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Police prosecutors Friday brought a charge of giving false information to a public officer against Abdoulie Tambedou, former Managing Director of Gambia Ports Authority (GPA), at the Banjul Magistrates' Court before senior Magistrate M.S. Jallow.
According to the particulars of offence, Abdoulie Tambedou, on 13 August 2012 in Banjul within the jurisdiction of the court, wrote a petition letter with reference number GPA/MD (1) to the Office of the President, alleging that indiscipline was being meted out to him by the associates and relatives of his predecessor, Momodou Lamin Gibba, by way of making derogatory remarks towards him and the GPA management with intent to make the GPA ungovernable for him, and that information he knew to be false at the time.
Police prosecutor, Sergeant Manga, told the court that the police brought the matter just to be mentioned and that they were applying for an adjournment to enable them call their witnesses.
He added that the prosecution was applying for the accused person to be remanded in prison custody on the grounds that if granted bail, he might tamper with the investigation.
Sergeant Manga further stated that most of the witnesses who the prosecution intended to call were employees of the Gambia Ports Authority, where the accused person had been the managing director for a very long time.
He said the second reason was that the accused person might jump bail even if the court ordered his travel documents to be seized and be deposited before the court.
"The accused person might not need the passport to flee out of the jurisdiction. Therefore, we urge the court to exercise its discretion in favour of the prosecution to remand the accused person in custody," the prosecutor told the court.
In response, the accused person told the court that he had earlier told the court that before taking his plea, he wanted to reserve his comments until when his lawyer was in court.
"I was duly informed about this charge since August 2012, which was nearly over 4 months ago. I have never been absent even for a single day to report to the police," Mr Tambedou said.
The police were having four of his passports, both valid and invalid ones, he said, noting that the police also had two of his title deeds situated within the Greater Banjul Area.
Mr Tambedou further submitted that considering the 4 months then, if he wanted to jump bail, he would have done so long since, but the integrity of his job would not make him to jump bail because of a mere false information charge.
"I have worked for the Port for 24 years with dedicated and excellent services without a single problem," he submitted.
At that juncture, defence counsel Lamin S. Camara walked into the courtroom and announced his representation for the accused person.
In his application for bail on behalf of the accused person, counsel Camara told the court that there were factors to be considered before granting bail to any accused person before a competent court of law.
Counsel cited those reasons as whether the alleged offence was bailable under the constitution which gives the accused person right to be granted bail.
He cited Section 99(1) CPC, which also gives right to the accused person to be granted bail.
He added that the alleged offence before the court was a misdemeanor, adding that the investigation into the case should have been over by then, after 4 months, and that was why a substantial charge was brought before the court for the alleged offence.
Therefore, it was not enough or correct to say the investigation was yet to be completed, he said.
Delivering the ruling, the trial magistrate stated that after he had listened to the submission of both sides, the only issue raised for the determination was whether if the accused person was granted bail, he would face the trial or not.
He said the second determination was whether the alleged offence committed was a bailable offence or not, noting that therefore the bail, being the discretion of the court, he had agreed with the counsel that the investigation into the case should have been completed.
Therefore, remanding the accused person on this charge would be tantamount to abuse or violation of his human rights.
I therefore exercise my discretion to bail the accused person with the following conditions, said the magistrate:
The accused person was granted court bail of D1 million with two Gambian sureties who must deposit their title deeds with the court.
The condition further stated that the two sureties must swear to an affidavit of means to enable them secure the appearance of the accused person in subsequent adjournment dates.
The case was adjourned till 2 January 2013, for hearing.


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50 Of The Worst Kitchen Fails Ever
Some people are born with a great talent for cooking; others, well, they're glad about the invention of pre-made meals. And even those who are clearly not meant to be the five star home chefs tries their hand at cooking at least once in a while. And while their attempts make them wish for pizza delivery, the funny fails surely makes us laugh.
So you are a disaster in the kitchen? Well, don't worry, because you're probably not as bad as you think. Check out this hilarious list of epic fails in the kitchen for example. Compiled by Bored Panda, it's sure to make you feel much better about your own home cooking inadequacies. Some of them are minor, some are major, and some are downright dangerous; from cake fails to Pinterest recipe disasters, we've gathered them all. Don't forget to vote for the funniest, and feel free to add to the list with your own culinary nightmares and Pinterest fails!
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Bread's Curse
So A Friend Of My Girlfriend Made A Cake For Her Daughters Birthday Party. One Of The Kids Started Crying Because It Was So Ugly
Pressure Cooker Nightmare
Oh God, Please Kill Me
It looks like the recipe called for the souls of the damned
My Eggs With Rice This Morning
I Forgot I Was Making Caramel At Work. It's A Tad Overcooked
I love how you aren't even concerned about the fact that you HARNESSED THE F*CKING SUN
Baker Lost Something. Wonder If He Noticed Or Not
Monkey Business
They're only one.... they'll never notice. Next year we try making cookies instead
Wife Came Home To This
Pizza Fail
Tried To Make Chocolate-covered Bananas
This Is What Defeat Looks Like
Meatloaf Baby From Your Nightmares
Brownie Out Of A Cup - Level: Hiroshima
Got Drunk, Got Hungry, Fell Asleep
We Ran Out Of Cooking Chocolate For The Cake For Mother's Day, We Improvised, I Felt Like A Monster
The Snowman Came Out A Little Differently Then Expected
Slight Kitchen Mishap
Nuclear Lunch Detected
A Friend Of Mine Made This. The Eyes Slid Mid-Way Through Cooking The Thing
Pancake Goals
Maybe We Should Buy A Rice Cooker
Sushi Chef Level: Beginner
Cthulhu Pie Crust. Nailed It
This Is Why I Don't Cook
Happy Birthday
My Lasaga
I Thought It Was Glass
You shouldn't even be in the kitchen if you can't tell glass from plastic lol
How I Know My Girlfriend Was Cooking Today
A Great Way To Start The Day
Cooking Level: Broke But Creative
Cookie Monster Cupcakes Gone Wrong
First Time Trying To Fry Buffalo Wings. I Think It Went Pretty Well
Cutting Skills
It's An Electric Kettle, ELECTRIC
My Wife Steamed Hotdogs
Pro Tip: When Cooking, Don't Remove All The Spice Lids At The Same Time
This Is Fine
Gluten Free Skeleton
Spinach Baby
Melted Minon
Poor Ariel
One Of My Roommates Tried To Make Pasta One Night
My Son Refused To Eat It And Said, 'Why Is The Plane Broken?'
I Got A Bread Maker For Christmas. This Is How My First Loaf Came Out
Hopefully These Deviled Egg Chicks Have Had Better Days
Expectations Vs. Reality
No matter the mold, it matters to be original and different.
Note To Self... Don't Cook When Drunk
Artisan Creates Bold Re-Imagining Of Classic Book Cover
I Cooked The Sh*t Out Of These Sweet Potatoes
Oh boy it looks like a dog shat on some very baked potatoes
Note: this post originally had 308 images. It's been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
Sometimes even when you're not!
I love how many of these there are, makes me feel so much better about my kitchen fails!
For me it's the opposite. They make me sad because I know how much time and effort you put into.... A failure..... TT_TT
I don't really cook myself. The biggest fail that ever happened to me was when I made eggs with sugar instead of salt
Sometimes even when you're not!

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|Tenafly Eruv Association, Inc., v. Borough of Tenafly
(brief from the Agudath Israel of America)
TABLE OF CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………....................….....i
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES…………………………………...……….ii-iii
TABLE OF AUTHORITIESCases
Brown v. Borough of Mahaffey, 35 F. 3d 846 (3d Cir. 1994)…………..11,12
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993)……………………………………………………………………………11
Huntington Branch NAACP v. Town of Huntington, 844 F.2d 926 (2d Cir. 1988), aff'd, 488 U.S. 15 (1988)………………………....………….…….16
LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher, 67 F.3d 412 (2nd Cir. 1995)……...3,13,15,17
Resident Advisory Bd. v. Rizzo, 564 F.2d 126 (3rd Cir. 1977)….…………16
Smith v. County Board No. 14, 128 Misc. 2d 944 (Queens Co. 1984)….…..9
Tenafly Eruv Assoc. et. al. v. Borough of Tenafly, et. al., 155 F.Supp. 2d 142 (D.N.J., 2001)…………………………………….....................8,9,10,14,15
Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 409 U.S. 205, 211-212 (1972)..…17
United States v. Incorporated Village of Island Park, 888 F. Supp. 419 (E.D.N.Y. 1995)…………………………………………………………..16
United States v. Yonkers Board of Education, 837 F. 2d 1181 (2d Cir. 1987)……………………………………………………………………….…...11
Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Development Housing Corp. 429 U.S. 252 (1977)…………………………………..……………………….11
Washington v. Davis 426 U.S. 229 (1976)…..……………...……………...10
Federal Statutes
42 U.S.C. §3600 et. seq.…………………..…............... ….……………..13
Other Authorities
Feldman, Fighting Exclusion, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, April 13, 2001……………………………………………………………………4
Freedman, The Jewish Tipping, New York Times Magazine, August 13, 2000……………………………………………………………………......3
G-d, Caesar and Zoning, New York Times, August 27, 2000………….........4
Hirsch, Love Thy Neighbor, Baltimore Jewish Times, February 12, 2001………………………………………………………………...……3,5
Orthodox Jews Battle Neighbors in a Zoning War, New York Times, June 3, 1991…………………………………………………………...............…...5
Religious Liberty Protection Act of 1998: Hearings on H.R. 4019 Before the Subcomm. on the Constitution of the House Comm. On the Judiciary, 105th Cong., 2nd Sess. (1998)………….…...…….……………………...........…2
Village May Buy Property Where Yeshiva is Planned, New York Times, July 1, 1992………………………………………………………….........…........5
Zwiebel, Foiling the Master Plan, Jewish Observer, November 1995…..........5
INTEREST OF THE AMICUS CURIAAgudath Israel of America, founded in 1922, is a national grassroots Orthodox Jewish organization, with constituents and affiliated chapters all across the United States. We have a long history of presenting amicus curiae briefs in cases affecting religious liberty in general, and the rights of Orthodox Jews in particular. The decision of this Court will likely have a direct and substantial impact on our constituents, in Tenafly and beyond, and we respectfully offer our perspective as a deeply concerned friend of the court.
At stake in this case is not merely the narrow question of whether Tenafly is free to refuse a community group's request for permission to construct an eruv - important as that issue itself surely is - but also whether a municipality is free to exercise its decision-making authority in a manner designed to discourage Orthodox Jews from living in the municipality. Such anti-Orthodox design was clearly present in this case, as elaborated in Point I of our argument below. But it has also clearly been present in many other suburban settings across the United States, as entrenched, fearful communities seek to create or implement local laws as a means of keeping Orthodox Jews from moving into their neighborhoods.
The phenomenon was described three years ago by Bruce Shoulson, a prominent New Jersey attorney, in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution:
"I have presented some three dozen or more applications [for zoning variances] on behalf of religious institutions, particularly Orthodox Jewish congregations . . . in certain North Jersey communities[,]where the difficulty in obtaining approvals for new synagogues . . . has discouraged people desirous of moving from New York City to a more suburban environment. . .The problems and attitudes encountered by Mr. Shoulson are by no means limited to New Jersey. Following are several examples that illustrate this disturbing national trend:
As an organization that receives complaints from Orthodox Jews whose attempts to move into suburban communities and establish synagogues and other communal institutions - including an eruv - are all-too-often rebuffed by local officials acting under color of law, we can confirm the observation that "similar confrontations are occurring across the country as the Orthodox climb the economic ladder and settle in affluent suburbs." Hirsch, Love Thy Neighbor, Baltimore Jewish Times, February 12, 2001. Indeed, the antagonism sometimes encountered by Orthodox Jews as the Orthodox community grows and young families seek to move to the suburbs prompted (Orthodox) Professor Aaron Twerski of Brooklyn Law School to observe that "we are the new 'niggers'." Zwiebel, Foiling the Master Plan, Jewish Observer, November 1995.
Agudath Israel of America supports and embraces the legal arguments advanced by plaintiffs and the other amici groups seeking reversal of the decision below. The main purpose of this independent amicus presentation is to give the Court a sense of the extremely troubling broader national pattern of which this case is a part. The Court now has the opportunity to confront the reality of suburban anti-Orthodox paranoia head-on, and to deliver the unambiguous message that religious groups, no less than racial groups, are entitled to the protection of the law when communities seek to exclude them.
The parties to this case, through their respective counsel, have consented to the filing of this brief.
Tenafly is a paradigm example. As the record makes clear, both proponents and opponents of the eruv understood that the existence of an eruv would attract Orthodox Jews to Tenafly, whereas the lack of an eruv would prevent many families from even considering relocating into the Borough. And, as the record further makes clear, it was precisely the fear that Orthodox Jews would find Tenafly an attractive community in which to reside that led to the rejection of the eruv.
The court below, convinced though it was "that the Borough council did not act out of some deep-seated anti-Semitism or hatred for religion in general," nonetheless acknowledged that "the Borough Council also weighed some improvident and constitutionally impermissible factors when making their ultimate decision." 155 F. Supp. 2d at 191. This states the situation rather mildly. As plaintiffs' briefs amply demonstrate, the record is replete with statements - both by Borough residents and government officials - that evince a strong sense of animosity toward Orthodox Jews.
Bigots of all stripes thrive on the use of ugly stereotypes that attempt to impute to an entire community the purported misdeeds of some of its individual members. Demonization through stereotyping plays a major role here as well. Most notable in this regard are the comments offered by one of the members of the Council at the Borough Council Work Session of July 8, 1999 - the first public forum in Tenafly to consider the issue of the eruv:
"I'm serious. We can't be flippant. This is a very serious concern…[a]nd it's a concern that I have… that's expressed from, by a lot of people about a change in the community. And it's true, it does become a change in the community. It's become a change in every community where an ultra-orthodox group has come in. They've willed the change. They've willed a change in the state of Israel. They've willed it so much so that they've stoned cars that drive down the streets on the Sabbath. Ultra-Orthodox." 155 F.Supp. 3d at 153-54.(The court below, 155 F. Supp. 2d at 153 n.8, expressed its belief that it was Councilman Charles Lipson who offered these soothing words. If so, one gains special insight into the subsequent sworn affidavit submitted by this champion of inter-group harmony, in which he explained that "the main reason I voted against allowing an eruv to be established on public property is that I believe it will be disruptive. I am very upset at the comments made by orthodox Jews against those of us who do not agree with them. I think the tone of the attack on Tenafly in the papers filed by the TEAI shows that I am right in thinking that an eruv leads to anger and strife within a town." 155 F.Supp. 2d at 184.)
Mayor Ann Moscovitz, too, courageous though she surely was in "refus[ing] to succumb to pressure to accommodate her fellow Jews on the basis of religion alone," 155 F. Supp. 2d at 168, apparently trotted out the same image of stone-throwing, street-blocking, Sabbath-avenging Orthodox Jews in explaining to a rabbi from neighboring Englewood and the director of the Jewish Community Relations Council why she was concerned about an eruv in Tenafly. 155 F. Supp. 2d at 156.
With the Visigoths thus poised to storm the barricades, the eruv - an unobtrusive, "virtually invisible boundary line indistinguishable from the utility poles and telephone wires in the area," Smith v. County Board No. 14, 128 Misc. 2d 944, 948 (Queens Co. 1984), whose sole impact is to allow Orthodox Jews to carry on the Sabbath - assumed ominous proportions in the eyes of the Councilmembers and many Tenafly residents. The true character of what had first appeared to Mayor Moscovitz as "an innocuous thing," 155 F. Supp. 2d at 150, soon became apparent as the Orthodox threat was exposed. Permitting the eruv would destroy Tenafly's public school system, close its shopping malls on Saturdays, put the butchers at Grand Union out of business, lead to the establishment of many small synagogues and stores that cater to Orthodox Jews, turn all of the eruv-enclosed area into a private Orthodox ghetto, give non-Orthodox Jews an inferiority complex and impose Orthodox Judaism on all of Tenafly's residents.
We recognize, of course, that anti-Orthodox paranoia may not have been the sole basis for opposition to the eruv. But it surely played a major role. Accordingly, this must be treated as a case of intentional religious discrimination. As the Supreme Court has stated in a different legal (but similar sociological) context, its holding in Washington v. Davis 426 U.S. 229 (1976), that the equal protection clause is violated only by a showing of intentional discrimination, "does not require a plaintiff to prove that the challenged action rested solely on racially discriminatory purposes. Rarely can it be said that a legislature or administrative body operating under a broad mandate made a decision motivated solely by a single concern, or even that a particular purpose was the 'dominant' or 'primary' one." Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Development Housing Corp., 429 U.S. 252, 265 (1977).
We also recognize that some of the most egregious expressions of anti-Orthodoxy came from residents of Tenafly, not the Councilmembers themselves. But it is also true, as it was in United States v. Yonkers Board of Education, 837 F. 2d 1181 (2d Cir. 1987), that "[t]he record amply supports the finding that many City officials were leaders, not mere puppets, of their constituencies." 837 F. 2d at 1223. Moreover, "[e]ven assuming, contrary to the findings and record in the present case, that the actions of the municipal officials are only responsive rather than leading the fight against desegregation, we conclude that the Equal Protection Clause does not permit such actions where racial animus is a significant factor in the community position to which the city is responding." 837 F. 2d at 1224.
A determination that Tenafly's refusal to permit an eruv was the product of intentional discrimination enhances plaintiffs' free exercise claims immeasurably. As more fully developed in plaintiffs' briefs, Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993), demonstrates that where government makes a decision or takes an action that is designed to inhibit religion, the full protection of the free exercise clause obtains. And, as this Court held in Brown v. Borough of Mahaffey, 35 F. 3d 846 (3d Cir. 1994), where there is intentional discrimination against religion, there is no need to demonstrate the "substantiality" of the free exercise burden imposed by the governmental action; "[b]ecause government actions intentionally discriminating against religious exercise a fortiori serve no legitimate purpose, no balancing test is necessary to cabin religious exercise in deference to such actions." 35 F. 3d at 850.
Stated simply, Tenafly acted as it did because of its concern about the potential influx of Orthodox Jews. That concern amounts to intentional religious discrimination which a fortiori, as in Brown, serves no legitimate purpose.
The Fair Housing Act ("FHA"), 42 U.S.C. §3600 et seq., makes it unlawful to "refuse to sell or rent . . . or otherwise make unavailable or deny, a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin." 42 U.S.C. §3604 (a). In LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher, 67 F.3d 412 (2nd Cir. 1995), the Second Circuit applied this section of the FHA to a zoning ordinance that prohibited the use of homes as synagogues. The Second Circuit held that this was a violation of the FHA, in that it had the effect of "otherwise mak[ing] unavailable" housing in the Village of Airmont, New York.
The court below rejected plaintiffs' argument that LeBlanc-Sternberg supported their contention that Orthodox Jews have standing to bring an FHA claim when a discriminatory municipal decision has a chilling effect on their desire to move into a community. The court below was wrong: LeBlanc-Sternberg is directly on point. In LeBlanc-Sternberg v. Fletcher, as in Tenafly, the defendants sought to prevent an influx of Orthodox Jews into their community. By restricting the ability of clergy to use their homes as synagogues, the Village of Airmont sought to prevent Orthodox Jews - who are religiously prohibited from driving on the Sabbath and who therefore need to live within walking distance from their houses of worship - from purchasing homes in the Village. The court below interpreted the finding in LeBlanc-Sternberg to be based on the direct denial of housing, "since Plaintiffs could no longer construct the homes they desired (i.e. those with synagogues)." Based on this understanding of LeBlanc-Sternberg, the court below distinguished Tenafly because here, "the absence of an eruv merely impacts on the desirability of housing in Tenafly [emphasis in original]." Even though the court below recognized that the absence of an eruv would adversely affect Orthodox Jews, it concluded that this does not make housing in Tenafly "less available or more difficult to obtain" and thus ruled that no FHA claim can proceed. 155 F. Supp. 2d at 188-89.
But the issue in LeBlanc-Sternberg was not the direct denial of housing but a policy of Airmont that had the effect of making housing in Airmont less desirable to Orthodox Jews. The FHA was applicable not solely because clergy could not operate synagogues out of their homes (as the court below suggests), but because the absence of such home synagogues would curtail the ability of Orthodox Jews to worship with a congregation. This, in turn, would have the effect of making housing in Airmont less desirable to all Orthodox Jews.
In other words, the findings in LeBlanc-Sternberg are directly applicable to Tenafly. The court below states that:
"even if the Tenafly eruv were dismantled tomorrow, eruv-observant Jews who presently live outside of Tenafly would be just as free to purchase homes in Tenafly as eruv observant Jews were to purchase homes in Tenafly prior to the eruv's construction. While those eruv-observant Jews would admittedly be less inclined to move to Tenafly without an eruv, they would still be just as free to move to Tenafly if they wished." 155 F. Supp. 2d at 189.Yet there was similarly, as in this case, no allegation in LeBlanc-Sternberg that Orthodox Jews were not permitted to buy property or to live in Airmont. Rather, as that decision states:
"The evidence showed that Orthodox Jews need to be able to worship in a group large enough to guarantee a minyan [quorum of 10 men] but close enough to home to allow them to walk to services on their Sabbath and holy days. That need appears to be unique to Orthodox and Hasidic Jews, as only these groups had applied to conduct services in their clergy's homes . . . [T]he Village adopted a zoning code that was intended to, and would be interpreted to, curtail home synagogues, thereby deterring Orthodox Jews from purchasing homes in many Airmont neighborhoods . . ." 67 F. 3d at 429.The Village of Airmont's zoning regulations made it more difficult for Orthodox Jews to comply with their religious obligation of communal worship in close proximity to their homes, and therefore had the effect of excluding Orthodox Jews from the Village. On these grounds, the Second Circuit held that the District Court in LeBlanc-Sternberg erred in setting aside the jury's verdict against the Village, because "the evidence was sufficient to establish that Airmont violated the private plaintiff's rights under the Fair Housing Act." 67 F.3d at 424.
The decision of the Borough Council of Tenafly to dismantle the eruv is thus, contrary to the assertion of the court below, virtually identical in its effect on housing for Orthodox Jews in the community as the discriminatory zoning ordinances enacted by the Village of Airmont. An Orthodox Jewish family could theoretically live in a community in which they would have to walk several miles on the Sabbath to communal religious services, but LeBlanc-Sternberg held that a community that did not allow synagogues in closer proximity could be held in violation of the FHA. Similarly, although an Orthodox Jewish family could theoretically live in a suburban community without an eruv in which the young children and their parents or other caretakers would not be able to attend communal religious services, a municipality's effort to making its housing less attractive to Orthodox families by refusing an eruv could also rise to the level of an FHA violation.
The law is clear that a plaintiff can establish illegal discrimination under the FHA by proving either disparate treatment or disparate impact. See, e.g., United States v. Incorporated Village of Island Park, 888 F. Supp. 419, 445 (E.D.N.Y. 1995); Huntington Branch NAACP v. Town of Huntington, 844 F.2d 926, 934 (2d Cir. 1988), aff'd, 488 U.S. 15 (1988). This court has held that proof of discriminatory effect alone would satisfy the prima facie burden for disparate impact claims under the FHA. Resident Advisory Bd. v. Rizzo, 564 F.2d 126, 148 (3rd Cir. 1977). The plaintiff's allegations are thus clearly sufficient to state a claim for relief under the FHA, especially given that the Supreme Court has called for a "generous construction" of the Act in light of its important purposes. Trafficante v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 409 U.S. 205, 211-212 (1972).
Here, though, as elaborated in Point I above, the actions taken by Tenafly constitute intentional discrimination. That has FHA implications as well; as the Second Circuit in LeBlanc-Sternberg noted, "[i]f the motive is discriminatory, it is of no moment [under the FHA] that the complained-of conduct would be permissible if taken for nondiscriminatory reasons." 67 F. 3d at 425. Accordingly, even if Tenafly's refusal to permit the eruv could be excused under the FHA had Tenafly acted with non-discriminatory intent, the fact that discrimination was at the core of Tenafly's action creates a basis for FHA liability.
CONCLUSIONFor the reasons set forth in plaintiffs' briefs, as well as those articulated in this amicus curiae brief, the District Court's decision denying plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction should be reversed.
Dated: November 7, 2001
New York, New York
                                                                Respectfully submitted,
                                                                David Zwiebel
                                                                Mordechai Biser
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Leaving a church is a hard thing to do. We leave a community of relationships and end a shared history. It's even harder when we leave over matters of conscience.
If we truly believed in God, how could we be sad?
Christians with a "winter spirituality" may wonder if they really do believe because the mountaintop is never a part of their faith journeys. Yet, as Martin Marty argues, their faith is just as real and valid as any other, just sung in a different key.
Women cannot serve as pastors. Really, Southern Baptists, you're going to go there again?
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|From: Ryan Culpepper (ryan at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 25 16:33:15 EDT 2012
There is a new release build available that includes commits from the last two days. (Doug: This build does not include the reversions I mentioned earlier. I'll start a build later this afternoon for those.) > --> Release candidates are at > --> http://pre.racket-lang.org/release/installers
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has brought forth his most detailed proposal yet for Canada's impending recreational cannabis market, proposing a tax of one dollar a gram on adult-use cannabis when once recreational sales begin in the summer of 2018.
The proposal—announced yesterday at a press conference in Ottawa— specifies a dollar-a-gram excise tax on cannabis sold for $10 a gram or less. Cannabis products priced higher than $10 a gram would be subject to a 10% tax. As for how the revenue would be split up, Trudeau said the federal government would split the tax revenue 50-50 with provincial governments.
"Nobody's mindset on this approach is about bringing in tax revenue," Trudeau said, specifying that the main point is to defeat the black market and keep everyone safe from illicit dealers.
Trudeau added that from the beginning, the whole legalization movement came from a public health and safety standpoint, with the PM repeatedly citing the need for a system that will protect "our kids."
Next up: A December meeting of federal finance ministers to discuss the taxation of cannabis.
Stay tuned, and for now, here's full video of Trudeau's announcement.


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Ne-Yo Taps PARTYNEXTDOOR, 2 Chainz for New Album 'Good Man'
Ne-Yo has enlisted a star-studded cast for his forthcoming album Good Man.
Speaking to Beats 1, the R&B crooner revealed the guest list for the follow-up to 2015's Non-Fiction, which spans various genres. The lineup includes 2 Chainz, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Eric Bellinger, Bebe Rexha, Stefflon Don, and Romeo Santos.
The soulful crooner said that his collaboration with PND came from a "genuine conversation" and that it will be a sign of more to come. "We came up with a lot of good stuff, actually," he said. "There's actually a collection of songs that I have, that I'm holding on to for a little side project later on, but there was one of that bunch that I liked so much, that I decided to put on this album. Myself, PARTYNEXTDOOR, and Eric Bellinger are on that record."
Meanwhile, Tity Boi appears on a remorseful track. "2 Chainz blessed me on a record called 'Apology,'" he said. "I realized that, in order for me to become this cake, some eggs had to be broken. Those eggs just happened to be people, young women, and a lot of people got hurt behind me being that guy. I look back on it like, 'If I was never that guy, I wouldn't be this guy now.' These women who had to deal with that, at the very least, they're owed an apology. I played it for Chainz and what he came with was sincere and it was real."
Last week, Ne-Yo dropped the D'Angelo-sampled title track from the album, which is due later this year. "This album focuses on the journey of what it is to be a good man: a good man to your spouse, a good brother to your brother, a good person to the world," added Ne-Yo. "I am not proclaiming to be perfect. A good man makes mistakes, learns from those mistakes, therefore to not then repeat those mistakes. Being a good man is a journey."


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The 2nd Battle of Fallujah was the bloodiest of the Iraq War. So then why don't more people know about it?
Donald Baker is a Marine Veteran with 9 years of service including three deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. His path to becoming a Marine was set forth by two elements; his father's service as a Force Recon Marine in Vietnam and Donald's dream of becoming a filmmaker.
One of his early films about World War I won an award and motivated him to make other movies about war. But Donald believed he could not properly tell stories about war if he had never been in the military or seen war. Inadvertently he would find himself at the tip of the spear in a battle that would become part of Marine Corps lore; the most brutal house to house combat since Hue City in Vietnam.
Before returning home, his Gunnery Sergeant said something that would come full circle; "The world doesn't care, they have already forgotten you. They've already moved on." Donald has found that when he mentions the 2nd Battle of Fallujah he often gets blank stares. This reinforces his belief in the need to tell the story of his fellow Marines at Fallujah. His article "This is Why Fallujah is One of the Marine Corps Most Legendary Battles" was recently published by We Are the Mighty .
Much like the Marine battles of World War II, the 2nd Battle of Fallujah was fought up close and personal with rifles, hand grenades and Bangalore torpedoes. Donald shared that sometimes the enemy was within inches of his muzzle. Donald related one particular mortar attack that wiped out all but two of his seven man machine gun squad. He also shares his respect and admiration Patrick O'Donnell, a civilian author and historian who stood shoulder to shoulder with his platoon during the battle.
So long as they speak your name, you shall never die. Here are the names of comrades from Donald's Company who made the ultimate sacrifice at Fallujah:
- Sergeant William James – Nov. 9, 2004
- Lance Corporal Nicholas Larsen – Nov. 9, 2004
- Staff Sergeant Russell Slay – Nov. 9, 2004
- Lance Corporal Nathan Wood – Nov. 9, 2004
- Corporal Theodore Bowling – Nov. 11, 2004
- Lance Corporal Benjamin Bryan – Nov. 13, 2004
- Lance Corporal Michael Hanks – Nov. 17, 2004
- Lance Corporal Luis Figueroa – Nov. 18, 2004
TAKEAWAY: "I think every Veteran has to deal with thoughts about their brothers who didn't get to come home. It weighs upon your heart. They don't get to tell their story so it is up to those of us who are left to be able to do that for them. "
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UPDATE: 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 Laps Nurburgring in 7:37.47 (W/Video)
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No one expected GM to show a 500-hp naturally aspirated 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 coupe at the New York auto show earlier this year, but ever since the automaker did, bow-tie fans have been eagerly awaiting Nürburgring lap times. Now, Chevrolet has released a new video showing an in-car view of the 2014 Camaro Z/28 as it laps the famed track in 7 minutes, 37.47 seconds -- in the rain.
With that time, the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 slots in between the Ruf RT12 (7:35), and 991 Porsche 911 Carrera S (7:37.9). That time is also ahead of the supercharged C6 Corvette ZR1 on Michelin Pilot Sport ZP run-flat tires (7:38) and the Camaro ZL1 (7.41:27) coupes as well as the C6 Corvette Z06 (7:42.99) -- the car that shares its engine with the Camaro Z/28. The 7.0-liter LS7 V-8 makes 505 hp and 481 lb-ft of torque in the Camaro Z/28.
Update: Chevrolet released more information regarding the 2014 Camaro Z/28's Nürburgring lap time. While the 7:37.40 lap time puts the Camaro Z/28 in good company, Chevrolet claims the track-capable muscle car would go faster in more ideal conditions:
"One of the challenges of testing at the 'Ring is that the track is so long that conditions can change radically in a single lap," said Al Oppenheiser, Camaro chief engineer, in a release. "Adam Dean, the development driver for Z/28, did a heroic job driving in deteriorating conditions. Based on telemetry data from our test sessions, we know the Z/28 can be as much as six seconds faster on a dry track."
In order for the Camaro Z/28 to be considered track capable, it had to go through GM's "24-Hour Test" where the car is pushed at 10/10ths on the track for a total of 24 hours. Only brakes and tires are replaced during testing. The Camaro Z/28 accumulated 10 hours and nearly 1000 miles on the track alone, with every lap coming in under eight minutes even with traffic.
With a focus on lap times, much of the sound deadening and audio system has been removed, while air conditioning is optional. The Camaro Z/28 is 300 pounds lighter than the supercharged ZL1 model. Other track-oriented updates include thinner rear glass, shocks featuring individual adjustment of bumper and rebound settings for both high- and low-speed wheel motions as well as 305/30ZR-19 Pirelli PZero Trofeo R tires -- possibly the widest front tires available on a production car -- on all four corners. GM claims the Camaro Z/28 can pull 1.085 lateral g average and up to 1.5 g in braking with its large Brembo brakes.
Ride along with the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 on its 7:37.47 'Ring run in the video below.
Source: GM
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Letters written to Thomas Fowell Buxton concerning proposed parliamentarymeasures for the abolition of slavery in the West Indies, 1825-1828.
Letters of Thomas Clarkson
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Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846), anti-slavery agitator, was born in Wisbech,Cambridgeshire, and married Catherine, daughter of William Buck. He diedat Playford Hall, near Ipswich, Suffolk. Throughout his life, Clarkson wasa tireless campaigner against slavery. He was one of the founder membersof a parliamentary committee established in 1787 for the suppression of theslave trade, and became vice president, with William Wilberforce, of theAnti-Slavery Society after its formation in 1823. He published a large numberof works, largely on the subject of slavery, and made several campaigningjourneys not only in England but also abroad, meeting members of theFrench government in Paris in 1789 and the Emperor of Russia at Aix-la-Chapellein 1818. He was awarded the freedom of the City of London in 1839.
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Hourly fee motels are a dime a dozen and is commonly linked with prostitution or sexual escapades of younger teenagers. Nonetheless, a person may also seem out for an hourly fee hotel, for other good reasons as very well. As it is, you may will need a hotel, in scenario your flight is delayed by a couple hrs, or, if you arrive at a town and you only have a couple hrs of work there.
So, if you are seeking for these kinds of an lodging solution, then the subsequent are some of the possibilities that you can decide on from:
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Located in the vicinity of LaGuardia, this low-priced value hotel does not give significantly of an impact. So, do not expect significantly in conditions of top quality or assistance. Nonetheless, because it is situated in the vicinity of the airport this gives a perfect breather for people who have their flight delayed for very a couple hrs. You may also want to catch a nap. Made available at $sixty one for 4 hrs, plus $13 for each individual additional hour and $70 for 4 hrs just after nine p.m. with $13 for each individual additional hour, this house is a fairly greater solution in this space.
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Do not expect significantly in conditions of top quality. But as we say, top quality in no way will come low-priced you should really not have any regrets. So, although it is not significantly in conditions of aesthetics, but you can confident have the gain of charge performance. The costs are all over $forty nine for a few hrs.
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Located in the vicinity of the Times Sq. location, this hotel gives lodging at $65 for a few hrs and although you shall find a range of these kinds of motels all over this area, this is a person of the most effective possibilities that you have. The house also does not seem to be also filthy, building it a viable solution.
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The house does not supply significantly in conditions of top quality and so do not seem out for it as very well. Located at this area because the 1960s, this house gives lodging at $fifty for a least of two hrs, plus $25 for each individual additional hour.
five. La Semana
The West twenty fourth Street area in the vicinity of Madison Sq. Park, the hotel costs $seventy three for a few hrs in a deluxe space, or $85 for a space with a Jacuzzi.
The earlier mentioned motels are not proposed for remain with your spouse and children, but unquestionably give respite from troubles of a delayed flight, an job interview get in touch with pay a visit to and so on.


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Opie, Amelia (1769–1853)
Writer. Born in Norwich, her father was the physician James Alderson (d. 1825). Brought up in progressive, Unitarian circles, she published poetry in the radical Norwich periodical, The Cabinet, in 1794. In 1798 she married the painter, John Opie (1761–1807; DNB) and moved to London, only returning to Norwich on his death in 1807. Opie contributed poems to Southey's Annual Anthology (1799) and (1800) and became a prolific novelist after the success of Father and Daughter (1801). In 1825 she converted to Quakerism and devoted the rest of her life to charitable works.
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Well, Fred Durst has apologised to Gawker Media (owners of, among others, Fleshbot and Gizmodo) for his "$80! million! dollar! lawsuit!". It is amazing how this non-event has developed since I first posted something about it a little while ago.
Is this even news anymore? By the way, Boing Boing has a link to the movie if you still haven't seen it.


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August 03, 2008
Applegate's Breast Cancer Scare
Emmy winner Christina Applegate has been diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer. "Extra" has learned that the "Samantha Who?" star checked into a Los Angeles hospital under an alias -- and a security guard was stationed outside of her room.
"Benefiting from early detection through a doctor-ordered MRI, the cancer is not life threatening," a rep for the actress said. "Christina is following the recommended treatment of her doctors and will have a full recovery. No further statement will be issued at this time."
Applegate is scheduled to appear at the "Stand Up to Cancer" telethon on September 5 -- reportedly to support her mother Nancy, a breast cancer survivor.


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The combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs has helped discover 24 new pulsars in archival data.
The Einstein@Home project connects the PCs of volunteers from around the world to a create a network with the power of a supercomputer, which scientists from the Max Planck Institutes for Gravitational Physics and for Radio Astronomy in Germany used to analyse archival radio telescope data on the Milky Way.
Using new search methods, the network discovered 24 new pulsars – dense neutron stars that rapidly rotate and emit a beam of radio waves along their magnetic field axis similar to the spotlight of a lighthouse, which can be observed if it points towards.
The new discoveries, some of which are very rare forms of pulsars, can be used as testbeds for Einstein's general theory of relativity and could help to complete our picture of the pulsar population.
"We could only conduct our search thanks to the enormous computing power provided by the Einstein@Home volunteers," said Benjamin Knispel, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI), and lead author of a study now published in The Astrophysical Journal.
"Through the participation of the public, we discovered 24 new pulsars in our Milky Way, which had previously been missed; and some of them are particularly interesting."
Each week, 50,000 volunteers from around the world "donate" idle compute cycles on their 200,000 home and office PCs to Einstein@Home – combining to yield a sustained computing power of around 860 teraFLOPs per second and placing the network on par with some of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Rather than conduct a new search for Pulsars Knispel and his colleagues analysed data from the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar Survey, conducted from 1997 to 2001 with the 64-meter antenna of CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in southeast Australia.
The analysis of the archival Parkes data was completed in eight months, while the same task would have taken a single CPU core more than 17,000 years.
"Our discoveries prove that distributed computing projects like Einstein@Home can play an important role in modern, data-based astronomy," said Bruce Allen, director of Einstein@Home and director at the AEI.
"We expect distributed computing to become increasingly important for astronomical data analysis in the future. Einstein@Home is also very well prepared for the increasing mobility of computing power," says Allen. Recently, volunteers can not only sign up their PCs for the project, but also help to find new radio pulsars with their Android-based smartphones and tablets.
But the researchers also pointed out that raw computing power was not the only important factor to discover the two dozen new pulsars. The development of new post-processing methods proved to be just as crucial.
The recorded data often contain pulsar-like, man-made interference signals. The astronomers employed new methods that allowed them to discover pulsars previously masked by the presence of these interference signals.
More information about the Einstein@Home project is available here.
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I spent the last week of June paying more attention to the amount of single-use plastic I use day-to day. I gotta tell you, I was a little shocked. I feel like I've made some good changes. I don't use single-use water bottles unless I have no other option. The reality is, I use a lot of plastic. When I started paying more attention, I realized how much of it is so natural that I thought nothing of it until after the fact.
First off, I needed to quit using the plastic straw. I opted for no straw when we went out to Hops (both times–it was a double week for Hops). When we were at CFA on Friday, I always get a large diet lemonade and I didn't bring my stainless straws. So, there was that straw that I used.
The guys went out Thursday evening to Game Stop, just to get out of the house. On the way home, they picked up milkshakes with plastic spoons. I hated that they even got me one, so I stuck it in the drawer. In case of emergency, you know. I grabbed a fresh spoon from the silverware drawer. That made me feel a little bit better, but the fact that we have the single use in the drawer isn't going to cut it. I know one day it will end up in the trash.
Friday, I met some friends at one our favorite spots in downtown Greensboro, Beer Co. Beer Co is a bottle shop and tasting room. Being a tasting room, they can only serve in plastic cups. I hadn't even thought about it until I got there. So, there's one more plastic cup I used.
In my house, I am the only one who is conscientiously making this choice this month and that's okay. When I started taking inventory, our house is basically full of single use plastics. From the diet orange drink we buy at WalMart to the milk cartons (and we buy 2% AND chocolate milk every time). The Oreos package and the plastic inside the nilla wafer box. The bread is wrapped in plastic, as is the rice. We use plastic for everything. We use plastic because it keeps things fresh. While I can't give it all up, I can make the change to start being smarter with the plastics I do use.
So, I am going to work towards no more single serving containers. The convenience is great, but the simple fact that I triple my use of single-use plastics is an even bigger inconvenience globally. I'm going to take time to inventory my plastics and see where I can cut back. Progress not perfection, right? Starting with the Keurig. I have a new box of coffee (from Costco) so it's going to take me a bit to get through it, but I won't buy any more. I have the reusable filter and will start buying higher quality coffee for it.
The grocery store is where I have had to constantly check myself! I'll get inside and realize I forgot to grab my reusable bags. If I have my car, its back to the car to get them. I need to make a note to put some reusable bags in the other car, though. I don't need anymore of these plastic bags. I really wish they would ban them. Paper bags would be so much better!
Have you inventoried your single-use plastic use? I encourage you to do so. Even if you only stop using plastic bags at the grocery store, it's a start.


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Rozy really wants to know…How can the hold of Philip B. Roth Self Adjusting Hairspray be adjusted? How does this work?
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Wow. I don't mind products that use cleverly worded or intriguing claims to attract consumers attention. But this one is just plain ridiculous. How does the self adjusting product work? Here are the use directions straight from this website:
For soft hold mist once
Medium mist 2 or 3 times
Firm hold mist 3 or 4 times.
Seriously? You adjust the hold by adjusting the amount you use??? There has to be more to it than that, doesn't there?
Nope. Looking at the ingredients we see this is a standard, water and alcohol based hairspray using ingredients that are available in many cheaper products. The two key ingredients that hold hair are the Butyl Ester of PVM/MA Copolymer and Octylacrylamide/Acrylates/Butylaminoethyl/Methacrylate Copolymer. These exact same chemicals are available in products like CVS's aerosol Hair Shaping Spray which is approximately 9 times less expensive.
The Beauty Brains bottom line
At $22 for 5 ounces this is an outrageously over-priced product that doesn't "self adjust" better than any other hairspray on the market.
Philip B. Roth Self Adjusting Hairspray Ingredients
SDA Alcohol 40B 190 Proof, Butyl Ester of PVM/MA Copolymer, Water (Deionized), Octylacrylamide/Acrylates/Butylaminoethyl/Methacrylate Copolymer, Fragrance (Natural), Lauramide DEA, AMP, Benzophenone 4, Dl Panthenol, Phytantriol.


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Good Morning
Well our 3rd Annual Stocking Drive was a success thanks to all the students and parents here at Cobourg Tae Kwon Do. Thank you!
Also some of our students are running a food drive for their black belt grading community project at various locations. One of them being here. So if you got a food item or two you can spare they would be most grateful. The box is in the dojang by the Cobourg Tae Kwon Do banner. The box will be there until this upcoming Wednesday.
One thing though. How come we have to wait for special days or holidays to be more charitable towards those in need? How can more people be helpful and charitable more often throughout the year? Can we maybe just give a helping hand once in a while or make the odd small donation here and there providing we have the extra income to do so. Give what you can. Even the slightest things can make a huge difference if we all contributed. Charity is not about making financial donations but rather the help and support we can give to our fellow humans.
Master Jonathan Field


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Midlee Nonstick Bone Shape Pan
Regular price $14.99
Bake a cake for yourself or dig up a pet-friendly recipe for your dog! The metal has a non-stick coating so you won't have to worry about getting the pan all greasy with oil or a cake that falls apart trying to get it out of the pan. As an additional bonus, it's dishwasher safe, to save you the hassle of doing it yourself after you just put in all that effort making a cake.


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G-Star Meson Colorblocked Track Jacket Clearance
The Meson Colorblocked track jacket is set up in a colorblocked design. The upper shoulders grown-on to the upper sleeves and show a contrast in color. The neckline offers a throatlatch which allows for a full closure. When not in use, this throatlatch can be folded backwards and fixated by a button. The inside of the collar is designed in a ribbed material. Paneling is also created at the lower front and back. This style is signed off with a G-Star RAW label at the chest.
Straight Fit
- Raised collar- throatlatch with buttons
- Ribbed cuffs and waist
- Long sleeves, straigh inset- paneled design
- Welt pockets at waist- hidden snap closure
- Zipper closure - pull tab
- G-Star RAW logo at chest and upper back neck
Model is 6'2'' and is wearing a size M (Chest 35'').
XPO Poplin Recycled
A lightweight fabric made from a combination of cotton and polyester, known from workwear fabrics.
- Poplin weave
- Smooth, finely woven fabric
- 65% Polyester (Recycled), 35% Cotton
- Recycled polyester is produced from post-consumer or post-industrial waste materials such as PET plastic bottles and apparel. Material that would otherwise have been sent to landfill or to incineration.
- By giving discarded resources a new life, we save raw materials, water, chemicals and energy. Preventing further extraction of a non-renewable resource.
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Do not bleach
Mild tumble dry (60°)
Low temperature iron 110°
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Well, it's a new year, and as part of my own personal "Eat Your Own Dog Food" initiative and our Daily Post initiative, I'll be making regular posts about the music that keeps me focused when I'm on duty here as a Happiness Engineer.
Of course, I'm cheating just a little bit by joining the "Post a Week 2011" crew, but it's better than the cobwebs that this blog has been growing over the past three years.
Stay tuned for the first "official" post later this week (or tomorrow if I can get my act together), and don't forget to tune in to MacManX.com for other blog postings.


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A nice story from the nation within. Hat tip – Nancy D.
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Aaron Patzer had come to a crossroads. He knew he was onto something with Mint—but he realized he couldn't be a successful CEO and also run product for the company. "He's one of the very few founders I've seen who knew it was time to let go and hand things to someone new," says First Round partner Rob Hayes, who worked closely with Mint. "He wound up hiring this great guy Aaron Forth, and it helped move the company to the next level. That moment when a CEO gives up their core competency to someone else so they can focus on running the company is the moment they become a great leader."
Hayes started investing in early-stage startup founders a decade ago, and he always gets the same question: "What should I be doing right now?" Through this experience, he's narrowed down his answer to three things. Patzer did a brilliant job at all three, and notably the most important thing on the list: Hiring the right people. "The other two are don't run out of money and always have a North Star," says Hayes.
While each of these pieces presents a huge challenge, this framework can be very powerful. "Founders who achieve these goals always succeed," says Hayes, citing Mint's lucrative sale to Intuit. "If they're constantly thinking to themselves, 'Okay this work in front of me… am I actively achieving one of these three things?' they don't fail." We recently sat down with Hayes to delve into these three areas of focus and tactics to win at each one.
Hire, hire, hire
Hiring amazing talent is both the most difficult thing a founder will ever do and the most transformative for their business. "If you're not spending at least 50% of your time hiring—and that's the minimum—you're already on the road to failure," says Hayes. Despite this fact, he's seen dozens of entrepreneurs avoid this responsibility. And it always comes back to bite them. So why delay?
"Hiring people sucks. You spend a ton of time on it that you then can't spend doing the things that you think need to happen 'right now.'"
Concentrating on hiring can feel like you're slamming on the brakes. "Here you are talking to a bunch of people and none of them are good enough. You begin to flounder and feel terrible," says Hayes. "This is when you make one of two terrible decisions. You hire someone just to get anyone on board, or you decide to spend no time on hiring at all. You think to yourself, 'No, I can't do this right now. I have to build product. I have to put out this fire. I have to tend to this customer. But really you're making a huge mistake."
Hayes often meets with founders who say they're putting hiring on pause for one of the above reasons. "The most effective thing I can do in that case is introduce them to other founders who have been through this," he says. "They'll have a long conversation about what it actually means to achieve scale—and they'll be able to see for themselves that growth is all about hiring the people who can give you momentum. It's true every single time."
He also advises reluctant founders to start small with hiring—ideally with hires who can take something off their plate that they really shouldn't be doing. "I'll say, listen, you need to hire a part-time controller to deal with your finances. They'll immediately say, 'No, I'm handling that right now,' and I'll say, 'Okay, so you're spending at least a couple of hours this week putting together numbers for your board deck. Is that the best use of your time?' When you put it that way, it's clear that it isn't. There's a finite number of hours in the day that you can work, and only you can decide how to get the most out of them."
CEOs need to understand that if they spend their time inefficiently, they're directly costing the company. So what are the things that someone else can do who will not only be better at the work but cost less? "When they finally hire that part-time controller, every founder is like, 'Wow this is amazing!' Then they feel good about moving onto harder hiring challenges."
Hayes advises founders to begin with allocating one whole month to hiring: "In the broader scheme of things, a month isn't going to kill you. And if you can get the people you need on board and ramped up, three months from now you'll have a completely different company."
In addition to hiring being difficult, some founders get nervous about bringing on people who may be more talented than them. This can be a very dangerous line of thinking, Hayes says. You need to realize that surrounding yourself with smart people will only make you look smarter. "A lot of people don't get this. They say, 'I can't hire a product person because what if they take it in a completely different direction than I would?' And it's like, 'Yeah, they might, and that might actually be the best thing for the company.'"
"When you hire amazing people who are better than you at what they do, you look like a genius."
"I explain this point in terms of leadership—you can't be a leader without having people around you who you trust to do the right thing. And that means they're not always going to do it the same way you would. It's not your job to micromanage them," Hayes says. "Your job is to get great people and get the best out of them. Even if this makes you uncomfortable, you'll find that really good things happen."
If a founder is intimidated or apprehensive about hiring, they need to narrow their focus to the single most important next hire. Think about what is mission critical to the company. "This will probably be some sort of engineer," says Hayes. "Once you know what you need, spend all of your time hiring that one person. Once founders land someone awesome in a role like this they tend to get into the hiring mode. They see how fast changes start happening and they realize hiring is like an adrenaline shot. So I tell them, just invest the time in making that one hire and see how you feel."
Hire before you need to
When Hayes heard that Matt Van Horn was vacating his business development role at Digg, he immediately wanted to connect him with a First Round company. So he introduced him to Dave Morin at Path, whose first reaction was, "I love him, but we don't need a BD guy for another six months." But Hayes wouldn't let it drop. "I told Dave, 'Look, You're going to spend longer than you think and find someone whose not as good sometime in the future.' I've seen people in this situation blow past their six month deadline and lose out on potential business."
When you do the math on an amazing prospective hire, it's probably worth paying several months of unexpected salary to land incredible talent and jumpstart a part of your business you already know you'll need. In Van Horn's case, Morin made the early call and hired him as VP of Business. "When you happen to come across these really good people, don't let an arbitrary schedule tell you you don't need them until March of next year. Just get them in the door," Hayes says. "You'll get all that time back that you would have spent in the recruiting process too."
Don't just hire the best—hire the best people for you
"You should only be thinking about whether people are the best for your particular company. Whether they're the best depends on your culture, your management style, how decisions get made. Are you a bunch of individual contributors? Are you hierarchical? Are you consumer or enterprise? Are you engineering driven? Product driven? Marketing and sales driven? All of these things matter."
Even once you find someone who fits all this criteria, you may hit roadblocks. Many of the founders Hayes has worked with over the years have come to him with the same line: "They find someone they love, but say, 'I could never hire that person. They would never come here.'"
"If you don't think you can convince amazing people to work for your company, you've got a much bigger problem."
"If you really think there's nothing you could offer an awesomely talented person, then how amazing do you think your company is? You're basically saying, 'My company's not as good as that company,' or 'the opportunity that I have here isn't as good as the opportunity they have there.' Well then shit, who would want to come work for you in that case?"
In short, if you can't convince the people you want that your startup is the best possible opportunity, then you should go find something else to do. A lot of founders get caught up in comparing the package they can provide to compensation elsewhere. But this comes back to finding the right people for you. If someone would rather stick at Google where they have a giant guaranteed income than join a startup with unlimited upside, then they're not the person you want. You have to let them go.
Find your lieutenants first
Remember, once you hire a ring of senior people, you don't have to do all the hiring yourself anymore. You let them build out their teams.
"People will come in and tell me they need to hire three customer service reps and my first thought is, 'Why not hire someone to manage those people first?'" says Hayes. "If you do that, you only have to focus on one awesome hire, not three. And by the way, if you bring in a manager after you have those reps on board, there's all this possibility for conflict that you don't need."
For founders, hiring never truly goes away. Once you have your key leaders in place, you still need to make sure you're giving them the support, resources and answers they need to assemble great teams. You should sit on early hiring loops and make yourself available to close candidates who might be on the fence. But you're out of the trenches yourself and will suddenly have much more time to focus on other, pressing needs.
"If you hate hiring, hire all your top people right away and then let them do the rest."
It's true, one or more of your lieutenants may leave, but probably not all at the same time. And when that happens, you only have the burden of replacing one person, not hiring the 15 people that one person could hire for you. One thing Hayes does advise here is finding seasoned lieutenants, and not relying on someone junior to step up if you can avoid it.
"Don't be afraid to talk senior people into taking a demotion. If they really are excited about your company and the opportunity, they're not going to get hung up on title," he says.
One of the youngest CEOs Hayes works with, Brett Kopf at Remind, did a beautiful job hiring a circle of leaders around him to strengthen and build out the business. "He found top people to come in and run engineering, marketing, product, and it's totally supercharged the company," says Hayes. "This gave him more confidence. He knew he had never been a CEO before and that there was a lot he could learn from others, and he was open to that. I know that devoting most of his time to hiring upfront and realizing what that could do for Remind was an eye-opener for him."
Don't run out of money
Only think in terms of cash
Hayes advises founders to form a strong cash management plan. Right after a round closes, the champagne's flowing and everyone's excited—the last thing you want to do is sit down and chart out how to spend that money over the next 18 months. You certainly don't want to think about fundraising all over again. But you need to.
"Things might seem like peaches and cream, but you have to ask yourself immediately, 'What if things don't go exactly as I expect them to?'"
His advice? Consider putting a venture debt line in place, and if you do, try to forget about it just as fast. "You want it there, but don't plan to use it," Hayes says. "It only costs a few thousand dollars to set this up, and hopefully that's all it will ever cost you, but it will give you peace of mind."
When he asks to see entrepreneurs' cash management plans, he often sees this debt line included in runway calculations. This is asking for trouble. "You want the debt there, but you have to know what your business and your spend should look like without it. Pretend the money doesn't exist. Don't even talk about it or you'll treat it like a rainy day fund you can dig into. Don't let optimism blind you to the need for a rainy day option all the time."
"Founders should be worried about cash on-hand all the time. Even if employees love you, they won't stay if you can't pay them."
Your cash management plan also shouldn't include assumed or projected revenue. "I hear it all the time, some founder saying, 'This is where revenue will start flowing in, so we can do X, Y and Z,'" says Hayes. "I want to see a cash plan that assumes absolutely zero revenue, because you never know."
One of the best things you can do is share your cash plan (sans debt line and revenue) with your investors and advisors. It builds immediate accountability. You want to make sure that if something happens, someone will be there to ask, "What the hell? What happened?"
"It's crazy how often people miss this," says Hayes. "In the early days, know that it's only about cash. That's all the money you have to spend and should be spending."
Be smart about raising follow-on financing
Every founder should be dilution sensitive—when they raise money, they should be keenly aware that the percentage of the company they and their employees own has gone down. But this sometimes leads to bad behavior.
"Because of this, everybody ends up waiting until the last possible minute to raise money," says Hayes. "They want to achieve as much as they can so that they can get as much as they can out of a round. They assume if they go out and raise six months before they absolutely need to, they'll end up leaving money on the table. Who knows? Maybe they'll do great things in those months and they would have gotten a much higher valuation. This is how startups end up with really short runways."
"The thing is, funding cycles in Silicon Valley don't care about what's going on inside your company."
There are a few pitfalls you expose yourself to when you wait.
"The world can change," says Hayes. "You go another six months, do amazing things, but the fundraising environment turns—in which case you're in serious trouble. Even if you do raise money, you'll raise less for more dilution than you would have six months beforehand."
The other thing that can happen is that you do everything you said you were going to do, but investors don't care. "Investors tend to think in terms of hurdles, and there's hurdles that matter and those that don't," he says. "You could wait for the next version of your product to come out before raising, for example, but then you realize investors only care about how many customers you have. You misjudged what would get you that uptick in valuation."
Either that, or you simply fail to do what you set out to do before your next fundraise. Now you've generated your own bad signaling, and of course people are reluctant to invest. You'd have been better off raising on the strength of this plan before you started it, Hayes says.
"Sometimes the promise of what you want to do is more powerful in a fundraising conversation—it becomes more important than what you've already done," he says. "Look at the early days of Twitter. For many months the company grew quite slowly. If they would have told investors, hey wait six months and things will be going great then, they would have cratered. But they got people excited about the vision. That's why people invested."
If you're fortunate enough to generate interest before you need the money, you'll probably nail down a great valuation and get the benefit of the doubt on what you accomplish in the next months before you would have planned to fundraise. If the money is being handed to you, take it, Hayes says.
"Don't waste time. If the money's there, take it. Every founder will tell you that the only thing they hate more than hiring is fundraising. It's terrible. It's a long series of no's followed by an eventual yes, maybe," he says. "Don't underestimate how hard this will be. When you're getting no after no, you'll feel like the worst person on earth. You're horrible. Your company's horrible. People hate you. That's how bad it feels. So if there's any way for you to kickstart or shorten the process, do it."
Not only will taking this funding extend your runway and help you dodge desperation, it will reward you with a ton of time you would have spent away from your company worrying exclusively about raising. "I've been to at least 25 board meetings in my career when a founder has said, 'Hey our results this last quarter weren't great because I was spending all of my time fundraising.' And it's true—they really do have to let the company go and make raising their full-time job. It's time away from building your team and your product."
Leah Busque at TaskRabbit is one of the most prudent entrepreneurs Hayes has worked with when it comes to fundraising.
"Two and a half years ago, there was all of this crazy buzz around TaskRabbit and all these investors were around the table, but Leah didn't really need to raise money at all," he says. "That didn't stop her from getting out there and raising as much as she could and she did it with very clear intent: 'This is not 18 months of money,' she said. 'This is three years' worth of money.'"
Since then, this runway has given her and the company the flexibility to tinker with its model in a good environment. "She's been able to perfect the business without worrying about where their next million dollars is coming from. The work TaskRabbit is doing today is much different and much better than what it was doing when they raised. If she had waited until she needed the money, the company probably wouldn't have had this room to experiment."
Always have a North Star
"People do their best work when they get up in the morning and are excited about their job."
"Ideally, every founder is excited to get out of bed because they believe they're doing something big and important in the world," says Hayes. "They need to know what this is—to have this kind of North Star to guide them. That's what's going to give them the energy they need and the ability to hire all these people and convince all those investors. They have to make all these people feel like they're going on the same journey."
If you can't define your North Star in words—brief, compelling words—you aren't going to be able to do any of this.
"When I look at Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler's vision for Planet Labs, it has always been about solving massive commercial, environmental, and humanitarian issues first," says Hayes. "Yes, they build and launch satellites, but they don't think of themselves as just a satellite company. Instead, they're a company that harnesses space technologies to solve very real problems we face on Earth today. Now that is a North Star (no pun intended) that can keep a company focused for many years."
Similarly, Brett Kopf at Remind started the company with the very ambitious goal to connect every student, teacher and parent in a secure and safe communication network, and in doing so, improve the quality of global education. That's a massive objective to start with, but it's played a vital role in inspiring key hires and investors to work with the company.
The takeaway, Hayes says, is that none of these founders—or the many others who have accomplished great things—got to their stated destination in their second or third year, much less their first. They simply knew where they wanted to go, and found people who were aligned with that mission to start the voyage.
"The opposite of this is playing small-ball, saying, 'Oh, I'm only going to talk about our vision for the next year because we want to stay really grounded.' If you do this, once you achieve that vision, you're going to come to this grinding halt, look around and wonder, 'Now what?'" he says. "Hitting a point like that is wrenching for a company. You go through this process of, 'Okay, what the hell do we do now?' If you can't come up with something new, growth is going to flatline. Even if it's a $100 million business, if the company is not growing things will stall. People will start to leave. It'll be over."
"Good people need a North Star. Every moment of every day, they need to be able to answer, 'Where are we going from here?'"
Hayes is a big believer in startup leaders regularly communicating with their entire companies. There should be several different channels of communication where the tiers of seniority cease to matter. All-hands meetings, one-on-ones and stand-ups are several of these tools. Regardless of format, every single one of these conversations should allude to the company's North Star, he says. People need to be reminded every week, especially as growth accelerates, what everyone should be striving toward.
"As a founder, part of your job is making the rounds and asking people, 'Hey, why are you doing that? How is that going to get us to our goal?' You want to start meaningful dialogues about this, not just so everyone keeps pulling together, but to make sure you're headed in the right direction."
Anyone, if asked, should be able to say how what they're doing in the moment or that week is getting the company closer to the bigger vision. If they can't, then it's only a short time before they'll lose interest in their work and the company. Their role will start to seem small and less significant. Whether you're a customer service rep or the VP of engineering, you should be able to explain how every sprint or presentation or call represents another oar-stroke supporting the cause. But it's up to the founder to make sure this is the case.
"One thing to remember is that the North Star, by definition, is way out there," he says. "It's really small and fuzzy—sometimes you know where it is roughly but not exactly. If your company's North Star is like that, that's okay. That's how it's supposed to be. That's why you surround yourself with brilliant people you trust, who can help you locate and move toward the right star, even if you have to turn a little this way or that."
Good North Stars make remarkable things possible. "Just look at Microsoft. In 1978, they said, 'We're going to put a personal computer on every desk,' which at that time was absolutely unthinkable, right? What an amazing North Star. And they did it. They did what everyone at the time said would be impossible because they had a goal that was big enough, and they kept running toward it," says Hayes. "The problem is they landed on that North Star 30 years later and didn't know what to do next. They didn't identify that next star."
Microsoft is both an example of how effective a North Star can be, and how important it is to always keep it out in front of you. Once you find yourself getting close, perhaps just a year or months away, don't get blinded—you need to figure out what the next great journey will be or you risk stagnating—or missing out on new, enormous opportunities.
"Having a North Star is incredibly important," says Hayes. "But perhaps the more significant lesson is that losing that star can totally destroy you."
This post originally appeared at First Round Review.


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|Friday 16 to Tuesday 20, February 2018
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