they get back up again. They don't have the mental story yet to tell them they might fail, they might not be good enough, the might be laughed at.
I love that about my kids. Who am I actually to be raising them… I'd be better off if they would try to teach me about life instead of the other way around.
Having said that, I think today is a great day for a little hike.
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There was a lot of talk about the recent law passed by congress that would allow ISPs, mobile companies, and others to sell the private browser history of users to third party companies. While many people are still very upset with the actual law, ISPs and mobile carriers are making it clear that they have nothing to worry about from them (at least for now).
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Mexican Slayride [PART 1]
Newspaper reporter, Amy Allen, sets out to prove The A-Team—a commando unit from the Vietnam War convicted of a crime they did not commit, who are working on the side of the law as mercenaries—really exists and ends up hiring them to rescue one of her fellow reporters who has been kidnapped by Mexican outlaws. The A-Team—Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, Lt. Templeton "The Faceman" Peck ("Face"), and Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus—travel to Mexico in a plane piloted by their fearless but clinically insane pilot, Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock.
Director Rod Holcomb
Writer Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo
Mexican Slayride [PART 2]
Part 2 of the pilot episode in which the A-Team have been captured by a group of guerillas and the gang leader they were sent to fight. In the final battle they are assisted by the villagers and with their help, the A-Team is able to overthrow the guerillas, save the reporter and make their way home. Once home, Amy Allen blackmails her way onto the team.
Director Rod Holcomb
Writer Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo
Children Of Jamestown
Stan Rodgers hires the A-Team to get his daughter away from the maniacal religious leader martin James and his machine-gun wielding followers. Although they manage a daring helicopter escape for Sheila Rodgers, who flies off in a borrowed helicopter with Murdock, the rest of the A-Team is captured. While Hannibal, Face, B.A., and Amy are locked in a windowless cell in the cult's heavily guarded compound, they teach Amy that the reason they are able to attempt such dangerous escapades is their ability to face death squarely, without fear. Together, they hatch an escape plot and prepare to run for their lives -- and at the last minute they are saved by some airborn assistance from Murdock, who has returned after seeing Sheila to safety.
Cast & Credits
Hannibal George Peppard
Murdock Dwight Schultz
Baracus Mr. T
Peck Dirk Benedict
Amy Allen Melinda Culea
Sheila Rodgers Carol Jones
Martin James John Saxon
Stan Rodgers John Carter
Brother Stephen Gerrit Graham
BrotLer John Fred Lerner
Executive producer Stephen J. Cannell
Directed by Christianl.Nyby,Jr.
Written by Stephen J. Cannell
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Amplify to Search for Hebrew
Yesterday I told you how using the Search button on the Resource palette to search for a selection of text is much more efficient than typing a search in the same window as your main text. Rather than replacing your main text with the search results, amplifying a selection of text in this way will leave your main text intact and display the search results in another tab. Today, I want to show you how truly powerful this feature is when working with the original Hebrew.
Let's say I'm looking at Genesis 1:1 and I want to search for the phrase השׁמים ואת הארץ ("the heavens and the earth"). Many new Accordance users will try to select those words, copy them, and then paste them up in the search entry box at the top part of the window. When they hit return, they immediately get a word list asking them to choose a different lexical form. What, they wonder, is going on? Why can't it find something they just copied right out of the text?
To understand the problem, you have to understand that Accordance defaults to searching for lexical forms (the representative form that appears in most lexicons) rather than inflected forms (the form of the word as it appears in the text). When you paste text you copied into the search entry box, you have given Accordance inflected forms when it was expecting lexical forms.
To further complicate things, the Hebrew database has actually been "morphologically separated," which means that scholars have separated prefixed and suffixed words from the words to which they are attached. You can see this when you drag your mouse over the word השׁמים. When you drag over ה you'll get the parsing and definition of that definite article, and when you drag across שׁמים you'll get the parsing and definition of that noun. Even though השׁמים looks like a single word, it is really a phrase consisting of two words. When you type a search for that phrase into the search entry box, you need to separate each word with a space. Yet when you copy and paste text into the search entry box, Accordance doesn't know where the word breaks are supposed to go.
If you've ever tried to paste Hebrew text into the search entry box, you now know why it didn't work. But the question remains: how do you search for Hebrew text that you run across in your study of a passage? You simply select the words you want to find and click the Search button on the Resource palette. A new tab will open with all the right lexical forms and word breaks automatically entered for you and the results displayed instantaneously.
Try it yourself. Select השׁמים ואת הארץ in Genesis 1:1 and click the Search button on the Resource palette. Be sure to notice how Accordance automatically translates what you selected into a properly formatted lexical search. If you learn how to amplify, searching for Hebrew text becomes almost laughably easy.
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Dr. J
Great explanation, David!
Rob Robinson
David, this is great for one who has forgotten most of his Hebrew and usually resorts to the use of Strong's numbers for studying OT passages. When I read your January 6 post "Amplify to Search" I had been studying Malachi in Accordance, so I tried out a few of the searches as you suggested. For example, I searched for the word "divorce" (2:16) from the NASB95S text and got 7 hits. Pretty neat and easy, I thought. Then I read your next post, Jan. 7, "Amplify to search for Hebrew." So I gave that a try in the same passage, same word. I opened a new text pane with BHS-W4, and using Instant Details, I identified the Hebrew word translated by the word "divorce." I selected that Hebrew word, careful not to select the attached preposition and suffix, and amplified to Search with that and found 694 hits of [jlv] . After using instant details at Mal. 2:16 again, I refined that seach by adding the tag @ [verb piel] and found 233 hits, the first of which was Gen. 3:23, regarding the Lord sending Adam out of the garden, a verse that of course did not appear in the search for divorce in the NASB. I guess you can do all that just using Strong's numbers, but I doubt if it would be any easier. And you would be using numbers and transliterations instead of Hebrew text and words. Thanks. Until your posts this week, I had never clicked on that little magnifying glass in the resource palette in more that 2 years of using Accordance.
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Portal: online screenings | Rami George
Rami George (b. 1989, Somerville, MA) is an interdisciplinary artist working across photography, video, text, and installation. Their work has been presented widely in the US and internationally, including a current solo exhibition at the MIT List Visual Art Center.
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Maria Gaspar | Radioactive: Stories from Beyond the Wall
Between 2017 and 2018, Maria Gaspar and Michael De Anda Muñiz led a series of workshops inside Cook County Jail's Division 6, working with a self-selected ensemble of incarcerated men over the course of one year.
Available from April 27 – May 10
Turn the Light
January 17 – March 7, 2020
Social justice and radical imagination have long legacies in Chicago, from Ida B. Wells to Jamila Woods, from Gwendolyn Brooks to Rudy Lozano. What might be deemed a Chicago sensibility has grown from that legacy, a tradition of solidarity, protest, resistance, and nourishment. In the long arc of the entwined Chicago legacies of social justice and art, artists and activists have both imagined radically.
The Last Judgment
August 27 – November 23, 2019 (EXTENDED) | 27 de agosto – 23 de Noviembre de 2019 (EXTENDIDA)
As a multi-part project, The Last Judgment features large-scale sculptures built as pyrotechnic scenography for a public pyrotechnic event to be presented in Little Village. The sculptures—built by master artisans of Artsumex collective in Tultepec (Mexico's pyrotechnic capital)—derive from the struggles, life experiences, and resilience of Little Village residents, as well as concerns about environmental justice and gentrification.
Alberto Aguilar moves on human scale
April 26 – July 20, 2019
Alberto Aguilar's first large scale survey explores how the Chicago-born and based artist's various life roles and surroundings have shaped a searching, inquisitive practice that is grounded in, and produces, a radical everyday. Aguilar's creative work often incorporates whatever materials he has at hand and has extended into collaborations and exchanges with others, including his own family.
A Nameless Familiar
April 6-13, 2019
A Nameless Familiar, the second of two University of Illinois at Chicago MFA Thesis Exhibitions features the work of Kylie Renee Clark, Sarabeth Dunton, Isaac Gilmore, Ted Kim, javier jasso, and Nancy Sánchez Tamayo. The pieces included in this exhibition examine the myriad ways memory and nostalgia manifests within contemporary art practice and the here and now.
Now & There
March 22-30, 2019
Now & There, the first of two University of Illinois at Chicago Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions features the work of Leticia Bernaus, Stella Brown, Daniel Carroll, Malte Stiehl, and Tamara Becerra Valdez. With close attention to the connection between place and identity, each artist examines the overt complexities ever present in memory, whether collective or personal, actual or imagined.
All have the same breath
January 18 – March 9, 2019
All have the same breath emerges out of a two-year interdisciplinary, collaborative project in which groups of anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, artists, geographers, and scientists, have been investigating the politics of the environment and how the changing climate is experienced and negotiated across the world. The exhibition considers our relationship to the earth, and how that relationship is mediated by outside forces.
Chicago New Media 1973-1992
November 1 – December 15, 2018
Although Chicago is not often thought of as an epicenter for new media art, technology, or industry, the city was home to some of the earliest and most important experiments in new media in the late 20th century. Chicago New Media 1973-1992 chronicles the under-recognized story of Chicago's contributions to new media art.
Chicago Disability Activism, Arts, and Design: 1970s to Today
September 14 – October 20, 2018
This exhibition focuses on the history of Chicago's disability community and its intertwined activism and culture, as well as its development of disability aesthetics, an aesthetics that challenges traditional modes while exploring conflicting categories and definitions. Presented as part of Art Design Chicago.
Out of Easy Reach
Gallery 400 in collaboration with DePaul Art Museum and Rebuild Foundation present Out of Easy Reach guest curated by Allison Glenn. Countering conventional accounts of art history, which have often overlooked the artistic contributions of women of color, Out of Easy Reach presents 24 artists from the Black and Latina diasporas through artworks created from 1980 to 2018.
Garden for a Changing Climate
Created by artist Jenny Kendler, Garden for a Changing Climate is a community-driven participatory public art project that uses a traveling garden of local plants to give Chicagoans a dynamic and tangible experience of the central effects of climate change.
Traduttore, Traditore
Traduttore, Traditore brings together a group of artists from around the world who employ processes of translation to expose, question, and challenge global circuits of economic and cultural capital. Taken from the Italian aphorism that roughly translates to "translator, traitor," the title of this project speaks to the misunderstandings, losses, and fragmentation that manifest during this process of exchange.
Let Me Be an Object that Screams
Let Me Be an Object that Screams brings together a range of works by contemporary artists in order to test psychoanalytic concepts of 'subject-hood' and the ways a subject's counterpart, the 'object,' is animated by artistic and exhibition practices. The exhibition proposes subversions to how political and psychic power have been traditionally and consistently distributed in accordance to who is perceived to operate with agency and thought, in contrast to the disinvestment of groups and communities read as "other."