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Kira Kosarin Net Worth (2023): Height, Age, Full Name, Bio
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Kira Kosarin is an American actress who has starred in a number of popular TV shows. She got her start in the entertainment industry at a young age and has since achieved massive success.
Kira Kosarin's Net Worth
As of 2023, Kira Kosarin's net worth is estimated to be $2.5 million.
Given Name Kira Nicole Kosarin
Famous Name Kira Kosarin
Source(s) of Fame Actress
Place of Birth Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Relationships Dating, Max Chester,
Kira Nicole Kosarin was born on October 7, 1997, in Morristown, New Jersey. Her parents are Lauren Kosarin who is an actress and Danny Kosarin who is a music directors, conductor, and record producer. Her parents are also broadway performers that's why she was exposed to acting, dancing, and singing at an early age.
Kira started learning how to dance and gymnastics at a very young age. She enrolled in ballet classes at Boca Ballet Theatre while also studying at Pine Crest School.
She also enrolled in an acting workshop. After her workshop, she decided to move to Los Angeles, California to enter the entertainment industry.
Kira Kosarin was first seen on Disney Channel's show called "Shake It Up". In 2013, she became known when she acted in the role of Phoebe Thunderman in Nickelodeon's show "The Thundermans".
In 2014, she started working for her Nickelodeon tv film entitled "One Crazy Cruise" and it was released on June 19, 2015. In 2019, she appeared in the second season of the tv series Hulu where she acted in the role of Nadia.
In 2018, she released her first single entitled "Spy". The following year, she released her second single "Vinyl" and her debut album called "Off Brand". After releasing her album, she released her song "Simple".
In March 2022, Kira signed a contract with Republic Records and released her major-label single, "Mood Ring".
Kira was nominated in the following awards:
Favorite TV Actress (Kids' Choice Awards) in 2015
Favorite Female TV Star (Kids' Choice Awards) in 2016
In July 2020, Kira Kosarin started dating the British restaurant Max Chester. The two seem to be very happy with each other.
During her free time, she likes to play her favorite sport tennis, go horseback riding, and travel with her family and friends.
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Kira Kosarin is very popular on social media. She has over 6.2 million followers on her Instagram account, over 315,000 followers on her Twitter account, over 948,000 followers on her Facebook page, and over 29.2 million followers on her Tiktok account with 522.8 million likes.
She also has her own website and a self-titled Youtube channel where you can listen to some of her songs. She started her Youtube channel last February 6, 2010, and now it has over 464,000 subscribers with 12 million views.
Kira Nicole Kosarin is an American actress who has starred in a number of popular TV shows. She got her start in the entertainment industry at a young age and has since achieved massive success now she has an estimated net worth of 2.5 million dollars.
Kira Kosarin has sometimes been associated with other Actors such as Rosemarie Bowe, James Deen, Bimby Aquino Yap, Tanya Vidal, Lani O'Grady, Park Min Ji, Deon Stewardson, Aritra Dutta Banik, and Mathew Waters.
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En lesbisk person är en homosexuell kvinna: en kvinna som upplever romantisk kärlek och/eller sexuell attraktion till andra kvinnor. Termen lesbisk används också för att uttrycka sexuell identitet eller sexuellt beteende oavsett sexuell läggning, eller som ett adjektiv för att beskriva kvinnlig homosexualitet eller samkönad kärlek.

Begreppet "lesbisk", att särskilja kvinnor med en gemensam sexuell läggning, uppstod på 1900-talet. Historiskt sett har inte kvinnor haft samma frihet eller oberoende att ha homosexuella relationer som män har haft, men har inte heller mött lika hård bestraffning som homosexuella män gjort i vissa samhällen. Istället har lesbiska relationer ofta ansetts ofarliga och ojämförliga till heterosexuella, så länge utövarna inte försökt hävda rättigheter som traditionellt innehavs av män. På grund av detta finns det väldigt lite historisk dokumentation som ger korrekt bild av hur kvinnlig homosexualitet uttrycktes. När västerländska sexologer på det sena 1800-talet började kategorisera och beskriva homosexualitet fanns de bristande kunskap om homosexualitet och kvinnors sexualitet, det i kombination med dåtidens normer vilket ledde till att lesbiska klassades som mentalt sjuka. Som resultat av detta dolde kvinnor i lesbiska relationer antingen sina personliga liv eller accepterade samhällets etikett som utstött och skapade en subkultur och identitet som utvecklades i Europa och USA.

Efter andra världskriget följde en period av social repression när många stater aktivt förföljde homosexuella, därav utvecklade kvinnor nätverk för att umgås och utbilda varandra. Större ekonomisk och social frihet ledde till större möjligheter att forma relationer och familjer.
Med andra vågens feminism och en ökad mängd akademiker som studerade kvinnohistoria och sexualitet så breddades definitionen av lesbisk, och startade en debatt om sexuell lust som den viktigaste beståndsdelen för att definiera vad det är att vara lesbisk. Vissa kvinnor som håller på med samkönad kärlek tar avstånd från att identifiera sig både som lesbisk och som bisexuell, medan andra kvinnor identifierar sig som lesbiska utan att agera på det. Sexuell identitet är inte nödvändigtvis samma som sexuell läggning eller sexuellt beteende, av många olika anledningar, bland annat rädsla för identifiering av den sexuella läggningen i en homofobisk miljö.

Under 2000-talet har en ökad mängd lesbiska tagit plats i media, och mer populärkultur av och för lesbiska skapats. Kopplat till senaste vågen av feminism har fler lesbiska musiker tagit plats på den svenska musikscenen och gett uttryck för sin sexualitet i sin musik. Kvinnor med en lesbisk identitet delar erfarenheter och perspektiv: de möter samma heterosexistiska diskriminering och risken att mötas av homofobi. Som lesbiska kvinnor så möter de delvis andra problem än homosexuella män. Fördomar, diskriminering och nedsatt mental hälsa är fortfarande en reell problematik. Den politiska situationen och samhällets attityd påverkar möjligheten till att leva öppet och bilda familj.

Definition
Definitionen av vad det innebär att vara lesbisk varierar. Enligt RFSL är definitionen: En person som oftast identifierar sig som tjej eller kvinna och som har förmåga att bli kär i och/eller attraherad andra tjejer/kvinnor. Sexuell identitet är inte nödvändigtvis samma som sexuell läggning eller sexuellt beteende, vilket blir tydligt i Lesbisk Makt definition som lyder: Lesbiskt kan vara din identitet, eller så identifierar du dig som något annat men gillar att göra lesbiska saker ibland, eller så vill du göra lesbiskt i framtiden.

Begreppet lesbisk kärlek anspelar på den antika lyrikern Sapfo från den grekiska ön Lesbos, vars kärleksdikter många gånger riktade sig till en kvinna.

Kvinnlig homosexualitet utan identitet i den västerländska kulturen

Allmänt
De varierande betydelserna av lesbisk sen 1900-talets början har lett till att historiker på nytt undersökt begreppet och dess innebörd. Diskussioner från historiker handlar om vad som klassas som en lesbisk relation, samt om vi med vår samtida definition av lesbisk kan använda den etiketten på kvinnor som hade relationer med andra kvinnor, då de själva inte identifierade sig som lesbiska.
En annan problematik vid studier av historiska relationer är vilken typ av bevisföring som krävs. 1989 skrev en akademisk grupp som hette Lesbian History Group

På grund av samhällets motstånd till att erkänna att lesbiska existerar, krävs det en hög grad av säkerhet innan historiker och biografi-författare tillåts att använda den etiketten. Bevis som skulle räcka i vilken annan situation är otillräckliga här … En kvinna som aldrig gift sig, som levde med en annan kvinna, vars vänner mestadels var kvinnor, eller som rörde sig i lesbiska eller blandade homo-sammanhang, kan mycket väl varit lesbisk... Men denna typ av belägg är inte 'bevis'. Vad våra kritiker vill ha är obestridliga bevis på sexuell aktivitet mellan kvinnor. Detta är nästa omöjligt att hitta.

Kvinnors sexualitet är oftast inte tillräckligt representerade i texter och dokumentation. Fram till nyligen var mycket av det som dokumenterats om kvinnors sexualitet skrivet av män, i kontexten för den manliga förståelsen, och kopplat till mäns förståelse av kvinnor -  som till exempel deras fruar, döttrar och mödrar. Konstnärliga representationer av kvinnlig sexualitet visar ofta mer allmänna idéer och trender, vilket kan ge historiker ledtrådar till hur omfattande eller accepterade erotiska relationer mellan kvinnor var.

Antikens Grekland

Bevisen för kvinnlig homosexualitet i antikens Grekland är begränsade, och nämns knappt i grekisk litteratur. De flesta överlevande källorna kommer från Athen, och är utan undantag skrivna av män. Åtminstone bland de Atenska männen verkar det varit tabu med kvinnlig homosexuell aktivitet.

De referenser som finns är två poeter Sapfo och Alkman, som har tolkats som poesi om kvinnligt samkönat begär. Sapfos dikter behandlar kärlek till både män och kvinnor. En av dikterna frågar poeten Afrodite om stöd för frieri till en annan kvinna. Det är anmärkningsvärt att det fragmentet beskriver hur Sapfo både ger och får från en annan kvinna, i kontrast till det rigida dikotomin som observerats i manligt homosexuella relationer i Antikens Grekland. I Sapfo 94 finns det enda fragmentet som tydligt nämner kvinnligt homosexuellt beteende. Alkman skrev Partheneio, som tar upp attraktion mellan unga kvinnor. Det finns delade meningar, men historiker anser att attraktionen som skildras är romantisk eller erotisk.

Medeltiden
Att vara lesbisk ansågs vara medfött enligt medeltida arabiska texter. De tidigaste historierna om lesbiska i arabisk litteratur kommer från Encyclopedia of Pleasure, och innehåller en berättelse om kärleken mellan en kristen och en muslims kvinna. Det är känt att Fihrist, en samling av skrifter från 1000-talet innehåller skrifter om tolv andra lesbiska par.

Sverige 1600 - 1800-talet
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Homosexualitet blev ett brott i Sverige på 1600-talet, när staten vuxit sig stark och den lutherska kyrkan fick inflytande på lagstiftningen. Lagen gällde då bara män, och straffet för homosexuella handlingar var dödsstraff.

Det är i 1864 års strafflag som för första gången även lesbisk kärlek straffbeläggs. Men kvinnors homosexualitet ansågs inte vara ett stort problem; först på 1900-talet hände det att kvinnor åtalades för detta "brott". Lagar om kvinnlig homosexualitet fanns, runt sekelskiftet 1900, endast i Österrike, Sverige, Finland och några kantoner i Schweiz.

Tidigt 1900-tal

Från 1890-talet till 1930-talet höll den amerikanska arvtagerskan Natalie Clifford Barney varje vecka en salong i Paris dit kändisar i konst och artistvärlden var inbjudna och där fokus låg på lesbiska ämnen. Bland besökarna tillhörde Romaine Brooks, som målade av andra i samma cirkel. Författaren Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein och författaren Radclyffe Hall.

Berlin hade en rik homosexuell kultur under 1920-talet, med 50-talet lesbiska klubbar och ett antal magazin som riktade sig till lesbiska. Klubbarna varierade från stora och välkända till små kvarterskaféer. Även om homosexualitet var förbjudet i Tyskland, så tolererades det av staten.Tamagne, pp. 53–57.

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Butch- och Femmedikotomin
Butch och femme är termer som beskriver könsidentiteter hos lesbiska, där butch är kopplat till manligt uttryck med kläder, assessorer och beteende. Femme är kvinnligt uttryck med kläder, accessoarer och beteende. Från att börjat på 1900-talet blev Butch-Femme vanligt under 40-talet i USA och Kanada, främst på gay-barer. Under 40-50-60 talet var det vanligt med att lesbiska identifierade som antingen butch eller femme, och klädde sig därefter. Relationer formades då oftast mellan en butch och en femme.

Butch och femme är begrepp som fortfarande finns i den lesbiska världen men mer uppluckrade.

68-rörelsen och 70-talet
Stonewallupproret i New York 1969 när homosexuella och transpersoner slog tillbaka mot polisen som länge trakasserat dem blev startskottet en rörelse för HBTQ-personers rättigheter. I samband med andra vågens feminism under sena 60-talet och 70-talet lyftes frågan om lesbiskas rättigheter och den diskriminering som fanns. 1975 bildades i Sverige organisationen Lesbisk Front fanns i en rad städer, och jobbade för att stärka lesbisk identitet genom texter, tal, sånger, teater, film och tidskrifter samt ägnade sig åt politiska aktioner, och drev tillsammans med Grupp 8 kvinnohuset i Stockholm.  1979 slutade homosexualitet att sjukdomsklassas efter påtryckningar från RFSL och sedan 80-talet så har lesbiska gradvis fått mer rättigheter.

90-talet och framåt
År 1993 arrangerade lesbiska i flera amerikanska storstäder protestmarscher som kallades för Dyke March. I Sverige så har mycket av engagemanget för lesbiska drivits på av RFSL, och under 00-talet och framåt har det skett en sökning av mötesplatser och ungdomsgårdar med HBTQ-tema. Lesbisk Makt startades 2012 som en lesbisk workshop under Pride i Stockholm, med mål att kartlägga lesbiskhet i Sverige och skapa en lesbisk tidslinje. Detta har vidareutvecklats till målet att skapa en lesbisk folkrörelse. 2016 fanns det lokalgrupper på över tiotalet orter i Sverige, som framförallt är fokuserade kring att arrangera Lesbisk Frukost, som är en mötesplats för lesbiska och lesbisk kultur.

Lesbisk kultur

Allmänt
Det finns en mängd populärkultur som handlar om lesbiska personer, relationer och plats i samhället. Stor del av den lesbiska identitet som många lesbiska har är kopplad till gemensamma kulturella referenser. Hur lesbiska porträtterats i litteratur, film och teve har ofta format omvärldens tankar om kvinnors sexualitet. Majoriteten av skildringen av lesbiska är gjorda av män, och det var först på 80-talet filmer om lesbiska började göras, och då var karaktärerna ofta stereotypa och platta. Först på 2000-talet har teveprogram om lesbiska av kvinnor börjat produceras, och senaste åren har det varit en ökning av lesbiska som tar plats som kulturskapare.

Litteratur
Med en litterär startpunkt med Sapfos dikter från Antikens Grekland som behandlar begär till kvinnor. De gamla grekerna har också fått credd för att spridit berättelsen om den mytologiska folket Amazoner som består av kvinnliga krigare. En-hedu-ana, en prästinna i Antikens Irak som dedikerat sig själv till den sumeriska gudinnan Inanna och såg sig själv som Innannas make, har ansetts vara den äldsta överlevande poesin.

Under 1800-talet fanns lesbianism framförallt omskriver i fransk litteratur. Då var det baserat på en manlig fantasi men syfte att chocka den moralistiska borgerliga värderingar. Honoré de Balzac, i Flickan med de gyllene ögonen (1835), använde lesbiskt tema i sin berättelse om tre människor som lever bland moraliska degeneration av Paris, och återigen i Kusin Bette och Séraphita. Hans arbete påverkade författaren Théophile Gautiers Mademoiselle de Maupin, som gav den första beskrivningen av ett fysisk utseende som kom att associeras med lesbiska: Långa, bredaxlad, smala höfter och atletisk. Charles Baudelaire upprepade gånger använt lesbianism som ett tema i hans dikter Lesbos, Femmes damnées en och Femmes damnées 2.

Gradvis fick kvinnor möjlighet att själva skriva och formulera sina tankar om lesbiska relationer. Charlotte Brontës Villette från 1853 startade en genre av internetskole-berättelser med homoerotiska teman. Under 1900-talet skrev Katherine Mansfield, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, H.D., Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, och Gale Wilhelm populära böcker som hade samkönade relationer eller könstransformation som ämne. 1928 var ett toppår för lesbisk litteratur. Ensamhetens brunn, och tre andra romaner med lesbiskt tema publicerades i England: Elizabeth Bowen The Hotel, Woolfs Orlando, och Compton Mackenzie satiriska roman Extraordinary women. Till skillnad mot Ensamhetens brunn blev ingen av de romanerna förbjudna.

På 50-talet när pocketböcker blev vanliga så blev lesbisk kiosklitteratur en stor genre i USA. Mellan 1955 och 1969 publiceras mer än 2000 böcker som hade lesbianism som sitt tema och fanns lättillgängliga i kiosker, järnvägsstationer, busshållplatser överallt i USA. De flesta böcker skrevs av män, och marknadsfördes till heterosexuella män. En handfull av författarna var kvinnor som skrev för lesbiska däribland Ann Bannon, Valerie Taylor, Paula Christian, och Vin Packer/Ann Aldrich. Många av böckerna använde sig av kulturella referenser: platser, termer, sätt att klä sig och andra koder för att nå kvinnor. På grund av det skapade böckerna en lesbisk identitet och nådde ut till hemmafruar runt om i USA som trodde de var ensamma i vad de kände. Beebo Brinker-serien var en av de mest omtalade, och boken En Udda Flicka av Ann Bannon har givits ut i Sverige av förlaget Lesbisk Pocket.

Efter Stonewallupproret som var startskottet för en växande rörelse för HBTQ-personers rättigheter blev lesbiska temat i litteratur mer varierade och komplexa, och fokuset flyttades från erotik skriven för män till texter skriva av och för lesbiska. Författare som skrev om lesbiska karaktärer var bland annat Rita Mae Brown i Kvinnofrukt (1973) som presenterar en feministisk protagonist som väljer att bli lesbisk. Stekta gröna tomater på Whistle Stop Café (1987) av Fannie Flagg handlar om två kvinnors liv och deras vänskap och kärlek, men faktumet att de har en romantisk relation är inte huvudfokus i boken. I filmatiseringen av boken har det lesbiska temat tonats ner och antyds knappt. Poeten Audre Lorde skriver i sina dikter mycket om rasism, homofobi och könsidentitet. I sin självbiografiska bok Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982) skriver Lorde om din sexuella identitet och livet som lesbisk i New York under 1950 talet.

Film och Teve
Mycket av dem film och teve som producerades under 1900-talet skildrar lesbiska ur ett manligt perspektiv. Under det sena 1900-talet och 2000-talet har en ökad mängd filmer som ger mer nyanserade karaktärer.

Film
The Watermelon Woman (1996) Det var den första filmen som har regisserats av en svart lesbisk. Den handlar om Cheryl, en svart lesbisk som arbetar i en videobutik samtidigt som hon försöker göra en film om en svart skådespelerska från 30-talet som spelade sterotypiska "mammy" roller. Under 90-talet producerades en rad filmer, däribland A village Affair (1995), All Over Me (1997), Better Than Chocolate (1999) och But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) som är en satirisk komedi som handlar om en amerikansk tonårstjej som skickas på läger för att bli hetero av sina föräldrar, när hon är på lägret inser hon att hon är lesbisk. Fucking Åmål (1998) blev en svensk klassiker och utspelar sig i Åmål under 90-talet där vi får följa tonåringarna Elin och Agnes och deras spirande kärlek.

Under 2000-talet kom filmer som Lost and Delirious (2001), The Hours (2002), Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007), Affinity (2008), And then came Lola (2009) och Imagine Me and You (2005) som är en romantisk dramakomedi där Rachel som är nygift blir förälskad i floristen Luce som skötte blomsterarrangemanget till bröllopet.

När Kyss mig (2011) kom var det den första svenska lesbiska långfilmen på 15 år, sen Fucking Åmål. Filmen följer Frida och Mia, vars föräldrar ska gifta sig samtidigt som Mia har förlovat sig. Men attraktion uppstår mellan Frida och Mia. The Runaways (2010), Bitchkram (2012), Dyke Hard (2014) var några av de filmer som kom under 2010-talet. Carol (2015) utspelar sig under 1950-talet och handlar om Belivet Therese (Rooney Mara) som jobbar i ett varuhus på Manhattan, är intresserad av fotografi och drömmer om ett bättre liv. Hon möter den äldre kvinnan Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), som går igenom en skilsmässa. De blir attraherade och inleder en kärleksaffär.

Serier
The L Word (2004–2009) och uppföljaren The L Word: Generation Q (2019–2021) följer en grupp lesbiska vänner i Los Angeles och deras liv och förehavande. Varierande typer av serier har behandlat lesbiska teman så som Skins (2007–2013), Xena Warrior Princess (1995–2001), Lip service (2010–2012) och Faking it (2014–2016). Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) är ett drama på ett kvinnofängelse som följer fångar och fångvaktare och deras relationer och situation.

Musik

Under 2010-talet har det vuxit fram en lesbisk musikscen i Sverige med bland annat rapparen Silvana Imam som i sin musik tydligt uttrycker sin lesbiska identitet. Med låttexter med bland annat raden "Alltså ärligt, jag är inte straight – jag är lesbisk". Beatrice Eli är en annan lesbisk musiker som använder sin sexuella identitet i sin musik.

Thinking of my teacher

Yeah, my 6th grade teacher

With the long, dark hair

It always works getting me aroused

I've seen this girl on the TV

See this girl in the mall

I see pictures in my head

Of my head between their legs

Från mer mainstream låtar som I kissed a girl av Katy Perry, och låtar som inte uttalas sig som lesbiska men likt My best friend av Hello Saferide som handlar om två kvinnor som är bästa vänner och där den ena frågar sig varför de inte är lesbiska. Tegan and Sara behandlar också lesbiska teman i sin musik.

Rättigheter

i Sverige
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Homosexualitet i Sverige avkriminaliserades 1944 och slutade ses som en sjukdom 1979, och blev därigenom det första landet i världen att sluta med det. Landet anses vara ett av Europas och världens HBTQ-vänligaste länder när det kommer till lagar rörande homosexualitet. Sedan slutet av 1980-talet har homosexuella i Sverige gradvis fått allt större rättigheter, inklusive rätten till samkönad adoption (2003) och rätten att ingå samkönat äktenskap (2009).

Sen 2005 är det tillåter med assisterad befruktning för lesbiska par. Reglerna har varierat mellan landstingen och skiljer sig mellan avgifterna för heterosexuella och homosexuella par. I ett antal landsting är det inte möjligt för lesbiska par som vill ha två barn att föda varsitt, då reglerna är utformade efter heterosexuella par där bara den ena har möjlighet att föda barnet.

Övriga världen

Juridiska och sociala villkor för lesbiska varierar starkt i olika delar av världen. I allmänhet är mer sekulariserade länder i västvärlden mest tillåtande och mer religiöst präglade länder mer restriktiva. Ofta är lagarna utformade med homosexuella män i åtanke och kvinnor löper mindre risk för repressalier. Det är även kopplat till den patriarkala synen på kvinnor sexualitet som passiv, där kvinnor inte förväntas hålla på med sexuella aktiviteter för din egen skull, utan för män.

Se även
 Homosexualitet
 Bisexualitet
 Queer
 Homosexualitetens historia

Referenser

HBTQ
Sexuell läggning
Sexualhistoria
Genus
Genusvetenskap

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Tommy Bowe had admitted that taking care of his kids has been tough after the birth of his second child.
The former Ireland star and wife Lucy welcomed baby Jamie in March and are already parents to daughter Emma.
Like many parents, Tommy, 36, is having to adapt to the new normal with two young children at home.
Tommy Bowe had admitted that taking care of his kids has been tough after the birth of his second child. Pic: Instagram
Tommy said that he's finding it more of a challenge to stay at home than to go to work.
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When journalist Guy Lawson sold the movie rights to his 2011 Rolling Stone article about two Miami Beach stoners who landed a $300 million contract with the Pentagon, he envisioned the resulting film would be a serious expose.
"I wanted a documentary that focused on Pentagon malfeasance, corruption in Albania and the arbitrary nature of justice -- how the U.S. government spent resources on a case that was really just a big publicity stunt," he says. "But how many people do you think would go see that movie?"
Instead, "War Dogs," which opens Friday, became a Hollywood studio production with famous actors and a director, Todd Phillips, best known for the "Hangover" trilogy.
But even though distributor Warner Bros. is emphasizing the broad humor of "War Dogs" in its marketing, the film is something new and more ambitious for Phillips -- a sober drama that critiques misguided ambition, high-level government corruption and the destructive nature of greed. The movie just happens to be hilarious, too.
Arriving near the end of a summer season that's been heavy on big-budget duds, "War Dogs" stands out for its contemporary real-world subject matter, lack of special effects and its narrative integrity. Phillips, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Stephen Chin and Jason Smilovic, has managed to push a movie that bears a distinct authorial stamp through a Hollywood studio system that increasingly subjects films to creative decisions made by committees.
One of the reasons he was able to do that is he has a longstanding relationship with Warner Bros. Another is that "War Dogs" didn't cost $175 million, like the studio's much-maligned "Suicide Squad" did.
"I haven't seen 'Suicide Squad,' but when you get into spending that kind of money, there are going to be a lot of cooks in the kitchen, because there's a big bet on the line and people want to make sure they're covered," Phillips says. "I understand that argument from both sides. I just choose to work on a smaller scale. If we keep the budget down -- and again, everything's relative, so down in Hollywood is still a large number to most people -- you can tell the story you want to tell.
"'War Dogs' is not the kind of movie studios will automatically want to make in the current climate of sequels and superhero movies," he says. "But I've built a nice amount of good will with Warner Bros. I made four movies for them in five years (the 'Hangover' trilogy and 'Due Date') and they all made a good amount of money. The thing about Hollywood is good will is perishable. You have to use it, because it doesn't always stick around. So that's how I got to make 'War Dogs.' It felt like a nice evolution in my career and tonally it isn't that far off from what I normally do."
Phillips began his career making documentaries, including 1993's "Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies" and 1998's "Frat House", before finding his groove with R-rated comedies (he produced "Project X", the critically underrated ode to adolescent anarchy). The theme of men behaving badly recurs through his work. The difference in "War Dogs" is that the mayhem drives its protagonists apart instead of bringing them together, as it did in "Road Trip" and "Old School."
Jonah Hill and Miles Teller play Efraim Diveroli and David Packouz, two pals from Miami Beach's Beth Israel Congregation synagogue who made the front page of the New York Times in 2008. The article reported that they had illegally sold millions of rounds of Chinese AK-47 ammunition to the U.S. government, to be used to supply Afghan soldiers waging war on the Taliban.
The actual story, which Lawson later expanded into a book, "Arms and the Dudes," was far more complicated. Lawson argues that the Pentagon, faced with a munitions shortage after long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq with no end in sight, regularly relied on the services of shady companies to secure weapons and military supplies from the international arms market, no questions asked.
Diveroli and Packouz, whose company AEY Inc. conducted business from a nondescript office space in Miami Beach, were just two of many players -- war dogs -- who took advantage of the Army's lax standards to turn a profit from military conflict without setting foot on a battlefield.
It was this aspect of the story, not the pothead-bro antics of its two improbable international arms dealers, that piqued Phillips' curiosity when he read the original Rolling Stone piece.
"My initial reaction was that I didn't believe it," Phillips says. "If it had been a short story I read in The New Yorker, I would have thought it was unbelievable and silly. So the most appealing part of it to me from the start is that this all really happened.
"But I was also interested by the bigger picture. There have been a ton of movies made about war and soldiers and patriotism. But there haven't been a ton of movies that shine a light on the small group of people that make a large amount of money from war. To me, the movie isn't an indictment of these two guys. It's an indictment of the U.S. government and their lack of oversight and their choice to look the other way when it suits them, at least until they get caught."
"War Dogs" unfolds through the eyes of Packouz, who is struggling to make a living with his girlfriend as a masseur and selling bed sheets to retirement homes when his old friend Diveroli returns from California, where he was working with his uncle. Diveroli tells him how the Bush administration, in an effort to staunch criticism of profiteering by large corporations such as Halliburton from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, had opened the bidding on military contracts. Anyone with a computer and an internet connection could bid on requests for anything from military helmets to body armor.
The two friends quickly become successful by focusing on the "crumbs" -- modest jobs involving small numbers of arms or gear the big conglomerates don't bother to bid on. Then they start getting greedy.
Like most Hollywood adaptations of true stories, "War Dogs" takes a lot of creative liberties, combining characters and compressing events for the sake of clarity. Bradley Cooper, for example, plays an international gun salesman who is a composite of two people. In real life, Diveroli and Packouz hung a poster from the Nicolas Cage film "Lord of War" in their office. In "War Dogs," Diveroli decorates the entire place with a "Scarface" motif.
"We're not making a documentary," Phillips says. "As long as you stay true to the vibe and spirit of what happened, you can have fun adding your own flourishes. This is not Will Smith playing Ali or Daniel Day-Lewis playing Lincoln. These are two guys who were largely anonymous to the world, so you're able to let Jonah come in and give it the swagger you want."
"I'm fascinated by stories about how people maneuver morally on their way to achieving success," says Hill. "There's one ember that lives through 'Moneyball,' 'The Wolf of Wall Street' and 'War Dogs:' They're all movies about people trying to find a way into something that is different than everyone else's approach. Sometimes it's a positive thing. Sometimes it's criminals stealing and defrauding other people. 'War Dogs' is interesting because what they did was questionable, but it was done legally, through the U.S. government. The movie leaves it up for you to decide."
Teller, who got to spend time with the real-life Packouz before filming, agrees that the protagonists of "War Dogs" can't be defined as traditional heroes and villains.
"The movie doesn't glorify what these guys did," he says. "We show the repercussions of it and how it affects David's wife and his kid. But we're not vilifying them. These guys saw an opportunity and seized it and did really well. They found this grey area the government had and just exposed a loophole. In a lot of ways you have to be impressed by what they did."
Hill, who gained weight and came up with an insidious little laugh to play Diveroli, never met his real-life counterpart, who has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over "War Dogs" -- one of several lawsuits still hanging over the case.
"The majority of my research came from spending time in Miami, because I think Miami is a big part of the DNA of this character," Hill says. "There's a true immigrant culture there. When a lot of people from Cuba or Haiti first set foot in America, it's on the shores of Miami. The city defines their sense of the American dream. There's a real sense of 'Be on your hustle' in Miami. Efraim embodied that. Whether you use that hustle for good or bad is up to you."
The "War Dogs" production spent three weeks filming in South Florida in the summer of 2015. For Phillips, shooting on location was critical, since he believes there's an inherent connection between Miami's culture and the behavior of his characters.
"Someone said to me 'If you're over 35 and you live in Miami, you're up to no good!'" he says, laughing. "Obviously that's not true, but there is this kind of undercurrent there, a kind of hustler mentality that I really respect. It feels like a town -- and I mean this as the highest praise -- full of anglers and people who find loopholes and cut corners. You have to be more clever than the next guy if you live there. It made sense that David and Efraim were from there. It was one of my favorite places I've ever shot. For some reason I really fit in there."
While he was scouting locations in Miami, Phillips reached out to the real-life Packouz and asked to meet him.
Packouz, a musician who has since invented a drum machine, the BeatBuddy, and sells it through his company Singular Sound, says that after his conversation with the director, he was offered a chance to make a cameo in the film. He's the guitarist singing a Blue Oyster Cult song at a retirement home early in the film.
"I wanted to play my own stuff in that scene, but Todd was insistent on 'Don't Fear the Reaper,' because he thought it was hilarious that I would be playing that song to a group of old people," Packouz says.
Packouz, who has seen the finished film, says watching "War Dogs" was a surreal experience.
"I never in a million years thought a movie would be made about any of my life experiences, so it felt really strange to see it," he says. "But I'm in such a good place right now -- I've moved beyond that story and I'm really happy right now -- I can look back at it with some humor and appreciate the absurdity of what happened without the dark part weighing me down."
Even Lawson, the journalist who broke the story and would be the film's toughest critic, says Phillips succeeded at cracking a difficult tale that's not necessarily suited for the big screen.
This article was written by RENE RODRIGUEZ MIAMI HERALD from Miami Herald and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.


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Nearly 120,000 children in US have lost a primary caregiver to COVID-19: Internal CDC data
More than 609,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S.
ByArielle Mitropoulos
A registered nurse administers a COVID-19 test to a person at Sameday Testing on July 14, 2021, in Los Angeles.
Since the onset of the pandemic, children in the U.S. have faced multiple challenges and hardships. Tragically, recent data reveals that a staggering number of children have been faced with the most heartbreaking reality: the loss of a caregiver to COVID-19.
An estimated 119,000 children across the country have lost a primary caregiver due to COVID-19 associated death, and more than 140,000 children experienced the death of a primary or secondary caregiver, defined as co-residing grandparents or kin, according to data in an internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention document obtained exclusively by ABC News.
"This is yet another horrible byproduct of the pandemic and we as a global community must commit to supporting these children and families. The effects of this pandemic will be felt for decades," Dr. Rebecca Katz, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security at Georgetown University Medical Center, told ABC News.
The data is provisional, and the CDC confirmed to ABC News that it plans to release official data next month.
The figures are particularly staggering in comparison to a JAMA Pediatric study published in early April, which estimated approximately 40,000 children in the U.S. had lost a parent to COVID-19.
Emily Smith-Greenaway, associate professor of Sociology & Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California, called the new CDC figures "astounding."
MORE: As COVID-19 turns more children into orphans, siblings step up to fill the void
"These numbers demonstrate how the mortality shock of the pandemic is directly affecting tens of thousands of children. These are really intimately experienced losses that will certainly have consequences for children's wellbeing going forward," Smith-Greenaway said.
As more than 609,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S., an analysis published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which tracks the extent of loss of kin due to COVID-19 with a bereavement multiplier, estimates that 5.48 million family members have grieved the loss of a loved one due to COVID-19 since last year.
Pamela Addison, a 36-year-old New Jersey teacher, and mother to two young children, lost her husband, Martin, to COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic.
As a single parent, Addison said she felt very alone and vulnerable as she struggled to care for children and find her place in a "new normal," which no longer included her husband.
Brenda Vargas, 14, receives her Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from vocational nurse Eon Walker at a mobile vaccine clinic hosted by Mothers in Action and operated by the Los Angeles County of Public Health, July 16, 2021, in Los Angeles.
"My heart aches for them to know that they just have me now," Addison said.
Addison said she's doing the most she can to make sure they remember their father and the deep love he had for them. "Every night, they kiss their papa's picture and tell him goodnight. My daughter taught my son to do that, and it's an important part of our bedtime routine."
The scale of COVID-19 related deaths is so large that even if a small fraction of those who have lost their lives had children under the age of 18, there would still be a significant number of children affected, Dr. Ashton Verdery, professor of Sociology, Demography, and Social Data Analytics at Penn State, told ABC News.
"There are substantially elevated death rates among adults in their 50s, a non-trivial fraction of whom still have children under 18," Verdery said. "Each death can leave multiple children behind."
MORE: Kentucky sisters lose parents, grandfather to COVID-19 in 1 month
According to the data, children of color have been significantly affected by the loss of a caregiver, something that reflects a disparity built on an existing inequality, even prior to the onset of the pandemic, according to Smith-Greenway.
"Black youth experience higher rates of familial loss earlier in life relative to white children--speaking to the racial inequality in mortality conditions. Specifically, we find that even as Black children represent about 14% of the U.S. child population, our estimates suggest they represent 20% of those bereaved," she said.
A 2018 Pew Research study estimated that in 2016, 64 million Americans, or 20% of the U.S. population, lived with multiple generations, and 3.2 million Americans lived in households consisting of grandparents and grandchildren.
Children of color are often more likely to reside with grandparents, acting as their primary or secondary caregivers, according to Verdery, which further aggravates their disproportionate burden.
"The much higher death rates seen in communities of color, and more specifically, the greater death rates at younger ages owing to more exposure because of inability to socially isolate, employment situations, lead to the expectation that children of color will constitute an outsize share of those who lost a caregiver," Verdery said.
Children who have lost a caregiver to COVID-19 will be particularly affected, according to experts, potentially experiencing long-lasting adverse health, educational and economic outcomes.
MORE: Georgia teenager loses both parents to COVID-19 within a week
"Studies across the medical and social sciences routinely show that those who lose parents are at elevated risks of depression and related mental health challenges, have higher risks of criminal justice system involvement and higher rates of substance use, are more likely to drop out of schooling and less likely to attend college," Verdery said. "Further down the line, we know all of those factors above place the individuals at greater risk of lower earnings, more unemployment, poor physical health, and relationship strains. To some extent, though the literature is more tenuous here, there is likely greater risk of early death."
Although children are often resilient, and many who have been bereaved after the loss of a caregiver will be able to lead healthy and productive lives, "these youth are certainly 'at-risk' following a death and deserve adequate resources and support to try to help them navigate corresponding adversities," Smith-Greenaway said. "These deaths leave holes in the lives of children that are not easily mended."


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William Duvall - "One Alone"
William Duvall is mostly known these days for being the vocalist in Alice in Chains, and he does a marvellous job at that. Prior to fronting AIC, and filling the very large shoes of Layne Stanley, Duvall was the frontman for Comes With the Fall - a very underrated band, who released three very good full length albums, an EP and a live record. Now comes his first foray into solo territory.
One Alone is a fabulous collection of singer/songwriter material that showcases William Duvalls superb vocals, and superior, yet understated, guitar playing - and the title is quite literal, as it is just him, alone. All acoustic, and all fantastic. It's an album full of heart and soul, and one that goes great lengths to demonstrate that Duvall is so much more than just the singer of Alice in Chains.
From the opening moments of "Til the Light Guides Me Home", to the closing number, "No Need To Wonder", Duvall is able to incite a range of emotions from the listener. There are somber moments, which are well suited to the acoustic nature of the music, but there are also a number of vibrant and uplifting occasions - with no added instrumentation.
Delivering such range with simply his amazing voice and an acoustic guitar, is a testament to the vast talents possessed by William Duvall. I have long admired his work, but now, in the wake of One Alone, I rate him as one of the most underrated vocalists of all time.
Each and every track here, works extremely well together as one cohesive work of art, but each individual song stands alone equally well.
To break this record apart and create a track by track guide, would be doing it a disservice. Instead, I'll just say that this is the best 45 minutes listening experience I have had in a long while, and you should definitely listen at your earliest convenience.
If I was pushed into picking a standout track, I would probably go with the opening "Til the Light Guides Me Home", or the exceptional "Strung Out on A Dream".


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NAIROBI, 26th June, 2018 – The Speaker of the Senate, Rt Hon Kenneth Lusaka and his counterpart in the National Assembly, Hon Justin Muturi, today attended the Swearing in and Assumption of Office of Hon Justice William Ouko, as President of the Court of Appeal.
While congratulating Hon Ouko on his election and assumption of office, Speaker Lusaka noted that Kenyans took a decisive step – close to ten years ago – when they overwhelmingly voted for the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 which bequeathed the Judiciary much needed independence.
"I can confidently emphasize that we have never had a truly independent Judiciary as we have witnessed in the last few years," said the Senate Speaker.
"Prior to this, Presidents, governments and parliaments changed, jurisdictions were created, instances were added, but the judicial system was not truly independent and therefore did not meet the needs of society."
On his part, Speaker Muturi acknowledged that the relationship between Parliament and the Judiciary was a bit acrimonious after the enactment of the new Constitution but has improved.
"Our presence here is a clear illustration of the willingness of the two arms of Government to work together for the good of our people," said the Speaker of the National Assembly.
Chief Justice Hon David Maraga noted that the new President "is assuming office at a time of both great promise and significant challenges, major among them being the ever growing case backlog."
In his inaugural address, the President of the Court of Appeal Hon Ouko appreciated the presence of the Speaker Lusaka and Muturi at his swearing in.
"To the Hon. Speakers of Parliament, thank you for ensuring that at least, on this one, we are together, united as one and I believe that this is the beginning of a new dawn in our relationship and an end to unhelpful, endless squabbles and differences among the three branches of Government going forward."
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Political language is systematically confusing, in a distinctive way. Its significant terms are only secondarily theoretical, as demonstrated by radical shifts in sense that express informal policies of meaning. Descriptions of political position are moves in a game, before they are neutral accounts of the rules, or even of the factions.
It would be excessively digressive to embark on yet another expedition into the history of such political terms as 'liberal', 'progress', 'fascism', or 'conservative'. Everyone knows that these words are profoundly uninformative without extensive historical qualification, or rough-and-ready adaptation to the dictates of guided fashion. If consistent theoretical use of any political label conflicts with its maximally effective political use, the former will be sacrificed without hesitation — and always has been. That is why neologisms are typically required for even the most fleeting approximation to theoretical precision, whenever political affiliation is at stake.
A point in favor of the 'crypto-' prefix is that it plays directly into such confusion. As a politically-significant marker, it bears two strongly differentiated, yet intersecting senses. It indicates (a) that a political phenomenon has been re-assembled in disguise, and (b) that cryptographic techniques are essential to its identity. Hence, respectively, 'crypto-communism' and 'crypto-currencies'. Any attempt to engage in an initial clarification cuts across the intrinsically occulted character of both.
'Crypto-capitalism' — therefore — might be one thing, or two, if it is anything at all. If clarity is to be brought to the topic, it will certainly not be self-promoted. Whatever crypto-capitalism might be, structural misunderstanding has to be the most prominent part of it. Hiding is essential to whatever it is.
What crypto-capitalism is not, first practically, and subsequently theoretically, is pseudo-capitalism, or 'capitalism' as it is publicly recognized. Rather than engaging in futile struggle over the 'true meaning' of capitalism, crypto-capitalism proceeds with a surreptitious appropriation of terminological confusion, functionalized as camouflage. It does capitalism, all the more effectively, because the grinding mill of political language works predictably, providing it with cover. The loss of terminological integrity is invested, from a position of intense cynicism, as an opportunity to develop off stage.
Pseudo-capitalism is (by now) the host of the Cathedral. It feeds a mega-parasite, which — employing unprecedented powers of narrative construction — claims to be the source of its vitality. Evolving far beyond an initial stage of conspicuous resource extraction, the Cathedralized — or culture-potent — state now more-or-less directly controls the 'capitalist' brain, in more ways than can be readily enumerated. 'Capitalists' are Cathedralized through educational and media indoctrination, social selection, regulatory discipline, seductive alliance, and 'transcendental' subordination to a financial system that has been subverted to its foundations by the magic of power. The mere denomination of 'capitalism' in fiat currency expresses the domain of pseudo-capitalism with remarkable exactitude. The meaning of the host is (articulated through) the virus it sustains. Any suggestion of opposition in this relationship is entirely fake, because it belongs to the same magical performance.
Prohibition exemplifies this stage show. Publicly pitting cops against gangsters, what it represents is the spectacular definition of the 'white economy' (pseudo-capitalism) over against the 'black economy' or 'organized crime' (crypto-capitalism). The same story can be told in the decadent USSR, without any need for substantial revision. Whatever refuses denomination in the signs of power is a pathological aberration, to be renormalized as a productive parasited host social body.
… one of the most popular websites that use and promote the use of BitCoin, Silk Road, was shut down by the US government. As Reuters reports, U.S. law enforcement authorities raided an Internet site that served as a marketplace for illegal drugs, including heroin and cocaine, and arrested its owner, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday. The FBI arrested Ross William Ulbricht, known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to court filings. Federal prosecutors charged Ulbricht with one count each of narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy, according to a court filing.
It's worth revisiting this (noted here) to recall some realistic context, and plausible historical analogy. The Prohibition of the 1920s was an endless source of cop-on-gangster drama, none of which had any realistically persuasive meaning as the successful pursuit of policy. Instead, gangsters used the cops, as a tactical resource for black-economy dispute 'resolution'. (In the Shanghai of the same epoch, the Opium-trafficking 'Green Gang' managed to get their agent 'Pock-marked Huang' installed as chief of the French Concession police — an admittedly extreme example of a typical tendency.) From the perspective of the outer economy, cops are a cheap way to smash your competition.
IT'S A RULE AS TIMELESS as black markets: Where illegal money goes, violence follows. In a digital market that violence is virtual, but it's as financially real as torching your competitor's warehouse.
In late April Silk Road went offline for nearly a week, straining under a sustained cyberattack that left its sensitive data untouched but overwhelmed its servers. The attack, according to Roberts, was the most sophisticated in Silk Road's history, taking advantage of previously unknown vulnerabilities in Tor and repeatedly shifting tactics to avoid the site's defenses.
The sabotage occurred within weeks of rival site Atlantis' launch. Commenters on the Reddit forum devoted to Silk Road suggested that Roberts' customers and vendors switch to Atlantis during the downtime, leading to gossip that the newcomer had engineered the attack.
Who was the real beneficiary of the FBI operation? All too many neoractionaries, beginning with Moldbug, and now including Handle, seem to think the only possible answer is: Prohibition. Here at Outside in it appears incontrovertible that 'Roberts' had already predicted this 'sting' — in far greater detail than anybody else has done — and that the antagonist he pre-emptively, if subtly, fingered was a shadowy crypto-capitalist competitor, rather than the forces of pseudo-capitalist suppression. If this was a cryptic event, it would be inexcusably negligent not to ask: Who (or what) is the FBI really — even if unwittingly — working for? "For the ultimate glory of the white (pseudo-capitalist) economy" is certainly one possible answer, but it is by no means the only one.
ADDED: Jim and NBS both have interesting things to say about technical aspects of these developments.
ADDED: What does the FBI do with its new Bitcoin stash?
The beneficiaries of this FBI takedown are the international criminal syndicates, hit men, and the corrupt networks that enable the drug trade to cross borders in staggering quantaties [sic].
The FBI has unwittingly done them all a big favor and kept the Internet from disrupting a truly evil international industry.
Here (ignore bitcoin diversion – though the parallel is obvious enough).
You're indicating the most conservative aspect of the phenomenon.
And you're hinting at the most extreme (how surprising), which is where we part. Have fun. I'm going away for a few weeks (well, after the weekend).
Additional info, FWIW, my understanding is that Atlantis shut down two weeks ago.
Maybe. But the FBI is very strait-laced. I think Mormon freshmen party harder. I don't actually know in either case.
The simplest answer may be best, the FBI works for the Cathedral.
Moving on – I see many tears and gnashing of teeth that Tor has been violated. Listen guys…there are hacks that involve actual hacking. See – Russia, FSB. Either cowboy up or GTFO the Dude Ranch. Here's the FSB equivalent of the FBI court order ..the Rectal Thermal Traffic Analyzer [RCTA].
There's no need for self-conscious corruption on the part of law enforcement.
@ Admin – we agree -The simplest answer may be best, the FBI works for the Cathedral.
Hmmm….I may be wildly hopeful…but I am wondering if the shutdown means the Estates just moved across the street.
Because if the Tea Party Congressmen are really listening to their voters, they may just be doing that…you see…there are more like me at home, yes.
Yes they'd love to waver and sign a CR or any number of bills except ACA…they'd love to, but you see the Senate and the President won't let them . Whoever's running with the executive branch side of shutdown is barring the gates of a privately funded WW2 memorial at greater cost than the skeleton staff by far. Further some idiot is prohibting at risk of arrest military GS [general services] contracted Catholic Priests from performing mass or other ceremonies. There aren't enough active duty priests to go around.
However the viral [among Catholics] posting is PRIESTS FORBIDDEN TO SAY MASS AT RISK OF ARREST.
The memorial is escalating the security to keep the vets out, and then the madness of stifling masses being said for the military.
October 17th [debt ceiling deadline] should be interesting. They may be locked into their respective positions between D and R, House and Senate, Tea and Government…with an executive branch showing at least signs of malicious eccentric behavior.
I remember peeking into Silk Road a while ago, and that there were sellers based in China. Mostly pills, but I was quite amazed.
What if serfdom had it's final triumph and victory was won!!! And nobody showed up??
Spot on. The over-loading of political terminology with multiple contradictory meanings has been one of their most powerful weapons in controlling thought and speech.
Who knows what the word "liberal" means anymore? Or "sexist"?
It's a subtle form of newspeak, and makes it virtually impossible to articulate any thought outside of the Cathedral conceptual-frame. Everything has been subverted to meaninglessness.
A sort of "crypto-vocabulary" to restore free-thought, while remaining hidden from the Cathedral thought-police, sounds intriguing. In the realm of Game/MRA, such a system already exists – carousel, hamster, manjaw, alpha/beta, AMOG, neg, et cetera.
In any case, I agree with you. It doesn't take a Whorfian to note that language, if not controlling thought, controls the preservation of thought across communicants. A distinguishing feature of humans is their ability to imitate, that is to copy with some degree of precision another's actions (including speech). This is essential to transmitting skill and knowledge. Non-human primates typically emulate, which is to copy the gist of something but to miss the exact details. This is why non-human primates can learn sign language but cannot transfer that knowledge to other non-human primates. By this functional overload, the Cathedral essentially inhibits one's ability to copy with any precision the semantic content being conveyed in political discourse, reducing citizens to the equivalent of nonhuman primates.


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CFRC 101.9 FM is excited to announce our upcoming 13th Annual Funding Drive taking place November 2nd-9th 2018!
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for exciting announcements about our great events and ways you can donate to the world's oldest campus-community radio station!
Our Goal? We're hoping to raise 30,000 dollars in 7 days! This money will help us buy new equipment for our new community access podcast studios, replace old broadcast equipment to keep the sweet sounds of your favorite music coming over the airwaves, and add a back up generator at our transmitter site to keep the signal coming even when weather knocks out power on the grid!
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Come join in the fun! We've got a number of super fun activities lined up during the Funding Drive and we hope you can come join us, have some fun, and show support for your favorite local independent radio station!
Friday November 2nd 7-9 PM CFRC Bowlarama and Big Lebowski Dress Up Party! Arrive by 7 to register ($5-10) and get your shoes and roll a couple of games with your friends on the lanes we've booked at Cloverleaf Lanes, 10 Bath Road. CFRC staff will be on site to register you, help get your shoes, and direct you to our dedicated lanes. Want to form a team? Email station@cfrc.ca so we can reserve a lane for you...coming solo or with a pal? We'll help you form teams on site! Don't forget to dress up as your favorite Big Lebowski character for your chance to win a prize...also small prizes for most gutterballs, most strikes & the highest score of the night!
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The sun is out and street vendors in downtown Vancouver enjoy a brisk business during lunch hour. Lineups start well before noon at Japa Dog and others. Enticing smells waft through the entire area of what Vancouverites loosely refer to as inner city.
Line up with dozens of others to grab a fashionable Japanese hot dog with all the trimmings. It's the best hot dog you've ever tasted. Bar none. But isn't that a contradiction? Japanese, and hot dog? How can these totally different food cultures exist side by side?
Quite well, it seems. Just like genre fiction and literary fiction. Both can combine to create something quite enticing. The problem only arises when one of the camps claims superiority – usually the literary fiction camp.
The debate itself – which is fierce by the way and ongoing – doesn't concern me. But it does challenge my reading preference as well as my writing style to the point where I am sufficiently confused. When I am questioning if I'm really cut out for the 'profession' of writing fiction, because I can't decide on what kind of story I want to write.
It's as if two opposing voices try to be heard, try to cheer me on to this side or that. Sounds very abstract, I know. Here is the nature of my dilemma.
I love a good, fast read. A book with lots of action that makes my heart pump as if it wants to jump out of me. Something I only put down with great reluctance way past midnight because I know I have to get up early next morning. Something that makes me put sticky notes on scenes to remind me I should try to write something similar, with that kind of tension and suspense.
But here's the rub. The moment I read 'the End' after neck-breaking speed, I close the book and ask myself, was it really worth it to spend all these hours on 'This'? I feel empty and in some way cheated. I expected more. And I'm referring here to books that promise a fantastic read on the back cover and start out with a spellbinding plot in the first two or three chapters, but don't deliver in the end. When I'm done, the book feels like a five-day party balloon. And me like having gorged myself on fast food that gives no nutritional value and leaves me hungry after an hour.
The characters. Boring. One-dimensional. People I don't want to meet in real life, because we have nothing in common. The worst books have protagonists who seem only concerned about their own problem. I call them 'me-me-me' characters. It's like they live in a bubble, totally unaware of the world around them. And they don't seem to suffer from something called human emotions or feelings. Or perhaps the author has been hiding those from the reader because he/she was too busy chasing a villain or running from the antagonist.
So what else is wrong other than the characters?
The way the story is told. The style. The voice. The dialogue. In other words, a book written without respect for words and prose. Perhaps the author isn't interested in those aspects of writing a book. What never ceases to amaze me is how much crap is published, how many poorly written books have found a publisher.
'So what do you want?' you might ask. First, I don't want to sound like a snob. Maybe it's me who has the problem. Readers do have different standards. I don't want to convert anyone to read the same books I do.
What I would like is to write in a style of authors whom I respect and enjoy. And here is rub number two. Because sometimes, or perhaps more often than not, the style I so admire is the focus of the book. So here we have the conundrum: what do you prefer: plot at the expense of diction, or beautiful prose without a plot.
If life were only that simple. Maybe I am greedy. I want it all.
Hmm. I do want action. But I also want good prose. So what about the middle ground?
There are many examples of books that have both: a clever, sharp plot, written in awe-inspiring prose. Brilliant books that stay with you for years after you read them. I count John le Carré's novels among them, and Dennis Lehane, and many others. Some are in the no-man's land between genre and literary fiction, some leaning more towards one way than the other. Either way, if they cradle both, they tend to be a satisfying read even for 'picky' readers.
Who could resist reading on? And the prose just gets better by the page.
Perhaps not quite in the literary camp as purists would have it, but immensely satisfying.
Imagine being able to write suspense novels with unforgettable plots in great prose. To me, there is nothing quite as satisfying as a thriller, with lots of conspiracy and intrigue, maybe political, perhaps with some historical background, with real people I would want to know in my own life. All cleverly and eloquently told. Fast-paced, but not rushed. Sharp-witted, but not snobbish.
A tall order. But I'm greedy. If I, (or anyone else), devote days of my life to reading a book, it better be worth it. By extension, I would like nothing better than to carry that over to my own writing. Maybe I am reaching for something my arms aren't long enough for. Like Sara Errani playing against the unstoppable Serena Williams in the semi-finals of the French Open Tennis. Not that it stops me from trying. But it takes a lot of time, and lots of research. And still, it may lead me along a path that has only a follower of one.
I love her bold wisdom. Not easy to follow though, especially now that my measly half novel is in the hands of my four writing buddies as we speak. They are poring over my words with abandon and an eagle eye, as we all do for each others' manuscripts, until we meet in just over a week from now for our critique retreat.
Every one of the five intrepid writers has written a novel in a different genre. Every one of us has preferences. And all of us have put their best foot forward to writing the best we can about what we feel passionate about.
The field is wide open. There's room on the top for us all.
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Love this post Helga! It's challenging and inspiring, and I'm with you. I want it all. What's the point of pursuing anything short of our dream, or looking to anyone short of the best as a role model?
Thanks, Silk. Challenging indeed. It's a complex topic and raises many questions. Is good prose subjective? What constitute good prose anyway? Among the best 100 novels ever written is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. I read it three times to try understand the reason for the rating. I still didn't get it, nor did I enjoy it. Maybe I am herewith confessing my simple-mindedness.
Writing styles change over the decades and centuries. Good stories last forever. JMHO.
I agree. You have started a hugely interesting debate with 'Good stories last forever'. What constitutes a good story? Can there be a good story even if it's poorly written? Or does a good story imply that it is well written (even if it's not in the style of today)? As a writer, I strive to use good prose in telling a good story.
I think reading is as highly personal and subjective an act as is writing. And the words and characters that enthrall one reader may send another to sleep. I continue to wonder if I can find the right combination that will appeal to an audience beyond me. Like you, I want to tell my stories the best way I can. Of course, finding my way there is no easy task.
We just gotta stick with it. Just like Diane Keaton said in the film, "Something's Gotta Give," writing is 90% hard work and 10% talent. I'm sure from what I read on your blog, you're far, far beyond the 10% talent! Thanks for your comment.


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ОШ "Живан Маричић" је осмогодишња школа која се налази у Жичи, насељеном месту Града Краљева и функционише у оквиру образовног система Републике Србије.

Основна школа у Жичи најстарија је школа у Краљеву. Скромно манастирско училиште претеча је данашње модерне основне школе "Живан Маричић" у Жичи.

Први пут, у новијој историји, школа у Жичи помиње се 1775. године као манастирска школа, али претпоставља се да је постојала много раније, још у средњем веку.
Школа је дуго радила у манастирском дворишту, а 1844. године у манастирском лугу уз Жичку реку саграђена је нова школска зграда за тридесетак ученика.

1892. године школа је коначно напустила манастирско двориште и преселила се на данашњу локацију, у нову школску зграду. Од тада школа је непрекидно радила, чак и у ратна времена.

Првобитно је била четворогодишња школа, међутим  шездесетих година XX века донета је одлука да добије статус осмогодишње школе. Због те чињенице која је довела до пораста броја ученика,  зграда је постала премала, па су морали да користе и друге објекте. Постало је неопходно проширити школски простор, зато су уследиле реконструкције и дограђивања. Средином осамдесетих школа је добила садашњи изглед.

Након Другог светског рата, школа добија име по бившем ученику Живану Маричићу, иначе команданту Четвртог краљевачког батаљона, који је страдао приликом покушаја пробоја преко реке Дрине.

Данашња школа модерно је опремљена. Настава је квалитетна, прилагођена способностима и интересовањима ученика. По својим успесима у раду школа заузима истакнуто место међу основним школама у Рашком округу, па и шире.

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