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Theater and Playwriting. The Rare Archival Photos Behind 'Killers of the Flower Moon' - Atlas Obscura. One day in 2012, when I was visiting the Osage Nation Museum, in Oklahoma, I saw a panoramic photograph on the wall. Taken in 1924, the picture showed a seemingly innocent pageant of members of the tribe alongside white settlers, but a section had been cut out. When I asked the museum director why, she said it contained the image of a figure so frightening that she’d decided to remove it. She then pointed to the missing panel and said, “The devil was standing right there.” My new book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, grew out of trying to understand who that figure was, and the investigation led me to one the most sinister crimes in American history. In the early 20th century, the members of the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world, after oil was discovered under their reservation.

During my research, I collected an extensive archive of photographs. One night in May of 1921, Mollie’s older sister, Anna Brown, disappeared. Love Over Money & Death III. First North Americans. Characters. Plot and Structure. Plot and Structure. Short stories by African writers. Meditation/music. Short stories by African writers.

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Courses » IAI TV. ExposeFacts – For Whistleblowers, Journalism and Democracy. Shake your ideas. For Windows and Mac For Mac. Multimedia Posters. Amazingly Simple Graphic Design Software – Canva. Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink. MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages. Running WordPress on OpenShift: An Introduction. OpenShift is a PaaS that allow you to run your own app for free with low resources. It offers 1GB storage and 512MB RAM, and has support for custom domains. It's faster than Heroku, PagodaBox, and AppFog giving you SSH access to your app server, running in a separate environment. It's just like a real server, but you get it for free. OpenShift is a very good platform for running a WordPress site. PagodaBox and AppFog fair for hosting PHP applications for free; however, PagodaBox is quite slow, and has a hard limit of 10MB of MySQL for free plan.

AppFog no longer supports custom domain on their free plan. OpenShift solve all of above problems: It's fast enough, offers a free custom domain, offers large disk space, and a significant amount of MySQL storage. The free plan supports: 15 pages/second~50k visitors per monthThat's a good amount for most of personal blog. Let's break it down. Your app, to OpenShift point of view contains: Your codeGit repositoryEnvironment variablesApp environment. Free Online Video Editor and Maker | WeVideo. Stop Motion Animator. Sumo Paint. ClapMotion. Soundtrap - Make music online. Bryan Gould » Budget Blues. Twenty five dollars a week can’t be bad, can it? For families on the breadline, it’s surely better than nothing and every little helps. And when the total spend is $790 million, that’s not peanuts, is it?

– even if multiplying $25 up to this total should surely tell just how many qualifying families there are and just how widespread family poverty is in today’s New Zealand. The increase in benefits has of course captured the headlines and is apparently a master-stroke of so-called “compassionate conservatism” in disarming those critics who have complained about widening inequality and deeply entrenched poverty.

Most people will not notice or care that it is chickenfeed by comparison with the handouts made to the rich under the current government. And memories are short. Who benefits and who loses from this historically high rate of unemployment? And who pays the rising rents generated by the housing affordability crisis? Some people, it seems, matter more than others. Bryan Gould. Sacred Economics | Charles Eisenstein | Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition. Charles Eisenstein -- Money, Values & Trust [LIVE in Zurich]

Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche (by dr. Robert Sapolsky) Stress, Portrait of a Killer - Full Documentary (2008) Beyond capitalism and socialism: could a new economic approach save the planet? | Guardian Sustainable Business. To avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, the world needs to move beyond the standard choices of capitalism or socialism. That’s the conclusion of a new report released Wednesday by US think tank Capital Institute.

The non-partisan think tank argues that both systems are unsustainable, even if flawlessly executed, and that economists need to look to the “hard science of holism” to debunk outdated views held by both the left and the right. Jan Smuts, who coined the term “holism” in his 1926 book, Holism and Evolution, defined it as the “tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts”. For example, in the case of a plant, the whole organism is more than a collection of leaves, stems and roots. Focusing too closely on each of these parts, the theory argues, could get in the way of understanding the organism as a whole. A long chain of cause and effects A radical shift This holistic approach flies in the face of a great deal of long-held beliefs. Make School a Democracy. Photo ARMENIA, Colombia — IN a one-room rural schoolhouse an hour’s drive from this city in a coffee-growing region of , 30 youngsters ages 5 to 13 are engrossed in study.

In most schools, students sit in rows facing the teacher, who does most of the talking. But these students are grouped at tables, each corresponding to a grade level. The hum of conversation fills the room. After tackling an assignment on their own, the students review one another’s work. During my visit to one of these schools, second graders were writing short stories, and fifth graders were testing whether the color of light affects its brightness when seen through water. During the past four decades, this school — and thousands like it — have adopted what’s called the Escuela Nueva (New School) model. It’s boilerplate economics that universal education is the path to prosperity for developing nations; the Nobel-winning economist Joseph E.

But these schools are far from the mainstream. The Spanish town where people come before profit : July 2014. By Liam Barrington-Bush and Jen Wilton In the south of Spain, the street is the collective living room. Vibrant sidewalk cafes are interspersed between configurations of two to five lawn chairs where neighbours come together to chat over the day’s events late into the night. In mid-June the weather peaks well over 40 degrees Celsius and the smells of fresh seafood waft from kitchens and restaurants as the seasonably-late dining hour begins to approach.

The scene is archetypally Spanish, particularly for the Andalusian region to the country’s south, where life is lived more in public than in private, when given half a chance. Specifically, this imagery above describes Marinaleda. Initially indistinguishable from several of its local counterparts in the Sierra Sur southern mountain range, were it not for a few tell-tale signs. Marinaleda has been called Spain’s ‘communist utopia,’ though the local variation bears little resemblance to the Soviet model most associate with the phrase. Fairness. What It Is, What It Isn’t, And What It Might Be For. People want others to be rewarded equally for equal work, that is, they value fairness. However, previous research tends to conflate a desire for equality with a desire to be generous and increase welfare overall. Generosity is often directed toward those who have less, which often has the side effect of reducing inequality but is not necessarily motivated by a concern with equality.

Would people still value fairness if it conflicted with generosity? We investigated this question in 6- to 8-year-old children and found that children value fairness even when doing so meant being ungenerous; children preferred to throw a resource away, even their own, rather than to share unequally by giving one recipient more than another recipient. In our next set of studies, we investigated if children’s behavior in our previous experiments was driven by them wanting to be fair or merely appear fair to others. In discussion, I speculated on why a desire to avoid partiality may have evolved. A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros | Peaceful Warriors. With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative.

GARD Pro Not Registered On the face of it, the Spanish town of Marinaleda is indistinguishable from any other in its region. Nestled in the picturesque Campiña valley, the surrounding countryside is made up of rolling green hills, miles of olive plantations and golden fields of wheat stretching as far as the eye can see. It’s also a democratic, anti-capitalist village whose mayor actively encourages shoplifting. Since the financial crisis began in 2008, Marinaleda has shot to fame — and so has its maverick mayor Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, who earned the nickname,”The Spanish Robin Hood,” after organizing and carrying out a series of supermarket raids in a direct action protest last August.

Source: Live Travel Enjoy via The Open Mind. Rethink the System | Ideas. Below is a selection of the interesting ideas for rethinking the system that were posted on this website during our tour. Please note that some of these have been edited. When people were agreeable to their name being used and their email address supplied these are included. They are given in the order received. New organisational narratives To create a shift we have to change our story, and for this new story to unfold we need self-managing, soulful organisations where people show up as 'whole' without mask, are self-actualised, competent in communication and conflict resolution and do what they love - with passion. Conscious consumption: Grocery shopping We could teach people a new and more thoughtful way of grocery shopping.

Turning the health system on its head Give people choice over what type of health practitioner they consult – be it natural or allopathic. Reconnecting with our environment WE BENEFIT FROM HAVING A CLOSE RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR ENVIRONMENT. 6000 Systems. Shoulder Tap.