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Legal services was one of the losers in Orange County, the new data show, with a dip of 2.6 percent in a year. That reflects a nationwide over-supply of lawyers.
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Among professionals, Orange County demand was high for accountants and bookkeepers (up 6.7 percent) as well as architects and engineers (up 6 percent), and scientific and technical consultants (up 6.1 percent.)
In higher education, public schools such as CSUF and UCI added only 400 jobs in a year. But the county's for-profit institutions and professional schools added 2,100 jobs, the highest growth rate of any category (35.6 percent).
The for-profit sector, which includes Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges, the University of Phoenix and ITT Tech, is under government scrutiny for aggressively recruiting low-income students who qualify for federal loans. Graduates have high default rates and uneven job prospects.
At the recent job fair, Humaira Hessabi-Hyder, 36, said she switched careers after working for a mortgage company, obtaining a master's degree in forensic psychology from the for-profit Argosy University in Orange in September 2012. But she has been unable to find work. "It wasn't worth the money," she said.
In Orange county, mortgage brokerages and banks shed 1,500 workers year-over-year, a 3.4 percent drop, as interest rates rose and home refinancing plunged.
Another loser was manufacturing, which shed a net 800 jobs (down 0.5 percent), with the biggest losses occurring at computer and semiconductor firms.
But manufacturing, with 157,400 workers, remains a mainstay of the Orange County economy.
Ron Shepard, CEO of Shepard Bros., a La Habra specialty chemical manufacturer that reported a 4.7 percent growth in sales last year, said his firm plans to expand.
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In other sectors, leisure and hospitality added 5,600 jobs during the year, a 3.3 percent boost, mainly thanks to healthy growth at restaurants and bars. Retail trade rose by 1,100 positions, a 0.8 percent increase. Government, which had lost jobs in recent years, added a net 800 workers, for a 0.5 percent growth.
In health care, the picture was uneven, with ambulatory care jobs rising to 71,800 (a 2.5 percent jump) and hospital employment dropping to 29,700 (a 4.2 percent dip). Social assistance jobs increased by 10.4 percent, to 33,900.
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Blueberry Flummery
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|Fresh wild blueberries/Unsweetened frozen(1 pound)
|3 1⁄2 Cup (56 tbs)
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs) (divided)
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon, ground
|3 Tablespoon
Place blueberries into a medium-size saucepan.
Add 1/2 cup water, and cook over medium heat, while stirring, until berries yield their juice, about 5 minutes.
Add honey, lemon juice, and cinnamon.
Simmer 2 minutes longer. (At this point, berries can be pureed in a blender, if desired.
It's best to do this in 2 batches, since hot mixtures splatter.
Return berry puree to saucepan. Combine 1/4 cup water with cornstarch in a cup.
Stir until cornstarch is dissolved.
Add to blueberries, and cook, while stirring, until mixture bubbles and thickens.
Simmer over low heat for 2 minutes.
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It was interesting to watch the BJP-led NDA government of Narendra Modi pilot two bills with political overtones through the Lok Sabha on Friday.
The first was the introduction of the Telecom Authority of India (Amendment) Bill, which was to facilitate former Trai chairman Nripendra Mishra take over the principal secretary in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO). The bill was introduced despite protest from Saugata Roy of Trinamool Congress. The bill was introduced and will be taken up for discussion next week.
The other was the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, which is to transfer six mandals (a local revenue administrative unit) in Khammam district under the Polavaram irrigation project to be transferred to Andhra Pradesh, a gift that Andhra chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu wrested from the Modi government because his Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is part of the NDA. The leaders from Telangana protested against it, but to no avail.
Union telecom minister Ravi Sahankar Prasad, who moved the Trai amendment bill said the government was fully competent to bring in any amendment to any Act, and he explained as part of the objectives of the bill that the intention was to make Trai provisions the same as that of other regulatory authorities like the Competition Commission and the Provident Fund Regulatory Authority (PFRDA).
Prasad said he would argue the case in detail when the bill came up for debate.
Vinod Kumar of Telangana Rashtra Samithi and G Sukhinder Reddy of Congress from Telangana, who argued that AP Reoorganisation Amendment Bill violates Article 3 of the Constitution, which lays down that in case of the change of a state's boundaries as it is in this instance of transferring of mandals the President should refer it to the legislatures of the concerned states and that this was not done. The issue was raised in the form of a Point of Order, provided in the Rules of Business of the House, by Roy.
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MANILA, Philippines—Talk N' Text defeated Petron Blaze, 92-82, Wednesday in the PBA Philippine Cup at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
Larry Fonacier carried the offense of the Texters, who were hobbled by injuries like their opponent, and churned out 22 points, along with six rebounds and four dimes.
Talk N' Text, which stayed atop the heap with a 7-1 slate, only got a chance to establish a good lead in the third quarter where Jimmy Alapag and Kelly Williams came alive.
"It was a better second half than the first. We were forced to play halfcourt because we gave up a lot of fastbreak points," said head coach Norman Black.
The Texters allowed the Boosters to score 19 fastbreak points while they only managed two points on the run, but tightened up on D later on.
Williams and Alapag chipped in 14 and 13 points, in that order — most of it in the pivotal third quarter.
Chris Lutz played with workmanlike effort to provide the jolt for the ailing Boosters — who only had eight players in the rotation Wednesday.
Lutz finished with 18 points, five rebounds, three assists and a steal while three others had double digit ouputs.
But it was a better effort from Petron Blaze, who was just within striking distance with under six minutes to go in the game, 74-80.
The Boosters absorb their second straight loss for a subpar 3-5 record in the conference.
The scores:
TALK N' TEXT 92 – Fonacier 21, Williams 16, De Ocampo 14, Alapag 13, Aban 9, Carey 6, Castro 5, Ferriols 4, Alvarez 2, Peek 2, Raymundo 0, Gamalinda 0.
PETRON 82 – Lutz 18, Santos 17, Washington 16, Yeo 10, Duncil 7, Miranda 6, Faundo 4, Cabagnot 4.
Quarters: 17-23, 42-42, 69-60, 92-82
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The history of physics can hardly be separated from the history of its applications to electrical, electronic and information engineering, and allied fields. The IEEE History Center vigorously preserves, researches, and promotes the legacy of electrical engineering, computing, and all related fields of interest to the members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). The largest professional technical society in the world, IEEE represents some 400,000 practitioners in the fields of electrical and computing engineering and science. Founded in 1980 at IEEE's Manhattan headquarters, it was relocated to the campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 1990. The IEEE History Center is co-sponsored by these two institutions. The fields of interest of the IEEE and its History Center include many areas of concern to physicists, such as antennas and propagation, geoscience and remote sensing, lasers and electro-optics, magnetics, microwave theory, nuclear and plasma sciences, and superconductivity. The Center's mandate includes the history of these technologies, the history of the engineering professions, and the institutional history of IEEE and its predecessor organizations.
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Architecture for Neuronal Cell Control of a Mobile Robot
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It is usually expected that the intelligent controlling mechanism of a robot is a computer system. Research is however now ongoing in which biological neural networks are being cultured and trained to act as the brain of an interactive real world robot – thereby either completely replacing or operating in a cooperative fashion with a computer system. Studying such neural systems can give a distinct insight into biological neural structures and therefore such research has immediate medical implications. In particular, the use of rodent primary dissociated cultured neuronal networks for the control of mobile 'animats' (artificial animals, a contraction of animal and materials) is a novel approach to discovering the computational capabilities of networks of biological neurones. A dissociated culture of this nature requires appropriate embodiment in some form, to enable appropriate development in a controlled environment within which appropriate stimuli may be received via sensory data but ultimate influence over motor actions retained. The principal aims of the present research are to assess the computational and learning capacity of dissociated cultured neuronal networks with a view to advancing network level processing of artificial neural networks. This will be approached by the creation of an artificial hybrid system (animat) involving closed loop control of a mobile robot by a dissociated culture of rat neurons. This 'closed loop' interaction with the environment through both sensing and effecting will enable investigation of its learning capacity This paper details the components of the overall animat closed loop system and reports on the evaluation of the results from the experiments being carried out with regard to robot behaviour.
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- Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics
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Flowboarding phenom: 14-year-old Barron Collier student becomes a world champion in unique sport
Add Xana Nash to the short list of pioneers in women's sports.
The 14-year-old Barron Collier High School student is the youngest girl ever to capture the title of world champion in women's pro flowboarding at the 2012 Pepsi World Flowboarding Championship earlier this year. The annual event hailed hundreds of athletes worldwide and attracted thousands of spectators to Ogden, Utah.
Flowboarding is performed atop water being pumped over a solid, curved surface at 35 mph. The rider demonstrates well-known techniques and tricks used in surfing, skateboarding and snowboarding.
Nash has a mature, reserved demeanor, but when it comes to flowboarding, get out of her way.
"It takes a lot of dedication. You have to give 110 percent. You've got to drop the walls, jump in and just do it," said Nash.
Referred to as a "dark horse," Nash burst onto the scene of this male-dominated hybrid sport competing against her male and female peers as well as against older male and female competitors. World competitors had 45 seconds to show their stuff — Nash not only nailed it, she never once fell into the water. Her finely tuned style and precise execution of pivots, spins and shuvits earned her the women's pro world title.
Despite earning the title, Nash said, "The junior level is actually more difficult because it's mostly boys who perform harder tricks." Nash earned second place in the Junior Division Final.
Even though Nash competes equally with guys at her own level in the junior division, cash awards are higher for the men than they are for women. The women's pro flowboarding world title awarded Nash $600 and sponsor products. The top men's competition awarded $1,500 for first place.
"She competes like a man competes. That's how she beat the women," said Xana's father, Captain Henry Nash of North Naples Fire Department. "In two hours she lands a trick that takes a flowboarding instructor two months to learn. A guy who works and trains everyday watched Xana and said, 'She is a phenomenon.'"
Xana's mother, Laura Nash, is a longtime teacher at Pine Ridge Middle School. "Xana is bringing the level of the sport up higher." Laura confirms Xana's philosophy: "I'm going to bring more women into this sport. It's a harder skill level, but we're about 75 percent there. I think the sponsors have seen the growth of this sport."
Xana Nash discovered the sport three years ago during a family vacation on a Royal Caribbean cruise where she, her brother and parents took turns cruising the waves onboard the ship.
Xana continued to pursue the sport and joined her first national tour with the sport's leading competitive circuit, Flowboarding League of the World. Top-scoring competitors who earn the highest scores in six of the 10 tour stops are invited to the world competition. However, Xana didn't enter the nationals until there were just six stops remaining on the tour — but that didn't stop her from making some serious waves at each stop. Along with winning the U.S. Open Female Flowboarding Championship on tour, all her performances catapulted her onto the world team. This year is the first time the world competition was held in the United States. Others have been held in places like Singapore, Dubai and South Africa.
A naturally athletic person, Nash plays soccer at Barron Collier High School and is a referee for Optimist Club soccer. She taught herself the sport by observing others, taking a few pointers from some male instructors, and developing a faithful practice schedule. She is an academically superior student who attends Florida Virtual School.
Xana's parents take turns driving weekly to flowboarding facilities in Kissimmee and Clearwater.
"Xana has given up a lot — homecoming dance, time with friends, but it's always her choice," her father said.
Xana's younger brother, Dallas, also enjoys flowboarding. Laura said, "He is so supportive, and he never complains." Xana quickly added, "And he's an academic wiz."
What's next for a 14-year-old world titlist? Xana looks forward to increasing her level of difficulty on next year's tour. She is thinking about which college she'll attend and plans to continue competing worldwide.
Laura said, "It's amazing—the transformation of her independence. She "is" the business. She advocates for herself." Xana is seeking sponsorship, and at age 14, she has it all together.
Laura stated, "Believe me, if it hasn't been thought of, Xana will think of it and she will make it happen. We'll just watch her do it."
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Stossel: The flaws in Common Core
**Written by Doug Powers
At Reason.com, John Stossel has a good column about Common Core educational standards. In part of the article, Stossel discusses math problems that are worded in a way so as to be almost intentionally confusing in order to be able to awards points just for effort:
Common Core de-emphasizes correct answers by awarding kids points for reasoning, even when they don't quite get there.
A video went viral online that showed a worried mom, Karen Lamoreaux—a member of the group Arkansas Against Common Core—complaining to the Arkansas Board of Education about complicatedly worded math problems meant for fourth-graders. She read to the Board this question: "Mr. Yamato's class has 18 students. If the class counts around by a number and ends with 90, what number did they count by?"
Here's the video Stossel referred to:
A few days ago I ran across a similar example. This question is found in Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt's Common Core "Math Expressions" on page 166 (PDF). Not horrible until you realize this is a problem for second graders:
Second grade math #commoncore What on earth? #stopcommoncore pic.twitter.com/F5T2aXsFxf
— Margie Busby (@MargieBusby) December 27, 2013
Do the people who write Common Core curriculum get paid by the word?
Also, Common Core proponents like to say the program is "voluntary," and as Stossel also points out, yes, it is — as long as the school system(s) declining to use the standards don't mind giving up federal funding.
(h/t Ace of Spades)
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A Constructed World is the collaborative project, founded in 1993, of Geoff Lowe and Jacqueline Riva, based in Paris, France. ACW have exhibited widely both in Australia and internationally, and participated in a number of biennales, including Gwangju, South Korea, 1995, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 1998, Tirana, Albania, 2003, and Belleville, Paris, France, 2010. Selected solo exhibitions include Yeah Flag Together Again, with Jon Campbell, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, 2005; How Lowe River Rose, with Hao Guo, Victoria Park Gallery, Melbourne, 2006; Increase Your Uncertainty, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2007; Schifanoia, N.O. Gallery, and four private apartments in Milan, Italy, 2007; Saisons Increase Part 1: Flowing Upwards, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, France, 2008; Le Feu Scrupuleax, Cneai Chatou, France, 2008; Saisons Increase Part 2: Wild Weather, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008; and Based on a True Story: Geoff Lowe 1972–92 and A Constructed World 1993–2012, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 2012.
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- wheelchair accessible
- arboretum
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Local Services & Businesses
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Sports & Adventure Activities
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- golf privileges optional
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- The home is fully equipped with all the creature comforts. In the living room you have a gas fireplace, cable TV and wireless internet. The kitchen and bath are furnished with linens, dishes, appliances, and basic toiletries. The home is within a short walking distance to Starbucks, several dining restaurants, pizza, senior taco, parks, river boat launch and gas and a neighborhood shopping development. It is peaceful and relaxing. The property will accommodate several cars for small gatherings. There is a quaint theater and movie house within a few minutes drive. Downtown Portland is a straight shot down the first adjacent street. It is approximately 20 minutes to downtown and thirty minutes to the airport. It is very easy to find, and navigate to and from.


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CALGARY, Feb. 14, 2013 /CNW/ - The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has ruled that John (Bert) Holtby, Dale Holtby, John Shepert, Kenneth Burdeyney and Randall Kowalchuk engaged in illegal insider trading of Edmonton-based Eveready Inc. shares.
The ASC panel also found that:
- Bert Holtby, Dale Holtby and Kenneth Burdeyney engaged in illegal informing (tipping) relating to the proposed acquisition of Eveready by Clean Harbors, Inc. before it was publicly disclosed;
- Bert Holtby, Dale Holtby and Gayle Walton illegally recommended or encouraged others to purchase Eveready shares before the proposed acquisition was publicly disclosed; and
- Bert Holtby attempted to conceal or withheld information reasonably required for an ASC investigation.
The ASC panel ruled that illegal insider trading, informing, and recommending or encouraging "are among the most serious of capital-market misconduct" and that such misconduct "not only is patently unfair to legitimate investors but also can have far-reaching effects by seriously undermining investor confidence in the fairness of our capital market." The ASC panel found that this misconduct is conduct contrary to the public interest. The ASC panel further ruled: " Bert Holtby used a nominee account . . . to trade during Eveready-imposed blackout periods and to engage in illegal insider trading. Bert Holtby also attempted to conceal or withhold information reasonably required for Staff's investigation. This behaviour, with its hallmarks of deception, is also conduct contrary to the public interest."
The ASC panel has set dates for ASC staff and the named parties to provide submissions on what, if any, orders for sanctions and costs ought to be made against the named parties.


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HOUSTON (April 10, 2009) The Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living at The University of Texas School of Public Health Austin Regional Campus will host the third annual Michael & Susan Dell Lectureship in Child Health at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center Amphitheater in Austin.
Obesity expert Shiriki Kumanyika, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, is this year's guest lecturer and will present, "Childhood Obesity: Which Children are at Highest Risk and Why?" The event is free and open to the public.
Kumanyika's academic and clinical areas of interest include epidemiology, nutrition, minority health and women's health issues. Her current studies involve developing and evaluating interventions to prevent or treat obesity, with particular focus on African-American and Latino populations. Kumanyika is involved in numerous national and international public health-related committees and is a consultant to the World Health Organization.
This year's lectureship will have a moderated panel discussion including Deanna M. Hoelscher, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., professor and director of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of Healthy Living, Steven H. Kelder, Ph.D., M.P.H, professor and co-director, and Aliya Esmail Hussaini, M.D., U.S. health portfolio director at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation.
Childhood obesity is on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys. Surveys taken from 1976� and 2003� found the prevalence of obesity increased. For children ages 2, prevalence increased from 5 percent to 12.4 percent. For those ages 6, prevalence increased from 6.5 percent to 17 percent and for those ages 12 years, prevalence increased from 5 percent to 17.6 percent'/>"/>
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Funke Fired Arts Holiday Bash
Funke Fired Arts Holiday Bazaar is a one-stop-shop to purchase handmade functional ceramic items and sculptures made by over 40 local artists. All ages are invited to The Atrium Pottery Painting Studio to exercise creative muscles, choosing from hundreds of keepsakes and functional items of different sizes and shapes to paint.
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Phone: 513-871-CLAY
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Rachel is in the kitchen, warm and safe.
Her father is in the trenches, cold and afraid.
When Rachel makes biscuits for her father, she adds the love, warmth and hope that he needs.
This is a touching story of a family torn apart by war but brought together through the powerful simplicity of Anzac biscuits.
ANZAC Biscuits delicately entwines the desolation of life on the frontline of war with the tenderness of life on the home front.
About the Author
Phil Cummings is the youngest of eight children and grew up in Port Broughton, South Australia. Life as a kid was full of fabulous adventures and the many stories in his Danny Allen series draw from his experiences growing up on a farm. David Cox is an award-winning author and illustrator. He grew up in outback Queensland but went England to study art at St Martins School of Art. After eight years in the UK and Europe, David returned to Australia and worked in both publishing and the newspaper industry. In 1978, he was awarded the Walkley Award for newspaper illustration. He now works as a full-time illustrator and writer and lives in Brisbane.
For Ages: 5 - 7 years old
For Grades: 2 - 4
Number Of Pages: 32
Published: 1st March 2013
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
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One Direction have revealed that they'll be going grungier on their next album - something we cannot wait to see or hear.
The lads explained that they've been inspired so much by Ed Sheeran that they want their next offering to be more guitar heavy.
Louis Tomlinson explained: "We want to take the next album into a different zone - more guitars and grungier.
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"We like the sound of a real guitar on tour, we beefed up the live show so now we want to take it onto the album."
One Direction want to be 'grungier' on their new album / WENNOoh, we do hope this means that Harry, Niall, Louis, Liam and Zayn will be donning black outfits and going all moody for the album cover. We're imagining serious smouldering stares and we like it. A lot.
The boys went on to reveal that they're seriously impressed by Ed Sheeran. Aren't we all?
One Direction have been influenced by Ed Sheeran / WENNLiam Payne said: ""Ed is such a talented guy. We spoke to him about helping again for the next album which we want to actually write with him this time.
"He gave us almost a whole album of songs to choose from last time; there were so many of his songs that we wanted to record."
Hmm, collaboration time boys? *Hopeful face*
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Deputies are looking for a man in his early twenties after an armed robbery Tuesday night in Newhall.
The manager of Papa John's Pizza at 23120 Lyons Avenue was held up about 10:20 p.m. by a suspect described as a male white, 20-25 years old, wearing a gray hoodie and brandishing a black handgun.
The suspect took a bank bag with the Bank of America logo on it that contained the store's cash and fled in an unknown direction.
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Y'all don't like them...
y'all don't like black people down grading each other.
LAWD! I finally caught one hahaha.
Jenn is right, we have to do better as a people and buy those babywipes when someone has them for sell.
In love with blue x 2
Pfft, I have my own problems.
I don't know, I don't feel like anybody got bashed today.
I do dislike Jenn for playing that poor girl like the McDonald's subliminal message commercial, though.
But she ran straight to crazy town. Who wants to bet there was a dude involved in the throat cutting incident?
Pawning baby wipes =/= girl fights gone wrong
Y'all don't like pity parties.
Me + DH = James 11/10/10 and Aubrey 03/27/13
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Liv (11/12/2010) & DJ (08/27/2012)
I hate Jenn
In love with blue x 2
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Thanks for your replies so far... The motor is a 4 speed 250cc. I've been told that all the motors of that era had the same bottom end. There was a 175cc like the Campera that was mentioned and there was a 200cc as well. Pretty much change out the cylinder and you got the other sizes. Interchangeable parts, what a great idea!!
So it looks like I've solved one of my problems, the fork that comes off the shifter appears to have been bent about 1/8 inch and wasn't coming in contact with the "fingers" on the gear selector plate.
That leaves 2 more problems:
1. It is really hard to make it shift. I seem to be able to get it in all the gears, but I really have to fiddle with the shift lever to make it work. Sometimes it drops right in, but most of the time I have to move it back and forth before it will go to the next gear. I think there is a combination of things causing this, but it's kind of hard to pin-point what's really going on because to get everything in place so it will shift, you have to close it all up and you can't look inside to see what's going on. The slots in the gear shifter place are a bit worn and the pin that rides in the slot is worn as well, so I'm guessing things could hang up there. Also the shifting forks ends and the grooves they ride in are pretty worn as well, causing things to be a bit sticky.
2. The shafts are really hard to turn around. I have replaced all the bearings and it is well oiled, but when I stuck a drill on one end of the shaft to spin it around, it took a great deal of torque to get it to move.
BTW- I do have pictures of the inside, and was going to post them tonight, but left the camera in the workshop so can't get it till tomorrow.
I have some spare parts so will look through them to see if I can find some parts that are not as well worn to see if that will help with the shifting, but not sure what to do with the "binding" of the shafts.
To make this post a little more interesting here are some pictures of the project.
For some reason I didn't shoot any before shots of the bike I am currently working on, but here are some pictures of my other bike I plan to build later. The current bike was in similar shape:
This is what I hope the finished bike will look like...
Life is short, live and enjoy it !!!
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A quick vid, with tongue planted firmly in cheek!
A quick vid, with tongue planted firmly in cheek!
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Many more updates to follow as the backend logistics come together to bring our US based clients our wines! That is all for now
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Oh…that 2014. I'll let the pictures do the talking. Suffice to say, largest production we have had to date, excellent quality (check back in after 20 years or so) and, well, we're damned proud of them. Here are a few photos:
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2am. Going on 3am. Can't sleep. The 2012s are now all in bottle, packaged up and ready to be sent out the door. As we are currently in transition to another US importer (Adventures in Wine, California – over 25 years in the business of importing/shipments and logistics with a sterling reputation) are labels are currently being submitted for label approval in the US. For those keeping track, this is the fourth time we will have them pass (each importer change requires new submission).
Something has to be said about Amedeo/Wineflite. I will follow up tomorrow with an update. Suffice to say for the moment that we are looking into their inventory to get to the bottom of the…discrepancies. We appreciate your patience while we handle this matter internally. Information will be shared with you all as it is made available to us.
Those in the U.S. will need to wait an additional amount of time for this process which typically takes 30 days. Everyone else will have their 2012s made available for shipping starting this Monday, March 23rd! Excellent news. But I have more news. The 2013s will be bottled shortly. We will of course bring you updates as they are made available. However, you can count on a Summer 2015 ready date!
I will have full tasting notes on these wines within the next few….kidding, kidding. I won't ever have those. I like the wines, I'm biased, I hope you like them as well.
2014s are moving through malo. More info on these in a few months…or so. For those interested, Echezeaux is just like I imagined it would be. Two barrels. Not bad….
Thank you again for all of your support!
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Hello again everyone,
last night I wrote a quarterly update on many aspects of Maison Ilan. I needed to be quite precise in what went into this update as several of these details have not been addressed before in this level of detail. More than a handful of the topics I wrote about including the limitations we had regarding space have a substantial impact on how we work, as well as the timing of it all. It may seem like a small thing, but there are certainly frustrations to be had by everyone when you wish to perform certain winery aspects and are slowed by trivial things such as snow and -3°C weather.
Now, there is quite a larger subject that I touched on last night, without actually going fully in-depth, delays/failures shipments, inefficiencies of concept, lack of execution, and outright failure to meet our own expectations. Here is the deal, as the guy at the wheel, every aspect of the business was set up by me. Everything from our fruit sources, type of paper on labels, color and shade as well as weight of the bottles, corks, their quality level and markings/(lack of) treatments, vendors, and everything else that Maison Ilan is has been put together by way of my own intuition, research, assumptions, best guesses, experience, inexperience, and luck (whether classed as dumb or otherwise). With this understood, in my eyes, I have to take responsibility when things don't line up. While I do this willingly and knowing that it can put me into a space that places the full weight of any shortcomings on my shoulders, I do it because I need to be 100% in it to feel like I am making the most out of this experience. However, shipping delays, decisions on elevage and a sub-standard level of communication is just that – and nothing more that is being intentionally falsely reported with the intention of damaging my family and reputation as a means of sport and entertainment. There have been far too many occasions where shedding the light on aspects of a particular issue would have taken pressure off of me, but I stayed silent, believing that sharing this information would only lead to others viewing it as a lack of taking responsibility. Along with this, I understand that a competent business can make mistakes. My deciding to work with anyone is an endorsement of my faith in them being what I believe to be a great addition to our work. I don't believe in throwing another business under the bus in order to take heat off of myself but there have been numerous times that this has indeed been taken advantage of in certain corners where all is permissible and worthy of attention, excluding logic and fairness.
Unfortunately, this willingness to take on this level of responsibility has left me open to taking on what I believe to be (dis)credit in arenas that are outside of my role as the co-owner (etc.) of Maison Ilan. I'm actually of two minds about this because Maison Ilan is my experience, my baby, my winery, my work. The direct to client consumer concept that I created was one that at its base was supposed to ensure a better experience for the client, through lower direct prices, a direct relationship between the winery and the consumer and doing away with what I believed to be unnecessary tiers. I couldn't understand why no one else that I knew of was doing this sort of concept – so I figured I figure it out myself. Besides, if I was simplifying things, just how difficult could it be?
As it turns out, much of the concept was executed well. However, there were quite a few situations that worked against things going as smoothly as I imagined them to. The first detail which created snags was giving estimates based upon the details which I controlled and adding in the estimated delivery times I was given for vendors for things such as capsules, labels and corks. I never should have done this. I looked at my sharing estimates as just that, sharing an estimate. It turns out to be much more than this when you are pre-selling your wines quite early, and doing all that you can to figure out the logistics of starting a small business in a foreign country, in a field that you have just four months of trainee-level experience in, as your sole employee, working with vendors that you have vetted while asking them to go beyond the level of detail they typically work within, while attempting to deliver your wines in a manner that seems incredibly logical – but has not been tested by your peers. Unfortunately these estimates were not something that should have been shared as too much depended on details that couldn't be rushed or placed onto a timeline.
Adding to this, I made several decisions regarding the 2011s that to many was worthy of an unbelievable (and baseless) level of skepticism and innuendo that truly reached into unprecedented levels of…behavior. But here is the thing, it was my decision alone to ask professional critics to visit and taste but to not share their experiences with the public due to my growing issue of having too much of a taster's experience potentially colored before they had a chance to view, smell and taste the wine themselves. This decision was also influenced by one prominent critic on more than one occasion suggesting that the final ratings on my wines should have a cap as he felt as though I had not struggled enough (by having lesser classified vineyards or difficult vintages) to have my wines receive ratings beyond a specific numerical level. In this same year, I decided that I should bottle my own wines after growing increasingly frustrated watching a bottling company handle my wines and a worry that handling my bottles after handling cigarettes while on break could influence my bottles. (I know.) This lead to my feeling a larger sense of control in when I would bottle. Previously, it was more of a matter of falling in line with what my peers were generally doing in regard to their timing and when the bottling company could fit us in. That never sat well with me and I saw the opportunity to explore what I began to view as a larger part of the process, length of time in barrel, the elevage.
My mistake here wasn't in keeping the wines in barrel for a longer period of time, it was in my communication, both in not conveying a sudden change in what I had done in previous vintages as well as my increasing activity on social media. It was a mistake to think that as the wine producer that I had control over the sold out wines in my own cave and that full confidence and patience was given to me and that any adjustment in timing forecasts would be understood by those waiting to receive their wines…especially by those that were not clients, but vocal onlookers. Instead of speaking about my plans on how they had changed I focused on their evolution, leaving my satisfactory findings to myself as I waited for the moment to bottle presented itself. If I had it all to do over again I would have better communicated how excited I was with the 2011 wine developments while steering clear of social media updates revolving around subjects that really were of no consequence that only served to work against the legitimacy of my efforts.
If it could have ended there, it would have already been an ordeal. However, the delays dragged on further as I wished to have my timing as best as I could. After waiting such a long time for the wines to develop and seeing such progress, I didn't want to blow it at the end by rushing the final steps. After having our third vintage picked up from our winery in Nuits-Saint-Georges we encountered yet another series of disappointing scenarios involving misfires on shipping addresses, labels either being damaged or completely removed from the bottle, capsules removed from the bottle, unsatisfactory communication between myself and clients, unsatisfactory communication between shippers and clients, and quite worryingly a sharp disconnect between Maison Ilan and the shippers of our wines.
We are already implementing changes to these shortcomings and are working diligently to find more information on recent developments regarding the shipper of our wines. Among the concerns are discrepancies between the stated inventory and the dramatic differences of how the status of this inventory has been relayed to Maison Ilan and to our clients. Please understand that I am working on this a great deal and will have updates as soon as the information is made available to us. This is the third vintage that we have produced and shipped out to the US, and quite frankly each of these three shipping seasons have proved to be well below the level that they need to be at, and will assuredly reach. For all U.S. clients that are awaiting wines from Amedeo, remaining inventory has been said to be shipping. If you encounter anything other than this, please contact me directly via email or through my personal cell phone that has been listed on all of my websites for the past six years. We understand that many of our clients have certain expectations relating to what they feel constitutes a standard turnaround time for responses to emails. We apologize if we cannot meet a 24-48 hour response time that many have suggested to be standard for other businesses. We respond to emails as quickly as we can. Effective immediately, we are changing course from working with entities such as Amedeo beyond the wines which have already been sent to them. We are finalising details on a more mainstream approach to fulfilling direct client orders and will have news to everyone the moment we can share it with you all. Rest assured, we are moving forward. The evidence will be in our actions, not in forecasts.
Throughout this time, I have been working hard to take a look at the way that we do things and who we entrust responsibilities involving our wines to. In the end it doesn't matter how capable another entity appears to be at handling something as precious as our wines are. The improvement starts with us, how we do things, being proactive and above all delivering more than what is expected of us. We believe a key detail in our achieving this is to continue to make immediate changes in our business practices on the customer service side of things.
We appreciate everyone that has supported us through the hurdles we have faced in venturing into the uncharted waters of our direct to client model and to those that have been mindful and patient when considering the work we are doing at Maison Ilan. This isn't a concept winery, something we are just trying out. We have made a home here in Burgundy while consistently strengthening our roots here. Any and all hurdles will continue to serve as a basis for our improvement and development.
Thank you again everyone!
Ray and Christian Walker
Sole Proprietors, Maison ILAN
Bourgogne, France
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With harvest just around the corner, there have been a few things to put into perspective. How do you deeply reflect on your experiences with just two vintages under your belt? The reality of it all is that each vintage is different
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