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Do you think that we’ll explore the town of Green Hills, Montana in the series and Sonic 3? Like slice of life stuff or more history? I don’t think that there’s a whole lot to the town other than it being described as a “dinky backwater town.”
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Believe it or not, the town of Green Hills is very fruitful in its foundation! It may not feel like it, but there’s definitely a rich history of when the town was established. (Whew! Now y’all get to see how big of a nerd I am. That’s either a really good thing or a bad thing). I’ll hyperlink all of my sources/claims to specific information so y’all can review it at a later date. Hopefully, this add a bit more detail than what the Sonic Wikis have for the films.
Down below are bullet points and photos of Green Hills, Montana:
Green Hills was founded in the early 1800's by a group of explorers surveying and mapping that state of Montana. The rugged explorers took nearly 30 years in making a complete map of the state and claiming the area as home. Green Hills is located in the middle of the state and known to have fascinating geological features. The town was called "Green Hills" due to the unique shades of green found in its flora. Essentially, the town was founded by chance because it took so long to survey between 1806 to 1835.
One of the town's founders, Morgan McConnell, specifically wanted to build a town in the heart of Montana because of the area's geological feature--checkered patterns. Morgan McConnell was credited for charting nearly a quarter of the state, including the town, and coined as as THE explorer of Montana. His favorite location to sit and work at was the Devil's Pinkie (the ledge that Sonic stands at in the first and second film). Unexpectedly, McConnell fell off of the Devil's Pinkie and died. According to town legend, McConnell's name echoed through the valley ranges for hours after he died. It's unknown if these are still heard in the area today.
Between 1870 and 1883, the town of Green Hills became one of the firsts settled areas along the Northern Pacific Railway. The transcontinental railroad system stretched from the State of Minnesota, the Pacific Northwest, and along the main line opening at the Great Lakes. A town plaque describes Green Hills as a "golden spike" by former USA president Ulysses S. Grant and viewed as an important hub. The town is credited as a supply depot, as well as known for bringing in large immigration populations. The railroad system is still a crucial necessity of the town today.
The first settlers of Green Hills, Montana didn't start making their migration to the area until the 1860s. The settlers were faced with hardships of the land, lack of infrastructure, and brutal winters. Families were known to mingle together in small dwellings and form small communities. Polygamous families were common until Christian morality arrived to the area in later years (Welcome-to-Green-Hills, 2021).
Main Street features the town's first general store, a feed and gardening supply store, and post office.
Green Hills, Montana takes pride in country hospitality. The warmer months have communal events such as hoedowns, harvests and festivals, fishing derbies, farmers markets, and horseback riding events. The business district features Dr. Maddie Wachowski's veterinary clinic, antique shops, a brewery (AKA, the Beer Gardens), a stationary shop, a butcher's shop, and the Mean Bean Coffee Shop (the slogan: "drink mean"). (Tails Channel, 2021).
The Green Hills Community Theater is a town gem. It was established in 1905 and has been known to put on spectacular and successful productions for over 100 years.
The Green Hills Bulletin (the local newspaper) says that they've been the hot spot for a classic car show for the past twenty years, have a "Dog of the Week" section, a local artist guild that does mosaics for the town, recently had a worker's strike on repairing the railroad system in town, and are in the middle of a movement for accessibility laws for disabled residents.
In the first movie's novel, Green Hills is known for its massive Blueberry festivals in the fall. This is an event that's welcome to all of the farmers in the state and neighboring states. Tom is known to actively take part of the festival.
In the 1900's, the town saw an influx of United States veterans occupy the area. It's seen as a "retirement community" to those not actively serving.
The town as a population of nearly 2,000 residents, as implied by the "Welcome to Green Hills" sign at the speed trap.
There's definitely more that the town has to offer in terms of history. When I have the chance, I'll give this post some more attention and add to it. Until then, enjoy some historical facts about our Dinky Backwater Town!
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Hi! I read an interesting article and I wondered if you'd feature some of the designers and dress of the World Nomad Fashion Festival?
The article
Oo--I've posted photos before from the World Nomad Games, but I didn't know they had a fashion festival!!
^Members of the Tyvan Folk Dance Ensemble of Adygea perform in clothing by designer Kima Dongak
"The World Nomad Fashion Festival is the first and only project in Central Asia and some European countries that glorifies the civilisation of nomads," the event's founder, Nazira Begim, said.
More 2022 photos
See more photos from the 2021 event below the cut!
^ designer Kima Dongak, 2021
^ designer Kima Dongak, 2021
^ designer Kima Dongak, 2021
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^A model displays an outfit from the collection by Kyrgyz designer Cholponay Almaz Kyzy
^ designer Elmira Davletova, 2021
^ Kyrgyz designers Nazira Aidarova and Zukhra Kemelbekova, 2021
^ Kyrgyz designer Cholponay Almaz Kyzy
^ Kyrgyz designer Cholponay Almaz Kyzy
#kyrgyzstan#kyrgyz fashion#couture#haute couture#dance costume#costumes#costuming#headdress#men's fashion#central asia#central asian fashion#tyvan#tuvan#hats#russia#russian fashion
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Kashmir Hill’s “Your Face Belongs to Us”
This Friday (September 22), I'm (virtually) presenting at the DIG Festival in Modena, Italy. That night, I'll be in person at LA's Book Soup for the launch of Justin C Key's "The World Wasn’t Ready for You." On September 27, I'll be at Chevalier's Books in Los Angeles with Brian Merchant for a joint launch for my new book The Internet Con and his new book, Blood in the Machine.
Your Face Belongs To Us is Kashmir Hill's new tell-all history of Clearview AI, the creepy facial recognition company whose origins are mired in far-right politics, off-the-books police misconduct, sales to authoritarian states and sleazy one-percenter one-upmanship:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691288/your-face-belongs-to-us-by-kashmir-hill/
Hill is a fitting chronicler here. Clearview first rose to prominence – or, rather, notoriety – with the publication of her 2020 expose on the company, which had scraped more than a billion facial images from the web, and then started secretly marketing a search engine for faces to cops, spooks, private security firms, and, eventually, repressive governments:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
Hill's original blockbuster expose was followed by an in-depth magazine feature and then a string more articles, which revealed the company's origins in white nationalist movements, and the mercurial jourey of its founder, Hoan Ton-That:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/18/magazine/facial-recognition-clearview-ai.html
The story of Clearview's technology is an interesting one, a story about the machine learning gold-rush where modestly talented technologists who could lay hands on sufficient data could throw it together with off-the-shelf algorithms and do things that had previously been considered impossible. While Clearview has plenty of competitors today, as recently as a couple of years ago, it played like a magic trick.
That's where the more interesting story of Clearview's founding comes in. Hill is a meticulous researcher and had the benefit of a disaffected – and excommunicated – Clearview co-founder, who provided her with masses of internal communications. She also benefited from the court documents from the flurry of lawsuits that Clearview prompted.
What emerges from these primary sources – including multiple interviews with Ton-That – is a story about a move-fast-and-break-things company at the tail end of the forgiveness-not-permission era of technological development. Clearview's founders are violating laws and norms, they're short on cash, and they're racing across the river on the backs of alligators, hoping to reach the riches on the opposite bank without losing a leg.
A decade ago, they might have played as heroes. Today, they're just grifters – bullshitters faking it until they make it, lying to Hill (and getting caught out), and the rest of us. The founders themselves are erratic weirdos, and not the fun kind of weirdos, either. Ton-That – who emigrated to Silicon Valley from Australia as a teenager, seeking a techie's fortune – comes across as a bro-addled dimbulb who threw his lot in with white nationalists, MAGA Republicans, Rudy Guiliani bagmen, Peter Theil, and assorted other tech-adjascent goblins.
Meanwhile, biometrics generally – and facial recognition specifically – is a discipline with a long and sordid history, inextricably entwined with phrenology and eugenics, as Hill describes in a series of interstitial chapters that recount historical attempts to indentify the facial features that correspond with criminality and low intelligence.
These interstitials are woven into a-ha moments from Clearview's history, in which various investors, employees, hangers-on, competitors and customers speculate about how a facial-recognition system could eventually not just recognize criminals, but predict criminality. It's a potent reminder of the AI industry's many overlaps with "race-science" and other quack beliefs.
Hill also describes how Clearview and its competitors' recklessness and arrogance created the openings for shrewd civil libertarians to secure bipartisan support for biometric privacy laws, most notably Illinois' best-of-breed Biometric Information Privacy Act:
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&ChapterID=57
But by the end of the book, Hill makes the case that Ton-That and his competitors have gotten away with it. Facial recognition is now so easy to build that – she says – we're unlikely to abolish it, despite all the many horrifying ways that FR could fuck up our societies. It's a sobering conclusion, and while Hill holds out some hope for curbing the official use of FR, she seems resigned to a future in which – for example – creepy guys covertly snap photos of women on the street, use those pictures to figure out their names and addresses, and then stalk and harass them.
If she's right, this is Ton-That's true legacy, and the legacy of the funders who handed him millions to spend building this. Perhaps someone else would have stepped into that sweaty, reckless-grifter-shaped hole if Ton-That hadn't been there to fill it, but in our timeline, we can say that Ton-That was the bumbler who helped destroy something precious.
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/20/steal-your-face/#hoan-ton-that
#pluralistic#books#reviews#gift guide#clearview ai#facial recognition#biometrics#eugenics#crime#privacy#cop shit#hoan ton-that
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The anon who sent an ask a bit back where I dug through Eret's blog for the source of the "everything gets planned in exclusionary group dms" post and I just. I was remembering a convo I had with a friend when that was posted that made our blood boil because like.
OK so Niki had lore planned for the same day as either the green festival or Doomsday (Jan 5th or 6th 2021) that she had to reschedule because she GENUINELY DIDN'T KNOW that there was a server wide event that day. Which means Niki, who while not a Founder of L'Manberg, sure had been around and a part of lore for a long ass time atp and who had helped rebuild it and who's character was invested In L'Manberg for months.
Was likely not invited. To participate in planning. The death of L'Manberg.
Meaning at least ONE PERSON likely didn't okay her builds being destroyed in advance or any in game progress being set back or any of her in game pets being killed. And if one person who still had to fuckin. You know. Show up to the stream after being not told SHIT. How many other smaller streamers were treated the same? I don't mean like the guests, I mean ccs who just weren't as "important" who's work on server was constantly steamrolled for lore without their advanced okay? Honestly ik that Niki dropped the DSMP for the new world because she didn't like how they treated Techno's memory and she was tired of being The GirlTM but like. Good for u honey get out of there they do NOT respect you.
God you're SO right anon like so many smaller CCs were treated like shit just bc they didn't get enough views or were just set aside bc they're just there as. Idk. Diversity. Like people would mention Nikki and Puffy and Ponk as a way to argue that the dsmp wasn't just white guys yet look at how they were treated
This isn't lore related but this ask reminded me of ponk replying to someone saying they want to see his reaction to the face reveal and ponk saying she would've loved to have been able to react. Like the fact that dream had face revealed to literally fucking any big content creator he could think of but had skipped Ponk????? Who has been there since the start???? If you can think of face timing Addison Rae and then forget to call someone who is like. One of the original members of the server iirc, that's questionable as fuck.
Anyway, It's obvious he doesn't care about the smaller creators at all. And the way they have been treated by him, his friends and the stans really is upsetting.
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The Kremlin has never been especially fond of feminist ideas. More than a decade ago, members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow church. But pressure against feminist thought and activity has been ratcheting up. A domestic abuse law introduced in the State Duma in 2019 went nowhere. The next year, authorities designated the prominent Russian nonprofit Nasiliu.net, which supports domestic violence victims, as a foreign agent, a label regularly applied to critics of Mr. Putin’s politics. (Nasiliu.net’s founder, Anna Rivina, was personally deemed a foreign agent.) In 2021, they shut down a major national feminist festival, Moscow FemFest. “They didn’t refer to any laws but simply said, ‘We need to clear the space,’” the festival’s founder, Lola Tagaeva, told me.
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the Feminist Antiwar Resistance quickly formed and became one of the loudest protest movements in the country. More than 100 of its activists have faced various forms of persecution, the organization says. In one of the most high-profile cases, the artist Alexandra Skochilenko was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for swapping price tags in a St. Petersburg supermarket with statements highlighting civilian deaths in the conflict. Other political and social women’s initiatives have gained momentum since then, including mothers worrying about their sons being sent to war.
This summer, Russia’s health minister, Mikhail Murashko, criticized women putting their education and careers ahead of having children as “improper” and announced a national initiative to control the circulation of abortion-inducing drugs in pharmacies. At least two Russian regions have already outlawed “coercing” women into abortion, and in two other places, annexed Crimea and Kursk, private clinics have nearly stopped providing abortions altogether. Women nationwide have been panic-buying emergency contraception pills amid fears of a national ban.
Until now, the Russian state has typically opposed women’s groups by blocking their efforts to change laws or by issuing “black marks,” such as the foreign agent designation, designed to complicate lives bureaucratically. But a month before Ms. Berkovich and Ms. Petriychuk were arrested, a Russian lawmaker, Oleg Matveychev, claimed he had drafted a bill recognizing feminism as “an extremist ideology.” The bill has not advanced in the Duma.
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Konstantin Dobrynin, a Russian lawyer based in Britain, said that under that law, it is possible that an official charge of radical feminism might stick, given “the darkest times we live in today.” If that happens, he said, it could very likely lead to the criminalization of feminism as an ideology in Russia. It would be, he said, “a witch hunt and the Holy Inquisition in the most literal form.”
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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY ON RAFAEL CASAL
Rafael Santiago Casal is an American writer, rapper, actor, producer, director and showrunner originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also an online creator of poetry, music, web shorts and political commentary.
Raised between Berkeley and Oakland in California, Casal was able to build a respectable career, starting his apprenticeship as a slam poet at HBO's Def Poetry Jam and moving on to various fields of entertainment.
In the past he was a two-time champion of the Brave New Voice Poetry Slam Festival.
Among his most famous poems we remember:
Barbie & Ken 101
A.D.D.
Monster
Rafael is also known for being the collaborative partner and longtime friend with Daveed Diggs, also from the Bay Area and best known for his role as the Marquis de Lafayette in the musical "Hamilton." Their first album "THE BAY BOY Mixtape" will be the beginning of a long series of musical featurings.
Furthermore, both are co-founders of the BARS Workshop: a theater program to hone the skills of emerging writers and actors through verse. The latest season dates back to 2020.
Casal and Diggs even collaborated as actors and screenwriters in the 2018 film "Blindspotting" and from which the TV series of the same name was subsequently based, divided into two seasons. (2021/2022)
Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal in their respective roles of Collin Hoskins and Miles Turner in Blindspotting. (2018)
On a cinematic level, Casal is also known for playing a former student in the 2019 film "Bad Education" with Hugh Jackman as his old high school teacher and love interest. In the same year he debuted in the reboot of "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" in the guise of Mr. Tophat as the main villain of the series. In 2020 he plays a minor role in "The Good Lord Bird."
On October 6, 2023, he arrives for the first time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a minor antagonist in the second season of Loki.
Rafael Casal as Brad Wolfe/Hunter X-5 in "Loki Season 2." (2023)
On May 3, 2024 he will return to the cinema in the role of O.E. Parker in "Wildcat", a film based on the life and stories of American writer Flannery O'Connor.
Being also active in the world of music, Rafael Casal has released several solo mixtapes online: "As Good As Your Word" (2008), "Monster" (2009) and "Mean Ones." (2012)
While among the most recent singles we list:
"Bad Egg" (2017)
"Oxygen" (2019)
"Quicksand" (2021)
Rafael has demonstrated that he can also manage as a Youtuber, publishing the following Web Series:
The Away Team
Hobbes & Me
The Rafatics (As a political commentator)
Warnings:
This biography is nothing less than a brief summary, for more information see elsewhere.
You can follow Rafael Casal on:
Instagram
Twitter/X
YouTube
TikTok
Spotify
Soundcloud
#rafael casal#biography#welcome everyone#the rafanatics#singer#musician#songwriter#writer#showrunner#slam poet#poet#bay boy#producer#artist#bay area
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It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on President Joe Biden sign an executive order to study reparations by Juneteenth, or this Sunday, June 19, marking the emancipation of enslaved African Americans.
Reparations activists outside new art installation calling on President Joe Biden to sign an executive order on reparations in Washington.
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The study activists wants comes after a decades-long push to establish a 13-person reparations commission in Congress.
A art installation calling on President Joe Biden to sign an executive order on reparations stands in Washington.
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Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Union leaders promised formerly enslaved families "40 acres and a mule" -- a promise never fulfilled.
However, a reminder of the centuries-old promise has languished in Congress for decades. H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, has been introduced in every legislative session since 1989.
The measure seeks to establish a commission to study "and consider a national apology and proposal for reparations for the institution of slavery, legal and other racial and economic discrimination, and the impact of these forces on living African Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies ..."
In recent years, the bill has gained some political traction.
In 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, hundreds of members of Congress and over 350 organizations, including the U.S. Conference of Mayors, NAACP and ACLU publicly announced support for reparations.
At the Tribeca Film Festival, "The Big Payback," a documentary examining reparations, directed by "Living Single" actress Erika Alexander, premiered at the legendary festival in early June.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House, June 13, 2022, in Washington, DC.
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Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated in 2021 that President Biden supported the study of reparations. However, when asked if he would support a bill on reparations Psaki said, "We'll see what happens through the legislative process."
Asked if Biden supports an executive order on the study of reparations, Psaki said at the time, "it would be up to him, he has executive order authority, he would certainly support a study, and we'll see where Congress moves on that issue."
A White House official told ABC News on Thursday, President Biden still "supports a study of reparations and the continued impacts of slavery but he is very clear that we don't need a study to advance racial equity."
Nkechi Taifa, center, speaks at Vote For Justice: An Evening of Empowerment with activists and artists at the Newseum, May 9, 2018, in Washington.
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Nkechi Taifa is director of the Reparation Education Project, and has been calling for reparations for moire than 50 years. In 1987, she was one of the founders of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA), an organization that worked closely with Democratic Rep. John Conyers to draft the introduction of H.R. 40 in 1989. She says now is the time for Biden to sign an executive order so the commission can be up and running before the end of Biden's presidency.
Taifa says she hopes the display at the ellipse sends a message that reparations advocates need to be paid attention to, and Black people should not be taken for granted.
She told ABC News, "If they think they're gonna rest on Juneteenth because it's a holiday and a watered down policing reform bill -- that's not enough. Black people have been run roughshod over, you know, for centuries, and it just, it just cannot continue."
Joan Neal, deputy executive director and chief equity officer at NETWORK, a social justice advocacy group founded by U.S. religious sisters tells ABC News, that "Slavery was a sin, that was the original sin of this country, and we believe that unless you acknowledge your sin and you make a firm determination to never do it again, and then make restitution for what was lost. You still have not been forgiven."
She added, "All parties have to be willing to stand up and face the sin in order for the sin to be forgiven and in order for things to be whole again."
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collaboration spotlight — Rockapella retrospective
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Legendary a cappella group Rockapella were the recipients of the first lifetime achievement award from the Contemporary A cappella Recording Awards in 2014. This video was shown at the ceremony during the Boston Sings festival in April.
Since Deke Sharon was not only the founder of CASA and CARA, but also the musical director of The Sing-Off, he asked members of VoicePlay and Home Free to share some memories of Rockapella's influence on their own careers while they were on the road with the Sing-Off tour. Earl, Layne, Geoff, Tim, Adam, and Chris recorded a segment that begins at 7:26.
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Trivia
Rockapella's longtime beatboxer, Jeff Thatcher, produced 4:2:Five's first EP in 2001. He's also a visual artist, and has created several pieces of artwork for VoicePlay over the years.
4:2:Five recorded Rockapella's arrangement of "Hound Dog" for their 2004 album "Time Machine".
Layne has recorded and mixed tracks for Rockapella through his production studio, Rayne's Room.
Geoff subbed for Rockapella's bass, Ryan Chappelle, during their 2015 New Year's Eve show in Vegas.
Earl joined Tim Foust of Home Free, Jeremy Lister of Street Corner Symphony, prolific arranger Tom Anderson, and former 4:2:Five beatboxer Dave Baumgartner to record "Falling Over You" in 2021 as a 50th birthday tribute to Rockapella's original lead tenor, Sean Altman.
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Forbes Monaco 42 Under 42: Nico Rosberg
(photo credit: Tom Ziora)
Age: 37
Category: Sustainability and motor racing
Industry: Founder and CEO Rosberg X Racing
Resident: Monaco
App can’t live without: Asana. “Our entire office collaborates with the help of the project and task management app Asana as many of us work in remote offices in Germany or Switzerland. In Asana, all work is structured, saved and updated, deadlines are set, progress can be followed. All reporting is also done with the help of Asana.”
Dream mentor: Bill Gates or Henry Wellcome. “Both have created incredible philanthropic institutions that serve humankind's benefit and our planet's future.”
Within a week of clinching the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship with Mercedes AMG Petronas—and beating Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton in the process—Nico Rosberg retired at the peak of his 10-year racing career. He has since embarked as a sustainability entrepreneur and investor in green technologies. Monaco’s golden child launched his own YouTube channel and invested in a slew of mobility technologies, including Lilium, Tier and what3words, a geocoding system based on 3-square-meter grids that converts GPS coordinates into unique three-word addresses. The Greentech Festival he cofounded in his native Germany has just gone global, now taking place on three continents and four cities—Berlin, London, New York and Singapore—and he continues works with the Monaco government towards its transport electrification transition. “Since retiring from F1, I have focused on my investments in the sustainability field. Alongside my investment in Formula E, Rosberg X Racing won the inaugural Extreme E Championship in 2021 and came a close second this year. For me personally, it’s incredibly fulfilling to merge my passion for motorsport with fighting climate change.”
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About
Farzad Mehdi Nia is a Kurdish world musical artist, singer and songwriter.
He started his professional work since 2013. He became famous after he participated in the competition program Kurd Idol 2017.
He quickly became one of the favorite contestants in the show with high rate of the public votes at the semi-final and ended up as the runner-up
Farzad plays the instrument Saz *Tar and tries to renew five thousand years old music from Hawraman and renew the songs to be played with music instruments, create notes for them and has tried to sing a Hawrami song with orchestra٫
Before Fame
He came in first place at the 9th music festival in Borujen and the big gold medal in the Borujen-Iran 2015 festival.
Discography
• Hawaroo Sani (2021)
This album was his first album, it’s music was arranged by Rebaz Sadeq
• Haralle single (2022)
The music was arranged by Fazel Nick Raftar
• Hawaroo Yara (2022)
This was his second album and the music was arranged by several musicians from the cities Mahabad and Sanandaj:
Kawa Faqih Zachery the Dirigent of Mahabad orchestra, Xalil Abdulla, Kasra Kawa, Fazel Nick Raftar, Poria Warziri and some help by Adnan Karim
Family life
Farzad Mehdi Nia was born June 1, 1987 in a village named Zhivar located in Hawraman in Kurdistan / Iran.
He spend his early life in the village and moved to Tehran in age 18.
The year 2019, he moved to Sweden and he is living in Stockholm science then.
Other cultural works and engagements
* He has worked to collect works by Hawraman artists like Professor Hassan-e Khavar.
* He has been a member of the board of the Besarani Literary Cultural Association.
* He has been with the publication of the poems of Mullah Vahab Ariyan, through that publication he held Hawrami language courses in the deprived villages and districts of Kurdistan
* He was instrumental in establishing the first library of all Hawrami in Hawraman City. In four years he was a member of the Hawraman Qalam Institute, which conducts cultural events.
* He was one of the founders of the company to prevent the closure of the water dam in the village of Belbar. Closing the dam would cause severe damage to the environment and its natural texture.
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Well doesn’t this look a lot like grooming
A TikTok of a child being taught how to pole dance at a pride festival in Pennsylvania is going viral, with netizens expressing outrage at the latest in what has been a long year for child safeguarding violations.
The video, which has now been deleted by its original uploader on TikTok, was brought to attention by @libsoftiktok on Twitter on August 4. It features a young boy in a rainbow tulle skirt and bandana being taught by a shirtless adult man how to use a free-standing stripper pole that was set up near the Harrisburg Capitol building.
The video appears to have originally been posted to TikTok by the child’s parent, as the caption reads: “Central PA Pride has a pole set up with an amazing instructor to assist. My kiddo is a natural!”
The video, which has over 400,000 views on @libsoftiktok’s account as of this article’s writing, has sparked widespread concern as many called attention to the obvious inappropriate nature of pole dancing for children.
In a statement given to Reduxx, Jaimee Mitchell expressed outrage at the viral scene, calling modern Pride activities “oversexualized” and inappropriate for kids.
Mitchell is the founder of Gays Against Groomers, a grassroots coalition which describes itself as fighting against the sexualization and indoctrination of children.
“Is it really any wonder why acceptance of gays has declined drastically over the past few years?” Mitchell asks, referencing a 2019 study that showed LGBTQ acceptance amongst young people was taking a sharp downturn. “If gay rights ever do get rolled back, it will be because of people like this. It must stop. For the kids’ sake and ours.”
Mitchell acknowledges that Pride events have become less kid friendly in recent years, and encourages parents to be cautious about touting young ones to the events.
“We believe the way pride is now, overly sexualized and full of kink, is not an appropriate place for children and parents should not bring them there.”
On Twitter, the original @libsoftiktok upload prompted over 3,500 primarily furious replies from people expressing disbelief at the lack of safeguarding.
“Not sure who is more grotesque: the adults actively enabling and participating, or the parents who happily encourage their kids to not only attend these vulgar Pride carnivals, but debase themselves during the attendance,” user Brad R. Torgersen wrote in response to @libsoftiktok’s upload.
“This will be the next thing on the school curriculum, disused as ‘exercise’ and any concerned parents objecting to their kids being sexualized will be denounced as hateful bigots,” the Family Education Trust tweeted.
While the Trust’s comment was likely intended to be tongue-in-cheek, just last year a business in Indiana came under widespread scrutiny after it began advertising actual pole dancing classes for children.
On October 1, 2021, a graphic began to circulate across Twitter from an Indiana-based business promoting pole dancing classes for children.
Tiff’s Pole Fitness, located in Jasper, Indiana, is a fitness company offering “pole fitness” classes. According to a class schedule, some of the offerings have distinctly sexualized themes, including one titled “flirty flow.” But the small business’ troubles arose when netizens noticed some classes were being targeted specifically at minors.
Tiff’s had posted a graphic to it’s company Facebook which advertised pole fitness classes for children aged 7-12. The graphic featured artwork of a Disney Princess from the popular kid’s movie Tangled hanging off of a vertical pole.
After the advertisement began to circulate and many expressed outrage, the business, owned by Tiffany Huebner, quickly deleted the Facebook advertisement, and instead tried to offer some justification for the classes, insisting pole dancing was not inappropriate for minors.
“I know it’s going to take time for everyone to drop the stigma of ‘it’s a stripper pole’… ” she wrote, directing users to a video from Eastern Europe of an 11-year-old girl performing in a “sports pole” competition.
The attempt at damage control was not well received, and Tiffany deleted the entirety of her business’ Facebook page for a period of time.
But on October 8, details emerged adding a decidedly different element to the already bizarre story, with a criminal record check revealing Tiffany’s husband had a 2009 conviction for child sex offenses.
According to TruthFinder, Maxwell Garrett Huebner was charged on March 11, 2009 of sexual misconduct with a minor. According to the report, Huebner was convicted of an offense under Indiana Code 35-42-4-9 – a sexual offense against a minor less than 16 years of age. Huebner would have been approximately 21 years old when the offense was committed.
Maxwell and Tiffany were married in September 2019, according to a Dubois County Marriage License registry, just months after Maxwell’s 10-year term on the Indiana Sex And Violent Offender Registry would have ended. It is unknown if she was aware of his criminal history, or if he had any close involvement with the children’s classes.
In the last few years, pole dancing as a form of “fitness” aimed at children has become increasingly popular, with multiple businesses offering classes aimed specifically at minors.
While Tiff’s appears to have scrapped their kids classes since the fallout, a recent article by Dance Biblesrecommended pole dancing for children as a type of exercise to improve “strength, flexibility, and technique.”
The article writes: “Providing your child with the opportunity to learn pole dancing can be a fun way to help them build their self-esteem,” with photos supplied showing extremely young girls engaged in various pole dancing poses.
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Mission Impossible:Dead Reckoning Part I | Review 🖋️
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DELAIN And VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Announce September 2023 U.S. Tour
Dutch symphonic metallers DELAIN will embark on a U.S. tour in September. Support on the trek will come from VISIONS OF ATLANTIS.
Tickets go on sale on Friday, March 17.
In a recent interview with FaceCulture, DELAIN founder, songwriter and keyboardist Martijn Westerholt spoke about the differences in the singing approach of the band's new frontwoman Diana Leah and that of her predecessor, Charlotte Wessels. He said: "Well, first of all, [Diana's] voice. I like her character. [She has] so much control, so much control… It's also a very friendly voice. And [when I first heard her singing], I could imagine that on DELAIN music. And then I got back the material later, and I was actually astonished and surprised how much it fitted. [Someone said] she has a very similar voice to Charlotte, and partially I totally agree with that; there are some characteristics that are similar. But I also think that people didn't… We have released three singles [with Diana so far], and [people] have not heard her complete capacity in singing. She's very good with soft versus power, [the] contrast [between the two]."
Elaborating on what sets the two vocalists apart, Martijn said: "Charlotte is more rough, which gives Charlotte a lot of character. It's a more rough voice, and that's not a negative thing; no, on the contrary, that gives it a certain quality and character. Diana is more refined. And that makes it different. So I'm totally not saying that, 'Oh, this one is better' or 'That one is better' — no — but it is different. And, of course, indeed, there are also similarities."
DELAIN's first album with Leah, "Dark Waters", arrived on February 10 via Napalm Records.
In addition to Westerholt and Leah, the band's current lineup includes original guitarist Ronald Landa and drummer Sander Zoer, along with bassist Ludovico Cioffi.
The new DELAIN lineup made its official live debut last August at the Riverside festival in Aarburg, Switzerland.
Regarding how she joined the long-running Dutch metal act, Leah previously said: "It's really simple, actually. I knew they were looking for a singer so I just left a comment on their Instagram page. So a couple of days later I received an e-mail from Martijn, and we talked a bit about how I could audition and he sent me some material that I could sing on. And the rest is history."
Asked how she decided to sing in a metal band, the 32-year-old Diana said: "Well, I've always wanted to sing in a metal band. It was really my desire to do it. In fact, I did sing in a couple of rock bands, but it wasn't really heavy music, which I loved at the time. It was really hard to find the right people to form a band with and also to get along together and all that. But I've always wanted to be in a metal band. Always."
Leah also talked a bit about her background, saying: "I was born in Romania, in a city called Alba Iulia. It's in the middle of Transylvania. And then I moved to Italy when I was 15, and I lived in Italy for, I think, 10 years or something. And then I moved to Canada, in Ottawa, and I lived there for five years. And then I came back to Italy. And now I currently live in Italy, near Torino, so up north."
In February 2021, Westerholt announced the dissolution of DELAIN's previous lineup. At the time, he explained: "For the last year or so, the collaboration within the band ceased to work as well as it once had. Some of us were no longer happy with the current roles in the band. We all tried very hard to find a solution for over a year, but sadly we were unable to find one. As a result, we will all be going our own ways and pursuing our own endeavors."
Wessels said about her departure: "I know that you might have questions about the 'why' in all of this. I fully understand and respect that. Simply put, it is the sad conclusion of more than a year of trying to find solutions to built up grievances. Part of me feels like I'm letting all of you down, I'd like you to know that this decision was not taken lightly and I apologize to those of you who had high hopes of seeing all of us together live on stage again after lockdown. Until recently, I thought this might still be in the cards for us as well."
In September 2022, Charlotte was asked in an interview with Spain's The Metal Circus TV how she felt about the fact that DELAIN recently made a comeback with a new lineup. Wessels said: "I'm trying not to engage with it too much, honestly. I've seen positive responses about it, which I think is good. But I do try to keep some distance and just focus on what I'm doing rather than checking that out, because I still don't feel like that will make me happier per se."
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All Those Sensations in my Belly from Adriatic Animation on Vimeo.
While transitioning from male to female gender, Matia struggles with finding a genuine intimate relationship with a heterosexual man.
Director, scriptwriter, editor: Marko Dješka
With participation: Matia Anna Pleše
Art director, designer: Hana Tintor
Animation: Hana Tintor, Laura Martinović, David Lovrić, Marko Dješka, Draško Ivezić
Interviews: Ljubica Letinić, Maja Flajsig
Dramaturgy: Ivor Martinić
Artistic advisor: Chintis Lundgren
Music: Sofie Birch, Gustavo Lima
Sound design: Pedro Marinho
Sound editing: Bernardo Bento
Foley: Francisca Campos
Sound mix: Vasco Carvalho
Voice recording: Jure Buljević
Producer: Draško Ivezić (Adriatic Animation)
Co-producers: David Doutel, Vasco Sá (BAP animation studio)
Distribution: Bonobostudio
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Marko Dješka (1983) is an animation director, scriptwriter and comic book artist. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Animated Film and New Media. His student films Slaughtered and The Son of Satan, as well as his first professional film Ghost Town have been awarded at numerous film festivals. Marko is one of the founders of the studio for animated film, Adriatic Animation.
Filmography:
All Those Sensations in My Belly (2020),
Ghost Town (2016)
The Son of Satan (2012, student film)
Slaughtered (2010, student film)
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All Those Sensations in my Belly awards/mentions:
�Best Film in Balkan Competition, Anibar International Animation Festival, Peja, Kosovo 2020
�Special Mention in Croatian Competition, Animafest Zagreb, Croatia 2020
�Best Croatian Short Film, Festival mediteranskog filma Split, Croatia 2021
�Best Film Award, I+N Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest, Montreal, Canada 2021
�Best Innovation Award, I+N Festival Courts Queer Short Film Fest, Montreal, Canada 2021
� Flickers' Youth Film Jury First Prize for the Best LGBTQ Film, Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA 2021
�Special Mention, Festival MiX Festival Internazionale di Cinema Lgbtq+ e Cultura Queer, Milano, Italy 2021
�Best Animation, Linz International Short Film Festival, Linz, Austria 2021
�Best Script, Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), Canada 2021
�Best European Short Film, 3D Wire Fest / Weird Market International Animation Market and Festival, Spain 2021
�Special Mention, Videomedeja Video Art Association, Video Art Library & Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia 2021
�Special Mention, Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote, Italy 2021
�WIA Diversity Award, Spark3D Animation Festival/Women in Animation, Canada 2021
�Special Jury Prize, Большой фестиваль мультфильмов Big Cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia 2021
�Special mention, Festival Festival Cinéma et Droits Humains, Paris, France 2021
�Youth Jury Award for Best Short Film, Exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany 2021
�Best International Short Film, Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, Israel 2021
�Special Mention, Manchester Animation Festival, UK 2021
�Best Short Film, SocialMed Mediterranean Human Rights Festival, Valencia, Spain 2021
�Special Mention, Merlinka International Queer Film Festival, Serbia 2021
�Special Mention in Monstrinha Competition, Monstra Lisbon Animated Film Festival, Lisabon, Portugal 2022
�Junior Jury Award, Animocje International Animated Film Festival, Bigdozsc, Poland 2022
�Special Award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation, International Filmmaker Festival of New York, USA 2022
�Jury's Personal Pick (Asako Fujioka) in A Slice of Society Category, Hiroshima Animation Season, Japan 2022
�Best film in international category, Animasivo International Animation Festival, Mexico City, Mexico 2022
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Here’s another great opportunity to get into an Undiscovered Classic with some real provenance. This 1954 Woodill Wildfire is currently for sale on @bringatrailer and the auction ends in 4 days! This 1954 Woodill Wildfire is a running project that is said to have been constructed for company founder B.R. Woodill and driven by actress Dorothy Malone in the 1956 film Written on the Wind. It was reportedly placed in storage until 1965 and remained registered in California through 1979. The car is finished in black with red side stripes over red leather upholstery, and power comes from a Mercury-sourced 255ci flathead V8 paired with an automatic transmission. Features include a Fenton intake manifold and aluminum cylinder heads as well as a Mallory dual-point distributor, 15″ wire wheels, a Continental kit, plexiglass wind wings, and Talbot-style mirrors. The car was reportedly purchased by the selling dealer in October 2021 at the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival in Tennessee, and it will require service prior to regular use. This Woodill Wildfire project is offered with copies of 1960s and 1970s California registration documents, period photos, and a clean Missouri title. . . . . #undiscoveredclassics #forgottenfiberglass #fiberglasscar #fiberglass #handbuilt #sportscar #sportscars #americansportscar #restoration #restorationproject #restorationcars #carrestoration #classiccar #classiccars #cars #carsofinstagram #carswithoutlimits #vintagecars #customcars #carcheology #woodill #wildfire #woodillwildfire #fordflathead #dorothymalone (at St. Louis, Missouri) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIO1cgLNb1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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SEAPAVAA poster - expanded cinema in the Asia Pacific
There’s a book from 2017
Jurriëns, Edwin. Visual Media in Indonesia : Video Vanguard. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. Print.
There is an exhibition catalogue for this work By Krisna Murti https://www.youtube.com/@TheKrisnart
Learning to queue up to the ants (status queue) = Belajar antri kepada semut : performance video installation, Soemardja Gallery-Bandung Institute of Technology, December 10-23, 1996.
https://www.cobosocial.com/dossiers/krisna-murti-interview/
Experimental Film Forum in Singapore https://expcinema.org/site/en/directory/experimental-film-forum
2010 A new festival is born in Singapore. The first edition of Experimental Film Forum, subtitled 'Experiments in progress...' will be held next May 20-23 at the Substation Theatre. Highlights include a programme of local experimental films curated by filmmaker Victric Thng with emphasis on the work of Tania Sng; a workshop and screening on S8 films directed by Russel & Gozde Zehnder; a panel on the history of experimental films in Southeast Asia, the recent spate of experimental films and the direction of experimental cinema; and a symposium on distribution and the 'Human Frames' project by Lowave co-founder and filmmaker Silke Schmickl.
https://www.objectifs.com.sg/experimental-cinema-in-southeast-asia-panel-discussion/
EYE Film conference 2022
Umi Lestari - Indonesian cinema scholar
Kultursinema as a method - Mahardika Yudha - program in Arkipel - Jakarta Intl Doc and Experimental Film Festival - Arkipel due May
Southeast Asia film festival Thailand December https://www.southeastasiafilmfestival.com/
2017 - experimental film in Manila
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/artandculture/600799/fdcp-s-xperimento-pelikula-to-screen-13-experimental-films-for-free/story/
FDCP’s Xperimento Pelikula to screen 13 experimental films for free - Xperimento Pelikula" curates 30 years of avant-garde works from Miko Revereza, Melchor Bacani III, Rox Lee, Ramon Jose "RJ" Leyran, John Torres, Yason Banal, Tad Ermitano, Raya Martin, Tito & Tita, Martha Atienza, Jon Lazam, Cesar Hernando, Eli Guieb III, and Jimbo Albano.The films were made in workshops held by the Mowelfund Institute and Goethe Institut Manila in the '80s and '90s, which Shireen Seno of Los Otros and Merv Espina of Generation Loss sifted through.
Los Otros, building experimental film in the Philippines
https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/interviews/los-otros-shireen-seno-john-torres-interview-experimental-film-community-philippines
Asian Film Symposium https://www.objectifs.com.sg/afs2015/
Singapore, Substation
Video art histories south east Asia
https://asialink.unimelb.edu.au/arts/resources/stories-and-insights/the-rise-of-video-art-in-east-asia
Refocusing on the Medium: The Rise of Video Art in East Asia at OCAT Shanghai, assembled 25 works from key protagonists in video art from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China.
OCAT Shanghai, 27 December 2020 – 21 March 2021Artists
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Keigo Yamamoto, Kim Kulim, Takahiko Iimura, Shigeko Kubota, Park Hyunki, Soungui Kim, Wang Gongxin, Ellen Pau, Chen Shaoxiong, Geng Jianyi, Zhu Jia, Yuan Goang-Ming
Curator
Kim Machan (Director, Media Art Asia Pacific MAAP Brisbane)
Publication date: May, 2021, commissioned by Asialink Arts.
https://www.maap.org.au/collaborator/kim-machan-2/
Bangkok experimental video https://en.bacc.or.th/archive/336.html
Running for a long time, curator Komson Nookiew
https://knookiew.blogspot.com/
Asst Prof Komson Nookiew Fine Art Department,
King Muangkut's Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang, Bangkok
Experimental film festival 2012 beff https://expcinema.org/site/en/directory/bangkok-experimental-film-festival
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