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In Condo v. Conners, 266 P.3d 1110 (Colo. 2011) the Colorado Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether the assignment of voting rights and rights to receive distributions of an LLC interest was ineffective because it violated the anti-assignment clause of the LLC's operating agreement. Although in this case the Court ruled the assignor's prohibited assignment was void, drafters are on notice they must make very clear the intentions of the parties for assignment restrictions and the consequences of violating the restrictions.
Thomas Banner attempted to assign a portion of his membership interest in the Hut Group LLC to his former wife Elizabeth Condo. Banner was a 1/3 member of the Hut Group. As part of their divorce, Banner drafted an assignment of his right to receive monetary distributions and his voting interest in the Hut Group to Condo. This assignment referenced Article 10.1 of the Hut Group's operating agreement that stated "a Member shall not sell, assign, pledge or otherwise transfer any portion of its interest in [the Hut Group] without the prior written approval of all the Members." Accordingly, Banner sought the approval of the assignment from the other members of the Hut Group, Thomas Conners and George Roberts. Conners and Roberts refused to consent to the assignment.
In response, Banner drafted a different assignment that similarly assigned Banner's right to receive distributions and transferred Banner's voting interest to Condo. This second assignment agreement, however, did not reference the anti-assignment clause in the operating agreement. Banner and Condo executed this agreement without notice or approval from Conners or Roberts. When Conners and Roberts learned of the unapproved assignment, they contacted Banner and expressed their concern that it violated the operating agreement. Ultimately, after some negotiation, Banner sold his entire interest in the Hut Group to Conners and Roberts for $125,000.
Subsequently, Condo sued Conners and Roberts for tortious interference with contract and civil conspiracy. Her claims alleged that (1) she was validly assigned the right to receive distributions from the Hut Group and (2) the defendants had conspired with Banner in bad faith to buy his interest below market value, which destroyed the value of her right to receive Banner's monetary distributions.
Issue for the Supreme Court
The Colorado Supreme Court decided, among other issues, whether Colorado courts should construe contractual anti-assignment clauses under the "classical approach" or the "modern approach."
Classical Approach
Under the classical approach, courts interpret anti-assignment clauses as a restriction on the power of any member to assign an interest, and thus any nonconforming assignment has no legal effect.
Modern Approach
In contrast, the modern approach provides that, absent "magic words" stating that any nonconforming assignment is "void" or "invalid," an anti-assignment clause merely imposes a contractual duty upon each member to refrain from assigning any contractual interest. Thus, members retain the power to willfully breach the duty, allowing the transfer to be legally effective, and leaving the non-assigning parties with the remedy of bringing a breach of contract action against the party that wrongfully assigned the interest.
Court's Holding
The Court applied the classical approach and held that the Operating Agreement in this case rendered Banner powerless to assign any portion of his membership interest without the consent of all other members. Although the Court applied the classical approach, the Court also noted that the opinion does not stand for a blanket rejection of the modern approach to assignments. Rather, the Court's opinion narrowly held that the modern approach did not apply under the specific facts in this particular case. As support, the Court cited the Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 322(2)(a), which generally provides that the modern approach is necessarily dependent on the circumstances and the express terms of the operating agreement. In other words, the Court held that whether the classical approach or the modern approach should be applied depends upon the express or presumed intentions of the parties, which must be ascertained from the entire contract and the surrounding circumstances.
The Court's willingness to apply the modern approach or the classical approach depending on the circumstances is yet another example of the importance of careful drafting. If the intention is to make any non-conforming assignment void, the drafter should include the magic words "any nonconforming assignment is void and invalid" in the operating agreement.
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As the economy plunged and debtors looked for ways to avoid paying their obligations to lenders across the country, the courts saw an explosion of cases alleging breach of fiduciary duty, breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing, and other "mismanagement" by directors, officers, and/or managers of financial institutions and other entities. A growing number of such claims by shareholders and others affected by the closure of a financial institution are also being filed. So what is a director, officer, or manager to do when faced with such claims? Often, the legal doctrine known as the Business Judgment Rule can provide the best, most effective, and first line of defense.
Legal Presumption
The Business Judgment Rule is a legal presumption providing that so long as a director or officer of a company is disinterested, has acted on an informed basis and in good faith, and with an honest belief that the action taken was in the best interest of the company, the decisions made are not subject to challenge. See Cinerama, Inc. v. Technicolor, Inc., 663 A.2d 1156, 1163 (Del. 1995). The burden is initially on the plaintiff challenging the decision or action to rebut the presumption. If they fail to do so, courts will not second-guess the decision made by corporate officers and directors. Id.
The Colorado Supreme Court described the Business Judgment Rule as the "business judgment doctrine bars judicial inquiry into the actions of [a manager] taken in good faith and in the exercise of honest judgment in furtherance of a lawful and legitimate corporate purpose." In re Hirsch, 984 P.2d 629 (Colo. 1999). Even as far back as 1908, Colorado followed the general principle that a court should not interfere with the internal affairs and management of a corporation. See Horst v. Traudt, 43 Colo. 445, 448, 96 P. 259, 260 (1908). Consequently, when the Business Judgment Rule applies, decisions and actions of disinterested directors and officers will not be disturbed or questioned by a court if they can be attributed to "any rational business purpose." Aronson v. Lewis, 473 A.2d 805, 812 (Del. 1984), overruled on other grounds Brehm v. Eisner, 746 A.2d 244 (Del. 2000). The rule is meant to preclude a court from imposing its own judgment on the business and affairs of a company. As stated in Hirsch, "courts are 'ill equipped and infrequently called on to evaluate what are and must be essentially business judgments.'" 984 P.2d at 151, citing Auerbach v. Bennett, 47 N.Y.2d 619, 393 N.E.2d 994, 1001 (1979).
Rebutting the Presumption
Colorado, like most states, looks to Delaware for guidance on issues of corporate law. Under Delaware law, and in most states, the Business Judgment Rule means that a court will presume that management acted on an informed basis, in good faith and in the honest belief that the action taken was in the best interest of the company so long as the officer, director, or manager being sued can show she was disinterested in the transaction and was reasonably informed. See McMullin v. Beran, 765 A.2d 910, 917 (Del. 2000). Thus, under Delaware law and generally, to rebut the presumption under the Business Judgment Rule, the claimant must show a breach of one of the duties often referred to as the "fiduciary triad"—care, good faith, or loyalty. As discussed in the subsequent paragraph, the Business Judgment Rule may also not apply if a showing is made that the officer, director, or manager was not independent or disinterested in the questioned transaction. See Aronson, 473 A.2d at 812. This typically involves a review of the financial interests of the officer, director, or manager whose actions are being challenged to show she had a financial interest in the underlying transaction. Another, but far more difficult, option to overcome the Business Judgment Rule is to show that the decision being challenged was not made in good faith. Id.
The third means of challenging the presumption created by the Business Judgment Rule is to show that the decision or action was not "informed" or made with "due care." Id. This typically requires evidence that there was not a reasonable effort to ascertain and consider relevant information prior to the decision being made or action being taken. The question is not whether every fact was known and considered; but rather, whether all material facts that were reasonably available were considered. See Brehm v. Eisner, 746 A.2d 244, 259 (Del. 2000). Whether this informational component is satisfied is measured by concepts of gross negligence. Id. If the presumption is rebutted by one of these showings, the burden shifts to the officer, director, or manager to prove that the challenged action or transaction was entirely fair to the corporation and its shareholders. See Nixon v. Blackwell, 626 A.2d 1366, 1376 (Del. 1993). Rebutting the presumption does not create per se liability. Rather, it simply shifts the burden to the officer, director, or manager to prove that the challenged action was fair in all respects. See Weinberger v. UOP, Inc., 457 A.2d 701, 711 (Del. 1983). Proving an action was entirely fair usually involves a showing of full and fair disclosure.
Personal Interest
It is important to keep in mind that the Business Judgment Rule does not apply where a director, officer, or manager being sued is shown to have an interest, usually a financial stake of some sort, in the transaction in dispute. See Kim v. Grover C. Coors Trust, 179 P.3d 86, 95 (Colo.App. 2007). A director, officer, or manager is not "disinterested" if they either stand on both sides of a transaction or expect to derive a personal financial benefit from it. See Sinclair Oil Corp. v. Levien, 280 A.2d 717, 720 (Del. 1971). In other words, if the director, officer, or manager is engaged in self-dealing, she cannot claim the benefit of the Business Judgment Rule. However, self-interest alone is not sufficient to disqualify an officer, director, or manager from using the Business Judgment Rule as a defense. There must be some personal benefit derived from the officer, director or manager's interest in the transaction or a lack of disclosure. See Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc., 634 A.2d 345, 363 (Del. 1993).
Additionally, the self-interest of one board member will not disqualify the entire board from taking advantage of the Business Judgment Rule. Id. Further, merely alleging complete dominion or control over business decisions is also not enough to defeat the Business Judgment Rule. See Cinerama, supra, at 1168. There must also be evidence that there was disloyalty to the organization, that there was a failure to disclose the interest in the transaction which a disinterested board member would have found significant in evaluating the transaction, or that the benefit received was material or significant, rather than minimal, and that the interested director's involvement tainted the overall process. Id. The relevant determination for purposes of deciding whether the Business Judgment Rule will apply to defeat claims of mismanagement even where a director has an interest in the transaction is whether the interest was sufficient to create a reasonable likelihood that it actually affected the director's actions to the corporation's detriment. Id. As the Delaware Supreme Court has recognized, in some circumstances the mere existence of a personal benefit may "when viewed in context, be found to be immaterial in fact to the exercise of a judgment motivated entirely to achieve the best result for the corporation." Id.
If a director has a personal interest in a corporate transaction, then the statutory procedure for conflicts of interest will usually apply. Under this procedure, a conflict of interest transaction will be void unless there is full disclosure, with approval by disinterested directors or the shareholders, or the transaction is fair to the corporation.
No Action, No Presumption
The Business Judgment Rule is also not available as a defense where there is no action whatsoever taken by management. Where there is not a conscious decision not to act, the failure of a board or manager to act will render the Business Judgment Rule inapplicable. See Hill v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 166 Cal.App. 4th 1438, 1476 (2008). This is because the prerequisite of acting with sufficient information is not present where the board or manager simply failed to act and did not specifically decide on a course of conduct that involved taking no action. Only where a specific decision not to act is made will the Business Judgment Rule apply to bar failure to act allegations.
Mere Bad Decision Does Not Create Liability
Under the Business Judgment Rule, the mere fact that, in hindsight, an officer, director, manager, or management group made a bad decision or a mistake is not sufficient to challenge that decision or allege breach of fiduciary duty or other mismanagement claims. Courts acknowledge that, while shareholders might disagree with a management decision and while it may be apparent in hindsight that the decision was wrong, the decision is not subject to attack when it was made in good faith by disinterested persons. As one court recognized, a plaintiff has a stringent, heavy task in defeating the Business Judgment Rule. Panter v. Marshall Field & Co., 646 F.2d 271, 297 (7th Cir. 1981). In the absence of fraud, bad faith, or interested-party transactions, the Business Judgment Rule can thus provide officers, directors, and managers a solid defense to claims of mismanagement.
The most recent meeting of the Working Group on Legal Opinions was held in New York on May 21–22. It was a gathering of some of the best legal opinion minds in the country.
The theme of this conference was having a good defense. The conference included sessions on legal opinions from a litigator's perspective, risk management for opinion committees, qualifications and exceptions to remedies opinions in loan transactions, real estate opinions, and traps for the unwary in the legal opinion practice. Here are some good strategies for your legal opinion defensive playbook.
Best Defense for Opinion Litigation
The number of lawsuits and the amount of damages sought in legal opinion litigation have increased substantially. The risk of being sued over an opinion letter has little to do with the quality of the opinion or the lawyering and much to do with the quality of the client. The largest single factor for the increased severity of claims is the increased number of companies that are failing. A client that is a going concern is not very likely to sue; a failed company is much more likely to sue. One of the most popular claims being brought against lawyers is for aiding and abetting the company's management, with allegations that such actions contributed to the failure of the company. Joint and several liability is typically imposed on claims of aiding and abetting. These lawsuits are often taken on contingency or partial contingency by lawyers who are not necessarily skilled in business law or legal opinion practice.
The best defense against these lawsuits is to be in a position to get out of the action early, before discovery or trial. The best way to accomplish that is to build certain defenses into the legal opinion, including specifically describing the scope of the opinion and the law firm's representation of the client (for example, the law firm has not represented the client before and was retained only to issue the legal opinion on a particular transaction). A best practice is to approach legal opinions more like contracts and have everything you need within the four corners of the opinion so you have the best chance at getting the action dismissed on a motion to dismiss. To maximize the chances of getting out early, put the most important issues in the opinion itself (such as certain definitions, assumptions or exceptions, what law applies, etc.) and then incorporate by reference everything else you want to apply (such as customary practice, which is best done by referencing a particular document or standard). Support for this approach stems from the recent case of Fortress Credit Corp. v. Dechert, LLP, 89 A.D.3d 615, 934 N.Y.S.2d 119 (2011). In Dechert, the court reversed the trial court and limited the court's review to the four corners of the opinion.
Should You Incorporate the Kitchen Sink?
This approach raises the question whether we are going back to the "kitchen sink" method of legal opinions. The conference attendees were not in favor of this all-inclusive approach. Rather, the general consensus was that there must be a balance, and lawyers must be deliberate in choosing what to include and what to incorporate by reference. Including the information in the opinion carries more certainty than incorporating it because a court may not consider documents that are incorporated by reference. Similarly, incorporation of a specific document may result in a higher likelihood of the court considering it than incorporation of principles that are scattered in numerous (or voluminous) materials.
While I was unable to attend the WGLO meeting in person, I did attend by telephone the meeting of the joint committee of the WGLO and the ABA's Business Law Section Legal Opinions Committee which has been working since mid-2010 to draft a "statement of commonly identified opinion practices." A third draft of the statement has been circulated to committee members, and is an effort to describe selected third-party legal opinion practices in use throughout the United States for closing opinions. The statement is being drawn from, and is intended to supplant (at least in part), the Guidelines for the Preparation of Legal Opinions (57 The Bus. L. (ABA) 875 (2002)) and Legal Opinion Principles (53 The Bus. L. (ABA) 831 (1998)), both prepared by the ABA Business Law Section Committee on Legal Opinions. This is a continuing effort for the WGLO and the ABA Business Law Section to provide national structure to customary practice for third party closing opinions issued in business transactions. [Read Article]
This initial statement is intended to address the least controversial issues, including matters such as:
(i) Legal opinions are expressions of professional judgment and not guarantees; (ii) The so-called "golden rule" of opinion giving; (iii) The laws covered by and excluded from coverage (unless expressly included) in legal opinions; and (iv) What is a "market opinion" if such a concept exists and an acknowledgement that the benefit of the opinion to the recipient should warrant the time and expense to prepare the opinion.
In preparing the statement, the national attorneys involved are taking care to address each word carefully, changing language from the Guidelines and Principles where considered necessary to more clearly or accurately state the desired conclusions. Among other questions being addressed is whether to include Committee comments or footnotes to provide further explanation, or to allow the statement to stand on its own.
There is no timing for the completion of the initial statement or for the commencement of work on a statement involving more controversial issues. There may be a draft available for comment by interested parties within the next several months. When finalized, the initial statement will be presented to various sections of the Colorado Bar Association for consideration. As you may recall, both the CBA Business Law Section (November 2008) and the Real Estate Section (February 2009) have adopted the ABA's Statement on the Role of Custom and Practice in the Preparation and Understanding of Third-Party Legal Opinions (63 The Bus. L. (ABA) 1277 (Aug. 2008)).
Part 2: The JOBS Act: Private Placements and Related Issues—Thursday, July 19
Please join us for Part 2 of an overview of the recently enacted JOBS Act, which will primarily focus on the provisions relating to Regulation A+, Regulation D and Crowdfunding.
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Regulation of Banking – Quantity, Nature, Impact—Wednesday, July 18
Banking, as the most regulated industry, is experiencing an explosion of new regulation. Populist influences push for more lending, but no risk, borrowers' non-repayment without penalty, and better service despite new price controls are clashing with constrictive regulations. Don Childears, President and CEO of the Colorado Bankers Association, will explore the current and future impact of the new regulations on banking, competition and customers. Submitted for one general CLE credit. Click here for more information.
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2012 Legislative Update with Michael Valdez: Tales from Under the Golden Dome—Tuesday, July 10
CBA Director of Legislative Relations Michael Valdez will recap the 2012 regular and special legislative sessions. Michael's presentation will cover CBA-sponsored legislation, uniform acts, and an overview of the state and judicial budget picture, as well as stories that will not be printed in any publication. In addition, learn about notable legislation that may impact your practice. Submitted for one general CLE credit. Click here for more information.
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In March, 2010 the Chief Justice of Arizona asked the Chief Justice of Colorado for help. The Chief Justice's request led to a two-year investigation and trial of the former Maricopa County Attorney and two of his senior prosecutors by attorneys in the Colorado Supreme Court's Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel.
This is a story of years of intimidation and retaliation by the former Maricopa County Attorney. His targets were sitting judges, County Supervisors, County administrators, and private lawyers. After years of prosecutorial misconduct, the Rule of Law in Maricopa County was fast disappearing. As the elected head of the fourth-largest county in the United States, his misuse of power led to the largest lawyer discipline prosecution in history.
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Hosts Brazil kick-off in Sao Paulo at 2100 BST against Croatia.
No team has more World Cups to its name than the Samba Boys - five in total - the last coming in 2002.
But there are strong challengers - Spain go in as the holders, regarded as one of the greatest teams ever in world football after winning Euro 2008, and 2012, with the 2010 World Cup in South Africa sandwiched in-between - they will be a huge threat again.
They've been magnificent to watch, but the fascinating question for commentators now is, have they peaked?
It's one of the most fascinating scenarios I feel waiting to unfold in Brazil; how will Spain do this time around, particularly as European teams historically do not do that well in terms of winning World Cups outside of their own continent.
It is not just player-for-player that will determine the winners this time around - the temperature will be very hot, surely something that will benefit South American, and indeed the African teams more than Europeans.
Virtually everyone has Brazil as their favourites, but that brings with it it's own pressures - can they deliver when it gets to the business end of the tournament in front of an expectant, indeed demanding, home support?
Another closely-tipped team is Argentina - winners in 1986, and finalists in 1990 - but they could be accused of choking on the big stage in more recent times, even though anyone with Lionel Messi in the side will prove a huge threat.
They have not been past the quarter-finals since they lost to West Germany in 1990, and indeed in 2002, they even failed to get out of the groups.
England's is a fascinating group.
If Uruguay can get Luis Suarez fully fit, he and Edinson Cavani are a danger to anyone and cannot be dismissed.
And of course Italy, who have such pedigree, world champions in 2006, will be extremely tough to beat, with the effervescent Andrea Pirlo still a joy to watch at 35.
England themselves go into this World Cup with Roy Hodgson's side not considered much of a threat, even by the English media - this is something that is unusual, but with the pressure off could Hodgson's side throw the shackles off - I don't think even the most optimistic England fan expects them to bring the trophy back to London, but could they move beyond what latterly seems their eternal stumbling block, the quarter-finals.
Germany are an exciting prospect, although I'd have my reservations over the fact they've picked only two strikers, 35-year old Miroslav Klose and Arsenal striker Lukas Podolski.
Whatever transpires, one thing's for sure, it will be dramatic.
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After much research, I decided to replace my deck with Ipe! Now I am unable to find a source in Santa Barbara. The lumber company is now stocking Mangaris. Does anyone have first-hand experience using Mangaris? The alternative is for me to use 3/4 Ipe (which I can get), rather than 5/4. My deck is approx. 300 sq. ft. on the second story, and it gets full afternoon sun. Thank you. |
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- Posted by john_hyatt (My Page) on Wed, Sep 12, 07 at 19:38
I would defently go with the 3/4 ipe. John |
You are not limited to what your local supplier offers. I went opposite coast, the freight was offset by no tax, and I saved $2000 over all for exactly what I wanted. |
Thank you...do you have a suggestion for a supplier? I've been calling California lumber yards and they either can't get it, or don't return calls, even after they said "oh sure, we have it in stock, I'll get you a bid." I'm ready to build, but can't find the material. |
- Posted by john_hyatt (My Page) on Sat, Sep 15, 07 at 20:48
East Teak Lumber 800 338 5636 J. |
Another source to try, Austin Wholesale Decking, 512-834-1200, ask for Fernando. Shipping from Tx. to Ca. would be offset by tax savings as stated above. I have used mangaris here in Austin & it does make a nice looking deck, however imo ipe is the top dog in the decking world. It's got a nice redish color with straight grain & no knots. It does need to have a finish put on right away as it does tend to check more so than ipe. I use 3/4" ipe on most jobs because of cost savings, on low to the ground decks I recommend using 5/4 decking tho. Al |
How did it turn out? We are in SB as well and are having the same experience. Did you order out of state? Are you happy with the Ipe? Thanks Charlie |
- Posted by jsmith99702 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 19, 08 at 8:47
When I built my deck I went with Advantage Trim and Lumber in buffalo they also had free shipping when I ordered. I don't know if they still do but it seems they always had some sort of sale going. It took me along time to decide if I really wanted to order online because I could not see what I was getting. After the wood arrived I was glad I did it looked better than my local supplier and a lot cheaper too. |
- Posted by SherrieGG(firstname.lastname@example.com) onWed, Sep 24, 08 at 14:44
My husband and I own a small construction company in Camarillo, California. A lot of our work is done in Ventura, so sea and sun are always considerations to be dealt with. He has constructed three Mangaris decks of various sizes and the clients are extremely pleased with them. We have four calls from friends of our clients who also want Mangaris decks. The oldest of these decks is a couple of years post construction and it looks as good as the day he completed it. We have a really good guy at Stock Lumber who is more than helpful at procuring materials. David loves working with Mangaris. |
- Posted by carolinaherera (My Page) on Thu, Sep 16, 10 at 14:22
I'm starting a deck in 5 days and I still can't decide between ipe or mangaris. The deck will be about 18" above ground (clay), wrapping around an above ground pool, with at least 6 hours exposure to direct sun and scorching heat in the summer months. The ipe I can get is air dried, 3/4 inch thick and costs $3.25 lf while the mangaris is kiln dried 1 inch thick at $2.25 lf. I wish to go with mangaris because it's more attractive, affordable and thicker than ipe. However, I need more evidence that mangaris is just as good as ipe in my particular conditions (around the pool, hot sun). I read that it cups and warps more than ipe. Is that happening regardless of the quality of installation and method of fastening? Also I read about ipe checking, and is 3/4inch for ipe good enough for close to ground decking? I am hopping to get some current opinions as the information I read about the ipe vs mangaris is quite a few years old. Please help, time is running out.. |
It may be a bit too late for you, but I've built two decks in the San Francisco area using Mangaris. Both decks looked great until the first winter and then cupped horribly. On the first deck, I cut groves and used ipe clips to secure the boards. The next summer, I went back, rented a floor sander and top-screwed/plugged everything. The second deck was just top-screwed. I don't know how it managed to do it, but it cupped just as badly as the first. I'm about to hit it with my orbital sander to at least take down the ridges. |
bhalper, Top-screwed decking can only cup in the following situations: 1. the screws snap Top-screwing is the MOST reliable way to fasten deck boards. If you are having a problem with top-fastened boards, refer to the above. |
My guess is #4, because the deck is very close to the ground and there's a solid wood skirt around the joists. I'm still amazed, though, that the force of the boards cupping was strong enough to pull all those screws loose. I'm going to pull off the skirt and replace it with 1/4" welded-wire. I doubt that any of the cupping will reverse itself, but the added ventilation can't hurt... |
- Posted by john_hyatt (My Page) on Fri, Oct 8, 10 at 16:15
While the skirting is off run a couple of fans through the frame for a few days. J. |
We installed a 12x33 Mangaris deck 2 years ago. Our house is in West Los Angeles. The deck gets partial sun. Ipe was tempting but several thousand dollars more expensive. The beautiful red-orange color doesn't last, but it's still a tough and beautiful wood. No signs of wear from our 50 lb dog. No signs of termite intrusion, mold or rot. The deck is a low platform against the house. 2 sides have a double step down to the backyard. The other side has a high railing with box benches. We just cleaned it for resealing with Biowash deck oil. The deep cleaning brought out its original red. We'd love to find a way to keep that color without chemical sealants or expoxies. Also, it just rained before the oil could cure. Waiting to see if we have to start over when the rain clears up. We finished with Biowash a couple of years ago, and just spent a day scrubbing it all off to reapply. It doesn't cause water to bead up after about 6 months, but fortunately we haven't had problems with mold or cupping, probably due to the local climate which is dry most of the time. |
- Posted by Chris Lindsey(firstname.lastname@example.com) onFri, Jun 24, 11 at 18:31
This question for The Clam on your installation on the West Side. We're looking at installing the Mangaris after looking at the options at Stock Lumber. With the cupping issues some folks are noting, I am curious about how you secured your wood to the joists. Top Screw, clips, etc.? Also, what thickness of Mangaris did you use? They're having a special right now at Stock on 1x6 so it's tempting.. but we want to make sure it's going to last. |
- Posted by Don Bailey(email@example.com) onThu, Jul 7, 11 at 22:15
I built a deck for a hot tub approx 12'x12'with 1"x6" mangaris about 7 years ago. I used 2 1/2 inch stainless steel screws. I used a tapered pilot bit for predrilling and countersinking. The screws were then plugged. I finished the deck with a natural oil based stain. Pressure washing and staining every other year has maintained the deck in good condition. It is located in Oak View Ca. |
I'm the Territory Manager for BlueLinx (we are a wholesale distributor to lumber yards and home centers) in Southern California and we are the exculsive distributors for Mangaris and we also distribute Ipe as well. Mangaris and Ipe do have some similar characteristics but one of the big differences is that all Mangaris products are Kild Dried and most all of the Ipe material sold for decking is air dried. Mangaris is dried down to 10-12% moisture content and Ipe will be 19% or less. I have seen many Ipe and Mangaris decks cup, and I can tell you it is always due to improper installation. Two of the biggest reasons why this happens is #1, lack of air ventalation. I you read the installation instruction for either Mangaris or Ipe it will call for a minimum of 12" off the ground and if the deck is within 24" it needs to have open air flow. Meaning you can not skirt or use fascia material from the deck all the way down to the dirt. #2 reason is using the wrong fasteners, we do not recommend using any type of hidden fasteners for either Ipe or Mangaris Red (we do allow the use of Tiger Claw TC-G clips to be used with our 5/4x6 Diamond Mangaris) as we only suggest to use a #10 x 2-1/2" Stainless Steel Screw or you can also plug the screws using the Starborn Pro Plug system. If any one has more detailed questions please contact me at email@example.com |
We live in San Francisco & we are putting a rooftop deck on...we are trying to decide what would be the best looking & lasting deck material. Today we looked at Mangaris 1" X 6"- 16' planks. After reading this forum, I'm not sure Mangaris (or even Ipe..which I haven't heard of) would be the right product. We will have limited, if any, ventilation below our deck. It's a roof deck, so it will only be raised slightly above the sloped roof below to allow for the deck planks to be level..maybe 1" on the one side & 3 1/4" on the other side. So much was mentioned above about cupping related to ventilation & I'm not sure if we will have much ventilation. Any suggestion for rooftop deck material with this type installation? Thanks! |
Hello my name is Scott Morris and I have previously posted comments on here before specifically about Mangaris (Red Balau) and Ipe decking. I have spoken to and met with several people in the Southern California area. I have worked for BlueLinx (a wholesale building materials distributor of Mangaris and other decking products) for 8 years as well as 20 years experience on the retail lumber side. As in my earlier post, the biggest issue with any hardwood decking is in the installation. I have included the complete installation guidelines for you to read. The biggest issues always seem to be, #1 Improper or lack air ventilation under the deck #3 Fasteners used on the decking. Hidden fasteners are usually not recommended for hardwood decking. Screwing the board down through the face has about 4x the holding power of a hidden fastener. You should either use a stainless steel screw, a plug system with stainless steel screws or a system like the Kreg Deck Jig that screws in at an angle on the side / edge of the board. #4 Is oiling / sealing the product. You either need to oil all 4 sides prior to installation with a good penetrating oil, or, leave all 4 sides raw and allow the board to weather to a natural silver gray color. This is popular in larger commercial applications like the LA Zoo, Disneyland, boardwalks near the beach and several larger outdoor shopping centers about the LA area. I have recently opened my own wholesale direct to the public distribution for hardwood decking products. I offer Kayu Batu (Red Balau, same as Mangaris Red) which is a Class A flame spread rated hardwood decking with a 25 year warranty and Siap (pre-finished) hardwood decking exclusively in Southern California. I also have deck tiles available in 20"x20" and 40"x40" sizes, as well as 6' & 7' "shorts" than can be used for fencing with an additional savings of up to 30% compared to the longer length materials. All my products are at very competitive pricing, usually 20-30% less than what you will find at the large retail lumber yards. This is because I buy direct and I'm the exclusive distributor of Kayu International decking products in Southern California. You can call or email me to check pricing on all my products, 818-456-9777 or email@example.com . I'm in the Los Angeles area in Pacoima. Will call or delivery is available to all of Southern California. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Kayu International
I live in a Ca Fire Zone, so need decking which meets the State's requirements for 'ignition resistance.' Do I have choices other than composite? I had decided on Massaranduba, but my Planning Dept. won't approve it unless I can offer verification it meets the State standards. PLEASE HELP! |
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Features By Jack Giroux on October 17, 2014 | Be the First To CommentJason Reitman is a hard filmmaker to pin down. He's made six features, and when a director has made that many films, it's usually not terribly difficult to find themes or ideas that tie a filmography together. Besides generally following smart but naive characters, you can't really do that with Reitman's pictures. The element that comes closest to defining Reitman's body of work is his passion for self-reflective stories. After his past two divisive efforts, Labor Day and Men, Women & Children, it's obvious his voice and interests go beyond one story or one specific idea. What's missing from those films, for starters, is Reitman's comedic wit. That's not to say they don't have his sense of humor, albeit in much smaller doses, but they wear a more serious face than his earlier work. Critics certainly aren't used to this side of Reitman. "It feels like the snarkier I am, the more the critics like it," Reitman tells me with a laugh. "I mean, you gotta make films in your own voice. When you start trying to please people, you're never going to win."
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Movie Reviews By Christopher Campbell on October 2, 2014 | Be the First To CommentIf you watch the first trailer for Jason Reitman's Men, Women & Children, the one without dialogue and scored with The Plantains' dreary cover of "I Feel Loved," you don't need to see the rest. The trailer doesn't so much spoil the movie as the movie has nothing to say that isn't succinctly stated in that two-minute video. We're all on our internet devices a lot, we're a disconnected society, we're all sad, yada yada. The two-hour cut of the drama does little else with the characters and situations introduced in the trailer nor with the themes and obvious, well-established points about the digital age. You don't need to see these elements come to their predictable climaxes and conclusions, and you certainly don't need narration from Emma Thompson overstating what's going on. That voiceover starts the movie as we're told about the Voyager 1 probe (which we've been watching portrayed during the opening credits) and how it's just made its way beyond our solar system. Thompson has an upbeat tone to her speech, eventually revealed to be in stark contrast with the rest of the movie, and the way she goes on with such broad expositional contexts as the universe and our place in it, there's a kind of Douglas Adams drollness to it. But the wit is absent — is this even supposed to be comedic? — and soon the narration is mainly just telling us details about characters as we're meeting them, a bit of shorthand for actually letting us get to know these people, […]
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'Men, Women & Children' Trailer: Just Everyone Stop Texting, Okay?
Movie News By Kate Erbland on August 19, 2014 | Be the First To CommentDoes Jason Reitman hate texting? From the looks of the first trailer for his Men, Women & Children, that definitely seems to be the case. Reitman's latest is all about the secrets we keep online and that threaten to leak into the real world — which makes it kind of weird that the film's marketing is encouraging fans to use the Whisper app to share their secrets, because that sure seems like something that's pushing precisely what the film is against — with everyone constantly staring at their phones and looking shocked. Not a fan of films that use cute graphics to share texts, emails and pix on the big screen? Oh, you're going to hate this one. Reitman's film centers on a loosely connected group of students and their families, though it appears that they are all linked by their mutual sadness and disconnection. Put down your phones. Start living your lives. The Internet is bad. You are watching this trailer on the Internet, which is weird, right? Hmm. Watch the first trailer for Men, Women & Children after the break. You can probably do it on your phone.
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Features By Nathan Adams on February 7, 2014 | Comments (9)This article contains spoilers for 'Labor Day.' Proceed with caution unless you have already taken in all of the nonsense it has to offer, or if you are for some other reason free of spoiler-fear. Seeing as I watched director Jason Reitman's new film, Labor Day, after it was already a few days into its release, I figured that since I hadn't heard much about it, chances were that it was just an ordinary movie. I mean, I'd heard some rumbling about how it was surprisingly bad, but given how much people have liked Reitman's movies (Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Up In the Air, Young Adult) up until this point, it made sense that he was probably due to make something that would disappoint. And yeah, the trailer looked pretty hokey, but who can't go in for a sappy love story every once in a while? It was pretty damned surprising to me then, just how contemptible Labor Day ended up being—and not in your usual bad movie way either. Sure, it was contrived. Sure, its characters often didn't behave in any believably human way. And sure, it had some serious pacing problems. The real issues with this thing went so much further than problems with crafting though. At a very fundamental level, Labor Day tells a story that presupposes a woman can't thrive in her life unless she's permanently attached to a man, which is laughable. As soon as I got home I Googled the movie, expecting to […]
Watch the Zippy Early Shorts of Jason Reitman: 'In God We Trust,' 'Gulp' and 'Consent'
Features By Daniel Walber on February 1, 2014 | Comments (1)This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor's career. It is perhaps a bit odd to celebrate the early work of Jason Reitman on the opening weekend of his first critical failure. Labor Day is not only the Canadian director's first "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but it's also his first feature to even drop below 80%. Frankly, given the way the film has been kicked about the calendar since its Toronto International Film Festival debut, it seems as if the various people involved would prefer that we not talk about it at all. And so we won't! (I haven't seen it yet, anyway.) Instead let's take a look back at Reitman's early shorts and program a half-hour film festival brimming with nostalgia for the early 2000s. He directed six of these before his first feature, 2005's Thank You for Smoking. Half of that number are available to watch on Vimeo, thanks to character actor and Reitman regular Jeff Witzke. They're all fast-paced experiments in screenwriting and editing, clever and really quite delightful.
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Commentary Commentary By Rob Hunter on January 30, 2014 | Comments (1)Jason Reitman's fifth feature film, Labor Day, hits theaters this Friday, but while I haven't seen it yet the advance word has been a far cry from the critical acclaim his movies usually receive. To be fair, it's also by all accounts a different beast from Reitman's previous films as it concentrates more on the drama than on the acerbic, darkly comedic wit. It's for this reason that I decided to go back a few years to Reitman's last film, the blackly comic, emotionally tragic, and sadly under-seen Young Adult, for this week's commentary listen. Well, that and the fact that one of the best films to play this year's Sundance, Listen Up Philip, reminded me positively of it. Both movies are excellent entries in the canon of "asshole cinema" in that their lead characters are irredeemable pricks struggling to conceal their humanity and causing all manner of hilarity and emotional distress along the way. Charlize Theron plays a young adult novelist who returns home to her small town to reclaim her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson) in the hopes that it will knock her out of the doldrums of both her career and her life. Her efforts don't quite go according to plan and instead she's forced face to face with the reality of the person she's become.
The 5 Must See Films of January 2014
Features By Jack Giroux on January 2, 2014 | Be the First To CommentThis dreaded dump month is only going to look worse considering all the terrific December releases we just saw: Martin Scorsese, Spike Jonze, and the Coen Brothers's three incredible films; Ron Burgundy's hilarious return; and David O. Russell's pretty good movie. Even with 47 Ronin kind of stinking up the joint, it couldn't ruin last month's holiday filmgoing spirit. December ended a satisfying year on a tremendous note. Of course the start of 2014 can't live up to all those award contenders, not even with I, Frankenstein going to bat for it. Frankenstein's monster turned pretty boy action hero should at the very least give us something to talk about, but if the trailers are any fair indication, I, Frankenstein is not one of the five must see movies of the month.
'Labor Day' Trailer: Jason Reitman and Josh Brolin Show Us A Perfect World
Movie News By Scott Beggs on October 31, 2013 | Be the First To CommentIn 1993, Clint Eastwood delivered Kevin Costner as a man on the lam in A Perfect World. It was a smart, dusty twist on coming-of-age featuring a kidnapped boy and ketchup sandwiches. It's one of Eastwood's best as a director, and watching the new trailer for Jason Reitman's Labor Day, I couldn't help but pick up an echo of it. Reitman looks like he's doing what he always does (which also means casually going after a fifth Oscar nomination) with the story of an escaped convict (Josh Brolin) playing house with his collateral. Naturally, there's more to his and the family's stories. Our review is here. Check out the trailer for yourself and be prepared for a flash of James Van Der Beek as a lawman:
'Labor Day' Review: Jason Reitman's Most Mature Work Suffers Alongside the Human Condition
Film Festivals By Kate Erbland on September 6, 2013 | Be the First To CommentThere's no funny or punny way to put this – Jason Reitman's Labor Day is a film about human needs and desires and so how they so often (and so irrevocably) lead to human stupidity and error. A domestic drama about grief, tragedy, growth, and renewal, there's not a hamburger phone to be found in the whole production, and even Reitman's trademark banter is held at bay for nearly the film's entire runtime (the filmmaker does let it fly for a truncated dinner sequence). A film about the human condition, Labor Day is both incredibly relatable and deeply frustrating – after all, those are the sort of emotions anyone would feel if they let an escaped convict into their house and promptly fell in love with him.
Jason Reitman Wants Adam Sandler to Do Some Real Acting in 'Men, Women and Children'
In Development By Nathan Adams on September 5, 2013 | Be the First To CommentWhen's the last time we saw Adam Sandler buckle down and do some real acting? Do things like Spanglish and Reign Over Me count because they were more drama than comedy, even though they were still pretty cheesy and lame? How about Funny People? That was kind of a meaty part, even though Sandler was essentially playing himself in it. Is his role in Punch Drunk Love really the only thing that could unequivocally be considered an example of Sandler rolling up his sleeves and actually doing some work as an actor? At this point we've gotten so used to the guy wearing cargo shorts and t-shirts while sleepily trudging his way through scenes opposite his friends, that to see him actually engaged in his work would probably feel pretty alien. Director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult) seems to think that he can get a real performance out of him though, because a report from Deadline says that he's in the process of signing Sandler to one of the featured roles in his next movie—and Jason Reitman doesn't make lazy Adam Sandler movies.
Would It Be Fatal if Someone Covered Their Body with Nicotine Patches Like in 'Thank You For Smoking'?
Features By Kevin Carr on September 5, 2013 | Be the First To CommentBefore he directed award-nominated movies like Juno, Up in the Air, and Young Adult, Jason Reitman's debut feature film was the bitingly sarcastic Thank You For Smoking, a tale of a unscrupulous spin-doctor for the tobacco industry. Being a self-described "Merchant of Death," Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) becomes the target of pretty much everybody from his own family to a U.S. Senator. During the course of the film, Nick is kidnapped by unknown assailants who strip him down to his skivvies and cover him with dozens of nicotine patches. Soon, Nick loses consciousness and later wakes up in a hospital, miraculously alive due to his personal high tolerance for nicotine that he gained from years of smoking cigarettes. While the movie moves along to a sharp political and ethical point in the end, this scene got us thinking, just in case we needed to quit smoking and burn through the four-week patch program in a weekend, would covering ourselves with nicotine patches in one fell swoop kill us?
Today's /Filmcast Marathon Features Celebrity Guests and a Good Cause
Features By Scott Beggs on March 30, 2013 | Be the First To CommentIt all kicks off at 9am Pacific. After raising $10,000 for FilmAid, David Chen and the /Filmcast family are making good on their offer to rock a 10-hour podcasting marathon, and since it's done like a reverse-telethon, no one will be constantly promising you tote bags in return for your money. That leaves more time to talk with an excellent lineup of guests. The sad part? No tote bags. Rian Johnson is batting first, followed by the 10am segment with me and David Wain, followed by an 11am with Damon Lindelof. And then, 7 more hours of filmmaker guests and shenanigans. So bookmark this page and plan to camp out there all day today. If you need more incentive, here's the full lineup:
Casting Couch: Jason Reitman Takes the Testosterone Out of 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' Oscar Winner Interested in 'Spawn,' and More
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on February 18, 2013 | Comments (1)What is Casting Couch? Quite simply, it's a casting news round-up that takes its name from the place where young actors trade their dignity for a shot at fame. Today we learn who had to service Miss Piggy to get a role in her new film. When everyone thinks of James Foley's 1992 film adaptation of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, they think of a bunch of competitive men trying to tear each other's throats out to get ahead, they think of Alec Baldwin's testosterone-filled motivational speeches about how coffee is for closers, and generally they think about a bunch of macho posturing and heartless ambition. So Jason Reitman's latest live reading of a Hollywood script should be fun, because it re-imagines Glengarry by giving it an all-female cast. Who's he got? According to Inside Movies, his cast will consist of Robin Wright playing the Al Pacino role, Catherine O'Hara the Jack Lemmon one, Maria Bello the Ed Harris one, Allison Janney the Alan Arkin one, and Mae Whitman the Kevin Spacey one. A replacement for Baldwin has yet to be announced, but I think we can all agree that the dream casting would be Beyoncé. The reading takes place at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on February 21.
Does 'Lonesome Jim' Do Hometown Haughtiness Better Than 'Young Adult'?
Features By Nathan Adams on April 10, 2012 | Comments (7)When writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman teamed up on the 2007 film, Juno, the responses were mixed. Some people liked it quite a bit, not just because it was clever and quippy, but also because it presented a realistic, affecting look at the inherent drama of teenage pregnancy. Other people thought that it was painfully self-conscious in its hipness and insufferably annoying in its quirk, so they raged against any praise that came its way. Their next team-up, Young Adult, was different though. Not only did this look at a washed-up YA author traveling back to her home town in order to break up her high school sweetheart's marriage do well with Juno fans, it did quite well with those who couldn't stand Cody's writing up to that point, as well. Charlize Theron's painfully honest protagonist and Patton Oswalt's achingly tragic supporting character really hit home for most. On the other end of the spectrum, the 2005 film Lonesome Jim doesn't get very many mentions in a very many circles. On a couple levels, that makes sense. It's a micro-budget indie that doesn't provide any spectacle and didn't get much promotion, and it was only seen on a handful of screens during its theatrical release. On the other hand, there are several reasons why you'd think this movie would have gotten more play over time. It's one of the few films directed by Steve Buscemi, who everybody seems to love, it's got great lead performances by Casey Affleck […]
Jason Reitman Casts Seth Rogen, Christina Hendricks, and Others in His Live Reading of 'The Big Lebowski'
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on March 29, 2012 | Be the First To CommentRecently, director Jason Reitman has been doing a special series of script readings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Basically what he does is he takes the script for a beloved film, recasts the whole thing with new actors, and does a stage reading in front of a live audience. Rights issues being what they are, something like this can't be recorded, so getting to experience one of these events is a très exclusive honor. Reitman has already given this treatment to five universally loved movies (The Breakfast Club, The Apartment, Shampoo, Reservoir Dogs, and The Princess Bride), and tonight he's set to cap off his series with a reading of everyone's favorite film, The Big Lebowski. Who does he have on tap to bring legendary characters like The Dude and Jackie Treehorn to life on stage? Inside Movies has the scoop, and some of his decisions sound like they're ripe with fun-time possibilities. For the part of The Dude (or El Duderino, if you're not into that whole brevity thing) Reitman has chosen Seth Rogen, the man with the best stoner laugh in Hollywood. His best friend and security expert, Walter Sobchak, will be played by The Office star Rainn Wilson, a man not unfamiliar with bluster. As the other Jeffrey Lebowski, the millionaire (and a fucking goldbricker if I've ever seen one), is Jason Alexander, a man used to spinning unbelievable yarns. And for Lebowski's red-headed and inappropriately sexual daughter Maude, they've tapped Mad Men star […]
Culture Warrior: The Allure of Horrible Protagonists
Culture Warrior By Landon Palmer on January 4, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWarning: This article contains spoilers for Young Adult, Shame, and The Descendants. 2011's holiday movie season ended the year with a barrage of relatively conventional heroes. From Ethan Hunt saving the world from yet another MacGuffin to Sherlock Holmes solving an additional mystery to a cyberpunk and a journalist battling wealthy Swedish career-misogynist neo-Nazis, December was packed with varied iterations of good triumphing over its clearly delineated evil opposition. In contrast, the holiday season's slate of smaller-scale filmmaking brought forth several protagonists who function in strict contrast to your conventional hero. These protagonists are (decidedly) so toxic, broken, unheroic, and even unlikeable that they can't even be deemed antiheroes. These characters (to varying degrees of success) challenge the assumed connection that filmic convention makes between the "main character" and the "film itself" by presenting protagonists who don't triumph over adversity, who don't fight or win a "good" battle, and who frankly don't warrant an act of rooting. These protagonists trip up an oft-unquestioned notion conditioned by cinematic tradition: that films should serve as a means of rooting for a clearly demarcated, pre-telegraphed, unassailable idea of goodness. These are three protagonists that we aren't often asked to spend ninety minutes with.
Review: 'Young Adult' is the Ultimate Anti-Coming-of-Age Story
Movie Reviews By Jack Giroux on December 16, 2011 | Comments (4)"Guys like me are born to like girls like you." If you're one of those guys – someone who finds unrelenting asshole women irresistible – Young Adult will leave you with a new crush. If you're a socially normal human being who knows how destructive an asshole can be, Young Adult will leave you with a new on-screen enemy. I fall in the middle. Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) could not be further from likable and sympathetic, and that's the whole point. The young adult writer, not the most subtle character trait, is never glorified as being a "cool smokin' bitch," something that she only starts off as. As the film progresses, the beautiful womanchild is stripped down to something so ugly, unappealing, hopeless, and, in some uncomfortable ways, a little relatable.
Kevin Carr's Weekly Report Card: December 16, 2011
Features By Kevin Carr on December 16, 2011 | Comments (3)This week, Fat Guy Kevin Carr goes rogue and infiltrates his local IMAX theater. First, he scales the wall of the plus-sized building and slides in undetected through the air vents. He slowly lowers himself into a theater seat to enjoy an early screening of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Unfortunately, he finds himself in the middle of a wild crowd of six-year-old kids for the early screening of the latest Alvin and the Chipmunks movie. To deal with the psychological damage, Kevin then stumbles into the Sherlock Holmes sequel and later finds an extra seat in Young Adult, where he can imagine that his chubby caboose could land a hottie like Charlize Theron.
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Such suspicions may be pushing even mainstream Swedish Muslims toward radical street preachers, especially in the nearby suburb of Rosengaard where Muslim immigrants form a substantial majority.
"These neighborhoods are hunting grounds for Islamists but how many and how organized [they are] it's impossible to say," says Aje Carlbom, a Malmo University researcher who began studying Rosengaard society nearly ten years ago.
"Twenty years ago when the mosque was established they [its founders] had some political problems and pushed the different factions out," Carlbom explains. "These small factions established their own mosques in basements."
It is a pattern echoed across Europe. While moderate Muslims may disown extremists and bar them from mosques, they do little to challenge extremist ideologies and the radical preachers merely regroup elsewhere, out of sight of both mainstream Muslims and the authorities.
"I know for a fact that there are small extremist groups in Malmo," says Arjumand Carlstein, a social worker at Malmo Islamic Centre, attached to the mosque. "And apart from the organized groups, you also have the Internet and extremists can easily communicate with each other in other parts of the world."
This global phenomenon appears to be spreading to Sweden. In August, several short video clips appeared on the Internet purporting to show experimental detonations of explosives in a wooded valley, supposedly in Sweden.
In September, another Islamist website claiming to speak for Ansar Al-Sunna, the Iraqi terrorist group, said the group had established "a small isolated training camp in southern Sweden."
"We wish to inform the Ummah," said the website, referring to the global Islamic community, "that the Army of Ansar Al-Sunnah in Sweden are well-trained to defend our holy countries ... having established a Mujahideen training camp, located in Skane [the region in southern Sweden that includes Malmo] ... with the help from Allah."


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Just as everyone knew that the Non-Aggression Pact between Hitler and Stalin would eventually be broken by one party or the other, it was a good bet that the Non-Aggression Pact between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul would also eventually be broken once it was clear that Romney had no intention of honoring whatever deals he may have struck with Paul.
What wasn't clear was that Paul and his people were not only fully aware that Romney couldn't be trusted to keep his word, but they were also fully prepared to execute a plan to compel Mittens to keep his word, to punish him if he didn't, or to just plain win outright:
The five states holding primaries on Tuesday—Connecticut, Delaware, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island—were all prime turf for Romney: heavily urbanized, high-Catholic populations with comparatively moderate Republican electorates. Romney did as well as expected, running the table in Connecticut and New York, and successfully ending Newt Gingrich's campaign by seizing the winner-take-all state of Delaware. But, in Rhode Island's proportional race and Pennsylvania's loophole primary, Ron Paul managed to slip in and grab delegates. In fact, Paul is expected to finish second in the overall delegate haul for the night despite investing almost no effort in the states contested.
Next stop: Texas, which is not only Paul's home state but has proportional representation — in other words, it's not winner-take-all.
Meanwhile, the Ron Paul contigent has made serious inroads into various state GOP branches, such as Minnesota's. Here's an example of a Minnesota Ron Paul Republican; his name is Kurt Bills, and he's, erm, interesting.


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Coming out of hiding!
I have been reading and following on here forever but finally decided to come out out hiding and introduce myself! Hi!:wave2: My name is Kim. I am a wife and mom of 3 ages 14, 9 and 6.
Growing up my parents took us to Disney World every year and I have always loved it. My husband was there as a small child but did not have any real fond memories and was NOT interested in going. At All! I convinced him it was something we needed to do "for the kids" and booked the trip while he was at work :rolleyes1 Well he LOVED the place and we are now looking to book again! So excited to start planning again!!! Excited to be here! Kim |
Welcome, Kim!
We're planning a return trip; this time next year we'll be on our way to rope drop somewhere! When are you planning to return, and where are you planning to stay? |
Hi Kim and welcome!
I am new here myself! After 3 trips (and Universal), my wife is just not a DIS'er but we just did a fun trip and she doesn't know it yet, but i will talk her into another one soon :goodvibes Let me know if you are sharing the kool-aid you used for your husband!! Enjoy planning your upcoming trip!! |
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Crossover event: Jon Udell and Tony Hammond on DOI, etc.
Very cool to hear Jon Udell connect up with Tony Hammond of NPG to discuss DOIs, identifier persistence, work representations, and reference linking, among other topics. I don't think there was any mention of OpenURL in the conversation but I might have missed it. Funny how that can be just glossed over in a discussion very much about what OpenURL is for.
For a little more on the topic, see also this follow up post on Jon's blog.
DOI and OpenURL
By Jon Udell (not verified) on 30 Jan 2007 at about 19:08."I don't think there was any mention of OpenURL in the conversation"
In fact we had a much longer conversation and a big chunk of it was on OpenURL. But you nailed it: this was aiming to be a crossover thing. As such, the DOI stuff alone was pretty dense conceptually. So I decided to defer OpenURL to another time. Maybe you'd like to be the interviewee for that other time?
That sounds great, I'd love
By dchud on 31 Jan 2007 at about 11:11.That sounds great, I'd love to.
Then again, I'd enjoy hearing the parts of the conversation that didn't make the cut, as surely Tony can speak to the ins and outs of OpenURL quite eloquently.