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In Killers of the Flower Moon, true crime reveals the paradoxes of the past

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon is based on a 2017 book of the same name by David Grann that chronicled a true story of Osage Indians being systematically murdered in the 1920s.

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  • Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon is based on a 2017 book of the same name by David Grann that chronicled a true story of Osage Indians being systematically murdered in the 1920s.
  • This oil brought enormous riches to the Osage people, who legally enjoyed “headrights” to land that could not be bought, only inherited.

New Journalism

    • His bestselling book was based around the principles of New Journalism, which developed as a popular literary genre during the 1960s in the hands of writers such as Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion.
    • They typically eschew the more closeted dimensions of experimental fiction to engage openly with the public world.
    • The third and final section of the book, titled “The Reporter”, boasts an epigraph from William Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom!

The mythology of West

    • During the investigation, the Bureau of Investigation – the precursor to the FBI – regarded a rancher named William Hale as the “lone mastermind” of the killings.
    • He quotes an Osage tribe member as saying the white community considered murdering an Indian as merely akin to “cruelty to animals”.
    • He suggests that such illegal forms of brutality were always embedded at the heart of the mythology of the American West.
    • This narrative complexity has interesting repercussions for the debates around the question of “truth-telling” in the fraught conditions of contemporary Australia.
    • White’s memoir was rejected by publishers, but many years later it did morph into a fictionalised version by Grove entitled The Years of Fear (2002).

New light

    • The director remarked in a recent interview with Deadline that he was more interested in exploring the story’s “mystery” than reproducing “a police procedural”.
    • He casts the two men as charismatic villains with one foot in the old Wild West.
    • He has explored capitalism’s dangerous proximity to criminal activity in films such as The Aviator (2004), starring DiCaprio as Howard Hughes.
    • Its depth of archival research shines new light on a distressing but not entirely anomalous episode in the recent American past.

Global Blockchain and Crypto Ecosystem Gather in Dubai on Opening Day of Future Blockchain Summit

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Monday, October 16, 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates--(Newsfile Corp. - October 16, 2023) - Future Blockchain Summit 2023 kicked off at Dubai Harbour today, welcoming members from across the global blockchain and crypto ecosystem to the Emirate.

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  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates--(Newsfile Corp. - October 16, 2023) - Future Blockchain Summit 2023 kicked off at Dubai Harbour today, welcoming members from across the global blockchain and crypto ecosystem to the Emirate.
  • Reaffirming the Dubai's position as a leading epicentre for the growth of blockchain and crypto, the sixth edition of the premier global blockchain exhibition welcomed more than 150 exhibitors, regulatory authorities and governments from over 50 countries.
  • Ahmed Bin Sulayem, Chairman of Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, did a keynote address on 'Attracting Global Gaming and WEB 3 Talent to Dubai'.
  • Day one at the Future Blockchain Summit also highlighted the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can create limitless opportunities in the Web3 world.

QYOU Media Inc: Heavyweights like Netflix and Disney Battle for Indian Market

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

This article discusses the issue with reference to Netflix ( NASDAQ: NFLX ), Walt Disney Co ( NYSE: DIS ), Paramount Global ( NASDAQ: PARA ) and QYOU Media ( TSXV: QYOU ) ( OTCQB: QYOUF ).

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  • This article discusses the issue with reference to Netflix ( NASDAQ: NFLX ), Walt Disney Co ( NYSE: DIS ), Paramount Global ( NASDAQ: PARA ) and QYOU Media ( TSXV: QYOU ) ( OTCQB: QYOUF ).
  • QYOU Media (TSXV: QYOU) (OTCQB: QYOUF) produces, distributes and monetizes content created by social media influencers and digital content stars.
  • Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is another company seeking to capitalize on the huge Indian entertainment market.
  • These Indian Netflix originals include 59 original movies and even more television shows, as well as several stand-up comedies and documentary features.

Large Clinical Trial by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, HCA Healthcare and UCI Health Identifies Best Strategy to Prevent Life-Threatening Health Care-Associated ICU Infections

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

This strategy is called “decolonization” because it reduces the amount of bacteria on the body in order to reduce infection risk.

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  • This strategy is called “decolonization” because it reduces the amount of bacteria on the body in order to reduce infection risk.
  • The Mupirocin-Iodophor Swap Out Trial directly compared nasal mupirocin to nasal iodophor in the context of chlorhexidine bathing.
  • “This study further supports CDC guidance on using a strategy that combines nasal decolonization plus CHG bathing in ICU patients.
  • The results resolved the question about whether nasal treatment is necessary in addition to chlorhexidine bathing to prevent these ICU infections.

IPv4.Global Demonstrates Higher Education Leadership at EDUCAUSE

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Monday, October 9, 2023

NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IPv4.Global, the world's largest, most-trusted and transparent IPv4 marketplace, today announced its planned activity to demonstrate its higher education leadership at EDUCAUSE 2023. EDUCAUSE is committed to advancing higher education through the use of information technology.

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  • Company Unveils Industry First Valuation Tool, Customer Momentum and Educational Webinar
    NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- IPv4.Global , the world's largest, most-trusted and transparent IPv4 marketplace, today announced its planned activity to demonstrate its higher education leadership at EDUCAUSE 2023 .
  • EDUCAUSE is committed to advancing higher education through the use of information technology.
  • IPv4.Global, the industry benchmark for IPv4 transactions and transfers, has raised the bar with the launch of an industry-first valuation tool for the higher education industry.
  • The webinar will take place at noon ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, and will provide tips and best practices for higher education institutions for monetizing IPv4 addresses.

How Europe’s authoritarian populists maintain the illusion of a free press

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Authoritarian leaders might be good at damaging democracy, but unless they are pure dictators they often still need to worry about winning elections.

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  • Authoritarian leaders might be good at damaging democracy, but unless they are pure dictators they often still need to worry about winning elections.
  • In the last few years, Europe has seen the rise of a number of authoritarian populists who rely on winning mass support among ordinary people – as opposed to just rigging the vote.
  • It’s similar in many countries presided over by authoritarian populists.

Why media ownership matters

    • Yet a closer look reveals an interesting structural feature of media ownership networks in authoritarian populist countries.
    • For instance, in Hungary, the Central European Press and Media Foundation (Kesma) is a huge right-wing media conglomerate that controls more than 500 national and local media outlets.
    • Kesma was established in 2018, when most pro-government private media owners transferred their ownership rights to the foundation, which is headed by a board of trustees full of Orbán loyalists closely associated to the ruling party.

Love your enemies

    • You might expect authoritarian populist governments to be more like the old totalitarian regimes which pulled out all the stops to silence any dissenting voices.
    • This was the strategy of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin.
    • It’s also convenient for an authoritarian regime to set up an “us versus them” situation, where “they” can be vilified and ridiculed by regime-friendly media.
    • In Hungary, for instance – in a wider strategy to discredit independent media news – pro-government media outlets have launched smear campaigns against independent media outlets funded by international grants.
    • This allows them to set up internal enemies as a target for their supporters.

Rishi Sunak packages U-turns as challenges to consensus politics – an improbable effort to rebrand as the candidate for change

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

It enables them to set the agenda, rally the core membership and supporters around key themes, and speak to the wider audience of electors.

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  • It enables them to set the agenda, rally the core membership and supporters around key themes, and speak to the wider audience of electors.
  • The Conservative party has now had five different party leaders giving conference speeches as prime minister at this time of year since 2015.
  • This is the third party leader to give a speech in the past three years.

The optics

    • After trailing the speech as a reset, Sunak continued to play the decline theme in arguing that the British political system is “broken”.
    • He presented himself as the change candidate after “30 years of a political system that incentivises the easy decision, not the right one”.
    • U-turns on the HS2 high-speed rail project and net zero timelines were therefore presented as a challenge to “consensus politics”.

Health and education: supply and demand

    • On health, he promised a free vote in parliament on raising the legal smoking age by a year, each year.
    • Sunak acknowledged that restricting choice was not conservative, but weaved it into his narrative of making hard long-term decisions.

What about the economy?

    • “I know you all want tax cuts,” he told the party conference audience before insisting that at the moment, bringing down inflation represented the best “tax cut” available.
    • The goal seems instead to continue on this path, claiming the UK has shown hints of a strong recovery and that growth will follow.

Values, values, values

    • There was also the customary announcement of a crackdown on those claiming welfare benefits through ill-health.
    • Sunak also repeatedly stressed family values and insisted that the UK was not a racist country but a multi-ethnic democracy.

Dividing lines

    • While Sunak attacked the Labour party and Keir Starmer as lacking ideas, this speech attempted to create dividing lines – and not just with the opposition.
    • Without mentioning his predecessors, Sunak was setting up battles with a wide range of players on both HS2 and net zero.

How Europe’s authoritarian populists maintain a false image of a free press

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Authoritarian leaders might be good at damaging democracy, but unless they are pure dictators they often still need to worry about winning elections.

Key Points: 
  • Authoritarian leaders might be good at damaging democracy, but unless they are pure dictators they often still need to worry about winning elections.
  • In the last few years, Europe has seen the rise of a number of authoritarian populists who rely on winning mass support among ordinary people – as opposed to just rigging the vote.
  • It’s similar in many countries presided over by authoritarian populists.

Why media ownership matters

    • Yet a closer look reveals an interesting structural feature of media ownership networks in authoritarian populist countries.
    • For instance, in Hungary, the Central European Press and Media Foundation (Kesma) is a huge right-wing media conglomerate that controls more than 500 national and local media outlets.
    • Kesma was established in 2018, when most pro-government private media owners transferred their ownership rights to the foundation, which is headed by a board of trustees full of Orbán loyalists closely associated to the ruling party.

Love your enemies

    • You might expect authoritarian populist governments to be more like the old totalitarian regimes which pulled out all the stops to silence any dissenting voices.
    • This was the strategy of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union under Stalin.
    • It’s also convenient for an authoritarian regime to set up an “us versus them” situation, where “they” can be vilified and ridiculed by regime-friendly media.
    • In Hungary, for instance – in a wider strategy to discredit independent media news – pro-government media outlets have launched smear campaigns against independent media outlets funded by international grants.
    • This allows them to set up internal enemies as a target for their supporters.

Disability royal commissioners disagreed over phasing out 'special schools' – that leaves segregation on the table

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Monday, October 2, 2023

In its 32 hearings and nearly 8,000 submissions, people with disability shared difficult stories of personal and systemic violence.

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  • In its 32 hearings and nearly 8,000 submissions, people with disability shared difficult stories of personal and systemic violence.
  • Read more:
    The disability royal commission recommendations could fix some of the worst living conditions – but that's just the start

Split on segregation

    • Many disability advocacy organisations hoped the commission report would call for an end to segregation of people with disability across education, housing and employment.
    • Yet the final report found the commissioners split on this issue.
    • Commissioners Barbara Bennett, Rhonda Galbally and Alastair McEwin believe “the deliberate and systematic separation of people based on disability constitutes segregation”.
    • Two contrasting sets of education recommendations emerged from this split.

Why inclusive education is important

    • Education is not just about academic outcomes and future employment.
    • But they lack insight into the importance of inclusive education in achieving all of these goals.
    • But the lack of a firm commitment to a fully inclusive education system denies the opportunity for all young people to grow and understand their diversity of experiences.

Why some see segregated education as necessary

    • Not everyone within the disability community sees segregated education as problematic.
    • There are a number of reasons why special settings for students with disability have been established and chosen by families and students.
    • Schools are under-resourced and teachers in mainstream settings are often undertrained for working with students with disability in inclusive ways.

Where to next?

    • And this may set up the next generation of disabled children and young people for a life of being excluded from mainstream society.
    • Read more:
      Why do students with disability go to 'special schools' when research tells us they do better in the mainstream system?

Georgia Voucher Policies Likely Harm the Bottom Line, Says New NEPC Review

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- A recent report from the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts examines the monetary costs and benefits of the state's Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit (QEEC), a voucher policy that provides a public subsidy for families to pay for private school tuition. A review of the report, however, contradicts its claim that the policy provides a net fiscal benefit to the state budget.

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  • A review of the report, however, contradicts its claim that the policy provides a net fiscal benefit to the state budget.
  • One key claim in the report is that the tax credit results in $81 million of forgone state tax revenue per year.
  • Based largely on these two claims, the report concludes that QEEC provides a net fiscal benefit for Georgia's state budget.
  • Instead, state leaders should invest educational dollars in policies that have a positive return on investment and therefore help, rather than harm, state and local budgets.