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OVO’s Family Business

With his friends, Drake made OVO an institution. Now the men behind the boy are figuring out what to build next with all that power, and how they’ll do it.

Photographer Daniel Shea
September 25, 2015
OVO’s Family Business Noah "40" Shebib
OVO’s Family Business Oliver El-Khatib

Across the street from S.O.T.A. Studios, a brand new live/work complex in an industrial cul-de-sac at the edge of Toronto’s West End, a blonde in a colorful sports bra and a pair of running shorts stands atop a speed boat parked in a gravel lot, cleaning it with a hose and a bucket. It’s a humid August day, the sun is way up in the sky, and the neighborhood is quiet, save the occasional car driving by. The woman likely has no idea what goes on in the squat gray building 100 feet away, where Drake records and where October’s Very Own—the label and clothing brand he jointly owns with manager Oliver El-Khatib and engineer and producer Noah “40” Shebib—has recently planted new roots. There are two cars parked outside; near the entrance, a pair of hockey nets is set up.

Drake has been famous since the early days of the Obama presidency. Meanwhile, the team that’s buoyed his career has operated partly under shadow. Drake’s OVO associates have avoided press and chosen to let Drake speak as their representative; the likable picture he’s drawn in return is an aspirational folktale, of a kid from Toronto who became a star with the help of his best friends. But as Drake enters a new stratosphere of pop stardom, OVO is reckoning with what it means to scale a small business. The construction of the multi-million dollar studio and office space has marked an important step for the company—a centralization of its sprawling efforts, and a more formal approach to its undeniable growth.

S.O.T.A.—the acronym stands for “state of the art”—was built over the course of a year and a half by 40, the producer largely responsible for masterminding Drake’s sound and the superintendent of the OVO Sound label. This is where he and Drake have been working on Drake’s upcoming album, Views From the 6, but it’s also 40’s home; only a door separates his condo from the studio and office. In the studio’s sparse and modern lounge, abstract black-and-white geometric shapes jut out from the wall, and a blue light beams from the ceiling, brightening up the space-gray decor. Everything is sleek and cold, except for a watchful wooden owl sitting alone on a white cabinet. The figure looks like the crew’s official logo, a minimalist outline derived from the birdlike look of the letters that form OVO.

When I meet 40 there, he’s coasting on two-and-a-half hours of sleep. (Insomniac dedication to work earned Shebib his nickname—40 is shorthand for “40 days and 40 nights,” the mythical length of time he’d stay up to work on a project.) He’s dressed in a white-and-blue T-shirt from a recent OVO collection, and the hem of his light blue jeans spills over a pair of white-and-gold OVO Jordan 10s, produced with Jordan Brand as part of its first endorsement of someone who isn’t an athlete.

Later, perched on a chair behind his boards, 40 points to an elevated part of the studio where a cushioned bench lines the wall. “I sit here,” he says. “Drake sits there. We work.” The two have been at each other’s sides for seven years—“for some reason, the way Noah hears things is the way I hear it,” Drake told The FADER in 2011. “We have a creative relationship,” 40 says. “We go into the studio and we make music together, and that’s the most important thing to me. I protect that with my life.”

40’s instinctual understanding of Drake’s nuances, and the technical know-how he learned as an intern of legendary engineer Noel “Gadget” Campbell, have been instrumental to Drake’s success. With S.O.T.A., 40 now aspires to also become “an ultimate resource” for PARTYNEXTDOOR, Roy Wood$, Majid Jordan, and the other artists on OVO Sound’s growing roster who’ll use the studio as a clubhouse. “I’m able to help them with their process and how they’re recording, or with toys and instruments and machines that they didn’t maybe know about,” he says. “I can expose them to knowledge. I pride myself on my skill sets. I care about this stuff. I built this massive place, right?”

The skilled community that will work at S.O.T.A. is a living rebuttal to the old idea that being from Toronto ruined your chances of global music industry success. “The conversation when I was a kid was, ‘Will anyone ever do it?’ The conversation now is, ‘Who’s next?’” 40 says. “Someone else is gonna come through a door [that Drake opened], but I don’t know if someone else will ever make a difference like that. We did the heavy lifting. No one else has to come do that heavy lifting again. It’s been done.”

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“Someone else is gonna come through a door [that Drake opened], but I don’t know if someone else will ever make a difference like that. We did the heavy lifting. No one else has to come do that heavy lifting again. It’s been done.” —Noah “40” Shebib

Within OVO, Drake is the leader—the boy, as they all call him, to rally around. And sitting on his proverbial shoulders, yelling in each ear, are 40 and Oliver El-Khatib, Drake’s manager, longtime creative confidante, and friend. “Truth be told, Drake’s career has always been the three of us knocking our heads off a table, trying to figure everything out,” 40 says. “That’s the power of OVO.”

Oliver and 40 were close before either met Drake. They became friends in grade 9 homeroom and were members of a DJ collective called the Lebanon Dons. From 2008 to 2009, they were roommates, living in a condo along Toronto’s lakeside. Oliver worked for a retailer that owned three menswear boutiques, and 40 eked out a living at an arts nonprofit while engineering on the side. 40 heard Drake’s Boi-1da-produced “Do What U Do” on the radio and wondered who the boy with the new flow was; around the same time, Drake was looking for 40, an engineer with a budding reputation, to help him record a follow-up project. “I was hunting for him, he was looking for me,” 40 says. The two only met, though, after Oliver passed 40 Drake’s number and nudged them together when they found themselves in the same room: “It was Oliver who gave me the kick in the ass I needed,” says 40.

Today, Oliver helps manage Drake’s career and oversees the growth of OVO’s clothing line. Leadership comes from others too—Drake’s longtime DJ-turned-co-manager Future the Prince, and Majid Jordan’s manager Drex Jancar, for instance—but 40 and Oliver, 40 says, create “balance” in OVO, helping the team cover necessary ground by piloting divergent initiatives. 40 makes sure the songs sound like they should, and Oliver looks after everything else—or, as 40 puts it: “the brand, where we’re going, the feeling, the vibe.”

Sitting at a marble dining table in his Toronto apartment, not far from where he grew up, Oliver defines himself as a “worker, not an artist.” He connects dots, curates the moodboard. Back in 2008, it was Oliver that suggested the Tears for Fears sample and that helped give Drake’s breakthrough 2009 mixtape, So Far Gone, its off-kilter, pastiche texture. “The joy of my life is making music with those two guys,” he explains. “I don’t physically play an instrument or produce records. The charm of what I bring to the table is that sometimes it’s just ideas.”

Early on, Oliver’s impact was most visible on OVO’s blogspot, where he began to stitch together an identity for the company under the alias Olivier the Parisian Gangster. The blog’s first post was published in April of 2008—a photo of Oliver wearing a distressed Canadian tuxedo, a cigarette dangling from his lips, along with this short mission statement: “Thank you, Thank you. This note will be consisting of things that I personally co-sign and or find of interest. Please enjoy and feel free to comment. Peace, O.”

The site gathered fashion photos he liked, plugged the stores he worked at, and shared music he and the crew deemed important. If it was cool, it would get love. Seven years later, Oliver is a widely recognized curator. His ear drives OVO’s biweekly show on Apple Music’s global streaming network, Beats 1, which has premiered new Drake and Majid Jordan songs since its launch in June. The show has also promoted a new crop of Toronto artists—young rapper Safe, and spoken-word artist Mustafa the Poet—as well as little-known British rappers like Nines and Section Boyz. This is a meritocracy, like the blog before it, where anyone can earn a look. “There is no nepotism or favoritism in that radio show or anything we do,” Oliver says.

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“It’s not a job that we all go home from. It’s something that we’ve put our own time and money and equity into, and we’re building it with hammers and nails.” —Oliver El-Khatib

These days, Oliver’s main project is OVO’s fashion line. OVO collaborated with brands like Canada Goose and Roots Canada on designs for high-end coats and jackets in 2011, the same year they sold their first in-house product: T-shirts featuring the owl logo. Now, the company is producing a wider line: hats, graphic tees, and sweatshirts, but also towels, tracksuits, tote bags, and, more recently, cut-and-sew button-ups. Product drops follow their own schedule, with limited runs of new designs arriving every month or two. “I’m really proud of where the brand is at today,” says Oliver. “The clothing business is a tough business to go into and have success. It’s something that takes a long time, and it’s an immense amount of work—you’re working 16, 18 months out.”

As they take on the logistics of making clothes, Oliver emphasizes that OVO remains a “mom-and-pop” operation, owned by itself. “If there is any idea that this is some massive corporate entity that’s worth billions of dollars, then that’s a misconception,” he says, laughing. “There’s a few of us putting our blood, sweat, and tears into this 24/7. It’s a lifestyle. It’s not a job that we all go home from. It’s something that we’ve put our own time and money and equity into, and we’re building it with hammers and nails.”

OVO products are sold through a minimalist e-shop and at a meticulous brick-and-mortar store in Little Portugal, a slowly gentrifying strip of quickly gentrifying Toronto. “This seemed like a place that was going to be sustainable for us,” Oliver says of the store’s location. “We’re a destination, so it wasn’t going to matter if we were in a central or upscale area.” A year after its doors opened, it’s not unusual to see kids lined up outside to cop new hats or just catch a glimpse of OVO crew members through the glass storefront. Oliver calls the shop OVO’s “tangible access point” and says he’s “100 percent” involved with its design and staffing. “Who’s working in the store? What music is playing in the store? What’s the vibe in the store? What’s the temperament in the store? That’s a complete extension of our brand. It’s very, very important for people to be able to go there and see what it is,” he says.

The shop is an exercise in clever marketing and offers an additional income stream—hats are priced at $45 CAD and a full tracksuit can run you as much as $300—but it’s also a symbol of OVO’s devotion to Toronto and their desire to change the city’s cultural landscape. Growing up, Oliver says he “never really saw a clear path” for himself in school, and struggled to find mentorship or entry points into Canada’s limited creative industries. Now that he’s made himself successful in a creative role that bridges music and fashion, he sees the store as a way to celebrate kids like his younger self, who have “incredible work ethic, incredible ideas, and an incredible amount of passion.” He envisions the space as a place where creatives can “come together and meet other people like them,” and where eventually those meetings will result in “something new.”

Ten years ago, Oliver might have left Toronto for New York, L.A., or London to find work and build a life. Today, OVO’s example has arguably made it more appealing for young people to stay put, and the store is a symbol of possibility and pride. “We’re from a city where I’m not sure if we’ve fully embraced our identity as creative people yet,” Oliver says. “If there’s anything that we want to put forth, it’s just to have some patriotism for what we’re doing here and to look within for talent and for inspiration.” This vision has earned him fans of his own; in a YouTube video scrutinizing OVO’s Spring 2015 products, a young reviewer says, “Oliver, I look up to him so much. More than I look up to Drake, honestly.”

For years, Drake, 40, and Oliver’s stated goal has been to make the city proud. And now that together they’ve sold millions of records and built an undeniable brand, the city is proud—rallying behind the Raptors (Drake serves as the NBA team’s global ambassador) and calling itself The 6 (a nickname popularized by Drake in the past year, drawn from Toronto’s 416 and 647 area codes). The annual OVO Fest now features an educational seminar (OVO Summit) and a community basketball championship (OVO Bounce), events that tease the kind of programming OVO might support in Toronto down the line. But to expand their offerings, Drake must continue to thrive—if he crumbles, everything could crumble with him. “Drake has to stay touring and keep the machine running so that we can help the city. I want to start setting up more speaking engagements, community programs with music programming,” 40 explains. “If he just stops everything he’s doing, what happens next?”

OVO’s Family Business

Asked about his vision for OVO’s future, Oliver is reluctant to pin down the company’s next moves, perhaps aware that as OVO grows bigger, its reputation will be harder than ever to have charge of. The music industry is volatile, audiences are fickle, and no amount of talent can guarantee buzz. For a company like theirs, the key to long-term success is both simpler and more elusive than opening more stores or breaking sales records: as one trend gives way to the next, they always need to stay relevant. “I’m proud of the work that the team has done and I’m a part of that. I’m proud, but there’s no time to celebrate,” he says. “I live my life by letting the work do the talking,” he says. “I do my very best. It’s good to have goals, but sometimes the goals are just for yourself. They don’t need to be shared. All you can do is focus on what’s within your control.”

As they’re beginning to put in work on Views, the crew appears cautiously anxious. Drake has sustained an incredible run, producing hit songs and cultural flashpoints with seeming effortlessness, helping OVO flourish as a result. Now, together, they’re finding out how long a person can do this for. “That’s where the challenges start to lie—‘Well, can you do it again? Can you do it again on demand? Can you do it again on demand after that?’ That’s what separates the greats, is when you’re able to step up time and time again, and deliver,” 40 explains.

OVO will approach Views in much the same way as they’ve approached projects since their earliest days, Oliver says. For Drake, 40, and Oliver, that means holing up in the studio, knocking their heads together, and only stopping when it’s good. “We’re just really getting back to basics and not giving ourselves any sense of deadline,” Oliver says. “Just letting it happen naturally. That’s how we’ve always done it. When it’s done, it’s done. If we love it, we love it.” He steers Drake’s career and the calculated strategy behind it, but true to OVO’s foundation, prefers to hear good music than to worry about how to sell it. “We’re committed to doing work,” he says. “What manifests from that is just as exciting to me as it is to you, or anybody—any fan of music.”

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Staten Islanders and people throughout New York City who seek medical treatment will have the right to expect that they will be given the proper diagnosis, get the medication they need and have the care that is required to improve the injury, illness or condition. However, medical mistakes are all-too common today, and those who make the mistake should be held accountable for what went wrong.

Slip-and-fall hazards inside a building

When you enter a building in New York, you may expect to feel relatively safe from accidents. After all, many buildings comply with federal standards established for safety and accessibility. Whether it is a place that is new to you, somewhere you have visited before, or your own apartment or office building, you have a right to move about without fear of hurting yourself.

Medical mistakes could result from doctors being burned out

When a Staten Island resident is victimized by medical mistakes, it can cause an untold amount of damage personally and financially. When this happens, after trying to make certain the person receives the necessary care after the errors occurred, it is important to understand what sparked the mistake in the first place. Studies are frequently conducted to determine how doctors come to make these mistakes. One recent study says that burnout is a major factor. This can be crucial when considering a legal filing for compensation.

Staten Island woman hit by a car while crossing street dies

Anyone who ventures out of their home in Staten Island and throughout New York City will be aware of the number of vehicles that speed, behave recklessly, are negligent and place others in danger. In some cases, this will lead to a vehicle-pedestrian accident. Because pedestrians do not have the protection of a vehicle, there is a chance they will be injured and even killed in a crash. In many, the driver of the vehicle will choose to flee rather than stay at the scene, turning these crashes into hit-and-run accidents. People who have been injured or lost a loved one in a pedestrian crash should keep in mind that they have the right to seek compensation in a lawsuit.

Despite better safety, infotainment leads to distracted drivers

New Yorkers are keenly aware of the dangers distracted drivers represent. Often, these drivers are thought to be texting and driving or using their smartphones for other purposes behind the wheel. In an effort to make it safer to use modern technology while driving, car companies and outside manufacturers are trying to create new methods and simultaneously improve safety. Infotainment systems that are meant to make driving and using these innovations safer come in different forms. Some tested as safer than others, but they were also shown to require cognitive attention that still places people in danger.

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The Goodly Beggars formed in 2009 when childhood friends Charles Atkinson and Philip Barrows ended up at the same small liberal arts school and began writing and playing music together. In 2011 they had the chance to record their songs, most in a single take to preserve the raw, live energy. And somewhere in between the sandwich runs and the midnight sessions in which you happen to run into an entire chorus of friends who would sound perfect for "Moss Cathedrals" (or capture THE saxophone solo for "Yunnan") Chew the Pages EP was born. The E.P. is currently available for free download on NoiseTrade (though tips to the banjo string fund are appreciated).

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We should forgive Scrabble cheats. Board games bring out the worst in us

A doyen of the word game has been accused of tampering with his tiles. But as peak board game season approaches, let’s lay off the four-letter words
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‘When I’ve cheated – and I have cheated – it’s because I’ve been so bored by the board game that I’ve longed to bring things to a conclusion.’ Photograph: Richard Lewis/Mattel/PA

As a child whose parents came of age in the 1970s, I was brought up listening to a lot of Abba. Even though I was wildly out of step with my peers, I became an obsessive Abba fangirl, and spent the time that I should have invested on pursuits like “making friends” and “being outdoors” on studying their lyrics with a forensic keenness.

I knew the band was comprised of two couples who had split, and I had a spooky feeling that the split had been foretold by the single The Name of the Game, which had surely been inspired by countless group Ludo tournaments. I had five little sisters, and I knew that family board game sessions were a bad business, ending in tears, recriminations and someone trying to remember how to do the Heimlich manoeuvre because someone else had tried to eat seven plastic hotels and a small metal scotty dog.

It has always astonished me that there are people in the world who are prepared to professionally devote themselves to board games, because, after growing up in a household in which every child had, at times, behaved like Steven Seagal in a pool hall, but with Scrabble tiles, I cannot comprehend the focus and calm that must be required to succeed in that world.

So in some ways, I’m not surprised to learn that the Association of British Scrabble Players has banned one of its leading players following allegations of a serious misdemeanour. Allan Simmons, the author of several Scrabble books, and the Times’ Scrabble correspondent, was accused of cheating after three independent witnesses said they saw Simmons returning freshly drawn tiles to the bag, and replacing them with new ones.

Simmons has denied cheating. The Times quotes him as saying: “Games can be quite intense and there’s a lot going through one’s mind, let alone remembering to religiously ensure tile-drawing rules are followed meticulously.” I would say, “Yeah, Allan, but as a Scrabble dilettante and regular single-word-score loser, even I know that you’re not supposed to take a secret squint at your handful, decide that you’re all vowelled out and go back for a double dip.” However, I suspect that when the stakes are high and the pressure is mounting, even a professional might go to extremes simply to get out of the game and go home.

When I’ve cheated – and I have cheated – it’s because I’ve been so bored by the board game that I’ve longed to bring things to a conclusion. I’ve taken advantage of distracted Monopoly players by taking my turn and not saying, “Oooh, who owns Park Lane?” I may not have secretly refreshed my unused Scrabble tiles, but I have sworn that Qxatt is a word. “Honestly, it’s a South American hallucinogenic tea used in a special dream ceremony. It was just on a BBC Two documentary. Look it up if you don’t believe me!” I’ve even broken wind loudly and unapologetically in order to mask the noise of the telltale buzz in Operation.

I admit that I’m unscrupulous, but this is born out of a healthy disrespect for the rules. Even though those rules are enforced by my family members in a painful, punishing way.

Once, when I was flagging after three hours of Monopoly during the summer holidays, and trying to make my escape, one of my sisters solemnly informed me that when you start the game, you enter into a contract that can be enforced by law. “In Victorian times, a man went to prison for abandoning a game,” she said, in a tone that implied that, if I were to leave, she would call 999.

My parents are usually kind, calm people who love each other’s company, and as a child I usually only ever saw them argue in two places. In the car, and on either side of the Scrabble board. My husband is a man who rarely raises his voice, yet occasionally I’ll hear him yelling something blunt and Anglo Saxon from the other end of the sofa. Has something terrible happened? Sort of. One of his Words with Friends buddies has managed to make a seven-letter word, inspiring a four-letter response.

Our friends and family are never stranger to us than when we play board games, and as Christmas is coming, I’d hope that Simmons’ story inspires some caution among us all. Board games can produce the strangest, least reasonable behaviour from the most unlikely people. If tensions are already running high and everyone has had some Baileys, Scrabble should come with a trigger warning.


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How un-Australian can you get? Lawyers providing pro bono services to refugees are hopelessly “un-Australian”, according to Peter Dutton, the minister for immigration and border protection.

Yet, the minister’s crass joke about Pacific island nations being threatened by rising sea waters is not un-Australian, nor are comments about “illiterate ... innumerate” refugees taking Australian jobs; or describing a female reporter in the Canberra press gallery as a “mad fucking witch”; or refusing an abortion to a pregnant asylum seeker after she had been raped.

They all meet Australian standards, according to Dutton’s skewed grasp of decency. This year he tried to reset the rule of law in a way more favourable to his doggedly inflexibility and boundless ambition. He declared that members of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal were ideologically motived and for good measure Queensland magistrates were “hopeless leftwing softies”.

This from a minister who is out of his depth when it comes to understanding how the AAT functions in immigration and refugee cases (among other things he believes the tribunal hands down “sentences”). It’s a lack of understanding not confined to his job as immigration minister but harks back to his time as health minister where a survey of doctors found Dutton to be the worst health minister in 35 years.

Quite apart from questions about his ability there are issues of character that go to the way he exercises his overreaching authority. There is a real question whether someone so devoid of empathy is a fit and proper person to be handed wide, discretionary and unreviewable powers as the new minister for home affairs.

Liberty Victoria described his current responsibilities as minister for immigration and border protection as “problematic ministerial powers” or the “God powers”.

He has wide discretions over people’s lives with limited or no options for review or challenge. He can send people to indefinite offshore or onshore detention, he can turn boats back at sea, he can hold people on the high seas, he can grant visas, he can deny visas, and he can send people back to places they are fleeing.

His current portfolio goes beyond immigration and refugee matters, extending to tariff classifications, imports, exports, customs, citizenship and security at airports and ports. The portfolio of immigration and border protection vests this minister with the greatest number of ministerial public interest or national interest powers: 47 in total, according to Liberty Victoria’s study.

Dutton is responsible for the administration of 20 acts or parts of acts. The attorney general, on the other hand, is responsible for 152 acts, yet his public interest or national interest discretionary powers at 38 are fewer than Dutton’s. To get an idea of the comparable scale of authority, the defence portfolio is responsible for the administration of one more piece of legislation than the minister for immigration and border protection, and yet there are only two public interest or national interest powers that come within the authority of the defence minister and three for the prime minister.

Thirteen years ago, a Senate select committee found “there was a pressing need for reform” of ministerial discretions under the Migration Act. The committee said:

... vesting a non-delegable, non-reviewable and non-compellable discretion with the immigration minister without an adequate accountability mechanism creates both the possibility and perception of corruption.

Dutton is in a league of his own with the discretionary powers he can exercise as immigration minister – without accountability or transparency. As home affairs minister the range and reach of his discretions over people’s lives will expand alarmingly.

The details of the ministerial arrangements have not yet been settled, but we do know that the new home affairs portfolio will retain immigration and border protection and will take from the attorney general’s and justice departments, the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation and the Australian federal police.

Also to be transferred to home affairs from the attorney general’s department are the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, the Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre, Emergency Management Australia including the Crisis Coordination Centre, the Australian Institute of Criminology and the Critical Infrastructure Centre.

The Office of Transport Security will also be shifted to Dutton from the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development. It is not certain at this stage whether the terrorism provisions under the Criminal Code 1995 or under division 3A of the Crimes Act will also go to home affairs and Dutton.

Canberra-based law researcher Peta Leigh has identified the powers under the Asio Act that the minister can exercise, including:

  • Issuing warrants if he has reasonable grounds for believing that Asio’s access to premises will assist intelligence collection. This extends to personal frisk searches and the removal and retention of records and computer data – section 25(2).
  • Issuing specific computer access warrants – section 25A.
  • Issuing surveillance device warrants, which includes the tracking of a person and surveillances of places where the target is believed to be located – section 26.
  • Authorising the inspection of postal articles – section 27.
  • Warrants to service providers, including internet service providers, to deliver contents and articles – section 27AA.
  • Identified person warrants, giving Asio access to records, computer data, use of surveillance devices, and access to postal articles – “for any time period”. Section 27C.

Dutton will be able to issue warrants for questioning and detention in police custody.

Then there is the Australian federal police where Dutton as the responsible minister will be able to give directions to the commissioner “with respect to the general policy to be pursued in relation to the performance of functions by the AFP”.

It’s all together too awesome an array of powers in the hands of one person, made all the more dangerous by this minister’s lack of understanding and respect for the rule of law.

The minister parades this insistence on the absoluteness of his authority in the name of “keeping Australians safe”. Safe from what? Certainly we’re not safe from his autocratic tendencies.

  • Richard Ackland is a Guardian Australia columnist


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How to tackle the power of the aristocracy

Readers come up with ideas for reducing the influence of landed interests in British politics and society
Aerial view of Eaton Hall, Cheshire
Eaton Hall, Cheshire, country seat of the Duke of Westminster. Photograph: David Goddard/Getty Images

A propos Chris Bryant’s article (How the aristocracy preserved their power, 7 September), it is worth observing how the aristocracy actually preserve their day-to-day relevance. Aristocratic society has access to private schools (7% of all students), private hospitals and health care, private banks and other private financial arrangements. They are ably mentored by Oxford and Cambridge universities (50% of students from private schools) in appointments to the commanding heights of the law, the courts, the army, the navy and the air force, the civil service, local government, the Anglican church and the media (if they wish to work). Dressed up in crowns, coronets, mitres, helmets and wigs, aristocratic society parades itself before a loyal and devoted public who voted Brexit to protect their traditions.
Miles Secker
Heckington, Lincolnshire

Chris Bryant’s article reminds us that the key to power and wealth is land monopoly. So long as we perpetuate the legacy of past corruption by landowning politicians voted in by a tiny landowning electorate, we have little hope of change. A century ago the historian Tom Johnston urged us to “dissolve the halo of divinity that surrounds the hereditary title” and “shatter the romance that keeps the nation numb and spellbound while privilege picks its pocket”. Yet even in Johnston’s native Scotland, the current parliament’s flagship land reform policy has been half-hearted community right-to-buy legislation which can only tentatively nibble at the edges of the problem.

The real solution is through the fiscal system by means of land value taxation. This is the only way to recognise the axiom that the land belongs to all of us while avoiding the absurdity of wholesale reacquisition and reallocation.

We happily allow land rents to flow into private pockets that ought to be returned to the public purse to provide a huge revenue stream. Then we could begin to lift the burden of oppressive taxation on work and enterprise. The power base of the landowning elite would simultaneously be neutralised.
John Digney
Buchlyvie, Stirling

Chris Bryant might have usefully talked to a trust expert before writing that discretionary trusts evade “both public scrutiny and inheritance tax”. Since 1983, discretionary trusts have been subject to ongoing inheritance tax. Moreover, while trustees have long had to identify all those benefiting from a trust and report them to tax authorities, there is now a comprehensive register of all trusts that generate UK tax consequences giving the details of all those connected with the trust. Trusts are widely used by families for reasons totally unrelated to taxation. They are, however, pretty poor tools with which to evade taxes or hide funds from the authorities because they are subject to very significant disclosure obligations and ongoing scrutiny.
George Hodgson
Chief executive, Step (association of family inheritance practitioners)

Chris Bryant’s article reiterates some tired complaints about the cost of the House of Lords, including regurgitating the hoary old chestnut about Lords’ £300 daily expense allowance, but the article’s figures are misleading and lack context.

Peers receive no salary and no pension. Even if a peer claimed the full entitlement and attended every single day parliament was in session it would only amount to a portion of an MP’s basic salary. The total cost of members’ expenditure in 2015-16 was £20,037,000, or around £25,000 per peer – one-third of an MP’s basic salary of £74,000 (now over £76,000 in 2017) and in total less than half the basic salary bill for MPs in that year of £48,100,000, even before considering pensions. On top of this, MPs’ expenses claims for 2015-16 exceeded £113,650,000.

Even though there are hundreds more lords than MPs, the House of Lords costs a fraction to run than the Commons. Despite the lazy stereotypes and disingenuous media headlines trying to stoke scandal, the Lords is actually a paragon of parsimony compared to the Commons’ egregious largesse. Should the Lords ever be replaced with an elected senate its members would demand salaries and pensions like their elected Commons counterparts.
Robert Frazer

Some years ago a friend who had access to the Duke of Westminster’s Eaton Hall estate took a visitor from Holland on a long tour of it. After several hours, the puzzled Dutchman asked: “Are we still on this Duke’s land?” and, on being told this was so, shook his head and said: “I don’t understand why you English are not all communists.”
Robert Anderson
Nantwich, Cheshire

Chris Bryant has surely written a manifesto for the speedy introduction of a land value tax.
Pam Lunn
Kenilworth, Warwickshire

Polly Toynbee (5 September) rails against the nonsense of Brexit – but rest assured little will happen to stop the disaster that is about to befall us all because it is being pushed through by an establishment that wishes us to revert as far as possible to the 19th century. Will Hutton summarised the background brilliantly in his 1995 book The State We’re In, which identified many of the UK’s problems that Brexit will certainly make worse: the dominance of the City, the realm of private education, the prevalence of appointing senior people only from Oxford and Cambridge, the absence of a written constitution, a House of Lords without serious powers to modify legislation, a constitutional monarchy, the privatisation of many of our public services, the poor systems of training and of course inequality. These have been a feature of British life for perhaps 200 years and remain so in 2017. The will only be changed by a party committed to change but one not so leftwing as to alienate reasonable people. Sir Keir Starmer has made a modest start. Only people of his stature and political persuasion can make the changes we need. Some hope before April 2019.
Dr Simon Harris

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Sharing food is often kind of terrible. The best dishes go fast, the prices add up faster, and before you know it someone just ate the last piece of crudo and now you’re unreasonably angry and a little sad. But what if it didn’t have to be like that? What if you could go to a great restaurant, share food with your friends, and actually fill up your stomach without emptying your wallet?

That experience is actually possible in Ethiopian restaurants. And at Bunna, the vegan Ethiopian spot in Bushwick, it’s an especially excellent experience.

There are several ways to approach a meal at Bunna, but your easiest and best route is The Feast: a giant plate of dishes like Misir Wot (spicy red lentils), Gomen (garlic collard greens), Shiro (gingery split pea curry), and kale salad with avocado (because we’re still in Brooklyn). The Feast isn’t just perfect for sharing - it’s designed for it. You’ll eat nine different things off the same shared plate, plus your own personal pile of injera (flat, spongy sourdough flatbread for scooping) so you don’t have to fight anyone for the last piece. If you want even more food, the appetizers are also great, and you can add extra orders of any of the dishes a la carte.

At Bunna, you get really comfortable really fast - like if you were eating in your own apartment, only while wearing clothes and not sitting too close to the TV. It’s a warm, welcoming, casual space, consistently packed with people having a great time. There’s a bar, and a decorated area at the center of the room where they do Ethiopian coffee ceremonies (“Bunna” translates to “coffee”) and sometimes host live music. The cocktails aren’t precious (get an Ethiopian-spiced margarita, or go wild with a vegan alcoholic milkshake) and the beer is sorted into categories: Ethiopian, Regular, and Cheap.

Bunna isn’t just affordable (The Feast for two is $30), or accessible - it’s also healthy. But the plant-based food is so satisfying that you’ll probably forget it’s vegan. Until you walk out the door, after eating a ridiculous amount, actually feeling pretty good. And a hell of a lot better than any small plate of crudo would leave you. Even if you got the last bite.

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The Feast

This actually lives up to its name. A big plate of seven (if you’re one) or nine (if you’re more) Ethiopian dishes that lets you try everything Bunna has to offer. Every dish here also comes with injera, a kind of sourdough flatbread you use to scoop up your food (instead of utensils). Because all the food is plant-based, you will eat the entire plate and leave feeling full and happy, not full and in pain.

Butecha Salada

A refreshing appetizer of kale, onion, dried cranberries, and a mixture of chickpea flour and turmeric that’s like crumbled croutons, but healthier. Maybe.

Injera that’s been toasted (i.e. fried, lightly) in olive oil and hot sauce. This is addictive, and you want at least one order for the table.

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YSU Women’s Team Wants More

By Marc Weems

After two disappointing losses to Kent State University and the University of Pittsburgh, the Youngstown State University women’s basketball team (0-2) want more out of these early season games.

In its first game against Pitt, YSU lost 66-58 as Indiya Benjamin scored 16 points and Nikki Arbanas scored 14 in the loss. Freshman Anne Secrest grabbed eight rebounds in the defeat.

“After a loss, you want the shorter break so you can get right back on the court for another chance,” YSU Head Coach John Barnes said. “When we turned the ball over is when Pitt really hurt us. In the half court, I thought we did a good job.”

Barnes said against longer, more athletic teams, YSU will struggle a bit to adjust.

In the loss, YSU was out-rebounded by five and turned the ball over four more times, which turned into six more points off turnovers for the Panthers.

“It felt really good to just be out on the court,” center Mary Dunn said. “We didn’t get what we wanted out of that game but I think we will be fine but I think we will have a really good season.”

Dunn grabbed four rebounds, scored four points and had a steal against Pitt. Off the bench against KSU, she scored just two points in eight minutes off the bench.

“We have to take care of the ball,” Barnes said. “Our perimeter went like 8-for-34. I thought we played really hard and our defense was very solid. We held them to 18 first-half points and just two first-quarter points.”

For the Penguins, Barnes wants to see more intensity and to see everyone continue to get healthy as Sarah Cash eases her way back into game shape.

“I saw some nerves. Which is understandable,” Barnes said of the younger girls’ first few games. “They made some mistakes that they haven’t made since probably eighth grade. I thought Anne did a good job. I’m glad we got that first game out of the way.”

2017-18 YSU Women’s Basketball Photo Day – Sept. 6, 2017 (Photo by David Dermer)

Anne Secrest posted eight rebounds against Pitt and scored five points with six rebounds against KSU.

“We just need to calm down and be more mentally tough,” Dunn said. “We had some turnovers and missed free throws. I missed two free throws. I think if we work as a team and take our time, we can beat a lot of people.”

During the KSU game, the Penguins struggled to be consistent. It held the Golden Flashes to two first-quarter points and then was held to just nine second-quarter points.

“We’ve been playing defense well the entire game,” Benjamin said after the KSU game. “We had a couple of turnovers that led to a couple of baskets. We relaxed a little and they kind of got ahead of us.”

Benjamin put up 12 points with three rebounds and two assists.

Another of YSU’s problems through two games has been three-point shooting. YSU is a team that prides itself on shooting and hitting three-pointers by the boatload.

YSU is currently shooting 11-for-53 through two games for just 20.7 percent from behind the arc.

“You try to make practice as game-like as you can. It’s not always how it goes once the lights are on and the refs are there. It’s always nice to shoot at your home rims,” Barnes said.

For YSU now, it continues to play hard and get better each game.

YSU now goes on the road for its second road game of the year against Loyola University-Chicago on Nov. 18 at 2:00 p.m.

“It’s going to be a challenge for us but we are looking forward to it,” Barnes said.

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Denver, CO

Industry: Consulting

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Sr. DevOps Lead (Min. 10+ Years Direct Experience)

  1. Expert with and in application containerization (Docker and Kubernetes)
  2. Enterprise Full Stack development experience (Java or Angular/Node stack)
  3. Understanding of a microservices architecture (Spring or Guice preferred)

- Must have expert understanding and hands on experience with implementations of the Kubernetes framework

- Must have exemplary customer facing soft skills with ability to bring together multiple stakeholders around a vision

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  • Kubernetes Design Exp.
  • Docker Expertise
  • Java / Nod.js / Ruby
  • Direct Lead Experience(2+ yrs)

  • Jenkins, CI/CD Pipeline
  • Chef, Terraform, Ansible
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  • 10+ years of experience designing and building sophisticated and highly automated end-to-end software delivery processes.
  • 2+ years of experience in application containerization with technical experience with Dockers, Docker compose, Containers, Cloud Foundry Apps, IBM Bluemix, Kubernetes, etc. on cloud platform
  • · Must have demonstrated track record of taking manually built / deployed applications and transforming to a process that is standardized, automated, repeatable, traceable and transparent
  • · 5+ years of experiences in an environment that required direct customer facing communication
  • · Ability to understand and articulate the benefits of continuous delivery from a business perspective to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • · Understands full stack (Infrastructure, applications, DB, middleware, networking) involved in a software delivery pipeline
  • · Hands on experience with two or more programming or scriptinglanguages such as C#, Java, Python, Groovy, Ruby, Shell
  • · Deep understanding of concurrent software development, its effect on build management and releasing the builds across versions and environments
  • · Deep understanding and experience with continuous integration, build and source management strategies (e.g. branching patterns) and tools such as Git, Jenkins and Circle CI including configuration, deployment and orchestration patterns
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Medical Cannabis Users May Soon be Protected Under FEHA – AB 2069

Posted in Employee Privacy Rights, Employment Contracts and Agreements, Labor Law, New Legislation and Regulations, Retaliation and Wrongful Termination, Wage & Hour

Assembly Bill (“AB”) 2069 was introduced by the California Assembly on February 7, 2018. Currently, California employers can deny employment or impose discipline on cannabis users, regardless of whether such use is for medical purposes. AB 2069 would amend the Fair Employment and Housing Act (“FEHA”) to make it an unlawful practice for an employer… Continue Reading

California’s New Equal Pay Laws Promise to Bring More Litigation

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Equal pay claims just got a lot tougher to defend in California.  Last month, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 358, a new law which aims to curb a statewide pay disparity between men and women.  The law, dubbed the California Fair Pay Act, goes into effect on January 1, 2016 and requires immediate, affirmative assessment… Continue Reading


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The London Economic

Men Value Bromance over Romance

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent

New research has found men value bromance over romance, with one in six men admitting they don’t consider their partner to be their ‘best friend’.

Despite agreeing to spend the rest of their lives with this one special person, many men would prefer to turn to their mates for advice, companionship, and a good old gossip over drinks after a long day at work. A third of blokes admit their partner simply doesn’t share the same interests and hobbies as them, while a further quarter claim their spouse never listens.

The study shows that in addition to their partner, the average male feels the need for at least three best mates with whom they want to share important parts of their life with.

Carrianne Sutton, Brand Manager for Grants Whisky, which conducted the study of 1,000 British men said: “Men need men, it’s as simple as that.

“Unlike a relationship with your significant other, the lack of intimacy in a Bro-mance means there are no barriers. They don’t need to be wary of what they’re saying and how they’re acting.  With blokes, anything goes. You can share a drink and have banter, knowing that whatever you say, it won’t get taken out of context.  In fact a lot of partners could learn a lot from their man’s Bro-mance!”

The study shows a third of men want to spend quality time with their mates at least twice a week, and a further 31 per cent said that if they were going on a weekend away they would want to go with their best buddies rather than their partner.

The ideal ‘brother’ will be able to make their friends belly-laugh even when they’re feeling absolutely terrible , while four in 10 want a mate who knows what to say when they’re having a bad day.

And when it comes to rating their bro-mance with their mates, seven in 10 say the most important quality for these male friendships is total honesty. Half of all men polled claim the perfect friends will always be there for them whatever the hour, and this includes a knock at the door at 3am.

Here’s the top 10 reasons why blokes value their bromance over their romance:

  1. Blokes are totally honest, regardless of feelings
  2. They are always there for you, even at 3am in the morning
  3. Mates have the ability to make you laugh even when you feel terrible
  4. They don’t judge you, whatever your behaviour
  5. They’ll stick up for you whenever you need it, even if you’re in the wrong
  6. They know what to say to you when you’re feeling really down
  7. They enjoy trivial meaningless conversations about absolutely nothing
  8. They are always on your side, even if you’re behaving badly
  9. They always see the best in you, when perhaps no-one else can
  10. They share all your hobbies and interests

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Please don’t read too much into the Opinion Polls

By Gregory Taylor

The London Economic

Election time is almost upon us once again, and with the election comes the endless opinion polls.

Of course reading an opinion poll is good idea to work out what’s going on in the country and it gives the parties an idea of how well things are going, but people should not read too much into them.

Often you hear people talk about how UKIP is polling very high and the decline in support for the Lib Dems. There is no doubt that the Lib Dems are polling really badly, but I don’t think we should read too much into UKIP. Yes UKIP is polling high and it is taking votes from the Tories but of course it’s hard to work out if this would happen in a General Election next year.

UKIP have done well in the last few years local council elections and have been doing well in by-elections, it also looks like UKIP will poll well in the Euro election and the local elections in May, but I don’t think the Tories or Labour should read too much into this.

Local elections are important but are normally held midterm and they can show how well the government in office is doing, but history shows that you should not pay much heed to local elections. Labour had a mixed bag when it came to local elections and the Tories would normally poll well, even matching the Labour Party in the polls, but when It came to General Elections the Tories made very little if no gains. In 2001 they only gained six seats and in 2005 they did a bit better and gained 36 but still Labour had a majority of 66.

If you looked at the polls before the 2010 election the Lib Dems in most of the opinion polls were polling very high even pushing Labour into third place, but on the election day many (even myself) thought the Lib Dems would make bigger gains and in the end made only three gains and on the whole worse than in 2005 losing several seats to the Tories. Labour, which in 1992 were believed to be doing really well in the polls before the election and were on course for a Labour victory, also lost in the end.

The other thing to take into account is the history of polls. If you look at how high the SDP/Liberal party was polling before the 1983 election it was on course to make a big political break through but when it came to the vote itself the party only gained six seats. The SDP had much more support from the media and the general public than UKIP is ever going to have and they had around 30 or so Labour MPs join them before the 1983 election.

It’s often said that UKIP is on a high and that it is going to make big gains in the general election next year, and there is no doubt that UKIP will double it’s polling and it’s vote will go up, but those people who think that UKIP could gain a seat or a couple of seats need to rethink and look at the maths. Even if UKIP was polling at 18 per cent it still could not gain any seats because of the voting system we have in this country.

So, yes, of course take a look at the opinion polls as they do give people some idea of how well the parties are doing, but it’s becoming clear that we should not read too much into them, the polls only give a snap-shot of what is going on. The only poll which really matters is the Election Night Poll.

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3958 Crestwood Dr

Schnecksville, PA 18078
  • $365,000

  • 4

  • 2.5

  • 1,822

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Beautiful redone Curtis Schneck built home in great location. Updated tastefully with new neutral paint throughout and new floors and carpet in the four roomy bedrooms. The kitchen has been updated with new stainless appliances. It is clean and fresh just waiting for a personal touch. It opens to the craft room/great room that opens to the patio. The very large and spacious living room has a lovely wood burning fireplace and leads to the dining area. The first floor has a bright powder room and big laundry/mud room. There is new and modern lighting. Upstairs the master has a walk-in closet and new, clean and modern master bath. Fresh vanities and large shower. The hall bath has new vanities and fresh updates throughout. The other three bedrooms are roomy and have fresh paint and new carpets. All have big closets. There is also a cedar closet for additional storage. New energy efficient windows have been installed. The air conditioning is new and the new owners can choose electric heat or heat pump. Two car attached garage and large front and back yards. Related to owner

Listing Highlights for 3958 Crestwood Dr

Status Active
Days on Site 7
Property Type Residential
MLS ® PALH100256
Year Built 1970
Total Square Footage 1,822
Lot/Acreage 0.5
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Neighborhood Crestwood Heights
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Middle School Orefield
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  • Bedrooms: 4
  • Bathrooms: 2 Full / 1 Half
  • Appliances: Built-In Range,Oven - Self Cleaning,Dishwasher,Disposal,Energy Efficient Appliances,Built-In Microwave
  • Air Cond: Central A/C
  • Heating: Electric,Heat Pump - Electric BackUp,Forced Air
  • Fireplaces: BrickFirePl
  • Floor: Wood,Fully Carpeted,Tile/Brick
  • Basement: Full,Unfinished,Outside Entrance
  • Other: Master Bath(s),CeilngFan(s),Central Vacuum,Breakfast Area
  • Water: Public

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  • Lot Description: Level,Open,Front Yard,Rear Yard,SideYard(s)
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  • Lot Dimensions: 126X122
  • Zoning: SR
  • Roof: Pitched,Shingle
  • Others: Vinyl Siding,Brick
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  • Above Ground Sq Ft: 1822
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Fabelab Winter Friends Craft Kit

These little Christmas friends are ready to have some fun in a winter wonderland! Glue the pieces together to decorate them exactly how you would like. Add these to the Gingerbread House Kit to create the perfect winter landscape for these friends to explore.

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Materials:Recycled polyester felt

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Iraq's Abadi pulled by competing US and Iranian forces

The premier's support for US sanctions on Iran has isolated him from Tehran

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi speaks during a ceremony in Najaf, Iraq January 7, 2018. Reuters
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi speaks during a ceremony in Najaf, Iraq January 7, 2018. Reuters

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi’s support for renewed US sanctions on Iran has placed his outgoing government in a difficult position and highlighted his fragile relationship with Tehran.

Since last week, the Iraqi leader has come under increasing pressure from Iran after he announced that he had no choice but to abide by the economic embargo imposed by US President Donald Trump, a move that has angered Tehran.

Conflicting reports emerged on Monday around a potential visit by Mr Abadi to Iran. An unnamed Iraqi official told AFP news agency that Iran had cancelled a visit by Mr Al Abadi to Tehran, citing his support for the sanctions. But his spokesman denied that there was ever a visit planned to Iran.

“We usually announce a state visit by publishing a statement at least two days before it is scheduled to take place, and in this case we haven’t done that and we cannot announce its cancellation,” Saad Al Hadithi told The National, adding that Mr Al Abadi has no planned visits to Iran.

Since taking office in 2014, the premier has sought to project an image of independence from Iran while maintaining friendly relations with the country.

Yet, Washington began restoring sanctions, which had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, on Iran last week. Mr Trump withdrew from that pact in May.

The administration says the renewed sanctions are meant to pressure Tehran to halt its alleged support for international terrorism, its military activity in the Middle East and its ballistic missile programme.

Positioning Mr Al Abadi in an awkward stand between his government's biggest allies, Washington and Tehran.

Mr Al Abadi’s statement will likely cause more damage to himself than Iran as he is currently in the process of trying to form a government, Amir Handjani, senior resident fellow at The Atlantic Council told The National.

Read more:

Donald Trump reimposes sanctions on Iran but is ready to meet Hassan Rouhani

Editorial: Iran sanctions must be part of a wider plan

Iran preparing currency rescue plans as US sanctions return

“He is not Iran’s candidate of choice, this further isolates him from Tehran. Iran wants Hadi Al Ameri, he is the candidate of choice and this further cements that for Iran,” Mr Handjani said.

“A red line for Iran will always be that they cannot have an Iraqi government in power that is anti-Iranian,” he added.

Tehran has maintained close ties to Baghdad's government since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled former dictator Saddam Hussein, Tehran's archenemy. Thus, it continues to work for a government in Baghdad that is supportive of Iranian interests.

“Iran’s strategic objective in Iraq doesn’t change, they want an Iraqi government that is mindful of the fact that they have to walk a tight rope in balancing multiple factions, the Kurds, the Sunnis”.

Iraq is the second-largest importer of Iranian-made non-hydrocarbon products, buying approximately $6 billion (Dh22.04bn) worth of goods in 2017.

Yet, since 2003 Iraq has also forged close ties with Washington, forcing its government to delicately balance relations with both. Iraq has occasionally mediated between Iran and the United States and sponsored talks between the two.

The anti-Iran sanctions are set to be followed by a second wave on November 5, targeting Tehran's oil and gas sector.

Resentment over US sanctions lingers in Iraq, where the economy was crippled by 12 years of restrictions that began in 1990 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.


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Naomi McDougall Jones: Award-winning actress, writer, producer, & Women's Rights Activist

Naomi McDougall Jones is an award-winning actress, writer, producer, and women in film activist. She grew up in Aspen, Colorado and attended Cornell University before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA). Naomi wrote, produced, and starred in the 2014 indie feature film, Imagine I'm Beautiful, which took home 12 awards on the film festival circuit including 4 Best Pictures and, for Naomi, 3 Best Actress Awards and The Don Award for Best Independently Produced Screenplay of 2014. The film was named as #8 of OscarWorld's Top 10 Films of 2014 and was distributed theatrically and digitally by Candy Factory Films.

Naomi’s second feature film, Bite Me, is a subversive romantic comedy about the real-life subculture of people who believe that they're vampires and the IRS agent who audits them. In addition to writing the screenplay, Naomi stars in the film opposite Christian Coulson (Harry Potter, Love is Strange, Nashville) and alongside Annie Golden (Orange is the New Black) and Naomi Grossman (American Horror Story). Naomi once again re-teamed with the visionary and award-winning director Meredith Edwards, who also directed Imagine I'm Beautiful, and the film is produced by Jack Lechner (Blue Valentine, The Fog of War, former executive with Mirimax and HBO), Sarah Wharton (That's Not Us), and Joanne Zippel (Zip Creative). The film was shot in August/September 2017 in New York City and is now in post-production.

A pilot she wrote, The Dark Pieces, was named on the 2016 WriteHer List as one of the top 16 unproduced pilots by a female screenwriter and is now in development for Canadian TV. She was a writer for season 1 of Amazon's original series, The New Yorker Presents, based on the world's most award-winning magazine, which premiered at Sundance 2016, for which she wrote the teleplay adaptation of Miranda July's short story Roy Spivey. Naomi has been a vocal advocate for bringing gender parity to film, both on and off screen. She has spoken at film festivals and conferences around the world and written extensively on this subject. In November 2016, Naomi gave a TEDTalk, The Women in Film Revolution Begins With You.

She has teamed up with former CFO of the City of Chicago, Lois Scott, to found The 51 Fund, a VC investment fund that will finance films written, directed, and produced by women. She is currently at work on a book, The Wrong Kind of Woman: Dismantling the God of Hollywood, which is to be published by Beacon Press in January 2020. She hosts the podcast Fear(ful)less: Filmmaking From the Edge, a monthly window into the successes, failures, and conversations of an independent filmmaker, which is available on iTunes and GooglePlay. Naomi lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Stephen.

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My Goal of the Day: Make it to all my meetings on time, with a calm center, and an open heart

My Thought of the Day: In order to move forward, we must focus on healing the narcissistic wounds of the patriarchy

My Action of the Day: Foment revolution

What do you love most about Your City?

The thing I’ve always loved most about New York is that the population and industries are so diverse, but it’s a city people tend to come to in order to be the very best at whatever they do. That’s an energy that does lend itself to a city of workaholics, but in another light, there’s a beautiful, striving, hopeful energy to those spirits all living together.

Favorite breakfast meal & restaurant?

Mmm. This will probably sound totally dopey, but my husband and I have an hour-long morning routine together where we make breakfast (I make us smoothies and he makes us coffee) and then we watch the news together before beginning our days. Those are my absolute favorite breakfasts and mornings. I travel a ton for work and whenever I’m someplace else, even if I’m eating a fancier breakfast or someplace more glamorous, I always wish I were at home on our shoddy couch with my smoothie, coffee, and husband.

What are you doing at:

6:00 AM – I woke up at 5:30am with my brain totally alert and ready for the day. Our alarm always goes off at 6:45am, so I tried to go back to sleep for awhile, but at 6am I gave up and got up and read Jennifer Egan’s Look at Me for a bit on the couch before Stephen woke up with the alarm.

10:00 AM – I’m on the subway headed into a meeting with a production company that is interested in potentially partnering on a new TV series that I just wrote the treatment for. A mariachi band just got on the train and ¼ of the passengers are looking up and feeling happy that this is happening and the other ¾ are completely pretending that this is not happening and continuing to look at their phones/books. Only in New York could a mariachi band playing on a train car at 10am in the morning be a non-event for over 75 people.

12:00 PM - Favorite Power Lunch spot/meal?

On the subway back from said meeting. When you live in East Flatbush, Brooklyn you spend a lot of time on the subway. No mariachi band this time. Everyone is on their phones – we all judge each other for this and we all do it, but I really do hope we circle back to a time when people look at and talk to one another, even in strange public situations. I don’t think I’m cool enough to have a Favorite Power Lunch spot. I do, however, have a super-power, which is that if you drop me on almost any street corner in New York City I can tell you where the nearest Chipotle is within about 30 seconds. I recognize that as superpowers go, this is underwhelming, but I think it’s still nice to have one.

7:00 PM -  Brain leaking out of ear from an intense day of workemailsmeetingcallswriting. Have now turned off computer/email and will not look at it again until after I have finished my morning writing hours tomorrow morning (skipped this morning due to meeting). Also, Kavanaugh hearings were today and every woman I spoke to today (including myself) cried or got close to crying at least once during our conversation. Everyone in my immediate vicinity (including myself) feeling rage, sadness, RAGE, disappointment, #whothehellarewe, #whatisthisday, #fuckthisshit. Trying to set that aside as I sit down to watch a secret final cut of my friend Deborah Kampmeier’s latest film, Tape, which I am SO EXCITED TO SEE (and I’m preetttyyy sure is about sexual assault/exploitation, so...oh goodness)!

11:00 PM – Asleep.

What drink do you need to get through the day and at the end (and how many)?

One cup of coffee in the morning (as discussed). Usually one more cup of coffee or tea sneaks in there at some point. Lots of water. There are few things that I find more delightful than a glass of wine at the end of the workday, though I try to keep that special and not every day or I start craving it, which makes me worried.

I often drink a cup of Horlicks before I go to bed. It’s this sort of weird, but delicious malted milk drink from the UK (for some reason my local deli sells it although you can’t get it most places in the US). My mother, who is Scottish, used to hoard the stuff and bring it over every time we’d visit Scotland (where she’s from), so, in addition to being implicitly soothing from its taste, drinking it reminds me of my childhood and sitting in my Scottish granny’s house, and it’s nice.

Most used App/Favorite Instagram Account?

I never remember to use Instagram, much less do I have a favorite account. My favorite app is Insight Timer, which is a meditation app. They do have guided meditations, which I don’t use as I take lessons from a teacher, but they have this timer function that sounds this gorgeous gong once at the beginning of your time and three times at the end. It transports me up and away.

What should everyone try at least once?

Ethiopian food

Where do you enjoy getting lost?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

My Deed of the Day: Foment Revolution

My Tip of the Day: Meditating for 20 minutes a day can actually transform your brain. I resisted it for so long, but finally started to do it daily in January and it has quite literally transformed by brain and my life. Do it.

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Chef Katy Smith: Executive Creative Chef, Puesto

Born and raised in Irvine, Calif., Chef Katy Smith uncovered her love for the food industry while working in restaurants during college. Deciding to forge her passion into a career, Smith earned her advanced culinary arts degree from Baltimore International College while working as a cook at Michael Mina’s Wit & Wisdom at the Baltimore Four Seasons Hotel. A jack of all kitchen trades, Smith has had a wide range of jobs within the culinary industry including, time in a 5- star hotel kitchen and owning and operating a personal chef business. Most recently, Smith served as the test kitchen director and culinary assistant to culinary legend Rick Bayless in Chicago.

While in Chicago, Smith received national recognition as the culinary director for the James Beard winning podcast The Feed and served as kitchen director for Bayless’ Emmy-nominated, Season 10 of PBS Mexico’s One Plate at a Time. Smith also oversaw recipe testing and developing for Bayless’ most recent cookbook, More Mexican Everyday. Smith brought her talents back to Southern California in Summer 2016 as Puesto’s executive creative chef. At Puesto, Smith is constantly experimenting with new ingredients and testing out recipes to give a fresh and innovative spin to authentic Mexican cuisine.

What do you love most about Your City?

Laguna Beach: The views!  There is something so calming about being near the ocean.  No matter how long or hard your day was, driving past the water on the way home has this calming effect.

Favorite Meal?

The trout from 370 Common.  My wife and I love to go on date nights there, belly up to the bar for a Barrel Aged Manhattan and their perfectly cooked trout with mushrooms and frisee.

What are you doing at:

6:00 AM – Heading to the gym.  I go to this awesome small gym a few blocks away from my house.  I find that my body and brain function so much better if I start my day with a workout.  I generally catch up on our reports from the past evening while I’m on the treadmill.

10:00 AM -  Los Olivos, working in the prep kitchen.  Los Olivos is the store closest to my house, so I spend a lot of time working in their kitchen.  I like to get into the kitchen by 7:30 at the lastest.  That way I can get any testing for upcoming menus or events done before the restaurant starts to get crazy.

12:00 PM -  At my laptop.  I will have just tasted the line at whichever store I am at that day.  And now I’ll be doing anything from catching up on emails, writing responses to media requests, menu planning, sourcing or costing new menu items, or reading our company’s Slack channels.

7:00 PM -   If we don’t have an event that night then hopefully I am just getting home and making dinner for my wife and I.  I love cooking at home, even if it is really simple quick weeknight meals

11:00 PM -  Fast asleep!

Favorite Drink?

Rye Manhattan on the rocks

Where do you enjoy getting lost?

In a good book!  I’m a big reader and love reading outside with my wife on a Sunday while we grill.


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BlueSnap to launch new e-commerce checkout upgrade

Tuesday 18 February 2014 | 10:20 AM CET

Global payment service provider BlueSnap will launch an upgrade to its BuyNow hosted checkout pages.

The upgrade will enable merchants to present a PCI-compliant checkout page to shoppers in 180 countries without the need to commit company resources to meet PCI security standards. The new release features eye path-optimized page design, A/B testing and mobile device support.

Online retailers that use BlueSnap’s hosted checkout pages have access to all platform functions including subscription management, coupon generation, catalog management and support for both physical and digital goods.

BlueSnap’s new BuyNow capabilities include:

• Built-to-sell checkout page design using heat map research to ensure that the page layout follows the correct eye path to guide shoppers through the buying process.
• Customization, with the ability to remove or change default fields, dictate checkout flow, add branding, and make other changes to suit each merchant’s business.
• A/B testing support, enabling merchants to simultaneously test different page configurations or offers to see what works best for their customer base.
• Automatic formatting for smartphones and tablets through BlueSnap technology that automatically detects the device type, helping merchants capture sales in the rapidly growing m-commerce space.

BlueSnap provides digital merchants with an e-commerce solution that enables monetization across a wide variety of digital goods including audio and video content, software, casual games and subscription access to publications and services. The company serves over 5000 merchants in 180 countries by localizing the experience for shoppers worldwide, with 28 languages, 60 currencies and 90 payment types.


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Honeydew melon is high in vitamin C and low in calories. It’s the perfect choice when you want a quick and easy, sweet treat. It’s also a great addition to yogurt, smoothies, fruit trays, salads, and many other recipes (keep reading for great ideas on how to serve honeydew). Most people think of honeydew only in the summer, but you can usually find this delicious melon year-round at your grocery store.

How to select Honeydew

How To Select

  • Choose a honeydew that is spherical, mostly symmetrical, and heavy for its size.
  • The outside of the honeydew melon should be waxy with cream, yellow, or gold tones. Green coloring indicates that the honeydew is not ripe.
  • Sniff the melon. It should give off a sweet, pleasant odor.

*BONUS TIP: For an extra sweet honeydew melon, look for one with small brown freckles on the outside rind.

How to Store

  • Store whole honeydew melons at room temperature.
  • Once cut, store honeydew in the refrigerator for up to 1-2 weeks.

How to Serve

  • Honeydew melon is a great snack to have by itself.
  • Add honeydew to yogurt or fruit parfaits.
  • Add honeydew to fruit smoothies.
  • Honeydew melon is a great addition to any fruit tray.

Here are some honeydew melon recipes you’re bound to love!

Honeydew Bubble Tea recipe
Honeydew Bubble Tea by Munchin with Munchkin
Honeydew Melon Monster Tray | Great fruit tray for a child's birthday party
Honeydew Melon Monster Tray
Cucumber-Honeydew Salad with Feta recipe
Cucumber-Honeydew Salad with Feta by Rikki Snyder
Honeydew Bellini Recipe
Honeydew Bellini by Laylita’s Recipes
Honeydew and Berries Yogurt Popsicles Recipe
Honeydew and Berries Yogurt Popsicles by Mommyhood’s Diary

For even more honeydew melon recipes, follow The Produce Mom’s Honeydew Pinterest board. Enjoy!

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One, Two, Four: Opening Multiple Locations

Congratulations—Your bar or restaurant is doing so well that opportunities to expand the business are coming at you fast.

But before you get too far ahead of yourself and sign that new lease, there are several things to take into consideration.

Running one bar or restaurant can be a challenge. When you move to two locations, you start to juggle your time, focus and tasks between the two “siblings.” Moving on to more than two can be tricky.

You need to have a few key elements in place before signing the lease on location three, four and five. Let’s take a look.

The Bench

Firstly, you’re going to need a great recruiting plan in place to fill your bench of talent. Having a successful company culture will help you attract talent, and a great training program will help your team continue to grow and engage (funny how they all work in synergy).

When businesses expand without a strong bench of talent to expand with them, they quickly realize their mistake. Most tend to take their best staff to the new location, and while, on the surface, that might seem like a good idea, many brands have felt the bitter sting of what happens when they take out too many “A” players from their best performing location. Service and standards can start to slip if the people who drive the culture are not around to reinforce the culture.

Developing a succession plan is key to recognizing potential in your current team and identifying where they might fit into the organization on a larger scale. You must have vision for this, and building a bench of all-stars is the difference between running multiple locations smoothly or becoming a firefighter and running to each location when there is an issue.

If you like working hard, spread out your team as you expand. But the successful bar and restaurant owner needs to work smart.

The Culture

The mark of any successful brand is its culture—the glue that holds a brand together. Culture is the beacon that draws in new guests and keeps current guests loyal. A good culture survives; a great culture thrives.

Look at Apple. Steve Jobs has been gone for a few years now, yet the brand continues to dominate. Why? Because of the culture he established. The look of the products, the packaging, the marketing, the image, the message are all a direct result of their culture.

Culture done correctly can help a brand stay on course when you start expanding, but it has to come from the leaders of the organization. You have to know who you are and what your company stands for. Culture, in any business, always flows down, not up. It’s a combination of your core values brought to life. As a restaurant owner, you can’t say you’re committed to local if you have no local products on your food and drink menus—this is a bad culture move.

Culture has to be authentic. As the leader, you must live it and not just talk about it. The first step to building a great culture is to figure out your company’s core values. If you don’t know what your brand stands for, how will your team or your guests know?

Your culture is also your foundation, and the strategy behind it is similar to building a house—If you have a weak foundation, when the time comes to expand, you won’t be able to build high without the risk of it all coming down upon you.

The Staff Training

You might be able to get by with an average training program at only one or two locations. But trouble will arise when consistent training is not a focus during expansion. Consistency is a major key to solid growth.

Why are chain restaurants so popular? It’s not because the food and drink is exceptional, it’s because people know they’re consistent and reliable. If you study the Human Needs Theory, you’ll discover that one of our primary needs is consistency. We want to be sure the sun will rise in the morning and that my Chipotle burrito is the same whether I get it in Los Angeles or New York City. What happens when you fail to focus on training, like Chipotle did? People get ill and your brand will take a fall. You see, even the mega chains realize the error of not focusing on solid training programs.

A great way to deliver consistent training is to plug into technology to deliver training for your team. There are many online platforms available that allow you to upload short videos and training materials to your staff management systems, to train your team in a convenient format they’re accustomed to—online. Plus, these online programs are available across a variety of devices like laptops, tablets and even smartphones.

The way you train is the way you’ll perform. Remember, training is a constant commitment to keeping skills sharp. Successful restaurants and bars know this and plan a yearly training schedule. It’s like going to the gym—you don’t attend once and never have to go back. Training never stops for the professional.

The Systems

It’s crucial to have successful systems in place to help run your businesses. You need an efficient team behind you, but you also need processes to make sure operations run smoothly. This is where technology comes in.

Today, there’s software for everything: From staff scheduling, website design, reservations management, accounting programs and project management to bar management software. These types of programs can help you manage several locations at once, giving you insight into how your businesses are operating, even if you can’t physically be there to see for yourself.

If you’re running a software program that isn’t working for you, such as an outdated POS system, it’s time to look for a better solution that you can rely on moving forward.

These platforms are generally affordable and can potentially save you hours, save you money and ensure fewer disasters at each of your locations.

The Mindset

Part of a bar or restaurant owner’s success is a great system; the rest is psychological. Moving beyond two locations requires a shift in your mindset. You’ll need to make a few adjustments to keep multiple concepts running effectively.

Trust your team. When you own one or two locations, you can easily jump in and work as needed. Now, you’re going to have to trust the team you recruited, trained and inundated with your culture. It’s show time for them, and nothing will start to drive a wedge in team moral faster than lack of trust. If you don’t trust someone on your team, find someone else who you can.

Trust is a two-way street—You want your team to trust that your vision and brand are on course, but you must be a true leader and give them the same in return.

Shift your mindset to the big picture. You need to start thinking as a brand leader and not just a restaurant or bar owner. This requires moving into the mindset of playing bigger and looking at the things that make or break a successful brand, such as marketing strategy, financials, vendor relationships and looking for more opportunity for market share. You’ll basically go from playing checkers to playing chess. Then, you can guide your company to increased sales and profits.

Making the jump from one to two to four locations isn’t easy, even with the tools to help you run a successful bar or restaurant. However, if you plan it out, seek assistance, do your research and execute your plan with the help of those you trust, you’ll have a better shot at building the brand you’ve dreamed of.

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Trump-Putin Summit Exposes Liberal Media's Russia Hypocrisy

The Daily Caller

Whenever the countries with the world’s largest nuclear arsenals can come together, it’s a win for diplomacy...Of course, the left-leaning mainstream media leveraged the U.S.-Russia summit to criticize President Trump’s competency and patriotism.

There Is Reasonable Doubt About the Entire Russia-Collusion Investigation

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Griffith College offers a range of university-level programs to prepare students for a smooth transition into further degree studies at Griffith University. The college has worked in partnership with Griffith University since 1997. The university-designed programs are often taught by university lecturers and they prepare students for the demands of higher education in Australia.

Griffith College specialises in delivering the learning process within a supportive environment, with small class sizes and additional contact hours to those typically offered within a university. This teaching model has resulted in high success rates for the students.

Griffith College is proud of the rich cultural mix within its student population, with more than 60 different nationalities represented at Griffith College. Student mentors and caring staff help students settle into Griffith College and life in Australia.

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Each Quantifiler® Duo kit includes all reagents necessary for the amplification, detection, and quantification of 400 samples in 25 ul reactions using the Applied Biosystems 7500 Real-Time PCR System.

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Quantifiler® Duo Primer Mix Primer pairs for amplification of RPPH1, SRY and IPC. The TaqMan® probes for RPPH1, SRY and IPC are labeled with VIC®, FAM™ and NED™ dyes, respectively. In addition, this reagent contains Internal PCR Control (IPC) template.
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Numerous techniques are available for the isolation of cellular proteins based on their post-translational modification (PTM) or active binding site. Protein enrichment is essential for isolating low-abundant proteins or isolating protein classes. Enrichment of specific proteins or protein complexes can most easily be accomplished using target-specific immobilized antibody or PTM specific affinity binding. The novel Thermo Scientific™ ActivX™ probes and enrichment kits enable the specific targeting of several enzyme classes, including kinases, GTPases, and serine hydrolases.

  • Comprehensive—reagents and kits for multiple protein enrichment strategies
  • Optimized—all reagents and kits are designed to maximize protein yield and reduce nonspecific binding
  • Convenient—easy-to-use spin formats enable more rapid enrichment of proteins
  • Flexible—kits can be used with either cultured mammalian cells or tissues

Choose the right protein enrichment kit for your application

protein Enrichment Kit
Glycoprotein Enrichment Kit, ConA Glycoprotein Enrichment Kit, WGA Ubiquitin Enrichment Kit Kinase Enrichment Kit with ATP Probe ActivX™ TAMRA-FP Serine Hydrolase Probe
Target Phosphorylated proteins α-linked mannose and terminal glucose residues N-acetyl glucosamine (GlcNAc) Polyubiquitin-ated proteins ATP binding sites Active serine hydrolase enzymes
labeling mechanism
Metal chelate affinity to phosphate groups Lectin affinity to sugars Lectin affinity to sugars Antibody affinity to target Biotinylated ATP analog  to active-site lysine TAMRA-labeled fluoro
phosphanate binds to active site serine
Processing time 2 hr <1 hr <1 hr <45 min 6.5 hr 3 hr
Enrichment format IMAC-agarose Immobilized conA-lectin-agarose Immobilized WGA-lectin-agarose Immobilized polyubiquitin affinity-agarose Immobilized strepavidin-agarose Immobilized anti-TAMRA mAb-agarose
(10 columns)
89804 (10 rxn) 89805 (10 rxn) 89899 (15 rxn) 88310 (16 rxn) 88318 (6.8 µg)

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Supplier C kit 160 3
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*From 2 mg total protein.
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