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GADDIMENTS – Steve Gadd's first drum book by Hudson Music
May 18, 2021 | BOOKS, DRUMMERS, GET INSPIRED, HOT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF DRUMS, NEWS
Hudson Music has announced the publication of 'Gaddiments', the first drum book written by the legendary Steve Gadd. In the book, Steve presents a series of rudimental passages inspired by his time in drum corps and love of the...
Matt Sorum's new book can be pre-ordered now
Mar 24, 2021 | BOOKS, DRUMMERS, HOT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF DRUMS, NEWS
Matt Sorum – former Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and The Cult drummer, who has more recently been involved with Hollywood Vampires, Kings of Chaos and Billy Gibbons's solo project, has announced the forthcoming release of his...
Pre-order a new book on Jeff Porcaro from Hudson Music
Aug 24, 2020 | BOOKS, DRUMMERS, GET INSPIRED, HOT NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF DRUMS, NEWS
Hudson Music have announced the forthcoming release of a new book titled: 'It's About Time: Jeff Porcaro – The Man and His Music'. If you pre-order now, you will receive an autographed copy of the book signed by author Robyn Flans, and...
Hudson Music present classics from Alfred Publishing and Hal Leonard
Apr 26, 2020 | BOOKS, DRUM CHARTS, NEWS
Some two weeks ago, an initiative by three of the most influential drum book publishers was announced. Two American companies, Hudson Music and Hal Leonard, as well as the German publishing house Alfred Publishing have joined their efforts in...
Book 'The Drums of Roger Meddows Taylor'
Aug 30, 2018 | BOOKS, DRUMMERS, NEWS
Roger Meddows Taylor is a English musician, songwriter and singer. He is known as he drummer for the rock band Queen, but also he is a multi-instrumentalist. Taylor was recognised early in his career for his unique sound Dario Blues Di Nardo is a...
Questlove (The Roots) on creativity
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The Roots drummer, Questlove, has recently put out a book titled "Creative Quest", where he describes his take on creativity combined with anecdotes from his own artistic life. On this occasion, he has recently spoken to Rolling...
If you would like to know what new books have been released, this is just the category for you. We read and review the latest autobiographies, biographies, educational publications (naturally, concerning the drums) including charts, schools written by drummers, and photo albums about drums and drumming. If Phil Collins explains why he hadn't been on tour for over a decade and Dave Grohl's mom writes about what it's like to raise a future rock star, we are certainly going to let you know that such a publication has been prepared.

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The most recent headliner of the Great Transgender Bathroom Debate came hot off the press of the New York Times earlier this week. One of my new guilty pleasures is to peruse the comments thread on Facebook beneath the high profile articles. I like to see individuals with opposing viewpoints duke it out. Sometimes I just laugh at the "idiocracy", other times I learn something new and it changes my outlook. Not this time.
I try to hold back the urge to get involved – to be one of those commenters that responds to every "hater" who disagrees with me. Every one has a different opinion – and that is OK!
I relapsed anyway when a few stray cats came in and compared transgender bathroom access to the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's, my own claws came out.
To assert that only biologically males are "allowed" to use the men's restroom is not the equivalent to having a "White's Only" restroom. African Americans, at that time, did not have equal rights. Transgender individuals most certainly do have the same natural rights as you and I. To compare bathroom access to systemic oppression cheapens that injustice.
I do believe that you cannot force someone with a gender identity crisis to use a labeled bathroom inconsistent with their self-identification. This seems unethical and likely to cause emotional harm.
However no one is being denied equal access to public restroom accommodation. This debate is less about rights and more about being afraid of what you don't know.
A majority of heterosexuals who feel that transgender individuals are encroaching on their privacy by using a restroom opposite of their biology are scared – scared that it is a gateway for anyone to enter any restroom based off of how they are "feeling." Of course it does enable perverts easier access to harm people, though I do not think it necessarily is "breeding" a new type of predator.
If a man is comfortable living as a woman, and vice versa, then we should respect that.
This is a slippery slope for me as I toy with the idea more of what a restroom "means" to me (this is an amazing article about stall confessionals! http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/stall-confessions-for-women-the-washroom-is-a-sacred-place-one-for-privacy-and-reflection).
For the record, I do not mind sharing a restroom with a transgender male. But everyone is not as liberal.
This is about fighting to fight. And while I am all for human rights, I think this topic is tired. If a transgender individual does not feel comfortable using the bathroom with which gender they identify…use a unisex one! It does not automatically classify them as "other." Trans students are the hot topic for discussion and lament having to "resort" to entering family restrooms because of harassment and bullying.
But! but! while it seems unfair that they feel threatened and pressured to use the restroom which biologically describes them, the fact is there is no solution that is satisfactory to the majority of any stance!
While transgender people may enter any restroom they choose, they cannot change the opinions of others. Like racism, discrimination again non-conformists will persist NO MATTER WHAT.
Some of you are just too damn sensitive over EVERYTHING and need to realize that labels are necessary.
We are a species, that since the beginning of time, has named things. We are innately curious, speculative, and yearn for identification and expression as a means of storytelling and making sense of the world. Having labels is not oppressive – it is how we categorize things.
Taking away gender labels in favor of "genderless" will not prevent standards and societal normatives to shine through. Taking away the label that women wear heels and men play with guns will not prevent people from doing those things on the basis of gender.
Utopia, then, is not a society where is no gender.
Demanding genderlessness only reinforces the importance of gender, and makes it more visible. It causes you to look more microscopically for the "hated" signs of gender.
The end of gender shaming will not come from people having no gender. The end of gender is the moment when wearing makeup or playing with trucks isn't seen as having any particular meaning other than that you like wearing makeup or playing with trucks.
As long as there's one standard, even one standard of genderlessness, those who don't conform to it will be marked and targeted.
Making restrooms for "all" or abolishing labels on restrooms all together will not solve the issue or make trans individuals feel any less alienated.
Education and acceptance are the only resolution.


Libertarian Today: Turning the tables: Alex Jones rips CNN's murderous Iraq warmongering in interview it hoped to use against tea party "extremists"
Turning the tables: Alex Jones rips CNN's murderous Iraq warmongering in interview it hoped to use against tea party "extremists"
...Alex calls out CNN for their complicity in "violence" through the promotion of the Iraq War-- which resulted in more than 1 million dead Iraqi civilians, including women and children. Alex dares CNN to mention over the airwaves the fact that Anderson Cooper was admittedly in the CIA and is part of the elite Astor family, or the fact that CNN reported the collapse of WTC Building 7 more than an hour ahead of attempt, likely in response to an early Reuters wire report. Yet, no retraction has been made.


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Rabbi Richard Jacobs tapped to lead Reform movement
By	Uriel Heilman	 March 22, 2011 9:24 pm
NEW YORK (JTA) — Rabbi Richard Jacobs, spiritual leader of the Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y., is the choice to become the new leader of the Union for Reform Judaism.
The selection of Jacobs to succeed Rabbi Eric Yoffie, who announced last year that he would be retiring in 2012 after 16 years at the helm of American Jewry's largest religious movement, still requires formal approval by the union's board of directors, which meets in June.
"We are poised for a great new chapter for the unfolding of our movement," Jacobs told JTA in an interview Tuesday shortly before the union's formal announcement. The Reform movement, he said, is about "finding new ways to grow and respond to Jewish life."
One of his main areas of focus, Jacobs said, would be to revitalize synagogues and engage with young professional Jews who are not involved in Jewish communal life.
"Synagogues cannot wait for people to walk into their buildings," he said. "The synagogue has to walk into the public square and engage people, particularly Jews in their 20s and 30s. People still crave and need a deep sense of community."
Jacobs, who has been at the Westchester Reform Temple in suburban New York since 1991, also is a board member of the New Israel Fund, the American Jewish World Service and UJA-Federation of New York.
Jacobs used to be a dancer and choreographer with the Avodah Dance Ensemble.
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ZHUANGZI'S (CHUANG TZU'S) WIT COMBINED WITH SACRIFICE AND RENUCIATION, HIS INTELLECTUAL REFINEMENT MIXED WITH CARNIVALESQUE ABSURDITY, CAPTURES MUCH OF MORRISSEY'S ORIGINAL SUBVERSIVE VIRTUE
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Victorian wit, novelist, playwright and poet.
In May 2006, Morrissey posed in Uncut magazine as St. Sebastian and as a Christ-like figure enhanced by supernatural light. "I live a life that befits a priest virtually. (…) I live a saintly life," he said in 1983 (NME interview). Many critics have highlighted the singer's troubled connections with Catholicism. In this research, I want to draw attention to "Daoist" themes in Morrissey's art and personality that are at least as obvious as the Christian "priestly" ones, suggesting that the singer's peculiar mixture of the ascetic-spiritual and the agnostic-skeptical can be better explained through an exploration of Daoism than through the artist's presumed tortuous Catholic anti-Catholicism. Gavin Hopps quotes from Harvey Cox's interpretation of contemporary theology, The Feast of Fools (1969), where Cox writes: "Like the jester, Christ defies custom and scorns crowned heads. Like a wandering troubadour he has no place to lay his head. Like the clown in the circus parade, he satirizes existing authority by riding into town replete with regal pageantry when he has no earthly power" (Cox: 140). Hopps applies this statement to Morrissey, but Cox could as well have disserted about the wandering and mocking Zhuangzi, whose irony and wit combined with sacrifice and renunciation, whose intellectual refinement mixed with carnivalesque absurdity, captures much of the subversive virtue that we find employed by the Anglo-Irish troubadour.
Morrissey with all his Oscar Wilde books (plus the usual floral extras): "I use flowers because Oscar Wilde used flowers. I really admire the idea of contrantly becine attached to some form of plant."
ZHUANGZI 4TH CENT. BC
(Also Zhuang Zhou or Chuang Tzu) influential Chinese philosopher. The Zhuangzi is an ancient Chinese text from the late Warring States period which contains stories and anecdotes.
The link between Morrissey and Daoism can be conveniently established via Oscar Wilde, whose relationship with Zhuangzi's philosophy has been documented. The young Wilde wrote one of the first reviews of the Zhuangzi when it appeared translated by Herbert Giles in 1890 and would stay under a "Daoist" influence for decades to come.
It is known that Morrissey's world view and art have been shaped by Wilde, whose 'Complete Works' Morrissey received from his librarian mother at the age of eight with the words: "It's everything you need to know about life." According to Morrissey's own words, every single line immediately affected him (1984). Many of Morrissey's texts, as well as aesthetic elements such as the use of flowers, are inspired by Wilde.
In his review of the Zhuangzi, Wilde suggests "that Chuang Tzu is a very dangerous writer, and the publication of his book in English, two thousand years after his death, is obviously premature, and may cause a great deal of pain to many thoroughly respectable and industrious persons" (1919: 187). For Jerusha McCormack, "Zhuangzi's thinking was certainly crucial in shaping Wilde's concept of the dandy" (93). She detects in Wilde principles such as wuqing (non-feeling), a complex psychological state that "is not necessarily a lack of feeling, but the ability to step aside from conventional emotional reactions into a larger, arguably an aesthetic, view of things" (93). In this research I will argue that the phlegmatic attitude initiated by these Daoist principles is present in Morrissey's art in the form of an "aesthetics of renunciation" or in what I also call the "aesthetics of awkwardness."
They "think against prevailing conventions in a way that appears to be systematically perverse, hence 'contrary' to the dominant discourse," writes McCormack (77). Morrissey perfectly well fits into this struggle. First, Morrissey fought the decadent and violent working-class culture of his native Stretford (part of the "Victorian knife-plunging Manchester," as he calls it in his Autobiography); later he fought Thatcher's England, which was no longer Victorian but the world of a prime minister who was "devoid of either irony or humor [and] intolerant of ambiguity and equivocation" (Campbell: 64). And more broadly speaking, Morrissey combats an individualist, shiny technicolor consumerist culture that lacks humanity.
The themes that I find in Morrissey and which I address in this article from a Daoist point of view are:
the art of weakness
uselessness
roaming or aimless wandering, which Daoism subsumes under the term 'you' (遊)
anti-essentialism and the "dissolution" of identity
genuine pretending
language skepticism
the aesthetics of awkwardness
The self-estranging irony, the incorrect behavior, as well as the conviction that aesthetics is more important than ethics, are emblematic of all three: Zhuangzi, Wilde, and Morrissey. Furthermore, all three act in similar contexts: Wilde's anti-Victorianism mirrors Daoist anti-Confucianism, which sparked his sophisticated anti-conformism. Both Daoism and Wilde fight the puritan earnestness and pedantism that they face in the form of snobs and the careerists.
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Top 12 Monumental NBA Free Agent Signings
In 1970, NBA legend Oscar Robertson filed a class action suit against the league along with 13 other players, including Celtics great John Havlicek and future U.S. Senator Bill Bradley. Similar to the case brought against MLB the same year by Curt Flood, which eventually reached the Supreme Court, Robertson's lawsuit challenged the NBA's limitation on player movement through the reserve clause. Oscar Robertson v. National Basketball Association was settled in 1976, paving the way for the "Oscar Robertson Rule" and free agency.
The NBA still has means to discourage unfettered player relocation: A restricted free agent's team can match any offer for him, and any team with a player's Bird Rights can offer a larger contract than any other suitors. That's why max-level stars rarely leave on their own accord: Even when they do, some will try to arrange sign-and-trade deals to lock in that larger contract.
But there have been exceptions over the years. And in the last couple seasons, the NBA has seen two of its generation's greatest players take the path less traveled, in search of a greater reward.
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12. Gilbert Arenas, 2003
A second-round pick in 2001, the Golden State Warriors point guard becomes a restricted free agent after only two years in the league. He breaks out with averages of 18.3 points and 6.3 assists in 2002-03, and the Washington Wizards come calling with a six-year, $60 million offer sheet. Under league rules, teams over the salary cap can't match offers for former second-round picks, so Golden State has to let Arenas go. "Agent Zero" averages more than 25 points in three seasons for the Wizards, and his unwanted departure from Golden State leads to creation of the "Gilbert Arenas Rule," which would have allowed the Warriors to re-sign him. Arenas later inks a six-year, maximum salary deal with Washington that ended up being one of the worst contracts in NBA history. He plays with the Chinese Basketball Association's Shanghai Sharks last season.
11. Carlos Boozer, 2004
The Cleveland Cavaliers intend for Boozer to serve as LeBron James' running mate for years to come, but the big man makes other plans at the last minute. Another overachieving second-rounder, Boozer makes only $700,000 despite averaging a double-double in his second season. Cleveland general manager Jim Paxson infamously declines the Cavs' team option on Boozer for year three because of a handshake agreement that he would re-sign for six years and $41 million. But the Utah Jazz swoop in with a $68 million offer, and apparently that handshake isn't firm enough for Boozer to honor it. He has six productive seasons in Utah before leaving again in free agency, this time for Chicago. For a player who now has "amnesty clause" attached to his name more frequently than "All-Star," Boozer may have tectonically shifted the NBA landscape by ditching Cleveland.
10. Jamaal Wilkes, 1977
After three solid years with the Warriors, which include two nods to the All-NBA Defensive second team, Wilkes signs on with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Los Angeles. Wilkes helps the Lakers to three titles in eight years and averaged at least 20 points in three seasons. Wilkes is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame last year and has his No. 52 retired by the Lakers.
9. Lamar Odom, 2003
Supposedly the next Magic Johnson, Odom flashes potential but mostly disappointment with the Los Angeles Clippers in his first four seasons. With Elton Brand also a restricted free agent in the summer of 2003, Odom is not the Clippers' priority. But Pat Riley likes what he sees in the mercurial youngster and extends a six-year, $63 million offer sheet. Odom has his best season in Miami, averaging 17.1 points, 9.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists while playing alongside rookie Dwyane Wade. It makes him enticing trade bait for the Lakers, who send Shaquille O'Neal to the Heat, which paves the way for the Heat's first championship. After an uneven start to his second L.A. go-round, Odom becomes a standout sixth man for two title teams.
8. Gus Williams, 1977
Like Wilkes and Arenas, Williams starts his career with Golden State but departs shortly thereafter. Following an uneventful second year, Williams joins the Seattle SuperSonics and enjoys a breakout season. He nearly doubles his scoring average to 18.3 points and helpes Seattle reach the NBA Finals. Williams leads the team in regular season scoring at 19.2 points the following season, and Seattle wins it all in the playoffs. Williams has a productive '79-'80 season before sitting out '80-'81 in a contract dispute. He eventually re-signs with the Sonics.
7. Chauncey Billups, 2002
The midlevel exception is the maximum free agent contract option available to teams over the salary cap. It is traditionally the domain of overpaid role players (see last slide), but the Detroit Pistons strike gold with Billups. The third overall pick in 1997, Billups bounces around the league and mostly disappointed with his four teams. In Detroit, however, he finds an identity as the floor general and designated clutch-shot-maker for a lockdown defensive team. He wins Finals MVP in the Pistons' 2004 championship upset of the Lakers and rewrites the "bust" narrative that once defined him.
6. Steve Nash, 2004
Nash, 30, is deemed too old by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban for a long-term contract. The Phoenix Suns, who drafted Nash in 1996, take a gamble on the offensively gifted but defensively challenged point guard, signing him for six years and $65 million. The risky deal turns out to be a bargain, as Nash wins two MVP awards and redefines NBA offense. After falling short of a championship in eight seasons with Phoenix, he comes to the Lakers in a sign-and-trade. But in the reunion tour with Mike D'Antoni, he's finally started to play his age.
5. Moses Malone, 1982
As a two-time MVP, including the season before his free agency, a player of Malone's stature leaving his current team was unprecedented. The Philadelphia 76ers make a six-year, $13.2 million offer to the Malone. But before he could join Philly, several complications arise. The Sixers include some unusual clauses into Malone's offer sheet that they know the Houston Rockets cannot match, such as "$20,000 in each of the first three regular seasons in which the club he signs with does not rank in the top six among teams in attendance for road games." Finally, the dispute is resolved by the Sixers trading center Caldwell Jones and a first-round pick to Houston. Malone wins a regular season MVP and Finals MVP in his first year with Philadelphia. He only plays three more years with the Sixers but consistently exceeds averages of 20 points and 10 rebounds.
4. Shaquille O'Neal, 1996
With the Lakers stuck in unfamiliar territory as fringe playoff contenders, general manager Jerry West plots an ambitious overhaul in the summer of 1996. He starts by trading veteran center Vlade Divac for the rights to Charlotte Hornets draft pick Kobe Bryant and finishes by clinching the signature of O'Neal. Pitted in a duel for the 24-year-old behemoth with the Orlando Magic, the team that he led to the '95 Finals, the Lakers continue to shed salary as the bidding for O'Neal rises. When the dust settles, O'Neal signs a record-setting seven-year, $120 million contract with L.A. It becomes the richest deal in American team sports history and leads to the NBA setting restrictions on contract length in its next Collective Bargaining Agreement. Though O'Neal and Bryant's eight-year run is shorter than many hoped, it contains far more success than the rap and movie careers Shaq wants to kickstart in L.A.
3. LeBron James/Chris Bosh, 2010
After making NBA free agency as compelling as the playoffs and reducing respected reporters' sources to the standard of your grandma's sources, James and Bosh join Dwyane Wade in Miami. Technically acquired in sign-and-trades with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors, respectively, James and Bosh make their intentions very clear about where they wanted to play. James hosts a one-hour television special on ESPN, and both partake in the pyrotechnic-fueled festivities welcoming the big three to South Beach. Although commissioner David Stern denies it, the latest collective bargaining agreement seems to strongly decentivize teams from stocking their teams with superstar talent like the Heat have.
2. LeBron James, 2014
He took his talents to South Beach, and then he took them back home. In 2014, James is just coming off of a loss to San Antonio in the NBA Finals. In four years in Miami, he reached the Finals every season, and brought home the title twice. But in 2014, he stuns the world and chooses to return to Cleveland, promising his home city a championship. Two years later, his promise is fulfilled.
1. Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder
When healthy, Durant has always been a deep playoff contender in Oklahoma City. But he's only been to the NBA Finals once, and his latest loss -- in seven games, to the Golden State Warriors -- was just the latest frustrating chapter for one of the game's biggest stars. Durant had promised he'd make a basketball decision rather than a money decision, and that seems to be the case: His two-year deal with the Warriors aligns him with three other All-NBA players from last season, forming one of the most intimidating rosters the league has ever seen.
Dishonorable Mention: Eddy Curry/Jerome James, 2005
For every successful free agent signing, there may be two or three that either flop completely or give general managers salary-cap headaches. The Knicks' lavishing almost $100 million on centers Curry and James is a symbol of the former category and of Isiah Thomas' troubled New York front office tenure. Curry comes in a sign-and-trade with Chicago for six years and $66 million, while James signs for five years and $30 million (through the midlevel exception) thanks to 11 solid playoff games with the Sonics. Both routinely out of shape, Curry and James fall out of favor quickly in New York. Nonetheless, Curry wins a championship ring in '12 with Miami.
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Our mission is to increase organizational capacity and improve performance by engaging human potential.
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Elizabeth G. Burton has led large-scale program change efforts and process improvement initiatives for public, private and nonprofit organizations. She is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer on organizational change, performance excellence, strategic marketing, communications, and leadership. Previously Elizabeth led large-scale change efforts for a global technology company, and has served in leadership positions in government, education, healthcare and technology organizations. As principal consultant with PrimePoint, Elizabeth has worked with public and private sector organizations across the U.S. on improvement and start-up initiatives. She previously served as a Senior Fellow with the Performance Institute and the Council for Nonprofit Innovation in Washington, D.C. where she provided consulting and training services to federal and state government staff, as well as nonprofit organizations. As an Examiner with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program (MBNQA), Elizabeth reviewed healthcare and education applications for quality and performance excellence. The MBNQA is the only Presidential Award for performance excellence.
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Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Honors President's Club Winners at Annual Leadership Summit
January 18, 2007 6:00am EST Download as PDF
Company Celebrates System-Wide Milestones at Event Being Held in Miami, Fla.
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., (Red Robin or the Company), a casual dining restaurant chain focused on serving an innovative selection of high-quality gourmet burgers in a family-friendly atmosphere, honored 12 of its top general managers who are being inducted officially into the President's Club at its annual leadership summit being held in Miami, Florida. This elite group represents top performing managers across the system.
"I believe one of the keys to our success at Red Robin has been recruiting team members and management who share our core values and truly care about maintaining the highest standards with the food, service and environment provided within the restaurants' four walls," said Eric Houseman, Red Robin president and chief operating officer. "Our annual leadership summit provides the ideal platform to honor our Presidents Club winners, to celebrate milestones and to share information to guide and motivate all of our general managers for the year to come."
General managers of Company restaurants being inducted into the President Club include: Corporate winners Maurico Uray in Columbia, Md.; Michael Lexcen in Henderson, Nev.; Steve Layton in Garden Grove, Calif.; Sheri Erickson in Portland, Ore.; Art Jezak in Santa Ana, Calif.; Howard Kahn in Chandler, Ariz.; Kevin Van Liew in Avondale, Ariz.; and Dave Owen in Tukwila, Wash.
Franchise restaurant inductees include Norel Ojeda with Top Robin Ventures, Inc., in Fresno, Calif.; John Churm with Restaurant Development Co. in Bend, Ore.; Richard Trexler with Ansara Restaurant Group in Roseville, Mich.; and Robert Lenore with Cowboy Red in Hurst, Texas.
Also at the leadership summit, attended by more than 800 company leaders, franchise and business partners, the Company:
-  held its annual Smiling Burger Championship team member event capping
regional competitions held in the fall of 2006;
-  crowned "The Next Gourmet Burger Kids Contest" winner;
-  celebrated the Company's first restaurant to reach $6 million in annual
sales, the Southcenter location in Tukwila, Wash.
-  announced that system-wide sales, including franchise restaurant sales,
reached $1 billion in fiscal 2006, and
-  announced that it is exploring a national media strategy that is
expected to include cable television advertising.
The Company expects to report fiscal year 2006 and fourth quarter 2006 financial results and its 2007 outlook on February 22, 2007.
About Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (Nasdaq: RRGB)
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., (www.redrobin.com), founded in 1969, is a casual dining restaurant chain that serves up wholesome, fun, feel-good experiences in a family-friendly environment. Red Robin(R) restaurants are famous for serving more than 22 high-quality gourmet burgers in a variety of recipes with Bottomless Steak Fries(R), as well as salads, soups, appetizers, entrees, desserts, and signature Mad Mixology(R) Beverages. There are 349 Red Robin(R) restaurants located across the United States and Canada, which include both corporate-owned locations and those operating under franchise or license agreements.
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This section from the book, Developing Endurance, gives an overview of how to plan and develop a program for endurance athletes by following four steps.
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The popularity of endurance sports continues to grow worldwide. Now, from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) comes the definitive resource for developing the endurance training programs that maximize performance and minimize injuries. The book is available in bookstores everywhere, as well as online at the NSCA Store.


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There are a number of reasons why eyebrows grow sparsely, have gaps in them, or seem to be disappearing. They can be affected by ill health, your genes, age, stress, or over-plucking.
Unfortunately, in the quest for the perfect eyebrow shape, sometimes we get overzealous in removing hairs. But if the follicles are damaged, the eyebrows won't grow back properly. Hence you'll notice that your once-lush brows are looking thin.
What is an eyebrow growth serum?
An eyebrow growth serum is a product designed to encourage hair growth. Some people like to use eyelash growth serum on their eyebrows because some are advertised as working for both purposes. But some eyelash serums will discolor skin, so they are not a good choice for treating eyebrows.
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Clinically proven to help more than 90% of its users to grow thicker eyebrows, the RevitaBrow serum is a top-selling product. Not only does it encourage new growth of eyebrow hairs, it protects them from breaking and becoming overly dry. It only needs one application per day to get results.
The formula lists ingredients like peptides and botanical components that moisturize hair without irritating skin and eyes. For example, it contains biotin, green tea extract, and lipids, as well as calendula, panax ginseng, and swertia japonica.
What do all these things do to regrow eyebrow hair? For one, the BioPeptin Complex of green tea, lipids, and biotin is basically a hair conditioner that keeps eyebrows healthy and strong. Calendula is a humectant that draws moisture into the individual hairs to protect them from becoming dry and brittle. And the last two herbal extracts contain anti-oxidants and Vitamin B that also protect and rejuvenate hair.
Please note that the ingredients list also contains "Dechloro Dihydroxy Difluoro Ethylcloprostenolamide", another name for prostaglandin.
RapidBrow serum also relies on peptides and botanical extracts to strengthen and revive thinning eyebrows. The ingredients list mentions hyaluronic acid, which is a moisturizer, keratin and panthenol to strengthen hair, as well as pumpkin seed extract, sea water, and sweet almond extract.
The manufacturer suggests applying RapidBrow twice a day with the included mini-brush. If you do this, they say you'll see a difference in 60 days or less.
Believe it or not, celebrity eyebrow stylists actually exist. One of them happens to be Joey Healy, creator of this Brow Renovation Serum. Joey knows all about how to deal with over-plucked eyebrows. As a result, this formula is packed with ingredients that rejuvenate brow hair without nasty components like parabens or fragrances.
For example, the ingredients consist of pentapeptides and proteins, Vitamins A, E, C, and B5, plus rose, eyebright, licorice, and white tea. This combination can grow thicker brow hair in only two to three weeks when applied morning and night. Do note that they recommend waiting 5 minutes for it to dry before applying makeup.
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While the manufacturer explains that this product has been clinically tested and reviewed by an ophthalmologist, there is something important to note at the end of the ingredients list. The formula appears to contain both parabens and prostaglandin I.C.
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ArtNaturals' Eyelash Growth Serum also works on eyebrows to grow them thicker and healthier. The ingredients list reveals myristoyl pentapeptide-17, clinically proven to be effective on both lashes and eyebrows.
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Organyc's Eyebrow Growth Serum contains myristoyl pentapeptide-17, which has been clinically proven to regrow stronger lashes and brows. But it doesn't have artificial dyes, fragrances, parabens, sulfates, phthalates, SLS, PEG, prostaglandins, or gluten, plus its vegan formula is cruelty-free.
The manufacturer recommends applying the serum twice a day to both eyelashes and eyebrows. They offer a 100% refund if you don't see results in 60 days or less.
Ardell's Brow and Lash Growth Accelerator uses protein and conditioning ingredients to revive brittle brow hairs immediately, then support new growth of hairs over the long term. Some of those proteins come from wheat, soy, and castor oil. In fact, castor oil is one of the natural remedies people use to re-grow their eyebrows.
Here is one of the least expensive treatments you can use on your eyebrows. It's castor oil that comes in a bottle with a pump dispenser for easy dosing.
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If you buy a large container of castor oil, this kit from eBoot makes packaging it very easy. It includes an eyelash wand, a tube for your homemade castor oil "mascara," and a tiny funnel to help you fill the bottle.
So you're interested in thickening up those thinning brows? Applying one of the top eyebrow serums is a step in the right direction, but it's not the only thing you can do.
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Exfoliating is also a good idea. Gently brush your brow line with a baby toothbrush. This gets rid of dead hairs and skin, plus it encourages blood circulation.
Like any hair anywhere on your body, eyebrows can fall out due to illness, stress, medications, poor diet, and environmental factors. And sometimes people simply over-pluck them in an attempt to shape them.
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The Kyoto/Tokyo seminar is a two-week intensive course held in Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan. The seminars are run by Ritsumeikan University as part of the Japanese Ministry of Education special purpose grant for development of study programs in Japan.
2021.04.01 The application for 2022 will open around summer 2021. The programs are subject to change depends on the COVID-19 situation.
2021.06.04 We are regret to announce that the Kyoto/Tokyo Seminars for 2022 has been cancelled due to the ongoing global pandemic of the COVID-19. We look forward to welcoming you all for the year 2023.
Kyoto Seminar
on Japanese law
Tokyo Seminar
on Law and Economy
All classes will be conducted in English
The Kyoto & Tokyo Seminars are regular classes held as a partnership program with the University of Sydney Law School, in cooperation with the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL). ANJeL is an initiative of the law faculties at the Australian National University, Queensland University of Technology and the University of Sydney. The core aim of ANJeL is to promote scholarly engagement with Japanese law, especially in Australia.
For more information, please refer to the following website. Also, browse via YouTube short interviews with many of the Kyoto & Tokyo Seminar lecturers, about many areas of Japanese Law!
Director's Welcome
Hello, everyone! I am the director of the Kyoto and Tokyo Seminars. At the Kyoto Seminar, we will learn about the core fields of Japanese law on the campus of Ritsumeikan University in the ancient capital, Kyoto. And at the Tokyo Seminar, we will learn more about business and law on the campus of Ritsumeikan University in the present capital, Tokyo. Learning about the history and contemporary problems of Japanese law with Japanese students in two big cities should be a valuable opportunity for you. I look forward to the participation of many students!
Professor Naoya Yamaguchi Program Director for the Kyoto and Tokyo Seminars
Ritsumeikan University School of Law
I strongly encourage you to take up this unique educational experience. Consider the What, Who, How, When and Why for these Kyoto and Tokyo Seminars in Japanese Law.
WHAT? This an intensive course in English comparing key diverse topics in Japanese Law, ranging from Criminal Justice through to Pop Culture and Law.
WHO? The Seminars are taught to Japanese and Australian but also some other international students, mostly majoring in law. Lecturers combine Japan- and Australia-based professors and practitioners expert in Japanese law.
HOW? Each topic is co-taught by two lecturers, usually one based or from abroad plus one Japanese expert, to maximise viewpoint diversity among teachers as well as the mixed group of students. Discussions in small groups include at least one Japanese student, who often know very well the subject-matter but need to try to communicate and apply this knowledge of Japanese Law topics in a different language and sometimes quite different legal concepts. A field trip includes visits to the Osaka courts and Bar Association, learning what it is like to work in Japan as both local and foreign lawyers.
WHEN and WHY? The Seminars are taught in Japan early February (except for 2021 due to the pandemic). They were inaugurated from 2005, soon after Japanese universities added new postgraduate "Law School" programs for LLB or non-law graduates. Japan's new Law Schools were aimed at a new style of legal education and national legal examination, to increase and diversify the numbers of Japanese lawyers, judges and prosecutors as part of wide-ranging reforms to its civil and criminal justice systems. Australian law students are increasingly encouraged by their universities and government to study abroad, especially in Asia, where many graduates now end up spending at least part of their legal or other careers.
Professor Luke Nottage Co-director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL)
The University of Sydney Law School
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Araki, Takashi
Tokyo University
Burch, Micah
Colombo, Giorgio
Dabner, Justin
Hirano, Tetsuro
Ibusuki, Makoto
Seijo University
Ishida, Kyoko
Kadomatsu, Narufumi
Kobe University
Kamiya, Masako
Gakushuin University
Kimijima, Akihiko
Kozuka, Soichiro
Mestecky, Jiri M.
Kitahama Partners
Morishita, Tetsuo
Nottage, Luke
Obayashi, Yoshihiro
Yodoyabashi & Yamagami Legal Professional Corporation
Saigusa, Kenji
Takeuchi, Haruhisa
Former Senior Officier at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Tamura, Yoko
University of Tsukuba Law School
Wani, Akihiro
ITO&MITOMI/MORRISON&FOESTER LLP
Wolf, Michael
Wolff, Leon
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Le canton de Varennes-en-Argonne est une ancienne division administrative française, qui était située dans le département de la Meuse et la région Lorraine.

Le canton est créé en 1790 sous la Révolution française. À la suite du redécoupage cantonal de 2014, le canton est supprimé.

Géographie
Ce canton est organisé autour du chef-lieu Varennes-en-Argonne et fait partie intégralement de l'arrondissement de Verdun. Son altitude varie de  (Lachalade) à  (Esnes-en-Argonne) pour une altitude moyenne de . Sa superficie est de .

Histoire
Le canton de Varennes fait partie du district de Clermont & Varennes, créé par le décret du 30 janvier 1790 et qui sera simplifié en district de Clermont.

Après la suppression des districts en 1795, le canton intègre l'arrondissement de Verdun lors de la création de celui-ci en 1801.

À la suite du redécoupage cantonal de 2014, le canton est supprimé. Toutes les communes se retrouvent intégrées dans le canton de Clermont-en-Argonne.

Composition
Le canton de Varennes-en-Argonne réunit les 12 communes de :

Administration

Conseillers d'arrondissement (de 1833 à 1940)

Conseillers généraux de 1833 à 2015

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Who made the PFA team of the year?
Manchester City have dominated the Professional Footballers' Association's Premier League team of the year, with five players named in the select XI.
Right-back Kyle Walker, centre-half Nicolas Otamendi and midfielders David Silva and Kevin De Bruyne are all honoured, along with forward Sergio Aguero.
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Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea, Tottenham's Jan Vertonghen and Chelsea left-back Marcos Alonso complete the defence.
Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen is also included, along with his Spurs team-mate Harry Kane, the England striker among three forwards in the side completed by Liverpool frontman Mohamed Salah, who has bagged 30 league goals so far this season.
There was, though, no recognition for any Burnley players, despite the Clarets enjoying a fine season and challenging Arsenal for sixth place, which could yet see them secure European qualification.
City duo De Bruyne and Silva are shortlisted for the PFA's player of the year award, along with club-mate Leroy Sane after all three helped Pep Guardiola's side win the Premier League.
Kane, Salah and De Gea are also nominated, with the winner set to be announced at the PFA's annual awards ceremony in London on Sunday, April 22.
Wolves will be playing Premier League football next season after securing promotion, and have three players in the PFA's Championship team of the year.
Former Wrexham goalkeeper John Ruddy, defender Willy Boly and midfielder Ruben Neves, who scored a memorable goal in the recent win over Derby, all make the XI.


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The Museu Moto hadn't been on my Barcelona list, I stumbled upon it whilst trying to find the Shoe Museum. And I'm glad I did, as it turned out to be way more interesting that I had imagined, and very well laid out and presented (though they obviously weren't expecting visitors first thing in the morning, as they were still hoovering and mopping the back end of the museum whilst I started my visit in the front end^^).
The museum opened in 2011 and, as the city with the biggest number of motorbikes per inhabitant in Europe, Barcelona seems a logical location for it. Covering 600 square meters of exhibition space, the museum aims to spread all aspects of motorbiking culture through its permanent display and a programme of temporary special exhibitions.
Starting with 'Pioneers', the first section covers 1905 – 1936 and includes important milestones of the early fledgeling industry, such as the first motorbike every to be manufactured in Spain by Barcelona engineer Villalbí with a grand total of five units. It was to be over ten years until other brands followed. Backdrops with reproductions of selected newspaper articles, adverts, and photographs of early bikes in action, as well as a display case with copies of early motoring magazines, set the scene. But centre stage goes to the beautiful early 20th century motorbikes, that evoke a feeling of nostalgia and transported me right back to watching 'The Motorcycle Diaries' at the cinema. Definitely something I don't think only motorbike enthusiasts would enjoy.
Villalbí Motorbike
'Post War' covers the period 1940 – 1960, and whilst the machines start looking less nostalgic, there are still some real beauties on display. You also ge an insight into the fragile economy at the time, which prompted entrepreneurs to come up with useful and economic mobility solutions which resulted in a remarkable industrial network in Catalonia. The 1960 and 1970s were considered the golden age for Catalonia brands, several of which reached international acclaim, though sadly many of them had closed down by the 1980s. This is where the more modern motorbikes, including off road models, come into the display, which I admittedly found less interesting, or rather less attractive, than the earlier historic ones.
The permanent display also covers the auxiliary motorbike industry, which produced components covering everything from headlights and shock absorbers, to helmets, boots and sidecars. A further point of interest was that the 1980s offered room for small firms to specialise in off road bikes by assembling different components from different origins. Old catalogues, manuals and component parts complete the display. Another highlight of the museum is the ca. 10 minute long film showing historical footage of motorbikes being manufactured and assembled, as well as old TV adverts and footage of a motorbike race.
Auxiliary Industries
1950s Side Car
The current temporary exhibition, which is also the museum's first, is dedicated to the history of motorbikes in Catalonia specifically, where 196 different brands were manufactured between 1905 and 2010, including 56 different racing bikes. In fact, Catalonia has a great track record in motorbike racing, e.g. Derbi is the most internationally rewarded brand in the World Speed Championships, and Alex Crivillé won the 125cc World Championship in 1989 in his first attempt riding for JJ Cobas . The exhibition covers all the most famous and important Catalonian brands, grouping machines of the same brand but from different years together, which nicely shows how the brands have changed over time. Significant mergers and buy outs also get a mention, and there are a couple of machines from the police force too.
Derbi Bikes Through The Ages
Whether or not you are particularly interested in motorbikes, Museu Moto gives a unique insight in to the history of one of Catalonia's most significant industries. And it's really evident throughout the museum that, despite the knocks the industry has taken over te years, the Catalonians are really proud of it. So don't wait until you get lost trying to find your way somewhere else, give the Museu Moto a chance!
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In a complex of holiday bungalows to the east of Madrid, Venezuelan refugees and homeless people have replaced the tourists, business meetings and wedding parties that usually fill the premises.
The owner of the La Ciguena resort has turned the facility over to some of Madrid's most vulnerable families, after he had to close the hotel because of the coronavirus outbreak sweeping through Spain.
"Since we've arrived, they've attended to our every need," said Stephanie Paez, an eight-month pregnant Venezuelan refugee accompanied by her partner and mother. She said her aim was to find a job, an apartment and get her residency papers once the coronavirus crisis was over.
Spain is in strict lockdown as it battles one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks. The country's death toll has surpassed 11,000, second only to Italy. Bars, restaurants and shops selling non-essential items are closed.
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The daily pace of new coronavirus infections and deaths in Spain slowed again on Saturday as prime minister Pedro Sanchez was expected to announce a new extension to lockdown measures that have confined most people to their homes for three weeks.
The total death toll rose to 11,744 – the world's second highest – on Saturday, from 10,935 the day before, the health ministry said, representing a 7% increase in total deaths after a 9% rise on Friday. That is less than half the pace of the about 20% increase registered a week ago.
A total of 809 people died from the disease in the past 24 hours, down from Friday's 932 and Thursday's daily record of 950, the figures showed.
Meanwhile, the total number of registered infections rose to 124,736 on Saturday from 117,710 on Friday, when Spain overtook Italy in the total number of infections for the first time.
In a press conference on Friday, Salvador Illa, the health minister, said Sanchez would call opposition leaders after a meeting of his coronavirus task force on Saturday to let them know his decision on extending the lockdown from the current end date of 13 April.
Health officials say the slowdown in new infections proves the effectiveness of the lockdown in place.
China's south-western Guangxi region, which has borders with Vietnam, has suspended cross-border passenger transportation and restricted exit of citizens from the country amid concerns of an increase in imported coronavirus cases.
It has closed most ports except for a few being used for freight transportation, the Guangxi health commission said in a statement late on Friday.
Kuwait recorded its first death from the coronavirus outbreak, state news agency KUNA reported, citing a health ministry spokesman. The total number of people diagnosed with the disease increased by 62 in the past 24 hours to 479 cases, he said, according to KUNA.
Iran's death toll from the coronavirus outbreak climbed to 3,452 on Saturday, with 158 more fatalities recorded over the past 24 hours, health ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpur said.
The total number of cases diagnosed with the disease reached 55,743, of whom 4,103 are in critical condition, he said on state TV. Iran is the country worst affected by the pandemic in the Middle East.
In the UK, Cheltenham festival organisers have defended their decision to go ahead with the horse racing event last month after fears were raised that the mass gathering helped spread coronavirus.
More than 250,000 racegoers attended the four-day National Hunt event even though other large sporting events were cancelled shortly afterwards.
A number of people reported on social media that they attended the festival only to go on and develop symptoms of Covid-19.
However, organisers said they had complied with the government guidance at the time.
A spokesman for Cheltenham Racecourse said: "The festival concluded three weeks ago and went ahead under the government's ongoing guidance throughout, like other popular sports events at Twickenham, Murrayfield, 10 Premier League matches and the Uefa Champions League at Anfield that same week."
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Donald Trump has said he will probably not wear a protective face mask despite his administration encouraging people in the US to do so in public to prevent spreading the coronavirus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance for people to wear bandanas, T-shirts and other cloth-based coverings in crowded areas, particularly in hotspots.
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Spain's death toll from the coronavirus rose to 11,744 on Saturday from 10,935 the previous day, the health ministry said.
However, it marks the second straight day in which the number of new deaths has fallen.
A total of 809 people died from the disease over the past 24 hours, down from 932 in the previous period, the figures showed.
The total number of registered infections rose to 124,736 on Saturday from 117,710 on Friday, the ministry said.


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For most family entertainment centers, online booking is an essential part of their of point of sale software. Having software mange your bookings ensures that you and your staff can avoid the nightmares that are often associated with ticket systems, digital or otherwise. One such problem is overbooking your facility during busy periods. This is where having a point of sale system that can keep track of ticket sales and facility and attraction capacity is necessary. Customer will feel better knowing they can book in advance to avoid long lines and ensure that they are going to be able to visit when they would like to. Even if you are sold out for specific time periods, if your customers can see this on your website, they still might be disappointed, however they will easily be able to plan their next visit knowing that it might not be available if don't plan in advance.
Having a well-organized ticket structure can help you better manage your daily admission sales (in-house and online). As a family entertainment center owner (trampoline parks, laser-tag, etc.), you need to ask yourself some questions when developing an admission strategy. What are my hours? How long will ticket sessions last? What is the capacity of my facility during any one session? These are just a few questions that must be addressed when creating a ticket structure.
All this information can be organized with point of sale software so your facility will be operating at peak efficiency when you are at your busiest. LilYPad point of sale software has the ability to create time/game slots throughout regular operating hours using our Tracker feature. You can also create multiple Trackers if you operate more than one attraction.
Weekly events are fairly common with family entertainment centers as well. These are events that fall outside of the regular, daily schedule, such as fitness classes, dedicated times for special needs or toddlers, etc. Have these events set up separately from your facility's regular Trackers is beneficial because you and your staff will be able to manage them more efficiently. Using LilYPad, your customers will be able to choose the type of ticket they wish to purchase right from your own website!
LilYPad also has the ability to create one or multi-day events such as a Halloween Party, special character/guest appearances, or a trampoline dodge ball tournament. These events can be created for any time period, even outside of your regular hours. LilYPad will manage these tickets separate from all the others that you may be selling and will of course prevent overbooking. If this event takes the place of a regularly scheduled ticket, LilYPad gives you the ability to block out specific dates and times without having to turn them off completely. You can just block it for the day and forget it.
These are just a few helpful features that are included with LilYPad point of sale software but regardless of what point of sale system you use, keeping a tight, clean schedule for your ticket sales can reduce stress on you, your staff and your customers. Using these strategies will all contribute to the continued success, whether you are veteran in the business or just opening your facility for the first time!
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Relaxed mould building
Relaxed mouldmaking with stress-relieved HASCO steel
Developing and producing high-quality, high-performance moulds for plastic injection moulding is a complex process. With its products and services, HASCO, the Lüdenscheid-based standard mould component manufacturer, enables its customers to configure their processes in simple, flexible and cost-optimised methods when possible. The company attaches particular importance to achieving a consistently high and reliable quality in the standard components it produces. Alongside a large number of other criteria, reducing the inherent stress in the materials used is a key quality factor for all HASCO plate products.
Consistent stress reduction
When steel is produced and processed, stresses are automatically introduced into the material. This cannot be completely avoided. If these stresses are not consistently reduced through various methods and measures, they can lead to warpage after machining. Stressed processed plates are then of no use to the mould builder, and costs and delays will be incurred. HASCO minimises this risk of warpage over the length of the entire value added process – from the production of the steel at the supplier's works to the processing of the plates at HASCO, then right through to the provision of support for its customers in achieving the optimum design of mould.
Stress-reduced right from the start
At the steelworks, the steel used by HASCO for manufacturing plates is first produced by uphill casting and then formed to the desired dimensions by open die forging or rolling. Stresses develop in the steel as a result of the heating, cooling and processing. To achieve a clear reduction in these stresses, HASCO has an agreement with the steel producers and suppliers that they should incorporate an additional production stage, namely stress relief annealing. The material is slowly heated to 550 to 650°C in an annealing furnace and kept at this temperature for up to two hours according to its size, which considerably reduces the stresses that have developed. Following this, the steel is cooled down gradually in order to prevent the build-up of new stresses.
Gentle separation and machining
The steel produced in line with HASCO's requirements is delivered in big slabs to begin with. These have to be divided into smaller-sized plates for further processing. HASCO employs a high-performance, automated sawing technology for this. The gentle separation process with a precision circular saw minimises the amount of stress introduced into the material's edge structure through continuous cooling of the saw blade and the material, among other measures.
During the subsequent milling operation too, the company not only ensures that convincing surface results are achieved in the typical HASCO quality but also pays further attention to keeping stress to a minimum. A completely homogeneous structure is achieved by removing the rolling or forging skin from the unfinished slabs absolutely uniformly on both sides, using consistently sharp milling and cutting tools to avoid surface heating. The careful clamping of the plates with a specially developed clamping fixture additionally contributes towards further minimising of the inherent stress in the material. At the end of the HASCO production process, low-stress standard components are obtained with a minimised risk of warpage for the customers.
Support for mouldmakers
HASCO has been dealing intensively with the subject of stress reduction for many years. The company has acquired comprehensive experience and built up the corresponding specialist knowledge, which it passes on to mouldmakers and designers. Klaus Zimmermann, a technical salesman at HASCO and an expert on stress reduction: "We do everything possible, over the full length of the value added chain, to ensure that our standard components have only a low level of inherent stress, keeping the risk of warpage as low as possible for our customers. In addition to this, we support our customers in optimising their processes in respect of warpage too. This starts with the design of the moulded parts. Over sized slide tracks, for example, mean that too much material has to be removed through machining. The level of inherent stress in the material then increases, as does the risk of warpage. We are pleased to advise our customers in cases such as these and support them with our experience in finding optimum solutions."
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HASCO is the world's leading supplier of modular standard components and accessories for mouldmaking. More than 700 employees worldwide are engaged in making mould-building easy – through innovativeness, agility, simplicity and performance.We gladly provide you further photos for the article.
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I needed a side to go with a big ol' bowl of Crab and Corn Chowder, and also wanted something a little spicy. So I jazzed things up a bit and created these Cheddar-Jalapeno Biscuits. They are sooo good. They're light and fluffy, but the cheddar cheese gets nice and toasty, giving them a pleasant crunch.
Like all biscuits, they start with a bowl of flour. The flour gets blended with baking powder and salt.
Next is some cold butter. It's important for flaky biscuits that the butter be cold, like right-out-of-the-fridge cold.
Cut the butter into the flour. You could use a fork or a pair of knives, or use a pastry cutter, like I've got. You could also give the flour and butter a few whirrs in a food processor. Or you could use a grating tool and grate the stick of butter right into the bowl of flour.
Once the butter is in small pieces and the flour mixture resembles coarse crumbs, you can add your flavors to the biscuits.
I used a small can of diced jalapenos (you could use fresh if you had them), lots and lots of freshly ground black pepper, and shredded cheddar cheese.
Mix the cheese, pepper, and jalapenos into the flour mixture. Then use your spoon to make a well in the center of the mixture.
Pour your buttermilk in, and stir just enough to make sure everything is nice and moist.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly-floured surface.
Pat (or roll) your dough about an inch thick.
Dip a biscuit cutter (or, if you don't have a biscuit cutter, a drinking glass) in flour and then press it into the dough. Do not twist when you cut! Twisting will prevent your biscuits from rising to their full potential.
Place the biscuits on a greased cookie sheet. If you like biscuits with crisp outsides, make sure you keep your biscuits at least an inch apart from one another. If you like softer biscuits, put them right up next to each other.
I used a smaller, 2" biscuit cutter, rather than the larger 3" one. That's why it looks like I've got so many biscuits.
Brush the tops of the biscuits with more buttermilk. If you don't have any more buttermilk, melted butter, milk, or a beaten egg will do the job too.
Grind a little more pepper over the tops of the biscuits.
Serve these biscuits with Chunky Minnesotan Chili, Crab and Corn Chowder, or Tortilla Soup. Fill them with ham, turkey, or even BBQ beans. You and your family will love them!
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Mix well.
Add butter; using knives or pastry cutter, cut butter into flour. Continue cutting until the flour mixture appears crumbly.
Add jalapenos, black pepper, and cheese. Mix well.
Use a spoon to dig a well into the middle of the dry ingredients. Add buttermilk. Stir to combine.
Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and pat to about a 1" thickness. Cut the dough into biscuits. Place on a greased cookie sheet. For biscuits that are crisp all the way around, leave about 1" between each biscuit. For fluffier, softer biscuits, leave the edges of the biscuits touching.
Brush the tops of the biscuits with more buttermilk. Grind more black pepper over the tops.
Bake at 425F for 15-20 minutes if biscuits are evenly spaced; add about 5 minutes more if biscuits are touching.
Bookmarking this. Thanks for the recipe!