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Equestrians purchase White Oak Plantation in Columbus
Developers plan hot spot for horse lovers
Published: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 8:46 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 8:46 a.m.
TRYON, N.C. — Tryon Equestrian Properties LLC bought White Oak Plantation in Columbus for $11 million late last month, and the developer plans to turn the property into a premiere international equestrian lifestyle destination, according to Polk County records.
The draft development agreement states Tryon Equestrian Properties intends to have equestrian events, a golf course, hotel resort and convention center, spa and fitness center on 1,000 acres off of Pea Ridge Road in the Green Creek community.
Plans call for a maximum 800-dwelling subdivision, 300-room hotel, winery, lighted 6,000seat stadium and restaurants, along with many more amenities.
The documents also state that the developer wants White Oak Plantation to have a positive economic impact year-round by having diverse recreational, sporting and cultural events.
Tryon Equestrian Properties wants to see Tryon maintain and elevate its reputation as one of the birthplaces of modern equestrian sport.
It also wants to coordinate efforts with existing Polk County equestrian assets, create a major international equestrian venue called the Tryon International Equestrian Center, establish a major equestrian festival called the Tryon Equestrian Festival and develop a robust economic engine for the community, according to the proposed agreement.
The developer anticipates a long-term investment that could exceed $90 million and believes the tax base of the completed project could be more than $500 million.
The primary members of the development group also are primary members and managing members of Wellington Equestrian Partners, owners of the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Fla. The 12-week festival is the largest and longest running equestrian festival in the world, the documents state, and it attracts more than 5,000 horses from around the globe.
Currently, attorneys continue to work on the development agreement and zone ordinance modifications, said Cathy Ruth, planning director for Polk County.
The planning board briefly will discuss the draft development agreement at its meeting on Thursday, and the board will meet again Feb. 14 to address the development agreement.
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WATERBURY — There was no better place to be in the city Thursday night than at the Jack Taglia Gymnasium at Kennedy High.
Before the start of the Naugatuck Valley League boys basketball game between the Eagles and Watertown, the city renamed the gymnasium after Jack Taglia, the 31-year Ken-nedy coach.
A visibly moved Taglia told a crowd of more than 300 that the event was "overwhelming." As for the many kind words from more than a dozen speakers, Taglia wondered, "Are they talking about me?"
He noted that having the family name forever attached to the gymnasium is perhaps the greatest honor a coach could have.
Waterbury Board of Education president Charles Stango called Taglia "Mr. Kennedy High School," and noted the coach was "a gentleman and a professional, and he expected the same from his team and from the fans."
Retired Torrington coach Tony Turina gave the proper historical perspective when he reminded the crowd that when city basketball moved out of the old Waterbury Armory and into the newly built Kennedy High gym, "it was like Madison Square Garden. The new gym took the place of the Armory, and it was the beginning of the future for NVL basketball."
Former Kennedy principal Anthony "Butch" Azzara, now the principal at Sacred Heart, said that "great coaches are great educators." He pointed out that directly across the hall from the gymnasium is the John Reardon Pool. As Azzara noted, "They are two of our greatest educators and coaches."
Longtime friend and coaching rival Ed Generali of Holy Cross hit one final high note when he summed up Taglia's career: "He was a Kennedy Eagle through and through."
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I agree, to be at the top levels of racing you must be strong in all three sports. I also agree, that selecting courses that play to your strong suits is an advantage. Those that race professionally need to figure out how to keep their "weakest" sport from keeping them off the podium.
It is interesting to see many of the ITU athletes migrating to longer distances once they don't have the speed to remain competitive at the ITU races.
Of all the races I have watched of late, I have only seem the french guys this past weekend at the BG race actually pull off a win from if I am not mistaken, from the swim. But like TimeLord said, good in all 3 pursuits. I would imagine that was the only way they could hold off the field. It was rather impressive if you ask me. I do like the balanced version of everything but I cant seem to get the difference in ITU and USAT out of my head because of olympics and most international races.
I watched a couple of draft legal races on television this summer and I didn't like it. Its toally out of character for the triathlon. How you do is too dependent on which pack you get in on the bike. It actually seems silly to allow it. Trithlon is an individual sport; not some semi-team event for one segment.
I always thought of the triathlon as an individual time trial sport. Drafting isn't really a part of a real race against the clock (although I recognize the benefits accrued to drafting in the swim). If it were possible to to do the swim without drafting I would like it more, but it's just not logistically feasible for a big event. As already recognized by others here, drafting on the bike affords a weaker cyclist big benefits. I'm a good time-trialist and have been frustrated in many cycling road races and crits because I lacked team or tactical skills -not strength, endurance, or bike-handling skills. Bottom line, I probably would not participate in a draft-legal event.
I will have to admit when the concept of drafting in triathlon came into the picture, I was totally against it. After traveling the globe since 2000, watching the development of the sport, I love to watch a draft-legal race. I like a tough ocean swim, a hilly bike and a rolling run. The multi-lap format is really exciting. If you've not had a chance to look at the speeds these athletes travel for each event, take a look. Last weekend was a World Cup in Lorient, France. Two Frenchmen swam fast and got away on the bike, opening a sizeable gap on the field. It paid off. Video of both the men's and women's races are here http://www.triathlon.org/?call=TWpreg==&keep=sh If you want a concept of the speeds, see the results here http://www.triathlon.org/zpg/zevt-dtl-prtcpnts_v4.php?call=TVRFdw==&keep=sh&id=MTEyNA==&sh=rs&rsid=2576#
Look at the splits. Amazingly fast.
Would I like to do a draft-legal race myself? Only if I could find a swim-bike specialist to help me get away. My run stinks...;)
These guys were pretty much averaging what 25mph on the bike and like 5 minutes and change per mile on the run! Absolutely insane. There were a couple of guys that ran sub 5 minute miles for 6 miles.... INSANE!
I watched the race and was amazed that the 2 guys werent caught by the group. What I figured for sure is that had the french leaders NOT have been a pair, their breakaway probably wouldnt have worked. Having someone there to draft off of and conserve some energy with was definately necessary for the win.
Drafting personally does not bother me. I have not fully experienced it in a group as I am new to cycling, but on one of my training rides a few weeks ago, there was someone else cycling that day that I managed to catch up to towards the end of my ride and sat off his back tire... All I can say is what was usually a hard treck up a long low gradient hill, was extremely easy drafting.
I am actually doing a draft legal race in a couple of weeks. It is bike/kayak/run race. The bike has a Lemans start, not sure how long the run is, a couple of hundred yards. The course has some rollers and one big climb, part of which is on dirt with a dirt descent, so that will break up the pack. I think it would be an interesting format for a race with a swim too.
That looks like a fun race. Let us know how it goes. Get your camera crew to take some photos too.
No, I feel a triathlon is an individual sport and the "best" all around athlete should win. I believe drafting offers an unfair advantage to those cyclists that are not as strong as others.
I completely agree with you that drafting adds an advantage and non-drafting races should be won by the best all-around athletes - but - in some races people cheat. I asked earlier in the thread if people saw drafting in non-drafting races. I started a separate thread for this (the cheaters) discussion.
How do you feel about people cheating in races? Some are so bold as to say, "As long as I don't get caught it's cool. I'll pay the time penalty IF I get caught. Kinda like basketball penalties."
During my tri this weekend I was passed by 4-5 guys on nice carbon bikes that were I would say maybe 3-4 feet apart as the passed a few bikers in a row. I could have just been a lack of room but we were on a stretch with no officials so who knows.
I wouldn't mind a draft legal race, but I would feel that aero-bars would pose a risk to all riders in the event. So if drafting is legal then following the cycling standards for bicycles.
I think that drafting would definitely diminish the best athlete aspect of the sport. Looking at all 3 disciplines - drafting is of inordinate value on the bike. Any speed over 20mph is a race against air resistance. Being in a peloton will reduce the workload by 30%. Does drafting reduce the workload in either swimming or running by even 1/3 this amount. I don't think so.
It is nearly impossible for a solo rider to outrun 3 riders of 10% less strength. If you want to legalize drafting then go ahead and make it a team sport.
Drafting creates tactics. I thought the purpose of the original triathlon event was to see who was the strongest, best, fittest (pick your adjective) athlete. Not who could weasel their way into a win or placing.
Many of the top ITU (drafting) triathletes are also best at non-drafting. Similar to road racing on the bike, time trial specialists are often good overall GC contenders. I think some of the contention comes from trying to make the two sports the same (drafting and non-drafting). While they are both triathlons (swim, bike, run) they are different types of the same sport. This is similar to cycling. All of the following events are cycling events, but they are different (time trial, criterium, road race, mountain biking (cross country, downhill, freeride), track events, BMX, etc.)
Cyclists have found a great way to embrace all of the sports within cycling; but somehow triathletes have not done the same. We don't see cyclists argue that the only true cyclists are the time trial riders and everyone else isn't the best.
Drafting and non-drafting triathlons are simply two styles of triathlon racing. Each has it's unique features, or pros and cons. The "original" triathlon was actually a run, bike, swim event at Fiesta Island in San Diego andwas far shorter than Ironman. Lucky for all of us, the sport has grown by leaps and bounds creating a bounty of equipment, technology, races, coaches, etc.
To get to your specific points, Mw, you are right - drafting in cycling leads to much higher gains than does drafting in swimming and running. That written, the speed and tactics in draft-legal racing has increased enormously just since 2000.
To all that have not actually watched an ITU event, I encourage you to watch some of the World Cup events online and if you have the opportunity - go watch them live.
I find it interesting that the majority of people on this post don't even want to try a draft-legal tri. I seriously doubt that the USAT is all of a sudden going to mandate that all triathlons become draft legal. Though there was an excellent point made earlier that the future of American triathletes competing on the ITU and Olympic level would benefit from draft-legal racing.
So why are people resistant to giving it a shot? To clarify, I'm really only thinking about Olympic- and maybe sprint-distance races. The length of 140.6 and half-distance bike legs are so long, I don't think drafting would benefit the race all that much. But are folks really that afraid of people on beach cruisers suddenly popping the podium champagne?
I guess I'm just looking at it as another version of tri (like Gale says) that could be available to us--the same way an off-road tri requires a mountain bike, other races require kayaks and some just require more than one leg.
There's also the competitive angle. I'd like to pit the legs and cycling smarts that power my $900 Specialized Allez Sport , cheap helmet and no tri bars against the legs and bike skills of the guys who rock the Cervelo P3 and aero helmet (though I also agree with the poster who said tri bikes shouldn't be allowed in draft-legal races for safety reasons). I think it'd be fun. I don't see any problem with adding smarts and skills to a contest of strength and speed. And don't worry, you'll beat me in the run...unless you average 10-minute miles, too.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi cross country teams will travel to Fayetteville, Ark., to compete in the 23rd Chile Pepper Festival on Saturday. The men's 10k race will begin at 9:45 a.m. and the women's 6k will follow at 10:30 a.m. at the University of Arkansas' cross country course at Agri Park.
"Last year the women were sixth and the men finished 13th out of 50 in the meet," head coach Shawn Flanagan said. "We hope to improve on those performances. We also get to race conference rival UTSA so we're excited to see how that goes."
Live Results: Results will be available here.
In the Running: The Islanders, along with approximately 35 to 40 other teams, are set to compete in the collegiate races. Both squads will compete against Southland foes UTSA and UT Arlington.
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2010 Chile Pepper Festival: Last season, the women's team finished just outside the top five, in sixth place in the 5k, while the men's team recorded a 13th-place finish in the 10k. On the women's side, Sarah Kimaiyo led the squad with a 30th-place finish, Julia Sambu finished in 44th place and BreAnna Briggs placed 97th. Kristine Burciaga, Danielle Higgins and Cecilia Gonzalez also competed for the Islanders. On the men's side, Patrick Kimeli and Justin Adame competed and helped the team to a 13th-place finish. Kimeli led the squad in 26th place while Adame finished in 153rd place.
Women's 6k: After taking third place two weeks ago at the Grass Routes Grand Prix in Austin, behind Texas and Texas Tech, and a week of training, the Islanders will look to improve their sixth-place finish from a year ago. The women's squad has faced UTPA, Texas and UT Arlington at least once this season. They will also face conference foe UTSA, who the Islanders sit four spots in front of in the South Central Regional rankings.
"What we are looking for on the women's side is how many teams from other regions can we beat," Flanagan said. "There's Southern Utah, Utah, Utah State, Iowa, Oklahoma State, Arkansas and Texas. We will see where we are going to fit in. Last year we were sixth, if we can be that high again then we have a good shot to score some points that will help us get to the national meet."
Burciaga, Sambu, Higgins, Briggs, Gonzalez and Melissa Jones are slated to compete.
Men's 10k: The men's team finished fourth two weeks ago at the Grass Routes Grand Prix in Austin, behind Lamar, Rice and Texas. This week the Islanders will look to improve their 13th-place finish from a year ago. The team has faced UTPA, Texas and UT Arlington at least once this season and will face conference foe UTSA for the first time. The Islanders sit one slot in front of UTSA in the South Central Regional rankings.
"We have to see how close up we can get," Flanagan said. "Can we run with Utah, Southern Utah and Iowa and can we stay ahead of UTSA, TCU, Baylor and these other teams that are in our region? It's going to be challenging and interesting. I'm looking forward to it."
Kimeli, along with Adame, will be returning to compete at the meet for the Islanders. Joining them will be freshmen Angel Banda, Paul Hansel, Philipp Baar, Christoph Hintz, Valentinas Rudys and sophomore Jason Garcia.
Concordia University Invite: The Islanders will send seven runners to Cedar Park, Texas, to compete in the 2nd Annual Concordia University Invitational on Oct. 15 at Cedar Park High School. The women's 5k will begin at 8 a.m. followed by the men's 5k at 8:45 a.m. For the women, junior Shelby Nichols, sophomore Julia Wohlschlegel along with freshmen Jasmine Boutte and Jennifer Ramirez will be competing. On the men's side, senior Jeremy Juarez, junior Jacob Abrego and freshman Brandon Lacy are slated to take part.
Islanders in the Rankings: In the latest USTFCCCA South Central regional rankings the Islanders women's team moved up two spots. The women's team currently holds the No. 5 slot and remained in the top spot in the Southland. The men's team maintained its spot in sixth place and second in the Southland, behind Lamar, who sits in the No. 4 slot.
Spotlight Runners: The Islanders have been honored by the Southland three out of the five weeks they have competed. Burciaga, Kimeli and Gonzalez have all earned Southland Cross Country Athlete of the Week honors.
Islanders Head Coach Shawn Flanagan enters his 11th season as the head coach of the Islanders cross country team and 31st season as a Division I coach. Flanagan started the cross country program in 2000. He has won three Southland women's titles, four Independent women's titles and three Independent men's titles. Altogether, Flanagan holds 29 Conference titles as head coach, including the 19 conference titles he won at UTSA. He also sealed three conference titles as an assistant coach at the University of Texas, totaling 32 Conference Championships to his name.
Last Season: The men finished fifth at the Southland while the women posted a second-place finish. Kimeli advanced to the NCAA championships and finished in the top half.
Challenging Field: This season the Islanders have faced a challenging schedule. After the Chile Pepper Festival, the Islanders will head back on the road for their final three meets, which will feature the Islanders at the Southland Conference Championships, the NCAA Regional and the NCAA Nationals.
Up Next: The Islanders will travel to Nacogdoches, Texas to compete in the Southland Conference Championships on Mon., Oct. 31, at 9:30 a.m.
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The NFL draft is both silly and beautiful. It is silly because of what happened Friday night in the third round when the 49ers drafted an outside linebacker named Corey Lemonier from Auburn.
On an ensuing conference call with reporters, Lemonier said he was thrilled to be drafted by the team and get a phone call from "John Harbaugh."
How's that? A reporter informed Lemonier that the 49ers are coached by Jim Harbaugh -- not John Harbaugh, who is with the Baltimore Ravens.
"Oh, my goodness, I'm so sorry," said Lemonier. "I can't even think right now. I'm so sorry."
Don't apologize, young man. There are 32 coaches in the NFL. It's easy to get them mixed up. The most important thing now is for Lemonier is for him to start learning about the 49er traditions established by their legendary coach, Joe Walsh.
Never mind. The beautiful part of the NFL draft is, for all of the blather and smoke, the event is a truth serum of sorts. Teams can lie and mislead all they want before the draft. But when it comes time to pick, they tell you what they really believe they need. And you can learn a lot.
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The Mountain View City Council isn't interested in becoming a crusader for pod car technology.
The council reached that conclusion following a discussion Tuesday night about a request by skyTran, a Mountain View-based firm developing "personal rapid transit" technology, to participate in talks about creating a $750,000 federal grant program to fund a proof of concept demonstration project.
City Manager Daniel Rich said the city would likely be asked to contribute money to the program.
Council members said they were unwilling to back an unproven technology in the face of worsening traffic congestion, particularly in the North Bayshore Area. The two-person pod cars skyTran is developing would be propelled along an elevated track by magnetic levitation.
"They haven't sold a project yet and that makes me nervous," Councilman Jac Siegel said. "Because if it's viable, I think people would be beating their doors down wanting this product. It isn't happening yet."
Councilwoman Ronit Bryant echoed Siegel's concerns.
"It's terribly exciting to think of new technologies and science fiction ideas, but at this point it's not there," she said. "At this point we do not have any direction from our residents to say that pods hanging from the sky going up and down downtown are our solution to these problems."
Councilman Mike Kasperzak, an outspoken proponent of the technology, said he believed pod cars could hold the answer to the solving the city's transportation woes and urged the council to pony up $75,000 for the grant.
"We need to find other ways to do it other than by squeezing more cars on to roads and spending tens of millions of more dollars for new roadways and new bridges to get shuttle buses from downtown into the North Bayshore (Area) and that sort of thing," he said.
Kasperzak drew a parallel to light rail, which he said Mountain View spent $12 million to bring to the city in the 1990s.
"You talk about light rail -- light rail was not an R&D project," Siegel countered. "It had existed in places already."
In response, Kasperzak pointed to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as one example of governments backing experimental technology.
"Sometimes you have to do that sort of thing to get things off the ground," he said.
Councilwoman Margaret Abe Koga wasn't convinced by the argument and raised the same concerns as Siegel and Bryant about the pod cars. But she was more concerned about setting a precedent.
"If we start funding one entity, I just fear we're going to get asked by a lot more folks and that's not our role to be a venture capitalist or an investor," said Abe Koga, adding that the city is already routinely approached by companies who want it to serve as a beta tester.
In addition to turning down the invitation to participate in talks about creating a grant program, the council rejected the idea of paying $2,500 to join the Santa Cruz-based International Institute of Sustainable Transportation, which is developing "automated transit networks."
The council agreed in the end to maintain its current level of general support for personal rapid transit technology.
"I think that we should continue to embrace it and endorse it," said Vice Mayor John McAlister, "but I don't think we should put the money into it."
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May 18, 2010 -- Flibanserin, an antidepressant-like drug, makes sex more satisfying for some premenopausal women distressed over their low sexual desire.
The findings come from phase III clinical trials that drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim hopes will convince the FDA to approve flibanserin for the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD).
While HSDD is a controversial diagnosis -- some experts see it as the medicalization of what is for many women a relationship issue -- the 1,378 premenopausal women enrolled in the clinical trials were suffering distress over their lack of sexual desire.
Compared to women who received inactive placebo pills, those who took flibanserin at bedtime were more likely to get relief from self-reported sexual distress, to experience more sexual desire, and to have more sexually satisfying experiences.
The drug didn't work for all women. Just under a third of women taking flibanserin got over their sexual distress and/or lack of sexual desire (vs. about a fifth of women taking placebo pills). But the difference was important to the women, says study researcher Michael L. Krychman, MD, medical director of sexual medicine at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif.
"The absolute number of women who had remission of sexual distress was clinically significant, but equally important to them was how it improved their lives," Krychman tells WebMD.
Nearly half of women taking flibanserin (and nearly a third of women taking placebo) reported at least minimal improvement in "bothersome decreased sexual desire."
Flibanserin is taken nightly at bedtime. However, it's not an on-demand treatment. Data suggest that the drug begins to affect sexual satisfaction after four weeks of continuous treatment.
In the 24-week "Bouquet" studies (each of the Boehringer Ingelheim-funded studies is named after a flower), there were few drug-related side effects. Those most commonly reported were daytime sleepiness, dizziness, fatigue, anxiety, dry mouth, nausea, and insomnia. Some 15% of women on flibanserin, and 7% of those on placebo, stopped treatment due to side effects.
Updated reports on data from the North American "Daisy" and "Violet" studies were made by Krychman and other researchers at this week's annual meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in San Francisco.
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PHOENIX - A's pitcher Brett Anderson suffered a strained right trapezius muscle after just eight pitches Sunday when he tried to cover third base on an error and collided awkwardly with Arizona Diamondbacks baserunner Adam Eaton.
The 25-year-old left-hander said he came out of the game for precautionary reasons and didn't think the injury was serious.
"I feel all right," said Anderson, who said the stimulus treatment he was receiving considerably relieved the pain after about 20 minutes. "It was a kind of freak play at third that you don't really expect to happen, but it's part of the deal sometimes. I don't think it's anything major — it's a neck strain/spasm, if you will. They didn't really give me a timetable or what my process is, but it's nothing to be too concerned about."
After Eaton had opened the game with a leadoff single, former A's shortstop Cliff Pennington hit a chopper to third baseman Josh Donaldson, who misplayed the ball for an error. As Donaldson went to retrieve the ball to his left, Eaton rounded second base and broke for unoccupied third. Anderson belatedly sprinted over to cover but Donaldson's relay's was behind him and he but slid awkwardly into the base and Eaton.
"It was pure athleticism at its finest at third base," the pitcher said.
Anderson, who was making his second spring training start, walked back to the mound under his own power but did not even attempt a warmup pitch before being removed from the game by A's manager Bob Melvin and the Oakland training staff. Anderson left the field rubbing the back near the base of his neck, where the trapezius muscle is located.
"You want to pitch and get your work in, but you don't want to overcompensate and hurt something else more than your neck, whether it be an arm or your legs by changing your mechanics," he said. I'm not too worried about it. I expect it to be stiff for a day or two, we'll see, but I don't expect anything major."
Anderson was asked if he got anything out of his eight pitches.
"I threw a good changeup," he said. "It was a moral victory. (Pennington) fouled one off and I was giving him a hard time. I told him that was probably one of the better ones I've thrown and he had a little laugh about it. It is kind of funny he's the guy who hit the ball where I got hurt."


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bust of St Francis by Anneta Duveen, S.F.O., commissioned
by Franciscans International, was installed at the United
Nations' University for Peace in Costa Rica on December
10--the 50th anniversary of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
With the new millennium drawing near, governments
and business leaders worry about computer crashes and software
conversions. Pope John Paul II's concern is that we all experience
a spiritual conversion. What better guide for such a conversion
than St. Francis of Assisi?
By Pat McCloskey, O.F.M.
Hometown Is Marked by Peace
Changed Our Image of God
Changed How We See Ourselves
Changed How We See the World
Influences Other Christians
Inspires Those of Other Faiths
Bridges Past and Future
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI HAS BEEN A LIVING SYMBOL of God's generous,
self-sacrificing love for the human family, of God's desire
that all people recognize themselves as members of that same
family and therefore live in the peace God intended for them.
Of all the
saints who lived in the second millennium since Christ's birth,
Francis (1182-1226) may have been the most influential in
both the Christian and non-Christian worlds. In 1993, the
editorial staff of Time magazine ranked him first among
the 10 greatest people of the second millennium.
He certainly
points the way for all Christians in the third millennium,
identifying the gospel-based values and actions needed if
the Good News of Jesus Christ is to have its full impact.
Pope John Paul
II carefully selected Assisi as the site for a bold and historic
peace initiative in which I was privileged to participate.
Hometown Is Marked by Peace
"Is it all
right if I go in?" a Muslim from Pakistan asked me the day
after the October 1986 Prayer Day for World Peace. That day
had brought to Assisi 235 leaders of 64 official Christian
and non-Christian delegations. I joined thousands of others
in the day, which began at Our Lady of the Angels Basilica
on the plain below Assisi.
The next day
I was wearing my Franciscan habit, standing outside that basilica
when this Pakistani man told me that he had been so moved
by the previous day's events that he wanted to pray in that
church before returning home. On the day before, he had certainly
been welcome at the Portiuncula, one of three small chapels
which Francis rebuilt.
Perhaps the
Pakistani man belonged to one of several Muslim delegations
which had participated in the Prayer Day. Yet it was not obvious
to him that he would be welcome another day. After I assured
him that he was most welcome, he entered and I went back to
the worldwide headquarters of the Order of Friars Minor, anxious
to write the Order's international newsletter. I was eager
to share with its readers some of what participants and observers
had experienced on that historic, grace-filled day.
Would so many
religious leaders have come if the pope had hosted that day
at the Vatican? Almost certainly not; Assisi represented neutral
yet ideal holy ground for this day of prayer and fasting.
At the opening prayer service that day, Pope John Paul II
said: "I have chosen this town of Assisi as the place for
our Day of Prayer for Peace because of the particular significance
of the holy man venerated hereSt. Francisknown and
revered by so many throughout the world as a symbol of peace,
reconciliation and brotherhood. Inspired by his example, his
meekness and humility, let us dispose our hearts for prayer
in true internal silence."
In a very class-conscious
society, Francis of Assisi and his friend St. Clare (1194-1253)
attracted followers from all levels of society and from all
over Europe. Both saints have attracted and continue to attract
people across numerous presumed dividing lines of religion,
race, nation, social status and gender.
At the end
of the Assisi Prayer Day, Pope John Paul II described the
permanent lesson of Assisi as "an ideal composed of meekness,
humility, a deep sense of God and a commitment to serve all.
St. Francis was a man of peace. We recall that he abandoned
the military career he had followed for a while in his youth,
and discovered the value of poverty, the value of a simple
and austere life, in imitation of Jesus Christ whom he intended
to serve. St. Clare was a woman, par excellence, of
prayer. Her union with God in prayer sustained Francis
and his followers, as it sustains us today. Francis and Clare
are examples of peace: with God, with oneself, with all men
and women in the world. May this holy man and this holy woman
inspire all people today to have the same strength of character
and love of God and neighbor to continue on the path we must
walk together."
When Christians
have followed Francis' example, they have given living witness
to Jesus' life, death and resurrection. When they have failed
to heed that example, they have become countersigns or witnesses
against that same Good News.
During the
Assisi Day of Prayer for World Peace, delegations from the
11 major religions represented there held their own prayer
services. At the Christian service in San Rufino Cathedral,
Pope John Paul II said: "Our prayer here in Assisi should
include repentance for our failures as Christians to carry
out the mission of peace and reconciliation we have received
from Christ and which we have not yet fully accomplished....Prayer
for peace must be followed by appropriate action for peace.
It must make our minds more keenly aware, for instance, of
those issues of justice which are inseparable from the achievement
of peace and which lay claim to our active involvement. It
must make us willing to think and act with the humility and
love that fosters peace."
Who better
than Francis of Assisi can help us identify the values and
actions on which true peace can be built?
Changed Our Image of God
Francis of
Assisi has influenced the way many Catholics think about God
and respond to God, the way they see themselves and respond
to others, the way they see the world which God has created
and entrusted to the human family.
In Francis'
day many people had images of God the Father as judge and
punisher of sin. Without denying
those images, Francis lived out other biblical images, inviting
people to think of God the Father as a generous and loving
creator, to see God the Son as living proof of God's love
and closeness to the human family, to appreciate God the Spirit
as the One who makes us holy, preparing us for our eternal
At a time when
many Catholics more readily thought of Jesus as divine rather
than human, Francis promoted two devotions: the Christmas
crib and Christ's death on the cross, powerfully symbolized
in the Stations of the Cross, which Francis' followers popularized
after his death.
When Francis
put together a live Christmas crib at Greccio in 1224, he
had only a cave and an empty manger, plus a donkey and an
ox. In later years people added figures to represent Jesus,
Mary and Joseph, angels, Magi, shepherds, sheep, camels and
so on. Unlike their North American counterparts, Italian Christmas
cribs today frequently represent whole villages: bakers, people
carrying water or cutting wood, fishermen, knife sharpeners,
children at play and numerous other figures emphasizing that
Jesus has entered into ordinary life, becoming one of us!
Prior to Francis,
Western European religious art often reflected the Byzantine
artistic style, portraying the crucified Jesus in triumph
with very discreet wounds and hardly a drop of blood on him.
Christ looks straight into the viewer's eyes as if to ask,
"And how are you going to respond?" After Francis, Western
art began to portray Jesus as slumped on the cross, looking
down, more bloody, a much more vivid reminder of his sufferings
for our sins.
Three years
before Francis was born, the Crusaders had suffered a crushing
defeat near the Sea of Galilee, losing most of the Holy Land
that they had conquered in the previous 80 years. Visiting
the places connected to the life of Jesus was becoming more
and more difficult. The Stations of the Cross devotion brought
the Holy Land, so to speak, to Catholics who had little hope
of praying in Bethlehem, Nazareth or Jerusalem.
In an age when
a person could gain a plenary indulgence by going on a Crusade
or visiting the Shrine of St. James at Compostela in Spain,
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome or the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem,
Francis made the bold request that people coming to the tiny
chapel of Our Lady of the Angels (the Portiuncula) outside
Assisi should be able to gain the same indulgence if they
fulfilled the usual conditions (Confession, holy Communion
and prayers for the pope).
Although Francis
wanted the indulgence for every day of the year, Pope Honorius
III restricted it to the anniversary of the chapel's dedication
(August 2). Every year on the Feast of the Pardon of Assisi,
thousands of people from Italy and around the world still
come to that little chapel to seek God's forgiveness and to
be reminded of their need to extend that forgiveness to others.
Changed How We See Ourselves
Francis has
influenced the way Catholics see themselves and respond to
others. He emphasized the virtue of humility, being honest
about who we are before God and in relation to one another.
The dying Francis succeeded in reconciling the bishop and
mayor of Assisi, who had been feuding over something which
seemed terribly important when the feud began. Mutual forgiveness
restored the honesty and harmony which God wished these leaders
and their city to enjoy.
In a world
which often spoke of holiness as though priests, monks and
nuns had the "inside track," Francis set up the Secular Franciscan
Order, inviting men and women, single or married, like his
husband-and-wife contemporaries Blesseds Luchesio and Buonadonna,
to follow the gospel of Jesus Christ right where they were!
You did not have to be ordained or enter a monastery in order
to live out the Good News. Generous, self-sacrificing love
started what God's grace would complete. The first Secular
Franciscans refused to take up arms in warfare and made wills
to avoid family fights over an inheritance.
Francis burned
with a desire to share the Good News with others. He and his
followers preached the gospel in city streets rather than
wait for people to come to a monastery to hear it preached.
Francis was the first founder of a religious order to make
evangelizing non-Christians a part of its mission. In order
to lead by example, in 1219 he preached to Sultan Melek el-Kamil
in Egypt. Francis did not convert the sultan but was received
with respect and given a safe-conduct pass, enabling him to
visit the shrines in the Holy Land.
Since 1342,
the Friars Minor have officially represented the Latin-rite
(Roman Catholic) Church at the Basilica of the Nativity (Bethlehem)
and at Holy Sepulcher Basilica (Jerusalem). The friars also
care for many other shrines, parishes, schools, orphanages
and other charitable works in the land where Jesus lived and
in nearby countries.
Words alone
will not spread the Good News unless those words are backed
up by holy lives. In 1221, Francis wrote a Rule of Life for
his friars, saying that those who went among the Muslims and
other unbelievers "can live spiritually in two ways. One way
is not to engage in arguments or disputes, but to be subject
to every human creature for God's sake (1 Peter 2:13) and
to acknowledge that they are Christians. Another way is to
proclaim the Word of God when they see that it pleases the
Lord, so that they believe in the all-powerful GodFather,
and Son, and Holy Spiritthe Creator of all, in the One Who
is the Redeemer and Savior, and that they be baptized and
become Christians..." (Rule of 1221, Chapter 16).
At a time when
many Christians saw Muslims as threats to be exterminated,
Francis saw them as people created by God and invited to new
life in Jesus Christ. How different might today's Christian
presence be in the Middle East and Asia if later generations
of Christians had taken Francis' message more to heart!
Changed How We See the World
"Praised be
you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother
Sun, who is the day and through whom you give us light," prayed
Francis in the Canticle of the Creatures, recognized by many
Christians and non-Christians as a charter for a respectful
use of the world God has entrusted to us. Pope John Paul II
proclaimed Francis of Assisi the patron of ecology in 1979
and groups such as the World Wildlife Fund have held major
meetings in Assisi, recognizing Francis' reverent use of God's
In a world
tempted to see creation as sinful and leading people away
from God, Francis by word and example affirmed that creation
was fundamentally good, no matter how people might twist it
to destructive purposes. Francis' confidence in the Church's
sacraments reflected his conviction that God has chosen to
come to us within human history and through seemingly ordinary
things like water, oil, bread and wine. Francis welcomed even
Sister Death, seeing her as the gateway to eternal life.
Great as Francis'
influence has been on Catholicism in the second millennium
since Jesus' birth, his words and example have sometimes been
diluted by believers who have preferred describing them as
"extraordinary" and "heroic" rather than as something they
could do themselves. Amazingly, saints can be praised and
neutralized in the same breath! Thus, Peter Maurin, cofounder
of the Catholic Worker movement, in one of his "Easy Essays"
wrote, "What a fine place this world would be if Roman Catholics
tried to keep up with Saint Francis of Assisi."
Influences Other Christians
Roman Catholics
do not have a monopoly on seeing Francis as a powerful example
of what the Good News can look like if only we have the courage
to live it out boldly and consistently.
Many Orthodox
and Protestant Christians regard Francis as one of their own,
sometimes making a place for him in their liturgical calendars
or placing their works of compassion like soup kitchens or
shelters for the homeless under his patronage. Each year thousands
of Christians visit in Assisi the various places associated
with Francis' life. They do not hesitate to use the Peace
Prayer of St. Francis, which he certainly did not write but
which wonderfully sums up his approach to God and to others.
Today there
are Anglican Franciscans. The Roman Catholic Society of the
Atonement began as an Episcopalian Franciscan congregation.
It promotes Christian unity and works with compassion among
Christ's least brothers and sisters. Ernest Renan, a 19th-century
thinker who defended reason and science, wrote, "One might
say that Francis of Assisi was the only perfect Christian
since Christ." Although Francis himself would certainly have
rejected that description, many Christians have reason to
agree with Renan's assessment.
The overwhelming
response to the 1986 Prayer Day for World Peace reflects the
general esteem that the Orthodox and Protestants have for
Francis. They understandably regret that not all Catholics
today live out the virtues which made Francis a saint. Many
Christians see him as a great peacemaker and a symbol for
the ecology movement. They understand his great desire to
be nourished by the Word of God, the Scriptures.
Inspires Those of Other Faiths
As the question
from the Pakistani Muslim showed me, it isn't only Christians
who regard Francis as a holy man. Several delegations to the
Prayer Day represented Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and traditional
Christian religions. If I had not seen it for myself, I could
not have imagined the enthusiasm, respect and cheers which
welcomed non-Christian leaders as they entered Our Lady of
the Angels Basilica that October day.
The issues
of peace, ecology, religious freedom and respect for the individual
person form a strong bond between Francis and many members
of the world's great religions.
Bridges Past and Future
In his apostolic
letter On the Coming of the Third Millennium, Pope
John Paul II writes that the joy of every Jubilee "is based
upon the forgiveness of sins, the joy of conversion" (#32).
The pope goes on to identify as needing repentance the sins
"which have been detrimental to the unity willed by God for
his People."
Later the pope
writes that Catholics must repent of acquiescing "to intolerance
and even the use of violence in the service of truth....Many
factors frequently converged to create assumptions which justified
intolerance and fostered an emotional climate from which only
great spirits, truly free and filled with God, were in some
way able to break free" (#35). Francis was such a guide for
his followers of his day and can be again for us.
He clearly
had the same desire as the pope has expressed for "an ecumenism
of the saints and of the martyrs" (#37). Francis cautioned
his own friars not to think that praising previous saints
would excuse their own lukewarm response to the Good News.
The only valid
reason for praising Francis of Assisi on the eve of the third
millennium is to identify him as someone who allowed God's
grace to bear fruit in his own life, as someone who became
a "living Gospel" for his contemporaries, as someone who can
help us become more authentic followers of Jesus, the Word-made-flesh,
and who can help us to recognize one another as brothers and
sisters, all created in God's image.
Father Pat
McCloskey, O.F.M., is a teacher and chaplain at Roger Bacon
High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. His new book, Day by
Day With Followers of Francis and Clare, will be published
in May by St. Anthony Messenger Press.


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Wednesday November 10, 2010
Louisville, Ga--I think a lot of folks were wondering just how good Jefferson County was going to be this year after losing Barry Bostic and having Chester Stone playing with a torn ACL. A funny thing has happened, this Warrior team may be as good as ever, and a big part of that is our Operation Football Live, Augusta Chronicle player of the week.
Dontavius Kitchens is his name and scoring long touchdowns is his game. Friday night Kitchens ripped off a 65 yard touchdown to start off the half. The next time they got the ball, on the next carry, kitchens went even further to the tune of 99 yards. By the time his night was done, 9 carries and 180 yards pushing him over the thousand yard mark for the season.
"I just did what I had to do." said Dontavius Kitchens "I just saw the hole, tucked it and my speed took me the rest of the way, nobody could catch me."
"Just a great performance by a great player." said coach JB Arnold "We've been blessed this year to have some great performances all year and we needed him to step up last Friday and we know we can count on Dontavius to get the job done for us."
Just as impressive, Kitchens running mate, Charles Broadus is also over the thousand yard mark for the season making this a lethal one-two punch.


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Why I Never Read the Comments – Plus-size Women in the Online Community
Posted by Jane Janeczko on September 30, 2013
Part of the danger of being so immersed in an online community (namely the plus-size, body-positive online community) is that I often forget that not everyone is as evolved as the gorgeous, supportive, eloquent women (and sometimes men) that I have chosen to surround myself with. I am consistently reminded of this fact whenever some piece of news, blog post, or even the occasional photoset of a plus-size woman goes viral, and suddenly the mainstream takes note of the empowering work that these women are doing – to very mixed reviews.
Someone recently told me that my community could be considered a crutch; that my friends are too supportive, too understanding, too unabashedly confident. They never feel the need to judge or criticize others for being themselves and they deserve to be supremely proud of that fact. Maybe it's my fault that my friends are just too good or maybe, just maybe, everyone else needs to catch up and get on our level.
When the Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries' disgusting, body-shaming comments started circulating last Spring, there was an outpouring of thoroughly negative responses from plus-size and standard-size consumers alike. I'm not sure if any of them were as humorous, charming or effective as the open letter that plus-size blogger Jes "The Militant Baker" wrote to Jeffries on her blog, which was then picked up by BuzzFeed. The letter included pictures from a photo shoot that Jes orchestrated and modeled in, featuring herself and a conventionally attractive male model (one of the "cool people" that Jeffries is trying to market to) in various sultry poses with the tagline "Attractive & Fat."
In her letter, Jes wrote:
"The juxtaposition of uncommonly paired bodies is visually jarring, and, even though I wish it didn't, it causes viewers to feel uncomfortable. This is largely attributed to companies like yours that perpetuate the thought that fat women are not beautiful. This is inaccurate, but if someone were to look through your infamous catalog, they wouldn't believe me."
The unfettered gloriousness of Jes' prose and images brought a tear to my eye and I scrolled through the letter several times before I noticed the comments featured underneath the page. There were a decent amount of "You go girl!" and "She's so pretty!" comments under Jes' letter , but unfortunately, there were the usual nasty, fat-shaming comments like "She is not a healthy weight," and "Fat is never attractive."
Many commenters were quick to identify their body type in their comments, such as "I'm overweight, but trying to lose weight," or "I'm not heavy," in an attempt to justify their words. Now, there is nothing wrong with healthy dieting. If that's something that you want to do – go for it. There's also nothing wrong with not dieting. Weight does not dictate health and the biggest problem with the commenters underneath this article was that they immediately assumed Jes was unhealthy based on her size and, therefore, needed to diet.
If you are not familiar with BuzzFeed's platform, the site uses your Facebook account when you are commenting, so your full Facebook name and profile picture are visible when you post underneath an article. There is no hiding behind anonymity.
I was scrolling through the comments, getting more and more incensed, when I saw a post by someone who I knew in real life: a girl who attends my university. Her statements were decidedly anti-Jes, and she wrote that "she had no idea" why Jes would do this photo shoot, that "the ads weren't attractive," and that "obese people can change if they work at it."
Aside from the fact that these comments are rude, offensive, and bigoted, her identity was equally hurtful to me. While this was not a girl who I considered a good friend, but I had met her on several occasions and spoken with her multiple times about various school related matters.
It was an eye-opening moment for me. It is easy to brush aside rude comments on the internet when these comments are made by virtual villains. However, knowing that it was someone who existed in my personal, physical world made her offensive comments so much more shocking. Not to say that I have never had someone make a rude comment about my weight before or that I've never been a victim of bullying, but to see the true colors of someone with whom you have had perfectly pleasant interactions can be alarming.
So I stopped reading the comments. On this story, and on all plus-size positive news stories. I can't personally educate every wrong person on the internet (sadly), but I can decide not to let their comments affect my life. Ergo, I surround myself with positive people, I shop with companies that are supportive of me, like IGIGI, I write about issues that are important to me, and I give other plus-size women a platform where they discuss their lives and their bodies safely.