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"We didn't want to see another team leave Central Kentucky," Horsemen General Manager Bryan Boehm said. "How to make this more of a community-based team was our biggest focus."
While baseball's Lexington Legends of the South Atlantic League have been successful since they started in 2001, two teams were not.
The Kentucky Thoroughblades of the American Hockey League moved to Cleveland and now play in Worcester, Mass. The Lexington Men O' War of the East Coast Hockey League disbanded.
A couple of minor-league baseball teams, in Memphis and Michigan, are using the community-based ownership model. The NFL Green Bay Packers have for-profit and not-for-profit entities as part of their local ownership.
The decision to donate assets and transfer the team to the foundation were major steps for the Houses, Boehm said.
"We're going to survive this first year," Harmon said. "It depends on how well we'll survive. If we get by the first year cash-flow wise, and if attendance gets up to the 5,000 range, I think we'll be all right."
Af2 President Jerry Kurz supported the Horsemen's decision.
"It ensures us that one of our valuable league members will continue to call Lexington its home," Kurz said in a statement. "We believe in the expanded philanthropic and community efforts the foundation is committed to."
King Dollar's crown grew a bit lighter Tuesday after Donald Trump said in an interview with the the Wall Street Journal that he thought the greenback was too pricey.
Currency traders took this as a cue that the President would take concrete steps to reduce the value of the dollar, and sent the Dollar Index down 0.70% as of mid-day on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, across the pond: Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci told an audience at Davos that he thought the U.S. economy could shrug off the effects of a strong dollar, and that the focus of the administration should be on infrastructure spending and tax and regulatory reform that would result in "robust growth."
Scaramucci's remarks are more closely in tune with markets than Trump's comments. The U.S. dollar has surged against other major currencies since election day. That trend that will work against Trump's goals of shrinking the U.S. trade deficit and revitalizing the manufacturing job market stateside, as a stronger dollar makes it more expensive for foreigners to afford U.S. goods.
How markets will handle the mixed messages: Currency traders jumped on Trump's comments to the Journal as evidence that he would make it a priority to intervene in currency markets and force the dollar down. But there's no avoiding the fact that other Trump promises, like tax cuts and infrastructure spending, will make the dollar more attractive in the long run.
Bottom line: Despite today's market moves, the dollar remains more than 2.5% more expensive than it was on election day. Economic fundamentals say that a stronger dollar is the safe bet, and it will maintain its strength until the administration unveils specific policies to reverse the trend.
At a time when society in general has reason to be disappointed with those who go as leaders among them, one is struck by the avalanche of tributes that continues to flow on the demise of one of Sri Lanka’s most remarkable sons – Ray Wijewardene. I heard of him when a friend of mine bought his house near the Town Hall in the early 1970s – that I visited several times thereafter. To learn of a fellow countryman piloting a plane – the construction of much of his – by his own hands was something that caused a flow of adrenaline in my own nationalistic genes at a time I was beginning to travel the world in the quest of my commercial career. Almost two decades later , I gained proximity to him. I was in the Board of Directors of a State body - graced by his presence and strengthened for a long time through his enormous knowledge and experience. I knew my place in that Board as a green-horn and chose to remain as one settling more to listen and learn. When the few occasions that came by when my own views were sought in matters of commerce, world trade and so on I expressed mine. He watched me on occasions would engage in courteous conversation with me. I saw a man of much learning, social charm, culture and breeding (if I may) and virtually giving the word versatility a new face. He could talk of many things with a degree of above-average knowledge but did so without appearing to be condescending. He did not try to dominate the meetings and spoke only on occasion – and when he did, they remain akin to those cast in stone. Came a document for Board approval for an official to visit Europe at a cost of over half a million rupees (a huge sum 20 years ago).
Ray exploded, "Why and where is he going. If we approve this will we get a return on investment? He’s already 54. How much can he impart of what he learns and knows to his younger colleagues?" The would-be sponsor was baffled and was mumbling in retreat. Ray then came out with his knock-out blow assuring us he had studied the paper all too well "He went to ..in …costing… but there is little evidence we have benefited by that visit" said Ray – unruffled. That Board Paper was never presented again. In one stroke, the country was saved of un-necessary expenditure and other negatives in the process one need not elaborate upon. This, one gathers as you read from the press, is daily fare now. Many a times later I was left to wonder if we had more men like Ray the country would have seen its State institutions run efficiently, gross corruption and waste checked and the reputation of State bodies enhanced by the inclusion of able and learned men – an era since the preserve of square pegs in round holes.
The next occasion I ran onto him was in 2006 when one of his daughters – a talented lady of the arts of world recognition – presented to Colombo audiences an incredibly beautiful and moving art-photographic exhibition promoting peace and reconciliation. Its acceptance was heralded by the fact some of Colombo leading foreign banks and corporates enthusiastically came out as sponsors. As I heard other guests remark it was one of the most effective exercises in our effort to regain our lost tranquillity and equilibrium. I was fortunate to find myself enriched by the event largely because my daughter, then living in Mumbai, had come down to make her own contribution.
Cambridge, Harvard, Aeronautics, Agricultural engineering, flying, Olympic sailing, Varsity Don and chief, Inventor, Planter are merely a few of his enormous persona. Despite all of this, he remained a simple man moving with the high and low with equal charm and ease. Aldous Huxley will find fault with me "Is that all?" Or in the streets of New York – not unfamiliar territory to this much travelled man – one would hear in what would be quintessential young American "Man! Is he real?"
Goodbye, Ray, as you fly to that great beyond. You lived for us all – to make our lives better.
Jenni “JWoww” Farley is doing better these days since her parting with husband Roger Mathews, said pal Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi to People magazine.
There seems to be two factors at work with the new JWoww — her parting ways with Mathews and the progress she’s making with her son Greyson, who was diagnosed with autism.
Farley filed for divorce from Mathews Sept. 12 in state Superior Court in Toms River. Things got ugly when police were called to their Toms River home twice on Dec. 13 following an argument between the two. A temporary restraining order was placed against Mathews, who had to depart the home that night.
Later, Farley charged Mathews with domestic abuse, along with other transgressions, on her web site on Jan .30. She included text messages, court documents, videos and pictures related to her charges in the post. A video appeared to show Mathews throwing Farley down to the ground in a kitchen.
Farley and Mathews share 4-year-old daughter Meilani and 2-year-old son Greyson.
In the midst of the divorce, Farley recently joined of the board of directors for KultureCity, a Birmingham, Alabama-based group that seeks “to rethink accessibility to create a community of acceptance and inclusion for all individuals of unique abilities,” according to the group’s mission statement.
I am beyond excited to announce my recent partnership with @kulturecity. My long term mission is to make every airport, hospital and stadium sensory inclusive. There needs to be a place for anyone with ASD and sensory processing disorders to go and feel safe, as well as a place for parents to not feel judged when their child needs time to process their environment. My dream is to fly with Grey everywhere. He has a really hard time at airports but I pray that one day every airport will have a sensory room to help kids and adults like Greyson. I want him to feel safe, enjoy every experience, and know he always has a place to go if it’s too much for him to handle. I also want to give parents a chance to experience events like @ufc @mlb @wwe, and more. While I tackle this dream of mine, my short term mission is to spread the awareness of Kulture City and to make everyone aware of these amazing sensory bags. 💖 If I only knew of this bag sooner... Please go to Kulturecity.org to check out all their amazing work. Donate, purchase a bag, get a free #lifeboks lifeBOK... check out all their amazing resources.
Those “unique abilities” includes autism. The wife of former NFL football player Tiki Barber, Traci, told Farley about the group, People reported.
Farley is now raising awareness about autism.
Visit www.kulturecity.org for more information on KultureCity.
The following excerpt is from ‘The Washington Compromise‘ by the late Dr. Joseph Churba, University Press, 1995.
The Republican National Convention was held in Detroit on July 14-17, 1980. With Reagan’s candidacy assured, the only remaining question befell the choice of running mate. Henry Kissinger, hoping for another tenure as Secretary of State, pushed hard to put former President Gerald Ford on the ticket. Regan refused. The decision was made in favor of George Bush, whom we had battled hard in the primaries.
A Soviet Tu-22M Backfire-B bomber aircraft being escorted by an F-14A Tomcat jet fighter.
That was Reagan’s first big mistake. Reagan could have won the 1980 election just as decisively without Bush. The nagging fear among Reagan advisors, however, was about a repetition of the debacle of 1964, when large-scale defections by self-avowed Republican “liberals” insured the defeat of Barry Goldwater. Incredibly, in the negotiations over the vice-presidential nomination, Bush was secretly given the right to fill at least 18 of the key positions in the White House, including Chief of Staff. It was a misbegotten deal with the Republican “liberals” which, in time, would spell the ruin of Reagan’s policies and achievements. The Washington Compromise was alive and well!
My appraisal of George Bush as a man of doubtful honesty, weak character, and narrow vision had been shaped well before the primary battles of 1980: they went back to his tenure as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. As I mentioned earlier, I had often accompanied General George Keegan to meetings of the Board of National Estimates. There I witnessed first-hand the debate over the exclusion from the SALT treaty of the Soviet Air Force’s Backfire Bomber — an aircraft capable of delivering nuclear weapons over long distances. Incredibly, Bush argued the totally phony Soviet line that the Backfire was a tactical, not a strategic weapons. He thereby lied brazenly for political purpose to push the agreement through. A strategic weapons would fall under the SALT agreement, while a tactical weapon would not. Bush’s motive in defining the Backfire as tactical was to skew the SALT numbers making them look more favorable for the U.S. so as to minimize resistance to the SALT agreement in the Senate — even to the detriment of U.S. security. This was Kissinger’s game at the time, and George Bush his compliant lackey.
Searching my conscience, I mustered the qualified answer: “One would hope that he would.” That cause an uproar in campaign headquarters the next day. That was the last rally I was asked to address.
Unfortunately for the United States and many other parts of the world, I was fully vindicated in my early judgment of Bush by his performance as president after 1988.
Bush had no yardstick of values and principles to guide him; therefore he did not know how to exploit the unprecedented opportunities history presented to him. It was a tragedy that he was at the helm of the ship of state at the time of the most fateful event of the 20th Century: the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Bush’s inability to take advantage of the historic watershed toward the creation of a global order based on freedom and democratic ideals attest to his myopia, as did — on a smaller scale — his failure to bring down Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq following America’s resounding military victory.
Bush had generally been tabbed a “foreign policy expert” by the media because of his experience as ambassador to China and the UN, and as director of the CIA. This was utter onsense! Bush was living proof that a curriculum vitae does not an expert make. His true vocation was that of a manager of power — and a mediocre one at that.
Joseph Churba (1934-1996) was an advisor to the 1980 campaign of Ronald Reagan, former senior Middle East advisor to U.S. Air Force Intelligence, president of the International Security Council and editor of the organization’s quarterly journal, Global Affairs.
AMMONNEWS - African football will conduct a soul-searching session at a two-day symposium in Morocco after all five of the continent’s sides failed to get over the first hurdle at the World Cup.
Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria and Senegal were all eliminated in the group phase in Russia, leaving Africa without a representative in the knockout rounds for the first time since the 1982 finals in Spain.
Coaches and officials of the five countries will discuss the disappointing results at a debrief in Rabat organized by the Confederation of African Football and the Moroccan Football Federation on Sunday and Monday.
“It was a disappointment for the African teams and the African continent,” said former Nigeria international Emmanuel Amunike, who was part of FIFA’s technical study group analyzing the World Cup and will be at the symposium.
“A lot of people were expecting African teams to progress beyond what they have done previously, but unfortunately it didn’t materialize.
“The truth is that we all are aware that football has developed a lot and will continue to change, and we in Africa, if we don’t embrace the responsibility and see how we can develop our youth, will continue to live on dreams.
“I can tell you that there is a lot of raw talent but raw talent, without polishing them, will not give you a result,” he said.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said last week that Africa’s failure to get a team past the first round had been discussed by the game’s top officials and was a concern.
“You need a little luck to get past the first round at a tournament like the World Cup. Senegal, Morocco and Nigeria all played very good football. But this is a concern and we have been talking about it with the president of CAF and we will intervene,” he told reporters in Moscow.
Egypt were the first African country to play at a World Cup in 1934 and since 1970 there has been a consistent African presence at the tournament, rising to six teams in 2010 when South Africa hosted the finals.
But none have reached the final four and only three African sides have got as far as the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010.
Facebook knows how to get you to pay attention: Just put information at the top of your News Feed. From updates about engagements and births to this week’s voter megaphone, if it’s right in front of your face, you’re more likely to interact with it. So the social network is raising awareness about Ebola with the same strategy: A Donate button you’ll see as soon as you navigate to your News Feed.
UNICEF and Facebook are partnering on health messages.
Tapping that button will let you send money to three nonprofit organizations working to end Ebola in West Africa: the Red Cross, Save the Children, and International Medical Corps.
For Facebook users living in West African countries devastated by Ebola, the network is partnering with UNICEF to provide information about how to protect yourself from Ebola, how to spot symptoms, and where to get treatment. That information will appear as a message from UNICEF in the local language and will be optimized for feature phones.
That’s not all. Facebook is also donating 100 Broadband Global Area Network devices, small satellite terminals that will bring voice and data coverage to medical workers in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. NetHope, a coalition of NGOs working in the region, will figure out where to place the devices to bring telecommunications coverage to areas that need it most.
Fighting Ebola is a high priority for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who recently made a $25 million donation with his wife Priscilla to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation.
Why this matters: This isn’t the first time Facebook has rallied support for a cause by putting a Donate button at the top of your News Feed, but it’s also not a common occurrence. Facebook introduced its Donate button for nonprofits last year after a major effort to help the Red Cross fundraise in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Though Facebook users may not be able to match Zuckerberg’s $25 million donation, the network knows that it can galvanize support for the cause by putting it in front of your face.
Who is your computer talking to? Your browser isn't the only application that's sending data online. Your word processor might be phoning home; a file undelete utility might be talking to its mother ship, and even Windows' own services may surprise you. These are not necessarily nefarious actions, but they're worth knowing about. GlassWire is a free and beautiful utility that lays all of this bare.
GlassWire makes network traffic fun to watch.
One of the most important things about GlassWire is that it's beautiful. This isn't a minor detail: For many users, network security is equal parts daunting and tedious. Having a tool that's just fun to pop open and watch throughout your day makes a big difference. The graph scrolls in real-time, and there's a zoom slider across the bottom of the window letting you check out longer periods of time at a glance.
What made that traffic spike?
When you see traffic suddenly spiking, you can easily drill in and find out exactly which application(s) on your computer caused that spike, and which Internet hosts they were communicating with. The graph also makes it easy to tell apart outbound traffic (uploads, shown in yellow) and inbound traffic (downloads, shown in pink).
You can zoom out, and filter by app.
To get a bigger sense of what your network traffic looks like, you can zoom the graph out to show three hours, 24 hours, or an entire week's worth of network activity. There's no lag when you do this: All filtering operations are instant.
The graph then lets you filter activity out by application. For instance, what does Rdio's network traffic look like? How much data does it download over a day of listening, and does it use the network constantly or in brief spurts? GlassWire makes this both easy and fun to determine.
Next, you can filter network activity by protocol. This can reveal some surprising information in itself. For example, I use a webmail client: I don't have a traditional email client such as Outlook, so I did not expect to see any SMTP activity on my computer. GlassWire reminded me one of my applications does send data to the Internet over SMTP—and it's not an email client.
See an app you don't want communicating? Just block it.
Because it gives you such a wealth of information, it only makes sense for GlassWire to also let you do something with your newfound knowledge. That's where the built-in firewall comes in. The Firewall tab lets you review the list of all apps communicating, each with its own miniature traffic chart. It also lists which network hosts each app communicated with—and a single click will muzzle that app for good. If you already use a firewall you're happy with, you can disable GlassWire's built-in firewall from this same tab without having to dig through a Settings dialog.
The Usage tab gives you a broad overview over how much bandwidth your computer uses.
A line chart is handy for tracking traffic over time; but for cumulative total, something like a pie chart works better. That's what you'll find on the Usage tab: A simple and lovely look at your traffic totals for the day, week, or month. This tab uses the same zoom slider as the Graph tab, making it possible to pick your own custom durations and zoom in on traffic spikes to see how much data was consumed, and by which apps.
If you use a metered connection, if your ISP claims you haven't been reasonably using your so-called "unlimited plan," the Usage tab offers invaluable totals.
The Alerts tab shows what's been going on while you were away.
Finally, there's all the traffic that's going on when you're not even using the computer. After all, your apps don't need you to be there to communicate. Some may even patiently bide their time, waiting for the keyboard and mouse to become idle for some time, before they start talking to their control servers or network peers.
Like everything else GlassWire monitors, this is not necessarily nefarious: Maybe your online backup app simply doesn't want to slow down your connection when you need it. Still, keeping tabs on these things is healthy, and that's what Alerts are for. When you unlock your workstation, GlassWire also pops up unobtrusive messages next to the system tray to let you know if anything important happened.
GlassWire's doesn't just make it easy to learn about your network activity: It actually makes it fun. That is its biggest triumph, accomplished through beautiful design and a zippy, responsive interface. Unlike many other security apps, there's nothing alarmist about it, and it doesn't attempt to upsell you on anything.
The app is entirely free, although a statement on the developer's website says it intends to "add new features in the future for paying supporters."
This very attractive utility does a great job of monitoring your network activity, and its built-in firewall lets you instantly block anything suspicious.
The youngest daughter of the late stock car racing legend Dale Earnhardt is barrel racing on horseback this week at the Cleveland County Fair.
Taylor Earnhardt Putnam settles into the saddle.
In the next 14-16 seconds, she�ll race 300 to 500 feet in a cloverleaf pattern.
She and her partner take off.
One right turn, two left turns around three barrels.
Speed has always been a part of Putnam�s life.
The youngest daughter of the late stock car racing legend Dale Earnhardt fell in love with horses when she was 3 years old.
Putnam, 23, now competes on horseback in barrel racing. This week, she�s performing at the rodeo at the Cleveland County Fair.
Putnam�s husband, Brandon, also participates in rodeos. He�ll be roping calves this week at the fair.
Putnam started trail riding on her family�s North Carolina farm when she was a young girl.
In early 2002, a barrel-racing friend�s family encouraged her to give the sport a try.
She did the next day and was hooked.
Putnam said it�s important to develop a trusting relationship with a horse to succeed in barrel racing.
Putnam handles a busy schedule of racing � she has four rodeos this weekend and two every weekend the next several weeks � working on her family�s farm and working with the Dale Earnhardt Foundation. Her father founded the organization on the principles of helping education, the environment and children, she said.
She�s on the road most of the time, participating in one of those activities.
Putnam said she manages the busy schedule through a principle her famous father taught her: hard work.
�You�ve got to work hard to keep up what you�ve got,� she said. �I�d watch dad go from loading up bulls to jumping in a tractor to go bush-hogging to jumping in the shop to work on a car. That determination he had with going the fastest, I think that�s something that�s big with me. I�m out there practicing five days a week and then the rodeos on Friday and Saturday.
The Cleveland County Fair rodeo returns to the fairgrounds grandstand at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
* She hunts with rifle, shotgun and bow and enjoys photography.
* In 2002, she earned the title of N.C. National Barrel Horse Association champion, and in 2003 she earned honors as champion of the Southern Rodeo Association.
* She met her husband, Brandon, during a rodeo event. Brandon also competes in rodeo in calf-roping.
* She competed in 2009 in the Ross Nye Stables equestrian training program in London.
Las Tractoradas is a tower defense game with a political influence: the ongoing crisis in Catalonia. And it stars what’s become a populist symbol of the Catalan Independence Movement: tractors. A group of six high school students participating in the NuVu Studio program created the game in only 11 weeks. Though it isn’t available yet for download, a video of in-game footage and a design document is available online.