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Dang Good Foods Rolls Out in Cleveland
story and photos by Laura Watilo Blake
Daniel Ang always loved food. Eating is national pastime in his native Singapore, which is famous for its hawker centers—large open-air food halls with communal tables and food vendors competing for customers' attentions late into the night.
When he came to the U.S. to study sociology, he missed the food that reminded him of home in Southeast Asia. Chinese food in America just didn't cut it.
"Chinese food here is not Chinese food," Daniel says. "It's been adapted to Western taste. Nor is it like Singaporean food. Singapore has a mix of a lot of different Asian cultures. The cuisine is an amalgam of predominately Chinese, Malay, and Indian influences."
While Daniel's career path veered in vastly different directions over the years, from social work to sales, one thing remained constant. "I was always hungry for Singapore-style food, and the only way I could get it was to cook it myself," he says.
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The Lakewood resident has taken his culinary talent to the streets of Cleveland with the launch of Dang Good Foods, a food truck serving the taste of Singapore and beyond.
"I've been creating the menu in my head for the last six or seven years," Daniel says. "I wanted to make something I was familiar with, that also would meld with an American palate."
Starting a new food concept takes hard work, great taste, good marketing, and lots of luck. When I visit Daniel during his food truck's official opening, a dutiful golden-hued lucky cat waves its left paw up and down to beckon customers from its perch in the side-front window. Daniel is hard at work arranging bao in bamboo steamers, stopping briefly to stir a pot of Singaporean-style chicken curry simmering on the stove.
"I'm guessing you won't be doing a fish-head curry," I say to Daniel, enquiring about Singapore's unique national dish, in which a giant fish head emerges from the center of a spicy broth stew.
"Fish-head curry is going to freak people out," he laughs. "I can't do that out of a food truck."
Daniel's chicken version is still quintessentially Singaporean and differs from curries found in local Thai or Indian restaurants. "Some of the ingredients are the same," he says, "but Singaporean curry needs candlenut to add a nutty, sweet flavor and thickness."
Native to Indonesia and the tropics of Southeast Asia, candlenuts are similar in appearance to a macadamia nuts, but taste slightly more bitter. Daniel looked everywhere for them locally and finally found a supply at Asian Town Center on Superior Avenue.
"I bought a bunch of them," he says. "This is part of the challenge I have. I might be able to get them for a short time, but because they are not often used ingredients, [stores] may not carry them regularly."
His commitment to matching the flavor of Singapore as closely as possible has elicited positive feedback from his early fans. During my visit, the line of customers became longer and longer, with people staring longingly at the lucky folks already sinking their teeth into chicken curry, braised pork on steam buns and, well, other dang good food.
Daniel hopes his good fortune continues.
"I would love to have a restaurant eventually, but I'm enjoying the food-truck journey," he says.
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Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific By: Felix Speiser (1880-1949)
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific
Dr. Felix Speiser
With 40 illustrations from photographs and a map
This book is a collection of sketches written on lonely evenings during my voyage; some of them have been published in daily papers, and were so kindly received by the public as to encourage me to issue them in book form. In order to retain the freshness of first impressions, the original form has been but slightly changed, and only so much ethnological detail has been added as will help to an understanding of native life. The book does not pretend to give a scientific description of the people of the New Hebrides; that will appear later; it is meant simply to transmit some of the indelible impressions the traveller was privileged to receive, impressions both stern and sweet. The author will be amply repaid if he succeeds in giving the reader some slight idea of the charm and the terrors of the islands. He will be proud if his words can convey a vision of the incomparable beauty and peacefulness of the glittering lagoon, and of the sublimity of the virgin forest; if the reader can divine the charm of the native when gay and friendly, and his ferocity when gloomy and hostile. I have set down some of the joys and some of the hardships of an explorer's life; and I received so many kindnesses from all the white colonists I met, that one great object of my writing is to show my gratitude for their friendly help.
First of all, I would mention His Britannic Majesty's Resident, Mr. Morton King, who followed my studies with the most sympathetic interest, was my most hospitable host, and, I may venture to say, my friend. I would name Mr. Colonna, Résident de France, Judge Alexander in Port Vila, and Captain Harrowell; in Santo, Rev. Father Bochu, the Messrs. Thomas, Mr. Fysh, Mr. Clapcott; in Malo, Mr. M. Wells and Mr. Jacquier; in Vao, Rev. Father Jamond; in Malekula, Rev. F. Paton, Rev. Jaffrays, Mr. Bird and Mr. Fleming; in Ambrym, Rev. Dr. J. J. Bowie, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Decent; in Pentecoste, Mr. Filmer; in Aoba, Mr. Albert and Rev. Grunling; in Tanna, Rev. Macmillan and Dr. Nicholson; in Venua Lava, Mr. Choyer; in Nitendi, Mr. Matthews. I am also indebted to the Anglican missionaries, especially Rev. H. N. Drummond, and to Captain Sinker of the steam yacht Southern Cross, to the supercargo and captains of the steamers of Burns, Philp & Company. There are many more who assisted me in various ways, often at the expense of their own comfort and interest, and not the least of the impressions I took home with me is, that nowhere can one find wider hospitality or friendlier helpfulness than in these islands. This has helped me to forget so many things that do not impress the traveller favourably.
If this book should come under the notice of any of these kind friends, the author would be proud to think that they remember him as pleasantly as he will recall all the friendship he received during his stay in the New Hebrides.
BASLE, April 1913.
Chap. Page Introduction 1 I. Nouméa and Port Vila 19 II. Maei, Tongoa, Epi and Malekula 28 III. The Segond Channel Life on a Plantation 35 IV. Recruiting for Natives 53 V. Vao 85 VI. Port Olry and a "Sing Sing" 109 VII. Santo 136 VIII. Santo (continued) Pygmies 161 IX. Santo (continued) Pigs 171 X. Climbing Santo Peak 179 XI. Ambrym 191 XII. Pentecoste 224 XIII... Continue reading book >>
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For Management: Terri Stratton, Kristine Lancaster, Todd Johnston, Janette Q.
1. How is the hiring process going? Management has completed interviews, and will be filling one .8 position, and one intermittent as well.
2. How are the inversing and OT numbers? Management stated that overtime numbers have been decreasing the last 3 months, with the use of intermittent staff to fill holes in the schedule.
3. Are intermittent employees being scheduled on the weekends to allow for .8 staff to get some relief? Management stated "yes," intermittent staff has been utilized to fill holes in the schedule. The local commented that it appears that most these holes are being filled by intermittent employees on weekdays, at the expense of .8 employees working every weekend. The local suggested scheduling the .8's, and leaving some of the holes in the schedule on the weekends for intermittent staff to pick up hours. Management believes many intermittent staff may refuse these shifts offered and inversing may then ensue, which would help with overtime numbers. Management stated scheduling can be difficult with acuity levels up and a low budget.
4. Working with 2 LPNS on Late shift: HSTs are denied advanced overtime shifts, but are being inversed to the shift when there is only one license and not an LPN willing to work the overtime. Seems to be a double standard. Management asked when/if this has happened, as they felt this wasn't an issue. Management stated the desire is to have 2 LPN's on the late shift at all times. The local encouraged management to follow the proper inversing process, when distributing overtime.
5. Intermittent staff working non-shift assignments. Are you considering them eligible for inverse? Yes!
6. Steward role in the workplace Todd indicated he understands a steward's role in the work place, but has concerns as to some discussions happening in the workplace, particularly in front of clients. Management would like such talks to not be happening in front on clients. The union and management agree these discussions should take place in a professional manner, and not in front of clients.
7. New .8 HST position: rotating (E/L) shift; movement to late shift must follow contract language – by contract Nights is a fixed shift. Management agrees and discussed they would allow employees to volunteer to work nights to assist with operational needs.
8. Lab days 6-2:30 shift? Labor asked if management could look into changing the lab times, as the current time can be inconvenient for shift change.
9. Replacement Janitor for extended vacation? (concern is more workload being pushed on an already taxed work force) Management stated they have been "shot down" when asked to hire help. Labor suggested there are .8 Janitors at CBHH that may be able to assist when in need.
10. Please turn off sprinkler system when temp drop below freezing overnight. This is the landlord's responsibility, and the water is currently shut off.
11. If LADC's will be helping to prevent inversing (AFSCME staff is very appreciative of this) please get them training so that they can be an asset to the team. Example – Admissions procedures Management noted.
12. In some cases .8 LPN's were hired to work rotating shifts, and are being scheduled straight late shifts. This is just another added stress for those with families who are already required to work every weekend, every holiday, full-time hours, and overtime on a regular basis. This was just a reminder to be mindful of these employees, and their work schedule.
13. Reflector for the west side of the driveway This has been discussed in meetings before. Labor asked if this can be done. Todd said to consider it done.
14. Lighting for front and back of building Todd stated that bids are in, and they are addressing it Thursday.
What is the protocol for client's fresh air breaks/visitors outside during frigid weather this winter?
• Can staff monitor from the windows? • Will the patio still be open for the entire 4 hours during visiting days?


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4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame." 7 Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, 8 and "A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense." They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed. 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.


PFT Vice President Arlene Kempin, who has been on release time since 1983, is among the highest paid at $108,062. Union head Jerry Jordan, who has also been on release time for more than 30 years, is earning $81,245, according to district payroll logs. The 16 ghost teachers on the books this year are making an average salary of almost $98,000.
The "ghost teacher" phenomenon is far from unique to Philly or even the education sector. Such "release time" subsidies for ghost teachers, policemen, firefighters, and bureaucrats of all stripes are common features of public-sector union contracts nationwide. Last month, a Yankee Institute report found that Connecticut provided unions with $4.1 million to subsidize 121,000 hours union-related activities, "the equivalent of more than a year's worth of work for 50 full-time employees." Meanwhile, the Goldwater Institute in Arizona is in the midst of a lawsuit against the city of Phoenix for unconstitutionally providing millions of dollars in release-time subsidies.
According to the most recent report from the federal Office of Personnel Management, the federal government paid more than $157 million in 2012 for federal employees to work for their unions for a total of 3,439,449 hours. And those are just the direct costs.
Most school board members are not aware of the magnitude of these subsidies. In school district budgets, the subsidies are never grouped together under the heading "Subsidies to the Union." Instead, the subsidies are included in school district budgets under a variety of headings that may or may not refer to the union… School districts pay for these subsidies from a variety of line items in the district budget: payments to substitute teachers, teacher salaries, and pension contributions, among others. In most situations, the union subsidy is lumped together with other expenses paid for under the same line item; for example, the costs of hiring substitutes for teachers who are on released time for union business may be included in a budget line for substitutes that also covers substitutes for other reasons, such as replacing teachers on sick leave, personal leave, maternity/paternity leave, and so on.
Taxpayer dollars allocated for education should be spent on items and activities that assist student learning, not to promote the interests of private organizations (especially when their interests often collide with the interests of students). Union work should be paid out of funds the unions collect through dues and donations, not funds expropriated from unwilling and unwitting taxpayers.


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Deep in the heart of the Emerald Triangle, along the South Fork of the Trinity River somewhere between Hayfork and Willow Creek, on the border of Trinity and Humboldt counties, lies a very special, magical place, a natural botanical haven in a nearly secret river valley surrounded by pristine wilderness. Hyampom, long ago named by the Wintu Tribe that dwelled here, is one of the most optimal and distinguished microclimates for full season outdoor cannabis cultivation in the world, smack dab in the middle of what is known as the "Middle Klamath Appellation", noted as one of "the most important appellation regions to watch" for the outdoor cultivation of cannabis in the world. This is our home and longtime held secret enclave.
Our rural backwoods communities and our sacred wilderness are both in great jeopardy, facing massive environmental challenges, pollution and over-depletion of our watersheds and degradation of our ecosystem, by the estimated hundreds of thousands of illegal trespass grows in our National Forests and irresponsible growers on private lands. In 2016 we founded a local farmer's guild whose mission is promoting ecologically responsible practices to protect the health and wellbeing of our community's wildlife, forests, watershed and economy. We are now working on a community-wide reforestation initiative that allows private landowners to work collectively to maintain the forests and restore our forest ecosystems. We regularly present free workshops, including events sponsored by the Watershed Center, Growing Green, and Cal Growers Association, on topics from Water Conservation to permaculture BMPs.
As musical artists currently on hiatus from the professional world stage, we are thoroughly enjoying spending time in musical retreat, helping other artists produce their work, and inviting our musical friends from all over the world to come make music with us, as part of a very special not-for-profit organization, the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival, now in its eighth season, committed to bringing world-class classical chamber music and education opportunities to our rural communities by sponsoring concerts and festival events throughout the farthest reaches of the county and larger Northern California region that are free of charge.


2018 was a great year for Vera and innovation in the healthcare industry. Major players like Amazon and Apple are doubling down on healthcare, mergers like those between CVS Health and Aetna fuel the argument for payvider solutions, and an increasing focus on better primary care offers a bright future for patients and payers.
Q: What are the top healthcare trends you expect to see or hear more about in 2019?
Ryan: As we get closer to 2020 and elections, there's going to be a lot of dialogue about single-payer systems, the ACA, and financial reform. That'll be interesting because it lends itself to more and more dialogue around all the things that are broken in healthcare that finance reform can help solve.
You're also going to get a lot of focus on pharmaceuticals, their rising costs, and how price control can be helpful. Related to both, there is this massive resurgence of primary care. Whether it's commercial or government contracts, there's an increasing demand for some form of risk-share. That ties back to financial reform because vendors are taking risks, and risks lead to exceptional primary care. So, I'm expecting we'll see an increase in primary care contributing to value.
Q: Define two radical and two safer trends employers may be exploring - pros and cons of each.
Ryan: On the radical side, I think you'll see more employers shift away from high-deductible plans and start to move back to where it was. There's more and more data dispelling the myths around consumerism and what high-deductible plans will result in. Instead, we'll see more high-value plans designed around making sure members can afford to pay for the services they need.
I think you're also going to see more employers move toward reference-based pricing, where they don't have a network. Instead, they pay what they think is fair, usually 125-150% of CMS/Medicare pricing. The risk is that employees themselves end up getting balance billed, which most employers want to avoid. Nevertheless, that seems to be a growing trend.
On the safer side, I think you'll see continuing rapid growth for on- or near-site clinics. I don't think that's radical because companies like Vera have demonstrated great outcomes. It's not a new concept anymore. It's one that many employers believe can work for them.
Another safe trend is that we're starting to see smaller employers going self-funded, typically by unbundling plans and working directly with a TPA.
Q: What's the state of the state for Vera in 2019, what can we expect to see?
Ryan: I think we're going to experience a tremendous amount of growth in 2019, which is exciting. We are launching five care centers in January for two different carrier partnerships, and we expect to grow organically with more employers and more carrier partnerships in the coming year. I also think that we'll probably really expand our Medicare Advantage footprint, based on our success in northern Nevada.
We've got an outstanding leadership team in place and throughout the organization. That, combined with heavy investments in an informatics platform, will boost our care coordination and population management abilities. I think you can expect to see our patient and client outcomes are better than ever going forward.
Q: Imagine yourself in December 2019, what will have made the year a massive success for Vera?
Ryan: Improvements across the board in all of our quality benchmarks, hitting all of our performance guarantees with our clients, and significant growth that results in almost doubling the size of the company.
Q: And for you personally as the CEO?
Ryan: All of the above. But also, I would love for 100% of our employees to be in a place where they would recommend Vera to a friend or family member. I think a lot about how we create a company and work environment where people just love their jobs.
One of our highlights from 2018 happened when Vera Whole Health became the first direct-to-employer on-site clinic provider in the U.S. to earn a Certificate of Validation by the Care Innovations™ Validation Institute. Learn what that certification means by downloading our white paper: Validated Results and Proven Outcomes.


Distance from Šiauliai to Giżycko is 233 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 145 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Šiauliai and Giżycko is 233 km= 145 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Siauliai to Gizycko, It takes 0.26 hours to arrive.
Siauliai is located in Lithuania.
Gizycko is located in Poland.


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Apogee Wealth Management, a Cheshire-based Chartered Financial Planner wealth firm, has bought local IFA Premier Financial Planning UK for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal, Stuart Cafferty, Managing Director of Premier, will move to Apogee to help with client transition prior to his retirement. Premier, which has clients in Cheshire and across the UK, is based in Furness Vale, about 20 miles away from Apogee which is located in Knutsford, Cheshire.
Ipswich-based Chartered Financial Planner firm SG Wealth Management have moved to new offices in their home town - a historic 16th century building. The new office, Merchant House, in the town's Silent Street, is a 16th century timber-framed medieval merchant's house which was once taken down and moved to a new location.
IFA network Tenet has acquired two of its member financial advisory firms in Mansfield to create a new hub in Nottinghamshire with £25m under management. The Leeds-based firm has bought Ask Financial Management and Mansfield Financial Planning, both based in Mansfield, for undisclosed sums. Tenet has already established a regional hub in Preston during 2018 and also has hubs in Northampton, Leeds, Edinburgh and Cardiff.
A Lighthouse client, whose identity remains confidential and so was called Mr W, complained to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) after Lighthouse advised him to transfer his retirement annuity policy (RAP) from pensions company ReAssure to a third party transferee in August 2017. The RAP transfer was "mistakenly initiated by a Lighthouse adviser", the ombudsman found and resulted in Mr W losing £19,390.68, including future charges, or £16,482.07 after tax.
Rathbones has acquired Barclays Wealth's court of protection of business, which has £500 million of assets under management (AUM), for an undisclosed sum. As part of the deal, a team of 10 individuals, along with their book of 600 clients, will join Rathbones in the second quarter next year.
Wealth manager Brewin Dolphin had thinner profits due to a West End hiring spree and clients holding back from moving money into the firm. It doubled spending this year from £8 million to £16 million and £1.4 billion of inflows were down from £2.3 billion last time. "Clients have been a little more reluctant to move funds around," said Chief Executive David Nicol. "This level of growth is better than most of our competitors who are flat or down.".
Fairstone, one of the UK's largest Chartered Financial Planning firms, has boosted its footprint in the North West with the acquisition of Octagon Wealth Management. The purchase for an undisclosed sum is the seventh this year by Newcastle-based Fairstone and adds to the business gross fee income of £1.1m and £150m in funds under management. Octagon Wealth Management specialises in the management of investment and retirement portfolios and is based in Burscough, near Ormskirk. The acquisition, using Fairstone's 'Downstream Buy Out' (DBO) process of gradual integration, will bring 800 clients, four advisers and five support staff.
Two former Mattioli Woods senior figures are launching their own advice consolidator business aiming to hit £50 million of revenues in five years. Mark Smith, who was Mattioli Woods' Chief Operating Officer for 19 years before he left at the end of 2018, has teamed up with Micky Johal, who was previously the Wealth Manager's Director of mergers and acquisitions, to launch the new firm.
Surrey-based advice firm Clear Financial Advice has announced a new charity initiative, called Clear Minds, to provide counselling sessions for people who otherwise may not be able to afford them. The charity will give out up to 20 counselling sessions with a qualified therapist to programme applicants. Barry Greening, Managing Director of Clear Financial Advice, said although the NHS does a great job, it was important for the firm to help those that needed long-term care.
Advice network Beaufort Financial has added Surrey-based Corfe Wealth Management to its list of appointed representatives. Corfe Wealth Management was launched in August this year by financial planner Christopher Webb, who wanted to help people build a 'business-plan' to achieve their 'longer-term aims.
IFAs' offices can be found in all kinds of buildings, from industrial parks to city skyscrapers. But few of them are in a 16th-century, timber-framed merchant's house. East Anglia IFA SG Wealth Management is now among those few. The business recently moved its Ipswich office to Merchant House, which was built 500 years ago. With the help of contractor Jackson Projects, the building was moved to its new location on Silent Street. SG Wealth Managing Director Stephen Girling said that the firm has installed the modern features needed to bring the office into the 21st century.
New national on the block, Independent Wealth Planners (IWP), has announced an ambitious growth strategy and it aims to provide IFAs with a very different service. IWP is expecting to launch as a 'national brand' in 2020, with over £2 billion of assets currently under management and a target of 50 national offices.
Brooks Macdonald has sealed a £39 million deal to buy Edinburgh-based wealth manager Cornelian Asset Management. The deal, which is expected to complete in the first quarter of 2020, will be funded by a £30 million placing at £17.75p per share. Brooks will pay £31 million up front for Cornelian, of which £22 million will be paid in cash and £9 million in the company's shares.
Investec has identified further cost cuts of £17.5 million across its banking and Wealth & Investment businesses as it continues to work through a major restructure of the business. In its interim results for the six months to the end of September, the company reported headline earnings per share were down 17.2% at 22.7p, as £45.3 million of restructuring costs, previously flagged in a September stock market warning, weighed on profits.
Investec Asset Management is set to rename itself as 'Ninety One' in a bid to separate itself from its parent company, our sister title Citywire Selector has revealed. The new identity will be rolled out following the completion of the firm's demerger from Investec Group, which is on track to take place in the first quarter of 2020. This remains subject to shareholder approval.
Administrators of failed pension provider Berkeley Burke Sipp Administration Limited have warned that the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) will pick up the bill for £158 million of complaints the company faced at the time it of its collapse. In September Berkeley Burke, appointed RSM to wind the business down. The Sipp provider's client bank was sold to Hartley Pensions for £800,000, but Berkeley Burke Sipp Administration's liabilities were not taken on as part of the acquisition.
Advisers have been pulling clients out of the Jupiter Absolute Return fund because of 'disappointing' performance. The fund, managed by James Clunie, has endured a difficult performance streak, returning -11.4% over the past three years. These poor returns have been driven by it holding more short than long positions, reflecting the expectation of an upcoming market downswing (which is yet to happen) and a focus on value stocks that have themselves suffered in recent years.
AJ Bell is launching a new pension product designed to help Advisers provide a more suitable offering for clients looking for a simple and low-cost solution. The Retirement Investment Account (RIA), set to be launched in early 2020, is designed to be a 'low-cost' pension on platform that will sit alongside AJ Bell's existing Sipp for Advisers.
Consolidator Succession Wealth has chosen Birmingham as the site of its new national headquarters. The new office will be located in Birmingham's central business district and will house approximately 60 wealth planners and client support staff as well as the senior leadership team, Succession said in a press statement.
AIM-listed wealth manager and support service provider Tatton is in talks with a 'handful' of IFAs about buying their discretionary fund manager (DFM) businesses. After its latest interim results, Tatton's Chief Executive Paul Hogarth said he understood there to be around 700 IFAs who have their own DFM permissions and many of them have not reached the size they wanted with these wealth management launches.
Advisers should hold their ground when dealing with insistent clients on defined benefit (DB) transfer advice to avoid any future claims, the Chief Executive of the Personal Finance Society (PFS) has said. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was honing in on Advisers who have carried out insistent client DB transfers in its letter to 1,700 firms. Specifically, the FCA was asking the levels of insistent client transfers and told firms to take action if they have found any compliance shortfalls.
Private-equity backed national advice firm Ludlow Wealth Management has sealed a deal for its third acquisition of 2019 as it eyes up its target of £2 billion of assets under management. Using its financial backing by Mobeus Equity Partners, Ludlow has acquired Southport-based advice firm Ivan A Hargreaves & Co. The deal, for an undisclosed amount, follows it purchases of Liverpool-based A Letton Percival & Co and another IFA earlier this year.
Digital advice firm OpenMoney has acquired Steve Bee's employee benefits platform Jargonfree Benefits (JFB) in a bid to expand its affordable financial advice offering to the workplace. The deal, which was completed on 1 November, means JFB will become part of the OpenMoney group. JFB founder Bee and Director Andrew Rice will continue to hold key roles in the business. As part of the deal, JFB will have access to a wide range of resources from OpenMoney, while OpenMoney will use JFB's platform of over 40,000 employees to advertise its digital advice services to workers.
Standard Life Aberdeen (SLA) is offering nine months full paid leave for all new parents. The asset manager has become the latest financial services company to review its parental leave policy. It follows Aviva Investors, which offers equal parental leave of up to 12 months in the UK, with 26 at full pay and Jupiter Fund Management, which offers six months equal full paid parental leave. From 1 January 2020 SLA parents expecting their first child will be given 52 weeks leave, with 40 weeks at full pay. This can be taken in up to three chunks within a two-year period of the birth or adoption. Additional paid leave and support for pre-term babies is also available. These policies are available to employees regardless of how long they have been at the company.
Exeter-based Cathedral Financial Management (CFM) has bought back the shares of its late Co-Director Tim Ames, who died aged 45 last December after a short battle with cancer. The shares have been bought by the firm's current Director Emma Ames and her Co-Director Neil Gore through a partial buyback from the executors to Ames' estate.
'We have so many young people thriving in the business. I'm excited about the direction we are heading in,' says Tony Smith, Managing Director of Elevation Investment Management. The firm, established in Birmingham in 2011, is reaping the rewards of hiring young employees. 'We have expanded to the East Midlands where Adam Cuthbert, who started as an Associate, is now a Director,' explains Smith. Financial adviser Matt Black, who started at the business as a graduate in 2012, now runs the firm's London office.
Seven Investment Management has hired a Credit Suisse veteran as Chief Financial Officer following the exit of Charles Sparrow, the firm's CFO of 18 years and one of the original seven founders. Duncan Walker spent 13 years at Credit Suisse in various positions, including CFO for the bank's UK private banking and MEA region.
European Wealth founder and asset management veteran John Morton has been appointed Chief Executive of Vintage Wealth Management. Broad Steet Asset Management, which was established by Morton in 2018 following his departure from European Wealth, will be absorbed by Vintage Wealth.
Quilter Cheviot has bolstered its Glasgow and Jersey offices, hiring an Investment Manager apiece from Rathbones and Brewin Dolphin. Daniel Joliffe joins Quilter Cheviot's Jersey office from Rathbones, where he spent 18 months as an investment manager. The second hire, Murray Gillan was previously at Brewin Dolphin. A Chartered Wealth Manager, he started out in the industry with a short spell at Morgan Stanley, working as an Analyst. The company said it has hired 16 Investment Managers this year, across 10 of its regional offices. It is also set to open a 14th office in Leeds.
Platform and Sipp provider Embark has former Seven Investment Management (7IM) Chief Operating Officer Phillip Bungey to help run Zurich's wrap platform which it has just acquired. Bungey, who joined 7IM in 2016, was previously Chief Operating Officer at Nutmeg and has also served senior positions at Barclays Stockbrokers, UBS and Lloyd's of London. During his time at Nutmeg, Bungey established the first paperless online pension.
Nutmeg's former Chief Investment Officer Shaun Port has joined JP Morgan as Managing Director. Port left Nutmeg in October after seven years at the firm. He played a key role in establishing the online investing service and helped to set up its ETF-based investment proposition.
St James's Place (SJP) has hired high-profile fund management figure Helena Morrissey to its board as a Non-Executive Director in a bid to improve its 'culture and diversity'. The appointment comes as Morrissey unexpectedly left her role as head of personal investing at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) in October.
Former Aviva UK life boss Andy Briggs has been appointed Chief Executive of closed book pension provider Phoenix. Briggs, who left Aviva in April, will succeed Clive Bannister in the role next March.
Network Sesame Bankhall has announced a raft of management changes which will see Group Managing Director Martin Shultheiss leave the business after only a year in the role.
Quilter Investors has promoted Dean Bowden to Managing Director of the multi-asset business. The announcement sees Mr Bowden take on responsibility for the day to day running of Quilter Investors and he will continue to report into CEO Paul Simpson.
Consulting firm Mercer has announced the appointment of Steve Sands as leader of its UK Financial Planning Business. The firm says Mr Sands will be responsible for leading the continued integration of the JLT and Mercer Jelf Financial Planning teams into one business and for setting the strategic direction to drive further growth and further assist individuals as they plan to improve their financial wellness.
Brewin Dolphin has appointed Gary Le Quesne as Divisional Director for its Jersey office. Le Quesne was previously Managing and Investment Director at Jersey-headquartered Aberdeen Private Wealth Management, where he had spent over 19 years.
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the commemoration plaque which was fashioned from metal and acrylic.
The students presented the plaque to the country's leader when he visited the AMID faculty.


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Diploma of professional retraining, Social psychology and organizational consulting, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Psychology, 2000.
Diploma of Specialist of "Computers, complexes, systems and networks", St. Petersburg State Academy of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI), 1995.
Relationships between workers and organizations, employees' attitudes.
Organizational and professional loyalty (commitment), engagement and motivation of personnel.
Motivation and stimulation of professional activity: the textbook and a practical work for the academic bachelor degree / under the editorship of E.A. Rodionova. — M.: Yurayt publishing house, 2016 (chapter 4) (in Russian).
Possibility of realization of motives of professional activity in the organization// Psychology of management: a practical work / Under the editorship of the prof. G.S. Nikiforov. – SPb.: Rech, 2010. – pp. 179-183 (in Russian).
Psychology and pedagogics. External communications in the organizations: negotiations and sales (manual). - SPb.: Politechnical university publishing house, 2005 (in Russian).
Philosophy of sales (methodical manual). - SPb.: EDUCATIONAL VIDEO project, 2003 (in Russian).
Implicit diagnostics of values of the personality: prospects and restrictions//Social, economic and psychological problems of management // the Collection of scientific articles / Under the general editorship of M.G. Kovtunovich. Part 1. – M.: MGPPU, 2013. pp. 161-174 (with L.V. Mararitsa) (in Russian).
Implicit diagnostics of values of the personality//Scientific and technical sheets SPbGPU. Humanities series. No. 1 (143), 2012. – pp. 137-143 (in Russian).
Possibility of realization of motives as antecedent of organizational loyalty//Scientific and technical sheets of the St. Petersburg state polytechnical university. "Humanitarian and Social Sciences" series, No. 2 (124), 2011. – pp. 105-108 (in Russian).
Psychological diagnostics of loyalty of personnel//Scientific and technical sheets SPbGPU. Humanitarian and social sciences. No. 2 (111), 2010 – pp. 122-126 (in Russian).
How to predict organizational loyalty: assessment model//Human resource management, 2006, No. 13, pp. 62-68 (in Russian).
Organizational loyalty: main approaches//HR manager, 2006, No. 4, pp. 34-40 (in Russian).
Measurement of loyalty: working model//Personal-Miks, 2004, No. 2, pp. 114-119, No. 3, pp. 105-108 (in Russian).
Loyalty phenomenon in works of foreign researchers//Personal-Miks, 2003, No. 1, pp. 107-111 (in Russian).
Loyalty of personnel as attitude//Personal-Miks, 2002, No. 5, p. 73 (in Russian).
Motive of communication in an organizational context//Social psychology of communication: the monograph / under a general edition of A.L. Sventsitsky. - M.: INFRA-M, 2017. - pp. 166-179 (in Russian).
Social and psychological analysis of organizational loyalty of personnel//Current problems of organizational and economic psychology: collective monograph: Ch.I. / under the editorship of Yu.M. Zabrodin. – M.: MGOU publishing house, 2011. - pp. 208-263 (in Russian).
Grant of the Russian Federal Property Fund "Values of the personality as behavior predictors in an uncertainty situation", 2010-2012.
CEO, consulting company "Dominanta", 2006-.
Associate professor of social psychology department of St.Petersburg State University, 2007-2017.
The dean of faculty of psychology (till 2016), the head of the department of psychology, the Baltic university of ecology, policy and law, 2012-2017.
Associate professor of engineering pedagogics and psychology, SPb State Polytechnical University, 2002-2012.
Since 2001 Trainings and consultancy projects for different companies.
St. Petersburg psychological society, 2007-.


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This early CD was recorded with Ronnie, Michael, and their father, Ron Sr. Occasionally, Michael will mention the Mills Brothers in their concerts. This CD features "I'll Leave It All Behind" – which has a Mills Brothers' sound. If you collect Booth Brothers' music, this CD is a "must have" for your collection.


Expect approximately 30 minute – 2 hour install time.
Purpose: This mod will serve several purposes for your car. It will help you shift quicker by reducing the throw and having more confidence in shifting.
Preface: This install pretty much goes for all shifters on a LS1 F-Body. Lou's short stick just replaces the shifter handle that is already in place.
This modification is only for Manual transmission cars. This install does not have anything to do with the automatic transmissions. Before you start into this install be sure you know how to use all of your shop equipment. Take your time and be careful.
1. Chock your tires or make sure you are level ground and are in no danger moving while you are performing this install.
2. Locate the shifter in your car (see blue arrow in Figure 1).
3. Locate and remove the shift knob on your shifter (see blue arrow in Figure 2). Rotate the knob counter clockwise until it comes off. If it is a little hard to start twisting just keep at it. The knob is really hard to remove the first time.
4. Locate and remove the leather boot on your shifter (see blue arrow in Figure 3). Just be really easy and pull the shift boot up. Take note of how you take it out so you can put it back in the same way. If you are not careful you will break the thin plastic frame inside the lower part of the leather boot.
5. Please read this step in full before continuing.
Locate the emergency brake on the center console in your car. You want to place the brake in a 90-degree (straight up) position.
Be very careful when performing this step. While helping a friend swap his factory shifter for the SLP shifter he got to playing around in there (because he was curious) and broke the spring and several other components (that we did not find) causing him NOT to have his Emergency Brake.
You do not want to pull the brake with all your might to get it to be straight up. That is not how we go about this.
You will need a flat head screwdriver that is fairly long in length. Pry the rubber flaps apart on the emergency brake (see blue arrows in Figure 4). On the passenger side of the emergency brake handle you will see metal piece that appears gold in color. This is commonly referred to as a "pawl". You will need to slide the edge of the flat head screwdriver in between the pawl and the cam with teeth. You can take a look at the inside of the console in Figure 5 to get a better sense of what you are trying to do. This is easy to do because the pawl does not touch the cam.
6. Locate and open your ashtray (see blue arrow in Figure 6).
7. Remove the plastic tray by lifting it out (see blue arrows in Figure 7).
8. Locate the light bulb in the compartment (see Figure 8). Remove the bulb from the holder by squeezing the plastic clips together. It will get really hot if it has been on for any extended lengths of time. Let the light fall down underneath the console.
9. Open your storage compartment and remove the coin holder by lifting up on it (see blue arrow in Figure 9).
10. Remove the two 7 mm screws in the bottom of the compartment (see blue arrows in Figure 10).
11. Read this step in full before proceeding. Lift and remove the center compartment and gently pull the compartment back (see blue arrows in Figure 11). There is a wire connected to the cigarette lighter in the center console (see Figure 12). Once you have the console free, find and disconnect the wire harness from the cigarette lighter.
12. There is a wire connected to the auxiliary power outlet in the lower center console (see Figure 13). Press the tab down and pull the wire harness from the power outlet.
13. Remove the two 10 mm screws in the bottom of the storage compartment (see blue arrows in Figure 14).
14. Locate and remove the 13 mm bolts that are located at the base of the shifter handle (see blue arrow Figure 15 below).
15. Locate and remove the 10 mm screw that is located below the ashtray (see blue arrow Figure 16).
16. Locate and remove the 10 mm screw down next to your gas pedal (see blue arrow Figure 17).
17. Locate and remove the 10 mm screw on the passenger side of the dash down low (see blue arrow Figure 18).
18. Lift the lower part of the console up and out. Just be careful and take your time.
19. Replace the shifter handle with the Lou Salzano Shift Stick and tighten the bolts to 18 ft-lb. You want to place Lou's stick on the drivers side of the shifter as shown in Figure 23.
20. Start at Step 18 and work your way backwards reassembling everything back together. Tighten all the screws to "snug" and everything will be just fine.
Comments: A good shifter should be the first modification made to your car in our opinion. Lou's short stick makes for a great addition to a good shifter shortens the throws (amount of distance you move the shifter stick) a great deal.


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Musique Sacrée à Notre-Dame de Paris is a non-profit association created in 1991 by the City of Paris, the Ministry of Culture and the Diocesan Association of Paris.
Singing school, the association is also in charge of coordinating all of the music in the Cathedral.
Heirs to an ever-renewed secular musical tradition, instrumentalists and singers have the mission and the privilege to perform, teach and bring to life the musical heritage of the Cathedral.
The main missions of the association are:
Musical teaching of the singers of the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris (Pre-Maîtrise, Preparatory Choir and Children Choir, Young Ensemble, Adult Choir),
Organization of a concerts and auditions season,
Liturgical animation with more than 1,200 services a year,
Musicological research,
Dissemination of the repertoire and support for contemporary creation, in partnership with composers and through recordings regularly rewarded by critics,
Cultural and artistic actions through numerous partnerships such as Cultures du Cœur, Emmaüs Solidarité and the Necker Hospital for Sick Children AP-HP.
These missions are made possible with a very complete instrumental and vocal device:
Four Maîtrise choirs (Preparatory Choir and Children Choir, Young Ensemble and Adult Choir),
The Notre-Dame de Paris Vocal Ensemble,
The great organ, the choir organ and the team of organists attached to them at Notre-Dame: Vincent Dubois, Olivier Latry, Philippe Lefebvre at the great organ, as well as Yves Castagnet and Johann Vexo at the choir organ.
The concert season is an opportunity to forge French and foreign artistic partnerships with structures such as the Paris Chamber Orchestra, the CNSMDs of Paris and Lyon, the Maîtrise de Radio France, the Clare College Choir in Cambridge or the Westminster Cathedral Choir. Many conductors are invited each year: Leonardo García Alarcón, Sir Roger Norrington, David Reiland, John Nelson, Sofi Jeannin, Gustavo Dudamel…
The Association Musique Sacrée à Notre-Dame de Paris brings together multiple musical activities centered on the Cathedral of which it is named. It is at the same time a training center for young singers, choirs for children, teenagers and adults, a concert organizer and CD publisher, and the musical manager of all the offices of Notre Dame de Paris.
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Abhay Khosla | August 3, 2020
Heard any good gossip lately?
"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen. I am the Walrus." -- Vladimir Lenin
Once again, we find ourselves with a plague of scandals engulfing the North American comic book industry.
Or more accurately, remember that one, ongoing scandal that people working in comics have steadfastly ignored for years and years? The one about the dehumanization of and callous mistreatment of female creators, female fans, and female random passerbys?
Comics has to deal with that one. Again. The Comic Book Boys never did anything, all of the many other times they were asked to not dehumanize women, except congratulate themselves. So, it's scandal o'clock. Again.
And the victims we have to discuss are again relatively powerless young women. And again, there are stories of sexual grodiness, which fans are again reacting to by... attacking the women who were victimized.
And again, comic book's many Princes of Maine and Kings of New England are rushing to find a way to pat themselves on the back, despite having done nothing.
Nothing except… *squints at notes* destroying a charity…??
Tucker, what the hell have you talked me into writing abou--
For the next three weeks, at least twice a week, I'm going to talk about those recent events, at numbing length. We're going to come to terms! There's going to be special surprises! And we're all getting a virus-- the virus of understanding!
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: our discussion is limited to what has been publicly alleged. We are not ourselves affirming those allegations, merely reporting and commenting on them. If we seem to treat those allegations as "true", it is only for purposes of argument, and reflect statements of opinion, not representations of fact. We are not making any representations of fact, and will try as best as possible to make that clear by using terms like "allegedly" as much as possible-- but if we "miss a spot" that does not mean we are stating anything definitively. Again, this writing is purely opinion. The Comics Journal also is not responsible for any side effects you might have from the virus of understanding, such as nausea or pregnancy. Finally, it is the Comics Journal's position that there should be places where people go to slow dance, as adults, as in a lot of ways, that would be better. Generally-speaking.
We note at the outset that there is, among other coverage, a comprehensive Daily Beast article summarizing the state of affairs in comics in a far more concise manner than what we will be offering.
My goal here is (a) to preserve some of the smaller details that a single article can not, especially as those details continue to appear and disappear at a head-spinning clip, with many individuals tweeting and then deleting "statements," deactivating Twitter accounts, deleting web-pages, making dramatic promises that vanish, etc., and (b) to be a little more of a wallow in the details, and more editorial; probably more goofy and lame, as I can only offer you the perspective of a stone-cold dumb-ass, which the Daily Beast might frown upon.
Choose your own adventure!
There is terminology used over this series of articles that might be unfamiliar to readers. I will provide definitions for a few of those terms here, but we will also define additional terms as necessary as we go along.
"GROOMING":
Allure Magazine described grooming as follows (internal quotations omitted):
"Grooming is the slow, methodical, and intentional process of manipulating a person to a point where they can be victimized. After [the perpetrators] find their targets, they then gain trust and move in from there. No one is immune to grooming, though some are more susceptible than others — including minors, because of their naiveté. [...] [Grooming] can occur at any age, and it has a great deal to do with gullibility, insecurity, religion, and culture. [...] The whole idea of the grooming is it's a slow process and that's why, psychologically, [it] can be so damaging — especially if the [victim] is young because they don't always know what they're falling into.[..] The slow process of building trust and establishing secrecy as normal can make it hard for both victims and victims' acquaintances to recognize grooming for what it is."
Here is a (uncharacteristically useful) Quora about how grooming differs from "ordinary courting," which hones in on one of the key differences being a significant power imbalance driving the romantic relationship-- "When one person courts another, the two people are engaging each other from a place of relative equity. They have equal power; there's no clear overriding power dynamic at play. Grooming happens in contexts where there (a) is significant power imbalance; and (b) the sexual pursuit is from the person with greater power, of the person with lesser power."
See also, this article which begins with a quote from Michael Samsel: "At the beginning, all behaviors are positive. Slowly, abusive elements are added in amounts that surprise the survivor to an extent, but do not push alarm to a high level. Over time, the inappropriate comes to feel normal."
The point that "Grooming can occur at any age", in particular, seems to have eluded some people. The grievance isn't the age of the victim-- it's that people are being "groomed" (i.e. conned) to confuse abuse with "romance".
"BLUEBEARD":
The term "Bluebeard" is occasionally used, as an allusion to an an old story beloved in France. Essentially, a wealthy, powerful, respected but ugly French man with a distinctive blue beard has been married many times, but his wives have all mysteriously disappeared. Bluebeard goes to his neighbor and demands that he get to marry the man's youngest, most vulnerable daughter. Bluebeard dazzles her with his riches but insists she obey his strange, unexplained rules-- and when she disobeys, she opens a secret room in his house, a room in his house filled with the bodies of his dead, disobedient wives, hanging on hooks.
The story apparently has many variations, but you get the point-- Frenchmen: terrible at interior decorating.
Or as Kelly Faircloth writing for Jezebel maybe more aptly described it:
"Their defining characteristic is the heroine's sense that something is dreadfully off; their prevailing mood is one of anxiety and dread. The heroine enters a situation—whether as a new wife or as a companion or nanny—where there's a secret that is known to everyone but her. She is surrounded by characters who know that something is wrong, but their own agendas bind them to silence, so she's never provided the full truth; instead, she's left to fend for herself. Much like all the women who walked into rooms with Harvey Weinstein without knowing what the entire industry seemed simultaneously to know, occasionally reference obliquely, and ignore rather than act."
If you see the term Bluebeard being used, think of it from the point of view of the young wife:
She finds herself in a pseudo-romantic relationship with a more powerful person, but one where she begins to feel that something is not right-- that their "romance" might be more about that person enjoying his control over her than feeling an affection for her.
There are rules never explained, and the consequences of breaking them are severe;
The young wife experiences all of this while having to also suspect that she is not the first treated in this way, and to know in her heart that she will likely not be the last.
And the young wife is made to feel crazy for having any anxiety… because those surrounding her say nothing about how she's being treated, how others have been treated by the man… perhaps because those surrounding her themselves covet the riches, fame, power of the man.
"AN APOLOGY":
Hrm, no clue what that means. I'm a man, and apparently none of us know what one of those is.
"PANDERING TO THE LADIES":
What I was doing with that last joke, enormously successfully, to the cheers of ones of people (i.e., My Mom, who thinks I'm a special boy).
Let us also begin by reminding ourselves that there have been other "controversial" periods of time in comics history-- times where the foundational ideas of the industry have seemed shaken for all involved.
The fight over the Miracleman childbirth issue. Kirby's lawsuit to have his pages restored to him. The distribution debacle and collapse of the market in the early 90's.
Comics have not often been the better for these controversies, but it has survived them.
There was the time of Doctor Fredric Wertham, the greatest boogeyman of Comics History. Wertham wrote a book Seduction of the Innocent where he wrote about how the comic books industry would corrupt the youth.
From what I gather, Wertham worried how the outlandish content of comics might effect impressionable minds-- it wasn't like he thought that people who made comic books could run around trying to literally have sex with children. That would be unthinka--
CAMERON STEWART ALERT!
Paging Doctor Wertham! Doctor Wertham, please report to Emergency!
Who is Cameron Stewart?
Cameron Stewart is a 44-year old Eisner-winning Canadian cartoonist who has worked frequently for DC Comics as a writer or artist on titles including Batgirl, Catwoman and Seaguy.
Have you heard about someone in comics being sexually creepy?
DC Comics: Now and Forever.
He also worked on Fight Club 2, one of those (numerous) little details to 2020 that make it sound like our universe is a computer simulation that's crashing.
The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about what the Canadians are doing to our local Girl Scout troops.
The third rule of Fight Clu-- wait, where are you going???
What Allegedly Happened?
On June 15, 2020, Montreal-based artist and model Aviva Maï tweeted about being "groomed and gaslit by men in their 20s and 30s as a teenager." About a half hour later, Ms. Maï clarified:
"I'm talking about Cameron Stewart. The comic book artist. We met when I was 16 and he was in his 30's. Maybe 32? It was 2009. We flirted by text and went on one date. In 2009. When I was 16. We stayed 'friends' for a long time after that and he'd sometimes text to say that he was sad he missed his chance to date me. A couple really uncomfortable times. Took me a long time to realize what had actually happened, what he was doing, and that we were never actually friends. I'm only posting this because he's worked on a lot of comics directly aimed at young girls and women, and I want them to know what kind of person he is. It's never felt like "a good time" to say this because there isn't one, but I'm saying it anyway. That's it. Now you know."
Actress Natasha Negovanlis tweeted that she had "similar stories about him that I don't feel comfortable sharing publicly at this time but it's nice to feel less alone."
And comic creator Kate Leth replied to Ms. Maï: "Hey, me too. I was 19. I'm really fuckin sorry he caught you in his web." Ms. Leth later added that she believed Stewart was 32 at the time of their interactions.
Note: by the end of June, Ms. Leth would herself be the subject of her own controversy, as she would be accused on June 23rd by Caitlín Rosberg (part of the Eisner-nominated AV Club's Comics Panel team), and then later by several other people, of "tanking one of the biggest spaces for women in comics to talk about harassment and help maintain whisper networks", including by "fostering a racist environment" before "abandoning the whole community," referring to a retailer organization known as the Valkyries, reported on here. As of July 6th, Ms. Leth had issued a statement about the situation, promised to take a "harder look" at how she treated people, and took an indefinite break from Twitter.
On June 16, 2020, a third party claimed that they could vouch to having seen "the pain and shame [Stewart's] behavior caused" Ms. Maï. Also, Darwyn Cooke's widow Marsha Cooke tweeted about Stewart in a series of tweets: "I witnessed CS's predatory behavior, I've been warning people for over a decade." Ms. Cooke added that she allegedly knows "there will be others" with stories about Stewart because "I saw it happen"-- that Stewart "acts normal but is trying to date teenagers." She later added, "whether or not he waited until these children were of legal age is irrelevant to me, he abused his power and "fame" to seduce very young powerless women, was told many times it was gross and to stop, he did not."
On June 17, 2020, Ms. Maï added that she had been contacted by 14 other women with "similar" stories. In the replies to that tweet, one reader tweeted that she had gone on a few dates with Stewart when she was 18 and he was 34: "Looking back, it was seedy and grooming. What normal 34+ y/o has an age limit that low on Tinder?"
Furthermore, Ms. Maï's thoughts on Cameron Stewart could be seen to prompt other women to share similar experiences with still-unidentified "40-year old cartoonists."
On the same day, Scottish writer Evelyn Hollow also posted a lengthy statement about her relationship with Stewart, which began with "flirting" messages in 2011, when Ms. Hollow was 17 and became sexual thereafter when she was 18. We will omit some of the details therefrom, as they are perhaps Ms. Hollow's story to tell and not ours to exploit, except to note three things:
Stewart is described as "passive aggressive" and "quite lonely." (Hollow doesn't suggest that Stewart was purposefully keeping her away from his peer group in order to isolate her, but a reader might perhaps draw that conclusion.)
"Just remembered the time I opened up to him about failed suicide attempts & he told me "well if it didn't work why didn't you immediately try again?" I just thought it was insensitive but now I realise, with adult perspective, a grown man in his 30s who knew I was a big fan of his work basically groomed me from age 17, started a sexual relationship with me at 18, and by the time I was 22 was encouring my suicidal tendencies."
Ms. Hollow's conclusion: "Cameron hooking up with me when I was 18 and he was in his mid-30's isn't illegal but it is morally bankrupt. Especially since he started hitting on me when I was just 17. That's predatory, especially when it appears he has a history of this. [...] I don't know if I can definitively say he 'groomed' me, I need more time to process this, but all I can give you is this account of our 'relationship' and you can draw your own assessments."
Finally, one small detail in most of these accounts keeps catching for me: Stewart allegedly made drawings for all of these women-- drawings of them, their favorite cartoon characters, etc.
I don't know why my eyes keeping snagging on that bit, and I just include it here in case it makes you also feel like there's a winter inside of you with endless clouds that sunlight can never crack apart, for reasons you know you'll never find the poetry to express.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aja7Ixj3-w0
How did Cameron Stewart respond?
Cameron Stewart responded by locking his Twitter account and Instagram account. There was at least one report that on Instagram, Stewart's Instagram story was a "screenshot of a song called regret," which is coincidentally the name of my favorite Sam Hunt song.
Stewart also allegedly reached out to Ms. Hollow with an e-mail she reprinted entitled "An Apology" where he states that he has sought out counseling and is "profoundly sorry" and
...devastated to hear that you said that I encouraged you to commit suicide. From the bottom of my heart I swear to you that I never would have knowingly or intentionally said that, and can only blame a failure of communication on my part to have ever given you that impression.
So, yeah: Stewart said that he was devastated that a woman he allegedly groomed had misheard him.
The Comic Book Industry: still batting a thou on apologies!
Controversy! The Comic Book Business Reacts!
Cameron Stewart had his defenders. For example, Conan artist Patrick Zircher, who industry peers apparently commonly refer to as the "Mike Love of comics", tweeted in support of Stewart for a significant period of time. Despite hearing multiple people saying they were hurt by Stewart, right in front of him, Zircher seemed to argue that these women weren't entitled to feel hurt.
Whatever you might think about the merits of his argument, the timing was not ideal: generally speaking, you just may not want your first reaction to hearing about a grown man's "relationship" with a 16 year old girl to begin with "My take is...". But unfortunately, due to the quarantine, Patrick Zircher couldn't just go door-to-door in a children's cancer ward and personally tell each dying child his opinions about whether they deserved pain meds. So, I guess this was the next best thing...?
After being criticized, Zircher then switched his twitter to Private Mode, hiding in a "safe space", just like Conan would have. He was in Private Mode for most of the time while this was being written, unfortunately, only thereafter switching back to public mode (curtailing a full accounting / celebration of those tweets).
Reactions to Mr. Zircher's tweets include "Fuck you", "LOL FUCK YOU AGAIN", "Fuck off lmao", "wow you suck", "it reads like the scientist from dawn of the dead yelling at the camera man", and "IMO fuck him."
Some also suggested that this was the second time Zircher had rushed to the rescue when a male comic book artist was accused of sexual misconduct-- perhaps implying that Zircher's motivation wasn't to contemplate morality, so much as to lecture young women, just like any two-bit deeply-insecure internet Reply Guy showing up in random women's tweets to tell them what's what. Young women, notoriously eager to hear what the artist on Conan thinks about sexual mores!
In response to criticisms of his "takes" (and despite having stated in 2018 that "ultimately SJWs are just the people who care"), Zircher approvingly tweeted a characterization of the people on the internet mocking him and insulting him… as being like "McCarthyism!"
Ah yes, one remembers Joe McCarthy's famous question at the HUAC Hearings: "Have you now or have you ever been a grown man who gave himself the nickname Patch on the internet? LOL Fuck you dude."
Besides the chinstroke-bonfire of the Mike Love of Comics, the more interesting industry reactions were perhaps those of Stewart's colleagues in the Toronto comics scene.
For example: Marvel/Image creator Chip Zdarsky. I had purchased some comics directly from Cameron Stewart at a San Diego Comic-Con (somewhere between 2003 and 2009?). At that time, he was tabling with Zdarsky, among others, so Zdarsky was the first name that came to my mind when the Stewart news arose. And indeed, Zdarsky commented on June 17, 2020:
"I shared a studio with Cameron in the early 2000s and it was a running joke in the studio that he was a serial dater. He was in his late 20s and his dates were usually in their early 20s. It seemed harmless, it seemed like he was in a phase of life the rest of us couldn't relate to. After we went our separate ways I would hear stories, some first-hand, showing that this was still the case well into his 30s. I never questioned him on it, never confronted him on it. It all just struck me as sad. If there's anything the last few weeks have drilled into me it's that it's not enough to just stand on the sidelines shaking your head. We all have to actively work to make everyone feel welcome, to call people on their behaviour, to be a part of the process no matter how uncomfortable it makes us. I believe the women coming forward and I'm sorry I stood on the sidelines. It's not who I want to be, and I'll work harder to not just listen, but to act. To have the hard conversations with friends and acquaintances."
Zdarsky then asked that people not praise him for his statement.
At Chip Zdarsky's request, the Comics Journal will therefore not be including the lengthy section we had planned thanking Chip Zdarsky for being longtime friends with Stranger Danger.
Zdarsky's statement apparently has now been deleted, though. UHM: why did he delete the tweet about how he wants to make everyone feel welcome? Did he reconsider that? "You know on second thought, making people feel welcome-- will I have to pick them up at the airport?" That… the making people welcome part part sounded good..? "I deleted the tweet about how I don't murder." So, that means… Wait- what?!
Ramon Perez, the current Managing Director of RAID Studios issued similar tweets on June 17th, that "Cameron Stewart was a colleague, who I had known through the Toronto comics community. We also shared studio space as part of the collective RAID for several years. I never imagined that his serial-dating habits - which were often gossiped about within the community - concealed a pattern of unethical behaviour." He added that he was "heartbroken that our inaction was as much a part of the problem in creating this unsafe environment" and apologized to Ms. Maï.
And again on June 17th, RAID itself tweeted from an official studio account that they were "appalled and saddened."
...the reaction from Comic Books: Maple Leaf Division was a little strange, if one takes a step back from it:
"I knew that Cameron Stewart was a serial dater but I didn't know anyone was 16! I thought Cameron and I were both good people who loved Labatt's Blue and supported our blackface-wearing Prime Minister, just regular old good Canadians-- I didn't know him rampaging through a crowd of 19 year old girls while in his 30's actually hid *far more unethical behavior,* ya hosers."
I just have never heard the phrase "serial dater" before which all these Canucks seem to have landed on. "We knew he was *solemn voice* a serial dater." Did I miss "serial dating" being a phrase we all know now? Are serial daters something they have in Canada but we don't know anything about here in the United States, like Health Care or manners?
A lot of Comic Book Dudes seem to believe there's two stories here: (1) the siren-going-off "16 years old" story and then (2) the "girls over 18" story. But it's just one story, though, isn't it? It's one story-- not a story just about the specific age of the girls (though that part… not great, fellas!...), but how they all seemed to feel that Stewart wanted them at a point in their lives before they would know that what he was up to was creepy, that what he wanted was not a real relationship of co-equal partners but something far darker, lonelier, and sadder. It's one story: how they seem to have felt preyed upon because of their naivety; desired not for who they are but for this quality they possessed-- the quality of not seeing immediately what he was (allegedly) up to, a quality of "not being old enough or experienced enough to ask questions"!
If true, I don't think that's a story that we should suddenly be okay with when someone hits an arbitrary "age of consent."
Also unimpressed with this Canuck-ery? Ms. Maï, who on June 19th tweeted:
"I've considered a lot of the guys from RAID friends for years now. Not anymore. I told multiple men who shared a studio with Cameron about what he did. None of them were surprised. I heard the "oh he's gross with girls" line."
Finally, as for publishers, Stewart has lost work therefrom as of the date of this publication. Namely, he has been removed from an unannounced DC Comics project he was working on and lost cover work on Image Comics's Ice Cream Man.
If there's any truth to these allegations, that would be pretty awful, right?
Of the stories we have to discuss, the Stewart accusations are the easiest to condemn:
"Don't! Don't do that! Neither text nor date children! You're not in a 70′s mid level rock band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom! You are not a KROQ DJ in 1982! You're not 1990's Jerry Seinfeld, saying 'What is the DEAL with these people' to the delight of millions while rolling around on a 18 year old who you met when she was 17! You are not beloved actor Paul Walker (RIP) in the 00's! There are limits, except when there are not, which is frighteningly often!"
But of all of these stories, maybe it's also the one that I probably should feel most implicated by...?
I mean, I'm a middle-aged guy. And I'd like to think my interests in the opposite sex have evolved and broadened and deepened as time has gone on. But if I had to "interrogate my sexual interests"-- and I used to interrogate them every night, before the Lexepro hit... Would that be a comfortable conversation for me to have with myself? And would it be a comfortable conversation for other people in line at Starbucks to overhear, because sometimes I think out loud?
I think that could get pretty dark, pretty fast, just considering the culture that surrounds us isn't one that ever, ever hesitates to sexualize young women. Our culture would sexualize a 12 year old girl in a heartbeat if it meant it could raise the price of tea cozies by two cents. Our pop culture constantly celebrates abusive relationships, in particular. The Twilight novels were criticized for romanticizing abuse and getting us all horny-for-days for full-length khaki skirts. The recent Star Wars movies turned out to be about being hot for a Nazi. I could talk about Pretty Little Liars, at length, as is I'm sure is common for middle-aged heterosexual men. And of course, comics had its great contribution to the genre, with DC Comics's Harley Quinn media empire, a sustained propaganda campaign by DC Entertainment to promote abuse and/or Hot Topic and/or Jared Leto… All bad! ALL BAD!
But in my defense, I am certainly not a serial dater. If I tried to be a serial dater, I'd be Trix serial because there would immediately be a crowd of young people screaming "this is not for you, silly rabbit" at me. I could not get away with anything-- I would not have the artist of Sex Criminals "not noticing" what I was up to or whatever the hell (The book is called Sex Criminals! The simulation is crashing!). I just don't think I get the part where you say to yourself "oh, she doesn't understand who and what I am" and then high-five a mirror and keep going, on your way to winning a Worm Decathalon. I'm not the greatest guy, but I don't think that I can relate to that part!
But the portrait of Stewart presented by his accusers is perhaps one not too unfamiliar to comic readers-- a portrait that many comic readers should recognize: that of a man who got to a certain age, got to a certain point in his development as a person, and just … froze there. And then, he couldn't get himself unstuck.
I think I know what that feels like.
You can certainly see that same story at every comic convention-- you can see it being sold to people as a new national religion. The nitwits yelling at Martin Scorsese last year for not respecting Thor 2: The Dark World? I have a pretty good guess what church they go!
And I remember the sort of online communities that Stewart would have likely been around as a young artist. I remember the imagery of women on those. The male cartoonists of an earlier era of internet message-boards constantly expressed identical visual interests as Stewart: it was always very young girls. There are artists on now long forgotten forums that I don't know if I ever saw them draw anything, anything!, besides 15 year old girls licking giant lollipops.
Part of me wonders if the time those men spent drawing pubescent girls over and over and over-- struggling to illustrate the texture of a teenage girl's flannel pajamas… If that doesn't dig some wrong kind of groove into a person's medulla oblongata.
I've never really thought seriously about drawing being a potentially harmful activity before this Moment, but suddenly now it seems like I should entertain that possibility in a way that I would have scoffed at before.
Was I a fool to ever see it any other way? Have I been a fool? Should I have been wearing the pants of a fool? Oh no, Fool Pants!
Although: look, I'd like to believe you can date outside your age group, without "grooming" people. Age gaps never sounded easy to me! But I'd like to think that's possible-- I mean, I'm not a cop! I like minding my own business! If it's just a sex thing (and everyone involved knows it's just a sex thing) or something transactional? Enjoy! Enjoy your sex! But if it's supposed to be more than that, if it's sold as a "real relationship"? Heck, I would still like to think there are good relationships that people seem to have had even when not of the same generation.
But when you see fans online making that argument when discussing Stewart specifically, there's a defensiveness and a refusal to hear what these women are describing-- and how sharply it contrasts with normal relationships.
They are just not describing normal, healthy-sounding relationships-- the phrase "encouraging suicide" really shouldn't come up in those! Talking about Batgirl pajamas? 100% Hot, God is real, Si a todo! Talking about Batgirl pajamas "my mom bought me" when talking about a 30+ year old man? Go directly to Jail!
They're describing the second act of an Ari Aster movie.
One Last Thing...
I know Cameron Stewart is devout fan of Twin Peaks... a show about how society avoids looking directly at the victimization of teenage girls. If these allegations turn out to be true, I kind of selfishly want to know…
Who was he rooting for? What show was he watching? Who did he relate to?
Or as a guy who lived in Toronto, did he view Scott Pilgrim as the Shakespearean tragedy of a Canadian getting distracted from dating a High School girl?
What was going on over there with the Stewart boy??
Are these the most important questions we can ask at this time? No.
But should they be asked? Also, no.
Would any reasonable person ask them? Definitely not.
But we're going to ask every question we can anyways! We're going to solve this Crazy Thing called Life, you and I! We're gonna do it! I believe! We have this! WE HAVE THIS!
(Narrator: "He did not have this.")
TO BE CONTINUED ON WEDNESDAY.
Written by Abhay Khosla
Topics Abhay Khosla, Cameron Stewart, News
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Q: Connect a USB device (smart card reader) on android I have some trouble to connect a USB smart card reader on my Android Tablet (ICS 4.0.3). This one not recognized the reader. I used "USB device info" application, and I saw that Linux system can see the reader, but not android system (using USB Host API)
I tried to connect it on my Galaxy Nexus (Jelly bean 4.1.1) and it worked
Could someone help me, I can understood why my phone recognizes it, but not the tablet
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A: I suspect that the host feature may be disabled on your tablet.
I find this a little surprising as for the most part it tends to be enabled on tablets but I would certainly suggest that you check.
The following post is probably the best reference to look at as it is concise:
Android USB host and hidden devices
You ought to be able to see this via adb shell or by downloading a terminal emulator from google play.
I had exactly the same symptoms on my Sony Xperia neo phone running CM9. The rom would see the device but the API would not. Even supported devices such as a usb mouse would be detected and working but unseen by the api. This might be an easy way for you to ttest my theory. Plug in a USB mouse, it should work, does the API see it? If not then the thread above almost certainly relates to your issue in my experience.

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Boston Globe Updates on Chai Ling's Nonprofit Work
Linda Matchan reports on Boston Globe today updating the status of Chai Ling's work in her nonprofit organization "All Girls Allowed," which fights against gender-selective abortion in China influenced by the country's one-child policy.
The newspaper describes her efforts as
Into this battle steps [Chai] Ling, who has had brushes with controversy even in this country. In civilian life she is the founder and president of Jenzabar, which makes educational software; her husband, Robert Maginn Jr., is chief executive. Jenzabar's charitable foundation has committed $1 million to All Girls Allowed, which, with the help of private donations, dispatches volunteer foot soldiers to run four projects in China. A "Baby Shower'' program gives financial incentives to mothers who keep their daughters. A scholarship program enrolls orphan girls in schools. All Girls Allowed provides legal aid to women who have been the victims of forced abortion.
It also operates antitrafficking campaigns, in one case crossing vast rural areas north of the Yellow River, distributing 60,000 pamphlets, and setting up a hotline in a successful search for a 3-year-old girl named Little Bean who'd been snatched in front of her house in 2010. The organization also hosts a website featuring profiles of kidnapped children and practical information on how to keep kids from being tricked or snatched. A typical post: "When walking with your child along the road, always have the child farthest away from the road to prevent traffickers from grabbing them as they speed by in a motorcycle or van."
[Chai] Ling reports that so far 550 mothers have received financial gifts, 25 orphans have enrolled in schools, and four children have been reunited with their parents. It's modest progress considering the scope of the problem: according to the group's own data, there are 1.3 million forced abortions in China every year, 1.1 million infants abandoned, and 200,000 children trafficked.
It describes Chai Ling as passionate in her endeavor, driven by her recent conversion to Christianity.
The paper also mentions controversies surrounding Chai Ling and her software company Jenzabar, including lawsuits brought by their former investors and employees. It says the court had cleared Chai Ling for any wrongdoings.
The other, perhaps more prominent, lawsuit is the one Chai Ling brought upon the producers of documentary "Gate of Heavenly Peace." Although that suit has been rejected by the court, the paper states that "Jenzabar is appealing."
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