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This year marks the 50th anniversary of Roger Staubach winning the Heisman Trophy.
The Naval Academy quarterback easily outdistanced Georgia Tech standout Billy Lothridge for the award in 1963, collecting 1,860 points to 504 for the Yellow Jackets signal caller. Roger The Dodger guided Navy to a 9-1 record and a No. 2 national ranking, passing for 1,474 yards and seven touchdowns. Navy lost to Texas in the Cotton Bowl for the national championship.
Staubach, who went on to an NFL Hall of Fame career with the Dallas Cowboys while guiding them to two Super Bowl titles, was just the fourth underclassman, all juniors up to that point, to win the prized statue. He was the fifth Heisman winner from one of the service academies and the most recent one to do so.
During the middle of the 20th century, Army and Navy produced some outstanding teams. Army won three straight national championships (two AP and one Helms Athletic Foundation) from 1944 through 1946 while compiling a 27-0-1 record. Those teams were led by Mr. Inside Felix Doc Blanchard and Mr. Outside Glen Davis, who both went on to win Heisman trophies. Blanchard became the first underclassman to win the Heisman, taking his in 1945, with Davis claiming the award in 1946. Georgias Charlie Trippi finished second to Davis.
Pete Dawkins, who overcame polio as a child, was the third Heisman winner from Army. Dawkins, who went on to attain the rank of Brigadier General, led the Black Knights to an unbeaten record in 1958 as they finished third nationally after completing the season at 8-0-1. The lone blemish was a tie at 14 at Pittsburgh. That was the famous Army team that featured Lonesome End Bill Carpenter. He never entered the Army huddle, forcing opponents to keep a man heads up on him at all times.
Even with its impressive record, Army did not play in a bowl game that season. In fact, Army shunned bowl games until 1984, when it beat Michigan State 10-6 in the Cherry Bowl.
Joe Bellino became Navys first Heisman winner in 1960 while leading the Midshipmen to a 9-2 record, including a 21-14 loss to Missouri in the Orange Bowl. His statistics from that season were meager at best compared to todays figures. He rushed for 834 yards, caught 15 passes for 264 yards and three touchdowns and threw for three touchdowns. He averaged 47.1 yards punting.
The Naval Academy has played in 18 bowl games in its history dating back to the 1924 Rose Bowl, when it tied Washington at 14.
Army has 23 former players who have been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, while Navy has 19. This compares to 13 for Georgia and 12 for Georgia Tech.
Between the awarding of the first Heisman in 1935 through Staubachs winning year in 1963, in addition to the five service academy winners, there were 17 other players from Army or Navy to finish in the top 10 in Heisman Trophy balloting. Since that season through 2012, only four players have ranked in the top 10, with former Air Force quarterback Dee Dowis, who played at Franklin County, with the best finish at No. 6 in 1989. Air Force, which started playing football in 1955, has never had a Heisman Trophy winner.
The service academy drought will continue this year, as no player from any of the three programs has been invited to Saturdays ceremonies at the Best Buy Theater in New York.
If I had a vote, which I dont, Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron would join the list of Heisman winners this weekend. You can look for Florida State redshirt freshman quarterback Jameis Winston to become the third Seminoles player to take the coveted award, joining Charlie Ward, who won in 1993, and Chris Weinke, who took the famed statue in 2000.
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i work on tuesdays and saturdays im at school full-time....
was wondering if this was the best way to set up my monday.wednesday.thurs.fri routine...plz tell me what you guys think or what i should change...
Quads and hams.
Leg ext: 2 warm up sets + 3 working sets
Front squat w/bb: 1 warm up set + 3 working sets
Single leg ext: 3 working sets
Seated Leg Curls: 1 warm up set + 4 working sets
SLDL: 4 working sets
Chest and triceps.
Flat Bench press: 2 warm up sets + 3 working sets
Decline DB press: 4 working sets
Incline DB press: 4 working sets
Dips: 3 working sets
Skull Krusher: 3 working sets
Pressdowns: 3 sets
Failure Push-Ups 1 set
Back and biceps.
Hyperextensions: 3 warm up sets
Chins: 3 working sets
pulldowns with an outside grip: 3 working sets
Barbell rows: 1 warm up set + 3 working sets
DB rows: 3 working sets
EZ bar curls: 1 warm up set + 3 working sets
Inclne DB cursl: 3 working sets
hammer curls: 3 working sets
Shoulders, calves and abs.
DB shoulder press: 2 warm up sets + 3 working sets
DB laterals: 3 working sets
Single straight arm laterals: 3 working sets
Bent over laterals: 3 working sets
DB shrugs: 3 working sets
Seated calf raise: 1 warm up set + 3 working sets
Standing calf raise: 3 working sets
Leg raises: 2 working set
Side crunch: 1 working set
Twist crunch: 1 working set
Crunch: 2 working sets
Didn't really look at routine, but I would move thurs to saturday to allow recovery
for better recovery i was looking to do this
mon chest tris
wed quads hams
thurs shoulders calves abs
fri back bis
cuz i work saturdays
looks like my routine, just incorporate thursday into the other days. You are not doing any major muscle groups then anyways, just chill then and thank me for the day off and the extra size you will get. I used to train 5 days a week and not as much results as I get 3 days of lifting a week. I do 5 min of shoulders a week because they are too big on me compared to my biceps but just add it in on chest day btwn chest and tris. Calves do on legs day. Abs, whenever
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Looks all right to me.
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Entries to 2007 Laguna Phuket Triathlon Running Out
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The 2007 Laguna Phuket Triathlon is anticipated to be another tremendous success as more than 700 individual triathletes have already registered. Those interested in participating are encouraged to sign-up fast as there are less than 50 entries still available. This will be the third consecutive year the event has been sold-out.
Race entry is available online only. Closing date for entries is 31 October 2007, unless registration reaches capacity before then. Once capacity has been reached a waitlist will be started and additional slots awarded in case of cancellations.
Hailed as Southeast Asia's premier multisport event, the Laguna Phuket Triathlon, supported by Thai Airways International, the Tourism Authority of Thailand and Herbalife, is now in its fourteenth year. This year's race will take place at the Laguna Phuket resort on Sunday 2 December with race organisers expecting to welcome over 1400 competitors in three events that day, the 18k swim, 55k bike and 12k run triathlon, the team relay, and the 6k Fun Run.
Starting 10 minutes after the main triathlon event will be the Herbalife Corporate Challenge Team Relay. Herbalife is challenging companies and organizations to enter teams to compete against Herbalife's top athletes in the Team Relay. Teams must comprise three athletes – a swimmer, cyclist and runner, all above the age of 18, either the same gender or any combination of male/female.
Corporate relay team sponsorship packages are available from USD300 to USD1800 and include race entry and awards banquet tickets for three persons, two nights' accommodation at one of the Laguna hotels, airport transfers and branding opportunities at the event.
This will be the second year that the relay teams will be competing for prize money, sponsored by Herbalife. The top three winning teams will win USD1000, USD750 and USD500, respectively.
Renowned as the "Race of Legends", the Laguna Phuket Triathlon boasts possibly more world champions racing in past fields than any other race in the world short of the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii. Pro triathletes who have participated at Laguna Phuket have won more than 50 world championships from every discipline in the sport of triathlon: Ironman, Olympic, 70.3, Duathlon and Xterra. The list of Olympic and Commonwealth Games medalists, World Cup, US Pro, Ironman, European and various national champions defies accurate count. Legendary triathletes who have raced at Laguna Phuket include Mark Allen (USA), Greg Welch (AUS), Simon Lessing (GBR), Mike Pigg (USA), Scott Molina (USA), Peter Reid (CAN), Paula Newby-Fraser (USA), Karen Smyers (USA) and Michelle Jones (AUS). Pro triathletes racing in this year's triathlon will be competing for the USD20,000 pro prize purse.
The 6K Fun Run expects to attract some 500 athletes. The Fun Run is limited to runners 12 years of age and over (as of 2 December 2007). Trophies will be awarded to the top three male and top 3 female finishers overall. All finishers will receive a t-shirt and finisher's medal. Registration deadline for the Fun Run is 15 November unless registration reaches capacity in which it will be closed.
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Shop Talk is a weekly column featuring locally owned and operated businesses. This week, we talk to Lillian Browne of Spruce Hollow Farm in Walton.
How long have you lived in the area?
Since some time between 2006 and 2007 when we purchased the farm.
Tell me about your business:
Spruce Hollow Farm is an equine facility that provides horse boarding services, trail riding, horseback riding lessons as well as massage, aromatherapy and reiki healing horse therapies. The farm also sells USDA meats, and animals for sale.
Describe a typical day in your business:
There is no typical day on a farm and every day is an adventure. There are so many variables when working with animals. Establishing a routine that the animals rely on is very important . We feed twice per day both morning and evening. Chores and feedings include making certain that all livestock has readily available clean water. We also check each animal on the farm, every single one, during feeding for injuries, cuts, scrapes or anything out of the ordinary. We have a riding program in the warmer months and on lesson or trail ride days we devote much more time to the horses. Our horses are minimally groomed once per day.
How did you get started in this line of work?
It is hard to imagine what my life was like years ago in a court room career. We are first generation farmers and that means a lot of learn by doing and asking advice from others. We build more stalls than we could use and it evolved into offering boarding facilities for other horses to help offset our own equine expenses.
Where do you see this business in five years?
Continuing to do what I love! I make myself available to adjust to the market and see where trends are heading. I think that expanding the farm to include sheep might be a future project in order to sell fleece, wool and maybe our own yarns.
Describe a memorable moment in your workplace:
There are many but one in particular was giving riding lessons to three young ladies who were able to successfully compete in the show ring at the county fair one month after they started riding. I was so proud of them for working hard and having the courage to compete with riders who have had lessons for years.
What have you learned from your work?
Self reliance and that there are better ways to communicate than the human language. The livestock have taught me a lot about weather and moods by their body language. This has really proved invaluable when dealing with people also as I have learned to listen to what is NOT being said with words, but being said nonetheless. My priorities have changed since becoming a farmer. Things that were once important now seem silly, like high heels! I've become self sufficient in growing my own food and taking more interest in what goes into my food. In practicality my husband and I have learned many things that we never dreamed of like giving our animals injections, how to castrate a pig and that baling twine works just fine as a ponytail holder!
What is the most challenging part of what you do?
Farmers are at the mercy of fluctating markets, fuel, corn and even the stock market, we can never predict with certainty where markets will be trending in meat or egg consumption in six months or one year. We gamble that our high quality meats will sell. I've not seen farming as a whole, to be challenging. In terms of our equine facility, when the economy is poor, people are not boarding the horses out or taking horseback riding lesson or trail rides. It is a juggling act to make our products and services available to the public and trying to make a small profit.
The most enjoyable?
Everyday we learn and enjoy something new, not just about our farm but ourselves and the beauty of the area in which we live. I love what I do so there is enjoyment everywhere.
How do you define success for your business?
I would define successes in increments. For instance, when a baby lamb survives the winter, that's a success! When I've sold USDA meats and not lost money, that's a success. But my definition of success comes in other small ways such as being able to produce our own food, seeing the triumph on the face of a child who just learned to trot a horse, these are all examples. Success is not just about finances. It is about setting goals and accomplishing them everyday.
What are some advantages as well as drawbacks of doing business in this area?
The weather of Delaware County and this region is a drawback. The harsh, long winters can be daunting but mother nature makes up for it in the other seasons. You can not beat the views or air quality, especially at that time of the year.
What sets you apart from your competitors?
I don't have competitors, only friends in similar businesses but my business really focuses on holistic horse care and the training I have makes it a unique situation.
What advice would you give to someone trying to enter your field of work?
Have a mentor, someone who can answer questions for you. Kowing what resources are available for a business owner and a farmer are invaluable.
It helps to be willing and able to do your own marketing. Being flexible and creative are excellent traits for any business person, but especially farmers.
Know that there is more than one way to perform a task and the quickest way is not always the best way! Also, knowing when to cut your losses and reallocate your energies and money is invaluable.
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Hundreds of local foodies, chefs, students and regular ol' Bostonians have taken to social media and are flooding Bravo's "Top Chef" Twitter handle, @BravoTopChef, with 140-character pleas as to why the competitive cooking show should film its 10th season in Beantown (in addition to the city's delicious baked beans). The Tweets are all followed by the key#yougottatryboston hashtag, which has become the calling card of the movement.
The Hub's food zealots have also created a Facebook page with more than 1,300 fans and a near constant stream of posts.
Even Mayor Thomas M. Menino has caught the fever: "@BravoTopChef #yougottatryboston for our wonderful chefs but also for historic landmarks, great music, wonderful philanthropy & more," was one of his recent Tweets on the matter.
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The city, with the help of the marketing agency Digitas, was actually the one to spark the movement, as a way to promote Boston's restaurants, attractions and the city itself.
So far, "Top Chef" executives have stayed mum on season 10's location (the show's season 9 spot, Texas, wasn't revealed until September, two months before its fall premiere).
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- Han Su, @archer823: "Dear @BravoTopChef, #yougottatryBoston and it's food scene, most underrated food scene in the US. the high end talent here is amazing!!!"
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Two Pine Street
Exeter, NH 03833
Exeter, NH
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Epoch at The Exeter Inn Details
Dining Style:
Casual Elegant
(603) 772-5901
Hours of Operation:
Breakfast: Daily Brunch: Sunday: 10:00am - 2:00pm; Lunch: Mon- Friday: 11:30am - 2:00pm; Dinner: Sunday - Thursday: 5:30pm - 9:00pm, Friday & Saturday: 5:30pm - 10:00pm
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Executive Chef:
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Dress Code:
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Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Chef's Table, Entertainment, Farm to Table, Fireplace, Full Bar, Happy Hour, Late Night, Non-Smoking Area, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Takeout, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine, Wine Bar
Onsite and offsite available call catering office at 603-772-5901 ext 406
Private Party Facilities:
For parties of 10 or more call to find out about our 5 private rooms for group of 10 to 130
Private Party Contact:
Shannon Cote (603) 772-5901 x406
Special Events & Promotions:
Every day is a special event at Epoch. Whether your staying in house and joining us for breakfast or bringing a group for dinner on our patio. Please allow us to treat you with our farm to table menu and hosted events: wine dinners, private parties and and entertainment outdoors on the patio. Our Sunday brunch is a local favorite with a specialty Bloody Mary menu and seasonal menu.
Getting there
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Front Street
Public Transit:
Stops in front of Inn Coast bus
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Parking Details:
Plenty of parking in this area of Exeter, onsite parking and street parking
A word from Epoch at The Exeter Inn
We welcome you to Epoch Restaurant and Bar located in Exeter NH. Join us for casually elegant dining featuring the freshest seacoast of New Hampshire products creatively presented. Our award winning kitchen staff takes great pride in serving only the most exquisite food to our guests. Come try this
new creative restaurant with great service and outstanding food.
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Diner Reviews
This was our first time at Epoch
and didn't know what to expect. EVERYTHING was perfect! The decor, cleanliness, quality of food and service. We will definitely return with friends to share an exception experience."
Dined on 7/26/2014
Great new menu. Like the
half-portions and variety. Bread and the food was very good. Chocolate panna cotta is excellent."
Dined on 7/23/2014
Enjoyed the seafood-heavy menu
recently, with great salads and specials, attentive service too!"
Dined on 7/12/2014
Sitting in the shade having
excellent bloody marys, not rushed, and good food although sort of same old, same old brunch items. A big salad without beef would be a good addition to the carb heavy menu."
Dined on 7/6/2014
The food was great, atmosphere was
very nice.( we had a view of a wedding taking place, Which was nice to see. The Service was slow, and every guestion we asked our waitress could not answer our guestions and had to go ask someone. But the staff was nice and friendly. For dinner at 7pm there was very few people in the restaurant. But overall we enjoyed it."
Dined on 6/28/2014
Greatly improved service. Good
quality meat, prepared well. Unfortunately all of both our main courses (steaks with potatoes and caponata) were heavily over-salted. A gazpacho with spicy poblano was excellent and thankfully not too salty. It had been a while since we had been too Epoch as the food is too salty for us and found the menu much more limited in choices than it had been."
Dined on 6/28/2014
The food and service were
outstanding!! Nice atmosphere and quiet. The night before I was at a restaurant where I couldn't hear the person across from me. There were three people in our party and we were all impressed. There wasn't a speck of food left on the plate. I especially liked the fact that you could choose the size of your salad and entrée. Portions were very good even on the smaller plates."
Dined on 6/21/2014
The open table reservations were
awesome. The calamari app crunchy and spicy and was out very fast. After we put in our orders the food came out very quickly. The Grilled Swiss Chard was awesome but Steak Au Poivre tough and hard to chew but great flavor, presentation and spices. My mates loved duck (slightly overcooked) tuna (absolutely the best) and daily special pork chop (also the best). But, the waitress did not come back to take our order for 25 minutes after she brought our drinks. Then after we were done with dinner, plates clean, we sat at least 1/2 hour waiting for her to come and clear the dirty dishes and bring us the check. Believe me I had my credit card out when she stopped by because I couldn't take si "
Dined on 4/30/2014
Under new management, the
restaurant and hotel have stepped up a couple of notches in terms of service. Great place to visit when in town for Academy business."
Dined on 4/18/2014
Atmosphere was busy(restaurant wk)
servers harried and food uneven."
Dined on 4/11/2014
My wife and I went to Exeter NH
for the weekend; late check in and we thought we would "play it safe" and eat in the hotel restaurant--glad we did! Food was fantastic and the service was extremely friendly, courteous, and professional. We came back the second night for appetizers in the lounge and once again were treated to great service and marvelous food. Ahi tuna was seared to perfection, the pork shank was butter tender. Flavors were perfect. Even the drinks in the bar were excellent; made with fresh fruit and full flavored. We would definitely stop here again."
Dined on 3/28/2014
We had a lovely time at Epoch. It
was a very slow night (Tuesday) possibly due to school vacation, but we were treated extremely well by the server as well as the host/manager. Our son said that it was very possibly the best steak au poivre that he'd ever had and that seems to be his go-to meal when dining out. The scallops with cherries was unique and tasty. My only suggestion would be to enlarge the salad portion a bit, the panzanella was tasty but tiny. Yum...highly recommended."
Dined on 2/25/2014
We waited quite awhile to be
greeted, as the host stand was empty;then our server could not find our reservation but said "I'll seat you anyway". Vegetable risotto was tasty, but rice was mushy. I left most of it on my plate. Server never asked if we were happy with our main courses, and offered to wrap up the risotto for me. When I declined, she did not ask if it had been to my liking. Restaurant was a bit noisy due to a wedding reception, but not unbearable."
Dined on 2/22/2014
This was my fourth visit, and I
was disappointed. I had to summon the maître d to find my server. The service was spotty throughout. My tuna was over spiced and the vegetables too tough to chew. The bread presentation was skimpy. Sad to see such a reversal in a previously decent restaurant."
Dined on 2/15/2014
This was my 2nd time dining at
Epoch. Both times have been since they changed chefs and from what I understand the change is for the better. I certainly did not have any real complaints. Our server, Scott, was delightful; a real gem. The time between courses was a little slow, but I don't believe it was his fault. I like that you can get many of the salads and meals in half portions. I also like that you can buy a 3 oz or 6 oz glass of wine. Good if you just wanted to try a wine without committing. The first time here I had the winter vegetable risotto, which was really yummy. I would have had it again, but felt I should try something new. My husband and I shared a Delmonico steak for 2 and it was quite good. Yes, I would go back."
Dined on 2/15/2014
The food was great and I recommend
the dining room. However, they have one of the slowest bar tenders I have ever seen. We were asked, after about 5 minutes of sitting dead center of bar, if we had been helped. After saying no, the bar tender turned around and worked on something else. Another couple came and sat next to is and after about 10 minutes got up and left. I would recommend only going for the sit down dining."
Dined on 2/14/2014
If you are in the Exeter, NH area,
Epoch is an excellent place to have a nice dinner with good atmosphere."
Dined on 2/14/2014
Our party of 4 enjoyed the entire
meal, service and lovely setting. A bit pricey but worth every penny."
Dined on 2/8/2014
Two of the party had breakfast
items: stuffed French toast on Brioche bread with real maple syrup and Crab cakes with poached eggs on English Muffins with home fries and fruit. A third guest had an open-faced turkey sandwich with bacon and mornay sauce. Looked amazing. All food was well-received and delicious."
Dined on 1/26/2014
This was our second experience
dining here. This time it was very crowded but the new manager was very accommodating and made our experience very enjoyable. We will definitely dine here again and recommend it to our friends. Thank you so much!"
Dined on 1/25/2014
Sunday brunch was very nice. Good
food, great coffee, and a very pleasant dining room."
Dined on 1/19/2014
We have been here several times
before, usally it's great, we went on New Year's eve for dinner and seemed to wait a very long time for everything, we were seated at 7:45 and finished dinner at 10:00. We sat for a long time before the waitress took our drink orders, then salad came before the bread or the bottle of wine we ordered, we were nearly done with the salad before we got our wine, which they had to substitute because they ran out of what we ordered. They did remove the desert charge from the menu to appoligize for the long waits. Food was excellent, I ordered the oxtail gnochi and my wife ordered tornados De Beouf, also excellent. I had the dessert collecton which had a nice assortment of deserts all very good."
Dined on 12/31/2013
Last visit to Epoch was over a
year ago - had a wonderful meal back then. Not so this time. Food was average, portions were small and prices high relative to the value received. Service, while competent, was slow. Ambiance is great, but doesn't make up for the aforementioned shortcomings. Too many good restaurants in the area to warrant going back to Epoch."
Dined on 11/30/2013
We went for Thanksgiving Dinner
with a reservation for 4:00 PM, and were told before being seated that they ran out of Turkey (on Turkey Day! ! ! !) Need I say more? We ordered a la carte, but were underwhelmed by the inattentive wait staff and slow service. As guests, we should not need to feel like an afterthought."
Dined on 11/28/2013
We took our parents out for
Thankgsgiving brunch and it was a disaster. They had no turkey - seriously? No cranbury sauce either. They didn't even have the manners to apologize or mention it. When asked, they admitted, they ran out before we were sat. Our table was in a side room that was en masse in a bad way. We would never return for the holiday which is a shame since we will need to do this again. We only recommend for a cozy night at the bar. If this had been my first experience I would not have come back."
Dined on 11/28/2013
We attended the Thanksgiving
brunch. Our res was 4:15, and I was assured they would continue seating guests until 5. But at 4:15 they had already run out of turkey. I got lucky and received one of the last pieces of prime rib. Other guests who arrived at 4:30 didn't even get that. There was plenty of food left on the buffet table. So if you like having salad, potatoes, vegetables and some institutional ham slices on Thanksgiving you're all set. The food quality was at best medium - at $40 I think it was over priced. Advice - skip the buffets at Epoch. I don't know what their menu is like, but after this experience I'm probably not going back to find out."
Dined on 11/28/2013
One statement: Restaurant ran out
of Turkey during Thanksgiving Buffet. Rest of food and bar drinks were just OK........ Probably will not be attending Epoch again as it was very expensive and no where's near what we expected based on their reputation."
Dined on 11/28/2013
4th visit - 1st time was awesome -
was when they 1st opened. 2nd time was buffet - mother's day or easter - very good 3rd time was very good as well 4th time will be last food was ok at best and very surprised at lack of dessert selection service was very bad waiter did not clear empty plates - told us to "flag me down" when plates needed to be cleared had to find him to order milk and coffee coffee was very old, and was only half cup will not be back"
Dined on 11/28/2013
Service was impeccable. Food is
excellent and will return soon. Great find in a sleepy little town!"
Dined on 11/28/2013
Everything was perfect except the
main dish always seem to take a very long time to arrive at the table. Not the first time."
Dined on 11/15/2013
We frequent Epoch every few months
and usually have a good experience so we thought we would try them out for restaurant week. We were disappointed in the quality of the food for sure. I think they took on too much with having a wedding going on, participating in restaurant week and having a large party in a private function room. The cheese plate was very skimpy, beet salad had a very bitter taste and the desserts were not edible and we retuned them to the kitchen (panna cotta looked like a scoop of chocolate pudding plopped on a plate and the flourless chocolate cake tasted like burnt plastic). What a bummer!"
Dined on 11/9/2013
We went during Portmouth
Restaurant Week to give it a try. A special menu offered but they are items on the regular menu. Started with PEI mussels - fantastic. The salad however was rather plain. Entree of mushroom ravioli were excellent. Came with fresh peas and cream sauce. The other entree was a brick chicken. I tasted it and chicken was moist. My wife thought it and the accompanying apple stuffing were very good. Dessert was a wild blueberry sorbet that was billed as having a shortcake but was just 2 scoops of the sorbet. Still was very good with the berry flavor very distinct. The other dessert was a chocolate terra cotta. While it is very nice and worth a return visit it probably won't be a frequent place to go."
Dined on 11/9/2013
I am five months pregnant and have
been craving duck for weeks. I found their menu online and it had duck! Although it came with a pricey tab, double what my husband and I usually pay for dinner, it was just what I needed. More menu options would have been nice for my husband, but he liked his meal. The dessert was delicious, but we were so full we couldn't finish it. Be sure to reserve your table, they were turning people away all night due to a party they had coming in."
Dined on 11/9/2013
The restaurant week menu was a
good value. However, it should be criminal to harvest mussels as small as the ones served. The decor is strange and gaudy. The service is slow, and the hostess is disinterested. Won't ever go back, because there are so many excellent restaurants in the area."
Dined on 11/7/2013
New fall menu is welcome;
reasonable mix of meat, fish & vegetarian choices. Steak au poivre & veal chops were excellent quality & cooked just right (i.e. as ordered). As always at Epoch they too heavy on the salt . Vegetables with entrees were good but far too few. Amounts could easily be doubled and even then wouldn't approach a proper serving size. We had questions about bottles of wine but they couldn't find anyone who really knew anything about the wines(i.e. could only speak about wines in general). On a Saturday night not to have a knowledgeable wine person in the house? Really? Our waitress was pleasant but disappeared for long periods of time - this happens every time we've been to Epoch. Where do they go?"
Dined on 11/2/2013
Most hotel restaurants are over
price and over rated. I've put off going to Epoch for almost 2 years for that exact reason. Last week we decided to "bite the bullet" and check it out. First, I was surprised by the size of the restaurant and bar area. Clean, friendly and unpretentious. We were greeted quickly and sat at a nice table towards the back of the room. Wine list was ample, nothing special, good selection of beers and cocktails as well. Salads were very good. My wife had Salmon and I had the Veal Porterhouse special. We were both very happy with our choices. The veal was cooked to perfection and wasn't over sauced or under/over seasoned as is usually the case. The salmon was beautifully cooked and moist. We will return!"
Dined on 11/1/2013
The restaurant lacks the ambiance
of days ago. The chicken was a bit on the dry side and the tournadoes were not very tender. It was a disappointment to half of our group."
Dined on 10/26/2013
After a 45 minute wait. Crab
cakes,salad and chowder were good but top sirloin was ruined overcooked and tough. Server started clearing before everyone in our party had finished eating."
Dined on 10/11/2013
The chef seems to have some
on-nights and off-nights, but the food here has improved and there's always something good that comes out of the kitchen (I mean, at least one superior dish out of four: two appetizers and two main courses, never to be called entrées, of course). And the room is nicely laid out and conversation thereby unaffected by noise of any kind. So the only real complaint might be that when one walks up to the reservation desk, there has never been a warm greeting. Not once has anyone ever said anything approaching, "Welcome," or, "Nice to see you" or anything else. There's usually a kind of grunt and then a walk into the pretty room (sans conversation). Let people know you're glad to see them--you may see them again."
Dined on 9/29/2013
The food was delicious, but the
service was terrible. We waited at least 20 minutes to get out drinks from the bar and towards the end of our meal, our waitress was nowhere to be found. The dinner was expensive and would have been worth it if our server was more consistent."
Dined on 9/20/2013
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Haha yeah I thought it would be easier this way. Funny thing is, I know people are going to be pissed at me for this because I have a generally differing opinion and that's something the typical MMA fan can't stand. Just be open people...for the love of fighting.
Too funny. Smart move, you would have exhausted yourself pointing this out to every person who posted that Silva is a Pride fighter.
Haha ok...kind of contradicting I guess....
But seriously. Stop saying Anderson is a PRIDE fighter. He is a contracted UFC fighter. People put too much bias in PRIDE and constantly bash UFC even tho they continue to buy their ppv's. Franklin did not lose to Silva the PRIDE standout...he lost to Silva the new UFC Champion.
does it matter? they have vastley improved and could easily win those past losses, they r champs for a reason, and learned from their mistakes from their past.
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Stop calling Anderson a PRIDE fighter now that he beat the UFC middleweight star Rich Franklin. Before this happened, everyone talked about how shitty he was in PRIDE, and now because he beat Franklin he brings some kind of credibility like he's the flag carrier for PRIDE FC? The point is, like it or not, Rich Franklin was not beaten by a PRIDE fighter. He was beaten by a contracted UFC middleweight fighter, and now the UFC middleweight champion. Get off PRIDE's bandwagon and just love and have respect for fighting in general for God's sake.
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Tom Fink
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A Tulsa man was killed Tuesday afternoon after a collision with a dump truck in rural Rogers County.
A 2005 Freightliner dump trunk, driven by Pryor resident Dennis May, was northbound on NS4230, according to the report of Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Scott Shropshire.
At the same time, a 2012 Ford Fusion, driven by 38-year-old Kerry Fort of Tulsa, was westbound on US412, but the dump truck failed to yield to a yield sign and struck Fort's vehicle, striking it, reports indicate.
May, 57, was not injured but Fort died at the scene from massive injuries. Both drivers were wearing their seatbelts at the time of the collision, according to the trooper.
Trooper Shropshire is out of Troop B, Rogers County Detachment of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.


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Palestine Herald-Press
Services for Trudie Bowman Dunnam, 91, of Elkhart will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Bailey & Foster Chapel with the Rev. Mike Parker and M.T. Blackmon officiating. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery in Percilla. Arrangements are under the direction of Bailey & Foster.
Mrs. Dunnam went to be with the Lord Monday at her residence.
She was born Feb. 12, 1921 in Anderson County to Joseph Shade and Addie Leona Burris Bowman.
Mrs. Dunnam was a member of the Memorial Missionary Baptist Church. She was a nurses aid and worked at Memorial Hospital.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ennis Dunnam, in 2005; a sister, Eva Mae Bowman; brothers, Ira Bowman and Ray Bowman.
Mrs. Dunnam is survived by her sons, Kenneth Dunnam and wife Elwanda of Elkhart, and Bill Dunnam and wife Rhonda of Palestine; granddaughter, Nikki Dunnam Tubbs and husband Nicholas; one great-granddaughter, Kiaya Fielder; and a stepgreat-granddaughter, Lyndsey Tubbs.
Pallbearers will be Danny Bowman, Tommy Gunnells, Dale Handorf, Wayne Stewart Jr., Nicholas Tubbs and Bill Bowman.
Condolence calls will be received from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Bailey & Foster.
To view online, leave condolences or sign guestbook go to www.baileyandfosterfuneralhome.com


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Alicia Seyler
This is the perfect place to use the environmental skills I developed at VLS."
Alicia Seyler has always had an environmentalist's heart, thanks in part to long childhood days spent in the woods of southeastern Oklahoma. She's recently come home to Oklahoma, bringing the skills of an environmental lawyer as well.
Seyler, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, earned her Master of Studies in Environmental Law (MSEL) from Vermont Law School while holding a VLS First Nations Environmental Law Fellowship. "Without that fellowship I wouldn't have been able to come to Vermont," she says. Her VLS training, and her JD from the University of Wisconsin, prepared her for the high-stakes role she's playing now: taking on an international corporation alleged to be polluting Indian lands. Seyler's an associate with the four-person Aamodt Law Firm in Tulsa that specializes in environmental and Indian law. "You usually don't think of Oklahoma as a hotbed of environmental law firms," she says. "Oklahoma is the nation's third-largest oil producer, and Tulsa is home to many oil and gas companies and pipelines. Most of the environmental law firms are advocates for the polluters," she explains. "And that makes us the renegades here. This is the perfect place to use the environmental skills I developed at VLS."
Seyler's desire to immerse herself in environmental law and policy developed during the four years she spent in Washington, D.C., working as the first-ever Indian liaison for the National Parks Conservation Association and with the Morris K. Udall Foundation. "It was my first exposure to environmental regulations," she recalls. She decided to pursue that area at VLS, which she first visited when invited to speak at a conference on American Indians led by Professor Bruce Duthu, an expert on Indian law and a member of the Houma Tribe of Louisiana. Professor Duthu became a mentor-"he's a great professor, and someone really experienced in the Indian community," she says- and she credits Professor David Firestone with giving her the foundations of environmental law. She also found the VLS community warmly welcoming, which helped her create a balance between pursuing her studies and raising her young son, Sage.
After a rigorous year finishing her MSEL at VLS, Seyler took on two journeys that touched important moments in American history and inspired her for the tough assignments ahead. She attended the Democratic National Convention in Denver with a colleague and fellow Choctaw, Kalyn Free, who was one of a handful of American Indian superdelegates. "We sat on the convention floor representing Oklahoma. For a small-town girl, that was inspirational." She also spent two weeks on The Longest Walk II, a march from Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay to Washington, D.C. The first Longest Walk, 30 years before, mobilized Indian people and supporters to protest-and ultimately defeat-11 congressional bills that threatened indigenous sovereignty. This time, marchers from 100 tribal nations and their international supporters walked two cross-country routes, visiting sacred sites and gathering signatures for an environmental manifesto presented in the capital. "We declared that all life is sacred, and that we must protect Mother Earth with immediate, responsible action," Seyler says. Her own walk ended in Philadelphia, Mississippi, now the capital of the Mississippi Choctaw Tribe. Known as the town where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964, Philadelphia is also the place from which Seyler's people were forced to depart their native lands in 1832 and follow the Trail of Tears to southeastern Oklahoma. There she met Choctaws whose forefathers and mothers refused to leave and who hid out in bayous and forests, struggling to survive.
Now Seyler and her Tulsa colleagues are taking on their own challenge, conducting a class-action suit of American Indian plaintiffs, principal among them the Ponca tribe, one of the poorest in the nation. The defendant is a Taiwan-based corporation whose owner is the 40th richest man in the world. For years, the plaintiffs allege, his corporation's carbon black manufacturing plant has been spewing the stuff over tribal homes and property, and refusing to clean it up. (Think of copier toner-aka carbon black-raining down on you day after day.)
Seyler's firm is up against about a dozen attorneys led by an Oklahoma icon, the attorney who prosecuted Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. But Seyler is not cowed. "They have all the money," she says of the opposing side, "but we're confident we're going to have a positive outcome. We've made a really strong case." At the heart of this case is an ethic that echoes her childhood experience. "We want to see that Oklahoma is protected for future generations," she asserts, "and not exploited for current gain."


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The Peabody girls hockey team built a lot of momentum last season. Last night, the Tanners showed that they want to keep that going this winter.
Sophia Post had a hat trick and Peabody opened the season with a 6-2 win on the road over Brookline. It was the first time the Tanners (1-0) won their first game of the season.
Peabody jumped out to a 3-0 lead after one with goals from Post, Courtney Smith and Alice Murphy. Brookline scored a pair to make it 3-2, and Peabody responded with two more Post markers and a goal from Bella Piscatelli to put the game away.
Goalie Lauren Hennessy, making her first high school start, came up with 16 saves saves including one on a breakaway and a few tough deflections, to earn the win.
"Sophia had a great game on the line with Ciara DiSalvo. They work well together and I thought the combination of Courtney Smith, Alice Murphy and Caorline Buckley worked well together. They'll only improve over time as they understand each other," said Tanners coach Larry Minehan. "Hennessy was outstanding in net. Brookline had two 5-on-3's and we killed one of them."
Smith registered a goal and an assist while DiSalvo had two helpers and Post had one assist to go with her three goals. Also earning assists were Buckley, Murphy, Hannah Travers and Hannie Aylward.
Newton Country Day 4, Pingree 1: Junior Leah Heinze scored the lone Pingree (2-2) goal on assists from Katie Shreenan and Abbey Dirks.
Pingree 51, Dana Hall 45: Haley Sabino scored 13 points, Cassidy Assad added 12 and Hanna Stasiuk chipped in eight as the Highlanders grabbed their first win of the season.
Exeter JV 86, Pingree 84: The Highlanders dropped a close meet on the road against Phillips. Juniors Ani Pula and Emily Grand recorded personal best times in their races.


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Broadway's Michael Rupert, who has witnessed the musical phenomenon Spring Awakening since its infancy, is happy to be part of the educational process that is bringing the groundbreaking rock musical to the Kent State University stage.
He's directing the student production, which opens Friday, through the Roe Green Visiting Director Series. Green, an arts patron and activist from Aurora, pledged a total of $50,000 over 10 years, starting back in 2003, to bring directors of Rupert's ilk in to work with the Kent State theater students.
Rupert is a 1986 Tony Award-winning actor for his role as Oscar in Sweet Charity and has also appeared in the Broadway shows Legally Blonde, Ragtime, Pippin, City of Angels, Falsettos and The Happy Time. He also composed and performed in the Broadway musical Mail and wrote the music for the Off-Broadway musical 3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down, which Weathervane Community Playhouse produced in Akron in 2011.
He is a colleague and friend of Weathervane Executive Director John Hedges, which is how his connection to Kent State was established. Rupert was a visiting director for the drama Breaking the Code at Weathervane in 2010, at which time he also led a master class at Kent State.
"I really wanted to come here [to Kent State to direct] because I really loved the students I saw in the master class," Rupert said. Some of the students from that group are now senior Kent State theater majors.
Seniors Meredith Kochan, Michael Glavan and Jesse Markowitz will star in Spring Awakening as teens Wendla, Melchior and Moritz. Returning professional masters students Tracee Patterson and Greg Violand play all the adult roles in the show.
Rupert remembers seeing a reading of the then-unknown Spring Awakening at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah in 2000. He was doing another workshop project there and saw some real potential in the raw new musical, which creators Steven Sater (book and lyrics) and Duncan Sheik (music) had begun writing in 1998.
Actors sat in chairs in front of music stands while Sheik, a singer-songwriter who hit the national music scene in the mid-1990s, played guitar at the side of the stage.
"It still was kind of a mess," Rupert said of the musical, which was reworked extensively for its Off-Broadway debut in 2006 and then a bit more for its Broadway opening late that year.
Yet "we all thought there was something really special, especially about the score," Rupert said.
The director said he "absolutely loved" the reworked show Off-Broadway, before any plans had been made to move it to Broadway.
"Something has to happen with this show. This can't be it," Rupert and his friends said. "This has gotta have a life somehow."
Commercial producers came onboard, and seeing the musical open six months later on Broadway was equally special, Rupert said.
Spring Awakening, which has a folk-infused alternative rock score, contains haunting melodies and searing rants as seemingly mannerly German teens express their rage and frustrations about their burgeoning sexuality through interior monologues that take shape through song.
The provocative story, based on the play by Frank Wedekind that was banned for a century, delves into painful adolescent issues including sexual abuse, teen pregnancy, abortion and suicide. The story explores the dangers for 15-year-olds who live in a sexually repressive, rigid society whose parents and teachers do not educate them about the changes happening in their own bodies.
"Just the fact that they chose to take that play, Spring Awakening, and turn it into a musical was a little bizarre because it wasn't the kind of play that really sang."
But the musical's creators found a way to make it sing and make it highly relevant to today's youthful audiences. Spring Awakening also celebrates youth and rebellion and brings into focus the fact that adolescent angst is timeless. The groundbreaking show won eight 2007 Tony Awards, including best musical.
What makes the show both groundbreaking and fun to stage, Rupert said, is the way its characters straddle the world of late 19th century Germany and today's world by switching from their "real world" to the song world.
"The song world is electrically charged and the real world is lanterns and strict rules," Rupert said of the dichotomy.
Rupert has spent nearly five weeks working with the student cast at Kent State to launch the musical. He's putting his own spin on the show by choosing not to have the teen characters pick up hand-held microphones as they switch through song from their 1890s world into today's rock world.
In this musical, as soon as their rock interior monologues begin, the characters become teenagers of today. But at Kent State, the actors must rely on themselves more to create the dramatic transition from a strict, closed world to something like a rock concert.
"Suddenly they become something different physically, a little bit," Rupert said. "I purposefully wanted to try it without the mics. I thought it makes sense."
Rupert stresses that his young cast was 15 or 16, like the characters in the play, not long ago. He spoke early on with cast members about struggles they went through as youth with bullying as well as their sexual and spiritual awakenings, which is what the musical is about.
Spring Awakening, which contains adult language, lyrics and mature themes of a sexual nature, is for mature audiences only.
When Rupert leaves Kent State, he'll do a studio recording of the score for the new musical Finding Robert Hutchens, in which he plays the father of two boys in their late 20s who uncover a secret about their deceased mother. The musical is slated for Broadway next fall.
Rupert began acting at age 12 at Pasadena Playhouse in California and made his Broadway debut at age 16, opposite Robert Goulet in Kander and Ebb's The Happy Time.
These days, doing a Broadway show for as long as a year at a time allows him to pick and choose projects in between. He has also directed student productions at Point Park University, Northwestern University, Texas Christian University and the College of William and Mary.
"At this stage in my life, after being in theater since I was a kid, something like 50 years, sometimes working with students, I get more joy out of that than I do with professionals. They [students] are eager to learn and it makes it fun for me," he said.
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The American Dream has always involved a clear sense of the goals to be pursued and means by which they might be achieved. The American Dream has clear expectations both for the individual and the nation. At the individual level, as Penn, Franklin, Alger and so many others knew, the Dream demanded character; preparation in school and shop, honesty, hard work, frugality, and persistence. At the national level, the Dream demanded that society provide an open, fair, competitive, entrepreneurial environment in which individual merit could find its place....
The Founders well understood that a free, stable, and prosperous society required constitutional rules of the game that were carefully crafted. Individuals were responsible for their own character and preparation. They were expected to foster good habits and avoid bad habits; to be honest, fair, and truthful, and to avoid lying, drinking, and swearing. They were also to prepare themselves, through education and preparation for a job or career, to be useful members of their society. Then they were expected to work hard, save, invest, persevere, and with a little luck, to succeed and perhaps to prosper. But no matter how well they prepared, how hard they were willing to work, society and the economy had to be well organized and vibrant enough to provide the opportunities over which they might compete.
Through most of the 19th century, the American Dream of land in the woods or independent craftsmanship remained open to each new generation and to a constantly increasing flow of immigrants. Yet, over the course of the 19th century the balance of the Founders dream eroded, the limits slipped away, and the American heart hardened. The push west, with its steady annihilation of the Indians, the frantic scramble for wealth in the California gold fields, the seemingly endless horror of the Civil War, and breakneck industrialization, stripped the American character of much of its sense of propriety, balance, and scale. Individualism and competition displaced community and cooperation as men fought to tame the continent, seize its wealth, and control the course of its development.
As the 19th century neared its close, thoughtful men were well aware that the dynamics of the old century would not be those of the new. The rough equality and competition allowed by a seemingly limitless western frontier, had given way to a harsh competition in which the Robber Barons of the age threatened to deny hope and opportunity to everyone else.... The nations top political leaders also knew that the new century required a new vision. Citizens were worried, even frightened, so they listened intently for an explanation of how the country was changing and what the implications would be for them. Every leading president of the 20th century used his first Inaugural Address to answer two questions How did we get to this place in our history and how do we insure that the fundamental dynamics of the nations early history live into the future? Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, all asked how to secure the American Dream in their time.
Three images the city on a hill and its golden doors, the balance between the dollar and the man, and the fairly run footrace have been used throughout the nations history to sharpen and clarify the fundamental meaning of the American Dream. First, from Winthrop to Reagan, America has been described as a city on a hill. But this city was not a fortress, powerful, austere, and unapproachable; there were doors, golden doors, which gave access to the security and prosperity within. The shining city on a hill was both an example to the world and a destination for all who would be free. The city belonged not just to her defenders within, but to kindred spirits without who would stand with them against the darkness of tyranny, poverty, and injustice in the world.
Second, within the city, care was taken, through culture, constitutions, law, and policy, to insure that openness and opportunity continued to characterize the society through time. As Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, and many others well knew and clearly said, freedom and opportunity demand that a balance be maintained between the dollar and the man, between property rights and human rights. If property and the dollar become too powerful, too concentrated, they foreclose opportunity to the man on the make, the little man just starting out, and to the next generation.
Third, the image of the fairly run race was used by Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon Johnson, and many others to humanize and soften thinking about the American Dream. It provided particular insight into the competition between the traditionally advantaged and the historically disadvantaged. A fairly run race does not demand that each runner be equally likely to win, some may be stronger, some may be better trained and prepared, but putting the demonstrably ill-prepared, the injured, sick, and crippled, in a race against the strong and swift offends the common sense of justice. To be fair, the strong must forebear while the society nourishes and strengthens the weak before the results of any race in which they are to compete can be given credence.
These images remain powerfully resonant today because each generation of Americans must relate the nations Founding ideals to the developments and dangers of a new age. The American Creed, based in the Declaration of Independence and all of the documents and demands that have flowed from it, promised a nation committed to liberty, equality, individualism, populism, laissez-faire, and the rule of law under a constitution. But a healthy balance must continually be sought between freedom and equality, between individualism and the rule of law, and between populism and constitutionalism. The American Dream is a constant reminder that Americas true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, the man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth...
Hence, like every previous generation of Americans, we ask what the nation can do to insure that the American Dream thrives for this and future generations. Public opinion, parties, and politics will ultimately determine the path that we take, but there is a direction that will lead to a strong and vibrant American Dream for the 21st century. Americans have long held the view that individual initiative and markets are the most efficient distributors of opportunities and benefits in a free society. They have also recognized that, while markets produce fantastic wealth, they sometimes distribute that wealth so unevenly that democracy is threatened. For the past quarter century, we have been involved in a national debate in which the Republican party has advocated smaller government, lower taxes, deregulation, and self-reliance, while the Democratic party has stood for larger, more energetic, government designed both to assure and promote equality. In an historical moment like this nearly a century ago, Herbert Crolys The Promise of American Life (1909) counseled the pursuit of Jeffersonian ends of democratic individualism and opportunity by Hamiltonian means of authoritative government.
The challenges of 9/11 shifted this debate somewhat, privileging a larger and more powerful national government, but setting off a fierce battle over civil liberties and domestic policy priorities. All Americans recognize that the shining city on the hill has to be secure if it was to cast the light of freedom into the dark corners of the world. Yet, some worry that we might forget what made the city shine, what made it an example to the world, and what precisely it was about this homeland that made it worth defending. The answer, of course, is the social order within; the freedom, opportunity, and security to pursue ones dreams. As always, we must keep our eye on the goal; the American Dream envisions certain kinds of people in certain kinds of settings. It envisions secure, well-rounded, responsible individuals competing on an even playing field for the good things, material and intellectual, the fruits of the outer plantation of the world and of the inner plantation of the human mind, heart, and soul, that makes life rich and full...
Few nations have a dream, the promise of American life in Herbert Crolys wonderful phrase, as well worth protecting and nurturing as do we Americans. It may be that we were simply fortunate that our Founding occurred in a time and place where men could afford to be generous. With a continent stretching westward beyond the imagination, and too few men and women to take advantage of it, the poor could command good wages and a better future and the newly arrived were valued if not always welcomed. But in our haste to control and benefit from natures bounty, breathtaking injustices were committed in the names of civilization and progress.
Today, America is the wealthiest and most powerful nation that the world has ever known. Americans exceed every other people in work and productivity, and, hence, in the creation of wealth. We spend more on national security than all of the other nations in the world combined. Yet other great nations, spectacularly wealthy and powerful in their day too, fell from their high places. Perhaps this is precisely the right time, while at the height of our power, to ask how America can maintain and build upon its unprecedented wealth and strength.
The answer, almost certainly, is by being ever truer to our initial values and aspirations to make life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness the right and real possession of every American. In the 21st century, this means educating all children to their natural capacities and encouraging all adults to tend the inner plantation of the heart, mind, and soul as well as the outer plantation of creativity, productivity, and work. If all of our children are well cared for and well educated, and every American adult irrespective of gender or color has the opportunity to compete for and enjoy the riches of this society, we will secure and extend our primacy among the nations of the world. No nation has ever harvested the full potential and creativity of all of its citizens. If we were to do so, we would truly be a shining city on a hill and a light unto the nations.
Still, we know that our society as it is currently ordered does not meet this high standard. Even today, both black men and white women make only 75 percent of what white men make. Black women and Hispanic men and women make even less. Glass ceilings keep all but a very few men of color and women of all colors out of the executive suite. Breaking these barriers, releasing these talents, is the great social and moral task of the 21st century. The special responsibility of social and political leaders is to work toward a future in which all can find an honorable place. This is asking a very great deal; but really it is simply asking that we continue to work toward Mr. Jeffersons self-evident truths; that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. We will have redeemed Jeffersons promise when the American Dream of liberty, equality, and opportunity are the patrimony the living inheritance of every American.
(Pursuing the American Dream is available through
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Mine was until I got the sigma 85thank you so much for sharing your opinions! Truly appreciated it..
I DID end up buying the 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II this weekend...
I've come in late on this thread but would like to validate your decision to go with the 70-200mm f/2.8 IS II. For a spectacularly high percentage of Canon shooters, this is THE lens that you'd never be without. For the sort of work you have described, this lens will probably stay bolted onto one of your bodies close to full-time.
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