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New Music Video - George Michael: "White Light"
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|By Hope West
Back in the saddle with his new single, White Light, George Michael brings an autobiographical and artistic slant to his latest creation. In listening to the song, the lyrics feel all too familiar in light of the untimely death of artist like Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston due to the tragedy of substance abuse. While Michael has admitted his own similar struggles as well as having a life-threatening scare with pneumonia late last year, the lyrics later carry a redemptive character that inspires one to live. As a person who enjoys the creative storytelling and cinematography of great videos, I enjoyed this piece from that angle as well. The mood switches from a morbid darkness to a rich illumination than can mirror the lyrical content. Also the video has an interesting use of symbolism especially in the passing zebra and the coin flip which can represent the balance of life and death.
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Hope West is a music enthusiast and music photographer who has captured artists like B.B. King, Janet Jackson, Teddy Riley and many others. A life long lover of music, Hope is a graduate of Full Sail University where she studied music engineering. She's also a proud "Florida Girl" born and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. and currently resides in Atlanta, GA as a "Georgia Peach". Hope is known for her creativity, sense of humor and quirky perfectionism. Artist(s) that make her freak out as a music fan: Sheila E., Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Quincy Jones.
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A.M. Best Affirms Credit Ratings of Navigators International Insurance Company Ltd.
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A.M. Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of "a+" of Navigators International Insurance Company Ltd. (NIIC) (United Kingdom). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) remains stable.
The ratings reflect NIIC's balance sheet strength, which A.M. Best categorises as very strong, as well as its adequate operating performance, neutral business profile and appropriate enterprise risk management. The ratings also reflect the implicit and explicit support provided to NIIC by its parent company, The Navigators Group, Inc. (NAVG).
NIIC's balance sheet strength is underpinned by risk-adjusted capitalisation that is expected to be maintained at a very strong level, as measured by Best's Capital Adequacy Ratio (BCAR). The balance sheet strength assessment also factors in the company's good liquidity profile and comprehensive reinsurance protection. A.M. Best expects NIIC's operating performance to improve over the medium term as the company grows, underpinned by sound underwriting profitability.
NIIC's business profile benefits from its association with the Navigators group, which has an established presence in the global specialty insurance and reinsurance market. The group has underwritten business in the European Economic Area markets, including the U.K., for the past 20 years through a U.K. branch of the Navigators Insurance Company, Lloyd's Syndicate 1221, and managed by a network of branches and insurance intermediaries in Continental Europe. In 2017, NIIC commenced writing some of the business that had been previously written by the group's Lloyd's syndicate and U.K. branch, as well as new business on a selective basis.
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Remembering the Duke of Westminster
An obituary of the late 6th Duke of Westminster
Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor 6th Duke of Westminster KG CB CVO OBE TD CD DL (22 December 1951 – 9 August 2016) led a full life. He was a passionate country man, committed soldier, an excellent shot, a true entrepreneur and, importantly, he went out of his way to be courteous and humorous with all people, regardless of status or wealth.
Distinctly down-to-earth the Duke of Westminster was rarely seen without a Diet Coke and a cigarette (later electric). Not much of a sleeper, one might expect emails from him at any hour of the night and an average week would see him up and down from home in Chester to London and all over the world to visit soldiers, businesses, charities and rural estates while representing and promoting numerous organisations.
His birth in Northern Ireland in December 1951 was a celebrated occasion (his father being the last direct male descendant of the 1st Duke of Westminster). In his own words "his childhood was idyllic" growing up with two sisters Leonora and Jane. His parents, whilst loving and attentive, had both played their part in the Second World War and like many aristocratic families at that time had little idea of how to bring up children. However the children were not materially spoiled or over-cosseted by their parents. They employed a tyrannical nanny, who took any opportunity with Gerald not "to spare the rod". Despite this Gerald and his sisters enjoyed much happiness and freedom playing in the islands of Lough Erne.
It was here that he learned to fish and to shoot at his father's side. Gerald's father served as Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and spent a good deal of time during Gerald's early childhood at the House of Commons. During these frequent absences Gerald was taken under the wing of the estate gamekeeper, Wesley Scott with whom a deep friendship grew and this countryman's earthy wisdom and knowledge was imparted to Gerald at an early age. An empathy with country folk and a deep understanding and love of the natural world shaped his views thereafter.
This idyll was rudely interrupted at the age of eight when he was sent to boarding school for which he was little prepared. He was schooled at Sunningdale and then Harrow. It served to teach him that if you are happy and placed in a sympathetic environment you will learn. Unfortunately, his time at school was not happy. Speaking with a "broad Irish" accent he did not settle easily and his unhappiness at school was in direct proportion to his lack of achievement in the classroom, where he found little of relevance, other than History and English. Ironically, and despite the unflattering remarks on his school reports, by the end of his life he had accumulated seven honorary degrees, which reflected the time and patronage he gave to education in the North West of England.
He was a natural sportsman and as a youth excelled on the football pitch with an ability to strike the ball equally well with either foot but was discouraged to pursue this further by his father. He was also a good cricketer but his abiding love was for country sports and he was acknowledged to be one of the finest shots in the country.
When Gerald was 16 a Daily Mail reporter visited his school. The 4th Duke had died and the title was passed to his brother, Robert, Gerald's father. This meant that Gerald inherited the courtesy title "Earl Grosvenor". It was the first he had heard of it and immediately rang his father asking what it was all about. The reply was "Ah yes, we need to talk about that!" It was a double blow for Gerald who adored his uncle, but also realised that his life was to change forever.
On leaving Harrow he went travelling with his good friend Johnny Hesketh. Gerald's parents had always kept their children's feet firmly on the ground. When Gerald and Johnny were in Iran, Gerald found a carpet he particularly liked. He sent a telegram to his father "Found exquisite carpet, send money" – his father replied – "Wrap carpet round head, have both examined".
On his return he started training for his impending role within the Grosvenor Estate and he threw himself into learning everything he could about the property business and the intricacies of the Grosvenor Estate. He travelled in Canada, America, New Zealand and Australia, where in 1975 he bought a 10,500 acre Estate in New South Wales known as Bull's Run and learnt to manage land and run a farm of his own.
In 1978 Gerald married Natalia Phillips, daughter of Lt Col Harold Phillips and Gina, grand-daughter of Sir Julius Wernher. Gerald and 'Tally' were married at Tally's family home, Luton Hoo and they spent their honeymoon at Bull's Run in Australia. Their marriage represented the dawn of a new era in the history of the Grosvenor family – a modern family with Tally at its very heart.
Gerald inherited the dukedom from his father in 1979. The property crash of the early 1970s and the heavy mortgaging of the London Estate to pay death duties had left the business in dire straits. Along with the 120 hectare London Estate that came into the Grosvenor family in the 17th century, Gerald inherited the heavy burden of responsibility, which was to breathe life and purpose back into the Grosvenor Estate. He also inherited two inestimable qualities from his father, a sense of duty and a keen appreciation of what was right and fair. These two qualities stood him in good stead in his business dealings over the years.
He wisely surrounded himself with excellent people who worked closely together to encourage his involvement in the business and to support him in the role of Chairman, but it was his own youth and enthusiasm that provided the impetus to drive the Grosvenor Estate forward to become one of the largest and most entrepreneurial privately owned international property companies in the world. His openness coupled with a natural charm endeared him to many. Laughter was never far away in any conversation and many were the times when a joke relieved the tension at a difficult meeting or in an awkward situation.
Like many of his forebears he was an accomplished soldier. In April 1992 he took Command of his regiment the Queen's Own Yeomanry based in Newcastle. He thought this to be the pinnacle of his Army career, instead it served to fan the flames of his future ambitions in the Army, not for himself, but for the volunteer soldier and the public's recognition of their contribution.
In 2004, Gerald was made the Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff for Reserve Forces and Cadets. This put him in charge of Ministry of Defence policy for the reservists and cadets of all three armed forces. Having started his military life as a trooper thirty-five years before, he was now promoted to Major General – making him the first reservist 'two star' since the 1930s. The combination of his rank and his posting within the MOD enabled him to achieve much on behalf of the Reserve Forces during a period that saw a sea-change in their culture: reservists were now expected and wanted to serve on operations.
Not since the Second World War had such numbers been mobilised, firstly to Iraq and then increasingly to Afghanistan. The first decade of the twenty-first century saw the Territorial Army assume an exceptionally high profile. It moved from being a force of last resort to become the reserve of choice in support of regular army operations. Much of this was due to Major General the Duke of Westminster.
As the role of reservists became more and more critical, so did Gerald's influence on policy within the MoD. Never a man to do things by half, he gave evidence to the Public Accounts Committee in June 2006, worked a five-day week at his desk in Whitehall and utilised almost every weekend in the year to conduct visits to reservists in training or on ceremonial events. He also maintained a thorough knowledge of what was happening on operations, visiting the Balkans and Iraq many times throughout his tenure and travelling to Kabul and Kandahar during the critical planning phase for the intensification of operations in Helmand. He also made trips to Bosnia, Albania, Kuwait, Estonia, Malta and Oman. Despite his punishing programme – often visiting several units in a weekend – he would not allow any of his expenses to be a cost to the taxpayer.
When his term as Head of Reserve Forces came to an end in 2007 he re-focussed his attention on the Grosvenor Estate. No stone was left unturned. He started his quest to perfect each of his rural estates in terms of conservation and productivity. He met staff from each of the businesses and estates and asked them for their thoughts. Collating the information he went about putting in place the systems and procedures to make all staff feel a part of the organisation as a whole. He promoted the importance of the rural estates and the communities which they supported and gave the non-property businesses the confidence to excel.
This was interrupted in 2011 when he was, once again "called up", taking the new appointment of Deputy Commander Land Forces at a crucial time for the Territorial Army as the MOD published the Future Reserves 2020 Commission's (FR20) Report. It was a time of huge cultural change for the Army and General Westminster was at the heart of it. He was able to make a unique contribution as one who had more experience of Reserve forces than anyone else in Defence. His appointment was key to providing an experienced perspective in generating the appropriate reserve forces, re-establishing commitment, introducing a reinvigorated recruiting campaign and directing staff effort across the whole Army. His commitment set an example for others to follow. He more than held his own amongst Generals but was equally at home talking with the most junior trooper on the tank park. Soldiers, sailors and airmen of all ranks knew how much he was doing for them and appreciated his commitment and support.
When the Duke left the Reserve Army after over 40 years of service he was very moved by what he had seen in Iraq and Afghanistan and particularly by the very heavy price many young people in uniform had paid for serving the nation. He wanted to do something for them and this quickly turned into the idea of continuing the success of the clinical rehabilitation at Headley Court which was created in 1947 – by simply creating a 21st century version of it on a new site in the middle of England. Along the way the Secretary of State for Defence asked him if he would at the same time 'do something for the nation' – essentially by sharing Defence's renowned expertise in this field – which Gerald agreed to. One thing led to another and by 2011 there was strong support pan-Government for his idea and the concept of the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre was born. Typically, he made the founding gift of £50 million. Other major donors have followed his lead so that his creation is now a year into construction and will open in 2018. This year the rehabilitation opportunities for the nation stemming from the construction of the Defence establishment are being seriously examined with Government – and the Grosvenor legacy here could be even greater than he ever imagined. It is very poignant that he will not see his remarkable initiative turn into a very significant legacy for those who are seriously injured. Many in uniform will hope that the earth lies lightly on this soldier's bones.
His military experience was reflected in Gerald's approach to the Grosvenor Estate, where his loyalty to his staff, whether a senior executive or a young gamekeeper, was unprecedented and all knew that the Duke would be there to support them when the going got tough. He was a great believer in investing in people; he would present long-service awards, attend retirement parties, speak at staff open days and have lunch with small groups of staff on a regular basis.
Gerald, the countryman, had a natural affinity with the countryside. In 1992 he published a report entitled "The Problems in Rural Areas" highlighting the difficulties being experienced in remote and isolated rural communities. In recent years he lobbied to get "Broadband" access for isolated communities, something he knew to be a commercial and educational lifeline.
He was a man of duty. He was loyal, unforgiving, decisive, stubborn, a fearsome opponent, prejudiced, opinionated and a brilliant strategist. He was a contradiction. He was brave and yet wild horses could not drag him to the dentist. He was both intolerant and open-minded, a loner and the best company, self-indulgent and hugely generous; he could be boastful about small things and unassuming about magnificent things. He would not accept weakness of any kind, particularly in himself, even when suffering with depression he refused to see a doctor and decided to "heal himself".
He hated the tags "environmentalist" and "philanthropist" believing that caring was a better word and particularly hated those who endeavoured to protect his good name and would thwart their efforts at every turn. Like many who had to grow up too quickly he maintained a childlike quality, a smutty sense of humour, and a great sense of the ridiculous. He never lost his love of the outdoors – a countryman at heart he was never more content than when he was on the grouse moor with a shotgun in hand.
He is survived by his wife Tally, their four children, Tamara, Edwina, Hugh and Viola; grandchildren, Jake, Louis, Zia, Wolf, Isla and Orla. He is succeeded by his son, Hugh who becomes the 7th Duke of Westminster and leaves him a well-ordered Grosvenor Estate.


According to confirmation by Variety, Lady Gaga has to succumb to a deposition in the present legal war between Dr. Luke, a producer, and Kesha, a pop singer.
Dr. Luke is filing a lawsuit against Kesha for defamation, which turned out to be the most recent in the long-lasted battle that started in 2014 when Kesha announced publicly that Dr. Luke abused her. In 2014, the producer filed a complaint against the pop singer for breaching their contract – failure to work on her third album under her deal.
Kesha filed a countersuit alleging the producer had raped and abused her verbally for the past years. As such, she wants to be released from the deal.
Dr. Luke's crew made the motion to subpoena Gaga regarding an exchange of text between Kesha and Gaga. An insider disclosed that the message might work out to favor Dr. Luke. Gaga will be laid down next month; there may be several hours of interview session by the attorneys.
Gaga's representative wasn't available for comments but gave Variety a statement in July pointing out that Gaga has given out all the necessary information she has, and her legal team will be on the court. The rep for Gaga went on to say that Dr.Luke's team is trying to cover the truth and call the attention of the press to their matter by exaggerating Gaga's role and accusing her of hiding necessary requests.
Will the masses know that Stefani Germanotta is Lady Gaga?
Following the subpoena served on Lady Gaga by Luke's lawyer because she has useful information, as well other things related about Dr. Luke as disclosed to her by Kesha, the question above came to be.
Dr. Luke's counsel is yet to get a deposition from Lady Gaga despite many requests. A litigate attorney will stand in for Gaga when she comes at the deposition. It could be recalled that Dr. Luke filed a lawsuit against Kesha's mother, Pebe Sebert in 2014 and 2016. However, he dropped the case in June.


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PLL 6×14 Recap: New Guys, New Lies
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On the last episode, after Alison was confronted with a sudden, mysterious jeopardy, the Liars decided to take things into their own hands for a counterattack. Hanna and Caleb worked together to develop a plan to come face-to-face with the tormentor. Emily and Spencer teamed up to investigate if Mona had any involvement with the murder. Aria and Ezra continued to work on the book though it might be more difficult than anticipated. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you. Hanna and Caleb work together to develop a plan to come face-to-face with the tormentor.
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Lugar, a veteran disarmament campaigner, first suggested more than a year ago that the United States and Russia work together to secure Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons. Tim Webber's visual effects are nothing short of ground-breaking. Heightening the drama is the film's deft use of sound, be it Steven Price's orchestration or the echo of a radio frequency. But it may be the sound of space's silence — also expertly employed — that is actually most riveting.
How can I move files and folders from my account to my wife's account? I am of a certain age so please explain as if you are talking to an idiot.
is a fanfiction author that has written 1 stories for Stranger Things, I was currently watching PLL and I googled "Hanna and Caleb Story" and stumbled across a Wattpad for the paring. as he goes through life pining over, missing, dating, and marrying Pam. As canon as possible. Office – Rated: T – English – Romance.
Season 1[ edit ] The former overweight girl is now the "it girl" of Rosewood High School. Along with her new best friend, Mona Vanderwaal , she rules the school and they are clearly labeled under the title of " queen-bees. In addition, the old group of friends, in which Hanna was a member in the seventh grade, reunite, causing tension between her friendship with Mona. Hanna also has to deal with the threats and the danger of possibly having her secrets revealed by the tenebrous "A. Season 2[ edit ] After suffering with Caleb's betrayal, Hanna now has to decide if she'll be able to forgive him, or just let him go.
Meanwhile, Hanna has to struggle with the marriage between her father, Tom, and her soon-to-be step-mother, Isabel. Her friendships Aria, Emily and Spencer grow — angering Mona, who thinks that maybe she has lost her friendship with Hanna. Hanna ultimately forgives Caleb, and they reunite.
On the last episode, Jenna came back to Rosewood and befriends someone who put her at the top of the Uber-A suspect list. Did you watch the last episode? Hanna and Spencer arrive in a huff — Hanna is freaking out, she is convinced that Rollins is still alive. Spencer tells her to snap out of it. Aria thinks that Mary or Jenna knows that they killed Rollins and they are covering it up to blackmail them later.
Spencer tries to explain that they had no choice, and they thought she was guilty.
Pretty Little Liars returns to ABC Family tonight with an all new Tuesday March 15, season 6 episode 20 called "Hush, Hush, Sweet Little Liars" and we have your recap and spoilers below. On tonight's episode, in the sixth-season finale, Ezra (Ian Harding) completes his book and old feelings between him and Aria (Lucy Hale) resurface.
I live in Madison, Wisconsin, and this past year, I've been everything from sailing instructor, to biology TA, to barista. I usually spend my summers in a boat or on a bike, but this year I'm excited to tackle some mountains instead. Audrey Payne Hi, everyone! Glowstick here, a Appalachian Trail NoBo thru-hiker. You could call it the "seven year itch" – after almost seven years working a desk job in our nation's capital, I decided to leave my great job and head out into the wilds to reconnect with nature and have a great adventure.
When I'm not hiking or working, of course , I can usually be found at the climbing gym, a music festival, daydreaming about my next big trip, or wandering about with a large cup of coffee caffeine addict right here. Future ambitions include hiking the PCT, learning to mountaineer, and maybe adopting dog.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review: He asks why she left so quickly and worries she felt awkward about their night of passion. In fact, she seems to use her eyes and coy smile to praise him on his…. Caleb mentions visiting Toby.
Mar 27, · I feel like real reason why Hanna decided to offer herself as bait to catch new A was because she wanted to work with Caleb. I'm sorry, I just don't buy that she cares enough about Alison to be motivated to action by her getting hurt.
File this casting rumor for Riverdale under No, that cant be true, butwhat if it actually is?. Theyre so past that and I think theyre going to end up together forever.. Hanna got drunk, Caleb returned, and the entire universe found out that. Underneath those real feelings of desire there is also a very. October 13, by Kayti Burt. Yep, these two are adorable together.. Which do you think is cuter Caleb and Hannas romance or Tyler and Ashleys best.
After over two years away from Hollywood, Caleb is trying to readjust to life in. But with Hanna back in his arms after a painful two weeks apart, suddenly everything is thrown into turmoil.. About if Alison and Emily were together and had a child.. Its , Aria and the Liars have long known about Ella Montgomerys real. Household youre hanna in caleb dating real moving him out of his will, he will. Delays since and never saw a single person real life caleb to settle for.
Hannas first hook up with the bad-boy Caleb Rivers is in the first season, when.
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Surely things should go smoothly – shouldn't they? Much love RSD xoxoxoxoxo. Descendants, – Rated:
Even if Hanna said she wasn't cool with Spencer and Caleb dating they're both free to do what they want. I was trying to put a possible reason behind why Hanna looked upset .
Child acting and Good Will Hunting Affleck acted professionally throughout his childhood but, in his own words, "not in the sense that I had a mom that wanted to take me to Hollywood or a family that wanted to make money from me I kind of chanced into something. Affleck worked "sporadically" on Mimi from the age of eight to fifteen in both Massachusetts and Mexico. The Aaron Henry Story Affleck's most notable role during this period was as a high school bully in Richard Linklater 's cult classic Dazed and Confused I just liked him.
Affleck's first starring film role was as an aimless art student in the college drama Glory Daze , with Stephen Holden of The New York Times remarking that his "affably mopey performance finds just the right balance between obnoxious and sad sack". Affleck began to worry that he would be relegated to a career of "throwing people into their lockers", [36] but Smith put him in the lead role in Smith's romantic comedy Chasing Amy The screenplay originated in when Damon wrote a page script for a playwriting class at Harvard University.
During the development process, they received notes from industry figures including Rob Reiner and William Goldman. Leading man status Affleck with Michael Bay and Liv Tyler at the Armageddon premiere in Armageddon , released in , established Affleck as a viable leading man for Hollywood studio films. Good Will Hunting had not yet been released during the casting process and, after Affleck's screen test , director Michael Bay dismissed him as "a geek".
He was convinced by producer Jerry Bruckheimer that Affleck would be a star, [26] but the actor was required to lose weight, become tanned, and get his teeth capped before filming began.
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The Pretty Little Liars love triangle that nobody asked for is getting more and more complicated in season 7. Relationship lines that were once clear are now getting extremely blurry in Rosewood, and Caleb, Spencer and Hanna are perhaps part of the messiest situation of all. What makes more sense: Should the girls just leave Caleb behind and run off together as friends or even more?
No, I don't want to know what life is like without wondering how Hanna and Caleb are doing and commenting on what Aria is wearing. However, I want ANSWERS. Every season we finallllly get a bunch of questions answered, but then also come up with double the amount of questions we had before.
So a lot of people are debating that if this was real life, it wouldn't be ok. Others are saying that it very well could be fine. All I can offer is my own personal opinion and experience. When I was in high school, I had a bf that I was on and off with. And I do mean toxic. Verbally, physically abusive and cheated on me all of the time. I had friends try to hook up with him when we were together, and when we weren't together.
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Pretty Little Liars Recap: Im sufficiently drunk on a fucking Tuesday and I have work tomorrow morning, so lets get this stupid shit over with, shall we? Hanna and Jordan are having weird 50 Shades of Grey red room sex with budget champagne. Remember last week Hanna got fired from her job and decided to have a mini vacay with Jordy.
It better all be on Jordans bill, cause we know that bitch is broke. Spencer and Aria are in Saras bat cave thing that they found casually in her hotel room.
Sep 01, · Sam Hunt puts his ripped body and muscles on display while going shirtless at the beach on Thursday (September 1) at Kealakekua Bay in Kona, Hawaii. Thu, 01 September .
He arrived on Sunday, September 2nd at 9: His name was kept as a surprise for two reasons: I had an appointment on Tuesday, August 28th, as mentioned in my last bumpdate. Jerry left work early to meet me. The ultrasound went well and the tech predicted that he was 6 pounds, 14 ounces. Our NST also took quite awhile as the nurse had some trouble tracking his heart rate due to movement.
She eventually brought in another nurse who successfully found him.
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You wanna share a towel too? In " A Person of Interest ," she and Caleb are now in a secret relationship. Hanna's mother begins to notice that someone has been in the house besides them and suspects Caleb. One night, Hanna and Caleb come home believing that Hanna's mother was out, and begin making out against the wall in the kitchen.
EPISODES Pretty Little Liars Release Year: A year after their clique's queen bee vanishes, a group of girls begins receiving texts from a stranger who threatens to reveal their darkest secrets. Mona is driving a wedge between Hanna and Caleb. Aria, meanwhile, dreads telling her mom that her dad is back on the dating scene. 5. That.
The truth is, no matter how singled out or overwhelmed we feel, and no matter what area we are struggling in, we are not alone. More than half of U. All of us have moments of utter despair. Escaping from this hopeless-seeming state may feel impossible. Yet, in reality, we are not doomed, and we are not powerless. No matter what our circumstances, we can all learn tools to help us emerge from the darkest moments in our lives.
In his 35 years of research, Dr. Salvatore Maddi of The Hardiness Institute has discovered that what predicts how well we will do in life, our relationships, careers, and so on is NOT how much money we have or even how many struggles we face. We can all learn to become more resilient.
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Right now I am having trouble connecting with any of them and I soley blame Marlene for that. Yes, that sums it up. I don't even want Haleb back I fear I will have to put up with it but I would only swallow it if there was a well written scenario for them but I think it's asking too much from IMK and her clique. I read that the writers wanted to "test" the original couples before putting them back together, apparently , but this is the scenario that I hate, no matter what, because I have witnessed it in real life and the results were a disaster for 30 years.
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Lucas resurfaced, Liam showed us his abs on video chat and Emily came clean…sort of. Do I feel some kind of way about being manipulated into thinking she was? It turns out that not only did Emily drop out of school, she also blew through all of the money she got after her dad died. Emily is definitely still holding on to some secrets, though. Emily Shay Mitchell at The Radley. We found out exactly what happened to Sara Harvey.
Eventually, Emily met up with Sara at the Radley bar, where Sara basically said she was targeting Emily because she knows she feels bad about what happened to her.
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Total and utter racist bullshit
9.Feb.18
So it was all bullshit. Total and utter bullshit.
New official statistics confirm that the alleged Victorian crime wave – an outbreak of criminality supposedly so intense that, at one stage, Liberal MP Craig Kelly wanted road signs on the border warning travellers from New South Wales about the danger they faced – never existed.
On the contrary, Victoria's safer than at any time in the past ten years, in line with a general decline in crime across the nation. As Fairfax's Peter Martin notes, 'at 1392 offenders per 100,000 people over the age of 10, Victoria's offence rate was Australia's second lowest, bettered only by the Australian Capital Territory.'
Crime in Victoria is not increasing. Rather, the new figures mark the fourth successive annual fall. That's right. Contrary to just about everything you've read or seen on TV, crime in Victoria's been declining for years.
But that's not all. As everyone knows, the panic in Victoria's been not just about crime in general. It's been about a supposed spike in youth crime – the result, we're told, of rampaging 'African gangs'. Well, here's the ABS.
In 2016–17 there were 8,280 youth offenders in Victoria, a decrease of 5% (446 offenders) from 2015–16. The highest decreases in numbers of youth offenders were for the principal offences of Miscellaneous offences (down 28% or 290 offenders), and Theft (down 7% or 162 offenders).
Victoria has the second lowest youth offender rate at 1,447 offenders per 100,000 persons, after the Australian Capital Territory (884 offenders per 100,000 persons).
Right from the beginning, the whole 'African gangs' beat-up relied on errors, distortions and flat-out lies.
You'll recall how Federal Minister Greg Hunt announced that African gang crime was 'out of control' in parts of Victoria, while Peter Dutton said Victorians were too scared to go out for dinner. That was despite the previous month's figures from the Crime Statistics Agency, which showed criminality in Victoria on a massive downward trend.
Then, later in January, the CSA released a remarkable 'statistical clarification', explaining that the figure showing a disproportionate rate of crimes committed by people born in Sudan – a statistic widely cited by politicians and pundits – was the result of an erroneous calculation, a mistake that blew the correct number out by forty per cent.
The amended figures showed that a greater proportion of alleged criminals were from New Zealand, India, the UK and Vietnam than from Sudan (with, of course, the great bulk of offenders hailing from Australia).
The implosion of the statistical 'evidence' about Sudanese gangs came after the equally dramatic collapse of an anecdotal buttress: the testimony of Nelly Yoa.
On 1 January, Fairfax had published an opinion piece from Yoa that began:
As a South Sudanese man who personally knows and mentors members of youth gangs in and out of prison, I firmly believe we have a major issue among young South Sudanese people in Melbourne. After watching the horrendous and appalling behaviour committed by my fellow South Sudanese youth in the past few weeks, I am furious – and in total disbelief – to hear our top cop and government officials say there are no Sudanese gangs in Melbourne.
Yoa's intervention – essentially, a reiteration of the right's main talking points – quelled liberal opposition to the 'African gangs narrative' while massively fanning the growing hysteria. Yet the piece was nonsense and never should have been published.
Noa's article now appears online with the following extraordinary introduction:
Several of the assertions made by Nelly Yoa in this article about his personal circumstances have been challenged, exaggerated or found not to be true. Sudanese leaders are not aware of anyone in the community Mr Yoa has mentored. He is not training with an AFL team and while he maintains he had official trials with Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers, there is no evidence of this. Additionally, some of his "ideas" for solutions to the issue of youth crime appear to have been plagiarised from an article written in 2015 by Manola De Vos on the website devex.com. The Age accepts that Mr Yoa's assertions and credentials should have been checked more thoroughly before publication and apologises for not doing so.
Round the same time as Yoa's credibility collapsed, Merita Tabain, the Victoria police executive director of media and corporate communications, sent an extraordinary email to the editors of major media outlets warning them about fanning racial tensions. In particular, Tabain referred to a news photographer who'd travelled to Tarneit Central shopping centre 'to take closeup photos of a group of African teenagers socialising'.
Tabain explained:
The teenagers had been doing nothing of public interest prior to the photographer's decision to move in and take the photos and [the group] reacted to the photographer and what he was doing.
This led to police being called in and a scuffle ensued in which police were spat on and arrests were made. After the event, the photographer acknowledged that his actions had provoked the incident and apologised.
The photographer in question worked for the Australian wing of the Daily Mail, a publication that, in 2017, had been caught out using a publicity shot of the London grime group Section Boyz to illustrate a piece about Melbourne gang violence.
The Mail's headline about the Tarneit shopping centre incident ran: 'Police SPAT ON and abused as officers arrest African teenagers outside a shopping centre in Melbourne's west in broad daylight – in latest gang flare up'.
Nowhere did the story mention that, according to Victoria police, the 'latest gang flare up' had been instigated by the Mail itself.
How did the media and politicians manage to gin up a crime scare out of almost nothing? The Economist Intelligence Unit recently judged Melbourne to be one of the five safest cities in the world; the Time Out City Life Index voted it the 'happiest city'; the Economist declared it 'the most liveable city'. Given those assessments, how could the tabloids successfully present Melbourne as a violence-ridden hellhole, a place where gangbangers would shank you as soon as you stepped out for a bite to eat?
By way of answer, consider the mass brawl that broke out on Chapel Street a few days ago. A fight in a bar grew into a confrontation between twenty or more people, a stoush that police described as 'brutal' and 'vicious'.
As frightening as that affray must have been to anyone in the area, the state hasn't descended into panic as a result. No federal politicians have weighed in, calling for stronger laws or harsher sentencing. By and large, the fight's been accepted as one of those things that occasionally happens in a big city: regrettable, yes, but not an existential threat to law-abiding citizens.
Why the difference in the reaction to that fight and to similar incidents in Tarneit? Everyone knows the answer. The brawlers in Chapel Street were white. It's as simple and as ugly as that.
The new statistics show that Victoria doesn't have a crime problem. Unfortunately, they also reveal the extent of the state's problem with racism.
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From Slarti Bartfast on 9 February 2018 at 3.47 pm
Once again, you've fulfilled Walter Lippmann's exhortation to the letter:"… to tell the truth and shame the devil". Well done.
I would quibble with only one thing: I'm not sure that the state, as a whole, is racist. i would argue that RWNJs see Victoria as easy pickings in their quest to whip up xenophobia and redneckery, or to quietly stoke these, one broad headline and meretricious sidebar at a time. I'm a semi-retired primary & secondary school teacher, and it takes a special kid to come out as a full-on proto-racist, and those that do, you can tell what sort of home life that they lead, and how their parents treat them (badly).
Most teachers that think about this (and a large number do not, unfortunately) take active steps to teach about media (Murdoch and other) manipulation of facts, and how the RW of politics seizes on every bullshit utterance of the same in their media output. It's quite pathetic how backbenchers' Twitter feeds recycle the latest, such as this: would be pathetic, if you can't imagine a hidden hand of Party Media Central behind this programmed drip-drip-drip of 'information'.
So no, if we didn't have this fascist, racist bullshit infecting public discourse, and kids were taught to critically analyse 'facts' that are presented to them (which requires analytical and logical skills that, unfortunately, a smallish majority of my colleagues are ill-equipped to impart themselves), rather than the lip service that is paid to 'critical thinking' in the educational process, we might not get this fevered slathering of net-curtain-twitchers, a demographic the LibNats never tire of attempting to create, then to scare the bejesus out of. It's only factual analysis that will send them back into their holes. For a while.
From Joe Dolce on 9 February 2018 at 4.07 pm
Great article. Racism is too simplistic however. It is well-known that bad news and fear-amplicification creates demand for more resources and services to 'fix' the 'problem', whether it be military/law enforcement, medical or selling newspapers. I wrote some doggerel about this last year. Joe
IF GOOD NEWS SOLD NEWSPAPERS
murder would make page 3
as headlines shouted VLAD PUTIN
HAD TWO BLINTZS TODAY WITH TEA
Bulletin Just In: THE SUN
IS PERFECTLY ROUND AGAIN
paparazzi would photograph lovers
holding hands along the Seine
Politics compressed as an insert
in the middle and never repeated
or recycled as wrapping for fish & chips
for any who much cared to read it
the serial killers and rapists
expensive bottles of Grange
would never even rate a banner
just a box on the crosswords page
pasty-faced brokers and businessmen
with ponzi schemes and lies
would go after the cartoon strips
or be buried in Classifieds
now imagine poetry as Breaking News!
on Page One: Chagall and Boyd
we'd all be less paranoid.
From take the tip on 9 February 2018 at 10.50 pm
There's crime and there's crime and there's statistics and there's statistics, both of which measure deviances from some imaginary norm (which doesn't and never existed to begin with), so what's the point in regard to these imaginary deviances(?), better to stick with the racist angle, for mine, so long as differences between racial groupings (?) are linked to power differences, that is, so long as texts and discussions are not produced solely by a particular social/cultural standard / hegemony, as a way of emphasising racial and cultural differences, or making such differences disappear.
From Eugene Donnini on 10 February 2018 at 12.39 am
Total and utter? Doesn't leave much room for doubt, does it? Its all just a big capitalist plot by the government to stir up racism (yawn, yawn) Lets drag Mr. Yoa into this tale. So, what can we deduce from Sparrow's article? That there is a "white' conspiracy (of course!) of evil capitalists, lumpen proletarian Sudanese youth workers with faulty credentials and a few fascist newspapers, to stir up racial hatred…really? Does anyone honestly believe this crap? What could their motives be? To reintroduce the White Australia Policy? Perhaps build a neo Nazi nationalist state? Get rid of all the foreigners, which would reduce Australia's population down to about six million whites. Yes that must be it. Those evil liberal politicians, capitalists and others who stay awake at night dream of establishing the Fourth Reich in Australia. This is the sort of bullshit the regressive left believe, notwithstanding the fact that Australia is one of the most accommodating and successful multicultural nations on the face of the earth.
The only credible figures Sparrow quotes show a decrease in youth crime in general, from which he deduces that there is no spike in crime committed by African gangs. This does not compute and evades the issue. None of Sparrow's article disproves that Melbourne does not have a disproportionate problem with African youth gangs. There have been multiple home invasions families attacked in parks during picnics, dozens of carjacking, smash and grabs, stores looted in broad daylight, pedestrians randomly targeted, assaulted and robbed….check The stats on these Mr. Sparrow. Youth crime generally may be down but among the black African community they are disproportionately HIGH. I can't believe Mr Dulce of all people, fell for this propaganda piece…
From Michelle on 10 February 2018 at 6.52 am
Well said Eugene completely agree with you.
From Joe Dolce on 10 February 2018 at 8.20 am
It's Dolce, Mr Donitti. haha
From Jeff Sparrow on 10 February 2018 at 10.27 am
And that's the debate in a nutshell. Donnini presents no evidence at all but offers a series of anecdotes in support of what he 'already knows': that is, the state has gripped by rampaging African gangs.
No doubt some people of African origin do commit crimes (shock! horror!) but the front page hysteria about a very small number of incidents bears no relationship to the prevalence or severity of actual offenses. By way of comparison, let's remember, early in January, the riot in Torquay involving more than a hundred kids attacking police, injuring some of them and forcing them to call for backup. That episode was far more severe than any of the so-called 'African gang' incidents and yet, unlike them, received almost no attention at all. Why not? The kids were white and as such they didn't terrify the good burghers of Melbourne in the way that a few black faces do.
Donnini wants to know who might have an interest in stirring up law and order hysteria. Clearly, he has been paying no attention at all to Victorian politics, where the Opposition has made 'tough on crime' rhetoric central to its campaign. Mathew 'Lobster with a Mobster' Guy sees the African gangs nonsense as his ticket into Spring Street; the media sees it (quite correctly) as a successful way of selling papers.
It's not fucking difficult, mate.
From Les Hutchinson on 10 February 2018 at 11.46 am
It doesn't matter whether there is or was any TRUTH in Turnbull's DOG-WHISTLING re 'African gangs' [on DAY 1 2018 January 1st!!] Turnbull's SHITE is just SCRIPT for the radio shock-jerks and other arse-trumpets of the Murdochracy and Fairfux with which to brainwash the dill Masses, who will NEVER hear about any retraction/correction of the shite. Prof. Donald Horne in Death of The Lucky Country was lamenting the LIES, TRICK and SCARES of the Conservative [Asshole] Party aka the 'LIBS' way back in 1976. These scumbags haven't changed – they are just as scumbaggery as they ever were. LIES TOLD, SHRIEKED by shock-jerks – JOB DONE.
From Penelope on 10 February 2018 at 3.23 pm
The fearmongering of the MP with the suggested warnings to naive NSW tourists would be funny if it weren't based on racism.
What a dill.
Anyone sporting the name 'Kelly' should be more aware of previous scares against different races.
From David Missingham on 11 February 2018 at 11.12 pm
"White" Australians?
Let's have an analysis of the "racial" origins of some of those (with Family names like Donniti)
Oh, too hard?
Of course it is, they don't have easily identifiable skin colour that the xenophobic Daily Mail apparatchiks can point to.
From Catherine Seymour on 12 February 2018 at 9.26 am
I grew up and now again live in the Western Suburbs Where are these terrorising gangs? never seen so much as hint. I do remember however that before the trendies moved in anyone from the western suburbs was condemned as a lout or a tart. Racism and postcode snobbery all fodder to sell newspapers.
From Futilitarian on 12 February 2018 at 11.01 am
If you import a bunch of people into the country who have few skills, and you dump them in an area where they have few prospects, then you shouldn't be surprised if they start making arses of themselves.
People need to make a living, and they need to get along in an acquisitive society, so in the absence of employment is it surprising that they might find crime to be a viable option?
What's disappointing is that leftist intellectuals want to pretend that the situation doesn't exist. Fifty years ago the left was at the cutting edge of exposing the illusions and ideological biases of the right and the mainstream. These days the left is in the business of living its own illusions.
From Span Hanna on 12 February 2018 at 4.27 pm
I like to view the current AfricanGang Moral Panic in the light of the campaign, several years ago now, to close down all the outlaw bikie gangs, which were (at the time) "clearly" underwriting major crime in Australia. So the legislation worked, the bikie gangs were all disbanded, and Africans have stepped into the vacuum. Is that about right?
Re Mr Donnini, I won't reread the original article but I don't think it mentioned a conspiracy of any kind, I usually notice (and often read no further). What it was saying, and I stand to be corrected by the original author, seemed to be that some people could gain political or commercial value from beating up this story, the Mail photographer being an example of the latter. The Tarneit shopping centre incident, the process that resulted (one many Aborigines would be familiar with, at least in SA to my certain knowledge), and the way it was reported, all support that.
From Joshua Martin on 12 February 2018 at 5.29 pm
Great article. Thanks.
From Jake on 12 February 2018 at 7.43 pm
Thanks, Futilitarian, sorta describes the continued white settlement of 'Australia', no?
From Futilitarian on 13 February 2018 at 8.44 am
"… sorta describes the continued white settlement of 'Australia', no?"
The White Australia policy was abolished a very long time ago so the continued (over)settlement of "'Australia'" is multi-ethnic not merely "white."
From Jake on 13 February 2018 at 11.51 am
'the WAP … was abolished a very long time ago': above the brows it ain't, mate, clearly
From Futilitarian on 13 February 2018 at 2.17 pm
"above the brows it ain't, mate, clearly"
It may well be clear to you, cobber, but I would caution against drawing a firm conclusion from an absence of evidence.
From John on 15 February 2018 at 12.27 pm
Here are the stats below released on Tuesday. Not quite the way Jeff Sparrow describes it. Nelly Yoa's intervention in the debate is a red herring. However, I don't think the arguments by Jeff are respectful to South Sudanese leaders , who readily acknowledge that there are deep seated issues in their community. The debate should be about what we as a community can do to help the community [and there are many great people working with the South Sudanese community, especially in education.] Even NAB has a great program for employment training. Dutton's intervention is unhelpful. Irresponsible.
About one in seven Sudanese-born Victorians aged between 10 and 24 were charged with a crime last year.
436 of the 25,000 youth offenders in Victoria last year were Sudanese-born.
Despite the small numbers of Sudanese-born offenders, an analysis of Crime Statistics Agency data when compared to 2016 Census figures shows that these youths are drastically over-represented in offenders aged 10-24.
Those born in Sudan are eight times more likely to be charged than those born in Australia.
The Crime Statistics Agency data released on Tuesday showed that crime had dropped for the first time in six years, and that fewer youths were being arrested, but those who did come into contact with police were responsible for more offences.
Aggravated burglaries and robberies, two crimes that have a significant impact on victims, and dominate the nightly news, continue to increase.
And despite the fall, last year's crime rate was still the second highest for the past decade. [Up from over 7000 crimes per 100,000 people in 2008 to well over 8,000.]
Ms Neville described aggravated burglaries, which went up by 12.2 per cent, as the crime that "sticks in the head" of people, and makes them feel unsafe.
From Jeff Sparrow on 15 February 2018 at 1.01 pm
Hang on — you are quoting figures from 2017, the ones that were later amended. See this ABC report, which reads, in part:
Since then, the issue has been discussed at length, with statistics cited across the media, including the ABC, that 807 Sudanese people were alleged to have committed a crime in 2016, making up 1.4 per cent of the unique offender population.
Victoria's Crime Statistics Agency (CSA) has now released a "statistical clarification", saying while the 807 figure was correct, the number only represented 1 per cent of the unique offender population.
The VCA noted that the error was originally produced by the Commonwealth Joint Committee on Migration's Inquiry into Migrant Settlement Outcomes in December 2017.
"Whilst the whole numbers in this paragraph of the report are correct and align with the evidence provided by the Crime Statistics Agency, the proportions were calculated by the authors of the report and are not correct," the agency's statement said.
"Regretfully, some of the proportions quoted in … the report have been reproduced in a number of media reports in recent times and may have been misleading."
The CSA also noted the statistics were "now quite out of date" and the same statistics for the most recent reference period, ending on September 2017, showed more alleged criminals were from the UK or Ireland than Sudan.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-22/african-crime-stats-overestimated-victorian-crime-agency-says/9348882
In any case, even if Sudanese kids were over-represented that wouldn't change my basic point: namely that Melbourne is an extraordinary safe city and that crime as a whole is both low and decreasing. Yes, there may be some anomalies (those kids in Torquay!) but absolutely no basis exists for these 'ermahgerd — crime is out of control!' stories.
From John on 16 February 2018 at 9.26 am
Your moderate, measured response is at odds with the tone of some of your earlier comments.
807 out of a population is a highly significant figure out of a population of approx. 6000 South Sudanese [estimated] in Victoria.
I helped run a program that drew in numbers of South Sudanese youth. Helping them get work. There is real concern in this community. I want to see these kids get help; not swept under the carpet. Not a policing solution. I'm sure we all do.
Exaggerated political rhetoric is a real problem. I see some exaggeration in your response. That it was all bullshit. Denying the problem is not respectful to South Sudanese leaders. Numbers of South Sudanese are small – statistically. Victoria does have the second highest level of crime in 10 years. Its come off from last year's high. It's still cause for concern. And South Sudanese kids are overrepresented. I mentor two who have been in deep trouble. It's a massive challenge. And this Torquay reference is nonsense. A one off event by a drunken mob who probably regretted it the day after. Its that kind of easy, simplistic dismissal that lessens your argument.
e said African leaders had acknowledged that a number of young people had "lost their way and doing some very bad things".
Exaggerated political rhetoric is a real problem. I see some exaggeration in your response. That it was all bullshit. Again, I feel that denying the problem is not respectful to South Sudanese leaders. Numbers of South Sudanese are small – statistically. Victoria does have the second highest level of crime in 10 years. Its come off from last year's high. It's still cause for concern. And South Sudanese kids are overrepresented. I mentor two who have been in deep trouble. It's a massive challenge. And this Torquay reference is nonsense. A one off event by a drunken mob who probably regretted it the day after. Its that kind of easy, simplistic dismissal that lessens your argument.
From Marie-Louise Schaefer on 20 February 2018 at 12.38 pm
All this has one bad side effect, or is it safe to assume that it was the desired effect from the start??
I have some highly educated young Nigerian friends, one of the will finish his degree in Philosophy this year, and wanted to come to Australia to further his studies. He does not want to come now ! He tells me , those constant reports have given all Africans a bad reputation, and he is worried that he might suffer some discrimination or worse.
In my opinion blaming "Sudanese Gangs" , is orchestrated propaganda against African migrants / refugees. In a way like: if you can't make them look like terrorists, make them look like criminals.
Sad, sad, sad!!
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