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Fair Oaks Drive-In
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Opened in the 1960's, the Fair Oaks Drive-In was closed at the end of the 2013 season. It was hoped to install digital projection equipment, and planned to reopen in April 2014, but a dispute with the landowners prevented this from happening. It reopened for the 2015 season April-October.
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Great news.
Lets see. It would be GREAT to see the Fair Oaks Drive in open again. It has been running since 1990. When Ron Merge the former owner and operator departed, after 23 successful seasons in 2013.. The Overlook Drive in in Poughkeepskie and The Hyde Park Drive in do very well. Having 4 different Drive In's within 45 to 70 minutes from where I live is quite a treat.
Sadly the Fair Oaks Drive in DID NOT OPEN and is NOT OPEN
They tried to work out a deal with the land owner. But that fell thru. The phone number 845-361-5114 is now disconnected. The webiste is gone
Terrible news!
Very sad news indeed. :(
Fair Oaks Drive-In will reopen for 2015.
A small group of fans of this theater is planning a party at this theater in July. You are invited. Lots of details at the link below:
The Drive In is open now, weekends at this point, planned for full time when schools are out for summer vacation in June. Wonderful article in the local paper… http://www.recordonline.com/article/20150522/NEWS/150529715/0/SEARCH
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The Garmin Nuvi 250w is a wide screen sat nav. It charges via the cigarette lighter socket in the car, and can be powered directly from this, or via the battery within the unit. Mostly this is a gadget which doesn't get used because I don't often drive anywhere that I don't know well enough to just use road signs, but on the occasions when I do use this, it is actually a very useful gadget to own.
When you first look at the Garmin Nuvi, you see a small oblong unit with a screen on it. It looks like it ought to be a hand held games console or something, but in fact, it's a sat nav. On turning it on, you get icons on the screen which are designed in a similar way to those on a windows pc or a touch screen phone. Touching an icon will take you into that element of software, and when you first set the system up, you load it with your personal information such as your 'home' address. Doing this means that when you use it, you can easily tell it to 'go home' and it knows where you want to go - much simpler than having to program your details in for each return journey.
To set the destination point for your outward journey, you select the 'address' icon, and input the various details - postcode, house number, city etc. After this, the screen changes to a map and connects to the satellites so that it knows your current location. The map feature has various levels and the +/- button on screen allows you to zoom in and out through them. A car or pointer shows where you are on the map and it always sits at the bottom centre so that you can see the parts of the map which are coming next.
The voice part of the Garmin Nuvi is a female voice, and isn't a particularly annoying one, although on a long journey, after a number of times of hearing her saying 'at the next junction turn left' a few times, you do get a little sick of the sound. The voice gives you the information that as a driver you need in plenty of time, so that you know when you are approaching a roundabout it will tell you to enter the roundabout and to take the 3rd exit, and then as you enter the roundabout you are reminded again which allows you to keep your eyes on the road and what's going on around you.
A small amount of additional information is given on screen through the journey - you have your speed at the bottom left, and your estimated arrival time at the bottom right. If you are in a zone where there are speed cameras you get a warning flashes on the screen along with the speed limit for that section of road, and a noise to alert you to glance at the sat nav screen.
The system is quite simple and intuitive meaning that even if you've never used a sat nav before, you can quite quickly get used to how the system works and use it effectively even if you never learn anything about all the extras that it has available. For me this is idea, as I'm not likely to use most of the extras which means that I don't particularly feel the need to know too much about how they work.
Very briefly however, other features include:
Points of Interest:
Gives information about various facilities that are available in that area from petrol stations and shops to places to stay, parks, museums and landmarks etc.
Recently Found:
Last few places you've navigated to stored in a list so you can re-select them.
When you're at a location, save it to your favourites, give it a name and it's stored forever so you can get directions for that location without re-programming the Garmin Nuvi again.
Allows you to locate a junction point of two roads.
World Clock:
So you always know the time no matter where you are.
I guess this is here because they could. I have no idea why I'd need a calculator when driving however.
Picture Viewer:
Insert the media card from your camera and view the pictures on the Garmin Nuvi's screen.
As I say, I don't really bother with any of the other features much, for me a sat nav is about allowing me to navigate from one place to another without having to stop and read maps along the way. Overall, for a unit which costs around the £100 mark, this isn't bad. All I could say against it are that updates could be cheaper, as if you live in or are travelling to an area where there is mass development going on, you really do need them.
Up until quite recently, I've been a beardy type, with occasional forays into designer stubble. However, with encroaching middle age making me look more like a badger, i thought it was time to start shaving a bit more often. Having never been a big fan of regular razors, I decided i needed to go electric.
The first thing that struck me about this shaver is the design. It's modelled on the design of the Williams F1 team, using their white, blue and silver livery. The shaver feels nice and chunky in your hand, and has ridged rubber grips on either side making it comfortable to hold. Overall, it feels like a very solid item.
In use, the shaver is pretty simple. There are three rotary shaving heads arranged in a triangle. The heads are pivoted so that they can stay in contact with convex parts of your face (that's most of your face if we're honest, right?) A touch of a button unlatches the shaving unit, allowing you access to the individual heads, which are replaceable should they become blunt. This is also where the cut off bits of beard end up, so Philips have supplied a small brush to help with cleaning this area. It is also possible to clean this part by running it under a tap, but be careful - this shaver isn't a true wet and dry, and shouldn't be immersed in water. The shaver also comes with a clip-on cover to protect the shaving heads when not in use.
Another nice feature of this shaver is the flip out precision trimmer on the back. At the press of another button, this pops out at right angles to the shaver and engages itself with the motor. This is a neat system, because the trimmer is only operating when it's in the trimming position. My only criticism of the trimmer is that it doesn't lock in the open position, so trimming/long hair removal can only be done in a downward direction with respect to the shaver.
The shaver is fitted with rechargeable batteries that last a good long time - Philips claim 8 hours run time for 1 hours charge. An LED on the front of the shaver tells you when the batteries are low, and there is another to indicate when the unit is charging. The charger is quite small and light and plugs into a standard shaver socket. I will also work on anything from 100 to 240 Volts, and at 50 or 60 Hz, so it can be used anywhere in the world without an adaptor.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with this shaver. Having never owned one before I wasn't really sure what to expect, but it shaves well and feels really comfortable to use. 'Nuff said.
Why are we paying a pound a loaf for ten penn'orth of ingredients? That was our thought when we decided to get a breadmaker. We worked out that by buying flour in bulk (16Kg at a time from a nearby flour mill), and even accounting for the extortionate cost of electricity these days, we could make bread for around 35p a loaf. Sounds good yes?
Why this particular model? Well, we didn't want to spend too much money on something that might turn out to be a flash in the pan, and this one fitted the bill. The fold down beater bar was the thing that really sold it though - no slices with a big hole in the middle - or so we thought.
On first unpacking this breadmaker, I was quite impressed. The main unit looked good, there was a fairly comprehensive instruction manual, which included a variety of different recipes for all kinds of bread, dough, cakes and even jam. There was also a set of measuring spoons and a measuring cup. Uh-oh - first design flaw. The spoons are the shape of little scaled down coffee mugs, and the bottom corners are practically square. Did they not consider how hard it would be to clean oil out of something that's barely wider than your finger?
The control panel of the breadmaker features an LCD display, and 6 buttons which allow you to vary the size and colour of your loaf, or to select different settings such as jam or dough. A nice feature is the delayed start setting, which allows you to load the pan and be greeted with fresh bread in the morning, or when you come back from work.
In use, the machine is fairly noisy when it's kneading, but quiet as a mouse the rest of the time - except when it beeps to let you know that it's time to add extra ingredients (say fruit or nuts). The beeper is quite high pitched and ear piercing if you happen to be nearby when it goes off. The same beeper is also used to let you know the cycle is finished.
The loaves themselves are tall and square, and tend to be harder at the bottom than at the top. The beater sometimes stays with the tin, and sometimes comes out in the loaf. It can be fun trying to prise the beater out of a hot loaf, I can tell you! We tend to turn the loaf on it's side (to get square slices) and cut from the bottom up.
The lower crust is almost always concrete hard - not something I fancy eating to be honest. The next couple of slices will have a hole in the middle from the beater (remember I said it was supposed to fold flat? Not so much!) I've always found the bread to be very dense and filling - I'd eat 2 sandwiches made from shop bought bread, but one from this machine is usually enough. At least a loaf lasts a while! To be honest though, I've eaten bread from other domestic breadmakers that's much better than this machine seems capable of making.
After a few months (washing the pan out after each use), we found that the beater driver in the bread pan was starting to stiffen up - so much so that eventually the motor wouldn't turn the beater at all. I found that as the bearing/seal has become worn, it has become a looser fit, and small particles of bread mixture can get in, where they are be cooked solid by the breadmaker. The solution to this, as it turns out, is to turn the pan upside down and run hot water into the back of the beater assembly, whilst turning the beater drive manually until is works loose. This results in a little puddle of blackened water under the pan where the burnt stuff has worked its way through. This process can take anything between one and five minutes to do.
For this reason, we mainly use the machine now for mixing dough, which my wife then makes into rolls and cooks in the oven, and which taste better than anything that the breadmaker could do on its own.
Hands up everyone who remembers the '70's? If you were a kid back then, you must have come across the Stylophone. Promoted by Rolf Harris, and used on a number of recordings, including David Bowie's 'Space Oddity', it has become one of the icons of it's era. Well, the good news (or maybe bad news? Depends if you remember it fondly I guess!) is that it's back!
The new model remains fairly faithful to the original, in that it has the same control layout and overall shape. Controls are pretty simple - the front panel has power and vibrato switches (more on that in a minute), a one and a half octave keyboard and a stylus, which sits in a slot above the keys. There's a volume control on one side (especially useful if you don't like the sound - it goes down as well as up you know!) and a headphone socket on the other.
Now, the main differences between the modern version and the original is what's been added. Alongside the headphone socket is another socket that allows you to plug your MP3 player in through the Stylophone and play along. This is quite a nice feature if you're trying to learn a song, just don't expect it to sound great - the speaker in the Stylophone isn't exactly Hi-Fi!
The other big difference is the 3-way tone switch on the front edge of the unit. What you may not know about the original Stylophone is that there were three main versions. As well as the most common 'standard' model, there were also 'bass' and 'treble' versions. The 3-way switch means that the new version is all three in the same box - bargain or what?
In case you're one of the rare people who don't know how to play a Stylophone, it's really simple. You just touch the metal tip of the stylus on one of the keys, completing a circuit, and out comes the sound. The keyboard is laid out like a piano, with the 'white' keys (labelled 1 to 12) at the front and the 'black' keys (labelled 1.5 to 11.5) behind.
If you want a slightly different sound, switch on the Vibrato function. This works by slightly detuning the note, making the notes warble.
One last feature is the tuning knob on the back of the unit. My guess is that it's there to allow you to fine-tune your Stylophone to the same pitch as other instruments, but there's so much adjustment there that you can tune the instrument over more than an octave using just this control, allowing even greater tuning range.
The downside of the reissue Stylophone is the build quality. The original units had metal grilles and felt pretty sturdy, whereas the reissue feels like it's been built down to a price. The keyboard also suffers from tarnishing, although a quick wipe with some Brasso solves that problem easily enough.
On its release in 2000, Boondock Saints was shown in only a handful of cinemas in the USA, and closed almost immediately. It barely even made it to Europe at all. Critics panned it. The film flopped comprehensively.
So, why am I reviewing this turkey? Because the critics were wrong - it's a great movie. Written and directed by Troy Duffy, and set in the hard-as-nails area of south Boston, Boondock Saints is gritty, realistic, and often very funny.
The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as brothers Connor and Murphy McManus. After being involved in a bar fight, the brothers kill some Russian mobsters. They turn themself in to the police, who deem it was self defence. Heading up the investigation into the mobster's deaths is the flamboyant FBI agent Paul Smecker, played by Willem Dafoe, who demonstrates an almost psychic ability to determine what happened at the crime scene.
After their release, the brothers decide that there are degrees of evil, and that murderers, rapists and drug dealers should be killed for the greater good. Aided by their friend Rocco, a small time Italian mob delivery boy, they set about working their way up the Mafia food chain.
Obviously, the mob aren't going to stand still for this, and promptly expedite the parole of a life-prisoner known only as 'Il Duce'. This mysterious character (played by Billy Connolly) is known for killing mobsters, and is set on the trail of Rocco and the McManus brothers. This results in a huge shoot out outside the house of a mob hit man in which Rocco gets his finger shot off. The discovery of this finger leads Smecker to the realisation that the brothers are behind the recent spree of seemingly mob-related killings.
The brothers decide to go for the big prize - Mafia boss 'Papa Joe' Yakavetta - in his own home. This turns out to be a mistake that leads to the shooting of Rocco by Yakavetta. The brothers, however, are a little more fortunate, and with some assistance from Smecker (who, after talking to a priest, decides that the brothers are right), and also from Il Duce, they manage to get away. If you want to know why Il Duce decided not to kill the brothers, you'll have to watch the film - I'm not going to give the game away!
The DVD copy that I own is very basic. No special features, no animated menus (yay!) not even any subtitles, just the film itself. Works for me, that's what I bought it for at the end of the day! I believe there is a special edition with extra scenes and a few more features, but I can't comment on that version, having not seen it.
Despite being over 10 years old, it's aged really well, and still feels fresh today. The low production budget adds to the realism of the film - it's not all polished and perfect, and some parts have a fly-on-the-wall feel about them.
Overall, Boondock Saints makes it into my all time top 20 movies. The film's popularity has grown since its release, mostly by word of mouth, and has now well and truly earned itself cult classic status.
The Usual Suspects is, in my opinion, one of the finest crime films ever made. It features a great cast, excellent storyline, great direction - everything you could ever want in a movie.
The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Spacey, Kevin Pollack and Benicio del Toro as a group of New York criminals who are pulled in by the police for a lineup. While they are languishing in the cells, they hatch a scheme to pull a big job. The job goes off without a hitch, and the gang disappear to Los Angeles to let the heat die down. While there, they get pulled into yet more crimes, largely against the will of Dean Keaton (Byrne), who is doing his best to go straight.
When the gang is called into a meeting, they find out that they have all stolen from a mysterious and seemingly omnipresent underworld figure called Keyser Soze. As a consequence, Soze wants them to do one big job, which he does not expect them all to survive. Soze's instructions are relayed through his lawyer, a man called Kobayashi (chillingly portrayed by Pete Postlethwaite), who tells them they need to destroy 91 million dollars worth of cocaine on a ship in San Pedro harbour.
All these events are told in flashback by the sole survivor of the raid, Verbal Kint (Spacey), during his interrogation by Federal Agent Dave Kujan (played by Chazz Palminteri.
I don't want to spoil the plot, for those of you that haven't seen this film yet (but I will say 'Really? How can you NOT have seen this? Stop what you're doing and watch it immediately!) I will say no more, but the last ten minutes have twists and turns, and a surprise to end all surprises at the end.
Superbly directed by Bryan Singer, The Usual Suspects is a must see for thriller fans, and film buffs of all kinds. I only gave it 5 stars because I couldn't give it 6!!
Directed by David Zucker (Naked Gun series), and starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park), Baseketball is a hilarious sports comedy for the whole family. Except the kids. And Grandma. Your wife might not like it much either. Come to think of it, this is pretty much a guy movie.
A couple of lifelong slackers, Joe Cooper and Doug Remer (Parker and Stone) invent the game of Baseketball one night to avoid looking stupid at a party they've gatecrashed. Before long the sport goes national and they are sports personalities playing for the Milwaukee Beers.
After the team's owner Ted Denslow (Ernest Borgnine) dies in a hotdog-related accident, control of the team falls to Cooper. Another team owner, Baxter Cain (Robert Vaughn) needs the approval of all the team owners before he can turn Baseketball from its original 'sport of the people' format into yet another money-making machine, but Cooper resists, staying true to the original vision of his late friend and mentor Denslow.
The humour in this movie is often pretty crude and obvious, but in spite of that (or maybe because of it) it still manages to be very watchable. A lot of the gags revolve around Cooper and Remer giving flack to team-mate Squeak Scolari (Dian Bachar) and each other, and there's also a lot of humour derived from the female cast members/obvious eye-candy (Yasmine Bleeth and Jenny McCarthy).
There's quite a lot of recognisable faces in the supporting cast too, as well as a lot of names making cameo appearances as themselves, notably Hollywood biggie Robert Stack.
Overall, if you like South Park/Naked Gun/Airplane type humour, this is for you, and with many retailers selling the DVD at under £5, what's stopping you?
First of all, let me say that I'm a big fan of mint choc ice cream, and I'm quite picky about what makes a good one.
The appearance is important - we eat with all our senses, so if food doesn't look good we're less inclined to eat it. This ice cream seems to tick the right boxes here. When you open the tub you can see that it's a pleasant minty green colour, well presented with chocolate sauce and shaved chocolate on top. Time to grab a spoon and dig in - go on, you know you want to!
OK, so having got some in a bowl, what do I see? Well, the chocolate sauce that I mentioned is only a very thin drizzle down the edge of the tub, and there's not a huge amount of choc chips in evidence. Not looking quite so good now is it?
So how does it taste? Let's face it, this is the biggie. All told, I'd have to say it's not half bad. The ice cream has a good minty flavour, without going over the top (I've had some that are like frozen polo mints - too much!) The choc chips, although few in number, are at least a decent size, and taste like fairly good dark chocolate. There's a distinct flavour difference between the chips in the ice cream and the shavings from on the top, which is also quite pleasant. The chocolate sauce is pretty nondescript however, but what little there is mostly seems to be there for decorative purposes.
Overall, I'd have to say that I've had better mint choc ice cream, but at £1 for a 1 litre tub this is quite a good buy, although it could do with a few more chocolate chips.
Having been a bass player for 19 years, and mostly having played 4-string instruments in that time, I hadn't really considered ever using a 6-string bass. I mostly saw extended range instruments as unnecessary and, if I'm honest, something of a show-off.
Bearing this in mind, when I dropped into a local music shop a year or so ago, I really only picked up the NTB-6 through idle curiosity, never seriously thinking I'd be taking it home with me!
The first thing that struck me was that the bass felt really 'organic'. The finish on it is oil and wax, rather than varnish or lacquer, and it allows the grain of the wood to be felt as well as seen. The neck of the bass runs right through the body, and is made from three pieces of mahogany, with strips of maple in between. The rosewood fingerboard has pearloid position markers that are visible from the front and the side, and is adorned with 24 jumbo frets. The body wings are made from Imbuya, an Indonesian hardwood which has a very distinctive grain. There are a few areas that could have done with a bit better finishing, but on the whole the woodworking is of a reasonably high standard. At this price, I think you can forgive a few minor imperfections.
The second thing I noticed was that this bass felt HUGE! If you've only ever played 4-string instruments, then this thing is a massive jump. Not only does it have an extra string on each side of the 4 you're used to (one lower, one higher) but it also has a 35" scale, compared to the 32-34" which is more common.
The NTB-6 is fitted with twin humbucking pickups, each with its own volume and tone controls. At the body end, the strings are held in place by 6 individual bridge saddles, which allow both top loading or through body stringing. Tuning is taken care of with 6 compact machine heads. All the hardware is finished in black and, while it isn't of the highest quality, it works perfectly well and feels solid enough. I've seen instruments at 3 times the price with hardware of similar quality.
It is possible to get a good range of sounds out of the NTB-6, despite the fact that it only has passive tone controls. It'll do reggae, jazz and rock equally well, and while it lacks the brightness to do Marcus Miller impersonations, it'll cover more or less anything you ask of it.
While this bass isn't on a par with some of the more expensive offerings out there, at less than £350 it punches well above its weight. I'd say you'd need to look in the £500 - £750 range to find anything substantially better. For the money, it can't be beaten.


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Two people were shot at a movie theatre in the US state of Florida Monday afternoon, and a suspect is in custody, media reported.
The shooting took place inside a movie theatre in Wesley Chapel, Pasco County, Xinhua reported citing local WTSP-TV.
The Pasco county sheriff's office said that both victims were airlifted to a Tampa Bay-area hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known, according to WTSP-TV.
The suspected shooter has been taken into custody, the report quoted police sources as saying.


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BOSTON - The Boston Bruins provided defenseman Adam McQuaid with a three-year contract extension on Thursday.
The deal will keep the 24-year-old with the defending Stanley Cup champions through the 2014-15 season.
A native of Prince Edward Island, McQuaid posted three goals and 15 points with 96 penalty minutes and a plus-30 rating in 67 regular-season games last year. He added four assists in 23 playoff games, despite suffering a sprained neck in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Flyers.
In 86 NHL games over the past two seasons, McQuaid has totaled four goals and 16 points with 117 PIM.
Boston also announced the signings of forward Craig Cunningham to an entry- level contract and defenseman Zach McKelvie to a one-year deal.
Cunningham totaled 87 points in 71 games in the Western Hockey League of Canadian juniors, while McKelvie spent four seasons at Army (2005-08) before fulfilling his military obligations.


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The Supreme Court's decision in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), has had a seismic impact on federal civil litigation. We all thought the notice pleading concept introduced under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure had substantially eased the plaintiff's burden at the pleading stage. The Supreme Court in Twombly said "yes, but," and emphasized that notice pleading was never intended to dispense entirely with the need to plead facts demonstrating a right to relief. In short, facts matter: Rule 8 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires a statement of circumstances, events, and occurrences in support of the claim presented.
In dismissing the complaint, the Court laid waste to the 50-year-old rule established in Conley v. Gibson, 355 U.S. 41 (1957), which provided that a complaint should not be dismissed "unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief." Rather, to escape a motion to dismiss, a complaint now must state a claim that is plausible. However, the Court was fuzzy on precisely what it meant by "plausible." It told us that mere labels, conclusions, and formulaic recitations of the elements will not do. It also said that a complaint that establishes only the mere possibility of recovery will not pass muster. What emerges from the Twombly rubble is reminiscent of the story of Goldilocks: possible (too little); probable (too much); plausible (just right).
The Court undoubtedly intended to raise the bar for pleadings. How much higher the Court raised the bar is far from clear. In Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), the Court confirmed that Twombly neither abandoned notice pleading nor imposed a particularity-in-pleading requirement. Instead, the trial court must separate conclusory allegations from well-pleaded allegations, ignoring the former. The court must then draw on judicial experience and common sense to determine whether the complaint states a plausible claim for relief.
The Twombly Court clearly was on a mission to rein in the cost of discovery and minimize its tactical use. It also was concerned that if these questionable antitrust cases were to proceed to trial, costly discovery would run amok, and generalist judges and juries might not reach the "right" results. Erroneous outcomes create the problem of false positives—condemnation of conduct that is lawful—which, in turn, chill pro-competitive behavior. The Court concluded—wrongly—that because the content of pleadings and discovery requests was controlled by the parties, the courts were powerless to restrict their use. Its solution was to have the courts cut off these claims by granting motions to dismiss before significant discovery costs and judicial time had been invested in the cases.
The rulings in both Twombly and Iqbal are inextricably intertwined with the substantive natures of these cases. Twombly, as noted, involved potentially enormous discovery expenses. Iqbal involved complicated civil rights issues, which would force the attorney general and the FBI director to spend large blocks of time defending their actions in court. At the same time, the Twombly Court gave its imprimatur to the official Form 9 in the appendix to the Federal Rules for pleading in negligence actions.
The shockwaves of Twombly and Iqbal may give rise to unintended consequences that threaten to impair the operation of the federal civil justice system. The fact/conclusion distinction is unworkable. The line is often difficult to draw, especially when a court is asked to do so in the twinkling of an eye on a motion to dismiss. The distinction was a defining feature of code pleading, which led to a level of technicality and factual detail that in the end proved to be counterproductive—courts spent countless hours distinguishing "fact" from "conclusion" to determine whether a claim was properly pleaded, thereby missing the larger picture of whether the plaintiffs had a meritorious claim for trial. Dissenting in Twombly, Justice Stevens correctly pointed out that the fact/conclusion distinction, as an analytic tool, is a step backward.
Now, under the new precedent, once something is labeled a "conclusion," it can be ignored. Far from being useless and self-serving, conclusory statements in the pleadings can be very helpful to the courts and the parties in defining the nature of the claims and defenses. Equally troublesome is the Court's willingness in both Twombly and Iqbal to make probabilistic determinations at the pleading stage. Instead of fact-based outcomes, the courts may well yield outcome-based facts.
Another unintended consequence of Twombly is that it may lead to more—not less—discovery. Taking their cue from the Supreme Court, litigants have begun to add factual detail to their complaints. In the cases that survive motions to dismiss, the greater detail in the pleadings would call for more discovery, which in turn would necessitate more pre-trial supervision by the courts and increased litigation expenditures.
A motion to dismiss is simply too blunt an instrument to achieve discovery reform. The discovery rules allow the courts great leeway in fashioning programs to fit the needs of individual cases. Instead of directing courts to dismiss lawsuits, the Supreme Court should be directing trial judges to enforce existing rules designed to tailor discovery.
The Court has sent the wrong message to the lower courts—that if they perceive that existing rules are not working, they can ignore them and address the problem in another way. Twombly thus continues an unfortunate trend in the case law pushing the process of outcome determination to an ever-earlier point on the litigation time line. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574 (1986), urged courts to carefully review the pre-trial record to determine whether there was a genuine issue of material fact for trial. Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993), directed the courts to screen expert opinions early in the process to ensure their reliability.
Courts must be vigilant to avoid the unintended consequences of Twombly and Iqbal. Judges may not be able to make the ground shake, but they can take case management seriously and limit discovery where appropriate, rather than reducing well-pleaded claims to piles of rejected rubble.


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nice paper
By sky
from Minnesota
Comments about Shizen Pastel Paper:
Good quality useful samples in various colors
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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If this product was a bit cheaper, I would buy it a lot!
By Grace
from Chicago
I used this product to mace a bible case for my creative bible...It works great! After a while it will start to peel though... other than that, It is a pretty good deal!
Lovely paper at a bargain price!
By Jack
from Maine
Wonderful texture, beautiful deckle edges, recycled 100% cotton rag, very affordable! Great for charcoal sketching--just don't heavily work the surface. Suitably primed, it supports oil and acrylic. The colors I've used, gray, tan, white, black are lovely. For watercolor, Shizen has a sized, 300 gsm watercolor paper, also available from Dick Blick at very attractive prices.
Beautiful paper
By Sara B.
from North Bend OR
Lovely cotton paper with a heavily deckled edge. I don't use this for pastels, but for crafts or letter writing. (I originally purchased this paper hoping to use it for Zentangle tiles, but the deckle edge is too heavy and uneven for that -- I would need to tear all four edges.)
Shizen Pastel Paper
By kko
from Fergus Falls, Mn.
I really like this paper, will work great to make mini journals and for dry mediums.
Not for Pastel but...
By Dottie
from Arlington, VA
I actually buy this paper for book binding, the rich texture and deckle edge really gives great life to the books while remaining soft and pliable. Many of my customers end up using the books for scrap booking, so medium use on the paper is somewhat of a moot point.Alternatively, I am not a big pastel user, but I had a scrap piece and used it for a goauche study. To my surprise it held up quite well! Although there was some 'pilling' on the surface if I overworked an area, there was little to no warping even in areas that were completely saturated. If you're looking for an alternative watercolor paper to get some neat texture, I recommend giving this a try.
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Not impressed with this paper
By Nancy Pingree Hoover
from Midway, Texas
Typically when I buy paper, I use it for multiple purposes. Here's the results of my attempts to use this Shizen paper:First, for pastels, this paper does not work for hard or semi-hard pastels at all! They scrap off the top surface of the paper. Furthermore, if you try to blend harder pastels, it also tears up the paper. I then used some buttery soft pastels and that was okay, but again, I couldn't blend the way I like to, which is with my finger. In addition, the paper does not hold very many layers of pastels at all and you cannot spread the pastel around the paper at all. Secondly, I love to use pastel paper with my soft, buttery colored pencils. This paper does not handle pencils at all. You cannot blend on the paper well, it tears it up. The pencils, yes, even the soft, buttery ones, literally scrap off the top coat of paper. Then I went onto Inktense and Neocolor II just to see what would happen. This paper did not handle water well at all!! After getting the colors wet, the colors would not spread and blend like on every other kind of paper I've ever used them on and the paper literally buckled. So, nothing with water should be used on this paper. Finally, I got out my pastel powders, the equivilant to pan pastels. They worked nicely enough, but again, using anything else on the paper, like your finger or a blender, messes up the paper, and it does not take but a couple of layers of pastel before the tooth of the paper is all filled up. In my opinion, this paper is not worth the money. I like my paper to be multi-purpose, and I've always used colored pencils on pastel paper because I love the texture. The only thing I'd remotely think of using on this paper is maybe super soft pastels and pan pastels, but even those have limited use on this paper. Blending and multiple layers of pastels are nearly impossible. For paper that is so thick, it sure is very fragile and not very useful. I am sad because I was looking forward to playing with yet another brand of paper. I heard that this company also makes watercolor paper. MAYBE I'll try that, but not sure I want to throw away any more money on this company. Sorry, but I did try.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Lots of fun with *soft* pastels
By Fentress
from WA state
The intense colors of the paper may put some people off, but try using it where the color of the paper is one of the colors of your composition. This paper won't take a lot of stump blending nor will it like a lot of stiff or gritty pastels. this is best with dry soft pastels, and it's a lot of fun using panpastel or the softest stick a supplier makes. I find it useful. Others may not.
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By pastelchris
from middle of south dakota
I used soft pastel on this paper, and framed it so the deckles were showing. it took the pastel nicely, the size is good for framing with mats, and the price is very good. not so thrilled with the odd colors within the pack, would rather just get neutral, earthy colors
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Not good for soft pastel
By M Hadi
from Bahrain
I bay it just to tray it its not work at all for soft pastel
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I am trying to implement a workflow designer in a windows form application and use the same designer to view different workflows. However, I found the program became slower and slower after loading several workflows. my steps are as follows: 1. Create a WPF user control to package the workflowdesigner. 2. In the user control, create a new workflowDesigner instance each time when called. I suppose the old workflowDesigner instance would be collected by GC. 3. Create a Winform control and install the WPF user control created on step 2 into an element host, and put the element host on the winform userControl. 4. Load Winform user control created in stpe 3 into a Tab inside a Winform application. 5. Using a button to launch and close the tab. The result: First time when I launch the tab it consumes around 30MB of space (may be due to first time WPF assembly load), from next time onwards it takes 13MB in each launch and after 30-40 launch attempts memory consumption become large enough to me make application too slow. I am disposing following objects explicitly: Tab. Element host. Code: private void InitializeWorkflowDesigner() { workflowDesigner = new WorkflowDesigner(); workflowDesigner.Context.Items.GetValue<ReadOnlyState>().IsReadOnly = true; workflowDesigner.View.PreviewMouseDown += OnPreviewMouseDown; attachPropertyRecord = new AttachedProperty<ActivityStateRecord> { Name = "Record", Setter = (modelItem, tracingRecord) => modelItemMapping.SetRecordValue(modelItem, tracingRecord), // modelItemMapping is a class which provide mappings. Getter = modelItem => modelItemMapping.GetRecordValue(modelItem), OwnerType = typeof(Activity) }; workflowDesigner.Context.Services.GetService<AttachedPropertiesService>().AddProperty(attachPropertyRecord); workflowDesigner.Load(workflowFilePath); grid.Children.Add(workflowDesigner.View); // grid is Grid of WPF control. var modelService = workflowDesigner.Context.Services.GetService<ModelService>(); sourceLocationProvider = new SourceLocationProvider( workflowFilePath, modelService, workflowDesigner.Context.Items.GetValue<WorkflowFileItem>().LoadedFile, workflowDesigner.DebugManagerView); workflowDesigner.Context.Items.Subscribe<Selection>(OnSelectCallback); var designerView = workflowDesigner.Context.Services.GetService<DesignerView>(); if (designerView != null) { designerView.WorkflowShellBarItemVisibility = // ShellBarItemVisibility.Imports | ShellBarItemVisibility.MiniMap | // ShellBarItemVisibility.Variables | // ShellBarItemVisibility.Arguments | <-- Uncomment to show again ShellBarItemVisibility.Zoom; } } /// Method which we call inside "SourceLocationProvider" constructor. private void UpdateSourceLocationMappingInDebuggerService(string workflowFilePath, DebuggerService debuggerService, string loadedFile, object rootInstance) { workflowElementToSourceLocationMap = new Dictionary<object, SourceLocation>(); designerSourceLocationMapping = new Dictionary<object, SourceLocation>(); if (rootInstance != null) { Activity documentRootElement = GetRootWorkflowElement(rootInstance); System.Activities.Debugger.SourceLocationProvider.CollectMapping( GetRootRuntimeWorkflowElement(workflowFilePath), documentRootElement, workflowElementToSourceLocationMap, loadedFile); // Collect the mapping between the Model Item tree and its underlying source location System.Activities.Debugger.SourceLocationProvider.CollectMapping( documentRootElement, documentRootElement, designerSourceLocationMapping, loadedFile); } // Notify the DebuggerService of the new sourceLocationMapping. // When rootInstance == null, it'll just reset the mapping. // DebuggerService debuggerService = debuggerService as DebuggerService; if (debuggerService != null) { debuggerService.UpdateSourceLocations(workflowElementToSourceLocationMap); } }
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Michael Campbell told the New York Post that everything was going smoothly on Sunday when suddenly he heard "a big boom".
The charter helicopter was carrying a family of two adults and two children from Sweden when it lost power shortly after taking off from Wall Street Heliport.
It landed safely on the river with no one injured.
Speaking from his Woodbridge, New Jersey, home, the 23-year-old pilot said he knew he needed to remain calm.
He added: "if I panicked, I knew it wouldn't be a very good ending."
Mr Campbell deployed the craft's pontoons, which kept it upright and afloat.
Deputy Fire Chief Thomas McKavanaugh said: "The pilot did a terrific job considering he'd lost his engine power".
Sebastien Berthelet, visiting from Montreal, was on a boat when the aircraft came down and went over to help, bringing the pilot back to shore.
Another boat brought the family back to dry land, and they were all calm, he said.
The aircraft is registered to New York Helicopter, a company that offers sightseeing tours.
Aviation officials have launched an investigation into what happened.
In 2009, a US Airways flight landed safely on the Hudson after striking geese. All 155 people on board survived.


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INDIANAPOLIS - In closed-door meetings they deliberated carefully, like nervous jurors.
No matter how many ways they sought to spin the circumstances, the verdict didn't change.
"The answers kept coming from all the staff," said newly hired Atlanta Falcons coach Bobby Petrino at the NFL Combine. "Yes. He's ready to play."
Former Louisville defensive tackle Amobi Okoye became the country's youngest college football player at 16 with the Petrino-coached Cardinals. Now at 19 with a psychology degree, Okoye hopes to impress NFL teams with a good performance at the scouting combine.
Projected to be a first-round draft pick in April, Okoye is poised to become a teenage millionaire.
"He always amazed me, because I have a daughter who is actually a year older than when he came into school," said Petrino, who coached at Louisville before joining Atlanta in January. "I certainly would not have wanted her to go off to college by herself because he was a lot more mature than she was at the time."
Okoye shows more maturity than most kids his age. He has to. Having started school at 2 in Nigeria, Okoye skipped the sixth grade by posting high scores on placement exams. His family moved to Huntsville, Ala., in 1999 to be closer to his father, and Okoye enrolled in high school at age 12.
Interestingly, despite being younger than his classmates, Okoye still was always the biggest kid in his classes. As a 16-year-old freshman at Louisville, Okoye weighed 317 pounds.
"I never really felt younger than everybody else," he said on Sunday at the combine. "I always felt I was in the right grade, right place. It's always how I carry myself, a credit to my parents, I guess, and my family."
Okoye played in all 13 games as a freshman. As a junior, he posted 23 tackles and a half-sack before those statistics swelled to 55 tackles and eight sacks last season.
Okoye was an all-Big East first-team selection after his senior season, and in January became the youngest player in Senior Bowl history.
The next challenge is the NFL, where he'd like a shot at joining Petrino and the Falcons, who hold the No. 10 overall pick.
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'Breaking Bad' Wins Outstanding Drama Series at the 2014 Emmys
'Breaking Bad' won the 2014 Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, beating out such other contenders as 'Game of Thrones' and 'True Detective.'
'Breaking Bad' won the 2014 Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, beating out such other contenders as 'Game of Thrones' and 'True Detective.'
The 2014 Emmy nominations have arrived. The nominations were announced early this morning by Mindy Kaling and Carson Daly in Los Angeles...
After getting snubbed all night in the major categories, 'Breaking Bad' took home the big prize at the 2013 Emmy Awards -- Best Drama Series!
Take that, Skyler haters! 'Breaking Bad' star Anna Gunn has won the 2013 Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy award, winning for her role as Skyler White, the wife of Meth Kingpin Walter White.
The 2013 Emmy nominations have arrived and at first glance, it's more of the same. Of course 'Breaking Bad,' 'Mad Men,' 'Homeland' and 'Downton Abbey' seem to be dominating the drama category! Of course '30 Rock,' 'Louie' and 'Veep' are contenders in the comedy category! However, the big surprise with this year's nominations is that one of the most nominated shows wasn't even on TV at all.
Right on the precipice of the unholy demon that is Comic-Con 2013, AMC's 'Breaking Bad' has come through with the most revealing look yet into the final eight episodes for Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Not only has the acclaimed cable network revealed the August 11 premiere title "Blood Money," but cooked up a baker's dozen fresh photos from the new episodes as well!


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There are lots of linky parties out there. Several people have asked me why my linky party is called Pity Party and how it got started.
Last year I was having a particularly rough week and I made mention of it on Twitter. A reader suggested that I start a linky party to get my mind off of things and have fun projects to look at. I was throwing my own "pity party." And my Pity Party linky was born.
Ever wonder how I choose who to feature? I pick what jumps out at me but there are a few key things I look for:
- Originality: There are a lot of ideas that are recycled online- which can be awesome. But I am specifically looking for new ideas that haven't been done before. Or a spin on an old idea.
- Themes: I try to be consistent with categories- crafts, DIY, and food are always in there. But sometimes I see a theme over and over again in the links and add a new category.
- Good pictures: Taking good pictures is huge on my list. You don't have to have an expensive DSLR to take amazing shots. You just have to learn about your camera. My pictures have changed since I first started blogging. Natural lighting is huge. There are been so many times that I've raced against the clock to beat sundown. It's so tempting to take pictures at night with the flash on. But resist if you can.
Here's an example of the same project, taken years apart:
First picture was taken inside my kitchen with flash on creating harsh light.
Second picture was taken inside my kitchen with flash off in natural light.
Not only have I seen amazing projects come through each Friday, but I've also connected with more bloggers. I have found new blogs that I wouldn't have otherwise. And now my parties aren't so pitiful after all. Thanks so much for linking up each week!
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Atletico Madrid striker Costa, who announced he would represent Spain at international level in October, previously played in two friendlies under the Brazil flag in March 2013.
The 25-year-old, who was born in Brazil, was slammed by Scolari after his announcement, with the Brazil boss claiming he was 'turning his back on a dream of millions'.
And on Monday, Scolari revealed Costa – whose World Cup campaign ironically hangs in the balance due to a hamstring injury – had discussed with him representing the hosts at the 2014 tournament.
"I was going to summon him for the World Cup," Scolari said, as reported by AS.
"Was I wrong? I don't know. He would be at the World Cup with Brazil. I talked to him twice about it.
"The problem is there are other interests behind it. With Diego Costa becoming a naturalised Spaniard, another space (at Atletico) opened up in Europe.
"There's a whole set of interests. Diego Costa would be with us. He plays as a seven, a nine, or even as an 11. People to try to run him over and go crashing. He's strong as a bull."
Costa has made one appearance for Spain, playing 90 minutes in their 1-0 win over Italy in March.
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Dilated cardiomyopathy, a congenital condition that weakens the heart, is the top reason people end up having heart transplants. The organ simply begins to fail on them. If caught early enough, the condition can be treated with medication, but in most cases it's diagnosed too late. Without transplant, the survival rate, even in pediatric diagnoses, is only 42 percent after ten years. Mayo genetic cardiologist Timothy Olson, M.D. and his team embarked on a study of families with a history of the condition. In doing so, they were able to find a new gene that caused the condition in this clinical subset of patients. He says it would have been like trying to find a needle in a haystack, were it not for recent advances in science.
Hear Dr. Olson discuss how the study was done.
Dr. Olson says now that the gene has been identified, research can begin at understanding the mechanism of the gene and its specific purpose. The study appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (Brauch et al).
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The Deli Garage Mehrzwecknudeln
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Designed by KOREFE | Country: Germany
The Deli Garage is known for it's fun and quirky food products inspired by industrial tools and packaging. Their Mehrzwecknudeln product slots into this concept nicely with it's fastener shaped pasta and fastener style packaging.
The Deli Garage Esslack
March 22, 2010 | 11 Comments
Designed by KOREFE | Country: Germany
"Esslack is food coloring in a spray can. With the two colors of gold and silver finishes it's a delectable delight of all kinds."
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Designed by envision:design | Country: Denmark
"Princip! is Denmark's first premium private label. Princip! is based on high quality standards, both for the products themselves, but also for the production methods, to ensure a tasting experience out of the ordinary. The Princip! series consists of foods across all categories with over 100 products. This is a challenge to the design process, as traditions and packaging types vary extensively from category to category.
envision:design has been involved in the project from the beginning and has also taken part in the process of developing the concept, the quality level, the range and of course the marketing. The agency chose a simple, cool, Nordic design look, predominated by large silvergrey spaces and light images. Princip means principle – which refers to the high quality standards that are demanded of the suppliers."
Vintage Packaging – Imagination Paper
March 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
Designed in 1968 by Champion Papers – Creative Director: James Miho | Country: United States
This is a conceptual packaging project created by Champion Papers to promote their line of Kromekote paper. Although these designs are now 42 years old, they have a timeless simplicity which has inspired many a supermarket own-brand over the decades.
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Student Work – Eric Ellis
March 19, 2010 | 4 Comments
Designed by Eric Ellis | Country: United States
A student packaging redesign project where two different concepts were explored.
"While I didn't think the existing CLIF Bar's packaging was all that bad, I did have a few ideas for improvements. I wanted to pull the brand into more of an organic/healthy direction and not have as much emphasis put on the sporty aspect, with the idea that CLIF can be enjoyed even if you aren't planning on scaling a rock wall anytime soon."
Raw Health
March 18, 2010 | 2 Comments
Designed by Pearlfisher | Country: United Kingdom
"New brand creation. Redefining the raw food movement, taking it from niche to a universally understood and accepted concept."
The Deli Garage Schokoleim
March 18, 2010 | 8 Comments
Designed by KOREFE | Country: Germany
"Schokoleim is a chocolate paste, packaged in the classic wood glue bottle. The Food Label The Deli garage offers "artisanal" delicacies made with high quality design and functionality of tools from the garage."
Student Work – Andrew Matveev
March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments
Designed by Andrew Matveev | Country: Canada
"The purpose of the project is to redesign the packaging and identity for this brand, in order to advance into a larger market, and compete with eye catching supermarket product designs. The product is currently being sold locally by vendors, and markets, and in order to begin its sales in a larger retail outlet, the product needed a face lift. We needed to create a design which would bring the product into the future. It would also need to be portable, flexible in sizes, stackable on shelves and able to ship in large quantities. The idea was not to just sell beans, but to sell it as a mix, which would include a recipe book with 2 recipes (Hillbilly Chilli, and Hillbilly Bean Soup) and promotional information. The idea is to revamp the companies look to prepare it for a larger market, while keeping in mind the details of product management."
Jamie Oliver
March 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
Designed by Pearlfisher | Country: United Kingdom
Pearlfisher have done it again, producing more beautiful and varied packaging work for Jamie Oliver. Check out our previous post on Jamie Oliver packaging here.
Student Work – Jolin Masson-St-Onge
March 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Designed by Jolin Masson-St-Onge | Country: Canada
A packaging concept for cashew nuts where the portion size is measured by the lid and the nutritional information of the product is presented in a large, typographic format.


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The Madoff Ponzi scheme; HBOS; the NHS: in recent months the business pages have been filled with a positive orchestra of whistleblowers. Many organisations are following the lead of the World Bank and tightening their internal policies to encourage whistleblowing; possible new regulations are being discussed. In the United States, Mary Schapiro has made headlines with her suggestion that whistleblowers should be offered financial rewards.
These are important issues. And it's vital that they are debated fully and intelligently.
Over the coming months we are planning a series of articles on aspects of whistleblowing. The centrepiece of our research will be a survey of whistleblowing trends. We are asking major national and international companies and organisations about whistleblowing policies and trends. Should queries be handled by internal units, or outsourced to whistleblowing hotlines? We'll be seeking and reporting the latest experiences of these and other practical issues.
We will also be looking at how businesses can change their culture to encourage people to come forward with information on fraud. When they do come forward, how should the whistleblower be treated? Should they be rewarded, as Mary Schapiro wants? How can they be relocated within companies? What should be the procedure if the whistleblowers themselves are implicated in the activities they complain about? We'll also be investigating the psychology of whistleblowers themselves-what makes some people more likely to come forward than others?
Then there's the issue of regulation. Businesses have been shown to benefit from an internal culture that is intolerant of fraud. So do we need more formal regulation or is enlightened self regulation enough? Has Sarbanes-Oxley forced companies to address their failings or just added a layer of bureaucracy?
As the first such survey, our aim is to establish the facts-how often companies experience whistleblowing incidents, whether they have formal policies in place and so on. Your input is important to the understanding and management of whistleblowing issues so we invite all readers and members to take part in the survey. Please also feel free to forward the questions on to colleagues you think may have valuable insight. Most of the questions in this short survey require only a 'yes' or 'no' answer, so it won't take you more than a few minutes to respond. We look forward to hearing from you.
To take part in the survey, click here.
Nick Burkill, founder member of the Anti-Fraud Network, is a partner and head of Dorsey's London Trial department . He has advised clients on numerous actions aimed at recovering the proceeds of fraud and corruption throughout the world. He regularly advises on internal investigations and investigation techniques.
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Robert G. Landers
Robert G. Landers (email@example.com) is currently an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) Mo, USA. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1990, M.E. degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1997, all in mechanical engineering. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of modeling, analysis, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes (namely, metal cutting, friction stir welding, laser metal deposition, freeze extrusion fabrication), control of alternative energy vehicles, tribological systems, and electro-hydraulic systems, integrated design and control, and digital control applications. He has over eighty technical refereed publications, including three book chapters, and has received funding from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory, U.S. Department of Education, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Missouri Research Board, and various companies. He received the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' M. Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award in 2004 and nine faculty research and teaching excellence awards from Missouri S&T. Moreover, he is a Member of ASEE, ASME, IEEE, and SME. He is currently an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Mechatronics and Applications.
Biography Updated on 8 March 2009


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Normally I find the website easy to use however this evening it is terrible it keeps jumping to the wrong page and won't let me place the order it keeps going back and forth from shipping details to billing details. Im sorry two seasons but next time i won't waste my time… Read Full Review
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Wanted to return 2 t-shirts that did not fit and was told I had re-attached the tags even though I had not. Went to find the same item in the store and the tags were in the exact same position. Basically told me that I was a liar at the store. Was told my clothes were not in "resellable" condition even though they were completely unworn and undamaged. I had only tried them on. Will not be coming here again… Read Full Review
Written on: 12/08/2013 by CC14 (1 review written)
You don't expect to pay nearly £4 for delivery for it not to turn up in the stated 1-3 days delivery. So much for service. I tracked my delivery ordered early on a Wednesday, and it was dispatched 30 minutes after purchase according to emails from two seasons and a text from DHL. It then went from France to Spain to Belgium finally arriving at Gatwick on the Friday. At 5am Saturday morning it was in Birmingham at a depot 10 minutes from our address, yet it still wasn't delivered despite DHL… Read Full Review
Written on: 11/08/2013
Today I entered two seasons in Merry Hill and was looking for a hat , after finding it I noticed how there is a different version I liked more that wasn't there. I asked the clerk and she explained how she was alone and couldn't leave the shop front but believed there could be what I was looking for upstairs. She proceeded to tell me that if I popped back in 30 mins she may be able to look for me . Just in case she also kept the hat I found behind the till. 30Mins later I came back to find… Read Full Review
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Ordered BillaBong Small size snow jacket, was a bit afraid it would be small for me, however, size fits me perfectly, received my jacket super fast (I live in Latvia), the item is great, quality is amazing, the price was also the best on the web. Tracked my order with DHL, which was very convenient to me, since it was my first international order. I'm perfectly happy with TwoSeasons!… Read Full Review
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have problems to log in to account if you add items and leave for few minutes than the items are gone and I never got the confirmation to my email send I always had to call them up when I received my order some items were open and didnt get invoice , very dissapointed… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/11/2012 by JRSmith12345 (1 review written)
The price was the best on the web. Easy to use website. Pay with PayPal which was handy so I didn't have to set up an account. Delivery confirmation and tracking email arrived late Sunday eve, (I ordered on that Sunday afternoon). Dhl were very good with tracking info and seeing as it was coming from France to the uk, Tuesday morning delivery was excellent! An all round brilliant online shopping experience with these guys… Read Full Review
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I've used these guys a few times and they always deliver the orders accurately and quickly. In the rare event that they can't help, they let you know super quick… Read Full Review
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Not the broadest choice of new season styles but very well priced and fast delivery. I'll be shopping there again and would recommend it to family and friends. :)… Read Full Review
Written on: 05/04/2012
Like many people I had recently noticed the crazy sale going on at Two Seasons. I ordered an Xcel wetsuit, reduced from £200 to £60. Unsurprisingly the stock was hit hard by a large number of people trying to scoop a bargain. The website stock level was listed as "low" when I ordered. Having read the number of negative reviews posted recently, regarding an issue with inaccurate stock levels and bad customer service I was a little worried. However I received an out of stock email today and a… Read Full Review
Written on: 30/03/2012
Took advantage of their end of season sale and bought some great stuff and amazing prices! The items arrived well packaged and very quickly. Would definitely recommend to anyone… Read Full Review
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Bought a K2 Raygun all mountain rocker snowboard 159 Awesome bit of kit, great price cheapest i could find, delivered straight away, easy site to use. Use them Cheers Dudes… Read Full Review
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Ordered some Ladies North Face sale items and the delivery was super fast. I had to return an item too and again received great service, communication with the refund… Read Full Review
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Delivery was quick but dissapointed that one item was out of stock and was not informed till after payment was taken. Refund was given quickly though so it made up for it… Read Full Review
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Website easy to use. Very good prices. Shipment says up to 4 working days, I recevied my within 2. Can pay with credit card or PayPal… Read Full Review
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Didn't win the 2 seasons end of sale lottery, and neither did most of the people I know who ordered anything in the sale. Dispite website not really reflecting stock, they were pretty fast getting my payment back to me so it's not all bad… Read Full Review
Written on: 29/03/2012
Very good service all round Great board and great price… Read Full Review
Written on: 29/03/2012
Visited this website after recommendation by friends. Plenty of choice and fairly laid out website but their customer service sucks! Ordered some goods, that were stated in stock on their website, delivery times stated from 2-4 days. However 4 days after I first ordered products email came through to tell me two of the items ordered were not in stock. Refund duely issued. 3days later another email came through to tell me another item ordered was also out of stock. Incorrect refund issued. I… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/03/2012
friendly and informed staff showed be the kit and talked through features. They even told me where else to look in town. after doing the rounds i came back to the shop and went for a seriously comfy lid that is light as a feather. will be testing it out in 2 weeks. happy days!… Read Full Review
Written on: 20/03/2012 by Creggy (1 review written)
I bought a new jacket and pants on quite short notice only 2 days before i was going away but it was such good value i couldn't resist. The sales team were very helpful in sorting out a next day delivery for me and i was excited to get my new gear. It arrived dead on time the next day, the stuff was exactly what i wanted just one annoying mistake! Who ever packed up my stuff hadn't taken the security tags off the jacket and i was going in the morning. Theres not a store anywhere near where i… Read Full Review
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A few weeks ago I complimented a coworker's new iPad. He gloated that he bought it at Unclaimed Baggage in Scottsboro, Ala. I was shocked! I had no idea that Unclaimed Baggage sold iPad's! What?!
After my coworker told me more about the gem mine of sales and fun just down the road from our house, I knew I had to check it out!
Honestly, I thought Unclaimed Baggage might be a sad experience. I thought I would worry about the people who lost their baggage! But my friend promised me that Unclaimed Baggage was a happy experience. I'm told that every effort to contact the owners of the bags is exhausted before the bags go up for auction.
When my friend Grace came to visits, we decided to make the trip to Unclaimed Baggage!
Right inside the front door, there is a museum section. It's a rare treat to be able to feel like a tourist in your own state! The entire experience was a wonderful mixture of slightly kitschy fun.
People come from all over the world to experience Unclaimed Baggage!
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After you make your way past the entryway museum, it's time to start hunting down some deals!
Here is a look at the women's clothing section! Everything is VERY clean and organized. It didn't have that thrift store feel…. it didn't have a funny smell…. it was pleasant.
After the first adrenaline rush at the jewelry section, we scattered around the giant store.
Here is a map of all the sections!
It was crazy.
After a lot of looking and sifting, I came away with this neat little necklace. $15.
I wonder who it belonged to before it became unclaimed? 😉
Overall opinion
Unclaimed Baggage is something you MUST experience at least once in your life. Do not expect an extreme steal on items. The appraisers at Unclaimed Baggage definitely know what they have. Everything is priced fairly.
For instance, when they have an authentic Prada handbag…. they know they have a Prada handbag. You will not find it thrown in the bottom of a pile of purses.
Get your friends together, bring a wad of cash, and make the journey to Unclaimed Baggage. It is lots of fun.
Still not convinced? This Rick and Bubba show segment is very informative and interesting! Click HERE.
Have you been? What did you think? Let me know in the comments below!
P.S. On the weekends, a few areas near the store have their own quirky sales! I ended up buying this awesome doll house for $20! Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet, but I couldn't pass it up.
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How do you spend your holidays on the beach, no water sport or activity, then it's useless spending much time on the beach, you might have seen a lot of skiers surfing in the water but you never had tried it yourself, surfing ski and kayaking is a great fun, it's easy to learn and doesn't require much equipment and cost, try surfing once, you'll get addicted to it, ski surfing is my favorite sport.
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