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Special Commendation for Liberty Wines` Green Programme
15th May, 2014
The work we have undertaken to reduce our carbon footprint is already being praised and we are thrilled to announce that managing director David Gleave collected a Special Commendation award for Green Company of the Year at The Drinks Business Green Awards on Tuesday 29th April.
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James Richard Shannon
September 10, 2014 James Richard Shannon, 62, of Cape Coral, passed away Monday, Sept. 8, 2014. He was born Feb. 22, 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Thomas and Mildred Herhuth Shanno. more »»
Christopher W. Serio
September 10, 2014 Christopher W. Serio, 43, of Cape Coral, formerly of Rice Lake, Wis., passed away Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Cape Coral. He was born June 6, 1971, in Hayward, Wis. more »»
Leslie (Laszlo) Horvay
September 5, 2014 Leslie (Laszlo) Horvay, 93, of Cape Coral, was called home to heaven after a short battle with pancreatic cancer Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. more »»
Jane Ann Fiano
September 5, 2014 Jane Ann Fiano, 69, of Cape Coral, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. Mullins Memorial Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Cape Coral, is entrusted with final care. more »»
Elberta M. Boyette
September 5, 2014 Elberta M. Boyette, 74, of Cape Coral, passed away Sunday, Aug. 31, 2014. ICS Cremation Society Inc. of Port Charlotte is in charge of arrangements. more »»
Lawrence H. Lyons II
September 5, 2014 Lawrence H. Lyons II, 69, of Cape Coral, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014. ICS Cremation Society Inc. of Port Charlotte is in charge of arrangements. more »»
Joseph Connor Desmond
September 5, 2014 Joseph Connor Desmond was born May 12, 1943, in Boston, to his parents Joseph and Margaret (Hansen) Desmond Sr. He passed away at Hope Hospice Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014, in Cape Cora. more »»
Phillip Howard Blanc
September 5, 2014 Phillip Howard Blanc, 58, a resident of Cape Coral, formerly of Chicago, passed away Friday, Aug. 29, 2014, in Cape Coral. He was born June 15, 1956, in Chicago. more »»
Cathy "Cat" Lynn Simons
September 5, 2014 Cathy "Cat" Lynn Simons, 48, of Cape Coral went to be with the lord Sunday, Aug.31, 2014. She was born in Philadelphia in 1965 to parents Sid Simons and Edith Kay. more »»
Bridget Allison Kerrigan
September 3, 2014 Bridget Allison Kerrigan, 34, of Cape Coral, formerly of Oaklyn, N.J., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, in Cape Coral. She was born April 21, 1980, in Philadelphia. more »»
Stephen Charles Edwards
September 3, 2014 Stephen Charles Edwards, 66, a Cape Coral resident since the early 2000s, formerly of Myrtle Beach, S.C., passed away Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, in Cape Coral. He was born Aug. more »»
Anna Lee Noble
September 3, 2014 Anna Lee Noble, 83, of Cape Coral, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. ICS Cremation Society Inc. is entrusted with final care. more »»
David Elliott
September 3, 2014 David Elliott of Fort Myers, formerly of Cape Coral, and Kittanning, Pa., died, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, at his home in Fort Myers. He was born Feb. 26, 1922, in Brownsville, Pa. more »»
Ann Harger
September 3, 2014 Ann Harger, 92, passed away Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. She was born Antoinette Ann Addalia of Linden, N.J., Oct. 11, 1921, and moved to Cape Coral in 197. more »»
William "Billy" McClave Holzapfel
August 28, 2014 William "Billy" McClave Holzapfel, 67, a Southwest Florida resident since 1979 including North Captiva, Captiva and most recently Bokeelia, Fla. more »»
Harold Popp
August 28, 2014 The Rev. Harold Popp, of Cape Coral, died peacefully on Sunday at Hope Hospice. Rev. Popp was pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church on Pine Island Road for nearly 20 years. He emigrated to the U.. more »»
Sanford "Sandy" Peters, Jr.
August 28, 2014 Sanford "Sandy" Peters, Jr., 91, of Fort Myers, Fla. passed away Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014 in Fort Myers after a courageous battle with medical issues caused from two falls. He was born Feb. more »»
Gwendolyn "Joy" Joyce Alexander
August 28, 2014 Gwendolyn "Joy" Joyce Alexander, 71, of Cape Coral, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 in Cape Coral. She was born Jan. 28, 1943 in Richmond Heights, MO to Forrest and Isla Crane, now deceased. more »»
Thelma Comeau Macone
August 28, 2014 Thelma Comeau Macone, 88, of Cape Coral, Fla. Florida, formerly of Carlisle, Massachusetts passed away at home surrounded by loved ones on August 26, 2014. more »»
Mary P. Charles
August 28, 2014 Mary P. Charles, 89, a Cape Coral resident since 1996, formerly of Long Island, NY passed away in Cape Coral on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 201. more »»


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Townhomes at Mountain Ridge
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Salt Lake City, UT 84119
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Somerset Village
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Somerset Village Apartments in Salt Lake City, Utah offer spacious 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartment homes with resort-like amenities to create a charming, friendly village setting. Close to shopping, restaurants and interstate access. We are pet friendly.
West Valley City, UT 84119
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Irving Schoolhouse
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Brickstone Apartments on 33rd
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Sun River
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Harmony Gardens Senior Community
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Puerto Rican6096 E Colonial Dr
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si deceas comer rico! GUAVATE! tiene que ser;)
Great place, great food but...
great restaurant
As if I was in Cayey, PR
Their phone number is 407-281-4700
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Strum, Wisconsin
For population 25 years and over in Strum:
For population 15 years and over in Strum village:
35 residents are foreign born
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $2,404 (2.1%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Eau Claire, WI (18.9 miles , pop. 61,704).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: St. Paul, MN (89.1 miles , pop. 287,151).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Chicago, IL (264.8 miles , pop. 2,896,016).
Nearest cities: Eleva, WI (2.1 miles ), Chimney Rock, WI (2.6 miles ), Hale, WI (2.6 miles ), Clear Creek, WI (2.6 miles ), Osseo, WI (3.0 miles ), Pleasant Valley, WI (3.0 miles ), Naples, WI (3.1 miles ), Otter Creek, WI (3.3 miles ).
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Latitude: 44.55 N, Longitude: 91.39 W
Area code: 715
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Crime rate in Strum detailed stats: murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, arson
Full-time law enforcement employees in 2012, including police officers: 2 (2 officers).
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Unemployment by year (%)
Population change in the 1990s: +7 (+0.7%).
Work and jobs in Strum: detailed stats about occupations, industries, unemployment, workers, commute
Average climate in Strum, Wisconsin
Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations
Tornado activity:
Strum-area historical tornado activity is slightly above Wisconsin state average. It is 61% greater than the overall U.S. average.
On 6/4/1958, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 16.3 miles away from the Strum village center killed 4 people and injured 3 people and caused between $500,000 and $5,000,000 in damages.
On 6/4/1958, a category F5 (max. wind speeds 261-318 mph) tornado 37.2 miles away from the village center killed 21 people and injured 74 people and caused between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 in damages.
Natural disasters:The number of natural disasters in Trempealeau County (12) is near the US average (12).
Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 10
Emergencies Declared: 2
Causes of natural disasters: Floods: 7, Storms: 7, Tornadoes: 4, Heavy Rains: 2, Floods: 2, Flash Flood: 1, Wind: 1, Drought: 1, Hurricane: 1, Tornado: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
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Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2012: 9.7%
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No gay or lesbian households reported
Detailed information about poverty and poor residents in Strum, WI31 people in nursing facilities/skilled-nursing facilities in 2010
17 people in group homes intended for adults in 2010
38 people in nursing homes in 2000
15 people in other group homes in 2000
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Religion statistics for Strum village (based on Trempealeau County data)Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 77.11%
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Food Environment Statistics:
Number of grocery stores: 6
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 3
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 14
Number of full-service restaurants: 24
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6.05% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($44,151 average adjusted gross income)
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved from foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
6.18% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($31,480 average adjusted gross income)
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
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Strum fatal accident list:
Sep 9, 2011 02:25 PM, Us-10, Larch St, Lat: 44.55631944, Lon: -91.40125, Vehicles: 3, Persons: 3, Fatalities: 1
National Bridge Inventory (NBI) Statistics
Number of bridges: 3
Total length: 6 meters (20ft)
Total average daily traffic: 6,530
Total average daily truck traffic: 231
Total future (year 2029) average daily traffic: 8,520
FCC Registered Antenna Towers:24 (See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers in Strum)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers:4
FCC Registered Microwave Towers:7
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses:8 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Strum)
FAA Registered Aircraft:3
2006 National Fire Incident Reporting System Incidents:
Total of 1 patent application in 2008-2014.
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A resident asks: There is a two-story building on Capitol Drive west of Calhoun Road just past the water tower that has been unoccupied for years. What is the status of that building?
Answer: The Capitol Heights building at 17400 W. Capitol Drive has been purchased by Ring & DuChateau, Inc., an engineering firm currently based out of Wauwatosa.
The company purchased the building for $1.5 million from AnchorBank.
"They're bringing employment to Brookfield from a different community, so we're excited about the economic development," City of Brookfield Director of Community Development Dan Ertl said.
The building offers approximately 25,000 square feet of space and was owned by Venture Development Inc. prior to being foreclosed on by AnchorBank in May of 2012.
"It got wrapped up in a variety of circumstances that led to its vacancy. It got wrapped up in the great recession," Ertl said. "But now it's going to be put to productive use."
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is there much difference between a radeon x850xt and radeon x1950pro?
my 850 was £220 at the time of purchase but the 1950 is only about £140
in general X1950Pro is based on much newer core which does support Shader Model 3.0 instead of SM 2.0 supported by your X850XT
in real life you will have little or no increase in performance when running DX9 games after changing to X1950Pro
Nvidia just released 8600 series and there is a 8800GTS 320MB for just a bit more than £140 as well (which is the best performance/value card at the moment). Ati will release new X2900 series this May. If you want, wait a while for Ati but I would personally go for 8800GTS 320GB which is amazing piece of hardware for this money.
Oh... all of them support DX10, do not buy anything less then that - eg. Nvidia 7000 series and Ati X1000 series.
ah right i see. thanks for that. the 320mb 8800s are about 170 + vat on scan
atm my 850xt is RMA'ed. running on a borrowed pci-e geforce 5750 but it runs wow surprisingly ok.
I had WoW running great on a little D600 I borrowed from work when my main PC blew it's PSU up! 32Mb Radeon card, although capital cities were a little laggy.. :-D
The x1950s are pretty decent cards, currently I am running a 768mb 8800Gtx, but prior to that I had an x1950 and was quite happy with it
you may want to check overclockers.co.uk
they re-brand some products and offer at really good price
forgot to mention in 1st post
the biggest difference in ref to SM2/3.0 is that X850 can only do bloom and X1950 can give you HDR lighting (used by most new games) ;)
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Well my new PC came with a Nvidia7950GX2. WoW looks really good at the highest display settings and their is no lag in the frame rates. I havent found anything to really push it yet except FSX and even that I only have to drop the settings down a notch!:lol:
Sent it back got a new one. Works great now. got wow in high res. I notice it tends to jerk a bit when the frame rate drops. 1GB ram not enough now?
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I can do that its only dual channel pc3200 bout 40ish quid for a gb.
I just got a 8800GTS 320Mb and its rather good. All the games I have tried so far run with the gfx settings maxed out. I have a Q6600 and 2gb ram to go with it mind...


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Situated on the west bank of the Mekong, the mellow town of Kompong Cham has little of the bustle that you'd expect of the biggest city in the northeast. Its small commercial port doesn't exactly hum with activity, and the riverfront, in the shadow of the massive Kizuna Bridge – thrown across the river in 2001 courtesy of the Japanese, is pretty quiet too since road improvements have led to the demise of most river transport. The place has a distinct charm though, and enough low-key attractions to occupy a day or two. Its few Western cafés and bars are packed in the evenings with tourists who are stopping over in town, on a slow journey through the country.
A few hours can be happily passed exploring the streets of the colonial centre and visiting Wat Nokor, known locally as Nokor Bachey, just outside the town, a modern pagoda built within an eleventh-century temple. In half a day you can follow the Mekong north to Phnom Hann Chey, a quirky hill-top pagoda with fabulous views of the river and some old prasats, while a day-trip will get you to the pre-Angkorian site of Banteay Prei Nokor, surrounded by a massive earth embankment, where a few ruined towers still stand, with a visit to the rubber plantation at Chup on the side. Pleasant boat trips can also be made to villages up and down the Mekong.


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Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Here it comes, this year's Great American Novel*, a shoo-in for everything from the Pulitzer to a place on Oprah's couch, garlanded with praise in the UK alone from critics comparing it to Banville, Bellow, Fitzgerald and Updike. Even James Wood in The New Yorker loved it. And here I am, having disliked most of the last handful of books I've read, keen for something to love, just waiting to be seduced; frankly a pushover.
You'll have predicted, from the breathlessness above, that I didn't love it as much as they did; indeed I'm not sure I loved it at all. It was nonetheless worthwhile: I got to wonder how different my experience of reading it was, forearmed by all the orgiastic praise in the press, than it would have been if I'd picked it up at random. Just as we inevitably – consciously or not – give a book more consideration when we know it's an established classic, I think I must do the same when I'm assured it's a future classic. Certainly it's conceivable that, without any knowledge of other opinions, I could have given up on Netherland early on. And that, just to muddy the waters of opinion one last time in this paragraph, would have been my loss.
The cover shows ice skating – a shrewd move, because the recreational sport that the book really revolves around is cricket, and a cover image of that would have limited sales dramatically, irrespective of reviews. Yet it is cricket, or rather the idea of cricket played by immigrants in New York, which is the great idea that gives the book steel down its spine. This works obviously as a metaphor both for the multicultural absorption of melting-pot America and the essence of fair play ("I cannot be the first to wonder if what we see, when we see men in white take to a cricket field, is men imagining an environment of justice"), but also adds a memorable, almost surreal note, and – crucially – brings to mind the sporting elements of other would-be Great American Novels (Rabbit's basketball, Underworld's baseball, American Pastoral's athletics). Netherland also consciously evokes another American classic, with a passage (which I didn't mark in my copy and now, of course, can't locate) that parallels Jay Gatsby gazing out at the green light of Daisy's dock (and there's mention of a boat on the last page too).
O'Neill's Gatsby is Chuck Ramkissoon, who at the start of the novel is found dead in a canal. Our Nick Carraway, filling us in as to how he might have got there, is Dutch immigrant (via London) Hans van den Broek. He tells us:
Chuck valued craftiness and indirection. He found the ordinary run of dealings between people boring and insufficiently advantageous to him at the deep level of strategy at which he liked to operate. He believed in owning the impetus of a situation, in keeping the other guy off balance, in proceeding by way of sidesteps. … The truth is that there was nothing, or very little, I could have done to produce a different ending for Chuck Ramkissoon.
Chuck is the founder of the cricket league which Hans joins, and which yokes together the newcomers to New York, as well as the elements of the novel. Otherwise, Hans spends a good deal of time, narratively speaking, away from Chuck, which is to the book's detriment. His present day concern is the reassembly of his fractured marriage, after his wife left him to return to London with their child. Her move was in part inspired by a sense of fear after the World Trade Center attacks, though unlike other readers, I'm unconvinced that this makes Netherland a "post 9/11″ novel: except in the sense that it was published in 2008, which is admittedly post 9/11. A more plausible link might be in a growing sense of fear of difference which could have led Chuck to fall foul of others, though Hans seems clear enough that he was significantly the author of his own misfortune.
The centripetal influence of Chuck as a character is welcome in a book which otherwise seems to dart about too much, and leave traces in too many places to cohere in the way that is achieved by so many of the books it's been compared to. I also found evidence of effort on too many pages: for every just-so phrase ("ambulances sped eastward on West 23rd Street with a sobbing escort of police motorcycles") there's a tortured image ("a murky tank in which cheap fish hesitated in weeds and an artificial starfish made a firmament of the gravel"), a case of arrestable whimsy ("Taspinar explained that he had dressed as an angel for two years now"), or plain clunkiness ("I'd assumed that some unilateral failing of mine had been at the bottom of our downfall; now it seemed that some malfunction of Rachel's might also have been operative" – yes, he really did say might also have been operative).
There are other fine things worth mentioning, such as the book's acute sense of the importance of place in personal memory and the prism of sentimentality through which it's often viewed, as when Hans reflects on New York once he's back in London (he'd been warned before going to New York that he would always miss it if he left):
[In London], unchanged is the general down-the-hatch, who-are-we-fooling light-heartedness that's aimed at shrinking the significance of our attainments and our doom, and contributes, I've speculated, to the bizarrely premature crystallization of lives here, where men and women past the age of forty, in some cases even the age of thirty, may easily be regarded as over the hill and entitled to an essentially retrospective idea of themselves; whereas in New York selfhood's hill always seemed to lie ahead and to promise a glimpse of further, higher peaks: that you might have no climbing boots to hand was beside the point.
No doubt the book has many other qualities, spotted by the critics, which passed me by. In short, my difficulty with Netherland was that, while the central character of Chuck lit up every page he appeared on, and the bold central image of cricket in New York is a winner that will hold it widely in memory, the book as a whole just never took off for me; enjoyment is a chemical reaction between reader and book which either happens or doesn't, and no amount of critical appraisal can gainsay that.
* contractual terms require the use of this phrase in all reviews of Netherland.
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Hi John,
After your suggestion that I might like to read 'Netherland' (made before we knew that O'Neill was not eligible for the Man Booker) I'm still waiting for my library reservation to come through, so I'm not reading your review yet. I like to make my own mind up before I read what others say. This is also why I'm refraining from reading your comments on 'The Seige of Krishnapur' and 'The Conservatioist.' I'm half way through the former and the Gordimer is next on the list – they are the two 'Best of Bookers' I had not read, tho' I'm re-reading the other four – and I'm looking forward to seeing what you say once I'm done reading.
Meanwhile … some weeks ago I saw a list that you had done where you detailed all the books/authors that are automatically eligible for this years' Man Booker. Can you tell me where to find it, please? I'm not sure if it is on your Blog or on the Man Booker site. I've done a little searching and failed to find it so far. Thanks again for your longlist suggestions … I have more and more books piling up!!
Hi John,
I can relate to your experience. Roberto Bolano's work has been universally praised it seems. Expectations were raised, and not, in the case of Nazi Literature: ( http://www.quarterlyconversation.com/TQC12/nazi-literature-in-the-americas-roberto-bolano-review.html )
met. The book is, nonetheless, definitely worth reading, and I will make my way over to The Savage Detective and 2666 at some point.
re: chemical reaction: this may explain why I love War and Peace and yet haven't been able to get past page 100 of Anna Karenina. Others have told me of similar experiences with The Brothers Karamazov: can't read; Crime and Punishment: deem brilliant.
I agree with you about the pages really coming to life when Chuck Ramkisoon is on them. In his character I could sense a glance in the direction of VS Naiapul's 'A House for Mr Biswas', the tragi-comic Indo-Trinidadian dreamer with an idea of how to find a space of his own in the world. And for a novel to assimilate Jay Gatsby and achieve a balance and reserve in that assimilation is to be admired. To take on the influence of that seminal and haunting work of American literature and carve something subtle and fresh is impressive. I can understand the caution struck in the points you make about over-praise too.
I feel that perhaps America has been 'waiting' for a novel to contextualise the events of 2001, to make some kind of sense of them in the glancing form of the novel. Netherland becomes not only 'The Great American Novel', that never-ending hallucination which examines and reflects upon the notion of American exceptionalism and enlightenment, it also becomes a State of the Nation work by describing near-at-hand moments, within fresh collective memory, the attacks, the war in Iraq. And hence, the novel may have been fallen on with gratefulness, as though it manifests a significance beyond itself. And yet, I do believe that some of this gratefulness is justified.
That O'Neill does this by embodying revifying American idealism in an immigrant hustler of Indo-Carribean origin, contextualising all of this not in the stories of European, Jewish or Hispanic immigrants of the past, but in the lives of Jamaican, Indian, Trinidadian, African, Pakistani immigrants, opens (at least to me) a refreshing new territory to this narrative. In the 21st Century it is the men and women of the former British Empire who make New York their home, who stare at the green light across the bay, who take the sublime pleasures and idealism of cricket as their connection to the past and consolidator of the present, their love for the game representing both their marginality to America as well as strangely embodying something intrisic about their place in that society too.
And then, America in the world, excursions to England, Holland, India, and the Carribean, the awareness that American insularity is no longer possible, that the world is leaving footprints on America just as she leaves her footprints across the world (for better or worse), and that the world through the immigrant has always had ghostly and tangible footprints on America, from the Dutch sailor's eyes, to Hans and Chuck.
I found the novel quite satisfying. I suspect that if you were to re-read it again say in a years time, after your natural and understandable resistance to the 'great new novel' aura has abated, you might find the strengths which you recognize have a persistence and continuance which out live the elements that you identified as being static, of hitting the note slightly wrongly.
I do believe that this is a novel that has an afterglow.
I read an advanced copy of the definitve post-Katrina novel, City of Refuge by Tom Piazza. Such praise, such insignt, said the back cover.
Well, I was highly disappointed. Don't read it when it comes out.
Hiya John,
I'm making a habit of this, so you must forgive me … but, fyi, I posted an interview with Joseph on The Book Depository on Friday:
The cricket should be foregrounded in the cover. The cultural and emotional resonance and meaning of the game is perhaps the sustaining thread of the novel. So strange that the publishers in the UK seem to be afraid of priveliging it on the cover, despite its weaving together the disparate characters, places, eras, and dreams in the narrative. The striking juxtaposition that forms so much of the quiet energy of Netherland, the juxtaposition of cricket and New York / America, should have provided ideas for creative originality in the design to catch the eye of the potential reader. I don't get any sense of the resonance of the work from the ice skating cover. I like the American one, and I guess the curiousity of cricket is what the publishers found enticing there.
By the way, did either of you find the book funny in places? I laughed out loud twice, once near the start when Chuck intervenes when the drunken player / spectator comes on the cricket pitch with a gun, and the speech he gives afterwards, and during the disco at the cricket club when Hans is surrounded by hisWest Indian and South Asian friends bumping and grinding to chutney soca music.
I enjoyed it a lot more than you did, John, though I can't really argue with any of your points. For me, though, the post-9/11 elements of it worked really well: rather better than those in other novels/stories by American born, New York natives. I though O'Neill captured that looming paranoia about what might happemn next rather well.
Surprised to hear to see you say you have no interest in 'Terrorist', John. I'm not a massive Updike fan, but I thought the prose in that novel was just staggering. I've finished 'Falling Man' today and, while it has some moving moments, it's nowhere near as accomplished as the Updike book.
And now I'm moving on to 'Netherland' which I *think* I'll enjoy but not love.
Oh, and Robert Bolano? A friend tells me 'The Savage Detectives' is the best novel he's read in ten years. Looking forward to the paperback next month!
[…] feel greatly real), and though I don't think I really got everything of the book (there's a great, great review by John Self at his blog Asylum which articulates many points more clearly than I could), the book's so freakishly well written […]
I enjoyed your thoughtful review on this one, John, despite the fact that I liked the book better. The thing that worked about this being a 'post 9/11 book' for me, is the way Rachel up-ends her life in response to the displacement she feels and the certainty her opinions take on. It is so typical of the reactions I have witnessed here in the US, particularly in New York.
I would imagine the English relationship to cricket making the book a completely different reading experience. The cricket world is nothing if not exotic in New York. It draws Hans into becoming part of a social and racial mileu, he would never otherwise have been known. He ventures to geographical locations far afield from the upscale Soho and Chelsea environments he frequented – places he would not have otherwise have seen. He takes more risks. It is as though he becomes a person of broader context and bases behavior less on the purely rational, while Rachel narrows her focus, shutting down to what she has known before and retreating with her child to cover. Their reactions to the events seem to evoke in the personal realm the world's reactions in a political realm. And it is as though Chuck R embodies the world of irrational dreams and once Hans has run his course in this world, and that trippy period comes to an end – Chuck dies. It's almost as if Chuck exists as an extension of Hans. On one level I experienced the book as one about the death of dreams.
Good little interview with the author on the Guardian blog here.
He talks at one point about how the theme and story surrounding cricket challenges the insularity of the New York / American narrative, brings the outside world to America and to the kind of American novel that worked as template for the story….."an attempt to modify….and bring it into line with other extra-American narratives and perspectives.
I finished the book last night and, like John, didn't feel quite as dazzled as I was supposed to. I think it's a well put together, intelligent book with a few great passages (a graveyard that was 'a necropolitan replica of the Manhatten skyline beyond it'), but a little too studied and dispassionate for me. The angst-ridden lives of wealthy New Yorkers who feel 'conflicted' over the war in Iraq is a tough sell, and O'Neill didn't quite manage it for me. Lovely final page, though.
[…] the book (too late?). I think I benefitted by reading The Asylum's didn't-love-it review, and I think that helped me go into this book with lower expectations – an amazing way to approach […]
Just finished this one and thoroughly enjoyed it for so many reasons. Knowing a little about cricket certainly helps. If you do not know your Barry Richards from your Viv Richards then you will probably miss out a little. But it is not vital, just as you can still enjoy Tim Winton's 'Breath' with no knowledge of surfing or Tim Parks 'Rapids' having never experienced white water canoeing. But if you understand the sport, then you can appreciate aspects such as the position of Holland in world cricket and Hans' wistful regret at not being there to face Brett Lee in the 2003 World Cup. And Chuck's dream seems so realistic at a time when the Americans are starting to see and invest in the sport.
I have never been to New York but now feel that I understand this city just a little bit better. Taspinar may be a stereotype but this is a character that could only be from New York. You could almost hear Antony and the Johnsons in the background whenever he is present.
I have been fortunate enough to spend time in Holland. How apt that O'Neill has made Hans six foot five. This is the only country in the world where I have felt short at six foot two.
A very well crafted novel. This is the kind of book that almost has me wanting to start my own blog! What to read next? Always a problem when you have just enjoyed a book so much. Maybe the new Patrick McGrath to the rescue.
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I enjoyed this one hugely, as I did "The White Tiger" (it seems we are fated to disagree, John, though I see we were both impressed by "Cloud Atlas").
It's odd that nobody (?) is pointing out the influence of Sebald on O'Neil's tone: the ruminations on Cricket in particular, confidently offbeat and absorbing, seem to bear WGS' stamp. I should dig up my notes from the margins to make a better case…
Hi John,
This is my first time post. In anticipation of the announcement of the Booker shortlist, I am trying to read the 7 longlisted books that I have managed to find. Netherland was the second book I read, and in general I liked it. Perhaps after reading Sea of Poppies which is populated with so many characters that remain more or less two-dimensional, it was refreshing to read a book with one central character/narrator and where the author delves deeper into his psyche.
After reading the reviews and the comments, I have to say that I agree with some of the negative comments such as the fact that the characters of Rachel and Chuck are not adequately developed. Still….
There is something haunting about the novel. Maybe the fact that it is a sensitive study of someone who has been suprised by pain and had not had the chance to build up his defense mechanisms and has to start doing so now. Although I know very little about cricket, I agree with you that the passages that talk about cricket are among the most poignant in the novel as they portray how in difficult times, the things that give us pleasure become so imporant. On that level, I found the novel very genuine.
I am on page 39 of Netherland and I am not enjoying it yet. Still reading though.
Dear John,
Thanks for the reply. I have just finished reading A Fraction of the Whole and have started on A Case of Exploding Mangoes. I don't know what to make of it so far. The other books I have are Child 44, Enchantress of Florence and the Northern Clemency.
I live in Egypt, so I have no idea when the other books will arrive in the bookstores here. I will just wait until I travel or other people travel abroad to try and get the rest.
Concerning last year's Booker prize winner, it had to be one of the least popular Booker Prize winner of all time. For me, the fact that it won was also a big disappointment. While I have to acknowledge that there is much skill in the writing, it was a drudge to read.
I have to laugh at your description of the cover because the U.S. copy has just that – a scene of cricket. I did manage to push on and finish the book but I really don't recommend it. Any comparisons to Fitzgerald are just crazy. He did have some amazing turns of phrase I have to say. I am still not sure what the real story of this book is supposed to be.
I forget where but I did see him compared to Fitzgerald and on the back cover of my copy he is compared to Auster.
It definitely has Gatsby as its template, with Ramkisoon as the Jay figure and Hans as Carraway. I don't think anyone would claim that it is in the same class as that novel, but O'Neill works in the outline of that American masterpiece to bring together a book that touches on perennial themes, that over reaching, the mythology of modern America, the echoes of the 'Dutch sailor's eyes' in the discovery of New York's forgotten layers of Dutch history; the new Gatsby's as immigrants from the Caribbean, India and Africa. I don't think the comparisons are being made in terms of immensity of achievment, but of conscious influence and model, and to a certain extent, of tribute to Fitzgerald's still living novel.
Intrigued by references to The Great Gatsby somewhere last year, I pulled out both it and Catcher in The Rye to revisit my youthful reading memories. I have to say that Salinger won the skirmish — which rather surprised me. I also don't think O'Neil's publishers did him any favor with the comparison (which certainly was relentless here in North America).
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Another good review John — I'm pretty sure you're more reliable than the actual Booker judges.
I was impressed by Fin (above) spotting the Sebald influence — I had similar thoughts myself. Sebald writes fiction in the guise of travel writing; O'Neill writes travel writing in the guise of fiction. But O'Neill comes off badly in the comparison. I can't help thinking London and New York are too overdescribed in literature, too cliché — O'Neill can't mould them to his own ends in the way Sebald in The Rings of Saturn makes Suffolk indisputably his.
I also thought a certain "chemical reaction" was missing. I think the cause is a lack of conventional beginning-to-end narrative. The book is a highly disjointed tour round the fog of memory (moreover — memories of a banal and miserable life), with the result that the reader sees the book's scenes through the narrator's gloom, from a hazy distance, so to speak. I had the same problem with Banville's The Sea. You could call it the "mope-lit" genre.
At the same time, I did find it very readable and extremely competent. Like The Impostor, it seemed like the sort of thing that would walk it on to a Booker shortlist in a fairer world.
Hi John
I remember our messageboard musings well, and fondly…just stumbled upon this site as I attempted to locate any opinions on how Netherland could possibly elude the panel this year. I see that you have a few issues with it, which is interesting. (And the passage you have placed amidst your original comment referring to the CLANGING use of 'operative' is indeed a serious (but I'd say uncharacteristic) boner.)
In any case, I thought the book to be quietly powerful and full of heart, ending on a brilliantly evocative note of hope. To put in context, I read three books in quick succession: Paul Auster's 'Man In The Dark; Junot Diaz's 'The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao'; and the aforementioned. The Auster feels like marking time and is not particularly good, the Diaz is very, very good, and the O'Neill, I felt, superb. All three are set largely in the gravitas-drenched Big Apple, and whilst Auster seems latterly content to use an off-the-peg NY to shoehorn brittle ideas about identity and malaise into vaguely tired narratives, and Diaz veers inexorably towards the dark side from the jaws of bloodied promise, O'Neill offers up a picture, though hardly averse to heading off the bad stuff, of a New York and a world with at least a cap-doff to hope and the beauty of a glorious human failure.
At least Rushdie didn't make it, eh? But seriously, the Booker has got it wrong for only the umpteenth time, so it shouldn't matter. One can only hope the non-inclusion hasn't sounded the death-knell for a cricket boom in New York, which would'e been a seriously perverse, but shockingly great event. Chuck Ramskisoon and Obama parallels, anyone…?
I did go back to Netherland and will admit my second reading moved the book up, at least somewhat. My hypothesis (and given Lee's NY reading list I would most appreciate his opinion) is that Netherland speaks to New Yorkers, or those who are close to it, in a way that it doesn't to those of us elsewhere in the world. A lot of novelists have written post 9/11 fiction, most of it, frankly, dreadful. O'Neill's book, I think, captures some of the elements of living in post 9/11 NY (particularly the stress of his marriage) and the dislocation that resulted in a way that other writers haven't — the cricket extended metaphor is perhaps the best indication that this is not a real world.
I have come to appreciate this book more since I first read it for just that reason. What was annoying on the first read (some of his descriptions of the City read like a travelogue even for those of us who only visit it) becomes much more substantive the second time around. And what I originally thought was a shallowness in the main character actually becomes a strength — he is overtaken by the world that surrounds him.
I'm not surprised Netherland didn't make the Booker shortlist — I'm afraid it is just too American (and we could have a long debate about whether it or Diaz is a better book — I'm still leaning towards Diaz). I'll be very interested in seeing how it fares in the U.S. contests.
Well, on a brief note, I've been to New York a couple of times. The version I bought into beforehand – the twinkly, panoramic, cuddly metropolis of endless possibilities full of vital people that instigate zeitgeist swerves and never sleep (my fault or media or both, who can say?) – was partially true. The overriding feeling, though, was (of course) of a cold, vacantly frantic sensory overload and completely indifferent magnitude. Because a city like New York is virtually impossible to encapsulate in any meaningful, not token way. The glistening skyscrapers that loom proudly on posters and television shows, those anthropomorphised beacons that say all kinds of inherently impressive and graspable things seen from afar, become huge totems of overwhelming alienation when you walk amongst them. I think, finally getting to the point, that O'Neill, at the close of Netherland, approaching Manhattan with his mother, as he ruminates on NY as representing human possibility and a soaring sense of becoming (for want of another word), he turns to see his mother looking in wonderment, not at the approaching cityscape, but at him. I found the scene to be almost unbearably moving, for all kinds of reasons. I feel that O'Neill has done what Auster manages at his best; to convincingly portray NY as both unfathomable and yet nothing to fear, ie a hopeful site of looking inward as well as outward, a reflection of us. Now, that's not to say that there isn't a certain convenient effortless grandiosity that comes with basing ANY story in New York, that it can act as a kind of lazy shorthand for weight and magnitude, nor that it's better than any other environment for dealing with this kind of eternal concern (and the 9/11 thing is kind of stick-on pseudo gravitas for some). But O'Neill has, I think, managed something funny, real, captivating and touching out of such potentially fraught raw materials, and I think that's a real achievement. Deborah Eisenberg managed something similar with Twilight Of The Superheroes, Delillo less so with Falling Man, and I think most writers have struggled since you-know-when to avoid merely re-assembling the wreckage. Auster in particular seems to have suffered, I think due to the fact that he can't face NY head-on any more. I think O'Neill may have re-established New York as somewhere that can be considered home, both vicariously for readers and literally for reading residents, though I don't know how accurate such an assertion is. Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Auster, Delillo et al are perhaps at too little a remove; O'Neill seems, perhaps, to have the perfect standpoint.
A brief continuation: I just don't like reconstructions as a way of getting to the crux of something like this (and everything set in New York for the next God knows how many years can hardly escape it) and much prefer a tangential approach, which I always feel works better. O'Neill gives us something vivid; Auster's book seems sketchily whimsical, which pains me to suggest as I love Auster.
Well, I went in search of the very essay and found this excerpt, which, as you can see, complements Netherland perfectly. I must get hold of the full essay but, in the meantime there is the following.
"There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter–the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last–the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company. . . .
The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible. A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now; in the sounds of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest editions.
All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself, and because, of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm."
I can see why you mentioned this in relation to the book, Trevor, and if Netherland can actually do what we are suggesting it might well have managed, it can only add to the confusion surrounding it's exclusion from the final Booker 6. It has rightly been compared to Fitzgerald (it has that assured sense of comfortable poise) and we can only hope it gets a wide enough readership, and maybe gets a stateside gong or two. It deserves every accolade it gets.
That was a beautiful post. Cheers mate.
I meant the first one you wrote just now, although the others are great too. That reference in the essay to how it can all be brought to an end by a single flight of planes that 'can burn the towers', is haunting and eerie, to have been written in the 1950's.
Cheers Paul, John, Trevor.
Great stuff of course. I can't believe O'Neill hasn't read that essay!
The excerpts from the White essay, which I admit I did not know, are excellent — I do think this is a summary of what I would call the challenge of New York. I particularly like the three categories that he creates (I am in the third) and the recognition of what this implies about what is written about the city. Netherland certainly adds to that — I'm still not as keen as Trevor about the success of the book but I am beginning to find it more appealing.
I also cannot help but compare fiction books that use London to the same purpose. I admit I love both cities (as a frequent visitor) — I also like London more. When I look at some of the recent fiction that is set there (Macewan, Ali and Zadie Smith all come to mind), I find a very different picture from that that is being created of modern New York. And it does confirm my personal experience — New York seems to demand assimilation, London celebrates divergence. I can't help but think of sitting in St. James's Park in London one weekend afternoon, counting how many languages we heard as people walked by (we stopped counting at 17 as I recall). I love Central Park every bit as much, but I don't think I would ever try language counting there. Now that I think about it, I do believe this is part of what O'Neill was trying to say in this book. If you add Trauma and Lahiri to the reading experience, you start to get some of the alienation side of what White talks about in his essay — contrasted, of course, by the positive promise of all that it represents. Henry James and Edith Wharton addressed the same conundrum more than a century ago. In a sense, not much has changed.
For me, that is one of the most signficant parts of Netherland, one that most critics overlook. The central character chose to leave. In some ways, Diaz (who certainly was writing about New Jersey, not New York, when he was on the continent, but I still think the comparison is fair) reached much the same conclusion.
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Joseph O'Neill, author of the dazzling book Netherland – don't listen to John; he knows naaarthing – was on Newsnight yesterday evening discussing his book, cricket, Obama, cricket, and the use of cricket as a bridge between the immigrants from South Asia and the more native New Yorkers. Worth half a watch, but be sure to switch off at the end of the interview for otherwise you'll find yourself assailed by a feeling of nausea as Micheal Gove starts gurning at you from the Review sofa.
And not just Michael Gove, but you'll also avoid Kwame Kwei-Armah, lest anyone should think the issue is right-wing neo-cons and not stupid people in general.


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From the moment you are accepted, nursing school is one wild ride. There are more things to learn, obstacles to overcome, and new skills to practice than you can even wrap your head around. It's easy to lose yourself to burnout and maybe even feeling like you'll never "get it". But somewhere in the midst of it all, if you pay close attention, you can catch a glimpse of how far you've come and a reminder of why you started down this path in the first place.I have about 8 months of nursing school left. I've barely even begun to panic about the NCLEX yet. I haven't had the opportunity to respond to a code. We're not allowed to start IV's in our program. I don't know how or where I'm going to find my first job, or worry about if my preceptor will be of the eat their young variety when I get there. Once I do land that first job, I can't even imagine the amount of things I'll get confused about, questions I'll be asked, mistakes I'll make, and the overwhelming feeling of, am I ever going to get this right? that often comes with the first year of a nursing career. From the big picture of this journey, it would be easy to focus solely on how much left I have to learn, to do, to overcome. But for once in my life, at age 28, after a complete 180 turn from my former degree in broadcast journalism, that's not how I'm viewing things.
It really began to sink in during clinical the other day, while hanging several IV meds with primary and secondary lines, trouble-shooting a malfunctioning heart monitor, and answering questions about a prophylactic medication my patient was beginning. In the midst of these tasks, I couldn't help but feel a boost of confidence, a golden moment, in thinking to myself, I'm starting to get it. Now, many a seasoned nurse would probably say I'm still a rookie, a novice, that I barely understand the tip of the iceberg with this profession. And to that thought, I would whole heartedly agree. However, I know more than I did last week, last semester, and definitely more than I did last year. To me, I find this to be the beauty of nursing school.
When you learn so much, in such a relatively short period of time, it's easier to actually focus on how far you've come, instead of how far you have to go. It's easy to look at 2 years ago when I walked in the door for orientation, with nothing but a background in journalism, and a few months working in a pediatric office. The reality of what it was like to know nothing is still very fresh in my mind, and I use it as a gift of encouragement to realize how much I've learned, seen, and experienced since then.
I can vividly picture the day I took my entrance exams, and the agonizing wait to hear if I was accepted. I can remember what it was like to be taking the entry-level courses, and feeling a sense of envy and excitement seeing more advanced students dressed in their white uniforms after a long day of clinical in the hospital. I remember beaming with pride when it came time to get fitted for my uniform (and even texting pictures from the dressing room to friends and family!) I can remember how nervous and awkward I felt the first time I walked into a patient's room to fumble through taking vitals, and praying they wouldn't ask me anything, feeling I had no skills or knowledge to offer! I can remember all of these things like they were just yesterday, because they honestly weren't that much longer ago than that.
I reflect on these things when school is tough, the days are long, and the course work intense. Which at this point in the program, is most days. I can think of the girl who was equally excited and terrified to begin this journey. I can think of each class she passed, the first physical assessment she completed, the first medications she administered, the first IV bag she hung, the first family she comforted, and a thousand other brand new things she had the opportunity to tackle. I can think of all the clinical skills, surgical procedures, medications, lab results, and diseases processes she'd been able to learn about. And it leaves me hungry for more. It leaves me so hopeful for the future. It's given me peace about whatever challenges the end of school and the beginning of my career may hold. The ambition and excitement I had when I signed up to take the nursing school entrance exam will not soon be forgotten for me, and I can only hope as life goes on that it will always feel like it was just yesterday.Last edit by tnbutterfly on Sep 12, '13
About MaggieMae412
My name is Maggie. I've lived in Pittsburgh all of my life. I have my Bachelor's in journalism, and I still enjoy writing. However, through a series of various life events, I realized in my mid-twenties that nursing was the career for me. I am on track to graduate in the Spring of 2015, and hope to pursue a career in pediatrics.
From 'Pittsburgh, PA, US'; Joined Jul '12; Posts: 9; Likes: 72.1Sep 12, '13 by Hope63You have the heart of a nurse, and thank you for the encouraging words. As I'm studying to my TEAS test tonight I needed some inspiration to keep going !1Sep 12, '13 by TashiredWow, pre-nursing student here, well written article! I can't wait to experience some of these things too. All the best with the rest of your nursing journey1Sep 12, '13 by pebbleeGreat post! Loved reading it! Best of luck on the rest of your journey.1Sep 13, '13 by jennymanningGreat, encouraging words - love the positiveness and good luck on your continued journey in life!1Sep 13, '13 by KJDa81, ADNI loved this! I found myself smiling & remembering the uniform moment and the brilliant "I'm starting to get this!!!"
Good luck to you1Sep 13, '13 by Summer DaysThank you for the encouranging words, I am inspired. All the best in your studies.1Sep 13, '13 by wcbembeHey MaggieMae,
What a great post! I also felt like that so many times while in nursing school. I graduated in October 2012 and now work on a Tele/Cardiac floor. I can assure you that those feelings don't change as you go along
Good luck, finish your program, and pass the NCLEX!
Dave1Sep 13, '13 by sam289Maggie,
I too am from Pittsburgh, and I am a pediatric nurse and assistant professor at a local university. Good luck on the beginning of your career! You have chosen a wonderful career and recognizing the fact that nursing means life long learning! I wish you luck in completing school, passing NCLEX, and finding a job. Never forget this journey, and remember there's something new to learn each and everyday! I am still learning new things everyday!1Sep 13, '13 by NwackerVery nice post! I graduated from nursing school 3 weeks ago and am waiting to take the nclex!
It's amazing how sometime somewhere when we don't realize it,
It just clicks!
Good Luck to you! You got this!