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Group ends ballot challenge to slots at horse tracks: LetOhioVote no longer will fight Strickland's plan
Jun 28, 2010 (The Columbus Dispatch - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A trio of social conservatives announced today that they are dropping their ballot challenge to Gov. Ted Strickland's plan for slot machines at horse-racing tracks.
LetOhioVote.org informed Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's office today that it will not pursue a November ballot measure that would decide the fate of Strickland's 2009 proposal for 2,500 video slot machines at each of the state's seven racetracks.
Last winter, LetOhioVote.org -- led by conservative activists David Hansen, Gene Pierce and Tom Brinkman Jr. -- gathered 321,389 valid signatures to force Strickland's plan to the ballot. The group spent $1.55 million on its petition effort, all of it coming from a shadowy organization in suburban Washington called New Models.
New Models has not disclosed its funding source.
In a statement today announcing its withdrawal of the ballot measure, LetOhioVote.org cited the passage last November of a constitutional amendment authorizing casinos in the state's major cities. The group also noted Strickland's public statements that he will seek court approval to proceed with plans for slot machines at the racetracks.
Brinkman said LetOhiovote.org succeeded in getting the Ohio Supreme Court to rule that Strickland's slots-at-racetracks plan was subject to a public referendum. Strickland had contended that it was part of the state budget and therefore immune to a ballot challenge.
"With our primary goals accomplished, it seems imprudent to proceed with a campaign that can be easily rendered moot by a court decision or new legislation authorizing (video slot machines)," Brinkman said in his statement.
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The NFL took quick action Friday following Atlanta Falcon quarterback Michael Vick's admission that he played a role in operating a dogfighting ring. The league suspended Vick indefinitely without pay.
Vick acknowledged killing poorly performing pit bulls and supplying money for gambling and the oversight of an interstate dogfighting operation based out of his Virginia property, according to court documents filed this afternoon in federal court in Richmond, Va.
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback, 27, pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to travel across state lines for the purpose of dogfighting. The charge carries a punishment of up to five years in prison, $250,000 in fines and three years of supervised release, according to the plea agreement.
In a letter responding to Vick's court statements, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote:
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Vick agreed that a property he'd purchased on Moonlight Road in Smithfield, Va., for $34,000 in 2001 became the headquarters for Bad News Kennels, according to a summary of facts in court documents obtained by ABC News.
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Freeze Fund shows power of working together
For five nights in January 2007, a brutal freeze gripped Ventura County. The cold withered more than $280 million in strawberry, avocado and citrus crops.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared Ventura County a disaster area. Yet, this was no classic disaster. No lives were lost, no structures collapsed and no TV satellite trucks convoyed in to report on the destruction.
But a disaster it was — a disaster of income, as one aid worker put it. With no crops to pick, more than 10,000 farm laborers were frozen out of their livelihood. Without wages, their families — already on the economic edge — faced shortages of food and necessities, such as medical care, as well as the real possibility of eviction.
It was a human crisis, yes, but also an economic disaster for one of our county's major industries. The growers feared if the pickers left the area looking for other work, they might never return. And there would be too few hands for the harvest when the crops did recover.
It was then one of Ventura County's most remarkable coalitions formed. Known as the Farmworker Freeze Fund, it teamed growers with nonprofits to provide the aid to keep the agricultural work force here.
More than 20 nonprofits signed on to this unprecedented cooperative effort.
"They parked their own organizations' agendas at the door and asked: 'What will it take to get the job done?'" said Hugh Ralston, president and chief executive officer of the Ventura County Community Foundation.
These charities saw their caseload increase tenfold, but their employees asked for no extra pay. Other nonprofits that received no grant money donated countless hours and critical expertise to the effort. A relief fund that started with $40,000 in seed money from the United Way of Ventura County and the Ventura County Community Foundation would raise and distribute more than $763,000. It would attract grants from major philanthropic foundations as well as $5 checks from private citizens.
To Ralston, this ability to attract three-quarters-of-a-million dollars showed that the nonprofit sector had matured in its civic leadership role. "If this had happened 10 years earlier, we would have raised $50,000 and that would have been significant. But local nonprofits now have the expertise and reputation needed to attract grants from major foundations," he said.
When it was all over, almost 13,600 households were fed; 1,600 farmworkers and their families received rental assistance.
Although 18 California counties were designated as disaster areas because of the freeze, Ventura County was the only one to create such a fund. It was honored by the California Emergency Services Association for extraordinary and innovative measures to secure private funding.
Twenty years from now, predicts David M. Smith, president and chief executive officer of the United Way of Ventura County, people will talk about the Freeze Fund.
"They will look back and say the nonprofits made a difference in time of crisis," he said.
Beyond that, he said, it strengthened the resolve of charities to unite in tackling community problems, such as the jobs and housing crises we now face as this recession wears on. "It changed the strength and fabric of the nonprofit community. We did it then and we can do it now," Smith said.
Here, as it unfolded, is the inspiring and largely untold story of the Farmworker Freeze Fund.
Jan. 12 to Jan. 16, 2007
An arctic air mass stalls over California, leaving behind catastrophic crop damage. The freeze is the state's worst since 1947.
As Rex Laird walks through a devastated avocado grove, he hears the eerie thud of fruit falling from branches and the rattle of dry leaves.
"The cruel irony is that it was cold that did the damage, not fire, but the leaves looked like they were torched," said Laird, then chief executive officer of the Ventura County Farm Bureau.
Jan. 16
Gov. Schwarzenegger declares a state of emergency in all California counties due to the "extreme peril to people and property because of the bitter cold." Eventually, 18 counties will be designated primary natural- disaster areas.
Jan. 17
Calling the crop losses "staggering and devastating," Sen. Dianne Feinstein urges the U.S. Department of Agriculture to expedite assistance for California farmers.
Ventura County suffers the second-highest crop damage in the state at $280.9 million, according to figures compiled by the Rosenberg Foundation. Statewide, the losses exceed $1 billion.
Earl McPhail tells The Star an estimated 70 percent of the season's crops are ruined. McPhail, then the county's agricultural commissioner, compares the destruction to a tornado where some blocks are leveled and others are spared.
Jan. 20
Already half of the county's estimated 25,000 farmworkers are believed to be out of work. Agricultural experts predict it will be five weeks before there would be any crops to pick.
John Weisz is among the first to sound the alarm about the possible loss of this essential work force to Ventura County's $1 billion agricultural industry. With no work, these laborers might leave the area and never return, even after the crops recover. "If they go, we are in real trouble," said Weisz, executive vice president of berry farmer Reiter Affiliated Cos.
Help arrives from Sacramento. The Human Services Agency opens eight centers around the county to aid laid-off farm laborers. State one-stop centers are set up in Oxnard and Santa Paula to take claims for unemployment insurance.
Traditional governmental-aid programs prove to be a poor fit for this crisis. Unemployment or underemployment benefits may not cover many berry pickers who are paid per box, not per hour. Undocumented workers are not eligible for unemployment benefits, although they qualify for some social services, such as referrals to food banks.
The Star reports 10 workers being turned away without referrals of any sort. Three said they were sent to another agency that gave them follow-up appointments in mid-June.
Within days of the freeze, state aid employees hand-carry a check for $22,000 to FOOD Share. "The state was very responsive," said Anne Soble, then interim chief executive officer and president of FOOD Share, the county's largest food bank.
FOOD Share drops food boxes at the one-stop centers and asks they distribute them to unemployed farm laborers with or without documentation.
McPhail predicts that within a month everybody will forget the freeze, but warns: "We can't throw this on the back burner and move on to other issues."
Jan. 23.
Rob Roy, president of the Ventura County Agricultural Association, sets Jan. 31 as the date for a freeze-disaster summit, inviting politicians, representatives of state regulatory and emergency agencies and nonprofits to bring their knowledge and skills to bear on the problem.
"People don't realize how important the farm worker is to this sector of the local economy," Roy said. "Here in Ventura County we deal with labor-intensive crops that take skilled hands to pick. You are not going to replace that with mechanization."
Jan. 26
Assemblyman Pedro Nava asks the governor to call a special session of the Legislature to act on the crisis.
Jan. 31
Roy feels like Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams" after more than 100 people pack a conference room at an Oxnard motel seeking solutions to the farmworker crisis. Elected officials, staff from the offices of Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, representatives from the United Farm Workers and a host of advocacy and nonprofit organizations attend.
The turnout is good but the news is not. An estimated 10,000 to 15,000 workers and 20,000 to 30,000 of their families are in peril of eviction and hunger due to unemployment from the freeze. Those who are still employed see their hours cut back.
"These were people in need and instrumental to the economy of our agricultural industry. "We had to raise money. Money was going to be our way out of it. And we needed it now," Roy said.
Smith of the United Way of Ventura County steps up, promising $20,000 in immediate relief. Tina Knight, vice president of the Ventura County Community Foundation, matches that sum. The Farmworker Freeze Fund is established.
Nonprofit leaders huddle and agree to form the Freeze Advisory Committee. They set its first meeting for the next day. Knight of VCCF and Susan Englund, vice president of Community Impact for United Way, collaborate on a simplified grant application form.
It is designed to avoid the red tape of formal grant applications.
That same day, Ralston of VCCF approaches the Irvine Foundation, which has expressed interest in partnering with community foundations to address the unfolding crisis.
Feb. 1
Thirty representatives of area nonprofits gather for the meeting called by VCCF, United Way and Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy. They were about to see cooperation and decision-making made with speed and selflessness.
"From the beginning, this was not going to be business as usual. There was a collaborative mind-set. Identify the need. Close the gap. That simple," said Englund of United Way.
Based on group's understanding of farmworker needs, they decide 70 percent of the $40,000 will go to rental and utility assistance; 30 percent for food and basic needs, such as diapers and baby formula.
Since the strawberry crop is hardest hit, they determine 50 percent of the aid will go to Oxnard, where the bulk of the strawberries is raised, 40 percent to the Santa Clara Valley, and 10 percent to Moorpark, which are heavier in citrus and avocados.
Knight and Englund give those in attendance a choice: Distribute the money through a formal grant process — which could take up to a month — or use the simplified form and begin handing out the money within the week.
All agree the emergency requires swift action. Then they look around the table for the nonprofits with the most expertise in the casework necessary to handle rental assistance in the hard-hit areas. St. John's Health Ministries, Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Services are tapped.
Taking the grants will test these organizations because all agree that staff time will be donated to the fund. "Some of these nonprofits had four people on staff and their work would increase tenfold," observed Knight of VCCF.
"The beauty is they worked without red tape," said Laura Hernandez, assistant director of the Sheriffs Office for Emergency Services. "You won't find that when you apply for FEMA assistance."
Before the day is out, they distribute the entire $40,000 — down to the last half dollar.
Feb. 6.
The Bay Area-based Rosenberg Foundation issues a report for statewide funders, predicting because of the severity of the crop loss, public benefits will not be sufficient to cover the needs of many thousands of farmworkers and their families over the projected long period of unemployment.
The foundation recommends partnering with VCCF, citing the Freeze Fund as a proactive partner, as one way to address the crisis.
Feb. 8
Todd Goehner sets up his desk in a back room of the Santa Clara Job and Career Center in Santa Paula, with $11,400 from the Freeze Fund to hand out for rental assistance. He saw two or three people that day. "In the beginning, it was a slow trickle. The farmworkers thought this was a ruse, and INS was going to be there to arrest them," said Goehner, then with Lutheran Social Services.
Feb. 9
Ralston of VCCF reports to his board the Irvine Foundation has invited the Freeze Fund to apply for a grant. "I think the United Way and the Community Foundation have done themselves proud for stepping up together in a leadership role in the midst of crisis," Ralston told his board.
Feb. 10
More than 700 farmworkers receive aid at Haycox Elementary School in Oxnard. A semi-trailer truck packed with food drives onto the playground; volunteers offload pallets of food. Tzu Chi Foundation USA, a Buddhist charity from the San Gabriel Valley, hands out blankets, candy and $20,000 in diapers.
Promotores from the Mixteco Indigena Organizing Committee alert the community as to where and how to get help. Mixtecos speak an Indian dialect with no written language, so word of mouth travels fast among the 20,000 Mixtecos living in Ventura County. Almost half of them work the fields.
Of the day, Susan Haverland of the Mixteco Indigena Organizing Committee said: "It was a wonderful undertaking. Everyone helped."
Feb. 20
The advisory board holds its second meeting and has more grants to distribute, thanks to $20,000 from the Southern California Gas Co.
Port Hueneme is harder hit than originally thought so more resources are directed there. A block-long line formed when Catholic Charities arrived to distribute rent vouchers, Pat Esseff of Catholic Charities told the committee. "We took action and made decisions at the end of every meeting. We never left and said, 'next time we will deal with this,'" recalls Sobel of FOOD Share.
Only eight organizations had received grants, but representatives of 15 to 20 continue to attend the advisory board's biweekly meetings.
Feb. 22
It rained and people started pouring in to see Goehner of Lutheran Social Services in his little office in Santa Paula.
Most workers explain to him they are surviving on borrowed money or savings but fear they will miss their next rent payment.
All who show a pay stub are eligible for one-time rental assistance from the Freeze Fund. The checks then are written directly to the landlords. To ensure no one receives duplicate aid, all agencies charged with processing rental-assistance checks create a shared database borrowed from a system already developed by the Ventura County Homeless Coalition. Before the worst is over, Catholic Charities alone will cut 500 checks for rental assistance.
Feb. 26
First major grant is won. Irvine Foundation approves the full $75,000 requested.
March 2
The fund has distributed $66,400.
March 9
The money starts rolling in. The California Endowment awards the fund two grants of $139,379 and $123,513. The Weingart Foundation contributes $75,000 to the fund. The Rosenberg Foundation sends $30,000.
March 10
The Star reports the relief effort is bearing fruit and helping farmworkers over the worst.
March 13
President George W. Bush issues a federal disaster declaration 60 days after the freeze.
"The nonprofits were so far ahead of the government, they had to run to catch up," said Laird of the Farm Bureau.
March 15
The California Community Foundation awards the fund $10,000.
March 19
The California Wellness Foundation awards the Fund $65,000.
March 26
The Advisory Committee approves almost $140,800 in grants. "We are constantly assessing to make sure there is no duplication of effort," said Knight of VCCF.
Procedures are streamlined. Instead of bulky boxes of food, the idea emerges to give out grocery gift cards so the families can buy the foods they want. That same day, workers begin to report finding jobs beyond just three or four hours a day.
April 9
The Star announces the fund has given out $330,000. With the strawberry harvest picking up, the focus of the relief effort shifts from the Oxnard Plain to the Santa Clara River Valley, where the citrus and avocado are months away from full recovery.
April 10
Reiter Affiliated issues a $50,000 challenge to other growers.
April 24
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund awards $25,000 to the Freeze Fund.
May 9
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation awards $50,000 to the Freeze Fund.
June 18
As the berry and row crops pickers return to work, workers in avocados and citrus are still out of work and still face harsh economic challenges. In some cases, the freeze destroyed the trees. Replanting means still longer lag time before the next harvest.
Throughout the summer
The need for food and rental assistance remains acute in the Santa Clara Valley, recalled Esseff of Catholic Charities. She finds herself on some days in the position of having more people in need than money available. "It was way more work than anybody ever thought at the beginning. But there was never an erosion of willingness to respond," Esseff said.
Sept. 20
That response does not go unnoticed. The Freeze Fund receives the Gold Award for Private Sector by the California Emergency Services Association for extraordinary and innovative measures to secure private donations and quickly directing these funds to help the unemployed workers not covered by governmental assistance.
Hernandez of the Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services, who nominated the fund, summed it up this way: "It was a need nobody else was addressing and their mission was to make sure people feed their families, paid their rent and stayed here and continued to work."
Nov. 15
There is just $10,000 left in the fund, with $752,350 in grants already awarded.
March 2008
Goehner gives out his last dollars of the Freeze Fund.
Strawberries went on to have a banner year in 2007. The freeze hardened the plants and they came back stronger, Laird observed.
In all, 53,700 people received food and 1,600 farmworkers were given rental assistance. Nonprofits donated 1,200 hours to the effort. "The freeze crisis was not unique to Ventura County, but I like to think the way we handled it is," Laird said.
— Colleen Cason writes a weekly column for The Star and works as a consulting writer for the Ventura County Community Foundation.
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This looks like a brand new part to replace the OEM stator. It is only $125!
I would assume the F650GS stator is the same as the F800GS?
I also found this site:
It looks like they repair stators...
So the brand new stator that is after market is $125 and to repair a stator it is $150... hmmm... Do you think there is anything special about the OEM stator compared to a replacement?
It looks to me that the F650GS they are talking about on the first site is the older single. They also list one for the F800ST and my parts guide says that SHOULD be the same part.
Theres nothing special about the OEM stator, other then on at least some of the older bikes, the insulation is not that good.
Everything advertised for motorcycles is always more expensive. Sans warranty, i'd look for a shop that rebuilds in house.
It is laughable how easy it is to make a stator. 1: put a new nomex or fiberglass sleeve on each pole piece. 2: get varnished or glassed wire of appropriate size (14 gauge perhaps? easy to tell once your looking at it), wind it around each pole piece with the same number of turns as original and follow the pattern of the original. 3: Protect the terminations with glass tape.
4: dip the completed assembly in varnish or glass (glass is better). Bake it at the temperature the varnish or glass manufacture recommends. DONE
If you want serious reliability meg / hot test, dip it again and bake it again if your really hard core. DONE
The style of stator on the F800GS is the easiest to rewind in the world. If I had facilities like I did when I was an industrial electrician, it would take me 10 bucks in supplies and 15 minutes of labor to rewind it and use far higher temperature insulation then BMW did.
You should still be well within warranty Ender, but if you weren't, I would find someone that still practices the dying art of repair, rather then replacement.
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Cabinet on Wednesday congratulated the engineers of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the successful launch of the Chandrayan-I, India's maiden moon mission. Noting that this was a historic day, Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan told the media after the Cabinet meeting that the country's achievements in space exploration and research were a matter of pride and happiness to the people of the country. "We congratulate the scientists who worked day and night for the success of the mission," he said.
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So…C'mon LeBron?
So much for the grand seduction.
That's it? That's the best slogan the world's greatest city can manage? C'mon? "C'mon" is what you say to your cat when you want it to scurry in off the fire escape. It's what you scream when a livery cab dangerously cuts you off on the FDR. It's what you howl after Mark Teixeira strikes out for the fifth time in one game.
It's not how you attract one of the world's greatest players to come save your home from basketball ignominy.
C'mon? Come on! The Ghost of Barry White ought to put on his velvet pajamas, come down and teach us a lesson about romance.
Did you see the "C'mon LeBron" public-service announcement? It appears Mayor Bloomberg whipped off his contribution on his way to a pancake breakfast. Standing outdoors at Gracie Mansion, he waves his arms and implores Mr. James to "write the next chapter in NYC basketball history."
Then there's a barrage of hokey city-life footage (Grand Central! Times Square!) that looks lifted from an Internet ad you might find on a discount hotel website.
Yikes. Not to get carried away, but this is supposed to be a global mecca of creativity, a place that gave birth to Henry James and the Notorious B.I.G. We're not saying our PSAs have to be directed by Martin Scorsese or Matthew Barney—although we really would love to see the freaky Mr. Barney do a "C'mon LeBron" commercial—but is this our finest effort? Dazzling Mr. James with footage of people lounging on the Lincoln Center fountain? Who do they think LeBron is, a 78-year-old subscriber to the Met?
Now we know there are some people who think these campaigns are corny and try-too-hard, and not the New York City way. For generations, New York has sold itself like a luxury automobile or a windowless nightclub without a sign. We're the best place on the planet. If you have to ask, you can't come.
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Our pick to save "C'mon LeBron" is the New York radio icon Ed Lover. Best known as the co-host of the legendary "Yo! MTV Raps," Mr. Lover has lately become a viral web sensation with "C'mon Son," a series of merciless and hilarious (and not the least bit safe for work) video rants in which he roasts wayward celebrities like Tiger Woods and flips up a handmade cardboard sign that reads, "C'mon Son."
In an interview Monday, Mr. Lover said he was struck by the similarity between "C'mon LeBron" and his catch phrase, but he was willing to add his clever genius to the campaign. "I would do what I did for 'C'mon son' for 'C'mon LeBron,' and make it funny," Mr. Lover said.
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|Interior Design/art - Museum Quality: R.d. And Joan Dale Hubbard Worked With Steve Chase Associates' Designers Sandi Van Vliet And Randy Patton To Integrate The Hubbards' Western Art Collection Into Livable Spaces. See The Remarkable Results In Mary E. Nichols Brilliant Photographs/ By Tina Rogie
|Fashion - In Search Of Hubert De Givenchy / By Ryan Prout
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|The Recently Retired Couturier Is No Longer Granting Interviews, As Our Intrepid Reporter Discovers. On The Other Hand, Here In The Desert, While Visiting His New Palm Springs Hotel And Spa, Mr. Givenchy Opens Up To Tina Rogie. Go Figure.
|More Art - The Artists' Powerful Lobby Efforts: Our Art Critic (the Former Director Of The Palm Springs Desert Museum) Roams The Lobbies Of Our Desert Hotels On The Lookout For The Hidden Treasures. What He Has Turned Up May Surprise You/ By Fritz Frauchiger
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