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Ritters' donation made park possible
It was great to see that Huntington's Ritter Park was named as one of the 10 Great Public Places in America by the American Planning Association. Followed by the article in your Oct. 4 edition was a nice follow-up in the Sunday editorial.
What was missing though was recognition of the generosity of C. Lloyd Ritter and his family for the donation of property for the park. Although it has expanded and developed over the years, without the Ritter family's initial gifting, our city would not be enjoying the park's vast amenities that we so love.
I have had the good fortune of working with the Ritter family for many years, and I am quite thankful for what this family has done for our city.
Sandy Deppner Wright
Wolfe is man of character, sincerity
Kim Wolfe is a man of integrity. I know, because for eight years I learned to know him and proudly call him sheriff. I'm now a retired deputy sheriff, but still remember all the talks we had over the years and how proud I was to call him sheriff with respect.
I didn't know Kim at first, only as a man on a horse who patrolled the city streets of Huntington. But as time went forward and we worked special projects and talked along the way, then I got to know the real Kim Wolfe. His honest sincerity was most intriguing. There is no one who has more love for the city of Huntington than Kim Wolfe.
I still call him sheriff, and I'm proud to do that from the bottom of my heart. He is a true man of character and spirit.
Jerry Waugh
City needs Williams' financial know-how
In the last election, I really thought Kim Wolfe would do a good job, but Huntington is in worse shape than it was four years ago on many city programs. Tom Bell is the only light I see shining at the end of that tunnel.
Steve Williams is educated and has the background to run the city and is showing it with his leadership on City Council's finances. His leadership is being shown by the support with many city employees.
Let's put someone in charge who understands money and how to spend taxpayers' dollars. Steve Williams knows how to put us in the black. Let's support him.
C.J. "Jack" Rickman
State ignores road slip for too long
There is an extremely bad road slip in a section of Wayne County that the Department of Highways has forgotten. It is on County Route 25, Camp Creek Road.
People living in this area have dealt with this for 20-plus years.
I spoke to a lady on her front porch who lives almost directly in line with this "accident waiting to happen." How long has it been since they worked on this slip? She replied "A long, long time."
The only work I have personally seen in the last 12 years is they came out after the last complaint and put down some asphalt over top of asphalt already there.
The Dept. of Highways District 2 was called. Robert Manzel got on the phone and said he was coming out to look at the situation and would get back with me. He did call back and stated the road needs repaired, but that no funds were available and that it was being put on a "To Do List."
An email was sent to the Department of Transportation. I got a letter back signed by Paul Mattox Jr., the secretary of transportation and commissioner of highways. In his reply Mr. Mattox said, "This area has been repaired numerous times over the years with the piling wall and asphalt."
I'm not sure where Mr. Mattox got his information, but the folks in this area know better. One of the folks that works for him out of District 2 told me over the phone that they only have records that go back seven years. So where did Mr. Mattox get his information?
We pay our taxes, and we deserve to get our roads repaired in a timely basis. Looking at the same problem for over 20 years is just not right.
Tom Jackson
East Lynn
Downtown making a strong comeback
Huntington has had strong leadership to overcome its loss of retail businesses and jobs, empty streets and buildings. It's getting there with the men who have worked years to rebuild it.
I moved to Dallas in the '70s and came home for Christmas. The town changed with less and less shops and life. At one time, 3rd Avenue looked like a ghost town. Gone were the shops and stores I grew up knowing. The town was all but gone, only Mack and Dave's and Jim's were the same. No more Wiggins, Style Shoppe, Princess Shop, Walgreen's, packed bus stops; it was all gone. Then slowly it came alive little by little. Change is good only if it's restored for the better.
The men who fought to bring it back are our leaders today. They know how to make it keep growing strong, because they have the experience to do so. The shops are back, and people are enjoying downtown again, thanks to their leadership and faith in our beautiful town.
My vote is to thank them for all they have done to make Huntington grow back and better for us. Men like Bob Bailey and Darrell Black who love our hometown, get my vote! How about yours?
B.J. Spivey
Middle East efforts too costly
Why are we in Afghanistan, or any other Muslim country for that matter?
They hate us. That is obvious.
Think of all the young men who have lost their lives in Afghanistan. Oh, I know that all the politicians think it is worth it. But it is not. Lives are too precious to be lost. Not a single one.
Why do we buy our friends? That is what we are doing when we are sending billions to these Muslim countries. I say stop sending the money and pay down the national debt. Before you know it, we could have a balanced budget.
Call your people in Washington and let them know how you feel. Now. The person who does nothing can expect nothing.
Gene Miller
South Point, Ohio
Obama not fulfilling his promises
Here's why I couldn't vote for Obama:
His taxes are just a start to his ruination of America.
His foreign policies are atrocious. No American president has ever bowed to our enemies except Obama. The media gives the excuse of his being tall. I saw a news clip of him shaking hands, with young children, and not bowing.
He says he would stand with Israel, but his actions don't show it.
He is an eloquent speaker, but his words are empty.
He says he's creating jobs just not fast enough.
He still blames George Bush or the European market for his failed policies.
He made a statement if I can't turn things around in four years it would be a one term proposition. We have 23 million people out of work or underemployed.
He pledged to have a government of transparency and bring the country together. How did he pass Obamacare? What about putting the have-nots against those that have?
He has made the statement that our Constitution is outdated. What does he want to do? Replace it with Sharia law or Communism?
He blames Congress for not working with him. Any time they try to do anything constructive, he has the Senate to block it.
He says that he is a Christian, yet he endorsed homosexual marriage, which God calls an abomination. He does not oppose abortion, which all the true Christians call murder. How can any person that calls himself Christian vote for him?
Our national debt is over $16 trillion. He says his policies will reduce the debt. He says by 2016 our debt will be $25 trillion.
Will he blame that on George Bush?
Gerrol Donivan Blake
Crown City, Ohio
Obama attains many goals in first term
With Election Day approaching, I would like to remind folks of some of the achievements of President Barack Obama. Achievements made despite the stated aim of the Republican leaders that their top priority was to ensure he would be a one-term president, not to save the economy, not to defend the country, not to put people back to work and definitely not to promote the general welfare of the American people.
President Obama inherited an economy that even his predecessor said was heading for a meltdown. Obama's stimulus package helped stabilize the economy. Republicans in Congress opposed a larger stimulus recommended by many economists, and, predictably, later blamed the president because his stimulus did not do "enough" for the economy. Today the Dow Jones Industrial Average has climbed to over 13,000 from a low of 6,547 in early 2009, shortly after President Obama took office.
Prompt action from the president saved the American auto industry and over a million jobs around the country. You may recall Mr. Romney's advice for the auto industry: Let them fail.
Millions of Americans now have a chance for health care. Children and their families can no longer be refused coverage because of pre-existing conditions and can no longer be dropped if they get sick. Young adults can remain on their parents' insurance until they are 26.
Women are now entitled to the same pay as men for the same work.
Combat troops have been brought home from Iraq. Actions against al Qaeda have been aggressive and highly productive. Osama bin Laden and many of his top lieutenants have been brought to justice.
I suspect if George W. Bush had some of these accomplishments on his resume, his supporters would be measuring him for a spot on Mount Rushmore.
Merlyn Marten
Proctorville, Ohio
Mayor commended for swift demolition
I commend Mayor Wolfe for the swift removal of dilapidated houses in Huntington! As these houses come down we will see the downfall of vagrancy, drug abuse, crime, arson and violence.
We need this now more than anything in Huntington in every area of the city that we are trying to "clean up." In turn, then we will be able to rebuild community pride, respect, lawfulness, family wholesomeness and appeal for those looking for a place to live, work and play in peace, safety and harmony.
Thanks Mayor Wolfe. May God speed.
Toni Karle
Cheaspeake, Ohio
Romney is best man for coal industry
Election Day again is here, and I again beg the good people of West Virginia to think and listen to Sen. Manchin as he represents all of West Virginia, both Republicans and Democrats.
If you will watch Fox News and others, you will and should listen to him when he says "forget your politics and vote for your country and West Virginia.
Think about what Obama's group would do with our coal that means so much for West Virginia coal miners, their families and all the citizens of the state. Thank you and vote for Romney.
Ruby B. Steffen
Presidential election is not a race issue
Panicked claims by Democrats that Republicans are racist if they don't support Obama and his policies are ludicrous and clearly shows they are the loony, intolerant racists.
National Dems and local extremists like Milt Hankins and John Patrick Grace always inject racism into the ring when they're losing and want to deter some of the less knowledgeable among us from facing the facts.
It is the epitome of racism when in reality over 90 percent of black Americans will vote for Obama.
I personally don't care what color his skin is. He could be blue, green or purple, but because of his extremist policies and subsequent failures, all I see in him is pink and red. That's right, pink for his pinko commie socialistic views and actions and red from the $16 trillion in debt and still growing deficit with absolutely no improvement in the economy.
When Democrat voters in West Virginia had a chance to vote in the primaries, they only had a choice between a felon in the Big House and Obama in the White House. In November, unless you are an intolerant racist, it will be an easy choice to put a successful businessman like Mitt Romney in the White House.
Sam Hogsett
Crown City, Ohio
Williams is right for City of Huntington
I got to know Steve Williams while working together years ago in Chicago. It was at that time that I began to become friends with this guy with a southern accent and a passion for his hometown of Huntington.
Steve and I worked together as managers in a large investment program. He was a perennial leader who not only was good at what he did, but enthusiastically cared about the people whom he worked with and who worked for him. He was a strong leader who was not afraid to make hard decisions, with a long-term outlook and approach to everything he did. Steve's leadership attributed to much success for his team. No matter what was going on, the weekends meant one thing. He got to go home, put on his green and be where he was truly home. While I commuted as well, not nearly the distance he did. Faith, family, Huntington and Marshall were what made this man.
I was delighted a few years later at a different firm when they introduced the new manager from Huntington. I considered myself very lucky to be able to work with Steve again.
Today is a different time, and Steve's calling has changed. I have no doubt that the right candidate for this race is Steve Williams. Having worked with Steve all over the country, I know there is no place for him like Huntington. Huntington is blessed to have such a strong leader come home to his native town. Steve will be a fantastic leader given the opportunity.
His experience in business will do Huntington well, as I have seen Huntington build the character of such a great man. I encourage you to vote for Steve Williams for Mayor of Huntington.
Jeffrey Williams
Marblehead, Mass.
Social programs should be preserved
Jesus commanded us to take care of "the least of us." When I go to the polls to vote, I look for the candidates that support tax dollars for "the least of us." Social programs are far more important than corporate welfare, tax cuts for any Americans and other programs benefiting profit-making enterprises. Our seniors paid for and depend on Social Security and Medicare; the disabled require assistance, for the "Grace of God There Go I"; hungry children require food; the working poor, someone has to do those jobs, require affordable health care; and miners deserve black lung benefits for working in an environment that damages their health.
There are many more deserving Americans that need our help and if you are a Christian, you should be willing to give it. Greed is a sin! All I seem to be hearing from some conservative Christians nowadays is how the liberal politicians are allowing the "least of us" to suck the life out of this country. They need to remember why social programs exist; churches and families did not step up and take care of the "least of us" so the government did. Please vote for Jesus' "least of us."
Karen Nance
Women should exercise right to vote
It is unbelievable that Shelley Moore Capito recently spoke at a "Women of Influence" program on the 92nd anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Representative Moore Capito voted against the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. Essentially, this is a move that would have been an utter setback for women and civil rights. It astounds me that many women don't even know who Lilly Ledbetter is or what she means to all working women. Thank God, Representative Moore Capito was outnumbered!
One issue Shelley and I agree on is "choice." She is on the record as "pro-choice," yet seems to portray herself as "pro-life" to her constituents. Rape, incest or life-threatening circumstances still warrant "choices." Many say they desire smaller government, yet would dictate our "choices" -- only our creator may critique. He gave us the gift of free will.
Our "foresisters" fought bravely for women's rights in every venue. It saddens me that today those "gifts" born of sacrifice and accepted as mainstream by many may be lost due to indifference or false security. Not that long ago, women were not even allowed to work when pregnant or have maternity leave. "Stepping backwards" is not acceptable.
Beware television commercials, forwarded emails or those who would speak loudly, yet never vote! Make your own choice, carefully research a candidate's platform and check media information on a nonpartisan web site like: www.factcheck.org. Women are moving closer to equal pay for equal work. Six million of our children/young adults now have insurance without pre-existing conditions. Please don't be guilty of accepting services and then voting against those from whom you subscribe.
Ladies, your vote still counts and you can make a difference! Vote intelligently!
Catherine F. Hensley
City needs Williams' business success
If you are looking for the man to move Huntington forward with a proven track record of business success and experience in city government, then you need to vote for Steve Williams for mayor on Nov. 6.
Having served as chair of City Council's Finance Committee, he is prepared to work with businesses and citizens to help Huntington not be a place to pass through but a place to come to.
Sandra Clements
District 5
Romney not perfect, but best choice
Dear Ohio voter, you have within your power the ability to change the course of our great country. When you go to vote on Nov. 6, consider these questions:
Do I want to continue adding to the national debt, which has grown to over $16 trillion, over $5 trillion of which came during the Obama administration? Do I want to encourage the "entitlement" mentality that has seen the number of people on food stamps rise from 32 million to 47 million over the last four years? I am 100 percent committed to helping those with TRUE need. People lose their self-esteem and self-worth when they are not expected to work.
Do I want to support a party that booed during the DNC when they finally accepted the words "God" and "Jerusalem" into their party platform? (How can people expect God to bless them when they turn their backs on Him?)
Mitt Romney is far from a perfect man, but he is the right man to lead our country at this crucial time in history.
Tony Edmonds
Biden's rudeness is reflective of party
Vice President Biden's rudeness is just like the Democratic party's platform: reject God, but play him to the hilt when it suits your fancy. His arrogance in the vice presidential debate turned many women and men off on his party, as he showed no respect for anyone who has a different view.
The moderator never called him down when he interrupted Paul, but just let him rant and show his disdain for the whole process. So if the Democratic party is your party and you respect Biden for his antics, we true Americans have no place for this.
Have fun voting for this liar. His statements on not knowing about the attack on the compound was a blatant lie, like so many of his statements.
Homer Campbell
Ironton, Ohio
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Cafe Courtyard will open in Brigg next week
Posted: November 20, 2012|
Brigg is to get a new place of refreshment next week - ideally placed for people visiting the new heritage centre, the re-located library or coming to shop in the town centre.
The Cafe Courtyard is having a taster day on Thursday, November 29, with its official opening the following day to tie in with the Brigg Christmas fair and the switching on of the town centre illuminations.
The cafe is in the Angel building, just off the Market Place.
It is a reminder of the glory days when the Angel was a hotel before being transformed into council offices - recently extended by the addition of the library and the heritage centre.
Back in the days of the hotel, the Angel courtyard was a favoured spot for people to enjoy a drink and a bite to eat.
Now the wheel has turned full circle...
Pictures kindly supplied by Paul Keane - closely connected with the new project and well-known to many in the Brigg area who visit Grandad's Shed and The Loft in Wrawby Street.
PLEASE NOTE: The telephone number to call for further information is 01652 657900.

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2 tablespoons
olive oil
1 tablespoon
minced garlic
black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon
ground cumin, or to taste
1 tablespoon
ground curry powder, or to taste
1 tablespoon
chili powder, or to taste
1 cube
vegetable bouillon
1 cup
1 tablespoon
soy sauce
1 cup
uncooked white rice
This rice tasted pretty good, but the mix of curry powder and soy sauce didn't make for a very appealing color. I would recommend omitting the soy sauce and adding some turmeric and/or saffron for a really "curry" color. Also mix in some chopped onion and peas for both flavor and color.
Despite my preference for flavorful foods, the proportion of cumin, curry powder and chili powder to the amount of rice seems incorrect. I doubled the amount of rice; the spices were still too heavy. The correct proportion might be 1 tsp or each instead of 1 tbs of each.
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Yummy Yum Yum!!! This rice was fabulous! I couldn't find vegetable bouillion cubes so we used a chicken one and it tasted great!! The spices were all perfect and I used 1 TBSP each as listed on the recipe. I've made other curried rices before and it just didn't have enough flavor to my husbands liking...this took the cake!!!! It tasted like something you'd get our local Thai resturant!! Thanks so much Issac.... we love this rice!!!
I really liked this rice. Didn't have a problem with the quantity of spices, although it did seem a bit dry. I will add a bit more water next time.
The nutritional information seems out of wack for this...calories (533 cal/serving) seems way high, I assumed it was an error...
The rice was great but be forewarned that it is very spicy! I had my brother and sister-in-law over when I made this and they both liked it but couldn't eat much because it was too hot for them. I'll definitely make it again but I'll go a little lighter on the seasonings.
Exellent. I used a cup of organic vegetable broth instead of the vegetable bouillon and water. I didnt have any problem with the quantity of spices either,seemed just right to me. Good stuff.
I've been searching for a great curry recipe and this is definately a keeper! It tasted wonderful. I did use chicken broth instead of veggie and I needed to add an extra cup of water in order for the rice to cook through. I will be making this again.
I halved the spices, but I think next time I will try them at full strength. This tasted GREAT! And it's nice not to have to add anything to my grocery list to make it. This will be something I make often.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Vegan Curried Rice
Serving Size: 1/4 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 4
Amount Per Serving
** Calories: 262
** Calories from Fat: 72
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Trompe L'oeil Dishes You Can Make at Home?
I love it when chefs serve trompe l'oeil dishes -- things that look like one thing, but are another. Think Wylie Dufresne's carrot and coconut "sunnyside-up egg." I'd love to bring that sense of play and whimsy into my own kitchen.
I like the idea of mushroom macarons (mushroom caps as the "meringue", cheese as the filling), but am looking for other ideas. I think it'd be a lot of fun to do a trompe l'oeil dinner party. Any ideas for a full menu?
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this unit will spin if put in drain and spin but will not spin if in a normal cycle. It will wash and drain and fill then when it comes time for spin, the green light will stay on and it will just sit there and do nothing. haven't worked on many of these so any help would be appreciated, thanks.
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Whirlpool Washer Mod#WTW4950XW0 wont spin
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Posted 29 March 2013 - 03:43 PM
Here's the L-84 manual link:
Any Error codes?
Posted 29 March 2013 - 03:45 PM
error codes? oops u beat me too it
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Posted 29 March 2013 - 07:03 PM
No error codes it doesn't have a display.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 07:48 PM
It doesn't need a display to give error codes. Error codes are indicated by the status LED's while in diagnostic mode fault code display mode. Check the tech sheet.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 07:54 PM
Ok, if you look in the L-84 manual (link above) section 5-2 indicates which LEDs are lit for corresponding error codes---you will see this on page 5-6. The green LEDs will indicate which error code is being triggered.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Powerful, Intricate and Allusive Little Novel
"The Newton Letter" is a mere eighty-one pages, a good thing since this imaginative and masterfully written, but often cryptic, novel needs to be read at least twice (if not three times) to fully appreciate John Banville's enigmatic, introspective tale.
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This is how a major newspaper describes Mr. Banville's book, "The Newton Letter". It is the first work of his that I have read, and I have his work, "Doctor Copernicus", up next. This is a very brief piece at 81 pages. As such the Author attempted to include all his thoughts in a form that the reader could grasp in the briefest of space. I do look forward to his longer...
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"The Newton Letter" is a mere eighty-one pages, a good thing since this imaginative and masterfully written, but often cryptic, novel needs to be read at least twice (if not three times) to fully appreciate John Banville's enigmatic, introspective tale.
Written in the first person, the nameless, fiftyish male narrator of "The Newton Letter" is an historian who has spent seven years writing a book about Sir Isaac Newton. Seeking a sanctuary to finish his work, he rents a small cottage at an estate in southern Ireland known as Fern House, "a big gloomy pile with ivy and peeling walls and a smashed fanlight over the door, the kind of place where you picture a mad stepdaughter locked up in the attic." It is a setting, and a story, heavy with gothic overtones.
In his words, "the book was as good as done, I had only to gather up a few loose ends and write the conclusion-but in those first few weeks at Ferns something started to go wrong . . . I was concentrating, with morbid fascination, on the chapter I had devoted to [Newton's] breakdown and those two letters [Newton had written] to Locke."
He becomes obsessed, however, not only with Newton's two letters to John Locke, but also with the inhabitants of Fern House: Edward, the often drunk master of the house; Charlotte, his wife, a tall, middle-aged woman with an abstracted air and a penchant for gardening; Ottilie, the big, blonde, twenty-four year old niece of Charlotte; and Michael, the adopted son of Edward and Charlotte.
The narrator soon becomes entangled with Ottilie in a mysterious way when she appears at his door. "It's strange to be offered, without conditions, a body you don't really want." But what, exactly, is the nature of his relationship with Ottilie? When he embraces her, he feels "the soft shock of being suddenly, utterly inhabited." In the pervasive aura of the gothic, the reader wonders exactly what is happening, for, as the narrator enigmatically relates in the middle of the novel while making love to Ottilie, "how should I tell her that she was no longer the woman I was holding in my arms?" It is a strange statement, presumably intended to refer to the fact that the narrator's true obsession is with the older, aloof Charlotte, even as he cavorts with Ottilie. The mystery is fed by the narrator's conclusion, where he speaks of brooding on certain words, "succubus for instance." It suggests, in short, a kind of surreal narrative imagining, where the realism of the narrator's struggle with his book on Newton is confounded by the incursion of the strange, enigmatic and, at times, dreamlike inhabitants of Fern House.
"The Newton Letter" is a powerful, intricate and allusive work of imagination that demands the reader's careful and thoughtful attention. Banville shows, with remarkable skillfulness, how the narrator's imagined history of the inhabitants of Fern House is undermined by successive, incremental discoveries of the reality of their lives. At the same time, Banville draws on the gothic to lend his tale an imaginative element that is both a counterpoint to the real lives at Fern House and a touchstone to the enigma of the Newton letters. Like great works of literature, "The Newton Letter" is an ambiguous text open to many interpretations, the writing an elliptical treasure that allows the reader's imagination to run free in the interstices of Banville's creative field.
3.0 out of 5 stars The Best Introduction�,
This is how a major newspaper describes Mr. Banville's book, "The Newton Letter". It is the first work of his that I have read, and I have his work, "Doctor Copernicus", up next. This is a very brief piece at 81 pages. As such the Author attempted to include all his thoughts in a form that the reader could grasp in the briefest of space. I do look forward to his longer works, or at least the reading of one, as this was not just subtle, it was vague to the point of being incomprehensible.
His writing is thoughtful, and thought provoking. It also, in this instance is so light on detail, and so brief, I find it impossible to believe this is his best. It seems that it more likely parallels the Author in the story who has an unfinished book, and then perhaps Newton who has a life/career finished too soon. Newton's problem according to Historians was that his great work was done before his life had run its course. He was reduced to interpreting the Book Of Genesis, and spending countless and wasted weeks/months/years with the fiction of alchemy. But what is the basis for the comparison with the Author's "Breakdown". Newton's accomplishments were extraordinary leading up to his frustrations, what has this fictional Author done?
The fictional Author has accomplished nothing but an unfinished book about a man I feel he believes was disenchanted when he finally understood that what he spent the greater part of his life upon, was not what he had believed it to be. That perhaps what he saw was remarkable for what it was, but as a man of science he contributed nothing but observation. Newton felt he was a spectator, nothing more. This thought also appears to be the excuse the Author uses to explain his own emotional difficulties. He has spent all of 7 years to discover his subject came to understand that what he thought "did not matter", so by extension this Biographer's work could not matter either.
What saves this book is the writing. Others could have served the role of Newton, and the months his Biographer spends with one romance while thinking he desires another was tiresome. Had I been the recipient of his letters instead of his fictional counterpart in the book, I probably would have even less sympathy for him, than I did as a reader.
The Author of the book also makes enigmatic comments about seemingly unrelated ideas like DaVinci's, "Virgin On The Rocks", but again I ask why? The painting was not admired when first viewed, but it was not a problem for the artist. Leonardo rarely finished many of his works.
If this work is indeed his best, then I don't know if I will even get through, "Dr. Copernicus". This may be an example of critics creating much more from a work than actually exists. I certainly hope so.
5.0 out of 5 stars written almost too well,
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You know, I have a thing for Irish writers. Call it a fetish, call it an obsession, but I think I'll settle for an enthusiastic appreciation. Banville is an author I've been familiar with since long before I seriously got into reading and whom, for some reason, I had never gotten around to. When The Newton Letter was reprinted, I went out of my way to aquire this (I think I pre-ordered this book here on Amazon something like six months before it was published, then got annoyed at a delayed date and picked it up elsewhere). Anyway, it's possible that there isn't a better writer in English than Mr. Banville.
Now let me go out of the way and say that the story of this book isn't very compelling. It's about some guy finishing some long and dull sounding book about Isaac Newton and all the things that went on in his life during the many years of composition. All this in under a hundred pages. But, of course, there is a very deep and very dark subtext lingering about, dealing with all those private torments and suicidal thoughts going through a boring, self-absorbed man while his life falls apart around him. And he's superficially indifferent to his personal failures, pouring his everything into his dry book on a crazy genius from 300 years before. It is a very sad story.
But the prose, the language, the rhythmic flow of every word inside this small masterpiece keeps the reader riveted. It seems that virtually every human emotion is explored (or explained) in this book. Jealousy and envy and hatred and deep, never-ending love swirl around and around and slap you in the face and make you feel, make you tear out your hair in anger and dry your eyes from ever-present tears (sometimes from laughter). And while this is far from Banville's best book (something that makes aspiring authors go through much of what the hopeless narrator goes through while dealing with someone who is his infinate superior), it is probably the best introduction to his style. Banville's best books are The Book of Evidence, Ghosts, Athena and The Untouchable, another depressing fact considering those are his four most recent efforts. I see Nobel Prize, finally deserving, going back to Ireland. God bless the Queen . . .
5.0 out of 5 stars Two Mysteries,
"The Newton Letter" is a novel of twin obsessions: a writer attempts to discover the cause of Isaac Newton's nervous breakdown in 1693 even as he is drawn deeper into the secrets of a family with whom he lives on a dilapidated Irish estate. The first obsession involves truth; we are told of Newton in 1693 that, "[H]is greatest work was behind him . . . He was a great man now, his fame was assured, all Europe honoured him. But his life as a scientist was over." and from this characterization the hapless writer struggles to construct a reason for the scientist's decline, allowing him to complete his book and to leave his dead surroundings. But even as he approaches this truth he is held back by a second obsession, one precipitated by love - the writer's affair with the young Ottilie and his yearning for the older, distant Charlotte. Banville uses the gothic, decayed setting and the elusive characters to explore the forces which drive humanity: those which provoke us to achievement and those which drive us to despair. It is worth noting that Banville has previously written of scientists and astronomers - "Doctor Copernicus" (1976) and "Kepler" (1981) - and with Newton he continues to mine the dichotomy that exists between the pure, objective truths of the heavens and the broken, imperfect reality of life on earth. With his impeccable gift of description and his sheer joy for language, John Banville has concocted a tale which both entertains and provides impetus for reflection. One has come to expect no less from him.
4.0 out of 5 stars Rudiments of new hope,
An historian, on the verge of nervous and mental breakdown, is trying to complete a book on Isaac Newton in a rented cottage in Southern Ireland. The fact and circumstances of Newton's mental collapse of 1693 give him possibility to discern the vacuity of his personal psychological hellhole and urge him into interlacing of real and fictitious love affairs that lead through nothingness to rudiments of new hope and understanding.
The language of the book, its pseudo-Gothic shades of mystery and psychological descriptions of the heroes are excellent. But the plot is rather weak in comparison with such masterpieces as 'Flaubert's Parrot' by Julian Barnes or 'Headlong' by Michael Frayn written in the similar manner.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Newton's alchemy spanned the same 30 years as his physics!,
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This review is from: The Newton Letter (Hardcover)
I only have the earlier reviewers to go on, but if this book claims that Newton only turned to alchemy and scriptural exegesis after his nervous breakdown, then that part of the book must also be read as fiction.
Read Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs' scholarly analysis in her book "Foundations of Newton's Alchemy" to see just how strongly the evidence supports the conclusion that he simultaneously investigated the Bible, arcane alchemical claims, optics, metallurgy, astronomy _and_ mathematics for over 30 years, then suppressed everything but the mathematical physics when he wrote his "Principia". In this case, biography truly is stranger than fiction.
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Independent Curators International (ICI) produces exhibitions, events, publications, research and training opportunities for curators and diverse audiences around the world. Established in 1975 and headquartered in New York, ICI is a hub that connects emerging and established curators, artists, and art spaces, forging international networks and generating new forms of collaborations. ICI provides access to the people and practices that are key to current developments in the field, inspiring fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art.
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Trained as a specialist in Romance Literatures, Sarah Demeuse started her career as an academic scholar at Columbia University where she taught courses in 20th-century literature and culture. Since 2008, she has worked primarily outside of the school-gates, though these interests and education experiences continue to inform her current work with contemporary artists. Sarah has developed and supported several projects in the New York area and in Mexico and has combined exhibition-making with translating, editing, and writing. Between June and December 2010, Sarah curated the first cycle of Modo de Empleo at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (MACG), a video art and educational program that was conceived by herself and Ruth Estévez. At the MACG, she also joined the curatorial team and catalogue contributors of Programa Bancomer Arte Actual, a pilot grant program for emerging Mexican artists (2009-2010). In February 2011, Sarah coordinated Mark Manders's solo exhibition in Mexico City (at MACG and Casa Barragán). In New York, she has curated shows at the ISCP and at the Goethe-Institut Wyoming building. At Barcelona's Espai Cultural, Sarah co-curated Nos hicimos la ilusión de avanzar directamente, a project that was accompanied by a book made together with Roma Publications. Sarah holds a BA in Latin-American Studies and Spanish from Tulane University, a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from UC Berkeley, and an MA in Curatorial Studies from Bard College.
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End of inningsThe World Twenty20 has come alive with a dramatic couple of games in the last few days, and this one was the best of the lot. South Africa and Pakistan traded blows throughout the afternoon. The South Africans were on the back foot after they lost early wickets, but JP Duminy's innings revitalised them and helped to set a challenging total. Then it was Pakistan's turn to be rocked, Peterson and Botha ripping the heart out of the middle order with quick wickets. Pakistan were 76 for 7 and fading fast when Umar Gul walked out to bat in the 15th over, and his death-or-glory innings sparked an incredible comeback. Umar Akmal guided the team home, his six off Morkel just about settling things before Saeed Ajmal, that loveable rogue, hit the winning runs off the edge of his bat. I'm off to catch my breath quickly before we're back in action with Australia v India.
Over 20 - Pak 136/8 (U Akmal 43, Ajmal 4)Pakistan win! What a comeback. Umar Akmal took them to the brink by clubbing a Morne Morkel full toss over midwicket for six. A single brought Ajmal on strike, and he completed the win with a slightly clueless - but mighty effective - outside edge down to the third man boundary. A slip would've been useful there. What a game!
Over 19 - Pak 125/8 (U Akmal 36, Ajmal 0)WICKET! A dramatic penultimate over. First, Steyn is struck a stinging blow on the ankle as Umar Akmal drills a drive back at him. He's down for some time, and the physio comes out with the magic spray, but is eventually well enough to continue. Gul then gives half a chance as a wild slash balloons down to third man, where Hashim Amla comes charging in ... but he can't get there! A very tough chance, if one can even call it a chance. There's a final twist as Gul scoops a full ball out to Peterson on the deep cover boundary. Pakistan need 9 from the last over.
Over 18 - Pak 119/7 (U Akmal 32, Gul 31)These batsmen are eating the Morkel brothers for khaana here. Gul moves into the 30s with a well-timed clip through square leg for four. His team-mates in the dug out, and Umar in the middle, are screaming at him to calm down. That looked like a pretty calm shot to me. Seven runs come from the over, and Pakistan need 15 from the last 12 balls to pull off a remarkable win. Albie was the kofte and qeema, Morne is the naan. Who will be the qulfi and ras malai?
Over 17 - Pak 112/7 (U Akmal 30, Gul 26)It's not one of the spinners, it's Albie Morkel who's brought on and he sends down an atrocious over that brings Pakistan right back into the game. Umar Akmal starts the carnage by slapping a short, wide ball to the cover point boundary and after a front foot no-ball Gul plants an 88-metre Gojira of a hit into the stands beyond midwicket. Pakistan's no. 9 then uppercuts another wide long-hop to backward point, and 20 runs from the over has brought Pakistan's target down to 22 from 18.
Over 16 - Pak 92/7 (U Akmal 24, Gul 13)The clean-shaven Umar Gul heaves the weirdly manicured Kallis for two massive blows over the leg side, and it's clear that Pakistan are going to go down swinging. Gul only really has one shot, the stiff-armed swivel pull, and he uses it to great effect to plant a short ball into Row M. Another length ball is fetched high over wide long on, and 16 runs flow from the over. Botha and Duminy still have four overs between them, surely we'll see them brought back on now?
Over 15 - Pak 76/7 (U Akmal 23, Gul 0)WICKET! Under a glorious Colombo sunset the colour of molten steel, Dale Steyn has struck again for South Africa. A waspish short ball was too much for Arafat, who fended the rising delivery towards midwicket where Duminy took a great, tumbling catch millimetres from the turf. Steyn's just about busted a blood vessel on his temple with a ferocious, screaming celebration at Arafat's demise. He looks like he'd bite the head off a live chicken if he got Umar out. Duminy's got to be the main contender for MoM now.
Over 14 - Pak 73/6 (U Akmal 22, Arafat 1)Umar Akmal may well be Pakistan's last hope here. No wonder their dug-out looks so decidedly anxious. He does, however, do a great job of seeing Robin Peterson's final over off. In fact, he does more than just see it off, lacing a confident inside-out drive over extra cover to move into the 20s. Pakistan need 10 an over from here on in, and one feels they've got to come from Umar's bat.
Over 13 - Pak 66/6 (U Akmal 15, Arafat 1)WICKET! Classic Afridi. An almighty swipe at the very first ball he faces lands right in long-off's lap. The fielder, Albie Morkel, didn't even have to move. Sanity prevails as Yasir Arafat and Umar Akmal look for singles off the rest of the over, but Duminy now has 1 for 5 in two, and Pakistan are wobbling. By the way, when I'm not typing at the speed of light to bring you these updates you can find me on Twitter. My handle is gomorezvidinha, and I'd love to hear from you.
Over 12 - Pak 63/5 (U Akmal 13, Afridi 0)WICKET! Kallis strikes, and South Africa come storming back into the match! Malik made room to slash the ball over the off side, but a top edge is easily snaffled by Steyn down at third man. I've simply got to mention Kallis' bizarre facial hair as well here. Is this some sort of a joke? Is he operating several irony levels above the rest of us? It appears that the same company who manufacture the hair on his head have begun to fiddle with the stubble on his cheeks and chin. Uncanny valley. I'm unnerved, and clearly Malik was too. In comes 'Boom Boom' Afridi. He's got great hair.
Over 11 - Pak 57/4 (U Akmal 12, Malik 11)Duminy is well enough to bowl after all, and sets himself on a course for the Man of the Match award by giving away just two runs in the over. It'd be very handy for the South Africans if he could also pick up a wicket or two. He'll definitely have another chance, and in fact I'd be surprised if he doesn't bowl is full quota of overs on this surface.
Over 10 - Pak 55/4 (U Akmal 11, Malik 10)De Villiers brings Morne Morkel back into the attack, and he finds a good, probing length on off stump. Malik is beaten on the inside edge, but the ball bounces awkwardly in front of de Villiers and two byes are taken. Still, just six runs from the over as the batsmen can't get him away.
Over 9 - Pak 49/4 (U Akmal 10, Malik 7)Umar Akmal counter-attacks against Botha's offspin in fine style! A long hop is bludgeoned to wide long on, and he then finds the middle of the bat with a sweep down to long leg. Morne Morkel lopes after it, but he ends up sliding on his backside with his arms in the air, staring at the sky, rather than stopping the ball.
Over 8 - Pak 39/4 (Malik 6, U Akmal 1)The Pakistani batsmen are happy to see off another over from the marauding Robin Peterson (words I never thought I'd type), and Umar Akmal is finally off the mark with a single to long off. Will de Villiers keep one Peterson over in the bank, or will he bowl him out here? He's also got JP Duminy's offspin to turn to. Duminy may still be knackered from his efforts earlier - he was suffering from heat exhaustion after his innings and had to be rehydrated in the South African dressing room.
Over 7 - Pak 37/4 (Malik 5, U Akmal 0)WICKET! Botha's struck with his second ball! Kamran Akmal had a look at his first delivery, prodding forward in defense, but then played back to one that spun in sharply to rattle the stumps. He's replaced at the crease by his younger brother Umar, and Botha rushes through a wicket maiden. The spinners have strung together twelve dot balls now, and picked up a wicket. Where is Imran Tahir??
Over 6 - Pak 37/3 (Malik 5, K Akmal 1)Robin Peterson is relishing these conditions, and sends down a superb over at Shoaib Malik. The batsman is very wary of spin off the surface, and nudges out a maiden. That's his first maiden in T20Is, and will help regain some of the pressure diffused by Morkel's last over. Surely, de Villiers has got to bring Botha into the attack as well now and begin to choke Pakistan's middle order?
Over 5 - Pak 37//3 (Malik 5, K Akmal 1)Why has de Villiers brought Albie Morkel on now? Surely Botha, or even Steyn, would have been a better idea considering three quick wickets have just fallen. Malik is gifted a leg-stump delivery to get off the mark with a glance for four, and seven runs come from the over. Albie doesn't look like taking a wicket, unless one of the batsmen does something rash ...
Over 4 - Pak 31/3 (K Akmal 0)WICKETS! Robbie P strikes, and Hafeez is out stumped! Hafeez had just lifted the spinner down the ground and over a leaping Behardien for six. He shuffled down the track in a manner most uncertain immediately afterwards, but Peterson got one to grip and spin past the outside edge. De Villiers' second superb piece of keeping in three deliveries completed the dismissal. But he's not done there! Nasir Jamshed jumps out at his second ball from the left-arm spinner, who rushes one past him to set up the second stumping of the over. South Africa are right in this now.
Over 3 - Pak 24/1 (Hafeez 9)WICKET! Nazir's frenetic innings is ended by Steyn. The Pakistani opener survived a close lbw appeal first ball, and counter-punched with a clubbed pull to deep square leg. Nazir is then frustrated by a string of dot balls and flails at a bouncer off the final delivery, gloving the ball through to de Villiers, who makes a very tough chance - diving forward at a dropping ball - look easy.
Over 2 - Pak 20/0 (Nazir 10, Hafeez 9)Morkel shares the new ball with an overwhelmingly off-side field in place. There are one or two very lonely fielders on the leg side, and they're barely even needed as the Ent-like fast bowler keeps almost everything outside off. Nazir doesn't give a toss for field placings, and french-cuts a pull down to fine leg before thrashing a full ball through cover point with great flourish.
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Roland TD 4KP compact size issues...
Hey, so I am roughly 6 feet tall, and I am wondering if the Roland TD 4KP is going to be too small for me to comfortably fit... does anyone have any experience with the set or similar ones??????? Even beyond size, does anyone have experience with this set?
Dimensions of kit (Width (W) 39-3/8 inches Depth (D) 47-1/4 inches Height (H) 49-1/4 inches)
Re: Roland TD 4KP compact size issues...
FWIW I used to gig with a Roland TD-6 kit with no problems whatsoever (and I'm 6' 5").
However the TD-6 rack (craptastic as it may have been) allowed for much greater flexibility with regards to pad placement.
I'd have concerns with the TD-4KP (based on the images I've seen) because you don't seem to have that many points of articulation (love the way it all folds up neatly though)!
Re: Roland TD 4KP compact size issues...
You could always put the legs on top of some sort of platform doohickey if you need more height (leave the pedals on the ground though, obviously).
I would assume that Roland has designed the kit to be comfortable within normal height ranges, and six feet isn't exactly abnormally tall (I'm about 6"2' myself). Of course, it also depends greatly on how high you sit on your drum throne.
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No charges on dad who killed girl's attacker
Caught in rape, man was beaten to death in Lavaca.
By John MacCormack : June 19, 2012 : Updated: June 20, 2012 2:10am
Photo By Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-News
Speaking on the grand jury's decision to not indict, District Attorney Heather McMinn said the law says "deadly force is justified to stop a sexual assault. ... All the evidence indicated that is what was occurring." Next to her at the news conference is Lavaca County Sheriff Mica Harmon.
Photo By Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-News
Defense attorney V'Anne Huser speaks to the media during a news conference in Hallettsville on Tuesday, June 19, 2012, to announce that a grand jury declined to return an indictment against a man who beat to death Jesus Mora Flores for molesting the man's 5-year-old daughter. Huser firmly requested that the media leave the family alone and that they "were moving on" from the incident.
Photo By Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-News
At the table, Joe Marek (clockwise from left), Jack Wooley, Leroy Wagner and Victor Casper talk at Howard's Convenience Store in Shiner about the decision not to indict a father who beat to death a man he found molesting his daughter. "They should have given him a medal for what he did, defending his daughter," Wagner said. The man on the right declined to be identified.
Photo By Kin Man Hui/San Antonio Express-News
Speaking on the grand jury's decision to not indict, District Attorney Heather McMinn said the law says "deadly force is justified to stop a sexual assault. ... All the evidence indicated that is what was occurring." On her left is Texas Ranger Joey Evans and at right is is Lavaca County Sheriff Mica Harmon.
HALLETTSVILLE — A young father who beat to death an assailant who was molesting his 5-year-old daughter will not be charged, a Lavaca County grand jury decided Tuesday.
"Under the law, deadly force is justified to stop a sexual assault. ... All the evidence indicated that is what was occurring," said District Attorney Heather McMinn, who announced the decision at a news conference.
Officials played a tape of the 911 call made June 9 by the father. In it, the 23-year-old man hysterically pleads with a sheriff's dispatcher to send help, but he cannot provide adequate directions to his father's ranch on County Road 302.
"I need an ambulance. This guy was raping my daughter and I beat him up and I don't know what to do," he says, apparently near tears.
"This guy is fixing to die on me man, and I don't know what to do," he repeated, while the dispatcher patiently tried to glean enough information to send help.
While pleading for help, sometimes incoherently, the father tells the dispatcher that attempts are being made to resuscitate the man he has beaten.
The San Antonio Express-News does not identify sexual assault victims and is not naming the father to protect the girl's identity.
The 911 call ended only when sheriff's deputies arrived at the ranch, but by then it was too late. The alleged assailant, Jesus Mora Flores, 47, died from head injuries.
Officials took no questions Tuesday. After the 911 tape was played, V'Anne Huser, a lawyer representing the girl's father, gave a brief statement.
"In our opinion, the story is over. You will not get an interview from (the father) or his family," she said, adding that the family is recovering from the traumatic episode and should be left alone.
Speaking of her client, she said, "He's a peaceable soul and he had no intention to kill anyone on that day."
"A grand jury made the decision there was justification for what he did," she said.
Flores, a Mexican national working here on a permanent resident card, had been hired at the ranch to take care of some horses on the property.
A witness told the father he saw Flores carrying the girl to a secluded pasture. The father reportedly ran toward the screaming girl and found Flores on top of her with his pants and underwear pulled down. He beat Flores with his fists.
A local official at the Lavaca County Courthouse said the outcome was entirely justified.
"No bill! That's the way it should have been. It was justice," Constable Andy Anderson said of the grand jury's decision not to indict.
Back in Shiner, 14 miles from the courthouse, several patrons at Howard's Convenience Store, a local social hub, also were sympathetic to the father.
"I think it's great, they should have given him a medal for what he did, defending his daughter," said Leroy Wagner, 79, a retired Alcoa worker who was drinking Shiner beer on tap with friends. "Who wouldn't have done that?"
"He was being a responsible father, any responsible father would have done the same thing," said Joe Marek, 59, a local electrician.
Victor Casper, 65, a retired county worker, said, "If it was my kids, I would have done the same thing. I would have defended them, too."


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Faber is one of three UNH skaters with double digits in both goals (10) and assists (19) to rank second on the team in assists, third in points and fifth in goals. She leads UNH rookies in all three of those statistics, and her numbers also rank 25th in the nation in points (1.12 per game), 13th in assists (0.73 per game) and seventh in rookie scoring (1.12 ppg). In addition, Faber leads the Wildcats in shorthanded goals (two) as well as plus/minus (+30), and is fifth in shooting percentage (.133).
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Off the road . . . Golden Valley Crusaders retiring
When Butch Cook stands up to sing baritone and pick the mandolin for a concert Saturday, May 4 at First Broad Baptist Church in Golden Valley, the event will be bitter/sweet.
After the concert, Cook and the other Golden Valley Crusaders will officially be retired. All the members, including Cook, aren't thrilled about retiring, while others believe it's time to move on to something else.
Organized in 1970 by a much younger Butch Cook, his sister, Martha Cook, their brother, Ken Cook, and a nephew, Chris Guffey, the Golden Valley Crusaders became one of the southeast's most popular bluegrass gospel groups and claimed several national awards.
In addition to Cook, other members today are Clint Houser on banjo and lead tenor; Gary Heaver, bass; David Heaver (Gary's son) mandolin, guitar, lead singer and George Giddens, fiddle. Giddens has begun playing with The Dillards.
Christy Heavner, daughter of Gary, is the group's marketing and sales director. Houser wanted to stop traveling in order to spend time with his young family and David wants to go to Atlanta, Ga. and with Giddens already in another band, it was time to retire.
They talked about their 43 years on the road.
Beginning a gospel band seemed like the thing to do in 1970, Cook said.
"I grew up with a dad who was an old-fashioned Baptist preacher, Ottis Cook, so singing in churches was a part of growing up in a preacher's house," he said. "When we started out and we were going to churches and singing I never figured it would carry on as far as it did.
"The group has done more than 175 shows, touring about half of the United States and even shows on a cruise ship to the Bahamas along with other southern gospel and bluegrass bands.
"That's as much as any professionals," Cook said of their busy schedule.
But the members of the Golden Valley Crusaders have always had other jobs in order to make a living and traveled on weekends.
"To make a $1 million doing this, you must start out with $2 million," David Heavner said of the gospel music business.
Cook is a semi-retired truck driver. Other family members including, Heavner's father, Gary, works at the family store, Becky's Store and Grill, located off U.S. 226 in Golden Valley.
Houser works with the Rutherford County Building Inspections Department.
Christy Heavner, the sister of David and daughter of Gary and Becky Heavner, works as a meter-reader with the Broad River Water Authority.
Heavner, 25, wants to go to Atlanta.
Their purpose in singing and traveling has never been to make money, but to witness for for the Lord, Cook said. They probably made enough money to pay expenses.
When the Golden Valley Crusaders began they sang southern gospel and gravitated to bluegrass gospel.
Through the years the group has included several different family members with the largest being seven and the smallest group is today's four members.
In 2009, the Golden Valley Crusaders were named Gospel Band of the Year and also the Country Gospel North Carolina/ South Carolina group of the Year.
During their four decades of traveling, they wore out five tour buses. They still have one bus that might become a motor home.
Former members of the group are all invited to Saturday's concert that begins at 6 p.m. at their home church, First Broad in Golden Valley.
That's the final concert on their schedule.
"But we will be back in March at R-S Central for the Carolina Gospel Association's concert," Cook said. "We've decided that we'll come come out of retirement at least once a year."
For next Saturday's concert, the group will give all the love offerings they receive to The Perrys, another popular gospel group, who has a sick family member.


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Falcons Conclude Second Round of Friday Night Fights
Oct. 19, 2012
USAF ACADEMY, Colo. - The Air Force boxing team concluded another round of Friday Night Fights on Oct. 19 with 12 tough bouts, ranging from 133 to 225 pounds. Freshman Jacob Berggren was named the Academy's Boxer of the Week.
Competing in a 140-pound bout with Garrett Soileau, Berggren used a nice jab and straight left to keep his aggressive opponent on the outside. His lead left proved to be the deciding factor, as he repeatedly landed that shot and forced the referee to call the match near the end of the second round.
Berggren was one of three boxers to earn victories before the final bell. Levi Bradley fell behind early in his 147-pound bout with John Carol Buitrago, but caught a second wind in the latter rounds. He landed two hard combinations to Buitrago's body and head in the third round to force the referee call the bout in the third round. Justin Smith combined speed and power to earn a referee-stopped win over Ruslan Garr at 170 pounds. Smith was in control from the start of the match and prevented Garr from gaining any momentum. He eventually landed a nasty body shot at the start of the third round that knocked the wind out of Garr and forced the official to call the bout.
Michael Magtalas opened the night with a 133-pound decision over Peter Cooke, while Kyle Gladney picked up a win over Alex Kim in the 159-pound weight class. Zigmas Polinauskas and Brandon Pitts both picked up victories by decisions at 165 pounds, as Polinauskas defeated Malcolm Price and Pitts took a decision from Jonathan Monsalve
Cory Furches defeated Donald Macary in the 140-pound bout, while Kevin Tucker took a decision from Matt Fischer in the 174-pound bout. Collin Fleck earned the judges' decision over Max Zendali at 178 pounds, while Jeff Herrala took a victory from Randall Draeger in the 180-pound contest. In the night's heaviest bout, Sean King took a decision from David Williford at 225 pounds.
The Falcons return to action next Friday, Oct. 26, when it travels to Detroit, Mich., for the annual Service Academy Classic at 8:00 p.m. (EST).


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