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Parks, Tim
Tim Parks 1954-
(Full name Timothy Harold Parks; has also written under pseudonym John MacDowell) English novelist, translator, essayist, memoirist, and critic.
The following entry presents an overview of Parks's career through 2000.
Parks has established a respected literary career with a series of well-received novels, including Loving Roger (1986), Shear (1994), and Europa (1997). His witty, tragi-comic novels—which explore the strained relationships and obsessions that abrade families, lovers, and unbalanced individuals—are marked by their deftly controlled characterizations and dramatic tension. Parks has also been lauded for his increasingly complex use of literary techniques, including interior monologues and multi-voiced epistolary writing. An expatriate author, Parks moved to Italy long before he achieved literary success, working as an English-language teacher and translator. Parks has produced several well-regarded translations of works by respected Italian authors including Italo Calvino and Alberto Moravia. His original works have drawn considerable inspiration from his life as a British transplant in Italy. Parks's novels, particularly the memoir Italian Neighbors: or, A Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona (1992), often call upon his experiences with various careers and his relationships in the community of expatriates to form the backdrop of his stories.
Biographical Information
Born in Manchester, England, Parks was the youngest of three children and was raised in an evangelical Anglican family. His father was a charismatic clergyman, described by Parks as "an intelligent man's Billy Graham." The religious beliefs of his parents, along with family tensions caused by Parks's rebellious older brother, served as the background for Parks's first novel, Tongues of Flame (1985). Parks earned an undergraduate degree with honors from Cambridge University in 1977, and a master's degree from Harvard two years later. Finding academic life at Harvard stifling, Parks abandoned further graduate study and worked for a year at the Boston public radio station WGBH. Parks then returned to England, where he worked as a telephone salesperson. In 1981, he relocated to Italy with his wife, Rita Baldassarre, whom he married in 1979. The couple took up residence in Verona, where Parks began working as a teacher and later as a freelance translator and lector at the University of Verona. After the manuscript of Parks's first novel, Tongues of Flame, was rejected by numerous agents and publishers, he entered it in the Sinclair Prize competition. The book was chosen as a runner-up and was subsequently published by a British press that had previously turned it away. Tongues of Flame went on to receive the Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986, establishing Parks's reputation as a promising new talent. Parks's second novel, Loving Roger, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1986.. Parks lives with his wife and three children in Italy.
Major Works
Parks's first novel, Tongues of Flame, is narrated by fifteen-year-old Richard, the son of a vicar in a moneyed London parish. Richard witnesses the rebellion of his older brother, Adrian, who has reaped the pleasures of the 1968 counterculture. Richard, who is in the midst of adolescence, is divided between his father's traditional morality and his brother's rejection of it. The delicate détente established by the family is broken by the arrival of an evangelical curate into the parish. Caught up in the new curate's religious crusade, the parishioners, who now claim to speak in tongues, focus their spiritual fervor on Adrian. The heretofore neutral Richard tries to rescue Adrian from an exorcism by resorting to arson, but, in turn, only aggravates the situation further. The technique of using a first-person narrator is again employed in Parks's second novel, Loving Roger. The novel follows Anna, a young typist, who begins a relationship with Roger Cruikshank, an office executive and aspiring writer. While Roger superficially resembles the heroes of the romance novels Anna reads, his selfish and cruel nature reveals itself when Anna becomes pregnant and Roger deserts her. The novel opens with Anna stabbing Roger to death. The reasons behind the murder are then explored through Roger's prosaic diary entries and Anna's interpretations of them. In Parks's next two novels, epistolary formats take the place of first-person narrators, providing the author with the opportunity to use multiple voices. Home Thoughts (1987) centers on Julia Delaforce, who leaves her job in London to teach English as a second language in Verona. Having fled an affair with a married man, she exchanges letters with him and writes of him in her letters to others. Julia quickly loses her new job, leaving her among a group of unhappy British expatriates in a milieu of temporary jobs and shallow friendships. Letters between characters are again used to provide multiple points of view in Family Planning (1989). The story follows the Baldwin family, consisting of the parents and their four grown children. Each family member selfishly denies his or her responsibility to Raymond, their schizophrenic older brother. After their father runs away to Algeria and their mother is beset with insanity, the Baldwins begin a back-and-forth correspondence, arguing over family assets and blaming each other for the problems of their family. Parks's next novel, Cara Massimina (1990), is a comic thriller in which Morris Duckworth, an English teacher, devises a plot to advance socially when he meets a wealthy young woman named Massimina, nicknamed Mimi. Jealous of her family's wealth and social standing, Duckworth decides to kidnap Mimi and ransom her to her parents. He begins travelling around Italy with the unwitting Mimi, leaving her briefly to return home to assist Mimi's family and the police in their investigation. Morris begins to fall in love with Mimi, but when she sees a television report about her abduction, he is forced to kill her and dump her body into the sea. The novel's darkly comedic tone continues in its sequel, Mimi's Ghost (1995), which finds Morris marrying Mimi's sister and becoming part of their family's wine business. However, Morris is frequently visited by the ghost of Mimi, who speaks to him through his cellular phone and acts as his spiritual advisor. In Goodness (1991), protagonist George Crawley struggles to deal with the birth of a severely handicapped daughter. When unsuccessful surgery further complicates his daughter's condition, Crawley must cope with the moral and ethical dilemmas surrounding a life that is no longer happy or fulfilling. The psychological thriller Shear centers on geologist Peter Nicholson, who takes his mistress on a working vacation to a Mediterranean island. Once he arrives on the island, Peter's life quickly becomes complicated—the widow of a quarry worker arrives, plotting revenge for her husband's suspected murder; Peter has an affair with his translator, whose father is trying to control the emerging murder conspiracy; and Peter's wife informs him that she's pregnant, while threatening to have an abortion if he fails to respond positively to the news. Italian Neighbors is a nonfiction work about Parks's time living in continental Europe, in which he views his own neighborhood as an eccentric community and describes Italy as a land of paradoxes. The memoir's sequel, An Italian Education: The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona (1995), continues Parks's exploration of his adopted land, discussing his eventual feelings of acceptance and further involvement in Italy's day-to-day life. In the novel Europa, Parks returns to the subject of teaching English as a second language. Framed by the interior monologue of forty-five-year-old teacher Jerry Marlowe, Europa follows Jerry and his fellow teachers as they travel to the European Parliament at Strasbourg to protest discriminatory working conditions. (They believe Italian schools give preferential treatment to teachers who are Italian.) Jerry, however, is more interested in his former mistress than his employment situation, and spends the rest of the novel obsessing about her. Destiny (2000) is also structured around an interior monologue. The narrator is Christopher Burton, a famous writer, who, while staying at a hotel in London, learns that his schizophrenic son has committed suicide. The death of Burton's son provides him with the opportunity to finally put distance between himself and his aristocratic Italian wife. The novel follows Burton over a three-day period as he makes a difficult journey from Heathrow to Turin to retrieve his son's body, then on to Rome, where the funeral will be held. During this time, the reader has access to Burton's troubled mind as he reflects on his marriage, the lives of his adopted son and daughter, and his career. Parks has also released a collection of essays, Adultery and Other Diversions (1999), consisting of thirteen pieces, the first and last of which focus on the subject of adultery. The other essays revolve around Parks's various recollections of journeying by car, his father's death, memories of ghosts, and living in Europe. In addition to his prose, Parks has also produced several translations of Italian-language works, including novels by Calvino and Fleur Jaeggy, and Robert Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony.
Critical Reception
Reviewers have found Parks to be both an adept and an entertaining commentator on the flawed nature of relationships. Parks confronts his often ordinary characters with challenging situations and examines how their responses are shaped by environment and experience. With his first novel Tongues of Flame, Parks caught the attention of critics, who praised his concise and clear prose. In particular, the exorcism at the novel's climax was praised for offering a surprising twist to the usual coming-of-age story. Critics continued to applaud Parks's technical mastery in his subsequent works, calling his writing both comic and ambiguous. Impressed with the multiplicity of viewpoints afforded by Parks's epistolary technique, reviewers have responded positively to the increasing range of voices presented in his work. While the prose in Parks's early works was appreciated for its clarity, his later works—most notably Destiny—have received mixed reviews for their disjointed, paratactic style.
Principal Works
Erotic Tales [by Alberto Moravia; translator] (short stories) 1985
Tongues of Flame (novel) 1985
Loving Roger (novel) 1986
The Voyeur [by Alberto Moravia; translator] (novel) 1986
Home Thoughts (novel) 1987
Indian Nocturne [by Antonio Tabucchi; translator] (novella) 1988
Family Planning (novel) 1989
Cara Massimina [also published as Juggling the Stars, 1993] (novel) 1990
The Edge of the Horizon [by Antonio Tabucchi; translator] (novel) 1990
Journey to Rome [by Alberto Moravia;...
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Jo-Ann Goodwin (review date 17 October 1986)
SOURCE: "Ordinary Anguish," in Times Literary Supplement, October 17, 1986, p. 1168.
[In the following review, Goodwin offers a positive assessment of Loving Roger.]
[In Loving Roger] Anna is a typist at TT, remarkable only for her ordinariness. She lives with her parents, who remain deep in mourning for her brother, Brian, killed in a car crash years ago. Anna's feelings are important to no one but herself. She remains cramped into a tiny box room, Brian's spacious bedroom next door maintained by her parents as a shrine. Her boyfriend, Malcolm, whom she has been seeing since the third year at school, digs up worms from her parents' garden to use for fish...
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Michael J. Carroll (review date 24 January 1988)
SOURCE: "The Love-Death of a Typesetter," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 24, 1988, p. 3.
[In the following review, Carroll offers a favorable assessment of Loving Roger.]
"Roger lay on my new blue rug in the corner by the television and the lamp that seemed like it always had the funny orange bubbles rising in it that he hated. But I went to work just as usual."
Thus begins Loving Roger: Anna at work; Roger lying dead back in her bed-sitter. Anna will do no work today; she will tell us of her affair with Roger, her lover of two years, the father of her child.
In telling this story of love to the death,...
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David Teagle (review date Summer 1988)
SOURCE: A review of Loving Roger, in Antioch Review, Vol. 46, No. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 390–91.
[In the following review, Teagle offers a positive assessment of Loving Roger.]
This second novel [Loving Roger] by British author Tim Parks opens nonchalantly with a domestic murder, and then winds backwards to examine with careful detail the events that led up to this rather passionless crime of passion. Anna, a typical, ordinary woman who works in a mediocre job as an anonymous secretary and lives with her parents in the shadow of her revered dead brother, falls in love with Roger, a gregarious co-worker with aspirations of being a playwright. The two begin...
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Richard Eder (review date 16 October 1988)
SOURCE: "Naked Tea," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 16, 1988, p. 3.
[In the following review, Eder offers a generally positive assessment of Home Thoughts, which he compares to the fiction of Kingsley Amis.]
"Evasion is paid for" is the moral of Tim Parks' deceptively blithe novel about a gaggle of British expatriates living, scheming, gossiping and partner swapping in Verona.
In a sense, Home Thoughts is a second-generation Kingsley Amis novel. Its characters are seedy and comical; their intellectual poses mask a schoolboy greediness; their civility is a coat tattered by their own prickles.
In his...
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Peter Reading (review date 26 May–1 June 1989)
SOURCE: "Embracing Lunacy," in Times Literary Supplement, May 26–June 1, 1989, p. 592.
[In the following review, Reading offers a favorable evaluation of Family Planning.]
Frank Baldwin has retired from his job as site-manager for a construction company after years of occupational globe-trotting. He and his wife Brenda are flying home from his last assignment in Algiers to their neglected property on the Lancashire coast, where they intend to settle. With them is their son Raymond. But something is amiss. "Smiling and as if addressing a tiny child, she held a finger over her lips in the direction of this hefty young man her eldest son." Raymond is a maniac....
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Nicholas Clee (review date 30 August 1991)
SOURCE: "The Murderous Era," in Times Literary Supplement, August 30, 1991, p. 19.
[In the following review, Clee offers a positive assessment of Goodness.]
Tim Parks's sixth novel [Goodness] (one was written under a pseudonym) returns to a subject he has explored in earlier books: that of mania lurking just below the surface of suburban lives. Goodness is also the second work of fiction published this year, following Michael Dibdin's Dirty Tricks, to suggest that Thatcherite individualism may contain the seeds of murderous ruthlessness.
George Crawley believes himself to be a good man, and his wife, despite having received a...
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Tim Parks with Michele Field (interview date 6 July 1992)
SOURCE: "Tim Parks: The Novelist, an English Expatriate in Italy, Takes a Look at His Neighbors in His First Nonfiction Book," in Publishers Weekly, July 6, 1992, pp. 35–36.
[In the following interview, Field provides an overview of Parks's life, career, his beginnings as a writer, and his experiences in Italy as recounted in Italian Neighbors.]
"I'd always sworn I wouldn't write a corny book about Italy," declares Tim Parks. "After all, am I a novelist or am I a novelist?"
He is a novelist. However, Parks also belongs to another old and honored breed: that of expatriate author. And this second calling has led him, indirectly, to write...
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Christopher Bray (review date 4 September 1993)
SOURCE: "Sermons in Stones," in Spectator, September 4, 1993, p. 27.
[In the following review, Bray offers a positive assessment of Shear.]
A novel about an adulterous English geologist doesn't sound much like a sizzler, but just try putting Tim Parks's Shear down. I would have read it at a sitting were it not for part of the North London Electricity Grid going haywire one evening. Middle-brow fiction doesn't come better than this. The book has many of the ingredients of the thriller: the woman on the vengeance trail, the seductively enigmatic foreigner, the fat and overbearing politician (wonderfully sketched in two lines of dialogue), above all the...
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Nicholas Wroe (review date 10 September 1993)
SOURCE: "Following the Fault-lines," in Times Literary Supplement, September 10, 1993, p. 21.
[In the following review, Wroe offers a positive assessment of Shear.]
Tim Parks is a versatile writer. In addition to translations of Calvino, Moravia and Calasso, he writes for the trade journal of the Association of Italian Stone Machine Manufacturers. In Shear, his sixth novel, the strands of his literary career come together in a powerful and impressive work.
Peter Nicholson is a geologist, sent by his London office to investigate a quarry on a Mediterranean island for his Australian clients. There is a dispute with the quarry owners, and...
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Frank Kermode (review date 4 November 1993)
SOURCE: "Dangerous Faults," in London Review of Books, November 4, 1993, p. 24.
[In the following positive review of Shear, Kermode discusses the development of Parks's fiction in Loving Roger and Goodness, as well as praising his gift for "ventriloquy" and his ability to combine genres in Shear.]
This is Tim Parks's sixth novel. He has also done some serious translation—Moravia, Calvino, Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony—and written a lively book about his life in Italy. And now, by way of explaining the highly technical lexicon of Shear, he tells us in an Author's Note that he did 'years of work for the...
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Jonathan Yardley (review date 10 July 1994)
SOURCE: "When the Earth Moved," in Washington Post Book World, July 10, 1994, p. 3.
[In the following review, Yardley offers a positive assessment of Shear.]
In the highest and most laudable sense of the term, the British novelist Tim Parks is a professional writer. In less than a decade he has published six novels and one work of nonfiction; he has also translated, from the Italian, Roberto Calasso's The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony. All of this has been done with uncommon skill and most of it has received critical praise, but with the exception of Italian Neighbors, an idiosyncratic travel book, none of it has made much of a dent on the collective...
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Jonathan Keates (review date 27 January 1995)
SOURCE: "The Italian Underbelly," in Times Literary Supplement, January 27, 1995, p. 22.
[In the following review, Keates offers a positive assessment of Mimi's Ghost.]
Most modern English fiction with an Italian setting has tended to opt for Tuscany or Umbria to furnish suitable backdrops, confident that décor and a few authenticating allusions to works of art and the bloodier vicissitudes of medieval history will do the trick when localizing detail is required. Few of the novelists who use this Chianti-and-frescos formula have ever actually spent long periods in Italy themselves, or sought to investigate the infrastructure of social ritual and traditional...
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Albert Read (review date 28 January 1995)
SOURCE: "So He Kissed Her Older Sister," in Spectator, January 28, 1995, p. 33.
[In the following review, Read offers a mixed assessment of Cara Massimina, stating that it "teeters between artful construction and lively implausibility." However, Read finds the novel's sequel, Mimi's Ghost, "muddled and uninvolving."]
Tim Parks, besides being a writer, is a part-time English teacher in Verona. He has now written two novels about an English teacher in Verona who elopes with an Italian 17-year-old heiress. He pretends to kidnap her; he claims the ransom, murders her and marries her sister. You can almost see Parks slumped in a sweaty classroom,...
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Christopher Merrill (review date 24 March 1996)
SOURCE: "Foreigners in the Family," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 24, 1996, p. 6.
[In the following review, Merrill offers a positive assessment of An Italian Education.]
In his first book of nonfiction, Italian Neighbors, the British novelist Tim Parks chronicled his initiation into the Veneto, exploring the lives of a people less celebrated in literature than Tuscans—and no less eccentric. A signal event for this expatriate was the birth of his first child, and in An Italian Education, the delightful sequel to Italian Neighbors, Parks uses his children's upbringing as a way to "understand how it happens that an Italian becomes...
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Nicholas Wroe (review date 19 July 1996)
SOURCE: "Honest, No Pidgin," in Times Literary Supplement, July 19, 1996, p. 7.
[In the following review, Wroe offers a positive assessment of An Italian Education.]
In an illustrative anecdote early in this study of Italy and the Italians, Tim Parks recalls how the representative of a courier company in Verona once told him that a package could not be picked up from him for forty-eight hours because they were too busy. The reason they were too busy was because they were so fast. "It seems pointless arguing with such logic", writes Parks, and so instead, in An Italian Education, he has tried to explain it.
Parks, a self-confessed...
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Keith Miller (review date 11 April 1997)
SOURCE: "European Unions," in Times Literary Supplement, April 11, 1997, p. 26.
[In the following review of Europa, Miller commends Parks's shrewd observations concerning European unification and his evocation of the teaching life, but concludes that the novel's "mazy, paratactic style can easily grate."]
We are presently slouching towards an election in which the issue of Europe, however little discussed, is bound to arouse bitter passions. Those of a sceptical persuasion may take comfort from this interesting if rather tiring novel, which presents the new Europe as simultaneously a tragedy and a farce.
Europa is a fevered,...
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Penelope Lively (review date 12 April 1997)
SOURCE: "A Coach with a Cargo of Sex," in Spectator, April 12, 1997, pp. 41–42.
[In the following review, Lively offers a positive assessment of Europa.]
The format of Europa is an exotic gloss on the country-house detective novel—a finite group of characters cloistered together over a prescribed period. Six foreign lectors from Milan University, with an accompanying body of students to lend moral support, are taking a coach trip to Strasbourg to present a petition to the European Parliament over their pay and terms of employment: a sober and mundane background to what is in fact a prolonged howl of anguish, self-reproach and sexual reminiscence by the...
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John Derbyshire (review date 20 September 1998)
SOURCE: "When Love Goes Wrong," in Washington Post Book World, September 20, 1998, p. 4.
[In the following review, Derbyshire offers a generally positive assessment of Europa, despite the novel's "unsatisfactory ending."]
Tim Parks is an Englishman who has lived most of his adult life in Italy. Since the publication of his first book 13 years ago, he has toiled away in the vineyards of literature, turning out novels (Europa is his ninth), translations, and essays about Italian life. Long residence abroad has freed Parks from the provincialism that afflicts much current British fiction. He has developed a clear and distinctive voice, which he uses...
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Gabriele Annan (review date 5 November 1998)
SOURCE: "Pricks and Kicks," in New York Review of Books, November 5, 1998, pp. 44–46.
[In the following excerpt, Annan offers a favorable assessment of Europa, which she regards as "a virtuoso tragic-comic tour de force."]
The novels by Louis Begley [Mistler's Exit] and Tim Parks [Europa], one American, the other English, present a violent contrast in tempo, temperament, and tone, and yet they have a lot in common. The half-hidden theme in both is free will: or rather its absence, which both heroes come to recognize and furiously resent. Both are highly cultivated, well-read, self-aware WASP males exercising their considerable...
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George Walden (review date 11 December 1998)
SOURCE: "Prisons of Desire," in New Statesman, December 11, 1998, pp. 46–47.
[In the following review, Walden offers a positive assessment of Adultery and Other Diversions.]
"One admires those books," writes Tim Parks, "whose complexity of content and vision gets closest to the grain of experience." Hardly original, perhaps, yet the sentiment bears repeating. The grain of experience is of necessity irregular, yet a lot of contemporary writing suffers from an excess of self-regulation, as authors do their best to prove themselves regular guys. So the grain of experience is smoothed or polished away, as truth becomes gunged with sentiment, larded with the...
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Antony Rouse (review date 2 January 1999)
SOURCE: "A Good Baker's Dozen," in Spectator, January 2, 1999, pp. 30–31.
[In the following review of Adultery and Other Diversions, Rouse recommends the collection for readers already familiar with Parks's writing, but suggests that newcomers to his work should start with Europa.]
Tim Parks is a writer who has earned our careful attention. He is the author of two successful books on his life in Verona, has translated Italo Calvino and has done a couple of thrillers. His latest novel, Europa, was on the Booker short-list. He could clearly, if he chose, write an epic poem, a history, the Chancellor's next budget speech, pretty well anything....
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Anita Brookner (review date 28 August 1999)
SOURCE: "Signposts Pointing the Wrong Way," in Spectator, August 28, 1999, p. 36.
[In the following review, Brookner offers a positive assessment of Destiny.]
Facts emerge slowly from the matrix of this excellent novel [Destiny], slowly because its unreliable narrator, Christopher Burton, has to cope not only with the critical condition of his marriage but with various ailments of an intransigent nature. He is in the Rembrandt Hotel, Knightsbridge; he has just enjoyed a very large breakfast—unwise, in view of his recent heart bypass operation—when he receives a telephone call from Italy which informs him that his son has died. The death has taken place...
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Nicholas Fearn (review date 13 September 1999)
SOURCE: "Lost in Thought," in New Statesman, September 13, 1999, pp. 53–54.
[In the following review, Fearn offers a favorable assessment of Destiny.]
The English like their great writers to entertain, and when a great writer's work falls short in this way, they demand that it at least be readily comprehensible. They also know by now where they can stick their preferences when they read a book by Tim Parks. In Destiny he has produced another novel that refuses to compromise, another that could certainly not be called an entertainment, although even in this regard it has its moments. Light reading it is not, and if one did not know better it would be easy...
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Jenny Turner (review date 30 September 1999)
SOURCE: "Tucked In and Under," in London Review of Books, September 30, 1999, pp. 62–63.
[In the following review of Destiny, Turner praises the novel as "a tremendously attractive book," but finds shortcomings in Parks's "static and solipsistic" evocation of personal crises, particularly those involving dysfunctional families.]
'Can this beautiful young model be thinking?' Tim Parks asks at one point in this book [Destiny]. 'One hopes not,' the argument continues, as Parks's narrator looks through an airline magazine. 'You do not think, I thought, seeing pictures of people pleasure-making on the beach, perhaps in an...
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D. J. Enright (review date 10 August 2000)
SOURCE: "Speaking in Tongues," in New York Review of Books, August 10, 2000, pp. 55–57.
[In the following review, Enright offers a positive assessment of Destiny.]
The opening of Tim Parks's Destiny repays study; it sets the scene neatly, and is the only sustained upsurge of clarity and single-mindedness we shall experience for quite a time:
Some three months after returning to England, and having at last completed—with the galling exception of the Andreotti interview—that collection of material that, once assembled in a book, must serve to transform a respectable career into a monument—something so comprehensive...
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Further Reading
Fein, Cheri. Review of Family Planning, by Tim Parks. New York Times Book Review (7 January 1990): 19.
Fein offers a generally positive assessment of Family Planning.
Gates, David. "It's Academic." New York Times Book Review (15 November 1998): 67.
Gates offers a negative assessment of Europa, calling the novel "amateur stuff."
Grudin, Robert. "Tales Out of Italy." New York Times Book Review (2 May 1999): 27.
Grudin offers a positive assessment of Adultery and Other Diversions, calling the collection "an elegant...
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Topic: Netbeans 6 beta with full ruby and rails support!
I'm trying it and at a first glance it seems very very great....what do ya think?
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I'm trying it and at a first glance it seems very very great....what do ya think?
I'll probably wait for 1.0 before giving it a try, but I seriously can't imagine switching from TextMate. I don't like heavy editors.
But, for those that want a true IDE for Rails, I think this is it.
Now i'm using it...it is fantastic with ruby and rails! But it wants a big PC
I'm using it too and it's really ok, I don't have to use the console anymore (for installing plugins or generating things).
As soon as I saw it was coded in Java I ran away screaming. In my experience java apps run disgustingly slow on OS X.
I'm happy with Textmate and the shell
As soon as I saw it was coded in Java I ran away screaming. In my experience java apps run disgustingly slow on OS X.
I'm happy with Textmate and the shell
ok but believe me...it is another world!!! A text editor is a text editor...an ide like netbeans is another world expecially that one for ruby and rails!!!
Netbeans kicks the crap out of Aptana.
Netbeans has not crashed once for me, in Aptana it was a weekly torture.
Well skyblaze, due to the sheer number of exclamation points in your post, I will try this puppy out.
Yeah, well for the simple fact of not being able to have the same syntax highlighting of Textmate, I despise it. It's just so ugly compared to Textmate.
Yeah, well for the simple fact of not being able to have the same syntax highlighting of Textmate, I despise it. It's just so ugly compared to Textmate.
I don't think i care too much about cool colors when i have a total ruby and rails environment in my hands...i mean amazing code completion for many many things, awesome code refactoring and debugging, rails migration and other tasks and generators in the ide and a lot more...
And then i don't think they will not add other color themes in the future
Maybe I'm insane, but the way my editor looks plays a major factor in what I use. I'd say I'm faster on Textmate than on an IDE, *shrug*. I'd also say Textmate makes me feel better
I would like to point out that NetBeans 6 beta has many of the shortcuts that TextMate uses (I won't go as far as saying it has all of them, I don't know )
For example,
1. habtm<tab> gives has_and_belongs_to_many :objects with objects highlighted so you can specify what object it is
2. hm<tab> gives has_many :objects, ditto
3. bt<tab> gives belongs_to :object, ditto
4. re<tab> gives <%= %> in RHTML files with the mouse cursor between <%= and %>
5. r<tab> gives <% %>, ditto.
Any more you would like to share with us?
I have to say, I used to use TextMate but switched to NetBeans 6 when it was still in RC. I don't think I would ever go back, and pimpmaster - it runs really nice on OS X, even on my older Core Duo iMac with 1 GB of RAM.
I tried netbeans for a few months. Its stable (insomuch as it doesn't crash), but it eats memory and is unresponsive randomly. It isn't just my machine, either, I tried it on several.
I'm back to using e (finally coughed up the $)
I've been using Beta 2 of NetBeans 6 and the Ruby/Rails support is fantastic. I'm restricted to a PC (otherwise I would be using TextMate/Terminal) but on the Windows side I don't think it can be beat. I've used RadRails/Aptana and it's just very clunky compared to NB.
Not to mention NetBeans is adding lots of very cool features:
ActiveRecord Auto-completion: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ruby_scr the_week20
TextMate Color Scheme: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ruby_scr the_week19
and awesome debugging features: http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/ruby_scr the_week10
It's worth a look if you're developing on the PC side. Plus I'm using JRuby for my Rails apps and it handles everything flawlessly (including building a nice context menu containing all of my Rake tasks when I right click my project). Nice RSpec/Auto-Test support as well.
It's maturing by the day.
But, but, the interface is so ugly!
I am using NB6 b2 and find it quite nice. Productivity is much increased. I know of one of the guys doing the Ruby work on the NB platform and he is very very smart - has done a lot of IDE work before and you can tell. This is very nice.
It has all the features I want a tons I have not tried yet. For large projects I prefer having a nice comfy IDE. But to each their own. I like that you can get the NB6 download with *only* ruby features so you can have a very light setup if you want.
I have not pushed on it too hard but the next time I get some free time I want to see if I can get mongrel integrated into the IDE as easily as the Webrick server. I really like having everything I need for development in one frame.
When you tell Netbeans to start the server, it just runs script/server, so if you have mongrel installed, it will use mongrel by default just as script/server does.
i am on Ubuntu and sometimes Windows. I personally started using NetBeans on Windows cause windows-console is just too crappy to really work with it
On Linux i used gedit as my editor and was really happy with it, but as i got used to NetBeans i realized that i save a lot of time. All the things like snippets or plugins i had to write for my self for gedit where alrdy included and so i started dumping gedit and only used netbeans now.
For performance issues try using the Rails only version and use jRuby. In my experience if u use the full NetBeans version and/or ruby it really slows the ide down a lot.
I still use the console in Linux instead of the dialogs in NetBeans though
I personlly like light-editors like gedit or textmate better than a full ide but gedit lacks a lot of features and well i dont have a mac so textmate is no option for me
I'm currently using Textmate but I will switch to NetBeans 6 the same day it will be release so December 3!!!
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The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) has reaffirmed the accreditation of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) for eight years, through June 2022.
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PRINCESS ANNE – (Jan. 28, 2011) – The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has a new Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Dr. Anthony L. Jenkins.
Jenkins, whose higher education career spans 15 years, spent the past four years as the dean of students at the University of Houston- Clear Lake.
A Washington, D.C. native, Jenkins said his move from Houston – "the fourth largest city in the United States" – to the Lower Shore, has been a smooth transition.
"I love it," said Jenkins, who settled into a Salisbury home with his wife, Toinette, and daughters, Ashley and Alicia. "I feel very comfortable here. Everyone has been welcoming and friendly."
Jenkins, a 1995 graduate of Fayetteville (N.C.) State University, received his Ph.D. in student affairs from Virginia Tech University. His administrative career began as the assistant dean of students at Northeastern Illinois University. There, his accomplishments included expanding the Greek Life system and establishing a Civic Engagement Center.
Jenkins later became the associate dean of students at the University of North Carolina – Wilmington. In that role, Jenkins expanded services for commuter students, and co-developed a crisis management team as well as academic retention/success strategies.
"Working with and mentoring students is very important to me," said Jenkins. "That's why I got into this line of work."
More recently, Jenkins has written and delivered presentations on educational and public policy issues, including mentoring, retention, academic success, leadership, and first generation college students.
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At UMES, Jenkins hopes to focus on recruitment, seeking out the "best and brightest students," who have a lot of potential.
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The day started off cool and grey, but it turned into a wonderful afternoon for our ACES Reunion on September 29, 2012. After having the Reunion in Virginia last year, we returned to the Midwest and held the Reunion at Louisville's E.P. "Tom" Sawyer Park. With 21 people and a whopping 30 dogs, we had a great time meeting new folks and catching up with old friends. Several dogs got to visit with their former foster families, always a happy reunion. Check out the photos here and try to guess who ran their heart out at the dog park and who chose to cuddle up with a person.
Our Reunion Raffle was quite a success. We had some lovely baskets raffled off at the picnic, in addition to our "grand" raffle prizes. Jodi Jenkins won the Dr. Fosters & Smith dog bed; Chet and Marian Siniawski won the English Setter throw; and Pat Bonetti won the custom painting. The ACES Board wishes to thank everyone who came out to visit, bought a ticket, or made a donation.


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Londoner Richard Hannay attempts to thwart a ring of spies called The 39 Steps. Closely following the story of Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film by the same name, The 39 Steps combines mystery and farce with hilarious results, using four actors to portray more than 140 characters. A real treat for the family, this two-time Tony Award winning hit will thrill the Hitchcock fan in all of us!
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I built this frame up exclusively for riding at Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park, and it handled that sort of riding really well. Now I'm selling it because basement space is getting precious and I don't go to Ray's enough to make it worth keeping.
Includes square-taper bottom bracket (in great shape, plenty of life), matching Instigator fork, Cane Creek headset, Surly seatpost clamp, and Thomson 29.4" seatpost. Stem shown is included if you want it, otherwise I have a few other random stems laying around if you need one, or you're free to use your own.
I also have bins full of old parts that might work on this bike if you need other parts to build it up (such as Race Face cranks, Azonic handlebar, Bontrager seatpost, beefy downhill pedals, Bontrager slick tires, etc.). I am also selling a set of 26" disc Mavic/DT Swiss wheels (separate post), and if you are interested, I'll gladly combine as many parts as you want for a discount.
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She could have stayed longer if she wanted to, she has no movie at the moment! guess we know why she is leaving the city of love so fast, she can't wait to see HER love!! :)Delete
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How small and little is she =), like a babydoll. Or maybe he is very tall..
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Ultrabooks, a new type of notebooks with high-performance in thin-and-light form-factor, are set to take the market by storm, gradually taking a piece of the traditional notebook market and providing new momentum for the entire IT industry. According to market research firm TrendForce, Intel Corp.-developed type of mobile computers will grab 10% of the notebook market already in 2012.
"We believe that ultrabook market share will jump from under 2% in 2011 to over 10% in 2012, stimulating renewed growth of the PC industry," said Kevin Lin, chief executive officer of TrendForce.
Since the ultrabook strives for thin and light form factor, efficiency, and long battery life, key component parts need to be revamped in order to fulfill ultrabook needs. This will in turn open up other areas for the application of new technology, and support the improvement of specifications.
"PC manufacturers will introduce different levels of ultrabooks at different price points, in hopes that having models with varying specifications will help them maneuver the market, satisfy consumer needs," said Mr. Lin.
HHD, SSD Demand to Increase Significantly in 2012
Modern thin-and-light notebooks utilize solid-state drives (SSD) to offer better performance in ultra-small form-factors. In order to achieve power efficiency and performance of today's rather expensive machines like Apple Macbook Air, ultrabooks must follow suit. Some cheaper models, however, may employ hybrid hard drives (HHDs) that combine NAND flash with traditional media.
"As SSD cost remains much higher than traditional hard drive cost, many of the ultrabooks currently promoted by PC vendors are equipped with hybrid hard drives. For instance, over 320GB of traditional hard drive paired with a small amount of SSD will increase efficiency while still keeping cost under control. Whether equipped with large amounts of SSD or hybrid storage devices, ultrabooks will effectively stimulate NAND flash demand growth, providing significant benefit to the entire NAND flash industry in 2012," said Sean Yang, assistant vice president of DRAMeXchange.
Low-Power DDR3L to Face Higher Demand
Ultrabooks are also projected to change the direction of the memory market. In terms of memory capacity, as memory makers transition from 30nm to 20nm-node process technology, due to cost structure considerations, single module capacity will gradually shift from 2GB to 4GB. Furthermore, to achieve the ultrabook's thin and light goal, the number of manufacturers choosing to weld RAM directly to the motherboard will increase significantly.
While 1.5V is the current standard of mainstream DDR3, in order to fulfill the ultrabook's longer battery life needs, the number of major manufacturers producing DDR3L (1.35V) will increase markedly in the future, according to DRAMeXchange/TrendForce. In 2012 DDR3L is expected to be the loaded memory standard for ultrabooks, and will save approximately 10-15% power compared to current specifications.
"In the long run, if LPDDR3 realizes economies of scale in 2013, resulting in a cost difference of less than 100% compared to DDR3L, the ultrabook target of having over 10 hours of battery life is not out of reach," said Avril Wu, an analyst with DRAMeXchange.
Battery Prices Set to Increase, Makers to Benefit
Ultrabooks are projected to use high-density batteries and consume from 40W to 60W. The new type of PCs face a battery challenge that will require efficient management of battery cell supply and cost.
There are three options for ultrabook battery core type: polymer, thin prismatic, and thin cylindrical. With the diversification of battery core application, system development has led to a polarization of price.
"As pressure to lower price increases, it is expected that 30% of the ultrabook battery core market will be comprised of more economical battery types. More importantly, as tablet penetration rate gradually approaches saturation, market focus will shift from low-priced tablet PCs to more costly ultrabooks. Hopefully, this will provide a new source of revenue for Taiwanese battery manufacturers," said Duff Lu, an EnergyTrend analyst.
Notebook LED Demand to Be Determined, Competition Heightened
As ultrabooks require thin panels and power efficiency, demand for backlight modules with 0.8t or 0.8LV side view LED is expected to increase. Eventually, they will replace the 3014 package type used by traditional notebooks, and indirectly raise LED product ASPs.
Ultrabooks will raise the bar in LED backlight competition with the use of more 0.8t and 0.8LV low voltage LED products. In the future, LED product development will head towards even thinner form factor. Thus, Japanese LED manufacturers in the early and mid-market stage are getting a head start on the LED backlight market. Nichia and TG have both increased shipments of ultrabook LED backlight products.
"In the short term, the effect of ultrabooks on the LED market is not likely to be significant, but will increase as ultrabook penetration rate increases. By 2015, LEDs used in ultrabooks will account for 30% of total notebook LED use," said Renee Liao, an analyst with LEDinside, a subsidiary of TrendForce.
Demand for Ultra-Slim Panels to Increase
Since ultrabook notebooks will require slim or ultra-slim panels, manufacturers will have to use new process technologies and/or better components for their production.
"The hinge up assembly mode will bring about a transition from panel modules to open cell panels (panels that have not been through the backlight module assembly stage). Using open cell panels to integrate backlight modules with notebook covers (component A), this assembly method reduces the thickness of the back cover and module frame, simultaneously achieving thin form factor and cutting costs," said Boyce Fan, an analyst with WitsView.
As this method requires close integration of optical design and assembly, backlight module manufacturers have the opportunity to establish their key role in the supply chain with the hinge up assembly mode.
In addition to the hinge up method, panel makers are also planning to produce ultra slim panel modules, utilizing chemical etching to reduce glass thickness from 0.5mm to 0.3mm, subsequently lowering module thickness from the 3.6mm of traditional modules to less than 3mm. However, as the cost of chemical etching is still relatively high, current ultra slim panel module cost is approximately 20-30% higher than traditional modules.
Ultrabooks to Inevitably Cannibalize Traditional Notebooks
According to statistics compiled by TrendForce, compared to the MacBook Air's $999 price tag, average ultrabook retail price will initially be set at around US$800-1,100. As traditional notebooks are currently available for $300-$500, the higher-priced ultrabooks should help increase total revenue for the notebook industry.
As for the big picture, the cannibalization of traditional notebooks by ultrabooks is inevitable, but the new platform will also stimulate demand for and advancement of industry technology. According to analysis by TrendForce's research divisions, ultrabooks will provide positive growth for key component parts. However, as ultrabook component cost will be higher than their notebook equivalents in the early stages of production, manufacturers will have a difficult time competing with already available systems like MacBook Air in terms of specifications and price.


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Saranac Lake chamber of commerce honors ArtWorks, Keough, Stevens
SARANAC LAKE – After many years of surprise revelations of its award winners at its Annual Dinner, the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce announced them in advance Tuesday, a week ahead of the event.
The Business of the Year prize goes to Saranac Lake ArtWorks, Ron Keough is Citizen of the Year, and Craig Stevens is Volunteer of the Year.
Here is what chamber officials wrote about each of the winners.
Business of the Year: Saranac Lake ArtWorks
"Saranac Lake ArtWorks represents and markets the arts community, takes a stand on issues involving arts and provides exhibit opportunities, classes and workshops to its 40 members. Their robust events schedule includes monthly exhibit openings at several galleries throughout the Saranac Lake area, the Cabin Fever Film Festival, the 3rd Thursday ArtWalks, the Adirondack Plein Air Festival, Hobofest, and the Artist at Work Studio Tour. Proceeds from several of their events are donated to community causes. The Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce, congratulate and thank ArtWorks for nurturing and promoting arts in the Saranac Lake area as it provides true economic impact to our community."
Citizen of the Year: Ron Keough
"The Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce Ron Keough as the 2012-2013 Citizen of the Year. Mr. Keough, a native of Saranac Lake, was the owner of Keough & Son Funeral Home for 34 years and is now a member of Fortune-Keough Funeral Home. Ron has held many elected positions including Franklin County Coroner, Town of Harrietstown Councilman and representative for the 1980 Olympic and Empire State Games; and is currently serving on the Assessment Department Committee, as well as the Building and Grounds Committee. His volunteer efforts have been endless over the years to include the local Volunteer Fire Department, Lions Club, Rotary Club, Elks Club, Winter Carnival Committee, Knights of Columbus, the Adult Center, LIFT: For Widowed Persons, Red Cross, Cancer Society, Chamber of Commerce, Ecumenical Council, St. Bernard's Parish, Franklin County Emergency and Disaster Preparedness, coach for Little League and Pee Wee Hockey and a member of numerous other community committees. Thank you, Ron Keough, for your continued compassion and dedication for the betterment of the Saranac Lake community."
Volunteer of the Year: Craig Stevens
"The Winner of the 2012-2013 Volunteer of the Year is Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce's own Craig Stevens. 2012-2013 was an exciting year for SLACC, and President Craig Stevens was there to pave the way. During a six-month period when the Chamber was unstaffed, Craig spent countless volunteer hours in the Chamber office, ensuring day-to-day business ran smoothly, all the while attending to his full-time position as the VP of Commercial Banking at Community Bank, N.A. Craig is also an active member of the Saranac Lake Kiwanis Club and the Adirondack Housing Board. Thank you, Craig Stevens, for your endless devotion to the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce."
Annual Dinner
After being postponed earlier due to inclement weather, the chamber's 92nd Annual Dinner will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 25, at Tail o' the Pup in Ray Brook. Tickets cost $30 per person and include a cocktail, barbecue, dessert, live music, a bonfire, s'mores and a ceremony to celebrate the three award winners. To reserve tickets, contact 518-891-1990 or email@example.com.


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I Gained Three Insights on Tablets After Shopping With My Mother
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Holiday sales of tablets may sort out the winners from the losers in a technology sector inundated with ambitious hardware and software rollouts.
After years carving out distinct identities, Apple (AAPL) , Google (GOOG) , Microsoft (MSFT) and Amazon (AMZN) are sprinting toward the end of 2012 in a dogfight for mobile-device supremacy. Operating systems and apps are a big part of the story.
As in past market-share grabs for the hot new tech gadget -- think the smartphone or the digital music player
The size of the competition is an indication of just how high the stakes are for a piece of the tablet market.
Consumers shopping for tablets this holiday season aren't just picking hardware, they're also deciding the software and online stores they'll use for years to come -- long after this year's crop of tablets, smartphones and e-readers becomes obsolete.
Winning the device battle may lead to an even richer score. There's the battle for operating systems, in this case iOS (Apple), Android (Google) and Windows 8 (Microsoft), and for interfaces such as the iTunes Store, Google Play, Nook and Amazon Prime, as consumers increasingly shop via mobile devices.
The savvy among us probably have already aligned ourselves with chosen devices and operating systems, so I decided to canvass the market for tablets and e-readers with a swing voter this holiday season: my mother.
A language specialist by trade, she's an able user of computer essentials such as PowerPoint, Word and Outlook. She owns a MacBook and an iPhone 4S. Still, she's yet to fully realize the capabilities of her smartphone -- outside of Siri and the camera -- and hasn't synched it with any home electronics.
I suspect she's the type of prospective buyer whom tech giants are trying to win by year-end. A tablet or e-reader could pique her interest in apps, unveil the possibility of over-the-top media, and make everyday shopping and travel easier.
After a Sunday spent shopping in New York City, here are three insights on the device market with three weeks left in the holiday season.
Amazon Needs an Apple Store
As the world's largest online retailer, maybe Amazon should never open a retail outlet. As a tablet and e-reader upstart with an emerging media and e-commerce platform that could rival iTunes and the App Store, Amazon needs a branded retail presence to match Apple.
Given that my mother already owns a high-end laptop and smartphone, Amazon's Kindle Fire devices would appear to be a cheap and seamless way to fill out her tech needs. After all, she's already a frequent Amazon shopper and could easily be coaxed into signing up for Prime. A tablet's biggest selling point to her -- better reading ease -- plays into Amazon's content library and she's yet to commit to a steaming video service like Prime, Netflix (NFLX) or Hulu.


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Gary D. Nelson
Gary D. Nelson, 60, of Jamestown, formerly of Falconer Kimball Stand Road, Falconer, passed away suddenly Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in his home.
He was born Aug. 22, 1952, in Jamestown, the son of the late Dewey and Virginia Ahlgren Nelson.
Gary was a graduate of Falconer High School and a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in engineering.
In earlier years, he was employed by Blackstone Corporation, AMSCO-Excel and Dahlstrom Manufacturing and taught welding at BOCES.
He was a member of the Thule Lodge, Falconer Rod and Gun Club and the Fluvanna Fire Department, Rescue 7, a supporter of the Safe Shooters and Anglers for Eternity, and a member of the Ross Mill Church of Christ.
Gary enjoyed hunting and fishing, the outdoors and also enjoyed working at the annual Gerry Rodeo.
He is survived by his companion, Carol Schermerhorn of Ripley, N.Y.; three sisters: Trudy (Douglas) Howles of Rochester N.Y., Suzanne (Frank) Clark of Denver, Colo., and Marlene Gibson, Saint Joseph, Mo.; three uncles: Rudy (Donna) Ahlgren of Jamestown, Richard (Elsie) Nelson of Bemus Point, and Richard (Mary) Ahlgren of Mich.; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. in the Falconer Funeral Home. The Rev. Don Ray will officiate.
Friends will be received by the family 5-8 p.m. Monday and one hour prior to the funeral service Tues-day in the funeral home. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery, Falconer.
Memorials may be made to the Fluvanna or Gerry Fire Departments
Visit our website www.falconerfuneralhome.net to light a candle in remembrance.


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JOB DESCRIPTIONClient bank has an exciting opportunity for an Area Payroll Services Officer (APSO) marketing a full suite of solutions including HR/Payroll, Benefits, Time and Labor Management, and Finance Solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for driving self-sourcing client business development opportunities as well work with assigned Bank Relationship Managers (RMs) to identify equipment financing opportunities within the bank's customer base. Interfacing with contract administration, implementation and client services to ensure the achievement of the region's revenue, profit and retention goals.
Must have previous bank payroll product sales experience or extensive related financial services sales experience. Professionals with residential mortgage lending, underwriting, origination, or processing experience will not be considered. Experience, Skills, Academic: • Proven success in B2B sales consistently achieving or exceeding assigned sales quota– outsourcing sales preferred • Proven proficiency in "account plan" development and implementation of related sales strategies required • Proven ability to canvass, qualify, analyze needs, present/demo, and close major account prospects • Excellent work ethic, motivation and leadership skills • Education: BS degree in Marketing or Business Administration or equivalent in education and experience. • Experience as an District Sales Manager, Major Accounts District Manager or equivalent sales position with in depth knowledge of National Accounts' products and services. • Proven ability to effectively prospect into C Suite and continually achieve or exceed assigned sales quota. • Excellent sales skills with a high level of proficiency in persuasive communications. • Keen discovery skills and a desire to challenge prospects to improve their business processes. • Proven proficiency in "account plan" development and implementation of related sales strategies required. • Knowledge of National Account product capabilities versus competitor product strengths/weaknesses. • Proven ability to canvass, qualify, analyze needs, present/demo, and close National Account prospects.
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ABSCO Spacesaver 5 x 3 Tool Shed
About this itemThe ultimate tool shed or storage shed where space is limited!
2 Color selections available
The only storage shed made with maintenance-free heavy-duty galvanized steel, fast and easy assembly with the exclusive SNAP-TiTE® assembly, and a 20 year warranty against rust. The Snap-fit design of the wall and channel sections takes out the guesswork. With typical metal sheds these components must be aligned, drilled and fixed together with unsightly screws, rivets, or bolts. Not only does the SNAP-TiTE® system make assembly of your tool shed easier and faster, the end result is also significantly stronger. The Colorbond finish coating will blend nicely with the vinyl siding, stucco or even wood grained siding of your home. We are so confident our sheds are built to last we offer a 20 year Warranty against rust that can't be matched.
- The perfect metal shed for those garden tools, skis or fire wood
- The revolutionary SNAP-TiTE® system not only makes assembly faster and easier, it also helps deliver a professional finish
- Easy to assemble, strong and beautiful
- Will fit perfectly under the eaves of your home
- You won't have to worry about our quality hinged door falling off the track like other metal sheds
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Rated 5 out of 5 by LelePua Upholstered Stairs for Pets This is the second upholstered pet step for our Russian Blue (16 y/o). She needed a little help getting on top of our bed and the day bed in the guest bedroom. The quality of construction is excellent and the neutral color blended nicely in each room. I would recommend this for all the precious little pets that need assistance getting to those lofty places of comfort. November 18, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Hapygoddes Best Doggie steps ever! The photo you use to advertise the dog steps for a tall bed looks just like our Maltese, "Killer" who is 12 years old. Now he's able to get on our bed every easily. Easy soft steps makes it more gentle on his joints. June 11, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Kejepson Dog steps that work! This product is the best set of dog steps that I have found. We have a very high bed that our 2 Boston Terriers (13 and 15 lbs) had trouble getting on to with a smaller 2 step product. It's lightweight so it's easy to move. I had previously purchased a competitive product from Orvis that was more like a ramp and our dogs slid down it once and never touched it again. This product is MUCH better! Worth the money. April 16, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by TJnsn Pet Steps These steps are wonderful. They are very sturdy and the dogs run up and down them with ease. The steps stay put and do not move when the dogs are on them. Very happy with the purchase. We have had the steps for about 4 months. They still look brand new - very good quality. January 29, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Moejoe Love these Steps i love these steps. They are so soft as well as fashionable. They go with my bedroom decor nicely. My yorkie loves them. I only wish I would have bought the 6 steps instead of 4. November 16, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 by Teaspoon Excellent Steps for Captains Deck Bed Our papi-jack puppy loves the steps and quickly learned to go up and down them to get into the tall bed. The six steps are perfect for our tall captains deck bed. The short steps are excellent for a puppy and small dog. May 30, 2011
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Twenty years ago – 1993
The Dunkirk-Fredonia area will end up with two new Quality Markets under a deal approved recently regarding the sale of stores owned by the bankrupt Peter J. Schmitt (PJS) Co. The Bells Market on East Fourth Street in Dunkirk along with the Freshmart Store in Fredonia, have been purchased by the Penn Traffic Co. of Johnstown, Pa., and will become Quality Markets within the next two days. The company already operates a Quality Market at the D&F Plaza and that store will remain in full operation.
Thirty years ago – 1983
On the evening of Jan. 2, the Fredonia First Baptist Church began its 175th anniversary celebration with a candlelight service, with the Rev. Cyrus Sprague, Area 1 associate minister, participating. The Rev. John Binkiwitz Jr. delivered a sermon. The church bell was rung 175 times by the young people as the congregation proceeded out of the church carrying lanterns and assembled around the water fountain in Barker Common.
Forty years ago – 1973
Marilyn Ann Abbey was announced as the "Student of the Week" at Cassadaga Valley Central School. She is the 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Abbey of Sinclairville.
Fifty years ago – 1963
Jerry Tramuta, Cardinal Mindszenty High School's basketball guard, put on a fantastic show as the Monarchs downed host Fredonia 52-48 in the last five minutes of the game.


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And while the black and yellow color scheme unfortunately matches Pittsburgh's trio of professional sports teams, at least that palette's repping the Columbus Crew, too.
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GOP still clueless – it's not about majorities, it's about fundamental change
Nate Silver is someone I've come to enjoy reading when it comes to election analysis. He knows his business. But he too seems to have missed the significance of the New Hampshire and Delaware senatorial primaries, casting them only as elections – if they go to the "insurgent" Tea Party backed candidates – that could cost the GOP a majority in the Senate if the insurgents win.
Of course, that's not the point, at least as I see them. While Christine O'Donnell may not be the ideal candidate for the US Senate, she's at least fiscally conservative. Mike Castle, the GOP choice on the other hand, is described by Silver like this:
… Michael N. Castle, who has held elected office in Delaware for 30 years as its governor, lieutenant governor and lone United States representative. … Mr. Castle — a moderate who is unambiguously a member of the establishment …
Are any lights flashing and horns sounding in your head right now? Silver describes Castle in terms that make him part of the problem, not part of the solution. He's a perfect plug-in to the Congress the country as a whole seems so unsatisfied with and is on the verge of changing.
Oh sure, he might nominally give the GOP another seat in the Senate – but to what end? Voting with the Snowe/Collins Republicans and the Democrats on bills that expand government and spend more?
When is a seat not really a seat, or a majority not really a majority? When you elect "moderates" of either party who are not averse to expanding the role of government. That's part of the reason you see more and more polarization within the country. Right now the left is having fun characterizing the right as "radical". But one only need look at the size of the liberal caucus in the House to know where the heart of leftist radicalism lies.
I continue to harken back to polls which show the vast majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track – in numbers which haven't changed much in the last 8 years or so. In other words, the people as a whole are dissatisfied with both parties and their representation. And again, I'll point back to the Ned Lamont/Joe Lieberman race where the left tried precisely what is happening on the right in states such as AK, NH and DE at the moment.
These movements to effect change are indicators. What is described as "radicalism" from "political activists" are the surface bubbles of a molten core of unrest among the majority of Americans. They're thrashing around for ways and means of changing something that seems never to change. The Tea Party movement is one of those bubbles. The Daily Kos left was another. But nothing much has changed, has it? And the "wrong track" numbers continue to remain at a constant level. And the frustration builds.
This isn't about majorities in the Senate. It isn't about the horserace in November. It's about fundamental change – and not many seem to understand that. The people in Alaska have said "enough" with the Joe Miller primary win. The fact that the GOP primary races in both DE and NH are as close as they are should be sending unmistakable messages to the GOP leadership – one's even they can't miss – that establishment moderates aren't who the people want in the Senate. Naturally, it seems the Republicans are as tone deaf as everyone else.
If the GOP only wins 7 seats instead of 9 in the Senate, that's fine, as long as the 7 are of the type that are committed to paring government down – reducing its sized influence and cost. Those 7 are enough to keep the Snow/Collins branch of the GOP from pushing the numbers over to the Democratic side. As it stands, in fact, not having a Senate majority is probably better for the GOP than achieving one right now – they'd just blow it and, as Mitch McConnell once said, being minority leader in the Senate is one of the most powerful positions in Congress. And besides, we'd have to listen to Obama whine for 2 years about the "Republican Congress".
Nope, the hand writing is on the wall if the GOP (and for that matter, the Democrats) would just pause long enough in the partisan bickering and bomb throwing to read it. This isn't about either of their parties, or them. It's about changing the direction of the country. The party that first manages to absorb that message and then elect candidates that actually work toward that end is the party that is going to be in power for quite some time. In principle, that should be the GOP. But as usual, in their normal clueless way, they continue on the same road that put them in the minority two years ago believing instead that all this excitement about the midterms is actually because people are embracing their candidates over the Dems. How they have missed the fact that the Tea Party insurgency indicates they couldn't be more wrong still amazes me.
So continue on your merry blinkered way, GOP, and fight the movement and candidates who're all but lighting the way with the platform you should be embracing. Continue to put up your moderate establishment candidates and then wonder why, in two years time, you're back on the other side of the wave as Democrats are again swept into office while you are pushed out.
It is the usual short term view that drives politics today and drives me crazy. The belief that winning a majority is all that's important because then the party can act on its agenda. No – it can't. Not if those it has elected aren't in tune with the principles of the platform. Not if those elected are "moderates" who have no problem with big government, subsidies, entitlements and high taxes.
If returning to the fundamentals of Constitutional government is "radical" then the GOP needs to become the radical party. Until they absorb that, embraces that "radicalism" and runs candidates who believe in that fundamental principle, the wrong track numbers will continue to remain constant and the GOP will continue to be the clueless lesser of two evils, but not by much.


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BIG TEN CLUB - LOS ANGELES FOODBANK - Community Service Project
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Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 8:45 AM to 12:00 PM (PDT)
Event Details
We have fun. We do good. We'd love you to volunteer with us Saturday morning, March 27th, for our Club's annual community service project at the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. Please RSVP by 3/19.
Our goal is to have 50 Big Ten friends to volunteer. The Foodbank is a non-profit organization that solicits, stores and distributes donated food and grocery projects to charitable agencies throughout the Greater Los Angeles area.
As we've done in past years, we'll sort, clean and repackage donated items for a morning under the direction of the Foodbank staff and then, if there's interest, we'll head off to lunch at a local restaurant. This is always a rewarding event to participate in, it's free, and you will receive good karma for another year.
Please note: the minimum age to volunteer is 14.
- Make a positive difference for our Los Angeles community
- It's not horrible...some even claim it to be fun
- Meet other good looking and smart Big Ten alumni
- Advance the good name of the Big Ten Club of Southern California
Co-Sponsored by the Northwestern University Club of Los Angeles.
Questions? Jim Jacobs, Big Ten Club Vice President (NU) at firstname.lastname@example.com or call him at 626.334.5676 (home).
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Los Angeles Regional Foodbank
1734 East 41st Street
Los Angeles,
Saturday, March 27, 2010 from 8:45 AM to 12:00 PM (PDT)
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Founded in 1933, the Big Ten Club of Southern California was created to celebrate getting out of the cold and enjoying the camaraderie of others at various local events and functions. Plus with our long standing association with the Tournament of Roses, Big Ten Club members enjoy access to Tournament related events.
Major events include the Rose Bowl game, Person of the Year, Queen's Luncheon, and Caucus at Wrigley Mansion.